Question 1

What is the Riftbound meta?

Accepted Answer

The Riftbound meta refers to the most competitively played and successful champion decks in tournament play. This tier list ranks champions by tier based on real tournament results, not opinion.

Question 2

How is the tier list computed?

Accepted Answer

The percentage on each card is the champion's pick rate — the share of pilots playing that champion across recent events. Tier placement combines a Bayesian-smoothed placement score (how high pilots finished, normalized by event size) with pick rate. Events are weighted by recency (exponential decay) and size (super-linear, player count^0.75). Placement scores use a log-weighted percentile so a top-8 finish in a large event scores far higher than mid-pack. Champions with too few weighted pilots are not ranked.

Question 3

How often is the tier list updated?

Accepted Answer

The tier list recomputes automatically whenever new tournament data is ingested, typically within hours of an event completing.

Question 4

Why use placement instead of round-by-round wins?

Accepted Answer

Using placement (not round-by-round wins) lets every regional event count equally — including events whose source data only exposes final standings, such as Chinese loltcg tournaments.

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