How much placebo do you think affects league?
Whether it be small patches, build usage or play rate do you ever just think that people play better or worse because of confidence or fear in a champ or build they use or face? A shower thought I've had
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There was that time that Vladimir had a nerf stated in the patchnotes that never got implemented. His winrate dropped like six percent, even though he was still the same as he was before.
Maybe this is only in silver, but the idea that since you’re ganking someone, that means you’re able to 1 v 1 them no problem, I’m trying to fight a fiora with base kayn lvl 3, stop csing and turn around pls
There are many so called "Sleepers", champs that are pretty strong but no one plays them until a pro pick them and everyone follows. Me as Voli otp think he is pretty good maybe not op but WAY better than his pickrate.
I bet at least 50% of picks and builds are just copy-paste. People just look up winrate and then play that champ or item.
Look at the acient asian boardgame "Go". They improved their tactics for hundreds of years and in the end everyone plays the same style because they thought it's the best way. And then Google's AI showed them there is more.
I bet if a perfect AI would play LoL we would see a totally different game. With "offmeta" champs and items no one picked and tactics no one imagined. Because we all play the way we know and learned the game.
Ask yourself: when was the last time you tried something different and I don't mean just change one rune. I mean change complete runetree or play with totally different items. Maybe Ohmwrecker is imba with the right tactics... who knows xD
Sry 4 bad english
Very little. People tend to not read patch notes and the only time those small changes have a large effect are when item build paths change and people are stuck with components they can't use.
Whether it be small patches, build usage or play rate do you ever just think that people play better or worse because of confidence or fear in a champ or build they use or face? A shower thought I've had
honestly, ironically enough the champion i got my first S+ with and my first pentakill with since coming back is actually one i didnt even own and i told my team not to expect much from me if anything at all.
then i just randomly pop 48-11-31 and then later 20-9 with a penta for the win
i think part of it is what people lane against, like it doesnt matter what i play i fail to kill jax his stun gets me every time or i dont harass him enough because he never comes within range of my abilities, even trying to flash spot him is a bit of a pain and it burns my escape if a gank arises.
a bad jax is easy, but im talking about jaxs that are clearly at the very least plat - you might not think thats good but theyve put more time into this champion than ive put into my entire account.
what im getting at is i think part of it is more so knowledge, knowing how to counter what and when, when to be passive when to be aggressive which attacking and falling back are two things people fail at A LOT.
for example i was running vayne and missfortune told me if i hadnt ran we could of killed everyone - before i ran i had 120 health left so a fraction of a hit from death, warwick was coming up to gank us from jungle and below us, the other two were turret hugging.
i read the situation because of a random ward the mid laner dropped and i saw warwick coming to us, i was already so low a minion could probably hit me and kill me so i vaulted off and miss fortune died by the time i got back to our own turret which was like idk, 5 seconds? and WW was chasing me within that time to, just glad his leap was on CD :>
my point being how people think doesn't drastically affect gameplay but it might change it a little even the mood their in may affect it, i know when im just dicking around i actually do better than when im tilted and trying
Edit: the game modes i got the kills in i didnt even realize i had that many kills, i was just going through the motions and kinda blindly looking with my eyes open, basically just muscle memory and reaction timing from when i played blade and soul