Introduction
Here is an interesting post about 6.81 patch influence on heroes win rate in Dota 2. One point caught my attention: a drastic change in Axe win rate: from 52% to 48%; see image below.
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| Axe's win rate before and after 6.81 patch (29-th of April) |
The only change Axe get in this patch was implementation of the preudo random approach for the determination of Counter Helix skill triggering instead of random. As was guessed in the article:
"...where you manage to Berserker's Call several enemies, you only have 3.2 seconds of being unconditionally hit by the enemy. In this time frame, the amount of successful Counter Helixes that use PRD is probably lower than with a true random. Hence the decrease in damage output and Win Rate."
Ok, nice guess! Lets test it!
Create a simulation to test the hypothesis
Import needed modules
import random import numpy from tabulate import tabulate import collections
Lets create functions to calculate number of Counter Helix PROCs for given number of hits using random and pseudo random approaches. First one will be using random approach (notice that random.randrange() actually generates pseudo random set of values)
def randHelixProc(hits):
'''
checks if Counter Helix PROCs (chance = 17%) using random approach
@param hits: number of times Axe was hit
@return procs: number of times Counter Helix PROCs
'''
procs = 0
for i in xrange(hits):
chance = random.randrange(1, 101)
if chance < 18:
procs += 1
else:
continue
return procs
I don't know how exactly pseudo random PROCs are designed for Axe or for Dota 2 in general, but they say that the probability of the pseudo random event in Dota 2 in it initial state has lower chance to proc than the stated probability for the event and each time the event is not triggered when it could the chance for this event to occur is increased. Lets say some event triggers with the 50% chance. Suggested pseudo random approach can be realised with 3 consecutive checks that have different chances: 0%, 50% and 100% (average is 50%). When event finally triggers it reset chance for the event to initial value (0% in this case) and it all starts over again.
def pseudoRandHelixProc(hits):
'''
checks if Counter Helix PROCs (chance = 17%) using pseudo random approach
@param hits: number of times Axe was hit
@return procs: number of times Counter Helix PROCs
'''
treshold = 0
prob_list = [2, 5, 9, 14, 23, 47] # ~17% on average
procs = 0
for i in xrange(hits):
chance = random.randrange(1, 101)
try:
success = prob_list[treshold]
except:
success = prob_list[5]
if chance >= success:
treshold += 1
else:
procs += 1
treshold = 0
return procs
Check if the chances for PROCs are the same for the both functions. We should have 1700 procs of Counter Helix for 10000 attacs on Axe. Launch 100 simulations of 10000 hits for each function and compute average procs for random and pseudo random approaches.
rhelix_list = [] for i in xrange(100): value = randHelixProc(10000) rhelix_list.append(value) numpy.mean(rhelix_list) >>>1702.79 p_rhelix_list = [] for i in xrange(100): value = pseudoRandHelixProc(10000) p_rhelix_list.append(value) numpy.mean(p_rhelix_list) >>>1702.3Output difference is negligible for random and pseudo random implementations.
Now its time to create a simulation function.
def simulation(times, hits):
'''
Computes average number of PROCs for given hits for random and pseudo random
approaches and difference between them.
@param times: number of times simulation will run
@param hits: number of hits to simulate
@return: average difference in pocs between random and pseudo random approaches;
table of simul results
'''
# create lists of results
diff_list = []
rand_mean_list = []
p_rand_mean_list = []
# run simulation
for hit in xrange(1, hits + 1):
rand_list = []
pseudo_rand_list = []
for t in xrange(times):
rand = randHelixProc(hit)
p_rand = pseudoRandHelixProc(hit)
rand_list.append(rand)
pseudo_rand_list.append(p_rand)
# compute statistics and populate lists of results
rand_mean = numpy.mean(rand_list)
rand_mean_list.append(rand_mean)
p_rand_mean = numpy.mean(pseudo_rand_list)
p_rand_mean_list.append(p_rand_mean)
diff = rand_mean - p_rand_mean
diff = round(diff, 2)
diff_list.append(diff)
# print average difference in PROCs
total_diff = sum(diff_list)
l = len(diff_list)
print 'average difference:', total_diff/l
print '#######################################################################################################'
# create table output for simulation results
out_dict = {}
out_dict['(1) cumulative hits'] = range(1, l + 1)
out_dict['(2) random mean PROCs'] = rand_mean_list
out_dict['(3) pseudo random mean PROCs'] = p_rand_mean_list
out_dict['(4) difference'] = diff_list
out_dict = collections.OrderedDict(sorted(out_dict.items()))
print tabulate(out_dict, headers = 'keys', tablefmt="orgtbl")
Lets run 100 simulations of 100 consecutive hits. Of course it is possible to run 10000 hits but it is unnecessary since every time the Counter Helix is triggered we jump back to the first row from the table below (result of the simulation). As was already mentioned:"[if] ...you manage to Berserker's Call several enemies, you only have 3.2 seconds of being unconditionally hit by the enemy"If Axe was able to catch 3 enemies, together they will hit him about 9-12 times. This means that with the pseudo random approach he will spin 0.3-0.4 times less than with random approach. It will cause him to deal ~(205*0.35)*3 = 215,25 (or 71.75 per hero) less damage in engagement.
