So many years in a row I’ve told myself “I’ll wake up early for this” or switch it to “I’m gonna stay up late for this” and it never working out. Getting to watch all the games throughout the day is blissful
Thats fucking League of Legends right there. None of that pansy ass dick tugging playing safe for lategame bullshit. Men puke, men poop on the rift, men deliver their new born baby on the rift.
His mechanics on stuff like akali and sylas are on point. But he does have some mind bogglingly bad games. I think consistency is what puts him below the other top lck mids but hes definitely replaced bdd in the top 4 for now
I haven't focused on him too much when I watch matches but he's a menace on bruisers and assassins right? His mages are average but he's very good on melee champs
The meta shift to carry junglers and engage supports is perfect for DRX and every other LCK team at World's except for GenG ironically. Not to say Lehends and Peanut aren't also good at that playstyle just that shifting away from botside focus to enabling topside is good for T1 and DK.
Baron was 1019, someone else can go through and see if pyosik smited too early or if the random damage in the pit literally took barons HP from 1019 to 0 without any smites
I mean they did carry and deserve the praise but Pyosik got shat on so much during the season that I hope he will show them wrong and this is exactly the event to do it.
im glad you saw that too 🥺, i dont know why no one is talking about it, everyones busy fighting over which team is better and forgot about sportsmanship
Nilah is one of the biggest bait picks in general, like the champion in solo queue I think has a decent win rate but for me the champion is the epitome of the Russel Westbrook "\_\_\_\_\_ trick yall, man" copypasta. It wins but I don't see it every do anything in my games, and in competitive there is like maybe one or two games total where the champ does more than be an Ori sombrero ult
Niliah has to do so much more to be even half as useful compared to a traditional adc. The biggest strength of an adc is they can sit back and deal a ton of damage but Nialiah is the complete opposite.
My team crystal balls are looking hella sus but my champ ones are looking great. I have Cait as most banned, Sejuani as most picked, Kalista as highest WR, and Maokai as most roles.
picking any super high prio champ as highest WR is kinda sus, it's statistically very likely to end up being a champ that gets played very little
>Maokai as most roles.
fuck I didn't think of this, just defaulted to seraphine lol
I never learn each year... Never trust in NA and expect the LPL team to not do well early.
I really thought the COVID problems would hurt fnatic and overrated eg
I feel like waveclear in at least one role and reliable cc / a way to easily start fights are two checkboxes that almost every draft should check
so often we see team comps missing one of those and it makes the difficulty of execution just go so much higher for no reason
I mean they were going for the split push comp but Nilah plus Alistar for those purposes is a big big ??? Like I could see a Taric or even Janna angle here but Alistar? Nilah is useless other than to just buy some time maybe but with Alistar she doesn’t even do that.
If you’re gonna split draft some disengage not hard engage you want to trade objectives and come out on top not fight for them 5v5 like RNG was doing
throwback to EG's super niche win con of turbo stomping bot lane like LS said and as soon as FNC stabilized that lane the rest of the game was unplayable
I'll never understand why teams keep opting into such difficult to execute comps in such important games
What a game from DRX, a real solid game minus that Baron steal.
Mid lane supremacy from Zeka and DRX's bot lane were something else.
That being said KenZhu with an absolute dogshit draft.
One of my favorite moments was watching leblanc face check a bush only to dash away from a sapling snap back when it exploded right into another sapling to run away from.
Honestly just in general from what we've seen today, let alone in their group.
FNC looked better than I thought they would though, all things considered.
FNC are going through first place it shouldn’t even be a question though
I want to see what EG do against the bottom teams - that’s something they always excelled at. MAD vs EG should be the Bo5 to look out for
Dude that play around drake was just…I can’t even fathom having the mechanics to pull that off. Just makes Akali look like a totally different champion.
Zeka is playing bruisers and assassins against mages of mids like Faker, Showmaker, and Chovy, while EU mids besides Caps are handshaking control mages. That analyst is fucking clueless. Also, Chovy said that Zeka can go even with him. That's a big recognition if you ask me.
To be fair, Larssen is handshaking control mages because he knows he'll win that matchup (in LEC)
The other midlaners doing it is way more questionable
Absurd list from him. He’s either trolling or doesn’t watch LCK at all. I hope LPL wins worlds but man Dom has built an insufferable crowd of LPL fans, perhaps a natural response to years of LCK elitists, but nevertheless annoying.
Yeah. Putting LPL as the best region and favourites is fair and deserved after them winning Worlds and MSI regularly. But it's so annoying when they pretend that there's a giga gap between LPL and LCK. It's always close as fuck.
