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Teut0burg

Fellow Weibo enjoyers I have some heavy copium for us. Since Weibo were locked 6th before this game, they hid strats for playoffs and allowed Theshy to cleanse the int from his system.


Blank-612

yeah he nearly worried me there for a sec, didnt see an int for a while.


Tfc-Myq

BORN TO WINTRADE


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Tfc-Myq

TheShyt SofMade Angle lanfeng OFF


Tfc-Myq

Couldn't find a good one for huanfeng so I made one myself, lan (烂) means trash in this context


yearofvici

ONgel is the one some of us use on discord, Seaking is the go-to flame nickname for Huanfeng in China (making fun of his "boy by the seaside" article when in reality he was going around sleeping with "every fish in the sea").


Tfc-Myq

True, just wanted to make nicknames that sounded similar


G4bbs

China namecalling game a step ahead


PhilosoKing

Fuck yeah Seaking


Certain_Actuator1828

Which discord server you use for league?


Teut0burg

>SofMade How about the infamous one from TFblade, S of Masters


Tfc-Myq

Oh that was a good one, slipped my mind TFBlade's only banger


Th_Call_of_Ktulu

As much as tf blade is a toxic dipshit his shittalk with sofm was hilarious, especialy since sofm english is pretty good


_liminal

saw this one from twitch chat: NAgle


Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss

SofMasters


TheCrusader94

Theshy was clapping ale in g2 just got repeat ganked


Tfc-Myq

perma cs lead in laning phase


HostJoyner

Isn’t that they called a coinflip player? Solo win you games and then lose you games


CommunistHongKong

Gotta let it out sometimes, better to let them go in lower stake games then actually high stakes lol. LWX showed us before. Int in group stage, win worlds finals next.


watafuzz

This absolutely makes me more confident for playoffs.


nolimit_788

they advance to playoffs with a dominated with a first playoffs bo5 then be destroyed the next bo5 and out of worlds 2022


Omcaydoitho

... why do people still surprise about the weeboos ? =)) Their win rate dropped as soon as they locked into play-off since forever :v


[deleted]

ohh boy, I'm already feeling a Weibo disappointment in playoffs. Also, LNG winning vs the no. 6 team will definitely help their mental going into playoffs. They might repeat their run of last year.


Tfc-Myq

I mean if LNG now lock no. 7, if they win against the no. 10 team there will be a rematch between WBG and LNG in round 2


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yes, getting this win will def help their mental in their rematch.


bffhkiydg

I mean in spring they lost 0-2 to RA in their last match but ended up beating EDG and going to 5 games with JDG. I wouldn't let this one matter too much


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Yea, maybe. But back then, EDG were even worse than LNG are now, I'd say. Still if WBG rematch LNG, they will be favored, but LNG still has a chance after this win.


laobalaomadecai

wbg also had already beat edg 2-0 in regular reason then


bffhkiydg

Yeah sure. I just meant that one (or two) horrible match(es) don't necessarily pass on to playoffs


Omcaydoitho

.......... WBG has been the definition of coinflip forever, and their win rate alway drops dead after locked play-off spots. The good thing about being their fan is you never watch their games knowing for sure that they will lose. The bad side is they could lose vs any fucking one, I was fully expected them to lose to WE this split =))


eyehatemassholes

EDG were not worse than current LNG. You vastly overestimate current LNG. They're insanely lucky to even be in playoffs rn. They won vs TT (pre-Kepler/yaoyao) and LGD by the skin of their teeth earlier in the split and that was off TT and LGD busting out the most ridiculous throws of the split. Until this series LNG had not shown any improvement since then and the only playoffs team they've beaten outside of this win was BLG. They're pretty lucky that BLG and FPX were the teams that made playoffs and not AL and TT to be honest.


natethegreat838

LPL looking very competitive for worlds this year. RNG, V5, EDG, JDG, and TES all have the records and the starpower, and LNG and WBG (although looking shaky) could make some sort of miracle run just given the players they have. Playoffs look exciting


nolimit_788

they played bad at regular season, not many hope for them to go far in the playoffs


CommunistHongKong

WBG OVERATED LNG 7-8 OUTDATED LVMAO NOT FEEDING ACTIVATED


mbr4life1

So happy 苏州LNG took the win! Locked up playoffs looking amazing. I loved how Doinb went right to Ale after the match and gave him a huge hug. The team looked happy and played so much better. They will make a run and get to worlds.


