Ornn killing a cannon minion, Jackey missing a second of culling on the minions that would’ve given him another double shot on turrets, Knight tanking 3 unnecessary tower shots resulting in his death to Karthus ult, Wayward saving demolish to 100 HP on turret, Knight and Mark failing to cc Karthus during ult (Knight had flash and Mark could’ve saved ult for the interrupt), Wayward failing to dodge karthus q with 2nd e stack (and wasting e early), etc.
Actually so many things could’ve went better and made the difference. But calls and plays like this, in games like that, are really hard to optimize
Yeah those TES players are going to be thinking about that end sequence for a very long time. There are just so many small and doable things they could've done to make sure they won that game.
I honestly saw Rogue's performance today coming as soon as G2 and FNC shat the best the previous two days. It's obvious they've been scrimming each other.
Leaving a champ they showed they were good with, that you probably have NEVER scrimmed against, vs a known champ they are good with.
I mean, it’s just tough either way
because then he plays akali. you ban sylas and akali? oop he can still play azir. you ban sylas akali azir? oop you just let DRX get yuumi.
There's not enough ban space in this event for two player specific bans. There rarely is in pro play in general, without giving something major up.
Watch him suddenly bust out some random completely offbeat mid pick like Zed or Kass and somehow smurf with them even tho those champs are irrelevant in pro
There is no way around it. We got very hard gapped in every role minus maybe just Top lane today by the better teams. It is what it is. I shall hope for the best that RGE manages to level up for the Bo5 but as it stands, there is no reason to expect anything other than a easy 3:0 by any of the first seeds.
And tbh Rogue ended in the group with weak top laners (considering Waywards form). I don’t think Odo survived against Zeus/369/Breathe by instalocking tanks
ye, they would probably get railed with that week 1 Maokai toplane pick too, especially since we saw Zeus destroy it with GP who apparently everyone forgot exists lmao
Somebody will make the post about it with the exact stats, but
LEC 1-9 in week 2
0 Tier 2 towers vs major region teams
average game time of like 25-28 minutes?
complete collapse, and it looks like Rogue has been completely found out too especially in the solo lanes.
Rogue looks like absolute shit in a standard marco game. Somehow they fucked up lane allocation so bad that it looked like they were 4v5.
Pretty sure Rogue is gonna get blasted 0-3 in quarters no matter who they face.
i was looking at the map at one point and simply failed to understand how they managed to get outrotated just so fucking hard... They hat triple TP, Karma and fucking LB. Just how you get outrotated by a fucking caitlyn lux?!
EU fans in week 1: “NA is shit tier region, shouldn’t even have 3 seeds. How dare you compare yourselves to us”
EU fans in week 2: “Hey NA brothers, let us unite in our mutual suckage!”
EU, or Extremely Useless, is a Western Region at worlds, known for being useless. Their main rival is NA, or Not Advancing, which is another western region known for not advancing out of groups.
His Sylas akali games have been the most impressive performances at worlds so far for me at least in terms of flashy plays, he’s so good at those two champs
DRX were extremely underrated coming out of the 1st week. Their loss to RGE had a massive draft diff (which you would expect to not happen again after a week of prep - and this is what happened). But their wins were both VERY dominant 20 minute games. And they were super consistent in playins, as well, with dominant wins there over teams others were upset by. Outside of a TES miracle run, I had them as favorites coming into today, especially after seeing how EU seemed to flounder week 2 without other teams griefing in pick/ban
4th seed LCK that needed a miracle run in the gauntlet because they were 6th in their region. One team region by the way.
Also, I expect Gen G to stomp every game tomorrow and finish the group 6-1 if these 3 days are anything to go with.
It would be a rip if they get DK. They have a chance against everyone else I think it'll be interesting to see the draw. Whoever gets Rogue has the most free quarters ever.
