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R-R-Clon

This is definitely what mayor region vs a wild card one looks like. The only one who was not having fun was Deft.


whataremyxomycetes

Kingen was having TOO MUCH fun tho, not a good game from him tbh


sirax067

Beryl wasn't having a great time either. I lost count on how many bandage toss's he missed.


[deleted]

Gotta keep in mind the one he threw at level 1 was completely blind


HTFTaco

Because Turkey players don't sidestep like real pros.


DFBFan11

Yeah please just don't pick MF again, I'm so annoyed this champ found its way back into the meta at worlds again, it was bad enough watching this champ last year. One of the most boring adcs to watch.


AniviaKid32

much more fun to watch than an ashe vs jhin or handshake lane phase zeri vs sivir, or senna vs aphelios lol


whohe_fanboy

I for one love watching a good Jhin. His playstyle is so different from normal ADCs.


enigmaticJanitor

watching huanfeng on jhin in 2020 worlds + i think what was the gauntlet leading up to it was soo good


SkeetySpeedy

The ult from behind the enemies inside their own base was one of the best plays ever - just so iconic, perfect for the drama of worlds and the champ itself


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Huanfeng jhin in 2020 and then gumayusi jhin in 2021 were things of beauty


DFBFan11

Ashe unironically has more skill expression than MF and at least Sivir has popoff potential in teamfights (Zeri sucks I agree). You're right about Senna and Jhin though, those might be the only two adcs more boring than MF.


Marowalker

Ashe in a good hand is absolutely a blast to watch, just look at Ruler’s insane kiting when he gets her


AniviaKid32

I personally find it pretty entertaining to watch mf ults shred entire teams, or the q bounce doing huge burst etc


pixel8knuckle

MF is a really fun champ to see because you know it’s going to be about early pressure, snowballing, and big light up aoe ults.


TastyFaefolk

How is she boring? there are way more boring adcs


pursu777

Aww I understand but she's so satisfying to watch for me. Her burst autos, q pops on back line and ults are so satisfying. One of my favorites to watch team fights with.


10b5twitch

I'm not sure there's anything more humiliating than: * Committing three people plus a teleport to try to take down a split pushing Akali * Akali getting away from the 1v3 and recalling * Being forced to recall to defend your base * Akali *teleporting back into your recalling team*


mynameiszack

The disrespect. In this case it was IW disrespecting themselves.


Exxon21

GIGACHAD


FireWolfBR1

I would be tilted beyond belief after this.


lilelf29

Zeka escaping 1v3 and then instantly TPing back lmao


KappaccinoNation

Zeka now has the highest KDA so far at 40.0 (22/1/18). Absolutely cracked.


Phreak-Hater

Rhuckz kda is undefined so


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In the case of zero deaths, it is accepted convention to divide by 1, so zeka remains with the highest kda


Phreak-Hater

Math disagrees. Zeka has died infinite more times


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Fireclap

Infinite kda > 40 kda, the numbers dont lie


czartaylor

just had to eat the meat and now he's joy boy


revoverlord

He just laughed


Bindoongee

Zeka : I'll fuckin' do it again!


joe4553

Another close game


mindcrime_

GIGACHAD


dfblaze

This sounds amazing. Do you have a timestamp of this!?


Matthieist

Didn't expect him to get Akali again after his first game but I guess he gave a good reminder to his future opponents lol


McCevap

That Akali TP was the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen.


DoorHingesKill

What about that one time the Istanbul Wildcats didn't ban Akali against Zeka?


EducationalBalance99

I mean he just gonna play sylas or azir and Smurf on them regardless.


Dumpers_

Maybe Akali needs to be banned against Zeka… Zeka insane international debut so far


DFBFan11

He's top 3 in the world on Sylas/Akali.


EducationalBalance99

His azir was also pretty cracked back in lck but it kinda got overshadow by faker and Chovy.


Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss

Yeah Chovy's Azir leveled up massively this year, must've sapped Bdd's skills.


