A Straddle Strategy Guide for Binary Options Traders
How To Profit Trading Straddles Benzinga
Straddle Option Strategy - Profiting From Big Moves
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So excited Can't sleep Options plus leverage Love when autistic leverage an absolutely null awareness of risk reward the righteous. Join me in Sueing @RobinHoodClassAction in your spare time. They are dirty they do shady unethical things like counter party risk against the other platform they also own. While not allowing. You to enter it exit a position Ah or PM but I.digress. make a separate piece for that later. Heheem Step 1. Use abuse worthless broker the aforementioned. With as much leverage as will not set off there risk assessment team. For example voldemortTicker U an then E plus C . We are not allowed to say . Makes mods bum bums sore. They reject your script off rip. Once theta decayed on calls an price fell below 93 cents. You could purchase an even better write options for 1 dollar an 10 cents, expiring in as little as one week for 1 dollar. That's right trade 100 shares for 1 dollar. So naturally I grabbed 250 for the 20th of this month. An then more for the next 2 consecutive months out. I had to pay 10 dollars per contract bc, I have no patients but not relevant. Step 2. Make sure there is an event of non tech analysis origins that will move price one way or the other. *note this doesn't even necessarily have to be in your favor direction. You don't have to be insane or extra and look for a binary outcome like myself. Honestly I was aggrevated an looking for a way to be pretty after multiple PDT suspension the 3rd wasn't even my fault. Anyways you sell for as little as one dollar more than you payed then you double down. Till you get. Txt saying we are closing your position or deposit funds. Example of event . Us in 2019 decided to limit the supply of yellow cakes from foreign power. Global demand is constant or increasing. Step 3. I like the added insurance of volatility of using a Mico cap. 300m or less. Fellow NPC an employees at the scam or company will decide my fate. Not some nasty market maker killing momentum to collect HTB an weekend. Margin. Nor hedge funds that positions by the Quarter. Who buy or sell side institutions catching a hair across the ass. My outcome is bc you worthless NPC panic sold or brave heart avingers assemble hold the linens held the Line!!!!!!! In Unison- So yes why you Wana rinse an repeat. They have all these bogus Greek letters that destroy your position based on price time an baloney. It's better to take a little piece an start mixing a bigger pie An you can do long short . Straddle or strangle her while you hit her from the back. Rule of thumb price of contract falls more than 20% in one day and your not the one purchasing get rid of it. Give that opportunity to the next man live to fight another day. I totally forgot what I was saying maybe some one in the comments will sumorize for me. Last point about scaling. It helps you find instead of picking a top or a bottom. Just increasing the time you have until you push the buy buttons does miracles. Already holding a few is like getting your mourning fix no fomo sickness no chasing. Yolo with finesse ya savages an buy my #stonk cheaper than. I did your welcome NPC
2 months back at trading (update) and some new questions
Hi all, I posted a thread back a few months ago when I started getting seriously back into trading after 20 years away. I thought I'd post an update with some notes on how I'm progressing. I like to type, so settle in. Maybe it'll help new traders who are exactly where I was 2 months ago, I dunno. Or maybe you'll wonder why you spent 3 minutes reading this. Risk/reward, yo. I'm trading 5k on TastyWorks. I'm a newcomer to theta positive strategies and have done about two thirds of my overall trades in this style. However, most of my experience in trading in the past has been intraday timeframe oriented chart reading and momentum stuff. I learned almost everything "new" that I'm doing from TastyTrade, /options, /thetagang, and Option Alpha. I've enjoyed the material coming from esinvests YouTube channel quite a bit as well. The theta gang type strategies I've done have been almost entirely around binary event IV contraction (mostly earnings, but not always) and in most cases, capped to about $250 in risk per position. The raw numbers: Net PnL : +247 Commissions paid: -155 Fees: -42 Right away what jumps out is something that was indicated by realdeal43 and PapaCharlie9 in my previous thread. This is a tough, grindy way to trade a small account. It reminds me a little bit of when I was rising through the stakes in online poker, playing $2/4 limit holdem. Even if you're a profitable player in that game, beating the rake over the long term is very, very hard. Here, over 3 months of trading a conservative style with mostly defined risk strategies, my commissions are roughly equal to my net PnL. That is just insane, and I don't even think I've been overtrading. 55 trades total, win rate of 60%
33 purely directional trades - 57.5% win
18 long call or long put positions, +692, 55% win
15 call or put verticals, -121, 60% win
22 neutral / other trades
13 iron condors, +345, 77% win rate
7 strangles, -163, 71% win rate
1 straddle, -310, 0% win rate
1 butterfly, -83, 0% win rate
Biggest wins:
PTON call purchased and held through earnings, sold the morning of announcement +410
Trading the range on the daily chart in GLD from 158 up to 165, a mix of various calls +245
NKLA 30 put purchased before the close on the day it went north of 100, just a pure fade +215
Biggest losses:
EWZ 22/26 strangle that I held just way too long as it beat me up day after day from May 20-Jun 3, -316
ZM pre earnings vertical, fading another 2 SD move (the day it hit 200 for the first time). Was expecting a post-earnings selloff given the magnitude of the up move. Stock basically hasn't had a down tick since. Max loss -247
EWW 29 straddle, put on around the same time as the EWZ strangle. Rolled from Jun to Jul to no avail. Out at a -310 loss.
This is pretty much where I expected to be while learning a bunch of new trading techniques. And no, this is not a large sample size so I have no idea whether or not I can be profitable trading this way (yet). I am heartened by the fact that I seem to be hitting my earnings trades and selling quick spikes in IV (like weed cures Corona day). I'm disheartened that I've went against my principles several times, holding trades for longer than I originally intended, or letting losses mount, believing that I could roll or manage my way out of trouble. I still feel like I am going against my nature to some degree. My trading in years past was scalping oriented and simple. I was taught that a good trade was right almost immediately. If it went against me, I'd cut it immediately and look for a better entry. This is absolutely nothing like that. A good trade may take weeks to develop. It's been really hard for me to sit through the troughs and it's been even harder to watch an okay profit get taken out by a big swing in delta. Part of me wonders if I am cut out for this style at all and if I shouldn't just take my 5k and start trading micro futures. But that's a different post... I'll share a couple of my meager learnings:
Larger bid/ask spreads make it almost impossible to trade the higher priced names, even if you have a correct assumption. I have traded some bigger underlyings during this time like LULU and NVDA. They are just tough fills, both getting in and getting out. I almost want to say that you shouldn't even bother trading underlyings bigger than a 10 cent bid/ask spread with a small account.
Get an idea of the timeframe you're interested in holding before putting anything on. Have a plan for entering and exiting everything that goes beyond "I'll take this trade off at 50%". You can use TA, you can use a news catalyst, a binary event, just have something. Countless sources out there talk about trading a plan. It doesn't have to be the perfect plan, it just has to be "a" plan.
