After the most thrilling final we’ve ever experienced in a League of Legends World Championship, where DRX beat T1 after a crazy fifth game, we can finally confirm the total domination of a champion in the whole tournament, or at least in the Main Event: Aatrox. The Sword of the Darkin was by far the most important champion of the tournament, with a 100% presence in the Main Event and 96% in the play-in.
It’s quite interesting, because he is the only character to have been so important in two different international tournaments. Several champions have been dominant at Worlds, but none have done what Aatrox has done so far. Is he the most important champion in competitive League of Legends since its revamp?
A very important champion in the competitive circuit
If we look at the champion numbers throughout the tournament, we are seeing a 55% win rate over the 22 games we have been able to attend. Granted, he’s not the champion with the best win rate, but he’s one of the most banned champions throughout the Main Event, only surpassed by Caitlyn and the monstrous but adorable Yuumi. . It should be noted that Yuumi did not lose a single match the eight times she was selected in this second phase.
This isn’t the first time Aatrox has been the most featured champion in League of Legends Worlds. In 2018, we had already seen it in 99% of Main Event encounters, and curiously with the same win rate as this year, 55%. Thus, the champion enters the privileged group of characters who had a 100% presence in this international event:
- Worlds 2015 – gang plank
- Worlds 2016 – Nidalee
- Worlds 2017 – Kalista
- Worlds 2019 – Pantheon
- Worlds 2022 – Aatrox (Main Event)
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Throughout the League of Legends World Championships, teams have always taken the blue side when they could. But was he really that strong?