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10 thoughts going into Week 7

Riot·7/19/2017, 8:18:57 PM·2 votes·9,089 views

Here's this week's 10 thoughts from @meanmisterkien!

Time's flying! Soon it will be August, and August means it's almost September, and September means WORLDS! I've been excited since Worlds ended last year. But for now, which NA teams are best poised to even make it?

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13 Comments

III BAKURYU III 7/19/2017, 9:11:42 PM6 votes

I think some fans(myself included) are upset with TL with roster swaps because they've yet to use it on Piglet; Piglet a great player and talent no question but when TL has a much better record without him oppose to with him it gets annoying. I'm sure once the team has 0 talent next split they will remove Piglet and when TL starts off like 0-8 the ownership etc will be like " See, it wasn't Piglet's fault" Fabbyy/Broken/Keith have all been on TL and improved the team with W's or looks much better than when Piglet seems to be on such roster.

" Spin to win" - Garen confirmed to be played by Zig for P1

FQ and EF are one of the same, 1 team plays super aggressive without much knowledge of what to do, while the other plays super passive with such traits as the next. Hai needs to step-up for his team and Froggen needs to help his team, the Akaadian blue buff steal 2v4 while Froggen was busy farming was yet, another example of Froggen's need to CS instead of help( they won that game tho when Froggen was on Corki tho) but it shows that just because you're a monster in lane doesn't mean S$it anymore and Froggen is still living in 2014 it seems.

C9 are still technically a top tier team in such categories 4th in Kills(13.5), 2nd least deaths(11.6), 3rd in Towers taken(7.2), 4th in Towers lost(6.1), 5th in Dragons(1.87) and 3rd in Barons(0.87) but so was XDG/Team Vulcan in the past and they got a swift and quick elimination in the early years of LCS, C9 needs to figure out who is their starting top, Jensen needs to stop looking up the Froggen book of win lane/lose game and Sneaky needs to get more than 8 kills in 5 games for C9 to actually do something.

NV are the longest average team in the LCS at around 39-40 mins per game and yet, their 1ST in least deaths but are top tier with vision/ sub par with objectives around 5-6th in such objectives. If NV can work on their objective taking they could be a team to fear in playoffs.

DIG may be good but it's history of actually performing in the second half of the splits are ? for me still. Facing TSM and C9 will give everyone a real scout on the real DIG.

IMT are a fast team by game time but they're a very smart and patient team also, they know how to aim before firing and it's actually nice to see a team know what to do instead of just running it down mid T1 style.
4.93(kills) 2.86(deaths) 5.0(assists) and 281.4(cs) will be my prediction on Cody Sun for this week, also predicting 182(kills) 96(deaths) 243(assists) and 12,695(cs) total for Cody at the end of the split, he'll go 64-34-65-3,206 the rest of the split.

TrollFan017/19/2017, 9:22:36 PM5 votes

In a strange way the semi-final byes rest in the hands of DIG. DIG plays TSM this week, IMT next, and CLG in the final week. Say if things good in the top 3 teams favors they can still lose (or win) everything based off of how they deal with DIG.

If IMT and DIG beat CLG then TSM and IMT get spots.

If DIG and CLG beat TSM then CLG and IMT get spots.

If DIG and CLG beat IMT then CLGT and TSM get spots.

BigBellBrute7/19/2017, 10:10:45 PM4 votes

My thought of the week.

Of the three top teams, the one with the hardest road left is CLG. All of them have Dig and NV left from that middle tier. but CLG has both IMT left and TSM whereas the latter two don't play each other again. But that also means that if CLG can win them both, they're in great position and would be very likely to get a top 2 if not one.

Of the 4-6 teams Dig has been looking good. but they have all of the top 3 left plus C9. NV has it easy this week. but the last two are CLG and TSM, and IMT and C9 the last. Good luck with that.
C9 has Dig and NV left. But none of the top three. They have the easiest schedule left of the this group and of the entirety of the top 6.

Of other teams that could challenge Fox has all three of the top 3 plus Dig and Cloud 9. Good luck with that.
FQ has TSM and IMt left of the top three, plus NV and Cloud 9.
I really don't see either of these teams coming from Two down of C9. And NV and Dig are three games ahead. They're mathematically still in it. But realistically, I think we're very near to any given weak anything can happen territory with these two.

We've seen P1 can play. But we have yet to see that team that supposedly was going to go on a rampage. Well they had better. They're 3 games out of the playoffs with C9 not having to play any of the top 3 and P1 having to play 2 of them.

Liquid. Uh no. Just no. No no no no. Noooooo.

Roguely7/19/2017, 11:43:16 PM1 votes

"I've been excited this Worlds ended last year." Say what?