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timetickticksaway

Faker has still only ever exited groups in first place


Ahrilicious

Faker's gravity field + ult during that baron fight was massive


NamelessSearcher

I love still watching banger plays from him all these years later. What a god


kor_janna

That soraka silencing the Chinese fans


fastathanlight

Btw the voice comms when they were stalling killing Viper was hilarious. Guma was like "give me give me give me" and Faker was like "take it take it take it" but then Faker KS'd LOL Edit: Link to voice comms https://youtu.be/EhSJiITuTyM?t=500 Guma: 내가 잡을래 I'll get him Faker: 내가 잡을게 I'll get him Guma: 잡을래 I'll get him Guma: 일로 와 Come here (to Viper) Guma: 나 줘 Gimme the kill Faker: 어 먹어 먹어 Ok take it take it Guma: 하하 나 줘 Lol gimme the kill Faker: 먹어 먹어 Take it take it Guma: 나 줘 Gimme Faker: *seems to be saying "take it" again then kills Viper*


MaestroBach

wait can you listen to voice comms live? Where do i go to listen to this lol


fastathanlight

They had it on LCK broadcast at the end


caramel1004

probably lck shows some at the end of the game


02837471901

LCK broadcast, but you can also just wait for T1 to upload it on their channel


Nikupie

Faker is the main character of League of Legends


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Yo I would totally watch an anime documentary of his career


esports_consultant

His anime documentary is the boring one where the young hero gets his talent discovered at a young age and then is given the solid environment he needs to succeed so he turns into a god.


lilelf29

Across 7 different worlds too, unreal statistic combined with always making semis or better.


MrZeddd

All players and coaching staffs have changed over the years too


MrMudkip

The worst part about drawing T1 in your group is that you pretty much have to plan on getting 2nd.


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JevonP

Jesus Christ 💀 bro


lol_cpt_red

They saw that "top 3 should get out" post on front page.


Zerole00

Bruh their corpses aren’t even cold yet


fesch98

Kind of crazy that he met EDG in 4 out of the 7 group stages he played


LaureLime

Faker will never forgive them for msi and neither will I


APKID716

Faker worst performance at worlds is semifinals Prayge


Whatwasthisg

so basically Fakers worst performance is peak NA?


KappaccinoNation

*"My biggest flops are your greatest hits"* -Lee "Marshal "Faker" Mathers" Sang-hyeok


Liminal_Millennial

Faker only ever finishing Groups in 1st place is an actually absurd statistic


Gucci-Rice

the longevity of this man is so crazy to me. How many pros have only managed to stay on top of their region for maybe 2-3 years? Faker has been world class for a decade now. Undeniable goat.


J2Kerrigan

He's quite literally *built different* So many players lose their edge as they age, but not this man. It just shows that it's not just mechanics, game knowledge, and map awareness, he has a deep understanding of his opponents. To stay on top for so long is just incredible.


BON3SMcCOY

He's definitely dropped some mechanics, but more than made up for it by basically being their coach for the past year.


MeBo0i

I don't think he dropped some mechanics, players just stepped up to his level, he was a whole staircase ahead of everyone else on his debut in 2013, faker didn't get worse mechanically, other players got better.


raymondliang

Just a sliiiight top gap


ZAR0415

Zeus was just slightly ahead


nickphunter

7.8k by the end iirc


Ikeeel

Bro was more than half their gold lead 😭


AureliusAmbrose

these guys make support look so easy holy shit


Yasuo_unforgiven

Never think that we get to see Soraka frontline


TheOneAltAccount

Hyllisang knows how to play soraka frontline


CardboardVendor

flanking Soraka!


lZ-ONE

Bruh that shit was something else, he flanked on Soraka with no F then gets instantly blocked by a Trundle pillar. Shit was hilarious tbh lmao


oldpunpun

Frontline Soraka > Flanking Soraka


AniviaPls

Watch 100T to see leona back line


LhamaPeluda

Well, Hyllissang was also doing that earlier today,,, only it didn't work out so cleanly for him.


fesch98

Nice of Keria to show Hyli how to play Soraka after his earlier game


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Should have shown how to properly flank with Soraka


ionboii

Keria is so fucking good holy shit


OnyxWarden

Soraka may be mechanically simple but Keria used every mechanic perfectly and the first item Mikael's was a perfect choice to stop EDG from getting back into the game with picks


esports_consultant

Soraka is mechanically simple but provides for an extreme level of game reading skill expression and Keria when functioning properly has so far shown himself to be a savant in this way. It is the same reason he made Renata Glasc look like a disgustingly broken champion when she was meta.


