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I still remember your Champion spotlights when I first started playing the game in season 1. You have my utmost respect Phreak!
TY <3
Hey can you confirm whether C9 is moving to OCE?
Yeah they get on the plane tomorrow.
Probably you get too much of this, but I love your work. From commentary to patch run downs to the terrible, terrible puns.
Everything you touch ends up entertaining.
Thanks! It's never too much to tell someone you like what they do, so thank you, I really appreciate the kindness.
But wait, Phreak's here too. One of us! One of us!
ONE OF US ONE OF US Wait...
u logged in to reddit and commented for the first time in days just to dunk on this one rando lmao i love you phreak
Hey listen, I logged into Reddit a few days ago. I just don't always post.
Either way, thank you :)
Hes the same one who went to worlds, though so did Fudge and he was considered a rookie.
No one knowledgeable in the scene considered Fudge a rookie.
I really appreciate your quick comments about game development, plus all the math you do for the league (and recently Poe) community.
Thanks! :)
The designer wanted to build an energy champion with a slightly different feel: One with a larger pool that took longer to fill up.
He tried three approaches: Same pool, half the regen (half the costs, too). Double the pool, same regen, same costs as live (this shipped). A hybrid approach with a slightly larger pool and slightly lower regen.
Playtesting showed that same regen, larger pool (the live version) was the most intuitive.
So that's why. Essentially, Shen is intended to be able to cast more abilities early on in a fight, without the same long tail to his abilities as other energy champions like Lee Sin.
I’ll take a swing:
It’s beyond you in the truest sense of the phrase. You don’t understand the value of the tutorial. And I don’t mean that as an insult: It’s not intuitive.
See, Riot does a lot of things very well. They look at data a lot in many interesting ways. They’ve also updated the tutorial before. It was a big thing in like 2014 or something.
Wanna know what Riot found? The tutorial update didn’t meaningfully improve new player retention. A buncha effort was spent on negligible impact for players. At this point, trying to make the case that it just wasn’t updated correctly would be a very silly argument, throwing good work after bad.
Wanna know what else Riot found? New players who join in with their friends are the ones most likely to stick around. Friends are like the #1 thing for any multiplayer game. Those friends are the best tutorial you could ever have. They suggest you champions, lane with you, and answer all your questions during ...
Read moreI am no beast of burden.
When I'm ready and not before.
I fought for god, who do you fight for exile?
By the muscular golden arse of Innocence! What was that?!
We love you phreak! All the way back to your basement season 1 days!
Thanks :)
He phrased it wrong (it's not that they couldn't win teamfights), but the fact that they couldn't secure dragons up 5k with a fed Zoe was flat embarrassing. No concept of river control.
Yeah that was the intent. Clid Smote everything.
"Fun fact" If Ruler lose this serie, he will be the only player to win and lose at every stage at world
2018: Lose in groupstage
2020: Lose in quarter
2021: Lose in semi?
2016: Lose in final
2017: Win the final
Hey I was gonna bring that up already. Great minds think alike.
Let's be real though, T1 has not been a favorite to win this year's Worlds. They were clearly outclassed by DK all year long. Nice try!
We already have Bard in the game.
Yeah but Bard's is an ultimate and it literally reads that it stasises whatever it hits. That's intended behavior through and through.
Yuumi jumping on a teammate is the intended behavior. That breaking stealth sounds like ass.
Golden Guardians, it'll be them.
How dare you, Golden Guardians are good at putting rosters together.
I can't think of a single team eliminated in groups where I was like, "yeah but they should have won worlds." Sorry, FPX, you inted your entire week 2 group stage. You had four shots and missed all of them. Guess you deserve to go home. I really can't imagine anyone reasonable claiming that FPX actually deserved to be in semis right now.
Reminder FPX was on the verge of being eliminated in groups before they went on to win the whole thing in 2019.
Sure. And they’d deserve to be forgotten if that happened. I truly do not care who the conceptual best team in the world is. I care who wins Worlds. If FPX bombed out of groups by playing poorly then they deserved to be forgotten. Such is sport. Just like DL inting into Crown and Licorice stealing Baron on Ornn. The results matter.
Read moreWhile the constraints imposed on the groups seeding is debatable in an of itself, let's just stay on the format considerations, especially since, as you say, quarter's seeding is definitely an unchangeable effect of how the groups play out.
The thing is, playing more games (and not even 2-3x times more) COULD solve some of these issues. Look at TI and the CS:GO major. The Swiss system for the group stage, for example, basically reseeds the original seeding using information from the tournament itself, correcting for the information lost in the time between the qualification and the tournament start. Similarly, a double elimination playoff bracket corrects for a team that warms up as the tournament progresses or for two strong teams meating each other early in the playoffs because of group stage upsets.
Of course, these formats carry their own downsides and can be corrected. There are other useful formats as well (a GSL-style group runs a similar amount of games as ...
Fwiw I really like Swiss systems. LoR uses them, too.