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 Welcome to the Professional League of Legends Thread for Season 6 (2016) Summer Split If you are looking for the main League of Legends thread, please go here. This thread is strictly for discussion of the competitive game and shifts to resemble a game-day thread from the Sports Argument Stadium when live competitions are underway. If you don't know what League of Legends is at this point, I don't know what to tell you, but it is a MOBA and as of the start of 2016 the most popular PC Game in the world, with a market share equal to the next four most popular games combined. A game this popular attracts an enormous quantity of high quality players and the very best of them compete professionally for our entertainment. Worlds 2016 Groups were drawn on September 10th:  Group play begins on September 29th. * Join Our Pick'em Group and Make Your Picks Helpful Resources to Follow Along (Bookmark All These!): * Abios Gaming: Excellent hub site for schedule and broadcast information about when competitive League of Legends is going to be played, alongside information for other games as well. * EsportsWikis: The very best wiki-style reference site for Competitive League information (recently replaced EsportsPedia with the staff from that site moving to EsportsWikis). * Games of Legends: Champion Pick/Ban, Winrate, and associated performance statistics for all champions across all of the competitive scenes for Season 6. * LoL Esports: Riot's main landing page for competitive League. Tends to be a platform for a lot of PR-type pieces, but also has stats, standings, VoDs, and everything else if for some reason you don't like using the other sites listed above. * Reddit/r/LoLeventVods: Very best curated resource for watching matches that have already taken place without having the results spoiled. Especially useful if you want to watch games that happen at a time when you are sleeping (i.e. LCK and LPL if you are a Westerner). * YouTube: Onivia Channel: Sportscenter-style highlight clips of every single major League of Legends competitive game. If you do not have time to catch a slate of games but want to blast through 5 or 6 matches in a half hour, this is absolutely the place to go. The Teams and their Rosters as of the Beginning of the 2016 Summer Split: (All players are listed in the positional order of TOP // JUNGLE // MID // AD CARRY // SUPPORT) North America (NA LCS):  Apex Gaming Ray & Cris // ShrimP & Diamondprox // Keane & Shiphtur // Apollo & Roar // Xpecial & KonKwon Apex Gaming was the only Challenger Series team in either EU or NA LCS to qualify for Summer Split through the promotion tournament. This team is a broad spectrum of long experienced professional players, mixed with some new blood Korean talent, and all coached by Saintvicious. The questions around them will be how the two rosters get utilized, how they gel as a team, and if they can find consistent form. No one is quite sure how they will stack up with the more powerful NA LCS teams.  Cloud 9 Impact & Balls // Meteos & Rush // Jensen & Hai // Sneaky & Altec // Bunny FuFuu & Smoothie One of the historically most successful NA LCS teams, Cloud 9 has struggled to find consistent success in the last several splits. They've made another set of bold roster gambits this split, also building a ten-man roster and trying to see what they have to work with going forward. The success of their reconfiguration of their import slots to shuffle Impact/Meteos for Balls/Rush will define their split.  Counter Logic Gaming Darshan // Xmithie // HuHi // Stixxay & YoonA // Aphromoo Now two-time defending NA LCS split champions, CLG has remained remarkably consistent in big games despite several lingering questions about many of their players abilities to adapt to adversity in crucial game scenarios. Stixxay was the only non-Chinese player to earn a 1st Team accolade at the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational and the team has shown that they can hang with the top flight world-wide. They have to take a bigger step forward this split if they want to be a team that can beat that top flight though.  Echo Fox kfo & Allorim // Hard & Grigne // Froggen & Damonte // Keith // Big Echo Fox struggled in their inaugural split, plagued by the ability to get players legally into the NA region in the beginning of the split, and plagued by inconsistency in the latter part of the split, they finished with an underwhelming 33% win rate. Given how bad the bottom of the NA LCS was, that actually put them ahead of 3 teams. They will not be able to skate by on a performance like that in summer, and someone other than Froggen and Keith will have to show big potential to advance them forward.  Team Envy: Seraph // Procxin // Ninja & Alex Ich // LOD & Nien // Hakuho A last minute entry into the NA LCS, Envy purchased the slot of Renegades and acquired scattered pieces of Renegades, Impulse, and other CS players. They allegedly have a strong organization across other esports and have said the right things in terms of commitment to developing a League of Legends roster, but it's hard to imagine the squad made of players who struggled mightily in spring being able to push the top in the summer.  