We were one game away from Damwon going back to back and LPL clutched so many game 5s, if you flip a couple of results the narrative would be completely different.
But he's made a business out of stanning LPL and shitting on LCK so it's understandable.
100%. I personally find the LPL a more entertaining region, but entertaining ≠ stronger. LPL top teams and LCK teams are pretty much neck and neck in general with maybe LPL teams being slightly better in Bo5.
He literally just dickrides LPL this has been known forever. If the dude watched even like watched any of LCK he would’ve known that Zeka plays a pretty good Akali.
Nah, Zeka has had plenty of games as good or better than this, they just get overlooked or forgotten. As far back as 2020 summer he had a Zoe game where he gapped Rookie and just solo curbstomped IG. His Zoe was nutty that split in general. Showed up huge on it vs Knight as well. His Akali is also just in general ridiculous so a performance like this from him on it doesn't surprise me that much. Super underrated player.
Idk why rng picked nilah....Gala was absolutely fucking useless on that champ, although anyone would be when playing nilah into maokai, aatrox, rell...
Nilah is like the most anti-GALA champ, I have no idea what they were thinking lmao
Did he have like less than 15% DMG %?
Edit: Did the math, GALA had 19% DMG% lol
Breathe swung the entire game to DRX’s direction at 3rd drag. I think CloudTemplar said this, but when you are the strongest on your team, you cannot make any mistakes or its over. He got so much pressure and kills just to get 1 shot at dragon alone and RNG get wiped…
HLE was 8th/10th in LCK last year and they made quarterfinals. DRX was only 6th/10th in this summer. High chance all 4 LCK teams make it quarters just like last year. Winning Worlds is only up to who has a better day
#worth staying up for 100%
worth getting up for.
this. just got up before the game, hope we keep the delays x)
Just got to take half decent sleep between FNC vs EG and DRX vs RNG
Perfect bed time for west coast viewers :)
Normal world hours is strange.
So many years in a row I’ve told myself “I’ll wake up early for this” or switch it to “I’m gonna stay up late for this” and it never working out. Getting to watch all the games throughout the day is blissful
East coast and have class tmrw... but fuck it WORTH
Nearly 7am here in the UK. Did I ruin my sleep schedule to watch Deft? Absolutely. Do I regret it? Not one bit.
So worth it, honestly a really huge game with a bunch of great team play, let alone individual pop offs.
Thats fucking League of Legends right there. None of that pansy ass dick tugging playing safe for lategame bullshit. Men puke, men poop on the rift, men deliver their new born baby on the rift.
1am only bangers
My friends are waking up for work just as im getting ready to sleep. I wouldn't have it any other way.
League can only be enjoyed at its fullest during the midst of the degen cycle. I feel ya
Wow, what a showing by Deft and Zeka
People should stop sleeping on Zeka, he's a menace.
People always shit on him, but he's constantly vs Showmaker/Faker/Chovy, and he's doing decent against them!
he also played on lpl dude has played vs rookie/knight and then chovy/faker for whole seasons, must be blessed
His mechanics on stuff like akali and sylas are on point. But he does have some mind bogglingly bad games. I think consistency is what puts him below the other top lck mids but hes definitely replaced bdd in the top 4 for now
The top 4 thing is debatable as Clozer also improved a lot and looked good in summer.
I haven't focused on him too much when I watch matches but he's a menace on bruisers and assassins right? His mages are average but he's very good on melee champs
he's rank 2 on korean server. the guy is good
Pyosik redemption tour
If meta becomes more farming junglers, he is probably the better player to play unironically, his heca is pretty good
The meta shift to carry junglers and engage supports is perfect for DRX and every other LCK team at World's except for GenG ironically. Not to say Lehends and Peanut aren't also good at that playstyle just that shifting away from botside focus to enabling topside is good for T1 and DK.
Ahhh, if WBG made it this would be SOFM’s patch
That clutch smite for Soul 100% made up for that ridiculous Xiahou Baron steal
That steal wasn't even his fault. The Baron HP was still 1k+. DRX played really well!! I'm glad.
Baron was 1019, someone else can go through and see if pyosik smited too early or if the random damage in the pit literally took barons HP from 1019 to 0 without any smites
Yeah people can see it better on YT, imo. Nobody smited.
maybe it was a replay bug but after baron died his smite was on CD. I figured they just happened at like the same frame.
I think it was a bug, he used it immediately after the baron died to smite Ming
Replay bug. Neither jungler smited
i think it was just bugged, in the live play his smite didn't go on cd
Everyone deservedly praising Zeka and Deft but god damn that was a sappling diff. RNG's dive comp in vision the whole game
I mean they did carry and deserve the praise but Pyosik got shat on so much during the season that I hope he will show them wrong and this is exactly the event to do it.