Undefined risk trades in tiny accounts need hard stops. Yes, some of the studies say that you'll do better without having fixed stop loss rules (50% of max loss, 100% of max loss) -- but what the studies don't say is the effect that it will have on you, mentally. I got pretty bent out of shape over how badly EWZ and EWW went against me -- much more than I expected. It made no sense, as I've lost way more on the turn of a card in .5 seconds and been unfazed. I was unprepared for the mental toll that it took waking up day after day, watching positions move further and further against me. Great time to be short calls during the mother of all rallies.
My initial plan for undefined risk trades in my account was that I would only do them in ETFs. Logic being that I'm just not going to wake up to an accounting scandal or a buyout and take a $1k loss on the chin. I later expanded my range into lower priced underlyings like BBBY, TLRY, and yes, AAL. But these ETFs can and do move (I learned the hard way) and can soak up a surprising amount of BP. It might be better to have 5 iron condors taking up $1000 of BP @ 200 each instead of 2 strangles @ 500 each.
My new questions :
My big wins felt like I simply leaned on my TA background or got lucky. My big losses, I sure felt like I earned those, through mistakes I've definitely since identified. The stuff in the middle, I'm just not sure. I'm up money, but it feels like I'm just spinning my wheels. My win rate is good, but I still struggle with expectations about how quickly a trade should progress. What is the next step of the process for a newer options trader? I've read some stuff on narrower spreads + more contracts vs. wider spreads and fewer contracts. Is there a number where I should just keep doing what I'm doing until I reach a specific # of occurrences? Should I even think about branching out into different strategies yet (ratio spreads, jade lizards, etc) or continue to work on these basics?
I still feel like I am super weak in delta management. In some cases I feel like I've taken a loss simply because I didn't know what the proper management techniques were. I understand the concept of rolling out in time for a credit, but I just don't think it's in my nature to hold trades for longer than a month, and even that is hard for me. At what delta is it appropriate to start thinking about hedging?
Every time I put on a credit spread for a 2-3 day move and am directionally correct, I often wish that I had just bought a naked option. I've caught several big moves this way in things like AAPL; most recently I bought the FB dip to the 50 day MA around 215 and took it off today at 225 (which was always my plan) -- it leads me to wonder if my expectations for credit spreads are completely out of line. I can't lie, it feels bad to catch a 10 point move and only make $40, haha. What is the ideal timeframe for a credit spread to be left on? Is it better to just buy premium with a stop loss and have a more profitable risk/reward equation for situations like the above where the only intent is to hold for a couple days?
Here's a random question -- other than when the BPR hit is too much (ie names over $50) for undefined risk, would you rather hold 1) a strangle for 10-14 days or 2) an iron condor for 25-30 days? So far my criteria for IC vs strangle has largely been driven by the risk profile and BPR and not so much profit potential in X number of days. If you're collecting the standard 1/3rd on the IC and taking the trade off at 50% (if you're lucky) , it seems like it takes about a month to get there, most of the time.
That's enough of this wall of text for now. If you made it this far, I salute you, because this shit was even longer than my last post.
Selling your Covered Call - Thoughts on How to Select Your Strike and Expiration
Congratulations! You are a bag holder of company XYZ which was thought to be the best penny stock ever. Instead of feeling sorry, you consider selling covered calls to help reduce your cost basis - and eventually get out of your bags with minimal loss or even a profit! First - let's review the call option contract. The holder of the call option contract has the right but not the obligation to purchase 100 shares of XYZ at the strike price per share. This contract has an expiration date. We assume American style option contracts which means that the option can be exercised at any point prior to expiration. Thus, there are three parameters to the option contract - the strike price, the expiration date and the premium - which represents the price per share of the contract. The holder of the call option contract is the person that buys the option. The writer of the contract is the seller. The buyer (or holder) pays the premium. The seller (or writer) collects the premium. As an XYZ bag holder, the covered call may help. By writing a call contract against your XYZ shares, you can collect premium to reduce your investment cost in XYZ - reducing your average cost per share. For every 100 shares of XYZ, you can write 1 call contract. Notice that that by selling the contract, you do not control if the call is exercised - only the holder of the contract can exercise it. There are several online descriptions about the covered call strategy. Here is an example that might be useful to review Covered Call Description The general guidance is to select the call strike at the price in which you would be happy selling your shares. However, the context of most online resources on the covered call strategy assume that you either just purchased the shares at market value or your average cost is below the market price. In the case as a bag holder, your average cost is most likely over - if not significantly over - the current market price. This situation simply means that you have a little work to reduce your average before you are ready to have your bags called away. For example, you would not want to have your strike set at $2.50 when your average is above that value as this would guarantee a net loss. (However, if you are simply trying to rid your bags and your average is slightly above the strike, then you might consider it as the strike price). One more abstract concept before getting to what you want to know. The following link shows the Profit/Loss Diagram for Covered Call Conceptually, the blue line shows the profit/loss value of your long stock position. The line crosses the x-axis at your average cost, i.e the break-even point for the long stock position. The green/red hockey stick is the profit (green) or loss (red) of the covered call position (100 long stock + 1 short call option). The profit has a maximum value at the strike price. This plateau is due to the fact that you only receive the agreed upon strike price per share when the call option is exercised. Below the strike, the profit decreases along the unit slope line until the value becomes negative. It is a misnomer to say that the covered call is at 'loss' since it is really the long stock that has decreased in value - but it is not loss (yet). Note that the break-even point marked in the plot is simply the reduced averaged cost from the collected premium selling the covered call. As a bag holder, it will be a two-stage process: (1) reduce the average cost (2) get rid of bags. Okay let's talk selecting strike and expiration. You must jointly select these two parameters. Far OTM strikes will collect less premium where the premium will increase as you move the strike closer to the share price. Shorter DTE will also collect less premium where the premium will increase as you increase the DTE. It is easier to describe stage 2 "get rid of bags" first. Let us pretend that our hypothetical bag of 100 XYZ shares cost us $5.15/share. The current XYZ market price is $3/share - our hole is $2.15/share that we need to dig out. Finally, assume the following option chain (all hypothetical):
DTE
Strike
Premium
Intrinsic Value
Time Value
20
$2.5
$0.60
$0.50
$0.10
20
$5.0
$0.25
$0
$0.25
20
$7.5
$0.05
$0
$0.05
50
$2.5
$0.80
$0.50
$0.30
50
$5.0
$0.40
$0
$0.40
50
$7.5
$0.20
$0
$0.20
110
$2.5
$0.95
$0.50
$0.45
110
$5.0
$0.50
$0
$0.50
110
$7.5
$0.25
$0
$0.25
