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yes, but i haven't played league much this year so i couldn't tell you what they were

there's always room for improvement

There's a soft ladder reset every season and if you've ever gotten to diamond at the start of every season (and your "natural" rank is around diamond), you know it's a trial by fire and you won't climb up into diamond from plat by coinflipping. The plat -> diamond grind at the start of every season is so painful.

The only thing a full ladder reset would do is harm the people who are lower ranks

EDIT: just to clarify this is my opinion as a player, not as an employee. I don't work on these systems. please don't quote this as a position Riot has taken.

i just stumbled my way upwards with zyra and orianna mid in season 2 and just never fell out of it

EDIT: Slowly increasing the level of difficulty of opponent you play against to me makes it so that you gradually get better even if you don't realise it. A silver player is going to get stomped by a diamond player most of the time but if that silver player stays in the right mindset to learn things then over time the silver player is going to get better and climb to diamond and may very well just stay there, even if they can't enunciate why they belong there.

I couldn't tell you why I (was) better than a silver player, because a lot of the stuff I learned when climbing was stuff I didn't realise I was learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_G5EPNEHDo

It is. I wish more companies were like this. Riot is the first "big" company I've worked for, and many smaller companies do not have this same attitude, mostly because they try to be really corporate to compensate for their size

I can't comment on what it's like in the LA office - I am not usually around LA during worlds time - but there have certainly been a few friday evenings like that in knockout stages in previous worlds in Dublin. A group of 20 or so people would order pizza and enjoy the knockouts together after work

it's understandable, i would definitely have gotten in trouble for it in previous jobs

at least the west is guaranteed a win next game

Well, I'm in Europe right now, so I am working from home. I told my manager today that no work is gonna get done when EU is playing and he was like lol yeah that's fine.

At least in my team (information security in dublin) it's something of an annual ritual to enjoy worlds together. Most of us really enjoy watching it.

in the Dublin office, Worlds is tradtionally on all of the screens when it's broadcast at EU-friendly times and, no, no one gets "in trouble" for watching it - it's a cultural thing, but in addition people are trusted to use their time wisely and do the work they commit to on time without micro-management. My boss doesn't care if I am watching worlds at work as long as I get all my sprint work done each sprint.

I stepped away during draft phase for a 30 minute meeting which ran over to 34 minutes and T1 finished the game before I finished my meeting. bruh.

EDIT: summation of today https://i.imgur.com/3qJQtmr.png

(and yes I know DFM is from the LJL it's an old meme)

i am not making a statement about the design of any champion, this is a post-match thread and i am memeing. chill out

I was more referring to the ~53% winrate of Blitzcrank vs Yuumi :P Blitzcrank dunks Yuumi lanes (in solo queue)

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