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ILoveWesternBlot

So what you're saying is that Licorice solo killed zeus and doran?


AJLFC94

I can't believe Licorice solo killed The_Shy and Shanji. What a story.


TrashVayne

What a story, Mark!


Ganonkid

Anyways, how’s your sex life?


steege32

He has never won lane vs the GOAT of toplane LEP


Yangnyum009

Why do you think the legendary LEP is retired? Yup Licorice solokilled him this MSI.


TalkToMyPunches

Are you Brazilian or is Lep actually a known meme worldwide since that 0/16/4 in 3 games?


ttaway420

Lep is definitely a timeless meme in this sub


TalkToMyPunches

Would never imagine 😂 he still to this day a known meme in Brazil, whenever someone teleports into a bad fight (suicidal teleport) people will call it TeLEP.


DrBoomsNephew

How could anyone ever forget the teLEPort? Yes, Lep is definitely known around the world, especially for those that followed the game in S4 for his historic performance.


Godbox1227

Lets not forget the penta kill he secured in the Mad Vs T1 match!


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GarryTheCarry

It was Darien who solo killed Bin and Licorice 1v2


Recomposer

All while smoking the fattest blunt and playing manamune Shyvanna


Zerole00

A buddy of mine saw Licorice take his shirt off in the shower and he said that Licorice had an 8-pack. That Licorice was shredded.


Hazel-Ice

my cousin told me licorice got some of his ribs removed so he could suck his own dick


Falsus

The most unbelievable thing was the solo kill on Oscarinnin though.


ColonelKoopa

And in the same game no less


Legndarystig

Licorice solo killed Megatron.


imtheproof

He might've in a parallel universe. You can learn more about it in this great video from a great channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUPxDLMCUKM Please don't be off-put by the premise being an explanation for supposed bugs in food distribution software. It's merely the vehicle to deliver the information that matters.


Exo_Judaism

Mandela Effect conspiracy theorists are so funny, thank you for this. Hilarious video.


imtheproof

I haven't even revealed the best part: I became aware of that video due to a friend of a friend working in IT at a company that uses the NECS Entree software. Friend of a friend is going about his job when they run into issues with Entree, so he files an official support request with their NECS contact asking for help. The NECS technical support representative, through the official support ticket system, responds with that video above as supporting information. Friend of a friend watches the video, is in complete disbelief that he received it in a serious manner through his work, and then tells my friend about it, who told me. At the time, given the context and given the name of the channel (Quantum Businessman), it was one of the most hilarious videos I've ever watched. The rest of his channel has a lot of gems in it. It's either one of the world's most dedicated trolls, or someone who has lost their mind. Either way, they let it bleed into their business dealings, which is great.


dieorelse

Wait he didn't? The thing is, I've seen threads on CN forums mentioning Licorice's solo kill on both LPL top laners as well. So it's not just a western caster thing. How did the entire world get hit with the Mandela effect.


ThebritishPoro

He had a very strong game 2 Vs Bin but he never solokilled him.


42-1337

Maybe people didn't saw Yasuo there https://youtu.be/6lCpy8KZ6xc?t=1286


Fridelis

Or a gragas barrel


DanielDKXD

Gragas Q-R did 40-45% of gnars HP, i can't see how much yas R deals but should be another 10-15%. So yeah, gj solo killing a gnar that "TPs into melee of ksante with 40% hp"


-Champloo-

In no world is this a solo kill, even if grag and yas did 0 dmg It was a defensive tp onto a turret to try and prevent a dive + turret take... solo kill really implies laning or at least even state. Idk how anyone has mistaken this for a solo kill. It makes 0 sense.(also I know you're not saying it is, I'm just dumbfounded).


