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AsianEcksDragon
Profile Joined March 2008
United States1036 Posts
October 02 2014 00:10 GMT
#8481
It's a classic case of confirmation bias. Cool is in World and his team gets farther in LPL than CJ in OGN so people base their opinion on what they've seen recently. It's the same reason everyone is rating Imp and Uzi higher than Deft and Namei because they stomped against easier opponents in the past month.
神は乗り越えられる試練しか与えない
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
October 02 2014 00:13 GMT
#8482
On October 02 2014 09:05 Azarkon wrote:
I find it funny that Apdo is presently #1 on the hardest Chinese server with a 80% win rate... You know what they said about Starcraft regional ladders and Korean pros' win rates on NA/EU...

I guarantee you China is never going to match up to Korea in LoL. The region's entire gimmick is having the largest player base, yet as Apdo has shown, large player base =/= high skill. The idea that talent is created by random selection is yet another one of those 'Asians have innate eSports talent' fooleries that fail to stand up to scrutiny.

Ambition top5 Kr challengers. nevar forget.
liftlift > tsm
oo_Wonderful_oo
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
The land of freedom23126 Posts
October 02 2014 00:16 GMT
#8483
On October 02 2014 09:13 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2014 09:05 Azarkon wrote:
I find it funny that Apdo is presently #1 on the hardest Chinese server with a 80% win rate... You know what they said about Starcraft regional ladders and Korean pros' win rates on NA/EU...

I guarantee you China is never going to match up to Korea in LoL. The region's entire gimmick is having the largest player base, yet as Apdo has shown, large player base =/= high skill. The idea that talent is created by random selection is yet another one of those 'Asians have innate eSports talent' fooleries that fail to stand up to scrutiny.

Ambition top5 Kr challengers. nevar forget.


Free Ambition from Flame's prison and he will be best again.
#believe
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GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
October 02 2014 00:43 GMT
#8484
How does the Chinese server even work? There are like multiple ones, right? Is there a "best" one?
Oh, my achin' hands, from rakin' in grands, and breakin' in mic stands
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19573 Posts
October 02 2014 01:02 GMT
#8485
On October 02 2014 09:16 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2014 09:13 wei2coolman wrote:
On October 02 2014 09:05 Azarkon wrote:
I find it funny that Apdo is presently #1 on the hardest Chinese server with a 80% win rate... You know what they said about Starcraft regional ladders and Korean pros' win rates on NA/EU...

I guarantee you China is never going to match up to Korea in LoL. The region's entire gimmick is having the largest player base, yet as Apdo has shown, large player base =/= high skill. The idea that talent is created by random selection is yet another one of those 'Asians have innate eSports talent' fooleries that fail to stand up to scrutiny.

Ambition top5 Kr challengers. nevar forget.


Free Ambition from Flame's prison and he will be best again.
#believe


Its not even about Ambition being some sort of god. Its that Cool is somehow getting this weird level of hype that is not deserved and doesn't make sense.

He is this months Hipster Bjergson (which makes total sense, since there are always a legion of TL hipsters). He has some performances you point to as godly, then you ignore when he is mediocre, and voila! Cool's 22 kill game is like Bjergson vs. LMQ, but then you ignore that he couldn't keep Hai's Zed in check (Cool didn't show up vs. EDG, I don't even remember him hitting a Syndra stun, just generally did weird things on ryze). Same thing with groups: Bjergson did really well as Ori vs. SHR, but sadly let Jeziz live on Ziggs; while Cool did good things against Fnatic, he got smashed by Blue/Dade and split with XWX.

Same player really.
Freeeeeeedom
KissBlade
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States5718 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-02 01:34:48
October 02 2014 01:32 GMT
#8486
On October 02 2014 09:13 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2014 09:05 Azarkon wrote:
I find it funny that Apdo is presently #1 on the hardest Chinese server with a 80% win rate... You know what they said about Starcraft regional ladders and Korean pros' win rates on NA/EU...

I guarantee you China is never going to match up to Korea in LoL. The region's entire gimmick is having the largest player base, yet as Apdo has shown, large player base =/= high skill. The idea that talent is created by random selection is yet another one of those 'Asians have innate eSports talent' fooleries that fail to stand up to scrutiny.

Ambition top5 Kr challengers. nevar forget.


