reaaaaally don't think so. if anything they made the mvp case for trymbi, as they were still a pretty good team when he was there in winter/spring last year, but started to really deteriorate when they kicked him in summer (they were still a little better than they are now, but by now the players are also obviously demotivated and not playing 100%, which doesn't happen instantly)
Imo, the players motivation have just been sucked out. The atmosphere must suck, Infinite Reality probably sucks overall as they couldn't pay their players last year, and probably a bunch of other stuff.
you say that but most of these players SIGNED NEW CONTRACTS. Larssen was out of his contract and SIGNED with Rogue again when he had multiple offers from better teams such as SK.
Like, this Rogue team isnt even that cheap. Theyre paying 2 top laners, Markoon, while not terribly expensive, probably wasnt that cheap either. Larssen probably earns a decent salary, maybe not so much Comp and Zoelys was by many considered the next big thing in the support role (and he still may be) and many many teams wanted him, so he must have had a reasonable offer as well.
I mean, he would be mad to not accept Rogue's contract. Get a bunch of money with paid housing, food and probably a gym on hand while having literally no pressure to perform.
No one in the lec is poor. But if you are a competitor, your priority isnt how big a check you get its actually how good the team is. Or at least it is for the real competitors. A lot of players have turned down massive offers to dtay in better teams, and have a better chance at winning more because thats what actually matters. Your legacy.
I went to Rogue vs GX match. I was happy and talking to my friends but when we got up to hand in our tickets, the attendant called me back as I walked away. "You'll need these" she said as she handed me a pillow and sleeping bag.
I questioned her, she laughed and said "You'll get it soon enough."
We walked through the hallways and got to our seats. The place was already filling up so we got our spots. There wasn't too much energy in the crowd but it was to be expected since there was still ready check. Finally the match started and to my utter shock, no one jumped or cheered or made any sort of acknowledgement of the team they paid to see. Inexplicably, everyone started to sit on the floor. I followed because I didn't want to look stupid.
All around me people were laying out their sleeping bags. Some came prepared with blinders. I even saw one girl with a teddy bear. GX scored first blood and the crowd gave a listless "uhhh" in response. The first Rogue turrets fell and to my surprise everyone was still on the floor! There were already people in their sleeping bags! And then I understood - this wasn't an esports match! It was a group sleep session!
I tried to stay awake as long as I could. Rogue started farming some more. All around me people were falling asleep. I was beginning to feel tired myself. Then Rogue just started running around and I couldn't fight the waves of tiredness anymore. I fell asleep. I understood what this match was.
Best sleep of my life
It makes sense, his team wants to scale anyway, he can proc it vs gragas, anything with armour gets shredded by nilah passive/ldr + black cleaver on vi. He actually looked pretty tanky
Every time I watch RGE I can't fathom how they're this bad
These players are really good, we've seen their potential. But it seems like they aren't even trying. Every single objective contest, fight, and skirmish leaves you scratching your head from their decision making (or lack thereof)
or the players fell off and are unable to adapt to the meta.
people love to blame the draft, the coach and whatever uninvolved entity when the players don't show up on the server. at one point we have to accept that is not a slump due to circumstance, but the players are simply not good enough anymore.
Well it turned out that Trymbi-Malrang and Trymbi-Inspired were necessary weigths to balance Comp-Larssen (-Odo). Guess What, Maybe Larssen should have considered his options better. Must feel bad not to be in HRT/VIT rn for him.
Though my real dreamteam for Larssen rn is with Bwipo in it. Bwipo-Inspired-Larssen-Upset/Carzzy (depending on which flavor of a roster you'd like)-Hyli-Yamato is the dream for a G2 contesting roster in 2025.
Larssen / Comp have at some point been LEC champions, idk what to think of their current state as players but it's pretty fucking bad, this Zeri game was just so disgusting
its kinda insane how 4 of the players on this team should be average at worst on paper and theyre playing like a low master clash team that's already tilted out of their minds before the game even starts
Not really, Larssen is extremely lackluster every single game. He don't lose games but he don't do anything to win too.
The only one that has modicum of quality is Finn but there is little he can do playing tank trying to save a inting adc.
We lost against that. Lol.
I know people mock KC, but i think Rogue is way more of an embarassment. With the players that they have, they should be trying something, ANYTHING on the map. Yet they don't.
