Legends of Runeterra

Went to my homepage. It told me to click to get my Gauntlet reward.

I click on the button. Nothing happens. What is the reward and where is it?

So, I have yet to have the opportunity to cast this spell or have it cast against me. From the wording, it's hard for me to tell exactly what will happen.

If fewer than 6 things have died on your side, does it only summon that number of things, or do some of them get summoned twice, to make 6 copies? (Example - only 3 of your allies have died, you cast Harrowing - do only those 3 come back, or do 2 copies of each come back to make a total of 6?)

Made a deck using heimerdinger and fizz creating a ton of small guys with the cards jailbreak and double trouble. (spawn 1 cost guys) combined with yipp makes decent sized bodies.

Flash of brilliance and trail of evidence make really good supporting cards for both fizz (leveling him up since it requires you to play 6 spells even if Fizz isn't on the board on top of that the burst and small cost assures you that you can ''remove'' one of their spells if they try to target fizz., and for Heimerdinger if they try to remove him thanks to the burst you still get value of him.

Mystifying magician can turn your 1 drops/heimerdinger units into random 5 drops.

Progress day is just for draw though combined with heimer the 8 mana body is nice.

Mind melt is a big finisher card because thanks to the lots of spells in your deck the generated units through the cards like jailbreak, double trouble and units generated by heimerdinger combined with other spells you can get a massive board.

https://imgur.com/a/uGHVwzh

I didn't printscreen the effect after the mind melt but they were all 6-6 and gave me lethal.

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Deck isn't optimized was just having fun with it.

It's crimson elusives with a 10 percent play rate and a 56 percent win rate.

Noxious is the highest played region probably hanging around 35 percent.

The majority of players are gravitating towards aggro, then midrange, then combo, with pure control not being truly represented in any substantial way

https://lor.mobalytics.gg/stats/regions/IO_NX/overview

I don't believe any of these stats call for a balance change and instead, the best solution is to just print more cards in August which is what is happening.

One of the sneaky possible top tier lists nobody is talking about right now is an updated take on the old corina control lists, where they run deadbloom wanderer, arguably the best deep card as a solid play on 3.

https://lor.mobalytics.gg/decks/bri0c91la4s9184pgo2g

Personally I think that Legends has moved past the oh no a ledros on 9 what do I do, to look at all the fast crazy bs stuff I can do long before turn 9.

But what do you guys think, have you tried it, is it any good?

How you can add a friend?

Is anybody already drafting a singleton deck to be used in next Gauntlet?

Just an idea. Even if you only get like half the value.

When I started playing LoR a few weeks ago I had a feeling that every 1 mana creature seems to be balanced around Cinthria.

Except for the Butcher. He sinply is a better version of her. Sure, Cinthria is an Elite unit, which provides some bonuses. But at the same time she often is worst card that can be created by 'create a random Elite', so being Elite is not a good thing for every situation.

I think it would be fair to make the Butcher 1/2 or 2/1 without plunder and he becomes 3/3 on plunder to emphasize that the 1 mana balancing is based around Cinthria. And maybe also because 3/3 Butcher always feels very strong for just 1 mana and therefore there is a drawback when you don't meet the plunder condition. 

Just an opinion. What do you think about this? 

1) Never Surrender any games until Platinum.
2) Keep your ego in check. If your opponent has not surrender, always assume they have have an out.

My latest ranked game is an important example of both of these, players will do some incredible stupid things whether by ego or they oversee a solution. These will net you free wins.

My opponent has 4 health left and I have 13 health left. This Braum/Vlad had my Kninkou Elusives against a wall with 6 units on the field, one with overwhelm, a braum, and 4 other unites. Braum pulled my elusive unit leaving me just an Shadow Assassin to block with. The five units on the board is dealing 17 damage (3 atk Overwhelm, 4 atk, 4 atk, 3 atk, 3 atk). With the units on the field he can kill me as is. Instead of letting it go, he decides to gloat. He drops his last two 2 braum's on the 3 atk overwhelm buffing him instead of holding them. He then spams Braum emote for the duration of the timer. I will his buffed overwhelm and block a 4 atk unit.  He Darius emotes me and emotes the entire time he has priority. I drop my elusive unit in hand and we both have zero cards. I top deck a buff to swing for lethal and my opponent draws a brick.

The opponent adds me as a friend and proceeds to spam some inappropriate comments and blocks me.

This is why you don't surrender in lower ranks. Not sure if the same applies in higher ranks as I doubt people make these silly mistakes in higher elo. Maybe a Master Tier player can confirm.

There have been some crazy shifts in the tier list since the season of fortune began, with really out of the box decks like Anivia, and Poros creeping into tier 2. I would say at this point that we have effectively hit balance perfection in legends of runterra and you can officially play whatever you want.

https://www.swimstrim.com/runeterra/decks-and-meta

Let's open it up to hear what you guys are playing right now.

I'm a big fan of treasure Nautilus it's gotten me good results against both control and aggro matchups

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I feel like Jinx level up is still to weak when compared to the two other champions that are most like her. Her level up ability is essentially a variant on Ezreal and Lux but is substantially weaker.

Lux ability is free, hits a unit and face, and can be used multiple times in one turn.

Ezreal ability hits face for half the damage of Jinx rockets but can be triggered many times in one turn, is free, and essentially burst speed since you don't have to cast it.

Jinx only hits face, same as Ezreal but hits for 4, but her skill is slow speed like Lux, and can't be chained unlike both Lux and Ezreal. Then to top it off it costs 1 mana. So its not even free. But it requires just as much prep work to pull off as the other two.