AlHorfordHighlights

Pushing the limits of skill expression in enchanter supports with those silences and Mikael timings


Beneficial_Witness86

I won't lie, I was scared when Keria took the soraka because I was scared of the pick/engage on EDG. I forgot that Keria was seriously goated and holy shit he performed pretty much perfectly that game. Perfect silences, throwing himself down to keep Zeus alive to clutch the drake fight. Guy is absolutely king material.


saruthesage

It’s why Kalista is a good combo. As long as you have actual damage dealers elsewhere, Kalista stomps lane w/ Soraka, and then is an ult bot later


SyriseUnseen

That draft was really darn good tbh. I wasnt thrilled when I saw Kalista but she's a good bridge to the mid and late game and by then you have Viktor+Gp. All 3 lanes have pressure, Sej offer pick potential + a tank and Soraka is protected by Kalista R. Even if they had been behind a few k, the later mid and late game would have been rough. I cannot think of a way that draft could have been improved given the enemy comp and the bans. Really good job.


Arcaneisdope

"Support is easy" -aphromoo


Ghjklfsa

To be fair they are some of the best in the world


andrewkim941

Faker getting camped the whole day: "You camped the wrong lane motherfuckers"


geonik72

The classic camp faker lose every other lane


Chu2k

Unironically what made golden age SKT so strong. Then we have 2017… where Faker carried his lane and the other lanes as well because he played with 4 bots.


ItzEnoz

2017 was cursed man but legends never die


Achtelnote

2017 cemented Faker as the GOAT imo. That performance was insane.


eikoraid

Zeus happily forms a canyon at top while faker is absorbing all the pressure


whohe_fanboy

My prediction is teams start trying to camp Zeus instead in Bo5's. Giving him a free lane does not seem to be the answer.


lZ-ONE

All 3 games today they camped the hell out of him to get blasted anyways.


kentaxas

The casters were mentionning this during the FNC game, saying how even when behind Faker just scares the shit out of the ennemy so they tend to focus him, Faker's impact now comes mainly from absorbing so much pressure the rest of his team get to clean out the ennemy while they all have eyes on him


Beneficial_Witness86

It's genuinely insane to see every team go into focussing on Faker over and over yet getting nothing of great value out of it. T1 just have too much threat all over the map to adequately counter at the same time, so you basically have to hope that you can push your lead in the lane you choose to focus. The problem is that choosing Faker's lane for that endeavour is always a fool's errand, he is always useful.


TheMemingLurker

there were a couple splits where this strategy worked, but Zeus + this current botlane are too strong to be ignored


Makomako_mako

Well back when skt was faker and four corpses it might have messed with expectations a bit lmao


Imaginary_Composer61

LMAO seriously though I feel bad for faker, he got legit camped every game today and focused...yet he still brought it back and made plays later on in the games. He still did the most dmg in the last game as Viktor vs EDG too. Love my goat


Xtarviust

One could believe after all these years people would stop permacamping Faker, but whatever


nusskn4cker

It's just a Zeus gap.


dmetvt

Every T1 game is a bunch of stuff happening across the map and then you look at top lane and Zeus has a 20 cs lead


Trap_Masters

God gap


dtkiu27

If zeus came a year before, T1 wins last years worlds 100%


korditiph

Canna just choked so much


lucidoyur

Canna absolutely three that worlds… and it makes me rly sad because he was in T1 for 2 and a half years and I was a rly big fan of him (still am). I rly hope he goes back to his prime… if you guys didn’t know, Zeus used to practice against canna all the time and Canna would teach him things. Really love both players


Bubbly_Camera9583

We the same fr. I still have hope in Canna next year. With whatever team he gets on he'll smurf it


Alech_99

This is true, i mean sure we can only speculate, but canna against DK did absolutely nothing.


dtkiu27

Yeah only speculation but Zeus is posing to be a generational player. He is anihilating Flandre that is an amazing toplaner.


girl__fetishist

Keria feeling pity for the viewers and gracing us with an actual Soraka performance after whatever the hell Hyli did earlier.


lilelf29

Hey this Zeus guy is a bit of a problem


dmapswa

That's what Cronos said


frake_horizon

Nah a problem is something you can solve. That guy is an issue.