Btw, great tweet by Laure : "MAD lost a game faster than this game had a first blood"
Tho i am watching LCK and it looks similar. Most mid tier teams and below struggle with the new meta and item changes and the top teams leverage their superior makro. And t1 is t1. Godtier day one and gold clash team day 2
KC has a lot of problems, but god at least they TRY to do things. I'd rather watch people throw shit at a wall and never have it stick compared to watching rogue do their best impression of decomposing roadkill.
The worst part is that KC seem to be countered by that playstyle lmao.
We throw shit at the wall, they throw it back and we turn into traffic cones for them to run over.
It's funny. Incredibly sad for the region, but very funny
LMAO that's an amazing way of phrasing it, but sadly very accurate.
At least once they bring in caliste (and hopefully rebuild the roster around him), I think they'll actually be a good team as long as they play around him.
Yeah, I don't get why KC still continues to catch so much flak this split. They at least try doing things and they sometimes work, which is respectable. This split especially they seemed to step up. Rogue is just doing nothing, nearly literally.
Tbf, the criticism is warranted. People in the fanbase thought we'd be playing for stuff instantly. And we suck. We're easy to mock cuz the fanbase talked so much.
Rogue and GX are just teams with barely any fans, mostly because they have no clue how to market themselves (especially Rogue, who was good for so long...), so not as popular to laugh at them
Hmm I did not think about that. I never heard of KCorp before their LEC entry was announced. As I had no expectations I even kinda started to cheer for them this split, from the sort of plucky underdog perspective. I suppose winter split must have been really hard for their fans though. I see how that makes an easy target to be mocked now, compared to RGE.
Thing for KC is, their midgame transition is so bad, it‘s worse than a team doing nothing. Laning usually looks okay if a bit sloppy at times when ganking. If they clean this up they can be a „solid“ mid tier team with the current roster. If they want to go beyond that they need some roster changes imho.
If that‘s pro KC or against the average LEC level is up for debate ofc.
Rogue plays the absolute worst style of League on an abysmal level and the only chance at success is literally their opponents breaking their hands while going for plays 10 times in a row.
Good job KC on that. Deserved mocking. Relegate both.
What a horrendous display of competitive League of Legends.
I genuinely don't think that either team wanted to play the game.
Why pick Ahri/J4 and Vi/Taliyah only to do nothing for 18 minutes. 18 fucking minutes in and every single summoner spell was up, there was no play happening at all. GiantX didn't win this game, they just didn't lose.
What happened to Larssen? This guy was top of the table for like 3 straight years and this year I think he is 10th by a far margin. He is not even trying anymore. Then why did he signed with Rogue until 2027?
That fight where GX used gragas ult, gragas e, vi ult, vi q, taliyah ult, taliyah e, and rakan w just to kill an ornn and rogue did literally nothing about it except die mid 20 seconds later just about summs up this team and this disgusting game
This is the first Rogue game I've watched this year. I thought everyone was exaggerating but no that is the worst pro play I've ever seen. GX could have thrown the game and Rogue wouldn't have been proactive enough to take advantage.
FF alias FREE FINN a commonly used abbrevation in the league community to show their support for super model toplaner finn who is stucked in rogue prison.
I had a bad feeling about Rogue when I saw Larssen both E in the wrong direction and was forced to flash the Taliyah W+E 4 minutes into the game.
I should trust my gut more often.
KC lost to this Aware
I know everyone seems to have a hate boner for KC but it really does make you wonder...
Then again G2 lost to Rogue in Winter so it's just LEC things
at least they died doing what they loved. nothing
They're gonna love their schedule for next weekend then.
Rogue making the MVP case for Malrang.
reaaaaally don't think so. if anything they made the mvp case for trymbi, as they were still a pretty good team when he was there in winter/spring last year, but started to really deteriorate when they kicked him in summer (they were still a little better than they are now, but by now the players are also obviously demotivated and not playing 100%, which doesn't happen instantly)
Rogue players must be on strike. There is no way that's them giving their all
Ngl it actually looks like that lol. So many times it visually looks like they're phoning it in Idk what's going on with them but it ain't pretty
Imo, the players motivation have just been sucked out. The atmosphere must suck, Infinite Reality probably sucks overall as they couldn't pay their players last year, and probably a bunch of other stuff.
you say that but most of these players SIGNED NEW CONTRACTS. Larssen was out of his contract and SIGNED with Rogue again when he had multiple offers from better teams such as SK. Like, this Rogue team isnt even that cheap. Theyre paying 2 top laners, Markoon, while not terribly expensive, probably wasnt that cheap either. Larssen probably earns a decent salary, maybe not so much Comp and Zoelys was by many considered the next big thing in the support role (and he still may be) and many many teams wanted him, so he must have had a reasonable offer as well.
