[2020] How the Sage nerf (probably) went down

What if I told you that so far, Sage is the highest pickrate and winrate agent on this patch?

We get a surprising amount of data in a 24 hour window given how international our game is - obviously we'll have to continue to see how the winrates trend, but "adjusting to nerfs" normally results in much lower winrates early on, as players learn their new limits, as opposed to overperforming.

We'll continue to monitor Sage, but as it currently stands she's still quite strong - there's no reason to believe she's gutted, people have just very consistently thought that Sage was weaker than she actually is.

This is our current suspicion, but we want to give it some more time to breathe before digging in this deep. But yeah, her playrate has gone down a chunk - so if I were to guess, it seems more likely that the "autofill" less experienced Sage players are picking her less on this patch due to the nerfs, and more experienced Sage players are sticking to their guns, making the nerf seem less consequential then it actually is.

We'll have to see how it plays out over the next few days and then assess the Sage population at that point. Good intuition on this!