Casters of Valhalla

[OEAO]

https://castersofvalhalla.wixsite.co...odology-ft-dok
I welcome @dok on as the first co-host the show has had to discuss the methodology of the power rankings following some good discussion in our show thread.
CoV Thread:
https://www.heroscapers.com/communit...ad.php?t=56266
My Power Rankings:
https://www.heroscapers.com/communit...ad.php?t=54867
Dok's:
https://www.heroscapers.com/communit...ad.php?t=37772
Original:
https://www.heroscapers.com/communit...ead.php?t=6171
Cody's:
https://www.heroscapers.com/communit...ad.php?t=55236

[Matthias Maccabeus]

Sigh...I was replaced with an A- level cohost (but don’t worry I included Raelin in that ranking).

[OEAO]

So, I think I’ve addressed just about everything in this thread. However, now that at least my baseline metric is established, I’m more than happy to continue the discussion!

[Kinseth]

Originally Posted by Cleon

@Kinseth Yeah, I think I understand what you’re saying. With my rankings where I rank units out of 10, I wanted to spread the units a bit more evenly down the list and lessen the top-heavy-ness. But I think that incentive might just be due to an overall problem I have with the bottom half of others’ rankings. And to be fair, when you discuss competitive play you tend not to give a crap about the bottom half of the units because they’re not viable or rarely seen lol, so it doesn’t bug me too much. I think the top half of Orc’s rankings and Dok’s VC rankings, and to a lesser extent Spider’s/Jexik’s original rankings (since they’re 10 years old), are solid and accurate. But I like trying to get any idea of what the bottom half looks like even though it’s almost taboo in competitive talk. Maybe you feel the same way.
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One of the main differences is that I live in the world of Online Heroscape(OHS) and we use many formats that do not always see competitive play at a place like Gencon, that really put your skills to the test with lesser known units. Our recent event was a Reverse Draft and there were some pretty low ranked figures represented in the drafts.(Such as Khosumet, Pelloth)

I will check out your ranking system... are you going to start ranking VC figures?

[Cleon]

Originally Posted by Kinseth

One of the main differences is that I live in the world of Online Heroscape(OHS) and we use many formats that do not always see competitive play at a place like Gencon, that really put your skills to the test with lesser known units. Our recent event was a Reverse Draft and there were some pretty low ranked figures represented in the drafts.(Such as Khosumet, Pelloth)

I will check out your ranking system... are you going to start ranking VC figures?

I’m going to update my rankings again soon, there are some changes I want to make for some units to go up a tier and some to go down a tier (maybe one to drop two). I’ll probably post the unordered list first, then post the ordered one when I eventually have it all rounded out (cuz it takes forever).

I have made a VC one too, but that one definitely needs an update, it doesn’t even have several of the newest releases. I also don’t play nor have that much VC, so it’s a lot of me theorizing and going off of hearing people’s opinions and battle reports on them. But I do like them for the most part, and dissecting the competitive game with them.

[Dad_Scaper]

What a year 2020 has been. Holy hell. I was glad to listen to my friends @OrcElfArmyOne and @dok talk Scape, as I resign myself to not seeing them this year.

[OEAO]

Originally Posted by Dad_Scaper

What a year 2020 has been. Holy hell. I was glad to listen to my friends @OrcElfArmyOne and @dok talk Scape, as I resign myself to not seeing them this year.

Thanks DS! I’ll be on a biweekly schedule through at least the summer. Hopefully, I’ll see you next year in Indy (assuming this year doesn’t happen).

[Dad_Scaper]

Thanks!

I think, even if it there is a GenCon this year (which I doubt, because I've always thought they run a responsible business), you would not be foolish enough to attend.

See you next year, I hope.

[Dad_Scaper]

I wanted to come back to this thread & say how much I enjoyed this one. I think the double host format works very well; I've also enjoyed the segments that were with just Ken. I think the compact structure also helped me, as a member of the listening audience, hear the flow and stick with it.

[OEAO]

Originally Posted by Dad_Scaper

I wanted to come back to this thread & say how much I enjoyed this one. I think the double host format works very well; I've also enjoyed the segments that were with just Ken. I think the compact structure also helped me, as a member of the listening audience, hear the flow and stick with it.

Thanks for the feedback! This is the sort of feedback that really helps. Having only two people definitely makes it a lot cleaner and easier to follow. The next one (already recorded) has 4, but the structure of that one still makes it very easy to follow. I’m thinking 3 as an upper limit now, with a preference towards shorter episodes and 2 hosts.

[Tornado]

Started to listen to the Power Rankings episode, good stuff. Will certainly dig into them more.

[OEAO]

Originally Posted by Tornado

Started to listen to the Power Rankings episode, good stuff. Will certainly dig into them more.

Thanks for listening!