Immortals Huni // Reignover // Pobelter // WildTurtle & Impactful & Jummychu // Adrian This team stormed through the NA LCS Spring Split like a battering ram, going 17-1 and easily securing the top seed. Unfortunately they fell flat in the playoffs with some baffling drafts and insistence on playing really strange champions that weren't working for them repeatedly. They tend to be extremely stubborn in playing the exact same compositions repeatedly in whatever they think are the best configurations, and top teams who are adaptable and can pick them apart on the fly have had success against them. They will need to diversify their strategies in Summer to try and win their first title.  Liquid Lourlo & Solo // Moon & Dardoch // Fenix & Goldenglue // Piglet & Fabbbyyy // Matt & Stunt Coming into another split with jungler drama, Liquid has recently suspended one of the most promising rookies of Spring 2016 Dardoch. They've replaced him with Moon who spent most of spring split playing pretty badly on NRG. Liquid also got quality rookie performances out of Lourlo and Matt and will need them to step up in their sophomore splits to challenge. It seems unlikely that they will be able to place near top with the jungle problem they have right now though. And let's be real, no matter what kind of drama they have, what kind of inconsistency they have, if a meteor hits the Earth and destroys half of their competition, they will still finish in 4th place.  NRG Esports Quas // Santorin // GBM // Ohq & Otter // Kiwikid & Qwerm NRG finished with a playoff spot in their first split but went out with a whimper in the first round. They decided to clean house and field an entirely new roster. Picking up former Liquid top laner Quas, former TSM and EU jungler Santorin, former Najin ADC Ohq, and former Dignitas support Kiwikid. That's a lot of big names on one team, and a lot of question marks going into the split about how it will all work, what kind of form some of the veterans are in, and how they can stack up against top talent.  Phoenix1 Zig // Zentinel & Inori // Pirean & Slooshi // Mash // Gate The team named by your twelve year old cousin, Phoenix1, was the final team to enter the NA LCS this split by acquiring the slot of Team Impulse and building a roster of the weaker castoff players from Impulse and a few other teams. This looks like a no brainer last place team in a fairly deep league, and I'm not entirely sure why anyone bought an LCS slot to field this lineup.  Team SoloMid Hauntzer // Svenskeren // Bjergsen // Doublelift // Biofrost After struggling uncharacteristically for large portions of the spring split, they crushed Immortals in the playoffs and came within one heartbreaking elimination game loss away from a return as NA LCS champions. Yellowstar, who had literally zero synergy with Doublelift or TSM's roster, decided to depart and return back to Fnatic. TSM brought in new unknown support Biofrost after strong performances in tryouts in Korean scrimmages. Doublelift has said that Biofrost's aggressive playmaking better compliments his style and that will remain to be seen over the course of the summer split. Team SoloMid will likely remain the most popular team in the world no matter who they field. The boys from the bay will be looking for the title they surely feel CLG stole from them last split. Europe (EU LCS):  FC Schalke 04 Steve // Gilius & Dexter // Fox & Eika // MrRalleZ & Sola // sprattel The former Elements roster has mostly floated along the last few splits, barely holding on to the 7th place slot in the table, taking some games, but losing most of them. Perhaps now is the time for them to realize their potential and take the next step. In major offseason news, the team was acquired by major German sports organization Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 who are best known for playing Bundesliga football, this will be their first foray as an organization into esports. Schalke's main addition was picking up Fox to replace the inconsistent Eika, and he should give them a lot more effective pressure in the mid lane for the summer split.  Fnatic Gamsu & Werlyb // Spirit // Febiven // Rekkles // Yellowstar & Klaj Two splits removed from their flawless European campaign, Fnatic fell short in Spring, taking 3rd place. They went back to the old guard and re-signed Yellowstar from TSM while benching rookie Klaj. They should return to their signature playstyle which is total chaos on the top half of the map with steady pressure in the bottom. It was clear to them that they needed Yellowstar back to provide the vision and shotcalling necessary to have success again.  G2 Esports Kikis & Expect // Trick // Perkz // Zven & Relinquished // Mithy An explosive debut split for G2 saw them all the way to the European title. Now to defend their championship, they completely scrapped their bot lane which they identified as an issue. They dismissed Emperor and Hybrid and poached Origen's star bot lane (Zven + Mithy). This created severe drama at the Mid-Season Invitational where G2 had an extremely disappointing performance due to this roster transfer being in flight in the middle of the competition going on. They received a ton of flak from European fans as well as from Origen's team who were left pretty screwed with the late transfer. Origen's loss is G2's gain though, the early return on the new lineup look solid, and they are definitely going to be one of the primary contenders of the EU LCS this split.  