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As in, “well”?

FWIW Akali's total P+Q+E damage at a high level is ~900. That's maybe high, but requires the dance around using the passive and landing the E skillshot + taking it in. Of course she has more Q+P gameplay from there, but I'm just writing out the initial numbers.

By comparison Syndra (the only other champion I spot-checked here) has 700 total damage on her non-ultimate kit. As soon as Syndra hits more than one target with a single ability, though, her total P+Q+W+E damage is higher.

As far as base damages vs ratios, Akali's P and Q are both in the ~325 range for AP to double damage. This is pretty standard across AP champions. E is ~445, which is a bit heavy but not extremely so. Syndra's AP to double is 323, 328, 441 for Q/W/E. Higher means worse AP ratios and thus a tendency to build tank.

So I don't think the tank Akali problem is a function of tuning only. She has similar damage and scaling to a traditional mage. If anything, this feels more to me like she...

Yeah I think that's a solid way of approaching that sort of data.

One thing I'd also like to do as well is additive smoothing for lower-quality data but I'm not sure what numbers to use for that.

Counter-picking and synergy picking are relevant regardless of sample size.

Singed Bot has a very, very high win rate. 55% of his games are with Yuumi support. It doesn't matter if that across 3k games or 300k games, that's a gigantic bias.

I like lolalytics.com as a power-user. It seems to give me the best ways to drill down on stuff.

In terms of pure variance, 10k games is usually +/- 1% win rate and 2.5k games is +/- 2%. If something has 3k games and is +4%, I'm pretty confident that something really good is going on. Even with fewer samples, it can still be worth investigating.

Then I mostly just mentally account for "doing well" biases that items like Mejai's and more expensive options provide.

1% playrate is irrelevant. Number of games is the only stat that matters.

And finally, checking games only within a patch or only at higher MMRs is overrated. If Conqueror is better than Fleet Footwork, it'll be better at every MMR and it'll be better in 12.1 as well as 12.2. So knowing when and where to grow your dataset to get more reliable results is helpful. There can be some exceptions here, but they tend to be fairly obvious.

I'll be honest in that I actually enjoyed playing with Chemtech rift but clearly most people didn't. So through that lens, good change, Riot.

Usually you’re seeing lanes with a pressure difference, not awareness difference.

If the enemy top is pushing and deep warding, they’ve got free reign to mess with you or bringing their jungler for it.

Control Ward a jungle entrance. Use a Sweeper and Scryer’s Blooms to check for wards in your jungle. Learn the map awareness to identify which of “your” camps are endangered. Learn the opposing jungler’s position so you can sometimes counter-jungle in response.

In short: they’re wrong

Wardstone is exceptional and there is always going to be some subsection of the game where pro play that just hasn’t caught on to correct choices.

There is a laundry list year over year. Ardent Censer in 2017 for example.

SRT (Summoner’s Rift Team) is acutely aware. Just depends if the Glacial bug is easily fixed IMO. They had seen this bug in dev but I assume it’s a tough repro.

And the slow after the beams disappear is also uber long. This was like 15-20 seconds.

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...

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.

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....

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.

Thanks I appreciate it <3

Yeah, basically. At the end of the day win rate is win rate. The champion performed X well over the last patch. Players ban accordingly (sometimes). Riot buffs and nerds accordingly. Sometimes it’s a really good meta for the champion. Sometimes it’s pure mains. Sometimes no one wants to stick to the champ so everyone is inexperienced.

At the end of the day, you don’t want to face a 60% wr champ on the enemy team or a 40% one on yours.

Valid, but the point still stands. As best I can recall, all Stridebreaker users except Darius worked just fine on the non-dash version or found replacements that were similarly powerful.

Finally, some good f*cking pasta.

No, I'm saying players who are complaining about buffs are silly.

I don't begrudge players their preferences, bans, whatever. But to say the champions weren't weak after the Shieldbow nerf is preposterous.