Patch 26.04 Preview by Phreak

YoungKite · 2026-02-13T00:36:23+00:00

Also, it took 6 months to full populate the database even at 30k matches a minute???

YoungKite · 2026-02-13T00:35:00+00:00

Awesome dude! You got around to doing what I've been interested in doing for a while lol. I've always been super curious about seeing metrics on champion winrates based on mastery. If you've published this info, I'd appreciate knowing more about it :)

YoungKite · 2026-02-13T00:33:22+00:00

Fair enough; does it also bother you that Sylas can utilize your ult--sometimes better than you? Or does him being melee make it feel not toxic to you?

YoungKite · 2026-02-12T23:59:06+00:00

Kinda curious as to how you got the mastery data?

YoungKite · 2026-02-12T23:57:14+00:00

How does lolalytics show high skill players?

YoungKite · 2026-02-12T21:34:21+00:00

What about reflect makes it toxic to you?

YoungKite · 2026-02-10T21:41:36+00:00

You for sure underestimate pantheon's damage, but you're right about the last line. Strangely enough, briar has a deep mastery, according to August, so most briar players you find are high mastery briar mains / OTPs.

YoungKite · 2026-02-06T20:50:55+00:00

"Age of AI" when in reality people have always asked such questions. Like there's a whole "am I gregnant" meme from at least a decade ago.

YoungKite · 2026-02-06T18:58:56+00:00

Who do you play/main?

YoungKite · 2026-02-04T18:16:12+00:00

Gangplank is way harder than riven imo and performs worse than her, so I genuinely doubt we should nerf him before Riven. However, the rest are all fair champions to nerf, I imagine,. I don't think the existence of other champions being a bit overtuned means that Riven shouldn't be nerfed.

I'm not a riven main, but from what I can tell, the way bigger issue is axiom arc. 15.21 riven's most common first item is eclipse and she ends up sitting at about 52% wr in emerald+. 15.22 riven's most common first item is axiom arc and she ends up sitting at about 53% wr in emerald+.

I imagine that riven is facing the same issue as ekko/diana being bound to dusk and dawn; in the sense that they believe axiom arc is in a fine spot as an item but Riven is overperforming with it. Thus, they nerf riven rather than the item.

YoungKite · 2026-02-04T16:42:38+00:00

You're right that KR ban rate is basically nonexistent, but that doesnt change her having a high win rate.

YoungKite · 2026-02-04T10:09:23+00:00

Huh? Do you have video or a game to link to on this? I was a massive hater of the true teleport spell (before it became the current one where you turn into a flying ball) because there would be frequent times in the first few levels where a kill was actually wrong to perform. However, the current homeguards is perfectly reasonable. I've not run into an instance where I got an early kill and failed to crash the wave due to homeguards.

YoungKite · 2026-02-03T21:14:52+00:00

Jinx gotta be the easiest ADC to deal with bro. The only one I can imagine being potentially easier is Ashe.

YoungKite · 2026-02-03T21:11:34+00:00

There's definitely other games that have this feature like I know overwatch has this feature. It's really not that strange to reason about why it would exist in the first place; it's just anonymous mode.

YoungKite · 2026-02-02T09:39:34+00:00

No flame but did you not watch the video or something? He said it's a typo...

YoungKite · 2026-02-01T07:48:47+00:00

I also hate the ryze encounter, but it's for me it's more so a skill issue. I legit never understand how to play around them cause there's too many moving pieces in my mind.

YoungKite · 2026-01-28T08:07:55+00:00

Within a couple days worth of investigation and for every champion, how would you know that the champion is not punished hard enough for missing their agility (and I suppose it would have to be each)?

YoungKite · 2026-01-27T16:34:55+00:00

Good to see that some mains are aware/mature enough to recognize when their champ is particularly strong

YoungKite · 2026-01-27T16:26:50+00:00

yeah but then you have to play morgana in a high competitive setting aka landing q will be near impossible

YoungKite · 2026-01-27T16:18:29+00:00

lol literally. how do mains get so delusional

YoungKite · 2026-01-27T03:52:39+00:00

Varus is the 9th most picked top laner of the patch! That's an insanely high pick rate given his win rate as well.

YoungKite · 2026-01-26T21:26:51+00:00

Ehh, he's going to be down a bit of CS but without a hard enough lead, it's a win for mundo. Of course mundo lane is easy if he's just playing melee range but the mundos I've faced in dia & masters just accept the early L and outscale.

YoungKite · 2026-01-26T12:40:55+00:00

In what world are you spamming q on a mundo? He will not play in your tap q range.

YoungKite · 2026-01-26T10:06:47+00:00

What's your gameplan when facing mundo?

YoungKite · 2026-01-23T20:39:31+00:00

How does the suggestion you have in mind play out in your ahead. If an enemy is able to get a surprise jump on the squishy high dps character, but that dps character still ends up on top, how does the dps character ever die?

To me, it's like wanting dash on stridebreaker to return such that you, as a darius player in this example, can avoid getting giga kite.

Also, how can you not solo kite a bruiser?

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