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I'm still playing EMEA Masters with Lupus but I'm exploring my options as a jungler for Spring split/rest of the year I'm interested in championship contenders in minor ERLs and generally interested in major ERL teams RTs appreciated

> be me > be 16 > play league of legends every day after school > hardstuck low master > shen gets reworked > try him out > win every game > roleswap from jungle to top lane to play shen > reach challenger instantly > friends say it doesnt count because EUNE > transfer to EUW > hardstuck low master again > go to military > play on laptop during weekends > reach challenger on EUW > friends say it doesnt count because my shen is freelo toplaner > try to hit rank 1 > fail and give up > go to university to study mathematics > take a course on optimization > code an algorithm to find the best shen build based on damage calculations > complexity is O(n!) > realize this problem is difficult > take all optimization courses uni has to offer > study machine learning > study deep learning > meet a Vayne main whos doing a phd in robotics > watch him demo his custom algorithm that plays League > team up to solve the build optimization problem > spend a year trying different ideas > finally get a good idea > write masters thesis on league of legends build optimization > realize we need more data to get better results > you need a consumer application to get more data from Riot > try to build an app > realize neither of us can code websites > find an Olaf main who rebuilt opgg for himself just for fun > add him to the team > build working app > get more data from Riot > realize shen jungle is viable with the right build > roleswap back to jungle after 10 years of top lane > spam shen jungle with optimized build > make youtube video on it > shen becomes the highest win rate jungler > mfw

Patch 26.6 Full Preview Azir - We're buffing Azir to distribute some of his power back into regular play capabilities through scaling power that Azir players hopefully will appreciate - Phreak is Xerath Lissandra - Lissandra hasn't really felt the same since her Q cooldown was nerfed in Season 9 - Times have really changed since then and her perma priority waveclear + aftershock taking days and in the vein of making champions feel better to play, we're seeing if she can sustain having this cooldown again Olaf JG - These changes are targeted at Jungle, which has been languishing a bit - Top is a little bit weak, so he will be getting buffed there a bit too Sunfire Aegis - Sunfire's build cost (1000g) has been long cited as a pretty painful experience of the item - While we think having some painful build paths is valuable for the long term value of League, we think this one is a bit too painful ---------- Ranked EUW/VN Matchmaking - We've had about a week and a half now of autofill vs autofill matchmaking being Live and we're seeing excellent results - In regions like Vietnam with a high autofill rate, we're seeing autofill vs autofill go from ~25% of games to 75% of games - In EUW, regular play was already good (90% of the time autofill vs autofill), but in high MMR we went from 30% to 85% - We will continue to roll out to more regions over the coming patches as we're seeing positive results here Apex LP - So far, so good on Apex LP fix resolving most of the issues. The fix looks to be good and is holding - >98% of players should be between 19 and 21 in terms of LP gains, calibrating up and down in small amounts (+19/-21 or +21/-19 or +20/-20) - We have one small fix coming in 26.6 to make this even more consistent