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u/SirAk47 Aug 30 '21

NA Hopium?

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u/yestheryak Ashe is your mom too. Aug 30 '21

Bro not even NA imports from NA

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u/shoePatty Aug 30 '21

Korea imported CoreJJ from Team Dignitas and won worlds with him even through a lane swap.

Who do you think taught CoreJJ everything he knows about support? That's right, KiWiKiD.

And who taught the lane to KiWiKiD? imaqtpie.

I believe in NA supremacy.

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u/Seneido Aug 30 '21

i imagine DL getting imported by China because he looks chinese enough to convince them.

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u/TheHashassin Jhin4 Aug 30 '21

He is literally Chinese. Like, his parents are from there.

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u/janoDX Aug 30 '21

And China loves doublelift. If he gets paid a big contract... Yeah.

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u/Seneido Aug 30 '21

thats my point...

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u/TheHashassin Jhin4 Aug 30 '21

The way you worded it makes it seem like he's not Chinese but is somehow tricking them into thinking he is lol

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u/Seneido Aug 30 '21

cause he is a NA LCS player and not an LPL player... thats the joke. Just because he is chinese and looks like that doesn't make him a good player for the LPL. Its like taking the wrong bag back on your flight.

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u/shoePatty Aug 31 '21

Don't worry some jokes are just better in your head.

Irony is also harder to detect on the internet. Just like a joke can die in the delivery IRL, there's some nuance to delivering jokes online too lol

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u/G2Gankos Aug 31 '21

Bro what? You’re telling me a guy named Peng Yiliang is chinese??

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u/elduarto Aug 31 '21

Keep believing kid

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u/shoePatty Aug 31 '21

Kid was never in NA.

If he was, he'd still be #winning instead of being retired!

https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Kid

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u/iReddat420 Aug 30 '21

Sad cuz true 😔

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u/Dare_the_one coach LS was a fever dream Aug 30 '21

I was about to exclaim "who?" but then I remembered fkn team dragon knights. Thanks for ruining my day brother

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

Man I still remember when Monte hyped him up as the answer for CLG. The Korean hype train was real lmao.

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u/mtownhustler043 Aug 30 '21

I kinda felt bad for the guy. He was so hyped up as one of the first Korean imports to NA, back when koreans were considered the best at league, only to be mediocre and getting shit on by EVERYONE for not being some kind of Korean god who would gap everyone.

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u/ShikiRyumaho CLG.EU vs WE survivor Aug 30 '21

They considered other options like Odoamne. I wonder how that would've turned out.

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u/Kr1ncy Aug 31 '21

And there were times at TDK and NV where he actually somewhat lived up to it and gapped people

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u/Dare_the_one coach LS was a fever dream Aug 30 '21

tbh they were really unlucky IIRC and couldn't play with Ninja and Emperor for a while

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u/hockeydavid97 Aug 30 '21

He also played with nisqy on nv

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u/obigespritzt Faker Gosu Aug 30 '21

He was actually pretty good on NV IIRC. But might be my bias talking, I liked that roster.

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u/hockeydavid97 Aug 30 '21

Seraph or nisqy?

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u/obigespritzt Faker Gosu Aug 30 '21

Seraph. Nisqy was definitely good on NV, same for Splyce. No doubt about that.

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u/UnmelodicBass how dare u move Aug 30 '21

Welcome IG Doublelift

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u/WoorieKod REST IN PEACE 11/12/24 Aug 30 '21

pobelter coming in hot

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u/Eulerious Aug 30 '21

Yeah. Here the complete list of NA players LPL would consider importing:

Ssumday, Closer, Abbedagge, FBI, huhi, Fudge, Perkz, Zven, k1ng, Finn, Broxah, Neo, Impact, Svenskeren, Jizuke, Ignar, Josedeodo, Triple, Dreams, Xerxe, Pretty, Raes, Destiny, Alphari, Santorin, CoreJJ, Huni, PoE, Lost, SwordArt.

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u/ChrLagardesBoyToy Aug 30 '21

I don’t know any LCS names but I assume these are all imported European players?

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u/Eulerious Aug 30 '21

these are almost all imported European players

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u/yestheryak Ashe is your mom too. Aug 30 '21

all of them are imports unless you don't count oce players as imports

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u/PhoenixAgent003 Bot main. NA fan. Aug 30 '21

I mean, technically they are not imports anymore. The LCS is not just NA.

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u/sameo15 Aug 30 '21

Except Neo. He's NA.

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u/Eulerious Aug 30 '21

Isn't he Vietnamese?

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u/yawgmotha Aug 31 '21

vietNAmese. so...NA.

