Whats your rankings for EMEA teams? Since i keep seeing people say that none of the good teams played yet, who are the good teams? Is vitality 4 now? Everyone was saying KOI was 4 and better than NRG. Either way your region is kinda mid
KCORP: great firepower in ScreaM and Nivera as well as SHIN who is a very promising talent. Also the whole team speaks French making communication seamless.
VIT: Picked up 2 extremely solid players in MOLSI and Twisten as well as retaining their Champions winning IGL BONECOLD. Also picked up the mastermind coaches behind OGLU's top 4 LCQ finish as well as Fnatic's marcus_askildsen.
GIA: Picked up Cloud and nukkye who were arguably the best players on their respective teams as well as proven, LAN tested coaching staff in Milan and pipsoN. Extremely flexible core who can play just about any role if needed giving them an edge over other teams.
ceNder is top5 sentinel
Molsi top5 initiator
TwisteN top5 duelist
Bonecold top5 IGL
(In EMEA)
Destrian is kinda shit and once they replace him for somebody great at flash-init at top5. Then they will be able to compete with fnc,TL,Navi.
Giants needs a proper IGL and a proper duelist.
KOi need to replace starxo and maybe even need an upgrade on Wolfen depending on whether he was a onetrick chamber.
Nobody said KOI was favorite against NRG. Having the potential of being a dark horse is very different and we obviously hoped for it.
About the ranking of our teams. My opinion is that our top 6 is clearly divided into 2 groups.
1st group is FNC, TL, NAVI, which I don't really know how to rank until we see em, only guess I have is ranking TL a bit lower since they changed the most players but it's just to say something cause I really don't know
2nd group is Vit, Giants and KOI. KOI still has that potential to be a dark horse and I feel like in the future they will be the best of this 3 but they've proven they are not yet, they need more time. Giants has had a great showing and might be top 4 rn depending on what Vitality does. Vitality has looked great in the offseason, probably better than what we saw from KOI so far but idk how that will translate here.
1-2: Fnatic, NaVi (not in order)
3: Liquid
4-6: KOI, Giants, Vitality (not in order)
7: Heretics
8: KCorp
9: BBL
10: FUT
But I think that especially 7-9 can change, but too early to tell.
Reasoning: NaVi and Fnatic both have a core and really stacked roster on paper. Liquid might be there as well, but I have more questions for them and they might have some issues with language barrier and roles at start. KOI, Giants and Vitality all have good rosters IMO especially the first 2 and I also think that these teams especially Vitality have a clear vision and project and are built by people who actually want to do well in the league. Heretics roster is just so uninspiring and full of players who had weak 2022. I just don't see any vision. KCorp is griefing themselves by going full French, but they still have Scream and Nivera who are good. And BBL and FUT are just same core for most part as they had before and didn't make any massive changes outside of BBL getting and IGL. Turkish teams just lack structure and strats I think like always.