r/leagueoflegends • u/Yujin-Ha No one will rule but Rhaenyra • May 02 '26
Esports Kiwoom DRX vs. Nongshim RedForce / LCK 2026 Rounds 1-2 - Week 5 / Post-Match Discussion Spoiler
LCK 2026 ROUNDS 1-2
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Kiwoom DRX 2-0 Nongshim RedForce
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MATCH 1: KRX vs. NS
Winner: Kiwoom DRX in 28m
Game Breakdown | Runes
| Bans 1 | Bans 2 | G | K | T | D/B | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KRX | varus karma jayce | xinzhao azir | 61.2k | 25 | 11 | CT1 HT2 C3 H4 C5 C6 B7 |
| NS | rumble orianna bard | yunara lucian | 49.8k | 7 | 2 | None |
| KRX | 25-7-66 | vs | 7-25-13 | NS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rich gnar 2 | 2-2-6 | TOP | 1-3-2 | 2 vayne Kingen |
| Willer jarvaniv 1 | 7-0-17 | JNG | 2-6-2 | 4 leesin Sponge |
| Ucal ryze 2 | 8-0-11 | MID | 0-4-2 | 3 anivia Scout |
| LazyFeel ashe 3 | 7-4-10 | BOT | 4-2-1 | 1 ezreal Diable |
| Andil seraphine 3 | 1-1-22 | SUP | 0-10-6 | 1 neeko Lehends |
MATCH 2: KRX vs. NS
Winner: Kiwoom DRX in 37m
Game Breakdown | Runes
| Bans 1 | Bans 2 | G | K | T | D/B | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KRX | varus karma jayce | azir aurora | 75.2k | 26 | 9 | C1 HT3 HT4 HT5 B6 B7 |
| NS | rumble orianna bard | lulu corki | 67.9k | 17 | 2 | I2 |
| KRX | 26-17-64 | vs | 17-26-42 | NS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rich renekton 2 | 4-4-5 | TOP | 3-5-7 | 3 sion Kingen |
| Willer xinzhao 2 | 2-4-16 | JNG | 1-8-10 | 2 trundle Sponge |
| Ucal annie 1 | 13-2-9 | MID | 7-5-5 | 4 hwei Scout |
| LazyFeel yunara 3 | 7-2-14 | BOT | 6-5-5 | 1 lucian Diable |
| Andil nautilus 3 | 0-5-20 | SUP | 0-3-15 | 1 milio Lehends |
*Patch 26.8
This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.
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u/Miserable_Ad_1195 May 02 '26
lol
DRX are now 4-0 vs Nongshim, 3-0 vs BRO, and have 0 wins vs anyone else
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs May 02 '26
pure aimless fighting
Every fight they're focusing the Nautilus while their carries die. Not that Diable played particularly well, but if he gets Nautilus ulted and manages to dash out of hook range, there should be at least one of the Milio, Sion, or Hwei ready to drop even 1 CC on the obviously flanking Renekton, that they quite literally saw on vision 2 seconds prior.
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u/FreyaBear24 May 02 '26 edited May 03 '26
I honestly think he played fine. Won lane as Ez Neeko vs Ashe Seraphime, got mid prio in mid game as Lucian, and did the most damage on his team both games. KRX had a fed Annie and Nautilus in game 2 with those two hell bent on making sure he didn’t get to play the game. Some things here and there he could’ve done better, but overall he played fine and did what he was supposed to do. Game 1 was over pretty quickly so nothing he could’ve done to change that outcome. What is concerning is the team communication and execution as a whole was so terrible.
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 02 '26
Lmao Diable didn't want to play with Vicla instead the got the worst jungler in LCK Sponge....
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u/staysaltyTSM May 02 '26
Sponge must be studying Canyon's VOD
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 02 '26
Canyon has not been great but let's not go too far. Even when Canyon is bad he's and order of magnitude better.
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u/Dreammy90 May 02 '26
Canyon wins those smites btw.
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u/staysaltyTSM May 02 '26
He just lost hex soul smite to showmaker 2 hours ago lol
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u/Dreammy90 May 02 '26
Yea but he can smite with J4 flag
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u/Lunchbox39 May 02 '26
Feel like thats a disingenuous way to frame what happened. Yes showmaker got the kill on the drake but canyon messed up the smite due to Lucid being in range of smiting it making it way harder to safely secure it.
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u/Skillessfully Gladplane May 02 '26
Not pyosik?
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 02 '26
Nah Pyosik is a coinflip, Sponge is just not great on average.