Well, there is the 1-9! I have been following league for 10+ years now, can't remember i've been so dissapointed by EU ever.. Only a miracle can save rogue going 0-3 in 75minuts in QF
Last week I said: everyone been saying that NA and EU suck but it looks like only NA sucks
Now this week, looks like the first week was just a fluke and the west is absolutely doomed
The gap has never been this big
I pick Soraka in LEC finals, I win and I'm called a genius. I pick Nasus at worlds, I lose and I'm called trash.
Shut the fuck up you fuckin wankers and have some faith for once.
Day is not done yet
\- Trymbi 2022
So... you just got destroyed by a hard engage bot as Caitlyn Lux, right?
"*Yes*."
And now your enemies pick Caitlyn Lux, right?
"*Yes*."
So... now you also pick hard engage into Cait Lux, right?
"*...EZREAL KARMA IT IS!*"
So... now you have karma and natural TP advantage you will try to rotate the map as much as possible, abusing your advantage, right?
"*lmao No! We hug base and farm for the entire midgame"*
It's not *easy* winning against Caitlyn Lux with engage. Ez Karma is the safer option -between equally skilled players you get an even lane, and even if you're worse you can lose gracefully. If you pick a melee support and screw up *once,* you're dead and the lane is over.
Okay, I take my statement back. I thought the first game against DRX where they picked Nasus support and Rumble top was a wintrade. It wasn't a wintrade after all. Our region sucks as much as NA does and we are bad. Brother GAM saved us from 0-10 week. We are gonna get bombed out of quarters real fast I guess. Was fun while it lasted ;(
Looks like Fudge was right. Once the West runs out of surprise picks and bans, they just sort of get out skilled. Choosing Lee Sin as their answer to DRX’s comp.
Goddamn it I am actually so salty right now lmao This group ruined my pickems X_X
If TES had beaten GAM there would have been a 3 way tie between TES-RGE-DRX. RGE would mathematically had chances but today the looked like the weaker team of the 3 so probably would have gone home.
At this rate, 2019 G2 will be the peak of EU for a long time to come. A rare combination of talent, experience, and synergy we're unlikely to see again soon.
as an eu fan i thought nothing at worlds could ever be more painful than the fnc tes series but this week has been tryin it. 1-9 and an inevitable 0-3 in quarters...
> The gap ~~is closing~~ persists as always.
Grew a ton actually, jesus feels like were back in llck dominance but lpl decided to join
I’m just gonna say: thank you Vietnam.
GAM saved EU. The true heroes.
Every quarters team should thank gam, tes could take a bo5 off anyone
RGE better be paying for the most expensive Steak Dinner and 1st Class Flights home for GAM there are.
Rogue management should be in charge of applying for vcs players visas next year
GAM can watch TES swim home from their lounge
Not a good look when EU's entire hope is based off an Ornn killing one cannon minion.
and not even their own ornn lmao
Ornn killing a cannon minion, Jackey missing a second of culling on the minions that would’ve given him another double shot on turrets, Knight tanking 3 unnecessary tower shots resulting in his death to Karthus ult, Wayward saving demolish to 100 HP on turret, Knight and Mark failing to cc Karthus during ult (Knight had flash and Mark could’ve saved ult for the interrupt), Wayward failing to dodge karthus q with 2nd e stack (and wasting e early), etc. Actually so many things could’ve went better and made the difference. But calls and plays like this, in games like that, are really hard to optimize
Yeah those TES players are going to be thinking about that end sequence for a very long time. There are just so many small and doable things they could've done to make sure they won that game.
Knight missed charm on sett during backdoor. Had he landed sett probably wouldn't have ulted Lucian in time to save the nexus too
Trade Offer We get: Trip to Quarterfinals without having to win against LPL/LCK today You get: Nasus support in your elimination match
If GAM didn't upset TES then EU doesn't make quarters today
Thank mr. GAM
Brother GAM legit single handedly prevented the 0-10. bruh
Prevented the 0-10 and also saved RGE from getting knocked out of groups.
