As part of our Countdown to Worlds, we celebrate the Top 20 players of the World Championship.
#4 - NaMei
Team - Edward Gaming
Region - China
Position - ADC
Signature Champions
When Uzi was in LA in 2013, the world’s best AD carry was still in China.
Zhu “NaMei” Jiawen is the only player to have been present in every single LPL final, and he has just claimed his third consecutive LPL victory. NaMei’s ability to predict skillshot trajectories allows him to position such that he can do more damage than most other AD carries. With an adept zoning top laner like Koro1 to peel for him, NaMei is nearly unkillable, which allows him to plow through the enemy tank line without fuss.
NaMei isn’t just skilled in team fighting, however. NaMei’s understanding of minion denial allows him to lane against the best and come out ahead in both farm and trades. He isn’t content to leave his opponent undisturbed in the lane when he can go for the throat.
If one needs further convincing of NaMei’s power, look no further than his Jinx record. He’s only played the champion six times, but when he brings it out, he’s serious. If Jinx graces the international stage in his hands, you’re in for a SuperMega treat.
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sigh dade is so overhyped it isn't even funny. everyone watched blue vs white and are on the dade hype train when in reality he isn't that good, I mean yeah he is good but not top 10. remember what happened to dade and samsung last year in worlds?
He's been a monster for over half a year. He consistently draws multiple bans for his team, and just as consistently crushes whenever he's allowed one of his comfort picks (he's got, what, a 90% competitive win rate on Zed?).
If you wanna bring up last year's Worlds - Froggen didn't even qualify, and nobody's questioning that he's an amazing player. This game would be a lot less interesting if the individual talent of mid laners was the only thing that determined tournament runs.
I haven't really followed Blue, since I'm an Ozone (White) fan, but last year Ozone failed mainly because they swapped the top laner WITHOUT any tournament practise, because if you check Ozone's history, Homme was still Ozone's top laner and leader in OGN Summer 2013, which is the last competitive tournament in Korea just before S3 Worlds. And yeah, dade didn't do well in S3 Worlds, since his champion pool was unbelievably small (if anything, Zed was his only good champion in S3), but just watch brief clips, you can tell that has improved drastically.
I might just agree though, calling him number one might be a bit over-rated, but if that happens to be, well, how credible is this list? Imp and Deft are listed below Rekkles, that is already a joke.
One has to question if you've watched any games in OGN at all. Dade's already proven himself over the past half a year where he's gone past his past stigma of being trash at skillshot champions. Comfort champions have him shredding whoever he plays.
Hey, do you guys know why Namei is called "Namei"? Namei is the abbreviation of his original ID. "Na" means "that" and "mei" means "beautiful" in chinese respectively. His full ID is "Na bi hen mei" which is "that pussy is so beautiful". When he joined LPL to be a pro player, however, he had to change his ID due to his trash-talking. LOL
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I dont get it. You say '' NaMei’s understanding of minion denial allows him to lane against the best and come out ahead in both farm and trades.'' But I just watched all the matches between the EG and Royal club and Ugi beat Namei in all three of them in farm and in lane. Then how come he is the best adc?
Data can express something but not all the things. When you try to analyze players by reading data, the first thing you need to know about is the strategy of their team. Namei could be the best ADC, even you ask chinese guys. Uzi is a super core of SHRC, he takes most of golds(minions, buff, monsters) compared to his teammates. When Uzi get 100 cs ahead of enemy ADC, you can see how much cs Uzi's teammates fall behind compared to the corresponding position of enemy. Namei is different, or to be more precise, EDG is different. Namei is core in EDG, but not the only one, Clearlove is one of the double cores in EDG. And Top and Mid are also can share limited resource in games. This depends on team strategies, not depends on a single player. This might be a kind of reason that EDG can beat SHRC in LPL---EDG gets a more rational allocation of resources than SHRC gets.