My Power Rankings: (tldr: NA and Korea R oaf stronk, but r dey stronk 4 log? #Biased)
S Tier: 50%
- Longzhu (3-0)
- SKT (3-0)
A Tier: 20%
- RNG (3-0)
- IMT (2-1)
- C9 (2-1)
B Tier: 15%
SSG (2-1)
C Tier: 10%
- TSM (2-1)
- Misfits (2-1)
- WE (2-1)
D Tier: 4%
- G2 (1-2)
- GAM (1-2)
- AHQ (1-2)
F Tier: 1%
- EDG (0-3)
- FW (0-3)
- FNC (0-3)
- 1907 (0-3)
Teams are placed in each tier based on their overall win rate and performance, with stronger teams being numbered higher in each tier. The likely-hood of each tier containing winning team is rated by a guessedimated percentage. Sadly, my pick-ems are complete trash this year. Week 2 will really decide if I'm correct about my power ranks or not, but I'd say that the teams that are in the F and D Tier are almost guaranteed not to get out of groups just because there are only 3 games possible for each of those teams to win (not including tie breakers). And if I'm being completely honest, the only teams I had difficulty deciding where they placed were: TSM, RNG, and SSG just because of how they've been playing. At times RNG looks to be stronger than both C9 and IMT, but is that because SSG is doing particularly bad this year? In regards to SSG, is a Korean team really B Tier, or are they having a rough week 1? Finally looking at TSM, they look stronger than the other teams in their group but they did last year too and flopped hard in week 2, so are they really reliable enough to call B Tier or do they deserve C Tier? Hard choices, all I know is that out of all the regions NA, Korea, and China look the strongest here, and of those regions I think SKT, RNG, LZ, IMT, and C9 are most likely to win it. Probably SKT or LZ will win worlds, but it's fun to dream of non-Koreans winning.