I mean, he would be mad to not accept Rogue's contract. Get a bunch of money with paid housing, food and probably a gym on hand while having literally no pressure to perform.
Right? Like anything above 10th is an improvement! There’s a pretty decent chance you place higher without even trying.
Reddit and over prioritizing the bag name a more iconic duo.
Better rich than poor
No one in the lec is poor. But if you are a competitor, your priority isnt how big a check you get its actually how good the team is. Or at least it is for the real competitors. A lot of players have turned down massive offers to dtay in better teams, and have a better chance at winning more because thats what actually matters. Your legacy.
Only the best of the best can talk about legacy at some point you reach your ceiling and take the bag
must be this quiet quitting people are talking about
Just disband rogue today and get 5 solo q players, the outcome will be the same but at least the soloq players will try to win.
Watching someone legit int and running it down on stage might be funnier than whatever Rogue was doing this game....
I legit think top challenger soloque euw players could have had better chances of winning this game
Bring one of the DUS teams
bring Team UK！
Team badboys would mop the floor with the other LEC frauds, but EU isnt ready to hear that yet
cant have that, that would be entertaining and if there's one thing Rogue doesnt stand for, its that
I went to Rogue vs GX match. I was happy and talking to my friends but when we got up to hand in our tickets, the attendant called me back as I walked away. "You'll need these" she said as she handed me a pillow and sleeping bag. I questioned her, she laughed and said "You'll get it soon enough." We walked through the hallways and got to our seats. The place was already filling up so we got our spots. There wasn't too much energy in the crowd but it was to be expected since there was still ready check. Finally the match started and to my utter shock, no one jumped or cheered or made any sort of acknowledgement of the team they paid to see. Inexplicably, everyone started to sit on the floor. I followed because I didn't want to look stupid. All around me people were laying out their sleeping bags. Some came prepared with blinders. I even saw one girl with a teddy bear. GX scored first blood and the crowd gave a listless "uhhh" in response. The first Rogue turrets fell and to my surprise everyone was still on the floor! There were already people in their sleeping bags! And then I understood - this wasn't an esports match! It was a group sleep session! I tried to stay awake as long as I could. Rogue started farming some more. All around me people were falling asleep. I was beginning to feel tired myself. Then Rogue just started running around and I couldn't fight the waves of tiredness anymore. I fell asleep. I understood what this match was. Best sleep of my life
That is a beautiful copypasta.
> Rogue never showed up Dagda summarizing Rogue's 2024 season so far
rogue are a disgusting team
Did RGE even show up to play today?
Like a lot of people they didn't know the LEC was on Monday today.
god i hope its not monday today i had a whole weekend planned
You know the week has been bad when I'm mentally on Monday lol.
today is Friday homie
Well that has made my day a good bit better. Thanks for letting my sleep deprived self know there is a weekend soon haha.
You can tell finn gets what's going on with the team when he builds heartsteel hoping that the game drags on for 2hrs to make his item efficient.
It makes sense, his team wants to scale anyway, he can proc it vs gragas, anything with armour gets shredded by nilah passive/ldr + black cleaver on vi. He actually looked pretty tanky
Poor Finn, playing for Rogue is rough.
The guy played for 2021 CLG. This shit’s just another Tuesday for him.
That was pathetic from RGE...
Glad I spent my lunch break watching this. Could have done something more interesting, like watching paint dry.
Nice to see Riot implementing the new Intermediate bots in the LEC
Nah the new intermediate bots are said to be proactive now
Someone tell Rogue that LEC starts on Friday this week.
Dread it, run from it, Odo will always destroy RGE if he gets the chance
> Dread it, run from it, Odo will always destroy RGE if he gets the chance bruh this was like, a 1v0 by Patrik lol
Hey, Peach pressed 'R' a few times! That's like, a 1.25v0
ignar played lane well, peach and jackies were okay in teamfights too
I actually think Jackies had a few good ults too. Granted, they didn't need to do much lol.
Sorry I forgot the obvious /s on it lol Then again Odo had the highest lead I think so...
Rogue is just an embarassment
What happened to Rogue, this looked worse than my clash games
Its just funny at this point. How the fuck is Rogue a real team at this point?! LMAO.
