No comp scene means no need for casters or records keepers. I'm used to things ending but this is the first time I didn't know what comes next.
I hope I was able to entertain you all these last 4 years.
The folks over at
@PlayRuneterra
sent me this augmented reality map of Piltover & Zaun with some cool card arts inside. I dont think I found everything but I found a lot, check it out in the replies👇👇
#ThePathOfChampions
I'm gonna strongly disagree. One of the biggest pulls to LoR for me was how frequently the balance changes happened. I'm gonna go through the balance history of LoR to explain exactly why today felt so bad
1/25
It’s actually incredible what
@PlayRuneterra
did. They set such an incredibly high standard for live balance. No card game has come close to this.
To see all the hate and negativity today when we literally were promised nothing from this patch, was very sad.
No streams this week because I'm leaving for Barcelona!! This coming week I'm going to be competing in the Flesh and Blood World Championship so hopefully we'll have a good story time when I get back
Didn't expect to be radio silent so long but the removal of the comp scene has been hitting me a lot harder than expected. It's had a pretty big ripple effect through all aspects of my life. Guess I never realized exactly how ingrained into my life LoR was. I should be back soon
I didnt make an announcement about it given the circumstances, but I will be casting the World Championship. Flew all night and got here just in time, see you all tomorrow ✌️
I've been invited to this not as a caster but as a...invitee? Participant? Either way in the future when casting any of these players I will be bringing up their heights constantly.
The "Mystery Event"—LoR Invitational—is coming on February 8th & 9th ⤵️
We're excited to chat with the community, play games, and celebrate all things LoR during
#LoRInvitational2024
.
Keep an eye out for updates from invited competitors & creators.
We've seen a lot of games crank the aggro on their monetization to 11 recently while Runeterra remains at like a 2. I dropped $100 like 9-10 months ago and still have $30 left. There's just nothing to spend money on in that game
Had a whole skit set to go live at noon Monday about how Riot/EE forgot to tell me that I'm not casting Worlds.
But since they hit me up just now, 5 days before the event, to tell me I'm not casting, I guess all is forgiven 🥴
When it was rumored that Bandle City was going to have dual region cards my initial reaction was "Wow, I would hate that". Now that we're over a month into the last set of the expansion, I want to confirm that I still hate it
fizz never dying, ken/ahri/eye/azir in pink region, akshan/challenger in pump spell region, heimer/zap/tf/mayor all get instant value so this is a horrible trade for quietus user, Neverglade/Elise = glimps, Veigar gets revived, and I'm ngl I forgot teemo was even a card
I understand that champions are the main hype point of every set but I think an anti-champion expansion would be really cool. Like a bunch of followers who reward you for playing only one champion or no champions. If done well I think it could really amplify deck building choices
Yeah LoR Twitter can be a little whiny but I think for me its more like a lack of accountability? Like sometimes y'all just say shit. I still remember the 36 hour turnaround from "Iceborn Poros is tier 0 dw it'll get hotfixed" to "deck is actually ass don't bring it it's bait"
This patch is probably the biggest miss in LoR history.
Not the worst patch or the worst meta, but the biggest miss for sure. Like bro Jax/Ornn caught a stray buff
Worlds consisted of 81 games in 32 matches.
Draven/Sion easily the most banned deck
Draven/Cait/Ez vs Zoe/Nami was the most played match up (6 times) with a 50% on both sides
The first mirror match was a GPBC mirror on day 2 match 5
Below are bans and win% for each deck
In case you missed it, Samira took 8/8 top 8 spots at the MR open. She becomes the 2nd champion to ever achieve this feat, can you guess who the first was? (no spoilers if you heard the answer on broadcast)
We need to take the blinders off and stop praising LoR for whats its done in the past and hold it accountable for what its doing now. We hold them to a high standard because they set it, and as the new TCG they should be learning from the mistakes of their predecessors
21/25
Personally I didn't see anyone say anything out of line today, but our expression of frustration is how Riot knows that we Don't Like This. So hey
@PlayRuneterra
- I don't like this new balance patch schedule.