Giants Smittyj // Maxlore // Night & Special // S0NSTAR & Samux // Hustlin Giants cleaned house and got rid of pretty much everyone from their previous teams. Pepinero, the only cool guy worth watching on this team, is now gone. What's left is an underwhelming mix of CS-tier Europeans and random Korean imports. This team will likely struggle to place in the table.  H2K Odoamne // Jankos & Hulberto // Ryu // Freeze & Knugen // Vander H2K is a team that always falls just short in the big games when it matters. They lost 2-3 to Origen and 2-3 to Fnatic in the EU LCS Spring playoffs and they went into the offseason with many questions about how they could just push a little bit further to make that next step to contend for the title. Forgiven departed and Freeze was brought in. The rest of the roster remains intact which makes them one of the most stable and experienced lineups going forward. They need to apply the advantages of that experience to contend this split.  Origen Soaz // Amazing & Cyanide // PowerOfEvil & xPeke // Forgiven // Hybrid Two time runners-up in the last two EU LCS splits, it's hard to not think that this team has taken a big step backwards. Reported drama lead to the departure of Zven and Mithy right before the start of the summer split leading Origen to reach for free agents Forigven and Hybrid (formerly of H2K and G2 respectively). Lingering questions about mid-lane performance haunt this team as well, with PoE and xPeke both alternating and both showing unspectacular and inconsistent play. They are going to have to dig deep to get it together this split.  ROCCAT Parang & fredy122 // Airwaks // Betsy // Steeelback // Raise & extinkt ROCCAT had many roster issues in spring, with several key additions not working out and non-stop shuffling preventing them from any kind of rhythm. In the offseason they have added new Koreans Parang and Raise, as well as picking up Steeelback (formerly of UoL and Fnatic). This new roster looks like it has potential to compete, but might lack the experience to challenge for playoffs. A lot of pressure is on the new members to immediately step in and shore up the inconsistencies that plagued the previous lineup.  Splyce Wunder // Trashy & Gripex // Sencux // Kobbe & Vizility // Milkyx The previously all-Danish team added a new non-Danish support (Milkyx) after a disappointing split from Nisbeth. They have a little bit of experience under their belt now and have hopefully overcome some of the hurdles of spring split. Lot of pressure will be on Wunder and Milkyx to find consistent performances when Splyce suffered enormously in those roles last split.  Unicorns Of Love Vizicsacsi // Move // Exileh // Veritas // Hylissang & Uby & AudreyLaSapa Once again returning only two players from the previous split, Hyli' and 'Csacsi will lead a new herd of Unicorns through the summer split. Most people will remember Move from Gravity Gaming in NA LCS, where he had moderate success as a jungler. Veritas is a well known high challenger player who took #1 on ladder in three regions, but this is his first foray into top flight professional competition. Unicorns struck lightning in a bottle once, but that was long ago, and they've been trying to rekindle that glory with team after team ever since.  Vitality Cabochard // Mightybear & Shook // Nukeduck // Police & Hjarnan // KaSing A team with many stars who can't seem to close out the big games, Vitality made some changes between splits. Hjarnan is taking a break for health reasons, Shook is taking a break for consistency reasons, and in their place are two new Koreans in Mightybear and Police. Police comes from previous stints on ESC Ever and Apex Gaming and both teams seemed to have more success after he left. Not a good omen, but this team should still be exciting to watch as usual, and many of their players have big play potential. Korea (LCK):  Afreeca Freecs Ikssu // Lira & SeongHwan // Mickey & Lindarang // Sangyoon // SnowFlower One of the newer teams in a veteran league, they return for their sophomore split with an unchanged roster. Mickey remains an exciting wild card player, and Sangyoon and SnowFlower always combine for big exciting plays out of the botlane. Ikssu is underrated and is quietly having one of the best early split performances among all Korean top laners. This team will continue to grow and probably try for a mid-table finish but they are much more exciting to watch than any average team in any other region.  CJ Entus Untara & Shy // Haru & Bubbling // Bdd & Sky // Kramer & Ghost // MadLife Still trying to cultivate a team of new talent around veteran MadLife, it seems like the ceiling for this iteration of CJ Entus is really low. Aside from MadLife there are very few bright spots on this team and they are being fairly routinely outplayed by most of the LCK.  