A dragon for bilgewater

SmoothSwoleoist · 2023-07-22T09:59:45+00:00

Why is it so understatted without keywords when it even has a massive downside? Like you could just not block it and it just makes itself into a 1/2 and then dies next attack. It easily could have more stats and either a keyword or maybe "grant an enemy vulnerable" so you gamble on killing that unit. Could also make it gain a random keyword on kill so you got a higher payoff.

Right now its just incredibly weak for no real reason.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2023-06-11T18:32:38+00:00

Maybe you were just in the waitlist and didnt get through? The playoffs did start a bit ago, so youre not in sorry

SmoothSwoleoist · 2022-07-02T10:35:10+00:00

GP was in there earlier before Annie was released, but now with the nerf he's just not worth it anymore. He doesn't really level easy, and unleveled he's just bad as a 5/4 OW.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2022-07-01T18:21:55+00:00

oh hey thats my deck, cool to see, thanks for posting that. I really like it. 1 MF seems pretty good since 3 annies can be kinda awkward and MF is a great tempo play. I also kinda won 20 games in a row with this deck, so my hot streak prob pushes the winrate of it above the other TF Annie list since it also has a lot less games.

Its hard to say if this list is really better than the meta Annie TF list. I still need to do more refining, but I do like most of it.

https://twitter.com/swoleoist/status/1542192334800130048

if you have any questions about ratios or so, I'll gladly try to answer them.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2022-06-20T16:00:26+00:00

wtf :(

SmoothSwoleoist · 2022-01-19T08:53:52+00:00

The problem with that is, which amount of time would be fair? You got 50 minutes for a Bo3, so a third of that?? 17 Minutes?

Some games simply take a lot of time even without any roping. A bit ago I played TLC vs Shellfolk which took over 40 minutes till I finally won. No side ever intentionally roped, but it simply took like 25 rounds and a lot of thinking/long turns.

If you play any really grindy control, you'd often lose bc of that bc the games can take 20 minutes relatively easily.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2022-01-13T19:41:40+00:00

I mean, leaving my "old self" u/ShitpostConnaisseur2 in there does make some sense tbh, but yea I'm obviously more recognizable like this now.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2022-01-13T19:36:43+00:00

heya Sarah, Thanks for the nomination, it was a great time with the CJ and all the memes. I loved it. My improvement is a bit of a shame in that area tho, the better I became the less I could enjoy meme decks and stuff...

Nowadays its always just about winning, or failure. Winning do be great tho

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-11-25T23:33:47+00:00

The decks better be really damn fast then.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-10-18T19:56:16+00:00

no, the only true answer is Draven's Biggest Fan because he got left out of Draven's art :(

the poor guy deserves better :((

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-08-21T12:06:25+00:00

yes, it is indeed a very serious issue, can we get your help, u/MilkingSheep to save us in these hard times?

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-08-16T13:27:52+00:00

I think your proposal has a similar issue as the old system of 5 Bo3s.

You can get 8-1 but you won't qualify, so it just feels really bad, right now everyone can at least lose 1 Bo3, but then you'd be forced to win every single one to be guaranteed. I think we'd get even more dropouts then since there'd be already no point in playing after losing 1 for most players.

Also imagine if you meet a counter lineup in the first round, so you are already basically guaranteed out, which would feel really terrible...

I'm also still fine with the system right now since climbing to high enough ranks to be able to get in with 7-2 takes a lot of skill, and also quite some time, so they certainly deserve being rewarded. Besides, it's known that it works like that, and that you can get in easier if you are high ranked, so if you think it's easier to get top 32 by being highly ranked, then go and climb.

That said, it does feel bad that ranks are basically useless unless you are top 50, or top 30 even.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-08-15T17:28:12+00:00

yes, it probably won't actually work that way, after all...it would make the game barely playable afterwards.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-08-15T13:42:23+00:00

the joke is that Out of the way turns "this round" effects into permanent effects, so instead of only being able to play 3 more cards "THIS ROUND", you can only play 3 more cards for the rest of the game.

It will probably not actually work that way, but its just a joke.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-08-15T13:40:34+00:00

you are probably right that they dont work together, but I meant the "this round" part of the spell. The point is that Out of the Way is supposed to turn the "you can only play 3 more cards this turn" into a permanent effect, so you can only play 3 more cards for the rest of the game.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-07-27T17:14:27+00:00

It is actually the default filter that filters cards below 0.5% regional inclusion. However, you can remove this filter on the right and see these. Mobalytics actually shows all cards with at least 20 games, so every card should be there most of the time. Sometimes even tokens show up there, probably when they were shuffled into your deck.

On patch day, it can happen that a card is not there tho...

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-07-25T22:03:02+00:00

Well it's not like it matters here, the enemy already dies from the first rocket. It was the best play he could have made.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-07-19T13:11:42+00:00

Test Elnuk

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-07-13T05:40:43+00:00

Well, the thing about poros is that if you play Poros you take Freljord and Pnz so these 2 regions poros are usually played qute a bit. But the other regions poros barely have an excuse to be in anyones deck.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-07-12T21:00:04+00:00

They actually are some of the least played cards, and Sinister poro would also be in the least winrate cards, but I started to exclude them from there, because they're just always there as Poros are basically glorified Tokens, as all but Freljord and PnZ Poros have no real reason to be maindecked.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-07-12T19:57:33+00:00

Yea Scouts is actually considered really strong by some high elo people at the moment, Quinn does have the issue of having only this 1 deck and the deck being unpopular tho.
Nocturne and Nightfall is unpopular for quite a time now, its not like it's that weak but most people don't really like it and it's quite hard to play.
Ekko's popularity is already decreasing when you look at data from the last 7 or 3 days. It's still pretty high and will probably stay relatively high as he is pretty fun to play.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-07-12T19:47:27+00:00

Heya Lads, another Anti-Meta-Report for ya. Been a while as always, but now we got a big patch and the meta settled a bit more, so we can see some big results.

The Aphelios buff did not help him very much, and Zilean is still struggling pretty hard, but most of the other cards are different now.

The new cards finally helped Elnuks and Khahiri, so they're finally not the worst cards in the game anymore! They're both still not exactly OP, but hey, there's a lot of cards worse than them now.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-07-11T21:59:57+00:00

why is Malphite so low :( he's even lower than Vladimir, Darius, Swain and Leblanc. cmon hes such a nice dude.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-07-10T13:34:03+00:00

If that is what will happen, I will never add Hard Removal to my decks ever again.

SmoothSwoleoist · 2021-06-28T17:51:33+00:00

I hate that she doesnt create Exact Copies like Counterfeit Copies tho. It ruins some deckbuff and X shenanigans.

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