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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
December 31 2012 21:29 GMT
#4521
On January 01 2013 06:21 cLutZ wrote:
TSM doesn't draw conclusions from tournament results.

Dyrus really strong on Kayle, Vlad, and Singed? Yea, lets have him not play those champs anymore. Time for more Darius comps.

ETC

Oh they draw conclusions from tournament results.

Just not their own.
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arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
December 31 2012 21:32 GMT
#4522
On January 01 2013 06:29 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 01 2013 06:21 cLutZ wrote:
TSM doesn't draw conclusions from tournament results.

Dyrus really strong on Kayle, Vlad, and Singed? Yea, lets have him not play those champs anymore. Time for more Darius comps.

ETC

Oh they draw conclusions from tournament results.

Just not their own.

It's really dumb they don't let Dyrus for example play the heroes they know he's good with and he's shown results with.
Always liked watching Dyrus on Kayle/Vlad. And the time he picked Singed in worlds i think it was, the crowd went absolutely fucking nuts.
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
December 31 2012 21:33 GMT
#4523
I think a lot of pros just aren't that smart as people. Feels like some of them are only really in that position because they are in that position. Asian scene seems to have more people that are at the top because they are genuinely the top instead of being at the top because they are at the top. Don't know if I'm making any sense here . Let me try this again. It's like being famous because you are famous instead of being famous because you have done things. Paris Hilton comes to mind.
Fwmeh
Profile Joined April 2008
1286 Posts
December 31 2012 21:35 GMT
#4524
Well they did, back when they themselves actually won tournaments. Then they got anally brutalized by Blaze, drew the wrong conclusions from that, and have gotten worse ever since (sort of).

Looking back, it seems that the period when TSM were strong might simply coincide with a period in the meta when champs they were strong at were more strongly favored, such as Karth/Kayle/pre nerf Ez.

I think Chaox in particular really benefited from the Corki-Ezreal-Graves era, as he was strong on those champions
A parser for things is a function from strings to lists of pairs of things and strings
kongoline
Profile Joined February 2012
6318 Posts
December 31 2012 21:36 GMT
#4525
rofl dyrus, blames gosu zuna for losing game (who was 3-3 at this point and comming back after bad start), dyrus trolls and feeds 0-7 then goes afk
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
December 31 2012 21:39 GMT
#4526
On January 01 2013 06:35 Fwmeh wrote:
Well they did, back when they themselves actually won tournaments. Then they got anally brutalized by Blaze, drew the wrong conclusions from that, and have gotten worse ever since (sort of).

Looking back, it seems that the period when TSM were strong might simply coincide with a period in the meta when champs they were strong at were more strongly favored, such as Karth/Kayle/pre nerf Ez.

I think Chaox in particular really benefited from the Corki-Ezreal-Graves era, as he was strong on those champions

TSM stagnated in the period where Dignitas and CLG went to Korea. That was a period of a few months where the two teams that could remotely be considered good practice for them were not available, and instead of being proactive about looking for appropriate competition, they more or less just got complacent stomping NA events.
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wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
December 31 2012 21:39 GMT
#4527
On January 01 2013 06:35 Fwmeh wrote:
Well they did, back when they themselves actually won tournaments. Then they got anally brutalized by Blaze, drew the wrong conclusions from that, and have gotten worse ever since (sort of).

Looking back, it seems that the period when TSM were strong might simply coincide with a period in the meta when champs they were strong at were more strongly favored, such as Karth/Kayle/pre nerf Ez.

I think Chaox in particular really benefited from the Corki-Ezreal-Graves era, as he was strong on those champions

Do people still ride on ChaoX banwagon? I was never impressed with his play tbh, he looks good in terms of NA/EU scene ADC, but in international scene he looks horrid. He also had that 3dblade + PD ashe build, which made me want to tear my hair out and punch ponies.

Dyrus was best during Kayle/Vlad era; dunno why he's trying to play so much Darius... >.>

TOO; only shining star in current TSM lineup imo; usually the most consistent, and prevent TSM from losing early game too badly.
liftlift > tsm
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-31 21:42:57
December 31 2012 21:41 GMT
#4528
It also has to be said that CLG and TSM both squandered the opportunities they could have gotten out of having B-teams.

