THE META REPORT NAME IS TOO LONG, TOO DAMN LONG (n°55)

Patch 3.5 - Week 2 - So the patch is both worthless and great? Pretty standard

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Data

Number of Master Players: 5045

Number of HighDiamond

HighDiamond are defined as “players who played against Master player in a Ranked games but are not Master themselves”

¹ Players: 7631

Number of (Ranked) Master matches analysed 108136 or 216272 games.

Number of (Ranked) ~HighDiamond matches analysed 199440 or 398880 games.

Last Update: 2022-04-27 19:45

• Games
• Account

Patch 3.5 - Week 2 - by the Numbers1
Characteristic3	Master2		~HighDiamond2
	N = 212,9924	N = 108,1364	N = 315,6524	N = 199,4404
Status
Ranked	108,136 (51%)		199,440 (63%)
Other	65,042 (31%)		61,140 (19%)
PathOfChampion	27,921 (13%)		39,457 (13%)
Friendly	11,893 (5.6%)		15,615 (4.9%)
Server
americas	86,350 (41%)	42,671 (39%)	127,172 (40%)	79,131 (40%)
apac	57,771 (27%)	27,988 (26%)	82,216 (26%)	50,237 (25%)
europe	68,871 (32%)	37,477 (35%)	106,264 (34%)	70,072 (35%)
1 Max datetime recovered: 2022-04-27 16:28:43 UTC from 2022-04-20 18:00:00 to 2022-04-27 18:00:00 UTC
2 EU Master 1642/1648 NA Master 1901/1906 APAC Master 1502/0
3 Metadata from Friendly Matches (that aren't Bo3) is not recoverable, the value may not be perfect since I lack the starting time of the game. The amount of Games to still scrap is also an estimation based on the 'position' of the game
4 n(%) took from the number of matches. When the data is analysed the size is double since we account each different player

	Shard/Server			Total
	Americas	Apac	Europe
Player Rank
Master	1,901 (15%)	1,502 (12%)	1,642 (13%)	5,045 (40%)
Diamond	2,921 (23%)	2,183 (17%)	2,527 (20%)	7,631 (60%)
Total	4,822 (38%)	3,685 (29%)	4,169 (33%)	12,676 (100%)

Regions

Play Rate

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The Gini Index is a measure of heterogeneity so, in this case and in simpler terms, how much the play rates are similar. The Index goes (when normalized like here) ∈[0,1] and it’s equal to 1 when there’s a single value with 100% play rate or 0 when all play rates are equal. Of course a Gini Index of 1 needs to be avoided but it’s not like the aim should be 0. As said, it’s just to add some additional tools.

Region Play Rate
Relative Frequencies by Inclusion Rate of a Region
Region	Freq	Shard
		America	Apac	Europe
Piltover	18.24%	19.25%	16.04%	18.74%
Shurima	17.05%	17.39%	17.45%	16.37%
Noxus	13.73%	13.11%	12.72%	15.19%
ShadowIsles	9.76%	9.46%	9.46%	10.32%
Bilgewater	9.03%	8.18%	10.15%	9.15%
BandleCity	8.27%	8.34%	9.32%	7.40%
MtTargon	7.14%	7.50%	8.51%	5.71%
Freljord	6.66%	6.35%	6.59%	7.06%
Demacia	5.91%	5.84%	6.04%	5.88%
Ionia	4.21%	4.57%	3.72%	4.17%
Patch 3.5 - Week 2 Ranked games from 2022-04-20 18:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-27 18:00:00 UTC Source: Metadata of games collected with RiotGames API Last Update: 2022-04-27 17:38:52.476092

Play Rate by number of Cards

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• Table

Region Play Rate
Relative Frequencies by number of times a Card within a Region is included in a Deck
Region	Freq	Shard
		America	Apac	Europe
Shurima	24.32%	25.01%	24.68%	23.27%
Piltover	17.66%	18.42%	15.64%	18.30%
Noxus	11.51%	10.72%	11.04%	12.75%
ShadowIsles	8.04%	8.00%	7.65%	8.39%
Bilgewater	7.71%	6.90%	9.00%	7.66%
BandleCity	7.24%	7.47%	7.70%	6.65%
MtTargon	6.93%	7.16%	7.99%	5.88%
Freljord	6.60%	6.02%	6.61%	7.26%
Demacia	6.05%	6.14%	6.10%	5.91%
Ionia	3.93%	4.16%	3.60%	3.92%
Patch 3.5 - Week 2 Ranked games from 2022-04-20 18:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-27 18:00:00 UTC Source: Metadata of games collected with RiotGames API Last Update: 2022-04-27 17:38:52.476092

