This analysis is only for the main top-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 top-lane players.
As we can see from Figure 1.
The top-lane player Breathe from team WE and Xiaohu from team RNG have the highest average kills, which means he could kill 4 enemy champions per game.
The top-lane player Biubiu from team BLG and Zdz from team RW have the highest average assistance, which means he could help his teammates to kill 6 enemy champions per game.
The top-lane player Bin from team SN has the lowest average deaths, which means he could only die 2.3 per game.
The top-lane player Qingtian from team TES has the highest farming, which means he could kill 834 enemy units per game.
Let us take the top-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 top-lane players.
| KDA | Money | Farming | Ward | Wardkill | Fight(%) | MVP | Excess | Damage(%) | Economic(%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDG Flandre | 3 | 12822 | 657 | 8 | 8 | 56.9 | 7 | 39666 | 22 | 22 |
| FPX Nuguri | 3 | 12775 | 599 | 10 | 8 | 55.0 | 4 | 43736 | 25 | 21 |
| RNG Xiaohu | 3 | 13883 | 712 | 13 | 7 | 64.0 | 11 | 72856 | 25 | 23 |
| LNG Ale | 2 | 13048 | 753 | 12 | 6 | 60.0 | 6 | 29773 | 25 | 22 |
| WE Breathe | 3 | 13376 | 597 | 14 | 6 | 63.0 | 7 | 62382 | 22 | 22 |
Figure 2: A radar diagram comparing the data of top-lane players of the top five teams.
As we can see from Table 1 and Figure 2:
The top-lane player Xiaohu from team RNG is comparatively better than the other four players in all data except farming and ward.
The remaining four top-lane players have their own specialty in terms of ability, Flandre from team EDG focus more on vision, Nuguri from team FPX can create high damage share with less economic share, Ale from team LNG focus more on farming, Breathe from team WE focus more on placing sight ward, which means he has a strong sense of avoiding gank.
Note: A gank is a surprise attack on an enemy champion. Ganks are usually coordinated and executed by the jungler or a roaming laner as well as the laner receiving the gank.
A fun fact we can see from Figure 2 is that Flandre,Nuguri,Xiaohu, Breathe 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 top-lane players with the same KDA.
As we can see from Figure 3:
Flandre,Nuguri,Xiaohu, Breathe are pretty close in each aspects, which means the game style of top-lane players in current version are quite close.