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Peter "Doublelift" Peng of CLG Prime is the star of the 17th episode of my 'Grilled' video interview series. He talks about some past and present team-mates (HotshotGG, Voyboy, Saintvicious) and the strengths and weaknesses of the Asian teams.
Some of the topics discussed:
-If his mechanics are the best and the role of mechanics in LoL.
-Why he thinks Europe has the best mids.
-How much skill Support takes to play in comparison to AD Carry.
-What makes Chauster special that people don't see inside the server.
-Comparing HotshotGG's jungling to Saintvicious'.
-Why he thinks CLG turned Voyboy from the best top laner into a second rate one.
-HotshotGG's unique strengths at top lane.
The entire 43m55s interview can be watched at Team Acer.
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Watching this interview right now, ~12 min in. So far very very solid. One of the few non-troll Doublelift interview. Really awesome stuff.
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<3 Doublelift. Thanks for putting this up!
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I generally avoid watching/reading LoL interviews (other than Pluto's which are at least somewhat funny) because they all have the same shallow and boring questions, but this is really good.
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I'm halfway through and so far it's been a really great interview. Really appreciate it.
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I can't seem to get the video to work :< On chrome here.
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good interview but the audio quality needs a bit of work. thanks for the content
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I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM.
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On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM.
Don't you love it when people create accounts just to troll?
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On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM.
Sort of hard to carry a game when you have Hsgg in jungle.
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On December 08 2012 10:08 wei2coolman wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM. Sort of hard to carry a game when you have Hsgg in jungle.
I like how he was so nice about HotShots junglin hehe.
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On December 08 2012 10:07 TwoToneTerran wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM. Don't you love it when people create accounts just to troll?
Did u not hear the part where he basiclly calls every high elo na player bad and compares them to bronze league Starcraft 2 players and also says the na teams are to bad to practice against how im i trolling again?
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On December 08 2012 10:14 Drogenfahndung wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 10:07 TwoToneTerran wrote:On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM. Don't you love it when people create accounts just to troll? Did u not hear the part where he basiclly calls every high elo na player bad and compares them to bronze league Starcraft 2 players and also says the na are to bad to practice against how im i trolling again?
You obviously haven't been on TL long, everyone here thinks NA scene is complete trash for exception of Doublelift.
Name an NA player that can actually compete with their Korean/Asian/EU counterpart.
What? You think Dyrus can play against Maknoon or Caomei evenly?
Reginald against Froggen? xpekee? alex ich? Toyz?
Any NA support in comparison to Madlife?
NA scene is trash, deal with it.
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On December 08 2012 10:14 Drogenfahndung wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 10:07 TwoToneTerran wrote:On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM. Don't you love it when people create accounts just to troll? Did u not hear the part where he basiclly calls every high elo na player bad and compares them to bronze league Starcraft 2 players and also says the na teams are to bad to practice against how im i trolling again?
He wasn't that harsh on the NA players, he even said there is a lot of talent there, just that there is a lot they need to work out. And the bronze league sc2 comparison was when he was talking about him playing soloQ.
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On December 08 2012 10:18 wei2coolman wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 10:14 Drogenfahndung wrote:On December 08 2012 10:07 TwoToneTerran wrote:On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM. Don't you love it when people create accounts just to troll? Did u not hear the part where he basiclly calls every high elo na player bad and compares them to bronze league Starcraft 2 players and also says the na are to bad to practice against how im i trolling again? You obviously haven't been on TL long, everyone here thinks NA scene is complete trash for exception of Doublelift. Name an NA player that can actually compete with their Korean/Asian/EU counterpart. What? You think Dyrus can play against Maknoon or Caomei evenly? Reginald against Froggen? xpekee? alex ich? Toyz? Any NA support in comparison to Madlife? NA scene is trash, deal with it.
I dont know where u got the idea that i think the Na scene is good compared to the rest of the world from in the first place.
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On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM.
You're saying his assessment is incorrect. Opposite of "rest of na to be trash" is "na isn't trash". But, it's pretty true that NA scene is trash in comparison.