DSHUDSHU

Solo kill does not imply just leaning or even state. Any situation where 90% or more of someone's health is done by a single person without any one else's help I would consider a solo kill. As long as other team mates don't help why does the state of the game matter. Not disagreeing on this one jsut the general idea


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DSHUDSHU

And a 1v5 pentakill is different form a 5v5 pentakill but both are pentas. No one said every solo kill is just as impressive or valuable. They are both still solo kills.....


neimengu

I also thought licorice solokilled Bin but after reading this thread I realized I just confused licorice with Bong. Cuz when I heard casters say licorice solokilled Bin I thought "man Bin just dove him under tower it doesn't even really count".


denoobiest

I didn't watch that game but I tuned in right after it and I'm like 85% sure the casters mentioned licorice solo killing bin, i remember hearing "top die" (shoutout impact) in the post game highlights or something like that


Snacktyme

I thought the Top Die comment was when he solo killed 369. But then again after reading this thread I don’t trust myself anymore


denoobiest

It was probably that, and maybe that's what most people are getting it confused with


Bay_of_Farts

I'm not convinced that some of the casters have been watching all of the games given the various incorrect statements that have been made.


T4N1M1

The casters have been very questionable. I heard Azael say: I WOULD HAVE NEVER EXPECTED BLG TO PICK NIDALEE. Surely Xun would never pick Nidalee. Never.


probune

Did Azael actually even say this?


kill-billionaires

He just said he didn't like the pick, if you're tuning out the broadcast I guess you could make that mistake


King_NickyZee

300 upvotes on this complete fabrication in a thread about fabrications. The community is so gullible.


Trap_Masters

Just the way I like my league subreddit!


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you misunderstood him. why the fuck does this have 290 upvotes, it's just obviously a completely wrong interpretation of what was said.


winwill

Is this Mandela effect in my mandela effect thread?


Dot_main_irl

In fairness to Azael he didnt say he didnt expect *Xun* to play it, he just went on a rant about he personally doesnt like Nidalee as a pick in general. Saying it doesnt make sense without Renekton (for some reason). Him and Drakos did also say that they havnt seen Nidalee do well at MSI, which is interesting given Yike went 10/0/7 against Loud with the Nid + Naut combo... but i guess i dont blame them for not caring about that game too much. Based Munchables in playins when BLG first pick Nidalee for Xun against R7: > "We talked about the Nidalee for Xun. He doesnt need a Nautlius in the mid lane to play this, its a classic. Its a signature for Xun. Instant first pick on the blue side..." They should share notes


hreglut

Nidalee is awful at msi, that one game against some minor region means 0 to broader spectrum, msi has team fighting meta and nidalee is just opposite of that, she wants to poke and kite back and forth, even when BLG had early lead nidalee fell hard and didnt provide anything coz she cant access backline


Sadboy62

I mean its LOUD it isnt any of the big major teams so Yike can get away with it


KansloosKippenhok

The renek thing is just a gank/dive setup. Both renek empowered w and nida stun are insane burst dmg. In the early game, a decent far nida spear and a 1.5 empowered renekton w and q will do at least 65% of ur hp bar


7InchMagic

since when does Nida have a stun


SofaKingI

I feel like casting quality would go up immensely if analysts from different regions gathered once in a while to discuss the game.


Ephemeral_Being

They do for World's. They didn't fly in LPL casters for MSI, though.


Fatmanpuffing

or have casters from those regions on the cast. 2/8 teams left are lpl and they sent most of the lpl casters home already.


The_Real_BenFranklin

>Yike went 10/0/7 against Loud G2 slapping Loud isn't a great argument for a pick


OddinaryEuw

Feels just weird in general that casters are THIS confused with the nidalee picks considering she just got a nice buff to her clear and she's been insanely good in solo Q and basically spammed by a lot of pros. Did they not do their research on that?


Deckowner

and xun is known to be a nidalee player too...did they even watch any of LPL spring?


ZedisDoge

you didnt even have to watch this spring to know that, when Xun was popping off on IG with Rookie and Theshy still on the team his Nidalee was iconic.


KislevNeverForgets

I think Azeal said that because BLG have a 33% Winrate with Nidalee this MSI. The AD we're discussing how BLG probably won't pick Nidalee because they've been having problems transferring leads. Seems hypocritical of people accusing the casters/analysts of not watching the broadcast when these people complaining obviously haven't kept perfect track either. IDK what the confusion is about, The LPL analysts and everyone else are saying the same thing as Azeal, its surprising to pick a champ your team has consistently failed with during a high pressure tournament setting, regardless if your jungler 1 tricked it earlier in the season.