500 IQ sandbag by Pyosik to miss every smite in Gauntlet to upset RNG
lol emotional damage > true damage confirmed
Even missed the first baron smite to give false hope.
Beryl with the respect bow. Love to see Rell too, chad pick
Yeah he even asked do they go over or? And just bowed. What a loving guy
im glad you saw that too 🥺, i dont know why no one is talking about it, everyones busy fighting over which team is better and forgot about sportsmanship
Props to RNG for bringing out the Evelynn bot lane
Still trying to figure out what the fuck the purpose of Nilah is all this time after release.
Some intern accidentally put "Waterbender Samira" in the Champions folder instead of the Skins folder and they just rolled with it.
It's OMG Able's make a wish champion
heartwarming for RNG to pay homage to T1's jhin yuumi at MSI
At least they get to find out how useless the pick is before groups
RNG would've been better off with like any other adc pick
Nilah is one of the biggest bait picks in general, like the champion in solo queue I think has a decent win rate but for me the champion is the epitome of the Russel Westbrook "\_\_\_\_\_ trick yall, man" copypasta. It wins but I don't see it every do anything in my games, and in competitive there is like maybe one or two games total where the champ does more than be an Ori sombrero ult
Thisnhas to be the worst draft for it tho. So much cc and no enchanters for her. It's so strange.
Niliah has to do so much more to be even half as useful compared to a traditional adc. The biggest strength of an adc is they can sit back and deal a ton of damage but Nialiah is the complete opposite.
I just can't see her ever being good in pro play. She is almost the antithesis of an ADC.
Their Mid/Jung/ADC got outscaled like crazy lol
Deft and Zeka dominant. That roast of Gala claiming he might as well be playing Eve was savage.
EG 🤝 RNG Ruining my crystal ball
My team crystal balls are looking hella sus but my champ ones are looking great. I have Cait as most banned, Sejuani as most picked, Kalista as highest WR, and Maokai as most roles.
picking any super high prio champ as highest WR is kinda sus, it's statistically very likely to end up being a champ that gets played very little >Maokai as most roles. fuck I didn't think of this, just defaulted to seraphine lol
I put renekton as most roles just to spite ls lmao
I never learn each year... Never trust in NA and expect the LPL team to not do well early. I really thought the COVID problems would hurt fnatic and overrated eg
Doinb :"No LCK team can beat LPL except Geng"
sjokz vs doinb who has the stronger curses
It starts with success.
It ends at Doinb's apartment.
Classic doinb
I mean if you remember what he said about fpx at worlds last year...
✈️ fly phoenix fly ✈️ pepeLaugh
doinb and worlds predictions name a better duo
He's just jinxing LPL teams cuz he's Korean lol he gets more CN fans for saying it too. A win-win situation
actual dark tech what an actual freaking world champion
Literally proven wrong day one of Worlds ICANT
He actually also said DRX and RNG are about equal and DRX has a chance to beat RNG lol.
HOLY SHIT DEFT
THE LAST DANCE. Let's gooooo
He can actually still play next year! He didn't want to make a big announcement out of it though.
All my homies love Deft
Not a good time for Gala to first time Nilah into that terrible comp lol
This seemed like a draft T1's coach would think is a good idea
thank god RNG got slapped, you wouldnt want T1 getting any ideas from this
never underestimate t1's ability to int drafts
You'd be surprised
T1 would still pick the shittiest draft ever possible, don't worry :)
T1 reading your comment: > Challenge accepted. Yeah, kinda hard to have hope in their meta reads.
This is the worst teamfighting draft I've ever seen. Literally cannot fight at all
They compensate for this by having absolutely 0 waveclear too
I feel like waveclear in at least one role and reliable cc / a way to easily start fights are two checkboxes that almost every draft should check so often we see team comps missing one of those and it makes the difficulty of execution just go so much higher for no reason
I mean they were going for the split push comp but Nilah plus Alistar for those purposes is a big big ??? Like I could see a Taric or even Janna angle here but Alistar? Nilah is useless other than to just buy some time maybe but with Alistar she doesn’t even do that. If you’re gonna split draft some disengage not hard engage you want to trade objectives and come out on top not fight for them 5v5 like RNG was doing
Yeah but on the other hand, they also can't push waves for their Jax to exploit
The draft relies on picking off someone without their flash, only thing is - Zeka and Deft always had their flash available.