Secondly, you use a non-tangent point of saying that they can't beat TSM, as if that's somehow proof his assessment of NA scene is incorrect. Also if you looked at IPL5, it's a pretty obvious that CLG put a far stronger showing than TSM did.
So, both your points are incorrect.
And there isn't a single botlane in NA or EU that even holds a candle to Chau+DL botlane, even with loco+DL lane, they don't really lose lane to NA players.
And there are only a few botlanes internationally that are as strong (maybe stronger) as DL+loco lane, and that's locodoco+dl lane.
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they lost alot lanes vs europeen teams like how they lost vs moscov five back in IEM Hannover for example
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On December 08 2012 10:14 Drogenfahndung wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 10:07 TwoToneTerran wrote:On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM. Don't you love it when people create accounts just to troll? Did u not hear the part where he basiclly calls every high elo na player bad and compares them to bronze league Starcraft 2 players and also says the na teams are to bad to practice against how im i trolling again?
He compared solo queue to the bronze league. You created this account just to bash Doublelift and you didn't even understand his point. He said NA teams are bad to play against because NA lacks a depth of good teams, which is 100% empirically true.
On December 08 2012 10:42 Drogenfahndung wrote:
Thats why they lost bot vs Fnatic most of the games in IPL 5 right?
I think you can blame jiji and loco for that one more than Doublelift. It's very obvious how good Doublelift is and it's a joke to think he's wrong for considering himself one of the best carries.
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Doublelift is right in his assessment of him and Chauste (ok maybe a little too worshipful there but Chauster is very good), but he is either way too optimistic about the rest of his team or unwilling to say what he really thinks. Because if he thinks that the NA scene is such trash, the rest of his team might be even worse in some regards.
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I think it's very obvious that he bites his tongue when he talks about hotshot and jiji, because he almost never mentions them. It's kind of ironic considering those two are the biggest reason CLG became a sort of brandname and now they're dragging the team down -- I suppose that's why they'll never actually exclude themselves from the team despite poor performance.
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On December 08 2012 10:47 Slow Motion wrote:
Doublelift is right in his assessment of him and Chauste (ok maybe a little too worshipful there but Chauster is very good), but he is either way too optimistic about the rest of his team or unwilling to say what he really thinks. Because if he thinks that the NA scene is such trash, the rest of his team might be even worse in some regards.
Yeah, I noticed how he avoided calling HSGG trash, but the point about how HSGG has the skill to kite ranged carries with melees is pretty interesting, as a way to compensate for lack of skill. Which is pretty true, there have been times where I see HSGG push the enemy AD carry COMPLETELY away from a fight, and still come back with majority of his health when returning back to main fights. He also avoided calling out jiji for his lame and weak laning phase, but tbh a lot of the questions were angled in such a way that he could avoid doing so without calling his team out on their weak play. DL has Chauster hero worship going on, but if you look at his skill level post-Curse, Liquid said that Chauster was able to make Doublelift into one of the best players in the world, something Liquid couldn't do while DL was on Curse.
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Hotshot gets a lot of flak but the one thing he can do is teamfight with tanks.
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Well for starters people should probably ignore trolls. But since this has become a major topic of this thread...
NA scene fucking blows. Doublelift is the only world class player in NA at the moment. NA's best support is Xpecial I guess who while good has plenty of Asian and European players who are better than him. NA's best AP mid player in the pro scene is probably Nyjacky?? Maybe? Either way, NA scene is miles behind Asia/EU on AP mids. Top lane NA is a joke, is the general consensus that Dyrus is still the best top laner? Regardless the fact that HotshotGG is still a relevant top laner in the NA scene shows how bad that lane is. Finally we come to jungle. Chauster is already top three in that regard and honestly on the right day he's probably better than saint or OddOne (whom I'd say are top two in NA). Junglers by and large is probably the NA scene's best role but that's mostly because there are so few good junglers in the scene.
It isn't just team play and team work, the NA scene lacks talent too. NA scene has one player whom you could consider top 5 in their role around the world. Maybe you could argue that saint, OddOne, or maybe Chauster are top 5 junglers in the world but it's not like either of those three are crazy impressive and I think it hints more to the fact that jungling is still not very developed in the pro scene.
