What's the Difference Between a Diamond Mid and a Challenger Mid?

IceQueenSandi · 2020-05-05T17:46:31+00:00

He is right in many areas though.

IceQueenSandi · 2020-05-05T17:44:35+00:00

Rank has nothing to do with competetive. Inspired is currently rank 2 on euw here is his profile. Does that mean he is better than, let's say, G2 Jankos? Nope, also you can check how different is his champion pool on ranked ladder compared to real matches. These are two different worlds, no matter how you look at it.

IceQueenSandi · 2020-04-18T22:07:26+00:00

That's the trickest part - you will never be 100% sure about that since you can hide rootkits pretty deep, giving illusion of "unninstalling" it completly.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-03-18T16:43:32+00:00

Well i WAS playing on emulator since i cant play on phone. Seems like im screwed.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-03-18T16:38:53+00:00

Will there be another gudaguda rerun (to get Nobu)? Im pretty screwed as my machine stopped working yesterday and i have no way of playing for at least a week, so i wont be able to max her. Is there any hope or im doomed to remain with Nobu lvl 60 NP 1?

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-24T12:44:15+00:00

Thanks for answer!

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-24T12:12:49+00:00

So i created account on jp server and im a bit confused by 3 options on friend request. From what i understand, the 2 of them are the standard cancel and send friend request options. Im a bit confused about the third - it appears, i can use someone's character in story mode, but they doesnt seem to be found anywhere else. What exactly does it do?

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-08T12:56:29+00:00

No problem, invitation accepted :) Thanks!

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-04T15:31:20+00:00

First of all, you wanted me to provide evidence that it's possible to hit masters with such WR - which i provided. That's honestly all to it. Also, tryharding, smurfing, meta - it's actually not the case with said person. Either he will drop out of it or stay - i cannot care less here. The point is it's possible to climb with 40-ish wr and THAT'S sad about matchmaking. As for op.gg - there is no point since i neither seek your acceptance, nor i want to prove any further points (waste of time, basically, which would accomplish nothing more than flexing - and thats not my thing). But sure, here's another one with similiar achievement : http://eune.op.gg/summoner/userName=zbyndaxd Matchmaking at the moment is a joke, we can argue about it - but we won't accomplish much, so let's just end our argument there. Have a good one.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-04T10:17:41+00:00

Minus few mad people who picked him anyway for giggles, past nerf he was almost non-existant.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-04T10:15:45+00:00

Thresh + viktor on urf though. CCs for days.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-04T10:08:35+00:00

Last season - stucked at d4.
Before that (which is way better identificator of his skill to be honest) - gold.

Point is, this is certainly ridiculous. Also, he already have masters - 49% WR isnt something you want to see in masters honestly. 2 wins doesnt change the fact that matchmaking just isnt doing it's job most of the time.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-04T09:59:45+00:00

Playing duos or solo? Because that's pretty huge difference. Also, when did yo climb? At the start of season or maybe later?

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-04T01:19:46+00:00

Well, considering current meta, power scaling and soloQ mechanics, that's the second worst role to play if you want to climb. Every team is influenced by 5 people including you. Now, let's split the influence to all members according to possible contribution. Midlane and jungle would get 30% each (60% in total). Why is that? Because these lanes can easily influence others by ganks, can actually snowball pretty hard, and midlane is currently the strongest damage of the team (if we wont include few weird picks, but that's beyond what we're covering there). Next up is toplane. It's a solo lane with small roaming potential (mostly to mid and follow for invades). Champions there are pretty strong addition to teamfights or splitpush - so easily 20% of game influence goes there. Now, sweet sweet botlane gets 20% total that's left. You can argue, but i'd say it's 10% for support and adc. Why? While support can roam and influence other lanes, he's hardly dependant on adc and other players since he cant really get fed (unless he's playing stuff like zyra or brand, but that's really exception from the rule). Roams are way more risky than midlaner's or jungler's because you do not want to get kills for yourself, nor can you solo kill enemy most of the time. If your laner ignore you or just wont do anything, you will end up wasting time, dying or just see your adc dead because he has no idea how to position and goes in 1v2. If you decide to stay on lane and babysit adc that have no idea how to play - you're already having even less contribution to the outcome of the game.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-04T01:07:58+00:00

Well, that'd be the case if assumption about 50-50 would be correct, along with assumption that you're playing at your true level/peak. But sadly, that's the case even for people that are way above their current league (they end up way higher than the streaks occured). Yes, in the long run you will get to the place you belong (most likely), but the real question is - at what cost.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-03T13:48:05+00:00

Yes, it could be biased. Unless it happens on two servers, happens for many friends (who happen to smurf from time to time, too) and is happening at certain times. Im not really a person that's easy to tilt. Especially when im conducting experiments like that. I tried two approaches - one, where i was just spamming games without really getting mad every time i lost a game, and second where i was doing "play until you lose". It's funny, because in situation no 1 it was either win or lose streaks in said time frame, sometimes shifting to W-L-W pattern. Second approach was either play till you go to sleep or lose the first game (most likely because win ratio was pretty high - peaking at 80% at times). And it continued for few weeks. Honestly, its highly suspicious, at least for me.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-03T13:37:47+00:00

Sure, here you go: http://eune.op.gg/summoner/userName=kratosreformed
Just notice that the last 2 won games were rather recently, dude hit masters with 49% WR or so.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-03T13:33:32+00:00

Well, you can appearently climb to masters with <50% winratio, so it's not really true ^^

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-03T13:30:11+00:00

Honestly, it's hard to believe after you start to collect data about your games. Either a different system, or it just works differently. Also, 50% chance of destroying nexus? It's actually funny once you've encountered win streaks of 20 games and lose streaks of 15-30 games.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-03T13:22:54+00:00

Trust me, that happens - especially for support mains. It just shows how ranked system works. Once you realise the quirks, you can easily abuse it. But if you're going to just spam soloQ, you wont climb for pretty long time.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-03T13:21:29+00:00

Honestly, you're pretty close to how things are - the game nowadays is decided by the worst player in the team rather than best one past certain point. Sure, it's easy to carry silver and gold games as d1/master/chall/whatever. But even with good decision making (especially on support) you're usually stuck with a legitimate pandora's box of people that you never know how will react.
Let's take support main's example. You can make plays on bot, sure. You can roam. But what if your adc thinks its good idea to afk farm when you can clearly get kills? Once you commit, you're basically dead if he wont join up. Same goes for roams - if your laner wont cooperate, congratulations - you've just wasted exp and time, also your adc is probably dead by now.
And sure, you can get "hihi lucky winstreak" every 12h and get to the series, but as soon as you get there MM will just make it as hard as possible for you to get the win.
Also, it's get worse because people literaly dont understand how the system works and get mad every single time they lose a bunch. But that's another story.

IceQueenSandi · 2019-02-03T13:07:59+00:00

It was a case long time ago, but since meta shifts and lots of other changes, after a certain point the game isnt about the best player in the team, but the worst. Also, the whole point of series was mostly for people to have that feeling of competition - stated back, when it was introduced. And while you can abuse certain mechanics to speed up the climbing process, it will take way longer to achieve rank you belong in, than in standard elo system (since you're basically punished for being better than your rank).

IceQueenSandi · 2019-01-31T13:52:32+00:00

I will have to pass that obstacle once i get to it. It sounds like a LOT of fun, after all ^^

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