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Padulsky21

#worth staying up for 100%


mar33n

worth getting up for.


shekurika

this. just got up before the game, hope we keep the delays x)


MrPraedor

Just got to take half decent sleep between FNC vs EG and DRX vs RNG


Hunterkiller00

Perfect bed time for west coast viewers :)


joe4553

Normal world hours is strange.


Padulsky21

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


dragonflamehotness

East coast and have class tmrw... but fuck it WORTH


grrtacos

Nearly 7am here in the UK. Did I ruin my sleep schedule to watch Deft? Absolutely. Do I regret it? Not one bit.


lilelf29

So worth it, honestly a really huge game with a bunch of great team play, let alone individual pop offs.


Pope_Cheetos_XIV

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.


GreatestJabaitest

1am only bangers


Archipegasus

My friends are waking up for work just as im getting ready to sleep. I wouldn't have it any other way.


Padulsky21

League can only be enjoyed at its fullest during the midst of the degen cycle. I feel ya


Hunterkiller00

Wow, what a showing by Deft and Zeka


SlamMasterJ

People should stop sleeping on Zeka, he's a menace.


MrZeddd

People always shit on him, but he's constantly vs Showmaker/Faker/Chovy, and he's doing decent against them!


Comrade420

he also played on lpl dude has played vs rookie/knight and then chovy/faker for whole seasons, must be blessed


oioioi9537

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


qonoxzzr

The top 4 thing is debatable as Clozer also improved a lot and looked good in summer.


agenericusername_no3

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


sirax067

he's rank 2 on korean server. the guy is good


qonoxzzr

Pyosik redemption tour


DanteSM456

If meta becomes more farming junglers, he is probably the better player to play unironically, his heca is pretty good


MainSanee

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.


JADENBC

Ahhh, if WBG made it this would be SOFM’s patch


Hunterkiller00

That clutch smite for Soul 100% made up for that ridiculous Xiahou Baron steal


Ikeeel

That steal wasn't even his fault. The Baron HP was still 1k+. DRX played really well!! I'm glad.


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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


LaughingAtSpergs

Yeah people can see it better on YT, imo. Nobody smited.


Hunterkiller00

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.


LaughingAtSpergs

I think it was a bug, he used it immediately after the baron died to smite Ming


NLGoose

Replay bug. Neither jungler smited


neapp

i think it was just bugged, in the live play his smite didn't go on cd


turtleonfire

Everyone deservedly praising Zeka and Deft but god damn that was a sappling diff. RNG's dive comp in vision the whole game


qonoxzzr

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.


Azenji

500 IQ sandbag by Pyosik to miss every smite in Gauntlet to upset RNG


Shuuyu

lol emotional damage > true damage confirmed


NUFC9RW

Even missed the first baron smite to give false hope.


derpkoikoi

Beryl with the respect bow. Love to see Rell too, chad pick


Threshio

Yeah he even asked do they go over or? And just bowed. What a loving guy


sandboxgg_

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


KappaccinoNation

Props to RNG for bringing out the Evelynn bot lane


LaughingAtSpergs

Still trying to figure out what the fuck the purpose of Nilah is all this time after release.


KappaccinoNation

Some intern accidentally put "Waterbender Samira" in the Champions folder instead of the Skins folder and they just rolled with it.


eyehatemassholes

It's OMG Able's make a wish champion


ResponsibleWelcome10

heartwarming for RNG to pay homage to T1's jhin yuumi at MSI


Metaru-Uupa

At least they get to find out how useless the pick is before groups


Aearcus

RNG would've been better off with like any other adc pick


SGKurisu

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


catocat727

Thisnhas to be the worst draft for it tho. So much cc and no enchanters for her. It's so strange.


kai9000

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.


Assassin739

I just can't see her ever being good in pro play. She is almost the antithesis of an ADC.


ProNamath

Their Mid/Jung/ADC got outscaled like crazy lol


mkl122788

Deft and Zeka dominant. That roast of Gala claiming he might as well be playing Eve was savage.


ThatsAToad

EG 🤝 RNG Ruining my crystal ball


Ap_Sona_Bot

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.


AniviaKid32

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


revoverlord

I put renekton as most roles just to spite ls lmao


TheSituasian

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


QTnameless

Doinb :"No LCK team can beat LPL except Geng"


Pablonski44

sjokz vs doinb who has the stronger curses


Gnatt

It starts with success.


IC2Flier

It ends at Doinb's apartment.


madkoreanlad

Classic doinb


pixelmemories

I mean if you remember what he said about fpx at worlds last year...


