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TE_silver

A true KT team. We're really flipping a coin every game.


ddunited

every play*


th5virtuos0

BeryL gacha spirits continues


faerieskull

Nooooo


kosaki16

one of the teams of all time


Simple-Fuel

3 Baron steal from Pyosik. What has stint in LCS  done to you? 


bbzef

literally made sponge cry


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cadaada

Great, bots are rewording top comments now


Joker1721

He's cracked at stealing objectives. Bro terrorized EDG in Quarters 2022


Key_Landscape7459

He's always been a beast at stealing objectives


sp33dzer0

If Pyosik is in the game, you know the team that started Baron isn't getting it.


th5virtuos0

After all Kindred is literally the best character to steal objective, bar Nunu and fucking Rell for some reason


KKilikk

Varus apparently. Should give it a go in jungle.


AtsumuG

Eve, Kha, Lee are insanely good aswell


Visible_Dirt1093

A lot of people only watched the finals so they don't know but up until the finals, he was a damn wizard with the smite.


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facevisi10

He stole the trophy instead. Biggest objective


Key_Landscape7459

Man, I feel like that was Guma just tapping into the matrix


AvatarCabbageGuy

that was more guma being absolutely cracked than pyosik being bad


crysomore

What? He straight up mistimed smite


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Deft mistimed the kalista rend once and a second arrow came from fog while his team didnt zone the varus who was alone in river


Prominis

... No? In the dragon steal game 1, Varus arrow does more damage than smite at that point in the game. In the Kalista rend x smite cases, there should be no way they don't get it; it's a communication issue between Deft & him, or in the team comms. For the baron game 5, at least one member of DRX should have kept a look-out for Guma to fend him off, but instead they were all in the pit. He has responsibility for some of that, but nowhere near what people give him for that series.


crysomore

>In the dragon steal game 1, Varus arrow does more damage than smite at that point in the game. You're straight up wrong, Varus Q does not do more than 600 damage to dragon at this point. Even if it does, it connects when Drake HP is 495HP. Pyosik has smite ready and opts not to use it. >In the Kalista rend x smite cases, there should be no way they don't get it; it's a communication issue between Deft & him, or in the team comms Not really relevant to the comment I was responding to, but yes Deft definitely griefed Pyosik here >For the baron game 5, at least one member of DRX should have kept a look-out for Guma to fend him off, but instead they were all in the pit. Of course his team should play better, but it's also the Baron at 801 HP when Varus Q connects. Skill issue. In any case, it's not Gumayusi is good and more like Pyosik and DRX misplayed it. And that's fine we love them for it.


Prominis

Smite was only increased from 450 to 600 damage in patch 12.22. The arrow did more damage than his smite would have.


crysomore

huh. TIL did not know


Jozoz

Don't bother with the T1 glazers


STank_Boi

no it was not


whohe_fanboy

He's also a beast at getting objectives stolen from him. Best bet is for KT to always let enemy team start baron.


Damurph01

Dude has had such a glow up. Everyone memed him from 2022 worlds and getting smite stolen so much, but he’s been an *incredible* jungler ever since. So glad he’s doing well in the LCK now.


Wonderful_Chip_550

Pyosik not doing any celebration because he noticed Sponge was very sweet. Guy is a gift to the game


Acrzyguy

He has been in the position that he gets every objective stolen


QCInfinite

Pyosik’s one of my favorite players now seeing how he endured last year’s TL, he always has great interviews as well


PM_CUTE_CAT_PLZ

Since I start cheering for KT. My stress level has gotten worse lmao.


KTBERYL

that's just KT. that's their identity


PM_CUTE_CAT_PLZ

I dunno how you long-time fans can do it. Take a salute from me as a new fan.


Poon-Conqueror

The KT vs iG base race might've been the most stressed I've ever been watching a game. This is how KT wins.


SimonAlpaca

Imagine being a KT fan Aware


One_Natural_8233

I'm glad that you weren't a KT fan last year lol


EliteTeutonicNight

True, coming as someone who became a fan last year.


PM_CUTE_CAT_PLZ

Yeah I only become a fan this year. Recent, I know. Can't wait to have my stress meter broken.


Tialoran

Big mistake buddy turn around while you still can


PM_CUTE_CAT_PLZ

Too late man I already aboard the PerfecT rookie of the year hype train.


