[S4WC] Quarterfinals - Page 147

On October 06 2014 10:05 asymptotech wrote:


That's such a ridiculous statement. If you have that much confidence in your teamates, that's exactly how you should play. That is the primary reason why Uzi is "that good." (I'm not going to say "the best" or "top 3" or whatever, no point in arguing over arbitrary levels.) When I used to watch Aphro stream adc way back in the day, he more than any other player, made me continually gawk at how confident he was in himself. He would do plays, and as I was watching, even with having the gathered knowledge of watching it in action, knew that if I was in the same situation 30 seconds from then, I wouldn't pull it off: not from lack of mechanics, but from lack of confidence/balls/whatever word you want to use. Sure, he died from time to time. Yet, somehow over the course of a few hundred games he was [easily] a few hundred elo higher than I was.

Doublelift's reactions to Uzi were genuine. Because he was doing the exact same thing, but this time, instead of pure self confidence it was confidence in *everyone*. I remember specifically the fight in red side jungle where Ryze was hiding in the wraiths and tried to burst him down over the wall my wife said "he's getting too much credit, he was too far forward there." And yet, Janna and Ori both had shields available, they used them, Janna ulted, and they got two more kills. Yes, he absolutely forced his teamates to react to his aggressiveness...and they did. That is not a mistake on his part, that is the strongest type of play you can make. What is the point of having a "Korean support" if you are not going to utilize the fact that your team has such a thing to the absolute fullest potential. Will it lead to mistakes? Sure. Michael Jordan missed three pointers. Roger Federer has sent backhands wide. Pete Rose struck out. Each of them went back out, did their best, and performed at such a level that critics of their respective trades would, at times, label their performances as art. The internet wants 'top tier' to be some unapproachable perfectness. It isn't, and it never will be. That's not how competition works. I don't think Uzi is to LoL what MJ was to the 90's NBA; but I do think that he was really, really impressive last night.

Edit: those are probably the wrong sports analogies since they deal with purely self confidence as opposed to the confidence in others I was talking about. More accurate would be to say that a point guard will miss an assist because his teamate fails to convert the jumper. That doesn't make an incorrect play even if the result was less-than-ideal. Having confidence in your teammates to perform at the highest level is how team-play reaches a higher level. Because that same point guard will make that pass again, and if said teammate really is that good, they will convert a high enough percentage of those plays to be a net positive for the team's performance in the long run.

On October 06 2014 10:34 Slusher wrote:

this might sound like I'm contradicting myself from ealier but I don't think it's completely unrealistic for SHRC to make the final, Najin is definitely a notch below the Samsung teams, and they have struggled vs. strong teams going 1-1 vs. c9 and honestly looking like the 2nd best team vs. [A] even in a split.

There are korean teams who didn't make it to worlds I'd rather not face than Najin at this time if I was SHRC, Especially when you consider their bot is exploitable.

On October 06 2014 10:39 Slusher wrote:
ofc shield is the favorite but it's a better match up for SHRC than the other Chinese teams imo