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I surely will not watch any wildcard team worlds games & I will look disrespectfully towards anyone who circle jerks about them.
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Yeah, FNC just thought "gently caress it, we win mid/late because we're not a wildcard" and went full ham into GAM, which was entertaining as gently caress and also pretty dumb. Also nobody tilts more beautifully than Soaz and I hope this tilts him like nothing ever did before
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Like Frosk mentioned in the post-game analysis, she's talked to GAM's coach and he flat out admitted they're not good enough to play standard on the world stage. The goal of something like that laneswap into the level 6 Nocturne rush is to pressure a team like FNC into making a bad call (because the playbook's been thrown out the window and they're psychologically scrambling to catch up), which is exactly what happened. FNC was trying so hard to get one step ahead that they let Noway play an MMORPG off in the sidelanes until he became an unstoppable monster. Probably wouldn't work against a team like SKT or LZ, and you can only have so many of these rabbits to pull out of your hat before you have to play standard, but it's good fun to watch and will get them further than they otherwise would have. Vermain fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Oct 5, 2017 16:16
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What matches are worth watching apart from FNC vs. GAM?
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Oct 5, 2017 16:27
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GAM with the legendary season 7 sandbagging
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Oct 5, 2017 16:27
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Nothing says the pinnacle of league of legends more than a format designed to let the best team in Vietnam run trick plays.
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Smol posted:What matches are worth watching apart from FNC vs. GAM? honestly the rest of the games were kinda lovely and almost all the cho gaths won i think so don't do it to yourself
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Oct 5, 2017 16:29
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I just got caught up and Fnatic vs Marines is the greatest game of professional League of Legends ever played.
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Smol posted:What matches are worth watching apart from FNC vs. GAM? None, really. The overwhelming majority are fairly foregone conclusions. I'd say IMT vs. LZ is a decent watch if you really want to watch a second one, and SKT vs. C9 is good if you love watching Faker clap Jensen.
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Oct 5, 2017 16:30
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(Another game where a lovely wild card team takes advantage of the best of 1 format by doing insanely stupid bullcrap, making a mockery of the format while proving they can't possibly go anywhere out of groups) wow this is the best game I ever saw, almost as good as the day qt played ad sion 12 games in a row, I'm having extreme 3:45 am lulz.
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Oct 5, 2017 16:32
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Vermain posted:None, really. The overwhelming majority are fairly foregone conclusions. I'd say IMT vs. LZ is a decent watch if you really want to watch a second one, and SKT vs. C9 is good if you love watching Faker clap Jensen. IMT vs LZ is good just to see how quickly LZ turns it. Olleh destroyed bot with Morg too.
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Oct 5, 2017 16:32
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I'm also pretty done with "clap" who started that stupid crap.
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Oct 5, 2017 16:33
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keven is SO grumpy before he's had his morning coffee
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Taciturn Tactician posted:IMT vs LZ is good just to see how quickly LZ turns it. Olleh destroyed bot with Morg too. They mucked up their CC chains a few times, but Cody Sun and Olleh ended up bodying GorillA and Pray harder than I expected. Bdd and Khan were able to yank the bad early game back, but still some pretty good stuff from IMT's side.
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Oct 5, 2017 16:35
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Lovechop posted:keven is SO grumpy before he's had his morning coffee Everything is going to be nice and dandy when TSM gets up and claps their opponents tomorrow
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Oct 5, 2017 16:41
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Work Friend Keven posted:I'm also pretty done with "clap" who started that stupid crap. https://twitter.com/c9jensen/status/774674112832737280?lang=en
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Oct 5, 2017 17:21
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Luna Was Here posted:Wait does tsm play tonight They're the first game of the night against Flash Wolves, they play the rest of the days this week. There's a ton of hype about TSM's botlane so I'm looking forward to double choking super hard and Bjergsen being unable to carry because of the meta. I got my TSM hoodie ready. Last time I bought an esports hoodie was for CLG in 2015, and that turned out great. They got poo poo on by flash wolves in a group everyone expected them to get out of that year too and then kicked all the players I was interested in. Good luck TSM.
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I will wake up at 3:30am to watch TSM lose
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im looking forward to more Keven tantrums when the very suave and handsome Gigabyte Marines win some more games
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Omnikin posted:I will wake up at 3:30am to watch TSM lose I'm honestly considering it, I did it last night but feel asleep again at like 5
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Oct 5, 2017 22:48
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that gigabyte marines strat was really fun to watch but if a team had reacted to it properly would have blown up in their face. i hope they have more tricks in the bag
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Work Friend Keven posted:(Another game where a lovely wild card team takes advantage of the best of 1 format by doing insanely stupid bullcrap, making a mockery of the format while proving they can't possibly go anywhere out of groups) wow this is the best game I ever saw, almost as good as the day qt played ad sion 12 games in a row, I'm having extreme 3:45 am lulz. looking forward to all the bad NA teams running weird crap all season, woo bo1 edit: i legit dont really know how to solve the issue of groups being a bunch of bo1 because like, theres way too many teams to do bo3 series for all of them. on the other hand they had actual series for the play ins after a bunch of bo1 so maybe they could just cut play ins to make groups not a dumb format. idk.