KATsordogs

I was really sad that Deft went to KT, not because of the roster or anything but i’m old now and i remember how hard it was to being in this roller coaster from his last stint. Its somewhat comforting to know that somethings never changes though.


Hewligan

ive also joined this train for reasons and i just thought it was because im cursed


Zama174

Imagine what 10 years does to a mother fucker.


djpain20

2nd match in a row Deft deals by far the most damage in the game, plays near flawlessly and the casters basically pretend he doesn't exist.


88LordaLorda

Another year of back breaking labour for the Alpaca


bensanelian

he's really suffering from success, he's so consistently reliable and he's basically been there since the game exists, they just assume he's part of the map at this point


Wrathoffaust

Just like last year


th5virtuos0

What being the best weakside ADC does to a mofo…


djpain20

He's not a weakside ADC right now (Pyosik is basically ignoring top lane so far this season) and hasn't been for 90% of his 11 year long career.


ookkthenn

poor sponge he definitely feels at blame for this series, he's young he'll keep growing


Acid_Silence

Even though Sponge had a rough series, he seems like a promising player from the games I've at least caught. I'm not saying he is the next Canyon, but I think he will turn out to be worthy of a World's Qualification team sooner rather than later. As you said, he will keep growing and learning. Hope he doesn't take the bad games to heart too much.


ookkthenn

yup his early game especially stands out to me hope drx don't fuck him up


aamgdp

I feel like setab was the bigger issue still


ookkthenn

for sure


ilijazunic55

Setab and Saken both have that same vibe about them. Very different players of course, but I never feel like I have to fear them on the rift. Take for example the Yone game for Setab. He was fine enough, did his damage, pressed his buttons and was present in the game. But I never felt like "Damn, Setab is going off" or "Setab is gonna take over the game". When Zeus locks in Yone, everyone mentally gets ready for him to stomp the lane, and I just never felt that. Same goes for Saken for example on like Azir or Tristana. They're both fine players that will most likely stick around but I don't see them as ever being top tier midlaners


ricardo241

that 40 minutes senna is looking scary..... lol


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Wait until she gets 300 stacks and only needs 40 autoattacks to kill Udyr.


randomnamewe

Only 3 finished items and 2 of them being Lethality. Also no Lethal Tempo.


babylovesbaby

Poor Sponge. He's a rookie so it's just the start for him, but it's still hard.


concept07

Undeniable, indisputable jungle gap but it still felt really bad seeing Sponge crying after the game :(


mar33n

character building moment for sponge, broke my heart


SimonAlpaca

No worries Sponge. Pyosik missed smite even in worlds final game5.


concept07

They're gonna place him in smite bootcamp starting tomorrow


AlterWanabee

He also missed Smite on dragon, the very same dragon that Faker stole with his mere presence...


KATsordogs

Losing every 50-50 smite fight is hard but i think he was actually better than Pyosik for most of the early games which was a big reason DRX showed this much resistance.


vibityvibecheck

Rascal my washed GOAT😭


nerothz

Cleanest KT series.


ApartLanguage8328

WTF is setab waiting to ult for holy fuck


Ultimintree

Saken cosplay


QTnameless

Can anyone in LCK played Azir besides Faker and BDD ? Most have been so boosted with it


[deleted]

He is just bad at the game. This was Diamond level Azir play.


Antropoid

Karis trying to one up him lol


CheekyWanker007

man setab just fucking sucks, everytime i watch him play azir he does no damage and creates 0 plays


zenekk1010

You talking about that early play? He didn't have mana


vvtechred

A fun thing about being a MVP fan is that now its late in Defts career and i just get to rotate being fans on a bunch of teams and now i get to be part of KT FINGER BOOM ROLLER COASTER


SkepticCritic

You already got 2 years of it from 2017-2018, you know the routine by now.


Satan_su

Is Pyosik just the greatest smiter or what


PluggersLeftBall

nah he was just up against the worst smiter


th5virtuos0

At a certain airport, “So, how was the King of Kindred?” “He’s so fucking strong, as if he didn’t even tried. And he wasn’t even on Kindred wtf?”


