Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

I'm like 3-2 with Liss/Karma but I changed the deck a bit from above. This was Normals before ranked came out though.

Then I played Ascended deck, lost a few to start, made some changes, then finally got the payoff on Sun Disc and had all 3 Ascended on board when it leveled up. I didn't use Ascended Rise for it either. Instantly won afterward without being able to play anything from Emperor's deck lol.

Valderen said:

I don’t know what the meta will be in a few weeks but for now it’s pretty much “He who has the most Landmark removal wins” meta.

I saw so many things, loved it. Kindred looks sick. Leblanc might be good, she levels up so fast and reputation can be achieved really quickly. Sivir and Leblanc suffer a lot against Frostbite decks though. I saw Azir/Scouts that was interesting with Sand Soldiers attacking twice a turn.

Lissandra seems slow, as I said Landmark removal is very strong right now and hurt that deck pretty hard.

It‘s always interesting to see the game after an expansion release.

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I mostly played with Karma/Lissandra, had a streak where I got to P3. I saw most of the same decks as you, too. Some good stuff floating around.
That Lucian/Azir deck was one of the first I went against... seems strong.

I ended up getting The Watcher payoff more then a few times. Overall, the deck feels weak, so I'll likely avoid it today.

I might go back to the Ascended list today and see how that goes. My first impressions with Nasus were quite good. So I want to get back to him.

Playing my ascended deck today, feeling pretty good about it. Had a 6 game win streak at one point.

Valderen said:

Well tonight was some Azir/Hecarim ephemeral deck. I went 3-1, lost against Sivir/Leblanc which totally destroyed me. Damn these can be pretty damn powerful when the deck curves out properly. Sivir level up is scary as hell.

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I played against an Azir/Hec deck a few times now. Seems alright, I've won/lost about an equal amount.

I have been working on a Sivir/Aphelios deck.
The concept is to be an annoying Targon deck with all the annoying Shurima cards. Lean on Cestials for end game punch if needed. And if you level up Sivir you can use Aphelios weapons on Sivir to grant all attackers the Lifesteal/Overwhelm from his weapons + Quick Attack & Spellshield that Sivir already has.


I've been bouncing between Plat 4 & 3, currently in 3 hoping to keep climbing with this.

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Funny how Leblanc and Nasus got shit on during the review cycle and they are probably the 2 strongest champions of this release.

I have been playing a lot of Sivir/Leblanc as well as some Nasus decks. I keep fooling around and losing rank, so still P4-P3 depending on the day/time. lol.

Looks like Leblanc is seeing high success due to being a good aggro card... which is exactly what I had figured would happen. She's 12 in Win Rate across all champions, and 8th in Inclusion rate.
I think the stats are Plat+ matches.

Valderen said:

My poor Lulu is 57th

Some things I've noticed playing Normal vs Rank, for one thing Normal has more diversity which I guess make sense as people are more willing to try things in Normal until they feel it's optimized enough to play in rank so as not to tank their ranking. The other thing, is matches feel significantly faster in Normal than in Ranked, again I guess it makes sense since people probably care a bit less if they make a mistake as a loss doesn't lose them ranking. The second one is the one that bugs me the most in Ranked, so many player rope all the time vs very few in Normal. I can almost play 3 games in Normal vs 2 in Ranked in same amount of time.

Yeah, as usual player evaluation during reveal is off versus what happens in actual game once the expansion is released. It's funny that it is consistently happening with both Champions and regular cards.

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I play Normals only when Ranked is disabled, which is usually for about an hour or so after an expansion drops lol.

It's still way too early to know how the meta will shake out, definitely a lot of diversity out there. I think TF/Aphelios have been reigned in a tiny bit. Aggro is still strong, especially with the meta unsettled. In fact, the strongest deck in the game is still probably Jinx/Draven discard aggro.

I see Kindred/Nasus a lot. I'm not entirely sold on the deck.

A lot of decks abusing the Ledros -> Dreadway combo. I think I ate that combo about 5x yesterday. I'm feeling after everything settles that this will be a S-tier deck and will need a nerf of some sort. It's just crazy to instantly die off this unless you have only a few specific cards IN HAND to counter it. (Hush, Recall effect, Vengeance, etc).

I was playing Marauders with Leblanc/Sivir and I feel there is some good promise there. I also saw Alanzq got Masters with a similar marauder-aggro deck. If you can get the marauders going it's nearly unstoppable. I feel there's a package out there that will abuse them hard and is still yet to be discovered.