Reign of Gaming

ALPHA

<pre>Top: Wickd</pre> <pre>Jungle: Saintvicious</pre> <pre>Mid: Bigfatjiji</pre> <pre>AD Carry: Weixiao</pre> <pre>Support: Elementz</pre>

 

PRIME

<pre>Top: Dyrus</pre> <pre>Jungle: CyanideFI</pre> <pre>Mid: Shushei</pre> <pre>AD Carry: bebisadog</pre> <pre>Support: Muffinqt</pre>

i don't know. i found starcraft BW really fun to watch, although the game wasn't really noob friendly.

but i agree with you about player population decrease if they made it harder to play.

well, the example you gave about the difficulty can be tricky, cause the thing would apply to everyone else, not only to yourself. thus the difficulty might stay even, cause your opponents have to deal with it too. this would be the case if the purpose of playing is to win, not simply just "play".

however, it could make the game more competitive (increase of skill ceiling), since I'd imagine there would be less people capable of playing LoL2 efficiently than LoL (that's how people are, everyone is different and has their own talents, and LoL2 is humanly more difficult than LoL).

so yes, it is more difficult just to "play", but not so when you "play to win".

what's not good with the system is not elo systems, but rather the matchmaking. and the problem of matchmaking comes from the SR map itself. they usually put a team with higher elo on purple side (unless you duo queue, which then is another story), that is because blue team has a higher win chance, and their attempt to balance two teams does not always succeed (they fail more often than people think) thus the problem origins from the balance issues of summoner's rift.

there are several theories to why blue team is at advantages, and one of them is the camera angle. which could be solved by reverting the camera for purple team, but that could potentially rise other problems, or make the map left vs rights, instead of diagonal.

until they fix the issue of imbalance between purple vs blues, riot is going to have a difficult time matchmaking two equally skilled teams.