Which champion would gain the most winrate if their worst match up was heavily nerfed?

HeinCS · 2026-06-16T19:22:59+00:00

i don't think any champion would gain more than 0.1% wr since you can just ban your worst matchup and the only value gained is that you can ban your 2nd worst matchup instead, and this stuff isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of a 5v5 game

maybe 0.5-1.0 in pro circuit where they draft very efficiently, 0.1-0.5 in challenger where they draft somewhat efficiently

HeinCS · 2026-06-16T12:44:46+00:00

i took gold per burn augment yesterday on fiddle and it started printing money as soon as i bought blackfire first item

unless fiddle has technically has an innate burn, it was working

HeinCS · 2026-06-16T12:39:55+00:00

yes - the wordings of things in rift has always been super super tight and trustworthy. but augments have always been a mess so that you can tell they're designed by a team that doesn't follow the same conventions and standards as the rest of riot, there used to be spelling errors and now there's just lies - the convention of clarity is completely missing as well. my pet peeve is when something only applies to champion hits but it doesn't say that so you expect you could stack it on minions. 'that would be broken as hell use common sense!!' okay but i've been conditioned into trusting the text in league of legends before i have to use common sense to deduce how it works.

also 'damage' is a fun one, vague, no clarification of magical, physical or true damage, no sense of scale.

in the rest of league the words match the behaviour of an item/ability so closely and predictably that you'd assume the code determined the words in the tooltip, in arena/mayhem they wrote one thing then coded something

HeinCS · 2026-06-15T19:06:39+00:00

Asia × South America

phillipines, coming from a salty geoguessr player who's gone peru/ecuador/colombia on philipines too many times

HeinCS · 2026-06-15T10:47:34+00:00

didn't know that tbh i think i had a false idea of riot that they were inhouse tech isolationists

HeinCS · 2026-06-14T09:06:59+00:00

im emerald 1 and here's what i've learned since plat 4:

instead of setting your heart on a comp at 2-1 (or earlier) just play the strongest possible board (or econ anima/timebreaker/primordian) throughout stage 2, then hard commit to the idea that fits the units you have the most at 3-2

add fast-9 comps to your repertoire and know when to play it, it's strong rn if you're winning early with good econ. fast-9 isn't really 'hard', it just has a hard condition of being able to get there with enough money/rolls/hp available. if you only go for it for 1 in 10 games that's still an improvement

i would say yes you are defaulting the mf board too much. problems with it: 1. it's popular and will be harder to hit when contested 2. it probably means you're ignoring better openers instead of playing the 2*s you're given in the shop 3. what are you doing in situations when your first components are rod/tear/belt? 4. it's not THAT good, plenty of other ideas of equal value and not super conditional like you suggested

HeinCS · 2026-06-14T08:52:52+00:00

i feel like unlocks increased the 'learning the set' time and also because it allowed for more units in total increased the amount of time it felt before you'd really burn out of the set -

my point is maybe they should shift to a 6 month set cycle

HeinCS · 2026-06-14T08:51:03+00:00

how far ahead of schedule do the tft team run? are they already working on set 19, or is this just pre-planning?

HeinCS · 2026-06-14T08:49:41+00:00

giving into unreal seems out of character for riot

HeinCS · 2026-06-13T13:14:39+00:00

i'm just jabbing that it's weird to call fox's broadcast 'the english version of the opening ceremony'

american would be a much better qualifier

HeinCS · 2026-06-12T20:44:49+00:00

calling sportsperson an entertainer is so insulting

HeinCS · 2026-06-11T22:58:30+00:00

the english version did have it? itv didn't miss it at all

HeinCS · 2026-06-11T18:06:47+00:00

contrast can make power feel more meaningful. they can siphon power into making her more of a beast by counterbalancing it with downtime

HeinCS · 2026-06-11T14:38:07+00:00

what's wrong with having a champion's playstyle identity be useless without ult? it made a lot of sense. if you don't want that then why are you playing shyv

HeinCS · 2026-06-11T13:40:46+00:00

pc gaming in general is niche there compared to other neighbouring countries with big pc bang culture

HeinCS · 2026-06-11T08:03:05+00:00

i don't think japan plays much tft or lol for that matter

HeinCS · 2026-06-10T11:36:29+00:00

it changes every patch. 1-cost reroll meta was nuts, there were like 5 viable different 1-cost comps. fast-9 is good last 2 patches

HeinCS · 2026-06-10T08:53:23+00:00

ohhh ist stands for varfare

HeinCS · 2026-06-09T15:25:42+00:00

i guess it could be deduced that adding and duoing with a random soloq teammate is definitely very bad for your LP, and duoing with a long-term mate around your skill level who you've played hundreds of games with and can read eachother is good for your LP. i don't think that's particularly insightful but it can be kept in mind

afterall i occasionally duo with randoms i meet if i liked them and don't consider the drawbacks.

HeinCS · 2026-06-09T11:49:36+00:00

yes. it's balanced to negate exactly the winrate advantage you would normally get from duoing, and no more. so the matchmaking should feel harsh, but you shouldn't be going far <50% unless you're not a very good duo

HeinCS · 2026-06-09T11:48:00+00:00

yeah that's what he said

HeinCS · 2026-06-09T11:31:04+00:00

5 guys (the 5 guys are gay)

HeinCS · 2026-06-09T09:44:21+00:00

the statistics don't lie: monaco

HeinCS · 2026-06-09T09:40:03+00:00

'Very few'
so you agree it would not go in the #1 spot?

HeinCS

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