Should You Main Pyke? Tier C
Pyke is tier C for maining, around the middle of the game. 7 Challenger and 16 Grandmaster mains across the three major regions, on 649,574 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Pyke scores 2.94 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 2.94 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 7 Challenger · 16 Grandmaster · 160 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 649,574 games played worldwide · 7.05% pick rate · 17.04% ban rate
Ban rate warning. Pyke is banned in 17.04% of games. Even where the density number is strong, you will not get to play it in roughly one game in 6.
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
Pyke and when she is strong, she's like pick/ban, I guess, and it's really difficult to get her. So it's difficult to play Poppy as a main. There's only like one guy, which is Yeah.
Okay. Me. But yeah, Pyke is going to be C tier.
So Dave does play Pyke and I know a few other people play Pyke on NA. He does have a lot of players in Challenger, so seven and 16 in GM, but for the amount that he's picked and banned, 17% banned, 7% picked, you're not going to be able to play him in 25% of games. Like in one or four games, you're not going to be able to pick him.
So as a main champion, pretty difficult to get pike sometimes. Meanwhile, this is also why Dave Mom plays a different champion to get rank one. Kaya, so leads us right into KA very top 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.