its good that riot balances for all elos, high and low. if riot let 60% WR champs exist in silver just so they could be 50% WR in Master then it would harm the majority of its playerbase

acceptable ksante buffs, hold the ksante copy pasta, it might not be needed after all

I wasn’t really a Dota fan but I tuned in last year’s TI and the amount of GG bets pop ups + the terrible production really turned me off and made me appreciate Riot Games.

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This Year’s TI’s production is better so at least they aren’t continuing the downward trend but the viewership just like OP said is declining compared to previous years. I rather Riot Games manage LoL and esports over Valve or God forbid Blizzard lmao

I blind pick Riven, opponent uses his draft advantage and counters with Malphite.

If I dodge a hard match up, the -ve LP and time penalty are necessary so it doesn’t encourage me to keep dodging unfavorable match ups

Dodging hurts game and queue health.

sure but it could have been much worse, imagine if there was an international tournament that had a bigger prize pool than worlds held in Saudi Arabia [Riyadh Major in Dota 2] or if you were bombarded by GGBet ads before, after and during World games.

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the biggest complaints about ads I see are people meming about mastercard and maybe kitkat lmao

I still don’t know how Riot keeps convincing Mercedes Benz to sponsor them lmao, I thought it would be a deal for only a year or smth but each year they renew the sponsorship.

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how many of you mfs bought a mercedes?

Riot Games cancelled Partnership with Saudi Arabia in 2020 after League’s community and E-Sport personnel backlash

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Riot Games continue breaking viewership records without resorting to Saudi’s money or Betting sponsorships, guess that building an IP and refining an esport eco system pays off. Sad that Valve fell behind in that regard

Except for the one month of buffs after Reworks, KSante spent 9 month as the lowest WR champ in the game and had negative WR in ALL Elos [Except Challenger, His WR was Neutral barely broke 50%].

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Except for the last month where the balance team admitted they were still learning which levers to pull for KSante, KSante was never a soloQ problem, he had a low ban rate, terrible winrate.

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He got nerfed and reworked for Pro play not SoloQ, The KSante in your games isn’t the terrifying KSante you make him out to be but in a co-ordinated pro play envrionment, yes he’s a terror

which champs have been OP for a while?

Hwei also has the lowest armor in the game, lowest MS for a mage [Just got changed in PBE, He used to be THE slowest champ in the game], he has clear weaknesses and I suggest you try him out when he comes out.

It’s why I respect League of Legends esport personel who threatened to strike when LoL announced they would collaborate with Saudi and host League of Legends tournament there. This forced Riot Games to back out of it.

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Then again League doesn’t need the Saudi investment as they keep breaking world records for E-sport viewership while Dota’s TI viewership is declining year by year.

riot phlox articles are based, cant wait for new season

good to see you still posting on reddit

Tried KSante and Azir. They feel awful specially KSante, I think Riot wants to kill his playrate then buff him after?

These nerfs made it seem like he was OP in pro play and had to be gutted lol

Regarding Azir, it’s said that they gave him very big compensation nerfs, they rather Azir be in the gutter than maybe let him 48% WR for a single patch lol (again no pro play, don’t understand why he had to be nerfed hard)

Correction: Only Prestige K’Sante was avaliable for Worlds, Heartsteel K’Sante wasn’t avaliable in worlds patch.

Briar probably will be received better than Bel’veth but she doesn’t come anywhere near the success of Viego tbh

Reddit challenge: try not to tell everyone Renata is the best recent champ [difficulty: impossible]

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spoiler alert: Renata literally was bottom 5 pickrate champions in the game for 9 straight months until she saw some play in worlds, she also had 50% WR. People on subreddit like to gaslight themselves and say she is so cool but when it comes to it, no one fucking plays her

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An actual successful new Jungler champ is Viego, has sub 50% WR and is played more than Briar whose playerbase will most likely abandon her if she is ever sub 50% WR.

We are also assuming she will be bad at pro play.

lmao good comparison

good comment

Is his secondary role support??

hey after years of Azir, we could do with another complex mid laner lol