#15 - Imp

Riot·9/10/2014, 5:00:20 PM·0 votes·55,227 views
As part of our Countdown to Worlds, lolesports.com, we celebrate the Top 20 players of the World Championship.

#15 - Imp

Team - Samsung White Region - Korea Position - ADC Signature Champions Redemption. Imp entered the 2013 World Championships as one of the world’s hottest stars. Praised for his incredible Vayne mechanics and hailed as one of the best AD Carries on the planet, the 2013 World Championship was supposed to be his coronation as the best ADC in the world. In the end, Imp left the tournament in the Group Stages and had an up-and-down 2014 season. Making it back into Worlds after destroying rivals SK Telecom T1 K and Piglet in the Korean Regionals tiebreaker, Imp has been given a second chance to shine under the lights of Worlds. His main champions Vayne and Caitlyn have fallen out of favor for the most part in 2014, so you will see Imp primarily playing Kog’maw and Twitch at Worlds. His stealthy play on the sewer rat has been a big success for Imp, going 14-5 overall on the champion and resulting in a flood of multi-kill sprees. Unlike his Blue equivalent Deft who can sometimes be passive in lane and fall behind, Imp is the exact opposite -- in your face, ready to flaunt his mechanical skill over yours and score a kill that snowballs into a late-game where he has 10 kills and can win the game by himself. Check out the other players on the list! Who do you think is #14 on our list of the 20 greatest players at #Worlds? Tweet @lolesports or comment below to let us know!

38 Comments

Manoi9/10/2014, 10:30:19 PM21 votes

Imp should be higher :3

dive me plz9/11/2014, 12:46:35 AM12 votes

want a joke! imp is 15...hes pretty even with namei uzi deft...plz riot if u gonna put reckless or tabzz in front of him u will be crazy.

TLC FurFur9/10/2014, 8:22:55 PM6 votes

Mmmhh.... I understand that Riot casters and analysts, at every single World Championships, expected an American team to win, or to be in the top 5 of the tournanment, but saying that a player like Imp has less skill than Bjergsen (I presume he will be after in the top 20) or Uzi, like in their article about "lpl and their ad carries" is not objective. Imp and Deft are the BEST AD carry in the world. They should be in the top 10, if you take 2 person per post. Again they will be suprised when Turtle and Sneaky will seems to be bronze against them (even if they are extreamly good).

ZXDYKioaMx9/11/2014, 4:20:49 AM4 votes

Just because they are Korean doesn't mean they are better until proven. Yes maybe a Korean team is the best right now and maybe a Korean player is the best, that just means that individual player is the best in the world and is Korean it doesn't mean everyone who is around him is automatically better.

You need to remember that there is not much difference in skill at the Worlds level. To be honest 90% of the skill differences seen are due to 5 man teamwork and not so much 1 player being a mile better than another. There is in fact a theoretical limit to how well you can play a game individually. All of the players going to worlds are lets say between 90/100 skill and 95/100 skill individually. Its not like one of the Koreans is going to mop the floor with a Chinese/European or American player in a 1vs1 match.

All of the difference comes from team play at their level.

While 1 American player may be 90/100 skill (estimate) and one Korean player may be 95/100 skill that isn't a stomp of a difference. That is only a 5 point difference 1v1 but add in the rest of the team and the difference can add up via teamwork.

MrStealUrWaifu9/10/2014, 11:06:43 PM4 votes

Froggen is a god

Doomsday99019/10/2014, 7:56:11 PM3 votes

Well, imp is good. I kinda expected him to be between 10 and 12 tho.

Glørÿ9/11/2014, 2:59:12 AM3 votes

Why is Bjerg/Froggen ahead of Imp/GoGoing......?

GingerScoop9/11/2014, 3:11:18 AM2 votes

Wildturtle should prob be about 8

xDryder9/10/2014, 8:36:23 PM2 votes

Surprised to see Kog'Maw instead of Tristana to be honest

Thresh is love9/11/2014, 1:37:18 PM2 votes

Bjergsen , will definetly have a chance of proving himself once again on that assassin champions that are coming back into the meta which we can clearly say he played incredibly good

The Idiot Ninja9/11/2014, 5:03:21 PM2 votes

What about you actually put the top 20 players in this world championships. That is, the entirety of samsung white, samsung blue, najin white and EDG.

dudu5159/12/2014, 3:06:31 PM2 votes

He should be higher than Rekkles and just second in the adc position after Deft.

aeca229/11/2014, 7:16:40 AM2 votes

loool...looks like Riot hates Korean players and on top of that Chinese ones too. Imp 15 ? Very bad rankings.

MeanBadEvil9/11/2014, 6:52:43 AM1 votes

NA World Championship Title...as mysterious asAzir Leave a comment

warpedmind9/11/2014, 1:41:50 PM1 votes

you guys are assuming too much shit. wait until the whole list is released and complain then. jeez

glokazun9/12/2014, 6:38:02 PM1 votes

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