Champions Combinations

Play Rates

• Plot
• from Master
• from ~HighDiamond

Champions

Play Rate

America

Apac

Europe

SunDisc

15.3%

16.1%

14.3%

15.0%

Pirates (BW,NX)

7.6%

6.5%

9.0%

7.9%

Tri-Beam (NX/PZ)

4.9%

3.6%

4.2%

6.9%

Sentinel Control

3.2%

3.7%

2.3%

3.3%

Riven/Viktor

2.9%

2.1%

2.7%

4.0%

Fizz/Lulu (BC/PZ)

2.7%

2.7%

3.0%

2.6%

Taliyah/Ziggs

2.7%

2.7%

3.2%

2.3%

Trundle/Tryndamere (FR/SI)

2.7%

2.1%

2.1%

3.9%

Miss Fortune/Quinn

2.6%

2.4%

2.8%

2.6%

Aphelios/Viktor

2.1%

1.5%

2.5%

2.3%

Viego (SI/SH)

2.0%

1.3%

3.1%

2.0%

Ekko/Zilean

1.8%

1.9%

1.7%

1.9%

Pantheon/Yuumi (DE/MT)

1.7%

1.6%

1.8%

1.6%

Aurelion Sol/Zoe (FR/MT)

1.4%

1.3%

2.0%

1.1%

Akshan/Sivir (DE/SH)

1.4%

1.1%

1.4%

1.7%

Azir/Irelia

1.2%

1.2%

1.1%

1.1%

Lee Sin/Viktor

1.2%

1.3%

0.8%

1.3%

Draven/Rumble (NX/PZ)

1.0%

1.3%

0.8%

0.8%

Pyke/Rek'Sai

1.0%

1.0%

1.3%

0.7%

Caitlyn/Teemo (BC/PZ)

0.9%

1.2%

0.6%

0.9%

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Data from Master Only. Source: Metadata of games collected with RiotGames API. Last Update: 2022-04-27 17:47:04.827758 FALSE

Champions

Play Rate

America

Apac

Europe

SunDisc

13.7%

14.0%

13.5%

13.6%

Pirates (BW,NX)

6.5%

6.2%

8.1%

5.7%

Tri-Beam (NX/PZ)

5.1%

3.7%

4.9%

6.9%

Riven/Viktor

3.7%

3.0%

3.8%

4.4%

Sentinel Control

3.2%

3.9%

1.9%

3.3%

Miss Fortune/Quinn

2.9%

2.7%

2.8%

3.1%

Taliyah/Ziggs

2.5%

2.6%

2.4%

2.5%

Trundle/Tryndamere (FR/SI)

2.0%

1.8%

1.6%

2.5%

Pantheon/Yuumi (DE/MT)

1.9%

2.0%

1.7%

2.1%

Fizz/Lulu (BC/PZ)

1.8%

1.6%

2.1%

1.9%

Aurelion Sol/Zoe (FR/MT)

1.7%

1.7%

2.1%

1.6%

Elise (NX/SI)

1.7%

1.4%

1.6%

2.2%

Azir/Irelia

1.7%

1.4%

2.4%

1.5%

Pyke/Rek'Sai

1.7%

1.6%

1.6%

1.8%

Ekko/Zilean

1.6%

1.6%

1.5%

1.8%

Aphelios/Viktor

1.6%

1.4%

1.4%

1.9%

Darius/Gnar (FR/NX)

1.5%

1.6%

0.8%

1.8%

Viego (SI/SH)

1.5%

1.3%

2.5%

0.9%

Caitlyn/Teemo (BC/PZ)

1.2%

1.1%

1.1%

1.3%

Lee Sin/Viktor

1.0%

1.2%

1.2%

0.7%

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Data from ~HighDiamond Only. Source: Metadata of games collected with RiotGames API Last Update: 2022-04-27 17:47:05.156917. FALSE

Day by Day

Highlighting the play-rates of most played [^at the moment of the last game] decks over time.

