Friday, September 12, 2014

Ascension Mode Statistics!

I gathered 60k Ascension games since the game mode was enabled and computed the following statistics below:


1. Win Rate per Champion (highest to lowest):

Name Win %
Maokai 63.65%
Rammus 61.84%
Poppy 60.60%
Singed 59.84%
Sona 59.33%
Warwick 58.95%
Teemo 58.60%
Dr. Mundo 58.51%
Katarina 57.73%
Xin Zhao 57.30%
Swain 57.15%
Amumu 56.95%
Irelia 56.72%
Ryze 56.43%
Jax 55.41%
Fiddlesticks 55.04%
Heimerdinger 55.00%
Akali 54.94%
Fiora 54.51%
Garen 54.51%
Master Yi 54.20%
Fizz 54.16%
Alistar 53.98%
Shaco 53.93%
Diana 53.93%
Wukong 53.76%
Volibear 53.48%
Udyr 53.39%
Zyra 53.21%
Leona 53.17%
Karthus 52.79%
Vel'Koz 52.73%
Malphite 52.38%
Vi 52.35%
Brand 52.32%
Annie 52.22%
Hecarim 52.11%
Mordekaiser 51.56%
Olaf 51.46%
Jayce 51.15%
Vladimir 51.04%
Skarner 50.99%
Pantheon 50.66%
Talon 50.39%
Darius 50.34%
Nidalee 49.37%
Jarvan IV 49.35%
Gragas 49.33%
Tryndamere 49.01%
Morgana 48.93%
Lux 48.68%
Ahri 48.64%
Karma 48.56%
Rengar 48.54%
Shyvana 47.96%
Kha'Zix 47.88%
Quinn 47.85%
Kassadin 47.58%
Riven 47.46%
Gangplank 47.45%
Ziggs 47.27%
Kayle 47.25%
Gnar 46.85%
Cho'Gath 46.50%
Blitzcrank 46.38%
Twisted Fate 46.22%
Lulu 46.04%
Nocturne 45.99%
Lee Sin 45.94%
Orianna 45.86%
Yasuo 45.78%
Ezreal 45.20%
Renekton 44.98%
Syndra 44.74%
Nunu 43.71%
Zilean 43.69%
Jinx 43.68%
Kennen 43.64%
Vayne 43.42%
Miss Fortune 43.32%
Xerath 43.30%
Zed 43.27%
Lucian 42.33%
LeBlanc 42.20%
Caitlyn 41.97%
Cassiopeia 41.37%
Tristana 40.85%
Twitch 40.22%
Veigar 38.83%

You may notice some of the champions are missing from this list. This is because I was not able to get at least 1000 games of this champion in ~60k games. Yes, I am aware that the  same champion can be on both sides of the game; those games are filtered out in the computation for win rates.

