Why Build ARIA?

Agent-Role Impact Assessment (ARIA) is an evaluation system that measures individual contribution to round wins, adjusted for the player's role. Rather than rating all players against a single leaguewide baseline, ARIA compares Initiators against Initiators and Duelists against Duelists.

The main purpose is to try and quantify how a player has performed relative to role expectations and to be able to compare players across different teams and tournament contexts on a fair basis.

What it shows

• One number per player (0–100). Calibrated against role peers, so a Controller isn't punished for not getting first kills.
• Both Tier 1 and Challengers. Same formula, same scale but compared to their own tier level baselines.
• Prospects re-scores T2 players against T1 baselines to try to predict what a move to higher competition might bring.
• A player's archetype across 6 values: Survivability, Damage, First Bloods, Positioning (First Deaths), Utility and Carry Potential.
• Form trajectory. Recent form, year-over-year career arc, and a "trending up" tier for prospects who are improving fast.

What it doesn't show

• IGL value, comms quality, mid-round adjustments or anything else you can only see by watching VODs.
• The true value of space creation from Duelists.
• Opponent strength or schedule difficulty (the math gets too noisy).
• "Will this player succeed in T1?" The most-similar T1 pro is a style match, not a tier prediction.