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In general if fed carries can’t oneshot squishies how are they meant to kill tanks? Like yeah your tactical gameplay is completely shot when you’re Ashe here but also if AP Ekko doesn’t actually obliterate you with Deathcap Lichbane Rocketbelt Void, then why even bother building anything but tank on him?

I’m back to playing bot lane this season and so far I’ve never felt like any of my deaths are unreasonable. Fed assassins do hella damage. Good. Otherwise they’re not viable.

In this exact case I’m not sure a new mechanic like 50% damage reduction in the fountain would be an improvement to the game. Maybe. But the game is already over when you start getting fountain snipes so just let them have the high point.

I don't think hp/s was going to do it for him. He died in like .1 seconds.

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Such a cool idea to record him drawing his own player card and using that as a through-line. Kudos, TL.

Rengar has changes in internal testing. No guarantee that changes will ship if it ends up very degenerate, but they're trying.

I find the chemfog to be far more interesting than any of the old terrain modifications. I have to use my brain again when figuring out where to ward effectively.

I don’t know how other players feel. I think for those who like novel experiences they’ll enjoy it like I do.

In general dissatisfied players are the more vocal ones, so it’s hard to actually gauge that from Reddit posts, for example.

The game analysis team is all D1-GM afaik.

I don’t think they’re doing a bunch of “what-if” analysis. So I don’t think they’re trying to crunch through data for the next big break. But they absolutely know things that players don’t seem to have caught onto.

For example, Glacial Augment is superior to Aftershock on tank supports, yet has 1/3 the pick rate on that cohort. So that’s freelo for anyone paying attention. I’d argue it should stay OP until players catch on, but Riot is preemptively nerfing it in 11.24.

As another, Dragon Soul is somewhat overrated in the esports scene. I remember several casts throughout the year where respected analysts called Ocean Soul a “free/guaranteed win” and then the team lost because it’s not.

By mid-late 2021 we finally saw pro teams ubiquitously give up the first few drakes for advantages elsewhere. But that adaptation was maybe a full year late since we’re a full two years into elemental drakes now.

So t...

Of course it's debatable. The winning team has much less room to deep ward the enemy jungle. By default the red/blue buff areas are just fully fog and offensive wards do nothing until they're placed far deeper into the jungle, making that experience more difficult and riskier.

It's truly disingenuous to only take the negatives of one side of the argument. Oh the losing team can't play this one control ward play. OK yeah, I agree. The winning team also can't deep ward that entire area. The losing team arguably has better access to warding the river (seeing enemy champions go in) than the winning team has access to the opposite side of the chemfog. Every invade is immediately risky until you can get wards down even deeper. And even then, did they cover every single entrance? No. OK, then good luck invading red buff. You literally can't know if Leona and Olaf are waiting for you. I don't believe you can just dismiss this out of hand. You can believe one factor is stronger than...

It's not about the rank. Caedrel is an excellent player. He's just not clairvoyant. There's no way you can definitively know how pro play will work next year unless you're actively doing it.

And even then, not this early.

The community tends to believe lots of things that aren't accurate. Aftershock is still roughly 3x the pickrate of Glacial Augment on tank supports despite being definitively overshadowed by Glacial, and that's even in Masters+.

It doesn't matter that I'm not a former pro. I'm not the one claiming I know how the next season's going to play out. It's very easy to sit here and say, "Hey bro, you definitely don't have enough info to make such a definitive statement yet."

Yeah you're right. I have no reason to flame Caedrel. He's entitled to his opinion and analysis. However, the call-out applies to literally anyone. I'd have the same reaction to the video title if it was Kubz, LS, Kkoma, or anyone else. The part I take issue with is how definitively it's worded.

It's literally impossible to say definitely what this is going to be like in actual pro play. I think that's a problem when you want to be taken seriously as an analyst. This is how any serious analytical undertaking works. Both the "will" because you don't know how players will adapt, and "ruin" because you don't know how players will adapt. At worst, everything is true and snowballing is slightly easier.

But that's what being intellectually honest is for: This is someone, as smart as he is, who is not currently playing pro on this patch. He cannot actually know how this will play out. It's disingenuous to assert otherwise.

It's certainly possible it could be true. However, this is something that happens every time there is a rework: It's viewed through exactly one lens and all other considerations are ignored.

No matter how smart Caedrel is, he can't just draw on a map for 5 minutes and go, "Yep, I've solved season 2022."

"Will RUIN." Yeah. That's not overstated or anything. It obviously COULD happen. Hell, we've seen a whole season of players who ignored how good Yuumi was (2021) or how broken Ardent Censer was (2017) so who knows what kind of failings we'll see out of pro play this year?

FWIW rjs looked good in CLG LCS in my eyes. I was honestly a bit surprised they put Pob back in for him.

Ironically support has your highest winrate and fewest games while jungle has your lowest winrate. Caveat that jungle went 200 lp higher, but Support seemed to actually be your easiest climb by results.

2022 is your year

Naw, I'm sure /u/umbrianEpoch is too highly-rated to even apply.

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/rankings/rank-distribution

Not that I can find instantly. I just occasionally update a google sheet.

BOLD WORDS FROM SOMEONE WHOS ONLY CLAIM TO FAME IS WINNING A SINGLE SOLO QUEUE GAME OVER A WASHED-UP HAS-BEEN

Sorry, this text is so small, I can't see it all the way down in platinum. Could you speak up?