Some EC day2 analisis

To continue eternal discussion "dominate is broken and combat is weak".

Why EC day2?
Because it's the only tournament where we have top players motivated to play as good as possible (to win as much as possible) with the best decks, so the contents of the decks will be significant factor and so there is a point to analize it.

For example day 1 got much more diverse players field, some of whom are just aming to get into top 40, so are chosing to play unbalanced decks to maximize chance to "steal" GW.

Original data from Pascal's post:

www.vekn.net/forum/event-reports-and-twd/72816-ec-day2-metagame

Obviously got no information about deck contents so have to improvise. But i think I'm not too far from the truth.

1. Deck types
Bleed - 8
Politics - 8
Toolbox - 8 (imbueds here)
Rush combat - 6
Wall - 6
Ally - 3 (khazar here)
Turbo - 1

So, suddenly, nearly total ballance here. And combat is present in like 50% of all decks. Looks not so underpowered to me.

2. Clans
Tremere 5 (both)
Mix 4
Malkavians 3 (both)
Lasombra 3
Toreador 3
Gangrel 2
!Gangrel 2
!Ventrue 2
Brujah 2
Guruhi 2
Settites 1
Assamite 1
Imbued 1
ahrimanes 1
True Brujah 1
Kiasid 1
HoS 1
Akunase 1
Giovanny 1
Baali 1
Nosferatu 1 (sudenly !nos were more present)

So very small tremere dominance, but it's a number for both cam and sabbat and for walls, ally and bleed decks, so kind of like total balance here too.

Assamites and !nos are present!

No mono Ishtarri but they (Undele) was present in many decks.

Only two prominent clans not present are Ventrue and Tzimisce. Nobody thinks that they are too weak?

No Blood Brothers, !brujah, !toreadors, DoC, Osebo, Salubri, Samedi, Ravnos.

But with 1-3 presence of all clans it all just can be statistical fluctuation.

3. Disciplines
dom 14
aus 14
pre 9
obf 9
for 8
ani 8
cel 7
tau 4
pro 4
pot 4
obt 4
nec 3
ser 1
qui 1
spi 1
dem 1
tem 1
myt 1
dai 1

Yea, DOM is popular, but, suddenly, as much as AUS. Can not remember "nerf AUS" threads (actually i remember one from ector like 10...12 years ago, when Bowl ofC was published, lol)

tier 2: pre, obf, for, cel(!), ani - one of them just for combat, other mostly for it at the same level of presentation as second best bleed discipline, multiaction discipline and best stealth.

tier 3: tau, pro, pot, obt, nec - second mono-combat discipline here equally presented as "weaker" stealth disciplines. Necromancy is cool.

Just 1 deck using kindred spirits. No chimestry even it has both bleed and stealth. Bleed is not so effective against good players?

And who got into top 5?
1. Marcin Watras (POL) — 1 GW 5.5 VP — 1.5 VP — Goratrix Aus/Ani Wall
2. Pierre Tran-Van (FRA) — 1 GW 5 VP — 1.5 VP — Euro-Brujah
2. Marius Iscru (FRA) — 1 GW 7 VP — 0.5 VP — Toreador AAA
2. Danilo Torrisi (ITA) — 2 GW 8 VP — 0 VP — Mistress Fanchon/Luna Vote
2. Giulio De Cicco (ITA) — 1 GW 5 VP — 0 VP — Brujah G4/5 Obf Vote

1 Wall (17% chance to get to the final)
2 Toolboxes (25%)
2 Politics (25%)

Rush combat is bad

So aus, ani + dom, pot, cel + aus, pre + nec, obf + obf, cel, pre=
dom 1 (7% chance to get into final)
aus 2 (14% chance)
cel 2 (29%)
pre 2 (22%)
ani 1 (13%)
pot 1 (25%)
nec 1 (33%)
obf 1 (11%)

Dominate is the discipline with the smallest chance to get you to final
Brujah, as a clan, got 100% chance to get there.

Real conclusion from all of this is that the game is qiute fine as it is.

We just need to solve card availability problem.

Interesting analysis, although it of course suffers from having such a tiny sample size. But it's also going to be impossible to get perfect data in this case, so I'm willing to go with it. That having been said, I'm confused about this:

elotar wrote:

dom 14
[...]
dom 1 (7% chance to get into final)

If 14/40 decks had access to Dominate, then how did you calculate that it only has a 7% chance to get into the finals? To me, it would be (14/40)+(14/39)+(14/38)+(14/37)+(14/36) = 185% of at least one deck with Dominate getting into the final. It would be shatteringly unlikely that none of those 14 decks made it into the final. And then 3 decks in the finals actually had Dominate.

Finally, I'd suggest that this kind of analysis isn't indicative of power level. If we look at all the disciplines that were likely used by the decks in the finals, we get the following chart:

Auspex: 3 (Goratrix, AAA, Mistress Fanchon)
Celerity: 3 (Euro-Brujah, AAA, Brujah Vote)
Dominate: 3 (Goratrix, Euro-Brujah, Mistress Fanchon)

Potence: 2 (Euro-Brujah, Brujah Vote)
Presence: 2 (AAA, Brujah Vote)
Thaumaturgy: 2 (Goratrix, Mistress Fanchon)

Animalism: 1 (Goratrix)
Obfuscate: 1 (Brujah Vote)

This chart would indicate that Celerity and Dominate are equally powerful in the game, and have an equal effect. Is that true in your experience? Is that true in anybody's experience? I guess my point is that this analysis is interesting, and if combined with EC Day 2 data from several other years might be of increasing interest, but I'd hesitate to make too many sweeping statements based on it.

But I do agree that rush combat sucks, and I think we're in agreement that it should continue to suck until it's goal isn't to prevent other players from playing the game. Maybe cards that gained you a benefit but didn't require that you put the opposing minion into torpor....

Holy crap complicated math!

There was 14 decks with dominate and 1 of them got into finals (eurobrujah, cause both Goratrix and Falchion decks has it on main vampire but was not playing dom cards), so chanse to get into final if you have dom is 1/14=0.07

Don't count disciplines on vampires, count cards used.

Fixed:

brettscho wrote:

Auspex: 3 2 (Goratrix, AAA, Mistress Fanchon)
Celerity: 3 2 (Euro-Brujah, AAA, Brujah Vote)
Dominate: 3 1 (Goratrix, Euro-Brujah, Mistress Fanchon)

Potence: 2 1 (Euro-Brujah, Brujah Vote)
Presence: 2 (AAA, Brujah Vote)
Thaumaturgy: 2 1 (Goratrix, Mistress Fanchon)

Animalism: 1 (Goratrix)
Obfuscate: 1 2 (Brujah Vote, Mistress Fanchon)
Necromancy: 0 1 (Mistress Fanchon)

It's possible that there was some dom cards in mistress falchion deck (couple of bounce), we just haven't seen them, but still it'll not be so significant.