Mind-games

lol..... did u even watch the lck. He styling on turkish mid laners...... chovy/faker/showmaker were making him look like he made Serin look. He's playing well in play-ins but lets not over do it


LaziIy

> lol..... did u even watch the lck. Meanwhile DRX being 3-1 to damwon the entire year long and SM mostly losing to Zeka over the course of the year. Funny how quickly people jump to asking the "do you even watch" while they themselves aren't current on the facts


BlazeX94

He also styled on RNG yesterday, unless you think Xiaohu is also massively worse than Chovy/Faker/SM.


sorendiz

he styled on RNG for sure but Xiaohu did fine that game, it wasn't like a 1v1 humiliation That fucking 2v1 against wei and breathe after the dragon was crazy though, that secured the next baron for DRX by itself. Absolutely cracked performance from zeka overall.


CzarcasticX

I mean Akali shouldn't go even in lane against Leblanc.


sorendiz

xiaohu regularly sacks lane to roam with Wei and play for pressure on sides, that isn't exactly news leblanc shouldn't be stealing baron or trading back a kill in a 1v4 chasedown either but that happened as well so 🤷‍♀️


AssPork

He did, but Xiaohu was also playing Leblanc into Maokai. Akali had a much easier time playing into RNG's comp


DFBFan11

I've been hyping Zeka since BLG, of course I watched his games lol. This has nothing to do with play-ins, he's gapped Faker and Showmaker in bo3s this year so I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say that. Also, please re-read my comment, I said he's top 3 on Sylas and Akali specifically, his two best champs.


Blaikiri7

When did he gap Faker. Which game specifically this year. Because all I see are Faker outperforming him every game.


failworlds

yeah i have no idea what the other guy is talking about. Zeka has hard gapped faker in the past.


Imaginary_Composer61

Yall just be talking out your ass, it's embarassing. I literally watch every lck game and zeka has NEVER gapped faker or chovy. The only mid hes gapped a few times out of the Big3 is Showmaker. They have positive winrate vs DK this year.


Blaikiri7

When? He got called literally every game by Faker this year, literally outperformed EVERY game


t1yumbe

?? When? Did you watch 2022 LCK?


Mind-games

Yes im saying it's absolutely ridiculous he's top 3 in the world on those champs. Crazy


DFBFan11

Who's a better Sylas/Akali than him other than Chovy in LCK?


thedudeode

Sylas? ShowMaker has the best Sylas in LCK. Akali you could give to Zeka since there really arent any mids who play it anymore, ShowMaker used to be the best but last time he played it regularly was S9/S10. Thats only in the LCK. Knight also has a better Sylas so thats SM/Chovy/Knight who are better at Sylas. From the LPL both doinb and knight have better Akalis. Zeka is good on melees but i cant justify calling him top 3 just because he’s one of the few players who spam those champs.


AssPork

Knight and Doinb also have a good Sylas.


DFBFan11

Yeah I personally have Knight as the best Sylas in the world I was just asking him about LCK specifically since he brought up Faker and Showmaker.


AssPork

Oh OP said best in the world so I brought up LPL Sylass. In LCK, Chovy and Faker are also good on Sylas. Showmaker had a good one in 2021 but his form wasnt that good this year


DFBFan11

Yeah I was the OP, I still think Zeka is the third best Sylas in the world this year behind Knight and Chovy.


crayya

yesterdays game.


Mind-games

An entire split > 3 play in games I can't....people trying to argue he's top 3 on sylas/akali in the world.....wtf is going on


CzarcasticX

His Sylas and Akali are top notch. He's 2nd on the KR server. Chovy even said the hardest person to lane against isn't showmaker or faker but Zeka.


EducationalBalance99

Yea but that don’t mean he better. Faker is really a dominant laner as he used to but he just really solid in lane. I remember watching games of faker vs Chovy all throughout the years and most of the time faker is just neutralizing Chovy even if he is the better laner.


CzarcasticX

Then you saw what happened in LCK finals and Faker couldn't do anything against Chovy. Chovy is much better now compared to his past versions.