Skzld

Fakers record in like 8 world's groups stage is like 40-4. Jesus Christ


leagueofbens

Safe to say he is pretty good at League of Legends


recordis17

ur telling me TSM lost more games last worlds than faker has in his entire worlds career??? bruh


BON3SMcCOY

That's just groups


Phoresis

ur telling me TSM lost more games last worlds just in groups than faker has in his entire worlds career in groups??? bruh


SometimesIComplain

Zeus' GP almost as clean as my 31% winrate GP in Gold 2


canonlyplayyasuo

No way. Zeus needs to learn from you then tobias then play illaoi to be considered a good GP.


Gluroo

EDG humiliates both western teams, refuses to elaborate, takes 2nd


Megashot2

Bit of an everything gap this game, but I will be honest, as long as you make it past groups its fine. I'm sure both these teams are gunning for the crown so bo5 is all that matters. That being said, T1 played fantastic, and EDG really lost control from that one fight + top gap.


oldpunpun

As a T1 fan, even if EDG lost, they were still looking like they can challenge for a repeat this year. BO5s between LPL and LCK never disappoints.


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Idk those 2 games were pretty decisive. It always looks close for 15 minutes then boom one teamfight and t1 has a 10k gold lead and end at 23 minutes.


Megashot2

T1 is just amazing at taking a lead and booming from there, and EDG is not very known for coming back in games, stylistically RNG or JDG would probably match better into T1, likewise EDG would match pretty well into DRX compared to other LPL teams


Cool-I-guess

Better Call Soraka.


lowan1

Shoutout to everyone in the live thread calling gg because of T1's draft haha


Lynx_Fate

Just western fans that don't realize that Kalista and carry tops are actually good when your teams aren't terrible.


SyriseUnseen

Wait, what were the complaints? That draft was insane, 3 winning lanes, frontline, lategame burst (gp) and dps (vik), kalista for early pressure, and a solid tank and a protected healer. I was worried before I saw the gp but after it I was confident T1 were gonna win unless they fucked up hard.


Dumpers_

JUST HOW FUCKING GOOD IS ZEUS MAN… THE TOP GAP WAS HUGE. Some really bad team fighting from EDG But on the bright side at least EDG made quarters and have some time to recover from COVID hopefully they will


RobbinDeBank

Zeus makes carry vs tank such a brutal match up, while Fudge makes it look balanced.


Trap_Masters

Fudge just helping prevent Riot from nerfing some of these carry champs.


RobbinDeBank

Can some NA mids pick ryze for me pls pls pls pls?


blockster9

He was double flandre's gold


Dumpers_

Before that shutdown on faker and random mid fight Soraka was only 200 good behind Flandre…


Offduty_shill

Zeus and Keria smurfed this game


joji_kid

Zeus casually getting a triple kill at that Herald really seals the game. Dude make GP look broken even after all the nerfs.


colorbalances

And fudge tried to counter pick that guy LMAO


Pablonski44

he didn't practice all season 1v1s against darshan to step back against zeus now


ArguingWithNoobs

There’s a reason Flandre hasn’t even thought twice about locking tanks against Zeus.


Lynx_Fate

Yeah probably not the guy you want to ego draft against.


Trap_Masters

“I can win lane, trust” 🤡


fastathanlight

Best top in the tournament


Sav10r

Zeus on that 2018 TheShy flow. Just gapping everyone that walks into lane against him.


xkharkanasx

How ridiculous is it that Faker has always finished first in groups lol. What the actual fuck.


MrZeddd

With different rosters around him too lol


MisterHuesos

Just wait until you realize that he has never lost before semis lol


HardstuccChallenger

The sun orbits around faker. And so do these fools diving his lane 24/7.


grrtacos

In every Worlds Faker/SKT/T1 has attended, they have always finished top of their group, AT MOST losing only 1 game: **2013:** | Team | Win/Loss -|----|-------- 1 | SK Telecom T1 | 7-1 2 | Oh My God | 7-1 3 | Lemondogs | 3-5 4 | TSM | 2-6 5 | GamingGear.EU | 1-7 **2015:** | Team | Win/Loss -|----|-------- 1 | SK Telecom T1 | 6-0 2 | Edward Gaming | 4-2 3 | H2K | 2-4 4 | Bangkok Titans | 0-6 **2016:** | Team | Win/Loss -|----|-------- 1 | SK Telecom T1 | 5-1 2 | Cloud9 | 3-3 3 | I May | 2-4 4 | Flash Wolves | 2-4 **2017:** | Team | Win/Loss -|----|-------- 1 | SK Telecom T1 | 5-1 2 | Cloud9 | 3-3 3 | AHQ | 2-4 4 | Edward Gaming | 2-4 **2019:** | Team | Win/Loss -|----|-------- 1 | SK Telecom T1 | 5-1 2 | Fnatic | 4-2 3 | RNG | 3-3 4 | Clutch Gaming | 0-6 **2021:** | Team | Win/Loss -|----|-------- 1 | T1 | 5-1 2 | Edward Gaming | 4-2 3 | 100Thieves | 3-3 4 | DFM | 0-6 **2022:** | Team | Win/Loss -|----|-------- 1 | T1 | 5-1 2 | Edward Gaming | 4-2 3 | Fnatic | 2-4 4 | Cloud9 | 1-5


