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I'm happy a western world is gonna win Worlds but..

AquariusGine·10/30/2018, 5:06:42 PM·1 votes·2,018 views

I can't seem to shake this feeling that it might have something to do with this meta. When you look at the past, we can acknowledge that eastern teams had better communication, coordination and strategy. However, since the start of season 8, the meta has shifted drastically. Actually no, the game itself, is more about brawling. When the game has more fighting and less strategy, results can often be unpredictable. It can often swing either way because no one has superhuman reactions all the time. In addition to that, heavy snowballing rarely allow comebacks at higher level plays so a death or two can often snowball into a loss.

My quesiton is: are western teams just better at brawling& death match type games? Or was it sheer luck that they beat out the eastern teams? I don't know.. it feels kinda dirty winning that way, but maybe I'm wrong.

Someone care to explain? Is the win this year legit? Can we expect other regions like Brazil to win future worlds?

5 Comments

OtterlyLost10/30/2018, 6:07:35 PM1 votes

IDK what you mean by the meta has shifted. This is the kind of Meta that Koreans love. Korean Soloqueue is all about fighting early game and applying early game pressure; that's why so many early game champions are popular over there when they aren't here. Because that's the kind of meta that Korean's like; aggressive and brawl-y.

I think its just that Korea got cocky and got smacked down for it. Or its rigged; who knows. I'm just glad that finally it isn't a Korean team winning. :/ Competition is boring and stale when you know who is going to win. That's why I'd say that the previous two Worlds were less successful; everyone just assumed that SKT would win and at least one of them, they did.

Ale non è male10/30/2018, 6:42:13 PM1 votes

IF Fnatic win, it will be because they would have win 5 games out of 6-8 against the team that beat KT which was the favorite to win Wolrds alongside RNG. iG is a great team indeed, and it will be very very difficult to beat them.

Korea sending two bad teams rather than Griffin and Kingzone (or SKT if Blank stopped inting) obviously helped a lot the other regions, but still EU eliminated one of the 2 World's favorites, won a group to send the 3rd best team in pre tournament ranking to face the best one (iG vs KT) and C9 beat a KR team, even though a pretty bad one, in a Best of 5 and eliminated alongside VIT the other Korean team

TheBentOn310/30/2018, 10:10:20 PM1 votes

Some of both. I think the meta has helped, but I also think that the talent gap has closed enough that the western teams were able to capitalize on the meta shift. Korea (and also RNG), play the safe, get to late game and then win with mechanical superiority style that TSM and 100T try but invariably fail to pull off. They are getting punched in the mouth early because of the meta, and the skill gap closing means they can't go late even or behind and expect to collect free wins anymore.