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Advanced mathematical Analysis

CrazedPorcupine·1/26/2015, 10:24:08 PM·1 votes·341 views

As a college student majoring in Mathematics, I'm quite interested in finding ways to apply mathematics to the things I enjoy. I've turned to League of Legends as my big project. What I plan on doing is creating a formula that takes into account several different factors such as CC/Mobility/Base Stats/Difficulty to Play/Damage/Class and other factors. All this is to see if there's actually "Power Creep" in the game.

My quest will start with the oldest champs first, and work my way up to the present day. I will actually take into account reworks and relaunches listing each one as a "new" champion at the relevant points in time.

I'm going to avoid using win rate as a factor since that is very rarely an indicator of how strong that champion is. Simply because the perceived power of a champion will lead to inflated pick/ban rates and new players trying out the champion and failing, causing the champion's win rate to suffer. As such, mathematically, win rate is not an acceptable factor, however pick/ban rate are quite powerful and useful.

This will take me the course of probably several months to complete, but I'll try to provide updates from time to time.

Now, are there any factors that you guys can think of that I haven't listed that would be applicable to my formulas?

8 Comments

Sozan51/26/2015, 11:05:33 PM2 votes

Champion resource.

Jubbinaut1/27/2015, 12:28:38 AM1 votes

Available tools?

That's probably a poor term for it. What I'm referring to is multi-use abilities (Lee Sin or any of the transforming Champions, as obvious examples).

Or even just abilities where more is happening than comparable abilities on comparable Champions (For example, compare Ashe and Jinx's Q - both toggles, but whereas Ashe toggles between "just like everyone else" and "added effect," Jinx toggles between "added effect" and "added effect").

Angry Monster1/27/2015, 12:32:48 AM1 votes

LOL you are going at this backwards. You have to compare all the changes from season 1 till now.

I can already tell you that we are anit power creep at this moment. We constantly nerf champions till other rise to the top. Point and case Poppy and ireilla. They were nerfed heavily back in season 2 to be made non viable. Game changes and balance changes have consistently nerfed the game to the point where Irlliea without buffs came back being strong.

your wasting your time unless its for a grade.