Honestly looking forward to the upcoming LCK split

GeminiRune·12/1/2016, 1:29:03 AM·3 votes·876 views

And it's not only because of the hype around the talent forming in SKT and KT and the inevitable revitalization of the ultimate Telecom War. When you look just a bit past that hype, you see a good half of the other teams going through a rebuilding phase of their own. It's almost shocking to see the amount of changes in such a short time. I'm envious as to what the next month is going to bring because the predictions of who's going to share the top 3 with the expected Telecoms are going to be abundant.

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Miror B12/1/2016, 3:38:54 AM2 votes

As someone who has paid attention to almost all of the "news" surrounding the offseason, I can definitely say that this has been thoroughly entertaining. I'll just list off the stuff based on region:

NA -IMT tells players they can field offers from other teams, Adrian signs immediately with P1 (with allegations that Echofux tried to poach him afterwards, more on that later) and Reignover signs with TL to fill the spot left by dardoch (again, more on this later) -Dignitas/Apex bought by Philadelphia 76'ers/rebranding back under the original dignitas banner, many people suspect that they're potentially going to field a super-team with names such as Huni/Gorilla being potential imports -Echofox nabs dardoch off TL, but outside of the rito-approved window (meaning that they're probably not going to be allowed to use him in 2017) -Rito "apparently" gives Echofox a lenient/non-existent punishment for trying to poach adrian/potential other players, teams are suggesting that they're going to refuse to scrim with them during 2017 as their own form of punishment

EU -Fnatic 2017 roster revealed, featuring Soaz/Amazing/Caps/Rekkles/Jesiz -Paris St Germain (team who bought huma's eucs spot) reveal signings of blanc and Pilot, two former members of JAG -H2k potentially signing Febiven to replace Ryu -Former Roccat support Raise leaves team, joins JAG

LCK -Longzhu/CJEntus/Afreeca Freecs/KT release their rosters, with notable UFA's including Emporer (the TDK adc we all love), Madlife (:O), Lust (aka lustboy, former TSM support), and Mickey (the guy who made CJE games watchable) -Rox allow their players to explore other options (similar to what IMT did, because we're not allowed to have multiple good teams), Smeb joins KT and Peanut joins SKT -KT Rolster also resigns score and adds smeb/pawn

Not including LPL because I find that region rather boring, think I got "most" of the important stuff though.

anonymous11912/1/2016, 1:57:51 AM1 votes

I worry with rox collapsing and essentially skt/kt picking up super teams that the general level of competition will go down as a result. SKT/KT matches being amazing aren't worth the two teams stomping every other match.

EPIKON12/1/2016, 3:44:52 AM1 votes

SKT: (Ssumday) / Peanut / Faker / Bang / Wolf

KT: Smeb / Score / PaWn / Deft / (Mata)

Damn, talk about All-Star rosters.

Ale non è male12/1/2016, 10:39:53 AM1 votes

LCK next split will be rather bad, tbh Not quality wise, of course, but because the "rebuilding" a lot of teams are going to do is a mere recycling of pros that have been in mid-bottom tier LCK or earning fat China stacks, so you'll get an even bigger gap between the very top and the rest of the league, unlike what happened in last LCK Summer where there was a true battle behind Rox until halfway through the split, when in the end the usual orgs took over and proceded to guarantee the top 4 place for theirselves