An analysis of a Korean challenger Hecarim one-trick with 5.82M mastery points, 5.4x the runner-up champion, using public match data. Runes and Spear of Shojin locked in all 15 games, and only the Talon matchup broke the streak.
Comparing base armor and magic resist across all 173 champions at level 1, MR clusters hard: 89.6% sit in just 4 values (30-33), with 32 alone covering 78 champs (45%). Armor spreads across 24 distinct values from 18 to 43. The individual gap is 2.39x for armor versus only 1.68x for MR, and the highest MR belongs to the assassin Akali (37), not a tank.
I counted Riot's own tags across all 173 champions in Data Dragon. Support stands alone on exactly one champion, Rakan. Its solo rate is 2.3%, versus 33.3% for Marksman — a 14x gap.
We tallied Riot's own 0-10 attack, defense, magic, and difficulty ratings across all 173 champions. Four score a flat zero across the board, while only two ever hit a perfect 10 in defense.
Base mana and growth for all 145 mana champions, ranked. Kassadin tops level 18 with 1879, 289 ahead of Sylas. Aurelion Sol's base-best 530 only grows to 1210, dropping him to 35th.
I checked the per-level growth stats for every one of League's 173 champions, and attack damage (AD) came back at zero for all of them. HP averages a 3.87x increase and armor 3.72x by level 18, while raw auto-attack damage never moves past its level-1 number.
We checked how cooldowns change from rank 1 to max rank across every non-ultimate ability (Q/W/E) in the game. 159 of them don't shrink at all, while Urgot's W drops from 12 seconds to effectively zero.
I checked base mana regen across all 145 mana champions. Karma stands alone at 13 while 16 champions tie for the lowest at 6. By level 18 the rankings flip completely, with mana-hungry Ezreal and Jinx tied for the fastest growth in the game.
An analysis of Korean challenger Irelia one-trick Aileri#KR1 using public data. Conqueror in all 20 games, Blade of the Ruined King first in 95%, and deaths that double the moment a game goes wrong.
Comparing skin counts across all 173 champions two ways, chromas included versus distinct designs only. Akali leads the raw total at 101, but switch to counting only genuinely different designs and Miss Fortune takes over with 23.
Comparing the automatic attack-speed-per-level stat across all 173 champions. Gnar leads at 6, the lowest tier sits at 1, a 6x gap, while Jhin and Bel'Veth never gain any at all.
Comparing base ultimate cooldowns across 151 champions with standard 3-rank ultimates (ddragon patch 16.18.1). The gap between longest and shortest is 100x, and some champions barely get any cooldown reduction from ranking up.
