The competition is back in League of Legends. This return is a bit special for all major leagues as Riot Games made major changes to items, damaging towers and increasing champion resistance. The edit led to a major change in game strategy and approach and now puts the work of the developers to the test. The pros are still adapting, but after the first few days we can start to draw conclusions about which champions are dominating, we can expect a nerf or buffet from their opponents.
Dominant champions
In this article, we will focus on the best characters that appear in almost every professional match. There are other interesting facts, like the increase in the average length of matches in the four major leagues, but there will always be time to talk about them later. We will focus on champions who have over 95% of the competition in the so-called top leagues. This is the point where Riot Games must feed the characters, according to the balancing rules shared by the studio.
 vukong |
96.8% |
46 |
46 |
59% |
 Lucienne |
95.8% |
18 |
73 |
47% |
 Gwen |
93.7% |
25 |
64 |
50% |
The truth is, if you look at champions who meet these requirements, you can easily see that there weren’t any major changes until the big changes in 12.10. Only Ahri lost popularity, but remained in 74% of matches. Wukung (96.8%) is the most competitive champion in the competition and also does very well in soloQ. There was a power outage recently, but it wasn’t enough at all. Looking at his performance, it’s highly likely that Riot Games is on the lookout for another change and this time he’ll come up against the top champion in the competition.
The second most represented champion in the competition is Lucian. This character is the most feared by professional players, with a total of 73 bans. Again, we are dealing with a simple Riot Games case. The sniper has a high profit margin in the traditional rating (51.75%), so the developers have the opportunity to reduce its power and balance the situation between the different modes of competition. While his competitive profit margin isn’t terribly impressive, his versatility forces teams to either strategize against him or ban him. To some extent, it obscures a greater variety of options by destroying its direct competitors.
We can think that Riot Games has solved the case of Gwen. However, this champion is in a very problematic situation. In 93.7% of official matches, there are only 46.2% wins in games at Platinum level and above. This makes it very difficult for him to balance, as only the strain of his spelling skills will cause him to sink lower than he would in soloQ. The changes must therefore be more profound and may lead to a modification of some of their spells. However, if Riot figures out how to figure out what makes him extremely powerful among pros, he can speed up his other spells to increase his soloQ win rate.
The situation also shows that patch 12.10 ultimately didn’t deal as much between the Legends champions. The three characters that dominated the competition were already overrepresented at MSI 2022. While there are new features like Kyle and Swayne’s look and the return of some tanks, it’s not the big makeover that many players were expecting.
Source : Millenium
