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So I recently saw some comments by u/Reav3 that stated that female players trend very heavy towards almost exclusively playing female champions which I thought was really interesting.
Here are the comments, word for word that I am referencing;
"We aren't abandoning half our playerbase by making more female Champions. Our data shows that female players primarily play female champions, in fact its something like 97% of female players only play female champions. Male players are evenly spilt between male and female champions, so Male players play 50/50 between male and female champions, If anything whenever we make a male champion we are abandoning most of our female players, since most of our female players won't play male champions at all."
"Here is a word cloud from 2017 that illustrates this more. The survey asked players what their favorite champions were. Left is male players and right is female players
This is pretty interesting to me and really makes me wonder why this is. Personally as a guy my 2 most played champs are 1 female champion and 1 male champion. It seems really weird to me that women prefer to play champions that reflect their real gender. Gender really doesn't feel like something I would consider when choosing a champion. For me what is important is mostly how fun the champ is to play and how much I can improve at the champion.
I would be interested in your opinions on this and why you think this is. Would also be very interesting to hear some women give their opinion and if this reflects them or if they are statistical outliers.
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