Yea Jiji's laning might not have been amazing but his post laning was just amazing. So was his teamfighting. Really surprised no team tried to pick him up by now.

jiji's currently on azure cats, an amateur team.

honestly, I don't think jiji is really all that great anymore. Just being good at teamfighting doesn't cut it.

Isn't that more important than laning these days when lanes are over so quickly and not always 1v1?

His laning is behind any of the mids currently in NA and while his teamfighting is generally very good its a very exploitable weakness.

I mean I know Jiji is a legend but lets knot go crazy - there is a reason CLG replaced him.

Come now quite sure everyone agrees that they replaced him because they needed a scapegoat that wasn't HotshotGG and he was the one they picked on the most even if things weren't his problem. I agree he wasn't performing well and had weaknesses but his being benched from CLG weren't influenced by real play.

lol u srs? I hope you're being sarcastic or something. Jiji took himself off the team citing lack of confidence in his own play. Not to mention that Link performed much better than Jiji. HotshotGG definitely isn't a Tier 1 player, but he's not the root of all CLG problems.

Uh, I don't want to argue, but look at his reasoning again. He cites that his team lost faith in him, and so he played worse due to that as well. In other words, his team blamed him quite a lot(scapegoat), and he started playing worse due to it. It's a negative atmosphere 100%.

Look, go back and watch any of CLG's games since the latter half of S2 with Jiji. He had been underperforming for a LONG time. Jiji had also been reported to not been as committed to practice as the rest of CLG. Iirc, Jiji was the holdout when CLG wanted to get and move into a gaming house. He simply wasn't good leading up to when he got removed. When Link replaced Jiji, CLG started doing a bit better. Remember Link's Syndra when he started playing with CLG? Teams even banned out Syndra against CLG for several matches.

Jiji's better now than he used to be, but you all have a serious case of rose tinted glasses if you think Jiji wasn't bad or was being scapegoated when he got left CLG.

Look, that might be the case but if you've tried to work in a negative environment where you always gt blamed, you just won't play as well. Maybe jiji played badly then, but I really think there were some external factors causing that.

Fionn

United States23455 Posts

April 26 2013 23:17 GMT

#243

On April 27 2013 08:16 Redox wrote:
Btw its kind of dumb how the playoffs dont have more viewers than the regular season when games didnt even really matter.

No TSM today, so no viewers.

ketchup

14521 Posts

April 26 2013 23:17 GMT

#244

On April 27 2013 08:16 Redox wrote:
Btw its kind of dumb how the playoffs dont have more viewers than the regular season when games didnt even really matter.

It may be the match up itself actually in this case. I don't think many people were counting on GGU to perform well at all.

nxk

United Kingdom2291 Posts

April 26 2013 23:18 GMT

#245

GGU late game will be really insane, if they can get to it

Caphe

Vietnam10817 Posts

April 26 2013 23:18 GMT

#246

Well 120K already, and growing. Damn impressive and prove the LOL is the most popular shit right now.

Shikyo

Finland33997 Posts

April 26 2013 23:18 GMT

#247

On April 27 2013 08:17 Fionn wrote:

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No TSM today, so no viewers.

Well, there's the CLG game. This game definitely wasn't at the top of my to-watch list and if I wasn't really bored at the moment the scarra TF performance would have completely turned me off. The timing is also bad for EU - it's over 2 am now. Tomorrow we should see some real numbers with better matchups and better times to watch.

Redox

Germany24794 Posts

April 26 2013 23:19 GMT

#248

On April 27 2013 08:16 Redox wrote:
Btw its kind of dumb how the playoffs dont have more viewers than the regular season when games didnt even really matter.

To correct myself here, we dont even know the real number of viewers. As the LoL client links to the Azubu stream first, there might actually be a lot of viewers on this stream.

Sufficiency

Canada23833 Posts

April 26 2013 23:19 GMT

#249

On April 27 2013 08:06 Numy wrote:

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I think Jiji got replaced not because he was a scapegoat. He didn't really socialize well with the team.

Amethyst21

Canada7032 Posts

April 26 2013 23:20 GMT

#250

Scarra mad, Scarra carry.

Caphe

Vietnam10817 Posts

April 26 2013 23:20 GMT

#251

2-0 for Scarra, this is huge. Karthus will pose so much trouble into any future team fight for GGU.

heartlxp

United States1258 Posts

April 26 2013 23:21 GMT

#252

wtf did jintae lag out? he just strolled in w/ ryze

ketchup

14521 Posts

April 26 2013 23:21 GMT

#253

I don't understand that Tristana play. She jumped in for the kill, then jumped into the opposite direction of where her team was??? What was that?

nafta

Bulgaria18893 Posts

April 26 2013 23:21 GMT

#254

Why does scarra have so few cs?Am I missing some elise camp or something?

Shikyo

Finland33997 Posts

April 26 2013 23:21 GMT

#255

On April 27 2013 08:20 Amethyst21 wrote:
Scarra mad, Scarra carry.

dontmashme gifted that to him though by jumping on top of nasus instead of jumping just in range of nasus, killing him with an auto, and jumping on his own side of the map