The purpose of this project is to determine the relative differences in role presence at an apex competitive level in the game League of Legends and compare across regions. It is serves as my first foray into using an API (Riot API) in a development setting.
In theory, if all roles were of equal agency, the presence of each position would be 20% (five total roles). A higher presence would indicate a role with more impact and a lower presence would indicate a role with less impact.
Additionally, playstyles vary by region. Korea (KR) is known for their aggressive early-game playstyles so it is expected that JUNGLE and DUO_SUPPORT have a higher presence. In contrast, North America (NA) and Europe West (EUW) are known for placing emphasis on MID, using roams to snowball advantages to the rest of the team.
Note that this uses uses a Riot API library I wrote myself.
Run MAIN_challenger_list.py to see the process for yourself.
Read Positional Presence patch 10-22.pdf for the full report.