The most sensible thing for me is that dual region cards will be usable by both regions but will have some bonus for using both. I mentioned that I think each region will give you access to a different champ spell, which I think they'll have to do so that way they don't have to have duplicate cards for each region that includes a champion. For example, if Heimer became a BC champ then BC would have access to Progress Day which would be pretty weird. But if you played Heimer with just BC then you'd get access to another champ spell.
Xkozmic, the guy who usually releases meta stats for LoR, was going through some personal stuff so there wasn't his meta report to look at. But Dr. LoR is releasing a report for Runeterraccg tomorrow and posted an annoyingly blurry screenshot of the data today:
Also there's a matchup chart that you can find here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...y4VvTq5xPIAOvmvnFFMIA3T64/edit#gid=2099512221
Firstly, a couple of things to clarify a bunch of decks that have been popping up and have been claimed by some people to actually be good:
> Lee Sin + Zoe >>>>>>>> Lee Sin + Akshan
> All versions of Viego have negative win rates
> Fizz Draven's win rate is about even, which isn't great for an aggro deck which have historically had inflated win rates in ranked
> Same thing with Zed Teemo
> All combos of Sivir + Ionia seem to be about equally good depending on what you care about beating. Sivir Akshan seems to be a couple points better against a good amount of the field, but Zed Sivir is much better vs Zoe Lee. FWIW Sivir Akshan has been much more popular than Sivir Zed competitively
> TF GP has been slightly outperforming TF Swain
As for actual decks, the two biggest win rate decks by a fair margin is Pirates and Discard, which should be an indicator that the meta is mostly within an effective range even though there's been a fair amount of complaining about it as of late. I could genuinely see them touching something from Pirates as it was already a pretty good deck before and got 3 buffs of varying importance that it arguably didn't need in Make it Rain, MF, and Double Up. There's currently 11 decks with a 53%+ win rate, which is pretty impressive. That might be in part due to them farming a lot of the still pretty popular Viego lists as well as Akshan Lee which also has a fairly high play rate.
At this point I think Azir Irelia and Zoe Lee are the two biggest friction points in the current meta. They have really strong matchups against some decks and really weak matchups vs others, and depending on what else is popular they could either be a guaranteed ban or easily targeted. For example Shen Jarvan has event to great matchups against most the top cast, but struggles immensely vs Zoe Lee. There really isn't a tier one deck with a favorable matchup vs both decks.
As of right now, I think that the decks that I think are flirting with or are part of tier one are:
Azir Irelia
Sivir + Ionia
Pirates
Plunder
Shen Jarvan
Zoe Lee
And I think that these are on the fringe and could be argued to be tier 1:
Discard
Ez Draven
Karma Ez
TF + GP/Swain
I know there's been some friction about Shurima's recent strength and the increasing amount of OTKs, (being pushed by certain high level players overestimating the power of stuff like Draven Fizz) but overall I think there's still a lot of diversity in decks currently although I feel like the lack of FJ SI control deck is a bit of a bummer.
Xkozmic, the guy who usually releases meta stats for LoR, was going through some personal stuff so there wasn't his meta report to look at. But Dr. LoR is releasing a report for Runeterraccg tomorrow and posted an annoyingly blurry screenshot of the data today:
Also there's a matchup chart that you can find here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...y4VvTq5xPIAOvmvnFFMIA3T64/edit#gid=2099512221
Firstly, a couple of things to clarify a bunch of decks that have been popping up and have been claimed by some people to actually be good:
> Lee Sin + Zoe >>>>>>>> Lee Sin + Akshan
> All versions of Viego have negative win rates
> Fizz Draven's win rate is about even, which isn't great for an aggro deck which have historically had inflated win rates in ranked
> Same thing with Zed Teemo
> All combos of Sivir + Ionia seem to be about equally good depending on what you care about beating. Sivir Akshan seems to be a couple points better against a good amount of the field, but Zed Sivir is much better vs Zoe Lee. FWIW Sivir Akshan has been much more popular than Sivir Zed competitively
> TF GP has been slightly outperforming TF Swain
As for actual decks, the two biggest win rate decks by a fair margin is Pirates and Discard, which should be an indicator that the meta is mostly within an effective range even though there's been a fair amount of complaining about it as of late. I could genuinely see them touching something from Pirates as it was already a pretty good deck before and got 3 buffs of varying importance that it arguably didn't need in Make it Rain, MF, and Double Up. There's currently 11 decks with a 53%+ win rate, which is pretty impressive. That might be in part due to them farming a lot of the still pretty popular Viego lists as well as Akshan Lee which also has a fairly high play rate.
At this point I think Azir Irelia and Zoe Lee are the two biggest friction points in the current meta. They have really strong matchups against some decks and really weak matchups vs others, and depending on what else is popular they could either be a guaranteed ban or easily targeted. For example Shen Jarvan has event to great matchups against most the top cast, but struggles immensely vs Zoe Lee. There really isn't a tier one deck with a favorable matchup vs both decks.
As of right now, I think that the decks that I think are flirting with or are part of tier one are:
Azir Irelia
Sivir + Ionia
Pirates
Plunder
Shen Jarvan
Zoe Lee
And I think that these are on the fringe and could be argued to be tier 1:
Discard
Ez Draven
Karma Ez
TF + GP/Swain
I know there's been some friction about Shurima's recent strength and the increasing amount of OTKs, (being pushed by certain high level players overestimating the power of stuff like Draven Fizz) but overall I think there's still a lot of diversity in decks currently although I feel like the lack of FJ SI control deck is a bit of a bummer.