It's actually the other way around. most of NA, or nearly every team of NA have a really really bad tendency of being inefficient. They pressure somewhat around the early game, but taking true advantage or transitioning off of kills into objectives NA teams seem really lackluster.
It's as if they dont know what to do when they take the outer turrets and get ahead by 4kish gold. I see so many NA games one team get ahead and that gold lead stays nearly the same for the next 15-20minutes until one of the teams just loses in a teamfight. They're highly inefficient, alot of random stuff happens ( the crowd loves this ) and they dont know how to close out games properly.
It's in the statistics aswell, if you look at the first dragon taken by Fnatic its around 12minutes average. For TSM that is 19minutes. Now that can be a priority or not but TSM doesn't take or transitions into something else either.
If we mention TSM, theyre actually highly overrated ( in my oppinion ) and this is why: They dont fit eachother.
-Dyrus in the toplane is an experienced player, but he comes from a meta where it was fine to passively farm for 20-30minutes then teamfight and win. He hardly ever pressures his lane or wins it straightup ( internationally ) And is an easy target for every jungler.
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Santorin is being criticised to be to passive of a jungler. Now on the outside that seems correct, but you dont know what their set goals were before the game. Alot of santorin's pressence goes to the midlane. And here is where the problem starts in conjunction with the toplane.
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Bjergsen is good individually. Sadly thats kinda it. He gets the most attention from santorin and quite honestly I don't see him doing more than going on par with international midlaners. But the biggest issue here is that he hardly roams or transition his so called individual prowess into a team advantage.
The thing about TSM is that if they have to cover the entirirty of the map against some better teams ( international speaking now ) .. they cant do it. I believe that's the reason santorin is kept on a leash around mid/bottem side of the map simply cause if he has to go alllll the way top, he's going to lose presssure on the bottem side, he cant contest his own buffs, dragon etc. And as mentioned before, Fnatic takes drake 7minutes earlier than TSM does on average. If santorin does go to the toplane, they're just going to lose something else elsewere on the map. The sit on mid doesn't work simply cause A. the opponent team has alrdy gained enough momentum/advantage from dyrus. B. Bjergsen isn't going to transition his advantage.
Theres alot more wrong with TSM's gameplay, it looks solid against weaker teams, but when they face better teams that know how to spot and take advantage from ( obvious ) weaknesses, suddenly TSM is forced to play the whole map and everything falls apart. And this is the big example of NA LCS in my oppinion. Weaker teams gets beaten, but against stronger teams NA doesn't ever make an upset for these reasons. C9 used to play the "trade objectives pick easy mode champions that are greatmid/late teamfighters" - Aka just ignore fighting trade ojbectives and crush them with our superior champion picks to balance our lack of individual skill.
Thing is, if you start playing against bigger teams, suddenly everything changes. Theres something wrong with TSM's playstyle and in my oppinion judging the players I don't think they will change it taht fast or actually can ( cause of lack of indvidiual skill )
I just typed away here, but in reality NA (apart from TiP maybe ) is insanely inefficient, and as long as it's in NA things balance out, but that won't work internationally. They're sort of cheesing and doing random stuff in a macro sense so to say.
