Draft simulator

A draft assistant that plays out bans and picks in the official order and, at each turn, suggests what professional play would actually do — with the reasoning behind it. It runs in the interactive explorer; this page explains how it works. Data current as of August 6, 2026.

How suggestions are made

Popularity in the current window. How often a champion is picked on the recent patches, older ones weighing less.
Affinity with what is already on the board. Not a raw co-pick count, but how much more often two champions appear together than chance alone would explain. A rare champion that systematically accompanies an existing pick therefore outranks a popular one with no link to the composition.
Archetypes as a fallback. When a champion lacks history on the window, its Data Dragon roles (tank, mage, marksman…) take over rather than inventing a figure.

What it is worth

Checked by replaying real professional drafts: the pick actually made is first in the suggestions 24% of the time, in the top five 59%, in the top twelve 85%. Clearly better than simply proposing the most played champions, and a long way from an oracle — there is no single right answer to a draft turn.

It also holds outside its training ground: trained without a single LEC game, it still puts 20% of LEC picks first. It is not replaying memorised compositions.

Known limits

What this ranking cannot tell you. Worth reading before quoting it.

It describes what professional teams do, not what wins. A popular pick is not necessarily a good one.
A brand-new champion, or one reworked last patch, has no usable history.
Player comfort picks, scrim preparation and opponent scouting are invisible to it — and they decide a lot of real drafts.