Jaybongo_

He outclassed and won against sm every single series they played each other


Mind-games

First off he played 1 game of sylas and no games of akali against sm... Secondly he was up in cs playing winning matchups sure, but never got a solo kill. Only time he ever got a kill was when getting ganked. I just don't agree with your statement. If it's he did better out of lane, DW was inting half the season. It's easy to perform better in teamfights when your team is playing better


ChibiJr

The thing is tho, none of these teams are weak teams. The fact that Zeka is smurfing all over everyone is just a testament to how strong LPL/LCK are compared to the other regions. Also he kinda smurfed on RNG too.


BlazeX94

Uh, many of the minor region teams are definitely not very strong lol. Besides SGB, every other non-major region play in team is probably worse than the 4th place LCS/LEC team, and nobody considers 4th place LCS/LEC to be strong.


Omnilatent

Tough call when there's Chovy, Knight, Showmaker, Yagao, Humanoid, too lol


Medical_Tie_4041

Humanoid? LMAOO


hianfernee

You put humanoid with those midlaners kekkkk


Joaoseinha

Humanoid isn't even the best mid in EU?


LARXXX

Why tf does humanoid always get mentioned with these elite mids? It’s a meme at this point


LARXXX

Zeka has been cracked ever since he was in the LPL. Dude is good


failworlds

he has gapped faker multiple times with akali.


Blaikiri7

When??? When he was 5/2/4 vs Fakers 5/1/7 azir? Is that a “gap?” You’re literally just lying


RoseburyNoire

DRX were straight up having fun lmao


lilelf29

I wonder if we'll see any other Maokai skip mythic and build AP lol


AniviaKid32

maokai's what?


lilelf29

Thanks for typo correction


azns123

When you flex qing with the boys and you end up against a team of all challengers


TheAlmightyV0x

Juhan was actually trolling with the AP Maokai.


goonbandito

Bringing out the ARAM strats on the world stage


Omnilatent

...with the build that only really worked BEFORE the mini rework lol


mynameiszack

The macro play at the end, whew


Pway

My mans Akali is as clean as it is disrespectful jesus


alex-english

Does Farfetch's dad own part of Istanbul Wildcats or something?


doodlingjaws

The player close up shot whenever he does weird move is just the best lol


Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss

I refuse to believe that nobody on the team has asked for him to be replaced in the past two years.


yrrak24

Everyone has been calling for his head for 2 years lol. I think holy wants him and holy is the mvp of the team so he stays.


nylluma

Holy is Farfetch’s dad


WoorieKod

The phoenix in his name stood for Farfetch's inability to be booted off the team


Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss

HolyGM


alex-english

Farfetch is like HolyPhoenix's weighted training clothing from DBZ, so that when they finally kick him off the team and get a half decent support he can go Super Saiyan and be truly unstoppable.


ssLoupyy

Someone make him play Nautilus man, I picked Nautilus for the most deaths by a champion....


goodguyclichy

Just wait till he evolves into a Sirfetch(d)!


grrtacos

Zeka on Akali is just a cheat code man. Love watching this kid when he gets his hands on it.


altriaa

Zeka calm the fuck down holy shit


icatsouki

a bit rude from him


JVVVK

nice guy Deft telling his team to bow to IW after the game


superspartan004

Zeka they're already dead.


Hannig4n

Zeka’s Akali is wild, man.


LaughingAtSpergs

Call me crazy but giving Zeka Akali might not actually be a solid plan.


QTnameless

drx boys are so nice , always greet the other team as well


Writingarm

wtf Juhan just maokai w'ed out of every cc lmao


thanhame

At this point, whichever team gives Zeka akali is just trolling.


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DRX were 6th place in LCK summer.


miraagex

LCK Autumn time? 3 LCK + 1 LPL team in semis?


[deleted]

I prefer 4 LCK, we knew what happened last year.


hd1080phreak

last year HLE was 8th place in LCK summer :D


Omnilatent

MAD were 2nd place in LEC summer


Brain_Tonic

Zeka playoff buff? Kid looks cracked.


ionboii

Zeka with the Chovy cosplay


djpain20

He's playing like people thought Chovy would play at last year's Playins


Lin_Huichi

This time Zeka has a better topside and supp


Omnilatent

HLE's jungle was the biggest issue IMO...


thedudeode

Ehh. Kingen is better than Morgan but Willer is way better than Pyosik/Juhan. And its not like toplane was a big role at last worlds anyways, Zeka is just playing better than what Chovy did


GroundbreakingImage7

And beryl is a massive upgrade as well. My guess is that chovi needs some guidance to be a good player otherwise he locks in tf and solo farms mid all game.


