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Sexpansion posted:I should just watch every NA LCS match from this week, right? Don't watch the Dig games they're appalling.
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Feb 2, 2015 15:05
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Dig games should come with a counter of missed Kiwikid skillshots.
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Feb 2, 2015 15:41
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Slooshie is probably that team's weak link, but Alex I think is pretty rusty. Still, it's hard to imagine him doing worse.
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Feb 2, 2015 17:05
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I fully believe C9 will find themselves at some point this season and put in a run, until then it's a crapshoot with Liquid, TSM and CLG by the looks of things, with TSM probably now favourites.
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Feb 2, 2015 20:17
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Hai is bad at utility mages. He plays best as an initiator/playmaker, he has always been extremely mediocre off those champions. I agree he's not playing well right now, but trying to fix it that way probably won't end that well.
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Feb 2, 2015 20:58
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Soraka and Lulu (especially Soraka) are not high-skillcap champions. Being OK at those is not really a thing. Orianna, Xerath, Nidalee are way more indicative. Hai has always historically shown low affinity for mages like Orianna, or poke mages. It's not necessarily that he has dreadful games on them - particularly since they're safer than his champions - but he is usually the C9 player to start poo poo, and they often suffer when he doesn't. He belongs on Fizz/LB/Zed/Riven/Talon, he's just in bad form. If he doesn't play those champs, Meteos, Balls and Lemon have to get better at initiating and playmaking.
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Feb 2, 2015 21:44
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Not his mechanics though.
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Feb 2, 2015 23:29
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Transient People posted:Did he have any mechanical gaffes that game, actually? Maybe one where he jumped against a wall but I think that was it. Or was that double? That was cop, but not gaffeing is not the same as having top notch mechanics.
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Feb 3, 2015 00:02
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I hope everyone is enjoying this: Which is now deleted. Rekkles an immature and arrogant crybaby? Who'd a thunk it? Alternative (or simultaneously true) interpretation: maybe elements is a lovely team environment and that's why 2 AD's in a row have had an issue with it.
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Feb 3, 2015 12:15
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Sexpansion posted:I know at least three people in this thread said that this exact thing would happen, including me. Reasons why people like Forgiven: he's cocky as gently caress. Reasons why people hate Forgiven: he's cocky as gently caress.
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Feb 3, 2015 14:29
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Obscurity posted:Kicking myself for not picking up any FNC players this split in FLCS I have Huni but didn't start him. 
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Feb 3, 2015 15:26
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It's just that Rekkles seems to think he's rising above and deserving of better than all of these systemic problems in the teams he's in, when it's rapidly becoming obviously that he's a part of them.
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Feb 3, 2015 17:36
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Demiurge4 posted:Last season someone in Alliance (I forget who) talked about how he felt isolated inside the team and they weren't friends and wouldn't hang out in off time. The members treat it as a job and are super serious about it, which I think contributes to a lack of communication inside the team and I'm confident there's a kind of hierarchy inside and Rekkles may just feel like his input isn't being taken seriously because he's the most junior player. Tabbz. I'm pretty sure it's partly because the 3 older guys have big egos and are very complacent in their way of doing things and approach, and have a set pattern of socialising. I think it's pretty hard to come in as a younger guy there unless you're very similar to them in personality as well as approach.
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Feb 3, 2015 17:52
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Sexpansion posted:Meteos(maybe?) The maybe is extremely dumb.
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Feb 4, 2015 16:43
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Sexpansion posted:I don't think Meteos has looked very good at all lately and he still plays some champions that aren't really in the meta, but I hope you're right! Meteos has a massive body of good recent work. Bengi has basically been poo poo apart from one or two games for ages.
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Feb 4, 2015 16:59
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TWSS posted:SKT should just dump Bengi and stick faker in the jungle. The difference between easyhoon and faker is arguable, but I've seen faker stream Rengar, j4 and lee sin and his godly presence took over all three games. You're an idiot. Faker is by far the best player ever in this game, as well as by far the best mid laner. You're saying that it would be the best thing to do for Faker to become just a good or very good jungler (although solo queue jungle is incredibly different from competitive jungle) so that a mid-high- tier OGN mid can play mid and Bengi should get dropped. More like: SKT should play Faker every game and get a better jungler or Faker should threaten to leave. A person can only be the best person ever in his role at one position. It's loving heresy to say that a person who could be, for example, the best quarterback ever should become just a pro-bowl borderline running back because that might make good team sense. More like his team should unfuck itself. Disinterested fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Feb 5, 2015 01:05
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To be fair to SKT, as well, Bengi did suddenly start playing a lot better in pre-season, only to start flopping again. He'll never be what he was at s.3 worlds, that's for sure.
