When iBoy plays more reserved, aka respects his opponents, he plays very well. It's just there are times when he feels like going HAM, and either carries the game or feeds like a boss.I bet wrong on EDG today, but I still expect them to get out of the group, MAD isn't that good and Liquid just plain sucks, 0 proactive play just the way EDG likes it.

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Poland9299 Posts

October 13 2018 21:55 GMT

#262

I just realized that this year there is less time to adapt between the games in the group stage.

2017
Group A first game: October 5
Group A last game: October 15
Groud D first game: October 6
Groud D last game: October 14

2018
Group A first game: October 10
Group A last game: October 15
Groud D first game: October 11
Groud D last game: October 17

Gahlo

United States35173 Posts

October 13 2018 22:02 GMT

#263

Yeah, Riot has shrunk the duration(though not games) of the international events this year.

cLutZ

United States19574 Posts

October 14 2018 05:58 GMT

#264

In the past teams with good reads on the meta have done worse in week 2. The one team I'd guess benefits most from a shorter timeline is G2 because their understanding of splitpush seems really good. But maybe teams just ban more Wunder champs.

Amui

Canada10567 Posts

October 14 2018 08:39 GMT

#265

Jactroll simultaneously won vitality the game, and felt like he was trolling it too.

lilwisper

United States2515 Posts

October 14 2018 08:40 GMT

#266

WOW! Vit came to play.

starkiller123

United States4030 Posts

October 14 2018 08:40 GMT

#267

omg i am so happy that i stayed up for this

nineninja9

United States194 Posts

October 14 2018 08:42 GMT

#268

I feel like RNG played a bunch of teamfights really poorly. Not flashing telegraphed hooks, greedy ability usage (Xiaohu didn't even ult himself in the big fight at mid in earlygame, Ming held his bodyslam and until thresh was in place to flash flay). Letme went abyssal mask first item instead of armor which probably got him killed in an early top dive when he would've survived.

starkiller123

United States4030 Posts

October 14 2018 08:48 GMT

#269

this really could change the course of the group, so excited for the rest of the games

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Poland9299 Posts

October 14 2018 09:22 GMT

#270

Crown xD

Amui

Canada10567 Posts

October 14 2018 09:26 GMT

#271

Crown is just food until he finishes the banshee's, and even once he gets it he probably still dies if noct ults in.

I'd only worry for C9 if Crown gets to zhonyas as well.

nineninja9

United States194 Posts

October 14 2018 09:38 GMT

#272

Damn good job C9, they exploited Crown really well.

AzAlexZ

Australia3303 Posts

October 14 2018 09:38 GMT

#273

NA AND EU SHOWING UP HUGE VS KR AND EU holy shit the games were SO GOOD

Kinie

United States3106 Posts

October 14 2018 09:39 GMT

#274

I swear, every Worlds C9 gets a massive power boost as the anime music starts to swell in the background after stumbling in week 1.

On October 14 2018 18:38 nineninja9 wrote:
Damn good job C9, they exploited Crown really well.

And if Licorice didn't get too ham he'd probably have beat CuVee even harder in top lane too.

lilwisper

United States2515 Posts

October 14 2018 09:41 GMT

#275

Just watching Group B get turned upside down is really making me love this year's Worlds. That combined with the fact that there is Urgot and AAtrox being meta when these champs were laughing stocks not too long ago is so exciting.

nineninja9

United States194 Posts

October 14 2018 09:42 GMT

#276

On October 14 2018 18:39 Kinie wrote:

And if Licorice didn't get too ham he'd probably have beat CuVee even harder in top lane too.

Now I'm genuinely curious what the Hecarim-Aatrox matchup looks like without jungle interference. Is this an actual lane counterpick? Is ignite what tips the scales there or could you take flash/tp and still win the lane, just not as hard?

Kinie

United States3106 Posts

October 14 2018 09:45 GMT

#277

On October 14 2018 18:42 nineninja9 wrote:

Show nested quote +

From what was shown, it looked like with the right rune choice you can dip outside of the Aatrox chain with just brown boots and Hecarim can counter-push just as fast as Aatrox can push. And as the analyst desk pointed out, it seems like if you don't get bodied hard by the enemy jungler you probably end up being just as good in both lane phase/split pushing and in team fights as the demi-god.

AlterKot

Poland7525 Posts

October 14 2018 09:46 GMT

#278

China mad, Korea jelly, oops we did it again

Amui

Canada10567 Posts

October 14 2018 09:48 GMT

#279

At this point, Gen G at best can hope for tiebreakers with wins against vitality and RNG.

Options for this group are pretty wide open at this point. Everybody has their destiny in their own hands, and even RNG isn't safe at this point. The option for a 4 way tie even is still open, unlikely as it is.