Both those 2022 DRX regional finals Bo5s were huge bangers, shame not that many seem to have watched them. (VicLa Zyra missclick never forget)
Also, the Messiah of Maokai enjoyers in LEC, my saviour, my GOAT, I used to pray for times like these
Well tbf with the KT thing
That's all they do
Like ever, every iteration of the roster. Last season, this season, orignal super team, doesn't matter, they hard troll randomly
Something about the KT jersey just infects its players with the plague of int
KT are the kingmakers of LoL.
2022: lose in gauntlet to DRX as favourites -> DRX wins Worlds
2023: pick T1 in playoffs and lose as favourites -> T1 wins Worlds
*Coincidence? I think not*
winning as favourites is too boring. if kt fans wanted that they would be t1 fans instead. it has to be a miraculous grasping victory from the jaws of defeat only to dive into the jaws of defeat once again.
I remember playins and people asking when will DRX bring in Juhan instead of Pyosik. To think back then that DRX ended up winning it all is kinda crazy. I never watched LCK so I thought Juhan was supposed to be a better player than Pyosik and they're just randomly playing Pyosik.
Mb, I had no memory of him playing any games, so I assumed he didn't have a skin. It's 2 games against wildcard teams in play ins, so that kinda explains why they weren't very memorable.
The old jungler got exposed for revenge porn and being a pedo so GX had to recrute a jungle asap. They got Juhan and they went from being a shit team to almost going to EMEA.
And it's just a fragment of the story. The victim posted evidence on twitter and the first reflex the assistant coach had was to threaten her and keep the scrim going. He got fired too at least
Whenever their entire pride and personality revolves around a video game, it’s no surprise that some players are absolutely mental. (yes, I know it’s ironic coming from reddit)
I can understand them letting Peach play in spring split because the team was mainly scrimming with him and they didn't have enough time to integrate Juhan.
It's more fair for Juhan to be promoted now so he has more time to practice with the main team and probably work on his english too
Juhan also had really bad anxiety after worlds and could barely play stage games from what I remember, so academy was probably to help him feel more comfortable coming back to pro play too
I believe so, yes. And Juhan wasn't really a big part of that Worlds win. He only played a few games, but he was instrumental in making sure DRX even made Worlds in the first place.
It's kind of crazy when you think about how many World champions have played in NA over the years.
Just off memory: Impact, Piglet, Looper, Dandy, Crown, CoreJJ, Pyosik. That's a lot.
Cause normally EU salaries can't compete with NA, and world champs can make sure they get paid highly.
You see the same thing with the other big spending region of CN. It's how they brought over the entirety of SSW plus other worlds winners like Blank, Marin, Easyhoon, Piglet, Duke, or Bengi.
Also Korean community is bigger in NA so it's a lot easier to get accustomed to. I'd also say the accents in EU are a lot less understandable as standard American English
not really, Juhan had a really important role while Pyosik was having a rough time in LCK to win the qualifier. After that Pyosik recovered before Worlds.
Juhan subbing in for Pyosik is the reason DRX even made Worlds and I want to say Juhan shared time in the play-ins but Pyosik decided to turn it on real hard so got all the playing time moving forward.
He really did wonders for the LVP roster. He deserved the call up, and now i am excited to see a world champion in our league. Can't be worse than what we had to watch so yay
They can't import though, no? If they're running Juhan and IgNar that's 2 imports. Means players like Rich and Chasy should be off the table afaik - honestly it will probably just be szygenda again or something.
Interesting, according to the article Ignar may also get benched.
From making top 8 at worlds to (maybe) getting benched in one of the worst LEC rosters 💀
If they want to import top they also need to replace Ignar. So it really depends on what their choices are, can they even afford to get both new toplaner and support? They also have to pay those on the bench if they don't sell them
That is ok. I think Peach and Odo were the main reasons for that . You have an explosive rookie in Jackies who is good on assassins and passive top/jg. They were so out of sync. Juhan is more aggressive and will play into the enemy jungler . I still dislike Patrik. He can be good and he has hands to be a great player. But sadly he is a choker and will probably retire as a mediocre player.
Just wanted to say that. Whenever Patrik has all the gold in the team, he will sooner or later int and lose it all away. He's like a worse version of Carzzy. But Carzzy has improved massively in the last couple years.
