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Originally posted by JohnnyTruant_

I have a question about the champion mastery curve brought on by the mention of people twisting stats to fit their agenda, if you don't mind me asking.

It made me wonder, is it even hypothetically possible for a difficult champion that for whatever reason in this scenario is only skilled players to have the same mastery curve as an easier champion that for whatever reason in this scenario is only played by not skilled players?

I know in practice skilled players will use the easier champ if it's good enough, and lesser skilled players want to try out complex champs too, I'm just wondering if it's even theoretically possible for similar graphs to come from different situations like that, or am I misunderstanding that particular graph entirely?

Originally posted by DestructiveParkour

Quick question: if two champs have the exact same pick rate, but one is picked only by mains and the other is picked only by first-time players, will they have a different depth score?

Also, really appreciate the point about being hard but having no counterplay- that's why I (and a lot of other people) hated the akali-irelia meta.

Originally posted by Kadexe

They weren't as popular before they were nerfed either.

Originally posted by ContentDetective

This is riot's equivalent of LS saying "nemesis don't have a champ pool issues, in fact he has a champion ocean" and proceeds to lose because of champ pool issues. She's braindead in the sense that after people play enough games on her they never make punishable mistakes. It's a mistake to have put her in the game.

Originally posted by Torigaa

For some reason you cannot comment their blog posts?

Are they afraid of what people think about this champ?

Originally posted by WatteauAP

Hi, I'm a Japanese player.

Could you check this article translated into Japanese.

LINK

Compared to the original article, the text about Extra Bonus RP has been deleted.

Japan is not included in all?

Originally posted by LooneyWabbit1

I feel like I'm making a mistake every time I lock in Swain.

:C

Originally posted by Spentpoet811

Ahhh yes, UCB

Edit: I guess I started something here?

Originally posted by stupidhurts91

Wait is this for real lol

Originally posted by mackpack

People always talk about pick rate when it comes to balancing. There's this notion within the community that lower pick rate automatically means only/primarily mains play that champion. Could you shed some light on whether or not this is true?

For example what fraction of the total number of ASol games is played by ASol mains vs. what fraction of the total number of Ezreal games is played by Ezreal mains? Ideally also how this compares to a champion with average popularity.

Originally posted by Penguin501

will support be giving the bonus rp since it was stated publicly that there would be bonus rp?

Originally posted by hastalavistabob

Dont think regions outside of the ones mentioned in the article get this bonus RP campaign
Edit: Confirmed for all regions https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/hjcbjk/incoming_pricing_changes_to_league_and_tft/fwlnlux/

Originally posted by Putininyourheart

Wouldn't this lead to a different meta in proplay? I thought since the juggernaut fiasco you guys were much more cautious about making some big changes in pro play just before world's/MSI.

It would suck watching some top teams reaching world's playing akali (or whatever other FOM champ) just to nerf it right before groups and make a mess with champ pools.

Originally posted by bns18js

think of Asol, who the f plays him? only onetricks so his winrate is much more towards his actual strength

You have no real data for this baseless claim. It's possible for a champion to be both unpopular in general, and have not many mains dedicated to it. You're using one of the most common myths/misconceptions to formulate your opinion.

Unpopular =/= high % of mains. Some champs people just don't like to play and don't like to main.

Originally posted by bns18js

pickrate represents a lot more than just power - namely popularity.

Thank god you guys at Riot understand this. Some others tend to forget people like to play what's fun in a video game, regardless of power.

we do want a diversity of champs. We do want a wide variety of champions to be played so that each game is different from the last.

Is there inherent value in trying for diversity? If it's easy to achieve, then sure. Otherwise, IMO it's better just to let people play whatever they find fun repeatedly, rather than forcing(by making less popular champions stronger) them to play different picks.

pro is an exception where pick rate is used due to a mixture of sample size limits and the fact we general consider that pros prioritize playing to win much more than to have fun.

This is an impossible task tbh. But I guess it's the best you guys can work with. But even ...

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Originally posted by JukePlz

Can you explain how Yuumi factors in this logic? You say you aren't interested in nerfing based on popularity but that's exactly what you did to her, now sitting at 44-45% winrate when she was already sitting at 50% in low-high elo and very poor in pro matches (45% WR overall, 38% in Korea) before the massive nerf.

Originally posted by DreamingDjinn

Are objectives supposed to spawn in the enemy top side jungle? It makes some objectives like training dummy completely unwinnable, as the Golem runs over and f**ks everyone's metaphorical couch.