2. Champion Popularity (highest to lowest):

Name Popularity
Kha'Zix 32.90%
Katarina 31.24%
Yasuo 29.27%
Teemo 28.60%
Master Yi 26.30%
Fizz 23.78%
Akali 23.49%
Ezreal 22.33%
Nidalee 21.60%
Riven 19.36%
Zed 19.14%
Lee Sin 17.84%
Jax 16.50%
Cassiopeia 15.82%
Renekton 15.58%
Xin Zhao 15.16%
Wukong 14.73%
Gnar 14.68%
Shaco 14.07%
Rengar 13.95%
Talon 13.91%
Lux 13.36%
Rammus 13.30%
Fiora 13.17%
Heimerdinger 12.88%
Vayne 12.77%
Poppy 12.15%
Xerath 11.81%
Pantheon 11.71%
Garen 11.03%
Jarvan IV 11.02%
Darius 10.66%
Tryndamere 10.58%
Singed 10.27%
Alistar 9.69%
Blitzcrank 9.69%
Dr. Mundo 9.54%
Tristana 9.49%
Warwick 9.49%
Maokai 9.43%
Udyr 9.02%
Amumu 8.90%
Ahri 8.89%
Sona 8.88%
Ryze 8.63%
Fiddlesticks 8.29%
Lucian 8.26%
Jayce 7.70%
Orianna 7.48%
Hecarim 7.34%
Gangplank 7.31%
Vi 7.20%
Malphite 7.18%
LeBlanc 7.08%
Zyra 6.95%
Kayle 6.74%
Irelia 6.72%
Kassadin 6.68%
Karma 6.61%
Morgana 6.53%
Swain 6.13%
Zilean 6.07%
Ziggs 6.02%
Jinx 5.76%
Lulu 5.75%
Leona 5.74%
Volibear 5.73%
Annie 5.71%
Diana 5.54%
Vel'Koz 5.31%
Kennen 5.27%
Twitch 5.24%
Brand 5.02%
Olaf 4.56%
Miss Fortune 4.46%
Cho'Gath 4.36%
Nunu 4.23%
Shyvana 4.21%
Twisted Fate 4.09%
Caitlyn 4.06%
Karthus 3.95%
Nocturne 3.87%
Vladimir 3.83%
Gragas 3.72%
Syndra 3.65%
Quinn 3.64%
Veigar 3.64%
Mordekaiser 3.42%
Skarner 3.36%
Shen 3.33%
Soraka 3.32%
Nasus 3.28%
Trundle 3.25%
Braum 3.23%
Aatrox 2.90%
Ashe 2.81%
Sivir 2.73%
Janna 2.62%
Rumble 2.51%
Lissandra 2.46%
Malzahar 2.44%
Nautilus 2.40%
Kog'Maw 2.36%
Sejuani 2.30%
Evelynn 2.30%
Sion 2.11%
Galio 2.08%
Yorick 2.08%
Anivia 1.86%
Thresh 1.76%
Viktor 1.75%
Draven 1.64%
Elise 1.62%
Zac 1.60%
Nami 1.60%
Graves 1.55%
Corki 1.48%
Taric 1.30%
Varus 1.27%
Urgot 1.00%
3. Side advantage

Side Win %
Blue 51.05%
Purple 48.95%

EDIT: more data and more (200k) games!

