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Pick Order

When champions get drafted — blind first picks vs everything drafted after · check the Picks column for sample size

Pick Order analyzes when champions are drafted. The very first pick of a draft is made blind; every pick after it is made with champions already on the board.

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First Pick%: How often a champion is taken as the draft's opening pick — the only fully blind slot.
Later Pick%: How often a champion is taken in any of the other nine slots, with picks already visible.
Avg Phase: The average position within a team's own five picks; lower means the team commits earlier.

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First Pick (blind)Later Pick (drafted with picks on the board)

#	Champion	First Pick%	Later Pick%	Avg Phase	Presence ▼	Picks
1	Orianna	39%	61%	1.68	66%	422
2	Nocturne	26%	74%	1.80	61%	323
3	Jarvan IV	24%	76%	1.77	52%	569
4	Cassiopeia	27%	73%	2.07	50%	485
5	Ezreal	18%	82%	2.16	47%	669
6	Nautilus	3%	97%	2.95	46%	549
7	Varus	26%	74%	2.34	43%	268
8	Bard	14%	86%	2.39	42%	423
9	Jayce	14%	86%	2.89	41%	389
10	Vi	18%	82%	2.08	40%	471
11	Akali	3%	97%	3.44	37%	278
12	Rumble	17%	83%	2.79	36%	498
13	Lee Sin	16%	84%	2.21	35%	458
14	Karma	21%	79%	2.22	34%	295
15	Lucian	19%	81%	2.05	32%	385
16	Ryze	21%	79%	2.36	32%	495
17	Poppy	3%	97%	3.31	30%	118
18	Syndra	20%	80%	2.38	30%	386
19	Naafiri	8%	92%	2.66	30%	372
20	Gnar	3%	97%	3.87	30%	447

How to read this data

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Pick Order splits the draft in two: the first pick, and everything after it. The first pick is blue side's opening selection — the one slot in the entire draft chosen with zero champions revealed. First Pick% is the share of a champion's picks taken in that slot, and Later Pick% is the rest.

The split falls where it does because that is where the information changes. A blind opener has to be safe without knowing the enemy composition — strong into many matchups, or flexible across several roles. Every other slot is picked with something visible, and the differences among those nine are a matter of degree, not of kind. Red side's opening pick already answers blue's, so it belongs with the later picks rather than alongside the blind one.

The last pick is not broken out separately, because the same slot number means different things on each side. Red's final pick sees all nine other champions and is the classic counter-pick slot; blue's final pick is made without seeing red's last one. Averaging the two together hides exactly the difference that makes the slot interesting.

Reading this against Presence is revealing: a champion with both high Presence and a high First Pick% is a blind-safe meta pillar, while one that is popular but almost never opens a draft is likely matchup-dependent, drafted only once its counters are ruled out. Blue and red side remain a separate axis — the split never mixes them together.

Because the minimum pick threshold is low, champions with only a handful of games can show extreme values such as a 100% first-pick rate — check the pick count next to the rate before drawing conclusions.