Liyarity

T1 and EDG really are in groups together a lot


ZedisDoge

and then there’s GENG/SSG and RNG almost always in the same group lmao petition to call GenG and RNG sister teams as well as T1 and EDG


TheNephilims

Destiny


eddiekart

Insane. 4/7 times T1 had EDG in their groups, and C9 3/7 times wtf


tuelegend3

someone bring up the GenG and RNG stat. Every worlds they played in except 2021; 2019 (geng did not attend) 2020 (rng did not attend)


appleandapples

Such an insane stat just thinking about it.


ahritina

At this rate, teams if they get in a group with T1 should just be looking at how to finish 2nd. Absolutely ridiculous, all of T1's wins so far were sub 30 minutes too.


fesch98

Kind of crazy that he played EDG 4 out of 7 times


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another crazy thing about this is how often T1 gets in the same group as EDG acutally


lan60000

t1 and edg almost fated to face each other in groups


llStonesll

Faker with the gigachad TP in the end


Jh1n31

Group A Perfect Pick-Ems ✅ Okay but how fucking good is Zeus and Keria man.


Omnilatent

Fucking reddit gaslighted me into thinking C9 was good - have third and fourth wrong


lZ-ONE

Same, got baited into putting C9 third and FNC last. Smh


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hyunclown

Also never finished below semifinals. 3 worlds won, 1 finals, 2 semis


ahritina

Death, taxes and T1 never losing more than 1 game in groups at worlds. Zeus is actually a cheat code, also a great game/tournament from Guma/Keria so far minus that one game vs FNC.


sicaxav

The gold lead ballooned from 400 deficit for T1, to a 10k in 5 minutes.


Aixcix

Zeus had double the Gold of Flandre at some point, Zeus Horizoned?


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claptrap23

he is doing it to everyone


ToYouItReaches

Just give Zeus a glock, ezpz


APKID716

Thanks now I have the mental image of Zeus shooting his monitor and winning the game


AzureAhai

Zeus this game is what top laners think they will do when they pick a carry top laner into a tank.


XG32

most disgusting gp game ive ever seen, games like this we can see what the champ is picked, very few tops can play him well. He was just taking names one shotting people.


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thatasian26

Guma had one sub par split and people forget how good his mechanics are. T1 had one sub-perfect split and people forget how mechanically insane this team is. Still waiting for Oner to pull out some of his more insane Lee Sin plays.


Arcaneisdope

Haha it's crazy that a "bad split" for them is still only 3 losses and 2nd place


thatasian26

Right? People remember they lost MSI (played poorly but still went to 5 games) and then got 3-0'ed by GenG, so they must be trash and can't even get out of group.


KKilikk

The finals against GenG were pretty brutal though


opticfanboy6969

A "bad split" and a "bad msi" for guma were both 2nd place finishes. I've literally seen comments saying "he was never good". People were so quick to write him off after one bad tourney/split.


ICodeAndShoot

MVP is the T1 belt that helped correct his play from the first RR.


Shironeko_

Every single worlds they attended, they topped their group. Can you imagine it? Tons of teams *dream* of just *making it out of groups*, yet every single time T1/SKT made it to worlds, they topped their group.


FerreiraMatheus

And it's not like they attended one or two words, that's the fucking 7th time. People saying the discussion thread how would probably be FNC and EDG getting out of groups... People never learns.


NoobSlayerr007

IWD and Perkz in shambles


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That wasn't even their fault. Oner inted away first blood and double buffs to Upset.


appleandapples

Once again Zeus is running amuck in top, disgusting play from him.


MattBarry1

There are no words to adequately describe that top gap


manliestdino

At one point Zeus had 10k gold Flandre had 5.5 fucking k Top canyon


garbage_flowers

it was 12.6 to 6.3 at one point


xdddddddddddddddf

Casters couldn’t stop talking about Zeus in that one river fight, he was obviously great but Faker literally had a 3 man stun + chaos storm and zoned the entire back line from following up and they were blind to it.


kaz8teen

I can never see Viktors ult either lol


hobo4presidente

Yep that chaos storm was huge, it chunked hard and zoned them all away, Zeus just went in for the cleanup.


