After you watch Rush play on his stream at night you wonder?

Anatharion·Oct 4, 2016·1 votes·1,825 views

Each night I take the opportunity to get on Twitch tv and watch ex Tip and C9 Jungler Rush take to the rift. Rush plays the game far faster than any of the rest of us humans are able to. He romps through his jungle far faster than anyone you have ever seen, then takes scuttle then looks for ganks or invades. Once he gets rolling he sets the entire map on fire. His accuracy with skill shots, auto spacing, and mechanics are equal to Faker, Apdo, and Bjergsen. But the amount of map pressure he exhibits in the game is Multiples more than the best players in the world are able to achieve.

On Nidalee he is absolutely unstoppable. I used to main Nidalee, i've watched the LCS, and LCK play Nidalee. Rush's Nidalee is so good that he can beat Faker's Leblanc. On Lee Sin he's a genius. Imagine Svenskeren's Lee Sin but even better like multiples better 3x better maybe. And at world's Svenskeren's Lee Sin has been the best we've seen so far. Last night he played Kha Zix and was so terrifying to the enemy team they had to death ball with their Renekton who was 19/2 and Rush wasn't able to penetrate and get ganks anymore although he sure tried to 1v5 the enemy.

To surmise Rush is one of the top four best players in the world. He is by far the best Jungler. And its a tragedy that this mechanical genius is not at World's or even on a team. My dream is that SKT hires Rush next year and we can see Rush and Faker destroy the rest of the world and show us really that this game can be played at even more inhuman levels than we've yet seen.

18 Comments

Fondling GemsOct 4, 20161 votes

Rush wouldn't fit into an SKT team very well IMO, he really shined in TIP because it was a team that was all about aggressive playing. However you really need a team that is willing to comp around it to go ham like that, and that isn't really SKT's style.

III BAKURYU III Oct 4, 20161 votes

2014 LMQ would loved to have Rush on the team.

Zykklon BOct 4, 20161 votes

Monkey Man

LitAFOct 4, 20161 votes

I just watch cause he speaks english funny*[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]*

hotarseOct 4, 20161 votes

I agree completely. I'd imagine C9 already wishes they had Rush right now considering that Gragas is no longer viable and Meteos' has had to rely on more mechanical jungles because of his small champion pool.

Kal Vas FlamOct 4, 20161 votes

Pretty sure the plan is to have Impact and Rush together next year. C9 gonna be scary af.

Skia AsteriOct 4, 20161 votes

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Pretty sure the plan is to have Impact and Rush together next year. C9 gonna be scary af.

They would need to replace Jensen if they did that unless he gets counted as being from NA instead of EU. Can only have 2 imports per team.

Kal Vas FlamOct 4, 20161 votes

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They would need to replace Jensen if they did that unless he gets counted as being from NA instead of EU. Can only have 2 imports per team.

Yeah either Rush or Impact (forget which) will be considered NA next year to make it possible.

III BAKURYU III Oct 4, 20161 votes

Rush is a great player and he is one of the best players in the world but top four.. maybe but it's your opinion and I can understand why you think he is top 4. You said it yourself he clears the jungle well and is a Lee Sin gOD with skill shots etc etc. Beat Faker's LB a very hard task to do as I think Faker has only lost 1 game on LB in 4 years and the last time was MSI 2 years ago against EDG and Pawn.
I'm not saying SKT would not pick him up or anything but Rush is a VERY aggressive player to the point where he would just die multiple times to try to make 1 play which is a double edged sword.
It also doesn't help that the NA "troll" mentality has now affected him. It's hard to explain but another example would be for Zven in G2 where during the bootcamp before Worlds he got infected by the Perkz "troll" whenever he dies he would just laugh like it didn't happen or it was Ok to die etc etc. Perkz was that type of player but Zven wasn't now Zven if you watched his Streams before Worlds each time he died he would just give off a "Perkz" type of laugh and look where G2's at right now 0-3 where they were supposed to be top 2 in their groups if not in the top 6 best teams at Worlds this year. That is what I mean by the "troll" style that Rush now has.

AnatharionOct 4, 20161 votes

Here is a game where Rush makes Faker FF before the game ends in Korean Solo Q. Now remember Rush was the Number 1 ranked KR and NA soloqueue player at the very same time. He is that much better than even the best humans at Lol that he could do in two regions that which is impossible for millions of us who play ranked dream of every day. Nidalee makes Ryze item 3070 https://youtu.be/LiC-1CrI3Uw

PhDs NutsOct 6, 20161 votes

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Here is a game where Rush makes Faker FF before the game ends in Korean Solo Q. Now remember Rush was the Number 1 ranked KR and NA soloqueue player at the very same time. He is that much better than even the best humans at Lol that he could do in two regions that which is impossible for millions of us who play ranked dream of every day. makes https://youtu.be/LiC-1CrI3Uw

I've seen two or three NA player streams in the last couple days where they handled Faker pretty well, even after he got fed on Ryze. I think the player skill gap is just getting closed.

xJLx MCHammerOct 4, 20161 votes

He is a good player but he is not a shot caller.

Axe2HandleOct 4, 20161 votes

Rush is good but theres a difference between solo queue streaming and Competitive play. There are people convinced Box Box is the best Riven ever LMAO. Like I said Rush is good but not top 4.

TBakesOct 4, 20161 votes

I am interested to see what Rush gets into next year. Maybe TL will pick him up? Or didn't he mention going back to Asia?

Miror BOct 4, 20161 votes

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I am interested to see what Rush gets into next year. Maybe TL will pick him up? Or didn't he mention going back to Asia?

Highly doubtful TL will take him (as it'd force them to choose which of piglet/fenix they want to "give up on" due to roster spot issues). I'm actually thinking Jin Air of the LCK will take him, as rush has been known to "fix" early game map pressure issues on teams and JAG basically spent the entire season unable to do anything on the map for the first 15-20mins. SKT is highly doubtful as they'd be more likely to acquire reignover/huni (a duo which'd probably make SKT the greatest team of all time), and I would be surprised in general if he returned to NA after C9 basically tossed him to the curb despite having a pretty good spring.

Guyy FieriOct 6, 20161 votes

Piglet hasn't played for TL in a long time and I don't have any expectations for him returning to TLs roster

Miror BOct 6, 20161 votes

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Piglet hasn't played for TL in a long time and I don't have any expectations for him returning to TLs roster

With fabby and dardoch gone and jynthe being incredibly new to their roster, you sorta have to think that they'd want as little "uncertainty" as possible in their positions with every team assuredly getting better and relegations being a very real possibility (especially after NRG last split). I also doubt that they'd want to "give up" piglet as if he stays in NA he's almost assuredly going to make any team he's on a heck of a lot better (much the way he did with TLA in challenger). Realistically, unless they have a guarantee that they can find someone better and that PIglet won't be in the NALCS next split, they should probably keep him just to be on the safe side.

Guyy FieriOct 6, 20161 votes

I honestly don't think Piglet even wants to play competitively anymore. He was so burnt out at the start of the summer split 2016 and got really tilted. Don't get me wrong, as long as he's got his head back in order I want to see him playing for TL, Piglet when he's on is better than most ADCs in NA. The problem is just when Piglet tilts, he sucks hard.