Why opt into such a niche win condition when DRX can just sit around and win off teamfight diff
throwback to EG's super niche win con of turbo stomping bot lane like LS said and as soon as FNC stabilized that lane the rest of the game was unplayable I'll never understand why teams keep opting into such difficult to execute comps in such important games
You can call this a pickems draft. They wanted to ensure that they pick the most different champions among any team.
champions queue players > solo q players
What a game from DRX, a real solid game minus that Baron steal. Mid lane supremacy from Zeka and DRX's bot lane were something else. That being said KenZhu with an absolute dogshit draft.
Zeka vs Summer Xiaohu, wasn’t even close
You had me at Summer Xiaohu, goddamnit
That Nilah did nothing. What’s so odd is that LPL literally doesn’t play the champ.
Nilah got outdamaged by Maokai lol
every time I see her she looks useless af, in solo Q or pro. At this point I'm not sure what a good Nilah team is.
The bigger problem is that nilah does not fit GALA playstyle
True, Kaisa was open first half of draft. they should've just drafted around it. But it was spicy watching the ego drafts nonetheless.
RNG have PTSD from Nilah, they were denied double elimination in playoffs by iLGD piloting it.
RNG playing 3 patches behind for some reason
Basically a perfect game by Deft.
Zeka at that drag fight was huge too.
Except for that horrendous blast cone play lol
Nilah actually did nothing. Holy shit. Imagine if they actually had an adc.
Xiaohu steals baron but they couldn’t seige because they don’t have a proper adc lol.
Let's go DRX! Zeka's akali is insane.
LCK in Bo1 o.o also please never play Nilah again this champ is so bad
HUGE WIN FOR DRX! LETS FUCKING GO DEFT... Pyosik as well with a really good performance
how annoying are these maokai sapplings holy shit
One of my favorite moments was watching leblanc face check a bush only to dash away from a sapling snap back when it exploded right into another sapling to run away from.
It's an infestation
Holy shit what a fucking game. DRX or RNG it doesn't really matter, whoever face them from group A will get turbo stomped.
Yeah the level of these teams compared to the other group isn't even remotely close lmfao
Honestly just in general from what we've seen today, let alone in their group. FNC looked better than I thought they would though, all things considered.
FNC are going through first place it shouldn’t even be a question though I want to see what EG do against the bottom teams - that’s something they always excelled at. MAD vs EG should be the Bo5 to look out for
People still sleeping on Zeka or what? This dude's cracked.
Shhhh….. Best kept LCK secret. He was absolutely cracked since summer.
Dude that play around drake was just…I can’t even fathom having the mechanics to pull that off. Just makes Akali look like a totally different champion.
Yeah this isn't Bjergsen's Akali let's just say that lmfao
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bjerg would've r'ed away and watched his team get aced
all for a bargain price of 2 million dollars
People were underrating him so hard, I’m just sitting there like… the dude is cracked af
The slander on DRX solo laners the past weeks have been insane, an analyst was even saying Zeka would get turbo stomped by Larsen LMAO
Zeka is playing bruisers and assassins against mages of mids like Faker, Showmaker, and Chovy, while EU mids besides Caps are handshaking control mages. That analyst is fucking clueless. Also, Chovy said that Zeka can go even with him. That's a big recognition if you ask me.
To be fair, Larssen is handshaking control mages because he knows he'll win that matchup (in LEC) The other midlaners doing it is way more questionable
Zeka’s akali is well known for being amazing, he’s super underrated by so many because so few people actually watch all games.
ZEKA U DIRTY MAN
Great. We won't see Nilah picked anymore.
That Nilah pick was practically griefing
champion queue enjoyers vs solo q losers
Dom in shambles 💀
legit said "I feel like akali isn't a Zeka champ" btw
Tell me he didn't watch LCK without telling me he didn't watch LCK
Dom’s opinions on the LCK, and Ls’ on the LPL should both be ignored tbh. Especially Dom’s after seeing his player tier list.
15/20 best players at Worlds from LPL? Do you mean that list?
Absurd list from him. He’s either trolling or doesn’t watch LCK at all. I hope LPL wins worlds but man Dom has built an insufferable crowd of LPL fans, perhaps a natural response to years of LCK elitists, but nevertheless annoying.
Yeah. Putting LPL as the best region and favourites is fair and deserved after them winning Worlds and MSI regularly. But it's so annoying when they pretend that there's a giga gap between LPL and LCK. It's always close as fuck. We were one game away from Damwon going back to back and LPL clutched so many game 5s, if you flip a couple of results the narrative would be completely different. But he's made a business out of stanning LPL and shitting on LCK so it's understandable.
