Reign of Gaming

You're right in your words, but, in my opinion, to a certain extent only.

Yes, having strong scrim partners is important. But is it all? No, not even close. The difference between the scenes is in the mindset far before being in the scrim partners and what not.

See Gambit Gaming. Have they ever and constantly had scrim partners? Nope. Are they constantly practising? Alex Ich has explained countless times that they don't.

Firstly it's about being good, genuinely good (unlike Doublelift and other deluded NA players) and secondly it's about how you use the practise time and how serious you take it.

Asian teams, and some European ones as well, take it as job. As a career. They take it as serious as they can. It matters not if you scrim a lot, if you're going to do it the pathetic NA way where it's mostly about playing matches with a kicked-back attitude and then spending the following time non-constructively arguing with the team.

The crappy excuses have to cease if they truly want to improve. The same goes for some European teams like EG who think their only issue is "not playing enough solo-queue, not scriming enough and not spending enough time with each other".

Hell, but in the end maybe they don't even want to improve that much. As long as the money keeps flowing and their scene keeps being so little demanding, I bet they'll happily keep focusing on the fame, the drama and the trash talk that the NA scene seems to love so much...

Fantastic article, Gentleman Gustaf. My most sincere congratulations.

I wish you the best of luck on getting Riot's attention, because such dedication should definitely be rewarded. Not to mention the wonders it would to to the game we all love.

I'll eagerly await your following posts.

Cheers : )

I'm glad I was able to reach out to you and I'm even more glad you managed to read through my somewhat haughty and gaudy comment.

Overall my main point is (if it even needs repetition), your passive moderation is sometimes frustrating to the users who don't notice it and then it becomes frustrating to you moderators (I assume), who are accused of doing nothing when you actually are indeed working behind the scenes.

Good luck in the future, anyway.

Oh I beg your pardon, I did not noticed this reply.

Yes I'm perfectly aware you give out warnings (*wink wink*), but maybe you should change your tactic of moderation. Sometimes a warning suffices, certainly, but sometimes comments should simply be removed (with following justification).

You need to be more flexible in your moderation strategies. Sometimes warnings are futile and immediate reaction is required (to comments such as "So many QQs.  Someone call Hanshinshin's mommy, I think he wet his diaper again.").

In the end, to the common user, it just seems like RoG's comment section is an absolute jungle where you can get away with saying anything (as my initial comment sort of proves), given how it seems that there's either no moderation or the moderators don't bother reading through the hundreds of comments...

Yes, in the case of Black Cleaver, BotRK and even Warmogs it's undeniably correlation. It's so clear it's not worth discussing, as you may agree, and your opinions on those topics were not new to Riot, having been discussed and pointed out by countless players.

Regarding SotAG, though it is, again, a conclusion that's unavoidably reached for its mathematical truth, there would be nothing wrong or impossible, for that matter, for it to be a consequence of suggestion.

The point being, yes, by focusing on the issue Riot would eventually reach a solution, but sometimes, as admitted by themselves, they're directed to the solution's path by external suggestions, be it an outcry in the official forums, a popular post on reddit or an article in a blog.

At least I'd like to think they are indeed open to outer opinions...

You either misunderstood me or I wasn't clear enough. The fact that you're putting words in my mouth is quite aggravating, though. I never complained specifically about personal insults.

I understand your need to stay on your high horse, Gustaf, but it's somewhat sad to see such delusion in your thoughts. You needed so much to accuse me of the best possible fallacy, that you had to bend reality.

I have no issue at all with people trying to insult me or with personal insults whatsoever, that I can handle perfectly and so should everyone else.

In fact, I'm surprised by how much you were moved by my simplistic demonstration of aggression, but I suppose metaphorical nerve-endings vary on different people.

On the topic though, I'd say what really bothers me is the amount of non-constructive, right down destructive and offensive bullshit in the comment section of Hashinshin's articles. And most of them are simply not moderated. Are they meaningful? Absolutely not, but, if anything, the sole reason that they're spam alike should be enough to have them removed, not to mention the aforementioned personal attacks and zero contribution to the discussion.

It has become futile to attempt discussing these articles in the appropriate comment section, because it's just too difficult to clear through all the senseless immaturity and attacks on hashinshin.

These articles are the most thought-provoking ones in all of RoG, regardless of how poorly written they may be sometimes and the large amount of comments does prove that, yet you can't actually properly discuss said thoughts, given the spam of childish remarks.

And regarding Phreak, Gustaf, you're way out of your league on this one, I'm afraid. I'm not certain if I need to explain you what happened, but to put it simple, Phreak, a Riot employee, someone representing Riot, actually engaged in a discussion with Hashinshin and called him an "asshole". In Riot's own official forums. Out of what I assume to be frustration. It was pathetic and absolutely moronic.

You don't even get to name that a personal insult. Phreak was moronic.

Edit: Oh my lord, as soon as I'm done commenting on the state of RoG's comment section (with much dramatization, I'll give you that) look at what pops out: "The comments are bad but his articles are not that much better. most of them are just pure QQ with no real logic behind them."

There you have it folks, most of these articles are just pure QQ with no real logic behind them. Oh man, I actually have an enormous smile on my face right now : ).

Lovely article Gentelman Gustaf, well done.

By the way, how much of a coincidence is it that just some few weeks after you write an article on tanks needing a cheap Health + CDR item, SotAG loses its armor and gains CDR instead ; )?

I'd really like to hear your opinion on Skarner and how to build him in S3, if possible. I've just recently become a fan of the scorpion, but unfortunately it seems that it was in the worse possible time. He's weak and I'm far from certain on how to build him. Every game it seems that I always end up being behind and far from tanky enough, while doing negligible damage...

I'm sorry, I've been a way from this site for a short while, but when did it become so absolutely infested with these low life failed-abortions that haunt the comment section?

 I fear for RoG and I sincerely hope Hashinshin has a developed a thick skin and can disregard these low Elo putrid infants, because the situation is absurd, right now.

Where the hell are the moderators? I see personal insults left and right. Are you really going to let this reach the state of GD?

Next what? We have the moronic Phreak come here and personally call Hashinshin an "asshole". Talk about representing your company in a professional and mature way...

From Alex Ich himself, answering the question "Which champions do you consider strong / OP on the live patch, and why?"

- "Khazix, mb ryze"..." Ryze due to high aoe dmg with high solo target dmg which is kinda ridicolous."

It doesn't get much clearer than that. Ryze is just pure bad and moronic design, as most recommended champions tend to be. Completely opposite to what WithoutQuestion wrongly said, Ryze is never truly shutdown. He is always a threat. Like the OP said, I've been there countless times: games where i'm completely stomped in the lanning phase, but by simply farming sufficiently and being at teamfights, I eventually get the few required items to be an imminent danger. And that ultimate... how many times have I baited people into trying to kill me when seemingly low on HP, only to have spellvamp turn the fight completely around.

Also, Muramana... that is all.

Oh and though you are absolutely free to disregard my opinion, it's worth what it is (which may very well be nothing), please note that first part is coming from the Alex Ich, someone who knows and will most likely always know much more than you and me about League of Legends.

This article, this article is truly outrageous. It's truly, truly, truly... outrageous.

I'm so sorry, I just had to!

Edit: Ah geez, should have read the comments first... Oh well it's done, so screw it!