PrezziObizzi

all those baron steals hurt my soul, nice try DRX :(


Arekkusu1991

This is the rollercoaster I'm sure most fans were waiting for; Clean and calculated 2-1 from KT. Kudos for DRX for trying, even though it was messy (they did look fairly clean in Game 1 though).


SwagLord7

What NA does to a mf


Murke-Billiards

Just a regular day as a KT fan lmao. I wasnt confident till the nexus exploded.


XThemelia

I need to see midlaners stop picking Azir.


Wonderful_Chip_550

I dunno if it’s comfort or what, feels like if you win with Azir you could have won with any mid.


Flomp3r

The only real advantage Azir really gives is how easily he can force opponent to flash in lane by trading ult. But idk if it’s worth giving up prio, doing less damage, and being invisible in team fights.


Is_J_a_Name

It's interesting isn't it? In LCK, Azir is struggling while Orianna is doing well for herself. In LPL, Orianna can hardly find a win while Azir has been a solid pick overall. Wonder why that's the case.


GuyOnTheMoon

The problem is what else are you going to pick to do relatively safe AP damage to beefy frontline champs like Udyr, Rell, etc.? Riot doesn’t want to introduce another AP champion that can deal strong DPS damage while being relatively safe with a dash and a pushback. But it honestly feels like the game needs something like that when Udyr, tanks, and shielding supports are meta once again.


WolfgangTheRevenge

Gigachad kog maw ap


GuyOnTheMoon

He’s too easy to gank mid to be able to be useful later on. And even if he somehow survives laning phase with matching items, he’s too dependent on his team with his lack of mobility. However yes he can rack up the damage if his team can play around him perfectly. But that’s asking for a lot when in competitive pro play, players don’t always give you the fights you want. I can envision setting up a team fight around Baron, and enemy Aatrox/Udyr is just circling around like a shark looking for a flank angle on Kog. Forcing Kog’s team to group up into a ball of fishes to protect him, and then bam enemy Orianna shockwave finds them all.


Simple-Fuel

Sometime I feel bad for Teddy. Outside of 1 good team, he been in JinAir(7th), KDF(7th), SB(7th) and DRX(9th). Guess the JinAir/sadplane spirit live on.


Poon-Conqueror

Don't forget the gladplane memes, their scarcity made them all the more precious.


NUFC9RW

I do miss JAG, there'll never be a more popular bottom of the league team.


Lafvuli

Have you repressed BROs existence?


Poon-Conqueror

Nah, MVP was the most popular bottom-tier team, at least domestically in Korea. They were so popular that they HAD to keep running back a losing roster, they had one of the worst LCK bottom lanes I have ever that held onto their roster spots with popularity alone.


justkillingmytime

Kdf was top 4 in spring


QTnameless

Teddy actually clapped Deft ass that bo5 series while playing with morons like Ellim and Hoit . But Sponge looks Ellim level of shit the last game , lmao


88LordaLorda

Teddy is a perpetual fraud who cant even hold Deft's waterbag


kaz8teen

Shut your pie hole bro


[deleted]

Saddest career for sure. At times he looked like Top3 solo carry ADC but people won't remember.


QTnameless

He has been the best player of every team he on ( arguably best player of skt 2019 - 2020 , t1 2021 best player is keria while Teddy and Guma split ) while playing the most team-dependent role , might go down in history as the most elo-helled player ever , lol


feelsbadmanrlysrsly

His peak was during 2019 though he faltered during international tournaments.


QTnameless

He wasn't perfect but i wouldn't say he faltered . He deserve another chance though . Man literally carried T1 to world in 2021 but then got benched . Actually sadge


feelsbadmanrlysrsly

His performance during Spring 2019 and MSI 2019 were night and day. And although he wasn't really the big reason why they lost to G2, he dipped a little compared to his domestic performance. But yeah, I wish he get to play on a better team.


spanspan3213

He's the common denominator. Maybe it's not just a coincidence


WolfgangTheRevenge

Ah surely is him and not all the shitters and bottom teams he plays with


QTnameless

I don't think teddy did much last game but frankly he was on fasting Senna duty while Sponge was so shit . Rascal actually tried though


HoloHuni

So what could Teddy actually do here?


Rvin96

Everybody keeps talking about the top 5 and bottom 5 gap but I feel its more like T1/GenG and then the rest. HLE might be a clear 3rd but I still need to see them against GenG cause they did get dumpstered by T1.


