r/TeemoTalk • u/hugorocha • 20h ago
Feel the hate. Teemo is the 2nd most-banned top laner, has the 2nd-best top-lane win rate. So actually is statistically the best top-lane ban (4.7M ranked games)
I have an app (https://shouldidodge.lol/) which has data from ~5M games. I pulled ban rates and win rates for every top laner from 4.7M ranked games. I wanted to see whether the Teemo bans are just hate, or whether solo queue actually has a point. Actually, it has a point.
TL;DR
- Teemo is banned in 18.2% of ranked games. Among 39 top laners only Nasus (20.5%) is banned more.
- In top lane he wins 51.7%. Among the 39 only Singed (51.9%) wins more.
- That combination makes him the single most valuable top-lane ban. Popular and winning is exactly what a ban should remove.
- He's above 50% at every rank from Iron to Master, and he's above 50% in every role.
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How Teemo compares with the other most-banned top laners
| Top laner | Ban rate | Top-lane win rate |
|---|---|---|
| Nasus | 20.5% | 51.0% |
| Teemo | 18.2% | 51.7% |
| Malphite | 14.7% | 51.5% |
| Darius | 13.6% | 48.9% |
| Mordekaiser | 11.7% | 51.1% |
| Illaoi | 11.4% | 51.6% |
Darius is banned in 13.6% of games and wins 48.9%. Teemo bans are at least earned.
In other roles
| Role | Share of Teemo's games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|
| Top | 68% | 51.7% |
| Jungle | 13% | 51.2% |
| Support | 12% | 50.8% |
| Mid | 4% | 51.9% |
| Bot | 3% | 51.8% |
Patch trend: steady. He was at 51.5% (17.7% banned) on 26.18 and 51.7% (18.7% banned) on 26.20.
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What should a Teemo player ban?
This uses the same ban-value idea, but from our side: how often we face the champion, multiplied by how far below our usual 51.7% we win against it.
| Ban | We face it in | Our win rate vs it | Value (wins per 1,000 bans) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malphite | 5.6% of games | 48.3% | +1.9 |
| Olaf | 2.4% | 46.6% | +1.2 |
| Ornn | 1.6% | 46.4% | +0.9 |
| Yasuo | 2.0% | 47.4% | +0.9 |
| Sion | 1.8% | 47.1% | +0.8 |
| Mordekaiser | 3.8% | 49.7% | +0.7 |
Ornn and Olaf are the worst matchups, but Malphite is the best ban. He's merely bad for us, and we face him more than twice as often as Olaf.
Best matchups to pray for:
- Vayne 63.0%
- Varus 57.5%
- Volibear 57.5%
- Camille 56.8%
- Zaahen 56.4%
- K'Sante 56.3%
- Gnar 55.6%
- Tryndamere 55.1%
Disclosure: this comes from the match crawl behind shouldidodge.lol, a champ-select tool. Has the previous patch also