NA Champion Select: Pick and Ban Order [Infographic]

Recently, we dove into Champion Select for the North American LCS and analyzed First Picks, Counter Picks, Winning Team Compositions, and Bans.  Today, we've expanded that scope to look at Pick and Ban order by win rates.

Many matches are won and lost in Champion Select.  Each locked in champion reveals a piece of that team's strategy.  If a team isn't careful, they can give away too much information about their strategy with enough picks left to do something about it.  Here are the most successful picks and bans (in the order they were picked) in the NA LCS.

Apparently, if you want to win on blue side, first ban Irelia and first pick Maokai.

Look for more statistics later this week about each team's favorite picks, highest win rate champions, and greatest weaknesses.

A few interesting statistics:

• Cloud 9 has chosen Maokai 1st pick blue the most (2 times).

• Of those blue first ban Irelias, 5 have been against Team 8.

• Of the red second ban Morganas, 3 have been against Team Liquid.