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yeah 'or' as you gotta pick one.

Also just realized rite is a Zillian card.

rather then draw 2 bombs and this never happens if you've played zil, you now play one and have the guaranteed tutor.

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Other new editions

1. drop the bomb - insane removal hyper leveler for zigs and xerath. Like lowkey this card is terrifying I would even run in transform or the old bilgewater bandle burn, just guaranteed value into a …

1. Yassao boat

They finally did it they printed a landmark that not only draws Yassao but also provides free stuns on attack, this was the missing piece you finally don't need to run Targon to tutor anymore.

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Yeah by all means nerf the absolute stuffing out of Annie.

She's literally one of the most problematic things that lead me to hate this expansion.

Make her a 1/2 that levels to a 2/3 that does 1 …

Two bard decks, two aphelios decks, 3 Annie decks.

And then a healthy handful of diverse and interesting archetypes sprinkled throughout the tiers most of which have been around a while.

The real question is how do you …

Those who knows me, know that I meme a lot and I never play meta decks and only my lists.

But my God is deep just a frigging house right now.

Does really well into Aphelio, Annie, and …

Favorite nerf of all and it's a sneaky one.

Scout cant' land on Viktor, Pantheon, or Aresnal anymore.

So it guarantees two turn lethal with these cards even if u high roll elusive spell shield.

Jesus it's …

I stand by my argument that the buffs are exceptionally low impact.

But the nerfs that occurred essentially made the game playable again.

1. Disintegrate is now a 2 of

2. Barrier bro is lower impact.

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Well there's only 4 champ changes.

Heckarim, Irelia, Kalista, shen

None of the vanilla card changes are impactful.

Like out of the bunch heckarim is the scariest.

The game has slowed down to the point that …

Gotta say comming off two of the best patches in Lor history that had massive gameplay ramifications to the extent of creating a new viable archetype - sundisc.

The most recent patch essentially does nothing...vaporize is still the most …

Actually I didn't know that.

But thanks for confirming my correctness.

What a pal :)

Like I've literally been saying this meta is hot streamer bate garbage since the expansion came out.

So the likelihood that …

Ultimately, we will see what Riot does when they get off their summer hiatus.

If we see a round of balance patches similar to the ones we got pre-expansion we'll know I was right.

If we see no …

Having every deck with the highest play rates of 10% and lower have 53% winrates down to 50% and below.

Has never been the case for as long as I've been playing LOR and recording these statistics.

Thats …

Its not that every archetype is succeeding, it's that every archetype isn't succeeding.

Therefore the only sucessful decks are non-archetypal.

Which in a game that is supposed to encourage synergistic deck building topped off by specific champions, means …

https://app.mobalytics.gg/lor/stats/regions

Final meta stats for the expansion by play rate.

There isn't a single list being played right now above 53% because "decks" are bad right now.

Card piles are great, lists that don't try to do …

Typically when I see a single champ occupying 3 different decks diversity comes into question.

Viego is over represented

Bard is over represented

Annie is over represented

Illoi is over represented 

What I'm not seeing …

Just going to list a number of dead archetypes that could return and signal a possitive direction for the game 

1. Fiora Shen - Archetypal midrange pkg that plays for value and challenges and board interaction that no longer …

I'm very rational.

Patches that balance every aspect of the entire champion and deck archetype roster are good 

We got 2 of those.

Expansions that result in the meta boiling down to 3 Annie decks, 3 Bard …

Dude these numbers are way down.

I dont care how much copium you want to huff.

Riot knows too they are looking at things like concede rates.

Time spent in game 

Winrates

Deck diversity

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https://masteringruneterra.com/meta-tier-list/

Opting for the pro player stats this time to see if the declining winrate phenomenon and weird deck optimizations were holding true.

Here we see:

Aggro Annie sub 50%

Control Annie 51%

Thralls 53%