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On December 08 2012 10:42 TwoToneTerran wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 10:14 Drogenfahndung wrote:On December 08 2012 10:07 TwoToneTerran wrote:On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM. Don't you love it when people create accounts just to troll? Did u not hear the part where he basiclly calls every high elo na player bad and compares them to bronze league Starcraft 2 players and also says the na teams are to bad to practice against how im i trolling again? He compared solo queue to the bronze league. You created this account just to bash Doublelift and you didn't even understand his point. He said NA teams are bad to play against because NA lacks a depth of good teams, which is 100% empirically true. Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 10:42 Drogenfahndung wrote:
Thats why they lost bot vs Fnatic most of the games in IPL 5 right? I think you can blame jiji and loco for that one more than Doublelift. It's very obvious how good Doublelift is and it's a joke to think he's wrong for considering himself one of the best carries.
I think DLIFT is good, but he loses a lot of botlanes, and the reason sometimes CLG comes back is that he gets to AFK farm lanes without being punished by teams that don't see to know that that is about to happen, or don't know how to punish it.
Watch a game CLG NA loses. 80% chance Dlift gets caught 1v2-4 top or botlane multiple times.
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On December 08 2012 11:34 cLutZ wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 10:42 TwoToneTerran wrote:On December 08 2012 10:14 Drogenfahndung wrote:On December 08 2012 10:07 TwoToneTerran wrote:On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM. Don't you love it when people create accounts just to troll? Did u not hear the part where he basiclly calls every high elo na player bad and compares them to bronze league Starcraft 2 players and also says the na teams are to bad to practice against how im i trolling again? He compared solo queue to the bronze league. You created this account just to bash Doublelift and you didn't even understand his point. He said NA teams are bad to play against because NA lacks a depth of good teams, which is 100% empirically true. On December 08 2012 10:42 Drogenfahndung wrote:
Thats why they lost bot vs Fnatic most of the games in IPL 5 right? I think you can blame jiji and loco for that one more than Doublelift. It's very obvious how good Doublelift is and it's a joke to think he's wrong for considering himself one of the best carries. I think DLIFT is good, but he loses a lot of botlanes, and the reason sometimes CLG comes back is that he gets to AFK farm lanes without being punished by teams that don't see to know that that is about to happen, or don't know how to punish it. Watch a game CLG NA loses. 80% chance Dlift gets caught 1v2-4 top or botlane multiple times.
The thing that separates Dlift and Wx from every other AD carry is that they can lose botlane and still manage to stay even or ahead on CS against their counter part.
Watching CLG's tryouts of new supports has been pretty eye opening to this but even at LANs with Chauster where he'd get camped and they'd die a ton he'd still somehow manage to end lane phase with even CS (or sometimes ahead).
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On December 08 2012 11:40 overt wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 11:34 cLutZ wrote:On December 08 2012 10:42 TwoToneTerran wrote:On December 08 2012 10:14 Drogenfahndung wrote:On December 08 2012 10:07 TwoToneTerran wrote:On December 08 2012 10:01 Drogenfahndung wrote:
I like how he condsiders himself and Chauster top be among the best botlanes in the world and the rest of na to be trash a bit arrgant for someone who cant even beat TSM. Don't you love it when people create accounts just to troll? Did u not hear the part where he basiclly calls every high elo na player bad and compares them to bronze league Starcraft 2 players and also says the na teams are to bad to practice against how im i trolling again? He compared solo queue to the bronze league. You created this account just to bash Doublelift and you didn't even understand his point. He said NA teams are bad to play against because NA lacks a depth of good teams, which is 100% empirically true. On December 08 2012 10:42 Drogenfahndung wrote:
Thats why they lost bot vs Fnatic most of the games in IPL 5 right? I think you can blame jiji and loco for that one more than Doublelift. It's very obvious how good Doublelift is and it's a joke to think he's wrong for considering himself one of the best carries. I think DLIFT is good, but he loses a lot of botlanes, and the reason sometimes CLG comes back is that he gets to AFK farm lanes without being punished by teams that don't see to know that that is about to happen, or don't know how to punish it. Watch a game CLG NA loses. 80% chance Dlift gets caught 1v2-4 top or botlane multiple times. The thing that separates Dlift and Wx from every other AD carry is that they can lose botlane and still manage to stay even or ahead on CS against their counter part. Watching CLG's tryouts of new supports has been pretty eye opening to this but even at LANs with Chauster where he'd get camped and they'd die a ton he'd still somehow manage to end lane phase with even CS (or sometimes ahead).
