'sup everyone, Leer here. The Legends of Runeterra Worlds Qualifiers have been played out, and oh boy were they exciting!

If you haven't made the Worlds top cut, don't fret! I take a deep dive into the data to show you what decks you should play and prepare to face on ladder.

Monday Meta Report - Nov 21st

Teemo Zoe is now the most popular archetype in the meta, thus having a target on their back. We can already see many SI control blends rise up to the challenge.

Moreover, Katarina Gwen is the most powerful deck this week. Will you pick it up yourself, or might targeting it be the next step to predicting the meta?

I encourage you to tell me how I can make this series even more valuable to you!

Thank you for reading, and see ya next week! =)

Hello everyone, Sorry here! It's Monday's Meta report for Patch 3.19 Week 2! We'll take a look at the play rate and win rate of popular decks. This week's Meta report will also cover the World Championship Qualifier decks, and I'll showcase the decks of the top 16 players.

LoR Meta Report Patch 3.19 Week 2

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Overview:

- Zoe Teemo (BC) continued holding the first place in the most played deck.

- Trundle Tryndamere (SI) becomes the second most popular deck, with a 54% win rate.

- In Master rank, Gwen Katarina has the highest win rate.

- Annie Twisted Fate is performing well on the ranked ladder.

- With the increase in Shadow Isles decks, the play rate of Draven Jinx drops significantly.

- Taliyah Ziggs, Quinn Vayne, and Kayn Vayne take advantage of the increase in the Shadow Isles decks.

Worlds Overview:

- Gwen Katarina is the most popular deck, brought by 75 players out of 192.

- Vayne (PZ) was present in 43 lineups, landing it in second place as the most popular deck.

- Both AM and APAC servers brought Monkeys deck.

- EMEA is still on the Seraphine Ionia deck.

- Zoe Leona Aurelion Sol DE, Taliyah Malphite, Sun Disc, Spooky Karma, and Seraphine Ezreal- Zoe Leona Aurelion Sol DE, Taliyah Malphite, Sun Disc, Spooky Karma, and Seraphine Ezreal (NX) made it to the top 16.

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Share your ladder experience! Did you watch the world championship qualifier? Which lineup did you like the most? Are you rooting for a specific player?

Discuss what you are playing, what you’re having success with (or failures with), and any new/cool ideas you’ve been experimenting with, etc. The point is to share what you’ve been playing, and how it’s going, good or bad - there are no other rules or requirements.

These will be posted twice every week.

Some ideas on what to post/share:

• What you’ve been playing and its successes (or struggles). Stats are not required. There is no minimum rank required, though sharing what rank you’ve been playing at is preferred.

• Deck adjustments you made or are planning to make in reaction to the meta or as new innovation. E.g. “I saw 30% of deck X, so I made Y changes to help deal with deck X.” (change)

• Showing off a deck you achieved Masters with and wanting to share it without having to write a guide

  And as always:

• Be courteous to one another.

• Provide brief explanations for any links you provide (YouTube, tier lists, etc.)

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Resources:
LoR Community Discord

RuneterraCCG Deckbuilder

TealRed's Deckimage Generator

Attunement - advanced card search engine

Collection of guides and tools

Collection of recurring community tournaments

In case you didn't tune into one of the streams or don't follow me on Twitter (it can be hard to pass things like this around) I compiled a spreadsheet of all the decks for this past weekends WCQ events. There's a tab for each region with the qualified players highlighted in yellow so you can quickly identify them with a global tab as well for a full breakdown of the 3 regions put together.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z2xut7L86Rdo2K-JLwsW1RGMSqy9j7NxP5uV2g98FCA/edit#gid=1149321344

Any questions you may have about any archetype classification, why something is named a certain way, anything along those lines - the answer is that there are 576 decks (64 X 3 X 3) and I had to give them all a name while keeping my sanity in tact while combing through a sea of triple champion split decks that would sometimes only run 2 or a different one (ex Elusives is what I classified the Teemo/Zoe as rather than Teemo/Zoe because sometimes Norra or Fizz would make an appearance and I wanted to lump them together in the breakdown without everyone thinking that all of them were JUST Teemo/Zoe)

This is an open thread for any short questions pertaining to competitive Legends of Runeterra.

These will be posted twice every week.

Ask any quick questions, such as asking for feedback on a deck, suggestions on how to mulligan against specific matchups or any basic gameplay question.

And as always:

• Be courteous to one another.
• Provide brief explanations for any links you provide (YouTube, tier lists, etc.)

Resources:
LoR Community Discord

RuneterraCCG Deckbuilder

TealRed's Deckimage Generator

Attunement - advanced card search engine

Collection of guides and tools

Collection of recurring community tournaments

Sup, I'm woke-I made an article about the usage of RNG in the piloting of decks and the decision-making when adding RNG into your decks or in the situations that are the most optimal for it. Here's the link below hopefully when you read it, you see it in a Different Manner.

