Cody Sun's Tristana insec against FNC could very well be the worst single play in the history of competitive League. I've been watching it for 4 years now and I honestly can't come up with a worse example.
What is NA doing wrong to lose like this in the group stage? They perform badly in week 2 every single year. I'm beginning to think that they simply don't take themselves as seriously as the other regions. There is no excuse for this pitiful performance. I do think IMT is the weakest of the 3 teams based on last week's performance but all they needed was ONE win.
I thought Rekkles flashing on Pobelter was bad. but this was baffling...I can't believe that a team with veterans like Xmithie, Pobelter and Flame wouldn't just say, "just kite back to base, kite back to base"
or say "no dont" if he said, "im going in"
I can definitely fault Cody Sun for making a boneheaded play and essentially winning Fnatic the game for them, but before this they still had 4 fucking chances to win 1 game to secure 2nd place and they completely choked.
Cody Sun is still a rookie at the world stage, I think its just classic Reddit/LeagueOfLegends stuff when last week people were praising the absolute fuck out of Cody Sun and Olleh for their work in their games last week. all it takes is one mistake. Hope he doesn't pay any mind to it.
Pobelter was a disaster in their games yesterday. Xmithie on Ezreal jungle is just so so useless in a CC heavy meta.
Jesiz winning the game by flash-self E-auto attack on nexus to win them the game was clutch...he doesn't do that, then im pretty sure IMT wins as all minions and FNC players were dead or attacking IMT players.
Thoughts on Group B games
-Fnatic's run was fucking amazing, this image says it all, what Fnatic required to even have a fucking CHANCE to make it out of groups is incredible.
-Despite them getting out of groups I think they get shit on by any other midlaner...Caps positioning is horrendous. the guy is too far forward on almost every single play, and he singlehandedly made that IMT game and every other game harder for Fnatic to win because he always gets caught out and bursted down to 25% health.
-Longzhu is a sure thing to win right? the way they turned that Gigabyte Marines game was nothing short of incredible.
-speaking of the Marines, I loved everything they brought to worlds this year, unusual drafts, strategies, in this meta of ardent at 20 minutes, double zeal adc and then objective trade until gg, it was a fucking relief to see them do something different
-as a Zilean support main, seeing GAM rock this was fucking awesome, I felt soooo bad that they lost their gold lead, and the game due to Sya ulting the wrong targets....probably the worst feeling in the world at my shit ass elo, can't imagine how it feels on the Worlds stage when your knocking on the base of the best team in the world.
-I hope GAM inspires other teams to break the meta a bit, and stray away from standard lanes, Korean teams will always shit on these guys playing standard meta slave comps, so why not switch it up, literally have nothing to lose.... if any NA/EU team is down 0-2 to a korean team in groups and they just run standard lanes again I'm gonna be pissed. It just further cements that NA is a joke region that has no faith in themselves to redefine the game
In my opinion, a "wildcard" region being on victory's doorstep against Korea's number 1 team (when no other western team looked remotely close to doign the same against their respective competition) just shows that there is a fundamental problem to being meta-slaves and being afraid to redefine how the game is played, and what it takes to win.
fucking love 2nd week of worlds man....every game feels like the most intense fucking thing ever.
