I really dislike watching NA play
They always do absolutely nothing to setup plays. They sit there farming it out hoping that the enemy team walks into them and dies. It's not good. It's a very bad way to play the game.
They always do absolutely nothing to setup plays. They sit there farming it out hoping that the enemy team walks into them and dies. It's not good. It's a very bad way to play the game.
Ya also not banning Irelia.
Or picking something that can survive her midgame onslaught would be nice.
i made a post about it last year when they decided to franchise (good) and then go to Bo1 series (bad). all of the competitive regions still play Bo3's during the regular season, get 2 to 3 times the amount of practice on each and every patch in meaningful games. NA looked pretty bad last year. I predicted this year they would be embarrassing for a major region. And after seeing TL get beaten like bronze 5's against a play in team like EDG, I feel my point has been illustrated.
As a 100T fan, we looked bad playing that passively in Playoffs. That game against FNATIC was just embarassing. They tried to sit back and still got dove. These first three games NA has looked really bad.
NA is really bad they don't play proactively. Had they setup something before the Olaf was strong enough to invade their Graves constantly they could have gotten a lead. If they had gotten a lead, they'd probably not even know what to do with it, though. I guess it doesn't matter either way.
C9's first game felt terrible. Sneaky in lane meme is old, and it hasn't been true lately either, but that was by far his worst performance in a long time. Licorice played really good though, and I'm left wondering how this game would have gone if not for the massive feed bot in the first 6 minutes of the game. 100T's game was also really bad to watch aside from the early play of Anda. Ryu looked like Pobelter when C9 brought out the swole bros for the first time. Massively outdone by Caps, who just rampaged all over the map after that. TL's first game honestly didn't feel bad to me. Yes, of course, the level 1 incident was cringy, but aside from that it felt like they played a good vision game and had some good picks. DL just lost so much from not having flash the first 5 minutes of the game.
All in all, from seeing 4 games of NA so far, I have little faith in 100T (didn't have much to begin with), I think C9 can pull off the ol' "3-3 we edge out the other 2 teams cause our group is balanced" and TL can still bounce back. Really excited to see the TL vs EDG match, it should be pretty telling.
C9 looked like they at least tried when I wrote this post. I missed TL's game and 100T looks like the kinda guys that would say, "hey, it's okay. we're just happy to be included here."