Well then............

dakm102·Apr 16, 2017·2 votes·1,110 views

This week was a heartbreaker in that every great story was crushed quite convincingly. Fnatic starts looking great and 3-0s H2K with their crazy animal style that could maybe finally be the way to bring down g2............. and they get lose 3-1. P1 rises from challenger to be a real powerhouse team and also 3-0s their opponents in DIG which means they might stand a chance................ 3-oed. Misfits manage to get the crazy reverse sweep and look really good in their three final games and maybe could upset UOL......... nope 3-0. But maybe Flyquest can finally end the TSM streak with their chaotic style after reverse sweeping CLG.......................................................................... 3-0ed. and all the teams that won honestly played a much more boring style (except for UOL but they are UOL) than their counterparts which made it agonizing to watch. still supporting FlyQuest all the way :D

8 Comments

AkaliholicApr 17, 20172 votes

Yeah agree, but I still have hope because I believe FlyQuest has really great potential. And Moon has shown himself to be a bonafide badass in the Jungle. Maybe one of the best Junglers in NA LCS.

None of the 3 games that Fly lost were true "shutouts". They definitely made TSM work for it, and in fact, in a few of the games, if Altec's Ashe arrows had been more on point, the games might have gone in a completely different direction.

Kings AvatarApr 18, 20171 votes

wait what? great potential? id agree that moon has some potential but the rest of the team? they have been around forever and none of them are really improving so idk how you think they will become some great new team. id bet most of the team isnt on the roster next split.

AkaliholicApr 18, 20171 votes

I'll admit, most of them are mechanically mediocre players. But strategically they are honestly pretty decent, and a lot of their flaws could be worked around if they focus on improving their strengths. Mechanics matter in winning at worlds vs Koreans and such, but you can easily take NA finals just with good strategy.

With how much experimentation we've seen from them this season, I think it'd be underestimating them too much to say they don't have potential to get a lot better. Don't focus too much on the individual performances, because that's only half the story in this game. (Though tbh, I feel like Balls is unfortunately a weak link, but other than that I think they can work with their current roster)

I'm not saying they are really going to the top or anything though. Just that they can at least put up a good fight for NA finals eventually.

Kings AvatarApr 18, 20171 votes

dude i think your seeing this through rose colored glasses, hai has good strats. the rest of the team just does what he says. as i said before moon has potential and yes hai is sometimes an aggressive enough shotcaller to come off as being super amazing strategically. i dont think hai wants to play anymore anyway but put him on a team with a good top and bot lane and ya maybe they be pretty decent. but in this day and age lemmon and balls mechanics are just way to low to ever become top teir again. hai has to be aggressive because they lose every lane every game. put hai as the mid laner of envy now you have a fucking team.

KotexApr 17, 20171 votes

Yea back to back to back 3-0s..... not very entertaining...

Not sure if thats a statement about the teams or the game, or both.

Kings AvatarApr 18, 20171 votes

mostly teams. anyone who would actually analyze tsm vs fly would easily predict a 3-0 maybe 3-1 cause of cheese. nothing unexpected

GeminiRuneApr 17, 20171 votes

Yeah. Kinda blows how this week turned out. But it was most of the expectations. The way I had summed up the series of semifinals was like:

Fnatic ran out of magic (something something UOL copyright). Probably the best series this weekend nonetheless
Phoenix 1 didn't reestablish themselves against C9 particularly. For that they pretty much fell into a sleeper hold that whole series.
Misfits did at least pull one game...while proceeding to cast people in fear of Lulu mid still being viable.
Flyquest was probably the most expected of results. People played the meme game though. Nothing wrong with that given reputations.

And for my personal added bonus:

KT beating Samsung 3-0: was expecting quite a more defined series. Honestly I found it to be the worst of the series this week among the major playoff regions in regards to what could have happened and the strength of both teams beforehand. FLY/TSM didn't deliver in the competition either but at least there was that reality where they get 3-0'd. P1/C9 also did the same due to that whole substitute factor from Week 9.

Oh well. At least next week is a big finals week cept for LPL. Hopefully those won't all be blowouts.