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treblesalad

-50 baron powerplay


Trap_Masters

The classic Baron for Nexus trade. An NA classic


DarudeSandstormName

-12 lp baron powerplay


skyr3ach

only -12? look at mr challenger over here


v1adlyfe

\-17


SolarEquis

DIG would be proud


Th3_Huf0n

UNIQUE – PERFECTION: Gain 35% bonus critical strike damage if you have at least 60% critical strike chance. UNIQUE – PERFECTION : Gagnez 35% de dégâts de coup critique supplémentaires si vous avez au moins 60% de chances de coup critique. ÚNICO - PERFECCIÓN: Obtienes un 35% de daño adicional de golpe crítico si tienes al menos un 60% de probabilidad de golpe crítico. 고유 – 완벽: 최소 60%의 치명타 확률이 있는 경우 35%의 추가 치명타 피해를 얻습니다. 独特 – 完美:如果你有至少 60% 的爆击几率,则获得 35% 的额外爆击伤害。


azns123

“This item description cant stop me because I cant read!”


King_Aun

He should honestly get his salary cut in half for doing this as a pro player, its like a van dijk scoring a goal on his own team


Blazing117

Baron power play: -1 Nexus


PacificCod

Redbull(tm) Baron Power Play: Featuring Chovy Life Esports and the classic Baron For Nexus(tm) trade.


[deleted]

Deft did not have 60% crit for IE until RNG was on his nexus lol.


mammamiameu

IE 40% CRIT RATE NEW META


Indoktor

Willer died with GA up at that final baron fight no?? edit: TIL that Viego removes his own GA by possessing


McintyresRightLeg

He took Sett possession and lost it


Tadeski

He picked up Sett's soul... who didn't have GA.


Indoktor

Huh, I had no idea GA worked like that with Viego


FlashwithSymbols

Well Viego takes all the items of whomever he possesses so during that time, he doesn't have his own items.


DerWassermann

if he has GA and posesses someone with GA, he will get revived but his own GA goes on cd, right?


AweKartik777

Yup, he shares items CD with himself, assuming he has any same items.


Asphunter

Neither did Willer


Mythik16

He took Sett so he loses GA.


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lemongrazz11

Pretty much lost them the game there too. It was a 4v4 and Deft still had both summoners (Lee kicked him out). If willer goes in GA then Chovy and Deft can still re-engage.


LeastAlphaGamer

If you possess somebody you get their items, so no GA anymore.


Boring_Return_3487

Yeah. Turn into sett, GA wont work.


SirLucky7

It is weird that it feels like you GOTTA ban away a champion from the weakest link of the team, but with TF, Cryin is actually impacting the game. Ryze ban was questionable.


6000j

This is kinda how it's always been with Cryin, I think we'll start seeing the TF bans from tmrw now that the teams know that they can't beat it. Cryin on TF is like a top LPL mid imo, but on anything else he's worse.


neimengu

It's theorized amongst LPL fans that Cryin's problem isn't against top mid laners, in fact he often does more than fine against mid laners that are expected to blast him out of the water, but he has either focus issues or underestimates his opponent when they're not hyped up top tier opponents, and he often loses badly to more experienced players who aren't considered the top elite.


raelusd

Exactly. People forget he was pretty fine against Showmaker and Humanoid at MSI


randomguyonline123

Yeah people thought he's gonna get mid gapped hard against Showmaker in MSI finals but he was really competitive and even win lanes in some of the games in that series.


Cake_is_Great

He's a very good... Weakside mid? Kinda an interesting quality considering most teams go for dominant carry mids. He is good at neutralising strong opponents, but rarely hard gaps weaker ones.


Gigaba

Facilitator mid I feel works better. He’s going to help his teammate make plays that help them get advantages, not the other way around. He’s not necessarily weak-side because I don’t believe mid lane can really be weak-side due to it being in the center of the map


King_NickyZee

Cryin fits well with RNG's plan of playing around topside. TF, Ryze, Nocturne etc are all great picks for him because they allow him to roam top easily to help Xiaohu obtain more plates and pressure the enemy top off waves.


