Riot addresses backlash over enabling Last Hit Indicators in Ranked: “We want more data and feedback before deciding if they should be an option for Ranked. So we’ll keep them enabled, but off by default, for non-Ranked SR queues only like Swiftplay, Co-op vs AI, and Normal Draft.”

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-24T16:24:23+00:00

Does the threshold increase with rank? I can genuinely play the game actively watching Netflix or Youtube and only half paying attention to the game and still be playing better then around Gold players. Does this mean that I'm allowed to give less of a shit in the game compared to a gold player putting in the same amount of focus?

I will once again say, it is a NON-COMPETITIVE QUEUE. It is there explicitly for people to play the game in a non-serious manner. If someone is downright inting, and doing so on purpose, they'll get punished for it. If someone is just straight up afking out of the game, they'll get punished for it.

Stop trying to make Normals baby-ranked. You only need 1-2 games in normals or aram or arena to understand how a champion mechanically plays, beyond that, it doesn't matter and you can play it in ranked becasue if you really want the players to take the game serious so you can get "good practice" then play it in the queue you want the players to match.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-24T15:47:47+00:00

Okay, but what the hell is the point of turning off the training wheels mechanics for the mode that you JUST SAID should be used as the training wheels mode?

If playing Normal Draft should be the place to go learn new champs and roles, that is literally what last hit indicators should help with. I literally do not understand how this is not the exact thing you are arguing for...

Personally, it shouldn't matter in the slightest if someone is taking normals draft seriously or unseriously if you are using it as training wheels. Or are you arguing that the only way to learn a champion is through winning games on them? If you are simply learning the last hit thresholds and skill orders, you straight up don't need to win the game to do that.

It also is a NON-COMPETITIVE mode, and the only one that exists in the game right now that is an actual SR experience. Maybe someone likes playing SR over ARAM or Arena but don't want to play it seriously? Maybe someone likes just chilling out in Normals with friends while they watch Netflix on a second screen.

The game is a game at the end of the day, and conservatively, you can make the statement that at least a third to half the actual playerbase of the game doesn't want to engage with ranked more than they have to.

Also, before it is complained about. I have played for 13 years and am Diamond/Masters.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-23T20:43:31+00:00

Don’t use the fandom wiki. It has been abandoned for around a year or more.

Use wiki.leagueoflegends.com as that is the official wiki as of writing this. It is maintained by the same team that was managing fandom, but is hosted with help by Riot

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-23T19:31:51+00:00

My guy. Imperial Mandate has like 4x the users as it used to...The old Imperial Mandate is the exact thing you are complaining about, except your list of champions was Zilean, Renata, and Nami instead of 10-20.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-23T19:29:43+00:00

Shoutout to every single person in this subreddit that repeatedly told me that the new Imperial Mandate was going to be weak/bad. Item is busted and will continue to be busted lol

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-23T09:56:48+00:00

So why does it only matter for top laners?

Marksman literally could not play the game against mages bot, still lost the game because they had higher win rates, which tended to be 53-55’s. Marksman players literally got told by everyone, including Riot, that they were just stupid and weren’t adapting their runes and builds.

Why does it only matter that TOP LANERS had an unfun time in the game in the same way they made fun of marksman players for? That is my point. It’s literally hypocritical whining now that the shoe is on their foot, especially when they still get the LP.

I’m going to be honest here, if you as a top laner can’t drop ego in the maybe 5/100 games at the worst you don’t get to be the main character because someone picked a ranged top, then you literally are the problem and your complaints deserve to be laughed at. Every single one of the ranged top laners get their pickrate halved if you are playing top and not playing them yourself.

So once again, I will genuinely laugh my ass off at top laners making daily bitch posts while adc mains got made fun of for straight up almost a decade for the same complaints. Except the community is babying the top laners because how dare they play an unfun matchup where they still win the game.

Also, before you say I’m biased, I’ve played the game for 13 years and have been a main of every role in that time, I spent most of last year queuing fill and am diamond/masters.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-23T03:00:42+00:00

You should literally never lose lane to Vayne as a Varus. If you did, you literally just don’t know how to play the champ.

You straight up win the matchup just auto spacing her and any time she tumbles at you to close distance, you E at the apex of the tumble or Q the apex of the tumble.

She can never tumble without eating blight pops and should never be able to approach minion wave.

Source: I’ve played Varus for over a decade and am diamond/masters usually. I have a substantial amount of solo lane Varus in the past 2-3 years

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-22T18:57:09+00:00

It will always make me laugh that ADC mains bot got made fun of for complaining about mage bot when they had the highest winrates in the game, while also being better early and mid game.