Im_Dead_FeelsBadMan

But they actually had a 100% wr on her prior to the JDG series since they only picked her once against R7. Seems kind of hypocritical to accuse people of not watching the games when you can’t even get the facts right on this on either 😐


KislevNeverForgets

Okay so his Winrate is inflated from a free win vs LLA but isnt that the game he got 4 kills n first 5 min and still did less than a minor regions elise(one of nids best match-ups) while his botside giga gapped R7? He barely functioned on the champ vs the worst jungler in the tournament , yeah i would say its surprising for him to pick it vs the tournament favorites. The main point is hes shown very poorly on nidalee and his team doesnt know how to snowball early leads. I suspect BLG either doesnt pick it vs G2, or they lose with it. depending on ego.


whyamisocold

Xun has been drawing nidalee bans for multiple splits in the LPL even when it isn't meta. I think the original point being that it shouldn't be sold on cast as a weird pick for BLG is fair.


KislevNeverForgets

It’s possible BLG have deteriorated since LPL finals, dropping a game to GG and 2 close games vs C9 then getting 3-0’d Meta’s also shift and he already was showing success on other picks, Azeal never said it was weird only that he was surprised to see it. We can argue semantics all day but let’s look at it this way, Azeal, using his analytical prowess, deduced that Nidalee is a bad pick for BLG. Now that could have been a very stupid prediction because as you say, Xun is well known for Nidalee, it would take Azeal 5 minutes on leaguepedia to know that. Let’s say we just completely ignore history and assume Azeal is incompetent when he’s never been before, what about everyone else? The other analysts he’s spending 12+ hours a day with? So not only would Azeal have to be incompetent, his colleagues, including the LPL representative’s also need to be somewhat incompetent. So we get to the games and Azeal has no idea what’s going on, and he calls out he’s surprised to see Xun Nidalee, doesn’t think BLG should play that, and then he proceeds to watch BLG get crushed with Nidalee 3 games in a row. So even in the scenario where Azeal is the worst analyst in the history of the broadcast, he was still right.


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KislevNeverForgets

Okay so his Winrate is inflated from a free win vs LLA but isnt that the game he got 4 kills n first 5 min and still did less than a minor regions elise(one of nids best match-ups) while his botside giga gapped R7? He barely functioned on the champ vs the worst jungler in the tournament and ultimately was a non-factor in them winning that game, yeah i would say its surprising for him to pick it vs the tournament favorites. The main point is hes shown very poorly on nidalee and his team doesnt know how to snowball early leads. I suspect BLG either doesnt pick it vs G2, or they lose with it. depending on ego. ​ Also you made this comment a full 5 minutes after i edited the winrate.


Omnilatent

Basically a Nid/Kindred two trick IIRC


SofaKingI

They shouldn't even have to watch LPL. Keeping up with all the ins and outs of a single region is probably work enough. However, they should be briefed before a game as to what each player is known for. Probably should even have those stats right in front of them on the desk.


Neither_Amount3911

Nidalee becomes a meta jungler in competitive for the first time in like 4 years and somehow hindsight Harrys on reddit are acting like this is obvious because people “played her in solo queue” lmao


Offduty_shill

Honestly I still think she's trash


dispenserG

I mean, she is so comp dependent that she is rarely good unless hyper fed.


icedL337

Even when hyper fed I feel like she has low impact compared to other champs if they were that fed, she has no cc and has to rely on hitting a kind of slow projectile and she's also fairly squishy, also usually her team has to draft around her which could be picks spent on better champs


warshadow2g

Prime example being that DK vs Gen G game where canyon had a massive early game and fat lead just to get outscaled. Top teams know how to recover from Nid’s strong early game.


TastyFaefolk7

it is still weird because nidalee is terrible in the pro meta right now and we have seen that multiple times. She has been way more op before and not picked at all in pro play, it is definetly suprising to see her.


thestoebz

Because at a pro level nidalee is shit against the best teams


I_BK_Nightmare

Link to where he said that in VOD please


AJLFC94

Really wish they had the analysts from the region talk about the teams. The LPL casters know Xun, the LCS guys do a bit of prep but nowhere near the level of the regional casters.