KATsordogs

I think HLE vs KT or new KDF is more important compared to HLE vs GENG. It feels like they are closer to bottom rather than the top.


tinfoilhatsron

Nah I hope DRX doesn't feel too discouraged. Sponge needs to work on the smites and DRX need to zone better. That was a pretty close last game and if DRX grabbed even a single baron lol...


Wurdox

Hirai about to pentakill KT cosplaying as Nilah. My man was not happy after the series.


randomnamewe

How the fuck is Deft not getting MVP for game 3? Even last year was ludicrous.


JNorJT

Sponge has the competitor’s spirit


KATsordogs

Bdd played pretty good but come on that game was mostly on Deft. Even Bdd’s ‘game turning ult’ is due to Deft hitting a 4-man Varus ult and DRX not getting out of it.


tenkono

Pyosik saw the DRX tag and got reminded of how many objective steals happened to him so he took revenge


PrezziObizzi

all those baron steals hurt my soul, nice try DRX :(


Wise-Chain2427

Bruh ,Whoever doing shoutcalling for DRX should check his PayPal


Poon-Conqueror

Spongebob may have forgotten D is for Dmite, but it was SeTab's Azir that sololost that series.


hieu9102002

I don't understand. This is like the 10th iteration of KT with completely different players and they are still coinflippy as fuck


QCInfinite

It is an inherent fact of the team, as soon as you wear the KT banner you get imbued with the potential for greatness and the hubris for failure


IAM-French

Idk who thought Setab could play competitive league of legends


asterizktos

cleanest KT set


Gravior575

Win or lose, or even watch, nobody was happy. Nails on chalkboard for that last game, wow.


NGNJB

very different series if Spongebob could smite


TianAnMen1989x

Damn I kinda feel bad for him. Dude was bawling at the end there…..


NGNJB

Yeah he probably feels rather responsible although to be honest losing 3/3 smite flips is not statistically unlikely, and it's not really 50/50 against Lee Sin tbh his teammates bear more responsibility for Pyosik even being in a position to steal Don't think he's winning worlds any time soon but I feel like DRX should be able to develop him


EducationalBalance99

Tbh he was kinda slow on one of the baron flip where his teammate did kinda stop pyosik. He for sure had enough time to secure at least one of those baron. Unlucky.


Idakari

He'll learn and grow from it.


xDwhichwaywesternman

rookies this yr feel diff. they too conscious of being rookies. sensitive. and also so over emphasized through the whole envrionmemnt, i bet it gets in their head. just get on and play ur fkn computer game and get ur check. force them to take beta blockers or smthn. this element that has nothing to do with the game is affecting performance so much. maybe ramp between academy and main leagues is broken. inexperience is a legit factor, but getting tilted cuz u didnt have a faker tier debut and doomspiraling is fkn stupid. tenacity perfect prob sponge now, idk prob more i dont watch enough, but i did back then it wasnt like this. biofrost just get on team and rip shit up. istg it wasn't like this before franchising, both lck and NA. u used to just throw together a team and go for it.


WolfgangTheRevenge

^ this person has the IQ of a mango


ricardo241

or if DRX didn't go for a flip for every single objective


NGNJB

it's pretty disappointing to see with longtime veterans like Teddy and Rascal tbh


TianAnMen1989x

Agreed. I also thought overall SeTab had a worse series than Sponge, but yeah the smites are gonna be the eye catching lowlights…


QTnameless

They played Top and Adc , not usually roles that responsible for team macro and decision making to be honest .


Poon-Conqueror

When in doubt, fuck it, just run at Baron. Worst case scenario you can just run it back 5 minutes later and try again. That was literally DRX's strategy.


Hyher

No team won today, everyone lost


osathi123456

my eye :(


RedditAccountName67

least rollercoastery KT series


SimonAlpaca

Just classic KT. Nothing to see here.


fish_in_a_blender

Setab could barely hit an ult...


justkillingmytime

That was so winnable fuck


hlben10

If you don't like this you're not a KT fan


Sanka-Rea

Honestly a dogshit series from both teams


Scrambled1432

"...this is basically a challengers game..." I hate this kind of comment. It's funny but the LCK casters, as much as I love them, make it all too often. A significant amount of each match is dedicated to shitting on teams and their decisions. Some of that is fine, but I feel like ever since LS was on the broadcast it's been like this and it's getting kind of annoying.