IMO, it is just as much about the rest of his team, as it is DLift though. CLG NA's big strength is distracting the other team with meaningless hotshotGG chases around the map and generalized annoyances in 3v4, 4v5 situations while Dlift is away doing nothing but getting huge. Fnatic and M5 both basically assassinated Dlift when he tried to do that after game 1 of the series.
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No, it's not about him being big late game. It's about at 20 minutes when lane phase is over. Doesn't matter how many times he or his support died in lane. Doesn't matter how hard he was camped. He still manages to end the lane phase with even CS to his counter part and sometimes he'll lose bot lane and still come out ahead on CS.
This is only due to the fact that mechanically he's really good at CSing and it's not like he sacrifices lane dominance for CS like some AP and AD carries do, he tends to balance harass with CSing well too. Him getting caught is a problem for sure but it's an issue with his game/map sense not his mechanical skill. I don't think anyone would say Doublelift is a player known for good decision making but because he plays AD carry his questionable game sense is masked by his really impressive mechanics.
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Even in CS and even in Gold are different. Only the second part matters (also EXP).
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On December 08 2012 11:34 overt wrote:
Well for starters people should probably ignore trolls. But since this has become a major topic of this thread...
NA scene fucking blows. Doublelift is the only world class player in NA at the moment. NA's best support is Xpecial I guess who while good has plenty of Asian and European players who are better than him. NA's best AP mid player in the pro scene is probably Nyjacky?? Maybe? Either way, NA scene is miles behind Asia/EU on AP mids. Top lane NA is a joke, is the general consensus that Dyrus is still the best top laner? Regardless the fact that HotshotGG is still a relevant top laner in the NA scene shows how bad that lane is. Finally we come to jungle. Chauster is already top three in that regard and honestly on the right day he's probably better than saint or OddOne (whom I'd say are top two in NA). Junglers by and large is probably the NA scene's best role but that's mostly because there are so few good junglers in the scene.
It isn't just team play and team work, the NA scene lacks talent too. NA scene has one player whom you could consider top 5 in their role around the world. Maybe you could argue that saint, OddOne, or maybe Chauster are top 5 junglers in the world but it's not like either of those three are crazy impressive and I think it hints more to the fact that jungling is still not very developed in the pro scene.
This is who I think is best in NA for each role.
Top:WoDx, and Dyrus.
Mid: Nyjacky, Link115(but, it's been said he won't be in pro scene anymore, due to college, and parents don't want him doing it)
Jungle: St.V, Chauster, TOO
Botlane: DL, qtpie, aphromoo
Support: Chauster, Xpecial, Nhat.
Of these, names, only jungling position, and DL, are comparable to international scene. Supposed Link115 has the ability to be best player ever (according to St.V and DL), but he doesn't have time to practice, or join full time team.
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I feel like this may have been overlooked with everyone talking about Doublelift's play at IPL5, but jiji played pretty damn well in that tournament.
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It's weird though that he finds korean junglers similar in level to na junglers. I thought everyone agreed lilballz is miles ahead of na/eu junglers due to how well he transitions from camps to ganks. He has no downtime. Also korean teams are really good at allocating farm properly to get a big item or farm up a certain player, so end result is the entire team uses farm better too so they end up witg decently farmed junglers, like saint would be except with a ton of pressure having been put on the map.
And I still thought that korean AD's were te best? DL + chau definitely were around the same level as korean bot lanes, but I can't say for certain if either is "better" than the other.
I love how he's so nice and sweet about hotshot's jungling though lol.
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hahaha "HotshotGG's strength" "Well ... he signs my paychecks?"