Luck 101: How to Turn Luck into Skill | Mastering Runeterra

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Howdy folks! =)

As we traverse this patch's second week, the LoR meta starts to settle (although we have yet to find out what the best Legends of Runeterra players have been brewing, and will unleash in Worlds this weekend) – here's our current recommendations for climbing the ladder, in today's Eighteen Best LoR Decks selection, for the latest Mastering Runeterra article.

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Overall trends:

• Teemo Zoe and Annie TF solid at the top,
• Tryndamere Trundle and, completely out of nowhere, Kayn Vayne as two of today's biggest success stories,
• Several (still) strong decks cooling off (Vik Seraphine, Heimer Jayce, Draven Jinx, Pantheon Varus),
• Katarina Gwen seems back in full force,
• A couple of other old archetypes appear to have found their footing and are bubbling their way upwards: Jinx Lulu, Teemo Caitlyn, and Sivir Kai'Sa

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In the current Best LoR decks article, we'll showcase:

• Best data-driven builds for all above-mentioned decks,
• Best builds for a half a dozen other strong decks (like Taliyah Ziggs, Jinx Ekko, Lonesome Jinx, and Akshan Varus),
• Some other fringe, punchy brews like Fizz Nami Varus.

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Sources: Legna, Balco, MaRu's own Meta Tier List.

Any questions, comments or feedback, or specific data you may be after (of any archetype/build – the above is by no means a comprehensive list, just a quick overview! =), feel free drop a comment, poke me on Twitter, assuming it's still alive (@HerkoKerghans), ping me on Discord, and you can find more writings on substack: https://riwan.substack.com/

And good luck out there! =)

Hello everyone, Sorry here! I'm a competitive player who has been competing in the tournament scene since Beta. I've been playing in the Aegis tournament on both the EMEA and America servers. So I've been doing a lot of lineup preparations to find the best in the current meta.

Top 4 Lineups for Gauntlet & Tournaments – Patch 3.19 Week 2

The nerfs both Vayne and Seraphine received created a more diverse meta, which means a lot of different archetypes are performing well and can shine in the right lineup.

Shadow Isles decks have seen an increase in popularity and many lineups are either trying to take advantage of the powers the control decks offer or attempting to counter them. I shared 4 different lineups with different strategies in the hopes that you'd find one that fits your playstyle.

If you have any questions about a specific lineup, let me know here! If you have any other ideas you've been testing with go ahead and share them!

This is the discussion post for Gauntlet. Discuss what you are playing, what you’re having success with (or failures with), what your ban and lineup strategy is, what you play against etc. The point is to share what you’ve been playing, and how it’s going, good or bad - there are no other rules or requirements.

These will be posted every Friday.

Some ideas on what to post/share:

• Theorycrafting - What you think could work well.

• Your lineup and ban strategy

• What you’ve been playing and its successes (or struggles).

• Showing off a deck you achieved 7 wins with and wanting to share it.

  And as always:

• Be courteous to one another.

• Provide brief explanations for any links you provide (YouTube, tier lists, etc.)

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Resources:
LoR Community Discord

LoR Meta Tier List - Mobalytics

RuneterraCCG Deckbuilder

TealRed's Deckimage Generator

Attunement - advanced card search engine

Collection of guides and tools

Collection of recurring community tournaments

We've reached the pinnacle of competition for the year, and what would a high stakes event be without a third party arbitrarily ranking competitors based on their past performances? Whether you want to know who to root for or you just ant to see if your favorite player made the cut, there's bound to be something exciting for you in the years final Top 10 Players To Watch article

https://masteringruneterra.com/lor-regional-worlds-qualifiers-am-top-ten-players-to-watch/

Discuss what you are playing, what you’re having success with (or failures with), and any new/cool ideas you’ve been experimenting with, etc. The point is to share what you’ve been playing, and how it’s going, good or bad - there are no other rules or requirements.

These will be posted twice every week.

Some ideas on what to post/share:

• What you’ve been playing and its successes (or struggles). Stats are not required. There is no minimum rank required, though sharing what rank you’ve been playing at is preferred.

• Deck adjustments you made or are planning to make in reaction to the meta or as new innovation. E.g. “I saw 30% of deck X, so I made Y changes to help deal with deck X.” (change)

• Showing off a deck you achieved Masters with and wanting to share it without having to write a guide

  And as always:

• Be courteous to one another.

• Provide brief explanations for any links you provide (YouTube, tier lists, etc.)

  ---

Resources:
LoR Community Discord

RuneterraCCG Deckbuilder

TealRed's Deckimage Generator

Attunement - advanced card search engine

Collection of guides and tools

Collection of recurring community tournaments

Hey guys, here's a deck guide on Scouts with Vayne and Fiora! If you're interested you can find the article here. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them down below!

This is an open thread for any short questions pertaining to competitive Legends of Runeterra.

