Nifty129

Yeah I used to play a lot of arena in diamond between the beta with amohnket and ixilan, well past war of the spark.

Speaking of arena as a perfect example I actually stopped playing and moved to lor …

https://playruneterra.com/en-sg/news/dev/rotation-in-legends-of-runeterra/

Official news here, LOR is becoming like other CCG's now.

So lets list pros and cons and try to be civil.

Pros:

Balancing old archetypes and regions namely Bilgewater has been like a two year …

So yeah Swain has more stats huge body for his cost, great key words great champ spell all around good guy.

Gonna be played by 99% of the player base early on because people like to win.

And …

A really common fallacy I see in LOR players is the idea that if you can jam your wincon as hard as possible as fast as possible that makes you a strong player.

This is a ladder playing philosophy …

That is kinda the goal of a balance patch yeah. Like I dont envy Riot of they add rotation everyone will be pissed.

If they do a massive comprehensive balance patch to shift the meta people will be pissed …

Personally I love that pirates is getting shot in its big dumb aggro face.

The nerfs to both decimate and Riptide sermon make it difficult for aggro decks to justify running both cards.

Like yeah pass pass Riptide …

Here are the specifics from their balance presentation/livestream https://imgur.io/a/pOHTBUf

What I got wrong: 

1. They overhauled Leona and put in the extra effort. She now challenges and has barrier so she acts like a midrange Diana which suits …

Just gonna go through every card that was listed.

Nerfs:

Viego - Yeah like you can hit his initial stats and it won't matter too much because he's a grower not a shower.

Hate spike - mystic …

Not sure what Majin Bae is basing that on other them pirate aggro, and pirate plunder being the two best decks in LOR since rising tides and only gets better with each patch.

As for me having fun with …

Yeah, like rather then being a dick I can say that I'm a diamond rank meme lord and if you want to friend match up and I show you a few key play patterns of LOR if you want.

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Thats a fair oppinion, that is the thing that set LOR apart afterall the evergreen state of the competitive scene.

But I still feel like there's probably some healthy tweaking to be done, because 4 - 5 competitive Bilgewater …

1. Pirate aggro (burn)

2. Plunder midrange (gangplank)

3. Nami Tf (combo)

4. Scouts (rally)

5. Annie/Swain TF (control)

Thats five top tier decks in one region identity with the last of which only recently …

Yeah he seems fairly agredious example of what not to do right now though.

His champ spell is 4 mana deal 1...Annie's champ spell is 2 mana kill a thing like the developers had to know he was bad.

As a brewer I make it a dedicated mission to create decks with every champion that can in fact win and put up a solid fight against meta decks.

This is why I can chose to climb with things …

I think he just started playing guys like while it's easy to jump on him and say there isn't a single competitive deck that mains ruination currently and that dedicated spell heavy control decks like darkness are kinda bad right …

Lor has always been a game that has been balanced on a strict design curve.

 No new set whether it be awakening, world waker, bandlewood, shurima or Targon can be or should be better then Bilgewater.

But this …

So I was able to get to rank 1 Diamond and maintain a pretty healthy winrate with entirely off meta decks.

But it takes a pretty hard-core person to deal with the onslaught of tryhards in what is turning …

Just hit diamond with an old staple the deck list is pretty much the same as I always run the archetype.

Heavy on the pings, heavy on the turbo leveling, and then with a full set of tentacle draw …

So I have thoughts about the latest tier list and let's go through the decks one by one.

1. Pirates - like yeah great aggro deck but also has essentially been the same since rising tides give or take …

One thing you can say about awakening is that it successfully shook up the play patterns and deck building requirements to such an extent I basically didn't know how to play or recognize LOR anymore.

And while I stand …