League of Legends

[ReikonKeiri]

I'll break it down for you. I watch NA (and sometimes KR), I don't watch EU. KR is "the best" just because Monte says so. From the little bit I've seen of them EU plays completely differently than NA. NA plays a lot more similarly to KR than EU so someone like me expects that in terms of metagame NA is further along than EU.

Worlds comes along and EU beats KR more than NA does. Mass panic in the streets etc.

also this

also EU is better than NA in basically every competitive game

means nothing to someone who only watches LoL as far as esports goes.


At the end of the day though everyone was expecting Korea to stomp EVERYONE. There haven't even been that many "stomps" so far. It's refreshing as I was one of the few people that said NA/EU were going to do better than everyone thought. Compared to S2 worlds the other regions are actually getting tons of practice they didn't have before with the introduction of the LCS and now that teams are getting analysts etc there really is no excuse for one region to have a massive advantage. (except the bs excuse of genetics)

[FFR4EVA_00]

Originally Posted by ReikonKeiri

Compared to S2 worlds the other regions are actually getting tons of practice they didn't have before with the introduction of the LCS and now that teams are getting analysts etc there really is no excuse for one region to have a massive advantage. (except the bs excuse of genetics)

i think you mean cultural differences
in the US nobody gives a fuck about anything except quick $$$ and everyone is afraid of effort

[mi40]

No more argue noobze

[ReikonKeiri]

does anyone know of the korean commentators are super biased towards korean teams? listening to the casting of tsm vs skt is actually laughable how sad they seem when tsm fails.

[mi40]

they aren't biased at all but openly display emotions (sadness, etc)

as a matter of fact korean commentators rag on korean players (wtf he didnt do this, wow he really fucked up hard, he's gonna get flak when he returns to korea)

[Razor]

Originally Posted by Fission

adc in a nutshell -> knowing what your opponent's champ is capable of and how well you can trade

as an adc main, p much this

[Fission]

Originally Posted by ReikonKeiri

From the little bit I've seen of them EU plays completely differently than NA. NA plays a lot more similarly to KR than EU so someone like me expects that in terms of metagame NA is further along than EU.

just because NA plays similarly to KR doesn't mean they can execute the play style properly. it has nothing to do with meta.

Originally Posted by ReikonKeiri

Worlds comes along and EU beats KR more than NA does. Mass panic in the streets etc.

again, how is this a surprise to anybody? i thought this was common knowledge.

Originally Posted by ReikonKeiri

also this means nothing to someone who only watches LoL as far as esports goes.

i'm just telling you how it is.

EDIT: misinterpreted the last part of your post

[mi40]

EU sucks cause a lot of the players speak bad englando

[ReikonKeiri]

Originally Posted by Fission

i thought this was common knowledge.

Well if I can fault you on anything its that this isnt true. At least as far as the reddit hivemind is concerned, the general consensus has been that NA>EU. Even after the showing at Worlds I still think it's close and I still think Cloud9>EU.

no need to crucify people over it though, its just an opinion.

[mi40]

! cloud69 !

[Litodude]

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hec/blitz
lmk if u take them

[hi19hi19]

cloud 9 the great white hope

EDIT- lito i thought the PAX hec/blitz codes expired like last week
they put a time limit on them so that people can't hoard them and sell them in 2 years for $$$$ like people have done with TF sivir and jax

EDIT 2- lmfao apparently not
I redeemed Hec and it worked

that will show me

thanks bro

[Litodude]

Originally Posted by hi19hi19

I really can't wait to see the clash of regions when an aggressive and underfarmed Chinese jungler like Lovelin comes up against Meteos's more farmed Cloud 9 jungle style.

there's never been an underfarmed vs overfarmed jungler ideal here it's just kr jungler tends to buy more wards and snowball lanes early instead of waiting for 6 for a nocturne ulti combo, or a late game nasus w/e

personally believe that kr can we this jungle match p easy but Hai is a really good mid too actually that's what i'm waiting for

[hi19hi19]

From what I've seen in LCS vs Worlds, Meteos's midgame includes a lot more pushing of sidelanes and acquiring lane farm than the KR or Chinese junglers are ever allowed. As a result he also builds more items.
I mean you more or less confirmed what I said, the Chinese junglers wind up with less items (i.e. underfarmed) because they are so concerned with snowballing lanes, which is something Cloud 9 does a lot less. I am interested to see if 3 strong laners + 2 supports is superior to 3 slightly less strong laners, a strong jungler, and a support.
I suppose the thing I'm most interested in seeing is if Cloud 9 is allowed to get away with that, basically. If you NEED the earlygame Chinese-style jungle pressure or not at the highest level. Meteos still pressures lanes, clearly, but we have seen him invest a lot less in oracles and warding for his laners.

[PriestREA]

did someone take the blitz code then?
god fucking damn this internet/patch

[mi40]

i already have the skins so i didnt take

[Litodude]

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im da best

[Litodude]

http://www.twitch.tv/imaqtpie
LMA0 right now

[TwistedPhoenix]

Originally Posted by Litodude

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im da best

Thanks so much man, been dying to have those skins. <3

On another note, went down to Silver 4 and back to Silver 3 in about 4 matches. I need to figure out what I should do to secure a win because it's been so volatile lately, feels like pubs where one side stomps the other instead of an even match.

[Razor]

i woulda subbed the morellos for void staff, for extra deeps