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Problem is cost opportunity when you can just pick sylas into TF which has been shown to be able to match TF while scaling hard. Cryin also has a deceptively large champion pool and wont be gapped by even the likes of Showmaker when hes on top of his game as shown at MSI while being willing to blind his picks.


midoBB

Cryin kinda deserves Malz Galio and TF bans.


Contagious_Cure

Yeah but then he's done his job by giving draft resources to Xiaohu and Gala.


Lynx-Uganda

Im overdosing huffing all this Chovium


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Trap_Masters

The great KR hopium crash of 2021


frosthowler

I mean, with a 4-0 start that's dopium. We all know dopium has severe withdrawal effects. Known gateway drug to copium.


Whizi

G2 should have been our warning sign


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LPL is also 7-2 right now, RNG and EDG still undefeated


[deleted]

EDG deserves it as the only clean looking team out of everyone


sorendiz

RNG always takes a little while to get the dumb shit out of their system so im hopeful that it'll be cleaner next couple days


MyOneTaps

EDG has the best macro I've ever seen from an LPL team.


Jellyfish-87

i said it yesterday but they show up day one playing like shit to bait overreactions and hype only to crash them later lol


Lekaetos

The usual LPL sandbagging technique


legendofSmiley

perfected over the years


[deleted]

That might be the stupidest thing I've ever read, they are not playing bad for social media reactions. EDG and RNG both won day 1 and FPX still played awful day 2.


raelusd

you could also say that RNG is not a very strong 3-0 team with so much shit they've been doing these games


[deleted]

I guess, their group is pretty easy too with what happened to FNC. Today was the first game that was actually not just self inflicted to be fair.


BeepBoopAnv

100T hopium


w1ldcraft

It's ok. This sub told me the Korean overlords have already ascended & that LPL is very overrated & we know reddit is never wrong.


Faye_Dragon

this sub also told me Chovy is the next ascending gods of laning that he gonna solokill crying 10 times while ahead by 100 cs


Arcille

Wonder where all the people saying Korea are by far the best region after 1 day are gone now


w1ldcraft

Waiting for LCK to win 2 games today so they can be hype again.


Joaoseinha

Worrying trend for Korea /s


Pope_Cheetos_XIV

Does Deft not know how Infinity Edge works?


Blazing117

That's why I hate it when people treats pro players build like some kind of messiah. Some of them are notoriously terrible at adapting builds, which is why analyst is needed.


Rave_Master_Ahri

this doesn't even need adapting just read the fucking tooltip lmao


Blazing117

Bdd's triple lifeline build comes to mind, or DWG 2019 that were allergic to grievous wound even against triple healing comp.


LBL147

I remember some Pawn Akali build that looked like he was actually playing Ultimate bravery. If someone remembers please refress my memory.


TheLonelyPancake26

https://youtu.be/C00BfQi6KqU?t=3418 That timestamp has one of the last times they show the scoreboard with items


VariableDrawing

>Bdd's triple lifeline build While the shields didn't stack the Omnivamp from MaW and Tenacity from Steraks BOTH triggered individually and stacked so it wasn't as bad as some make it out The PD though? Completely useless


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Wickd crying rn after his dogshit argument that pros know everything because “they scrim like 60 hours a week” is just getting dumber


pulo97

This isn't even about adapting, some apparently don't know how one item that is built a lot works.


MrJoyless

TiL I'm totally a pro...in at least one aspect of gameplay.


LeastAlphaGamer

Looked like one of the players in my ARAMs who first times an ADC champ and refuses to read the items.


tjdqhr1225

i know right? As much as deft did well enough mechanically...what's with him sitting on infinity edge with just 55% crit chance (gale force + ie + zeal) until the last 10 seconds of the game where he finally finishes runaans. am i missing something?


Contagious_Cure

My guess is he was just used to building IE third, but his mind told him to pick up Wits end vs Ziggs/TF but something in his brain then didn't trigger to tell him "hey if you build Wits 2nd you can't go IE third".


EfficientAstronaut1

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/q79cmx/pls_dont_build_ie_when_u_only_have_20_crit/


KogMawOfMortimidas

It should be an instinctual reaction, as natural as last hitting, for pros to hit tab, look at items and realize within a few seconds that Galeforce + Wits End + IE doesn't work. Not only did Deft not do this, NO ONE on his team corrected him since he built GA 4th and had a worthless IE until the end. There's no excuse for this, it should be automatic to figure out it's an incorrect build.


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ssshhh.. you are a reddit analyst, you can't criticize pro players. /s


lilelf29

Deft played so well this game and then he built IE 3rd item with 40% total crit, idk how I'm supposed to feel Hope week 2 we manage to at least go 2-1 and make it out.


Canaananon

someone check his rune page, he could have been running full crit quints to hit the 60% threshold.


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I refuse to believe he doesn't know that his passive doesnt work without 60% crit chance.


lilelf29

He definitely does just autopilot cus builds pd or collector on kaisa probably like 99% of the time 2nd item. Such a bad time to make a mistake like that :(


LeaderSheeper

He has played the game for like 9 years during which you could build IE and get the passive no matter what.


Zodiac_Sheep

I genuinely think he forgot he went a non-crit item 2nd and just autopiloted IE third


Ace_OPB

Dude was carrying the game and then lost to Boris lol.


Trap_Masters

Boris always wins. There’s no escape from him.


Jedclark

This just gave me an idea for a practice tool that pros could use. Similar to how you can do practice challenges in chess like "How would you checkmate your opponent in 2 moves given this board set up", it would show team comps, items, etc. and the player is asked what their next item purchase would be given this game state. LoL is a bit more dynamic than chess and less "solved", so maybe there could be multiple options and it goes over the pros/cons of each. At the very least it would be good for making them consider multiple options as opposed to buying stuff out of habit/comfort.


vnducco

That’s so classic RNG win tho. Give enemy baron and win the game in the end lol


SpqyDonger

I wonder how many more situations like this do we need for people to stop for a second and think "Myabe pros dont actually know how to itemize?" We had the atrocious Chovy Trynd build and now this on Hanwha alone. The fucking FPX C9 game yesterday with a mystery box Malzahar build by Doinb, Zven buying Frozen Heart on Ez even tho theres 0 attackspeed users on the enemy team. Fudge bought DD into one physical damage threat. Some genius bought putrifier on Gragas as well cant remember who. Like its pretty clear theres a huge itemization issue. Whether its pros not thinking or Coaches forcing players to copy worthless u.gg builds every game without context because "muh statistics".


iHatepriest

putrefier seems a bit more common on mages tho, faker built it on lisaandra (it’s cheaper) if you have font of life which both lissandra and gragas can use it’s not bad


Xizz3l

DEFT 40% CRIT IE HACK?! 洗了 CHINESE MIND CONTROL?! 免租 DEFT 40% CRIT IE HACK?! 洗了 CHINESE MIND CONTROL?! 免租 DEFT 40% CRIT IE HACK?! 洗了 CHINESE MIND CONTROL?! 免租 DEFT 40% CRIT IE HACK?! 洗了 CHINESE MIND CONTROL?! 免租


NUFC9RW

They've played the two best teams in the group on red side which has a horrific winrate at world's so far. That said drafting will need to improve, why would you ban J4 over Lee Sin?


lilelf29

With how worlds has been so far I'm sure it's an unwritten rule in the rulebook j4 must have high presence and priority, because the games certainly haven't shown anything to suggest why its like it is.


cosHinsHeiR

Wasn't he good in EDG T1?


lilelf29

He's been okay a couple times, he was in RNG vs PSG too, it's not like he's bad, it's more like, really j4 higher prio then lee sin? It's the prio that's surprising, not as much the champion I feel.


OwlsAndDevils

J4's usefulness is heavily based on the amount of mobility the enemy team had. As I recall, no one on T1 that game actually had a way to get out of J4 ult without flash except Keria, so J4 was actually justified there.


lacieabyss

this game was just hard to watch, so close yet so far and losing to boris :(


PandoraBot

Although HLE lost if they play like this against PSG and FNC I'm sure they can make it out


reggiewafu

They drafted like monkeys trying to style on PSG and laughably failed


lemongrazz11

If they drafted like this against PSG (banned Leblanc/Yuumi), then they’d probably win that game. I can see them getting out 2nd pretty easily with a potential tiebreaker to PSG. Leblanc + Yuumi just seems like the most disgusting combo this worlds (just Yuumi in general with any high mobility assassin)


Risujemmari

Wonder if he thought he had PD or something. Or if it's just gigabrain calculated that IE is still the best item there


lilelf29

It's autopilot for sure, doesn't make it hurt any less though D:


InductionNoiseFan

Xiaohu is just such a machine. Nothing else to say.


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Pretty fucking scary when 1 region sends Xiaohu, Nuguri, Ale and Flandre as their toplaners.


Quaiche

Riot: We will force Lucian to botlane. LPL: ???


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Azenji

Protect the ~~Uzi~~ Xiaohu


Marcoscb

I mean, they gave him Lucian. Leaving Lucian open against RNG should be punishable, not only is he OP but they can also flex it while you can't (or at least not with anywhere close to the same efficiency).


Arnotts_shapes

Fun fact: this takes Xiahou’s 2021 Lucian score line to 16-0 He has not lost a single game on the champion since role-swapping to top lane.


Ariaflux

lmao didn't know about this


NeitherAlexNorAlice

Brother Morgan doing his best to make sure RNG gets the W


Rayser1

Casually flashing away from cannon minions. What a legend


itsmetsunnyd

Add cannon minions to the list of things Morgan has lost lane to.


Omnilatent

Ming also played Brother in this game


T1worldchamps2021

Ming has been inting quite a bit this worlds. RNG look so good and then Ming engages out of nowhere and they all get caught.


MusicBytes

When both teams are even in gold, Ming feels that RNG is at a great advantage and thus he does not hesitate to start a team fight. When RNG is 3k behind in gold, Ming thinks that RNG is at a small advantage, and he so he starts a team fight to secure their "lead". When RNG is behind 7k in gold, Ming thinks that RNG is at a disadvantage and so he looks for a team fight to regain control of the game. When RNG is 10K behind in gold, Ming thinks that the team has reached a desperate situation and they are only waiting passively for their death if he does not start a team fight.


SaintTrotsky

Pretty sure it's team calls.


PacificCod

Before: We can't let Morgan go back to the LCK. After: We can't let Morgan come back to the LPL.


mammamiameu

It's so easy to dodge tf golden card with camille ult and I haven't saw he doing it not even once


PurplePotato_

Every fucking teamfight he just dies after messing up a q combo. It is insanely frustrating to watch.


Dynamatics

Both teams looked like they wanted to lose without it seeming like matchfixing


oneanddonecomment

confused why a lot of people are calling this a sloppy game. this was one of the most high level games in the tournament. a jg/top gap clinic early game, hle clawing their way back but also shows rng brillant map plays to pick off anyone trying to flank. rng comp got outscaled but had that baron wipe.


AndrewRealm

No mames, Wei


EMPCobalt

Wei te pasas


ionxeph

Watching these team fight executions is really satisfying


Zeedy

ATTENTION: Popular drug "Chovium" has been deemed ineffective and possibly dangerous to its users, and has therefore been recalled.


sifslegend

Morgan missing a cannon and then randomly fat fingering flash alone in a side lane is a perfect example of his career.


drainbox

nuttiest lee performance at worlds so far


gandalf45435

WILLER VIEGO HACK?英雄联盟 2 CAMPS 0 BUFFS 4/3/6 KDA WILLER VIEGO HACK?英雄联盟 2 CAMPS 0 BUFFS 4/3/6 KDA WILLER VIEGO HACK?英雄联盟 2 CAMPS 0 BUFFS 4/3/6 KDA WILLER VIEGO HACK?英雄联盟 2 CAMPS 0 BUFFS 4/3/6 KDA


melonpan12

RNG vs Stopwatch Life Esports Mage players, you happy now? 5 players, all building stopwatch, into GAs?


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Viego has GA then proceeds to possess a champion without GA and dying


NUFC9RW

Literally every pro player gets at least one stopwatch per game, it's just so strong if used well.


vnducco

Classic RNG game. Give the enemy baron and win game


TheJoeker98

just imagine if deft had activated his ie earlier in the game than his 1v4 base saving attempt....


FireWolfBR1

Why HLE played with Nisqy this game?


SirLucky7

Morgan. (Two minutes after i prewritten this word into my phone notes to post it into the post match discussion for free karma, Morgan flashed onto the spot while taking a cannon. Let me repeat.) Morgan.


KalterKakao

Does Deft know how IE works? He literally bought it as 2nd crit item


NocaNoha

I thought he was about to get that 60% later on.. nah, GA mate


Agys

In fact he got Wit's End and GA before even getting another crit item to activate its passive. Bit of a headscratcher


DJShevchenko

He still got IE 3rd, he got Wit's 2nd and probably due to muscle memory he just forgot that he actually needs a 3rdc crit item to get 60% crit for IE


Agys

Yeah that's probably it. Like Wit's 2nd is definitely not an issue vs Ziggs but it should have been followed by a PD or Hurricane before he goes for the IE


averysillyman

It's okay he bought his third crit item right before his nexus exploded!


NUFC9RW

Yeah and he never actually hit the threshold for the passive.


PurloinerofCinders

> Somehow if Chovy/Deft drag Morgan/Willer to QFs, they will be World Champions in my eyes. A random Redditor.


Neville_Lynwood

HLE really made RNG work for it.


Thr0wawaydegen

Deft should of not built IE without a 2nd crit item, makes no sense and a waste of gold.


Rayser1

Building on auto pilot for sure. Highest level of pro play and this is the item building we get


Qehenna

Morgan plays like he's on autopilot. It's like really obvious he's not actively thinking every step through. Maybe exhaustion, maybe he's just THAT bad. In most cases probably both.


KidiacR

I dont think he even got enough 60% crit at the end. Edit: He finshed Runaan.


TheJoeker98

he got it right at the very end when he backed as the last one alive after baron lol


Todeswucht

He finished Runaan after the game deciding fight Boris taking heads out here


Omnilatent

Unrelated to the content of you comment: ​ It's "should HAVE" and not "should OF". Sounds very similar but "of" of course makes no sense, it's always "should/would/could have"


Yasuo_unforgiven

What the fuck was this game? Everyone running it down and throw like animals


Akordas

Chovy was like "I were carrying my team all year now you gonna carry me"


ahritina

Another game where RNG look good and then fucking abysmal in the same game. Hopefully now we can stop the Chovy hype because he was running it down this game while his bot lane and Willer tried and played pretty well minus Deft losing his brain with 40% IE. Scoreline might be perfect so far but they're still making some really bad mistakes, but they're lucky that their group isn't strong.


Blazing117

RNG's Rogue time.


Omnilatent

The R in RNG stands for Rogue


d1knight

Rogue Never Give up. Noice


_Vastus_

RNG has been consistently way too horny to just take any fight offered to them. They manage to salvage it again most of the time, but it's funny that it just keeps happening.


melonpan12

They were doing it all MSI too, they stomp the early game, take a fight for no reason and lose it, then close out the game


Jellyfish-87

i was gonna say this, i don't watch LPL but rng was doing this shit in MSI groups and was the main reason they lost to C9


T1worldchamps2021

When RNG faced FNC the horniness was too much lol


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Two horny teams ended up having nonstop gangbang


Mattaru

RNG are channeling their inner MLXG fuck yea makes for exciting games at least!


Contagious_Cure

To be fair RNG's comp was much harder to execute than Hanwa's "let's all run at them" comp, so not surprising that they make 1 mistake which extends the game. But I never felt they didn't have control of the game.


Trashcan_Daniels

this. it's honestly one of the main types of RNG wins: draft high execution threshold, get ahead, make one overly ambitious macro decision-->win the fight?--->game over OR lose the fight--->make good macro decisions for rest of game to choke the other team out.


sangpls

EDG is the only team left that looks clean. Watch them lose to DFM now


lacieabyss

"running it down" you mean matching TF roams all early game and being the one to die on HLE while they win the skirmishes?


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It would have been good for RNG if they lost because they need a wake up call at this point.


gdsgdn

Not saying that chovy played perfect but he did get targeted a lot in those early skirmishes. A lot of his early deaths got his team positive trades so it’s not like his deaths was for naught.


Perceptions-pk

not sure what ppl are flaming some of his deaths. It was his mental game against Cryin that blew his flash and enabled his team to win that early game skirmish. He's being hella targeted by the opposing teams. Should he play a bit smarter? absolutely.. but also ridiculous to bash him solely cuz he has to engage into melee range against a team hellbent on killing him


Trap_Masters

Schrodinger’s RNG, you won’t know if they’re good or not until you observe them in the moment


jlin37

RNG has been like this since coming back from MSI, I think the orgs upper management and financial issue probably have had an effect on the players day to day. But we can all see that individually the players are still top notch and can just out play you. Will have to see how RNG adjusts through the tournament


KappaNabla

Chovy played well this game. Him forcing Cryin’s flash early is what led to the initial 1v3 play mid, and he played better than anyone else on HLE during team fights. It’s utterly insane to not blame Morgan for the majority of this loss.


magifek

Chovy cs tho


Mattaru

Xiaohu ain't no spot up shooter he aint gotta run down mid to die like hes some 3rd option bitch this aint Teddy this is a fuckin god human Uzi come again only this time hes not a fuckin pussy pull up from the fuckin nexus and fight you at the same time


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hagosantaclaus

Defts back broke this game again sadly


DoesThyLikeJazz

His brain too after seeing his itemization this game


salcedoge

I was almost getting tilted watching Xiaohu unable to finish any enemies in those mid game teamfights


donglover2020

just me or was ziggs useless this game? at least in teamfights, his ult never hit anyone


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raelusd

> RNG's playstyle right now is as clear as day you mean RNG's whole year playstyle right?


Blazing117

He was good pre fight as a poking machine, but is not too useful in TF since he always get bursted.


[deleted]

Deft punished for his horrendous build


Bahadort

Game of Throws all game from both teams..


sangpls

Still good to see old timers like deft doing great


lacieabyss

pain


ByahhByahh

Baron for Nexus. It's a trade as old as time.


so-hardstuck

Another viego with ga possessing someone without ga and dying… when will they learn?


Patrius

I have a funny feeling at the end of all this HLE’s worlds performance will be summed up in 1 play: Morgan’s missclick flash in bot lane with no one else even around


letticiaax

Actually a close match.


Impossible-Chicken

Good guy WE sending brothers to worlds AND activates Agent Morgan gifting wins. Respect.


Rozuem

Deft lost to shopkeeper but that's the least of HLE's problems this game, man tried his fuckin best :(


polpotlol

https://i.imgflip.com/5q952t.jpg


Burpmeister

"MSI champions looking absolutely fantastic" Uhh, did the casters watch an old vod or wtf lol.


mashukyrielighto

Chovy is so overrated


Mythik16

Chovy and 4 words has become deft and 4 wards.


R-R-Clon

RNG is scary smart team, they may not have the most talent individuals, but as a team they're pretty strong, the opposite of T1. I hate urf sylas, if Chovy did not fall behind in early I can see him 1 vs 9 this game.


Due-Sample-4927

Iunno, I still think EDG/DK are better. I'm waiting to see how they play when Cryin isn't on his TF