EG at All-Star 2014

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Evil Geniuses is an interesting team. Their solo lanes are as new as new gets, while the rest of the team is vintage Season 2 League of Legends. Most of their popularity stems from their time on CLG.EU, but will that popularity get any of them to the All-Star team?

Top: Innox

Innox is a top laner who's not afraid to take risks. While 4 bruisers have dominated top lane, he has just as many games on Gragas, Yasuo, and Nidalee as he does on Renekton, Shyvana, and Mundo. With the Doran's Shield nerf making room for new top laners like Ryze, Kennen, and Irelia, his experimentation may make for interesting champion choices.

Jungle: Snoopeh

Snoopeh tops the list of attractive LoL players between his Scottish accent and “The Snoopeh Stare”. The meta shifts have not been kind to him, with support junglers falling slowly out of favor since their peak in Season 2, but his camera-seeking personality, and historically clutch play,) have made him an icon of the game.

Mid: Pobelter

Pobelter has been waiting for his chance to shine. Last season, he was considered one of the strongest mids in North America, but was unable to compete due to his age. This year, he was picked up and dropped by Curse in barely a week, and ended up on team EG last-minute. Since then, he's had a shaky season, but has shown glimmers of the hype surrounding him with his play on Gragas. If anybody has potential in the NA scene, it's him, and getting to compete on the international scene would only accelerate that.

AD Carry: Yellowpete

Yellowpete may not be the consistent or flashiest ADC around, but his Urgot picks earlier in the season certainly threw everybody for a loop. In a role that is largely stagnant when it comes to champion picks, it's good to see a throwback to a different time of League of Legends. Will originality be enough to get him to the All-Star team?

Support: Krepo

If Krepo isn't around for All Stars, who is going to steal away pentakills? It's not a pretty job, but somebody has to do it. Krepo also has a storied history as both a player and an analyst, and is a huge part of League of Legends history as a result of epic clashes both with Gambit Gaming and international powers. His personality as shown through the Season 3 Worlds analyst desk as well as IEM Katowice would create a more interesting dynamic in Paris. Mattias "Gentleman Gustaf" Lehman is a League of Legends mathcrafter turned esports journalist who spends his spare time staring at mountains of League of Legends data. Follow him @GentlemanGustaf on Twitter.

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14 Comments

Uofca Guf7 votes

Krepo <3

iJackal7 votes

All u guys at the comments are idiots...CLGeu was not only Froggen and Wickd cuz they were mechanicaly good Krepo and Snoopeh were the shot callers in s4 the half of EG team left and remained the shot calling part in one side and the mechanic part on the other side that team was good cuz of the TEAMWORK that thing is what the competitive scene means TEAMWORK...so the next time u are going to say that krepo snoopeh and pete are bad just thing again the mistake of Froggen...

PadF0ot

Well, let us put it like this. EG is in seventh place in NA while Froggen and his new Alliance took third in EU. I don't care what you "think." I care about the facts. The fact is, you're the idiot.

iJackal1 votes

go back to w1 at lcs alliance was terible cuz of this i dont care about what they are now but all of you are talking bad about this team cuz they are last..

Im TM061 votes

I've been voting for alliance all along, kinda disappointed me how long it took them to finally become the top team we expected them to be in the first place tho

Wastywouter2 votes

Alliance wasn't the superteam it was hyped up to be. They played downright terrible in week 1 and mediocre for the next six weeks on with the occasional glimpse of potential every now and again . It was in superweek 8 where they finally looked somewhat strong and caught up. Weeks of scrimming and over a dozen LCS games later, they got to knew their opponents and began to play like a team a bit. Never underestimate the impact experience and preparation against a team has. I bet that if you pit Alliance against a strong team from a different region they have never played against they would get destroyed. On top of that, Alliance only managed to jump from seventh to third in the final weeks because the heavy competition in EU LCS prevented any of the teams from taking big leads. Froggen is mechanically good (so are the other midlaners in Europe), that doesn't mean he has what it takes to lead a team. Krepo was the analyst and tactical shotcaller in CLG.EU. Also, instead of hyping up Froggen, I would look to the impact Nyph has had in the final weeks. People always seem to overlook him.

Im TM061 votes

I think snoopeh is good but doesnt really fit the meta, krepo is decent but by far not top of the world, and yellowpete has always been the weakest link in my opinion, but theres still definitly potential in the team if they step up their mechanics

Sv0gthir2 votes

Nice try to get them to the All star.. but... no!

Beats by Bae2 votes

I love how all of these people are talking shit about pro players who would dominate them in solo-queue hands down. Yes, EG has not performed great this split: but that doesn't mean they're bad all together. They have individual talents that most teams don't. In fact, Krepo and Yellowpete were considered to have the best bot lane synergy in Europe for quite some time. I would love to see all of you even try to compete against any of these guys on a professional level, then we'll see who's "bad". The fact of the matter is that Krepo, Yellowpete, Snoopeh, Wickd, and Froggen were split in half due to disagreements and each team (EG and Alliance) need to adapt to their new environments. The only person on EG that I would eliminate from the roster is Innox because he's rather inconsistent when it comes to champion select on a professional level. But, in terms of all-stars I think Krepo is the only one that is qualified enough to go due to his consistent and strong play style.

M4tuxnug1 votes

In all actuality, 1nnoX has been the most consistent member of the team, and he has really shown it these past few weeks. Pobelter is a wild card, and can either do really well, or poorly. Snoopeh has some off games, and often initiates too deep (Vi games). Pete hasn't showed up much this season. Krepo will make desperate decisions mid game when they are behind, and put them even further behind. In the midst of all this, nobody has paid any attention to 1nnoX, and neither did I, but almost every game, he has at least kept even in his lane, and pressured the map while EG went for objectives. This past super week, he went 19/3/23, and practically carried the last 2 games along with Snoopeh. Say what you will about 1nnoX, but don't say he's inconsistent or not important to the team.

Rip931 votes

They wont make it no way and they dont deserve it yet!

Rehnzy is Shaco1 votes

Sorry Riot, you can't bring up history to hype last years news. They have underperformed, all of them. If ANYONE were to even get a sub-spot, it'd be Innox! And i have been with K, Y & S since CLG.EU! It's obvious who carried them now, is it not ?

Cryovix1 votes

as great of a history as they have, they in no way deserve to be at all stars, their performance this split was terrible to say the least.

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