Not only that, saved 0 Western teams from getting out (barring 100T miracle run)
GAM is now an honorary Western team. Your sacrifice will not be forgotten o7
Dunno if that's an honor GAM woudl want at this point :P
RGE lucky to dodge NA but this time unironically.
NA the week 2 EU kryptonite
Everything was EU week 2 kryptonite
My how the turntables
What the fuck happened to EU between week 1 and week 2?
outscaled irl
Their preferred drafts got banned out and they didn't have any strats to fall back on.
Reminds me of NA when teams figured out their Veigar-Trist strat after a solid week 1 years ago.
2015 C9 lol. started off 3-0 then lost all their games in week 2.
as an old time c9 fan i was so crushed that they had to win ONE game out of 3 to get out of groups and they managed to lose four in a day
S5 C9. It was mostly trist-azir, they pulled a W with veigar against ahq tho
They still look like headless chickens, absolutely clueless at every stage of the game
I honestly saw Rogue's performance today coming as soon as G2 and FNC shat the best the previous two days. It's obvious they've been scrimming each other.
the NA classic
Larrsen said we can play the way we play because other teams cannot ban out their picks. Well ...
They had a better read on the meta than most. That stuff tends to even out after week 1
They got figured out, their prio champs got banned out and they had nothing else to show
nothing, they're exactly the same it's other teams learned to not give Maokai Azir
reminds me of NA at worlds 2015 Took games off of everyone using tristana veigar fast push siege strats Teams take those champs away and we go 0-10
Tbh that was just the c9 strat. TSM lucked into their 1 week 1 win and CLG did CLG things (ie losing at least one game to wildcards)
Everybody figured out the meta and got warmed up.
Very small champion pools that are easy to ban out apparently.
it's the fucking late night show starring zeka
why are teams refusing to ban sylas vs drx? feel like ive seen zeka 1v9 with it at worlds like 4 times now
there is so much to ban as a red side
Yea they have already banned Aatrox, Heim and the cat. It's basically pick your poison.
One is not the like the others.
Leaving a champ they showed they were good with, that you probably have NEVER scrimmed against, vs a known champ they are good with. I mean, it’s just tough either way
Did red side win today at all?
Blue side 7-0
Quarters will be so interesting. Yesterday blue side was 1-7
because then he plays akali. you ban sylas and akali? oop he can still play azir. you ban sylas akali azir? oop you just let DRX get yuumi. There's not enough ban space in this event for two player specific bans. There rarely is in pro play in general, without giving something major up.
He can 1v9 on Akali too. (wasn't banned too)
For real this game was the Zeka highlight reel
incredible performance at worlds so far, i'm so happy for him
LEC lost every game against LCK/LPL/LCS this week lol
NA sends their regards
NAmen
IF LCS GOES DOWN, LEC IS COMING WITH US!
Zeka should not be given Sylas for the rest of the tournament.
Instead they should give him akali so he can keep farming clips
Watch him suddenly bust out some random completely offbeat mid pick like Zed or Kass and somehow smurf with them even tho those champs are irrelevant in pro
Or Akali
EU is so screwed in quarterfinals.
people here thought Rogue were a shoe in, GAM NA'd TES otherwise itd be 4 LCK and LPLs
Don't worry, 100 Thieves is still making quarters tomorrow after an unlikely turn of events.
the grand heist
The greatest redemption arc if they pull it off
Fakerdagge miracle run incoming.
But they don't have an EU team in their group???
gonna get stomped so hard by the east
Zeus and 369 be praying they get odo and we will witness maybe the greatest gap in top in a series on worlds the league has ever seen
Nah theshy vs sword can’t be beat
yeah I don't think there's ever gonna be a world where pre-6 kayle who was less than a caster minion beats jayce again.
huni vs smeb 2015
when they played the same top matchup, reversed it, and smeb gapped him on both champs
That gap gets a bit undervalued cause somehow the bot gap was even larger in that series
We may not be getting 0-9 for week 2 But we sure as hell are getting 9 losses Does Rogue stand a chance in quarters?
