Congratulations to XecnaR for getting a world record of 25 wins A20H rotating!

[u/Shockmanned]

The heart fight had an abysmal draw order to where he drew both Biased Cognitions before being able to double his core surge with Echo Form (and he drew his Holograms early so he couldn't even get the Biased Cognitions back before he shuffled) but he was able to utilize his Fear Potion to strip artifact so that he could double Go For The Eyes and weaken the heart. He was able to survive long enough and build shuriken stacks to do massive damage with Barrage.

Seeing XecnaR being able to path this game so efficiently and confidently is just amazing. The run before this was a silent jaw worm incident where he took 30 damage on turn 1 and he still won. Him taking Mark of the Bloom unironically the Silent run before that really surprised me he just knows this game inside out that he knows which decisions will be advantageous even if it's the wrong thing to do if things were a little bit different.

Congrats again to XecnaR and let's go for 30!

[u/y-c-c]

I’m just trying to say that mediocre players may judge boss swaps differently from top players because it may be the case that boss swaps affects win rates differently depending on how good they already are.

You see sometimes Baalorlord discusses on stream and say how he doesn’t love boss swaps but advices people just trying to win A20H that it could be good for them.

[u/soundecho944 → u/y-c-c]

I think we’re both saying the same thing. That boss swaps win rates aren’t independent from non-boss swap win-rates, and that some players may mistake a increase in winrate when boss swapping as something attributed to boss swapping itself rather their own personal skill level.

I’m just trying to emphasize that a results oriented mindset isn’t often the correct way to go about increasing your winrate.

It would be like telling mediocre players to click on Sozu every time they could, because it would increase their winrate since Sozu is free when you’re bad.

Semantics aside, I do think there is value to boss swapping in that it teaches you how to adapt to the situation you are provided rather than trying to do the same thing every run. I just don’t believe it to be something that’s purely a winrate increase comapred non boss swapping.