24/25
Most of my enjoyment from card games comes from trying to out-resource my opponent and playing against their card count and mana pool
Today I got hit with a duplicated 0 mana Eye of Nagakabouros
If you've all been overselling how much you like skits, I have awful, awful news for you as to what a Boulevard Seasonal looks like
Join myself and Scarzig on Sunday for all the action at twitch/casterboulevard
Haven't posted anything about the invitational because one of the first things they showed us was how dummy thicc the iconic Tibbers statue is and the clap of his ass keeps throwing off the part of my brain that was supposed to handle socials
Worlds Top 64
I'll be digging for some fun facts later, but to kick things off: only 3 players didn't bring any of the new champions (Elder/Morde/Morg), and all 3 are from APAC.
So back to the original tweet - yes, what LoR did is incredible with the bar that they set for live balance. And then they stopped reaching that bar, and it feels even worse because they set it. I praised them when they did it, I will not praise them retroactively for it
22/25
At the end of my 4th year of casting, I've hit the ceiling in LoR. I did every single event this year as well as the Worlds finals, so I can't really improve year to year in a tangible sense anymore. Not really sure what that means for me yet.
Trying to play ~10 games of the decks I expect to see at worlds, and will turn this into a thread of the ones that feel strongest to me. Check the replies for wr/deck code, will update as they come up
In patch 1.14 we got a metagame snapshot and the sentence "We’d like to start periodically sharing some of the metagame data we use to inform our balance updates over time, with a few key goals in doing so". This was the first and last time they did this.
20/25
Things I don't like: Demacia ❌👎
Things I am becoming addicted to: Deciding the game on turn 2 because I hit the pass button and my opponent played a unit and then I played Petricite Broadwing 💪🇺🇸🦅 🚫🔥🚫
When it comes to claims like this its really easy to think yourself in circles arguing for or against. I like to add in a human example
If you're friend was a huge combo-only player in other games and wanted to try LoR, would you confidently tell them to try Scouts?
Btw Scouts is combo bc it sets up and plays for a big combo turn instead of just jamming units for pressure (like aggro) or taking value board trades for the long game (like most midrange).
It takes lots of dmg and foregoes trades to set up a big turn. Hallmarks of combo in LoR
World Championship Qualifier Top 16
Bandle Tree: 9
Zoe/Nami: 8
Draven/Caitlyn/Ezreal: 8
Sivir Demacia: 7
Poppy/Lulu/Zed: 5
Plunder: 4
Draven/Sion: 3
Thralls: 1
Darkness: 1
TF/GP: 1
Shen/Jarvan: 1
*Bandle Tree slightly skewed by Realkey qualifying with 3 of them
Today sucks because its a confirmation that the old ways are dead. If you're going to show me 13 balance changes in 3 months, I'm not going to randomly hope that you turn that around without the community expressing their displeasure in your new way of handling balance
23/25
🔥Hotfix Alert!🔥
In order to avoid a timeline where the Runeterra Open is dominated by one deck, we will be adjusting Concurrent Timelines from 1c → 2c in a hotfix which we are aiming to have live on June 6th.
Still a ways to go before I'm back home, but I wanted to say Worlds was an incredible experience. Everyone I was able to meet and work with were amazing, and the support I recieved was out of this world.
I hope you all enjoyed it, and you'll be seeing plenty more of me soon
Gonna cut the guessing here so I don't spend all morning telling people no, but it was this cuddly little guy the opening weekend of A Curious Journey, going 8/8 at the Runeterra Life 1k in Bandle Tree, Yordles in Arms, Trundle Timelines, Gnar/Ziggs burn, and Gnar/Sej overwhelm
In case you missed it, Samira took 8/8 top 8 spots at the MR open. She becomes the 2nd champion to ever achieve this feat, can you guess who the first was? (no spoilers if you heard the answer on broadcast)
I've been offline for the past 2 hours boy oh boy I can't wait to check the state of my favorite game, Legends of Runeterra and its latest life defining balance patch