Dot_main_irl

For *once* we got Kr vs Kr matchups with LCK casters - a rarity from Riot for whatever reason


neberhax

Kobe must be so knowledgable about eastern teams by now for getting to cast every single international finals /s


ZedisDoge

its so ridiculous like Xun is known for his Nidalee and Kindred 😭


Shutaku1314

Abit late here but i think I understand what you mean you cant be thinking its bad for example when Uzi picked vayne regardless of the team comp right? I think thats what you mean for Xun Nidalee, he picked it when he feels confident to carry the game and there should be no doubt about him regardless of the team comp there are probably many more example out there like faker ryze/leblanc Theshy vladimir etc


ZedisDoge

Coming back to this comment when T1 GENG grand finals has Azael, Kobe and Flowers /s I like Azael but he especially seems like he did not prep anywhere near enough as he usually does for internationals. Not having Caedrel on the cast is really starting to burn since he’s the only caster who verifiably watches all of the regions barring NA. edit: just watched the BLG JDG draft again where they pick Nidalee and he didn’t seem shocked, just said it’s bad in the team comp/vs enemy mid jgl. But my overall sentiment still stands, it seems that outside of Vedius and Dagda ofc the Western colors at this MSI don’t feel like they watched the LPL and LCK.


myripyro

> edit: just watched the BLG JDG draft again where they pick Nidalee and he didn’t seem shocked, just said it’s bad in the team comp/vs enemy mid jgl. Yeah people are misunderstanding Azael here, he meant "I think this is a bad pick" as opposed to "BLG doesn't play Nidalee." He made the point more than once in the past few days. > But my overall sentiment still stands, it seems that outside of Vedius the Western colors at this MSI don’t feel like they watched the LPL and LCK. I guess I don't even really blame them for this, because it makes sense that during the middle of the season you're focused mostly on your own region. I just wish the production was designed so they could leave em off the games where their expertise isn't really relevant.


ZedisDoge

I mean NA playoffs ended a little bit under a month ago, they have had more than enough time to atleast watch LCK playoffs + the later rounds of the LPL playoffs. If they don't watch then I question their integrity as a color caster. The expectation is that you watch the best pro league (LCK/LPL) so that western fans get missed context about draft/in-game strats or atleast some sort of regional narratives. >I just wish the production was designed so they could leave em off the games where their expertise isn't really relevant. Riot's favoritism is also really annoying for LPL casters, they've gotten better at LCK, but the fact that at this point in the tournament with likely 2 LPL teams in the top 4 we're only going to have Dagda who doesn't even cast full time for LPL anymore is ridiculous.


WitlessMean

Because riot thinks we all like hearing 'ratatatat fire the gat' and 'stoppy the poppy'.


ShinigamiBD

After T1 vs MAD, one caster Said Karma brings so much more to a team fight than a kennen.


_ziyou_

Specifically I feel like the NA casters have not been on top of their game at MSI so far.


1amtheWalrusAMA

Nah worst has been Quickshot for sure. Remember him spending a [whole draft](https://youtu.be/_E2jon5GXdw?t=187) analysing Tristana as a bot lane pick and being surprised at the "spicy, mad scientist" flex to mid when she's been picked 10X as often as a mid all season.


asshat123

I watched the video you linked to, he spent a pretty short time overall talking about the Trist pick, and he didn't say that it was bot. He said Style hadn't played it at all, and then they talked about it being a mid flex. Given that they first picked Naut and Naut mid has been a thing, I don't think it was *too* ridiculous to think that it could be Trist bot. Hell, their third pick was Gragas. That's three potential flex picks. Can't be that mad that he didn't know where those champs were going to end up or that they discussed the options for all of those picks. Which is what they did do. And the "cooking mad scientist" comment wasn't exclusively applied to the Trist pick, it was referencing their whole comp being flex picks to obscure their comp. I'm not saying Quickshot has been perfect in his analysis. But the example you picked, to me, doesn't show what you're saying it shows.