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Feb 5, 2015 01:09
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Jerkface posted:In hindsight, I think he just got lucky. He had some very flashy lee sin games in preseason that got the Bengi's Back train rolling, but it turns out it was just some good mechanical plays on a champion that makes good mechanical plays look awesome. I do not think his mechanics were ever much in doubt. His toilet status is mostly on his decision making, pathing, and constant dying right now. Nah. His mechanics were worse in his long slump in the last 6 months. There was a noticeable jump in performance. Maybe he likes it when the pressure is off, maybe he got a morale boost from the change before he resettled - who knows. But it would definitely be enough to trick a coach into thinking he got his mojo back. Even so, his team should be enough to carry even a fairly average jungler, I feel like SKT is a bit of a hosed up org on some level.
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Feb 5, 2015 01:15
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TWSS posted:Did you just compare 5 waifish nerds sitting in a chair right clicking to football? That is the gooniest poo poo I have ever heard. You don't need a different body type and centre of gravity to switch from mid to jungle. The fact that you think I am trying to whiteknight league as ~athletic sport~ is the goony thing here. My point is if you're the best at a very particular thing, you normally can't translate that into being the best at anything else. Maybe just very good. But when you have a superstar of any kind, normally you should be trying to work around that guy's talent, rather than trying to gently caress with that guy to make the other pieces work better.
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Feb 5, 2015 09:57
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Turtle just did this awesome flash play with Lee Sin in solo queue, and rushed Sword of the Occult! - SKT, sign him up. S5 worlds gon' be easy.
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Feb 5, 2015 12:38
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Flipswitch posted:I'm a bit confused on this but how the gently caress could MYM actually threaten his mother? Just to legally pay them for not following his contract or something? I'm too stupid to understand the the legal implications involved. I believe his mother signed a contract. If she was acting as a guarantor it may be that she put herself in a position to be pursued legally for a breach of the contract.
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Feb 12, 2015 14:49
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He doesn't think it's that good, but he knows he can get away with it, and it suits his playstyle. I don't think he likes Corki very much either so there's that.
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Feb 13, 2015 12:58
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quote:Xpecial on recent TL drama: "a miracle" that there were no roster swaps It seems very unsurprising they don't get on at all, apparently.
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Feb 15, 2015 21:16
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Impact is pretty good.
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Feb 15, 2015 22:51
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This year curse are going to displace curse to finish 4th.
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Feb 16, 2015 01:26
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The funny thing is that when goons were watching the TSM-CLG game on mumble they were saying 'Wow Dlift has been really on point dodging Ahri charms so far' at like 20 minutes in. I insisted Dlift would walk in face first and eat a CC at some stage, I wasn't disappointed  I honestly think Link did a bigger throw by far by ulting himself in the earlier fight, though. I also think Dlift should always play autoattack based champions or Ezreal, Corki is not his bag. Transient People posted:On that note of postgame interviews, MAN, it seriously amazed me to hear Doublelift be such a good sport and so happy even in a loss. That was one guy who was totally enjoying life right there. Massive change from how terribly unhappy he was in past splits. Yeah. Supposedly Dyrus said some nice stuff to Hotshot after the game as well. The old hate isn't really there anymore.
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Feb 16, 2015 11:15
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Savage Cracker posted:Dlift needs to play champs without dashes lile valkyrie. That way he can only jump into the middle of the enemy team every 5 min A lot of people gently caress up with Valk because it's relatively slow and you have to predict ahead of time. Dlift is a much better reactor than predictor, which is why he needs something like arcane shift or Lucian e.
