Anyone on east coast transfered to LAN?

McHaten·Jun 4, 2015·1 votes·724 views

So i got wind that east coast ping is infinitely better on the LAN server, since it is in Florida instead of Oregon and all.

Has anyone tried transferring an account there and had a more than positive experience with csing, and climbing ranked and such?

I have played a few games on LAN with a different account and let me tell you, the responsiveness is night and day. I have 35-40 ping constant as opposed to 95-110 on the NA servers. I can actually last hit minions that are close to death before friendly minions aggro to them and kill them. Just buying items in the store and walking around is even night and day more responsive.

I am just wondering if it is worth ponying up the RP to transfer my main account there to be more competitive in ranked.

6 Comments

SH AzykanJun 5, 20151 votes

if you can get over the language barrier it is fine. Also they lock certain queues at night and don't even have others (like dominion)

It is easier to climb there but not because of your ping and such being better, but because if you play champs like leblanc it is easier to catch people out of position and snowball.

McHatenJun 5, 20151 votes

I am just interested in the ping difference. The several games I have played so far are just unbelievably night and day. I can actually tell whether or not i am late or early last hitting, and can switch targets for autos to actually get them. I can't do that at all on NA. I cant even do the Alistar W/Q combo on NA because of the delay. I tried it at 110 ping with a macro just to see, and I barely got it to do it then by super fine tuning it by 1 millisecond at a time till it worked.

The language barrier isn't a problem. All of the stuff is in English if you change like 5 digits of code in a program file.

go to > C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\RADS\system\locale.cfg > change it to "en_US" (no quotes) while the client is closed (open it with notepad to change it)

the only thing that will be in Spanish is the alert for maintenance and such, and whatever people type in chat.

The transfer is like 2800 RP or so. I just wanted to get opinions before paying $25 just to transfer servers where most speak spanish and all my friends list doesn't work.

Blue Collar BearJun 5, 20151 votes

Transferring your account might not be a bad idea. A majority of higher elo players on LAN are from NA, and many players do speak English. I've had at least one person in every game who could speak both languages, and they helped translate. Other than that, there are still pings.

I'm in Tennessee, and I have an account on LAN just to test out the difference in delay. I play with around a 80 - 120 ping, and my ping on LAN gets as low as twenty. It makes pulling off split second decisions and plays super easy. You can tell that your reaction time and your reflex really matter.

I'd recommend transferring instead of making another account. There are many, many smurfs.

McHatenJun 5, 20151 votes

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Transferring your account might not be a bad idea. A majority of higher elo players on LAN are from NA, and many players do speak English. I've had at least one person in every game who could speak both languages, and they helped translate. Other than that, there are still pings.

I'm in Tennessee, and I have an account on LAN just to test out the difference in delay. I play with around a 80 - 120 ping, and my ping on LAN gets as low as twenty. It makes pulling off split second decisions and plays super easy. You can tell that your reaction time and your reflex really matter.

I'd recommend transferring instead of making another account. There are many, many smurfs.

Well, I don't really want to spend weeks upon weeks leveling and getting champions and runes and such, when I have every champ, a ton of skins, and the only thing I spend IP on is name changes on my main account. So far I have gotten 35-40 ping constant from Alabama, normally its never lower than 95.

The main thing is I wouldn't have the same friends list, and I the teams would go away, but If I could climb easier to plat or diamond, then transfer back.

WleoWJun 6, 20151 votes

As a latin american user, the language barrier as someone else mentioned is a pretty big deal. It's the same case as if a group of french, spanish, chinese, etc., goes to NA to play and well, you don't understand shit. I feel it's like a bit unfair for people who only speak spanish (our local language for LAN) to not be able to communicate because of people who transfer here either for better ping or smurfing; even though a good number of ingame terms are the same in both languages (like blue, feed, baron).

McHatenJun 9, 20151 votes

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As a latin american user, the language barrier as someone else mentioned is a pretty big deal. It's the same case as if a group of french, spanish, chinese, etc., goes to NA to play and well, you don't understand shit. I feel it's like a bit unfair for people who only speak spanish (our local language for LAN) to not be able to communicate because of people who transfer here either for better ping or smurfing; even though a good number of ingame terms are the same in both languages (like blue, feed, baron).

Its not a big deal though, unless not being able to understand something that doesn't have anything to do with the game annoys you. If anything, it makes it almost better as long as you understand what pings mean. You don't have to worry about raging and arguing. Blame Riot for sticking a large portion the country with 90+ ping. In most competitive "leagues" like gamebattles/mlg and others, games are forfeited if the server ping gets above 60-80 ping. Much less 90-120.

If you don't think it makes a difference. Put your fps on 80 or 120 for a couple games, then turn it down to 60, even that much makes a huge difference to the brain. We as humans can perceive super tiny differences that most people don't even realize, and it makes a huge difference.