Also Doublelift never playing Weixiao makes sense. It's because...
he is Weixiao.
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On December 08 2012 15:10 BlackPaladin wrote:
It's weird though that he finds korean junglers similar in level to na junglers. I thought everyone agreed lilballz is miles ahead of na/eu junglers due to how well he transitions from camps to ganks. He has no downtime. Also korean teams are really good at allocating farm properly to get a big item or farm up a certain player, so end result is the entire team uses farm better too so they end up witg decently farmed junglers, like saint would be except with a ton of pressure having been put on the map.
And I still thought that korean AD's were te best? DL + chau definitely were around the same level as korean bot lanes, but I can't say for certain if either is "better" than the other.
I love how he's so nice and sweet about hotshot's jungling though lol.
Well lilballz is Taiwanese, and he was played on NA servers back in beta, so imo I consider him NA jungler pretty much. He was also surprisingly underwhelming in ipl5, often feeding his oracles early on. I can't think of super strong Korean jungler except maybe Cloud Templar.
Korean botlanes are good because of support, they have god-tier level supports, I personally don't see anything special about their adc. Capt Jack gets a lot of rep, but his laning phase is pretty poor, especially in extended 2v2 lanes. His teamfighting is pretty good, but his laning phase is pretty atrocious, that's why he looks good (his team plays low econ game, so laning phase ends very early, and they play the 2v1 lane, so his weakness doesn't show up). Overall Korean teams real strengths are their toplanes by far, they carry through their top lanes.
WX~Bebe~DL, around the same in terms of AD carry, probably giving the edge to WX.
On December 08 2012 15:16 KissBlade wrote:
hahaha "HotshotGG's strength" "Well ... he signs my paychecks?"
Also Doublelift never playing Weixiao makes sense. It's because...
he is Weixiao.
LoL client can't handle that amount of mechanical skills.
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The Voyboy/Basketball conversation was so spot on. It will never be optimal to have 5 1v1 stars on a team.
EDIT: Hotshot is a very important player on the team. Even if his carry potential is low, you basically need a player that can absorb counters and bans or initiate a 2v1 lane in this game. If you have a star carry but needs perfect resources/attention/space to shine, but is useless otherwise its basically a liability.
As a follow-up, I am not sure if its an unpopular opinion but Stanley is the most amazing component of TPA because of his play making/carrying relative to his team resource usage demand. The efficiency of his output is stellar and is what in my opinion won them the WC not Toyz.
I've played so many, MANY solo queue games with mid or top lanes that have been behind all game, but end up getting farmed regardless because of GP5 or objectives. But mentally from dying a lot are too afraid/scared to do their job, much less make plays, it makes me really respect players that can play well from bad positions.
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On December 08 2012 15:18 wei2coolman wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 15:10 BlackPaladin wrote:
It's weird though that he finds korean junglers similar in level to na junglers. I thought everyone agreed lilballz is miles ahead of na/eu junglers due to how well he transitions from camps to ganks. He has no downtime. Also korean teams are really good at allocating farm properly to get a big item or farm up a certain player, so end result is the entire team uses farm better too so they end up witg decently farmed junglers, like saint would be except with a ton of pressure having been put on the map.
And I still thought that korean AD's were te best? DL + chau definitely were around the same level as korean bot lanes, but I can't say for certain if either is "better" than the other.
I love how he's so nice and sweet about hotshot's jungling though lol. Well lilballz is Taiwanese, and he was played on NA servers back in beta, so imo I consider him NA jungler pretty much. He was also surprisingly underwhelming in ipl5, often feeding his oracles early on. I can't think of super strong Korean jungler except maybe Cloud Templar. Korean botlanes are good because of support, they have god-tier level supports, I personally don't see anything special about their adc. Capt Jack gets a lot of rep, but his laning phase is pretty poor, especially in extended 2v2 lanes. His teamfighting is pretty good, but his laning phase is pretty atrocious, that's why he looks good (his team plays low econ game, so laning phase ends very early, and they play the 2v1 lane, so his weakness doesn't show up). Overall Korean teams real strengths are their toplanes by far, they carry through their top lanes. WX~Bebe~DL, around the same in terms of AD carry, probably giving the edge to WX. Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 15:16 KissBlade wrote:
hahaha "HotshotGG's strength" "Well ... he signs my paychecks?"