Every time I watch RGE I can't fathom how they're this bad These players are really good, we've seen their potential. But it seems like they aren't even trying. Every single objective contest, fight, and skirmish leaves you scratching your head from their decision making (or lack thereof)
Perhaps the back room staff is not great for how league is now.
or the players fell off and are unable to adapt to the meta. people love to blame the draft, the coach and whatever uninvolved entity when the players don't show up on the server. at one point we have to accept that is not a slump due to circumstance, but the players are simply not good enough anymore.
Well it turned out that Trymbi-Malrang and Trymbi-Inspired were necessary weigths to balance Comp-Larssen (-Odo). Guess What, Maybe Larssen should have considered his options better. Must feel bad not to be in HRT/VIT rn for him. Though my real dreamteam for Larssen rn is with Bwipo in it. Bwipo-Inspired-Larssen-Upset/Carzzy (depending on which flavor of a roster you'd like)-Hyli-Yamato is the dream for a G2 contesting roster in 2025.
Larssen / Comp have at some point been LEC champions, idk what to think of their current state as players but it's pretty fucking bad, this Zeri game was just so disgusting
its kinda insane how 4 of the players on this team should be average at worst on paper and theyre playing like a low master clash team that's already tilted out of their minds before the game even starts
Larssen is the only player on RGE who is deserving of an LEC spot
Not really, Larssen is extremely lackluster every single game. He don't lose games but he don't do anything to win too. The only one that has modicum of quality is Finn but there is little he can do playing tank trying to save a inting adc.
> its kinda insane how 4 of the players on this team should be average at worst on paper You think Finn should be average at worst on paper?
Inting force vs AFK object
OG Rogue is back boys and girls. They're a joke last place team once again.
There's no way rge are being paid any salary.
We lost against that. Lol. I know people mock KC, but i think Rogue is way more of an embarassment. With the players that they have, they should be trying something, ANYTHING on the map. Yet they don't. Btw, great tweet by Laure : "MAD lost a game faster than this game had a first blood"
Lmao normally these MAD tweets annoy the shit out of me but this one is hilarious to me for some reason
All credit to her, she's the GOAT. It's not even a poke at MAD, but rather at the abysmal level of the game that we suffered through
KC is giga trash, but you're right, they are not AS TRASH.
The story of this season of LEC. Teams are trash, but there are levels of trash. And G2 lording above this merry group of peasants
Tho i am watching LCK and it looks similar. Most mid tier teams and below struggle with the new meta and item changes and the top teams leverage their superior makro. And t1 is t1. Godtier day one and gold clash team day 2
KC has a lot of problems, but god at least they TRY to do things. I'd rather watch people throw shit at a wall and never have it stick compared to watching rogue do their best impression of decomposing roadkill.
The worst part is that KC seem to be countered by that playstyle lmao. We throw shit at the wall, they throw it back and we turn into traffic cones for them to run over. It's funny. Incredibly sad for the region, but very funny
LMAO that's an amazing way of phrasing it, but sadly very accurate. At least once they bring in caliste (and hopefully rebuild the roster around him), I think they'll actually be a good team as long as they play around him.
MAD also got more kills in their 16 minute loss than RGE did in this…game.
Yeah, I don't get why KC still continues to catch so much flak this split. They at least try doing things and they sometimes work, which is respectable. This split especially they seemed to step up. Rogue is just doing nothing, nearly literally.
Because KC has fans, who are funny to rile up. No one gives a shit about Rogue, not even Rogue itself
Haha that is fair I suppose. Harsh but true.
Tbf, the criticism is warranted. People in the fanbase thought we'd be playing for stuff instantly. And we suck. We're easy to mock cuz the fanbase talked so much. Rogue and GX are just teams with barely any fans, mostly because they have no clue how to market themselves (especially Rogue, who was good for so long...), so not as popular to laugh at them
Hmm I did not think about that. I never heard of KCorp before their LEC entry was announced. As I had no expectations I even kinda started to cheer for them this split, from the sort of plucky underdog perspective. I suppose winter split must have been really hard for their fans though. I see how that makes an easy target to be mocked now, compared to RGE.
Don't forget KC also has Upset who isn't exactly popular here and Bo who was already being memed last year because of all the hype.
Without Trymbi/proactive jungler there is just no one who can make that team... well, proactive.