ESC Ever Crazy // Bless & Ares // Tempt // Loken // Key & Totoro An exciting young team in their first split, they are perhaps best known for defeating world champion SK Telecom T1 in the 2015 Kespa Cup while still a challenger team and then winning IEM X Cologne. They have been very inconsistent in their first LCK split, struggling to put together victories against more consistent teams. That said, they have the potential to go off in any game they play and are absolutely worth watching, their 2015 tournament wins prove that they have the top end level to beat world class teams, but a young team that is this inexperienced has work to do. They lost their midlaner Athena to EDG at the end 2015 and replaced him with Tempt and my initial impression is that it hasn't been a good swap so far, and they might struggle to repeat their 2015 success with Athena.  Jin Air Green Wings TrAce & SoHwan // Winged // Kuzan & Blanc // Pilot // Chei & Sweet They've convincingly showed themselves to be playoff-caliber team for the last several splits, the question on everyone's mind each time around though is when can they make they leap. Their roster revamp from last year is just now starting to mature and they have convincingly beaten many quality teams, but they are prone to frequent signature Jin Air "Sad Plane" blunders.  KT Rolster Ssumday // Score // Fly // Arrow // Hachani After some roster controversies last split, KT looks to have locked down exactly one team of five players (which is rare in 2016 for a competitive team), they are going all-in with this lineup to try and make it back to worlds. It is a good lineup to go all-in with, all five of their players are playing high caliber games right now and they've split a lot of Game MVP awards with top laner Ssumday leading the way.  Longzhu Gaming Expession // Chaser & Crash // CoCo // Fury & Emperor // Pure The gatekeepers of LCK, this team remains fairly uninspiring this split and seem to always linger around the middle-bottom of the table just above the absolute worst. Support player Pure has looked good this split, and Longzhu picked up G2 Esports ADC Emperor for their summer lineup to split time with former 2015 Samsung player Fury. Their current lineup is just a huge mashup of castoff players for other teams and it doesn't real seem like what they have can contend, the best they can do is try and steal some games off of better teams.  MVP ADD // Beyond // Ian // Maha // Max MVP is a very famous esports organization in Korea and this is their first team in the top flight Korean league in many years. That said, there's not a lot of remarkable things to say about this team, they are brand new out of the Korean CS and are going to likely struggle in their inaugural split against the top LCK teams. They should be looking to hold their place in the league and get some more experience against stronger lineups while they try to grow into a more competitive team in later splits.  ROX Tigers Smeb // Peanut // KurO & Cry // PraY // GorillA For the past year, they have been the clear #2 Korean team after SKT. They lost Worlds to SKT, they lost LCK spring to SKT, and they must be very hungry to try and get over the hump. Unfortunately, Tigers have come into the summer split with some real inconsistency. They appear to be a coin toss in any game to win or crash out spectacularly. They have been rubber-banding back and forth between Cry and KurO in many games and both have turned in some strangely (for them) bad performances. Their bot lane which had previously dominated many matchups have also looked very underwhelming this split. It remains to be seen if they can put it all together and get back to their top flight status or even think about challenging SKT for #1.  Samsung Galaxy CuVee & Helper // Ambition // Crown // Ruler & Stitch // Wraith & CoreJJ The biggest surprise of summer split so far winning every matchup in the first several weeks except for SKT. Samsung as a team has floated around the mid/low side of the table since refreshing their roster at the beginning of Season 5. In the summer they look like they have come out on fire and ready to contend. All five of their positional players have turned in exceptional performances and rookie ADC Ruler (aka Bung -- hence the joke in the OP Title) has shined especially bright. Samsung must be thinking worlds and if they can stay hot all summer they might be able to pull it off despite a spring shutout.  