You should know by now never to bother replying to Azarkon. That dude has been operating off an inferiority complex with China & Asians in general for god knows how long lol.
lega
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada290 Posts
October 02 2014 02:21 GMT
#8487
On October 02 2014 09:43 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
How does the Chinese server even work? There are like multiple ones, right? Is there a "best" one?

There is one server where most pro/to-be-pro players play on.
The whole argument around Cool reminds me of how people tried to argue that Christiano Ronaldo is not even a top-level player during the World Cup. I feel like Riot's strategy of minimizing international competition is quite successful tbh. Each player only plays several international games a year and you can draw any conclusion you like based on them.
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19573 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-02 03:06:38
October 02 2014 03:01 GMT
#8488
On October 02 2014 11:21 lega wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2014 09:43 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
How does the Chinese server even work? There are like multiple ones, right? Is there a "best" one?

There is one server where most pro/to-be-pro players play on.
The whole argument around Cool reminds me of how people tried to argue that Christiano Ronaldo is not even a top-level player during the World Cup. I feel like Riot's strategy of minimizing international competition is quite successful tbh. Each player only plays several international games a year and you can draw any conclusion you like based on them.


This analogy makes no sense because the Ronaldo question was, "Will he be healthy enough to play like the 2nd best player in the World?"/"Can he carry Portugal if healthy?"

These are more akin to the questions being raised about Dade pre-Worlds, "Will he choke?"/"Can he win his first worlds?"

The correct analogy would be Fred, Oscar, Marcelo and David Luiz.

or stupid Higuaín.
Freeeeeeedom
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
October 02 2014 04:27 GMT
#8489
On October 02 2014 10:02 cLutZ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2014 09:16 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote:
On October 02 2014 09:13 wei2coolman wrote:
On October 02 2014 09:05 Azarkon wrote:
I find it funny that Apdo is presently #1 on the hardest Chinese server with a 80% win rate... You know what they said about Starcraft regional ladders and Korean pros' win rates on NA/EU...

I guarantee you China is never going to match up to Korea in LoL. The region's entire gimmick is having the largest player base, yet as Apdo has shown, large player base =/= high skill. The idea that talent is created by random selection is yet another one of those 'Asians have innate eSports talent' fooleries that fail to stand up to scrutiny.

Ambition top5 Kr challengers. nevar forget.


Free Ambition from Flame's prison and he will be best again.
#believe


Its not even about Ambition being some sort of god. Its that Cool is somehow getting this weird level of hype that is not deserved and doesn't make sense.

He is this months Hipster Bjergson (which makes total sense, since there are always a legion of TL hipsters). He has some performances you point to as godly, then you ignore when he is mediocre, and voila! Cool's 22 kill game is like Bjergson vs. LMQ, but then you ignore that he couldn't keep Hai's Zed in check (Cool didn't show up vs. EDG, I don't even remember him hitting a Syndra stun, just generally did weird things on ryze). Same thing with groups: Bjergson did really well as Ori vs. SHR, but sadly let Jeziz live on Ziggs; while Cool did good things against Fnatic, he got smashed by Blue/Dade and split with XWX.

Same player really.

Cool feels pretty generic to me tbh. Outside of misaya's TF, chinese midlaners have been rather faceless to me. Large champ pools that they're all mechanically proficient at, doesn't really screw with their ADC's ability to carry, and just plays the game out with Chinese roam squad strat.
liftlift > tsm
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-02 05:13:29
October 02 2014 05:11 GMT
#8490
On October 02 2014 09:05 Azarkon wrote:
I guarantee you China is never going to match up to Korea in LoL.

Was anyone saying otherwise?

On October 02 2014 09:10 AsianEcksDragon wrote:
It's a classic case of confirmation bias. Cool is in World and his team gets farther in LPL than CJ in OGN so people base their opinion on what they've seen recently. It's the same reason everyone is rating Imp and Uzi higher than Deft and Namei because they stomped against easier opponents in the past month.

I would argue that people rate Imp and Uzi higher because they're more known names than Deft and Namei to people who don't watch their respective scenes, and therefore the unacquainted audiences pay more heed to players they know.
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cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19573 Posts
October 02 2014 05:54 GMT
#8491
On October 02 2014 14:11 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2014 09:05 Azarkon wrote:
I guarantee you China is never going to match up to Korea in LoL.

Was anyone saying otherwise?

