Experience is a real advantage
Knowing a champion means knowing its limits, its power spikes and its matchups. That knowledge shows up as win rate, and a new champion takes many games to catch up.
Your champion pool in draft
The champions you know well are your strongest picks more often than a tier list suggests. Here is what experience on a champion is worth, measured.
How it works
Two or three champions per role
A small pool you know well, with one safe blind pick and one answer for bad matchups, covers most drafts without leaving you on something unfamiliar.
Learn the meta pick, don't force it
A champion near the top of the tier list still needs games before it pays off for you. Play it in normal games first, then bring it to ranked.
Know when to leave your pool
If a matchup is unplayable for every champion you know, a simple, strong pick can be better than your main. Keep one such champion ready.
What our data says
Measured on ranked games and pro matches, read when this page was built. Follow the links for the full tables.
- Win rate by mastery points on the champion: <5k: 47.2% · 5–20k: 48.3% · 20–50k: 49.2% · 50–150k: 50.3% · 150–300k: 51.3% · 300k+: 52.2% (180M ranked seats).
- The average win rate crossed 50% at about 71,000 mastery points, rising from 47.31% below 5,000 to 52.20% above 300,000. Read the study →
- Play your main. Against an experienced lane opponent, a main in an even matchup won 49.9%; a champion the player barely knew, holding the counter, won 48.2%. The gap is 4.4 points in Iron and under a point from Platinum to Diamond. Read the study →
Practise it
Open Champion pool to see which of your champions you actually win on, then use one of them on today's Daily board.