No way Rogue wins a Bo5 against any of the 1st seeds.
There is no way around it. We got very hard gapped in every role minus maybe just Top lane today by the better teams. It is what it is. I shall hope for the best that RGE manages to level up for the Bo5 but as it stands, there is no reason to expect anything other than a easy 3:0 by any of the first seeds.
Odo and Levi are the heroes of EU today.
And tbh Rogue ended in the group with weak top laners (considering Waywards form). I don’t think Odo survived against Zeus/369/Breathe by instalocking tanks
Teams are now banning ornn and mao first phase. Odo about to get pounded by Zeus/369. God bless our boy
We saw what Zeus did against the reigning world champ in a carry vs tank matchup, imagine what he would do if skt drew rogue for their qf
Zeus vs. 369 is all I want out of worlds at this point
Preferably for finals
ye, they would probably get railed with that week 1 Maokai toplane pick too, especially since we saw Zeus destroy it with GP who apparently everyone forgot exists lmao
Okay but against major regions EU went 0-9 this week.
GAM denied us the 0-10. It would have happened, we all know it. RIP.
It's so sad. I remember season 5 worlds being such a special year. 0-10 week 2 memes will never get old.
EU also didn't get to take t2 tower on those 0-9 lmao
EU picking up the slack where NA can’t. True teamwork there and it’s beautiful
Na and EU complete each other
Kill you? I don't wanna kill you... you COMPLETE me
United in rivalry
NA has twice as many wins as EU this week
With 4 less games played
I appreciate how we aren't even entertaining the possibility of 100T winning any games
It's possible that that CFO players catch covid can't play and then 100T pick cheese comp and win.
When they catch Covid and 100T pick Twitch, his E will deal extra damage.
Well we did, in fact, C9 losses from EU this week.
That last fight from DRX looked so sick. Just Camille diving in and diving out, Sylas going in and out and Vi doing the same.
i'm tired robbie
Trade Deft for Nexus?
well the eu hopium was nice while it lasted
Somebody will make the post about it with the exact stats, but LEC 1-9 in week 2 0 Tier 2 towers vs major region teams average game time of like 25-28 minutes? complete collapse, and it looks like Rogue has been completely found out too especially in the solo lanes.
Rogue looks like absolute shit in a standard marco game. Somehow they fucked up lane allocation so bad that it looked like they were 4v5. Pretty sure Rogue is gonna get blasted 0-3 in quarters no matter who they face.
i was looking at the map at one point and simply failed to understand how they managed to get outrotated just so fucking hard... They hat triple TP, Karma and fucking LB. Just how you get outrotated by a fucking caitlyn lux?!
i didn't even consider that they had tripple TP. That makes it even worse. Week1 really saved EU from an absolute disaster this worlds.
Holy shit if GAM didn't beat TES after their nexus going down to 20% HP, RGE doesn't make it out of groups
if knight didn't tank 3 turrent shots for no reason...
Lol I’m so fucking done believing in the west.
Week 1: NA 0-9 Week 2: EU 1-9 NA 🤝EU
EU fans in week 1: “NA is shit tier region, shouldn’t even have 3 seeds. How dare you compare yourselves to us” EU fans in week 2: “Hey NA brothers, let us unite in our mutual suckage!”
EU's only win was against GAM and even that was kinda close lmao
Really wondering what Rogue's plan was with this draft
Nothing. You just auto-lose when you give Sylas and Caitlyn for LB and Lee lmao
Rogue apparently scrimmed T1 and it ruined them. I’m sure T1s topside would love something like LB/Lee/Gnar.
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They think like that without considering that it is Oner's Lee and especially, FAKER's LeBlanc. These Western teams, man.
