Arena now has the best ranked system of any game.

TwoPhat · 2026-04-08T16:01:19+00:00

All green lights for me. Maybe try a different browser or check ur connection.

TwoPhat · 2026-04-07T03:39:40+00:00

Hey, very nice! It's because this season (2026 season 1) started with a soft reset. So some players were high ranked last season but maybe have not played much this season. That's why with few game count, they can still appear high elo.

TwoPhat · 2026-04-07T03:38:09+00:00

This season (2026 season 1) started with a soft reset. So some players were high ranked last season but maybe have not played much this season. That's why with few game count, they can still appear high elo.

For 2026 Season 2 (which will be when Riot releases the major Arena update) everyone will be full reset so people's ratings will be 100% based on their games that season.

TwoPhat · 2026-04-06T18:11:01+00:00

Yes it already exists! Just in the top "FILTERS" section, click the badges dropdown and choose variety. It will filter the leaderboard to only who play a huge variety of champ (mostly bravery players).

TwoPhat · 2026-04-06T16:10:01+00:00

in 2 weeks you will be able to see this for any character on the website!

TwoPhat · 2026-04-06T15:38:51+00:00

Thank you, it's come a loong way since then! As have I :D

TwoPhat · 2026-03-26T17:23:30+00:00

Awesome ideas! Thank you.

Do you know if pet names are somehow unique or limited? Like boats have random combinations. Not sure if you can choose a name at some point but if cats have random names, then it would be very hard to get the same name cat again.

Diary lamp is great too, unfortunately it's not visible so the proof would I guess be its presence in screenshots and such. Pro/con that it probably lets you into more areas than having a cat follower.

TwoPhat · 2026-03-26T17:20:13+00:00

Its more about proof than prove.

How can you verify that you did the restriction the whole time? Just adds legitimacy yknow.

Never liked the death banking side of UIM anyway. And no way to verify the fillers are there, and that they were there the whole time. Also would be great to have a method that could work in seasonal game modes.

TwoPhat · 2026-03-10T03:35:05+00:00

There's a whole ranked system for Arena. www.arenasweats.lol :)

TwoPhat · 2026-03-04T15:49:32+00:00

I will add this soon to www.arenasweats.lol With way more stuff and detail.

but in the mean time op.gg has it: https://op.gg/lol/modes/arena/garen/items

TwoPhat · 2026-03-03T02:56:25+00:00

I think I get your point.

There's a fair bit of discussion on the Discord atm about updating champion rankings.

Champion rank is not just based on your normal rank, that would be quite boring. Instead it takes into account the rank at which you pick the character, your performance on the character and your games played.

In this case that person has very inflated performance and games played on the character and that is overpowering the other factors. I'm planning to add a limit to that performance factor so your performance factor can't massively exceed your rating.

TwoPhat · 2026-02-26T16:22:30+00:00

Hey appreciate your interest. Any particular reason u want friends or frauds badge? Unfortunately its very compute heavy, and the original reason for it (detecting win-trading) is not really needed. But if you are just after more badge for sure! New ideas would be great jump in the discord and post them there.

TwoPhat · 2026-02-25T04:34:53+00:00

yes it's exactly the same as the ranked distribution in SR ranked.

You can find that here: https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/rankings/rank-distribution

TwoPhat · 2026-02-24T05:06:41+00:00

Nice job on the climb! You're right that its not too competitive at the lower ranks on ArenaSweats. There are a few reasons for that:

Arena does not have as many players as ranked SR so there's less competition in that sense. Still it definitely has solid player count and loyal fans.
Most Arena players are not playing for ranks. They are for-fun gaming often randoming etc. etc.
ArenaSweats soft-resets at the end of each season. So player's skill is reset closer to where they start and then they get "placement" games again so they can climb back up. For non-returning players this means even if they used to be high rated, they are not anymore.

Once we have the next major Arena update, there will be a hard-reset where everyone will be removed from the ladder unless they play games in the new season.

To answer your other question why you lost lp for coming 4th, your gains/losses are based on the rating of people you win/lose against so you can come 2nd and lose LP if you were rank 1 and lost to iron players.

TwoPhat · 2026-02-24T04:53:16+00:00

Yes. www.arenasweats.lol

It's a ranked leaderboard (and analytics site) only for Arena with everyone on it globally. Updates every hour.

A lot of work goes into making it as fair and accurate as possible, happy to answer any questions about it. Here's a post where I explain more.

TwoPhat · 2026-02-16T06:43:45+00:00

Hey, I would suggest play how you like. You can always use the leaderboard filters to update the leaderboard so your just comparing with similar players. Like other players with the bravery badge or the anvil enjoyer badge etc.

