#7 - DanDy

Riot·Sep 14, 2014·3 votes·56,603 views

As part of our Countdown to Worlds, we celebrate the Top 20 players of the World Championship.

#7 - DanDy

Team - Samsung Galaxy White Region - Korea Position - Jungler Signature Champions

A player in the professional scene since League of Legends came to Korea, DanDy has transformed himself into the best jungler that Korea - and arguably the world - has to offer. Nicknamed “The Prince of Thieves” for his uncanny ability to steal any living objective with his on-point smites, DanDy has time and time again turned a match on its head when his team is down. Teamed up with two passive players, Looper and Pawn, in Samsung Galaxy White’s solo lanes, DanDy has no fear taking over the carry jungler role, picking up kills with his perfect gank times. Possibly DanDy’s greatest strength comes in the studying of his opponents - breaking down his opposing jungler’s pathing and knowing where his enemy is at all times. A monster on Lee Sin and Elise (a record of 54-20 all-time on the two champions in professional play), teams must stop DanDy from rolling early or the game could be over before they even get out of the laning phase. And even if you can keep DanDy down in the early and mid-game, The Prince of Thieves only needs one chance near the Baron pit to go from irrelevant to your worst nightmare. Check out the other players on the list! Who do you think is #6 on our list of the 20 greatest players at #Worlds? Tweet @lolesports or comment below to let us know!

29 Comments

BlackIightSep 14, 20147 votes

the fact that rekkles and bjergsen are above deft kinda speaks to the legitimacy of this list

The LexerSep 14, 20142 votes

I wouldn't have been surprised if Rekkles was number 3 or 4. Deft should've been higher, Rekkles should've been higher too tho.

SummonerRPSep 14, 20146 votes

What have our LCS players been doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkAyTLBRLtk

mericrSep 15, 20142 votes

Is this even Challenger Tier? All I want to see is Bjergsen or Froggen run into Faker in solo q and then we can see how they really stack up against the best in the world.

RiotMirhiSep 15, 20145 votes

These are all on Masters or Challenger tier AFAIK. Almost all the LCS pros reached Masters / Challenger already on KR.

KeyDNSep 14, 20146 votes

DanDy #7 ... this top 20 is without sense.

IS1c1be0454bcfd00e6a8bfSep 15, 20146 votes

oh no this guy is Korean and he is not placed number 1 along with the other 14 Korean players??? omg people are ganna go insane, how can anyone from any other region be placed above any of these Korean players, since they're Korean they should take all 20 spots even though they only have player - people in the discussion section 2014

llaycloutSep 15, 201410 votes

Honestly, individually cases can be made that koreans dont have the strongest individual players, but this is not the case with DanDy, he is the real deal. Better than diamondprox in his prime, better than meteos, better than lovelin, better than Kakao and Spirit.

12talesSep 15, 20145 votes

There's an argument to be had on KaKao vs. DanDy.

But yeah, he's definitely a class above every other jungler at the tournament.

DanteLovesPizzaSep 15, 20143 votes

Dude, he's not a famous pentakick Lee Sin, he's THE famous pentakick Lee Sin, that alone should set him as number one, lol. Not to mention, his counter jungling is the best League has ever had, and he has innovated a number of "non-junglers" to become junglers after he made them work beyond extremely well.

dtuttsSep 16, 20141 votes

Thank you. I'm so sick of everybody whining about this list not being accurate because it's not 20 Korean players.

PhysicsKushSep 14, 20145 votes

lol watch meteos > dandy ... rididulous

ndc1313Sep 14, 20145 votes

probably meteos dont appear on the top 20 players at world finals

Raizon d EtreSep 14, 20145 votes

#7 on this list, but on top of the list for many analysts and players' predictions of the Worlds MVP

PhadafiSep 14, 20142 votes

Yeah, he's the best jungler in the world nowadays. 7th is not a bad position if you consider there's Dade, imp, Mata, NaMei, Uzi, Save, Deft competing for the title of Worlds MVP. However I think he deserved 4th (behind only Dade, NaMei and Mata). Still Froggen and maybe Meteos\Balls will be ahead on this list.

ZerobyDividedSep 15, 20142 votes

well calling any of the players the best before they even go there an perform is kinda of pointless, we can ex-peculate all we want, but the truth is we won't know what is going to happen until the games are played. ANYTHING can happen.

Mediocre JoeSep 16, 20141 votes

No it is not a bad position but I think he is better than Dade. Dade is really overhyped right now because of the whole blue vs white games. I think Deft is amazing but Dade is just consistent it isn't that he is an amazing player like faker or even pawn. There is a reason why Dade and samsung ozone didn't get past the Quarterfinals last worlds.

DanteLovesPizzaSep 16, 20141 votes

Well, Ozone fell out of S3 Worlds so badly was partially DaDe's fault, as he had a terribly small champion pool, so it was easy to win mid, but the main reason was switching Homme out. If you follow OGN, the OGN tournament just before Worlds was still Homme playing top, then suddenly, in S3 Worlds, Looper replaced him, and at the time, Homme was not only their leader, but also their play maker and soul of the team.

AllMutedByeSep 14, 20142 votes

Yeoul Deung Gam?

Paradox SkySep 15, 20142 votes

Still Uzi, NaMei, inSec, Dade, Mata and Froggen left.

GhrianSep 15, 20141 votes

I'm calling you have the exact 6 names right there, probably not in that order though. Dade will probably be N°1.

llaycloutSep 15, 20141 votes

Since ogn spring last year, dandy has been the best and most consistant jungler to play league of legends ever. He should at least be #5 since their are 5 roles in league of legends.... Honestly I think he is as good a jungler as Faker is a mid laner... If you watch vods, he literally makes all the right plays everytime and I have only seen 1 objective ever get stolen from him while he has stolen almost every objective possible to steal... lolesports pls...

im CrisSep 15, 20141 votes

I think people are getting confused about this top 20 list. It's going down from 20 to 1. So number 1 being the best and 20 (aka Clearlove) being last.

HuldrafolkSep 15, 20141 votes

With no Kakao and Diamonprox (true that he is not in his prime, lets see in s5) in the Worlds, Dandy is (by far) the best jungler.

But not only the best jungler, he should be at least a top5 player. Dandy may be "competing" not only for Worlds but also for individual MVP of the tournament.