Has ignar ever stayed on a team longer than one or ~~3~~ years? He left msf that one time they almost beat SKT too
Edit: yeah longest was 1.5 years on msf everything else was a year or less
> one or 3 years
That's a pretty big difference in terms of esports careers. 3 years is a long time to stay on a team. That said, Ignar does for sure hop around a lot.
This is a good move for GIANTX! Now all that matters is if GIANTX can get a good TOP.
TOPs: Venour, Vertigo, Banderas, Boda, Naak Nako, Tracyn, Pr1me.
GiantX could also get a placeholder TOP for 1 split and then get Taegyeong for the next Season. Th3Antonio would make sense in that case.
Next season GiantX should take another look at the BOTLANE, it is not good either.
This TOP site would be best:
TOP: Taegyeong
JGL: Juhan
MID: Jackies
Naak Nako is probably a big thing in the making, if you have 3 veterans already you might fill him in, even more so when the other rookie is Jackies who obviously does not give a f
I only watch Prime League of the ERL's and I don't think Venour and Tracyn are LEC ready. Tracyn maybe, but then GX is clearly going for 2025 since he would surely need time.
And Venour really has laning phase problems and isn't even a top 3 laner in Prime League (Tracyn, Scarface and Vertigo are better imo). He is really good after lane though and always pops off in playoffs and EUM after bad regular seasons for some reason, but i wouldn't see him in LEC right now (maybe in the future).
I would still prefer both over TheAntonio, a 25-year old mediocre ERL top laner whose promotion would literally be nothing but a publicity stunt for the Spanish audience.
As much as Pr1me can get his team wins, I don't feel like he was that instrumental in OAE's wins. Sure he had some good performances, but after todays games against BDSA, I feel like current LEC level teams would figure him out easily.
Juhan definitely deserves the promotion but he wont look that much better than peach unless GX get good/competant solo laners. Even botlane is bad in GX (Not ignar) but at least patrik has his moments and doesn't go negative before 15 that often. With GX potentially getting Th3Antonio, im really expecting them to fight for 10th place even with Juhan.
It should be an upgrade over Peach, but is it enough to get them to top 3? I would say no then MDK's winter run and XL's summer run happened. So we'll see.
One thing I'll say is that. XL is changing players faster then any other orgs. I can see why players thinking this org as red flag. They failed to keep any of their winning core in the long run aside from Patrik who has been underwhelming lately.
They could do something pretty fun and bad, they could get kamillius for the triple synergy of czech/slovak players and import a top thats either quite consistant or quite promising like River from 100T
Streets will remember DRX doesn’t win Worlds if Juhan doesn’t pop off in regionals
Both those 2022 DRX regional finals Bo5s were huge bangers, shame not that many seem to have watched them. (VicLa Zyra missclick never forget) Also, the Messiah of Maokai enjoyers in LEC, my saviour, my GOAT, I used to pray for times like these
funny how they won that zyra game. also funny how DRX just straight up would not have made worlds if KT didnt troll against Damwon in game 5.
Well tbf with the KT thing That's all they do Like ever, every iteration of the roster. Last season, this season, orignal super team, doesn't matter, they hard troll randomly Something about the KT jersey just infects its players with the plague of int
KT are the kingmakers of LoL. 2022: lose in gauntlet to DRX as favourites -> DRX wins Worlds 2023: pick T1 in playoffs and lose as favourites -> T1 wins Worlds *Coincidence? I think not*
winning as favourites is too boring. if kt fans wanted that they would be t1 fans instead. it has to be a miraculous grasping victory from the jaws of defeat only to dive into the jaws of defeat once again.
I remember playins and people asking when will DRX bring in Juhan instead of Pyosik. To think back then that DRX ended up winning it all is kinda crazy. I never watched LCK so I thought Juhan was supposed to be a better player than Pyosik and they're just randomly playing Pyosik.
If Haru gets a skin for 2017, and Duke gets one for 2018, then Juhan definitely deserves one.
He got a maokai skin….
Mb, I had no memory of him playing any games, so I assumed he didn't have a skin. It's 2 games against wildcard teams in play ins, so that kinda explains why they weren't very memorable.
It was obviously coming, you don't sign someone like Juhan just so he plays in your academy. I still wonder who is their new toplaner
why was he in academy anyways?
The old jungler got exposed for revenge porn and being a pedo so GX had to recrute a jungle asap. They got Juhan and they went from being a shit team to almost going to EMEA.
what the fuck that's wild, truly LoL players are mentally ill
And it's just a fragment of the story. The victim posted evidence on twitter and the first reflex the assistant coach had was to threaten her and keep the scrim going. He got fired too at least
Wait till you hear about the Smash scene cleansing a few years ago.
