Legends of Runeterra

Someone explain to me why Scrying Sands bypass spellshield while Quicksand does not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkhbqXtNfSc&t=497s

So recently Swim has been delving into the newly released champion stats and talking about how low performing a lot of the new additions have been within this expansion...but is this really the case...I wanted to go in and talk about confirmation bias and how numbers mislead.

So who is the best champ with the highest winrate...Irelia or Azir right

https://lor.mobalytics.gg/stats/cards?rarity=CHAMPION&sortBy=WIN_RATE&sortOrder=DESC

That would be wrong its actually Darius of all things with his tiny 13 percent inclusion rate

Great game solved lets all go home, all jokes aside it just shows us that aggressive champs perform very well right now even the bad ones

Alternatively slow champs are doing poorly TF and Aphelios once top tier are absolutely awful if you only look at their winrate

So what we are really seeing is less an objective way of rating the power level of cards, and more a measure of the meta

Fast is good, slow is bad...great and before fast was bad and slow was good...and around we go

I believe that changing the pace of play through balance and expansions is great for the health of Legends

Pretty soon nerfs will land and control will do far better and all of a sudden we'll see a huge influx of winrates as is always the case.

So don't judge champs on winrates alone its really not informative in the slightest

Hey there card game fans, I've been playing the expansion for a little while now and have finally caught up on Champs which means it's time for another off meta deck list roundup.

1. The landmark deck - very flexible with its option selection right now but primarily comes in 3 forms Malphite Thaliyah, Malphite Yassao, Thaliyah Lisandra. The goal is to A reduce countdowns in lissandeas case, two control things out with Yassao stuns, three turbo level landmark Champs.

2. The anti Irelia tech, there are some very strong deck options out there for beating Irelia Azir but the strongest by far I found to be shadow Irelia. 

3. Time bomb fun - the strongest version I found to be ezreal duplicate shuffling more bombs in and predicting that Tefari want to be. Although Swain time bomb works okay as a win con too, where you have access to flock

4. Finally new takes on old classics like lee sin and  plunder using the expansion options

Let me know what lists you guys are playing

Hi there, Nifty back to introduce everyone to  a healthy dose of down to earth meta statistics and a happy analysis of what they mean.

1. Azir, Irela the new hotness with a 20% percent play rate and a 56% winrate. Is it good yes absolutely, is it op not based on the numbers as of yet, pirate aggro and spider aggro do just as well. However if it becomes oppressive Riot should look at it in 2 - 3 weeks.

2. Midrange is an okay answer to aggro we typically see things like dragons, vlad, and swain doing okay early on into an unstable meta not because it's optimal but because it's flexible.

3. Control is not doing well again this is typical TF was nerfed and aggro was pushed and the lists have yet to adjust to changing circumstances like the prevalence of extra attack phases.

4. Combo fringe lists will do well early on as outliers but these too will fissle out. For example Swim has a massive 70 winrate with flurry of fists...except when everyone tries it it will go sub 40% percent in aggregate like Lee Sin decks.

 Expect things to solidify in the comming weeks when everyone remembers that healing exists along with easy answers for 3 mana Champs like culling strike.

Long term prediction is that a control list will rise to the top and start putting aggro in its place, it's just not as easy as copy paste TF/Aphelios anymore and that's okay.

Hello guys, if you are interested with new cards but bored to play same types that has been found in first days here is some weird decks you might be interested in.

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A shuffle deck. Shuffle more Khahiri the Returneds, Time Bombs or Chirean Sumpworkers by the state of the game. Iterative Improvement is also good with Mechanized Mimic in some situations.

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Another Sumpworks Posse deck. I didn't like the Heimerdinger version so I did a version of mine with the cards I like to play.

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I will add some more decks when i find some interesting stuff with other heroes as well but firstly I need to acquire them and waiting to complete regional rewards for that. Check this thread later for more decks.

And feel free to make any changes with your collection and your thoughts, these decks are placeholders for some ideas, not refined versions of the decks and won't be last versions probably. They are here for just inspiration.

Thanks in advance for checking this up. I hope you like and enjoy.

Edit: I've added 3 new decks to the list.

MF / Irelia feels very strong. Very very strong. I’m playing straight Shurima and it’s the only deck I fear. I’ve lost to other decks. But I’m not even sure what to do against her. Kill her sure they are able to deal so much damage so quick I just don’t have time. 
What is everyone else experience so far?

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