Show nested quote +
On October 02 2014 09:10 AsianEcksDragon wrote:
It's a classic case of confirmation bias. Cool is in World and his team gets farther in LPL than CJ in OGN so people base their opinion on what they've seen recently. It's the same reason everyone is rating Imp and Uzi higher than Deft and Namei because they stomped against easier opponents in the past month.

I would argue that people rate Imp and Uzi higher because they're more known names than Deft and Namei to people who don't watch their respective scenes, and therefore the unacquainted audiences pay more heed to players they know.


That also is a playstyle thing. If 2 players are both 75/100, but one goes from 50 to 100 and the other goes from 70 to 80, people will focus on the 100 games more. Even if its the 50-100 guy vs. a guy who is 75-85 (aka better on average) they will still focus on the "potential" of the higher variance player. Its like John Daly in golf, or Joe Flacco in football.
Freeeeeeedom
Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
October 02 2014 06:16 GMT
#8492
On October 02 2014 13:27 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2014 10:02 cLutZ wrote:
On October 02 2014 09:16 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote:
On October 02 2014 09:13 wei2coolman wrote:
On October 02 2014 09:05 Azarkon wrote:
I find it funny that Apdo is presently #1 on the hardest Chinese server with a 80% win rate... You know what they said about Starcraft regional ladders and Korean pros' win rates on NA/EU...

I guarantee you China is never going to match up to Korea in LoL. The region's entire gimmick is having the largest player base, yet as Apdo has shown, large player base =/= high skill. The idea that talent is created by random selection is yet another one of those 'Asians have innate eSports talent' fooleries that fail to stand up to scrutiny.

Ambition top5 Kr challengers. nevar forget.


Free Ambition from Flame's prison and he will be best again.
#believe


Its not even about Ambition being some sort of god. Its that Cool is somehow getting this weird level of hype that is not deserved and doesn't make sense.

He is this months Hipster Bjergson (which makes total sense, since there are always a legion of TL hipsters). He has some performances you point to as godly, then you ignore when he is mediocre, and voila! Cool's 22 kill game is like Bjergson vs. LMQ, but then you ignore that he couldn't keep Hai's Zed in check (Cool didn't show up vs. EDG, I don't even remember him hitting a Syndra stun, just generally did weird things on ryze). Same thing with groups: Bjergson did really well as Ori vs. SHR, but sadly let Jeziz live on Ziggs; while Cool did good things against Fnatic, he got smashed by Blue/Dade and split with XWX.

Same player really.

Cool feels pretty generic to me tbh. Outside of misaya's TF, chinese midlaners have been rather faceless to me. Large champ pools that they're all mechanically proficient at, doesn't really screw with their ADC's ability to carry, and just plays the game out with Chinese roam squad strat.

Weiless plays Diana and wraith lissandra/ orianna what a player
Glorious SEA doto
Vanka
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
China1336 Posts
October 02 2014 10:21 GMT
#8493
On October 02 2014 09:43 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
How does the Chinese server even work? There are like multiple ones, right? Is there a "best" one?


There's literally like 20. On average the servers are worse than NA, very easy to get to challenger just because of server population. There's the big one, but as far as I know all the pros actually play on KR when they're serious. I've heard this server is on par with NA, but I haven't played on NA for so long I couldn't confirm that for you.

The chinese servers are so toxic they disabled allchat completely. I seriously can't find the option to turn it on at all. And then there's stuff like you have to pay to get rune pages, and also the IP costs of champs are on average higher too
AsnSensation
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany24009 Posts
October 02 2014 10:48 GMT
#8494
1 more day for Amazing vs Dandy. My popcorn is ready.
Amarok
Profile Joined August 2010
Australia2003 Posts
October 02 2014 10:53 GMT
#8495
On October 02 2014 19:48 AsnSensation wrote:
1 more day for Amazing vs Dandy. My popcorn is ready.


Turtle vs Imp is where the real massacre will happen.
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity
IamPryda
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1186 Posts
October 02 2014 11:26 GMT
#8496
On October 02 2014 19:53 Amarok wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2014 19:48 AsnSensation wrote:
1 more day for Amazing vs Dandy. My popcorn is ready.


Turtle vs Imp is where the real massacre will happen.

To be fair turtle managed to loss lane by just enough of a margin that one dumb play by royal and he caught up in gold to Uzi despite Uzi getting An ie on first back lol
Moar banelings less qq
NeoIllusions
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States37500 Posts
October 02 2014 14:20 GMT
#8497
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