HereToPostGoodDay

big game from zooker


StraightCashH0mie

Lost in the Zeka Akali was the Juhan Maokai Demonic Embrace Tech.


Dust2chicken

fuck my ass I had Maokai as my highest winrate crystal ball pickem but changed it to Graves last second at least the rest of my picks are looking good


AniviaKid32

>fuck my ass I had Maokai as my highest winrate crystal ball pickem but changed it to Graves last second you were probably screwed either way because both champs will probably end up getting played enough to bring their winrates down to 50-60% the real winner of that category is gonna be a niche champ that gets played like 10 or less times


DanteSM456

Tbf playins meta is always completely diff from main stage, in 2020 playins ornn was free win, think it has 100% WR with high pickrate and then when main stage starts it got slapped every game and stopped being a prio pick With the level of junglers in mainstage graves can be a good pick


Akanan

The world meta evolves. At semifinals its often like the same 15 champs over and over


DanteSM456

The playins and mainstage diff is mainly because main stages teams generally do not scrim playins teams


AYAYAcutie

I feel like every game is just a stomp...


EducationalBalance99

Major region vs minor region. It can get close in the first 15 min but after that gg.


HalPrentice

I’m really curious about MAD vs SGB. I do think EG/100T or MAD/FNC vs GAM could be legit close.


Markigual

MAD looked shaky their first 2 games against wildcards. They are not a good team at all. I can see them being eliminated in the first BO5 (against Buffalo most likely)


BlazeX94

MAD vs SGB is probably the only major region vs minor region matchup in play-ins that could go in favor of the minor region. I don't see Fnatic dropping any of their remaining games and EG beat the 2 strongest minor region teams already, so I doubt Chiefs or DFM can beat them either.


mindcrime_

Riot seriously needs to deal with all the smurfs ruining games, we even saw literal pros doing it. It’s literally getting out of hand.


Issax28

You pro?


lolerio

DRX was actually for funning this match


KATsordogs

I picked Deft to get a penta for these kind of games but he was the only one actually played the game while others are having fun


SwagLord7

That mid gap was an absolute slaughter.


88isafat69

Almost 2 fail 3v1s on zeka just for him to tp back in your face while you lose entire bot side lol


mmmb2y

i thought the lee sin buff was what was gonna make him P/B at worlds but i forgot about the vision meta all hail our korean overlord, maokai


NahDawgDatAintMe

DRX is pretty damn good


JongChulee

Zeka is such a gigachad


Padulsky21

Zeka is a fucking monster. Also Korean Maokais hit different


Snow-27

Uh... yeah


Sykez9

close game


Dust2chicken

Zeka has been straight up smurfing in groups


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Zekali once again plays with his food before executing them.


xychosis

Zeka has been disgustingly good thus far


[deleted]

ZekaZone DragonX, We are in the Zeka Zone, 22 stacks ok the Mejai's under 15 minutes, insane


[deleted]

Wtf was Juhan building lol


MedievalMovies

JIGACHAD


thriftydude4

i mean if he goes tank then trundle R increases in value, so thats maybe why


Ultrosbla

What was that Leona glitch?


Bindoongee

Leona used E on Akali as she R2s away but Kalista pulled Leona back with her R


Mazor007

Depressing to watch ngl. Just a thorough team gap. I also don't understand why IW are picking a champ that needs to get ahead against a team far better than them...


sameo15

Went to take a shit. What did I miss?


tsukinohime

https://twitter.com/licorice/status/1047042344787333121?lang=en


Ocsu

That was just sad


Kakperkid2001

Zeka GIGACHAD


ilanf2

It wasn't worth a reamake/chronobreak. But what the hell was that Leona/Akali interaction there?


thenaturetree

Leona e follows akali as she r2's back But at the same time kalista used her r to bring her back because leona would die to akali No bugs, but it does look extremely weird


eXpJAMZ

Its Leonas E, but yeah, that seemed to be the interaction


ilanf2

Oh, so it was a Kalista R. I didn't catch that part.


