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Whelp. I've "officially" given up on LoL. I won't play another ranked game until:
a) The Australasian servers come up
or
b) 3 months pass and I need to play one ranked game to stay in Gold V
Whichever comes first.
Why have I made this decision? I am not playing well. And my last game decided it. Every single time Hecarim came to gank bot lane, I'd walk up to him and stun him, as Taric. But due to my ping, Taric's stun travel time (even though I was right next to Hec each time) and Hec's ult cast time, Hec's ult still always went though, meaning Vayne would get smashed by it.
This pisses me off.
Just to give you guys an idea of what I play with every day:
That's 220 ping. I constantly play at 250-280 ping. Ranked, customs, bots, normals. Always at around 250 ping. And I honestly think it's hurting my reaction time. 200 ping is the difference between being able to Flash away after a stun, or dying. I love watching pro play because people constantly escape; on my end, it's impossible.
You can't Alistar headbutt-knock up combo. You can't detonate Gragas barrels, or Lux pools instantly. You literally have to Smite contested baron/dragon/buffs early and hope for the best.
It's hard to last hit. It's hard to land skill shots. It's hard to clutch anything.
How do I know? Because I've played Dota2 on the Aus servers with 25 ping. 25 ping. It's incredible, everything is so responsive. It's a shame that Dota2 has so many outdated mechanics, like orb effects, and that snowballing in Dota2 ends games - otherwise I may even switch to Dota2 for the PING.
So. I give up League until we get Aussie servers. Maybe I'll change my mind two days from now. Maybe I will pick it up again after a week of stressing over university assignments, and just want to muck around in an ARAM.
But for now, just giving y'all a heads up, no more LoL for me.
<3 jhoijhoilion
a) The Australasian servers come up
or
b) 3 months pass and I need to play one ranked game to stay in Gold V
Whichever comes first.
Why have I made this decision? I am not playing well. And my last game decided it. Every single time Hecarim came to gank bot lane, I'd walk up to him and stun him, as Taric. But due to my ping, Taric's stun travel time (even though I was right next to Hec each time) and Hec's ult cast time, Hec's ult still always went though, meaning Vayne would get smashed by it.
This pisses me off.
Just to give you guys an idea of what I play with every day:
That's 220 ping. I constantly play at 250-280 ping. Ranked, customs, bots, normals. Always at around 250 ping. And I honestly think it's hurting my reaction time. 200 ping is the difference between being able to Flash away after a stun, or dying. I love watching pro play because people constantly escape; on my end, it's impossible.
You can't Alistar headbutt-knock up combo. You can't detonate Gragas barrels, or Lux pools instantly. You literally have to Smite contested baron/dragon/buffs early and hope for the best.
It's hard to last hit. It's hard to land skill shots. It's hard to clutch anything.
How do I know? Because I've played Dota2 on the Aus servers with 25 ping. 25 ping. It's incredible, everything is so responsive. It's a shame that Dota2 has so many outdated mechanics, like orb effects, and that snowballing in Dota2 ends games - otherwise I may even switch to Dota2 for the PING.
So. I give up League until we get Aussie servers. Maybe I'll change my mind two days from now. Maybe I will pick it up again after a week of stressing over university assignments, and just want to muck around in an ARAM.
But for now, just giving y'all a heads up, no more LoL for me.
<3 jhoijhoilion
I have an okay computer but with AMAZING internet and I have around 180-ish ping, which is fine.
I'd be almost intimidated to switch to 5 ping, it'd almost be like playing with the highest mouse sensitivity, everything would be crazy fast!
I play with highest mouse sensitivity.. and i still find it slow in some cases 8D
On topic: I'm sorry to hear that jhoi :< I know i stopped playing on NA out of frustration, it's not THAT bad, usually around 200 ping but it still gets on my nerves :s
I play with 18-30 ping and sometimes it randomly hits 100+ and i play horribly when it does.
I have similar FPS problems, goes with 60 FPS nice and fluent... suddenly under10 =/
@jhoijhoi I don't play on NA servers but good ppl should stay in this game :( hope it solves fast
My record is 15?? ping, i pretty much played adc and got massive spikes, with my high movespeed (old phantom dancer) i was teleporting from turret to turret -.-
I play with 18-30 ping and sometimes it randomly hits 100+ and i play horribly when it does.
I have an okay computer but with AMAZING internet and I have around 180-ish ping, which is fine.
I'd be almost intimidated to switch to 5 ping, it'd almost be like playing with the highest mouse sensitivity, everything would be crazy fast!
But there is a huge difference between my reaction speed and Psi's for example. Something he could Cleanse and Flash away from, I wouldn't be able to. Something he can combo, I can't. You know what really demonstrates ping for me? Karthus. His Q has a slight delay time, so you have to get used to it. Now calculate that delay time for a little more delay, meaning you have to cast it earlier, despite know how long it takes to detonate, KNOWING you're casting it too early, but you still get the last hit anyway.
I'm not saying I'm 100% great at mechanics, not even 40% probably. I'm not saying I know everything, not even 30% probably. But I do know ping, and it always pisses me off to see players with 30 ping playing against my 250 ping. How can I survive harass from Caitlyn if she can virtually respond faster than I can?
Also, there will be Australian servers. Riot made a base in Sydney, but the servers probably won't come for like... at least half a year.
If you still don't believe me about ping, just look up that OddOne interview where he lost 100 elo in Australia before he stopped playing ranked. When asked whether he was glad he experienced it, and whether he'd like to again, he said no, definitely not, I wish I had never done it in the first place.
Some of you know the difference between 20 and 250 ping. Like Luther said, playing on EU and then NA. But even THEN you don't know, because you get something like 170 ping. What I would GIVE for 170 ping! It's hilarious listening to someone complain about 170 ping.
Anyway. Thanks for the reminder that it's 3 weeks-1 month. That's sooner than I thought, but it won't be too hard to squeeze in a game sometime before that.
^^
Sorry for the rage, but honestly, lol.