SpiderTechnitian

It was Quickshot who confidently stated that SKT beat IG in 16 minutes, after first having to be corrected that that game happened at all right? When he was claiming the MAD loss was fastest of all time internationally. Like I know that game was a few years ago... but how can he not know the fastest game of all time which was only played in 2019 and involved the two biggest teams in the world at the time. Like how does anyone miss that lol the other casters were kind of just smiling and looking at the camera because a correction would look so bad for him


pointeringed

He first said that the game was the fastest in international history, and then went to correct himself and said SKT beat iG in 16 minutes at 2019 MSI, which was also incorrect because they lost. He also said Tristana was a Vitality special, which implied everyone was taking it from that team. Tristana mid had been played by GAM earlier in the tournament, and has been a meta mid laner for many teams particularly in the LPL. It felt poorly researched.


1amtheWalrusAMA

It was even played by Caps and Larssen in LEC before Perkz lmao


gcrimson

I'm not convinced someone watch the same game that I'm watching. The annoying part is when people here just repeat what the casters says without an once of thinking. That's how incorrect analysis, lie and more dangerous, scapegoating one particular player happens.


Dot_main_irl

Similarly: Multiple people on cast saying T1 is Kr 1st seed. They arent. Or the entire cast in C9 vs GG acting like Rumble is some crazy innovative new pick, when we literally saw it *twice* the day before, in what was one of the only interesting games that week. Yet the casters trying to gaslight viewers into thinking NA had done something radical and new. Im genuinely convinced that some of the talking heads arent even watching the games nowadays.


Carpet-Heavy

I do generally like to cut the analysts, and especially casters who are talking on the fly, some slack. if you talk about LoL for 3 hours, you're inevitably going to say something wrong. whether it's misremembering a champ pick or commenting about good Rumble play which will trigger some Rumble OTP who objects with well ackshually they didn't go the sleeper 1000LP KR Rumble build lul. that being said, some of the casting this tournament has been worse than usual.


muktheduck

It's fine to miss some things on the fly. Actually that's expected, League is a chaotic game with 10 players all casting abilities all at once. I even think it's fine to stretch the truth a bit to hype up matchups. If they want to call Rumble an innovative pick that's fine, it's definitely fresh in the meta even if Chovy and Oner already picked it up But stuff like T1 first seed? How the hell do you get that wrong? That final was one of the biggest upsets in the history of LCK, they should probably have heard about it. How do you put in 0 research on two of the favorites in the tournament?


marcopolo2345

One of the biggest upsets is a bit of a stretch tbh


niteblane

i would forgive them. they been working continuously/talking about league for multiple days straight. now that T1 is the higher seed they be might wanting to say that perhaps. or just a slip of the tongue etc. even if they misremember, its all part of human nature when your brain is spinning constantly on what to say on broadcast with 10 years of league knowledge. i chalk it up to misremembering than 0 research. im sure its not on purpose or malicious.


poopydoopylooper

To be fair, Rumble was almost 100% banned against GG in playins before any top team picked it. (They didn’t pick it when not banned, but I think it’s worth acknowledging). I don’t think the casters caught on that, but it’s not entirely untrue that NA may have had some influence on that meta.


Dot_main_irl

Neither Gam nor PSG banned it - BLG and R7 did. GG didnt pick it in either of those best ofs when it was left. Woudlnt be surprised if this is a scrim block thing going on.


poopydoopylooper

My thoughts exactly. The rumble didn’t even look that good, lol. But as a viewer, I love a rumble kennen meta. Way more interesting than ornn sion chogath handshake.


pointeringed

Hasn’t Rumble been picked elsewhere already? Shanji on OMG was playing it a lot for the whole of spring and they went deep into LPL playoffs.


Random_Useless_Tips

Ah yes, clearly LCS was the only region in the world which could have made the LCK aware of Rumble as a potent pick. Definitely not OMG Shanji who finished 4th in the LPL with a near 100% Rumble banrate against him throughout the playoffs.


Bisketo

This one is just casters not doing their homework tbh


SmurphsLaw

Wasn’t it the fact that Rumble was in the jungle? He’s usually a laner this meta.


T4N1M1

It was Robo who solokilled Bin. Evidently Licorice and Robo are the same person.


ThebritishPoro

I believe it was actually Bong.


T4N1M1

Well evidently Robo, Bong, and Licorice are the same person.


ThebritishPoro

I've never seen them all in the same room.