• Master
• HighDiamond

Win Rates

• Meta Decks
• Underdog

Win rates of the most played combination of champions. Play Rate ≥1% in at least one of the servers.

Champions

WinRate

#Win

#Games

Play Rate

Server

•SunDisc (3)

53.3%

17601

33001

15.3%

americas, apac, europe

•Pirates (BW,NX) (3)

55.5%

9186

16539

7.6%

americas, apac, europe

•Tri-Beam (NX/PZ) (3)

49.6%

5260

10612

4.9%

americas, apac, europe

•Sentinel Control (3)

53.1%

3684

6942

3.2%

americas, apac, europe

•Riven/Viktor (3)

53.0%

3342

6304

2.9%

americas, apac, europe

•Fizz/Lulu (BC/PZ) (3)

55.3%

3278

5931

2.7%

americas, apac, europe

•Taliyah/Ziggs (3)

50.8%

2972

5845

2.7%

americas, apac, europe

•Trundle/Tryndamere (FR/SI) (3)

52.6%

3076

5845

2.7%

americas, apac, europe

•Miss Fortune/Quinn (3)

55.8%

3091

5538

2.6%

americas, apac, europe

•Aphelios/Viktor (3)

51.5%

2301

4471

2.1%

americas, apac, europe

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Top Win rates of the top10 best performing least played combination of champions. Play rate ∈[0.1 [^Min number of games 50, during the times a meta/ladder just changed]

Champions

WinRate

#Win

#Games

Play Rate

LCI

UCI

CI

Fizz/Lulu/Rumble (BC/PZ)

57.3%

130

227

0.1%

0.505535948270177

0.637914837013742

(50.6% - 63.8%)

Heimerdinger/Lee Sin/Vi/Viktor

56.8%

242

426

0.2%

0.519527268595175

0.61567099609505

(52.0% - 61.6%)

Darius/Miss Fortune/Twisted Fate

56.3%

216

384

0.2%

0.511259786514004

0.612769417414854

(51.1% - 61.3%)

Elise/Ezreal/Kindred

55.6%

199

358

0.2%

0.502717858866974

0.608082438182155

(50.3% - 60.8%)

Renekton/Sejuani

55.3%

125

226

0.1%

0.485732500048857

0.619050956913167

(48.6% - 61.9%)

Lee Sin/Vi/Viktor

54.9%

496

904

0.4%

0.515566419781382

0.581460570072382

(51.6% - 58.1%)

Kindred Sentinel

54.9%

344

627

0.3%

0.508744174895209

0.588084407914464

(50.9% - 58.8%)

Caitlyn/Senna

54.8%

121

221

0.1%

0.479366399300822

0.614364537301547

(47.9% - 61.4%)

Gangplank/Miss Fortune/Twisted Fate (BC/BW)

54.3%

140

258

0.1%

0.479718342104384

0.604562270684421

(48.0% - 60.5%)

Jayce/Lux

53.9%

383

711

0.3%

0.501236491230228

0.575797171361098

(50.1% - 57.6%)

Match Ups

Regarding MU, this is not the most accurate estimation you can get from my data. If you want a better picture of the current meta it would be better to look at the dedicated MU-page where I use all “Ranked” games with the current sets of buffs and nerfs. While one may object I don’t account for optimizations and differences in skills acquired during the weeks, the overall number of games / sample size makes them a better source of information. So, in case, please refer to the MU - page for a better “meta-investigation”.

Match-up Grid

The win rates on the grid are among the 10 most played champion combination.

The upper value is from all the Masters players, the bottom one only from HighDiamond.

MU with less than 30 games are not included.

