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Riot, you know why I don't watch LCS any more?

Lauchmelder·3/3/2017, 5:04:35 PM·5 votes·803 views

Because it's boring af.

I prefer the 20 minute farmfest with a bit more aggressive laners and the strategic approach to objectives WAY more than those "let's just group on one lane for a tower, they'll explode in less than a second anyway" games. The only real time I'll be watching any of your Esports games will be worlds, and even then most likely only the semifinals or finals.

What if a BO5 lasts for 5 hours? Or a BO3 for 2 1/2 hours? If I want to watch a fast 5 vs 5 then I can go into SoloQ as well, because one team will eventually surrender anyway. If I watch Pros play then I wanna see what they can do as a team, on an even playing field, not a "they snowballed into oblivion off an early lead".

By now the only thing that could make me watch the game again is an ingame option to do it, with casters commenting on certain plays, similar to what Valve did with CSGO. At least that way I could watch the lane I usually play (mid) and analyze how they play and what they do different from me, so I could actually learn from it.

The only real way to learn from pros right now is either watching their own streams or being a jungle main, at least if you want to learn about the earlygame. I watched the Midlane stream Faker vs Bjergsen (? not sure if it was Bjergsen) during Worlds 2016. THAT'S what I want to watch. THAT'S the stream I can learn from. The only thing I learned from the normal streams was how the different jungle routes worked and a few new gank routes. That's it.

This is only my opinion though, so if anybody has some thoughts about this go ahead.

6 Comments

III BAKURYU III 3/3/2017, 9:30:30 PM2 votes

I agree to some degree. I really enjoyed the 20 min farm fests and 40+ on average games more so than the 20 min stumps, but this season for at least for NA is around 37 mins for each team.
The problem is most games are decided in the first 5 mins, but the teams just don't really know how to end the game most times. An example of this would be how often teams would be only getting cs and kills over taking the final nexus tower to win the game and even the casters are constantly saying " just get the nexus tower", " just hit the nexus".

BigBellBrute3/3/2017, 10:05:58 PM1 votes

Yeah. Boring 30 minutes of farm fests with one total kill at the 30 minute mark are just right up everyone's alley.

Earl Eulrich3/4/2017, 1:58:27 AM1 votes

yupp really agree, S2 had been the best season to watch for me (ok, maybe also because M5 just had been the most entertaining team ever, but mostly due to immense strategic diversity) andthen it slowly got downhill from there (and from S6 on pretty steep and fast).

It´s just a lot more entertaining to see a back and forth or one team just making good decisions consistently and deserving a stomp than seeing most games end from one onesided fight...or just first turret.