This analysis is only for the main middle-lane player in each team, who have appeared in more than 10 matches.
Since every team has players in rotation, the data is not representative for those substitutes with too few appearances.
Figure 1: A ring chart reflecting the best average kills, assistances, deaths, farms among all main middle-lane players.
As we can see from Figure 1.
The middle-lane player Knight from team TES has the highest average kills, which means he could kill 5.6 enemy champions per game.
The middle-lane player Cryin from team RNG has the highest average assistance, which means he could help his teammates to kill 8.4 enemy champions per game.
The middle-lane player Fofo from team RA has the lowest average deaths, which means he could only die 1.5 per game.
The middle-lane player Doinb from team FPX has the highest farming, which means he could kill 670 enemy units per game.
Let us take the middle-lane players of the top five teams in the LPL Summer Tournament(EDG, FPX, RNG, LNG, WE), and see what the difference is between these top middle-lane players.
| KDA | Money | Farming | Ward | Wardkill | Fight(%) | MVP | Excess | Damage(%) | Economic(%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDG Scout | 5 | 13081 | 521 | 13 | 7 | 69 | 11 | 56978 | 23 | 22 |
| FPX Doinb | 6 | 13688 | 670 | 14 | 7 | 73 | 17 | 89924 | 24 | 23 |
| RNG Cryin | 3 | 12093 | 465 | 10 | 6 | 71 | 4 | -17978 | 21 | 20 |
| LNG icon | 3 | 12468 | 482 | 13 | 6 | 65 | 11 | -6076 | 23 | 21 |
| WE Shanks | 3 | 12929 | 564 | 12 | 7 | 65 | 9 | -13403 | 22 | 21 |
Figure 2: A radar diagram comparing the data of middle-lane players of the top five teams.
As we can see from Table 1 and Figure 2:
The middle-lane player Doinb from team FPX is significantly better than or equal to the other four players in all data, a well-rounded player.
The remaining four middle-lane players have their own specialty in terms of ability, Scout from team EDG focus more on damage creating, Cryin from team RNG focus more on group fight participation, icon from team LNG focus more on vision, Shanks from team WE focus more on farming.
A fun fact we can see from Figure 2 is that Cryin,icon,Shanks have the same amount of KDA, now we put more attention on their exact kills, deaths and assistances, to see if there exists some difference among them.
Note: The formula to calculate the amount of KDA is: \[\begin{equation} \ KDA = \frac{Kill(total) + Assistance(total)}{Death(total)} \end{equation}\]
Figure 3: A bar plot comparing the average kills, deaths and assistances of three middle-lane players with the same KDA.
As we can see from Figure 3:
Cryin,icon,Shanks have very distinct differences in game style.
Cryin has the highest average assistance, which is 8.4 per game, corresponding to his high rate of group fight participation, a team supporter middle-lane player. Shanks has the highest average kills, which is 3.7 per game, a comparatively aggressive middle-lane player. icon is a relatively balanced middle-lane player.