Naayil

Austrias biggest historical achievement was convincing the world that Adolf Hitler was a German and that Beethoven was Austrian

RatIRL surviving a 4 hour long, 3 man home invasion with guns pointed to his head and the robbers only ending up taking some pokemon cards was not on my bingo card hilarious story that could‘ve been a fucking tragedy i‘m glad he‘s fine, this could‘ve been really really bad

Full Review on Youtube: youtu.be/tICJUxkIC-U?is…

Katakuri (One Piece) 1/6 Statue $1,100

why does marlons setup look like he broke into the oval office, but instead of getting the nuclear codes, he loaded up a game of League? 😭

live recording right before "TheBurntPeanut" gets his first solo k*ll in League of Legends

@noway4u_sir after unintentionally ruining your jungle challenge on your 9th attempt I offer you this art as a peace offering I‘m sorry for winning… drawn by the one and only @rlduni

I dont want to be annoying but I kinda understood why diamond/low Master players are in challenger lobbies but what about games like these? we are 4 challs and 400 LP master they have 2 challs, 2 diamonds 1 master surely this cant be even? i'm confused

@Azzapp_LoL thats probably the best take away, the "brand" of master has become meaningless essentially or "less meaningful" looking at literal ladder position is indeed the right metric here

@NAAAYIL Because they were. Playerbase skill improvement impact can't compare to ballooning of master player count tenfold. Ultimately, only the true ladder rank counts, not abstractions or semantics we play on top.

idk if it is nostalgia but I can‘t shake the feeling that Master was way better when fewer players were in it which isn‘t really logical because we should assume that the average player improved over time but I swear to god 2022 Masters were way better at the game than now

@munek7ta @drewlevin I need that arcane VI x Jinx combo

@NAAAYIL @drewlevin wtf .. 💔

yo @drewlevin i’m a bit late but how do I join the beauty pageant

@stiveroonie @drewlevin I need to show off the hairline while I still have it

@NAAAYIL @drewlevin this is the perfect chance to let you know that i liked your old hairstyle more

@munek7ta @drewlevin there are much crazier statues coming so I‘d rather safe the space

@NAAAYIL @drewlevin are u getting the seraphine one

@noway4u_sir sorry bro

Absoluter Vollbruch

it‘s always surreal whenever I receive messages like these it‘s hard for me to believe that I am making an impact on people while playing a game but everytime I receive these I‘m reminded that it indeed has an impact crazy world

TLDR on High Elo Matchmaking (at least my understanding of it) Challenger players do have higher MMR but due to the top of the ladder not being full enough yet the system will occasionally kidnap little timmys and throw them into GM/Challenger lobbies to even out shit

regardless of weird matchmaking shenanigans I'd like to take a moment and say how Aatrox Jungle is the only thing keeping me attached to the game in all my years of playing Aatrox Top I have never dropped bombs like this on a consistent basis I give all the credit to Jungle

@drewlevin will do lmfao

@NAAAYIL yeah tl;dr hard reset problems set a calendar reminder to check on this post in like 1-2 months

quoting to answer because I think more people will be interested in this we try to balance MMRs within and across teams. we're a week into fully truncating the long right tail of our MMR distribution. as people (like you) push that distribution to the right again, the system continues to try to make fair games with the people available. let's have Master 1 LP equal +1 as an arithmetic value in the following. your opgg shows you at +749 (GM 749 LP). let's say you have a team of you (+749) three people at +30 one slot open so right now this sums to 839 (this is oversimplifying for the sake of the conversation, we care about more factors than MMR, but let's focus on this for now and accept that we are not just doing addition and subtraction when matchmaking, we care about multiple factors). if there isn't anyone around you and the best options for the highest MMR player for the team on the other side are Agurin (+1477) or a +400 Master player (and then let's say there's plenty of +30 Master players), the matchmaker - again, oversimplifying, but close enough - has two options: 1. put someone on your team that is functionally -350 (d4 50 LP), or 2. put someone(s) on enemy team that are functionally -725 (this is the theoretical case for how you get emeralds in games with challengers) this is obviously non-ideal from a match quality perspective (and part of "match quality will be pretty rough after apex reset"), and I would expect that this kind of MMR range is not what you get on an insta-pop. as the ranks of high apex fill out, this problem will naturally subside, because the matchmaker will go from having very few people with larger disparities between them (you, Agurin, etc) to having more people in a tighter top-to-bottom MMR range in a given lobby, such that the disparity between e.g. you and Agurin could be smoothed by giving you more mid-master players rather than having to reach below Master 0 LP to even the numbers out trying to preemptively answer some frustrations/questions I can imagine you having: 1. "why not implement a cutoff at some point where you just don't accept Diamond or Emerald people into Master+ games at all?" plausible, but it's all a continuous distribution on the backend and there's an algorithm that governs "how quickly should the matchmaker look for a wider range of MMRs as wait times go up?" (because otherwise people would die waiting in queue for the perfectly matchmade game of 10 GM 749 LP players) 2. "the skill function of the right tail of the distribution is nonlinear, you can't just take an emerald 4 50 LP person and pair them with a GM 750 player to 'even out' the disparity vs two Master 0 LP players" sure, this is the argument for percentile-based matchmaking, although you still end up having to make assumptions about the shape of the very right tail of the distribution and there are fractal levels of nuance (role agency is a pretty simple example of how that nuance can mess things up - getting to have the GM 750 jungler + emerald 4 support on your team versus flipping those role assignments likely leads to different outcomes, but also carry junglers versus tank junglers, yadda yadda lots of stuff matters) hope this helps, sorry I wrote a mini blog post but I promise we're not just fucking around throwing darts over here