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[Ranked Updates] 1. Rolling out an improvement to Matchmaking in EUW Within the next 24 hours, we plan to roll out an improvement to Matchmaking that we need to pilot in a large region. We are targeting EUW, late afternoon PST (in about 5-6 hours). The update intends to better balance autofills vs autofills & secondaries vs secondaries, etc. Will let folks know if we get delayed for any reason later today. We want games to be more fair & competitive and not feel like they were decided because there was a large off-role imbalance. As with any large Matchmaking change, we need your help to immediately diagnose and triage any issues, I will be putting up a thread to comment on any odd game results as they start to come in. This will impact all ranks, but will have a significantly larger effect in Apex ranks (autofills happen very rarely in regular play) If it goes well, we will start the process of rolling out to more regions. 2. Resolving Master+ LP Gains We're actively looking into a mitigation to resolve the bad LP gains in Challenger, nothing to share back yet, but mainly weighing our options. This change would get everyone back closer to +-20LP in wins/losses, rather than +10/-30LP that a few people are experiencing currently (about 30% of Challengers) It was the result of a hard to find 3rd order consequence bug, which we've resolved. 3. Reports of <10 LP Gains This should only be impacting Master+ players Looked into the reports of <10 LP gains, eg. +9LP gains (which shouldn't be possible) and the player did end up getting +10LP for the game. After looking at the frame by frame behavior in the client, there is a number that ticks up to improve satisfaction, but currently it ticks a bit too slowly, so a player can transition out of the screen before it has fully rendered the final result. (you can see this in the video I've linked) We are looking to both resolve this issue and the core issue causing the negative gains in the first place 4. Demotions Last year we made some changes to how Tier demotions worked (eg. Silver 4 -> Bronze 1). It is possible to demote to 50LP, 25LP if your MMR is low enough relative to your Rank. We fixed some edge cases that were preventing that from being true and so if you have a surprisingly large LP demotion, this is why

CRIT IS BAD ON SMOLDER IN S16 NOW hi I'm bluwunk :3 I'm a challenger smolder 1 trick (peaked 971 LP) Here's why: Tomorrow, every other ADC's base crit damage is going from 175% to 200% while Smolder's is getting cut nearly in half (+115% to +65% dmg). He will be worse with crit while every other ADC is going to be better with it. This will open up different build options for him that are more fun :3 That being said, obviously some of the crit items will still be good on him: 1) Essence Reaver: Huge buff from live version. It's like 100+ dmg for free on each Q for the whole game. 2) RFC: Pretty sure in games where the range was useful before, this won't change 3) LDR: Gets its giant slayer passive back - Deal up to 15% bonus damage against champions based on their bonus health. Maximum damage bonus reached at 1500 bonus health. obviously this is really good against tanks or health stackers I think these won't be worth getting: 1) Hexoptics: A cool new item but the CONDITIONAL 10% damage bonus ONLY works on his Q (and autos but..). That on top of base stat line of 50AD and 25% crit I don't think this will be worth it. 2) Stormrazor: i don't think anyone is buying this tbh 3) Infinity Edge: Last patch this item gave Smolder +40% crit damage with a full crit build. This patch it only gives +15%. I really don't think this item will be good on him MAAAAAAAybe last slot with a lot of stacks but even then I think there are probably better options. Here's the two builds I'm looking at for next season. 1) Hubris Build The general idea is that the first one is gonna be good against squishies. And BT is replaceable for Bastion breaker for more damage if you don't need the Lifesteal. 2) Bruiser Build The second one is gonna be good against tankier teams or against a lot of dive. The main point of this one is to stack a ton of HP Haste and AD. HP and some armor to not get oneshot and a ton of Haste to stack faster and burn down tanks. Lvl 18 is looking at like 4k hp 150 armor like 400-500 AD and 150 haste (40 of the haste doesn't show in stats cause it's basic ability haste from legend haste and shojin) Putting your Q at like a 1.4 second cooldown. Also Deaths Dance can be Maw if ur against AP assassins. Runes in comments