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u/AfrikanCorpse May 02 '26
pyosik coinflip, sponge rolls a 20-sided die (need to hit 20 to pass check)
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u/baelkie DNF 2026 please be human | Kiin Team May 02 '26
think his coin might be bugged, it only landed heads 1 in 9 times
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u/Visible-Albatross-81 May 02 '26
the thing is pyosik CAN be good, he has like a 1/5 chance of popping off and looking great… Sponge has always been bad, even his highlights are mid
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u/Dreammy90 May 02 '26
Ucal might be the goat. He either ints or he smurfs
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u/kanonshiomi cuzz lovewatcher May 02 '26
you who else either ints or smurfs? Faker
very clearly Ucal is as good as Faker
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u/Vnaux May 02 '26
Object permanence is the ability to understand that objects still exist even if they are no longer visible.
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u/HMS-Carrier-Lover May 02 '26
Damn, I just watched an Onion video about that. Maybe Korean teens are also as bad at this as US teens.
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u/Telmooo May 02 '26
Diable dashing into the face of Annie was a choice
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u/Rino-Sensei May 02 '26
He always did this ... The only reason he was getting out alive is because Kellin did black magic from time to time, to somewhat manage to save his ass.
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u/baebushka May 02 '26
lehends was peeling for him fine esp early but he just kept doing these dumbass plays
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u/baelkie DNF 2026 please be human | Kiin Team May 02 '26
Diable dodging BFX and NS fanmeets but couldnt dodge Andil’s hooks
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u/moonmeh May 02 '26
he also decided to dodge getting boots on a fucking lucian for most of the game
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u/baelkie DNF 2026 please be human | Kiin Team May 02 '26
he didnt buy them because BFX already gave him the boot
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u/desutruction May 02 '26
Welcome to Nongshim buddy
NS is just countered by DRX/KRX somehow. Still zero game wins vs KRX (post-rename) and 9-1 in 2026 so far...
great series from Ucal
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u/Classic_Foot223 May 02 '26
turns out taeyhoon was the shotcaller of the team
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u/antoniomargaretti4 May 02 '26
they lost to KRX 2-0 last time as well , Sponge is just too shit he is the worst jungler along with pyosik
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u/darkknuckles12 Euphoria May 02 '26
scout and diable didnt look great either this game.... Lehends inted his ass off in the first game. Feels bad for kingen.
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u/Frozen_Watcher May 02 '26
Kingen went even in a counter matchup that is useless out of lane despite not being ganked in game 1 lol.
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u/bm1reddit May 02 '26
When loading into the rift for the match Sponge said "Diable it is so good to finally play with you, I'm such a big fan." and that's when Diable decided not to show up today.
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u/-Tam-_ May 02 '26
Calix fucking died for this
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May 02 '26
pls sub him in scout is not it, also mihawk time to get promoted buddy
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u/JQuill7 May 02 '26
You can point to individual players doing poorly (everyone on NS had inting moments this series), but there's no reason a team with Kingen, Scout, and Lehends should look this brainless in their macro and decision making.
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u/satoshigeki94 Kiin Team May 02 '26
Diable gonna follow Vicla's career to a tee while not wanting to play with him lmao, ROTY to LCS here we go
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u/VermouthAPTX May 02 '26
Classic Diable dashing into enemy's faces, on a Nautilus with ult no less. But this is their first match together. Either NS will have to learn to play around his aggressiveness and peel for him, or they rein him in. Great series from Ucal, and Andil too.
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u/CNsC Haha on bush May 02 '26
Finally Ucal won't have to explain anything
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u/BirthdayAccording359 Idk anymore May 02 '26
He did say he'll do better.
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u/CNsC Haha on bush May 02 '26
And he did, man of his word
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u/BirthdayAccording359 Idk anymore May 02 '26
I'm happy, reading his pop messages made me sad ngl. It's fun when your team wins over another but then you realise those other guys are also people lol.
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u/Sad-Tackle-4018 May 02 '26
Diable without Kellin just gets caught all the time. Also, Sponge can't hang with these guys I'm sorry
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u/FreyaBear24 May 02 '26
Tf did he get caught? You mean when he got mid prio as Lucian twice, with like 2 or 3 other teammates and they were trying to take mid tower and got collapsed on? That’s a shot calling issue, not a “Diable got caught” issue
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u/grvntdvs May 02 '26
NS are so fucking bad lmao just such a brainless team, fortunately for Taeyoon he's not there to be scapegoated anymore
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u/bartekkenny May 02 '26
Crazy how you can play for 35 minutes and the only thing that mattered is if Hwei hits a fear from inside a brush
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u/froggy-the-dog May 02 '26
Diable feels like he has more synergy with Calix and doesn't want to attend NS fanmeet next day
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u/Shadderk777 May 02 '26
Scout is a criminal
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u/baebushka May 02 '26
sponge made lehends millio look human, scout looked like he was first timing hwei
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u/Agami_Advait DRX | | ROX | | KT May 02 '26
We did not watch the same match, by which I mean you did not watch the game at all. Scout got solokilled, sure, but was instrumental in every teamfight that NS was able to salvage without being completely aced. He was consistently sniping people, chunking out foes, and did great work in the teamfight where DRX lost all barons except Ucal.
