Palco

no one plays this stupee garne champ no more bruh its not that bad i swear just go the conquistador rune with resolve.. also spellbook.. you have to fight like ur life depends on it and suddenly you gain housing.

@Veigar_v2 @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust BAHAHAHA I DID. MAYBE THATS WHY

@palcopaint @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust Did u swap to ghost cleanse on spellbook and got banned?

Hey guys! I am REALLY REALLY confused as to how I am banned for trying my best to win at league of legends! Your automatic system thinks I am trying to lose? Why should I even try to create content for your broken game? Despicable. @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust

@gromprider @VeryGayEzreal HOLY SHIEEEEESSHHHHHHH

@VeryGayEzreal passionate sex

@RiotPhroxzon Really well explained, I think we all appreciate this level of transparency. Honestly at this point, you are making great moves with the LP system and doing what you already mentioned to agree with is going to be good enough in my opinion.

Apex Ranked Followup Thank you for all your feedback about the changes last week. I wanted to give some explanations on what we're seeing and why it is how it is right now; I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind, but I hope being transparent will lead to more constructive conversations with everyone Feedback we heard 1. The ladder has less meaningful breakpoints to strive for, now that the LP gaps between Master, Grandmaster, Challenger and Rank1 are really wide in a few regions (NA, EUW, EUN mainly). The gaps between tiers can feel exhaustingly large with low feedback and satisfaction on the journey from say low masters to high masters 2. It also makes comparison to previous season benchmarks lose meaning (1k LP, 2k LP, etc.) 3. Many are calling for an Apex Ranked reset; I'd love to know more about exactly what you mean by this (more below) 4. The ladder already felt grindy, like you had to play a lot of games to get to the next tier, and now it feels even more so 5. The top players getting +30/-10 even if their MMR is high feels unfair if a new or lower account can't do that; there are feelings of “how can I catch that” 6. Depending on which patch someone played, with the same winrates, their LP outcomes can be quite different, which is frustrating On who is getting +30/-10 and who is +/-20 - There have been a lot of discussions around who is getting good gains and who is not - We agree it feels unfair right now for the top of the ladder to be getting +30 while others are getting +20; I just wanted to explain why this is - This is because the weeks many players spent eating +10/-30 from the soft cap is being repaid; essentially for every game that a player played a +10/-30LP game, they will get paid back with +30/-10LP ones and this will grow the top of the ladder (similar to how the max LP on the ladder grows early in the season) - Once the ladder stabilizes, 95+% of the ladder (including the top of the ladder and including masters entrants at the bottom) is intended to get +/-20 - This means the only way to climb the ladder is to have a >50% winrate - If you have a 50% winrate over a long period, then you’re probably in the right skill level and are not in a climbing state - I also want to state this very clearly as a response to folks saying they should roll a fresh account to fight the Challenger LP gains. There is no advantage to running a fresh account up the ladder to try and hit an Apex rank, it will always be better to start with a pre-existing Apex account - I know it didn’t work like this in Seasons past, but it does now (and has for the past season or two) and this is to further disincentivize smurfing, something many players on the ladder had mentioned as a pain point - The only way to climb from this state is to improve skill level - I can guarantee that a Challenger player will be able to climb just fine with +/-20 given enough games, because they will have a very high winrate through Master and Grandmaster, but this leads me to my next point On ladder grindiness - We hear your concerns on needing to play too many games to climb up the ladder - It is true that older accounts that played their accounts up to challenger will be advantaged in Season reset races with the way we currently do soft rank resets - We do this because we want to make camping spots less effective of a strategy, dissuade smurfing, and encourage people to play on their main accounts - If the legacy accounts are not advantaged, there is no blocker to just running many fresh accounts through the Ranked ladder to hit Challenger; I think most players would agree that would be a worse experience - Secondly, as soon as Challenger players run into negative LP gains, many will stop playing on their Challenger accounts and move to smurfing, which is bad for match quality and queue times as well - We believe the high LP values are a better alternative to negative LP gains, but they are both not ideal - Additionally, we have daily game requirements and cap the max LP gains at 30 so that players don't camp on their spots without playing so that others have more opportunities to overtake them - In a world where a new Masters account has a 75% winrate through the Apex ladder (ie. is probably a top 10 player), that is 300 games to get to 3000LP from 0LP - If you are starting from a legacy account, it will be significantly less games than this - We don't believe it should be possible to be able to get to Rank 1 from a fresh account in less than 2-300 games. That makes smurfing, running up multiple accounts and maintaining them too attractive of an option - For one of the premier competitive games, we don't believe it is too much to ask for a player to play 1-2 games a day (between 3-700 games a year for the highest skill players in the game). Genre expectations to reach the top in many other games (including other MOBA’s) can be orders of magnitude higher than this and often require full time grinding - On the flip side, we acknowledge that there's a sweet spot on how much a player needs to play to not perceive it as too grindy, many people have to study, have jobs, etc and so it needs to be achievable for them too - We want to balance all these considerations; reducing incentives to smurf, how grindy it feels to achieve/maintain a rank and how legacy accounts are treated On why the LP is so high - I saw a comment asking whether the gap between Iron and Master (2800LP) is really equivalent to the gap between