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Feb 16, 2015 12:25
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The problem with superteams is that they ignore synergy. Aphro is great but he also has great synergy with Dlift and breaking that up seems to me a bad idea, same for Sneaky and Lemon, Meteos and Balls etc. You don't know how different superstars will interact stylistically or in personality terms - just look at Rekkles + Froggen, which is arguably worse than Tabbz because Rekkles reinforces Elements bad habits and brings passive aggressive negativity, even though he is probably a better player overall. Assuming clones, I think it would be hard to beat TSM with a team of NA components (with TSM members). I think that is less true for EU where you could probably upgrade Fox (or maybe nrated, but that botlane is beast so probably not) out of SK and make them godly. Ignoring synergy/intangibles NA's superteam for me is probably: Dyrus Meteos (bad run of form but it's the whole team and he is the only top tier jungler NA has basically ever had since early Saintvicious days) Bjergsen Sneaky (I don't think he has the highest ceiling but he's just too consistently an 8/9 out of 10 right now. Turtle needs keep posting results to get back up there for me) Lustboy/Aphro (I think Lustboy is better overall but Aphro is more of a playmaker/shotcaller and it depends what qualities you want).
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Jerkface posted:Aphromoo on TSM would be great because it would eliminate all possible communication problems & give them a second shotcaller. He is worse at vision control and has never had to play the passive style that TSM employs with its botlane in a lot of games, though.
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Typical Pubbie posted:Zion is better than Dyrus. Hahaha. Or to put it another way, [citation needed]. Jerkface posted:Yea, but Wildturtle is a beast laner in soloqueue and they might be able to carry more out of the botlane with Aphromoo. If they had Aphro & played the same style I think it would be a mistake. Having Aphro diversifies their potential play stylings. TSM seems to realize they need to open up the amount of comps & gold distributions on the team though so we'll see what stuff they start to run. He also had a bad run of form all through last split and only played consistently well on a passive farm-heavy champion. Also all the arguments you made about Turtle also apply to Lust, who is already showing he can play more aggressively if needed. He just has to get over the habit of playing passive after years of bodyguarding Cpt. Jack. Disinterested fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Libertine posted:Yeah and then imagine that coordinated invades and sharing camps with your top laner were a thing you had to deal with every day alongside about 5 or 6 highly contested smite battles per 30 minutes. Being a jungler sucks now, and being a pro jungler is like a super high stressful version of an already lovely job. Particularly since every time junglers being able to carry becomes a thing riot headshots it immediately (though usually this is a loving overtuned champion with bad lane matchups like Khazix).
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Feb 16, 2015 20:01
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kingcobweb posted:Ehh I don't know about Lustboy's vision control. In the CLG game, Aphro/Xmithie completely owned the map and Lustboy couldn't do poo poo. (Then the game fell apart.) (a) 1 game (b) Xsmithie had sightstone and Santorin did not.
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Feb 16, 2015 23:34
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Asema posted:is krepo from the place in europe that has the black face santa claus Yes.
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Savage Cracker posted:Sneaky's stream apparently mentioned C9 having tryouts and Jack and Charlie making some kind of statement. Woah.
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Feb 17, 2015 13:09
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Sexpansion posted:So apparently Jesiz is getting benched for Mancloud. I don't know if mancloud is any good still but I can't imagine he'll be worse than jesiz. I get the feeling that when Smithie worked out for CLG maybe everyone thought 'oh maybe all the ex-Vulcun players aren't shitters after all?!'
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Feb 17, 2015 18:23
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CLG.EU basically lost the final once Wickd started losing, ironically.
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Feb 17, 2015 21:39
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NTT posted:I'm surprised Muramana isn't more popular on Corki. 720 isn't a very big itemzation delay, and I feel that Corki really has trouble finding itemization after Triforce anyway. In addition, I'm pretty sure that Unlimited mana in lane would really change his dynamic. You'll still get outscaled, but your power spike will be later?
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Feb 17, 2015 23:35
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NTT posted:Muramana provides a pretty good late game presence actually! You shouldn't discount it. Yeah but you're still going to get outscaled by an autoattacker. It definitely makes your damage types even more magic-slanted though, so it could be good where you have a lot of AD. Teams pick Corki to poo poo damage in early sieges and drag fights, if he dumps the 700 gold for tear he loses a lot of that advantage.
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NTT posted:What the gently caress are you talking about, Muramana gives AD, and the active gives you bonus physical damage. Oh, my bad, I thought it still gave magic for some reason. Ignore point on itemisation. Still makes no difference to the main point.
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