Complete War Rankings

[Jenkar]

I believe there's both.
Look at how time changed after 10 men kicked in, for example.

Also, this war i think our team (air) was the biggest reason we became fourth.

[RavingRabbid]

Water gets abnormally bad luck

This was true War #4. We had a very bad RNG loss against Aether this time too.

[Calindu]

The element you must use is the first one as importance and then the deckbuilding and prediction skills(first example that comes in mind is Gravity team).

[Jenkar]

The element you must use is the first one as importance and then the deckbuilding and prediction skills(first example that comes in mind is Gravity team).

In my own opinion, both team's skill and element have the same importance.

[kev]

There is a lot of variance in an elements ranking from war to war. This indicates to me that either player skill (including all skills involved in War) or luck has a higher impact on the results than the element chosen.

I'd add variance in rules from War to War as a third variable.  Just as an example, in War 1 there was no conversion rule, so a team like Death who was never able to salvage a single Death card was more likely to have to suicide than some other teams.  In War 4 a couple teams didn't find a Strategist, had trouble adjusting to the new Google doc based vault, and suffered penalties.  Etc.

[Legit]

I've updated this topic with the War 6 Results. Here are some of the changes from post-War 5 to post-War 6.

Changes in Standings across all Wars from War 5 to War 6

Spoiler for Hidden:

+1 ^ Entropy
-1  v  Fire
0       Time
+2 ^ Aether
-1  v  Earth
0       Light
+3 ^ Air
-2  v  Darkness
-1  v  Light
0       Life
+1 ^ Gravity
0       Water

Changes in Win/Loss Ratio across all Wars from War 5 to War 6

Spoiler for Hidden:

0       Entropy
+1 ^ Aether
-1  v  Fire
+1 ^ Earth
-1  v  Death
0       Time
+2 ^ Air
-1  v  Darkness
-1  v  Light
0       Water
0       Life
0       Gravity

[CuCN]

+1 ^ Entropy
-1  v  Fire
0       Time
+2 ^ Aether
-1  v  Earth
0       Light
+3 ^ Air
-2  v  Darkness
-1  v  Light
0       Life
+1 ^ Gravity
0       Water

Two Lights?

[Odii Odsen]

+1 ^ Entropy
-1  v  Fire
0       Time
+2 ^ Aether
-1  v  Earth
0       Light
+3 ^ Air
-2  v  Darkness
-1  v  Light
0       Life
+1 ^ Gravity
0       Water

Two Lights?

"Light" between Earth and Air is Death.

[Higurashi]

Updated info with War 7. Didn't bother updating the rankings that are based on using elimination round as tiebreaker since it's fairly nonsensical.

This war has thrown around the total standings quite a bit, and has a lot of records associated with it.

• First of all, of course, Aether is the first and only team to ever win 3 Wars.
• They are also the first and only team to ever win both 2 Wars and 3 Wars in a row.
• With this War, Aether also took over the #1 spot in point rankings, which Entropy had previously owned since War 2.
• In addition to Aether passing Entropy, Time also passed Entropy thanks to this War where Entropy got their second worst ranking yet; 7th.

Other teams have performed by different standards than previously as well.

• Gravity nabs the 4th spot this War, which is their best ranking ever. The closest one was #6 in War 6. In other words, are they gaining momentum?
• Light has its worst ranking ever, and having been one of the mid tier elements, it drops from 6th in point ranking to 9th among the low tier elements.
• This also allows Air to take the 6th ranking with its recent good record of #2 in two Wars straight.

Total win % coming.

[serprex]

In addition to Aether passing Entropy, Time also passed Entropy thanks to this War where Entropy got their worst ranking yet; 7th.

War 5: 9th

[Legit]

Thanks Higs. I updated the W/L ratios.

- Aether passes Entropy to take a much deserved 1st place with highest Win/Loss ratio across all wars.
- Gravity passes Life to leave Life with the lowest Win/Loss ratio.

[deuce22]

Thanks Higs. I updated the W/L ratios.

- Aether passes Entropy to take a much deserved 1st place with highest Win/Loss ratio across all wars.
- Gravity passes Life to leave Life with the lowest Win/Loss ratio.

If lax stays master of gravy, and gravy gets a decent team, I think they can win the next war.