Also Doublelift never playing Weixiao makes sense. It's because...
he is Weixiao. LoL client can't handle that amount of mechanical skills.
Lilballz basically invented Udyr jungle at one point in his NA career.
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On December 08 2012 12:09 overt wrote:
No, it's not about him being big late game. It's about at 20 minutes when lane phase is over. Doesn't matter how many times he or his support died in lane. Doesn't matter how hard he was camped. He still manages to end the lane phase with even CS to his counter part and sometimes he'll lose bot lane and still come out ahead on CS.
This is only due to the fact that mechanically he's really good at CSing and it's not like he sacrifices lane dominance for CS like some AP and AD carries do, he tends to balance harass with CSing well too. Him getting caught is a problem for sure but it's an issue with his game/map sense not his mechanical skill. I don't think anyone would say Doublelift is a player known for good decision making but because he plays AD carry his questionable game sense is masked by his really impressive mechanics.
lol lasthitting past the point where someone has like 100 AD is pretty much not "mechanical skill" anymore. It's all about map movement and creating space at that point.
Plus, I wouldn't consider it impressive that he's mechanically better than his counterparts at lasthitting. Given that many of his counterpart ADs are the types who fall behind 20+ CS in total freefarm lanes for no apparent reason.
On December 08 2012 15:18 wei2coolman wrote:
Well lilballz is Taiwanese, and he was played on NA servers back in beta, so imo I consider him NA jungler pretty much. He was also surprisingly underwhelming in ipl5, often feeding his oracles early on. I can't think of super strong Korean jungler except maybe Cloud Templar.
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On December 08 2012 15:18 wei2coolman wrote:
Korean botlanes are good because of support, they have god-tier level supports, I personally don't see anything special about their adc. Capt Jack gets a lot of rep, but his laning phase is pretty poor, especially in extended 2v2 lanes. His teamfighting is pretty good, but his laning phase is pretty atrocious, that's why he looks good (his team plays low econ game, so laning phase ends very early, and they play the 2v1 lane, so his weakness doesn't show up). Overall Korean teams real strengths are their toplanes by far, they carry through their top lanes.
WX~Bebe~DL, around the same in terms of AD carry, probably giving the edge to WX.
In general, I would rank Chinese ADs as having the best average skill in the world. There are a number of fairly good ADs among the less visible Chinese teams that have nonetheless shown themselves to be very strong (iG's Kid, Royal's Uzi, Wayi Spider's BSYY--Uzi has the potential to be in the Weixiao/Bebe/DLift class of ADs once he gets more experienced, and Kid and BSYY are a level below those 3, but still better than ADs in the rest of the world).
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On December 08 2012 15:32 Pathos wrote:
As a follow-up, I am not sure if its an unpopular opinion but Stanley is the most amazing component of TPA because of his play making/carrying relative to his team resource usage demand. The efficiency of his output is stellar and is what in my opinion won them the WC not Toyz.
Lilballz.
Toyz and Stanley got overrated at Worlds because by and large they got to pick into their comfort zone, which actually far overstates their actual ability. Both players have fairly defined champ types that they're comfortable in and almost never stray from them. Toyz' weakness on aggressive, gank-oriented mid laners became readily apparent at IPL 5, but Stanley's champ pool actually shows similar limitations (e.g. you will never see Stanley play many of the 3rd position defensive team-utility top laners like Cho'gath or Malphite--only really Shen, and even his Shen isn't terribly spectacular). It is also worth noting that among the "world-class" top laners, Stanley is the worst I have seen at adapting to 1v2 lanes. Even in extraordinarily stompy GPL games, I've seen Stanley feed from 1v2 lanes because he misjudges how strong he is with 1v2 levels/farm.
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It's not as bad, but it's still fairly apparent, IMO.
That said, it's true to some extent for every player in the game. I guess the only thing you can really blame Stanley for is how poorly he adapts to 1v2s compared to other top caliber top laners like Maknoon, Caomei, or Lilac. That has burned TPA on multiple occasions.
