This analysis is only for the main support 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 support players.
As we can see from Figure 1.
The support player Ming from team RNG has the highest average kills, which means he could kill 0.9 enemy champions per game.
The support player Crisp from team FPX has the highest average assistance, which means he could help his teammates to kill 10.7 enemy champions per game.
The support player Zhuo from team TES has the lowest average deaths, which means he could only die 2.1 per game.
The support player Missing from team WE and ShiauC from the team UP have the highest farming, which means he could kill 453 enemy units per game.
Let us take the support 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 support players.
| KDA | Money | Farming | Ward | Wardkill | Fight(%) | MVP | Excess | Damage(%) | Economic(%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDG Meiko | 3 | 7740 | 393 | 49 | 11 | 67 | 3 | 30247 | 6 | 13 |
| FPX Crisp | 4 | 7720 | 399 | 48 | 9 | 69 | 2 | 29912 | 6 | 13 |
| RNG Ming | 3 | 7761 | 419 | 55 | 13 | 67 | 3 | 24344 | 6 | 13 |
| LNG Iwandy | 3 | 7600 | 417 | 61 | 15 | 67 | 1 | 4360 | 6 | 13 |
| WE Missing | 3 | 7784 | 453 | 55 | 11 | 71 | 0 | 17104 | 7 | 13 |
Figure 2: A radar diagram comparing the data of support players of the top five teams.
As we can see from Table 1 and Figure 2:
These five support players have their own specialty in terms of ability, Meiko from team EDG has highest economic share, corresponding to his largest economic excess, Crisp from team FPX is similar to Meiko but has higher group fight participation rate, Ming from team RNG comparing to above-mentioned support players focus more on farming and vision, Iwandy from team LNG focus more on vision(place and exclude sight ward), Missing from team WE focus more on farming and has highest group fight participation rate.
A fun fact we can see from Figure 2 is that Meiko,Ming,Iwandy, Missing 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 four support players with the same KDA.
As we can see from Figure 3:
Meiko,Ming,Iwandy, Missing are pretty close in each aspects, which means the game style of support players in current version are quite close.