2012-04-28, 03:20 AM
Gold graph shows you exactly how a fight changed the game, exactly how far behind/ahead someone got over the course of a period of something specific going on, and how much farm a team loses if for example someone is forced to recall.
It also shows you by what rate a team is outfarming the team and comparing it to the exp graph you can see how teams stand in gold and exp, which isn't always the same, having one team with more gold and one team with more exp isn't uncommon in DotA and with the new way exp is distributed in LoL i wouldn't be surprised if that was the case as well.
Professional DotA players will use both graphs as a way of measuring where in the game they had problems and what kind of problems they were, are they being outfarmed? outleveled? Is it equal while it theoretically should be in the other teams or your own favor?
And so on, i feel that it's useful and gives you information that looking at just the pure gold and exp earned doesn't quite give you, it gives you insight.
It also shows you by what rate a team is outfarming the team and comparing it to the exp graph you can see how teams stand in gold and exp, which isn't always the same, having one team with more gold and one team with more exp isn't uncommon in DotA and with the new way exp is distributed in LoL i wouldn't be surprised if that was the case as well.
Professional DotA players will use both graphs as a way of measuring where in the game they had problems and what kind of problems they were, are they being outfarmed? outleveled? Is it equal while it theoretically should be in the other teams or your own favor?
And so on, i feel that it's useful and gives you information that looking at just the pure gold and exp earned doesn't quite give you, it gives you insight.