So the hypothesis was true - pseudo random approach caused the decrease in damage output on the short time interval even if total number of PROCs during the game stayed the same.
average difference: 0.34 ####################################################################################################### | (1) cumulative hits | (2) random mean PROCs | (3) pseudo random mean PROCs | (4) difference | |-----------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------+------------------| | 1 | 0.17 | 0 | 0.17 | | 2 | 0.45 | 0.09 | 0.36 | | 3 | 0.56 | 0.12 | 0.44 | | 4 | 0.71 | 0.26 | 0.45 | | 5 | 0.81 | 0.36 | 0.45 | | 6 | 1.06 | 0.75 | 0.31 | | 7 | 1.37 | 0.88 | 0.49 | | 8 | 1.35 | 0.97 | 0.38 | | 9 | 1.47 | 1.22 | 0.25 | | 10 | 1.64 | 1.33 | 0.31 | | 11 | 1.95 | 1.65 | 0.3 | | 12 | 2.1 | 1.68 | 0.42 | | 13 | 2.36 | 1.79 | 0.57 | | 14 | 2.56 | 2.16 | 0.4 | | 15 | 2.61 | 2.26 | 0.35 | | 16 | 2.61 | 2.37 | 0.24 | | 17 | 2.87 | 2.43 | 0.44 | | 18 | 2.77 | 2.83 | -0.06 | | 19 | 3.22 | 2.84 | 0.38 | | 20 | 3.03 | 2.84 | 0.19 | | 21 | 3.6 | 3.22 | 0.38 | | 22 | 3.71 | 3.32 | 0.39 | | 23 | 3.68 | 3.68 | 0 | | 24 | 3.93 | 3.72 | 0.21 | | 25 | 4.54 | 3.92 | 0.62 | | 26 | 4.65 | 4.04 | 0.61 | | 27 | 4.47 | 4.27 | 0.2 | | 28 | 4.83 | 4.39 | 0.44 | | 29 | 4.78 | 4.48 | 0.3 | | 30 | 4.93 | 4.8 | 0.13 | | 31 | 5.3 | 4.92 | 0.38 | | 32 | 5.1 | 5.04 | 0.06 | | 33 | 5.79 | 5.34 | 0.45 | | 34 | 5.82 | 5.54 | 0.28 | | 35 | 6.04 | 5.52 | 0.52 | | 36 | 5.67 | 5.7 | -0.03 | | 37 | 6.64 | 5.98 | 0.66 | | 38 | 6.4 | 6.03 | 0.37 | | 39 | 6.72 | 6.41 | 0.31 | | 40 | 7.07 | 6.46 | 0.61 | | 41 | 7.04 | 6.59 | 0.45 | | 42 | 7.18 | 6.81 | 0.37 | | 43 | 7.08 | 6.9 | 0.18 | | 44 | 7.61 | 7.09 | 0.52 | | 45 | 7.72 | 7.21 | 0.51 | | 46 | 7.73 | 7.66 | 0.07 | | 47 | 8 | 7.68 | 0.32 | | 48 | 8.41 | 7.7 | 0.71 | | 49 | 8.57 | 7.93 | 0.64 | | 50 | 8.54 | 8.11 | 0.43 | | 51 | 8.16 | 8.31 | -0.15 | | 52 | 9 | 8.4 | 0.6 | | 53 | 9.01 | 8.79 | 0.22 | | 54 | 8.98 | 8.88 | 0.1 | | 55 | 9.54 | 8.99 | 0.55 | | 56 | 9.4 | 9.13 | 0.27 | | 57 | 9.75 | 9.08 | 0.67 | | 58 | 10.1 | 9.42 | 0.68 | | 59 | 9.71 | 9.64 | 0.07 | | 60 | 10.31 | 9.87 | 0.44 | | 61 | 10.19 | 10.31 | -0.12 | | 62 | 10.29 | 10.21 | 0.08 | | 63 | 10.76 | 10.55 | 0.21 | | 64 | 10.82 | 10.48 | 0.34 | | 65 | 10.7 | 10.77 | -0.07 | | 66 | 11.27 | 10.94 | 0.33 | | 67 | 11.81 | 11.06 | 0.75 | | 68 | 11.54 | 11.34 | 0.2 | | 69 | 11.98 | 11.26 | 0.72 | | 70 | 12.26 | 11.66 | 0.6 | | 71 | 11.35 | 12.01 | -0.66 | | 72 | 12.03 | 11.64 | 0.39 | | 73 | 12.37 | 11.94 | 0.43 | | 74 | 12.74 | 12.16 | 0.58 | | 75 | 13.16 | 12.66 | 0.5 | | 76 | 12.77 | 12.59 | 0.18 | | 77 | 13.1 | 12.65 | 0.45 | | 78 | 13.2 | 12.95 | 0.25 | | 79 | 13.59 | 13.06 | 0.53 | | 80 | 13.32 | 13.27 | 0.05 | | 81 | 13.74 | 13.25 | 0.49 | | 82 | 13.98 | 13.47 | 0.51 | | 83 | 14.86 | 13.74 | 1.12 | | 84 | 14.53 | 13.8 | 0.73 | | 85 | 14.54 | 14.29 | 0.25 | | 86 | 14.49 | 14.22 | 0.27 | | 87 | 15.03 | 14.46 | 0.57 | | 88 | 15.49 | 14.55 | 0.94 | | 89 | 15.51 | 14.8 | 0.71 | | 90 | 15.58 | 15 | 0.58 | | 91 | 16.17 | 15.01 | 1.16 | | 92 | 14.89 | 15.43 | -0.54 | | 93 | 15.73 | 15.4 | 0.33 | | 94 | 16.16 | 15.67 | 0.49 | | 95 | 16.11 | 16.17 | -0.06 | | 96 | 16.03 | 16.17 | -0.14 | | 97 | 16.41 | 16.07 | 0.34 | | 98 | 17.26 | 16.27 | 0.99 | | 99 | 15.65 | 16.7 | -1.05 | | 100 | 16.15 | 16.96 | -0.81 |