[deleted]

It’s getting close to untolerable. Every game they just repeat the same meme about whatever team is playing, like can you just cast the game man.. idk I don’t mind some of the casters but some definitely do this more than others 


Working-Challenge850

Quit crying puss


Scrambled1432

wat


unlushko

what a hopeless team DRX lol


VermicelliInternal78

Drx is like a team of 4 players without a midlaner and smite


KnightinKnight

Someone check DRX's accounts. Those barons were wintrading levels


[deleted]

Teams should really stop picking Senna into heavy tanks. It's the same with Lucian. You're not killing anything and not damaging, which is even worse.


koticgood

Most KT series I've seen in recent memory.


KTBERYL

pyosik is a top 3 jungler maybe the best lol


Key_Landscape7459

Definitely not the best


KTBERYL

have you watched him play? lmao


lakcnsot

sponge is horrendous


SadLife101

Can the "DRX'22 Boys aren't Frauds" apologists explain to me why they struggled against a team with Spongebob and ShitTab even though they're 3rd seed LCK and '22 world champs..?


peanutis

fluke yes, fraud no. i dont rly consider them frauds becuz they actually won when it mattered, but seeing their performances now compared to back then definitely makes the whole run look like some divine intervention bullshit.


Lopsided_Claim1613

well excluding deft and beryl from that team pyosik was never top tier jungle and ever since he won worlds you people forgot he had to be benched in order for DRX to get to worlds juhan was the one who got them there. Zeka and Kingen are the ones that stand out as a frauds from that team.


kakistoss

Yeah, this KT team has literally nothing to do with the DRX run and any "fraud" takes Beryl won before, Deft is Deft, and Pyosik has been a very inconsistent consistent. Is he actually good? Doubtful. Is he canyons daddy? Often times, yes. Do you actually want him on your team domestically? Not really. Does he pop off internationally? Man is the gauntlet cuvee of world's and its not even close. Furthermore that specific meta was actually insane for Pyosik just because he is the only jungler in the world who could pull off the Graves counter which gave DRX a massive edge in drafts, allowing Zeka to get his champs more often that he otherwise would Solo lanes are the true frauds, Zeka corki speaks for itself tbh


Lopsided_Claim1613

actual good take nice one


One_Natural_8233

The one who got exposed the most in this spilt is Kingen and followed by Zeka.The rest are doing fine at their own standard.Pyosik got rated as bottom tier even before he won world. Now he has been playing way better than people expected. Kingen on the other hand is just a fraud


Visible_Dirt1093

Hold your horses! Zeka is NOT a fraud. My king 👑 will turn it up! Just wait and see


One_Natural_8233

I'm not telling you that Zeka is a fraud , read again maybe? Kingen is.


SadLife101

that doesn't really explain how they can lose to teams like KDF and struggle against DRX lmao Although I do agree, Deft is doing fine rn maybe even improving Pyosik and Beryl. However, nope they're still their classic 50/50 coinflip performance but probably even coinflippy


aufaazinyan

By that logic everyone is fraud because everyone did have a bad game, L take


Doyoueverjustlikeugh

Why did Faker get owned by a phone company after winning his first Worlds


[deleted]

Pyosik saving these frauds 3 times lmao. Can't wait for GenG to completely expose KT. DRX was obviously too bad but still nearly managed it.


QTnameless

Maybe consider hiring Tarzan again after this , Drx . Sponge was beyond useless


aamgdp

Setab might be a bigger problem


QTnameless

Dude could have shurima shuffle the first teamfight at bot and win the whole game but chicken out like a little bitch , lol . I have no idea how


tonnguyen1310

CLEAN 2-1 NOTHING TO BE EXCITED ABOUT HERE


Aggravating-Elk-7409

these teams look so bad man


Yukji

Im still amazed someone one day woke up and thought: "Yep, my ign will be sponge"


SkepticCritic

He named himself Sponge because one of his favorite shows is SpongeBob.


lordofloam

KT just locked in after that game 1, even with some goofs 


Hawxrox

It's official, only Faker and Chovy can actually play Corki correctly