Tournament presence · pick + ban
14.3%#50 of 173 champions
Pick
6.7%picked in 435 of 6,487 games
Ban
7.6%247 bans over 3,246 games, against 3.2% in soloQ
Win rate as Mid— 8 wins over 12 games
Median length—soloQ 27.3 min

Amateur: 6,491 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, EUW. SoloQ Master+: 336,200 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.

At a glance

Four answers, each one opens its chapter.
01 — What changes in tournaments

What changes in tournaments?

2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Mid.

  • DraftPicked less often in amateur play
    Amateur
    0.1%
    SoloQ
    0.3%
    0.1% of the role's picks in amateur play, against 0.3% in soloQ.
  • DraftBanned more often in amateur play
    Amateur
    7.8%
    SoloQ
    3.2%
    7.8% ban rate in amateur play over 1,886 games, against 3.2% in soloQ over 129,307 games.

Not enough games to judge: win rate, length, keystone, spells, and core.

02 — How to play it

How to play it?

First Strike, then Dusk and Dawn, Shadowflame, and Rabadon's Deathcap: the most played build in soloQ.

SoloQ build, amateur differences under each block
RunesFirst Strike63% · 1,674
Same in amateur play
SpellsGhost + Teleport35% · 928
Same in amateur play
Core (3 legendaries)45% · 573
45%of soloQ games
  1. Dusk and Dawn
  2. Shadowflame
  3. Rabadon's Deathcap
Same in amateur play

Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.

03 — In a comp

What does it bring to a comp?

Takes its kills in duels first: more duels than 79% of mid laners.

  1. Takes its kills in duelstop21%28% · mid laners: 23%

Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other mid laners

What marks it

  • Duelist

Like other mid laners

  • Gold at 15 min
  • Absorbs damage
  • Plays teamfights
  • Team damage

What it is not

  • Little map pressure
  • Little CC
  • No poke
  • No split-push

Damage / min by phase · at equal gold

Not measured: the fact is not validated by the draft review.

Gold vs. direct opponent

At 20 min, ahead of 82% of mid laners against the direct opponent.

mid laners
2.3takedowns outside its lane before 15 min; mid laners: 3.2.

Where it stands among mid laners · every measure

0 ← less · median · more → 100
  • Gold at 15 min · rank 57 of 100 among mid laners+85 · median +25
  • Gold at 20 min · rank 82 of 100 among mid laners+463 · median +71
  • Map pressure · rank 13 of 100 among mid laners2.3 · median 3.2
  • Absorbs damage · rank 64 of 100 among mid laners588 · median 489
  • Plays teamfights · rank 35 of 100 among mid laners53% · median 55%
  • Takes its kills in duels · rank 79 of 100 among mid laners28% · median 23%
  • Crowd control (CC) · rank 13 of 100 among mid laners0.2 · median 0.7
  • Team damage · rank 33 of 100 among mid laners18% · median 21%
04 — With / against

With whom, against whom?

No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.

in

Best results

Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.

Against

Midgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

With

No positive gap in amateur play.

Matchups and allies

One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.

Sort by
Mid1 champion
  • Syndra5 games
    —SoloQ: 58.5% · 142 g
05 — In draft

Ban it or pick it?

Not enough series to settle it: raw counts only.

Pick rate as Mid

Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ
  • SoloQ Master+0.3%2,308 picks of 672,394ban 3.2% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
  • Amateur tournaments0.1%5 picks of 9,366ban 7.8% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
  • Pro0.0%0 picks of 2,204bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20

Presence by patch

10.5% on 16.21
16.1216.21
Pick + ban, all regions, one point per patch; a patch without a measure leaves a gap.

Within the series

Fearless series only · as Mid
Once picked, the series moves on to

Not enough series yet: published from 30.

Amateur: amateur tournaments created with tournament codes; soloQ: Master+, same patches. An amateur figure in gold and each card of “What changes” flag a gap that the volumes of both sources settle. Build: shares only, no win rate, which mostly follows game length. Gap to expected (lolalytics' Delta 2): the pair's win rate minus the one the two champions' own strength predicts, their win rate in their role in the same source; it is coloured when its 90% interval excludes 0, teal favourable, orange unfavourable. Under 30 games: games only.