SK Telecom T1 Duke // Blank & Bengi // Faker // Bang // Wolf The only two-time World Champions, and defending Spring Split champion, SKT is indisputably the best team in the world (until someone comes and takes it from them). All five of their players are putting in world class performances this summer split and as of this writing, the team hasn't lost a single game in domestic play. Not much needs to be said, but on the positive front, it looks like Duke has finally hit his stride and is firmly on the same page with his teammates this split after some inconsistency last split, Duke has been dominant. Their main weakness remains jungle, and SKT still situationally substitutes Bengi and Blank with both players having fairly distinct advantages (Bengi on vision/utility-tank junglers, Blank on carry-oriented junglers) and some weaknesses in the opposite role. That said, that is not a considerable weakness, and this team psychologically abuses opponents to the point that teams often take insane risks to try and beat them and only play into their hand more. SKT appears poised to remain the best team in the world and everyone in both Korea and the world will have to elevate their game to the next level to challenge them. China (LPL): Group A:  Edward Gaming Koro1 & Sundae // Clearlove // Scout & PawN // Deft // Meiko & Mouse (Writeup TBD)  Game Talents GimGoon & Miss // Wushuang & Crisis // Republic // PentaQ // Savoki & City (Writeup TBD)  Invictus Gaming Zz1tai // Kid // Rookie // Rain // Tabe & Kitties (Writeup TBD)  Newbee V // Swift // Dade & Mortred & SoftRR // HappyY // MorZB (Writeup TBD)  Saint Gaming Acorn // March & Chimin & Cpt // Otto & Snoopy // XQ & Styz // X1u (Writeup TBD)  Snake Esports Flandre // ZZR & JUGO3 // U & TANK & Unstoppable // Martin & Krystal // Ella & JieZou & Jia & Jianine (Writeup TBD) Group B:  I MAY AmazingJ // Baybay & Mitty // BaeMe & Athena // Jinjiao // Road (Writeup TBD)  LGD Gaming Marin & Jinoo // Eimy // We1less & Punished & Yiw // Imp // Yu (Writeup TBD)  OMG Xiyang & Memory // FishBall & JueJue & World6 // Cool & Icon // S1mLz & Bei // 5 & Luo (Writeup TBD)  Royal Never Give Up Looper // Mlxg // Xiaohu & Sask // Uzi & Wuxx // Mata (Writeup TBD)  Vici Gaming Loong & Feng // DanDy // Easyhoon & Peng // Endless & XuanXuanPI & Cheng // Caveman (Writeup TBD)  World Elite 957 & Aluka // Condi // Xiye // Mystic // Zero & Conan (Writeup TBD) Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao (LMS) Huge thanks to Wol for the write-up on this entire region.  ahq e-Sports Club Ziv // Mountain // Westdoor & Chawy // AN & RD // Albis If ahq's spring split could be summed up in one word, it would be "comfort". They managed a dominating 11-3-0 record throughout the regular season by relying on their practiced, superior teamfighting. They fielded two mid-laners - expert assassin Westdoor and control mage specialist Chawy - with even time on the Rift, letting each play entirely within their own comfort champion pool. As victories piled up, they were not forced to change much in terms of strategy. When playoffs came around, they naturally played the same comfortable game they'd played all split, and were swiftly and summarily executed for it by the Flash Wolves in a 3-0 series. Back with an unchanged roster for the Summer, ahq will surely look to avoid meeting a similar fate. They may have to do something about their mid-laner situation, however, as both Westdoor and Chawy faltered even within their comfort zones toward the end of spring.  eXtreme Gamers Mist & Nexus & Exciting // Yo // SuwaKo // LBB // Suki One of the spring split's new teams, XG made their entrance with a splash, taking a very unexpected 2-0 victory over the Flash Wolves in their second week. That was the last of the good news for XG, though, as they parachuted through the standings to an eventual 7th place. Strong performances from jungler Yo were not enough to save the rest of the team from constant defeat as they often simply failed to measure up. They even managed to give the abominable COUGAR E-Sport their only game victory. Ultimately, XG at least managed to successfully defend their LMS spot in the summer promotion tournament. Despite that, there's not much reason to believe this roster will perform any better than last split. If anything, they might even be in danger of falling to dead last, since COUGAR is no longer around to stand in their way.  Flash Wolves MMD // Karsa // Maple // NL // SwordArt Throughout the spring split, Flash Wolves boasted the fastest average victory time, overwhelming opponents from the early minutes of the game with Karsa and Maple's fearsome synergy and SwordArt's roaming prowess. Returning as the champions after a first place that looked all too easy and a decent showing at the Mid-Season Invitational, the Wolves will surely be playing this split with an eye on Worlds. Nonetheless, they aren't without their own problems. Team fighting has been an issue for the Wolves in the past, with NL's teamfight positioning standing out as an obvious point of weakness. For the Flash Wolves, a successful split will be one where they iron out these issues while retaining the skillful aggression that's brought them this far in the first place.  Hong Kong Esports MapleSnow // DinTer // MarS // Raison // Olleh In the spring, Hong Kong Esports took the dubious honour of being the LMS's most inconsistent team, often living or dying by whether or not top-laner MapleSnow decided to feed or get fed. On the one hand, they dealt ahq their first game loss. On the other, they could rarely win a series and dropped at least one game to every team short of the bottom-dwelling COUGAR. After losing a tiebreaker to Machi and barely missing out on the spring playoffs, HKE greets the summer with a theoretically improved roster and a lot to prove. Star AD Carry Raison is finally back from a year-long suspension, but his return doesn't come without a cost. Due to the limit of two foreign players per lineup (Raison and Olleh are both Korean), they've had to dismiss a solid mid laner in Rokenia. In keeping with their legacy from the spring, HKE looks to be a significant wild card coming into the summer split.  