nick in EU 🇭🇷 🇪🇺

@RiotPhroxzon i’ll transcend this game and be the first person to acquire this feat of 3000, 4000lp. I’ll make you proud Matt.

Apex LP Gains Hey everyone, We’ve had a lot of attempted changes to resolve some of the root issues with the Apex experience this year. Some have worked OK and others haven’t worked as well. We wanted to shine a light on changes that are going out (hopefully) today and how we’re going to approach it for the near term and wanted to apologize for the experience that people have been running into so far. Does every region have negative LP gains? - Less than 5 of our 16 regions are having negative LP gains in Apex right now, and they’re to varying extents - Some of those are experiencing it consistently and others, just a little bit, and most, none at all Is Aegis of Valor causing this? - We don’t see any long term impacts on LP gains caused by Aegis - Especially given that the majority of regions are functioning completely fine What’s going on then? - Masters being more achievable this Season & the best players getting stronger as the years go on is expanding the gap between the bottom of Master and the top of Challenger. - The addition of Challenger duos made it more challenging to balance some of these games - While we took pre-emptive mitigations to reduce the impact of things like Rank 1 & 2 duoing together, they weren’t powerful enough and resulted in the best players catapulting further ahead - The rollout of our improved Matchmaking and better balance to duos (this is now Live in every region); does a better job of balancing duos and balancing autofills to make Apex matches more balanced in over 90% of cases, but there is still work to be done when the very best players are duoing together - In the Live Ranked system, the max LP attainable has a soft cap to prevent LP gains from getting too high, which combined with the above issues has led to a less than ideal apex ladder experience Are you going to reset the ladder? - There are some set of people who are really vocal about resetting the ladder; we hear the concerns and are taking them seriously - At the same time, there are a lot of players who will find it very frustrating for all their progress to be reset and while some players will be happy we reset it, others will not, so we’re continuing to evaluate The changes we’re making - To reiterate, in the Live Ranked system, the max LP attainable has a soft cap to prevent LP gains from getting too high - The closer you get to the top of the ladder, you need a higher and higher winrate to climb. - ie. As a player gets closer and closer to the cap, their gains will approach +10/-30 - We’re going to remove this cap, which will unbound LP on the top end and result in the very best players being able to play and climb to pretty high LP values (+30/-10LP until they start to reach where they should be) - It will also make LP gains for the entire Apex ladder more stable, but LP cutoffs for Grandmaster and Challenger will also increase when most players no longer have negative LP gains - We expect most regions to reach peak LP’s of around 3000 and in some of the top end cases, close to 4000 - Grandmaster and Challenger are meant to be very difficult to achieve and it’s intended to be challenging to get there (in the same way that an Emerald player should look at Diamond and feel like it’s going to be difficult to achieve) - At the same time, we’ve heard your feedback that hitting these ranks feels too daunting and grindy (though there is an expectation that the peak ranks in a game are going to require more dedication to keep, we need to strike a good sweet spot here) The future - Us making climbing at apex less daunting caused us to add Grandmaster several years ago and we’re nearing some of those feels now; the skill gaps in Apex are getting too big - In some regions also, the number of Grandmaster/Challenger slots being too low for how big their region is is also contributing to the cutoffs being very high (EUW being a notable example) -> curious on thoughts on increasing this - We might also reconsider the top end of how much LP you can gain per win, but need to be considerate of how much this incentivizes smurfing - Changes to systems like these are a natural part of League being a long-lived game and having growing player skills over time Thank you for being patient with us as we fix all the things and we’ll continue to work to make the top of ladder climbing experience the best it can be.

Physically I am Emerald, mentally I am challenger

@Sheep_Esports NO BAUS NO WIN 😭😭😭

Witchcraft 🇬🇧 have been eliminated from EMEA Masters They fall 1-2 to G2 NORD 🇩🇪 in their Playoffs qualifying match

@nexta_tv @grok am i responsible for this?

