On April 08 2012 05:12 Shikyo wrote: But really uhmm everyone who's calling Salce amazing and carrying and his team heavy and so on...
To me he honestly didn't seem to play all that amazing / spectacular. I mean he played well of course but he still made at least two mistakes with getting caught, and also you guys need to keep in mind that it's easy to appear to be amazing when you're the only magic dmg in your team and the entire enemy team is stacking armor. Of course you're going to be doing by far the most damage in your team.
He's the only one NOT losing his lane. Ergo he's carrying his team in reference.
On April 08 2012 05:12 Shikyo wrote: But really uhmm everyone who's calling Salce amazing and carrying and his team heavy and so on...
To me he honestly didn't seem to play all that amazing / spectacular. I mean he played well of course but he still made at least two mistakes with getting caught, and also you guys need to keep in mind that it's easy to appear to be amazing when you're the only magic dmg in your team and the entire enemy team is stacking armor. Of course you're going to be doing by far the most damage in your team.
He's the only one NOT losing his lane. Ergo he's carrying his team in reference.
Shikyo is right though, not losing your lane and then doing a lot of damage against a team where the items are all like tabis and randuins and frozens hearts makes you LOOK pretty good but he really wasn't carrying them and he didn't actually do that well...
On April 08 2012 05:12 Shikyo wrote: But really uhmm everyone who's calling Salce amazing and carrying and his team heavy and so on...
To me he honestly didn't seem to play all that amazing / spectacular. I mean he played well of course but he still made at least two mistakes with getting caught, and also you guys need to keep in mind that it's easy to appear to be amazing when you're the only magic dmg in your team and the entire enemy team is stacking armor. Of course you're going to be doing by far the most damage in your team.
He's the only one NOT losing his lane. Ergo he's carrying his team in reference.
Westrice has been feeding hardcore in their recent scrims for IPL, too. I wouldn't be surprised if he got booted. Also lol@paradoxical. He's one of the most bm people in solo queue, it'll be really hard to take his rage seriously.
Travis: So TreeEski, how are you feeling? TreeEskimo: I'm great man. We just won our games 2:0 and it's all good. Travis: So how did the first game go since it wasn't streamed? TreeEskimo: It was a really interesting game. We did something unconventional where we picked two ADs. It happened in a tournament in Korea. (Chiharu: Xenics Storm v CLG) Corki is actually a really powerful top laner right now, especially against AP and we saw double AP. We had never done this before and me team was like ok, but we trust you. And it worked great. Travis: How did it go down? TreeEskimo: Across the board we did much better than yesterday. We got a first blood when they tried to invade us. And we forced a flash... wait that's second game. But we got first blood and then had lane pressure. Then we took Dragons, took towers and then we snowballed and won. Travis: Is that Mundo pick you did and won hard with. Is it something you like and was it because of the matchup? TreeEskimo: It's something part of the matchup. I like Mundo v Riven. Riven is probably more useful for the team. But then I did well. We picked Mundo first and they probably thought it was jungle but then I've played Mundo solo queue a lot so I know how to face Riven and I think he didn't know what to do. Travis: So I guess it was like mind games. Cool. So, what are your chances looking like now since the games yesterday? TreeEskimo: Our games against TSM, I played a lot worse than today. We got together in our room and we strategised and we talked about the games and we decided a lot better and then we played out hearts out. Travis: You have a relationship with Takashi as a room mate. Nothing more than that. *cheers from audience* You guys picked him up a few months ago (Chiharu: This was when PhantomL0rd got kicked). How has it been since then? TreeEskimo: We'ce been life long friends since like 3rd grade. It's good being together. We take flights together, we do well. Our team has gotten much better with Takashi, we can run special comps and plays. Travis: Any shoutouts? TreeEskimo: I'd like to give shoutouts to everyone on my team. They played awesome. Thanks to our old Managers Hexo and Simon. And to Riot for letting me work there for a while. And thanks to the fans for showing up and making E-Sports what it is.
