EPTOn July 13 2015 21:28 Majax wrote:
Actually, we have a lot of different ideas :
- Extremly low ping (~9)
- Large player base (the largest beside china)
- competitive soloQ
- at high level, usually very short games ("open mid" is quite usual when a lane is feeding, they have no problem surrendering a lost game to move on to the next)
That's how they become very skilled.
How they become champions is up to the organisations.
Actually, we have a lot of different ideas :
- Extremly low ping (~9)
- Large player base (the largest beside china)
- competitive soloQ
- at high level, usually very short games ("open mid" is quite usual when a lane is feeding, they have no problem surrendering a lost game to move on to the next)
That's how they become very skilled.
How they become champions is up to the organisations.
I don't think the first issue matters. The difference between 9 ping and 30 ping is minimal and it's not though their advantage is faster reflexes. Their players went from lower ping to higher ping solo queue during the import process and it didn't affect them from performing. Rookie, Pawn, etc. are playing in lag and are still performing.
The second issue does matter, but what is the actual difference? This is a list of ranked players count taken recently:
KR 2,572,474
EUW 2,172,301
NA 1,417,780
EUNE 1,081,805
BRA 660,603
From the above, EUW has only slightly lower population than KR, and the combined EUW+EUNE player population is liable to be higher. It's not though Western teams don't recruit from both regions, and their players do play with each other. Thus, the Korean advantage in population is minimal vs. Europe, and not existent vs. China. Yet, both regions ended up importing Korean players.
The next two issues - competitive solo queue and faster games - is not in and of itself very useful. Sure, they have a higher skilled solo queue and faster games, but why do they have a higher skilled solo queue and faster games? Describing the results don't tell us about the causes.
All in all, I think we know very little, actually, about what makes them higher skilled.
