Tournament presence · pick + ban
7.4%#97 of 173 champions
Pick
3.7%picked in 1,047 of 28,571 games
Ban
3.7%863 bans over 23,296 games, against 1.0% in soloQ
Win rate as Mid48.6% between 39.0% and 58.3% over 70 gamesSoloQ 51.1%: no clear gap
Median length28.2 minsoloQ 27 min

Amateur: 28,642 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR 65% · EUW 24% · NA 10%. SoloQ Master+: 897,301 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?

One clear gap between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Mid.

  • DraftBanned more often in amateur play
    Amateur
    3.3%
    SoloQ
    1.0%
    3.3% ban rate in amateur play over 14,779 games, against 1.0% in soloQ over 364,710 games.
02 — How to play it

How to play it?

Conqueror, then Stridebreaker, Overlord's Bloodmail, and Sterak's Gage: the most played build in soloQ.

SoloQ build, amateur differences under each block
RunesConqueror63% · 848
Same in amateur play
SpellsFlash + Ignite64% · 862
Same in amateur play
SkillsQnot collected in soloQ
Amateur: 89% · 62 games
Core (3 legendaries)19% · 94
19%of soloQ games
  1. Stridebreaker
  2. Overlord's Bloodmail
  3. Sterak's Gage
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?

Absorbs damage first: absorbs more than 90% of mid laners.

  1. Absorbs damagetop10%1,022 · mid laners: 489

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

  • Frontline

Like other mid laners

  • Gold at 15 min
  • Gold at 20 min
  • Plays teamfights
  • Takes its kills in duels
  • Crowd control (CC)

What it is not

  • Little map pressure
  • Little damage
  • 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, behind 57% of mid laners against the direct opponent.

mid laners
2.9takedowns 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 50 of 100 among mid laners+7 · median +25
  • Gold at 20 min · rank 43 of 100 among mid laners-48 · median +71
  • Map pressure · rank 20 of 100 among mid laners2.9 · median 3.2
  • Absorbs damage · rank 90 of 100 among mid laners1,022 · median 489
  • Plays teamfights · rank 55 of 100 among mid laners56% · median 55%
  • Takes its kills in duels · rank 57 of 100 among mid laners24% · median 23%
  • Crowd control (CC) · rank 59 of 100 among mid laners0.8 · median 0.7
  • Team damage · rank 25 of 100 among mid laners17% · 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

Topgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

Junglegap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

Midgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

ADCgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

Supportgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

With

Topgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

Junglegap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

ADCgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

Supportgap to expected

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
Top2 champions
  • Malphite6 games
    —SoloQ: 50.0% · 50 g
  • Nasus6 games
    —SoloQ: — · 24 g
Jungle2 champions
  • Sylas6 games
    —SoloQ: 45.2% · 62 g
  • Jarvan IV5 games
    —SoloQ: 51.4% · 37 g
Mid3 champions
  • Yone7 games
    —SoloQ: 46.4% · 84 g
  • Galio6 games
    —SoloQ: 62.7% · 67 g
  • Sylas6 games
    —SoloQ: 56.2% · 73 g
ADC4 champions
  • Caitlyn10 games
    —SoloQ: 54.7% · 64 g
  • Yunara9 games
    —SoloQ: 52.5% · 120 g
  • Jinx7 games
    —SoloQ: 57.0% · 93 g
  • Ezreal6 games
    —SoloQ: 53.6% · 69 g
Support4 champions
  • Rell8 games
    —SoloQ: 47.4% · 38 g
  • Thresh8 games
    —SoloQ: 40.7% · 113 g
  • Alistar5 games
    —SoloQ: 48.0% · 50 g
  • Braum5 games
    —SoloQ: 46.7% · 45 g
05 — In draft

Ban it or pick it?

Fallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.

Pick rate as Mid

Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ
  • SoloQ Master+0.1%1,233 picks of 1,794,592ban 1.0% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
  • Amateur tournaments0.1%51 picks of 38,304ban 3.3% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
  • Pro0.0%0 picks of 2,214bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20

Presence by patch

8.0% 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
  • 0.2%G115 games of 7,211
  • 0.2%G217 games of 7,213
  • 0.4%G3+11 games of 2,876
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.