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The Truth About Doublelift

IncrediPhiLL·10/17/2018, 5:03:16 PM·2 votes·2,170 views

I would never say he is a bad ADC. He is very successful in NA, but I think he is a very 1 sided ADC with only 1 play style and an inability to adapt. That is why he struggles so much in international play. It's easy to find what's good against a single region and spam it... especially when the region is the WORST BOT LANE REGION of the major LOL leagues.

The difference between a player like Doublelift and Sneaky is the simple fact that Sneaky understands when something isn't working and adapts to something better. He gets demolished by Uzi in lane as Kai'sa... understands that he isn't going to win a lane against Uzi, so the next time they play, he goes with something that actually has some protection and can lose the lane and still be effective... what do you know... C9 wins.

Doublelift is under the impression that when he loses or does poorly, it's his team's job to fix their mistakes and draft a comp that builds around him... which ultimately leaves lesser players (like Pobelter (F for respect)) getting smashed in lane and continually picked off.

I firmly believe that he is a liability to any team. He is cocky, has a bad attitude, and forces the rest of the team into a one sided play style. If winning NALCS championships is the goal with no chance of international success, then DL is your guy... but I think most teams have loftier ambitions than just winning their region a few times.

4 Comments

FooDang10/19/2018, 4:54:29 AM1 votes

It's not DL's fault that the teams he plays on thinks it's solo queue. TL isn't disciplined enough to play on the world stage. World class teams are always in formation even when they reset the map. Pobelter just split pushes tier 2 turrets with Syndra with no back up (They did win that game but some decisions like that were just cringe for a pro team) . No discipline or team play. You can't blame the player you have to blame the whole team.

Who stands a better chance to kill a lion? 4 great warriors fighting as individuals or 4 regular soldiers fighting as a unit?

Eleshakai10/19/2018, 5:01:43 AM1 votes

I disagree. I don't think DL is a liability. I think DL is an ADC player who operates in a very similar way to Uzi(although not QUITE as good). He is a player who naturally demands that the game revolve around him... unfortunately that type of player requires a team that is strategically gifted enough to make the right plays to enable that strategy AND mechanically gifted enough to ensure that it's not as simple as 'getting the other lanes behind'.

Between their top, mid, and jungle, they have no THREATS. Pobelter doesn't seem able to carry games anymore really, Impact is mostly a defensive player, and their teamplay is insufficient to allow them to play around the jungle. Their strategy doesn't include the right mindset to set up counter-roams and they lack the foresight to prepare massive counter-gank teleport plays to take over a game. Etc...

Their problem isn't Doublelift. It's that they're trying to be RNG but don't have the tools to actually do what RNG does.