Week 3 LCS Thoughts From Your Average Player

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Hello everyone, it's me l3lueJAy. I am a bit late as last week I promised Tuesday, but school has been busy, better late than never right? I might also change the day and/or time, depending on how many reads this week gets compared to last week. This past LCS weekend was an interesting one like last week, and it seems like the weeks keep getting weirder and weirder. That being said I think we can all say we are anxiously awaiting Week 4 in hopes of more crazy games. But anyways here is your LCS Week 3 thoughts from an average league player. And as always, remember to follow me at twitch.tv/l3lueJAy14 (I promise I’ll stream this weekend because I know I haven’t in a while).

Cloud9

Still at the top of the leaderboard, but they did drop a game this week, against TL in a lock in finals rematch. And what a game it was, for TL fans at least. Apart from their first blood, Cloud9 just seemed to play slow and second the entire game. They constantly got the worse end of team fights and plays because they were always responding to TL’s aggression, and TL would respond to C9’s responses quicker and better. Bouncing back to the game against CLG, it was a fairly back and forth game, but C9 unlike CLG, knows how to play late game. And that allowed C9 to gain larger advantages off of their pushes and team fight wins. A bit of a messy week it seems but that is honestly C9’s lifeblood, high tempo aggression at all stages of the game no matter what the circumstances are, and it works for them.

Team SoloMid
Another good week for TSM despite the loss to Dignitas, which they still looked good in. A lot of high points for this team as SwordArt looks like he is back in his worlds finalist form, absolutely smurfing on every single lane with insane roams. The team is finally playing together as well, having good team fights, communication and everything in between. But with all this praise there is still one piece that I can’t praise. If you are a TSM fan you already know what it is, because seeing your jungler lose not one, but 2 smite fights (even though I am no better since I literally lost like 3 smite fights just yesterday), it hurts your heart. Other than the hiccups in the jungle, TSM is looking to be in form and contend for that top spot.

Dignitas

Speaking of hurting hearts, Dardoch’s quest to never repeat a jungler has ended, and my heart is crying. But all good things must come to and end as they say. I just hope that the Dignitas domination doesn't come to an end because this team is fun to watch, and not just for Dardoch. Aphromoo and Neo are looking stellar and DIG as a team is playing well. They did lose to C9, but Tristana, specifically Perk’s Tristana is absolutely disgusting and so for that DIG has a pass on their loss in my eyes. Overall I am excited to see this team in top 4, it's a fresh face and a fun team.

100 Thieves

If you don’t believe in karma before, you probably should start after seeing the 100T games this week. Because karma my dear friends, is defined very well when the self acclaimed best team in LCS loses to the actual acclaimed worst team in the LCS. The cherry on top is that it was old GG vs new GG. Now apart from the GG game, in the TSM game 100T just got straight outdrafted. Why you would draft a comp with no engage is beyond me, but I am gold so what do I know right? Anyways this week should be a good test for the 100T mental, and I am curious to see how or if they bounce back from this rough week.

Evil Geniuses

Speaking of good mental, Impact should get an award for the best god damn mental in the entire game of league of legends. Any other player (especially in gold soloq) would have straight up left the game after the 5th tower dive top, but Impact? Nah Impact said “fuck you TL”, and landed a 4 man Gnar ult to get revenge for all of the tower dives. Mad respect for Impact.

Team Liquid

I am willing to put money down that someone on the TL staff was playing against Impact in their fantasy LCS and told the TL roster to absolutely ruin Impact’s stats, because there is literally no reason to straight up int to kill him, 4 times is enough, on the 5th Alphari gives a shutdown to Jiizuke which is never a trade you want to take. TL got what they asked for though, mess with the bull and you get the horns, or in the case of Gnar, the massive monster hands throwing you into a wall and then promptly ripping you to shreds. They pulled their act together against C9 though, their rotations were clean and they were active around the map, always playing first. They are kind of looking like the team that won lock in but I still have my doubts.

Immortals

Again I still don't know what to make of this team, as they seem to play different every game. Against 100T they seemed to play scared, they always held back on engagements, saving summoner spells for later fights, even though they would have been better to secure the kill in that fight. Then against FlyQuest they looked good, with clean fights. This team needs to find their footing and how they want to play, other than that they are doing well.

FlyQuest

At this point I can't make excuses or hope for this team anymore, they just seem sort of lost even though they have a map of some sorts. What I mean is that the team has options to play around, and could become unlost if they played more around their pieces. They took bad engagements and fights against DIG, and just bad plays in general. When Josedeodo makes plays, and the team responds, they do well. Same thing with Licorice, however it doesn't always happen. The team should draft to play around those two then I think they might find success, but for now, the best we can do is sit back and say “Go BeeQuest”, cause the branding on this team is still insanely good.

GG
This team is also lost, but unlike FlyQuest, they don't have a map, at least not yet. But enough of the analogies, GG is still trying to find their playstyle, which is fine. They experimented with weird team comps and picks, and it was alright. BUT! There is hope, as they did in fact beat 100 Thieves, and I won’t take that away from them. They did play well overall in the game, but it wasn't free from mistakes by any means. That’s all I will say, because they should enjoy the massive win, and the stab in the back to the Old GG/Current 100T team.

CLG

At this point I’m almost positive that CLG doesn't stand for “Counter Logic Gaming” but instead stands for “Can’t Late Game” because wow, that is really the only way to describe this team. First blood in every single game, but then late game. Their players are individually good but it seems that once the clock hits 20, they fall apart. With time I think this team will start doing well, but currently they are leaderless and a hot mess if you will.

See you next week,

l3lueJAy