NA-EU-LCK-LPL Standings Predictions

III BAKURYU III ·Jan 10, 2019·2 votes·2,241 views

I'm really interested in your predictions or thoughts for this upcoming split for any region.

LCK KOREA

15-3 GRIFFIN
13-5 GEN G
12-6 SK TELECOM T1
11-7 AFREECA FREECS
9-9 KT ROLSTER
8-10 KINGZONE DRAGONX
7-11 JIN AIR GREEN WINGS
5-13 HANWHA LIFE ESPORTS
4-14 DAMWON GAMING
2-16 SANDBOX GAMING

EU EUROPE

15-3 G2 ESPORTS
13-6 MISFITS(Tie-Breaker Winner)
12-7 FNATIC(Tie-Breaker Loser)
10-8 FC SCHALKE
9-9 ORIGEN
8-10 VITALITY
7-11 SPLYCE
6-12 ROGUE
6-12 EXCEL ESPORTS
4-14 SK GAMING

NA NORTH AMERICA

14-4 TEAM LIQUID
13-6 100 THIEVES(Tie-Breaker Winner)
12-7 COUNTER LOGIC GAMING(Tie-Breaker Loser)
11-8 CLOUD 9(Tie-Breaker Winner)
10-9 CLUTCH GAMING(Tie-Breaker Loser)
9-9 GOLDEN GUARDIANS
8-10 TEAM SOLOMID
7-11 FLYQUEST
4-14 ECHO FOX
4-14 OPTIC GAMING

LPL CHINA

12-3 INVICTUS GAMING
11-4 SUNING
11-4 ROYAL NEVER GIVE UP
10-5 ROGUE WARRIORS
10-5 EDWARD GAMING
9-6 BILIBILI GAMING
8-7 TEAM WE
7-8 JD GAMING
7-8 VICTORY FIVE
7-8 TOP SPORTS GAMING
5-10 LGD GAMING
5-10 OMG
5-10 VICI GAMING
4-11 SNAKE ESPORTS
3-12 FUNPLUS PHOENIX
3-12 SINODRAGON

9 Comments

LhuhzJan 10, 20192 votes

LCK

AFS over KT seems off, Damwon Gaming is a Play Offs team for sure, SKT wont be that great until Summer.

LEC

G2 is a coin flip, VIT will be higher

NA

CLG wont make it to PlayOffs (kicked by TSM), Optic will end 7th

LPL

IG will end another regular split with only 1 loss

III BAKURYU III Jan 10, 20191 votes

Only 5 teams I believe can make it to LCK playoffs so who do you think will be the 5 teams?

Optic 7th. I could see that but if so who's the 3 teams under them in the standings?

LhuhzJan 10, 20191 votes

GRF - DMW - KT - SKT and I'm not sure which one of GenG with Peanut that I really think it's overrated or AFS who is just worse than last year and on Summer they got 5th place by a inch to get stomped by C9 later. If meta is too adc centred I predict that Deft can hard carry KZ to overcome AFS but in that case the 5th spot would go 90% to GenG due to Rulers Magic fingers. I would rate AFS higher if they still had Tousin.

For NA I see the bottom 3 being FLY - CLG - FOX

III BAKURYU III Jan 10, 20191 votes

Deft is interesting in a sense that in 2014 he was talked as if he was the greatest ADC ever but since he's been on great teams that were #1 seeds only to barely make it out of groups and would get eliminated in the first round of Worlds every year.
In my opinion Deft has to be one of the more overhyped players in League history.

Even with POE CLG bottom 3 in your mind? What's CLG missing or needs to be replaced? Darshan?

LhuhzJan 10, 20191 votes

Yes, Darshan is terrible imo.

Deft was great on LPL, he even won the first MSI for the región with EDG and beated Uzi several times.

The major moments where he fucked up were on 2015 against FNC and the whole 2017 with KT. For 2018 he was average on Spring but awesome on Summer, not only being the second best Awesome Dudes ADC player, only behind Viper, but also stepped up on the Finals against Griffin. And for Worlds he is the last KT member to blame for losing on quarters (quarters against the world winner btw, not against C9 or G2), all the rest of KT was outclassed by IG counterpart harder than him and even if it looks that the series was adc difference because JL ended with an amazing cuadra on Xayah the three facts that made IG win were: Mid, Top, and shotcalling for early fights that was made by Mata mostly.

This Worlds happened something really similar with KT and FNC adc when they faced IG, their solo lanes where being smashed and somehow ppl think that it's the adc fault, Rekkles deserves more blame for his champion for sure, but not for how he played.

GeminiRuneJan 13, 20192 votes

For the LCK - and with the grain of salt I have given towards Kespa Cup, I will back you on the prediction for Griffin and Gen.G being top contenders. However I currently banked Afreeca as 3rd. With Korea's changes, it's not easy to write a favorite. The more changes made, the more convincing needs to be done. That being said, SK Telecom falls in the same line of observation as much as the other teams. However, they do get the Alliance card. I have them 5th at worst - 4th definitive and little to no faith in Jin Air or Sandbox. But I'm neutral to these.

Europe....spot on. Like literally I have preseason power ranked G2 and Fnatic high to start out the season due to the limited roster changing but I still find faith in Misfits.

North America also pretty spot on. With CLG changing at least one of their weaker links in last season's roster while maintaining some core stability, I can see them doing better. I do however also feel that Liquid will refuse to diversify and if that comes to be, then I'll be pretty disappointed.

If anything, I'm looking at the middle of the pack - much similar to the LCK; a whole lot of convince me.

Finally for the LPL...gonna be a madhouse. A good madhouse. I also don't believe in Royal, Topsports is more convincing, and the rest I'm just throwing.

III BAKURYU III Jan 13, 20191 votes

Afreeca/KT/Kingzone - One of those three teams will most likely going to miss the Playoffs and I'm banking on Kingzone only because of the Deft-Pawn duo that we've seen already multiple times.

Misfits better be top#3 with that much talent and skill!

You say the LPL will be a "madhouse" and while I do agree with you - I think the EU will be no different! Every team in the LEC looks competitive and while most people are looking forward Caps/Perkz ADC I'll be looking at the top lane fiestas with so much talent in the top lane( Cabochard, Vizi, Alphari, Soaz, Wunder, Bwipo, Odoamne, Expect, etc) HAVE MERCY!

I'm sorry but did you say that you "don't believe in Royal"? What do you mean?

I really, really hope CLG returns to form and CLG shouldn't be 10th-7th only because they have 4/5 players that have chemistry already built from a full year. The only problem I do see with CLG are their 2 carries not being the best at teamfights, per se. CLG could be the Misfits of 2017 and surprise everyone with amazing wins but......

notMineskiexoJan 10, 20191 votes

8-10 TEAM SOLOMID

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

III BAKURYU III Jan 10, 20191 votes

A bit biased on my TSM prediction because I'm so tired of TSM with their constant failing at Worlds that 2018 was fresh air to me. I hope 2019 is no different.