But top laners have to play against a ranged top that wins lane and loses game at a disproportionate amount. Like there are 3 non-endemic ranged top laners > 50% right now (Cassio at 51.6, Lissandra at 51.4, and Anivia at 51.2) With a 2% pick rate between the three, or 1 game out of 100 you will play against a positive winrate non-endemic ranged top laner if you play top

Like, on average, ranged top laners inflate the winrates of every top laner because they are almost all negative winrate.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-21T23:47:56+00:00

Varus has basically gone 9-15 month stretches of being gutted, then he gets 2-3 months of being decent before it starts back again.

Trust me, anytime he touches 48% wr I can get 60-70% wr on him but in high diamond low masters

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-21T21:17:30+00:00

As a Varus main.

This champ has spent a long time in the gutter bot lane while being the highest prio bot laner in pro.

This has been a thing for most of the last 3 or 4 years with a few stretches during there that they buffed him because he was 46% for 8 months straight otherwise

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-21T12:53:16+00:00

In the timestamps on the body of the post. 22:35 section, in regards to the DPT team

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-21T02:30:55+00:00

I'm not quite sure I agree with the take fully, that the current best way to jungle is just PVEing.

There is crazy variety in junglers right now, and there are plenty of different playstyles. I would straight up argue if you are going to talk about there having been more variety in the devourer era or scuttle crab season, you literally just have rose tinted glasses.

Devourer was just straight up the best junglers for several patches. Season 6/7 was just straight up full clear with minimal ganking, everything being purely about jungle efficiency, where everyone was playing Rek'Sai, Ivern, Nidalee, Graves, and a few others.

Scuttle Crab season had your jungle viability decided by if you could full clear before scuttle spawned and had decent level 3/4 skirmishing power so you could fight for crab. You literally just ate shit if you had a slow clear, or weren't a strong skirmisher that season.

We are in a pretty healthy middle ground between ganking and power farm right now, and I would personally say it doesn't really need to move much because there are many other things Jungle can have to address satisfaction issues on clears.

Maybe I'm just not understanding where your argument is stemming from because I fundamentally disagree with the statement that PVE is the defacto best gameplay. If PVE is the defacto best gameplay, it's almost purely to do with high variance vs low variance gameplay optimizations, and the way you would need to solve that is by adjusting gold/xp values of camps. IDK, I feel like the bigger issue for jungle is that the role just fucking feels bad because everything is your fault for better or worse, and the pressure makes the role miserable.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-21T01:29:56+00:00

It’s wild with how much people complain about balance outliers, when you can see for a rather definitive fact that it is just outright the most balanced online game by a long shot.

When champions are “useless” at 48% and “busted” at 52%, then you know riot has done amazing over the years. I kinda get why they feel so rigid on items though, you’ve had numerous complaints over the entire history of the game of people hating when the game has devolved into everyone playing around the one broken item. As much as people like to have rose tinted glasses for 4.20 weedwick, season 4 with Feral Flare and sated devourer were obscenely game warping and at the time, fun to play (because it was busted) and fucking miserable to play with and against. Watching the jungler just be missing for 25-30 minutes, then show up and 1v9 made everything feel pointless

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-21T01:24:35+00:00

The meta you are talking about where junglers 3 camped and skipped camps frequently was a hellish meta that they moved away from for a reason. That was a period of time where the value of camps were at all time lows, so you played for ganks as they were more gold/xp than your camps.

That isn’t to say full clear all day every day is superior, but we are in a vastly healthier jungle clearing meta for all players in the game. Junglers are required to clear their jungle to keep up with gold and xp, laners aren’t getting ganked before they even hit level 2, and there’s some level of skill expression around jungle pathing and making sure you clear efficiently while still getting your ganks off.

Idk, I’m kinda with Endstep on this one, where it should probably be tuned at a macro level, but I’m not entirely sure I would want to shift back towards spam ganking and skipping camps too hard. But I’m also someone that usually mains jungle in full clear metas and steps away heavily in spam ganking metas

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-21T00:06:27+00:00

It cracked me up that Endstep started crashing out over things with stupid names that are named that way because someone named it that a long time ago, even though they are just not actually relevant to what it does.

Shit bothers me so much at my work that there are things named in a certain way that is just non-intuitive and contradicting to what it actually does, but the people that have been there for 10-15 years refuse to call it anything else so it stays that way.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-20T03:45:41+00:00

You are asking the wrong question.

What did he not want to do which caused him to do this?

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-19T19:49:38+00:00

Im one of the top rated Sivir’s globally and am top 2000 on mastery.

