Talent

In Leek Wars, talent measures how well you perform compared to other players. It is represented by this icon:

There are the following talent measures:

Solo talent (individual talent of each leek, affected by the solo garden),
Farmer talent (talent of each farmer, affected by the farmer garden),
Team talent (talent of each team composition, affected by the team garden).

Effects of talent

Talent has several direct effects on the game:

Garden adjustment

In your garden, you will only meet opponents of similar talent. The exact garden algorithm is not public, but keep in mind that the further you progress, the tougher your opponents will be!

Rewards

The higher your relative talent, the more experience, habs and resources you get at the end of fights! This relative talent is computed as the difference between your talent and the average talent of leeks or farmers of the same level. A difference of +3 talent compared to the average gives +1% gains (additive: +300 talent gives +100% gains). This bonus only applies to solo and farmer fights. Having a negative relative talent (less talent than the average) has no negative impact on your gains, phew!

Talent evolution

Fighting an opponent makes your talent evolve. It is a scale similar in principle to the Elo rating system (wikipedia) (K = 30\*).

Roughly:

If two opponents with the same talent fight each other:
The winner gains 15 , and the loser loses 15 .
In case of a draw, talents do not change.

The value 15 here varies according to the talent difference between the opponents: beating a weaker opponent / losing against a stronger opponent will change the talent very little, whereas beating a stronger opponent / losing against a weaker opponent will change it a lot.

If two opponents with different talents fight each other (A* has a higher talent than *B):
If A* wins, they gain between 15 and 0 , decreasing with the talent difference between A and B, and *B loses the same amount.
If B* wins, they gain between 15 and 30 , increasing with the talent difference between A and B, and *A loses the same amount.
In case of a draw, A* loses between 0 and 15 , and *B gains the same amount.

A few details:

talent never drops below 0;
boss fights do not change talent;
the Elo-like formula uses a divisor of 500 (instead of 400 in the classic Elo rating).

\* These talent exchanges are smoothed up to level 100: the gain is multiplied by about 1% + level × 0.99%, i.e. ~2% at level 1 and ~50% at level 50. A fight between two level 1 leeks will therefore have a minimal impact on their talent. For farmers, the smoothing is based on power rather than level; there is no smoothing for teams.