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I'm in the top 400 in the card game Legends of Runeterra. This is by far the best I've ever done in a competitive game. The other games I've done okay in were League of Legends, where I've made it to Plat II at my best, and lichess, where I got 1500 elo. Legends of Runeterra doesn't make it clear how many people play it below "Masters", after which there is a leaderboard, but even if we're only looking at Masters which has just over 6000 people, I'd still be in the top 7%. It feels pretty good.

What game(or anything else that has ranks) are you highest ranked in?

Grats, that game has some game to it..

My best game was probably Battlefield: bad company 2, where I would do silly challenge matches and kill servers. Eg, stand on the point nearest the enemy spawn and just never let anyone take it on my own while picking up every kit I saw dropped, etc.

BF:BC 2 was imo the high water mark for skill expression in mass market shooters; probably for the best they leveled it out in later installments. The level of oppression that good players could achieve in the attack helicopter or with smoke was too much for a casual knock around game.

I got all 120 stars in Mario 64.

Would you recommend the game? How is the monetization, any pay to win?

I would recommend the game. As far as card games go, it's among the most free to play friendly there is, you can easily craft a new top tier deck every couple weeks for free. And you only really need one high tier deck to climb high although you may want multiple if you enjoy variety.

It's more complex than Hearthstone and is lighter on the RNG. But it's not as complex and has less craziness than Yu Gi Oh or MtG.

I once made it to mythic on MTG Arena for Historic Constructed, although only for a short time and now I only draft.

What deck were you playing?

Rakdos sacrifice with cat oven.

I’m generally shit at video games.

My brother made Challenger in TFT a couple times, though.

Runeterra is fun, but I like weird combos and nonsense too much to climb. Thought to get top 400…how do you do that? I assume there’s more to it than just picking a meta deck off the Internet.

I like weird combos and nonsense too. I almost exclusively play decks I've made myself. In the past before rotation I'd play a crappy Vlad deck that never got past diamond. After rotation I got into Masters 0LP playing a Shyvana deck and a Galio deck.

My recent success has been with a Nidalee transformation deck that I'm at 400LP with and rank 300. Part of it is just that the current meta really favours it, I was playing the same deck on the previous patch and was at about 50 LP and about rank 4000. Then the patch before that I peaked at about 300LP rank 500 with the deck. Decks that it has a lot of trouble with like Jarvan Shen, Frostbite, and Lurk just haven't been as common. Plus Janna was nerfed making that match up easier too though it can still easily go either way.

The two biggest skill expressions are a) figuring out what would be the worst card for your game plan your opponent could have and what would be the best response you have assuming he has it, and b) figuring out when you have have no winning moves if he does have that card so might as well play the best move assuming he doesn't. I'm pretty rarely surprised by my opponent playing a card lately

I was ranked #3 in North America for PUBG solo during the times when PUBG was popular. Still not sure if it was accurate or I should be proud of it or not lol

I reached level 500 on Ivalice MUD (RIP).

Ivalice, as in Final Fantasy?

Ivalice, as in Final Fantasy.

I was in the top 1000 in Europe wc3/TFT 1v1 for a little while.

I've also been high rated in dota2 and have played most of the older pros and some of the younger (I've not been playing much for the past 5 years or so), both in dota2 and in HoN. In dota2 this was pretty humbling. The top 1% is an extremely wide skill range.

I have multiple 4 and 5 rune ascensions in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, including two in a row. Almost 3 in a row if I didn't get cocky with Lerny.

Which is something many players could simply never do and other players could do right now in a streak of wins in a few hours. The depth of this game and possible range of player ability is enormous.

1500 on lichess is the starting rating, and the average.

I know, I meant that was my top after I dropped down to ~1100 then climbed back up as I got better.

~15 years ago I regularly played Halo: Combat Evolved. I never lost a single 1v1 match, and frequently had a K/D ranging from 2 -> 5. Obviously no ELO back then, but my Clan tracked stats for thousands of players over the years. Anyone who ever approached my performance was eventually outed as a hacker.

In Company of Heroes 2 I was ranked around 100th worldwide for a while in 2v2, but my partner carried me quite a bit and it's not a widely popular game.

I remember liking Halo CE a lot back in the day because of the unreasonable effectiveness of the backup pistol. It was arguably the best weapon in the game - certainly the most well rounded - and you just got it for free every time you respawned. Didn't matter if your opponent had a rocket launcher, a sniper rifle, or a tank. You always had the means to kill them with three headshots.

Proficiency with the M6D was required to be good at the game. Grenades was second-order, since the frags were so impactful with interesting fuse timing algorithms, while the plasma grenades could be used to break even if you missed your first pistol shot and your opponent hit theirs.

A further wrinkle unique to the PC version was that Microsoft mandated 56k modem support. This meant the overall netcode and hit registry presented totally unique problems to players. Figuring that out, in conjunction with the removal of reticle stickiness, was what made good players successful.

While I loved the pistol, after something like 3,000 hours of playing the game I found a lot of joy in the events we put on without it.

Got top 100 in rankings of CODM, a phone game

Congrats.

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