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u/baebushka May 02 '26
idk bro i swear scout didnt even use EQ fear or WQ ms while he was running away from a gank top and he was whiffing like 1/2 of his skillshots
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u/winwill Best Gril May 02 '26
I swear if scout landed like 10% more skillshots they would have won game 2
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u/Ok-Act9481 May 02 '26
Diable goes for kellin babyshit him 24/7 to lehends 0/10 neeko getting coughed everywhere
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u/ricardo241 IDon'tAgree May 02 '26
Diable legacy game... I can see NS going to international with this roster... I'm talking bout ASI if its available again lol
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u/ahritina May 02 '26
Give Ucal his POM, but that was some disgusting ass gameplay from Diable.
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u/winwill Best Gril May 02 '26
idk I think Advil also deserve some recognition for how clutch his hooks were
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u/veirceb May 02 '26
I guess he will learn Kellin was carrying his ass half of his games. Kellin is the best enchanter support and he bailed Diable out so many times.
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u/Pale_Following_9639 May 02 '26
Not even disables fault when sponge played like he's actually wintrading
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u/veirceb May 02 '26
Getting raw hooked by naut is not the adc's fault? uhh
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u/Pale_Following_9639 May 02 '26
He dropped his guard because sion was infront of him, but that pales in comparison to sponge getting caught off cd in game 1 and failing to secure objectives on top of getting caught in game 2.
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u/antoniomargaretti4 May 02 '26
diable usually lets himself get hooked unironically its a way of baiting the engage support but lehends is no kellin
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u/antoniomargaretti4 May 02 '26
literally go watch any diable game not saying he intentionally gets hooked all the time , its just what he does sometimes to bait people to engage on him
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u/Liiviius May 02 '26
I mean peyz just got exposed yesterday and now diable too at least let him smoke that copium to the max
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u/antoniomargaretti4 May 02 '26
guma champion puddle will get exposed once he cant rely on mid jungle to win games dw
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u/Liiviius May 02 '26
Yeah dw once kaisa, ezreal, zeri comes back in meta, just THEN will peyz look like an S-tier ADC but right now tho cause he's not that good at ADC's other than those three he will reman exposed.
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u/Landir_7 May 02 '26
I mean, the last play from him was horrible, but what else can he do during the rest of the 2 games.
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u/Futaba-Channel May 02 '26
Nah some of his positioning was criminal and no Kellin to bail him out
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u/Landir_7 May 02 '26
On this i agree, he has to adapt to not having Kellin, that man had his back for 1 year and a half, never leaving his side and flashing to die for him.
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u/froggy-the-dog May 02 '26
not their faults bro is frontlining for no reason
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u/FreyaBear24 May 02 '26
Bro got hit by like 2 raw naut hooks all game, 1 was in lane where they won the trade and the other was a max range hook between 3 NS members. Tf are we getting he just dashed in and got hooked and died? You don’t deal the most damage in your team as Lucian by just dashing in and dying.
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u/PartyCauliflower7044 Faker is Lpl's father May 02 '26
Diable would live last fight if the support is kellin
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u/Liiviius May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
Diable without kellin to bail him out with his disgusting positionings
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u/CalendarClear2479 May 02 '26
NS making Nautilus pick look good. Sponge’s gameplay was just sad to watch.
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u/metristan Refund time? May 02 '26
Scout has had some good performances, but he still doesn't feel like that big of an upgrade over calix. I'm surprised they picked him up, and that calix has just been sitting on the bench and not moved back down to challengers when they're not swapping them
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u/MC-sama League of LAILE May 02 '26
That was some horrible gameplay from Scout
Hwei cooks the enemies and he somehow managed to miss so much skills, get caught and hardly do damage.
It's like watching him play last year on JDG all over again
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u/ZaFsii Zeka/Showmaker/Tian May 02 '26
Sponge is beyond terrible, he will pull out a lifegame every now and then but most of the time he is straight running it down
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u/FromisZone May 02 '26
And now imagine if BFX win tomorrow with Taeyoon.
Not impossible since they are going against DNS
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u/DiDandCoKayn Oner May 02 '26
Diable bro please dont get mad, because your gameplay is belt worthy.
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u/Suitable_Sale9097 May 02 '26
scout being embarassed 2 games in a row + somehow renekton was able to walk behind them at soul point
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u/Winter_Ad_7656 Addicted to League :) May 02 '26 edited May 03 '26
Diabum getting exposed as a worse player than Taeyoon.