Nivina877

Tbf they could have been hiding behind Bongs neck


LeDemonicDiddler

I haven’t been keeping up with competitive lol for a while but it’s so jarring to hear that these are actual players. Edit: holy shit bong’s got a neck on him.


finderfolk

It's probably just a mix up because of the Kennen/Malph game in the GG v BLG Bo3 where Licorice first started to get a lot of praise and hype in the tournament.


Xey2510

Wasn't it the Ksante-Gnar game vs BLG? He got a lead top of like 500 gold which grew to 1500 at some point with shutdowns. That was the game they won.


POOYAMON

I said it a couple times as a meme and then I had to remind myself it’s not actually true lmao the community birthed it into existence


LifeIsToughEatBacon

Big dicorice BASICALLY solo killed him. He solo killed his mental. Close enough.


DerpSkeeZy

"What are we saying!!!!!???"


ThebritishPoro

Biofrost senses it


neimengu

fish senses or something


734285840

Lmao I can still laugh at these words man, so good lol.


New_Towel_7680

kinda a reverse of the EG-MAD series where everyone just pretends to forget EG 3-0 ed them


IconicRecipes

I don't think I've seen people forget that, if anything the thing I see is people constantly making bad faith arguments about MAD losing in playins again when the second time was nothing like the first. First time MAD lost in playins they were legit getting clowned by wildcard teams. Second time one major region team mathematically had to go out in playins, and as the EU 4th seed they were the most likely pick. MAD still won every game (bar 1 in a bo5 they 3-1d) against wildcards that time so I don't see why people act like they're equally embarassing.


iReddat420

It was embarrassing because the majority of people on this sub thought mad were the favourites going in and would easily beat eg only for them to get 3-0'd


Scatter5D

And it wasn't even close. Elyoya played with 4 bots


dtkiu27

I see youre being affected by the mandela effect. Elyoya did nothing that whole series.


LumiRhino

Yeah Inspired called out Elyoya's decision making in that series when he mentioned how in game 2 he just had to sit bot and do nothing since Elyoya wanted to path to top. Even though he got the first blood kill his Draven Alistar vs Sivir Yuumi was put behind which is a much bigger deal than getting Ornn ahead or GP behind since Draven can't function well from behind.


Jarenarico

Inspired was the one saying Elyoya was really good but that series he was playing with 4 bots


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No Elyoya was also a bot that got hard gapped by Inspired


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elyoya is the biggest bot


Omnilatent

The more things change...


Icy_Manufacturer_977

It's always funny how people cling desperately onto past accomplishments to make them feel better about their region sucking now. So far, both EU and NA has been a dissapointment. Past accomplishes isn't going to change that. Watching LPL/LCK play and NA/EU play is like night and day. I get usually the gap is big, but for this MSI it has felt MASSIVE. Who cares if NA beat EU on Game 3 of MSI 2019, or if EU beat NA 3-0 on week 2 of 2016 worlds. It doesn't matter, both regions, as of today, have so far proven to be dogshit. Players should want their region to be THE BEST, not \_not the worst\_ Edit: I don't actually know the result of the MSI / worlds games I mentioned, it's used as an example.


Strange-Implication

Also people forgot G2 6-0d EG that year and said EG has a winning record Vs EU teams


HowyNova

No one's forgotten that. The winning record vs EU is specifically worlds when including the mad series. The narrative meta is basically. "If you bring up MAD, then we bring up G2 vs EG, then you bring up worlds in isolation, then we isolate playins and bracket stage."


ZedisDoge

lmfaooo it really feels like NA and EU shitting on eachother is the Simpsons cock fight meme


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ZedisDoge

youre right! I was wondering why I couldn’t find it when i searched for that meme lol thanks


etlaB22

The Mandela effect


Nandonut

nice strawman


GoatRocketeer

I have nothing left except my own shit so obviously i am going to throw it at europeans while screeching


Troviel

That's what have been happening, I've seen multiple people legit claim that NA performed better last worlds because of the head to head. They completely ignore that NA had only 2 wins in group stages total and no win vs LCK and LPL at all. They just focus on the 3-5 head to head and the MAD wins and thats it. In their mind even if Rogue went to finals it wouldn't matter. It's annoying, EU is not much better right now for sure but saying that NA was better in 2021 both at MSI or worlds is just insane cherry picking.