B-teams for Asian organizations generally have gotten more mileage, both toward the improvement of the "main" team and becoming legitimate teams in and of themselves (Azubu Blaze, Najin Sword, WE.i-Rocks--plus KT and MVP having 2 rapidly improving teams right from the start). I would argue that this is in part due to the Asian teams being more proactive about playing WITH their B-teams, as opposed to CLG.Black and TSM.Evo not practicing with their main teams all that much.
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Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
December 31 2012 21:44 GMT
#4529
I think a lot of parallels can be drawn from the LGD.int dota squad that's currently in China. They have only been a team for a few months but already able to play really well because of constant practice in a good environment. Gaming houses only work if you put in the effort to make them work.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
December 31 2012 21:46 GMT
#4530
You know what, fuck my last rant. Sure it's still QQ worthy because they made that game frustrating as hell to play and I couldn't really dictate plays as our comp (and my champ) was way better at counter-initiating, but if I had embraced the fact that they reacted to my drake calls to the fullest and taken on a leader role, I may have carried them with a leash and enough persistence to make them do the stuff I wanted them to.
Gotta carry harder, whichever way. Always look at what you could have done.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-31 21:47:13
December 31 2012 21:46 GMT
#4531
On January 01 2013 06:39 wei2coolman wrote:
Do people still ride on ChaoX banwagon? I was never impressed with his play tbh, he looks good in terms of NA/EU scene ADC, but in international scene he looks horrid. He also had that 3dblade + PD ashe build, which made me want to tear my hair out and punch ponies.

Chaox plays his role, and that's more or less it. He doesn't make plays or do anything impressive. Him looking like he's "carrying" comes from his fairly high farm priority, and the fact that both Regi and Oddone play fairly active styles early-midgame game, which creates a lot of space for Chaox.

Anyone can look like they're carrying when you give them lots of items and farming space. The genuinely good AD carries shine in the absence of that (e.g. DLift still keeping up when his team lost both other lanes + no jungle presence).
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tobi9999
Profile Joined April 2009
United States1966 Posts
December 31 2012 21:47 GMT
#4532
On January 01 2013 06:39 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 01 2013 06:35 Fwmeh wrote:
Well they did, back when they themselves actually won tournaments. Then they got anally brutalized by Blaze, drew the wrong conclusions from that, and have gotten worse ever since (sort of).

Looking back, it seems that the period when TSM were strong might simply coincide with a period in the meta when champs they were strong at were more strongly favored, such as Karth/Kayle/pre nerf Ez.

I think Chaox in particular really benefited from the Corki-Ezreal-Graves era, as he was strong on those champions

Do people still ride on ChaoX banwagon? I was never impressed with his play tbh, he looks good in terms of NA/EU scene ADC, but in international scene he looks horrid. He also had that 3dblade + PD ashe build, which made me want to tear my hair out and punch ponies.

Dyrus was best during Kayle/Vlad era; dunno why he's trying to play so much Darius... >.>

TOO; only shining star in current TSM lineup imo; usually the most consistent, and prevent TSM from losing early game too badly.


why do people like to pretend that Reginald doesn't single handedly carry TSM lol
TOO has the worst mechanics of any pro player i've ever seen. But NA junglers aren't even good so it doesn't matter
Chaox is decent, not that far behind top AD carries imo.
Xpecial has awful mechanics, pretty average NA support
Dyrus is atrocious all around and was never good. It was just that he had no competition. Who the hell was gonna beat him in lane? Hotshot? nope
Reginald is/was their only hope, but now he's mediocre too
"tobi is ur iq 9999? cuz i think it might be u so smart wowowow." -Artosis
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
December 31 2012 21:51 GMT
#4533
Reginald doing good in a game; is one of the most impressive things I've seen. But he's too fucking inconsistent for me to consider him a key player in TSM.

TOO: bad mechanics, but amazing game sense.
liftlift > tsm
Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-31 21:53:42
December 31 2012 21:52 GMT
#4534
On January 01 2013 06:51 wei2coolman wrote:
Reginald doing good in a game; is one of the most impressive things I've seen. But he's too fucking inconsistent for me to consider him a key player in TSM.

TOO: bad mechanics, but amazing game sense.


Don't know about the second part. Feels like if Regi doing well then he creates space for everyone else on the team but if he isn't there just isn't anyone doing anything or creating space. Think Regi is prob one of the better NA mids at creating space for his team it's just he's so inconsistent is often doesn't matter.
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
December 31 2012 21:53 GMT
#4535
On January 01 2013 06:47 tobi9999 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 01 2013 06:39 wei2coolman wrote:
On January 01 2013 06:35 Fwmeh wrote:
Well they did, back when they themselves actually won tournaments. Then they got anally brutalized by Blaze, drew the wrong conclusions from that, and have gotten worse ever since (sort of).

