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21 Jan

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Originally posted by loveincarnate

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/winrates-by-xp

Yasuo goes up to 52% winrate with experience

Even more interesting, and a complete nullification of this argument, is that yone winrate increases a full 10% with 50+ games of experience, up to 58% winrate.

These champions are extremely popular and high skill-ceiling. Bad players love these champs and drag their average winrate down significantly.

Phreak is speaking, as usual, with one of the most shortsighted and self-involved perspectives possible.

You have several huge errors here:

  1. You assume all champions are equally "not-mained" before claiming that the "mained" winrate is the accurate number and so the winrate delta is actually how much skill growth is available. That's a fatal flaw. The last time I had hard data (2017), Yasuo was top 3 for most-mained and had one of the highest winrate growths for experience in the game. So a ~5% winrate lift for Yasuo should tell you a substantial portion of Yasuo players are already mains, which echoes my point.

  2. Unless you manually changed things, you were slicing only plat+ data, which, even a day later, only has 388k games. 388k games divided among 160 champions and then further divided into the subset of players with a lot of experience is not a lot of games. You're going to get massive variance. For reference, I changed Plat+ to Iron+ (i.e. all games captured by the site) and the Yone difference went from ~10% to ~5%, or 64th. I don...

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Originally posted by robin_2219

when will we get to know this years's vgu poll voting results ??? plz

The polls closed and I have seen the data. Cant talk about it yet and not sure what date the announce will happen. We have to write the devblog and localize it then it will come out, probably sometime in the next week or so

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Originally posted by Spideraxe30

Would you happen to know where Zeri has landed so far, day 1

No the data hasn't caught up to her release yet. I should for sure have her early data by Monday though

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Originally posted by TothB

Plus "it has a 48% winrate, the champ sucks" isn't a valid argument either, given that we've seen time and time and time again that the type of player who plays a particular champion influences the champ's winrate

Champs that are exclusively played by onetricks basically awlays have high winrates, even when the champion is horrible, because onetricks are good at their champion. (for example, when asol's winrate dropped from 55% to 53% he was considered literally one of the worst champs in the entire game and completely unplayable because of how bad he was, but still >50% wr because onetricks were very very good at asol) Meanwhile champs who get picked up and played by inexperienced players and then immediately get quit after only a few games sit at super low winrates because the people playing the champ aren't devoting the time and energy to improve. See: akali back when she was completely broken, 100% pick ban in pro play, constantly terrorizing high elo and sitting at...

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Asterisk: They don't always have high winrates. They have higher winrates than if they weren't played by mains at the present level of tuning.

In 2017, Yasuo was top 3 for most-mained champion (I don't have updated numbers at my fingertips). Putting Yasuo anywhere NEAR 50% win rate means he's tuned lower than almost every champion in the game but players make up for it with their skills on the champion.

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Originally posted by Aboko_Official

You also removed the original comment you made for some reason.

I really can't even understand why you chose to respond to me in the first place.

There might be a lingering apology in there somewhere, but the reality is damage control>apology. Otherwise you'd have no reason to delete what you originally said.

You really made sure to solidify any lingering feelings I had about you being a piece of shit.

The initial response was because I don't like character assassinations. I was on the subreddit already, I saw the reply, went through my memory, and was like, "Nah, doesn't sound like me." The fact that your initial comment was like the #4 chain and seemed made up made me go, "yeah, sure, I'll just tell this person off."

Then you were adamant about it.

I replied several hours later because the comment lodged itself into my brain. I kept trying to replay memories from MSG to see if I remembered doing something like this and couldn't.

I remember someone coming up the elevator into our dressing room and asking for photos (obvious no, half of us were in underwear and he wasn't supposed to be there). I remember stopping for pizza at a corner shop. I remember crowds accumulating several times out on the street. I remember walking around with my hood up at one point because I didn't want to be recognized.

But I couldn't remember telling someone to piss off....

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Originally posted by Zoli_Ben

What about Mundo? How do you think he done on the longer run compared to expectations?

Mundo has landed where we expected, which is roughly where he was pre-rework. We knew we weren't changing him enough for him to move much, and he was already somewhat popular. The goal was just to modernize him.

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Originally posted by SmallBudew

Hi, will this event still be receiving Gemstones as the Mythic essense is not out yet? Thanks!

Yes, and those Gemstones will automatically convert to Mythic Essence!

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Originally posted by Alcoholic-Shrimp

Would you guys work on an albino champion one day ?

I don't see why not

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Originally posted by bz6

Thanks for the transparency.

