As someone from NA

FancyKiwi·Jan 20, 2016·5 votes·616 views

I have to say the the NA LCS is easily the most boring League. There are moments of excitement like the 18 minute Immortal vs TIP game. Although, for the most part, everyone is just playing to not lose instead of playing to win which makes the game so damn slow, safe and boring. I will never forget this game. It was a 50 minute long TSM game with a grand total of 5 kills until the "game is ending so everyone dive the fountain." There are almost never exciting picks like Faker's mid lane Yi or when Yorick had a short stay and Galio got played over in EU. You'll never see a new pick come out of NA cause we are the "me too" region.

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FrankerXJan 21, 20163 votes

na's biggest problem is they buy players and if they have like 2-3 bad games they get benched or thrown out for other players. take eu for example. origens fnc elements. those 3 teams ended up with 1 player building a whole team. and well origens and fnc never had big problems but elements had. still they didnt buy other players and kicked the old ones out. they played together.

but yea i have to agree na only picks the meta stuff.

FancyKiwiJan 21, 20161 votes

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na's biggest problem is they buy players and if they have like 2-3 bad games they get benched or thrown out for other players. take eu for example. origens fnc elements. those 3 teams ended up with 1 player building a whole team. and well origens and fnc never had big problems but elements had. still they didnt buy other players and kicked the old ones out. they played together.

but yea i have to agree na only picks the meta stuff.

At least they normally wait til the end of the season but I don't think a single team returned with the same rooster from last split or at least only one change. When you change a nearly a whole team every split you will never improve.

FrankerXJan 21, 20162 votes

yup. look at eu most teams only had changes because players retired or na bought them.

iamleburkJan 22, 20161 votes

That goes for both regions. No rosters have remained the same. Origen had the least change, by moving Xpeke to a sub and having POE taking over the main role of mid laner.

The Bíg TicketJan 20, 20161 votes

Actually sums up it up nicely. I have been saying for years that NA's biggest problem is that they are not being creative at all.

Earl EulrichJan 21, 20161 votes

though, for the most part, everyone is just playing to not lose instead of playing to win

pretty much this....i had some hope for you guys last season when TSM (that are really the embodiment of this sentence) didn´t win as much as usual by stalling out, but ultimatly it didnßt happen. Maybe immortals can break this habit up a tad this season though.

FancyKiwiJan 21, 20161 votes

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pretty much this....i had some hope for you guys last season when TSM (that are really the embodiment of this sentence) didn´t win as much as usual by stalling out, but ultimatly it didnßt happen. Maybe immortals can break this habit up a tad this season though.

Yeah as far as team trying to actively win we have Immortals for sure and maybe TIP and C9. CLG and TSM are snooze fests most the time. Still to early to tell with the rest. I honestly was more excited about the EU LCS starting then NA starting.

The LexerJan 24, 20161 votes

I agree. NA is all about "meta" which ultimately is a way to lose. You have to have something to surprise your opponents. Look at TSM and C9 at worlds. They played what was good, not what they were good at.