	SunDisc	Pirates (BW,NX)	Tri-Beam (NX/PZ)	Sentinel Control	Riven/Viktor	Fizz/Lulu (BC/PZ)	Taliyah/Ziggs	Trundle/Tryndamere (FR/SI)	Miss Fortune/Quinn	Aphelios/Viktor
SunDisc	NA	33.0% 32.9%	68.0% 65.0%	71.6% 68.8%	36.8% 38.4%	44.2% 44.0%	50.2% 45.9%	63.4% 61.3%	46.4% 43.6%	54.7% 56.9%
Pirates (BW,NX)	67.0% 67.1%	NA	49.9% 48.5%	33.8% 34.6%	54.4% 52.6%	42.0% 43.1%	68.1% 65.7%	33.7% 35.5%	35.6% 36.5%	41.6% 41.3%
Tri-Beam (NX/PZ)	32.0% 35.0%	50.1% 51.5%	NA	42.5% 38.0%	56.2% 57.9%	52.0% 53.2%	37.3% 32.0%	21.2% 19.6%	59.2% 58.4%	55.4% 61.2%
Sentinel Control	28.4% 31.2%	66.2% 65.4%	57.5% 62.0%	NA	65.7% 68.7%	55.7% 60.2%	38.9% 34.3%	37.2% 38.0%	64.6% 55.9%	63.6% 68.1%
Riven/Viktor	63.2% 61.6%	45.6% 47.4%	43.8% 42.1%	34.3% 31.3%	NA	41.0% 43.8%	59.9% 58.9%	56.0% 49.7%	43.2% 41.4%	45.6% 39.5%
Fizz/Lulu (BC/PZ)	55.8% 56.0%	58.0% 56.9%	48.0% 46.8%	44.3% 39.8%	59.0% 56.2%	NA	69.1% 58.0%	39.9% 40.5%	52.8% 53.0%	53.2% 55.8%
Taliyah/Ziggs	49.8% 54.1%	31.9% 34.3%	62.7% 68.0%	61.1% 65.7%	40.1% 41.1%	30.9% 42.0%	NA	58.3% 55.0%	47.7% 48.8%	59.6% 64.5%
Trundle/Tryndamere (FR/SI)	36.6% 38.7%	66.3% 64.5%	78.8% 80.4%	62.8% 62.0%	44.0% 50.3%	60.1% 59.5%	41.7% 45.0%	NA	44.2% 41.4%	45.7% 54.3%
Miss Fortune/Quinn	53.6% 56.4%	64.4% 63.5%	40.8% 41.6%	35.4% 44.1%	56.8% 58.6%	47.2% 47.0%	52.3% 51.2%	55.8% 58.6%	NA	54.1% 56.3%
Aphelios/Viktor	45.3% 43.1%	58.4% 58.7%	44.6% 38.8%	36.4% 31.9%	54.4% 60.5%	46.8% 44.2%	40.4% 35.5%	54.3% 45.7%	45.9% 43.7%	NA
MatchUp values from Ranked games with Master (upper) and ~HighDiamond (bottom) Ranked players. Decks and order of the Archetypes based on the playrate over the last 7 days. Source: Metadata of games collected with RiotGames API

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LoR-Meta Index (LMI)

Note: Games from Master Rank only

Tier0 with LMI ≥ 97.5 Tier1 with LMI ∈[85,97.5) Tier2 with LMI ∈[60,85) Tier3- with LMI < 60

The LMI

LMI - Early Theory

²

LMI - Adding a Ban Index

³ is an Index I developed to measure the performance of decks in the metagame. For those who are familiar with basic statistical concept I wrote a document to explain the theory behind it: , it’s very similar to vicioussyndicate (vS) Meta Score from their data reaper report. The score of each deck is not just their “strength”, it takes in consideration both play rates and win rates that’s why I prefer to say it measure the “performance”. The values range from 0 to 100 and the higher the value, the higher is the performance.

Win Marathons Leaders

Top3 Players (or more in case of ties) from each server that had the highest amount of consecutive wins with the same archetype. The provided deckcode is the one played in the last win found.