J Team Morning // REFRA1N // FoFo // BeBe // Jay J Team is last split's Taipei Assassins, now under the ownership of Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou. No, the support player Jay is not Jay Chou. Sadly. In the spring, this lineup found themselves in a solid third place for most of the split, consistently better than most teams below them but just as consistently unable to break into the top two. They're known as the LMS's premier lane-swapping team, taking significant advantages in the early game off of clever strategic play and REFRA1N's ruthless aggression. However, the team has historically struggled in converting these early advantages to actual wins. Morning's focus on lane dominance, REFRA1N's focus on carry junglers and Jay's overall abuseability tend to leave the team without any reliable way to initiate team fights and press their advantage in the mid- and late-game. The question for TPA is whether their largely veteran roster has already peaked or whether they'll be able to grow along with emergent rookie superstar FoFo to reach new heights this summer.  Machi E-Sports BoBo // Taizan // Apex // Dee // Dreamer Machi is a team that's almost there. At the start of the year, sporting a largely inexperienced roster, they were a team that was almost cohesive. Could almost execute a game plan. By the end of the spring, they were a team that was almost as good as the Flash Wolves and ahq. BoBo and Taizan have done a lot of growing since their introduction to pro-level play at the start of the spring split, and the team as a whole has done a great deal to improve their cohesion as well. They still have some things to work on, but their kill-heavy early game demands to be taken seriously, and four of their five players bring undeniable individual skill to the Rift. If they keep improving at the same rate, and somehow convince Dee to stop making Woolite-level late-game positioning errors, they might even be a contender for the title by the end of the summer.  Midnight Sun Ninuo // Wulala // M1ssion // CorGi & Payne // Kaiwing & Skull At the end of last year, Midnight Sun's entire roster (minus AD Carry Stitch) got poached by some random challenger team, then got summarily banned for it. Then Stitch went to play for Samsung Galaxy. Forced to field an entirely new roster this spring, Midnight Sun has had some growing pains to say the least. Midnight Sun lived near the bottom of the standings for the entirety of the spring split, but not without moments of brilliance that saw them take a game each off playoff teams Taipei Assassins and Machi E-Sports. Kaiwing, in particular, can be pointed to as a significant influence in the team's victories. Even so, Midnight Sun has a long way to go if they want to be reliably competitive with other LMS teams.  Team Mist Rins // Benny // K & Zor // Breeze // Rain In the spring, the Flash Wolves' farm team, Flash Husky, toiled through a fairly competitive Taiwanese challenger season. They were rewarded with perhaps the easiest promotion series in history, taking an effortless 3-0 against erstwhile LMS punching bags COUGAR E-Sport. Under the new ownership of Team Mist, Zor, Rain, Breeze and coach Cyo have been brought over from the Flash Husky roster, along with Rins from the Flash Wolves proper. Rounding out the roster are K from challenger semifinalists GashBears and Benny from the mysterious mists of who-knows-where. Breeze is considered the next up-and-coming star AD Carry, and it's definitely a point in Team Mist's favour that he'll be coming in with the synergy between him and his support intact. Other than that, it's hard to be unreservedly excited about this team - Rins did a serviceable but not outstanding job in the games he played for Flash Wolves in the spring, and the rest of the lineup are relative unknowns. Other Regions: * Brazil (CBLOL) * Commonwealth of Independent States (LCL) * Japan (LJL) * Latin America North (LAN) * Latin America South (LAS) * Oceania (OPL) * Turkey (TCL) I won't be doing overviews of these regions because they tend to not get a lot of traction in this thread or in most discussion spaces when compared to the primary leagues. These wild card leagues are much less popular and competitive than the primary leagues, but occasionally have really exciting matches and will field at least two teams total for the world championships. Libertine fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Sep 10, 2016 |
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I'm out of time for right now to do Korea and Chinese write-ups but I got all the rosters listed with new logos and stuff. I'll try to put Korean/Chinese team write-ups together in the next day or two. If anyone wants to do a brief paragraph on any of those teams either just post it or PM it to me and I'll pop it in the OP.
