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Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · EUW- Pick
- 2.8%picked in 182 of 6,486 games
- Ban
- 3.9%125 bans over 3,246 games, against 0.8% in soloQ
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.- What changes in tournaments3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as ADC.DraftLength
- How to play itConqueror, then Malignance, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass: the most played build in soloQ.



- In a compCrowd control (CC) first: more CC than 100% of ADC.FrontlineLets allies carryCC
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftFallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
What changes in tournaments?
3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as ADC.
- DraftPicked less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 0.4%
- SoloQ
- 0.7%
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 4.8%
- SoloQ
- 0.8%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 30.9 min
- SoloQ
- 27.7 min
How to play it?
Conqueror, then Malignance, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass: the most played build in soloQ.
Malignance
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Zhonya's Hourglass
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Crowd control (CC) first: more CC than 100% of ADC.
- Crowd control (CC)top1%1.6 · ADC: 0.6
- Absorbs damagetop4%637 · ADC: 361
- Lets allies carry killstop18%rank 82 of 100
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other ADC
What marks it
- Frontline
- Lets allies carry
- CC
Like other ADC
- Gold at 15 min
- Gold at 20 min
- Plays teamfights
- Takes its kills in duels
- Team damage
What it is not
- No poke
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 79 in lane, 79 in mid game and 80 in late game, out of 100 ADC.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 70% of ADC against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among ADC · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 79 of 100 among ADC575 · median 525
- Damage in mid game · rank 79 of 100 among ADC1,037 · median 915
- Damage in late game · rank 80 of 100 among ADC1,493 · median 1,366
- Gold at 15 min · rank 33 of 100 among ADC-135 · median -54
- Gold at 20 min · rank 30 of 100 among ADC-289 · median -85
- Absorbs damage · rank 96 of 100 among ADC637 · median 361
- Plays teamfights · rank 62 of 100 among ADC57% · median 56%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 53 of 100 among ADC19% · median 19%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 82 of 100 among ADCrank 82 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 100 of 100 among ADC1.6 · median 0.6
- Team damage · rank 38 of 100 among ADC21% · median 23%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
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
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
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.
Ban it or pick it?
Fallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
Pick rate as ADC
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+0.7%4,885 picks of 672,399ban 0.8% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments0.4%36 picks of 9,366ban 4.8% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.1%3 picks of 2,204bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
5.1% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as ADC- 0.8%G115 games of 1,918
- 0.6%G212 games of 1,918
- 1.1%G3+7 games of 632
Not enough series yet: published from 30.

