I figured out why NA keeps losing to Korean teams

DoomLead·10/9/2014, 9:26:50 AM·1 votes·1,108 views

well i watched all of the NA vs Kor games and I noticed that we keep losing because the bans are terrible and the team composition is terrible noone play NA league noone everyone picks up the same champs the koreans use and dont really pick the champs they are comfortable playing. Tsm lost to SSW and could have won the last game by banning the korean comfort picks cough cough twitch & lucian and than breaking out there ranked comfort picks for instance Dyrus has a 63% win rate with Riven in ranked so he has to be comfortable with her. Not to mention in that last match with ssw he went dr mundo really ahri is already picked grab riven you got great combo. Im just saying We keep losing in the worlds because our best players/teams dont play the champs they play in ranked or the style of game we play here in NA I hope next year our best players strive to play NA LOL not Kor lol

6 Comments

Sammander10/9/2014, 7:21:41 PM1 votes

NA also losses to Korea because Korean players are smarter, more skilled, better coached and emotionally more stable and mature.

AKL ZCX10/11/2014, 10:41:44 AM1 votes

Don't forget that the only truly strong NA team is C9. TSM is 60% foreigners and LMQ is full Chinese. The biggest reason NA looks a bit better this season is the mercenary.

I think NA may look even better next season with more foreigner coming especially Korean but it doesn't mean NA is improving as a region.

A Retarded Clown10/11/2014, 1:38:56 PM1 votes

Actually I have to agree a little, that and mindset. The NA teams I feel weren't that far behind the Koreans on raw mechanics but their team fighting and rotations weren't as strong as the Korean/Chinese teams.

If NA teams learn to structue their teamfights a little better I can easily see them beating at least SSB 9/10 times.

SSW are just too aggressive and quite frankly, good. I doubt any team there can really stop them.

Heeezo10/11/2014, 2:00:02 PM1 votes

One reason why Korean teams are almost stomping EU and NA teams is the fact that their streaming time or not practiciing diligently time is far shorter than the ones of the US teams. I think Korean players (or most of them) are practicing so much and so intense that it is just hard to beat them. Of course there is also a mind factor: You are always afraid of a Korean team.. It is like a positive prejudice, that Koreans are just the best eSport gamers we have there, regarding strategy games and MOBA, I am not talking about FPS like CS:GO and other games.

Their attitude toward the game and their practice is just different. I assume and believe that they are more serious about practicing and that they put more time into their weaknesses and other things. It might also be a culture thing, that for failing, the Korean players punish themselves more and don't take it that easy.

This is my opinion on why NA/EU teams are superior to Korea and sometimes even CN teams.