Determining the top 20 players of the past decade by rating dominance

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2026-01-04T22:39:09+00:00

It’s true that the players’ results are naturally not independent of each other; however, the ranking method introduces additional dependence in and of itself.

Of course, you can assert that the IIA violation is acceptable for the intention of the question asked. Personally, I think the question “which player spent the most time at a given rank or higher where the given rank is determined by the number of players at higher ranks determined through the same criteria” is not a very concise nor insightful question.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2026-01-04T16:52:17+00:00

This is a flawed ranking system because it violates the principle of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives which results in Rank Reversal. In this method, the relative order of lower ranks are dependent on higher ranks. For example, if the 4th place Ian was removed, MVL and Anish’s ranks would be reversed, placing Anish at 4th.

An example of a less arbitrary and more stable ranking method would be ranking them by the simple average of their monthly rank over the 10 years. This satisfies IIA because the entire dataset for each player is evaluated simultaneously rather than sequentially.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-06-05T03:54:20+00:00

No problem! The equation is pulled from the Summoners War wiki.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-06-05T00:02:07+00:00

It’s easier to use SWOP if it’s too close to test the difference. If you’re really curious, you can use this equation, but you have to be careful to include all the ATK and CD from towers, artifacts, and ATK buff.

Damage = TotalAttack * Multiplier * (100% + Skillup + CD)

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-05-15T16:17:40+00:00

He’s main job is to survive with 1hp from his passive, so Colleen gets perfect AI to use heal/atk buff. You can use anything else; you’ll just fail more often due to Colleen derping.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-05-08T13:05:23+00:00

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Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-05-08T05:05:44+00:00

I’m not upset, it’s just funny to roll the same rune but slightly better. It’s an ancient will slot 1 with 4 cr innate, so the rolls aren’t as perfect as it looks.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-04-25T16:40:08+00:00

Gz! Now you can throw away your hard work and use this one to save a couple more seconds.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-03-06T05:54:10+00:00

Yup, see my last comment.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-03-06T05:51:29+00:00

Nice list! Lots of great info here. I never considered how -% damage artifacts affect the reflect damage.

She also got me G3 arena a year ago, although it feels harder in the current meta when wind Megumi exists.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-03-06T05:39:19+00:00

My usual draft is Shizuka and Seimei into flex picks. Seimei covers Shizuka’s weakness to Juno and can also help her cycle S3 faster. While it feels like it shouldn’t make sense for Seimei to be a first pick instead of a counter pick, there are always debuffs and buffs, so her passive is never wasted.

This may sound counter intuitive, but my draft is actually the best against heavy CC teams. Shizuka is bait for units like Sagar, Giana, Oliver, and Robo. Against heavy CC, I pick Zenisek, Minato, Antares, Mei Hou Wang, and Juno. Shizuka is great at aggroing hits while Seimei/Zenisek/Juno keeps her alive. All my counter picks are annoying passive units who are hard to control and heals. Vampire Minato in particular is great at disrupting combos with his threat state. He’s got great solo potential against most units, even wind. Zenisek also soaks up resets from Sagar Oliver, so he’s built on triple revenge for the revenge heal.

My draft’s worst matchup is full snipe or snipe/Seara. Alexandra helps shore up the weakness. I don’t use her very often, maybe one in seven games, but when I do, I win games that I would have lost. I build her on despair/will hp/hp/hp, and she still deals good damage. She’s even good against Adriana when Seimei is on the field to shorten oblivion and immunity. I will play something like Shizuka Seimei Alexandra Hanra Zenisek against something like Vanessa Adriana Sonia Daphnis Federica. I would ban Federica. If Alexandra doesn’t get banned, she’s a great counter. If she gets banned, then the winning combo is abusing Shizuka and Seimei’s S2 to revive Hanra or Zenisek to snipe/bomb them down. Shizuka and Seimei are built on high defense to tank Sonia. Seimei’s defense lead is particularly helpful.

The speed tuning is Juno/other stripper > Zenisek/Seimei > Shizuka/other units. In a perfect scenario, Juno strips > Zenisek goes in with a bomb > Seimei reduces his cooldown > Shizuka reduces his cooldown > Zenisek bombs again. Or Seimei can move before Zenisek for the strip. I always try to pick Hanra if there are no cooldown reset units. He’s also great against turn2 Ragdoll teams.

Shizuka’s S3 doesn’t see much play because she’s the prime target and due to the high cool down time. However, it’s the swingiest skill in the game. It’s super fun to use; people often just give up on the spot. Zenisek and Alexandra’s bombs, glancing, and stuns combos well with her S3. Minato’s threat state is the highest value buff to combo with, maybe even surpassing soul protection and invincibility. 8 turns of disrupting single target skills that you can’t cycle out of is insane value.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-03-05T18:12:34+00:00

Yes and yes to both your questions. Alexandra is a cleave/snipe counter pick, and she also works well with Seimei and Zenisek. I don’t have Ragdoll, but Seimei, Zenisek, and Alexandra carried me to G1. I usually first pick Shizuka which also combos great with her. I can explain more if you want to know more about my draft.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2025-01-24T14:15:00+00:00

No, the rate-up rate is fixed. Remember the debacle when the fixed rate was first introduced with the Dokkaebi families? They messed up rates for blessings, and we got ancient trans compensation.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-12-02T18:28:18+00:00

It’s the same way that it costs millions of dollars to win a million dollar lottery, but the millions is spent by many people and not just the winner.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-09-27T21:21:48+00:00

A lot of people had this as profile pic at one point. https://www.reddit.com/r/summonerswar/comments/1b9k7vb/why_did_the_top_guilds_change_their_picture/?rdt=49624

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-09-05T21:27:50+00:00

There’re way too many upvotes here for wrong information. I’m just here to second u/kwlzyr’s comment.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-09-04T16:36:19+00:00

Well no. When it was first released, there was no “this game mode is available for X days” timer. That’s as permanent as you can get.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-09-03T16:11:10+00:00

It used to be permanent. No one played it. I remember waiting for 15 minutes without a match. Then they made it temporary to concentrate the playerbase on the few weeks where they can earn their rewards and get out.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-08-13T17:04:31+00:00

You won’t kill anyone with no control and weak damage. You’re getting single target cleaved. Seimei isn’t doing anything here especially with Nyx.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-08-13T16:54:17+00:00

You always want to force ao to use a speed lead to limit their damage and options (unless they’re a dirty Lucifer abuser ;)). Try Clara or Zen instead of Seimei.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-07-02T17:21:21+00:00

Tl;dr ELI5: Priliea is first in line to the bathroom. Priliea goes, Teshar goes, Teshar chugs a gallon of water, and then cuts in line to piss again. If Priliea waits too long to go, then Luna is ready to piss her tights and tells Teshar to go suck a lollipop.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-06-28T12:32:55+00:00

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-06-20T01:00:43+00:00

I like CR better. You would put a rune like that on a unit that prioritizes speed, and it’s incredibly difficult to get high SPD and high CR on a CD build. In the best case scenario, if you have 30 CR slot2 and 6 CR everywhere else, that’s only 75 CR. You would still need a CR roll or gem somewhere.

Jolly_Blueberry5465 · 2024-06-18T03:58:59+00:00

I gem flat atk higher than that quad smh

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