Serbia prepares for war Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić stated that Croatia, Albania, and Kosovo are allegedly preparing to attack Serbia. According to him, these countries "are waiting for an escalation of the conflict between Russia and Europe" and hope that global chaos and the war in the Middle East will provide them with an opportunity to act. Vučić also confirmed that Serbia possesses hypersonic ballistic missiles and emphasized that the country has no intention of joining NATO.

seeing this felt like a gunshot to my chest

@SewerSideBitch x.com/nickich/status…

@drewlevin Hi drew have you ever taken any suggestions from @nickich And if so if it isn't confidential what can you reveal about his reports?

day 1 twitch.tv/nickich

I came to EUW to bootcamp and hit challenger on jungle. Unfortunately I've been a target to some of the worst stream sniping/target banning/ghosting in league history. I've decided to transfer over my main account to give myself another chance at redemption and prove I have what it takes to hit challenger here. This run will have no excuses and whatever rank I place will be my skill level. However, I have no plans of leaving Europe until I've acquired challenger.

@ninkeygwen this is easily the funniest random check i’ve ever seen, he really has no clue who you are 😭😭😭

It turns out NattyNatt is TOO SCARED to accept the bet knowing I will hit rank 1. It's understandable, not a single "Rank 1 EUW" player has even broke low challenger on NA, he obviously knows I am coming from a better region than he did. The bet is still on the table for anyone who wants it, but either way I will be reaching Rank 1 KR.

@NickichOOC this is false and i will wait for it to be community noted.

🚨🎖| 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Nickich has flown to Tel Aviv, Israel on a religious and cultural trip. After struggling in Diamond EUW, he’s seeking a spiritual reset to regain strength and return even stronger. [@Sheep_Esports ] ✈️

@AloisNL as someone who’s negative win rate in diamond euw because of my team/stream snipers, my advice for you would be to focus on yourself and the mistakes you make within the games. It’ll help you improve quicker.

Day 4 of being adc main. Yesterday I had negative winrate in diamond elo but it was all because of noobs teams, i'm yet to really make any mistakes. I will skip shower & breakfast and play on black coffee + willpower to maximize gliding potential. Time for winnersQ

@Drututt us coming up in low masters against any serbian stream sniper duos

@MakkroLoL i made a comment about albania being better than serbia and there is a group of serbians who have put a bounty on me and threatening me if i step foot in masters or serbia.

Watching @nickich getting sniped by all of EUW is the funniest shit Ive seen HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA bro all the villager came out of the woodwork to snipe ban his nafiri HOW IS HE GETTING VIEWERS IN EVERY GAME AHHAHAHAHA. Good Job EUW Soldiers Keep the NA people out of Masta

@Drututt @KeshaEuw someone loses their ability to make income from their job and you decide to laugh and take the piss? you lost a fan today.

@Agurinlol nothing is ever good enough for your bum ass streamers. Win more than you lose and LP gains mean nothing 🤣

The fix in question is everyone just gets flat +/- 20 LP no matter their MMR LOL

THE NEW EZREAL PRODIGY IS HERE WTF SHOW EM NICKICHIUM🙀🙀🙀

@Azzapp_LoL they did, they clearly determined you're an inflated player. You got to abuse the system to new heights and now you face the consequences. You couldn't replicate anything even remotely similar on a new account.

It would appear that the gains may not have been fixed

Noticing...

@arnoldwh just filled this out, looks awesome. Very excited.

Apply today for a gaming careers bootcamp in Korea!

i speak on behalf of all of us in the apex tiers when i say it’s ok! We appreciate what you’re attempting to do for us and know that you’ll get it all sorted with due time. when you guys have some time, please investigate the games on my account. I’ve been getting ghosted/sniped by trolls for majority of my games on EUW.

Apologies to some of the Apex tier folks who've still been having bad gains over the weekend. (this shouldn't be affecting any other tiers) Wanted to acknowledge that this is a frustrating situation for y'all. While the number of people affected is low (<15% of apex players), we'll be looking to rectify the situation tomorrow and fingers crossed, that fix can keep things stable for the rest of the season. Thanks for your patience 🙏