Time to rank rosters!
1. Jin Air
2. KT Rolster
3. SK Telecom
4. CJ Entus
5. MVP
6. Startale-Yoe
7. Samsung KHAN
8. Prime

Jin Air has the most well-rounded, top-tier player pool, making the definite first. KT Rolster will essentially never field a zerg, given that their 2P 2T mains are far superior, which is a pretty big loss. SKT has some real winners on it with Innovation, Dark, soO, Classic, with a couple solid others. CJ Entus is decent, but none of its players are in too great shape -- Skyhigh, herO, and Bbyong will have to carry hard. MVP is arguably better than CJ, however, the zergs will rarely get fielded, and Taeja might not participate too much. Startale should not be ignored, though, having Life, Curious, Bomber (player coach now?), and San all of which are great players. The last two have potentially strong players, but none have been too hot lately, and the rest of their lineups are lackluster.

Overall, most teams have a pretty set-in-stone 4 players they will choose from, and given the Bo5 format, it's quite likely we will never see many of the players on these rosters.

SC2Toastie

Netherlands5725 Posts

December 16 2014 10:38 GMT

#127

On December 16 2014 19:35 Blargh wrote:
Time to rank rosters!
1. Jin Air
2. KT Rolster
3. SK Telecom
4. CJ Entus
5. MVP
6. Startale-Yoe
7. Samsung KHAN
8. Prime

Jin Air has the most well-rounded, top-tier player pool, making the definite first. KT Rolster will essentially never field a zerg, given that their 2P 2T mains are far superior, which is a pretty big loss. SKT has some real winners on it with Innovation, Dark, soO, Classic, with a couple solid others. CJ Entus is decent, but none of its players are in too great shape -- Skyhigh, herO, and Bbyong will have to carry hard. MVP is arguably better than CJ, however, the zergs will rarely get fielded, and Taeja might not participate too much. Startale should not be ignored, though, having Life, Curious, Bomber (player coach now?), and San all of which are great players. The last two have potentially strong players, but none have been too hot lately, and the rest of their lineups are lackluster.

Overall, most teams have a pretty set-in-stone 4 players they will choose from, and given the Bo5 format, it's quite likely we will never see many of the players on these rosters.

You know, the nice thing about a teamleague is that the non-top 4 players actually can get fielded. They don't have to be the overall best, they can prepare excellent builds and wreak havoc that way. You rarely see the same roster over and over and over except with SKT last season.

Thanks for putting JA on top

SuperHofmann

Italy1741 Posts

December 16 2014 10:38 GMT

#128

so Journey joins Samunsg
Nette joins Prime

REyeM

2674 Posts

December 16 2014 10:41 GMT

#129

I came here to say to that I'm stoked about Journey joining Samsung.

GTPGlitch

5061 Posts

December 16 2014 10:44 GMT

#130

ST-Yoe is definitely in contention for top spot in PL on roster strength, don't know about actual league play though.

But seriously, San, Life, Leenock, Alive, Hack, and Curious can all go pretty monster, and Has can be his wizardly self

SC2Toastie

Netherlands5725 Posts

December 16 2014 10:46 GMT

#131

Do we have any word on Parting and the SKT/Yoe problem?

ZAiNs

United Kingdom6525 Posts

December 16 2014 10:46 GMT

#132

They better let Parting play...

Clonester

Germany2808 Posts

December 16 2014 10:47 GMT

#133

I say Jin Air, SKT1, CJ, KT, MVP, Samsung, STYOE and then Prime.

Possible outbrakes:
MVP doing well and secures spots in the Play offs.
KT securing Playoffs and then wins the whole thing again.
SKT1 dominate but still not win.

GTPGlitch

5061 Posts

December 16 2014 10:51 GMT

#134

Overall ranking would be

Tier 1: ST.Yoe, KT
Tier 2: SKT, MVP, JAGW
Tier 3: Samsung, CJ
Tier 4: Prime

ST.Yoe and KT have a number of solid semi-stars that can get work done. SKT is limited to innovation, soO, maybe dark. Nobody else has really been impressive, unfortunately. JAGW is gonna have a tough time unless Maru/Cure/Trap get back on form to help out sOs and Rogue. MVP has a couple strong players, but none have shown up as supreme ace level yet (maybe marineking or taeja). Samsung and CJ are limited by the number of players with results.

And prime is prime

The_Red_Viper

19533 Posts

December 16 2014 10:53 GMT

#135

I hope zealously will write another power rank blog!

OtherWorld

France17333 Posts

December 16 2014 10:56 GMT

#136

So many DP flairs already
Also my power rank/predictions for the whole season :
JAGW > KT > CJ > SKT > MVP > ST (would have placed them in the top 4 with PartinG and Bomber not being a player-coach, but without these two...) > Samsung > Prime

GreenMash

Norway1746 Posts

December 16 2014 10:59 GMT

#137

Bo5 is very dissapointing

. I really wanted bo7 T_T

Liliputin

Czech Republic458 Posts

December 16 2014 11:06 GMT

#138

+ Show Spoiler +

On December 16 2014 18:29 xpaperclip wrote:
Rosters-
Source

KT Rolster

Stats              Flash              Action              
Zest (c)           TY                 Sleep               
Believe            Miso

Samsung Galaxy KHAN

Stork              BrAvO              Shine (c)           
eMotion            Guilty             Solar               
Hurricane          Journey            Armani              
Dear

SK Telecom T1

Classic            INnoVation         Dark                
ParalyzE           Sorry              soO                 
Billowy            Dream

CJ Entus

herO               sKyHigh (c)        ByuL                
Sora               Bbyong                                    
Hush               Bunny                                     
Trust

Jin Air Green Wings

Terminator (c)     Cure               Symbol              
sOs                Maru               Rogue               
Pigbaby                                  Adios               
Trap

MVP

YongHwa            MarineKing (c)     DeParture           
Seed               Center             Losira              
HerO               SalvatioN                                 
Panic              Aphrodite                                 
                      TaeJa

Prime

Creator            YoDa               TerrOr              
MyuNgSiK           TANGTANG           BBoongBBoong (c)    
Zoun               Nette

StarTale-Yoe

San                Hack               Curious (c)         
Has                Bomber             Pet                 
                      aLive              Life                
                      Vanilla            Ssemi               
                                            Leenock             
                                            Ian                 
                                            Slam

Only unexpected things I think are:
- Journey joins Samsung
- Aphrodite listed on MVP
- new player Ssemi on ST/Yoe?
- No ByuN (although not that unexpected)

B4 is not the Captain for Prime, Creator is. Atleast on the picture is Creator not BBoongBBoong...