I'm more perplexed by Flame being the lowest rated top laner, Svenskeren being the highest rated jungler, Ryu being the 2nd rater mid, DL being 6th AD, Adrian the best Support, and Echo Fox being in a playoff position.

AlterKot

Poland7525 Posts

December 30 2017 12:58 GMT

#387

Flame and whohi were jokes, others i sorta believe in. Ive put echo fox this high once ive noticed how many players of them ive put in upper positions.

AdsMoFro

Japan4761 Posts

December 30 2017 14:27 GMT

#388

Kot is BANNED from the secret HUHI channel. Haha sucks to be you loser. You're never gonna find out who he is...

And Ok i will do my list.

AdsMoFro

Japan4761 Posts

December 30 2017 14:48 GMT

#389

And...Bang. Surprisingly difficult list.

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Slusher

United States19143 Posts

December 30 2017 16:24 GMT

#390

Ads is the closest to my feeling so far other than contractz. That being said I do think jungle is the hardest category because of stuff like liquid Reignover vs imt Reignover. Or how anyone tsm fields will look statistically better than contractz who will have losing solo lanes every game. Doesn’t matter if you have a champion pool smaller than Amazing TSM will still win 75%> of their games.

AdsMoFro

Japan4761 Posts

December 30 2017 16:39 GMT

#391

Yeah gonna be difficult for COntractz who we haven't seen play for a team like Golden Guardians. On C9 he had self serving lanes and a mid camp to conduct. Really hard to have seen him. Also RO i guess is a toss up but he should fit well on the CLG roster. Huhi is a jungler's best friend.

Slusher

United States19143 Posts

December 30 2017 17:00 GMT

#392

This clg roster just gives me the what could have been feels. Huhi, Reignover and Aphromoo would have been my favorite team in the league no question.

I don’t blame Aphromoo for cashing in though

dsyxelic

United States1417 Posts

December 30 2017 20:42 GMT

#393

yeah if aphro stayed I would have immediately said CLG top 2 maybe 3 no doubt
they still have a good chance, but the roster with aphro makes a lot of sense

also what is the criteria for this list anyways

cause I would have a different list for a criteria of who I would draft first if we drafted by position vs who I think will be the better player in s8 vs who is the better player based on what we saw last from s7

Gahlo

United States35145 Posts

December 30 2017 22:50 GMT

#394

Don't think there's much of a drop off playwise between Aphro and Bio, just shot calling and doesn't RO fill that role?

dsyxelic

United States1417 Posts

December 31 2017 02:07 GMT

#395

On December 31 2017 07:50 Gahlo wrote:
Don't think there's much of a drop off playwise between Aphro and Bio, just shot calling and doesn't RO fill that role?

no, that is what TL had hoped in RO, to be a shotcaller/leader but he wasn't very good at that. other players were more vocal and he isn't really the leader type.

I think CLG will be fine since they have zion who is pretty vocal and is not unfamiliar with making calls in game, its just that aphro is better at it and its easier to make clear calls from the support or jungle role imo.

Slusher

United States19143 Posts

December 31 2017 07:29 GMT

#396

For me it’s that those 3 players have similar strengths, and I would have loved to see them work together. Bio is interesting, he plays a role where we will probably learn a lot about him by seeing him on a new team. But when your jungler is borderline inting while trying to play a supportive style, part of that is on Bio as much as I like to meme on Sven. I’d probably have Bio bottom 5 with what we know at the moment but I could easily be wrong support is a hard one to judge.

Slusher

United States19143 Posts

December 31 2017 16:07 GMT

#397

Top/Jg
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Top Notes:
I don't think there is much that needs explanation, Huni in the west has proven himself to be a beast in spite of his one dimension. Honestly if you get Darshan on a good split I think you are happy with anyone him or above. I think Licorice has a lot of upside, but I ranked most of the rookies pretty low.

Jungle Notes:
Even though I think it is correct to say that COntractz is 5th I think he's going to look pretty bad this season. What I saw at worlds convinced me he's a good player but the GGS roster will put him to the test for sure. People are going to question MikeYeung, I'm just going to say this guy was legit the worst jungler in the league from the patch cinderhullk got buffed until the end of the season, but yes TSM will still win all of their games. Actually I also want to retract what I said when C9 Sven was first announced, I think I was just dissapointed because they had lost Contractz, but the more I think about it the more I think it's a good fit.

Mid/ADC
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Mid:Nothing really shocking Here I guess Huhi not being #1 lol

ADC:I think Apollo is the big one here, his summer split last season he was a beast, I could be way off as a predictive, but if he plays like last summer this is free.

Sup/Overall
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Support:Two abnormalities are Stunt and Hakuho, I think Hakuho probably the best dps oriented support in the league, not really the most important skill but in the current meta it could make him stick out to causual fans finally. I've already talked about Bio, Stunt is just a really good player, I don't think his LCS win% is 100% coincidence.

Overall:I mostly belive in this, I went with Clutch gaming for my "surprise pick" I think they are the best new team for sure. it's probably more likely to put them right behind TL but I didn't want to be super Vanilla.