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2016=NA turnaround

dakm102·11/6/2015, 2:49:16 AM·1 votes·564 views

Alright everyone who actually is reading this. I know you all think im on some stuff here but hear me out. here are a few reason why I thnk this

  1. Realizing that Koreans don't answer everything: Lets think long and hard about this. If there is one sole thing we learned from this whole worlds its that communication problems can DESTROY a team (like lgd for example or IG or even EDG to an extent in many scenarios). And we even saw this in NA LCS where all the teams that had all these Koreans first off didn't go to worlds and also just straight up couldn't perform in times where you needed to be clutch. I mean heck while TIP is almost all Korean then the people who aren't end up not getting what the heck is going on and they die. It shows that its better to get people who are able to communicate to the team

  2. Renegades: Now this one is honestly totally biased but w/e. This team is a great example of cultivating talent. From what I have heard RF and players like Remilia came straight from challenger and somehow they manage to become the two carries of the team when there are players like Alex Ich and Crumbz to compete with for that title. Remilia on thresh is easily the best thresh NA has ever produced in many ways (except possibly Bunny but idk its debatable) And RF carried a ton of games throughout CS. It shows that talent can be found here that is competitive

  3. The WT DL swap: Now im gonna get a crap ton of toxicity for this one but I do think that it is a good swap. Wildturtle is honestly a lot better with a support that is arguably like him in a lot of ways and it is nice that they also have Huhi for the team now ( WHO IS ALSO NA TALENT BY THE WAY) And for DL TSM is honestly a perfect team for him. He loves to carry but with another carry like bjergsen it will be insane. I mean if personalities don't clash that is but we will see

  4. Worlds 2015. If there is anything we have seen from NA at worlds was that they only really had one strategy. This was especially apparent on c9 (rip love them so much tho still a fan for life) where they had their one strat and lost once people found out how to counter it. It has been a problem for the teams in NA for a while now at worlds. If they can finaly realize this I think that it could mean a ton for the region as a whole.

          and that is it guys tell me what you think and thanks for reading adios

3 Comments

The Bíg Ticket11/6/2015, 11:31:43 AM1 votes

NA has been bad for 5 years and I don't really see a change coming soon. As an EU player I prefer watching NA LCS over EU because I like the players in NA more but it is very obvious that NA is alot weaker and the teams are the opposite of creative, they can be good once they have found a new strategy and learn how to execute it perfectly but once they meet something new in a game they are too slow to adapt and they will never suprise any teams with creative picks/strategies or calls. The only exception is Hai but he is mechanically inferior to most players on his level.

Ale non è male11/6/2015, 12:12:43 PM1 votes

Too soon to say if there will be a turnaround, since most of NA teams and orgs are going through big changes I think NA reached its lowest point in S5 Spring, and has started to recognize after MSI that something was terribly wrong and was starting to slowly try to get back on track, but they had lost faaaaaaar too ground before to perform decently at worlds + the entire NA LCS and some team were suspectly overrated by Na fans (I'm looking at you TL) Now S6, everyone has finally started to seriously move to shake up things, but you got to see what will be the final results to see if there will be a true turnaround or there would only be a slight increase in overall level that would still leave NA behind the other major regions

The problem is still to see if NA can find some internal talent, because that is the aspect where they are really behind since the lowest underwood of competitive scene level is not developed and rareevents/ tournaments like the recent HTC Ascension are overhyped when tournament of higher quality like for example PGL Legends of the Rift season 1 and others are running on EU at moment (and ran throughout all year) and Na scene does not know this

ElegantDoge11/6/2015, 3:05:22 PM1 votes

Na is here since 5 years,yet ,they seems to not be able to evolve to be able to compete on a international level. I'm pretty sure they have the talent so something else is hurting them on that field.