As Summer Split introduce the new elemental dragons (and new herald) in competitive games, I take a look at some stats to see how much impact theses changes have made.

So far, 142 have been played in Summer split (LCS week 2, LCK week 3).

Win rate with first dragon

Spring Split Summer Split Win rate with 1st dragon 61.8% 58.4% Win rate with first 2 dragons 73.4% 76.2%

As elemental dragons spawns randomly, theses stats may vary depending on the first dragon type (sadly, dragon type is not available in matches history). But, overall, 2 dragon’s buffs is better than it was in Spring Split.

Objectives per game

Spring Split Summer Split Dragons per game 3.84 3.96 Heralds per game 1.49 0.61 Nashors per game 1.29 1.56

More dragons per game, but not that much. Also more nashors, which is surprising.

Herald is now limited to only one per game, so a decrease is obvious, but still, 39% of the game without Herald killed seems very low.

Avg 1st objective

Spring Split Summer Split Avg 1st dragon 12:13 10:48 Avg 1st herald 11:59 13:35 Avg 1st nashor 28:01 27:51

Teams are focusing on dragons earlier, delaying Herald. The first nashor is on the same timing overall.