You know, I am starting to lose interest in LoL E-sports...
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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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
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
It's OK. Just shows NA isn't comparatively filled to the brim with lethargic chair warriors... yet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.