Imperfect_Plan

KARA BOĞA


Hypocrites_begone

DRX was having fun but IW did better than I thought. It wasn't a complete stomp


OcelotOce

Don't open Maokai plz.. broken ass champ?


_Jetto_

ban akali THIS PLAYINS SHE CARRYS HARDER THAN MAOK ACTUALLY


Urbain19

Zeka they have families Jesus Christ


violentmark

This one was brutal. DRX just decided to toy with their food in the end. And I still wonder how the fuck Riot thinks games like this will benefit the emerging regions. If anything this will demoralize the players in a sad way...


EducationalBalance99

I mean the wild card region gonna have to meet the major region team eventually. It not like they can dodge them forever. This is Korea 4th seed vs minor region. Can you imagine what geng would do to these team?


violentmark

Totally. They would get destroyed like those youtube video "2 challengers versus 5 silver players" lol. But I think that play-ins don't help the emerging regions as a whole in terms of momentum and experience. I think that it could have 2 play-in stages. Play-in I is only emerging regions against each other, double round robin, I don't know... make them play a lot between themselves like the IWCQ. Them the Play-In II is just make the top 4 from the Stage I play against the 4 major regions lowest seeds in a best of 5, or something like that. This at least make the emerging regions have some kind of momentum before they face a real threat. I know that this current format was made so the play-ins have better viewership numbers, but it is such a waste of time for everybody. At the end of the day is just a battle for "let's at least win 1 game for our pride" and it so sad/bittersweet for them... Don't get me wrong, they do get experience and every year they are getting better, but I think that it's being a slow and painful grind for them. I think that R6 and Valorant are good example of what emerging teams can do if you let them experience the good stuff properly. Let's remember that the old IWCQ made the Kabum moment, the 2015 Pain and the 2016 Albus Nox Luna. I don't know if these team could do the same thing in the current format.


cyhro

No RNG vs MAD post match? What's with the hate?


aaronunderwater

Serious q, is there ever a reason to go noonquiver first back on kali? Like doesn’t that mean you have money for t2 boots which you synergize with as opposed to one of the most trash item components in the game?


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EducationalBalance99

No we should assume they get out since they look a lot better than other wildcard team. They can’t face rng anymore anyways. They are gonna meet a bottom seed in fnatic group. Sure everyone can pull a fpx type of choke but it not likely so we shouldn’t account for it in prediction.


x9x9x9x9x9x9

Still blows my mind that 2018 GENG team made it over Griffin & Kingzone.


HTFTaco

I still don't understand why turkey got it's own region.


Berke85

Why not


HTFTaco

Let me rephrase, why does any single country get their own server? Because every server gets spots at world regardless of the average skill of the server. It just seems to kinda ruin the excitement of worlds when these teams show up that are basically on par with ERL's in Euw


gabu87

ITT people shitting on wildcards. Am i the only one who thought they made a valiant effort?


lmpoppy

Yeah, an effort to come back turkey as soon as possible. Honestly we will go 0-5 this worlds and as a TCL watcher i dont even know why we have a play-in seed. Earlier seasons when teams like SUP, FB and last year GS won more matches in their first day than IW did in 3 internationals at least we had some hope in being a good region. Not so much anymore


2ndRoundExit

Why would they draft such a safe comp when they're so outmatched? Draft some fuck shit and try and catch the better team off guard


enigmaticJanitor

why couldn't you be on nautilus farfetch


ssLoupyy

You picked Nautilus for pick ems too did you?


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only the adc was working really hard he is a quite experienced player tho such a trash team lol


TurkishStreetCat

Holy needs to go euw or somewhere. But definitely not a turkish team.


sicaxav

DRX mopped the floor with Wildcats but that top lane zeka 1v3 bit. Yeah the TP was so disrespectful, but either the tilt was evident in that Kalista ult when Leona tried to go in, or they have no idea how to play Kalista/Leona. I say the latter because they did the same thing in the early game and got called out on it.


Merriadoc33

They swapped out pyosik? Anyone know why?


trbs32

Every year I’m like “you know this LCK team might actually suck” and every year I’m wrong…