The Darkest Horse: paiN Gaming

Pain has almost no chance finishing other than 4th. Even a third place would be amazing.

If you have watched the Desafio finals, you would know that their win condition is only one - catching the other team/single player out of position. As Jatt said in his analysis, it was obvious that they can't push advantages, as hard, as any of the other teams - even Yoe. Their laners get outclassed by every single player of KOO and CLG, and at best, are on par with Yoe's laners. They have poor objective control and poor warding - which was masked by how worse were KLG. I've spotted mistakes in both their micro and macro play. They wont adapt nowhere near optimally for the new patch. The worse thing is that they are going to boot camp in EU, where the only strong-ish team left is Roccat, and the mediocre (sorry :( ) UOL.

I predict that they might take one game from Yoe, but that's at the most.

The problem of Pain is that their opponent is super weak and made a lot of mistakes, not even competitive than LMS where the top 4 teams beside AHQ are super close (Wolves, HKesport, TPA, Midnight Sun).

Just have to remind all of you that 5 of 6 Flash Wolves' players ranked Challenger in Korea solo q for a long long time. Would the "GOD" players of Pain reach the same level of Wolves? I doubt.

All below are Korean solo q highlights

FW Maple vs SKT Faker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7nkKuK9Nz4

FW Maple Korea solo Q highlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q046ZCv2xKs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlp4eS2jDYU

FW NL and FW SwordArt hioghlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v45AcUW8M8c

FW SwordArt duo with FW KKramer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-fH5kmdkxg

FW NL vs FNC Rekkles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZTFoO86WA

FW Karsa and FW MMD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz8v3CvNnzA

Could Pain bear the pressure against these guys who are playing with the members of SKT, KT, CJ or else everyday? Ask yourselves. To avoid being 0-2ed, Pain has to have a superb macro play, which is rarely seen in their previous games.

Enjoyed the reading. From what i saw from Pain, they will invade their enemy base if necessary to avoid the lane swaps with CLG. Its better to let Mylon grow and sacrifice BrTT, than taking a hit in both lanes.

Honestly, for all the fandom he gets, BrTT actually looks like the weakest link in Pain's triple threat. Kami is amazing and Mylon is very good, while BrTT looks like he will lose the lane easily for Doublelift (and others). Even if you count the supports, Dioud is definitively at worlds level, but Aphromoo is better and has more sinergy with DL.

The jungle will be the biggest question mark isn't it? Sir T has an average path and good instincts, while i always thought xsmithie was predictable. If Huhi just tries to copy him, CLG will have a problem. If they play to Huhi strengths, they might have a solution.