[Patch 1.0.0.135: Fiora] General Discussion - Page 96

On March 08 2012 15:18 rob.au wrote:
Most dota/hon players have a misconception of LoL because when they play their first few games they win really easily. This is because Riot actually have a good f2p system where as your account levels up, your hidden elo also goes up, however these dota/hon players do not realize this. In hon at least there is no such thing in their matchmaking, rather you just start at a certain elo, and stay there until you win significantly more games than you've lost or vice versa. This system obviously ends up being flawed since you end up with a combination of smurfs, new players, and veteran casuals, which results in terribly imbalanced games as well as disenchanted players.

As a competitive game LoL is completely fine, all that really matters for a competitive game is that reaching the skill cap is not really achievable. Obviously the difference in skill between the Flash and some rank 1000 BW player is a lot more than the #1 league player vs some 1900, but there is still a difference. This was actually one of the aspects of a competitive game that ArenaNet commented on with regards to the original Guild Wars vs WoW pvp. Whilst a lot of people agree the pvp in GW1 was actually far superior to WoW, it had a harder learning curve and a wider skill gap between teams which they felt made it less enticing for a lot of players. In regards to LoL the point im making is that there is not much of a skill gap between each level of players, and people tend to like that.

In terms of depth, when I play dota or hon it really does feel to me like they do have more depth than LoL. It's hard for me to really give a fair comparison of the two though because there's a lot to do in LoL and it may just feel like there's less depth because I've figured it out more. I am inclined to say they do have more depth than LoL though just because the heroes are more diverse, more risk/reward, objectives are less clear, items are more diverse, and it seems as though this leads to more variety in nearly every aspect of the game. Maybe someone else like Yango can give a better opinion here.

Looking at competitive play I do think LoL is less entertaining and I think most people accept at the top level it really isn't as entertaining as we would like. A lot of games are just so passive, and I think people like Southlight as well as Chu have touched on issues such as how the map is constructed, unlimited wards, junglers etc...In my opinion because of these things LoL is basically stuck how it is now unless Riot make relatively major changes like they did with the jungle. Having said that the game is obviously thriving so it's obviously not the be and end all, I've concluded that since I prefer dota/hon I've just gone to play them rather than campaign for major changes to league.

Just so people know where my point of view comes from I was 1950 on NA season1, was active in SEA LoL tourneys and I'm 1750 post-compression MMR in hon (if that means anything to anyone )

On March 09 2012 17:26 anmolsinghmzn2009 wrote:
wow, I just bought Yorick and holy shit, he's such a gay-ass champion.

On March 08 2012 18:50 nyxnyxnyx wrote:


your SEA summoner name, please

On March 09 2012 17:26 anmolsinghmzn2009 wrote:
wow, I just bought Yorick and holy shit, he's such a gay-ass champion.

On March 09 2012 18:23 iCanada wrote:


Isn't it beautiful? Spam the skills to last hit and do the pro harrassing.

^_^

Well, let me rephrase... it is beautiful because no one really knows this and you cn abuse him to win any lane you want really.

<_<