Purely made up the numbers, but the table illustrates the notional behavior of an option chain. The option value (premium) is the intrinsic value plus the time value. Only the $2.5 strike has intrinsic value since the share price is $3 (which is greater than $2.5). Notice that intrinsic value cannot be negative. The rest of the premium is the time value of the option which is essentially the monetary bet associated with the probability that the share price will exceed the strike at expiration. According to the table, we could collect the most premium by selling the 110 DTE $2.5 call for $0.95. However, there is a couple problems with that option contract. We are sitting with bags at $5.15/share and receiving $0.95 will only reduce our average to $4.20/share. On expiration, if still above $2.5, then we are assigned, shares called away and we receive $2.50/share or a loss of $170 - not good. Well, then how about the $5 strike at 110 DTE for $0.50? This reduces us to $4.65/share which is under the $5 strike so we would make a profit of $35! This is true - however 110 days is a long time to make $35. You might say that is fine you just want to get the bags gone don't care. Well maybe consider a shorter DTE - even the 20 DTE or 50 DTE would collect premium that reduces your average below $5. This would allow you to react to any stock movement that occurs in the near-term. Consider person A sells the 110 DTE $5 call and person B sells the 50 DTE $5 call. Suppose that the XYZ stock increases to $4.95/share in 50 days then goes to $8 in the next 30 days then drops to $3 after another 30 days. This timeline goes 110 days and person A had to watch the price go up and fall back to the same spot with XYZ stock at $3/share. Granted the premium collected reduced the average but stilling hold the bags. Person B on the other hand has the call expire worthless when XYZ is at $4.95/share. A decision can be made - sell immediately, sell another $5 call or sell a $7.5 call. Suppose the $7.5 call is sold with 30 DTE collecting some premium, then - jackpot - the shares are called away when XYZ is trading at $8/share! Of course, no one can predict the future, but the shorter DTE enables more decision points. The takeaway for the second step in the 2-stage approach is that you need to select your profit target to help guide your strike selection. In this example, are you happy with the XYZ shares called away at $5/share or do you want $7.5/share? What is your opinion on the stock price trajectory? When do you foresee decision points? This will help determine the strike/expiration that matches your thoughts. Note: studies have shown that actively managing your position results in better performance than simply waiting for expiration, so you can adjust the position if your assessment on the movement is incorrect. Let's circle back to the first step "reduce the average cost". What if your average cost of your 100 shares of XYZ is $8/share? Clearly, all of the strikes in our example option chain above is "bad" to a certain extent since we would stand to lose a lot of money if the option contract is exercised. However, by describing the second step, we know the objective for this first step is to reduce our average such that we can profit from the strikes. How do we achieve this objective? It is somewhat the same process as previously described, but you need to do your homework a little more diligently. What is your forecast on the stock movement? Since $7.5 is the closest strike to your average, when do you expect XYZ to rise from $3/share to $7.5/share? Without PR, you might say never. With some PR then maybe 50/50 chance - if so, then what is the outlook for PR? What do you think the chances of going to $5/share where you could collect more premium? Suppose that a few XYZ bag holders (all with a $8/share cost) discuss there outlook of the XYZ stock price in the next 120 days:
Person
10 days
20 days
30 days
40 days
50 days
100 days
120 days
A
$3
$3
$3
$3
$3
$4
$4
B
$4
$4
$5
$6
$7
$12
$14
C
$7
$7
$7
$7
$7
$7
$7
Person A does not seem to think much price movement will occur. This person might sell the $5 call with either 20 DTE or 50 DTE. Then upon expiration, sell another $5 call for another 20-50 DTE. Person A could keep repeating this until the average is reduced enough to move onto step-2. Of course, this approach is risky if the Person A price forecast is incorrect and the stock price goes up - which might result in assignment too soon. Person B appears to be the most bullish of the group. This person might sell the $5 call with 20 DTE then upon expiration sell the $7.5 call. After expiration, Person B might decide to leave the shares uncovered because her homework says XYZ is going to explode and she wants to capture those gains! Person C believes that there will be a step increase in 10 days maybe due to major PR event. This person will not have the chance to reduce the average in time to sell quickly, so first he sells a $7.5 call with 20 DTE to chip at the average. At expiration, Person C would continue to sell $7.5 calls until the average at the point where he can move onto the "get rid of bags" step. In all causes, each person must form an opinion on the XYZ price movement. Of course, the prediction will be wrong at some level (otherwise they wouldn't be bag holders!). The takeaway for the first step in the 2-stage approach is that you need to do your homework to better forecast the price movement to identify the correct strikes to bring down your average. The quality of the homework and the risk that you are willing to take will dedicate the speed at which you can reduce your average. Note that if you are unfortunate to have an extremely high average per share, then you might need to consider doing the good old buy-more-shares-to-average-down. This will be the fastest way to reduce your average. If you cannot invest more money, then the approach above will still work, but it will require much more patience. Remember there is no free lunch! Advanced note: there is another method to reduce your (high) average per share - selling cash secured puts. It is the "put version" of a cover call. Suppose that you sell a XYZ $2.5 put contract for $0.50 with 60 DTE. You collect $50 from the premium of the contract. This money is immediately in your bank and reduces your investment cost. But what did you sell? If XYZ is trading below $2.50, then you will be assigned 100 shares of XYZ at $2.50/share or $250. You own more shares, but at a price which will reduce your average further. Being cash secured, your brokerage will reserve $250 from your account when you sell the contract. In essence, you reduce your buying power by $250 and conditionally purchase the shares - you do not have them until assignment. If XYZ is greater than the strike at expiration, then your broker gives back $250 cash / buying power and you keep the premium. Early assignment - one concern is the chance of early assignment. The American style option contract allows the holder the opportunity to exercise the contract at any time prior to expiration. Early assignment almost never occurs. There are special cases that typically deal with dividends but most penny stocks are not in the position to hand out dividends. Aside from that, the holder would be throwing away option time value by early exercise. It possibly can handle - probably won't - it actually would be a benefit when selling covered calls as you would receive your profit more quickly! This post has probably gone too long! I will stop and let's discuss this matter. I will add follow-on material with some of the following topics which factors into this discussion:
Effect of earnings / PR / binary events on the option contract - this reaction may be different than the underlying stock reaction to the event
The Black-Scholes option pricing model allows one to understand how the premium will change - note that "all models are incorrect, but some are useful"
The "Greeks" give you a sense about how prices change when the stock price change - Meet the Greeks video
Position Management - when to adjust, close, or roll
Legging position into strangles/straddles - more advanced position with higher risk / higher reward
Open to other suggestions. I'm sure there are some typos and unclear statements - I will edit as needed! \I'm not a financial advisor. Simply helping to 'coach' people through the process. You are responsible for your decisions. Do not execute a trade that you do not understand. Ask questions if needed!**
Analysis: Why Kayle is Failing | The legacy of the 9.17 mini-rework
Four months have passed, now I have data to back up what I was saying before. My arguments then though are still my arguments now. Though, this time I hope to be able to make my points much more clearly understood but I'm afraid it appears I'm unable to deviate from my verbose style of posting. So what's wrong with Kayle? It's pretty simple. There's nothing about her kit or play-style that defines Kayle as Kayle. I said it months ago and I'll say it again. The direction they took with Kayle when they capitulated to the people complaining about not getting ranged earlier on 9.17 was straddling the fence. This was a grave mistake. Riot should have invested the time to either make her kit fun when melee and embraced the evolving form of Kayle (my personal preference) or they should have fully embraced the ranged aspect of kit, making her fully ranged at level one and balancing her appropriately around that. Riot August has said it himself, after the 9.17 changes had settled and her play-rate started to rise. As it turns out, people like to be able to play the game for the first ten minutes of the game...Shocking... Well guess what that hasn't changed? We still want to play the game. We want to be able to farm/trade comparably to at least the weakest early game solo-lane-late-game champions, or barring that to be able to have some interaction with our champion that is completely unique to that champion. So since Kayle is primarily regarded as a top laner, let's start with the basics. As top-laners, we need to, in some form, fulfill the role that we have chosen with our chosen champion. We approach this with the expectation that any given top lane champion will excel in some fashion in at least one aspect integral to the position itself. Those criteria in their most basic forms being as follows:
The ability to peel for your team
The ability to lock down the opposing team
The ability to threaten objectives cross-map
The ability to zone or kill an integral champion for the opposing team's composition
To work in top lane, you don't have to have the capacity to complete all of those functions but, at the very least, you should be able to do one. Barring that, you should bring something extraordinarily unique to the table.