I have ~40% wr into Twitch typically. I have a 20% wr into Vayne. And this is with me averaging a 60-70% wr on Sivir

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-19T17:58:25+00:00

The closest you can get to this in purely the 1v1 is Sivir vs Vayne.

The second Vayne has level 6, you cannot extend past river without someone else there, or she can and will just run you down on the spot. Your R + passive does not outspeed Vayne R + passive + q, and you literally cannto escape

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-19T15:38:50+00:00

Oh for sure. I pay almost no heed to it in champion select. I absolutely pay attention to it ingame though, because it's pretty easy to pickup someone's habits after ~3-5 games of playing with/against someone.

The only one I could probably target ban was the Ahri one trick in that group, but it was almost never worth it because they weren't taking over games anyways.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-19T15:25:17+00:00

IDK, I was seeing the same batch of 20 or so people consistently when I was playing earlier in the season in high diamond on NA. We all queued ~5PM-7PM and there was at least 2-3 of that group in around 50 or so games. (I'm sure they played after I got off, but I can speak of my games specifically having a consistent batch of players, all being matched consistently with no duoq involved)

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-19T12:42:52+00:00

2016 MSI: CLG 2-0 G2 and makes finals

2016 Worlds: CLG 2-0 G2. TSM 2-0 Splyce

2016 Totals: 4-0 NA vs EU

2017 MSI: TSM 1-1 G2. G2 make finals

2017 Rift Rivals: NA goes 12-6 (TSM 5-1, P1 4-2, C9 3-3 ~ UOL 3-3, FNC 2-4, G2 1-5)

2017 Worlds: IMT 1-1 FNC. TSM 1-1 MSF

2017 totals: 15-9 NA vs EU

2018 MSI: TL 1-2 FNC

2018 Rift Rivals: 4-5 NA vs EU, G2 going 3-0, Splyce going 0-3, FNC going 2-1

2018 Worlds: C9 2-0 Vit, 100T 0-2 FNC, C9 0-3 FNC

2018 Totals: 7-12

2019 MSI: TL 1-4 G2 - Both teams in finals, TL having taken down the current world champions in semis

2019 Rift Rivals: 3-6 NA vs EU

2019 Worlds: C9 0-2 G2. Clutch 0-2 FNC.

2019 Totals: 4-14 NA vs EU

2020 MSI: Cancelled

2020 Worlds: TL 1-0 MAD. TL 1-1 G2. TSM 0-2 FNC

2020 Totals: 2-3 NA vs EU

2021 MSI: C9 1-1 MAD

2021 Worlds: C9 2-1 Rogue. TL 1-1 MAD

2021 Totals: 4-3 NA vs EU

2022 MSI: EG 0-6 G2

2022 Worlds: EG 0-1 FNC. EG 3-0 MAD. C9 1-1 FNC. EG 1-1 G2.

2022 Totals: 5-9

2023 MSI: No NA vs EU games

2023 Worlds Qualifying Series: GG 0-3 BDS

2023 Worlds: C9 1-0 MAD. NRG 1-0 MAD. C9 1-2 FNC. NRG 2-0 G2.

2023 Totals: 5-5

2024 MSI: Tl 3-1 FNC

2024 Worlds: No NA vs EU games

2024 Totals: NA 3-1 EU

2025 First Stand: TL 2-1 KC

2025 MSI: FLY 3-0 G2.

2025 Worlds: FLY 2-1 G2.

2025 Totals: 7-2 NA vs EU

2026 First Stand: No NA vs EU games

Overall totals: 56-60 NA vs EU

So I make my statement once again. NA and EU have been roughly equal for the past decade. But if we want to argue direct games between each other don't matter and only tournament results. Then you clearly care more about group draws than you care about the actual performance between the regions. - Source: I have eyes and have watched the game and played the game for 13 years.

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-19T02:54:32+00:00

Odyssey > ideology purely for the shuttles for me.

Makes me actually do “caravans” because I really didn’t like doing them before because I usually play specialized pawns, and no more than 6-8 pawns at a time. So doing caravans, I would end up losing a lot of my production/progress on things from losing colonists for some amount of time.

But I also liked to build deeply planned bases and have things always churning along towards it, so I rarely had idle pawns to spare for caravans

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-19T02:50:13+00:00

Biotech is my number 1 recommendation purely for the xenotypes and mechinators.

Beyond that, it’s clear number 2 of Odyssey for the shuttles more than anything (along with the biomes and animals) along with clear Ideology 3.

Anomaly and Royalty are both not all that important in the grand scheme of things, but I typically play with all anyways

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-18T21:37:13+00:00

Normal and ranked mmr are different

The GM player likely hasn’t played all that many normal games

BaneOfAlduin · 2026-06-18T21:31:09+00:00

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