Talent

Talent

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

There are several kinds of talent:

• Solo talent (each leek's own talent, affected by solo fights in the Garden),
• Farmer talent (each farmer's own talent, affected by farmer fights in the Garden),
• Team talent (each team composition's own talent, affected by team fights in the Garden).

Effects of talent

Talent has several direct effects on the game:

Garden matchmaking

In the Garden, you only face 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 the difference between your talent and the average talent of leeks or farmers of the same level. Every +3 talent above the average gives +1% to your 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!

How talent changes

Fighting an opponent changes your talent. It works on 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 with the talent difference between the opponents: beating a weaker opponent or losing to a stronger one changes talent very little, whereas beating a stronger opponent or losing to a weaker one changes it a lot.

• If two opponents with different talents fight each other (A* has more 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. So a fight between two level 1 leeks has a minimal impact on their talent. For farmers, the smoothing is based on power rather than level; there is no smoothing for teams.