tbf ivy has probably never had a performance this bad in like the last year minimum

holy shit this guy just has a 40% chance to turn into thanos for a map regardless of who he's playing

mfs just saying anything atp

only if rrq beat dfm

neither are better than prx

yeah they’ve been winning multiple man disadvantage rounds and literally player diffing t1

meteor has been pretty ass this year ngl

just overrate this team so hard lmfao

they are NOT that good gang

especially when meteor is doing this shit

that dude is NOT my alt

he also seems to be quite friendly with his old teammates so

eg beat prx then stole their biggest fan

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dambi is the entire reason they have their only 2 rounds

i actually respect the honesty but it is funny how you guys always talk about aspas, tbf though if he played for my country i'd glaze tf out of him too

brazil fan try not to mention aspas challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

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ash has better stats today than lakia in every aspect besides rating and kast wdym

i mean if kitae wasn’t playing today he would definitely have been the worst player of the series, and the guy barely holds his own when geng aren’t playing with a sub either. so i wouldn’t say he’s urango but i also would definitely not say he’s “pretty freaking good”

stax level numbers is not good idk man stax is also a bit of a bum

also he was single digits on all 3 maps i named above

did bro put TS over FS

i dont remember the first pearl game but today lakia and kitae were the reasons geng lost like 3 2 man advantages on pearl

his utility has always been decent, it’s his shooting that has been questionable since 2024 and now that he’s on igl that problem is even more apparent. the guy is too inconsistent and even when he does show up he’s just doing fine and not going crazy. and i don’t think his calls have been justifying the lack of his ability to get the kills the team needs.

we just forgetting the last 2 pearl games and that fracture vs prx 😭😭idk about “pretty freaking” good here

zynx aint allat but geng would have won pearl if kitae played half as well as zynx

if they have zynx they 2-0, literally the worst possible day to need a sub. unlucky hopefully they do better in stage 2

im just wondering why hes the sub and not someone else

bro is definitely a villain alright

what even is lookism about i dont read webtoons or watch kdramas

i need geng to win because it would be the funniest thing ever

i literally do not care about anyone on that gga roster besides fric im ngl LMAO what i saw from kitae on pearl determined this post

yeah well he was the reason geng lost a lot of those man advantages in map 2

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wihout mako and beyn dynamic duoing geng would have taken the map cleanly, unfortunately lakia and kitae are just not shooting

am i spitting facts or what

you have too much hate in your heart, it’d do you well to abandon the malice in your system.

what happened to just supporting your subregion and not hating other regions because they’re good lol, why does everything have to be based around hate. does something deserve hate simply because they’re good at what they do and are not aligned with you?

no normal pacific fan hates on other regions simply because they’re are not their own lol. you can see a ton of prx fans or fs fans from korea in the stream for example. look at fns, he supports prx but he doesnt hate any other teams in pacific

ok but why should he hate on the strongest subregion in pacific lol

why does it make sense for it to be korea

why did they bring up the middest player from their academy lol

why is he supposed to hate on korea

the first time i even saw his name was in this thread

i have never talked to this guy in my life im ngl

i think the real pick is sungmin. hopefully silkanon brings him and hsk to the coaching staff

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possible, only real challenge is t1

you guys already qualified for playoffs. unless you mean qualifying for london, where you have to ask whether the same full sense that stomped 3 japanese teams will play the same way against t1/prx/drx/ns/ge/rrq

Probably but evo 37 kind did transcend the Esports bubble in popularity at the time and fighting game scene for China is actually quite strong and league esports wasn't that popular at the time of that play by faker.

just because evo escaped the esports bubble does not necessarily make it significantly more influential than the most iconic play from league. nor was evo or street fighter that popular when evo 37 happened either lol. both got their popularity as a result of people getting interested in esports/gaming over time.

and while the fighting game scene might not be super dead in Asia outside of Japan, it's 100% true that console gaming is significantly smaller in the major e-sports East Asian countries than it is in the West.

Tbh the ig winning lpl for the first time or edg winning worlds are likely considered the greatest esports moment in China. The edg worlds is probably the most popular and iconic in China since it still has the highest peak viewership record for league esports. Like the finals of edg winning worlds reached 73 million peak viewership which is almost double of recent worlds peak vierwship.

i mean this is just sort of moving goalposts, yeah i mean if we want to get into what the Chinese audience views as the greatest moment in League we can talk about that another time, but the point is that Evo 37 is pretty unlikely to have been more influential globally than Faker's play just because the fighting game scene is outnumbered by the league of legends scene & the modern esports scene as well.

I seriously, seriously doubt that a moment from the 2004 fighting game scene is more influential than the most iconic play from the most popular esports game in history, especially in China, which does not have a strong fighting game scene. Even if Evo made its way outside of the esports sphere, I seriously doubt it would be popular in China, especially because Evo is mostly known in the West/Japan. I mean it basically comes down to this - do you think more people in China know about league of legends or do you think more people in China know about Street Fighter? Don't forget that console gaming is not that big in Asia outside of Japan.

As for views on social media, Evo 37 happened twice as long ago as Faker's play.

EVO 37 definitely did not have more influence especially when you consider that it's not particularly popular in Asia outside of Japan. Maybe in the West, where fighting games have a larger community, people are more likely to know it but I can guarantee that in China/Korea this is not the case. And China/Korea are probably the number 1 and number 2 biggest single country audiences in e-sports outside of mobile gaming.

They did look worse in Worlds and they weren't as crazy invincible as they were the whole season but they did still look good enough to be the overwhelming favourites for the tournament. It's not like they were a completely different team. 369 was struggling a lot but Knight and Ruler both looked like Thanos.

Also are we really gonna say lng or wbg were actually big competition for t1?

I mean, considering T1 looked fucking awful heading into Worlds and this was before everyone realised T1 were bright light merchants, at the time LNG at least looked like they could beat them. I'll give you WBG though.

I am not trying to downplay t1 run but it's so overrated imo and also lot of recency bias to consider it the greatest moment in all of esports history.

T1's 2023 worlds run is overrated. I think the only run in league that deserves the glaze is DRX 2022, but that game vs JDG was absolutely as magical as they say it is because the narratives that went into that single series are insane.

faker vs ryu is easily eclipsed by the faker shuffle if we're including anything beyond influence. everyone knows or has heard of "faker, what was that?". it's undeniable. but the faker shuffle just had so many narratives going for it on top of it being just a crazy outplay that required mechanics, mindgames, and straight up balls. that's why i think it's 2nd. honestly evo moment 37 is really iconic and i'm well aware of how insane it is, but if we're talking influence i seriously don't think that has reached more people than the faker vs ryu play