Los Angeles Day 2: Kennen converts 38%, Irelia 24.7%

by Riccardo Emanuele Eustor·Riftbound Zone

The Los Angeles Regional Qualifier has made its Day 1 cut, and the conversion table tells one story above all: Kennen, Heart of the Tempest sends 63 players into Day 2, 38.0% of everyone who registered it. That is both the biggest single block in the event and the highest rate on the list, almost thirteen points clear of second place. Irelia, Blade Dancer is still the most registered Legend of the tournament, but it converts at 24.7% and stops at 48 players. At the bottom sits Akali, Rogue Assassin at 14.4%.

The numbersKennen makes the cut once in three

The graphic carries the Los Angeles Regional Qualifier branding and was posted on r/riftboundtcg by u/nic_bolas. It lists fourteen Legends with the number of players who reached Day 2 and their conversion rate against Day 1 registrations.

The gap at the top is stark. Kennen converts at 38.0%, LeBlanc, Deceiver at 25.3%, Irelia at 24.7%; everyone else sits under 25%, and half the table is packed into a narrow band between 20% and 24%. Put plainly: sit down with Kennen and you made the cut roughly once in three; sit down with any other top-tier deck and it was roughly once in four.

The comparisonIrelia registers more, Kennen qualifies more

Day 1 had already pointed this way: in the field breakdown Irelia was the most chosen Legend with 193 entries and Kennen second with 165, while in the match results Kennen closed at a 60% win rate against Irelia’s 54%. The Day 2 table is the next beat of that story: a fifteen-player gap in Kennen’s favour, off twenty-eight fewer entries.

The arithmetic holds down the rest of the list too. LeBlanc had 150 entries and brings 38 through, Rengar had 92 and brings 20, Akali had 82 and brings 12: the percentages printed on the graphic line up with the Day 1 counts, give or take a rounding decimal. It is worth checking, because it confirms both screenshots describe the same tournament.

The harshest read belongs to Jayce, Defender of Tomorrow. It was the surprise of the weekend going in and third by attendance in the main event, yet it closes on a 21.2% conversion — below the average of the top four, and below far less played decks such as Vex, Gloomist (23.2%) and Ornn, Fire Below the Mountain (24.0%).

The tailWho falls away, who surprises

Only three Legends sit below 20%: Akali at 14.4%, Rek’Sai at 16.0% and Kha’Zix, Voidreaver at 18.6%. All three were already niche picks, and the cut thinned them further.

Moving the other way are decks with few entries but a strong return: Ezreal, Prodigal Explorer converts at 24.4% with eleven players through, Ornn at 24.0% with twelve, Diana, Scorn of the Moon at 20.9% with nine. Those are small samples and should be read as such, but they show the long tail seen on Day 1 was not swept away by the cut: fourteen different Legends made it through.

Source: r/riftboundtcg. Images: Riot Games.