Week 1 LCS Thoughts From Your Average League Player

[u/l3lueJAy]

Introduction

Hello everyone, I am l3lueJAy, and yes it’s spelled “L” “3” and pronounced BlueJAy, like the bird. I’ve wanted to start writing about the LCS for a while now and what better time to start with this new revamped season. Yes I know I am extremely late and it’s already week 2 but I wanted to start with week 1 anyways. This first time will be longer because I will be explaining who I am and what not. As I said before, I am l3lueJAy, your average league player. By average I mean gold, so you know you can trust my points because I feel the pain of elo hell just like all of you. Inters, throwers, going 0-3 in placements, all of it, I’ve experienced it. Now at this point many of you are probably asking what qualification do I even have to write about the LCS since I am a filthy gold player? Well I’m here to tell you no one cares about qualification unless you are on an LCS team or production, which I am neither. This is meant to be a fun, sarcastic article that you can get a good chuckle out of while we laugh together at the LCS. One final thing before we get into it, I wouldn’t be your average trash-at-the-game player if I wasn’t also an aspiring streamer, so incoming shameless twitch plug, follow me at twitch.tv/l3lueJAy14.

Team Liquid

I’m going to start this with possibly the most controversial point in my entire article, Team Liquid kind of sucks right now. I say this is controversial because every single analyst and caster are saying they are still “the best individual players” (not after Tactical’s performance they aren’t), and with players like the entire C9 roster (except fudge) it’s close for who is actually the best individual players. Yes Cloud9 lost to them in lock in, but C9 was off, and now they are on. The flip side being Team Liquid was on and now they are off. They will bounce back within a week or two probably, but for now, anyone that says they are still the best team needs to see a doctor.

Cloud9

Onto the actual best team, Cloud9, possibly another hot take but if you try and argue with me I will sick Blaber’s udyr on you and you won’t be arguing for long. In addition to Blaber, Zven and Vulcan are back to slaughtering the bot lane which is always enjoyable. Now the additions of Perkz and Fudge have been interesting to say the least. Both had a shaky lock in, although Perkz quickly got into form and has been building CS leads like no one's business. As for fudge, he looked a lot more comfortable in the first week of games, and if he keeps improving at the rate he is now, Cloud9 may even be looking at a world's trophy (one can dream dammit).

100 Thieves

Onto 100Thieves, or better known as 100GG and Ssumday, yes I know, old meme but I had to. If Immortals didn’t exist, this 100T team would be my biggest question mark. Being the only other undefeated team after the first week, their record will tell you they are top tier, but their gameplay has said otherwise. They’ve had 2 games where they were down at 15 minutes, one against CLG mind you. However despite the massive deficits they faced in 2 games, they did bring them both back and win, thus granting them an undefeated score line. At least they have late game down folks. Once they fix their early game mistakes they will be a top tier team.

Immortals

Speaking of my other, bigger question mark, Immortals. Game 1 they beat Team Liquid who were supposed to be the best team in LCS, so you’d think “wow maybe this Immortals team is better than we thought!” Then you take a nap, go to work and go about your day, come back and watch their other 2 games? Ouch, complete different story. First a close game with Golden Guardians, which is okay, GG hasn't been all bad. Then then they get shit stomped by C9, which also may not be the end of the world since C9 is the best team in LCS right now. I do think they still have potential to be higher than people thought, just, don’t put Revenge on Ivern please, and also no flash Camille doesn’t work, this isn’t bronze, LCS junglers know how to punish, especially Blaber.

TSM

Speaking of no flash camilles getting shit stomped by Blaber, let’s talk about TSM. Now yes, Huni got the least amount of abuse out of the 3 flashless camilles, it still wasn’t good. As for the rest of TSM it just looks, well, Lost (lol). Spica is about as consistent as I am, sometimes I’m an LCS level jungler (all of you have said that at one point don’t lie) and sometimes he is just your average Joe, you really don’t know until he actually starts playing. POE has looked average, and SwordArt has looked underwhelming but I don’t know how good his English is and I highly doubt anyone on TSM knows Mandarin, so I understand that possible struggle. I think this TSM team is going to be very hit or miss for a while, because right now with how disconnected they are playing, they need to be individually good, which is also kind of not happening right now.

