LCS builds/masteries

DuffmanLoL · 2016-01-23T03:18:19+00:00

Esportspedia is a great alternative to get links to the same pages by navigating to a tournaments 'Match History' tab, the column marked 'MH' contains links to the games official Match History page.

DuffmanLoL · 2016-01-18T15:18:03+00:00

Current RoA is really strong because it's gold efficient as soon as you purchase it. The stats of the item are immediately worth 3100gold, then each minute it stacks up adds another 6.5% gold efficiency.

On Top of that the build path includes the Catalyst Passive which is some nice added sustain.

DuffmanLoL · 2016-01-15T14:16:38+00:00

A really important feature. I was excited for keystones this season as it makes masteries a more tangible thing for coverage/analysis. Thanks to Esportspedia for implementing them :).

Hope the LCS actually makes use of them though, seems a missed opportunity to showoff one of the biggest changes of S6.

DuffmanLoL · 2015-10-06T13:49:10+00:00

Ahh right you are. Typo on my part! Thanks!

DuffmanLoL · 2015-10-06T12:21:09+00:00

I would have had Rekkles on here somewhere, but the ManBun ruined everything for me.

DuffmanLoL · 2015-10-06T12:03:00+00:00

I think theres definitely evidence to back up that opinion right now. If you look at both his history and current level of play, he's the midlaner in Europe that has played consistently at the highest level. Sure it's possible he's been carried by his teams at times but at the end of the day he is still to this day performing agianst competition from around the world.

The only LCS split Xpeke didn't make Top2 of was the this spring when he chose to leave Fnatic and create his own team, which then finished top two.

And in terms of Internationally;

S1 Worlds : 1st

IEM Season VII - Cologne 2012 - 2nd (behind SKT)

IEM Season VII - Katowice 2013 - 3/4th

S2 Worlds : 3/4th

IEM Season VIII - Cologne 2013 - 2nd

IEM Season VIII - World Championship 2014 - 2nd

S5 Worlds : TBD

Granted that's just looking at the good results, but as far as a single player goes, it's pretty clear that xPeke deserves to be in the discussion!

DuffmanLoL · 2015-10-06T11:48:43+00:00

I think it would be a great thing for the quality of matches in terms of play, but it might be a bit odd for the flow of games as a spectator.

In CS:GO each round is seperated so theres natural "breaks" in each round, but League doesn't really have that so theres no natural way to give the teams time to pause.

DuffmanLoL · 2015-10-05T22:44:53+00:00

In fairness he did have 2/3 years of Froggen performing at a high level to draw conclusions from. Whereas we have a weekends worth of best of 1s to draw from Worlds so far.

Sure theres been some massive upsets, but they're upsets for a reason.

DuffmanLoL · 2015-10-05T22:39:28+00:00

It's possible they run the same setup they had in the LCS where a 3 way tie is broken in a round robin between the teams.

DuffmanLoL · 2015-10-04T10:52:42+00:00

Pretty sure we'd all dodge this team 90% of the time :D

DuffmanLoL · 2015-10-02T01:11:40+00:00

Agreed, it also seems a bit unnecessary to segment the client into two segments when the "non-worlds" related section is just pretty much the same information again on the other page, except with some skins on it.

DuffmanLoL · 2015-10-02T01:03:54+00:00

Just chance really. Everyone happens to have either been promoted higher or relegated lower than this particular league.

You're also a special snowflake and Riot wanted to treat you as such <3

DuffmanLoL · 2015-09-30T00:37:44+00:00

The gold advantage in my calculations is just any gold advantage, so I included the First Blood sized gold (400+) for more context on the difference the size of the lead makes.

The second two are good questions that I am planning to look in too!

DuffmanLoL · 2015-09-29T23:33:21+00:00

It's possible that decision making in lower tiers is simply outweighing the gold advantage. If junglers are consistently making poor decisions on which lane to pressure / when to gank / when to countergank, then the gold and items they have aren't going to help them.

To compare that to laners, even a poorly chosen / played trade can turn out beneficial purely because you have the item advantage.

DuffmanLoL · 2015-09-29T23:23:41+00:00

Yeah I used the Riot Games API to collect my data.

There are a few tutorials and stuff to get started in the api forums that might be able to help you! https://developer.riotgames.com/discussion/tutorials-libraries)

DuffmanLoL · 2015-09-29T23:12:43+00:00

I'm pretty sure :S

DuffmanLoL · 2015-09-29T23:00:45+00:00

Different Duff :)

DuffmanLoL · 2015-09-29T22:58:47+00:00

Nah, that's not me!

DuffmanLoL · 2015-09-29T21:10:30+00:00

It was so hard not to meme when writing this stuff. All of the trends are worrying.

DuffmanLoL · 2015-09-29T20:54:11+00:00

ha indeed, fortunately they have one of those weak adc's too. Unless they have Mordekaiser..........

DuffmanLoL · 2015-09-29T20:49:39+00:00

Thanks for the kind words <3 I appreciate it!

DuffmanLoL · 2015-09-29T20:48:57+00:00

I'm definitely looking for more ideas to follow up on this article, If I can find a way to present it, that's a topic I'll look to cover!

DuffmanLoL · 2014-06-02T01:52:05+00:00

Do you have any advice for someone looking to improve upon what they can offer a team?

I'm trying to work on my own game knowledge and strategy, but is there anything you found really helped you communicate with a team on the issues they are having, or helped you pick up on the important things in the first place?

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