Should You Main Jayce? Tier A
Yes. Jayce is tier A for maining. 14 Challenger and 36 Grandmaster mains across Korea, Europe West and North America, on 531,262 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Jayce scores 9.11 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 9.11 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 14 Challenger · 36 Grandmaster · 151 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 531,262 games played worldwide · 5.77% pick rate · 3.22% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
So, Jayce is one of the champions that shows up a decent amount of time. He is similar to Jarvin in play rate. However he is similar to Irelia I mean in play rate however not I mean he just has so much challenger like there's so many challenger chases there's 14 of them and then there's 36 grandmaster this is a new record for us so far in terms of how many grandmaster and challenger chases there are this champion is pick/ban in pro right now and he has been for a long time pick/ban you'll see him every single time So, not the weakest champion and also, yeah, very strong in solo Q.
This champion is has always been very popular. There's a lot of skin lines for him, so you know, Riot clearly favors him. So that keep that in mind as well.
If you're a top lane main, I would or jungle main, Jayce is one of the very good options 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.