Top3 Biggest Win Streak by Server
Cumulative wins with the same Archetype
Player	Result	Archetype	Deck Code
Americas
Swizzbeatz	14	Akshan/Renekton (BC/SH)	CQBAGBIKSEA2MANRAEDQIBZGGY3UGXLHQIAQEAIFBIYQGBAHHNWYUAIBAICAODJN
wirxod	14	SunDisc	CQBAEBIHBMHAMBAHAMOCKJTGNUBQCBIKYAAQCBIHA4CQIBYNGZEEYWIBAICAOOZ6
Kevor24	13	SunDisc	CQBACBIHBYDAIBYDDQSSMNTNAMAQKCWAAEBAKBYHBMDAIBYNDI5UQTDZAEAQIBZ6
Leopoldo III	13	Draven/Viktor	CECQCBIECQBACAYCCQBACBBHGQBAKAYJBUBQGBADAUJAIAIBAMXQCAYDB4AQIBAQAIAQIAJNAA
Sotso	13	Tri-Beam (NX/PZ)	CEDACAIDFYAQEAYJAEBQGDIBAMCBCAYBAQPSINAEAUCAMDANDABACAIEDMBACAZTG4AQCBADAI
Apac
BLCK Daddyyy	16	Pirates (BW,NX)	CICACBIGAEBAEAYDAQBQCAYCBQUAGAQGCYTDYAQBAIDBUAQBAMHSKAYBAEBS4AICAMCQKAQGD4QC2OR6
Torra	16	Pirates (BW,NX)	CICACBIGAEBAEAYDAQBQEBQWDI6AIAIDAIGA6KACAEAQGJICAIDB6JQDAEAQGLQBAMDAMAQCAYWT4
TG Arussel	15	Pirates (BW,NX)	CICACBIGAEBAEAYDAQBQEBQWDI6AKAIDAIGA6JJIAIAQEBRGAEBQMBQDAEAQGLQBAIDD4AIEAMBQ
Europe
Arcayle	15	Galio/Kindred	CEDACAYABYAQIAAFAECAKBICAEAAWGQCAUAASDADAECSQLBRAMAQCBJLAEBAAAICAEAAMDYCAEBQKBABAQCRA
Faylen	15	Miss Fortune/Quinn	CIDACAYABYBAEBQWHYBAEAACAYBAIAACA4BAKAAKBQBQCAAJDUZQCAICAADQEAIBAADACAQABI
Ti Setts	14	SunDisc	CMBAEBIHBMHAOBAHAMGRYJJGGZWQEAIFA4DQIBAHHNEEY6IBAMCAOGR6MY
Games from all Master are collected each hour adding up to the last 20 matches. Unlikely but possible to miss games in case of high frequency games. Metadata of games collected with RiotGames API

Cards Presence

• Play Rate
• Top 3 Play Rates by Region
• Forgotten Cards

 

 

Cards that couldn’t find place even in a meme deck.

IO

DE

NX

BC

Sown Seeds

Loyal Badgerbear

Wrathful Rider

Wizened Wizard

Yusari

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Not-Standard Archetype Names

Names and rules for the “non standard archetypes” which are not defined by Champion+Regions

Archetype ~Fix
Deck	Source
ASZ - Sivir Ionia	Akshan/Sivir (IO/SH) or Sivir/Zed or Akshan/Sivir/Zed
BandleTree	3 copies of BandleTree
Dragons (DE/MT)	(DE/MT) Decks with *at least* Shyvana and ASol
Marauder	(NX/FR) Two to Three copies of Both Legion Marauder and Strength in Numbers
Mistwraith Allegiance	Three copies of both Mistwraith and Wraithcaller
Pirates (BW/NX)	BW/NX deck with any combination of Miss Fortune, Twisted Fate, Gangplank
RubinBait - <Champ>	Burn Deck using <Champ> to bait mulligan
Sentinel Control	PnZ/SI deck any combination of Elise/Jayce/Vi
Kindred Control	PnZ/SI deck any combination of Elise/Jayce/Vi AND Kindred
SunDisc	Mono Shurima with 1+ Sun Disc - without Rek'Sai
Tri-Beam (NX/PZ)	(NX/PZ) deck with at least 2 copies of Tri-Beam
Viktor - Shellfolk	Viktor + at least one of Curious Shellfolk/Mirror Mage + at least 2 Trinket Trade

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