And now I'm feeling like a braindamaged kid with downs and dog DNA in a coma for ever thinking LoL, or any game of the genre really, required "a lot of skill" or even thinking they were difficult/hard to play in any possible way.....

Considering some units have as many skills as LoL champions have and you get to control squads of them+armies of other units with different skill sets, and you have to worry about your base, production, expansion, supply caps, map control, scouting, countering your foe before he starts producing what he's planing to, cheese play, never stalling your economy even for a single second, etc etc etc ****'s driving me crazy x.x

Edit: This post means no offense to LoL or MOBAs, I still play them anyway

coming from a person who has never played starcraft multiplayer

What a ****ing retarded post.

I have no doubt some RTS games are harder in some ways

Like the macro required in supreme commander/Ruse
Or the micro required in DoW2/CoH


But no other RTS seem to need that amount of micro AND macro AND mechanically perfect build orders AND timed scouting AND counterbuilding AND multitasking, and I could go on with the list but you get the idea. =/

Edit: Another thing is, neglecting any of the listed, and unlisted areas means you lose, no way around it, simple as that, up to platinum league you can get away with doing them decently but diamond and above? You need to be as perfect as a machine in every area at the same time.
THIS IS MADNESS

Yeah, that's why all the other RTSs have such a huge competitive scene-oh wait.

I used to be awesome (not that great) at SC1! Still love that game. Not as big a fan of SC2 but it is much prettier and my computer wouldn't be complete without it.

<3 SC:BW and SC2

KT HWAITING!

I stopped playing SC2 because no one made any good maps for it. Even with a map editor orders of magnitude more powerful, no good maps were made. I'd rather play BW than SC2 . I wonder if that has changed since I left.

You mean since release? They've been making bw-style maps now (at least for tournament play, those maps haven't exactly entered Blizz' ladder pool but that's what custom games are for)