The first Runeterra Open of the third competitive season just finished and we finally have the full decklists and stats for the event, so I’m here to break down the top 4 and talk about lineups!
The Meta
This was probably the most diverse meta in a long while, where we literally had 9 different decks win the opens. Courtesy of Boulevard, these were the Top 64 breakdowns, decks with at least 5 brings:
AM
EMEA
APAC
Apac’s Warden breakdown is
- 20 DE / 8 SH / 2 BC / 1 Neeko / 1 SI
If you want to see more interesting stats, check out lor.dne.to for detailed graphs!
Americas Top 4
Top 3/4 - TheCupIsMine
26 cards
14 cards
34 600
20 cards
20 cards
33 300
6 cards
34 cards
19 400
Cup was definitely prepared to beat warden decks and Jax
Ornn
. You can notice that on the Heavy Metal
techs to get around lots of forging and units like Innovative Blacksmith
or Combat Cook
and also in the Supercharge
tech on Nidalee
to get around Freljord’s freezes.
Top 3/4 - Hawk362
14 cards
26 cards
23 100
29 cards
11 cards
34 100
21 cards
19 cards
32 300
Hawk took a different approach in a “beat freljord decks” lineup that involved a much more aggressive decks. Unfortunately for him, Douguito’s lineup didn’t have warden and instead had much faster decks then his.
Runner-Up - Douguito
22 cards
18 cards
30 300
14 cards
26 cards
22 600
24 cards
16 cards
18 200
Douguito had very aggressive decks and managed to dodge Bandle Elusives lineups that could bully his Ionia Elusives list. Just like Cup, he had a “beat freljord decks” strategy, but AJ was on fire Sunday.
Champion - AjTehPro
23 cards
17 cards
25 300
18 cards
22 cards
30 100
8 cards
32 cards
36 400
Aj mentioned on his post-game interview that he just “brought 3 good decks and piloted them well” and that’s exactly what happened. A few lucky hits from his decks were all he needed to pilot them into a win in this Open tournament. Shoutout to this Janna
Champions' Strength
deck that really performed when it had to.
EMEA Top 4
The EMEA tournament was filled with technical issues and cheating drama, as we couldn’t have an official broadcast due to technical difficulties on the spectator accounts, so we had to watch the tournament through the players that were kind enough to stream their PoVs.
Top 3/4 - Mantarochen Marc
16 cards
24 cards
24 800
22 cards
18 cards
30 600
20 cards
20 cards
33 300
Mantarochen’s lineup was on the right track and I believe was prepared to face Warden of the Tribes
, but his semifinal opponent which ended up taking the whole tournament was not on what he wanted to face.
Top 3/4 - TheShak3r
17 cards
23 cards
24 900
24 cards
16 cards
27 400
27 cards
13 cards
34 800