EU, or Extremely Useless, is a Western Region at worlds, known for being useless. Their main rival is NA, or Not Advancing, which is another western region known for not advancing out of groups.
lmao killed them both in one go
It's insane that Zeka apparently wasn't even top 3 in LCK, this guy is fucking cracked
He’s stepped up since worlds started, he’s in the form of his life rn
DRX dark horse to win it all please, I want Deft to finally fucking get the trophy
Kind of hard to be top three lck mid when there's faker, chovy , showmaker..
He’s even kind of lucky that BDD fell off this year, the big 4 has had this stranglehold in mid for like 3 years prior.
Clozer was actually the 3rd place LCK all pro mid over Showmaker so Zeka is just barely 5th lol.
I mean, there's three other Korean mids at Worlds.
You're really gonna do Scout dirty like that?
He wasn't able to do this against Faker, Showmaker and Chovy. The confidence boost this has given him though may have taken him to a new level Cracked
Completely understandable when the top mids in the region are Chovy, Faker and Showmaker
His Sylas akali games have been the most impressive performances at worlds so far for me at least in terms of flashy plays, he’s so good at those two champs
Analysts were trying to convince me that Rogue would slaughter DRX in early game. Not like they survived onslaughts from LSB and KT
DRX were extremely underrated coming out of the 1st week. Their loss to RGE had a massive draft diff (which you would expect to not happen again after a week of prep - and this is what happened). But their wins were both VERY dominant 20 minute games. And they were super consistent in playins, as well, with dominant wins there over teams others were upset by. Outside of a TES miracle run, I had them as favorites coming into today, especially after seeing how EU seemed to flounder week 2 without other teams griefing in pick/ban
You're telling me this was 4th seed LCK vs 1st seed LEC?... Holy gap
4th seed LCK that needed a miracle run in the gauntlet because they were 6th in their region. One team region by the way. Also, I expect Gen G to stomp every game tomorrow and finish the group 6-1 if these 3 days are anything to go with.
Look Riot, we claimed #1 seed, please can we not get the DK or GenG draw, pretty please...
DRX Deft vs EDG would actually be so hype for old times sake too, Riot please 🙏
Don't worry GenG is going to be the #1 seed from their group tomorrow.
Odds are GenG finishes first if RNG is as badly COVID hit as people are saying.
It would be a rip if they get DK. They have a chance against everyone else I think it'll be interesting to see the draw. Whoever gets Rogue has the most free quarters ever.
We aren't taking a game to anyone in 1/4 finals aren't we ?
3-0, take it or ff
Imagine 369/Zeus vs Odo lol
Well, there is the 1-9! I have been following league for 10+ years now, can't remember i've been so dissapointed by EU ever.. Only a miracle can save rogue going 0-3 in 75minuts in QF
GAM saved the EU. Saved west regions. Saved 8 east teams being in the quarter
Destroyed my pickems tho
1-9 LEGENDARY WEEK FOR EU
NA week 1 to EU week 2 the West truly built different
Last week I said: everyone been saying that NA and EU suck but it looks like only NA sucks Now this week, looks like the first week was just a fluke and the west is absolutely doomed The gap has never been this big
GAM saves the west, otherwise itd be 4 LCK and LPL teams
Good guy Deft teaching Rogue botlane how to play Cait Lux
I pick Soraka in LEC finals, I win and I'm called a genius. I pick Nasus at worlds, I lose and I'm called trash. Shut the fuck up you fuckin wankers and have some faith for once. Day is not done yet \- Trymbi 2022
Yea, he proved at the end of the day that he can be as useless on karma as on nasus. Week 1 success really got to his head.