Tanks act as a front line for teamfights, providing peel and lockdown to secure safety for their damage dealers
Duelists act as split-pushers, perpetually preventing a team to group for favorable fights around objectives because they must be addressed. If they are not, then an objective (towers/inhibs) will theoretically be traded in response to that neglect.
Bruisers/fighters kind of hover between these two features in that they deal enough damage to be a threat to a squishy backliner while still being tanky enough to live long enough to crush them. Generally holding their own in 1v1s
And then there’s "specialized.” This group of champions doesn’t really fit into the categories desperately needed for top laners to fit into a team structure. But these individuals’ abilities are so extreme, in some fashion, that they compensate the weaknesses they bring to the top lane with how uniquely strong and quirky their abilities are.
An example of specialized to me would be Quinn, whose kit includes mobility so excessive that she is exempt from taking Teleport to lane and can use combative summoner spells to dominate the laning phase and later use her hyper-mobility to pressure side lanes. But this comes at the expense that if you do not perform well early… well sucks to be you (and your team) come mid/late game. From what I can tell, Kayle is supposed to fit into this "specialized" section. The most important thing here is that, when you pick a champion who does not fit the normal criteria of the role, they excel MASSIVELY in some aspect to make up for it. To support my claim that Kayle is intended to fit this group, the 9.5 version of the Kayle rework at least had that uniqueness. We couldn't do anything early whatsoever BUT in exchange for that Kayle's builds were completely fluid. You could build either AD or AP or both. Unlike any other damage focused champion, you were not required to purchase an armor penetration item to maintain your damage output, which further enhanced the versatility of her kit and also allowed her to scale into the game stronger than any other champion in the game. The big issue people seemed to have with the 9.5 version was that it took until between 15 and 17 minutes for Kayle to be able to play the game and then they’d play catch-up for 2-3 minutes then actually get to have an impact.... That was hardly any fun. The advantages with the 9.17 Kayle changes are that you now are capable of farming and light harassment/trades at roughly 7 minutes. But the issue still persists: you still don't really get to play the game until you get 2 items… or roughly 15-17 minutes. These changes were paid at the expense of all the aspects of Kayle that made her new kit unique and cool. What is worse is that the aspects of the champion that made her innately function as a unique late game top-laner were removed or significantly nerfed to appeal to a vocal group of bandwagoners. The second they got what they wanted, these same people… surprise, surprise... ditched left us one tricks and enthusiasts with a champion that is a “okay” at everything while the aspects which made her excel in a fashion unique to Kayle, necessary for specialists to be fun to play, were abandoned. The worst part is that changes performed to her kit changed nothing from the outcome perspective. Her power spikes still align with the same minutes of the game, her win-rate has settled into roughly the same percentile (within 1%) each time she has been altered, once balanced, but she just feels less satisfying to play. "Well... who cares? Why is that an issue? Why can't you just suck it up or play another champion Justifier? Kayle is at a 51.33% win-rate she's perfectly balanced. Fun is subjective. Just because you don't have fun with her any more doesn't mean other people don't." Well that's just the thing. It's not just me who holds this opinion. Need proof? Here's some data of Kayle's in game presence from u.gg a few weeks after the 9.17 changes, taken 9/27/2019 Plenty of time for people to get used to her being ranged at 6. She's at a 52.46% win-rate, 4.6% pick-rate, 1.6% ban-rate. Those numbers are roughly equal to her game presence statistics before her changes from 9.16 going to 9.17. Here’s Kayle now that she’s been balanced properly after her ranged at 6 changes, 51.33% win-rate 2.7% play-rate, 0.9% ban-rate. FEWER people enjoy playing Kayle with her ranged at 6 form than when they did with her 9.5-9.16 form, if both iterations are balanced and her win-rate remains stable throughout. We can conclude in my opinion, since her win-rate remains stable throughout all of these changes and nerfs, that it's not because she's "less op" but because people think she's not fun to play. The next numbers I'd like to look at were taken at her "peak" when she was being recognized as busted due to her abusive playstyle when paired with Kleptomancy and various successful appearances on the Worlds Stage. It took an extraordinary excess of time for her numbers to climb towards their pinnacle having reached a ≈+30% combined play/ban rate nearly whole three whole months after the 9.17 changes having been recognized as busted and picked up and abused by various higher elo players. She still maintained her disgusting presence through nerfs until the season rolled over Craptomancy was finally removed from the game. Why? Because even though Kayle was busted she didn't feel fun to play. The feelgood rewards for playing Kayle didn't match the results of playing Kayle even when she was absolutely busted. Now here’s the kicker: literally the day that the aspect of her kit that was "abusable" was addressed (finally), what happened to her game presence? It halved. At the end of Patch 9.22 Kayle had an 52.76% win-rate, 8.2% pick-rate and a 14.4% ban-rate for a combined 22.6% game presence, the day after? Patch 9.23, preseason patch, Klepomancy removal. A 51.4% win-rate, 4.8% pick-rate, 6.9% ban-rate for a combined 11.7% game presence which further deteriorated to the present. Patch 10.1, 51.33% win-rate, 2.7% pick-rate and 0.9% ban-rate for a whopping 3.6% presence Again, her win-rate stayed within a single percent of the win-rate she had before Kleptomancy and that percentile change could more easily be attributed to the change in the games meta on the turn of the season than on Kayle's reliance on Kleptomancy. We can conclude from this that these people were NOT playing Kayle because she was busted, they were NOT playing Kayle to get free elo. They were playing her because they could finally tolerate her playstyle enough via kleptomancy proxy to validate trading over +50% of their game to have an impact on the last portion of it. The second that proxy was removed, despite her win-rate maintaining its level even through nerfs, her game presence tanked. Another interesting observation to point out is that when you look at her play-rates and ban-rates, her ban-rates when she is fun to play with this version of Kayle are always higher than her play-rates. From this we can determine that when Kayle is even slightly fun to play with this form of a kit for the player piloting Kayle, she's EXTREMELY unfun to play against. Contrast this to 9.5-16 versions of Kayle where I've heard many people describe her kit as being "surprisingly balanced and fun to play against." In my estimation, this is caused because her kit is designed to NOT interact with your opponent. A Kayle playing at their best minimizes interaction with the opposing player. This is frustrating and unfun for Kayle players when she's balanced, frustrating and unfun for her opponents if she even has a perceived (not real) advantage (say kleptomancy stacks) So here’s an issue: As it stands, essentially what we have now is Kayle as she was before her initial (9.5) rework, stripped completely of every single thing that made Kayle Kayle. Every point of the game feels worse even when it's better than her pre-9.5 version in a state where when she's actually balanced she's unfun to play as and if even perceived as overtuned extremely unfun to play against I think because of this it’s fair to ask once again: Were the stated design goals of her rework met? Stated goals for Kayle's rework:
Make Kayle more fun
Make her auto attacks feel really good
Variance in her pattern
High moments outside of her ultimate
Deliver on the “ranged to melee thing”
