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The quite shocking "new player experience"

Submitted 4 years, 3 months ago by

As someone who climbed on his main account high enough i thought it would be a good idea to create a new account in LoR and try some unranked to master within  14 days starting from no collection challenge  and what did i experience? Players in iron 4 ALREADY play 80% streamer decks in ranked.

While i still do fine with the spider starter deck I can only imagine how actually new players got to feel when they come to runeterra and run into the same netdecks over and over that they don't stand a cahnce against if they are as clueless as their opponent. 

I expected a lot of the starter decks, being played or some suboptimal jank that actual new players come around with. But 80% uninspired copypaste from "pros"? That is really shocking to me and it makes me really sad to see.

  • TheTriferianGeneral's Avatar
    Soldier 555 878 Posts Joined 02/10/2020
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    As someone who climbed on his main account high enough i thought it would be a good idea to create a new account in LoR and try some unranked to master within  14 days starting from no collection challenge  and what did i experience? Players in iron 4 ALREADY play 80% streamer decks in ranked.

    While i still do fine with the spider starter deck I can only imagine how actually new players got to feel when they come to runeterra and run into the same netdecks over and over that they don't stand a cahnce against if they are as clueless as their opponent. 

    I expected a lot of the starter decks, being played or some suboptimal jank that actual new players come around with. But 80% uninspired copypaste from "pros"? That is really shocking to me and it makes me really sad to see.

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  • FenrirWulf's Avatar
    1005 367 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Well as someone who never plays Ranked, I can definitely assure you that not every Iron player is a new player. Just because a player is an Iron does not mean they are not a good player, of course, it also doesn't mean that they aren't a bad player either. I've just never taken a liking to playing Ranked because there wasn't really a good incentive to do so. Ranking up doesn't do much except just giving you an icon or the sense of achievement from ranking up.

    If I want to fight "better" opponents, then I can also just play Normal because I occasionally fight Master players there with tier 1 or tier 2 decks. There isn't really a huge difference and I would argue that most Iron players in LoR aren't actually Iron but more around Gold semi-casual players.

    Take my words with a grain of salt. I'm unranked and only play casuals lmao.

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  • sinti's Avatar
    Senior Writer Chocolate Cake 2070 2792 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Also LOR being quite generous with the reward system, it is not hard to quickly amass cards to make a least one meta deck quickly.

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  • skullleigh's Avatar
    80 14 Posts Joined 08/28/2020
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago
    Quote From TheTriferianGeneral

    As someone who climbed on his main account high enough i thought it would be a good idea to create a new account in LoR and try some unranked to master within  14 days starting from no collection challenge  and what did i experience? Players in iron 4 ALREADY play 80% streamer decks in ranked.

    While i still do fine with the spider starter deck I can only imagine how actually new players got to feel when they come to runeterra and run into the same netdecks over and over that they don't stand a cahnce against if they are as clueless as their opponent. 

    I expected a lot of the starter decks, being played or some suboptimal jank that actual new players come around with. But 80% uninspired copypaste from "pros"? That is really shocking to me and it makes me really sad to see.

    Like Sinti said you can craft a meta deck pretty fast thanks to the region rewards, also people who don't have meta decks and are actually new players will have a hard time going up the ladder so maybe lab or expeditions are more appealing to them.

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  • GerritDeMan's Avatar
    Unicorn Reveler 525 264 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    I can't say what the actual new player experience is like, but I would probably suggest any new player to first stick to normal, labs, and expeditions so that they can build up their collection. Like FenrirWulf said, a lot of players at low ranks (myself included) are just players that aren't interested in ranking up.  The reason they do occasionally want to try out a deck in ranked is probably to see if a certain deck holds up or because they want to see how different the ranked experience is from normal.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Well it's like old hs rank 20, it's the beggining of the ladder many gold players can find themselves in iron if they didn't play..

    I am also in iron cause I never put enough time to go higher than silver.. just didn't feel like it.. so basically I am iron 4 with an almost full collection.

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  • TheTriferianGeneral's Avatar
    Soldier 555 878 Posts Joined 02/10/2020
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    A little update about my unranked to master project: 

    I made it to bronce 2 so far (i know thats very impressive you can congratualte me later ;) )

    I see first issues running my semi optimal lists since the netdeck rate is now a stable 90% and i dont expect that to change until diamond. Also players slowly learn the game and i can't go for obvious plays anymore :(

    for the assembling of resources i currently run expeditions. 

    My first run was a solid double 7 win run (for the exp ofc) 

    the second was meh 

    the third looks like it will go well

    gotta see how much resources ill get from max level vault i hope ill cash in a Katarina soon to build my main deck from rising tides (no its not a yasuo list) 

    Whoever spend the time to read that semi boring report: have a nice day:)

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