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On December 08 2012 11:34 overt wrote:
Well for starters people should probably ignore trolls. But since this has become a major topic of this thread...
NA scene fucking blows. Doublelift is the only world class player in NA at the moment. NA's best support is Xpecial I guess who while good has plenty of Asian and European players who are better than him. NA's best AP mid player in the pro scene is probably Nyjacky?? Maybe? Either way, NA scene is miles behind Asia/EU on AP mids. Top lane NA is a joke, is the general consensus that Dyrus is still the best top laner? Regardless the fact that HotshotGG is still a relevant top laner in the NA scene shows how bad that lane is. Finally we come to jungle. Chauster is already top three in that regard and honestly on the right day he's probably better than saint or OddOne (whom I'd say are top two in NA). Junglers by and large is probably the NA scene's best role but that's mostly because there are so few good junglers in the scene.
It isn't just team play and team work, the NA scene lacks talent too. NA scene has one player whom you could consider top 5 in their role around the world. Maybe you could argue that saint, OddOne, or maybe Chauster are top 5 junglers in the world but it's not like either of those three are crazy impressive and I think it hints more to the fact that jungling is still not very developed in the pro scene.
Crumbz is a worthy contender for top 3 NA jungler i think
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On December 08 2012 18:20 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On December 08 2012 15:32 Pathos wrote:
As a follow-up, I am not sure if its an unpopular opinion but Stanley is the most amazing component of TPA because of his play making/carrying relative to his team resource usage demand. The efficiency of his output is stellar and is what in my opinion won them the WC not Toyz. Lilballz. Toyz and Stanley got overrated at Worlds because by and large they got to pick into their comfort zone, which actually far overstates their actual ability. Both players have fairly defined champ types that they're comfortable in and almost never stray from them. Toyz' weakness on aggressive, gank-oriented mid laners became readily apparent at IPL 5, but Stanley's champ pool actually shows similar limitations (e.g. you will never see Stanley play many of the 3rd position defensive team-utility top laners like Cho'gath or Malphite--only really Shen, and even his Shen isn't terribly spectacular). It is also worth noting that among the "world-class" top laners, Stanley is the worst I have seen at adapting to 1v2 lanes. Even in extraordinarily stompy GPL games, I've seen Stanley feed from 1v2 lanes because he misjudges how strong he is with 1v2 levels/farm.
How many players really play those "support" tops now? In S2, with jungle farm how it was, you really couldn't afford to have 3 support characters unless you had malph/shen as one of them because they basically can turn games into 4v5 and have superb initiation.
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The point Yango brings up is something ALL pro players have issues with. Limited champ pool is bound to happen, especially when you consider playstyles, and effectiveness. I mean, sure Maknoon can play support style tops, but in reality it's a waste of his ability to do so, as he'll have a much heavier impact playing a carry style tops. Why handicap yourself?
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Pretty interesting interview. Liked the part where they compared Korean esports development to the american scene ("Korea develops new talent to replace people kicked off the team, while NA just recycles (implied: failed) talent") Not going to discuss where DLift (and Chauster) ranks in the world - not enough material to make a reasonable judgement. Judging from IPL 5 alone, I wouldn't consider Chauster a top tier jungler, and Dlift has really good mechanics but little else...the whole team is seemed based around creating space for him to farm up (similar to how CLG.EU, most of the time, seems to play solely around Froggen)
About the limited champion pools: Player mentality will always be a factor (think Misaya -> aggressive, Toyz -> passive) and hard to overcome. But even so, you shouldn't limit yourself to only the "best" champions even within your "pool", or you end up like Toyz, who got two champs banned and the third countered. Ryze, Cassiopeia and others can also pull out the farm game and go for the big plays lategame, even though they might lag behind the current FotM/OP champs - you'd have to adjust your team, it's still better than having a no-show mid. Top lane is a whole other business - from game to game, Wickd looks more and more uncomfortable on anything that isn't named Irelia or Malphite (or maybe Renekton). That just doesn't cut it, and there's enough champions that enjoy a similar playstyle.