I know things like this are SUPER hard to predict (or maybe not I obviously don't know), but do you feel the "hatred" echo chamber towards new champions whether it is about overloaded kits, repeated gameplay & aesthetic choices, or whatever else the players complain about affect those metrics?

/u/Reav3

Its doubtful, as it's actually a pretty small percentage of players that engage with Reddit and other social media. I imagine if the backlash gets very big it could effect overall engagement, but I don't think it actually effects much

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Originally posted by Reclaimer879

They were such a fun team to watch for so many reasons. I can watch the entire 2019 season all over again.

Riot: "pyke is a support"

2019 G2: lol. lmao.

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Originally posted by bz6

Hey /u/Reav3

Have recent released champions say Vex and Akshan, hit the "expected" depth & breadth target that Riot set internally? Or has there been a case where they have missed the mark?

Akshan ended up with less Breadth then we predicted but more depth. All in all still a pretty good add to the roster, especially since it doesnt look like he will be a pro play problem. Vex ended up with higher breadth then we predicted. So Akshan was a bit under and Vex was a bit over our engagement shotcall.

Originally posted by dracdliwasiAN

Whilst I don't want to ask and spoil the LEC script, do you think you could get Abbedagge, Hans Sama, Bwipo and Inspired back to the LEC? Dunno if you can influence the LCS script at all...

I'll give them an offer they can't refuse

Originally posted by dracdliwasiAN

Man just knowing that LEC is on makes my day, you guys are absolutely smurfing

Thank you, it's been a good start to the season!

Originally posted by Quotes_League

Top Gun Caedrel 😎

THANK YOU! Someone saw that reference, made my day <3

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2019 G2 were monsters.

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Originally posted by Swineflew1

It’s like that picture except mine has the riot fist in them.
I’m still getting them since I posted this. I’m at work and not sure where I can find my ID, I don’t see it anywhere on the riotgames site. I won’t have access to my game launcher until I get home.
I have the option to setup a riot ID in the settings menu, should I do that?

We sorted this out with the OP in DMs.

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Do they look like this, OP? semi-related: did you enable multi-factor authentication on your account?

https://i.imgur.com/B40pIBW.png

If you feel comfortable so I can look into this further, please drop me a Reddit DM with your Riot ID (it'll look like Riot danhonks#NVB94)

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Originally posted by Aboko_Official

You're so full of shit. But it makes no difference to me. It was the night of CLG vs TSM. You were walking around the south exit MSG after the final game.

You don't remember, that's fine. I remember because at the time I was younger and thought you were awesome.

That experience definitely changed that and it makes absolutely 0 f**king difference to me whether or not you remember.

Edit: After thinking about this more it's really funny to me that you would accuse me of lying like that. You can look through all my comment history and see how many accusations like that I've ever made. Not once do I try to pretend that someone with influence ever wronged me.

It was seriously an experience that made me feel like shit. Not that it's your problem. You're not responsible for my feelings by any means.

You trying to accuse me of lying, yeah go screw yourself.

If it did happen, then I truly apologize for being curt with you. I have no memory of blowing anyone off at an event ever. At most I’ve said I had to go when hailed because sometimes I’ve got a schedule to keep or somewhere to be.

I remember walking around NYC and having packs of people accumulate when I stopped for photos or autographs and I’m cool with that, so I don’t know why it’d be any different this time: I tend to stop for photos or autographs.

Either way, again, I’m sorry if I came across rude to you back then. I truly don’t believe I’ve had such an interaction but I’m human so maybe it did and I forgot.

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Originally posted by KennySNES

I just really wanna appreciate u/PhreakRiot for a sec, he explains things with so much insight and really gives a good perspective on many controversial things.

Thanks I appreciate it <3

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Originally posted by Serinus

Riot should also recognize how they're an industry leader and moves they make will have effects downstream and in their own future.

It's a relatively small cost project when you consider it in the larger scheme like that.

I am aware of this and that's why I am interested in software proposals like IndieAuth rather than relying on The Big Companies as OAuth providers (I have not proposed changing how we do this in the company just yet as IE needs as bit more maturation).

I don't think there is much value to the business in U2F devices, like Yubikeys, in games, even when we consider that. I do feel like moblie devices are going to be the way to go there.

That said, I'm an IC and not a business strategist. I don't feel like the juice is worth the squeeze on U2F, all the same; we have limited resources and the resources spent on U2F would probably have better return on investment for Riot and its players if spent on devices we already know players have and are invested in.

Supporting U2F would be a big investment, would not work across all devices, for minimal gain, only to provide value for a lot of people who honestly already are pretty well-engaged in security. I thin...

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