Is farming CS no longer important?

Sycoblast69·2/18/2020, 12:36:57 AM·3 votes·3,650 views

I've played all five positions since s3, but primarily bot and top. I feel like there is an OVERemphasis on fighting and snowballing and CS has become irrelevant. Has it?

I play ranked to get serious games, and I enjoy the strategy of the team comps and champ skills. I was able to go from iron 4 to bronze 4 last year through diligent farming to create an advantage. But this year the game has changed so much that i started the year on a 17-game losing streak. (currently 20-34; Iron 3 - 17 lp)

I feel like that is a large enough sample size to say that I am the problem and not matchmaking (although op.gg says I am routinely out ranked by a full metal grade). My playstyle is extremely farm-focused and HATE fighting/dueling. Is that playstyle not possible anymore?

18 Comments

Love Anastasia2/18/2020, 12:52:53 AM1 votes

The most important right now is to give advantage to your team. Farm is important, but give an advantage to your jungler in exchange of some gold, is more important.

Subdue2/18/2020, 1:15:10 AM1 votes

The average wave is worth about 355 gold. That means a kill + assist is worth only slightly more than farming a full wave. In other words, farming well is just as important as it's always been. However, I think players on average are better now than they were a few years ago, and are more willing to punish passivity.

Sucction2/18/2020, 1:29:46 AM1 votes

No, farming cs is still very important.

You just shouldn't be only doing that while your opponent affects the map.

You'll see it in roaming cheese picks a lot, like rework nunu mid or Sona top, that just permanently roam and win that way.

Especially at those ranks, players have the worst mental stability and are just gonna ragequit if they get ganked twice, even if you're double your opponent's cs.

Try to farm while impacting the map through controlling waves and rotating properly, as well as getting deep vision.

III BAKURYU III 2/18/2020, 1:39:13 AM1 votes

Farming is fine but freezing lanes and only focusing on YOUR lane is outdated. Honestly farming isn't even that important. One can bring up $ compared to kills/assists but such doesn't factor in what your teammates are going through or dealing with. For example

Ever played top lane and had this score board - 0 kills 4 deaths and 0 assists but was up +70cs compared to your opponent? Do you think your teammates will say, ' Wow, you are up 70 cs' and just move on? NO! People only care and look at K/D/A! No one gives a s$it about how much CS you have. You freeze the lane all you are doing is creating a bigger wave to hit your tower to give your lane opponent free $ from turret plating. While you freeze your lane and such your lane opponent is constantly roaming and ganking your teammates' lanes.... and god forbid your teammate dies........" GG" with the usual ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? even if you already pinged "missing" they will still give you the ?????????????????????????????????????????????? with the " Follow your lane" so the point of freezing is pointless by that logic, isn't it?

Shove your lane to the enemy tower and roam...... try to fight as much as possible because League is snowballed easier now than ever.... and since kills/deaths are so often, "Tilt" plays a major factor in league today also, as well as shorter games because of tilt and how snowballed league is. You will have games decided by either the two at the 20 min mark.

Scoreboards like, 10 kills to 2 at the 10 min mark is close to impossible to NOT have your teammates wanting to surrender. In the past 2013 -2017 everyone talked about "late game" " late game" we can comeback and "we got scaling champions" "scaling runes per level" etc.... " late game" is the 20-25 min mark these days.........by the time you get donen upgrading your ward item, getting your 2nd/3rd item .....the game is either OVER or had already been decided beforehand.

Just shove your lane and roam....TRY to CS and try to get your lane tower ....but just group at mid ASAP... it's called "NAAram" or "clown fiestas" but Riot made League this way to begin with. Solo Q isn't LCS/LEC or LPL.....there is no shame in having an Aram at the 10-15 min mark these days because that's what everyone does.....and that's what's expected!

Fighting 24/7

GFREEMEN2/18/2020, 2:40:49 AM1 votes

With the wave clear they have given a lot of the new/reworked champs there is not "CSing" you just cast one or two spells and the wave is dead.

VonCesaw2/18/2020, 5:52:10 AM1 votes

Farming CS isn't fun to watch for the 10-13 year old LCS audience Farming CS isn't fun for the KOR and CN markets, and those markets are loaded with skin-purchasing whales

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