Pentakills in ProPlay

TenshouSNK·8/11/2016, 8:00:00 AM·3 votes·722 views

I have a question about Pentakills in proplay. When a proplayer performs a pentakill on an enemy team, does that mean that the enemy team is not good or weak or is being a victim of a penta an embarrassing and disrespectful thing for the team who are victims to it?

5 Comments

crabface58/11/2016, 9:04:27 AM1 votes

I think it just shows how strong a team is at micro-managing teamfights and how mechanically capable a certain player is. Example, Doublelift and Bjergsen are more probable to get a pentakill rather than Apollo or Mash b/c C9 and TSM/CLG are much more cohesive as a team in intense situations than P1 or Apex is (No disrespect on Apex or P1 <3 )

Xantak8/14/2016, 7:46:24 PM1 votes

Meaning that all the odds aligned in favor of him being a janitor and cleaning up. No, him getting the pentakill doesn't mean stomping. The probability of getting a pentakill is extremely low. The closest I've seen a pro coming into multiple pentakills in one game, would be TSM vs TL last year, when Wildturtle racked up a pentakill in a base defense, and followed that on the next base defense with a quadra. A pentakill doesn't guarantee you a win, as the Wildturtle penta/quadra chain was in a losing effort.

It doesn't matter on the champion used for the pentakill(one of the regions had a Teemo pentakill), as any champion can be used, if you're lucky enough and you build the champion right. Hell, I've gotten one with a full AP Sejuani before.

Pentakills don't mean that there's a stomp in the game, nor is it a disrespectful or embarrassing moment. What's disrespectful or embarrassing, is if a key player tilts on more then a few occasions, or he/she tilts because of something that's preventable. Huni's been known to do both.