Quick question for the community. I was watching a higher elo game and the game became one sided really fast and someone said "lets open". The video ended after that and didnt show what happened. What does that mean? I am low elo so I dont understand some of the higher elo chat. Thank you!
MeGotUpSindrome2 voteslet the enemy push mid well your team sits in base not stopping them. (this is often used to end a game before a surrender vote can take place.)
oSEXYPLATYPUSo2 votesbasically cuz it was to early to FF or whatever team just "OPEN MID" and stop fighting, defending and let the enemy know they gave up and at that point the other team power pushes as 5 mid lane to end game as fast as possible
MedicalMisfit1 votesdoes it happen often and what elo do people start to do this?
oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votesits not really an ELO but typically in the asian servers this is most common...
in NA people will drag a game that is lost at 12 mins out for 45 mins cuz "NEVER SURRENDER!!"
ideally it comes from the idea if i lose and lose the same amount of LP for a 12 mins loss as a 45 min loss
how many more games can i play to make up for that LP loss if i just "OPEN MID" and move on? lets say you have a 3 hr window to grind out games... lets say you drag every game out to the bitter end ... might get 3 games? 2 depending on queue times /dodges and you lose both or go 1 and 1 so you end up with negative LP for the day... and let alone get tilted and go on a losing streak ...
but if you "open mid" to a loss game get it over ... dont get tilted play 3 more games and win 3 games so now you got more games in and gained more LP
you need LP to climb through divisions and tiers
this is where the concept comes from...
i say it would be more so at the higher elos diamond 3 and up cuz they understand its not 1 game that is gonna make or break them but the amount of games they can grind through and the win% over the amount of games...
Killed Inaction1 votesTo be fair, if you don't have low MMR for your rank, you'll actually gain more LP from a win than you lose from a loss, so going 1 and 1 each day will net you an overall rank increase if you deserve it. That said, it would be a lot slower than winning 3 and losing 1, but realistically, if you have 1 game you already lost to 1 you won, how likely are you to win the next 2 in a row? It might be slightly faster, but in the end it's up to you to rank up, so unless your team is 0/20 at 10 minutes, it might be best to stick it out at least until 20 minutes to see if there's still a chance, at which point you can surrender (or at 15 if everyone realizes the game's not winnable).
SEKAI2 votes"Open" is a short for "open mid".
What it means is just that the team calling it will leave the mid completely unprotected, and the enemies will just group-shove to victory without any resistance. It's another form of surrender, so to speak.
It's usually called because either the surrender vote can not pass and someone wants to be a pessimist dick and call "open" despite the team wants to stay and fight, or because the game is so one-sided they already know it's over before 15 min.
MedicalMisfit1 votesAt what elo do you start to see this happen? And is it often?
SEKAI1 votesAt what elo do you start to see this happen? And is it often?
I don't really play Ranked, so I can't tell you the exact detail on the frequency or which elo does it more often than others really.
But what I can tell you though, is that I mentioned that there are overall 2 ways how people use it above right? The "pessimist" call and the "they know it's over before 15 min" call, 9 times out of 10, "open mid" appears as the former of the 2.
But really, instead of "open mid", what you should really be looking out for is those who goes intentional feeding if they think the game is unwinnable and doesn't want to try, as opposed to those merely calling for an opened mid when they want to just give up without giving a shot. Those people would also attempt to try not getting noticed and banned by pretending to be trying but is actually just feeding the opponents under the guise of "misplay", as sad as it sounds.
Zelorxon2 votesOpen Mid is a habit korean players developed because they both aren't retards like the rest of the servers are and don't enjoy wasting their time """"""having fun"""""" and also since most of them don't have the desired PC setup they usually go play in cafes called "PC bangs" where you can play most games on a high end computer for a hourly fee or so.
Basically an open mid happens when the majority of players realizes that either the game is mathematically unwinnable (most idiots playing this game, the same that go yasuo adc, bard mid and other creative picks keep playing hoping and trusting in the stupidity of the enemy team to throw the game and give them an undeserved win, this is one of the main causes why in low elo games in non korean servers this is looked down upon) or because they realize that someone is trolling and thus the game won't be possible to win since the troll can singlehandedly lose the game for his team, so they concur that is better to end the game right there and go to the next one, one of the old habits korean players had was to mass honor unskilled, troll or simply stupid players to publicly expose them so that everybody could know what they're about to deal with, and this reduced trolling greatly on the KR server.
Another important aspect of the "Open Mid" is the concept of "Mental", mental is a term that comes from starcraft, most korean players like better to play in an excited/focused state of mind so that they can have faster reactions, when the mental gets ruined they usually underperform so if many players are experiencing this fatigue they usually open because they believe that they won't be able to perform to a standard necessary to defeat the enemy.
You won't see it often unless it's used to attention whore in chat (the notorious P.O.B. "NA open") or if someone is saying it in chat without the general consensus of his own team, especially because unless you're in challenger/masters people are usually too stupid and clueless about the game that they'll never realize the game is already won and all they have to do is just close it, so there's always a chance to comeback. (You might know this as the "my team can't even manage to win a surrend vote" in western servers.)
But yeah, in every elo composed of serious people when the game has gone down the shitter they usually prefer to not waste time and concede to the enemy team and move to the next one.
warpenguin5551 votesIt happens at all elos but it's more common at higher ranks