Why do we even have CS score anymore? Why does it not just show total gold earned?

Z3Sleeper·Apr 12, 2018·4 votes·1,229 views

Makes so much more sense. CS is literally just a number that holds very little meaning.

8 Comments

HeeroTXApr 12, 20182 votes

Especially since gold earned is being used as the scoreboard in pro-play now.

OnecimusApr 12, 20182 votes

I think CS is valuable, as it roughly gives an idea of how efficiently that player is farming that resource.

But I do agree, as a support, I've been wanting to know my entire gold gain compared to the other support. But the only indicator that I have is at the start of the game when I can see how far they are on their warding quest compared to mine.

My only fear would be that it would lead to more "ff@15" situations... which is one of my biggest pet peeves.

Z3SleeperApr 13, 20182 votes

It's an extremely rough estimate:

1 CS = 3 10g Raptors. 1 CS also = a ~25g Minion. 1 CS also = a ~60g Cannon.

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ForFoxSakesApr 13, 20181 votes

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It's an extremely rough estimate:

1 CS = a 10g Raptor. 1 CS also = a ~30g Minion. 1 CS also = a ~80g Cannon.

This is wrong. Every full jungle camp is worth 4 CS. Killing a small raptor doesnt change your CS

Z3SleeperApr 13, 20181 votes

Just tested in practice tool:

1 CS = Big Krug 80g 1 CS = 2 Small Krugs 20g 1 CS = 4 Tiny Krugs 40g 1 CS = 3 Raptors 30g 2 CS = Big Raptor 72g 1 CS = Big Wolf 68g 1 CS = Small Wolf 16g 4 CS = Blue/Red 100g 4 CS = Gromp 86g 1 CS = Melee Minion 21g (+ scaling) 1 CS = Ranged Minion 14g (+ scaling) 1 CS = Cannon Minion 66g (+ scaling) 4 CS = Scuttle 84g 4 CS = Dragon 25g

Does any of this look consistent to you?

HethaleanApr 12, 20181 votes

I kind of agree especially since now Cannon minions are worth 3-4 CS themselves. It's hard to look (especially early game) at your lane opponent to see how they're doing compared to you without really knowing how many cannons they've missed or secured compared to you.

AsamasApr 12, 20181 votes

It's strange yeah. You don't really know if you are ahead or not. If we compare two player both with 100 cs but the one has killed 100 ranged minions and the other 100 melee ones the second guy has more gold even tho they both have 100 cs. But I actually like to have the cs score at least to see if I got the minion or not. Yeah... Sometime I get suprised.

SpeeedyApr 12, 20181 votes

i posted this in another forum

what i kinda think they should do is kinda scrap the system they have now and standardize it across the board for everyone. what i mean by this is make it like every X gold (10, 15, 25, 50 or 100 you can use any number really) you get from minions/jungle creatures you get 1 cs score.

In my system say you do every 25 gold for 1 cs score then you kill a caster minion for 14 your score still shows as 0. You kill a second caster minion your score is 1 (gold earned is 28 total). You kill a cannon minion for 73 (gold earned is 101 total) your cs score goes to 4. This will make it so much easier when looking at the score board to know where a player stands.

Even if you need to adjust gold values of minions going forward in this system, it will still work for cs score.