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On 6.11 I think Fizz will be the #1 top laner. I think all the Leagues are still on 6.10 until next week though.
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I don't think Trundle should beat Riven because Riven isn't a tank. But it totally depends on Huni Chaos Theory and how sharp the tilt on the axis is. I just tuned in after being out for awhile, what happened in g1/g2 of this C9/IMT series? It's cool to see competitive Zyra in this game. I haven't really thought much about her, but the main League thread is all about her lately.
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exethan posted:trundle is already completely out of this game because of wave mismanagement Catastrophically bad decision to telegraph a tower dive with a Level 4 Trundle engaging on a Level 6 Riven and her whole team.
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Aumanor posted:Who the hell designed the new lolesports site, the layout is absolutely garbage and it doesn't even have a proper schedule. And they seem to have removed anything related to regions other than EU and NA. Yeah that's why in the OP I just recommend checking the day's games on Abios or region's games on eSportspedia. The Lol Esports site looks like it was designed by an ADD 12 year old.
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bonewitch posted:I had to work through literally all the games this weekend, which were the best ones/funnest to watch Check the OP if you are short on time you can hit up the highlight YouTube channel. I think they have a package up of the entire day of NA LCS that's under an hour long.
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Thanks Wol for the LMS write-up. I added it to the OP.
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Work Friend Keven posted:Team... Solo... MID. You should do an ultimate write up on the greatest team in the world to replace my highly biased lovely write up in the OP.
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steakmancer posted:Bunny is still Top 3 in mechanical supports in the western hemisphere I really don't blame C9 for holding onto him for the sake of denying him to other teams If that's the case it doesn't make any sense why they would gently caress him about. Wouldn't be the first world class mechanical player they wasted though. Cloud 9 just pisses me off. Like publicly saying you have no idea why you swap players is both baffling and a total condemnation of whatever passes for management in their team.
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Smol posted:Only one of the ROX vs SKT games from today is worth watching, the comps are effectively identical in both games and the games also play out almost identically. I loaded up the second game after watching highlights of the first and immediately closed it out. Teams have really locked the gently caress in on certain picks in a much more flexible meta than what is being played.
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Jun 6, 2016 19:38
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I played Karma support in solo queue. I still hate it and don't get it's prioritization in competitive.
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Jun 6, 2016 23:49
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NTT posted:you can buy carry items on her now so she doesnt fail to scale from support You can buy carry items on all kinds of characters with terrible scaling but that doesn't make Karma the best choice to do so upon.
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Jun 7, 2016 03:53
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Forgiven seems exceptionally neurotic even for a dude who spends his whole life gaming.
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Jun 7, 2016 17:30
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If you can't punish a Vlad pick you got a lovely comp
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Jun 7, 2016 23:52
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"Ref I need a pause, this headset is way too dank"
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Jun 8, 2016 02:44
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henkman posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csp27ayMGYI&t=131s "Nice fantasy points I fuckin' love it."