1: I have already addressed #1, when balanced no one appears to want to play her and when perceived as strong no one wants to play against her. So, the answer is no. 2: Kayle’s auto attacks excluding her E reset do not feel “really good” or “satisfying” when you smack someone it just feels like you’re hitting them with a wet noodle. This is particularly annoying when every single spell that you cast interrupts your auto attacks and while her E feels good it doesn't feel so good as to make up for the disruptive nature of her other abilities in the flow of her kit. So, #2 is No. 3: Variance in her play pattern. I’m not sure exactly what this means but I presume this means she is capable of a fluid build style which can adapt to what the opponent is doing in the game by building uniquely. She had this with her 9.5-16 versions but her build style now is completely binary. If you deviate from the standard Gunblade > Nashors > dcap/rageblade, you’ll usually regret it. So, no. 4: High moments outside of her ultimate: I think that again Kayle had this on her 9.5-16 versions through her late game power spike. Her true damage waves were extremely satisfying to experience when you hit that point in the game. However beyond that I cannot think of (m)any high moments that exclude her ultimate. So, no. 5: Deliver on the “ranged to melee thing”: Maybe? I mean the thing with this is that it feels like this rework goal was doggedly pursued at the expense of the other four. Riot chose to preserve this stated goal for some reason at the cost of the other goals. In exchange for “making her auto attacks feel really good” (via her true damage, and early wave attacks/AoE spells[meaning the ability to quickly push lanes early in the game]), we got earlier range. The issue with this is that Range is regarded as so powerful as to require that she also lose her pattern variance (build fluidity) and extreme late game power spike in exchange for these changes… and the consequence of the loss of those four goals to meet the one is that… well she’s simply not fun. But the worst part is that I think this was a game design that should have never been a goal in the first place... Kayle was never a "melee champion who became ranged" Kayle was a ranged champion, whose attacks were processed as melee. This was an aspect unique to Kayle and demonstrated in her old interaction with Yauso's windwall. Kayle was a Ranged&Melee champion not a Rangedmelee champion. But even if you put all of that aside, changing it to range → melee was fine. What is not fine is that I feel most of this last stated goal was ceded when they made Kayle ranged at 6. By removing the struggle of the transition by giving it to players earlier you remove the last vestige of the stated goals of the initial Kayle rework. Let me ask you this: when someone asks you what exactly makes Kayle Kayle, what do you respond with? (pre-9.5 Kayle) To me, what defined Kayle before her rework was "not a single champion in the top lane can match your pushing power early game, late game you were one of the top tier splitters/duelists who can build any item in the game." Hell, her pushing power was so strong that it was actually her weakness. You couldn't control waves if you even last-hit or traded. So her identity: Shover. Versatility. Scaling. Split pusheduelist. Melee&ranged (9.5-9.16 Kayle) After her rework, (9.5) it was "not a single champion in the game can outscale you. Not a one. Better beat Kayle before she gets level 3 evolution." or "wait for Kayle to hit 16 guys we've got this!". This unique trait appeared to stem from her true damage wave abilities -- or in short she was unique because of her “purifying waves” which in turn still unlocked her previous identity of being able to build any item in the game. She could run either AP or AD each carrying its own perks and downsides So her identity: Versatility. Scaling. SplitpusheTeamfigher. Meleeranged 9.17 Kayle and onward iterations She's not technically terrible at anything but Laning phase...I guess... But she's good at nothing as well. There is no longer anything about her that stands out in any way whatsoever. She is terrible early and okayish mid game okay late. She’s a decent source of dps and a decent laner when the game starts for her... But that's it. There’s little discernible feeling of payout for the terrible early game you’re still subject to. Sure, her win-rate hits top 3 if the game goes on for 35 minutes. She scales into the game like a monster… but she sure as hell doesn’t feel like it, and it means little to nothing in a meta where the average game time is sub 30 minutes even for unranked players. Kayle’s “unique trait” as a Champion of League of Legends now is “I do a tiny bit of everything at the expense that you will have absolutely no agency and be absolutely miserable for about 10-15 minutes of your game” or in other terms, So her identity: Scaling. early grouper. Jack of all trades and master of none? She still scales like a monster of course, so I guess you can still say that's part of her unique traits now. But there’s little to no build fluidity (variance), few if any high moments, no great feeling auto attacks. There appeared to be one single saving grace for this iteration of Kayle’s kit for the general population though... Kleptomancy. Kleptomancy meant so much in my opinion, not because it was simply broken on her (it was certainly perceived as such), but because Kleptomancy was only integral for Kayle’s design to click with the average League player in my estimation because it gave the player the feeling that they were interacting with their opponent during the laning phase enough that people didn't get overwhelmed by the dismal feelings inherently ingrained into her kit Now that the placebo of interaction of doing something for the first 15 minutes of the game is gone. People have apparently decided, voted if you will, with their time and choices that the design Kayle bring to the table is simply not palatable for the general player. As a consequence, we can say with some degree of certainty that even if this kind of champion design is perceived as bat-shit busted...People don't touch it. Something HAS to feel satisfying for a significant portion of the game even if it does literally nothing in the grand scheme for players to pick her up. Those of us left either play because it's what we've always done, or for the "angel" theme which is one of the few aspects of Kayle that remains intact and unique at this point... This is one of the most iconic Champions in League of Legends. She’s one of the original 17 for crying out loud and it feels terrible to be in a game with her. It wouldn’t be all that difficult to make her have an extremely satisfying kit even as is. One example of relatively simple changes that could bring more life to her kit suggested to me in Kayle Mains Discord was changing her E: when you “cast” it, it unlocks the next tier of her ascension for 5-6 seconds. So levels 1-5, you have access to range for 5-6 seconds and range unlocking permanently at level 6; levels 6-10, you have access to your waves for 5-6 seconds and Level 11 your gain full access you your waves when your passive is fully stacked; levels 11-16, your waves could have a % chance to crit for say 25% for 5-6 seconds and level 16 your crit waves chance is doubled (25% → 50%) and when your E is active if your waves crt they deal true damage. An integration of a small part of her old kit which we know works into the new or the waves AoE is widened/enhanced, remove the true damage and keep the rest if it's too much, or any other plethora of options. Imagine how satisfying anything like that would be compared to currently when I press E. A high cost high cd low consequence spell, which I can throw one spell at either a minion and get a last hit, or I can throw it at the opponent and deal 50 dmg and then I'm back to the waiting game for my more favorable forms every 8 seconds. Now I'm not suggesting Riot reverts Kayle's kit, or implements any change suggested above. (That would be super cool but let's be real it's unlikely to happen) This post's purpose is to serve as a potential source of information for Riot addressing the opinions of people most passionate, regarding the direction pursued to make Kayle a great champion for everyone. And to cause Riot to take a good hard look at Kayle and make sure that what they're doing and have done is matching their expectations... because it's not matching ours. TLDR So why is Kayle failing? She's failing because the features that made her unique and quirky as a champion were stripped away from her in an attempt to appeal to a larger audience by making her easier to play; without something unique, potentially difficult, cool and quirky ingrained into their kits, champions with extreme trade-offs make people lose interest very quickly. Addition: Upon suggestion I also posted this on the main League Reddit Thread, Here's a link to that if you want to check out how conversation is going there.
