Some kind of rock-paper-scissors does seem likely.
5 watery fighters as an input team causes my program to output a team that loses Blaze Boy in favor of Quartz Questant. 5 earthy fighters loses Tidehollow Tyrant in favor of Phoenix Paladin.5 fiery fighters loses Blaze Boy in favor of Warrior of Winter.
That last one is strange. I’d expect to lose Greenery Giant there. I guess he’s just that strong? Or fire is kind of bad? (Or, I have been cunningly tricked because I am bad at this).
The NPC team looks like 3 earth 1 fire 1 water. So normally you’d want more fire to deal with this. But fire is bad, so instead we bring in two strong neutral(?) fighters, the Nightmare, which just seems awesome, and the Rock’n’Roll Ranger, which is still pretty good.
Balanced teams seem important, so cutting any of our 3 strong elemental heroes seems like a bad idea. It’s possible the weaker untyped hero should be swapped out for a strong fiery hero; that is, Rock’n’Roll Ranger swapped out for Phoenix Paladin, which is… also a team someone has already submitted.
I think I’ve made a mistake guessing elements. Because I count 6 water, 5 earth, 5 fire, and 3 neutral. I’d expect 5,5,5,4. Maybe it’s 6,6,6,1?
Oil Ooze is what, pollution? Poison? Could be earth? I guess? I’m picturing Hexxus from Ferngully, honestly.
Rock’n’Roll Ranger—um, sonic?, although I guess rangers are nature associated so it could be earth again (maybe)?
Nullifying Nightmare—uh, dreams? If there is only one neutral fighter, it’s probably this one.
Man, maybe one of the watery fighters isn’t water? Probably the Siren Sorceress as another sonic?
Or maybe the elements are just uneven and I’m reading way too much into this.
Never tried one of these before. I have no idea what I’m doing so we’ll see how it goes!
I swear I did the working on my own, but I am producing exactly the same team as another player. I guess that’s a good sign?
I’ve edited my teams based on newer analysis. If this is cheating, just use the old ones!
Regular team:
Blaze Boy, Greenery Giant, Nullifying Nightmare, Rock-n-Roll Ranger, Tidehollow TyrantBlaze Boy, Greenery Giant, Landslide Lord, Rock-n-Roll Ranger, Phoenix Paladin
How I got it:
I looked at each champion’s win-rate against every other champion. Then I took the 5 champions on their team and looked which champions had the highest mean winrate against all champions on the opponent’s team.
Coincidentally, there are exactly 5 champions that have a >50% winrate by this criterion. So I’m bringing all 5 of them as my team.
PvP team:
The same as my regular team, embarrassingly enough.Greenery Giant, Rock-n-Roll Ranger, Landslide Lord, Blaze Boy, Tidehollow Tyrant
How I got it:
I decided to iterate the process I used to beat the opponent’s team. And discovered that the 5 best champions against that team were, in fact, that team.
I feel like this shouldn’t happen. Maybe I’ll look more at this tomorrow and change my mind.