Playing at 180 ping has ruined playing at 40 ping for me.

Scrimshäw·Apr 7, 2015·5 votes·704 views

I usually play around 120-200 ping, and I made a LAN account, so I had about 40-60 ping... It seriously felt like a different game, every time I was killing a tower, trying to kite around it like a total 1337 pr0LCS, I kept cancelling my auto attacks because I was predicting the ping.. Like, how can people say ping doesn't make a difference? I kept missing CS because of the compensation I usually give myself for ping... kiting is so different, there's so many nuances with lower ping, I just... like.. wow.

10 Comments

usul1202Apr 7, 20153 votes

*waits quietly for East Coast servers

BLU MedicApr 8, 20152 votes

I normally play at 300 ping on this account, and I've adjusted for the slowly rising ping over the last year or so (all my friends were NA until they ditched me). I have accounts on EUW (150 ping) and EUNE (100 ping) and I suddenly become even worse when I play there. Amusingly, playing on TR gave me no better ping than EUNE.

Deep Terror NamiApr 7, 20151 votes

I play at around 135 (I'm in the midwest US). I wonder what it'd be like...

TyrenApr 7, 20151 votes

I'm also in the Midwest, I get 95-ish ping. This could be your ISP.

Deep Terror NamiApr 7, 20151 votes

There's no doubt my ISP is garbage (I'm not even playing ranked right now because I get occasional packet loss), but the best I've ever had with any ISP in any part of the country was maybe 90.

TyrenApr 7, 20151 votes

I live in a small town in NE Missouri, ISP is Century Link. Occasionally I'll get some pack loss, once a month. Also, a router can cause lag, but that's usually because it's really out dated. I'd look into a new ISP after resetting or using a different router doesn't work.

Deep Terror NamiApr 7, 20151 votes

I'm pretty good at troubleshooting (basically my job) so I've determined it's the ISP's fault; they suck terribly (small ISP based out of Tulsa) and can't/won't do anything, and it's literally my only option. The lag is fine, packet loss several times each game is not (I actually didn't notice it in my last 3 games. I might do ranked tonight!)

TyrenApr 8, 20151 votes

I wish I could play ranked more often. My roommates like to use most of the bandwidth by streaming videos all day. So i can only play when they are sleeping.

Good luck in ranked.

r11naApr 8, 20151 votes

No idea how people play on 100+ ping. Wtf. I get 25-35 ping to EUW and EUNE and on the rare occasion if i stream too much while playing it spikes into the 40s or 50s and the game feels sluggish and delayed. Certain champions like Yasuo and Zed are unplayable at over 50 ping for me. I wouldn't even play the game if I had over 100 ping :o

It's a absolute shame that riot don't have US EAST servers or central US located servers after almost 6 years. What a joke.

FuzziestPickleApr 8, 20151 votes

I play with 200+ ping in NA because I have no friends in LAS but tons of them in NA and yeah, I usually miss every skillshot because I'm compensating for the slight delay.