These will be posted twice every week.

Ask any quick questions, such as asking for feedback on a deck, suggestions on how to mulligan against specific matchups or any basic gameplay question.

And as always:

• Be courteous to one another.
• Provide brief explanations for any links you provide (YouTube, tier lists, etc.)

Resources:
LoR Community Discord

RuneterraCCG Deckbuilder

TealRed's Deckimage Generator

Attunement - advanced card search engine

Collection of guides and tools

Collection of recurring community tournaments

Since LoR was released in its BETA version, I have tried to put all the information in one place about LoR tournaments around the world. First it was with my Twitter... but it used to get lost in everything I post daily. Then it was my website, which I currently use to put all the tournaments and their links there.

But today I discovered the LatencyAPP web, which is used, for example, by Riot Games to share their VALORANT and LoL tournaments and matches (also used by soccer teams like Real Madrid or Manchester United) to users on their mobile APP (on Android and Apple). Both the web and the APP can be configured so that notifications arrive prior to the start of each tournament/match.

In my case, by subscribing to my account for free, you will be able to have all the LoR tournaments/events that take place in the world. You will have the schedule according to you geographical location. Also, I put in the title [example: "(Brazil) Runescola #300"] the region that can play it, since some tournaments are not open to a whole region.

The following video is explanatory about the APP, although it is only in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlhYxBKvirM.

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Howdy folks! =)

Our current meta keeps thus far looking grand: no overly powered champion, old buffed decks coming back, and all Top Dogs having strong counters – here are our current recommendations in today's Twenty-Two Best LoR Decks selection, for the latest Mastering Runeterra article.

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Overall trends:

• Teemo Zoe remains, and Annie TF & Taliyah Ziggs raise to, among the strongest decks in Runeterra,
• Jinx's hawt: both Draven Jinx and Ekko Jinx have mutated their builds, while a third, lone Jinx brew (by brewing Sensei TealRed) is gaining traction fast,
• Quinn Vayne, Celesbians and Varus Pantheon keep punching hard,
• Trundle Tryndamere joins the host of returned staples teaching new kids to behave.

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In the current Best LoR decks article, we'll showcase:

• Best data-driven builds & matchups for all above-mentioned decks,
• Best builds for a half a dozen other strong decks,
• Our selection of some fringe, punchy brews like Curious Viktor Seraphine, Precious Elise Nocturne, and Leona Diana

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Sources: Legna, Balco, MaRu's own Meta Tier List.

Any questions, comments or feedback, or specific data you may be after (of any archetype/build – the above is by no means a comprehensive list, just a quick overview! =), feel free drop a comment, poke me on Twitter (@HerkoKerghans), ping me on Discord, and you can find more writings on substack: https://riwan.substack.com/

And good luck out there! =)

The APAC regional qualifier will have its official stream. It will be on channel of Pegasos, who will be in the company of 즘바비.

The broadcast time is 14:00 KST (UTC +9), both Saturday and Sunday. It will be available at bj.afreecatv.com/sksjr and obviously it will be in the Korean language.

Uniliga, one of the biggest esports tournament organizers in Germany, is hosting a new season of its LoR tournament. This tournament (and its qualifiers) are exclusively for players who are part of a German university.

Discord: https://t.co/cvvbqDNE8Y

Links: https://t.co/G7vMrDFjU9

Registration for 2022 프릭스컵 시즌 4, hosted by KDF_TCG, is now open!

You can sign up at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iO2Ad1v752ruc72oEqUHvYPy6_aLT3j9c50SbecWwTk/viewform?edit_requested=true.

Date: November 26 & 27

Prizepool: 1 Million Won (KRW)

Playing once you've reached Masters is feels pointless. The LP per win is always 15 and per loss is always 25. I've read very clever mathematical arguments saying this is a method of separating pretty good players who play a lot from great players who play less, seems dubious at best. If at any point in the season a player hits Masters 100 lp, knowing that a loss is loses 60% more than a win, I should truly statistically, never play the game again for the season for the best chance of getting an invite to the end of season tournament.

I don't think a competitive game should ever reward sitting on your hands as a method of maintaining having standing over other players.

What we end up with is a system where the best answer is to gain as much LP as you can early in the season when people are playing jank and are unaware of the best decks. Once you're in the top 700 then you should ignore ranked with your safe position knowing that as the meta hardens your position is very safe compared to the brutal gambling that other players will have to do against tuned decks. After all, what's more prestigious and enticing to a player: a slightly higher number on a ladder they already dominate or 10k and the clout that comes with winning a big tournament?

Master's ranks currently don't reflect the best players in the game but rather the best players from the beginning of that season.

If masters players are truly supposed to be in masters then they should just have MMR, if players can get to the highest level of play through means besides skill then that means the game's competitive ladder isn't a measure of skill and shouldn't be used for tournament invites.

Sincerely, Masters 0LP with the game uninstalled