League Of Legends

NALCS starts tomorrow. Prediction time for Spring!
And bloody hell this season seem like a crapshoot with the roster churn and now best of 1.
Almost every team has some promising features, but they also have some glaring question marks that may or may not actually be an issue.



TSM - I always hated that their support and jungler were basically mutes. Apparently so did Andy. I don't care that DL was hit in the crossfire. I might have if he didn't abandon the team for a split to stream.

Echo Fox - Hard to understand why they would spend that money for Huni, but then go frugal with Fenix. But, assuming they don't get on a losing streak, they should be able to steamroll a got of games.

Liquid - I see too many protect the doublelift comps in the future for me to think this roster will be better than IMT from last year.

Counter Logic Gaming - Increased mechanical skill at the cost of shotcalling, but I think they'll have a great regular season with an extra dose of cheese from Ziks working in best of 1's.

100 Thieves - I'm happy Levi is in NA. I'm sad he's on the bench with a team alreading having 2 imports already in other spots. Bonus, let's see how long Meteos wants to play this time!

Cloud 9 - I think Sven is a wash on Contractz, but I don't see Licorice being as good as Impact. Despite worlds success in group A, they were 4th in regular season last year and bombed in playoffs.

Clutch Gaming - I love their roster, except for Solo. But if he's able to just turtle up on a tank and wave clear like a bitch, the team should be really good.

Flyquest - I like Fly's playstyle of roam, roam, roam. That with Flame or Wildturtle randomly going off maybe can win enough games to make playoffs.

Optic - Arrow, Akaadian, Power of Evil: promising start! Zig and Lemonnation. Oh... ok.

Golden Guardians - The bad parts of Team Liquid married the C9 Academy Team + a rookie ADC. The last time Hai was able to surprise on a shitty team before the wheels finally fell off, but I don't see it happening again.

Ravishing said:

why are you so confused with what I wrote? Lol.

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You made an assumption and you were wildly incorrect. I accepted partial blame for not being clear enough and elaborated upon it. If you can't go back and reread what you wrote and find the irony in all of it, that's on you.

Edit: Just saw your edit.

Ravishing said:

how did I assume the worst?

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Ravishing said:

I just immediately assumed you were flaming everyone here.

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Someone should contact the ISS because I think UOL just tilted off the planet from that base race.

Watched the NA LCS highlights last night.
Some spoilers below if you haven't watched yet.



TSM got off to a rocky start, but I'm still confident they'll get it together by end of split. Zven/Mithy did well in lane in every game, just the team's overall communication and teamwork was sloppy. Which was somewhat expected by 3 new players coming in. Their loss to FLY was pretty shocking though. Especially since they didn't even have FLY Fly yet.

The team's that have more players who have played together, or really good coaches, seem to have done the best the first week. Just stacking good players on a team doesn't mean as much as good synergy early on in the split. TL is basically IMT +Impact/Doublelift, and they did great. Glad to see that roster appears to have worked out. Was afraid it'd be another 'super team bust'.

EF was a pleasant surprise. Seems there is enough talent there to overcome Dardoch's ego. Plus, he's got two solo laners he likes working with between Huni and Fenix. He always got along with Fenix relatively well, it was more Piglet and Loco that he had the big issues with in 'breaking point'. Adrian is sort of the same in that he doesn't want dumb teammates, but there isn't really one on this team. Altec might be the 'worst' but it's hard to say, he's had success if put in the right situation. Plus, Adrian+Huni and Dardoch+Fenix have experience playing together.

Oh, and C9 looked good. Licorice is looking to be a solid player, he's not cracking under pressure on stage like some rookies. Sven for Contractz appears to be a wash so far, which may mean he's better by the end of split. So, C9 is looking just as good as last year, which is good. Was afraid losing Impact would really hurt them, but Licorice is living up to the hype so far. I think they will be a top 4 team for sure.

Enzee said:

Watched the NA LCS highlights last night.
Some spoilers below if you haven't watched yet.



TSM got off to a rocky start, but I'm still confident they'll get it together by end of split. Zven/Mithy did well in lane in every game, just the team's overall communication and teamwork was sloppy. Which was somewhat expected by 3 new players coming in. Their loss to FLY was pretty shocking though. Especially since they didn't even have FLY Fly yet.

The team's that have more players who have played together, or really good coaches, seem to have done the best the first week. Just stacking good players on a team doesn't mean as much as good synergy early on in the split. TL is basically IMT +Impact/Doublelift, and they did great. Glad to see that roster appears to have worked out. Was afraid it'd be another 'super team bust'.

EF was a pleasant surprise. Seems there is enough talent there to overcome Dardoch's ego. Plus, he's got two solo laners he likes working with between Huni and Fenix. He always got along with Fenix relatively well, it was more Piglet and Loco that he had the big issues with in 'breaking point'. Adrian is sort of the same in that he doesn't want dumb teammates, but there isn't really one on this team. Altec might be the 'worst' but it's hard to say, he's had success if put in the right situation. Plus, Adrian+Huni and Dardoch+Fenix have experience playing together.

Oh, and C9 looked good. Licorice is looking to be a solid player, he's not cracking under pressure on stage like some rookies. Sven for Contractz appears to be a wash so far, which may mean he's better by the end of split. So, C9 is looking just as good as last year, which is good. Was afraid losing Impact would really hurt them, but Licorice is living up to the hype so far. I think they will be a top 4 team for sure.

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As a C9 fan, yay. TSM always ends up in top 3 though, I'm sure they'll push through by end of the LCS. TL looked way better than you'd expect for basically an all new roster with limited practice together (beyond some past experience obviously), we'll see if it's enough to break the TL curse

Been demoted out of silver 3 3 times now... Just finished game tonight after work and my talon mid had 13k damage at the end (was like a 40+ min game)... if I get promoted and demoted again then it's probably time for me to take another extended break.

Oblio said:

I think I figured it out, well for Bronze atleast. Don't play ranked on the weekend. The weekends are just full of stupid and or troll kids. My win rate on weekdays vs weekend days is astronomical. So until I get out of Bronze and maybe Silver my weekends will be for norms or maybe Flex if a few of you want to give this Jungle a tryout.

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You can use that to your advantage. Play jungle, check who's on a losing streak while the game is loading, and tilt them off the face of the earth.

I haven't watched any of the games, is the meta longer because everyone is doing the stupid relic shield cull farm for 300cs before fighting botlane thing, or just because teams don't want to risk going for early wins and potentially losing the lategame in best of one?