Here are 5 NA and EU LCS players that are under-performing after the first 3 weeks. They will need to improve their play for their teams to climb the ranks. Let me know who you think has been disappointing so far. Do you agree with my 5 picks, or am I being unfair?
Read the article, could not disagree with 4/5 of those picks more:
Cabochard: Although he may look to be underperforming a decent bit on vitality (who isn't?), if we're looking at the team as a whole then Hachani is without question the biggest one. After having a pretty good split on KT in which many people were calling him the 2nd-best korean support behind gorilla, he looks to have not only regressed massively when it comes to playcalling (the team looking scatterbrained at times) but in overall play (most deaths of any support in EU, and if he wasn't leaving the team he would be on pace to break the record for most support deaths in a split). Cabo's "gimmick" has been a bit like NFL player Derrelle Revis: half man-half boulder who will slowly crush anything that opposes him. When your support is constantly killing your team's tempo, it's kinda hard to be proactive.
Aphromoo: Kinda agree, albeit we could pretty much list all of CLG here. NA got better as a region, they didn't get better at all as a team, and now the meta is slowly forcing them down the standings.
Piglet: While a bunch of people on here seem to think that piglet has regressed massively from his "dominant days", I'm under an entirely different impression. Looking at the ADC meta, it's kinda hard to really fault piglet in any way as not only are utility adc's the "norm" right now (none of this hypercarry stuff that he is known for) but botlane in general is a giant cluster-bleep- with mid mages being played as supports and often doing 2-3x as much damage as their cs'ing lane buddies. If we're going to blame anyone on TL for "botching", look at the Top/Jg. Lourlo is by far the worst toplaner in NA right now, being a massive liability not just in the laning phase (I need to check, but I think he's tied for first among all EU/NA players for most deaths in the first 15mins) but also in overall teamfights (rarely being in the right position at times and often hitting tanks while his carries die off around him). Reignover's a bit of a weird case, as he seems to be thoroughly lost right now without any sort of "buddy" on the team and due to LeeSin-problems he's pretty easy to ban out by other teams.
Pobelter: Not really much to say here. If we want to point fingers at who is to blame for IMT's "averageness", Dardoch seems like a prime candidate due to the constant misplays and predictability with jungle/gank routes. Although Pobelter was kept to give them a "sturdy midlaner", he's not coming off the 2016 that Dardoch had in which he not only won the spring rookie of the split but was also widely considered the 2nd-best jg in NA behind the aformentioned reignover.
Trashy: A bit of an odd selection for "underperforming" jg, as there were not only the two I previously mentioned but also the likes of Amazing (who is apparently being benched in favor of Broxah) Chaser (who looks to be worse than shrimp right now) and if we're including challenger then the always happy Santorin (who is on a GCU team that somehow lost a game to BGJ). Going into 2017, I thought two things about EU: that G2 would win yet another split in a row, and that barring them and 75% of FNC/UOL there were no "high-quality" teams there. Considering both things are happening and Splyce was an average team last year, it's hard to call Trashy "underperforming" when the expectations for the team consisted of not missing playoffs.
