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NA LCS has been fun to watch this season. Not to mention as a TSM fan since season 1, it's so nice to see them dominating everyone. There are occasional games where TSM doesn't play THAT well or someone on the team has an off-game. But overall they've done really well this split. It's even better to see because of the tough time they had last year post-MSI. Go TSM <3
I'm also pleasantly surprised Immortals are still doing really well and have only lost to TSM so far. I'm happy for my boy Turtle. Also another pleasant surprise is C9 FINALLY having a decent team that can win games WITHOUT Hai lol. The whole swapping thing with Bunny/Smoothie is nice to see. Subs are definitely underutilized in LCS and this is a good way to show these LCS teams that subs can be used in a more efficient way.
Biggest disappointments for me would have to be Echo Fox and NRG. I expected more from both teams. Echo Fox was doing well near the end of Spring Split and they had the potential to do really well after their Korean boot camp. But they've performed so poorly. NRG on paper has a solid roster for at least Top 5 but they just can't seem to mesh well and they play too passive. I hope both teams can pick it up since both of them are associated with former NBA players and them doing well would be good for eSports in-general. Once people withing NBA see that Rick Fox and Shaq are successful within eSports they may want to invest too. Who knows.
Thanks for reading! Sorry for the rather short post. I didn't have much else on my mind to talk about. Hopefully you still enjoyed it though. See you in the next post!
I'm also pleasantly surprised Immortals are still doing really well and have only lost to TSM so far. I'm happy for my boy Turtle. Also another pleasant surprise is C9 FINALLY having a decent team that can win games WITHOUT Hai lol. The whole swapping thing with Bunny/Smoothie is nice to see. Subs are definitely underutilized in LCS and this is a good way to show these LCS teams that subs can be used in a more efficient way.
Biggest disappointments for me would have to be Echo Fox and NRG. I expected more from both teams. Echo Fox was doing well near the end of Spring Split and they had the potential to do really well after their Korean boot camp. But they've performed so poorly. NRG on paper has a solid roster for at least Top 5 but they just can't seem to mesh well and they play too passive. I hope both teams can pick it up since both of them are associated with former NBA players and them doing well would be good for eSports in-general. Once people withing NBA see that Rick Fox and Shaq are successful within eSports they may want to invest too. Who knows.
Thanks for reading! Sorry for the rather short post. I didn't have much else on my mind to talk about. Hopefully you still enjoyed it though. See you in the next post!
Santorin isn't the aggressive jungler you need alongside GBM, a mid laner with such a passive laning phase (I don't even know whether it's that much of an upgrade compared to Moon). Just consider the old Jin Air line-up with GBM in mid and Chaser in the jungler.
Quas is still considerably rusty I suppose and I don't even know what to say about this bot lane. I guess theay have to fix communication issues to say the least.
Positives:
-Santorin may not be THAT aggressive but he's actually playing decently in more than half of their games. Not a top jungler or anything but he's doing fine.
-Quas seems to be improving and getting back into shape with every match.
-NRG's team fighting in some games is at an okay level.
Negatives:
-NRG as a team is so scared to make plays and finish games. It makes them super passive and they end up having these long games where they can either throw or barely win. It seems like they are playing not to lose, rather than playing to win.
-GBM and Ohq are inconsistent as hell.
-Lack of cohesion and synergy.
-Their bot lane seems meh and they need more time to communicate and work together better.
I think NRG will likely place 8th or 7th and if they do place 7th, win their promotion tournament games and keep the same roster, I expect them to perform better next year.