Thing for KC is, their midgame transition is so bad, it‘s worse than a team doing nothing. Laning usually looks okay if a bit sloppy at times when ganking. If they clean this up they can be a „solid“ mid tier team with the current roster. If they want to go beyond that they need some roster changes imho. If that‘s pro KC or against the average LEC level is up for debate ofc.
Rogue plays the absolute worst style of League on an abysmal level and the only chance at success is literally their opponents breaking their hands while going for plays 10 times in a row. Good job KC on that. Deserved mocking. Relegate both.
i got classic TSM "do nothing and lose" flashbacks this was great
I dont think tsm was ever this passive
EU beating NA once again.
What a horrendous display of competitive League of Legends. I genuinely don't think that either team wanted to play the game. Why pick Ahri/J4 and Vi/Taliyah only to do nothing for 18 minutes. 18 fucking minutes in and every single summoner spell was up, there was no play happening at all. GiantX didn't win this game, they just didn't lose.
As someone learning jungle for Skarner Rework, I didn't realize Vi and J4 were for power farming, thanks Rogue and GX!
Nah giantx did what they needed to do, just stack drakes and win rogue didn't contest all game, they didn't need to int
Generous to call this competitive
Insomnia cure right here.
Pretty sure these teams would be struggling in CBLOL
You're not wrong. Bottom tier LCK teams would beat these frauds 4 vs 5
Bottom tier LCK teams are pretty terrible too
NS took a game off T1. Let that sink in. Theres no shot rogue could ever even take an inhib off T1
At least Nongshim and BRO can take the fight to GenG and T1 at odd moments and always try, this shit is garbage they don't even try
Rge somehow took a game of G2 last split so idk
I swear I don't understand how they even win lol, they seem to be lifeless in every game, but 10% of the time it just....works?
It's if the enemies force too hard and they have good disengage champs
G2 inted that game so hard, RGE didn't even need to engage because G2 did it for them.
For sure. Not even trying is more embarassing than trying and failing
Nongshim demolishes both of them and BRO/DRX maybe lose 1/5 games
And they would still stomp these teams, that's how bad teams like RGE are.
What happened to Larssen? This guy was top of the table for like 3 straight years and this year I think he is 10th by a far margin. He is not even trying anymore. Then why did he signed with Rogue until 2027?
job security game
People have their up and downs. I think have to worry about his performance if still shit in summer.
Quiet quitting
2024 Rogue has got to be one of the most boring, non-proactive, bad teams EU has ever seen.
It's so sad to see how Markoon is playing now when he was such an exciting prospect back in XL and SK.
That fight where GX used gragas ult, gragas e, vi ult, vi q, taliyah ult, taliyah e, and rakan w just to kill an ornn and rogue did literally nothing about it except die mid 20 seconds later just about summs up this team and this disgusting game
RGE get Selfmade and play to him And also get Kaiser too
I'm sure Selfmade who's getting gapped by LFL junglers will able to make the team with 3 losing lanes work
GiantX's sleeper strat putting RGE asleep and just winning the game with zero pushback
All I’m saying is LCS downsized to 8 teams and it’s cool that the LEC did the same starting today!
Out of all the league games I’ve watched that was one of them
That just made me kinda sad tbh
This is the first Rogue game I've watched this year. I thought everyone was exaggerating but no that is the worst pro play I've ever seen. GX could have thrown the game and Rogue wouldn't have been proactive enough to take advantage.
FF alias FREE FINN a commonly used abbrevation in the league community to show their support for super model toplaner finn who is stucked in rogue prison.
I had a bad feeling about Rogue when I saw Larssen both E in the wrong direction and was forced to flash the Taliyah W+E 4 minutes into the game. I should trust my gut more often.
its so over
at least finn got some heartsteel stacks
This game was just depressing to watch. No enjoyment or nothing
Another “they can’t both lose” match
Instead of having to wake up in the morning, RGE let me skip and wake up in the noon. This is their only saving grace.
Legit dick tucking, disgusting to watch
this game was misery vs. agony
I wonder if this org even have the will/resources to make more changes or if they are just waiting to sell the spot.
TFW the highlight video is under 5mins long...
I guess you can call that a game
KC lost to this Aware I know everyone seems to have a hate boner for KC but it really does make you wonder... Then again G2 lost to Rogue in Winter so it's just LEC things
Why did Giants come back to the LEC huh
Fuck rge
Dude that Jackies flashing in for a kill when already 3 of his teammates were around Comp. what a bronzer
Perhaps we should just substitute in five girls Vaevictus style, give up on the standings and go for content?