SometimesMainSupport

Listed in a few tweets from Mort starting here

Champion nerfs: Janna/Sona/Maokai

Champion buffs: Azir/Kalista/Katarina/Mordekaiser/Taliyah/Tristana/Zac/Zoe

Demolish nerfed and Gathering Storm buffed

Turret damage and minion spawning/movespeed pushed back from 15-25 minutes to 18-30 minutes.

Level 18 death timers down from 45 to 40 seconds.

I posted a small sample of this a couple weeks ago. This time, it's expanded to 6948 games on Patch 9.6 and 7965 games on Patch 9.7. I kept games if at least 4 players had:

1. At least one data point of 2700+ MMR from whatismymmr.com on their history graph.

2. NA/EUW servers.

3. Played at least 10 games since the beginning of Patch 9.5.

I was pretty lazy and didn't recheck anyone's MMR, so some games that should have been kept were dropped.

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I dropped plots into this album alongside my thoughts/interpretations. The main plots people may be interested in are:

1. 9.6 vs 9.7 game times

2. [9.6 win-rates by team physic

TL;DR - 9.7 sample sizes still small. Ranged/melee win-rates are similar to 9.6 though melee pick-rates are up. Mage play-rates are down. 5-ranged comps appear to suck.

I filtered some match data for Patch 9.6/9.7 requiring games to have at least 4+ players who:

1. Play on NA (EUW wasn't finished when I left this morning)

2. Have at least one 2700+ MMR data point on whatismymmr.com in the last month (or however long the history graph is).

3. Played at least 10 ARAMs since Patch 9.5.

As of now, I have 2576 games for Patch 9.6 and 502 for 9.7. Sample sizes are currently too low for any champion-specific data to be worthwhile.

"Stomps" don't appear more common as [game times are similar i