Legends of Runeterra Variety Patch 4.11 has set sail, bringing new cards, a slew of nerfs and buffs, and the return of the Eternal LoR ladder.
This patch also marks the last stretch of LoR's competitive season before all the Worlds slots are secured. The LoR Eternal Open will take place in less than two weeks, and the Standard Last Chance Qualifier will happen in less than three.
Let's check which decks have caught good winds in each of the LoR ladders!
Eternal LoR Decks
These are the best-performing decks in the Eternal ladder when looking at the first 24hs of data since patch 4.11 landed.
Please bear in mind: Small samples, fresh new meta, too early to say anything conclusive.
But that being said, these are the most promising Eternal decks in Runeterra.
Twisted Fate's Voyage
Well, talk about a well-placed Called Shot
!
With the exact same card-by-card build that Sorry shared yesterday, Twisted Fate
and Nilah
are on a rampage on the Eternal LoR ladder, being the most popular (with close to 900 games played since the patch landed) and also one the best-performing decks out there, with a 58%+ win rate:
12 cards
28 cards
35 200
There other similar builds also doing great; the exception (thus far) are those running three copies of Chemtech Drake
and Loaded Dice
.
If you want something to hit eternally hard, TF Nilah would be it!
Azir Irelia
Not too many new tricks for this old dog, but that's what Eternal is for: letting mean old menaces have a field day with young puppies.
With a decent sample this early on (about 350 games since the patch landed), Azir
Irelia
is one of the scariest things right now. If you joined LoR this year and have heard hushed talks about the Dark Age of Azirelia, you may have a chance to find out why.
20 cards
20 cards
27 700
Enduring Elise
This is the third Eternal deck showing promise across a decent sample (close to 300 games), and if you go by winrate it's the scariest of the three.
This is an extremely old concept, by the way: send your little minions to the slaughter (or kill them yourself if your foe won't oblige), then drop a huge They Who Endure
for overwhelming damage and/or Atrocity
to the face.
3 cards
37 cards
17 700
Standard LoR Decks
As a general observation: this is the first LoR Variety patch for which, in our data sample, we have a few more Standard than Eternal games – it's usually Eternal that is the most popular, and by a huge margin.
This may just be a fluke; after all, early data is always an unreliable narrator. But perhaps the Standard Last Chance Qualifier, which is another novel factor in this patch cycle, has motivated more brewers and pilots to stay in Standard, rather than switch en-masse to Eternal like in previous seasons.
Galio Garen Jarvan IV
Card game designers gotta fix what's broken, that's kinda their job. But an early glimpse at Galio
Garen
Jarvan IV
suggests that Champions' Strength
's adjustments have thus far been a minor speedbump: Galio's formidable bunch leads the early Standard stampede with the exact same build as last week, about 700 games played and punching above 57%.
9 cards
31 cards
31 400
The Poro King Yuumi
His court untouched by nerfs, His Fluffy Majesty is close behind Galio's crew both in play and win rate.
The Poro King
and Yuumi
also show up with the exact same build as last week, but with a much better performance:
28 cards
12 cards
24 000
Pyke Rek'Sai, aka Lurkers
Not such thing as a LoR meta in which Pyke
Rek'Sai
does not see play…
… and, at least by early numbers, Pyke's crew looks very willing to retake their place among the very best decks in Runeterra, as they were a couple of patches ago: Lurkers have one of the highest winrates in Standard right now!
Further reading: Pyke Rek'Sai Deck Guide
15 cards
25 cards
26 400
Miss Fortune Quinn, aka Scouts
Scouts show some signs of having felt the nerf to Champions' Strength. Their numbers are very good (54% win rate in about 400 games), but compared to how they performed last week, and how other strong decks are doing right now, it looks like they've lost some steam.
28 cards
12 cards
32 600
Ashe LeBlanc
Ashe
LeBlanc
has improved its performance compared with last week, and has returned among the most popular, punchiest decks in Runeterra.
17 cards
23 cards
28 900
Other Standard Considerations
Except for Janna Nilah, which seems to have been mercilessly gutten, most decks that were strong pre-patch are still strong now. If a deck Standard was working for you until yesterday, it will very likely still work.
In particular:
… are all showing (albeit in small samples) as good a performance as they did pre-patch.
Wrapping Up
With the usual caveat with early data (it's early, as in "too early to tell!"), it looks like Nilah Janna's journey in Standard has reached an abrupt end…
… but only to be resurrected as an Eternal powerhouse in Nilah Twisted Fate.We'll see tomorrow in By the Numbers how things shape up on each ladder once pilots and brewers have a bit more time to play around and find out!
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