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i like what dlift siad about standard picks and niche picks: everyone tries to copy eachother instead of beat eachother.
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United States37500 Posts
Thorin, I'm watching 30 minutes in and I'm going to finish watching this.
This interview is amazing. Why haven't we heard more from you before this?
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I wish there was an mp3, an interview this long I'd rather just have portable audio.
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I really liked this interview. Skipped around a few times before I finished all the questions I was most interested in.
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This is a really good interview with pretty well researched questions. Thank you for the interview.
Also, I did not realize CLG.NA had a coach/manager.
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United States37500 Posts
Kelby is manager, no coach afaik.
WE had a coach, that was some serious shit.
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On December 09 2012 14:53 NeoIllusions wrote:
Kelby is manager, no coach afaik.
WE had a coach, that was some serious shit.
Isn't WEJoker still their coach?
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On December 09 2012 15:03 Sufficiency wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2012 14:53 NeoIllusions wrote:
Kelby is manager, no coach afaik.
WE had a coach, that was some serious shit. Isn't WEJoker still their coach?
Don't know who it was, but they seemed really close when WE won IPL5. They kept dragging their coach(I think) up to accept the prize money with them(which he eventually did end up doing). Seems like a really good environment for them.
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United States47024 Posts
On December 09 2012 15:03 Sufficiency wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2012 14:53 NeoIllusions wrote:
Kelby is manager, no coach afaik.
WE had a coach, that was some serious shit. Isn't WEJoker still their coach?
IIRC WE had 2 coaches now, to manage the both WE teams.
Joker is still WE's coach, but he wasn't at IPL5 from what I saw. I think it was Aaron at IPL5
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On December 09 2012 06:59 NeoIllusions wrote:
Thorin, I'm watching 30 minutes in and I'm going to finish watching this.
This interview is amazing. Why haven't we heard more from you before this?
I wholeheartedly agree with Neo... this is the best League of Legends interview I've seen. Please do more... or if you have, please let us know!
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On December 09 2012 06:59 NeoIllusions wrote:
Thorin, I'm watching 30 minutes in and I'm going to finish watching this.
This interview is amazing. Why haven't we heard more from you before this?
I'll quote my reply to a similar question on reddit:
This is the third I've ever done (I did one with snoopeh almost two weeks ago) and I have next-to-no experience of LoL at all as a game (have watched half of a pro match and played once vs. the computer), so I have a lot to learn.
I have done lots of interviews in Counter-Strike, Quake and StarCraft though, so hopefully I know how to ask questions and which areas to look in, plus I am willing to put in a lot of time researching potential discussion topics.
Since the feedback, and more importantly the views, have been so good on this one I will definitely conduct some more at the next events I attend, though I'm not certain when that will be yet for LoL.
On December 11 2012 10:19 deverlight wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2012 06:59 NeoIllusions wrote:
Thorin, I'm watching 30 minutes in and I'm going to finish watching this.
This interview is amazing. Why haven't we heard more from you before this? I wholeheartedly agree with Neo... this is the best League of Legends interview I've seen. Please do more... or if you have, please let us know!
I have one more in the can for LoL, and I'll make a thread here when I post it.
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Beyonder
Netherlands15103 Posts
Thorin, much respect for your in-depth, well researched questions. 99% of the interviewers are crap, and you truly are a pro interviewer amongst crap.
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Pitcairn19291 Posts
For the limited amount of exposure you've had in LoL, this was probably one of the best interviews if not the best that I've seen in the scene. A lot of other interviews just end up with the pros telling us the same old stuff over and over, but this one actually grills DL about why he thinks stuff are the way they are. The key here is the fact that you were able to get DL to give his opinion and then explain why he believes this is the case, whereas other people simply just ask for his opinion and leave it at that.
Massive props for this interview, and I hope to see more from you in the future.
Edit: I actually just listened to the Snoopeh one as well, and I've got to say your interviews are by far the best I've seen on the scene. Other interviewers spend a lot of time fucking around and not getting as much content out in their interviews, but you're very clear, very on the point, and very well prepared with some great questions.
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