Samsung win the 2017 World Championship! - Page 4

CN has a lot of clown fiestas, there are games where teams do dumb stuff and play quite poorly. But they tend to be quite proactive, especially in the regular season. Even lower ranked teams will make moves and try to force objectives, unlike some of the snooze fests you see in the LCS, where teams trade objectives but someone didn't quite think it through so someone gets ahead. And this proactive play is really showcased by the better teams: if you watch some of WE's dives in the playoffs and qualifiers, you will be impressed. I find their macro play is also very good, the best out of CN. However, teams like EDG and RNG make up for this with brute skill and good team fighting., while showing moments of brilliance that let them take down the likes of WE. The days of iG yoloing and absolute blood baths every game are gone, but sometimes it still happens because teams try to get back into the game by answering with risky, individual play and knife edge team fighting. CN teams don't turtle when behind much, and when the whole league is like that, it forces team to improve their macro and rotations.

Going further with that line of thought, you would be shocked to see how often individual players carry games in the LPL. There is a reason Scout and Xiaohu are so terrifying to play against, and it's because if you let them sit in lane, they will either a) crush their lane, or b) farm up and then outplay your entire team. LPL has a lot of carry players, and they carry hard. Pretty much every team in the LPL has someone who is a ticking time bomb, who will naturally carry the game. There are so many games where Scout has gone off and outplayed the enemy midlaner, and then butchered the entire enemy team. Yes, good macro will keep these guys in check, but that is why it is all the more amazing when they find the small cracks and tear them open. Players rarely do that in LCS, there are a few who have the talent (Doublelift, Zven, Perkz, Bjerg), but they prefer building moderate cs leads and only punishing grave errors. Scout and Flandre would dump on Exileh and Balls so hard there'd be a hole in the lane, and the gold gap would be so big they wouldn't be able to play the 'but I have good team fighting power with my champ' strategy.

Here's how I imagine the G2 vs RNG games will go:

75% RNG will win
LetMe vs Expect is a bit hard to say. I think LetMe would win the lane, but I think Expect will not feed, unless he plays extremely poorly or gets camped. Mlxg is hands down a better jungler than Trick, and I expect it to show. Would not be surprised if the game gets turned on its head because Mlxg dominates. Perkz vs Xiaohu is hard to say as well. Perkz plays his best? He could hold himself in lane, and then team fights you'd have to see. Perkz has a bad day? Xiaohu will mow him over in lane, because Xiaohu doesn't have bad days. As for bot lane, Zven and Mithy are going to play behind in lane, but unlikely to die without some magic by Mlxg. But it's Worlds-Uzi, and that means he reaaaaaaaaally wants to win.

G2 has a realistic chance of winning, but I don't think it would happen in a standard game. Assuming the laning phase goes relatively even, I think overall RNG has better team fighting, and Uzi/Xiaohu are just scary to play against. But Mlxg will probably not let the laning phase play out quietly, expect a TP dive somewhere, that will probably be pulled.

iG vs OMG G1 give you an idea of how proactive and bloodthirsty games. Also how individual play carries games. OMG started the season well but fell off over the course. In fact the whole series is a perfect example of what makes the LPL great and what makes it a clown fiesta.

iG vs WE, the difference between the playoffs and the qualifiers. WE was tilted off the face of the earth in their playoff games, they could have beaten RNG but Xiaohu decided it was not to be. Compare the first games in each series, they are sooo different, practically different teams. Friendly reminder that West is one of the worst ADC in the LPL, and he's still making plays and carrying. Also, Rookie Yasuo mechanics, so sweet.

All the EDG playoff games. Watch iBoy, and realize those are his first competitive games. Wtf??? How does this guy hold his own against the likes of Uzi lol. I want to see this guy at Worlds 100%. Uzi also shows us that when you're an ADC god, Ezreal can still be played in the bot lane (also pre buffs I believe, so he might pull it out at Worlds as well).