You know, I am starting to lose interest in LoL E-sports...

TheSequelsRBad·Oct 15, 2016·1 votes·714 views

It is becoming very clear the gap is not closing, this is looking like Korea's most dominate worlds yet, kinda getting boring after watching for 4 seasons...

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KotexOct 15, 20162 votes

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xJLx MCHammerOct 15, 20161 votes

The thing is, people tend to watch Eu/NA or lpl/lck. Those that watch EU and NA they watch how these players improve and in all honesty, they clearly do

He problem is that other regions also improve and worlds is like a wake up call

Kings AvatarOct 15, 20161 votes

so thats a complaint to the other people playing. the gap doesnt close cause na and eu dont train like they want it to close. why is basketball still an Olympic sport when the US is the only country to actually play it seriously. korea takes esports seriously the pros in na dont even take esports seriously so how cna oyu expect the gap to close

GeminiRuneOct 16, 20161 votes

Legit emphasis on the basketball reference. When I saw basketball on the Olympic schedule I thought "I wonder if they'll choke this time" and they didn't, go figure. Esports period: there's always that game a particular region of the world is stronger at. For League, that's the Koreans. Until someone steps up or Korea somehow collapses one year, this is how it'll feel.

Kings AvatarOct 16, 20161 votes

so what are you focusing on, what point did you just make. korea is best at every esport they care about. SC2 for example. they have been and always will be the best at those games they have been the best for almost 20 years. they dont fall off casue they train the hardest. if your board with the western performance in league then thats something that should be voiced but not in a im loseing all interest in lol esports your loseing interest in how terrible the west is compared to people who actaully care. there is a reason the bootcamps are in korea there is a reason they had coaches from the beginning and the west only got them like last season. a team might crumble from korea but the region never will as long as the west doenst take it seriously.

GeminiRuneOct 16, 20161 votes

You took what I said in the latter part out of context. I'm focusing on the amount of effort a region puts into ANY game and results that come out of it given time. League: Koreans put more effort. SC2: Koreans put more effort. But that's all most League fans know. Not many know of Infiltration in SFV and how he's contested by a handful of Japanese players for that top spot in the game. Your original statement was that Koreans take esports seriously, then it was the esports they care about. There are quite a few games the west takes more seriously and puts more effort into. League isn't one of them unfortunately.

To me, this stuff honestly never gets as boring as it seems. But that's my own opinion.

Kings AvatarOct 16, 20161 votes

what im saying is that when korea plays a game and takes it seriously they are the best. every time. if they dont take the game seriously they basically dont play it.

GeminiRuneOct 16, 20161 votes

Okay now you got me.

Especially after looking up player rankings based off of earnings from tournaments and in SFV, Infiltration is the only Korean on the board at #1 and has more than double the amount of earnings in that game compared to 2nd place.

Also felt tempted to look up League as well. It was basically Koreans, ClearLove, more Koreans, bebe, and more Koreans until 15. It shows that Koreans put in the effort in choice esports to win.

Hauling AsheOct 16, 20161 votes

It's OK. Just shows NA isn't comparatively filled to the brim with lethargic chair warriors... yet.

Unstoppable MonkOct 16, 20161 votes

NA is quite also full of myths about the game on the most basic level from the leveling smurf account having a little fun to content sites that are completely inaccurate. How would a typical NA player be able to improve, when pretty much everything is mostly inaccurate up to the point of extremely high ranked? We don't have a barrier to ranked so we get new accounts first time losing in the middle of standard players. We don't have the environment to have ranked as anything but a joke.

III BAKURYU III Oct 16, 20161 votes

TSM has the "western Faker" and 17-1 is not a joke and ................ oh 3-3 Eliminated after starting 2-1 CLG "fear none respect all" I have the faith that they....................... oh 3-3 Eliminated after starting 2-1 C9 I gave this team my "energy" all year, they will show................... oh 3-3 Eliminated after starting 2-1

WHAT YOU WANT NA TO ACTUALLY GET GOOD OR SOMETHING! NA is just as good as any other region but the tournaments can only have NA teams only.

Juggernaut628Oct 16, 20161 votes

Well, I think it's more that everyone else sucks than Korea being amazing. The casters have spotted so many mistakes they've made, but everyone else is playing for shit.

HemanthOct 16, 20161 votes

Korea does not look amazing this season because there are no flashy assassin plays

Kal Vas FlamOct 16, 20161 votes

You should focus on watching games to see the best in the world compete rather than dwell on where the players are from. I'm a C9 fan, sure, but watching SSG tear them apart was fun to watch for me because they really showed a lot of good strategy and skill in those matches.

ValyrianBladeOct 16, 20161 votes

Honestly - i feel like the last two worlds have actually shown that NA puts in the MOST effort towards finding winning strategies and metas, but the individual players are just so much worse than the Koreans that they still lose.

Evidence 1: season 5 world's, every NA team rushed out to huge leads in groups including 3-0 starts in week 1. The NA Lane swap meta was the optimal playstyle and no other region could beat it. Week 2, everyone copies NA strategy and beats them with it despite only practicing it for 1 week (and NA went like 0-9 in week 2).

Evidence 2: again this world's every NA team rushed to a 2-1 start in week 1. CLG AND TSM both won against a Korean team that thought they could get away with power bans and not targeted bans. It seemed this year that in actuality NA players had some of the strongest champions in the world, but their problem was it was only 1 champion. Ban aurelion sol against huhi and they aren't great anymore, each team going 1-2 in week 2.

So in season 5 it looked like NA developed the meta (one that actually required Riot to change the game to prevent Lane swaps). That's a huge step forward from NA always copying the Korean meta.

In season 6 it looks like some individual players have loads of practice on a specific champion, to the point that they can beat ANYONE when playing it. Only problem is the enemy can easily ban that champion - NA needed a wider pool. Nonetheless it showed that NA can find an OP champion that the Koreans overlooked and practice it to the point of winning gameplay. Again, a good step forward.

The question now is, can NA do enough of this in 1 season to win world's? I said last year that NA would need to create enough winning strategies to win EACH round of world's and still have a new one ready for the next week. I maintain that, but they have a new option in developing a few more champions and winning on skill as they've shown they can do this if they get their picks.

The gap may not really be closing, Korea winning with an NA strategy a week after seeing it is absurd, but it at least shows that NA is coming to play. They need to step it up a lot more, but i feel like they're getting somewhere.