Piglet Shotcalling for TL

Admiral Howe·6/17/2017, 2:05:57 AM·9 votes·1,009 views

After today's game, i seriously think TL should drop Piglet. He may have potential to shine on other teams, he may be trash, whatever your opinion is on him, the outcome has always been the same with Piglet on TL. They lose, they lose small, they lose big, but since he came to TL, ive seen that team go from a group trying to improve team play to take the NA LCS title, to a terribly bad version of a Protect the Uzi comp. Today showed that off most, take one pick from him and suddenly an ADC who has problems and is slightly inconsistent is beating him, who was supposed to be and carries himself like a top ADC in NA. Im not knocking Cody and Olleh, but if he thinks he's on the level of guys like Sneaky, Stixxay, DoubleLift or Wildturtle (yes i still think Turtle is top when you compare him to Piglet), he has to smash a lane like Immortals'. TSM couldnt smash Immortals' bot lane, true but they werent trying to build a comp completely around their ADC, TL was and he still couldnt get it done. Blame Lourlo, blame Reignover, blame Goldenglue, fine, but if DoubleLift can produce wins with a mid lane Piglet who did worse than GoldenGlue did, what does that say about Piglet? TL's only strength, GoldenGlue and Reignover roaming, which they got a win over DIG with, wasnt seen but once in their series against IMT. Instead we get this, "Everyone make sure Piglet can carry, if he cant, we blame you not him". If theyre afraid to let him go then they should take a good look at guys like LoD, Apollo, and Cody Sun and think, maybe a new ADC is good. Hell even Stixxay proved that last year that rookies could be better for the team. They need to take bigger risks than putting their "Star Player" in a different role. they need new faces and to help develop current ones to win again.

14 Comments

xJLx MCHammer6/17/2017, 3:06:38 AM5 votes

They trying too hard to make the game revolve around piglet...

anonymous1196/17/2017, 2:34:42 AM4 votes

In general I'm in favor of replacing piglet, but he played very well in today's losses. His team full on collapsed beyond what any player could carry.

When you look at the players TL has had and struggled to get to play well on the stage then I think it is more of a coach/infrastructure problem then a player problem.

I would go as far as saying that if I ranked TL's problems then piglet would be pretty low on that list. RO looks lost, GG doesn't make plays, and their macro in general is non existent. Other teams have had success with a strong early game jungler essentially snowballing the game to where poor macro doesn't matter as much, but RO cannot seem to do that. I would replace him before piglet.

warpenguin5556/17/2017, 2:20:42 AM4 votes

^ I have never seen Piglet do well

III BAKURYU III 6/17/2017, 2:28:29 AM3 votes

KOREAN AND WORLD CHAMPION is what will be the defending aspect for Piglet. 3 Years in LCS and has finished #1 once in the regular split( no NA finals in 5 chances no Finals appearances ) TL +20 or so wins without him than with him with players such as Keith, Youngbin, Fabbyy. Been saying for about a year and half now during 2016 Spring TL should drop him knowing his history since coming to NA there's nothing else to be seen from him.

Requiemsfire6/17/2017, 10:29:14 AM2 votes

Would say the problems with TL are much deeper than any individual player.

LinoWidge6/17/2017, 5:57:56 PM1 votes

Honestly TL needs an overhaul... Scrap the whole roster except for ReignOver, since he can still be great with the right team & is a better choice to build around than Piglet.

----Lourlo---- The only player I could argue them keeping, as he is a respectable top laner who doesn't take an import slot. Problem is there are so many better options... This is where i would use that 2nd import slot honestly.

----GoldenGlue---- I don't understand their devotion to this guy... He's proven time & time again that he can't compete with the mid lane competition at the LCS level... And yet TL insists GG is the guy who will get them where if you look at Tl's historical mid lane... They can do better... But their insistence on sticking with players who can't compete... Just look at the Challenger Series teams & pick a mid laner, any of them are better than GG...

----Piglet---- It's over the experiment failed. Send him back to Korea & maybe he can rediscover that great player he used to be... Since he came to NA he's had 1 great Split that ended with TL being the final victim of the C9 miracle run of 2015... And you know what? I think C9 broke him... He hasn't been good since... Find a rookie... rebuild... There is no future here...

----Matt---- TL thinks Matt's great... Don't get me wrong he's good, but hes not great... Whats worse is that TL got rid of Smoothie for Matt... & that's what gets me... They had smoothie, who is currently being lauded as the best support in NA... & they decided they'd rather have Matt... Who is so average to below average that it's painful...

Murdercap6/17/2017, 8:49:15 PM1 votes

If you want them to win get rid of goldenglue. hes actually so awful