On July 25 2013 16:46 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
I dislike putting PE in the same tier as Royal and WE. They are, fundamentally, weaker and more inconsistent imo.

iG might average out to greater success right now, but they still have the most volatility for sure...Feel like that should be accounted for.

As much as I'm a Royal fan, you have to be an equally delusional WE fan to think they're playing any better right now.

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21245 Posts

July 25 2013 08:18 GMT

#5228

On July 25 2013 17:17 TheYango wrote:

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As much as I'm a Royal fan, you have to be an equally delusional WE fan to think they're playing any better right now.

Maybe.

If I was actually excited for this tourney (as opposed to just finding out it existed a couple hours ago) I'd be super pissed, these delays lol.

Don_Julio

2220 Posts

July 25 2013 08:20 GMT

#5229

On July 25 2013 15:39 XilDarkz wrote:

You survived the shitstorm and came back. That's impressive, welcome back.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

July 25 2013 08:21 GMT

#5230

WE's just not playing well right now. It's largely a product of their same old issues they've always had that they've never actually fixed--it's just that now teams are on the whole better, so they can't get away with those things anymore, such as Caomei pretty much always being behind after early game (either losing 1v1 or feeding FB 1v2), or Misaya being absolutely awful at making item decisions (the guy loves Deathcap WAY too much and he's definitely lost games before because of this) or understanding what heroes he's bad at (his Zed is worse than his Ori, yet WE still picks it all the damn time).

On top of this, Weixiao+Fzzf isn't as invincible as it used to be due to the overall quality of other Chinese bot lanes catching up to them. They've gone from "can win any 2v2 without help" to "go even at best vs. Tabe+Uzi or Devil+Sicca and somewhat ahead vs. Kid+Xiaoxiao or Bigpomelo+San".

PE is the most consistent out of those 3 "tier 2" Chinese teams, it's just that they're consistently mediocre. I don't feel anyone on that team really stands out. Devil is probably the most outstanding player, but even then, he's overally quite overhyped by the community because while he makes big plays that make him popular with the fans, his core fundamentals are a step below Weixiao and Uzi for sure.

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21245 Posts

July 25 2013 08:37 GMT

#5231

On July 25 2013 17:21 TheYango wrote:

PE is the most consistent out of those 3 "tier 2" Chinese teams, it's just that they're consistently mediocre. I don't feel anyone on that team really stands out. Devil is probably the most outstanding player, but even then, he's overally quite overhyped by the community because while he makes big plays that make him popular with the fans, his core fundamentals are a step below Weixiao and Uzi for sure.

I like Jing. IIRC Jing is their shotcaller also? Or am I mistaken there?

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

July 25 2013 08:37 GMT

#5232

Jing was very good in S2, but has been pretty hit or miss in the LPL games to date.

Ostensibly, Sicca is their captain.

Gahlo

United States35173 Posts

July 25 2013 08:38 GMT

#5233

Yay, I can watch the Chinese without my ears bleeding.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

July 25 2013 08:41 GMT

#5234

Misaya playing Ahri and Cool playing TF.

Looks like they swapped signature heroes.

EDIT: Swapping Bigpomelo into bot lane pretty much concentrates the badness of OMG into 1 lane, lol.