LoL Rank Distribution 2026: What Percentage of Players Are in Each Rank

Riot does not publish how many players sit in each rank, so every distribution you see online is read from the ranked ladders through Riot's API. The most complete reader is League of Graphs, which samples every region and updates with the patch; this page uses its patch 26.20 snapshot (16,881,514 ranked accounts, Ranked Solo/Duo, all regions, read 2026-10-09) and the same site's earlier months as published by Esports Tales for the trend. Numbers are shares of players who hold a rank this season — the active ladder, not every account ever created.

Players per tier, patch 26.20

3.6% Iron

16.0% Bronze

21.0% Silver

23.0% Gold

18.0% Platinum

13.0% Emerald

4.0% Diamond

0.80% Master

0.05% Grandmaster

0.02% Challenger

Every division with its percentile

"Top %" is the share of ranked players at or above that division; "below you" is everyone underneath it.

Rank	Share of players	Top %	Below you
Challenger	0.02%	top 0.02%	100.0%
Grandmaster	0.05%	top 0.07%	99.9%
Master	0.8%	top 0.87%	99.1%
Diamond I	0.69%	top 1.56%	98.4%
Diamond II	1.2%	top 2.76%	97.2%
Diamond III	0.6%	top 3.37%	96.6%
Diamond IV	1.4%	top 4.77%	95.2%
Emerald I	3.2%	top 7.97%	92.0%
Emerald II	2.0%	top 9.97%	90.0%
Emerald III	2.8%	top 12.78%	87.2%
Emerald IV	5.31%	top 18.09%	81.9%
Platinum I	2.6%	top 20.69%	79.3%
Platinum II	3.81%	top 24.5%	75.5%
Platinum III	4.61%	top 29.1%	70.9%
Platinum IV	7.31%	top 36.41%	63.6%
Gold I	3.81%	top 40.22%	59.8%
Gold II	5.31%	top 45.53%	54.5%
Gold III	5.91%	top 51.44%	48.6%
Gold IV	8.21%	top 59.65%	40.4%
Silver I	4.31%	top 63.96%	36.0%
Silver II	5.31%	top 69.26%	30.7%
Silver III	5.21%	top 74.47%	25.5%
Silver IV	6.01%	top 80.48%	19.5%
Bronze I	3.51%	top 83.99%	16.0%
Bronze II	4.01%	top 87.99%	12.0%
Bronze III	3.81%	top 91.8%	8.2%
Bronze IV	4.51%	top 96.3%	3.7%
Iron I	1.8%	top 98.11%	1.9%
Iron II	0.98%	top 99.09%	0.9%
Iron III	0.47%	top 99.56%	0.4%
Iron IV	0.44%	top 100.0%	0.0%

League of Graphs rounds each division separately, so the column sums to about 99.8%; the percentiles are normalised to 100.

What rank is average?

The median solo-queue player is Gold III: half the ladder is Gold IV or below. The mean is a little higher because the top of the ladder is long and thin, but "average" in any useful sense is Gold. If you are Platinum you are better than roughly 63.6% of ranked players; if you are Silver IV you are ahead of 19.5% and have 80% of the ladder above you. Use the percentile calculator for your exact division.

How the ladder moved, 2023–2026

Three things stand out. Emerald (mid-2023) took its share mostly from Platinum and Diamond, which is why "Plat" stopped meaning top 10%. 2025's single annual reset pushed a big block of accounts into Iron every January (20% in February 2025) that then drained upward through the year. And the 2026 cycle compressed the bottom: Iron fell to 3.6% while Gold, Platinum and Emerald all grew — the ladder is higher on average than at any point in the table, so the same rank is worth a little less than it was.

How to read these numbers

The sample is the active ranked population on one patch: accounts that placed this year and are still visible on the ladder. It is not weighted by region (Korea and China push the top end up a little), it moves after every reset, and the first weeks of a season always look lower than the last. Because the data comes from Riot's API rather than a stats-tracker's user base, it does not carry the "engaged players only" skew that CS2 and other trackers have — which is one reason the LoL ladder looks healthier at the top than the equivalent FACEIT numbers.