Should You Main Shaco? Tier D
Shaco is tier D for maining. Only 16 of its mains are Challenger or Grandmaster across the three major regions, against 682,990 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Shaco scores 1.73 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 1.73 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 3 Challenger · 13 Grandmaster · 155 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 682,990 games played worldwide · 7.41% pick rate · 26.10% ban rate
Ban rate warning. Shaco is banned in 26.10% of games. Even where the density number is strong, you will not get to play it in roughly one game in 4.
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
So, a lot of people are playing him. They're not playing with him. So, Shaco is going to be D tier.
I think there was there was a few there's Buggy TV9 in E West right now. I recently caught a video on him. He's pretty funny.
Doesn't a lot of cheese, but other than that, I don't think there's any shadow mains in any right now that are challenger. But there are some that are GM, so very difficult to reach challenger on this champion. 26% B rate across the elos and 7% pick rates.
So very popular champion. Doesn't normally reach high elo though.
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.