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I think this is kind of true. And I think it was more true historically.

But then we look into how many games on Yasuo and Lee Sin people have... and even the "casual-just-playing-lee-sin-for-fun" people often have a TON of games and high mastery on them. This gets into our Breadth vs Depth Report that Riot Novaasterix (forgot his reddit name RIP) did that looks at not only how many people play a champion, but how much they play that champ

What's also interesting is that the distribution of champion popularity changes by region.

NA has less variance across champion popularity (popular champions were played less, unpopular champions were played more relative to the global avg).

Meanwhile regions like China and Vietnam have higher variance (popular champs are played even more, unpopular champs are played even less relative to the global avg).

On an unrelated note I've been on a binge of looking into how different regions and playerbases engage with the game differently, and this is just another example of that. Can definitely lead to a "wtf is riot doing" if NA believes one thing, KR believes something else, and EUW is off doing EUW things... makes it so that the trend of sentiment in NA (on reddit, twitter, twitch, etc.) is super unified where it might not be on a global scale.

I wouldn't be able to answer if you did ask me. I'm just trying to bridge the information gap around champion popularity. I think u/DudeToManz answered it well below: my job is gameplay data, but here was something that had a bit of overlap with skins as they relate to playrate.

Now if you want to ask me about tiktok...

A lot of people have said that about Kai'Sa, but there have been times where even if she was still getting picked in pro, her non-pro power/winrate (ranked, flex, norms, blind) was pretty low. Maybe it was the perception that she was meta.

There's more analysis to be done here, but you can look at winrate sensitivity of champions to see how much their playrate is affected when they're high/low winrate. Champs like Yasuo and Lee Sin are played regardless of their winrate, I think Kai'Sa is closer to them than to some of the champs that are more winrate/power sensitive.

If we made skins relative to playrate Kai'Sa would get more actually.

This is a assuming that we don't need to adjust for when a champion was released, how many skins they already have, etc, but strictly "how likely is she to get a skin given her playrate" since her launch per each "skin launch" since then... I think she would actually have more (also I'm not counting the IG skin in here). Last time I looked she was #2 or #3 most popular champion in China.

Does that explain?

I did not expect that line to have the impact that it did, but I'm really glad that I said it. Let's see if S04 can prove me wrong :P

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I'm so bummed I didn't believe he was able to do it. I really thought he was just goint to get killed, and then didn't ramp up the hype early enough.

INSANE play from Caps for sure.

11780 the highest in EU history. The game also clocked in as the second fastest in EU history.

Same

We started up a series over here that covers some of the things you talk about here. LEC Playbook if you wanna check it out

https://youtu.be/zYBYhV6OEZc

The Champion August in working on will be in the roadmap

yes it will all be in one Champion Roadmap, then we will do a actual devblog just focused on Voli/Fiddle later in the year. At least thats the current plan

Our approach here's to segment the modes server side basically so overload on one shouldn't bring down the others.

Welcome!

No plans for LB at the moment at least.

What a fantastic performance from Rogue. I'm still so surprised at this teams growth considering their experience. Even more so, I'm impressed with Woolite, I've personally called him out being caught out many, many times in the past and I'm stoked to see him showing up in recent weeks.

Yeah, the new plan is to do a roadmap going over the 3 new Champs as well as a smaller roadmap-esque update on Voli/Fiddle in the next couple months, then follow with a more in production devblog on Voli/Fiddle at the end of the year. Probably going to start writing it sonn

Lol, that's big assumption for a year that hasn't even ended yet

Correct. That issue's been dealt with already. Slight nervousness here more reflects you can never be 100% sure there's nothing else out there and Clash has a history of being a tough process to get right.

Yeah, for now we're going with straight nerfs, though hopefully ones that hit pro harder than solo queue. Thinking is to then look at mechanics changes post 9.19, given those tend to need some followup and we'd like to land 9.18/9.19 smoothly for Worlds.

No plans at present.