name Win Rate Popularity
Maokai 63.60% 11.19%
Rammus 60.97% 17.12%
Sona 59.75% 13.26%
Taric 59.75% 2.31%
Singed 59.28% 12.28%
Poppy 58.93% 15.43%
Teemo 58.64% 30.42%
Warwick 58.31% 12.36%
Dr. Mundo 58.09% 11.38%
Katarina 57.10% 21.05%
Xin Zhao 57.07% 17.49%
Swain 56.77% 6.93%
Amumu 56.11% 10.40%
Yorick 56.04% 1.06%
Irelia 55.95% 7.27%
Ryze 55.41% 9.38%
Fiora 55.28% 14.25%
Jax 55.26% 17.01%
Akali 54.61% 14.17%
Leona 54.42% 6.81%
Heimerdinger 54.42% 13.92%
Wukong 54.38% 15.27%
Diana 53.94% 6.39%
Trundle 53.74% 3.62%
Fiddlesticks 53.49% 9.55%
Master Yi 53.39% 20.23%
Shaco 53.30% 16.49%
Garen 53.21% 12.57%
Fizz 53.06% 21.19%
Alistar 52.91% 10.70%
Vi 52.77% 8.05%
Vel'Koz 52.68% 5.76%
Kog'Maw 52.67% 2.81%
Volibear 52.46% 6.88%
Udyr 52.44% 9.53%
Brand 52.26% 5.63%
Annie 52.18% 6.53%
Karthus 52.02% 4.75%
Malphite 51.76% 8.49%
Mordekaiser 51.64% 3.91%
Galio 51.34% 2.35%
Zyra 51.31% 7.16%
Jayce 51.10% 7.78%
Hecarim 51.00% 7.34%
Darius 50.90% 11.49%
Olaf 50.65% 5.44%
Pantheon 50.48% 12.43%
Soraka 50.38% 3.95%
Talon 50.33% 12.91%
Malzahar 50.29% 2.74%
Sion 50.02% 2.92%
Vladimir 49.80% 3.99%
Sejuani 49.65% 2.81%
Skarner 49.64% 3.98%
Urgot 49.64% 1.11%
Janna 49.37% 3.06%
Rengar 49.05% 13.54%
Morgana 49.04% 7.28%
Karma 48.90% 6.63%
Tryndamere 48.81% 11.33%
Lux 48.81% 14.42%
Rumble 48.65% 2.56%
Jarvan IV 48.54% 10.29%
Ahri 48.50% 8.87%
Elise 48.18% 1.73%
Quinn 48.13% 3.49%
Viktor 48.07% 1.90%
Nidalee 48.05% 20.08%
Gragas 47.99% 4.14%
Braum 47.98% 3.76%
Shyvana 47.87% 4.54%
Gangplank 47.86% 9.03%
Kha'Zix 47.75% 25.06%
Riven 47.45% 16.49%
Shen 47.21% 3.89%
Gnar 46.89% 13.23%
Kassadin 46.83% 6.91%
Nautilus 46.75% 2.73%
Blitzcrank 46.55% 11.18%
Lee Sin 46.50% 15.70%
Kayle 46.40% 6.99%
Ziggs 46.39% 5.88%
Yasuo 46.28% 21.03%
Cho'Gath 46.07% 4.64%
Nami 46.03% 2.05%
Lulu 45.81% 5.45%
Anivia 45.73% 2.48%
Miss Fortune 45.59% 5.82%
Corki 45.51% 1.73%
Orianna 45.47% 6.55%
Ezreal 45.29% 21.78%
Twisted Fate 45.19% 4.37%
Zac 44.95% 2.34%
Nasus 44.66% 3.49%
Vayne 44.48% 12.03%
Kennen 44.15% 5.54%
Lissandra 43.99% 2.43%
Nocturne 43.88% 4.15%
Renekton 43.74% 11.69%
Sivir 43.66% 3.07%
Jinx 43.42% 6.53%
Xerath 43.00% 10.12%
Zed 43.00% 16.36%
Syndra 42.93% 3.07%
Draven 42.90% 1.96%
Evelynn 42.86% 2.67%
Caitlyn 42.79% 4.29%
Zilean 42.71% 5.80%
Varus 42.56% 1.80%
LeBlanc 42.41% 7.29%
Lucian 42.09% 7.67%
Cassiopeia 41.98% 10.49%
Graves 41.77% 1.72%
Nunu 41.56% 4.54%
Ashe 40.61% 3.63%
Tristana 40.25% 9.11%
Twitch 40.23% 5.43%
Veigar 39.80% 4.06%
Azir 39.43% 0.26%
Aatrox 38.62% 3.53%
Thresh 36.18% 2.02%

Friday, August 15, 2014

Word Cloud for Rune Page Names!

Suffice to say I was bored...

I sampled ~20k rune page names and made this word cloud via Wordle. I took out all the single letter words, numbers, and special characters before feeding in the data.


Enjoy.

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Riot changed the matchmaking algorithm to address the blue side advantage - but also introduced a bug that place high ranking players on the purple side close to 70% of the time

Previously I made a bunch of posts describing the blue side advantage in League of Legends and how it is affected purely by camera angle. Apparently, purely because of how the camera is set up in the game, blue side wins 55% of the time. This was in response to several posts on reddit complaining about the issue.

In response to this, Riot seems to have changed something that dramatically reduced the blue side win rate from 55% to around 52%. Here's a plot of the day-by-day blue side win rate in North America Solo Queue around early June.


We see that the blue side win rate was around 55% until June 3rd to June 4th, where it sharply dipped to around 52%. This has been the case until the time this blog is written (July 24th).

