Should You Main Akshan? Tier A
Yes. Akshan is tier A for maining. 6 Challenger and 15 Grandmaster mains across Korea, Europe West and North America, on 207,971 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Akshan scores 9.95 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 9.95 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 6 Challenger · 15 Grandmaster · 117 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 207,971 games played worldwide · 2.26% pick rate · 1.43% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
So next up will be Akshan. Akshan is going to be in a tier. So he is very strong.
There is a couple option mains come to mind. So in our server we have Chenchen. And then in E west we have Fantasm.
These it is rank one champion in a major region. So you know obviously a champion getting to rank one means it can go all the way. It can go the entire distance.
So in solo Q at least. So six challengers representing right now as of split three. Season 16 and 15 GMs.
I always see this champion around in high elo. It is quite good. Pretty low band rate and pretty low pick rate.
So, this is actually one of the better champions to play. Low pick rate also really helps with how we can see how we can see counterplay to your champion because if a champion is played a lot then players typically know how to deal with that champion. But if you are playing a champion that isn't played a lot and only you know the limits of so let's say like Akshan or champions like this oh you have an innate advantage.
So Akshan is a very good champion to very great to main as your pick.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.