Ehh, I wouldn't go that far. I would at least put Frost's chances as better, seeing as the first seeds in NA/EU/CN/KR being directly seeded to the Ro8 is a pretty monumental advantage.

Requizen

United States33802 Posts

September 14 2012 02:33 GMT

#602

Holy fuck finally saw Morg portrait on the minimap.

Literally ugly as sin. As in, someone should go to hell for making that appear on my screen.

Zdrastochye

Ivory Coast6262 Posts

September 14 2012 02:33 GMT

#603

On September 14 2012 11:31 TheYango wrote:

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Ehh, I wouldn't go that far. I would at least put Frost's chances as better, seeing as the first seeds in NA/EU/CN/KR being directly seeded to the Ro8 is a pretty monumental advantage.

And when it comes to finals, I will bet Frost over iG ten times out of ten. That's what I mean to not being on their level.

Dgiese

United States2687 Posts

September 14 2012 02:34 GMT

#604

On September 14 2012 11:25 Zdrastochye wrote:

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I disagree. I mean, I know the concept of dark horse is that they're the team you never would expect, but I really doubt their possibility to even get to the finals, let alone win. I'd be fully prepared to eat my words, but those are definitely not the best of CLG they just face. They're good, but not even close to Azubu levels.

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Jiji's been solid for the past 6 months, CLG is very iffy. Never discussed the team, only the players (specifically Jiji).

You and I, my friend, are on two different wavelengths. I'll agree that the team has been shaky, but if I were to name the three most solid clg players since the first time they went to korea, I don't think Jiji would be in my top 3.

overt

United States9006 Posts

September 14 2012 02:34 GMT

#605

Yeah, seedings is the main thing that's going to hurt them. The thing that I think gives iG an advantage is just the fact that they bring out weird shit in a lot of the games I've seen them play and they make it work. Teams won't really know what to expect against them and considering how dominate they are against CLG every single time they've played them I definitely don't think the NA teams are at their level.

Will personally be shocked if they don't get to semis unless they face Frost or M5 in quarters.

MindBreaker

United States574 Posts

September 14 2012 02:34 GMT

#606

All right new opinion on syndra.... she freakin uselesss

Praetorial

United States4241 Posts

September 14 2012 02:35 GMT

#607

I like the Morg splash art a lot better.

It's more fallen angelly then the previous one.

arb

Noobville17922 Posts

September 14 2012 02:35 GMT

#608

On September 14 2012 11:35 Praetorial wrote:
I like the Morg splash art a lot better.

It's more fallen angelly then the previous one.

I dont know what was wrong with the original splash art tbh.
She looked so much better in that one. You can atleast see her... stuff in this one though

Alaric

France45622 Posts

September 14 2012 02:37 GMT

#609

Well seeing who her name is derived from, I preferred the "bewitching" style of her old splash more (and I didn't like that angle on her hips, how twisted is her spinal cord?).

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

September 14 2012 02:39 GMT

#610

On September 14 2012 11:34 overt wrote:
Will personally be shocked if they don't get to semis unless they face Frost or M5 in quarters.

I think Blaze (assuming Blaze is the last Korean qualifier) and CLG.EU are good enough to be able to win against them. It depends on the format for groupstage/bracketing for the Ro8. The current way its listed on Leaguepedia seems to suggest that the only way for those 3 teams to eliminate each other before the Ro4 is if we get an iG+Blaze+CLG.EU group of death.

On September 14 2012 11:33 Zdrastochye wrote:
And when it comes to finals, I will bet Frost over iG ten times out of ten. That's what I mean to not being on their level.

Then you're not giving iG enough credit.

Sure yesterday's match was a showmatch, but to perform as they did even in showmatch conditions would suggest that iG's chances in a real match against Frost are far better than 1/10.

HazMat

United States17077 Posts

September 14 2012 02:43 GMT

#611

So this ranked queue has been down for a while eh?

overt

United States9006 Posts

September 14 2012 02:44 GMT

#612

iG, Blaze, and CLGeu in the same group would seriously suck.

Craton

United States17294 Posts

September 14 2012 02:44 GMT

#613

Jiji is probably CLG's best player. Chauster is solid and well-rounded, but jiji is extremely consistent and generally has very good positioning and presence in team fights as well as good map awareness. Chauster would be their second best player.

Doublelift has really strong mechanics and is very good in team fights, but has horrendous map awareness and decision making outside of fights. Chauster helps mask a lot of this.

Hotshot and Voyboy are both very inconsistent. Voyboy especially makes really awful plays in some games (or for games across an entire day / tournament), but other times makes very good plays that change the momentum of games.

Hotshot as a jungler just doesn't instill very much fear. The most he normally does is camp lane bushes for really long times until maybe getting a gank out of it. He's typically underleveled and underfarmed and often has (putting it mildly) questionable item choices.

Kouda

United States2205 Posts

September 14 2012 02:46 GMT

#614

Jiji consistent? From the NA regionals, I saw him derping around a lot. Like tons of whiffed orianna ults and bad decisions o_o

Dgiese

United States2687 Posts

September 14 2012 02:49 GMT

#615

Well i agree that Jiji is consistent, consistently underwhelming. I just pretty much disagree with your evaluation of his play, maybe I haven't seen some of the matches you're referring to, and you haven't seen some of the matches I'm talking about.

Sermokala

United States14155 Posts

September 14 2012 03:10 GMT

#616

I think everyones forgetting TPA. If anyones a dark horse running into s2 champs its going to be them.