It's funny because they act like they made him a mid-game champ, but I think it's clear it's jungle where he'll excel.I watched Nightblu3 play Azir Jungle earlier, I can't wait for this champ.
Its funny that you talk about people making plays other then dlift. Link not so much, but the game where Dlift got caught out of position by lee at the turret which basically was the winning play had Seraph carrying the game as split push Nid. But... Dlift gets caught and tosses all the effort down the toilet. Sure Dlift mechanically is probably still world class but his decision making and just all around game sense is way below. So no, he is no longer a top tier adc. Mechanics aren't enough at this point, because everyone has good mechanics and a lot of ADCs (especially the chinese and korean ones) are mechanical gods.Say what you want but Dlift is still one of the best ADC's in NA, if not the world. If only CLG's team didn't play every game with the protect the Dlift comp they could actually win. If Link could carry or if Seraph could carry it'd be different, but currently dlift is the only player on CLG that actually attempts to make plays. Just think if instead of link it was Bjerg or something that actually played carry mid laners very well. Or hell, look at CLG win rate when Link plays Yasuo, they do extremely well because it's not just a 1 man carry team.
Every game is basically a 3 man support + tanky toplane + dlift, and if teams can focus dlift down it's gg.