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Four months have passed, now I have data to back up what I was saying before. My arguments then though are still my arguments now. Though, this time I hope to be able to make my points much more clearly understood but I'm afraid it appears I'm unable to deviate from my verbose style of posting. So what's wrong with Kayle? It's pretty simple. There's nothing about her kit or play-style that defines Kayle as Kayle. I said it months ago and I'll say it again. The direction they took with Kayle when they capitulated to the people complaining about not getting ranged earlier on 9.17 was straddling the fence. This was a grave mistake. Riot should have invested the time to either make her kit fun when melee and embraced the evolving form of Kayle (my personal preference) or they should have fully embraced the ranged aspect of kit, making her fully ranged at level one and balancing her appropriately around that. Riot August has said it himself, after the 9.17 changes had settled and her play-rate started to rise. As it turns out, people like to be able to play the game for the first ten minutes of the game...Shocking... Well guess what that hasn't changed? We still want to play the game. We want to be able to farm/trade comparably to at least the weakest early game solo-lane-late-game champions, or barring that to be able to have some interaction with our champion that is completely unique to that champion. So since Kayle is primarily regarded as a top laner, let's start with the basics. As top-laners, we need to, in some form, fulfill the role that we have chosen with our chosen champion. We approach this with the expectation that any given top lane champion will excel in some fashion in at least one aspect integral to the position itself. Those criteria in their most basic forms being as follows:
The ability to peel for your team
The ability to lock down the opposing team
The ability to threaten objectives cross-map
The ability to zone or kill an integral champion for the opposing team's composition
To work in top lane, you don't have to have the capacity to complete all of those functions but, at the very least, you should be able to do one. Barring that, you should bring something extraordinarily unique to the table.
Tanks act as a front line for teamfights, providing peel and lockdown to secure safety for their damage dealers
Duelists act as split-pushers, perpetually preventing a team to group for favorable fights around objectives because they must be addressed. If they are not, then an objective (towers/inhibs) will theoretically be traded in response to that neglect.
Bruisers/fighters kind of hover between these two features in that they deal enough damage to be a threat to a squishy backliner while still being tanky enough to live long enough to crush them. Generally holding their own in 1v1s
And then there’s "specialized.” This group of champions doesn’t really fit into the categories desperately needed for top laners to fit into a team structure. But these individuals’ abilities are so extreme, in some fashion, that they compensate the weaknesses they bring to the top lane with how uniquely strong and quirky their abilities are.
An example of specialized to me would be Quinn, whose kit includes mobility so excessive that she is exempt from taking Teleport to lane and can use combative summoner spells to dominate the laning phase and later use her hyper-mobility to pressure side lanes. But this comes at the expense that if you do not perform well early… well sucks to be you (and your team) come mid/late game. From what I can tell, Kayle is supposed to fit into this "specialized" section. The most important thing here is that, when you pick a champion who does not fit the normal criteria of the role, they excel MASSIVELY in some aspect to make up for it. To support my claim that Kayle is intended to fit this group, the 9.5 version of the Kayle rework at least had that uniqueness. We couldn't do anything early whatsoever BUT in exchange for that Kayle's builds were completely fluid. You could build either AD or AP or both. Unlike any other damage focused champion, you were not required to purchase an armor penetration item to maintain your damage output, which further enhanced the versatility of her kit and also allowed her to scale into the game stronger than any other champion in the game. The big issue people seemed to have with the 9.5 version was that it took until between 15 and 17 minutes for Kayle to be able to play the game and then they’d play catch-up for 2-3 minutes then actually get to have an impact.... That was hardly any fun. The advantages with the 9.17 Kayle changes are that you now are capable of farming and light harassment/trades at roughly 7 minutes. But the issue still persists: you still don't really get to play the game until you get 2 items… or roughly 15-17 minutes. These changes were paid at the expense of all the aspects of Kayle that made her new kit unique and cool. What is worse is that the aspects of the champion that made her innately function as a unique late game top-laner were removed or significantly nerfed to appeal to a vocal group of bandwagoners. The second they got what they wanted, these same people… surprise, surprise... ditched left us one tricks and enthusiasts with a champion that is a “okay” at everything, while the aspects which made her excel in a fashion unique to Kayle necessary for a specialist to be fun to play were abandoned. The worst part is that changes performed to her kit changed nothing from the outcome perspective. Her power spikes still align with the same minutes of the game, her win-rate has settled into roughly the same percentile (within 1%) each time she has been altered, once balanced, but she just feels less satisfying to play. "Well... who cares? Why is that an issue? Why can't you just suck it up or play another champion Justifier? Kayle is at a 51.33% win-rate she's perfectly balanced. Fun is subjective. Just because you don't have fun with her any more doesn't mean other people don't." Well that's just the thing. It's not just me who holds this opinion. Need proof? Here's some data of Kayle's in game presence from u.gg a few weeks after the 9.17 changes, taken 9/27/2019 Plenty of time for people to get used to her being ranged at 6. She's at a 52.46% win-rate, 4.6% pick-rate, 1.6% ban-rate. Those numbers are roughly equal to her game presence statistics before her changes from 9.16 going to 9.17. Here’s Kayle now that she’s been balanced properly after her ranged at 6 changes, 51.33% win-rate 2.7% play-rate, 0.9% ban-rate. FEWER people enjoy playing Kayle with her ranged at 6 form than when they did with her 9.5-9.16 form, if both iterations are balanced and her win-rate remains stable throughout. We can conclude in my opinion, since her win-rate remains stable throughout all of these changes and nerfs, that it's not because she's "less op" but because people think she's not fun to play. The next numbers I'd like to look at were taken at her "peak" when she was being recognized as busted due to her abusive playstyle when paired with Kleptomancy and various successful appearances on the Worlds Stage. It took an extraordinary excess of time for her numbers to climb towards their pinnacle having reached a ≈+30% combined play/ban rate nearly whole three whole months after the 9.17 changes having been recognized as busted and picked up and abused by various higher elo players. She still maintained her disgusting presence through nerfs until the season rolled over Craptomancy was finally removed from the game. Why? Because even though Kayle was busted she didn't feel fun to play. The feelgood rewards for playing Kayle didn't match the results of playing Kayle even when she was absolutely busted. Now here’s the kicker: literally the day that the aspect of her kit that was "abusable" was addressed (finally), what happened to her game presence? It halved. At the end of Patch 9.22 Kayle had an 52.76% win-rate, 8.2% pick-rate