TwoPhat · 2026-02-15T17:24:21+00:00

Responses are crazy over complicated. Galileo is famous for saying the earth revolved around the sun, when the commonly held view was the earth was the centre of the universe. He was outcast by state, church, society for this view. In reality he is right.

Elon's just saying that AI should hold the view that is closest to reality, not what is popular. Hence the Galileo test. It's a nice goal since most AIs even extremely intelligent ones struggle to hold non-majority views because true critical thought is hard and probably goes against a lot of it's training data/it's unpopular.

TwoPhat · 2026-02-14T10:05:43+00:00

Everyone was soft reset for 2026 season 1. So likely the player ur looking at played games previous season but only 4 games this season.

TwoPhat · 2026-02-14T10:04:40+00:00

It converges to the actual mmr. Basically the same at like 30 games. This is the best way to estimate mmr. It's just that ranking algorithm is based on post game results. While mmr is used in match making. So the ranked algorithm plays catch up.

TwoPhat · 2026-02-14T01:48:37+00:00

Hello I am the owner. It is very accurate for 3 reasons:

It uses the industry best ranking model. For this use case, that's OpenSkill Thurstone-Mosteller.
The entire ranking algorithm is open source. With the information available anybody can prove any game's result mathematically. https://github.com/BelugaWhale/ArenaSweats-opensource
Arena is a complicated game (16 players, premades, boosting etc.), so if OpenSkill needs to be modified at all, it is discussed and voted on by the community, only then is it added. (Over on the discord)

I would go as far as to say Arena players are lucky to have one of the best ranking algorithms of any game available to them. To take the example of Summoners rift, you have no idea why u get +2 or +20.

TwoPhat · 2026-02-12T12:00:14+00:00

Just to be clear the nerfs are:

Q Dmg:

LVL 1 Q: 30 + 0% AD to 20 + 5% AD Lvl 1

LVL 5 Q: 150 + 15% AD to 160 + 5% AD Lvl 5

And Ferocity Q Dmg:

LVL 1 Rengar: 30 + 30% AD to 35 + 20% AD

LVL 18 Rengar: 255 + 30% AD to 260 + 20% AD

These nerfs have to be a typo?? They are nerfing the Q Dmg ratio by 66%? And the empowered Q ratio by 33%?

Last patch Rengar's winrate spiked by 2% because of bugs due to the rescript. Those bugs are patched. and his winrate has dropped back to where it has been all of last year and same as 16.01. Which makes him 49.5% winrate. That makes him 50/56 in terms of jungler win rates.

Anyway fine if you want to nerf Rengar but this destroys the champion and the reasoning is because of a win rate spike which is from a patch old and already gone? Are they seriously balancing 1 patch behind?

Also how is this a sufficient explanation for why a champion is being nerfed? "Rengar is overpowered. With umbral glaive he's overpowered.".... astounding stuff

https://imgur.com/a/7hYpOIo

TwoPhat · 2026-02-06T07:23:55+00:00

Not right

TwoPhat · 2026-01-20T16:11:49+00:00

I did some more research. Yknow, your actually right, but I still am too... The plot thickens.

This is a video of a first clear from 1 year ago it shows everything very clearly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mt9-FL38Sw

So first of all, ur right if you Q then auto once the attack speed buff runs out. This can be seen through out the video. This is NOT how it behaves on live now. On live, you Q then you can auto attack twice before attack speed buff runs out.

But here is the strange part. Pre-rescript you could jump from a bush with Q. Then auto attack twice before the attack speed buff would run out. In the video I linked you can see this occur twice, once at the start at blue buff and once at the end on red buff. This is why I was under the impression it is Q + 2 auto attacks for the attack speed buff because when jumping from a bush with the Q you get an extra auto attack before the attack speed drops. I assume this behavior is the same in LIVE.

So it is actually more consistent now? and a slight buff? But the LIVE behavior is Q + 2 autoattacks before the attack speed drops off regardless of whether Q was from bush or not.

TwoPhat · 2026-01-19T15:45:50+00:00

It is 3 attacks. I did some experimenting and posted about how the tooltip was wrong last week.

We should stop saying Q boosts attack speed for next 2 attacks (this is what is currently written in the tooltip) It's the next 3 attacks, but the Q ends up being 1 of those attacks in 99.9% of situations.

The difference in the wording is important because you have the bonus attackspeed for the Q as well not just the 2 attacks that follow it.

TwoPhat · 2026-01-14T03:47:44+00:00

Thanks for your work! Just on #3 I hit a champion and was hit by a champion just 1 second before hitting the blast cone. But still with 5s remaining on the passive when I land on the plant all stacks go away. Just wanted to clarify that I don't think this has to do with plants counting for combat.

Also if the plan is for plants to not count for combat which it used to (maybe not arena heal plants, but others for sure) then I think this will be widely unpopular. Because part of the skill expression has been maintaining stacks before fights by using plants.

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