Should You Main Skarner? Tier S
Yes. Skarner is tier S for maining. 1 Challenger and 12 Grandmaster mains across Korea, Europe West and North America, on 120,313 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Skarner holds more high elo mains per game played than almost anything else in the game.
The numbers
Score 10.78 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 1 Challenger · 12 Grandmaster · 53 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 120,313 games played worldwide · 1.31% pick rate · 0.19% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
Skarner is going to actually be in the S tier. So, this is something that I think a lot of people won't know about, but Skarner is actually quite good as a champion. This is one of the tank options that are better than 20.
He's also played in pro. Essentially what this champion is one challenger player. I don't know if it's I think I'm not sure who it is exactly right now, but there are 12 GMs and is very low van, very low pick.
This is the tank option to go to. If you're not playing tank roy, you're playing tanker, highly considered a champion as a main. I always see it as doing pretty well in the games that he's actually in.
So, think it's good. All right. So, here I think we're going to do upright.
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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.