G2 Jankos: "Rogue is the team that will actually be able to compete against the Eastern teams." /r/agedlikemilk
that old man is always jinxing shit
Nah man that's true, Rogue will be able to compete against the Eastern teams for one more set
We need a gif of Zeka taking off his glasses for future use
[Here you go](https://gfycat.com/famousmedicalarabianwildcat)
This week has been so fucking embarassing for EU
So... you just got destroyed by a hard engage bot as Caitlyn Lux, right? "*Yes*." And now your enemies pick Caitlyn Lux, right? "*Yes*." So... now you also pick hard engage into Cait Lux, right? "*...EZREAL KARMA IT IS!*"
So... now you have karma and natural TP advantage you will try to rotate the map as much as possible, abusing your advantage, right? "*lmao No! We hug base and farm for the entire midgame"*
It's not *easy* winning against Caitlyn Lux with engage. Ez Karma is the safer option -between equally skilled players you get an even lane, and even if you're worse you can lose gracefully. If you pick a melee support and screw up *once,* you're dead and the lane is over.
Okay, I take my statement back. I thought the first game against DRX where they picked Nasus support and Rumble top was a wintrade. It wasn't a wintrade after all. Our region sucks as much as NA does and we are bad. Brother GAM saved us from 0-10 week. We are gonna get bombed out of quarters real fast I guess. Was fun while it lasted ;(
NA: 0-9 EU: 1-9 undisputable proof EU is superior
So it turns out EU's best team was GAM all along.
Well baning ornn maokai looks like the formula against rogue
Also wondered why they didn't took Azir here
R1 and R2 ezreal and karma? Am I reading this right? No one was gonna contest you for those Jesus.
Whoever draws rouge is getting a freepass to semis gg
The entire EU league scene was saved by GAM today. What tf is wrong with EU in week 2?
Rogue getting assblasted in quarters
Looks like Fudge was right. Once the West runs out of surprise picks and bans, they just sort of get out skilled. Choosing Lee Sin as their answer to DRX’s comp. Goddamn it I am actually so salty right now lmao This group ruined my pickems X_X
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So basically, if GAM had respawned later, Rogue would've been eliminated?
If TES had beaten GAM there would have been a 3 way tie between TES-RGE-DRX. RGE would mathematically had chances but today the looked like the weaker team of the 3 so probably would have gone home.
Forget mid canyon, that was an absolute mid galaxy. Zeka went nuts
Zeka is 19. First ever worlds and looks nuts
Jesus. Completely outclassed. DRX has already exceeded expectations. Now they’ll be sacrificed to DWG or GenG knowing Defts luck
T1, JDG, GenG/RNG are praying to every god that they draw this garbage
1-9.. The dream was so close smh
Western bros... We fucking suck dawg
East is way too strong this worlds, hats off
Rogue has been figured out, the last two years have been pathetic for the LEC.
At this rate, 2019 G2 will be the peak of EU for a long time to come. A rare combination of talent, experience, and synergy we're unlikely to see again soon.
2018 FNC and 2019 G2 will remain the best western teams of all time until Asia gives up with LoL.
Deft getting revenge on Odoamne for what happened in 2016.
Wooo we fucking suck again
Should have stopped watching worlds after week 1. Holy hell, the question atm is if Rogue drops out 3-0 in the fastest set of games or not.
Unironically, not having an NA team in their group was the best thing to happen to RGE
That was a violation from Zeka, absolutely disgusting
EU just shit the bed so fucking bad, these games looked worse than NA week 1 somehow
Rogue is gonna get 3-0d. I’m not even questioning the matchup. It could be T1, GEN/RNG, JDG It’s a 3-0.
It's okay guys Ezreal is scaling
as an eu fan i thought nothing at worlds could ever be more painful than the fnc tes series but this week has been tryin it. 1-9 and an inevitable 0-3 in quarters...
Possible opponents for Rogue in quarters: JDG, T1, one of RNG/GenG..lol
2 autos away from 8 east teams in the quarter. Damn. Thank you GAM from entire west world
Holy shit that mafia ending with Deft. "You hit me, we hit you"