Stop letting SKT switch players during a Bo5.

Ayane·12/8/2016, 3:19:01 AM·4 votes·2,760 views

Not fair to the other teams who can't afford an extra top-tier player to just let Bengi freely switch in and out. Teams should not be allowed to send in a substitute after their team is already on the stage, especially in Bo5's when the player swapping in was substituted earlier in the series.

It gives players rest who should be forced to endure the entire series until the end. They get to sit there in the side room, watching and speaking with the coach the entire time they are off, and then go back in fresh and ready.

Sports should be about being the better athlete, not abusing a flawed system. Granted, this isnt just a thing that happens in eSports, it happens in physical sport leagues too, but Riot is in the unique position to rid of the exploit by simply changing the rules.

54 Comments

oSEXYPLATYPUSo12/8/2016, 3:25:45 AM6 votes

lol so wrong in so many ways

LostFr0st12/8/2016, 3:27:39 AM6 votes

? The other teams HAVE subs. Riot makes sure they do in case a player falls ill or needs a replacement for some reason. The other teams just choose not to use their subs and don't scrim with them as much; that's not SKT's fault.

DragonTroopBeta12/8/2016, 3:35:49 AM6 votes

SKT abuses the system. It's the only reason they beat ROX Tigers in Semi's, whether SKT fanboys want to admit it or not.

xxxDogmanxxx12/8/2016, 4:02:12 AM4 votes

I'm not even an SKT fan, but this is just bullshit. The other teams have subs too. If they don't want SKT subbing one top tier player for another as is their right to do so, then why don't the other teams just train their own subs to be top tier players as well? Is it SKT's fault that even their bench players are better than the other team's main roster?

DragonTroopBeta12/8/2016, 4:16:17 AM4 votes

This is literally like the biggest shitshow I've ever read. We got 1 guy getting mad because another guy doesnt get the OP, people bringing up legit points and following it with an insult, and some guy who should really just quit while he's ahead, because he's done nothing but derail a clearly salty OP.

Iwinatlife4212/8/2016, 12:24:21 PM1 votes

If anything SKT's success in this just points that other teams should try to form deeper rosters instead of cash grabbing with challenger teams. shrug seems like a good idea to let a star player rest and switch your strategies up like in football you switch players out for running plays versus passing plays. Different strengths different strats harder to beat consistently.

ValyrianBlade12/8/2016, 11:00:27 PM1 votes

I feel like SKT swaps because they're so confident they can win, even with only their second best player in a position.

They want 6 skins as was given them last year. Does anyone honestly believe there was ever a game that Faker wasn't the right choice?

Once we gave them an extra skin to get profits on once, why won't they keep doing this to get 6 skins per win instead of 5?

MoonTrigger12/9/2016, 12:34:33 AM1 votes

its not funny anymore, I thik he's reached a point in being oblivious where he might actually have a legit disability. like who looks at a purple ayane thread and says "Seems like this is a legit thread"? hes a known troll kek

B00B0012/12/2016, 1:33:54 PM1 votes

its tactics, its not SKT's fault that not many other teams are using the full available tactics.

you do realise teams all over are now adopting this strat, which is used sport over? like everywhere?. C9 has a 7man coming into the spring split.

MoonTrigger12/17/2016, 12:05:49 AM1 votes

oh ffs not this shit again. @mods can we delete this mess now?