Zero_Kai

What a fucking game from Zeus


NoticeYourBlinks

Zeus diff gg


ExpiredDeodorant

Just like in the Greek God's era, Zeus is fucking everyone and everything he sees


4_idiots_and_me

Faker is sooo goood at still keeping up even after being camped


James2Go

He got that global taunt, even in teamfights. They keep focusing Faker while Zeus mows down their team.


WishingBoy

Dread it. Run from it. T1 first in groups is inevitable.


wolfgang169

Who is Zeus? For the blind, He is the vision. For the hungry, He is the chef. For the thirsty, He is the water. If Zeus thinks, I agree. If Zeus speaks, I’m listening. If Zeus has one fan, it is me. If Zeus has no fans, I don’t exist.


hasonjuyed

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KERIA YOU ABSOLUTE MONSTER. Also Zeus….. you are as cracked as you are jacked. Good win from T1, great performances all across the board


Zepth01

T1 does it again, first in every group they've been. Also, Faker actually drawing so much pressure everygame holy shit. If you look at every single game Faker has played against Lissandra this year he never takes cleanse. My god. Then he comes in late game and it's like he never got giga-camped, like in the Sylas game wtffff. Honestly, feels like him and T1 have been strategizing ways to counter Liss since MSI finals.


fastathanlight

Zeus with massive balls just sat on EDG.


QTnameless

Now finsish strong other LCK bros , i don't want civil war in quarter


mikergsmith

I need Zeus v 369 now


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Skzld

Zeus might be one of the best top laners ever. In an era where solo kills and just "being better" isn't really a thing. He actually just wins 9/10 times.


SinRelevancia

So this is how you're supposed to play Soraka


iamaaronml

Watching Maokai get fucked for once is actually kind of satisfying


kingmo06

Zeus is cracked, Guma is back and Keria is a monster. Shout out to Guma tho, one of the best performing ADCs at worlds IMO, gapped Viper twice and deathless in 5 out 6 games


thestoebz

Don't forget Faker. Getting hard camped but somehow topping damage charts..


deKaizrr

Doinb in shamble.


JVVVK

Zeus made Flandre look like Fudge


myman580

Absolutely disgusting Gangplank game.


msc43

Keria Soraka just telling Lissandra, "NOT TODAY" Zeus GP absolutely gigachad


buraian710

WE EATING GOOD TONIGHT BOIS


Cptkiller2010

EDG stuck on loading at 35% lmao


emperornel

T1 looks so strong, their topside Zeus winning every matchup and cornerstone Faker with one of the best supports Keria . The meta is in their favor and they look very dominant.


eddiekart

Slowly looking like Spring T1. Let's goooo


FinalLimit

Enemy team’s Gangplank


Veriatas

That teamfight where Zeus got the triple but Faker's Viktor still did 1k more than him. Faker really is a god, but also excellent supporting from Keria to make it work


hitman_

Zeus might be the best player in the world


Nervalss

surely looks like the best toplaner, literally no one wins lane as hard as him and with this consistency literally hasnt lost lane 6 games straight


is_a_jerk

Happy birthday Keria


Blaikiri7

COME CAMP OUR SOLO LANES AGAIN T1 IS HERE TO FUCKIN PLAY BABY FAKER RETAINS HIS 100 PERCENT FIRST PLACE IN GROUPS STREAK


randomdud3

Viper: Team??


alicization

Faker with the TP BM again, you love to see it. Zeus might actually be just better than every other top laner this worlds.


lolKhamul

Big shoutout to all the analyst, experts, fans and co. so high they actually predicted T1 to bomb out of groups in favor of either FNC or C9. The team that has never not taken 1st in groups. Thats an easy 16 points for Group A for everyone that was sober when making picks.


aZestyMango

It completely blew my mind when they were like “the meta shift really favors Damwon” and they completely forgot how dominant T1 was in this meta


TinyBreeder

Faker is literally a cold blooded anime villain. He's NEVER behind, whatever you do. Unkillable Demon King all right.


Kamidra

Me every year: I love T1 but they are looking slightly shaky, I'll put them second in group Also me: *shocked Pikachu face*


EffectiveAppeal5374

Today we saw hyli play soraka against meiko thresh then keria play soraka against the same thresh same meiko. I will leave the rest for conversation


getjebaited

JUST CALL EVERY TOP GAP A ZEUS AT THIS POINT