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Perhaps there’s a kind of anxiousness unique to gacha games. It’s the moment where you’re in front of the banner interface, checking your Polychrome balance. It’s always slightly less than you feel comfortabley with, and you find yourself asking whether you should spend now or wait until payday. There’s an S-rank Agent on display, though … Read more

Win rate is one piece of an improvement, but in some games, that’s not nearly as important than other small stats. KDA is something you can see, but it’s easy to mistake it for a definitive answer. This calculator do all the conversion and coefficient guessing for you. Just enter your sample size, and it … Read more

But now that you’re going to go ahead and pull for it anyway, now that it’s about real money rather than abstract odds of success, now it’s about personal finance. That means Astrite and Tides in your bank, and you need to get this certain character before the banner expires. It is not just any … Read more

Ranked play in Valorant has its own particular type of nightmare: you can carry a round and still lose the match. Your team is falling apart on Site A while you get five kills in the last minute, all you have to show for it is a statistical highlight that doesn’t mean a thing on … Read more

Competitive Overwatch 2 is an emotional rollercoaster. Watching that progress bar tick up as you sit in the lobby are nerve-racking. One bad game and all that hard work will go away. It’s why the rank system is so hard to understand. Its inner workings is hidden by unknown matchmaking values and a estimate of … Read more

It’s the docks at Barlow Hollow. It’s Hunt Showdown. It’s a shooter, sure, but it’s also an exercise in nerves and resource management. You’ll convince yourself that your skill comes solely from number of enemies you take down. But that’s not the case. That’s where the stats come in. Plug them in and let the … Read more

Counter picks against your hero can often make you feel like you are swimming upstream. If you don’t really understand how well you’re actualy performing with certain heroes then climbing the ranks will be difficult, as knowing your general win rate isn’t the whole story. An even 50% for example means little if you played … Read more

You know that feeling when you have ten more games left in your premium timer and you are absolutely convinced that matchmaking system is out to get you? If you’re a player with a win rate hovering around 50%, this probably makes sense to you. Small improvements gets lost when large sample sizes are involved, … Read more

By the time you’ve reached two thousand Ultimate Champion medals, ladder turns from being a game of skill to a game of nerves. An hour of perfect play can be undone by a single bad pull and now you’re not just playing Clash Royale, but also managing variance and anxiety. That is why it’s important … Read more

When you climb out of a losing streak only to immediately lose two more games in a row, it feel like matchmaking system is personally targeting you. And then you lose another couple of matches. It all feels very personal, but in reality, it’s almost always drier and not as personal than you feel. Your … Read more

Until now, your win rate was the ultimate judgment on how well you were doing. But then you remember, it’s really just a reflection. It could be good or it could be bad. But it’s way more nuanced than a single percentage lets on. What does your stat line say? That’s where this thing comes … Read more

Sometimes it seems that only reason for losing games in Dota 2 is because of bad luck, randomness. After ten straight losses, you might start to doubt yourself. You begin to question if there’s even anything you’re doing right mechanicaly. Every ranked game have variance, but by viewing your data through a win rate calculator, … Read more