and a 14.4% ban-rate for a combined 22.6% game presence, the day after? Patch 9.23, preseason patch, Klepomancy removal. A 51.4% win-rate, 4.8% pick-rate, 6.9% ban-rate for a combined 11.7% game presence which further deteriorated to the present. Patch 10.1, 51.33% win-rate, 2.7% pick-rate and 0.9% ban-rate for a whopping 3.6% presence Again, her win-rate stayed within a single percent of the win-rate she had before Kleptomancy and that percentile change could more easily be attributed to the change in the games meta on the turn of the season than on Kayle's reliance on Kleptomancy. We can conclude from this that these people were NOT playing Kayle because she was busted, they were NOT playing Kayle to get free elo. They were playing her because they could finally tolerate her playstyle enough via kleptomancy proxy to validate trading over +50% of their game to have an impact on the last portion of it. The second that proxy was removed, despite her win-rate maintaining its level even through nerfs, her game presence tanked. Another interesting observation to point out is that when you look at her play-rates and ban-rates, her ban-rates when she is fun to play with this version of Kayle are always higher than her play-rates. From this we can determine that when Kayle is even slightly fun to play with this form of a kit for the player piloting Kayle, she's EXTREMELY unfun to play against. Contrast this to 9.5-16 versions of Kayle where I've heard many people describe her kit as being "surprisingly balanced and fun to play against." In my estimation, this is caused because her kit is designed to NOT interact with your opponent. A Kayle playing at their best minimizes interaction with the opposing player. This is frustrating and unfun for Kayle players when she's balanced, frustrating and unfun for her opponents if she even has a perceived (not real) advantage (say kleptomancy stacks) So here’s an issue: As it stands, essentially what we have now is Kayle as she was before her initial (9.5) rework, stripped completely of every single thing that made Kayle Kayle. Every point of the game feels worse even when it's better than her pre-9.5 version in a state where when she's actually balanced she's unfun to play as and if even perceived as overtuned extremely unfun to play against I think because of this it’s fair to ask once again: Were the stated design goals of her rework met? Stated goals for Kayle's rework:
Make Kayle more fun
Make her auto attacks feel really good
Variance in her pattern
High moments outside of her ultimate
Deliver on the “ranged to melee thing”
1: I have already addressed #1, when balanced no one appears to want to play her and when perceived as strong no one wants to play against her. So, the answer is no. 2: Kayle’s auto attacks excluding her E reset do not feel “really good” or “satisfying” when you smack someone it just feels like you’re hitting them with a wet noodle. This is particularly annoying when every single spell that you cast interrupts your auto attacks and while her E feels good it doesn't feel so good as to make up for the disruptive nature of her other abilities in the flow of her kit. So, #2 is No. 3: Variance in her play pattern. I’m not sure exactly what this means but I presume this means she is capable of a fluid build style which can adapt to what the opponent is doing in the game by building uniquely. She had this with her 9.5-16 versions but her build style now is completely binary. If you deviate from the standard Gunblade > Nashors > dcap/rageblade, you’ll usually regret it. So, no. 4: High moments outside of her ultimate: I think that again Kayle had this on her 9.5-16 versions through her late game power spike. Her true damage waves were extremely satisfying to experience when you hit that point in the game. However beyond that I cannot think of (m)any high moments that exclude her ultimate. So, no. 5: Deliver on the “ranged to melee thing”: Maybe? I mean the thing with this is that it feels like this rework goal was doggedly pursued at the expense of the other four. Riot chose to preserve this stated goal for some reason at the cost of the other goals. In exchange for “making her auto attacks feel really good” (via her true damage, and early wave attacks/AoE spells[meaning the ability to quickly push lanes early in the game]), we got earlier range. The issue with this is that Range is regarded as so powerful as to require that she also lose her pattern variance (build fluidity) and extreme late game power spike in exchange for these changes… and the consequence of the loss of those four goals to meet the one is that… well she’s simply not fun. But the worst part is that I think this was a game design that should have never been a goal in the first place... Kayle was never a "melee champion who became ranged" Kayle was a ranged champion, whose attacks were processed as melee. This was an aspect unique to Kayle and demonstrated in her old interaction with Yauso's windwall. Kayle was a Ranged&Melee champion not a Rangedmelee champion. But even if you put all of that aside, changing it to range → melee was fine. What is not fine is that I feel most of this last stated goal was ceded when they made Kayle ranged at 6. By removing the struggle of the transition by giving it to players earlier you remove the last vestige of the stated goals of the initial Kayle rework. Let me ask you this: when someone asks you what exactly makes Kayle Kayle, what do you respond with? (pre-9.5 Kayle) To me, what defined Kayle before her rework was "not a single champion in the top lane can match your pushing power early game, late game you were one of the top tier splitters/duelists who can build any item in the game." Hell, her pushing power was so strong that it was actually her weakness. You couldn't control waves if you even last-hit or traded. So her identity: Shover. Versatility. Scaling. Split pusheduelist. Melee&ranged (9.5-9.16 Kayle) After her rework, (9.5) it was "not a single champion in the game can outscale you. Not a one. Better beat Kayle before she gets level 3 evolution." or "wait for Kayle to hit 16 guys we've got this!". This unique trait appeared to stem from her true damage wave abilities -- or in short she was unique because of her “purifying waves” which in turn still unlocked her previous identity of being able to build any item in the game. She could run either AP or AD each carrying its own perks and downsides So her identity: Versatility. Scaling. SplitpusheTeamfigher. Meleeranged 9.17 Kayle and onward iterations She's not technically terrible at anything but Laning phase...I guess... But she's good at nothing as well. There is no longer anything about her that stands out in any way whatsoever. She is terrible early and okayish mid game okay late. She’s a decent source of dps and a decent laner when the game starts for her... But that's it. There’s little discernible feeling of payout for the terrible early game you’re still subject to. Sure, her win-rate hits top 3 if the game goes on for 35 minutes. She scales into the game like a monster… but she sure as hell doesn’t feel like it, and it means little to nothing in a meta where the average game time is sub 30 minutes even for unranked players. Kayle’s “unique trait” as a Champion of League of Legends now is “I do a tiny bit of everything at the expense that you will have absolutely no agency and be absolutely miserable for about 10-15 minutes of your game” or in other terms, So her identity: Scaling. early grouper. Jack of all trades and master of none? She still scales like a monster of course, so I guess you can still say that's part of her unique traits now. But there’s little to no build fluidity (variance), few if any high moments, no great feeling auto attacks. There appeared to be one single saving grace for this iteration of Kayle’s kit for the general population though... Kleptomancy. Kleptomancy meant so much in my opinion, not because it was simply broken on her (it was certainly perceived as such), but because Kleptomancy was only