Jinx rocket should firstly be free at the minimum and be able to be cast multiple times a turn just like her competition. Jinx should be the middle ground between Lux and Ezreal. Not the ugly step child they keep locked up in the attic and occasionally feed fish heads to from time to time.

It's a small gripe. I love how every unite have voice lines, but some of them need work. Like for example, the Legion Veteran.

He says; "The young fight for glory, I fought for legacy."

Wait, what? So he fought when he was already old? That's a contradicting statement. What is he trying to say?

I tried to delete this since it didn't  add a picture of a deck i was playing.

A maokai snapvine deck.

https://imgur.com/a/zxYcrrz

Here is the link for a picture of the deck pretty fun.

The problem with this mechanic is not that the cards that use it are too strong (although they are), it won't be fixed by simply nerfing BMM, P.Goods and the Yordle. The problem with this mechanic lies in the fact that is too chaotic for a game like LoR, it creates scenarios that are unpredictable and uncounterable, and it changes the outcome of games out of pure luck.

For example, If I run a single Ruination in my deck and my enemy is not playing SI, then you can't expect me to play against Ruination (alongside with all the other cards in my deck), and I shouldn't do it. It's a frustrating, unfun and unfair mechanic.

Making it draw from the bottom instead of the top of the deck is just part of the solution, but that was not really the core issue here, that was just a buff to Freijlord, not really a nerf to the mechanic itself.

As I see it there are 2 possible ways of actually making this mechanic fair: You either make the nab'd cards fleeting or you reveal them to the enemy. I personally rather have the later. I think it would still be played since the cards have extreme value right now. BMM is a 1 mana 2/1 that draws a card. PG is a 2 mana draw 2 cards that can be turned into a 0 mana draw 2 cards if you have BMM on the board, which is most of the times. Having those cards being revealed to the enemy is more than fair. 

I don't understand. I heard a few streamers say that. But the deck sucks. It completely revolves around you getting Heimer. If you don't get Heimer you lose. Plain and simple. Vi only protects him that's it. How is that the best deck  in the game?

i was playing with freljord/SI deck vs nox/SI player in unranked, when he used Harsh Winds on me to win the game ?!

He had no card steal options and I dont even have Harsh Winds in my EndureSpider deck.

How the hell he can use the freljord card ??? Cheating? or did I miss something?

Tier 1 - Frejord

The buff to braum has only cemented the place of this region at top of the pile since patch 1.3, and while its true the power mostly lies in the champions, it turns out thats kind of a big deal. Also the changes to yoink made buffing your deck, and yetis inherently better. Also has some of the best combat tricks in the game.

Tier 2 - Noxious

What really impressed me with this region in the new season is deck diversity. Sure we see aggro nox decks of various varieties everywhere, but we also have allegiance just starting to be a thing with the buffed bassalisk rider,  we have its pairings with frejord in midrange builds, you can even run it with shadow with a longer endgame plan

Tier 3 - Shadow Isles

Shadow is always the best anti aggro region with withering wail being a pretty obvious mvp control card. The champions are solid offering a variety of deck builds, and keeper is still the best 2 drop in the game despite the nerfs. Deep is still solid, with only ephemeral still being in need of a little work.

Tier 4 - Bilgewater

The yoink nerf hit this region hard, you no longer need to fear MF tempo decks like the plague, but that just gives room for gangplank and TF to shine in control builds. Kegs have received consistent buffs and is in a healthy and solid position, the perfect slightly above average region.

Tier 5 - Ionia

Provides elusives, counterspells, bounces, and stuns, and great card advantage tools. While there might not be anything about ionia that really strikes you as OP anymore in the champion department, it turns out just being solid is good enough. Ionia struggles against aggro a bit, but punishes midrange so its placement on the tier list will always be moving up and down as the meta changes.

Tier 6 - P And Z 

I absolutely love this region, but beyond the very limited applications in burn aggro, and Heimer Vi it's truly underrepresented at the moment. Its top end options could use a few buffs cementing its placement as a control region, with the likes of Corina, celebration day, and that 7 mana multishot removal spell.

Tier 7 - Demacia

Not only have they suffered nerfs to their flagship midrange bannerman deck with the likes of badger bear and grizzled ranger falling from grace. But the real bullet to the head, was changing their indestructible spell from burst to fast speed, which hurt lux in a big way. There isn't a lot of reason to run this region other than single combat which is the most efficient removal spell in the game.

Conclusion - Expect these rankings to change with future balance changes and expansions, legends of runterra is a well designed game and the difference between a top tier region and low tier region is just a numbers tweak away.

I want to start by apologizing for what is going to be an indepth analysis of logical fallacies, in relations to net decking in Legends of Runterra.

Be aware, this doesn't apply to games like mtg or hearthstone where net decks are actually just objectively better.

We are going to use Elusive burn as an example https://lor.mobalytics.gg/decks/brpb1t1la4s47cjpnfn0

Originally this list used to feature two potions two retreats and 0 zeds

These 4 cards or slots in the deck are what we call tech choices, they exist to counter the decks you are likely to run into on ladder

The only problem is that said slots can only exist as good in a specific time and space in which they are intended.

For example retreat is at it's best when it counters get excited which forces the opponent to go down a card, which is found in Heimer Vi

The play rate of Heimer Vi is lower than initially thought and we replace it with Zed which is better in every other instance

Therefore you are better off coming to these conclusions yourself because you will always be faster than the meta shifts.

Please feel free to discuss but keep it civil - heart you all

where I can see them, after the award?