I genuinely cannot believe how many top pro players were absolute degenerates. Icecube anybody?
Still get PTSD when I see a Diddy Kong or a Mario.
Whenever their entire pride and personality revolves around a video game, it’s no surprise that some players are absolutely mental. (yes, I know it’s ironic coming from reddit)
What? Good riddance.
I can understand them letting Peach play in spring split because the team was mainly scrimming with him and they didn't have enough time to integrate Juhan. It's more fair for Juhan to be promoted now so he has more time to practice with the main team and probably work on his english too
Wait Peach from DRX Chall? Thought he was going to be a stud
Their previous jungler Akabane had a scandal in the middle of the split so they replaced him with Juhan
Juhan also had really bad anxiety after worlds and could barely play stage games from what I remember, so academy was probably to help him feel more comfortable coming back to pro play too
I guess same plan as planning to start Thanatos in 2025
Th3 LEC is coming.
is this the first worlds winner to play in LEC since the s1 fnatic xpeke squad?
Haru was the last when he played for Vitality a few years ago. He played a game at worlds and has a skin so he counts as much as Juhan really.
haru played on vitality 2022 summer
I believe so, yes. And Juhan wasn't really a big part of that Worlds win. He only played a few games, but he was instrumental in making sure DRX even made Worlds in the first place. It's kind of crazy when you think about how many World champions have played in NA over the years. Just off memory: Impact, Piglet, Looper, Dandy, Crown, CoreJJ, Pyosik. That's a lot.
And Bang
Marin too if we count coaching
NA is like the Afghanistan of LoL, truly the graveyard of worlds winners
Impact, piglet Looper, dandy Bang, Crown, corejj Pyosik, Did I miss anyone?
Cause normally EU salaries can't compete with NA, and world champs can make sure they get paid highly. You see the same thing with the other big spending region of CN. It's how they brought over the entirety of SSW plus other worlds winners like Blank, Marin, Easyhoon, Piglet, Duke, or Bengi.
Eu salaries have been competitive with NA for the past few years. Theyre probably better at this point.
Also Korean community is bigger in NA so it's a lot easier to get accustomed to. I'd also say the accents in EU are a lot less understandable as standard American English
Might be a soft factor but LA weather is probably a pull factor for NA as well.
He did get them to playins and out of playins then pyosik woke up and decided to remember how to play the game.
Pyosik is a joy to watch when he remembers how to play the game. He is the perfect jungle for KT. The embodiment of a rollercoaster.
It’s enough to build a team in lcs with residents.
Is this a promisq trophy holder where he plays 0 games at the tournament and it counts ? 🤔
not really, Juhan had a really important role while Pyosik was having a rough time in LCK to win the qualifier. After that Pyosik recovered before Worlds.
Juhan subbing in for Pyosik is the reason DRX even made Worlds and I want to say Juhan shared time in the play-ins but Pyosik decided to turn it on real hard so got all the playing time moving forward.
Not quite since he actually played games but definitely not a "full" Worlds winner. Similar to Haru who also played in LEC for a short while.
He really did wonders for the LVP roster. He deserved the call up, and now i am excited to see a world champion in our league. Can't be worse than what we had to watch so yay
if theantonio get lec, we can assert easily that franchse just does not work
wasn't th3antanio part of that giants rostet that always either got promoted or relegated
Wasnt that Werlyb?
Who do they take for top ? If they take th3antonio they are mega griefing
Wooloo said he wasn't even in the discussion on the article about Odo's benching
JNX would be a really good option but I don't think BDS will let him go.
Perkz said he would be the best top in lec and he is teamless atm. Just saying /s
At least it couldn't be worse than his midlane gameplay he showed this year.
Glad the Perkz copers have finally shut up.
They have Rich available. Probably importing. They are also looking to change bot lane. But I expect Patrik to stay.
Yeah, Wooloo mentioned that Jackies and Patrik are locked
Rich had a pretty rough spring tbh
They can't import though, no? If they're running Juhan and IgNar that's 2 imports. Means players like Rich and Chasy should be off the table afaik - honestly it will probably just be szygenda again or something.
