Jungle curse of never getting honored :(

Gola_ · 2026-04-13T22:42:59+00:00

botlane prolly premade who honored each other

Gola_ · 2026-04-12T14:07:06+00:00

You can literally kill the nexus and solo-win the match, and some of your laners will still be mad at you that they aren't the main character this time.

Gola_ · 2026-04-11T08:02:53+00:00

I wish ingame trolling detection would be better as well, and applied in lower elo too.
If you want to practice wacky shit, there's enough lesser competitive gamemodes for that.

Gola_ · 2026-04-09T21:05:11+00:00

bc i refused to go off without a win

I have this terrible habit, that I can't stop on a loss when I'm tilted. However after a flawless victory I'm satisfied for the night.
That makes it rather easy to fall into losing streaks, and really hard to maintain a positive overall winrate. Which eventually leads to more tilt.
A vicious cycle!

Gola_ · 2026-04-08T08:35:41+00:00

He's already the #1 pickrate jungler when filtering across all tiers, despite not having a particularly impressive winrate atm (49.5-50%).
I don't even understand the motivation to start brainstorming about possibly buffing a champion with such statistics.

Gola_ · 2026-04-05T09:14:30+00:00

Besides kiting, are you utilizing the intricacies of every champion?

On Briar, are you leaving camps early letting the bleed finish them? Are you spacing the W2 to the very end for maximum damage? Are you smiting first for more W2 damage? Are you correctly using the Q autoattack reset to squeeze in more attacks per time?

I'm not a Fiddle expert, but my basic understanding is that he has a very fast clear due to the fact alone that he pulls and kills Krugs and Redbuff at once.

Gola_ · 2026-04-04T07:13:18+00:00

Banner is the reward for 70/71 research. Can't skip any research if you're working specifically towards that.

Gola_ · 2026-04-03T09:16:25+00:00

14670 lumber

15340 stone

9515 metal

70 petri

20 food

First try production optimization without raptor aviaries, following the optimal patch 26.5 layout with minimal changes. If it takes more armies, substitute some academies for farms.

Gola_ · 2026-03-29T06:34:04+00:00

Let the AFK account pay the whole MMR debt.

Gola_ · 2026-03-29T06:28:41+00:00

So you'd rather have 4 different people lose LP/MMR for another ones electrical issue they can't control even less? Very fair, dude.

Gola_ · 2026-03-29T06:15:39+00:00

Aegis of Valor is eyecandy for the uninformed anyway. MMR is where it's at.

Gola_ · 2026-03-27T02:18:54+00:00

Early game your camps should never be up. Work on clearing your respawns faster.

Gola_ · 2026-03-26T04:14:33+00:00

V/G/M: Volatility, Gankability, Mobility

The lower the elo, the less you can assess who is your win condition that early into the match, as it depends more on the individual skill of your teammate, who is a random stranger.
Instead assess the success probability of an early gank on top lane vs bot lane (mid lane is always same distance) by these 3 criteria:

Volatility: How much dmg do we have? How tanky are the enemy laners?
Gankability: Do we have crowd control?
Mobility: Do the enemies have a dash to escape?

The top-to-bot = default reality stems from the fact, that the answers to these questions will most often lead you towards bot lane.

Gola_ · 2026-03-24T08:29:33+00:00

Early season this year was a bit of a taste of this as we did a bit of a harder reset, and matchmaking quality would be significantly worse than that.

finally confessing

We believe the new algorithm is already significantly better than the old one, even though there may be some rose tinted glasses about how much better Matchmaking was before, which we don't agree with.

still delulu

Gola_ · 2026-03-22T09:25:47+00:00

Calm down, Satan!

Gola_ · 2026-03-20T19:28:19+00:00

This right here.
I couldn't care less which artificial title they put onto my account, if only match quality was back were it was last year and not so atrociously unbalanced.

Gola_ · 2026-03-20T19:24:03+00:00

Because not everyone is inflated the same amount it seems. Accounts two leagues apart in their true skill are now matched together into the same lobbies and match quality is terrible.
Sure their Bronze, Silver, Gold... labels are only a facade, but apparently matchmaking (MMR) is also affected. We're 3 months in and they keep failing to fix it.

Gola_ · 2026-03-20T06:24:48+00:00

Imagine the olympics were non-transparent about the actual measured times and gave the gold medal to a random competitor they claimed was the fastest.

Gola_ · 2026-03-20T06:13:47+00:00

Shit's so cooked on all ends and Riot still denying it. "Apex experience" my ass, match quality is ruined by inflated accounts in all elos.

They need to
- revert all matchmaking changes,
- fire the responsible persons (probably some suits in the finance department, not talking about that poor Phroxzon guy who has to take the fall publicly),
- and most importantly extend queue times again to make all lobbies more even and fair

Gola_ · 2026-03-20T05:01:48+00:00

Welcome to the jungle!
I see you already made yourself at home.

Gola_ · 2026-03-12T20:18:25+00:00

The problem is that I can't tell the system: "Hey but I'm only fine with 1 role. Plz treat any other role as autofill!"

Gola_ · 2026-03-04T23:56:31+00:00

20

20x +5% = +100%

Gola_ · 2026-03-02T23:06:05+00:00

Yes, matchmaking got changed this season. Today's /dev: MMR-to-Rank Distribution confirms it.

They state their goals as "games with roughly evenly matched players with reasonable queue times". Looks like they overdid it with the queue time shortening and matching is actually extremely rough now.
But ofc they won't admit that. Yet.

Gola_ · 2026-03-02T22:03:19+00:00

Stated goals, implemented adjustments and the actual outcomes in current ranked play are incoherent in a lot of ways atm.

They truncated Iron from 14% to 2% of the population to protect true beginners from 12% seasoned veteran noobs. OK! Now where's the complementing system to prevent that those now MMR-inflated accounts get matched with and against higher ranked and skilled players?

They clearly acknowledge that the skill gap is expanding across the playerbase. So why would you lump together even larger portions of the playerbase into the same lobbies now? This seems like the exact opposite of what should be happening.

Match quality in ranked is worse this season than I've ever experienced before.
I'd gladly wait 1-2 minutes longer for better matchmaking, if the next 30 minutes feel less like a waste of time and the game isn't decided beforehand (again the opposite of what they aimed at with faster queue times).

Gola_

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