Master and Rank1 Challenger (2, 3, 4000LP) - In some regions, the answer to that is yes, in others, it's not quite as large, but still close - Players have gotten significantly better each year, especially with how often the top players are boot camping, taking a shot at Pro and learning from it, and pushing each other to get better - This is one of the reasons why the LP gaps between tiers are so high and the existence of the soft caps in previous years ended up suppressing the observed top LP's by some amount, so the gap looked lower than it actually was - Factually, there is a huge gap in skill between Master and Grandmaster and again from Grandmaster to Challenger so amount of points between them has to be reasonably large - This is a very common pattern in long running games, for example in Chess, Magnus Carlsen vs any random Grandmaster has close to a 90% chance to win - As League goes on, the gap between Rank1 (say Showmaker) and Master 0 LP is going to continue to widen; there are so many things you can do to influence the team in small but meaningful ways that aren’t super noticeable individually but have a huge impact over the course of a game, like pinging, shotcalling, soaking pressure, getting vision, etc. - But there's a fine balance here, we can agree that progression between tiers can feel daunting in the current tuning and there is a lacking sense of progression. This is why we’re considering adding additional tiers to break this up and create more “checkpoints” On Matchmaking Quality - There are some expectations of being able to have full challenger lobbies, all duos balanced, all role parity (on-role vs off-role), low queue times, all equal LP, remove autofill at all times of day - I want to set an expectation that this is not possible with only 300 Challengers and 700 Grandmasters in many regions - Players need to be autofilled, especially at the top of the ladder for us to make queue times reasonable, but we can at least try to make those autofills balanced in role - If a game is unbalanced in one of the axes above, we try to balance it out in another axis, but we are sometimes going to have to grab some Masters players to fill Challengers lobbies (hopefully not during peak time) - Especially with the new role parity algorithm, we believe we are making very fair games (close to 50% chance to win) in >90% of situations, with close LP between teams, duo balance, role parity - We believe the new algorithm is already significantly better than the old one, even though there may be some rose tinted glasses about how much better Matchmaking was before, which we don't agree with. We are still improving it Why do Challengers get +30LP, even when there are 200 LP masters in the game - LP gains are given based on how fair the match is and mentioned above, over 90% of matches have 50% chance to win - The reason why the Challengers are getting +30 for these games is because of the repayment of debt in the points above; this will resolve itself soon and the players will quickly go back to +-20 - If the match itself is 50% chance for either team to win, then the performance of the various people in the game is already baked into the LP gains (ie. the 200 LP master is expected to play worse, the Challenger is expected to play better) - There will usually be something offsetting this LP imbalance (whether it’s an extra duo on one team, someone playing secondary instead of autofill, etc.) - As I mentioned above, we believe >90% of our games are fair; it can be hard to guarantee fairness in off-peak and/or in small regions Other things we're thinking about (nothing confirmed) - [Agree] Many players are calling for better feelings of progression and progress in these tiers - [Agree] Reductions of grindiness (eg. more decay game banks, increasing max LP gain past +30LP, lowering distance between tiers, adding new tiers) - [Agree] Better reasons to maintain and play on Challenger accounts, rather than Smurf - [Uncertain] Adding more Grandmaster/Challenger slots to regions that have high numbers of players (which would bring the points between tiers down) - [Uncertain] Reducing how much advantage players get on their legacy accounts from start of Season (eg. capping at +25LP at max, instead of +30LP), but this will also further incentivize smurfing and increase feelings of grindiness - [Agree] Lower the amount of resetting at start of Seasons (eg. maybe start the Season at Master 0LP) More on Apex resets - To get a better understanding of what y'all mean by ladder reset, some possibilities are detailed below, - Not committing to any particular action or if we would even do any of these, but we want to better understand your intent when some of you ask for a reset. We definitely are far out from talking about a “when” at this point - If we went forward with any of these we would only reset a few regions as the vast majority of regions have had a normal season - We will be doing some research in the affected regions to help inform a call one way or the other - We would only consider a reset if we are confident it would result in an improved overall experience Option 1: Hard Reset - Early matchmaking will be a cluster****. There would be no memory of previous season ranks in Matchmaking - This means you could have 5 exChallenger vs 5 Master peakers, and that would be considered a fair game in the system - Even if a player is Challenger, they might have a team of Masters and be unable to carry hard enough vs a pretty stacked team on the other side, making the climbing process feel very RNG - This matchmaking quality would go on for months as the ladder sorts itself out, which would contribute to a negative experience for a good amount of players - Early season this year was a bit of a taste of this as we did a bit of a harder reset, and matchmaking quality would be significantly worse than that. This would be the most extreme option - We still don't believe this is a good idea, but if y'all are still wanting to push for it given this context, then the team can continue to discuss it Option 2: Softer Resets - Soft Reset would keep some semblance of normalcy in matchmaking, but the best players will be rewarded for being high on the ladder with better position on the starting blocks so to speak. Previous challengers would get increased gains (+30/-10) well into their climbs - The softest option would be everyone keeping their relative positions in the ladder but would need to maintain their current winrate to prove they belong there and reach their previous LP value

