Not wanting to derail the OP , but having played much in China and NA at roughly the same level , I can confirm this . I never realized how bad I was at laning between the average 80 ping and poor lane aggression typical pf US players or the inability to LH typical of Peruvians so even if they were better headhunters , I would not be at an economic disadvantage due to superior CS until I returned home to China . At 2040 ping or 10 in a net cafe , my offlane and mid were routinely getting destroyed and I lost 700 MMR in 2 months , which I only won back yesterday . The coordination was a bigger shock . I used to pride myself in being relatively hard to gank either I don ' t die or I take an enemy down with me while being good at solo ganking others , but CN pubs taught me that ' s only because NA players aren ' t very coordinated . In those first two months , misplays , bad calls , and getting reported because of feeding commanding others to feed were pretty common . Much of what I thought was baiting and would have worked in NA either is ridiciulously obvious or leads to direct feeding wasting time in China . Enemy coordination means mistakes are punished much harder and comebacks are less likely . According to YASP , I had a 30 % comeback rate in NA after losing the laning phase but only a 16 % comeback rate in China . The pace of game in China isnt much faster than NA , but drafts are more rational and the counterattacks teamfights more vicious . Lose a teamfight lost objectives for sure here .