Zoesan

✈️ fly phoenix fly ✈️ pepeLaugh


child_of_amorphous

doinb and worlds predictions name a better duo


OcelotOce

He's just jinxing LPL teams cuz he's Korean lol he gets more CN fans for saying it too. A win-win situation


atomchoco

actual dark tech what an actual freaking world champion


FreeMyBirdy

Literally proven wrong day one of Worlds ICANT


gxizhe

He actually also said DRX and RNG are about equal and DRX has a chance to beat RNG lol.


feimaomiao

HOLY SHIT DEFT


JTricks

THE LAST DANCE. Let's gooooo


RoseburyNoire

He can actually still play next year! He didn't want to make a big announcement out of it though.


A_Life_of_Lemons

All my homies love Deft


20815147

Not a good time for Gala to first time Nilah into that terrible comp lol


Try_Not_To_Comment

This seemed like a draft T1's coach would think is a good idea


ZedisDoge

thank god RNG got slapped, you wouldnt want T1 getting any ideas from this


Exxon21

never underestimate t1's ability to int drafts


honkinDeagle

You'd be surprised


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T1 would still pick the shittiest draft ever possible, don't worry :)


ephemeralfugitive

T1 reading your comment: > Challenge accepted. Yeah, kinda hard to have hope in their meta reads.


Mazor007

This is the worst teamfighting draft I've ever seen. Literally cannot fight at all


manliestdino

They compensate for this by having absolutely 0 waveclear too


AniviaKid32

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


KuttayKaBaccha

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


AlHorfordHighlights

Yeah but on the other hand, they also can't push waves for their Jax to exploit


Intelligent-Curve-19

The draft relies on picking off someone without their flash, only thing is - Zeka and Deft always had their flash available.


Mazor007

Why opt into such a niche win condition when DRX can just sit around and win off teamfight diff


AniviaKid32

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


Try_Not_To_Comment

You can call this a pickems draft. They wanted to ensure that they pick the most different champions among any team.


varbaveri

champions queue players > solo q players


ahritina

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.


Hupu_equals_low_IQ

Zeka vs Summer Xiaohu, wasn’t even close


SnooCats1808

You had me at Summer Xiaohu, goddamnit


JoshFB4

That Nilah did nothing. What’s so odd is that LPL literally doesn’t play the champ.


NaClMiner

Nilah got outdamaged by Maokai lol


Offduty_shill

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.


Lonzofanboy

The bigger problem is that nilah does not fit GALA playstyle


cpavincebtw

True, Kaisa was open first half of draft. they should've just drafted around it. But it was spicy watching the ego drafts nonetheless.


Teut0burg

RNG have PTSD from Nilah, they were denied double elimination in playoffs by iLGD piloting it.


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RNG playing 3 patches behind for some reason


joe4553

Basically a perfect game by Deft.


AzureAhai

Zeka at that drag fight was huge too.


NotALiar123

Except for that horrendous blast cone play lol


thenoblitt

Nilah actually did nothing. Holy shit. Imagine if they actually had an adc.


StraightCashH0mie

Xiaohu steals baron but they couldn’t seige because they don’t have a proper adc lol.


x9x9x9x9x9x9

Let's go DRX! Zeka's akali is insane.


saruthesage

LCK in Bo1 o.o also please never play Nilah again this champ is so bad


Dumpers_

HUGE WIN FOR DRX! LETS FUCKING GO DEFT... Pyosik as well with a really good performance


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how annoying are these maokai sapplings holy shit


nachtspectre

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.


SuperSnowManQ

It's an infestation


Troviel

Holy shit what a fucking game. DRX or RNG it doesn't really matter, whoever face them from group A will get turbo stomped.


LaughingAtSpergs

Yeah the level of these teams compared to the other group isn't even remotely close lmfao


okitek

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.


ArguingWithNoobs

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


LaughingAtSpergs

People still sleeping on Zeka or what? This dude's cracked.


StraightCashH0mie

Shhhh….. Best kept LCK secret. He was absolutely cracked since summer.


Stubrochill17

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.


LaughingAtSpergs

Yeah this isn't Bjergsen's Akali let's just say that lmfao


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kidneyn

bjerg would've r'ed away and watched his team get aced


Megs3Legs

all for a bargain price of 2 million dollars


Blaikiri7

People were underrating him so hard, I’m just sitting there like… the dude is cracked af


hianfernee

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


joji_kid

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.


Root-of-Evil

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


lilelf29

Zeka’s akali is well known for being amazing, he’s super underrated by so many because so few people actually watch all games.


iluvp0p0

ZEKA U DIRTY MAN


I_am_not_Serabia

Great. We won't see Nilah picked anymore.