On April 08 2012 05:25 HazMat wrote: Westrice has been feeding hardcore in their recent scrims for IPL, too. I wouldn't be surprised if he got booted. Also lol@paradoxical. He's one of the most bm people in solo queue, it'll be really hard to take his rage seriously.
I find it ironic since West lead up the kicking of Dan (I even heard Nhat say on his stream that he wasn't told about Dan being kicked until it happened). Heavy players in glass houses shouldn't throw stones I guess.
Travis: Hey there, I'm here with Salce from Epik Gamer. Some of you may not know it, but we're both from Tamecula, California. So Tamecula represent. How you doing Salce? Salce: Yeah it's ok. You know, there's probably like just 20 people in Tamecula going like "Yeah! Represent!" Haha. You know, I actually get recognised at school sometimes by random people and get called out. Travis: Oh really? What's it like for you then? Salce: It's like really weird going to school and getting called out like "Hey Salce!" and I'm like "Uh... do I know you?" haha. It's kinda awkward to be honest but it's cool. Travis: Yeah. When you go to college you'll have a lot more video game nerds to hang out with. So then, the games you played. It might be rough, but do you want to talk about it? Salce: It's all about the early snowball from the start. The early gank and the kills top. We had to sacrifice objectives because we would have lost tower and like. Ah, I'm messing up. But like top lane was really snowballed on. We're limited on picks and they just... yeah. Travis: Is the new line up like. You have two new people? Is it something comp-wise that hurt you guys? Salce: MashMe does really good every time bot lane. We could have prepared better in the jungle with out picks. I think we didn't prepare properly as well. Our biggest problem was that our teamfights were so bad. We lost that fight when we should have won it. It was so bad. Travis: What are your plans for Vegas then for the rest of the tournament? Salce: Probably take a nap I guess. Being 18 is not the coolest in Vegas. But just hang out here and watch games I guess. Travis: Any predictions for top 3? Salce: Probably Curse, TSM and Dignitas to be honest. Dignitas may come ahead because they're too hard to ban out. Lulu Soraka is just ridiclous. Travis: The triple Support comp is OP? Salce: Yeah. It's just OP. The other teams will have a difficult time with it. Travis: So where can people find out and support you Salce: They can't actually... My excuse is that I'm still finishing Senior years but when I graduate I'll dedicate more time to my fans and make a page but yeah. Travis: You need to concentrate on school first I suppose. Salce: Yeah. Travis: Any shoutouts then? Salce: Got to make a shoutout to my older brother. He's here. He got me interested in video games. Starcraft, Diablo, and even LoL. He's my inspiration and he's what got me here today. Travis: Well, take it easy then I guess? Salce: Yeah. Oh, I'd also like to give a shoutout to my team and out fans. Out new line up is difficult but we tried out best. Also to Kurtoky. He's my homie. He couldn't make it but he wanted a shoutout. And also to Fae. (Chiharu: Princess Aura?)
Salce: Yeah. Oh, I'd also like to give a shoutout to my team and out fans. Out new line up is difficult but we tried out best. Also to Kurtoky. He's my homie. He couldn't make it but he wanted a shoutout. And also to Fae. (Chiharu: Princess Aura?)
Westrice is the only person I ever would have expected to be kicked off old Epik. Feeding early has always been their biggest problem and Westrice was the root of most of that(Though Dyrus and Dan were certainly guilty of it as well). Salce absolutely tore into him after scrims a few times before the roster moves and Nhat regularly got frustrated with some of his stupid decisions.
Kicking Dan turned their team-fighting strength(The synergy between Dan and Salce was a large part of this) into a weakness while just moving their early game problems from bot lane to top lane.
On April 08 2012 05:32 Fuzzmosis wrote: Watching K-Pop videos with the volume off and the Protomen playing in the background makes me giggle like a schoolgirl.
I've been here before. I've stood where you stand. They called me their hero, the Hero of Man. Let them stand for themselves!