Has to be between Vansilli and Pavlos imo
Pavlos can't pronounce a single IGN to save his life and is the most uninteresting caster going
Vansilli's voice is just fucking annoying
"Pavlos can't pronounce a single IGN" like if any of them could. Literally all of them pronounce them mostly wrong unless its English word or otherwise simple name with clear pronounciation. I have never heard any of them pronounce Jamppi or Derke right for example. Their pronounciation of Derke sounds like Dörkä or smth in Finnish for example.
Doug is a goated caster tbh, but Babybay just doesn't fit the casting role. He's great on the desk analysing but he doesn't have the oomph for casting? It's a weird je ne sais qoui that I can't quite place, but he just doesn't have it. Same with Mimi, love her in everything, but I'm not a fan of her casting.
Mitch and Tom are the Caster version of a Radient eboy boosting their little sage kitten into gold. Mitch is just the worst play-by-play caster. He's only gotten worse as Val has gone on. I used to hate on Paperthin, but that guy got WAY better in his analysis and color over the last year. Mitch hasn't gotten better - he's gotten worse. And Riot recognizes this, i mean he's getting less high-stakes matchups and Tom is getting a much more prevalent role on the desk (Tom deserves the world).
I think this year was (and I know this sounds dumb af) a good meta for the casters and it really showed who was real or not. The past years had a lot more small things going on, and less chaotic executes, so casters had way more gameplay to excuse their casting. This meta had a ton of high energy moments, lots of mistakes to occur, lots of outplays, lots of hero plays, and lots of empty space. This let the casters dive more into analytics or personality, which is why (imo) casters like Paperthin and Pansy were significantly better this year than last. It really illistrated the sheer gap that Bren and Sideshow have between the second best duo (Pansy and Steel could do it tho). Duo's that really know how to explain the game, and who really know how to frame moments where able to thrive. Mitch didn't handle anything well, and showed the largest regression from all casters in all regions. Mitch will forever get hate from me, simply for how poorly he casted the f0rsaken ace. Any other play-by-play would have made that moment better, but whenever i see it again the moment is worse just from Mitch's effort.
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