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rabidsquid posted:that gigabyte marines strat was really fun to watch but if a team had reacted to it properly would have blown up in their face. i hope they have more tricks in the bag GAM's coach is claiming on Facebook that they're going to use a "never before seen strategy" against Longzhu tomorrow, so I guess we'll see.
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Oct 5, 2017 22:58
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Vermain posted:GAM's coach is claiming on Facebook that they're going to use a "never before seen strategy" against Longzhu tomorrow, so I guess we'll see. thats a psyche out they're gonna do the heimer jungle push strat
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Oct 5, 2017 23:05
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They did the same thing a couple times at MSI before people caught on to it, so it's kind of even worse that fnatic weren't prepared for it
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Vermain posted:GAM's coach is claiming on Facebook that they're going to use a "never before seen strategy" against Longzhu tomorrow, so I guess we'll see. archie is going to shoot gorilla to death on stage henkman posted:They did the same thing a couple times at MSI before people caught on to it, so it's kind of even worse that fnatic weren't prepared for it i dont know, that would have been pretty hard to respond to in game if your in game adjustments arent really great. like i guess you could have tried to three buff them and hoover up farm on ryze but even so if you gently caress up responding in that way you still lose, just a little differently. gam clearing the entire top jungle was pretty smart.
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rabidsquid posted:archie is going to shoot gorilla to death on stsge Loooooooool
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Who on Immortals is even good? I didn't watch NA LCS this year but no one in that lineup is even remotely intimidating. GAM was sick nasty and even though I root for Fnatic I was happy to see them get dunked on by a dude playing nocturne with huge balls. I was shocked by AHQ win. More than GAM.
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xmithie was actually probably the best jungler in NA this split. olleh is good but his champion pool is weird and kind of bad. cody sun improved a lot but he's not like "someone to watch at worlds" good. flame was one of the better NA top laners this year but isnt Lord Flame anymore. pobelter was fine.
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IMT is definitely a whole greater than the sum of their parts kinda team, Xmithie and Olleh had monster splits though.
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having watched the games on replay, my favorite bit was having the casters wring their hands on how Longzhu was going to win in a Kog'Maw meta, since their adc is unable to play hypercarries(except for that whole time in season 5 when pray was the only adc in the world that could win with the "protect the Kog'Maw" comp the tigers actually invented). wrath of Khan indeed.
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rabidsquid posted:i dont know, that would have been pretty hard to respond to in game if your in game adjustments arent really great. like i guess you could have tried to three buff them and hoover up farm on ryze but even so if you gently caress up responding in that way you still lose, just a little differently. gam clearing the entire top jungle was pretty smart. YamatoCannon did a VOD review of the game and I think I agree with him: FNC actually had the proper play in mind when they did that dive, but they hosed up in two ways:
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Maokai should also never have been there. That seemed pretty key to me, did YC address it by any chance?
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Parallel Playa posted:Maokai should also never have been there. That seemed pretty key to me, did YC address it by any chance? I think it's fine if your whole goal is simply to get first turret. GAM could not outrace them because of top's turret damage reduction, and the one time Soaz poked his nose into lane while Trist/Lulu were still level 1, he nearly got killed. FNC needed to hard reset the state of the game by getting first turret or else Soaz would just end up sitting at the very back of his turret, unable to even last hit for fear of getting vaporized.
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I feel like he could've leeched XP when lulu and trist were still level 2 (especially if he'd not taken damage before the first minion wave arrived; trist autopushes anyway). He ends up teleporting down at level 1 with E leveled and contributes nothing to the dive (nor would he have done anything significant to that turret if they had succeeded), arrives top at ~4:30 and dies to a level 4 botlane.
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1.) GAM is fun and cool 2.) Immortals looked surprisingly good until they got outclassed 3.) lmao EDG
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Tonight's hot takes before I forget and/or inevitably pass out during the games: Game 1: Flash Wolves do something crazy early-game, throw off TSM's entire rhythm, and manage to pull a game off the so-called 'Best In The West'. Game 2: WE takes easy because Misfits think they can leave Cho'Gath open. They are proven extremely wrong. Game 3: Goes 60 minutes despite the best efforts of Immortals to close out early, Fnatic throws at Baron. Game 4: My heart says GAM can throw off Longzhu just long enough they gently caress everything up but a critical overstep by them causes Longzhu to take three inhibs and then the game is effectively over. I want to believe. Game 5: C9 and AHQ fight to determine which of them can avoid choking the hardest. Somehow it's C9. Game 6: Faker stomps on Scout's face for 35 minutes.
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Oct 6, 2017 06:45
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Redo Worlds with Ardent Censer disabled please.
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kingcobweb posted:Redo Worlds with Ardent Censer disabled please. worlds patch censer is super hilariously toxic but if it was disabled people would just go back to being super boring and picking thresh/ali/karma/maybe braum in addition to rakan still being banned every game anyway so
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