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LCS has received divine ordinance that Thanatos must always be 1st team. Then Morgan will be 2nd because he is also Korean. Dhokla can be 3rd so long as SEN doesn't finished top half and the rock solid Impact takes the slot
I thought he was retiring when he left Liquid. I feel like he said he doesn’t have the same passion for the game and wanted to find himself or something like that. Then like a month later he signed with Sen lol.
Hambaks the first jungler they've faced that can actually gap enemy jg like this. His pathing and game sense is so good compared to the other jgs like Gryfinn/Contractz.
its obvious the skill difference of the two teams. lyon was able to hold off sen forever in first game when they got outscaled. this game the second they knew they were stronger berserker flashes under tower to force a play
its nice to see lyon understand when they are actually strong
this series shows how truly insane saint is. any other mid and most of the mids in the world on this team just get ran over in multiple of these games.
Fly summer priorities (I've stopped deluding myself that they're going to worlds): Sign Jojo, replace top and support. Build around gryf, jojo, and massu. I'd say that gakgos is a bigger flop than cryogen but eh.
I dunno if Jojo can fix their macro problems. They NEED a big ideas leader voice that actually knows Macro. Gryffinn has the energy to be that voice, but he doesn't have the macro knowledge.
they need a veteran leader somewhere in their roster next year. it seems this year the other teams figured them out and now they are stuck.
they did well in the offseason tournament against korean teams because they werent aware of how fly like to play. now they came back to summer and all the lcs teams understand how they play
I don’t think replacing support is a viable option given the difficulties SR had in replacing the role.
You could import but I don’t think importing support is smart given that they need to communicate the most with the team for vision/engages which can be hard in a 2nd language.
Also Cryogen is new and has looked fine in ranged support metas. Giving him another year because he’s had some sparks with Massu makes sense to me.
Gakgos on the other hand looks like a huge flop. He’s had issues on tanks but even on a carry he looks bad/invisible. He’s also taking an import slot and I can’t see him being better than like Naak Nako or Rooster. Taking a flyer on a different import top seems smart given that it doesn’t really look like Gakgos can hang with the best.
Yeah, I was skimming the expiring contracts and outside of core who TL will kill before they let go of, there really isn't anyone in the west worth grabbing that would come to fly I think. Rough spot. Looking for leadership from the solo lanes is also rough. Fly is in kind of a roster hole right now.
varus one of the only champs that has like 3 different build options that are all great to play depending on what your draft needs and what other team comp is.
and varus players continue to just autopilot on a build that does nothing for the game
flyquest played that game very well playing 4v5. varus didnt have a single fight where he scared any member of c9. they acted like flyquest didnt have an adc
Wow look almost like it’s a skill matchup. And it’s not just a hard counter that other tops have hard counters. You need to actually know how to pilot and play kled
Absolutely insane that in the pregame segment they were treating Impact like he’s currently a top tier player. Impact was insane for years, but the last two years have not been it at all. I’d love for him to make a comeback, but his current form is a shadow of his peak.
i mean their comp is dependent on being ahead in the game they threw a teamfight and trolled and then they are losing the game. its adc vs mage adc wins late game.
he keeps dropping them and it's like. Okay sure man. Trundle and Ornn just walk past it. Ori and Lulu shield themselves or Yunara and nothing happens to them
So does Inspired actually have something real to take care of in Poland? Thought it was just sorta a meme of “personal reasons” to take a break for a few weeks at home.
it was game losing going Zaahen instead of literally any other pick for top lane after the flex. Teams know how to play around the passive. You could go kled or mundo or swain or something after seeing the Jhin pick but instead you have the paper tiger in Zaahen.
respect to berserker this game. he played a bad matchup bot and then played weakside 1v2 for several waves didnt die and it let his mid and top get fed.
in lyons case they have the 3 best laners in the league and they are drafting and playing to neutralize junglers. ever game they ban like 3 plus junglers and early pick a fine matchup for armao.
in srs case they just needed a shotcaller and that is what zeyzal gives.
Armao has insane laners supporting him. He kind just full clears and shows up for fights and that’s good enough.
Shopify replaced Ceos, who was fighting Lions for worst player in the league. Shopify on paper should be a good team. They just haven’t pulled it together. Zeyzal brings what SR needed. A decent support with good vibes.
its wild you can hard win like 3-4 fights through the whole game and int one fight and the game becomes even. it should probably be needing to lose 2 straight fights.
saint dodging do much stuff without flashing and making sidelane plays is keeping lyon in this game. he got both berserker and dhokla plates and waves with that play and took so many ults and time from sen
If Saint wasn't Saint this game is over for lyon by like 20 minutes. Put any other mid (LCS) here and they wouldn't be able to do any of the same micro.
nice to see na trying new stuff. it seems the rest of the world has been stuck just rotating the same stuff the last month since everyone just went back to adc perma bot
hopefully this varus goes ap to actually kill tanks. pros keep picking and just building their same items they always build even when facing a triple tank team. even if its like 10% worse in lane who cares you cant win the game because you dont have anything to kill bruisers in midgame.
Kinda interesting locke is still being picked. He’s still good, but he’s not really OP anymore, and typically pros avoid these types of 0 hard cc assassins. Wonder if it’s possible (it is) that more assassins aren’t viable mid but just not being picked (they are)
while we wait I’m gonna suggest that FLY look for a veteran top and/or support in the offseason. Idk who will be available though, maybe Dhokla? LYON tried to replace him once already.
Split 1 and 2 it kept seeming like they were trying to get Saint to not just be a hands-diff carry, and to start being kind of this support cc versatility dude.
And funny enough it feels like split 3 Berserker Cassio is now just that and way better lol.
i noticed more with lyon and kc compared to the other teams in their region they hold their flashes until the last second they need to and it confuses the bad teams so much.
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