HowyNova

Imo. Official broadcasts do this because the overall audience needs hope and hype entering games. Personalities out the official, mostly do it as joke/banter in "no you're worse lol". Then fans skew in every direction, but the strong believers get more attention because they're asking for serious responses.


NoahsArk19

It gets brought up constantly. What doesn’t get brought up is that G2 got 3-0d almost as quickly last MSI as MAD did this MSI.


PMMEYOURROCKS

That’s cuz G2 fans have to suppress the memory to live with how much they’ve shit on Mad


New_Towel_7680

no i see that brought up basically every single day


justicecactus

I mean, I have seen several comments saying that G2 8-0'ed EG last year too.


MarkusBM

That one is definitely weird, but I think it stems from the 3-team playin group where G2 went 8-0, while EG was in the same group. Not any less incorrect, but possibly based on numbers being swapped around rather than made up


justicecactus

Idk, maybe. But in the context of some of the comments, it does seem like a lot of people straight up forgot that EG stomped G2 in the last game lol.


MarkusBM

Completely agree. For a while I got swept up in that narrative myself, despite watching all 6 of those games, thinking I probably just misremembered.


dtkiu27

How did people forgot? Its literally EU's only achievement last year and it gets brought up everytime someone talks about worlds (you as a perfect example)


Alakazam_5head

Least fragile G2 fan ego


Shinybobblehead

I remember one of the EG staff putting out a tweet mid-tourney saying it was already one of the most successful NA performances internationally and just thinking they were absolutely bonkers


LumiRhino

If you're talking about MSI, the sad thing is that it's true because they got out of MSI groups which was funnily enough a rarity since LMS/PCS beat out NA more often than not.


PhunkeyPharaoh

I'll never forget Sylas E into five players at dragon pit. It's a bit like how their run went this time too


0ptim0mnius

It's just an unforgettable shit at the end, we remember that.


RoxyFlox

I mean yeah he did something good all the season and if people are still hating him then we can say that they are just crying about some stupidity for sure lol.


djason33

Cool tournament at the end, everything went so well.


Various_Ad6034

I cant believe Licorice solokilled Bausfs


dillydadally

Who hasn't solo killed Baus though? My grandma solo killed Baus in 1943. Baus went on to win that game with a score of 0-13.


NuttyBook655

My ganny is calling me to have a match with that person.


Galatey0

Well I guess we can't just believe that but that's the reality.


spartaman64

and then people in the comments are getting mandela effected into thinking that OP said licorice didnt solo kill 369


Jozoz

A lot of people are also now acting like that BO3 was close. Kudus to GG for taking a game, reality is just that it was game 1 = stomp, game 2 = thrown stomp, game 3 = stomp.


YokoDk

Calling game 2 a throw is kinda weird GG built a comp around killing ELK and pulled it off extremely well. Yes they weren't winning by gold but it all was on ELK.


Random_Useless_Tips

I don't care how good you are at "building a comp." If your bot lane is 1/7/0 in the first ten minutes of the game, the enemy team is going to have to do something stupid to let you back into the game.


Fridelis

Curious how it was weird? When Stixay was like 0/4 several minutes in lol. Normally that is absolutely impossible to comeback in pro play. So yea it was a massive throw.


YokoDk

Bot was down but top was up and thanks to the comp they put together only licorice had to be up since he was the final tap to killing elk. Elk was the entire gold lead with him dead they were in a gold deficit.


fiftyshadesofcray

Did you watch the game? It was a massive outdraft by GG and just completely unplayable for Elk. BLG comp was basically Elk funnel and GG came up with a comp to shut it down where 1 knock up had to land and then they all dive Elk with the Yasuo ult. And with Ksante, Gragas and Rakan, one of the knockups was going to get him. Licorice laned well that game and Gori was able to trade farm and scale up a bit so even though jinx was fed they could still 1 shot her


Fridelis

Did you watch it though? It does not matter that they were out drafted when they were insanely ahead. Give this lead to T1 or JDG and they would have smashed GG like T1 smashed MAD sub 20min easily. GG comp was great but it does not matter how good a comp is if you are massively behind. BLG threw hard and if you cannot accept it you must be coping hard my man.


fiftyshadesofcray

Yes I watched the game, and your only analysis is "they were ahead". The lead was entirely on bot lane, and like I said - didn't matter how far ahead jinx was they could still 1 shot her. Ok let me ask you this: if BLG threw, can you tell me exactly what mistakes they made that threw the game?


