I played league for years, and also some diablo, mu online, and other “top down down” view games, so the transition to Lost Ark to me was fairly easy.
I find the combat in Lost Ark much like League of Legends, but on steroids. much more fast paced, more skills, and then you add the layer of CCs and Super Armor to factor in.
Whoever said IT IS rng is absolutely wrong. RNG CC is something Like Black Desert Online, where you could straight up resist a CC landed by your opponent by random resistance stats your character possess. Which turned to be an anti-skill feature, especially considering how One-Shotty that game is. Let’s say, you played perfectly and landed your skills perfect in the window that enemy had no super armor, and yet they resisted, and the one time they landed they cc you and one shot you.
Gladly, we don’t have the same issue in Lost Ark. I find very important to understand what the different types of super armor and CCs are there, and knowing the CC rules of the game, this will 100% make you play a lot better.
Knock up is not the strongest cc, but it is the one that keeps you incapacitated the longest, so it is very important to know when to trade your Push Immunity abilities either defensively or offensively.
Much like league, the PvP in Lost Ark takes similar skills in team fights:
-Positioning - It is very important where you place your character to avoid being hit or targeted by things, or to set up good plays or follow-up on team mates cc, or peeling team mates.
-Side-steping/dodging. This game has no dodging. you can’t iframe abilities, you have to actually walk to dodge them, knowing enemy skills, and side step skill shots and other abilities is essential.
-Manage cooldowns. Enemy wasted cooldowns = enemy in trouble, punish it. you burned cooldowns, play more passively/defensively until you get it back.
-Decision making - do I jump on the enemy? do i use that cooldown? do I engage/initiate, or do I play back and peel ? do I focus this, or that target? a lot of decision making plays a huge role on securing wins, and the right decisions comes from game knowledge/experience.
that said, then you also add the CC types and the super armor layer, knowing what protects you from a certain skill, being a bit more passive until your cc break is b ack, etc.
there is absolutely no RNG in the pvp in los tark, if anything, it is one of the most brilliant PvP ever made. I dig a lot. I played a little bit on the Russian, not much, but I was doing pretty well there, but I had great players who are my friends coaching me. Some of them are the current champions of the SA tournament that happened tonight. and playing on NA I would say I am getting between 70- 80% win rate, and I am solo carrying a lot of games on pure knowledge of how cc works, engages and disengages, alternating different playstyles according to enemy comp, etc.
That said, I acknowledge the game has a lot of information to absorb to be good at it, and it may be complex and some people may need hundreds of matches until they finally “click” on how to do it.
I think right now is frustrating because the MMR is resetting so you are being paired versus playeurs that are much weaker or much stronger than you and it is creating unfair battles. Like whenever I play versus a team of 3 players who have no clue what they are doing I hit easily 1m+ dmg with little to no deaths.
I think once they bring the pvp season rewards, and the mmr stops resetting, then the game is gonna be more enjoyable overall because people will be fighting plaeyrs around their skill level unless they are on an alt “smurfing”.
