Title, I usually play at 195-250. It's at 212 most of the time the range happens on funky days, distance lag that's all.
So I was wondering how big of a difference it makes in lol specifically since it doesn't look like 200ms is as visible as in other games like MMOs. Some people say lol is unplayable above 100ms or something so I'm wondering if it's really that big of a deal.
212 ping is .212 seconds of a difference. so it basically doubles the average response time, add in the 1 mil sec of screen 1 mil sec of your keyboard and mouse input you are getting a theoretical value of 414 ping(changes depending on your response time) so basicly after someone throws a skill shot you yourself will respond half a sec later
well you wont have the same chance to react to things that people with lower ping do. 200ms is a .2 second delay so some abilities seem instant cast to you since you do not actually see the cast time of the ability and you have to dodge it on the fly someone with a 32 ping would be extremely disoriented because of this diffrence because they are use to being able to dodge abilities that they wont have time for now.
They had an article on this a while back and talked about ping. Dont quote me on this and dont take my number for the exact ones from it. I think 50 ping could be the difference between the same player being challenger and master. It talked about these being the difference in reaction times and avoiding abilities over time to climb. I dont know your ELO but having 200 ping vs having what I have (20-25) could probably have me back in silver or bronze. A half second in reaction time during team fights is huge.
I realize this was asked by someone in EUW, but I live between 3 and 4 and half hours (depending if I'm at home or at university) from the servers in Chicago so my ping normally sits around 18-26 ms depending on which place I'm at and the time of day, and if anything else is running (Netflix causes spikes like crazy), and when I do experience ping spikes which happen from time to time, it completely wrecks my game play. I will notices my ability to dodge properly start to decrease in the the 40's and 50's and in the 100's it's hard for me to make sure my abilities land where and how I want them, and once I'm in the 200's+ I often sit under tower, and will try and farm, and hope I don't get dived because especially if I'm playing a squishy I won't be able to react fast enough to survive. So I think it's a huge deal, but at the same time it depends on who you're playing with/against. If everyone in your game is sitting at between 200-220ms for the most part it probably won't matter as much since you're all experiencing similar delays, but if most or all of your team/ the enemy team is pinging between 20-40, and you're pinging 220 then that's going to be a huge issue.