@RiotAuberaun @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust Appreciate the fast response time. I'm sorry for being frustrated and writing my post that way, it just feels really bad to fall behind on the ranked climb.

@palcopaint @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust Hiya, thanks for flagging, found a bug here and reverted your penalties.

@augustus286 @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust When i run the games i played through my head, not a single instance like that sounds familiar to me, so it just blows my mind.

@palcopaint @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust Same shit happened to me I think that if you flash or tp for fun or just missclick it (like I did) Riot says "yes, you're trolling" I even sent a ticket and they said that I trolled... what game? What did I do? When? They don't tell me.

@caizheng777 @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust i play with chat off in the interface section. The only chat that is on is party chat and im soloq..

@palcopaint @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust Did u type anything bad bc i just went nuclear today and im fine

@SignDemon @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust dude it just makes even less sense to me when I swear I have one of the strongest mentals in this game. And my deaths are low, and i play for macro. Can you imagine how many other people could be getting dinged for more volatile playstyle?

@palcopaint @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust I got the same shit but for 7 days xD The automatic system is the biggest piece of garbage ever, even Riot support doesnt care and just gives their copy & paste answers saying they cant do anything about it 😂😂

@LolTritonGG @Elolesio_ @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust I have been gaming since I was 9 years old, I have never been false positive banned on anything ever. It's insane!

@palcopaint @Elolesio_ @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust well you see you need at least 11 cs a minute otherwise you're intentionally losing jokes aside that's crazy dude, I hope they undo that quickly

@mgutis1 @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust Tissue1 is the goat tho

@palcopaint @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin @RiotAugust most interactive anivia toplane gameplay

@Elolesio_ Riot is incredible!

Quote retweeting for visibility, please help my goat!

@Elolesio_ its the weirdest shit ever dude.. look at the cutoff increase in just this day.. like what a joke??

"Actual LP doesn't matter, its all about MMR and LP gains" The same LP gains that swing from +8 -40 to +50 -15 overnight?

welp riot has done it again. Is this normal?? New patch day in EUW @RiotPhroxzon

@NEACETWEETS and then all the big corporations have access to our identity then it gets leaked etc? no thanks! Just browse smarter.

I will be crucified for even having this thought, but: I feel with the prevalence of bots and AI generated content growing, social media platforms can no longer be ethical without requiring users to verify their identity. Thoughts?

@Elolesio_ there's nothing broken about the champion when the counterplay is just play better though like thats the thing. If you pick good champs and play well in lane, you literally have an advantage from the start, your rank isnt stopping you from doing that so its their fault not yours.

@palcopaint There are 3 Garen otps on the globe who play vs proplayers and 2 of them are you, so your perception is a bit skewed In lowmasta he is op :( Illaoi otp added me yesterday to insult me for abusing broken champ and I felt so sad about it I made a post cause it lowkey felt true :(

idk how can u have passion to play a champ when champ is op kills all the fun from playing

@RiotPhroxzon thank you so much for fixing the gains, respect for keeping up with it and handling people complaining

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

@emerphish @Elolesio_ @drewlevin @RiotPhroxzon I thought this was the case but actually no, they fixed it and now i get +19

@palcopaint @Elolesio_ @drewlevin @RiotPhroxzon Yes it was always going to be double LP but regular MMR. It mind controls people into being willing to try hard in their autofill games which is good for the game

@drewlevin @RiotPhroxzon this is my 2nd account this is happening now on EUW. After a double LP win on Palco Granko#split, I am +17 now. Is it supposed to be fake lp then from the double lp? What's the point of it even existing? It's happened on both accounts now and feels awful.

@RiotPhroxzon oh it got even worse

Just pushed a change to fix the LP gains in Masters+ for all regions. 95% of people should be fixed at this point. We've fixed the last 5% as best as possible, but they won't be able to be fully fixed. Sorry for the delay, please let us know if there are any further issues.