Should You Main Mel? Tier F
Mel is tier F for maining. Only 3 of its mains are Challenger or Grandmaster across the three major regions, against 1,024,111 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Mel scores 0.18 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 0.18 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 1 Challenger · 2 Grandmaster · 62 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 1,024,111 games played worldwide · 11.12% pick rate · 38.56% ban rate
Ban rate warning. Mel is banned in 38.56% of games. Even where the density number is strong, you will not get to play it in roughly one game in 3.
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
So, moving on to Mel, another one of the F tiers. So I think Mel is one of the champions that has actually 50% big ban, one challenger player, two GM players. Basically, it's very popular, but there are very few mains.
I think that's also because, with a 38% ban rate, you actually can't play this champion too much. So, there is that as well. Milio, is going to be one of the champions that's also in F tier.
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.