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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?

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

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