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Communism is the idea of a flat society with goods distributed based on need rather than on capital. It is a stateless ideology. "Equality" in communism is more closely related to equality in terms of capital - Wealth disparities, essentially.

"Communism means state run" doesn't really match up with what the political theory posits. one of the central tenets of communism is 'The withering away of the state' - the idea that the state does not need to exist in an actualised communist world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state.

Noxus has no desire for the state to wither away; it is an expansionist military empire, primarily attempting to obtain arable land. They demand loyalty to the state from their subjects. It is an empire with a military dictatorshi...

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Yeah I always throw a wild card on the list to gauge community interest. A lot of people ask about a Quinn VGU so I threw it on to see how many votes she would get. She didn’t really get enough to put her on again this year. I put Kog up as the wildcard this year. Their is still interest internally for a Quinn VGU at some point though.

It’s support > Jungler > botlaner > Udyr right now. Of course we won’t release things until they are ready so that order is subject to change

I did, she deserves it !

Viego is literally a monarch

Hahahaha seems I was found out xD

Sylas is closer to anarchist than communist IMO, references to Marx notwithstanding. not that the two are mutually exclusive.

Of the roster, Sylas is definitely the closest. Anarchism is all about dismantling unjust hierarchies and taking direct action - it's hard to argue that Sylas' killing of Jarvan III isn't propaganda of the deed.

he's still here in spirit. and also, as my manager.

You and me both hahaha, happy to hear that

It's for sure both he's a titan.

He's my favourite deputy.

Yo do people really not understand that scaling is relative?

Champions have a power level. Either a champion is broken OP and they're the best at every stage of the game (or dogsh*t) or they have relative strengths and weaknesses. This should not be a controversial statement. Either a champion is imbalanced or balanced.

Ziggs is inarguably amazing early game. No one can match his wave clear. No one can 1v2 like him. No one takes turret plates like him. No one gets first turret like him. By any reasonable measure, Ziggs is among the best, if not the single best, early game bot laner in the game.

Now, again, I ask you: Is Ziggs broken OP or does he have strengths and weaknesses?

If your argument is "Ziggs is just the best champion at all stages in the game" then I guess that can be your opinion. Otherwise, if we live in a reality where Ziggs is the best early game champion in the game but also relatively balanced overall (we do) then his weaknesses MUS...

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Let's be really clear about terminology here:

A scaling pick is a champion (like Kayle, who everyone agrees is a scaling pick) who is weak in the early game but comes online later.

Gangplank is a lane bully with incredibly early access to supporting cross-map plays (by 6 minutes in a 30+ minute game, seems pretty early tbh). He also has a reasonable mid and late game. In what way does that make him a champion who is weak early but comes online later? He can crossmap you before Herald even spawns. Pre-herald is DEFINITELY still early game.

Just because your lategame exists does not mean you're a scaling pick. Some champions (like Gangplank) are relatively flat throughout the game.

So to measure scaling, we're not saying "has power in the mid game or late game" we are measuring the difference between their early game and late game. We are, for example, measuring level 11 power vs level 16 power. Kassadin? Kayle? Scaling picks. Get them to 16. Get them ...

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It's more that it's pretty much impossible to disentangle soul vs. already-winning without doing more work.

You can get somewhat close. For example, oracleselixir.com has a winrate calculator that just crunches through pro data and tries to solve for gold leads vs. dragon leads vs. souls, etc.

You can't measure just dragon soul by itself, but you can look at what % of games are won with Dragon Soul and compare that with gold leads and get there by crunching through more variables.

You can't perfectly test comp vs. comp because there are just too many permutations, but you can just pretend each interaction is just a pairwise "AD+Supp" / "AD+Mid" / "AD+Jungle" and so on. You'll end up getting pretty close I think.

And there's no way a player's intuition is going to do better than a robot that crunches through each matchup and gives you a 10-champion short list of good picks for current comps.

We will have an update on this a little before the next event.

Just want to be clear - the "Apply a global 20% damage modifier" version of that work was never going to ship. It was a useful, informative playtest that uncovered two major findings: (1) that we believe there's a better version of the game where we have reduced overall damage outcomes, and (2) here are some of the places we need to account for when we look for a shippable implementation.

The list of findings I posted was not a list of fatal objections or reasons why we would never do this; it was a list of the kinds of challenges we need to be ready to overcome while doing it.

We are currently at the step of actually doing that nuanced work - finding the good version, getting it ready to ship, and making sure we are ready to account for the impact of it.