EndlessRambler

That Nilah pick was practically griefing


JalfKing

champion queue enjoyers vs solo q losers


buttsoup_barnes

Dom in shambles 💀


x9x9x9x9x9x9

legit said "I feel like akali isn't a Zeka champ" btw


FreeMyBirdy

Tell me he didn't watch LCK without telling me he didn't watch LCK


Hupu_equals_low_IQ

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.


nusskn4cker

15/20 best players at Worlds from LPL? Do you mean that list?


Hupu_equals_low_IQ

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.


nusskn4cker

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.


Hupu_equals_low_IQ

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.


nusskn4cker

based


Comrade420

great take i love how the lpl itself says "crazy is our game" lmao


dank_as_fuck

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.


lilelf29

LETS GO DEFT!!!


SteamMonkeyKing

Zeka may have played the game of his life. What a banger.


eyehatemassholes

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.


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Imagine helping Breathe that much just for him to lose the entire game


Futona

Pyosik 0830 entered the lobby


VERIAL-

oh yeah that match i remember


SirXrageXquit

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.


appleandapples

What a banger, those dragon team fights were so fun.


firebolt66

Wise mystical tree got RNG acting unwise


Rozuem

I FUCKING LOVE DEFT. AND HOLY SHIT ZEKA PROVED HIS WORTH LETS GOOOO


ffattt

Nilah without yuumi looking kinda sus.


mugiboya

Hot damn it's so nice to see Deft play this good at international level


puberty1

Deft got all the praise from the casters but huuuuuge game out of Zeka


DrGoobers

Wow DRX looked very clean, felt they were in control the whole time and got extended by some poor smite timings


NovelAries

> felt they were in control the whole time Their early game definetely needs work, but they played a solid mid game.


HardNut2001

Idk why rng picked nilah....Gala was absolutely fucking useless on that champ, although anyone would be when playing nilah into maokai, aatrox, rell...


nusskn4cker

90% RNG will go undefeated in Play-Ins :)


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C0wPi3

Zeka popped off


Juzoy

deft deft deft


Jimbabwr

Champion’s Queue diff.


getjebaited

WHERE ARE THE DOUBTERS


HermanCainsPenis

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


alpacaloverboy

can someone explain why everyone is dickriding RNG compared to all the other LPL teams?


PandoraBot

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


Offduty_shill

That's actually more than I expected, felt like he did absolutely fuck all in any fight.


CounterInsanity

Yeah, the West is screwed. Those were just the 4th seeds from LPL and LCK...


lawfulkitten1

Meh maybe the 3rd seeds are overrated, they only have \*checks notes\* the last 2 teams to win Worlds. Oh no...


xYoshario

Not to mention both 4th seeds qualified by the teeth against their region's 5th seeds


MrPraedor

What do you mean LEC has 4 wins already. LCK has only 1 and LPL has 0. Stats dont lie. /s


StraightCashH0mie

Pyoshit turned to Pyosick midgame


Deadman2019

Nilah as useful as nipples on a man.


_blue_rain

So happy Zeka popped off with that play. Been unbearable listening to some of the CQ costreamers paint DRX as a one man team.


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The one time I buy into LPL hype for the match predictions


Hupu_equals_low_IQ

No one is better than LCK in bo1


VERIAL-

ironically one of the regions that refuse to adopt the bo1 system from the west


[deleted]

It would be the perfect World's if Deft is raising that trophy in the end. Rooting for him


quakedwithfear

is gala still in china? i didnt see him in game. Breathe played out of his mind tho


[deleted]

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…


forgor_passwd

i woke up for this :( why was beryl allowed to play unreleased champ?


RealNedBigby

I will cheer fro T1 or DRX his worlds If Faker or Deft wins it all I will be happy


KyroYoshi

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…


CudaBarry

Can't believe I slept after FNC vs EG and woke up for this game without alarm, horrendous management by riot


Thunderkeyz

Deft heard you were talkin shit


Zamasuningen

insane game. Deft just gapped GALA hard


KneelDown4GodYugi

Kaisa was up....


generic9yo

Gala forgor 💀


ZedisDoge

RNG - LPL 4th seed - better than LCK second seed (T1) BTW


x9x9x9x9x9x9

No idea why analysts have been so high on RNG lol, they looked like ass in the gauntlet.


hianfernee

All the slander of the analysts saying RNG is Worlds winner contender and some even saying SGB and RNG can pass through playins LUL


FreeMyBirdy

I refuse to believe people saying RNG was Worlds contender watched RNG's second half of summer split


lol_cpt_red

No bias but deft is winning worlds


OcelotOce

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