If you are an excellent player in “League of Legends”, you always carry your team, you’re never late when its time to gank, you are probably pretty intelligent.

This is a paraphrased conclusion of a study conducted by Athanasios V. Kokkinakis, Peter I. Cowling, Anders Drachen and Alex R. Wade.

They were exploring relationship between video game expertise and fluid intelligence (Fluid intelligence refers to the ability to reason and solve problems in unique and novel situations).

Study showed that good performance in League of Legends’ correlates with fluid intelligence – meaning that people who had better ranking in the League scored better in intelligence tests which were measured under controlled laboratory conditions.

This results are maybe expected, as being good in LOL requires using memory, tactics and strategy, but researchers also noted that pure practice doesn’t have as much of an influence on experienced players rank, as much as intelligence.

Test subjects for this study were recruited via adverts from multiple sites within the UK in and around the Universities of Leeds, Essex and York, and then they were subjected to psychometric tests in a laboratory.

All subjects were experienced LoL players who had played a large number (more than a hundred) of both ‘ranked’ and ‘unranked’ matches.

After measuring their psychometric factors related to intelligence, researchers then compared these factors with players’ ranks in LOL.

Results of this test indicate that your LOL rating can act like IQ test, the higher your ranking is, more intelligent you probably are.

You can read the study here: