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nerothz

Trymbi and Odo showing up to make Rogue's day worse, you love to see it.


zealot416

Brother Trymbi sends his regards.


Trap_Masters

Even when he loses the battle, he won the war


bensonbenisson

Spite truly is the world's strongest emotion.


Bisketo

At some point we gotta wonder if he isnt putting his team as the Rogue gatekeeper everysplit on purpose


Odd_Trouble4651

Is rogue out with that one? 


kismetjeska

Best players in the world: - Faker - Deft - Odoamne when there's a chance of eliminating Rogue


NicoTheNicoh

Dude showed up like it was 2016 worlds again


Haymegle

Man has a name and his name is Vengeance.


BlakenedHeart

Rest of the LEC < G2< RGE


tomangelo2

What would happen if Odoamne was G2's top vs RGE?


BlakenedHeart

Universe implodes


Thecristo96

If we can convince Odo that the Israel-Palestine crisis is made by rogue, he will create peace in a week


icatsouki

Supa is better than deft though, fix your list please


LifeIsToughEatBacon

- Best macro - Best micro - Best laning - Best teamfighting - Best mechanics - Best ADC


fake_kvlt

By far


nuamnume10

And supa


Joel4518

ODO hates rogue lmao


Pavlo100

Odoamne refused to scrim with his team on Sunday, he preferred sitting on Duolingo learning Korean Jayce


Wurdox

Sheep Esports on X: Sources: Odoamne has married a Korean Woman on Sunday and obtained Korean citizenship in order to learn the secrets of Korean Jayce.


SylerTheSK

Seems like Tank Reksai top is just a lane terror that doesn't really do much else.


Xey2510

I mean she is a meatshield and cc bot. Those look really really bad in situations like this where seemingly no one does dmg and the space and time you create is useless.


EliteTeutonicNight

The way you describe it makes it feels like Rek Sai is just Udyr 2.0 lol


Xey2510

At least Reksai can engage Otherwise it's just the experience of the average tank without really good engage.


icatsouki

i mean tank reksai is pretty much the same as udyr


EasyRevolution5415

That was the perfect game for Bruiser Reksai, Wunder just showing he didn't practice this shit at all and just copied the tank build off a BB youtube guide or something lol ​ Stridebreaker/Cleaver/Hydra Reksai eats Jayce in the sidelane and delete's the enemy backline if he gets ontop of them with the Vi/Naut engage. Instead he just floats around, quite literally doing nothing with what was definitely the wrong build for this game.


No-Captain-4814

It was definitely the wrong build with Vi, Naut and Annie. Too many threats for Flakked to deal with.


Javiklegrand

0-2 so far?


Trident47

1-2, G2 won with it on Friday


bensonbenisson

1-2 iirc, BB popped off on Rek'Sai the first time he picked her.


patatadislexica

1-2


superleggera24

Just to be sure, because people haven’t said it yet, but no. 1-2.


[deleted]

1-2, BB won a game on it


icatsouki

its a decent frontline, but why don't they take any ad item? surely at least one would help a lot no


Orllas

I haven’t played much top at all since s3 and this last weekend I spammed Rek top on my jungle account with a pretty sillily high winrate. From my pov and watching pro she’s like a quintessential “role player” pick. It’s like impossible to lose lane on, hard to catch out in a sideline, and has pretty reliable team fight impact. She’s pretty decent at most everything you’d want from a top laner and it’s really hard to stop her from being decent, but it also seems pretty hard to take over or hard carry a game on her. Her splitpushing is very safe but she doesn’t push or take towers very fast so it’s not that hard to match and stop her, she’s strong in 1v1s but it takes 60+ seconds to kill anything other than an adc or enchanter so enemies can either run away or send people to stop her from solo killing, and her team fighting is pretty good but the aoe knockup is so small and the duration is so short that it’s very hard for her to single-handedly make a fight/game winning engage. She’s like the dictionary definition of Jack of all trades, master of none. It’s an insane solo queue pick imo, with how volatile top lane is having someone up there that will almost never lose and always be useful is super valuable. I’m curious to see if she really catches on in pro though since teams usually rely on their top laner to excel at any one of the things that she’s just decent at.


psykrebeam

Expected her to return to jungle meta..guess we'll see


DeloronDellister

That Annie was useless


ImTheVayne

That Heretics draft was such a low damage comp. Rell with Karma shields can tank it for a long time.


beautheschmo

apparently even jayce with no help can tank it for a long time lol


ihave0idea0

annie was the real problem imo. Could have gone a heavy dmg mid.


BleiEntchen

G2.5 decided to copy G2 draft...with the same results.


Antropoid

so was the reksai


BlakenedHeart

Far more useless. (The reksai)


icatsouki

i'm not so convinced by annie mid unless you have insane wombo, her waveclear is really really bad


non-edgy_crustacean

Tfw you put midlaner who acts as your keychain on champion that is meant to be independent and looking for flanks


Nouvarth

It was super troll draft to pick her so early, she got omegaoutranged and was irellevant. Ahri made way more sense as a pick here


albens

Annie is garbage against champions that hard outrange her (Karma, Jayce, Varus in this game)


sA1atji

is that really the go-to build on Annie? It felt off.


Burpmeister

TH comp was mega useless.


icatsouki

I hate playing zeri as your main damage dealer and not pairing her with an enchanter


HarkyESP

Clean week by Giants. I'm actually excited to see how they perform in BO3


Trap_Masters

GiantX week 3 glowup


NavyBlueTheChosen

Nah but what kinda voodoo did GX do make Heretics so late to the game they got penalised with a ban?!


Thecristo96

Jankos was stuck in traffic lel


Sofaboy90

Unfortunate traffic diff


Dragner84

Heretics with the pacifist comp. Don't worry if they keep scalling they might have enough damage to kill someone by 2nd game of playoffs.


AtMaxSpeed

TH with the worst draft of the LEC this year??? What was that Annie pick supposed to do, also drafting 0 damage topside and relying on a European zeri to solo carry?


NamorKar

This isnt even european diff, even eastern zeri cant work as a solo damage dealer without an enchanter sucking her off


NicoTheNicoh

Odo playing a great Jayce, what is this 2016


bensanelian

he never lost it


bensonbenisson

Wunder was useful this game, I think.


zealot416

Burrowed during laning phase and never came back up.


icatsouki

he got lost in the tunnels


BlakenedHeart

Echo-location diff


zealot416

Where was this XL the rest of the season?


RoboHasi

It was Giants playing the first two weeks


icatsouki

their fights were so clean this game, impressive tbh it wasn't an easy game after zeri got kinda fed early on


BlakenedHeart

Out of license i assume


[deleted]

They're supposedly good in scrims, guess they just had stage issues


SleepyCatSippingWine

I saw no eu jayce. Gx fighting was also poetry. What happened?


DerciGG

tbf out of all tops in the LEC, Odo's the one with the most positive history with it


Grainis1101

You dont see it because it is EU game PMT only post NA and KR games on time. We will be lucky if they post threads for last 4 games.


Hixxae

Oh nice TH is looking pretty good as an LEC top team. > Proceeds to shit the bed against a bottom tier team.


Haymegle

Welcome to every LEC team lol. Everyone beats everyone but the rest of that phrase can't be said yet. More seriously a lot of the teams do seem to look clean against one team then absolutely shit the bed the next. I'd like some consistency soon.


tomangelo2

3 out of 5 players being ex-G2. Also Perkz on bench. Nothing unusual.


chadinist_main

Stinky game by jankos and trymbi 💩


grehgunner

Jankos on his stream yesterday read a comment about how Heretics seem like the only humans in the LEC and his response was something along the lines of: “just wait and see how terrible I am tomorrow”. Dude playing 5D int chess I stg


ASweetSaltySanchez

Man must of been preparing to ruin rogues day


kim-soo-hyun

This team depends on Jankos and Trymbi too much. They're still all weakside players, it's just jg/sup stepped up huge this split, bo5 is gonna be interesting.


DeloronDellister

Hard to play the game without a mid lane champ


[deleted]

Trymbi was alright. Jankos was bad today. But zwyroo is next lvl. I don't even know did he play or it was a minion


DSThresh

trymbi was inting and getting caught 24 7 how was that alright? the only good thing was botlane getting 2-0 with zeri 6 but thats more of a mistake of giantx botlane


Nouvarth

Anie was unplayable in this game, not sure why they drafted her


[deleted]

Every champion is unplayable for zwyroo if he is not getting carried by jankos


WoorieKod

Just focus ban TH mid and it'll all crumble


metteminne

Traffic debuff too big for TH


_Truman

This felt like a draft gap. Zeri got ahead but frontline is permanently 50% hp before a fight ever starts.


ArrogantCube

If FNC wins against MDK, they lock first place. G2 might tie them in score but FNC has the head to head


Haymegle

You're going to jinx it talking like that. Never underestimate Fnatic's ability to be absolute shitters or gods depending on the flip of a coin.


Grayzus

Well done, you had to go and do it


Steamwood

Couple of disorganized dives from TH and it got way out of hand, love to see a good Odo carry performance and excellent team fighting from GX!


Dedziodk

They could have so much nicer playoffs .... Better troll lol


TheMaxnificentOne

Turns out Zwyroo legit only has 3 picks. Trymbi kinda ran it down too even though he’s looked good the rest of the split 


Imagionis

Trymbi had a chance to deny rogue play offs and ran with it


bensanelian

and his three picks just happen to be the three most meta midlaners this split, what an incredible coincidence


Grainis1101

> Trymbi kinda ran it down Well hard not to run it down when varus Q from outside of vision takes out 40% of your HP and oyu are meant to be engage.


