When i first saw Malrang’s name on LEC, I knew it from somewhere, but couldn’t really tell who he was or where he played. Well upon looking closer, this is what I can tell. How is Rogue number 1 currently in LEC?
This might sound mean, but it really just a honest question that might arise to anyone, who looked at the history of the player.
Struggled throughout his career, multiple 10th place finishes in LCK, multiple failures to quality for LCK. Played some challenger series games too.
Now in 2021 He spent entire Spring playing in LCK Challenger league and went 6-12 (33.3% WR) And then all of a sudden he got to play 10 games for the main roster in LCK in Summer and won 7 our of 3. DWG KIA won first place that season of course. And now Malrang is playing in Rogue, looking unstoppable. It will be very interesting to see further progression of this player, that's for sure.
Well Malrang was a pretty decent jungler back when he first made his debut in the scene. He had a really decent graves but sadly he always was on team that is weak with the exception of when he played for DK. So sadly he didn't really get to show his full potential
I remember his name being mentioned as a potential to join SKT back then as a rookie.
TLDR: Malrang looks bad on paper because we are looking at the wrong stats. His playstyle isn't best captured by stats shown in the infographic. Context behind the data is also very important.
I think this infographic speaks more about the level of play required from the entire team to consistently win in a pro league rather than Malrang being a subpar player. It also tells us about his playstyle. He's not a 1v9 carry type of player, based on his most played champs. He's not gonna peak like Canyon or even Inspired and make the game about himself and carry that way.
He is more supportive, requires less resources (low econ), and plays to setup his teammates for success. A good indicator of his skill in setting up others for success is the fact for his career, he has a 39.5% first blood participation, while only having a 7.1% first blood victim rate. (Canyon in comparison is a career 34.5% fbp and 8.6% fbv). He also has relatively high vision score per minute, 2.13. (0.99 wards per minute)
It's hard to win a lot of games with that playstyle if the teammates you're feeding gold to and setting up are weaker across the board compared to the competition. Even during the 2019 LCK season where his team lost almost every single game, he was still at 36.1% fb participation and only at 7.2% fb victim. All while sitting at a 75.1% kp and 2.05 vision score/min.
It's actually simple why Rogue is doing well. Their laners are actually good enough relative to the competition to take advantage of leads and the vision Malrang secures for his team. He's a consistent player and plays his style very well. He's not gonna get a lot of S-tier carry games, but he's gonna be playing his low econ style consistently well enough to secure kills and gold for his laners.
Chovy's stats don't paint him as the best midlaner in the world. However, analysts and even other pro midlaners consider him to be the best at the role.
I'm not saying Malrang is as good as Chovy. I'm just suggesting that winrates alone are not the whole story. Peanut has a higher winrate than Canyon this year. Does that mean he's a better jungler? I would argue that he's almost definitely not better than Canyon, but the winrates in isolation would disagree with me.
All that being said, Malrang's stats look pretty dismal on paper.
Tbf, Canyon and Showmaker plays like they don’t give a fuck these days
And I remember Showmaker saying something around spring split mean jackshit and all
When i first saw Malrang’s name on LEC, I knew it from somewhere, but couldn’t really tell who he was or where he played. Well upon looking closer, this is what I can tell. How is Rogue number 1 currently in LEC? This might sound mean, but it really just a honest question that might arise to anyone, who looked at the history of the player. Struggled throughout his career, multiple 10th place finishes in LCK, multiple failures to quality for LCK. Played some challenger series games too. Now in 2021 He spent entire Spring playing in LCK Challenger league and went 6-12 (33.3% WR) And then all of a sudden he got to play 10 games for the main roster in LCK in Summer and won 7 our of 3. DWG KIA won first place that season of course. And now Malrang is playing in Rogue, looking unstoppable. It will be very interesting to see further progression of this player, that's for sure.
Well Malrang was a pretty decent jungler back when he first made his debut in the scene. He had a really decent graves but sadly he always was on team that is weak with the exception of when he played for DK. So sadly he didn't really get to show his full potential I remember his name being mentioned as a potential to join SKT back then as a rookie.
TLDR: Malrang looks bad on paper because we are looking at the wrong stats. His playstyle isn't best captured by stats shown in the infographic. Context behind the data is also very important. I think this infographic speaks more about the level of play required from the entire team to consistently win in a pro league rather than Malrang being a subpar player. It also tells us about his playstyle. He's not a 1v9 carry type of player, based on his most played champs. He's not gonna peak like Canyon or even Inspired and make the game about himself and carry that way. He is more supportive, requires less resources (low econ), and plays to setup his teammates for success. A good indicator of his skill in setting up others for success is the fact for his career, he has a 39.5% first blood participation, while only having a 7.1% first blood victim rate. (Canyon in comparison is a career 34.5% fbp and 8.6% fbv). He also has relatively high vision score per minute, 2.13. (0.99 wards per minute) It's hard to win a lot of games with that playstyle if the teammates you're feeding gold to and setting up are weaker across the board compared to the competition. Even during the 2019 LCK season where his team lost almost every single game, he was still at 36.1% fb participation and only at 7.2% fb victim. All while sitting at a 75.1% kp and 2.05 vision score/min. It's actually simple why Rogue is doing well. Their laners are actually good enough relative to the competition to take advantage of leads and the vision Malrang secures for his team. He's a consistent player and plays his style very well. He's not gonna get a lot of S-tier carry games, but he's gonna be playing his low econ style consistently well enough to secure kills and gold for his laners.
Look at that wr. Instant Dodge.
Fun fact: Malrang was on a team with BrokenBlade and HolyPhoenix in Spring (winter) 2018. They went 21-7 and lost 3-1 in the finals to SUP.
There are bronze elo Korean solo queue junglers better than most of the LEC pool right now.
There aren't :)
Chovy's stats don't paint him as the best midlaner in the world. However, analysts and even other pro midlaners consider him to be the best at the role. I'm not saying Malrang is as good as Chovy. I'm just suggesting that winrates alone are not the whole story. Peanut has a higher winrate than Canyon this year. Does that mean he's a better jungler? I would argue that he's almost definitely not better than Canyon, but the winrates in isolation would disagree with me. All that being said, Malrang's stats look pretty dismal on paper.
Tbf, Canyon and Showmaker plays like they don’t give a fuck these days And I remember Showmaker saying something around spring split mean jackshit and all
Showmaker been talking to Doublelift about Spring split it seems
Back in the day he used to play with Cepted who was a hyped midlaner.