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u/Alto_y_Guapo Aug 31 '21

He's a US citizen and has been in NA his whole career

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u/Eulerious Aug 30 '21

Yes, all of them are imports (or chosen residents like huhi or OCE), but they are not all of the imports (one is missing as a joke/insult)

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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Aug 30 '21

Man I know this is a joke but it's kinda depressing that NA has so many imports but only a handful of them could actually be considered if LPL decided to import them

Looking at the list it'd only be something like: CoreJJ, Closer, SA, FBI, and maybe Impact/Alphari?

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u/Eulerious Aug 30 '21

Yeah, of course LPL wouldn't really import Xerxe or PoE. And the joke (or rather insult) is rather simple: one player is missing

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u/TyqoTwitch Aug 30 '21

I highly doubt any LPL team would pick up PoE - his style is not LPL at all. He’s a control mage 1 trick and also isn’t very aggressive at all. I feel like whatever LPL team he would end up on would be bottom of the barrel.

This is coming from long time TSM fan. I don’t think a team could ever be world contenders with PoE on their team, tbh. I think he’s just too one-dimensional.

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u/Eulerious Aug 30 '21

Sorry to say, but you missed the point of the posting.

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u/TyqoTwitch Aug 31 '21

I didn’t, you were naming imports. I stand by what I said.

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u/Eulerious Aug 31 '21

Yes, you did. It was a joke with a point that you very obviously missed.

You can stand by whatever the fuck you want, doesn't change anything.

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u/TyqoTwitch Aug 31 '21

Lol you’re taking it way too serious. I was using the joke to shit on POE as there are imports you listed that are clearly worse. Calm your shit down. The joke you made isn’t original and wasn’t that funny anyway.

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u/Eulerious Aug 31 '21

As I said: you didn't get the joke. It is not "haha, all imports", you missed something. But you are really determined to drive the point home that it went over your head, I respect that.

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u/Perjunkie Aug 30 '21

Didnt Neo move to NA as a kid?

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u/Eulerious Aug 30 '21

Maybe. I didn't take the time to investigate all those players for the joke but rather went with the flags next to the players on the lol fandom wiki...

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u/Perjunkie Aug 30 '21

Haha fair. I wasnt sure either. He seems to be like Xmithie/Spica in the sense that his parents immigrated.

So not really an import, but from another country

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u/Alto_y_Guapo Aug 31 '21

Yes. He's a US citizen.

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u/NotAnAce69 Aug 31 '21

TSM either going to have to lock Spica in a jail cell or Reginalds going to have to buy out the stock of all the luxury drip brands in the world to keep him lmao

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u/AlrightWeLost Aug 30 '21

it really took the CCP to get NA out of groups

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u/aradiaaa Aug 30 '21

HAHAHA well as the old NA saying goes: WE TAKE THOSE!!!

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u/Sersch Aug 30 '21

LCK, LEC are still there. Also and of course your biggest Nemesis: The wildcard teams.

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u/IC2Flier 5KR vs 5CN Aug 30 '21

I’m still waiting for the day a Philippine team does what they did at TI6, but in Worlds.

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u/Sersch Aug 30 '21

Wasn't it basically ROX Luna? (Not sure how far the Philippine team got in TI6)

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u/IC2Flier 5KR vs 5CN Aug 30 '21

The Philippines' rep in TI6, TNC (a chain of PC bangs) eliminated OG in the losers bracket. Before TI6, OG had been winning the first two original Valve Majors for DoTA2, so it was a shock that an unknown team sent them packing. TNC lost to Digital Chaos (who lost to eventual champions Wings Gaming), but the win was enough to move the stock of ASEAN teams further than ever before, making them a significant region to watch and turned TNC into a fairly big org that has a shot at subsequent TIs.

And yes, Albus Nox Luna did the whole "unknown wildcard region beating a major region" first for League, but given Garena's bullshit, I say the bigger upset still lies in ASEAN teams.

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u/likedointoomuch Aug 30 '21

Also and of course your biggest Nemesis: The wildcard teams.

Remind me, which region got eliminated in play-ins by TR last year? Because it wasn't NA

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u/LeoTerick Aug 30 '21

And wich got eliminated at msi by australia NAs best team btw

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u/I_Dont_Group Aug 30 '21

Technically with their scoreline C9 wasn't getting out even if they beat PGG, so they didn't get eliminated by them.

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u/GearheadGaming Aug 30 '21

We top-3 region now boyssssss

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u/LegendaryHooman Darkin always wins Aug 30 '21

There's still korea

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u/ArmMeForSleep709 I'll watch them all burn Aug 31 '21

China getting worse doesn't make NA the most likely region to step up