NA 2017 Spring Split Team Rankings # 9

9 NA Standings with a 5-13 record in this upcoming split

TEAM ENVYUS Average stat predictions (K-D-A-CS)

1.8 3.5 4.3 241 Seraph 1.8 2.4 5.3 124 Procxin 2.3 3.0 4.1 303 Ninja 2.8 3.1 2.7 297 Lod 0.6 3.0 6.1 31 Hakuho

After starting 4-0 last split(2016 Summer Split) some people really thought this team could be a powerhouse ( Keyword "some" ) talk about that later! So starting 4-0 at the start of the season, but only winning two-2-TWO series wins out of 8 overall 2-6 to end the season. I thought I was watching the 2011 Denver Broncos and how they lost out but still made it into the playoffs!

Envy really shot themselves in the foot in most games mainly focusing on objectives too much in the early stages of the game. This team would get small dragon leads in the first 15 mins and same can be said for towers but after that they just stopped and played their lanes. Why? You have an early dragon lead which means you're ahead you get 1-2 towers pre 15 and you just wait and do nothing for the rest of the game and believe me they would wait and wait and wait for what was longest game duration team for NA around the 38 mins per game. 15 mins good Envy - 23 mins bad Envy.
Team envy was really in the middle of the pack for teams for -dragons-towers-barons etc on the offensive side of things but you just wouldn't really expect that from a team leading the league in minutes played. They really reminded me of not just the Den. Broncos but TSM during the 2015 Summer Split and how slow they were and just playing the reaction games but the thing about TSM was they could rely on their talent on the team if in a hole. For Envy once in a hole they just still in for the most part.

Some of the reason on why Team Envy failed

A. Vision - they were decent at warding but not really great at all stages of a game. They would ward some at the start then stop in the middle of the game - then ward some at the end.

B. Players- mainly Seraph. Back half of the season and Playoffs(top die) he would just get destroyed at top in situations that you could just play passive and farm, instead he would play too aggro - die or too passive -die like he doesn't know how to sustain in lane and shame on the team in not doing anything or making a different playstyle for a player that has had this situation for years now since his CLG days. Seraph just can't survive in lane or do anything lane wise. Seraph would make a GREAT jungler tho - he's smart and he plays for the team always, he tries to make play and honestly isn't a KDA whore like some players, he will die to get his team ahead BUT you can't do that as a laner especially as the TOP lane, top lane was too much of an important role this past year.

PRO Players- The players on this team mean well and all are good players but let's be honest these are kinda like the throw away players or like the cabbage patch kids that no'one really wants but still do their job decent enough to get noticed. CON Communication Like I said before each Envy player has a special trait about them but it's hard to really use that trait when half the players can't really understand what you're saying.

PRO Team Envy started off hot last split but beating teams like NRG with the most passive jungler in NA history. APX with a 50 man roster that really had no reason being put together as they didn't really use any of their subs. TL with obvious behind the scenes problems and P1 with what has to be the worst support player that i'v seen. Good job. CON { Ignoring the fact that I pretty much bashed the team in the PRO section I will vice versa the situation in the CON section as well. } Ninja- Either he just plays slow or it's by accident but he has played in 56 NA normal split games with Team Dragon Knights(9) Team Renegades(5) and of coarse Team Envy(42), totaling up to 56 Games!!!!!! out of those 56 games 26 of those have been 40+mins. 19 -40mins 6 -50mins and 1 -60min games. So this guy knows how to play for the late game. The problem is he's constantly around the 67-68% kill participation for his team

My theory if this team wants to win Procxin and Ninja need to work together more. They are the only two that know what first blood looks like/taste like and they need to work from the mid lane to the top lane to get Seraph some items so he can actually survive in lane. If I coached Team Envy I would honestly watch some old school 2013-14 TSM footage to focus on the Jng-Mid synergy and work on trying to get other leads from roles if they still want to keep an early objective style game watch how 2014 SSW would play as well.

Overall I'm not holding my breath or expect any surprises from this team however with a Ninja on the team they could sneak up in the rankings will they?

Thank you and Happy Holidays!