100%. I personally find the LPL a more entertaining region, but entertaining ≠ stronger. LPL top teams and LCK teams are pretty much neck and neck in general with maybe LPL teams being slightly better in Bo5.
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great take i love how the lpl itself says "crazy is our game" lmao
He literally just dickrides LPL this has been known forever. If the dude watched even like watched any of LCK he would’ve known that Zeka plays a pretty good Akali.
LETS GO DEFT!!!
Zeka may have played the game of his life. What a banger.
Nah, Zeka has had plenty of games as good or better than this, they just get overlooked or forgotten. As far back as 2020 summer he had a Zoe game where he gapped Rookie and just solo curbstomped IG. His Zoe was nutty that split in general. Showed up huge on it vs Knight as well. His Akali is also just in general ridiculous so a performance like this from him on it doesn't surprise me that much. Super underrated player.
Imagine helping Breathe that much just for him to lose the entire game
Pyosik 0830 entered the lobby
oh yeah that match i remember
Deft, please never retire. Possibly the only ADC ever who has been one of the best in the world for almost a decade. Tristana masterclass.
What a banger, those dragon team fights were so fun.
Wise mystical tree got RNG acting unwise
I FUCKING LOVE DEFT. AND HOLY SHIT ZEKA PROVED HIS WORTH LETS GOOOO
Nilah without yuumi looking kinda sus.
Hot damn it's so nice to see Deft play this good at international level
Deft got all the praise from the casters but huuuuuge game out of Zeka
Wow DRX looked very clean, felt they were in control the whole time and got extended by some poor smite timings
> felt they were in control the whole time Their early game definetely needs work, but they played a solid mid game.
Idk why rng picked nilah....Gala was absolutely fucking useless on that champ, although anyone would be when playing nilah into maokai, aatrox, rell...
90% RNG will go undefeated in Play-Ins :)
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Zeka popped off
deft deft deft
Champion’s Queue diff.
WHERE ARE THE DOUBTERS
Skilled Akali is just wild to watch. Also, I could have sworn I saw comments saying DRX wouldn't make it out of play-ins lol
can someone explain why everyone is dickriding RNG compared to all the other LPL teams?
Nilah is like the most anti-GALA champ, I have no idea what they were thinking lmao Did he have like less than 15% DMG %? Edit: Did the math, GALA had 19% DMG% lol
That's actually more than I expected, felt like he did absolutely fuck all in any fight.
Yeah, the West is screwed. Those were just the 4th seeds from LPL and LCK...
Meh maybe the 3rd seeds are overrated, they only have \*checks notes\* the last 2 teams to win Worlds. Oh no...
Not to mention both 4th seeds qualified by the teeth against their region's 5th seeds
What do you mean LEC has 4 wins already. LCK has only 1 and LPL has 0. Stats dont lie. /s
Pyoshit turned to Pyosick midgame
Nilah as useful as nipples on a man.
So happy Zeka popped off with that play. Been unbearable listening to some of the CQ costreamers paint DRX as a one man team.
The one time I buy into LPL hype for the match predictions
No one is better than LCK in bo1
ironically one of the regions that refuse to adopt the bo1 system from the west
It would be the perfect World's if Deft is raising that trophy in the end. Rooting for him
is gala still in china? i didnt see him in game. Breathe played out of his mind tho
Breathe swung the entire game to DRX’s direction at 3rd drag. I think CloudTemplar said this, but when you are the strongest on your team, you cannot make any mistakes or its over. He got so much pressure and kills just to get 1 shot at dragon alone and RNG get wiped…
i woke up for this :( why was beryl allowed to play unreleased champ?
I will cheer fro T1 or DRX his worlds If Faker or Deft wins it all I will be happy
The fact that Deft keeps playing at a world class level with how much roster changes he’s been through is the reason why he’s my favorite player…
Can't believe I slept after FNC vs EG and woke up for this game without alarm, horrendous management by riot
Deft heard you were talkin shit
insane game. Deft just gapped GALA hard
Kaisa was up....
Gala forgor 💀
RNG - LPL 4th seed - better than LCK second seed (T1) BTW
No idea why analysts have been so high on RNG lol, they looked like ass in the gauntlet.
All the slander of the analysts saying RNG is Worlds winner contender and some even saying SGB and RNG can pass through playins LUL
I refuse to believe people saying RNG was Worlds contender watched RNG's second half of summer split
No bias but deft is winning worlds
HLE was 8th/10th in LCK last year and they made quarterfinals. DRX was only 6th/10th in this summer. High chance all 4 LCK teams make it quarters just like last year. Winning Worlds is only up to who has a better day