THE META REPORT NAME IS TOO LONG, TOO DAMN LONG (n°14)
by Legna
2021/07/17
Data
Sample population: Ranked games / Patch 2.11 / Master players
Number of games: 12949 1 (check the footnote for additional information)
1 Regions
1.1 Play Rate
1.1.1 Plot
1.1.2 Table
| Region | Play Rate | America | Asia | Europe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilgewater | 20.53% | 19.8% | 26.2% | 19.0% |
| Demacia | 3.81% | 4.9% | 2.2% | 3.2% |
| Freljord | 7.57% | 6.7% | 6.1% | 9.1% |
| Ionia | 8.96% | 11.8% | 5.8% | 7.0% |
| MtTargon | 4.8% | 5.8% | 3.6% | 4.2% |
| Noxus | 12.91% | 10.5% | 13.0% | 15.7% |
| PnZ | 12.32% | 12.6% | 11.2% | 12.5% |
| ShadowIsles | 5.37% | 5.3% | 6.3% | 5.0% |
| Shurima | 23.74% | 22.5% | 25.7% | 24.3% |
1.2 Play Rate by number of Cards
1.2.1 Plot
1.2.2 Table
| Region | Play Rate | America | Asia | Europe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilgewater | 18.26% | 17.33% | 23.81% | 17.01% |
| Demacia | 4.6% | 6.03% | 2.65% | 3.79% |
| Freljord | 8.58% | 7.76% | 6.52% | 10.37% |
| Ionia | 9.58% | 13.23% | 5.89% | 6.96% |
| MtTargon | 4.79% | 5.72% | 3.95% | 4.09% |
| Noxus | 12.01% | 9.91% | 12.30% | 14.30% |
| PnZ | 11.98% | 11.17% | 11.46% | 13.11% |
| ShadowIsles | 5.22% | 5.20% | 6.20% | 4.84% |
| Shurima | 24.97% | 23.65% | 27.22% | 25.53% |
2 Champions Combinations
2.1 Play Rates
In this section I provide the play rate of which combinations of champions (plus the regions) are used in a deck. The champions showed right before a game starts for example. Right now it’s a simple approximation of the archetypes played in the ladder as such information is not restrictive enough.
2.1.1 Plot
2.1.2 Table
2.2 Day by Day
The plot is no more interactive, it was fine but probably useless. It still highlist (propably better) the top5 most played decks (at the moment of the last game played) and aside for reporting the values for each day the curves are relative for each game that was included.
2.3 Win Rates
Tie games are excluded
Win rates of the most played combination of champions, against all decks, this week. This time I left all cases with more than 1000 games
2.4 Underdog(?) Win Rates
Top Win rates of the least played combination of champions. Min 100 games (from 300 usually) and a play rate of less than 2% play rate
3 Match Ups
3.1 Match-up
The win rates on the grid are among the 10 most played champion combination. Match-ups with less than 300 games are not included
While this is one of the most interesting data for many the results are still heavily affected by the small sample size. They may be the 10 most played combination of champions but it’s still a 100 cell grid. Also, while my approximation for archetypes usually works, this weeks more than usual, two decks are not well reported: Dragons and Azir/Noxus. In these two cases the inclusion of J4 / Garen / Zoe and Draven / Darius create different values for in the end it’s the same deck with just a couple of different card. I already have an idea and part of the code how to solve this but will use it for next week. I could use Dr.LoR approach with bayesian statistics but I want to be consistent with my metholody in order to have a better comparison for my results. Of course I can still make changes in the future if the quality vastly improve with them.