Looking back, it seems that the period when TSM were strong might simply coincide with a period in the meta when champs they were strong at were more strongly favored, such as Karth/Kayle/pre nerf Ez.

I think Chaox in particular really benefited from the Corki-Ezreal-Graves era, as he was strong on those champions

Do people still ride on ChaoX banwagon? I was never impressed with his play tbh, he looks good in terms of NA/EU scene ADC, but in international scene he looks horrid. He also had that 3dblade + PD ashe build, which made me want to tear my hair out and punch ponies.

Dyrus was best during Kayle/Vlad era; dunno why he's trying to play so much Darius... >.>

TOO; only shining star in current TSM lineup imo; usually the most consistent, and prevent TSM from losing early game too badly.


why do people like to pretend that Reginald doesn't single handedly carry TSM lol
TOO has the worst mechanics of any pro player i've ever seen. But NA junglers aren't even good so it doesn't matter
Chaox is decent, not that far behind top AD carries imo.
Xpecial has awful mechanics, pretty average NA support
Dyrus is atrocious all around and was never good. It was just that he had no competition. Who the hell was gonna beat him in lane? Hotshot? nope
Reginald is/was their only hope, but now he's mediocre too

Dan Dinh and Snoopeh have much worse mechanics.

Xpecial much better than credited, but struggles with the current fotm supports.
twitch.tv/cratonz
tobi9999
Profile Joined April 2009
United States1966 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-31 21:55:34
December 31 2012 21:54 GMT
#4536
On January 01 2013 06:52 Numy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 01 2013 06:51 wei2coolman wrote:
Reginald doing good in a game; is one of the most impressive things I've seen. But he's too fucking inconsistent for me to consider him a key player in TSM.

TOO: bad mechanics, but amazing game sense.


Don't know about the second part. Feels like if Regi doing well then he creates space for everyone else on the team but if he isn't there just isn't anyone doing anything or creating space. If TOO had amazing game sense wouldn't he be able to create some space ?


what the fuck
Haven't you watched TSM play on stream (they don't now* but they used too)? TOO just does whatever Regi tells him to do.
"tobi is ur iq 9999? cuz i think it might be u so smart wowowow." -Artosis
BlackPaladin
Profile Joined May 2010
United States9316 Posts
December 31 2012 21:54 GMT
#4537
On January 01 2013 05:09 OutlaW- wrote:
It's confirmed, by the way. (phreak and mia rose dating)
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=33004053#post33004053


......I have so many words for this but they're all inappropriate to say.
"Your full potential does not matter if you do not use all 100% of it."
Fwmeh
Profile Joined April 2008
1286 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-31 22:15:13
December 31 2012 22:07 GMT
#4538
TSMs play is really tied to the performance of Regi, it has been that way as long as I have followed them. The thing is that he is both a major shot-caller, and also really aggressive. If he tilts and he starts to feed, they sort of lack a strong voice to take over. And his aggression is also really hit or miss. That to me is part of the reason why he is good on Karthus, it forces him to temper his aggression to more reasonable levels, though I seem to remember seeing him flash in and wall+lay waste an opponent under tower...

Also, I think TOO has sufficient mechanics for the janglers he plays. I think his problem is mostly that those janglers (maokai, nocturne) don't really make plays on their own. He is really good at supporting for example Regi, when Regi does well. When Regi/Dyrus/Chaox doesn't do well he seem unable to make the plays to get them back in the game. I have never seen him get "big plays" janglers like Lee Singah work on the highest levels.

And I was never on the Chaox bandwagon per se, but I will say that his favored champions falling of really has exposed him, far worse than I thought. His Sivir play still makes me cringe.
A parser for things is a function from strings to lists of pairs of things and strings
ProV1
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States980 Posts
December 31 2012 22:08 GMT
#4539
On January 01 2013 06:54 BlackPaladin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 01 2013 05:09 OutlaW- wrote:
It's confirmed, by the way. (phreak and mia rose dating)
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=33004053#post33004053


......I have so many words for this but they're all inappropriate to say.


Seems like u jelly
Ketara
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States15065 Posts
December 31 2012 22:12 GMT
#4540
Who's Mia Rose?
http://www.liquidlegends.net/forum/lol-general/502075-patch-61-league-of-legends-general-discussion?page=25#498
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