Should You Main Ezreal? Tier C
Ezreal is tier C for maining, around the middle of the game. 16 Challenger and 30 Grandmaster mains across the three major regions, on 1,286,730 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Ezreal scores 3.42 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 3.42 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 16 Challenger · 30 Grandmaster · 153 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 1,286,730 games played worldwide · 13.97% pick rate · 4.23% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
But yes, Ezreal. So Ezreal is in the C tier. He's okay.
He's all right. There are 16 challenger Ezra and there are across all major regions. So it seems like a lot.
And there are 30 grandmaster Azraels. However, gauging we have to kind of see his ban rate and his pick rate. He has 14 he's picked in 14% of games.
So very high pick rate. And very high ban rate 4%. So, I guess so even though he has a lot of representation in GM challenger is incredibly hard of out of those I guess players that are playing him to reach that point.
So yes, 1.3 million games played. That's a lot of games on this champion. So pretty okay to main but very difficult to play.
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.