How did this happen? What changed on June 4th that could have accounted for this? There was a patch on that day, but there was nothing to address the camera angle. As it turned out, Riot changed the matchmaking algorithm to put the stronger players on the purple side.

What evidence is there? Well, it turns out that after Riot's changes on June 4th, high elo players (i.e. Diamond and Challenger players) have a higher chance to play on purple side than on blue side. Prior to the change, a Challenger player has roughly 50% chance to play on blue and purple side. After Riot made the changes to put better players on the purple side, Challenger players now have ~58% chance to play on the purple side.


Making matters worse, the higher you are on ladder, the more likely you will be playing on the purple side. Take these players for example:

Vasilli, Sneaky (main and his smurf), Popstar Adrian, Meteos, and Mor

I have 340 games of these players on record since June 4th. Out of these 340 games, 68% of them had these top players playing on the purple side. I have 580 games of them prior to June 4th and they played on purple 49% of the time.

I think there are two consequences of this.

1. Riot essentially acknowledged that blue side has an advantage. Previously Riot was fairly mute on the blue side advantage, in particular to how it affected competitive play. This stealth change to matchmaking confirms that Riot does believe blue side has an advantage now. What consequences does this have for the competitive scene?
2. Riot most likely never had higher MMR teams on the purple side prior to June 4th, 2014. I often hear that Riot always put the slightly better players on the purple team. If this were the case, then prior to June 4th we should also see challenger players playing on purple more often - but unfortunately this was not the case and challenger players used to have 50% chance to play on blue or purple.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Doom Bot statistics!

I got 50k Doom Bots games over the last 2 days on NA*. Here are some statistics below:


Average Win Rate for Players: 50.98%


Average Win Rate per League Tier**:




10 Most Popular Doom Bot Choices for Players
Name Win Rate Popularity
Ezreal 51.17% 18.66%
Lucian 56.60% 17.96%
Yasuo 53.72% 17.72%
Caitlyn 54.56% 16.70%
Ziggs 62.61% 14.77%
Master Yi 48.93% 14.69%
Jinx 51.35% 14.21%
Lux 57.36% 13.33%
Lee Sin 54.72% 10.66%
Tristana 50.03% 10.55%

10 Most Successful Doom Bot Slayers (with at least 1000 game records)

Name Win Rate Popularity
Ziggs 62.61% 14.77%
Kog'Maw 60.32% 4.11%
Galio 58.12% 4.05%
Lux 57.36% 13.33%
Jarvan IV 57.28% 2.71%
Riven 57.02% 6.83%
Lucian 56.60% 17.96%
Vel'Koz 56.07% 5.79%
Xerath 55.94% 5.79%
Talon 55.14% 3.73%

10 Least Successful Doom Bot Slayers (with at least 1000 games records)

Name Win Rate Popularity
Twitch 42.23% 2.77%
Garen 42.93% 2.83%
LeBlanc 43.44% 3.04%
Kassadin 44.00% 3.63%
Veigar 44.39% 3.80%
Cho'Gath 44.45% 2.29%
Fiddlesticks 44.56% 2.14%
Shaco 45.57% 2.15%
Ashe 45.58% 4.68%
Dr. Mundo 45.83% 2.55%

* "Doom Bot" refers to Doom Bot of any level (1, 2, or 5 bombs). I cannot distinguish between the levels. You can blame Riot for that. Unfortunately there isn't much I can do about it. lolking.com has the same problem.

** Challenger players won 76% of the time. But I only got 76 challenger players/games on record, so the sample size is awfully small.

Friday, July 18, 2014

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Some Data on One For All Mirror Mode (popularity, average game length per champion)

Thank god I didn't play Karthus in mirror mode.... Zzzz.....

Champion Popularity, One For All Mirror Mode


Average Game Length, most popular 50 champions


Average Game Length


These figures are made using over 80k One For All Mirror Mode games collected over the last a few days.

Minor rant: I was hoping to be able to mine more One For All games, but with the Riot's server lagging and the lack of popularity of this mode, I was only able to mine so much. Alas.