2015 LCS Season Predictions
What do you believe the LCS is going to look like in 2015?
I think Smite/Flash combos and Blitzcrank support are going to be really popular.*
*I am not a fortune-teller.
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Honestly I can not wait to see Alliance with Rekkles. I expect that to turn Alliance into the hands down dominant team in Europe, similar to Cloud 9 in their first splits.
I also am really excited for TSM Santorin, I LOVED Amazing on CW back in the day and he was by far my favorite jungler, so when he joined my favorite team I was happy. When he announced he would be moving back to EU I wasn't worried he wouldn't play, only that TSM may not find a jungler that I enjoyed as much as I did Amazing. I love the TSM members greatly, and they haven't had a roster change in a long time that I haven't been really excited to see because I was always a huge fan of who they brought in (with the exception of LustBoy, I had actually not heard much of him).
Santorin fits into the 'Jungler I've watched and enjoyed watching' category.
I do believe that if no big changes come to smite that there will definitely be a double or even triple smite strategy come out. [[I've had some experiments with lane smite and it honestly is really viable and even dare I say optimal in some situations. For instance, I feel as if Jax benefits a great deal from lane smite. He can take the challenging smite and upgrade it into a devourer which gives him really good overall base stats. In lane his smite will get a guaranteed fight win every minute or so if he plays smart. A smite into a stun followed by a rapid series of auto attacks (E-Q-aa-W-aa-Bork-aa) and you are dealing significant damage. If the enemy retaliates as soon as the stun wears off, you take 20% reduced damage which is fantastic. The kills you can get stack up for even more splitpush power and you can even get good vision control and take the enemy junglers camps for stacks and stats.]]
Team coordination to spreading the camps smite rewards can be a powerful tool and with the new dragons I expect controlling buffs to be even more important to a team looking for a late game win.
The upcoming LCS season is honestly going to be a very fantastic season and I can not wait to hear the casters having to say 'Rift Scuttler' constantly. "Doublelift rat-a-tat-tatted to secure the Rift Scuttler!"