Should You Main Zoe? Tier S
Yes. Zoe is tier S for maining. 14 Challenger and 25 Grandmaster mains across Korea, Europe West and North America, on 283,954 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Zoe holds more high elo mains per game played than almost anything else in the game.
The numbers
Score 13.43 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 14 Challenger · 25 Grandmaster · 144 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 283,954 games played worldwide · 3.08% pick rate · 2.19% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
Here's a problem problem champion. So Zoe is very strong mechanically mechanically I guess not even I wouldn't I wouldn't even say Zoe's that mechanically difficult. Guys, if you want a free champion to challenge her, just take this champion.
Why not? I mean, it's similar to Riven, it's similar to like if you Tillia, it's similar to Rek'Sai, like it's similar to Bard. Like, these are the best in the game right now.
And have been for a while. So 14 challenger mains in the three three regions. 25 GM GM players on them, 3% pick rate, very low pick ban rate.
2% ban, 3% pick. I mean, the representation speaks for itself. Like a lot of these players on these top champions end up making it to peak elos just, you know, just magically.
So, yeah. Anyway, Sara pretty okay to main. So five challengers and six gems and a 4% pick and 3% ban.
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.