A Look at Champion Mastery and Its Influences

0:00 - Intro
1:31 - Swain Mid
7:09 - Swain Support
8:17 - Galio Mid
10:41 - Aatrox Top
12:21 - Fizz Mid
14:08 - Katarina Mid
16:23 - Pick Rate Rate Does Not Imply Mastery Rate

[jalleee]

When bro said short I instantly checked if video was over an hour or not.

[gladiore]

Hey phreak, i really appreciate these youtube videos you do...i had been complaining about fizz being weak before the buff to rioters for quite a while i appreciate the change and appreciate you caring enough to look at this data.

[synthessence]

Phreak: Hey guys! Short Video today.
Literally Everyone That Watches Phreak Regularly: *Checks total video time*

[chrismoscoso]

The graphs would be more intuitive + satsifying if the colors went from cold to hot. Blue -> Green -> Yellow -> Orange -> Red

[StylessZ]

These kind of videos are really insightful. Would be cool to see more topics like this

[Spectre_Stream]

Thanks for the 'throwing a flashbang' warning

[SpiceCh]

40 % elite players - no wonder I never see bad Katarina players anymore.

[KaZe_SS]

I wonder if this kind of data could ever be public for every champion, kinda like websites like Lolalytics track any sort of metrics regarding champions, this is very useful information for the public to know the true power states of champions

[IcyColdStare]

What up Phreak, it's fellow gamers

[frosty_mentos]

I'm a Swid main and I'm proud.

[WWFanatic]

Phreak made an actually short video? I think that's one of the signs of the end times...

[Jayensee]

The algorithm used to account for the impact of matchups and duos on overall winrate could be used here to account for the impact of mastery

(similarly to the EU standard population used to age adjust stats, you could create a "League of Legends standard mastery distribution" for mastery adjustment)

[Habib_Osman]

Phreak is the perfect hire for Riot. Not many people have LoL ingrained in their veins like he does.

[unknownuser]

Thanks for all the videos you do! Greatly appreciated!
Really liked the video and I hope you can do formats like this in the near future again!
Loving Statistics :D

[WillowsGuardian]

Have been watching your regular videos for some months now and recently went back and watched the video where you announced your casting retirement. In that video you seemed so excited for your upcoming game dev job, and I hope you are still excited. I really enjoy your insight, overall vision, and the care you put into the game and these videos (they're basically the only reason I have any faith in the game anymore).

[Reverie_xo]

The correlation I always saw between pick rate, mastery rate and subsequently win rate is particularly referring to off role or off meta things such as people who play Rengar top, Zed jungle, Kled mid etc. where the vast amount of representation comes from people who are highly dedicated to making a champion work in another role than what's necessarily intended for them, as there are practically 0 people who will decide on a whim that they want to play Shyvana top or Skarner support.

Zed might be a slight exception here since the jungle modifiers he received in the past arguably just moved Zed mid players to have an alternate 2nd role to queue for as opposed to breeding a new set of previous jungle mains who suddenly thought about picking Zed up.

TL;DR I believe at least a decent amount of people attribute inflated win rate in tandem with unusually low pick rate to equate a heavy skew towards onetricks or specialist players that are devoted to something less common.

[Mark-cnvk]

Mastery reminds me that everyone I know received the change of mastery emote negatively. Sorry for writing this here.
Loving these videos and transparency overall, keep it up thanks!

[kennymcintyre]

6:15 very good mitch hedberg reference!! “i used to do drugs. i still do, but i used to too” lmao.
RIP the legend

[CHSPARTN]

Keep your hands under the table bois, Phreak released a new one ;D!

[Lana-rsoi]

Great vid! It's nice hearing you talk about this stuff