3.2 Match-up Table
Filtered cases with less than 30 games
3.3 Match-up Table v2
Just a different way to print the table of the MU grid, more an experimentation
MatchUps | Pyke / Rek'Sai | Gangplank / Miss Fortune (BW/NX) | Draven / Ezreal | Lissandra / Taliyah | Ekko / Zilean | LeBlanc / Sivir | Ezreal / Karma | Draven / Jinx | Lee Sin / Zoe | Azir / Irelia |
Pyke / Rek'Sai | 32% | 29% | 59% | 61% | 25% | 53% | 76% | 81% | 51% | |
Gangplank / Miss Fortune (BW/NX) | 68% | 71% | 53% | 57% | 50% | 57% | 38% | 66% | 57% | |
Draven / Ezreal | 71% | 29% | 42% | 8% | 64% | 38% | 40% | 52% | 59% | |
Lissandra / Taliyah | 41% | 47% | 58% | 39% | 55% | 47% | 23% | 24% | 39% | |
Ekko / Zilean | 39% | 43% | 92% | 61% | 62% | 27% | 60% | 38% | 50% | |
LeBlanc / Sivir | 75% | 50% | 36% | 45% | 38% | 46% | 45% | 60% | 54% | |
Ezreal / Karma | 47% | 43% | 62% | 53% | 73% | 54% | 50% | 58% | 45% | |
Draven / Jinx | 24% | 62% | 60% | 77% | 40% | 55% | 50% | 62% | 39% | |
Lee Sin / Zoe | 19% | 34% | 48% | 76% | 62% | 40% | 42% | 38% | 40% | |
Azir / Irelia | 49% | 43% | 41% | 61% | 50% | 46% | 55% | 61% | 60% |
4 Deck Structure of the week
Since I was late for the report, let’s at least show the deck of the moment: Zed/Sivir from Rubin Zoo. With Vi/Zoe he created what is now a staple deck (mostly for the competitive scene than the ladder)
4.1 Sivir / Zed
How to read the table:
- Play rate: How often a card is included in this class of decks / the table is order by this column.
- 3/2/1 is the relative and absolute frequency of the number of copies in the decks that plays them
- Frequencies from 50% to 100% are colored from shades of green to white to identify more easily the highest values
5 LoR-Meta Index (LMI)
The LMI 2 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.
6 Cards Presence
6.1 Play Rates
6.2 Top 3 Play Rates by Region
6.3 Forgotten Cards
Cards that couldn’t find place even in a meme deck.
| Region | Bilgewater | Demacia | Freljord | Ionia | MtTargon | Noxus | PnZ | Shurima | ShadowIsles |
| 1 | Bubble Bear | Plucky Poro | Scarthane Steffen | Keeper of Masks | Sneaky Zeebles | Legion Veteran | Academy Prodigy | Unworthy | Scribe of Sorrows |
| 2 | Sheriff Lariette Rose | Vanguard Lookout | Shatter | Nimble Poro | Grandfather Rumul | Trifarian Shieldbreaker | Shady Character | Shifting Sands | Sinister Poro |
| 3 | Golden Narwhal | Reinforcements | Feral Mystic | Scaled Snapper | Crystal Ibex | Crimson Aristocrat | Mushroom Cloud | Arise! | Tortured Prodigy |
| 4 | Pocket Aces | En Garde | Uzgar the Ancient | Zephyr Sage | Inviolus Vox | Savage Reckoner | Back Alley Barkeep | Rite of Dominance | Stirred Spirits |
| 5 | Strong-arm | For Demacia! | Ritual of Renewal | Resplendent Stellacorn | Crimson Awakener | Golden Crushbot | Sanctum Conservator | Sap Magic | |
| 6 | Bayou Brunch | Vanguard Cavalry | Cloud Drinker | Wish | Guile | Eminent Benefactor | Chronoshift | Duskrider | |
| 7 | Sunk Cost | Captain Arrika | Emerald Awakener | Shards of the Mountain | Apprehend | Unstable Voltician | Waking Sands | The Etherfiend | |
| 8 | Wise Fry | Dragonguard Lookout | Vanguard’s Edge | Whiteflame Protector | Wrathful Rider | Amateur Aeronaut | Sandstone Chimera | ||
| 9 | Stalking Broodmother | Coastal Defender | Fledgling Stellacorn | Caustic Cask | |||||
| 10 | Kadregrin the Infernal | Paddle Star | |||||||
| 11 | Towering Stonehorn | Porofly | |||||||
| 12 | Rockfall Path |
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Games from 2021-06-30 19:00:00 CEST up to 2021-07-07 19:00:00 CEST timezone | Max datetime of a match: 2021-07-07 18:59 | Match Id recovered in patch 2.9: 40248 | Match metadata recovered in patch 2.9: 38728 | Match metadata still missing for patch 2.9: 76 | Last update: 2021-07-08 03:07 (UTC)↩︎