playing with jaguar for 40 seasons in a row will tend to make people overlook you

tbq and loulex battling to see who can be the biggest dead weight at worlds

and they're both winning

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/TRLH3/1001380282?gameHash=eb79747e9c1c232e&tab=stats

tbq's damage to champions...

smh...

skagerino 2stronk 4 open

breakdown of teams:

so traditionally korea is the most dominant region, and china is sort of at the level that it is in dota, ie better overall than the west but not so far ahead as to be totally incomparable. however, a bunch of the top korean players made a big exodus to china this season and so china and korea actually have a lot of parity.

there are 3 teams from korea, skt koo and kt. skt is one of the big favorites to win worlds, they have a consistent playstyle, great synergy, and most importantly they have faker who's the best player of all time. people are wondering if somewhat inconsistent players like bengi and wolf can remain strong at worlds, and if marin can play the new crop of carry top laners as well as his peers. most people believe the answer to those questions is yes, and we will see if reality bears that out.

koo is a strong shotcalling team whose main star players are gorilla at support and smeb in the top lane. their shotcalling and late game decision making are incredible, but they seem vulnerable in the laning phase, because kuro is a very mediocre mid laner and hojin a fairly nondescript jungler, with pray a somewhat erratic adc (although recently he's been very good again). they choked at iem katowice so a lot of westerners have totally written them off, I think they're a bit underrated but still not a mega favorite like skt.

finally, kt is a team that has been steadily improving, and really burst out when they picked up piccaboo. their main strengths are their jungle-support synergy of piccaboo and score, who get in the ass of the enemy jungler and then gank mid hella early, as well as ssumday who many people believe to be the most versatile top laner in the world, with an enormous champion pool and a ridiculous ability to snowball leads. kt dominates when they get a lead but are not great at coming back from a deficit, because piccaboo gets stuck staying in lane and their mid and adc are not really hard carries. they were considered very close to skt until playoffs, when they sort of got exposed. most would put them in the 2nd tier at worlds, capable of making it to the finals on a good day but not consistently.

china's 3 teams are lgd, edg, and ig. lgd is the recent mega breakout team, after taking edg to 5 games in the spring finals but losing. they have arguably the most stacked roster in the tournament, with superstars in 4/5 of positions. acorn is a really smart and versatile top laner who has shown a lot more carry potential this year than on samsung blue last year, godv is an insanely talented mid laner who sometimes goes a little too ham but has an enormous game impact and plays a lot of the nutty tp midlaners like diana, imp is the best adc in the world right now, and pyl is a really smart support player. their big weakness is their jungler tbq, but they do a good job of hiding him in their intelligent laneswaps and, to be honest, the jungle pool at this tourney is fairly weak so it might be hard to expose him. they're a tier 1 favorite for sure.

edg was the best team in the world up until summer season, with a bit of a recent slump, and are looking to return to the top. their main focal point is their jungler and shotcaller, clearlove. he used to be criticized a lot for being a bit too much of an herbivore jungler, with amazing teamfighting but very very low early game pressure. however, he's developed a ton this year. he still hogs ridiculous amounts of gold, but he's a lot more aggressive early and is a candidate for best jungler at the tournament. deft was the best adc in spring, and has fallen off since then, but is still really scary and positionally sound and will be looking to rise to the occasion. meiko is a support who came out of nowhere this year but has been super solid. there is some debate over whether he is overrated or underrated or neither; I think he's prolly around the 4th or 5th best support at the tourney, which is really good considering the supports present. pawn is a crazy mid laner who will play weird off-meta picks and go ridiculously ham in lane; his mechanics are nuts but he benefits a lot from his team using him in a bit of a disposable role, sorta like jw from fnatic if anyone here follows csgo. he became infamous for being 'faker's kryptonite' as he seemed to solo kill faker a lot last year, but I find that to be a bit overblown. edg's top laner is amazingj for now; they used to have a guy named koro1 who was a god at the mid-season invitational, but they stopped fielding him for much of summer for reasons that have never been adequately explained, and when he appeared again he seemed rusty compared to that msi form. amazingj is known for splitpushing and playing carries like darius, so it makes sense, but he's fairly inexperienced so he MAY get exposed by the cream of the crop. still, edg is the final of the big 3 favorites this tournament (skt, lgd, and edg).

ig is the final team from china. their backbone is the mid-jungle synergy between rookie and kakao. rookie is a nuts laning midlaner, who has to be played safe against or else he can singlehandedly win a game; also his mid lane ekko is utterly unreal. kakao is a legend of jungler, who at his peak can be the best early-game and carry jungler at the tourney with champs like nidalee, elise, and even nocturne. however, sometimes he inexplicably just farms, so it's tough to say with him. their top laner zztai has a lot of flaws, but he's really well-suited to this meta; he loves to split push, and his biggest strength is learning new champions quickly. teams will need to focus him early and exploit the language barrier between him and kakao to win that particular 2v2. the weak point of ig is their botlane, as kid is a very safe adc and kitties is frankly the worst eastern support by far at the tournament. they need to just hold their own and go even, or ig will prolly lose. the team as a whole is super inconsistent and were not at all the favorites to make worlds from the regional gauntlet, with qiao gu and even snake receiving more props. their top level is super high, but can they achieve it?

I'll write up the western/wildcard teams next!!!

sorry for the lack of capitalization in this tl;dr piece l0l

fnatic did look surprisingly smooth in the early game tho, if they get out of this group as 1st seed I think they could legit make it to semis

no

our team blows but at least we might give some tangible evidence as to why the booties should be banned riperino

I don't have the video l0l

the video is no longer on youtube

but it was by coconut

mystery solved, no thanks to any of yall!!!

yo I have no idea where it done vanished to, but I distinctly remember that someone made a frag clip with the song dead prez by capital steez at some point, and I can't find it

if you are the guy in question pls step forward

based on the title I thought this thread was about s1mple HEHEHE

because skyred isn't even the best asian team

they lost to qy in the qualifiers and were a fill-in team at the last min

that's fair

but essentially, I'm a player who sprays a ton, and it's basically impossible to do consistently well on 64 tick servers if you spray for almost all of your kills