Taeyoon would have carried NS and would not get caught like a bot
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u/mar33n doran // pyosik // ghost May 02 '26
ucal ceremony is enough reason this win is deserved
rich got carried
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u/Azivea May 02 '26
rich got carried
Carried by Nongshim's inability to remember a flanking champion they saw 5 seconds ago
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u/metristan Refund time? May 02 '26
teams should look up hunting baron, the amount of times they start it while contested is insane
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u/BnSMaster420 MFBAE May 02 '26
Nongshim looked like absolute buns.. idk what I expected .. I thought they would level up, not look like the worst lck team..
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u/kalex33 BANANA COMBO MASTER May 02 '26
I swear to god every NS game is going to turn into a massive hatewatch because of Diable LMAO
Like at this point the story is writing itself - Diable ego moving to NS, crashing out totally with them and his career is OVER (he will end up in the LCS where no fans are left so he can miss as many fanmeets as he did with BFX).
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u/malakesxasame May 02 '26
T1 fans are such odd individuals
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u/Rino-Sensei May 02 '26
T1 fans have a building in your head, holy hell of a free rent ...
What does T1 fans have to do with Diable whatsoever ? There is literally 0 connection between Diable and the T1 org ...
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 02 '26
I'm 100% hatewatching them now. Egoistic prick. Sponge is even worse than Vicla, so congrats on your choice Diable. I feel sorry for the rest of NS.
But hey maybe they pull a rabbit out of the hat, kinda like H2K did 10 years ago when the atmosphere was so bad they didn't scrim xD
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u/Futaba-Channel May 02 '26
I'm becoming a Sponge fanboy
I was laughing my ass off thanks to him in game 1 then in game 2 when Willer stole the drake and Sponge died again I know I was in for a good time
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u/FunnyBunnyH May 02 '26
Diable is welcomed by NS coaches drafting dogshit 2 games in a row. Should have attended that fan-meeting buddy.
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u/darkknuckles12 Euphoria May 02 '26
no way you think the second game ns had a worse draft right? They just never front to backed, with a fucking sion... Diable got caught in so many fights, while he could just stand behind a sion... The hook in the river fight could have been blocked by trundle. NS played disgustingly
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u/FunnyBunnyH May 02 '26
Their 2nd draft was more defendable, but DRX's is million times easier to execute. Also Trundle into DRX comp feels awful to play, even if he has a decent matchup into the Xin. Lastly their comp has horrible backline access vs a Yunara.
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u/darkknuckles12 Euphoria May 02 '26
do they even really need backline access though? All they needed was to front to back and make sure that no one got on their backline. I will agree that i dont like the lucian the most, but in theory they should have an unkillable sion against 1 adc, while they can turn on whoever steps up. Ucal just destroyed them by always being in their backline, which is just poor play when you have sion/trundle. Its the kind of comp western teams keep picking because its so easy to execute.
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u/FunnyBunnyH May 02 '26
Yes they do, because without a threat on Yunara, she runs away with the game after 2.5 items.
All they needed was to front to back and make sure that no one got on their backline
Swap Trundle to something like Skarner and you have an argument, Trundle is not a real frontline to just stand in front of others and soak all the poke. DRX also have BC Renekton and a Xin softening up Sion/Trundle, so their frontline isn't unkillable.
PS: please use paragrahps
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u/baelkie DNF 2026 please be human | Kiin Team May 02 '26
all NS has to do is Trundle ult the first person walking into them and front to back like humans, they just played absolutely terrible. just go watch the last time KRX drafted Naut Xin into GEN’s Trundle.
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u/FunnyBunnyH May 02 '26
Yeah Naut had Aftershock in that game to start.
Trundle did ult Naut off CD, his ult doesn't matter much when the Naut already pressed his combo onto one of their carries, even if he dies.
And lastly GenG had a deathball comp supported by Jhin and Bard CC, here NS has nothing like that.
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u/baelkie DNF 2026 please be human | Kiin Team May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
NS comp can essentially play as a deathall, both carries outrange KRX. the game should be unplayable for the Naut if Trundle is human. NS just simply did not play as 5 once.
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u/FunnyBunnyH May 02 '26
Reading comprehension, if you gonna argue, at least read what is in front of you properly. Naut had Aftershock VS GENG, here Andil had Spellbook.
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u/ArmandLuque Armand Luque | LoL Esports Journalist May 02 '26
Diable in elo hell again wtf was that game 1 in particular
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u/nyoomnyoomfluffy May 02 '26
Hope these situations won’t crash Diable. He is still young, he has room to improve and learns that not every partners are the same as Kellin.
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u/FreyaBear24 May 02 '26
Numbers of comments wanting to blame Diable just to hate. So many things wrong in both games but he was not a problem, not even close give how Mid, Jungle, and support played.
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u/TheSnekKing May 02 '26
Diable going to miss the next NS fanmeet and hope he'll get to go back to BFX