integral for Kayle’s design to click with the average League player in my estimation because it gave the player the feeling that they were interacting with their opponent during the laning phase enough that people didn't get overwhelmed by the dismal feelings inherently ingrained into her kit Now that the placebo of interaction of doing something for the first 15 minutes of the game is gone. People have apparently decided, voted if you will, with their time and choices that the design Kayle bring to the table is simply not palatable for the general player. As a consequence, we can say with some degree of certainty that even if this kind of champion design is perceived as bat-shit busted...People don't touch it. Something HAS to feel satisfying for a significant portion of the game even if it does literally nothing in the grand scheme for players to pick her up. Those of us left either play because it's what we've always done, or for the "angel" theme which is one of the few aspects of Kayle that remains intact and unique at this point... This is one of the most iconic Champions in League of Legends. She’s one of the original 17 for crying out loud and it feels terrible to be in a game with her. It wouldn’t be all that difficult to make her have an extremely satisfying kit even as is. One example of relatively simple changes that could bring more life to her kit suggested to me in Kayle Mains Discord was changing her E: when you “cast” it, it unlocks the next tier of her ascension for 5-6 seconds. So levels 1-5, you have access to range for 5-6 seconds and range unlocking permanently at level 6; levels 6-10, you have access to your waves for 5-6 seconds and Level 11 your gain full access you your waves when your passive is fully stacked; levels 11-16, your waves could have a % chance to crit for say 25% for 5-6 seconds and level 16 your crit waves chance is doubled (25% → 50%) and when your E is active if your waves crt they deal true damage. An integration of a small part of her old kit which we know works into the new or the waves AoE is widened/enhanced, remove the true damage and keep the rest if it's too much, or any other plethora of options. Imagine how satisfying anything like that would be compared to currently when I press E. A high cost high cd low consequence spell, which I can throw one spell at either a minion and get a last hit, or I can throw it at the opponent and deal 50 dmg and then I'm back to the waiting game for my more favorable forms every 8 seconds. Now I'm not suggesting Riot reverts Kayle's kit, or implements any change suggested above. (That would be super cool but let's be real it's unlikely to happen) This post's purpose is to serve as a potential source of information for Riot addressing the opinions of people most passionate, regarding the direction pursued to make Kayle a great champion for everyone. And to cause Riot to take a good hard look at Kayle and make sure that what they're doing and have done is matching their expectations... because it's not matching ours. TLDR So why is Kayle failing? She's failing because the features that made her unique and quirky as a champion were stripped away from her in an attempt to appeal to a larger audience by making her easier to play; without something unique, potentially difficult, cool and quirky ingrained into their kits, champions with extreme trade-offs make people lose interest very quickly. Check out what other Kayle Mains are saying about this
Caution: This article is a long read, and goes in many directions. For the curious mind, it's a lively mindfield to explore and come back again and again. If you prefer poster images, never mind. Some links occur here mostly because they're interesting, and somehow are part of a duality. For me, duality means at least two things which are associated somehow, but considered separately are different. We don't need to count above 2, like say 'polyality' because obviously the idea of divergence, or fork, is able to have many 'tines' or separate paths. (See Tuning Fork, below.) We don't have time to cover every possibility, so let's just stick with 2, the most simple case of multiple. (See Rhizome Philosophy for an interesting alternative to this binary association structure. Also the paragraph titled "Association Schemes" in Exploiting the Pyramid.) We aren't considering pairs of identicals, like dual wheels, two of exactly the same thing, but maybe if there is a small difference, or doubtful meaning between similar things (see dual internal organs under anatomy, below). Sometimes the association between things is not obvious, in which case we better explain, but most dualities are obviously two tined. Let it go at that. Tuning Fork, a synchronous dynamic opposition, and also an acoustic device having a dual nature similar to both stringed eg. Piano and other percussion devices (eg. Glockenspiel. See also disambiguation of similar percussion instruments. Tuning forks have the advantage of needing no containment structure because their duality counter-balances the vibrations. All the other devices have a single resonator for each tone. Dualism (disambiguation index) | wkpd Fake Word Similarities Dual not confused with duel Dual not confused with do all. (Obvious.) Duality expressions flip side double edged sword Janus faced dark side-- bright side balanceequilibriumequation opposites (word list) positive-negative (photography)) bilateral symmetry mirror
Biblical Christianity requires black-and-white thinking because it is dualistic... Mainstream culture refuses to allow any categories because that would mean making distinctions, which ultimately ends in making value judgments. (which is DISCRIMINATION!) For the record, I am in favor of discrimination, not by race, but by behavior record. Discriminating Evolution from Intelligent Design (the flaws clause) 7 min
The historic task of cultural change is to resolve throughout the dominant culture the distortions of rationalist human/nature dualisms that deny our ecological embodiment and membership of the global ecological community.
For (Moses) Hess, the cardinal sin of the Judaic people was to abandon their heritage, while the cardinal objective of his Communism was to persuade all other people to abandon theirs… Communism was the means for achieving Judaic supremacy over the gentiles. The gentiles were fated to be reduced to a faceless, deracinated mass. Capitalism was also capable of producing this effect, through free trade and the unfettered financialization of society, in which the management of money becomes a vast business in itself, and where the highest virtue, after obeisance to Judaism, is profit.
ve’ahavta (“love your neighbor as yourself”) admonition to Goyim for regarding their Jewish neighbors; as for the Jews themselves, haba le-horgecha, hashkem le-horgo (“he who comes to kill you, rise early and kill him first” as told in 3 Little Pigs))
(wolf) attempts to trick third pig out of his (brick) house by asking to meet him at various places, but he is outwitted each time (3rd pig rises early, does the suggested task, and saves himself from being eaten)
Garrett Hardin writes: "The essential characteristic of a tribe is that it should follow a double standard of morality -- one kind of behavior for in-group relations, another for out-group." -Wild Taboo "It is a tragic irony that discrimination has produced a species (homo sapiens) that now proposes to abandon the principle responsible for its rise to greatness."
Competitive Exclusion Principle In the competition for living space and resources between two species (or two groups that occupy the same ecological niche), one will inevitably and inexorably eliminate the other. “In a finite universe – and the organisms of our world know no other – where the total number of organisms of both kinds cannot exceed a certain number… one species will necessarily replace the other species completely if the two species are “complete competitors, i.e., live the same kind of life.”
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