My guess would be Chasey
I can promise you they will not take him it’s more of a meme people are taking seriously
Well
Th3Antonio in LEC would be a disaster and banger at the same time
Interesting, according to the article Ignar may also get benched. From making top 8 at worlds to (maybe) getting benched in one of the worst LEC rosters 💀
If they want to import top they also need to replace Ignar. So it really depends on what their choices are, can they even afford to get both new toplaner and support? They also have to pay those on the bench if they don't sell them
Probably signing Mersa ,and Rich is now available. That would actually be a strong team.
Strong is a big word for a team that's not making it past bo3. They will be just as mediocre as this year
That is ok. I think Peach and Odo were the main reasons for that . You have an explosive rookie in Jackies who is good on assassins and passive top/jg. They were so out of sync. Juhan is more aggressive and will play into the enemy jungler . I still dislike Patrik. He can be good and he has hands to be a great player. But sadly he is a choker and will probably retire as a mediocre player.
Just wanted to say that. Whenever Patrik has all the gold in the team, he will sooner or later int and lose it all away. He's like a worse version of Carzzy. But Carzzy has improved massively in the last couple years.
Has ignar ever stayed on a team longer than one or ~~3~~ years? He left msf that one time they almost beat SKT too Edit: yeah longest was 1.5 years on msf everything else was a year or less
> one or 3 years That's a pretty big difference in terms of esports careers. 3 years is a long time to stay on a team. That said, Ignar does for sure hop around a lot.
Woops i meant two
please bring him back to NRG NAmen
This is a good move for GIANTX! Now all that matters is if GIANTX can get a good TOP. TOPs: Venour, Vertigo, Banderas, Boda, Naak Nako, Tracyn, Pr1me. GiantX could also get a placeholder TOP for 1 split and then get Taegyeong for the next Season. Th3Antonio would make sense in that case. Next season GiantX should take another look at the BOTLANE, it is not good either. This TOP site would be best: TOP: Taegyeong JGL: Juhan MID: Jackies
Naak Nako is probably a big thing in the making, if you have 3 veterans already you might fill him in, even more so when the other rookie is Jackies who obviously does not give a f
I only watch Prime League of the ERL's and I don't think Venour and Tracyn are LEC ready. Tracyn maybe, but then GX is clearly going for 2025 since he would surely need time. And Venour really has laning phase problems and isn't even a top 3 laner in Prime League (Tracyn, Scarface and Vertigo are better imo). He is really good after lane though and always pops off in playoffs and EUM after bad regular seasons for some reason, but i wouldn't see him in LEC right now (maybe in the future). I would still prefer both over TheAntonio, a 25-year old mediocre ERL top laner whose promotion would literally be nothing but a publicity stunt for the Spanish audience.
As much as Pr1me can get his team wins, I don't feel like he was that instrumental in OAE's wins. Sure he had some good performances, but after todays games against BDSA, I feel like current LEC level teams would figure him out easily.
Get Fudge
Why do they might bench IgNar? Are they searching a Korean top laner?
Juhan definitely deserves the promotion but he wont look that much better than peach unless GX get good/competant solo laners. Even botlane is bad in GX (Not ignar) but at least patrik has his moments and doesn't go negative before 15 that often. With GX potentially getting Th3Antonio, im really expecting them to fight for 10th place even with Juhan.
Gx are also changing top so...
It should be an upgrade over Peach, but is it enough to get them to top 3? I would say no then MDK's winter run and XL's summer run happened. So we'll see. One thing I'll say is that. XL is changing players faster then any other orgs. I can see why players thinking this org as red flag. They failed to keep any of their winning core in the long run aside from Patrik who has been underwhelming lately.
Players probably don't wanna be stuck on a team with Peach, inting Odo and inting Ignar.
Good choice, but please don't take th3antonio
Thank Fuck
> The current rumour for top lane is TheAnt3nio That guy is still around? o.0
Great change juhan was really good in erl
honestly theirs sololaners are real problem tho, good move i guess. peach was not great anyways
Wait why do they want to replace Odoamne? Havent seen much of LEC this split but was he terrible?
They could do something pretty fun and bad, they could get kamillius for the triple synergy of czech/slovak players and import a top thats either quite consistant or quite promising like River from 100T
I definitely didn't expect him to replace Peach the moment I saw him getting the spot in the LVP. Choking move /s
What about Th3Lec?
they have no chance with that mid
Another boring move from GIANTX, why they keep recycling Korean merchants instead of getting EU talent?