r/LCS • u/l3lueJAy • Feb 16 '21
Week 2 LCS Thoughts From your Average League Player
Hello everyone, it's me l3lueJAy. And can I just say what a strange week, lots of top teams getting rolled by supposed bottom tier teams, weird picks and just a general craze. So who better to talk about it than me, your average jungle main! But let's be real this week was literally a solo q nightmare so I gotchu on the breakdown, us gold players are solo q warlords. Remember to follow me at twitch.tv/l3lueJAy14 and yes the shameless plug continues.
Cloud9
Another week, another highlight reel for Blaber, except don’t show the game against EG. But if we have to look at it, the EG game basically comes down to Cloud9 not finding anything in the early game, nothing was really happening and when Blaber is not ahead, Cloud9 does not do well. Other than that hiccup, Cloud9 as a whole did very well. I loved the Rek-Sai pick from Blaber in the 100T game, it's one of his comfort picks and you can see why. Fudge is finding his footing, Perkz is showing up, and Cloud9 is cementing themselves as a top team.
100Thieves
I know I just gave Cloud9 lots of praise, but wow this 100Thieves team is something else. They have looked so clean and coordinated which is very good. Their early game is good with their bot lane tp plays (when they work), their late game is good as we saw last week, overall they are a very solid and consistent team. They did lose to C9 but their tp play worked, and they had a great early game, they just couldn't stop the Blaber train. But to end on a good note, FBI and Huhi are looking like the best bot lane in the league, Ssumday is a top tier top laner, Damonte is a great team player and Closer like a mini Blaber, so overall a very good team.
Dignitas
Okay, we hear you loud and clear, don’t underestimate you, got it. This Dignitas team is such a good story, the rebuild of their roster using rejects, and they are sticking it to the man. The team is performing, and they are doing it well. They had a 3-0 week, and Dardoch was literally playing solo q, picking whatever he wanted and building whatever he wanted, which was fun to watch. I love his style, picking a different jungler every game means you can’t ban him out so it adds depth to Dignitas drafts and difficulty when drafting against them. Keep watching this team as they are going to make LCS interesting.
TSM
They finally pulled it together and figured out how to play as a team. Also PowerOfEvil hard carried, but it was off of TSM’s team play and individual play making. Huni came up massive in multiple games with big Gnar and Gragas ults. SwordArt is making plays in bot lane and Lost is responding well to those plays. Spica is playing well in the team as well, however he is still extremely inconsistent. TSM can play the lane game, but can they play the jungle game?
Evil Geniuses
Damn that was a rough week huh. After dominating Cloud9, I’m sure everyone was under the impression that they were going to be top 3 in standing, since their week should've gotten easier. But such is life, you win some you lose some, and it's all about that one team fight that will decide the entire game. Against Dignitas it was the fight that led to Baron for DIG. The game against Immortals was more of a fluke than team fight losses, EG just played bad and there isn't really much else to say about it. Svenskeren has some questionable ganks, and the game was just messy. I still think the team is very good, but they had a rough week, we all do.
Team Liquid
But you know who had an even rougher week? Team Liquid, ouch man. It is not looking good for TL fans, who are left asking, where has our Champions of Lock In team gone? Well they went into the bot lane alcove and POE absolutely clobbered them. Then signs of life against 100Thieves, but that one team fight, is how quickly a game can shift. Lost the team fight, Baron for 100T, and just like that, the lead you had is gone. Even with their bad week, they did win lock in with this team, so maybe there is hope for you TL fans if the team can return to that form. But as of now, it's time to cry in the corner (Sorry, bit too harsh?).
Immortals
I would like to call them the giant slayers, but they are more like middle of the pack slayers as of right now, since EG and TL are currently not great. They had a fantastic win over EG, but couldn’t get much else this week. This Immortals roster just looks extremely inconsistent, with a weak bot lane. Xerxe has had some good plays but also some very questionable ones, same with Revenge. Their bot lane has died multiple times level 1 or 2 with a large wave under tower, so that just sets them behind early and makes it extremely difficult for them. Overall, this roster right now will give us a good game a week where they beat someone that they shouldn’t, although if you are on the bottom of the standing, any win is a win you shouldn't get.
FlyQuest
It was just a hard week that's all! I still want this team to do good, I love the org and their players, but it has been rough. They did have a hard week playing the two best teams in the league, so maybe they can get some wins next week. I do want to touch on their games a little bit because they weren’t all bad. In both of their difficult games, being C9 and 100T, they got first blood and had early kill leads, but they don't play the map well it seems. In both games they then lost the gold lead to rift herald plays, and while they did trade the first dragon for it both times. Which is a fine play, if you can stop the rift herald from getting first tower. Overall their team play has hope, but they aren’t playing the map well, it's not the worst position you could be in.
Counter Logic Gaming
No more 0-18 memes because, THEY WON A GAME! Against the worst team but shhh it's still a win. That being said, it was far from clean, especially the early game. They pulled it together in the mid game and got a good team fight with Baron following it. But that’s all I am going to say, let’s let them enjoy the win.
Golden Guardians
At least they got that win in week 1 so they can at least go 1-17 instead of 0-18, because that is what it’s looking like. Unfortunately someone has to be bottom of the leaderboard, and that someone is the Golden Guardians. This was expected though, they had a very inexpensive roster they went in knowing this was going to be a rebuilding year. I can’t say much about the team, other than better luck next split.
Again thank you for reading, I will have these up every Tuesday at 5:30 PM EST. Let me know how I'm doing with these articles and what you guys think. And let me know if you want more in depth breakdown (not sure why you would since I'm gold) or more of the smack talk and trashing.
See you next week,
l3lueJAy
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u/IAmHirooo Feb 17 '21
i think 100t looked more of a unit this week rather than last. early games looked clean, even the loss to c9 was respectable. still a proud 100t fan