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Mr. Crashed - It'll be great if we can have a bit less defenders and a bit more attackers.

I would like to play the champs.

Also make Titan great again.(Remove duds such as RULK and Falcon)

I'm not a champion designer, so this isn't my call, but I will say I am very happy with where the meta has moved in the last 6 months. Drafts, at least below the very top, are a lot more diverse than they were last year when three champions (Bullseye, Serpent and Enchantress) dominated the meta. I think the champion team has done an excellent job with the additions so far this year.

Anything that can be done next BG season against pausing?

Maybe if you add match stats of how many seconds/minutes there was actual fighting, game will know who paused and with this the score will be lower than if he actually fight.

This can be advised on Forums and in game, so this problem will be fixed, because players wont do again.

Thanks

The most obvious solution to pausing is having a 10 second timer that resets on each input from both the AI and Player. If the timer runs out that means the game has not recorded any inputs and the player is automatically kicked, given a forfeit, and a 1 minute matchmaking ban that escalates up to a full season ban.

If you don't have the time to play BGs, don't play. If you have an emergency, you were not going to win anyway. If you keep having emergencies then you shouldn't be playing a ranked mode in the first place.

This game mode is completely random. You can't count cards. Consider it along the lines of a brand new deck every single game.

I’d say that’s probably correct for BETWEEN HANDS.

But are we to assume that WITHIN a hand/game, that is your discarded cards can NOT come back in a subsequent draw (unlike BattleGrounds).
*not just getting same card immediately after discarding it (that would be really obvious if it were happening sometimes), but also can’t re-draw a card in 3rd draw that you had discarded for the 1st draw.

I'd probably say that is true as well.

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But, relatedly, I had thought about OP's question from a casino standpoint.

For any type of Poker (Draw, Texas Hold'em, etc) the deck can NOT (I assume) be made of more than 1 standard deck of 52. Or else you'd see 5 of a kind sometimes.
But can't remember if dealer is actually reshuffling them every hand, or discarding entire deck each hand down a pit, and taking out a previously auto-shuffled one (maybe randomly from among several decks being used and auto-shuffled ?) from under the table (or whatever).

Versus BlackJack or Baccarat, etc. where it is what (4 or 8 ?) decks worth all together in a shoe which is used for many hands before being switched. And where you could indeed pull repeats even bak-2-bak.