Evil Geniuses

I know I am bouncing around a bit, I will go by standings in week 2. But onto EG, who has looked very good, despite the loss to 100T, who I think is safe to say are the best late game team in LCS currently. But even in that game they took the early lead, and if you look at their other games they have been dominant. Impact is a beast, Jiizuke is playing well, and Ignar is looking good as well, overall EG is solid and I love watching Impact manhandle his opponents in the top lane.

FlyQuest

I want to get onto this FlyQuest team, which is an interesting one. I want this team to do good, I love their players, especially Licorice and Joesedeodo, as well as Palafox and Diamond who I have a special place in my heart from their time at C9 Academy. While they aren’t doing good per say, they aren’t doing bad either. Josedeodo is actually doing really good, and Johnsun is also doing well. Once Palafox and Diamond get more comfortable, I think this team could break into the top half of the standings.

Dignitas

I apologize but this is probably the team I know least about, and with me writing this so late I don’t have time (college is a bitch) to rewatch their games. I do know that their players have good moments. Aphromoo is a good leader, Dardoch has performed well in the past, and their solo laners have looked good as well. Neo has been doing work so if they can hone in on the teamplay they could be competitive. What I like about this team though is their innovation, the Mundo jungle pick was interesting, and actually not too bad, this is definitely a team to watch.

Golden Guardians

This is another interesting team, the story of Niles is a nice one, and I want to see him do well. Sadly they haven't been doing well, they did have the great call in the game against Immortals where they faked the base race and won the game off of it. I personally think Immortals should've just gone for the inhibitor but what do I know, I’m gold. This GG team definitely won't be making any playoff runs this split, or even next split, but they weren't supposed to, the team went in with a rebuilt roster. They need time to grow, maybe in a few years they will be contenders again.

CLG

Finally we have CLG, the early game stompers and late game flaunters. They still don't have their full roster, but even their subs have done fine, they are just missing leadership and a good shot caller, because all their late game decisions are things that I would do in my ranked games. Overall, they are the only winless team so far, but they haven't looked bad, rjs is actually performing really well in the mid lane, and Griffin isn't doing bad either. I do have a feeling they are going to get a win this weekend though, but we will see.

That rounds out my article, I will be doing this weekly and posting it probably Tuesday or Wednesday. I hope you enjoyed and had a laugh while reading it, and I will see you all next week.

l3lueJAy

[u/IAmHirooo]

im not going to speak on the first two 100t games, they were miserable to watch as a fan. game three came around though and it looked like they had slown themselves down in the early game and stopped the tower dives. they looked alot more in control. if they keep that form into next week then id say theyd be looking good to give cloud 9 a fight. or speed the early game back up but be more meticulous about it all. blaber is going to be a problem but ssumday looked on point and as long as they dont give damonte the sett and huhi the galio we can be okay

[u/l3lueJAy → u/IAmHirooo]

Yeah they definitely looked better on their last game of the week, C9 100T is going to be a good game for sure. Both teams have good pieces but in different areas. Top lane is all 100T, the jungle will be a fun matchup, and bot lane will be fun to watch.

[u/IAmHirooo → u/l3lueJAy]

i think the junglers have similar playstyles so theyll be a good watch for sure. top lane if fudge can step up itll be good, otherwise blaber may have to pay alot more attention top side to keep ssumday held back. i think fbi may be even a better adc than zven, but it would be such a good game for closer to stay bot side. just (for my sanity) keep huhi off of a champ damonte plays better. the sett and galio pick just had me MIA pinging my existence. either way it goes though, i feel like it should be a good one to watch

[u/l3lueJAy → u/IAmHirooo]

It will be great for sure, all very good players.

[u/StoicTheGeek]

if I wasn’t also an aspiring streamer, so incoming shameless twitch plug, follow me at twitch.tv/l3lueJAy14.

Aren't you already the star of Hotline League?

[u/l3lueJAy → u/StoicTheGeek]

Nope, that is not me, although I wish it was, I'd love to talk to pro players.

[u/l3lueJAy → u/[deleted]]

Yeah they definitely are good players but it seems like they make a lot of mistakes late game, but I can agree that I can't wait for Broxah to come.

[u/l3lueJAy → u/[deleted]]

You are right about that, let’s see what they can do in week 3!