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Jun 8, 2016 20:42
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The insane aggressive flashes in that last Vitality/Origen team fight were hilarious. Flash Nami bubble with team no where near to engage and the bubble misses anyways. Flash Vladimir engage to kill Nami in exchange for a carry. Sivir flashes the wall and instantly dies. Why did any of those three people use any of those flashes?!? lol e: Why was Kasing in that bush a mile away from his team?!? LOL
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Jun 9, 2016 17:14
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Krepo is by far the worst caster in LoL in any region. holy gently caress
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Jun 9, 2016 17:35
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Twisted Fate is the best champion in the game (as evidenced by my avatar), but ROA-rush Twisted Fate is a coward's build and Night just died a coward's death.
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Jun 9, 2016 17:41
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Killed By Death posted:PLEASE tell me someone else saw that TF ult It was a bold panic click.
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Jun 9, 2016 17:44
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This is a really bad game of Twisted Fate.  I'm gonna switch over and hopefully watch Origen fall apart again. They just started drafting in Game 2 on EULCS2
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Jun 9, 2016 17:45
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Savage Cracker posted:I'm disappointed that Origen don't run a triple mage composition with Soaz, PoE and Peke. Ziggs tower crusher bot lane
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Jun 9, 2016 17:51
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exethan posted:sightstone + jungle item instead of green jungle item why does anyone do this? why? why?????????????????????????
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Jun 9, 2016 18:03
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Hypocrisy posted:This OG v. Vitality game sucks. The comps suck, the item builds suck, the team fighting sucks, the engages suck, the positioning sucks, the game sucks.
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Jun 9, 2016 18:29
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Mightybear gets away from Soaz and crew there if he didn't stop for a frame to throw an Elise W for no reason. Peke then gets no scoped by Reje.
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Jun 9, 2016 18:34
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Asema posted:Who is this idiot casting this game that has no idea about the armor penetration that ghostblade/black clever gives you holy poo poo lol Ah yeah Peke's gonna have to sell that Ghostblade. No place in an endgame build for a 3200g item with an insane active and passive stats.
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Jun 9, 2016 18:37
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How high do you have to be to get caught out on Blue Ezreal?
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Jun 9, 2016 18:40
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Really good play on both sides of this Vladimir / Yasuo matchup, it feels like I'm actually watching professional gamers right now.
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Jun 9, 2016 18:52
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HERE THEY ARE THE UNICORNS OF LOVE ON SIDE CAMERA FOR 60 SECONDS STRAIGHT
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Jun 9, 2016 18:56
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Exileh has finally entered the Solo Queue Yasuo zone and continuously takes 1vX fights and feeds three deaths in about as many minutes.
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Jun 9, 2016 19:11
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"There's tentacles around that means Illaoi did something" That's also how I usually analyze an Illaoi play.
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Jun 9, 2016 19:53
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Who is Expect?
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Jun 9, 2016 20:11
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If you're an American who likes watching European Sports, you'll know that the best way to kick off any weekend is to wake up around 6AM on a Saturday for a blockbuster English Premier League match only to see it go 90 full minutes for the 0-0 draw. Your coffee tastes better and the rest of your day just feels great.
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Jun 9, 2016 21:16
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Game 1 hasn't even started yet and EU Production already loaded up the ROCCAT team photo for G2.
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Jun 10, 2016 16:15
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I like both team's compositions, they both have meta picks, power picks, and interesting personal adaptations. Splyce also seems to be decent this split, last split they were barely worth watching, this split they have stepped up a bit.
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Jun 10, 2016 16:23
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henkman posted:Splyce v g2 holy moley This is a good game. In EU LCS relative terms this is a god tier game.
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Jun 10, 2016 16:44
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exethan posted:I know the game just started but i've never seen a lucian lose early lane this hard, he's already 10+ CS down at 4m This is 6.11 right? I think people playing Lucian in 6.11 into someone like Sivir is insane.
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Jun 10, 2016 17:38
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G2's comp in that second game was the strongest comp I've seen on 6.11 so far I think. Irelia/Gragas/Vladimir/Sivir/Soraka. Tons of healing sustain with huge utility ultimates, multiple engage/disengage options, tons of both single target and aoe damage, extremely balanced damage types, and every laning champion is durable or hard to kill. Pretty much flawless.
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ROCCAT looks like a decent team this split. Steelback and their two new players are all solid pickups. Vitality looks like a confused mess.
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