"Why play Easyhoon when you have Faker"
These shout casters and analysts, for all of their skill in disecting the game in action, the potential picks and bans, and the outcomes... have no clue how devastating the mind game is, or how the power rankings can be played out to it's strength.
First off - It's funny when Faker seems to not be performing... If you watched him against AHQ and some of the other group stage games you see that Faker does not always come out 5-0 in these games. Sometimes he barely breaks even...
But look at these team fights. You'll see every CD on the enemy team DOWN for Faker... and not one left to stop Marin or Bang from slashing the rest of the team apart. It's such a bait for Faker to play dangerously because it causes the opponent to stick their neck out just barely too far... and boy do they sink their teeth in. You can almost hear it on their mics "OMG I HIT FAKER WITH BINDING DIVE DIVE DIVE" 10 seconds later it's 1 for an ace, and SKT winning.
Second off - the way you play your power should not always be front loaded. Just like in a fight in lane, you don't always throw out your biggest nukes first. Sometimes you chip them down, bit by bit, so you can insta-nuke them as soon as they pass that threshold of death. Because they aren't used to the big dunk, but just the little chips, they don't even realize they're dead.
What SKTT1 has that NO other team has, is a VERY capable sub who has live experience against the best players on the biggest stages. When another team has to play with a sub, it's because one of their stars isn't shining, and it often means they are playing on their heels, at a disadvantage.
SKTT1 puts Easyhoon up there front and center. Not just a sub for when Faker is out, but a fully experienced member of the team every bit as deserving of a place on the team as anyone else, even Faker himself. Easyhoon knows that he must perform when he is given these opportunities, but SKTT1 constantly extend these to him, and he delivers. Any other team would be lucky to START Easyhoon, let alone sub such a strong player.
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. This is just my opinion, though.
were very mobile and very skill-dependent champions that could outplay and juke entire teams in uneven fights. They could go aggressive and get kills, and that is where Faker shines. He has some of, if not the best, mechanics on mobile mid laners.