Streamer and LCS? How does it effect the Common gamers

The only problem I have is that low elo players or bad players think that everything they see on youtube/streams will work for them. They have no sense of direction and just blindly copy those players which usually result in them doing extremely bad.

 

Yea, when I see something well off in my game, I just assume it's from somewhere else and I'm usually right. If they mention it in the pick, I'm the first to dodge lol.

 

As I often play with a full team, I see some teams copying what professionals try to do and failing. Overall, I don't think E-Sports and streamers affect the game in a good way. Sure, they provide tons of entertainment for the community, but at the expense of building the meta and lowering experimentation, making the game less fun and more repetitive.

 

Streamers and LCS players define the meta in one way or another, a lot of amateur players try out what they've seen on streams and I don't think that's a bad thing at all. I haven't seen people apply strategies from LCS in ranked or normal games, so I guess that's not an issue either.

 

It is pretty helpful watching streamers how they go through their games at a higher competitive level, but as someone said above, not everything that works for them will work for you. Before you copy paste one of their moves you have to understand why one did it and how it affected its game, only after that decide on which situations it would be good to play it. Also there are moves that only works on the higher levels, because people there tend to be more strategic than the ones at our level which pretty much play it without a clear idea in mind, they only know that they must destroy other team's Nexus.

 

I don't see anything wrong with either of the parties. LCS is basically the league for the game, similar to how basketball has NBA, or how American football has NFL. Streamers have the right to stream their game as well.

 

I think it affects the meta in a good way because without it there is a lot less sense of direction and a lot more people just go about doing uneducated decisions. Granted, there is a difference in what is being shown by pro players and what average players are able to do without a preformed team and that can cause a lot of frustration but I think having something to follow and aim for is overall a good thing.

 

You make a good point, but there are still flaws with your statement. In LCS and other sports leagues team skills are incredibly important, but you also learn individual skills (playmaking, etc) that you can apply outside the league. This is the same thing for LCS. You continue to improve upon your skills and learn more playmaking abilities.

 

Streams definitely effect the game and I'd say they're my favorite part of it. As someone that no longer really cares to play anymore, it's great going back and watching a few matchups here and there and checking out highlight reels, its like enjoying the game without the fuss

 

I'm certainly guilty of trying to do moves that I simply have not worked on long enough to execute. That is the downside of watching streams. Those guys make everything look so easy and then you get people thinking they'll be able to do it in a match and fail horribly.

 

I always get motivated to play after watching streamers. Anytime I see new game play, I get motivated to play again. Seeing new moves always gets me going again.

 

The only effect a streamer has on me is to make me want to play a certain champion in that moment. That's all! I hate people trying to copy a streamer instead of getting their own playstyle. I'd rather play myself and lose 3 games but learn to do some tricky moves with Katarina instead of watching some guy play Katarina with smite and check that out. I'm all against the meta and I love breaking it, but it's a difference between a bad choice and breaking the meta.