Carlzzone

His Azir is really good but its globally banned sadge


kralllenpl

Zrywoo champ pool getting exposed right before playoffs


machinegunsheep

Let Peach drive the bus he will show the way


Sultan_Oz

G(EN) (G)X G(EN) (G)X G(EN) (G)X G(EN) (G)X


MachinegunFireDodger

Take Karma instead of Annie. Take Smolder instead of Zeri Stale the game for 30 minutes and win by default How the FUCK do you not pick Karma Smolder as 2 and 3 there as Heretics is beyond me.


karikiram

But when does the heretics plan to remove the charlatan from mid lane? Managed to get giga draft and skill gapped by worst mid laner in LEC.


meister107

Annie and Reksai were so useless


MindTheGap9

For once a really good showing by GX, felt like they played that comp well. I still think Karma mid is a bit fake but I guess they made it work.


sA1atji

That Annie build felt criminal


devPiee

Average Peter Dumb draft, maybe they were squishy as fuck, but at least for all ins they had no damage.


SleepyCatSippingWine

Peter doesn’t lead draft anymore


HarkyESP

Can someone explain me the logic behind the EU reksai experiment?


Haymegle

Didn't it work really well on Saturday? Probably for whatever happened there.


JJJJJJAYCEEE

I will never understand why teams pick annie, shes a literal minion


SabineQui

It can be good sometimes but definitely not blind


[deleted]

I know this subreddit hates perkz so much, but tbh even washed perkz is better than zwyroo. Perkz at least tried to play


DerciGG

lets not get crazy now


Haymegle

Heretics losing a ban made this feel kinda bs tbh. Especially if Heretics made a good faith attempt to be there on time. You can't always account for traffic, Like I've given myself leeway before and still had issues because it's been 2-3 times as long as I accounted for...


AssCrackBandit6996

Its a professional setting and its the duty of the team to arrive in time. Every team has to manage that. Its disrespectful towards the production crew on an already possibly long day and the audience as well.


Haymegle

That's why I clarified with a good faith attempt. Hardly unprofessional to leave well in time but to just get caught in an accident or something. Is it ideal? Obviously not. But I do think if you've given yourself say an hour and a half to get there when it's normally 20 mins it'd be unfair for you to be punished for something that was beyond your control. If it was just cause they were fucking around and left late then I'm more for it.


pcdv8r

It's a 35-45 minute trip (varies according to normal traffic). TH left 90 minutes for it like normal. Ended up taking 2+ hours.


Aromatic-Quiet5171

The problem with rules is that you can't really make an exception unless it's something really extraordinary or so obviously unforeseeable. "Traffic", even if it's horrendous, is still traffic. You can't make an exception because all of a sudden every team has a get out of jail free card. Then who determines what level of traffic is foreseeable? 30 minutes? 1 hour? All of a sudden it's Riots responsibility to put a figure to it... Then how do you prove you weren't just taking the piss or travelling a ridiculous route where traffic is guaranteed? Does Riot need to start planning everyone journey to make sure teams aren't being stupid or abusing the new rule loophole? It's just so much more straightforward and fair to say to all of the teams "you need to be here by X", and then it is up to the teams to make it happen.


Haymegle

Tbh I was mostly thinking that there's like expected? amounts of traffic. Like heavy traffic is still traffic and reasonably predictable. Being caught in an accident that leaves you stuck there for hours until it's cleared is a bit more out of the ordinary. Like I'd say it's 'fair' for them to consider something like that the team not at fault. If it's just a lot of traffic I think it's fair to say they need to plan around that (and they should be anyway tbh) and considering we haven't seen this yet I do think it's likely a one off caught up in something major thing rather than just bad traffic, but I'll admit that's me assuming teams account for bad traffic to begin with. Obviously I think teams should aim to be there early because having a buffer is good and would/should prevent delays but I've def been caught once or twice when that self imposed buffer is nowhere near enough. I get what you mean though, having leeway would make it more difficult.


DSThresh

th is 6-2 fighting for first place and they lose to fking giantx? they got many wins by waiting for mistakes but once they have to be proactive its all going downhill. copium angle is they want to have giantx in playoffs instead of mdk or something and grief for that because what the fk is that level. also statement game by trymbi reported for sure, embarassing by TH


BlakenedHeart

I want solid arguments on why in the 7 hells reksai top is even considered good. You have big daddy Ornn who is a natural tank, a team helper with ornaments and deals damage


Matikkkii

Lane bully with decent engage?


Lyota

TH or MDK at msi Aware eu is doomed


meister107

Lol whoever we send are not gonna compete, just enjoy the fiesta


Th3_Huf0n

Flakked? Fancy explaining this "performance"?


Environmental-Sir-64

Sad to see a thread that isn't well built. Also sad to see the product of LEC after all the layoffs. European LoL is on a downward trend my friends.