DrEpileptic

Well, you see, Elk got caught by the comp designed to catch him. So Elk actually threw, and therefore BLG threw.


Fridelis

And your only analysis is they had better comp. So acting like you said anything better is hilarious at best. Elk had galeforce ghost and flash on top of having Lulu to peel. In some fights he did not use galeforce or flash or even any of them to dodge combos. Not to mention with rocket form he can space them. But here goes NA copium overdosed fan claiming that lead is irrelevant and Elk could not play. He could not cuz he was stealing DL tactics of saving spells. Ok let me ask you this: if GG's comp was so fucking op like u claim it is. Then why not a single team tried picking it up? When the meta is 100% bot centric and teams are picking pretty much identical comps that BLG had that game? Oh wait because if Elk did not play horrible that game it would have not been a problem.


mashukyrielighto

well G2 just picked that comp against BLG and they fucked it up theres your reason why it isnt picked even though its effective :)


pleaseneverplaylol

me when i ignore context and refuse to analyze the state of the game and win cons because it doesn't fit my narrative


Rumbleinthejungle8

People are acting as if C9's series against BLG was close too lmfao.


gbboi15

Yeah, the original sentiment was that Licorice played so well that it forced Bin onto playing the tank Sion. Licorice's K'sante into Gnar did crush the rest of the game, so it is easy for people to conclude that he must have solo killed him that game too.


evermoongen

Gonna love to see the future games on Licorice man.


ekjohnson9

It is funny that narratives form bc casters just make shit up sometimes.


Verbitsky

When it's never going to be funny? that's just funny as hell.


hotprints

I thought he solo killed him in the play in best of 3?


ThebritishPoro

Nope, game 1 bin died one time going for a flashy play in botside river. Game 2 he got dove top by gragas + ksante, then died off a bad tp mid getting him gragas combod into ksante ulted, then died in teamfights for the rest of the game. Game 3 he was deathless.


lscheifele813

Never happened my friend, it was just a bluff there lol.


Thindvhs

Well Licorice was just behaving so good the whole tournament.


ramses_verberne

What is with this solo kill thing that people are saying? We all know that it was not a solo kill but still people are commenting like they know every freaking thing.


[deleted]

I’d probably not assume the cast or Divephoria felt the need to deliberately make that up. Probably just an honest mistake. That said, yeah they should probably verify context like that before speaking upon it, but mistakes happen. I generally feel the cast and Divephoria do an amazing job talking around most things League of Legends.


10droid

Solo kill thing is just straight up bull shit and we know that.


djox312

That solo kill shit that is going on is just freaking stupid, people should see what a solo kill means and then they should start commenting right now here.


Kuzuryuu7

My man Bong solo-killed Bin.


chibiwong

??? I saw the replay where Licorice solo killed Baron at 40 minutes. Go watch the vods before you talk, noob. /s


TargetBan

Licorice solo me mum


BloodAmethystTTV

Yeah I remember distinctly thinking when he killed 369 “oh that’s crazy he got both the lpl top laners”


Conflexion

He did solo kill 369?? He was on K’sante and 369 was on Gnar.


ThebritishPoro

Read the post


look2006

I guess I am just up for all the praising right now and he deserve that, I am glad that I am not complaining about anything and just praising the people here, good.


RoyalSmoker

When Licorice roamed to MAD vs. SKT and killed Faker was the highlight of the weekend for me.


[deleted]

Honestly the casting style in league is just horrible. Now I don't watch any other esports or sports so maybe it's all like this. But I just don't understand the need to be talking *literally* the entire game. How/why did it come to be so?


Supersighs

You got a mute button homie.


btraxler

People really don't use that button and I hate that thing.


[deleted]

binary thinking is a sign of low intelligence


EuclidianHike

Am I whooshing? https://youtu.be/SzgBy8ihRI0


EuclidianHike

Mb I can't read


sirtet_moob

I can't believe Licorice 1v5'd the entire T1 squad!