Impact Players: MaRin

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I 100% agree. I thought Marin was the most under hyped player coming in to world's. I watched SKT through out the LCK season and that guy is insanely consistent. When they started talking about key players before world's started, I was shocked that they were still talking about Faker all the time when they had this INCREDIBLE top laner that's been winning lane almost every time. Marin is amazing and I'm glad people are finally seeing it, even if I feel like they should have seen it long ago.

Although you have to see that all teams have been trying desperately to shut Faker out of the game, which is why MaRin and Bang have been able to shine so much during these games. The problem with that strategy is, every single player in the SKT squad has the huge potential to carry, as MaRin has showed these last games, Faker throughout his whole career and Bang most notably on his 4th game against CJ when he played Lucian (cant remember if it was summer split). It's near to or straight up impossible for the jungler of any team to shut down every lane at the same time on the same game. Yes, I agree MaRin has been playing godlike lately and he is the reason I started playing Maokai, and Faker has done less Faker things, although the Olaf and Ryze plays have been amazing. Yes, I know Olaf was against BKT, but take into account they looked bad in comparison to the pro players. BKT could probably destroy anybody here without breaking a sweat, or else they wouldn't make it to worlds in the first place.

All in all, I agree MaRin has been the MVP of SKT up until now, but it's arguable that the main reason is because teams are so focused on shutting down Faker, which leaves MaRin, who is a great toplaner in 1v1's and an even better tp user/teamfighter, to his devices.

i agree with you that MaRin is the mvp of this tournament, but the hype that faker gets is well deserved, and i do believe that the reason MaRin is benefiting from the fact that faker is always camped and is focused. not to say that MaRin isnt an amazing top laner, if not the best, next to ssumday. overall i think that both faker and MaRin coexist perfectly, and that they carry because of bengi, and his amazing jungle pathing.

It's blatantly obvious that every team focuses Faker and tries to shut him down (which is logical and expected- he is still the best player in the world. Call me fanboy but it's the truth) while he doesn't get as much help from his jungler. The most obvious case were the games vs EDG. 4-5 people crash at mid lane throw literally EVERYTHING on Faker, manage to kill him. And not much later, exactly because they throw everything on Faker they have nothing in the coming Dragon fight and SKT crushes them there. And later again, they throw everything on Faker, kill him and then Marin's Fiora cleans up. Eezy peezy. And despite his deaths, Faker managed to remain relevant and a threat in the game constantly. And people were saying PawN > Faker because of the solo kills and stuff and Faker rekt PawN both games- including a solo kill on Twisted Fate, which PawN picked INTO Faker's Ryze- and Ryze is supposed to be late game champ.

Of course everyone on SKT is showing up and it is nice seeing Faker having a team that can stand up to his level for a change. I don't know if you watched season 4 SKT, but outside of Faker, they were complete trash really. They lost all 3 chances to qualify for Worlds yes, but if not for Faker, they wouldn't even have these chances. Faker has shown he can 1v9 as well but can't do that all the time (talking about MSI finals- where EDG took an entire 5 man comp to counter Faker's LeBlanc, not just Morgana and SKT did nothing about that).

I've been following MaRin's Kr server solo ranked game for a while, before the world championship begin, I knew MaRin is big so I won't be too surprise after seeing his outstanding performances, look forward to see him doing his thing in the next one, and maybe two matchups.

I feel SKT has a strong laning team in general and Marin is a great top laner with aggressive play style. I also feel Faker is still amazing but doesn't have the opportunity to show it as much since he shines on mid assasins/carry and the meta shifted to top carries. But maybe we will see some surprise picks at semi and finals ;)

lmfao. we are all suprised by marin this tournament. nobody knew that he'd be able to play these new top lane bruisers. while faker during the summer season carried the fck out of SKT. you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

shots fired lmfao

yeah, on LCK he has undefeated record with maokai. 12 winning streak I believe?

Maybe Febiven for Fnatic. He's been so consistent throughout the tournament, it's unbelievable, I don't remember him having a bad game, not even a "meh" game.

that's because of the complete faker focus. if you had a choice between shutting down a challenger tier player or a plat tier player, who would you choose.

lel. "not faker"