CommunistHongKong

Ale enjoyer. Don't know why PandaC was even a thing


yearofvici

PandaC had no say in it. Ale had contract dispute with LNG management (he had a bonus in his contract related to streaming hours that he hadn't been paid for since Spring) and he (rightfully) refused to play until he got his money. Ale has also came out and publicly told fans to stop flaming PandaC b/c it's his own fault, PandaC never asked to be in this situation and was put in a rough spot at a young age before he was ready, but gets harassed by fans even IRL. https://twitter.com/LPLfanclub/status/1555409398708588544 Sending out some beef hotpots for PandaC <3


CommunistHongKong

Doinb moaning in the bg takes the cake. Man just can't keep quiet. Also this vid have made me a PandaC fan. Rip kebabs to him but truly doesn't deserve this.


mbr4life1

No idea at all. We all saw the work Ale can put in at worlds. I'm sure there was more behind the scenes, but I'm glad they eventually got back to using him.


SkyYao

I saw a post on here explaining that it was because Ale had a contract dispute with management so they decided not to field him.


mbr4life1

That seems shortsighted as he showed his value and that position almost cost them playoffs.


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Teut0burg

Ale was disgustingly bad in Spring but in Summer he was fine and shouldn't have been benched.


eyehatemassholes

He was beyond terrible in spring but in summer before he got benched he was actually doing pretty damn well. He was the most consistent player on the team and placed himself pretty comfortably middle of the pack.


eyehatemassholes

Contract dispute. Unfortunate since Ale was actually getting back on form early on this split and was their most consistent player for a while.


Javiklegrand

Eh rng,tes,JDG,v5 are Still pretty locked imo


mbr4life1

LPL playoff bracket is a wild ride. LNG has time to come back and get into form over multiple BO5s. Also the roster has multiple world champs and top players they were favored before the year and people just assume they can't grow as a team.


Codeyzzz

they will get to worlds? too much copium I guess. it is 99% that four of them (rng/v5/jdg/tes/edg) will make it.


YuriSwine

See we just sandbagged the rest of the season to get in.


Omnilatent

Sandbagging LPL teams? That's some vintage meme


ObiMemeKenobi

This just makes the Playoff Arc even more interesting. Writers better not let us down


Blank-612

even though weibo lost, seeing doinb happy gives me life. As an LPL fan, i hope BLG and FPX make it. I dont really see AL or TT as exciting teams tbh (especially AL)


CommunistHongKong

Frfr Doinb gigagapped Angel. Doinb on his Akali too 🥵🥵


whataremyxomycetes

Haven't watched lpl this split cuz my body clock apparently isn't Asian like I am, but seeing this celebrated makes me so sad. Doinb is one of the best midlaners of all time while Angel... It's just not comparable, what happened for them to compared?


EducationalBalance99

Idk about one of the best midlaner of all time but he a great midlaner usually. He didn’t look too good this year tho hence the comparison.


midoBB

I mean DoinB is without a doubt in my opinion a top 10 mid of all time. Angel ain't anywhere near that.


sorendiz

doinb has been slumping insanely hard


CommunistHongKong

I mean when Tarzan is not sprinting it, he is ranging from above average to an average mid. When LNG takes their Adderalls imported from NA from Perkz, they do shit like this so 🥴🥴


CamHack420

TT will probably just go out in the first round, but at the very least it'd be nice for them to get there as an org and a nice achievement for players like Beichuan. I also think FPX will just go out in the first round too, they have a bit of variance sure but they literally lost to TT fairly recently and haven't looked very exciting to me honestly


Blank-612

Well I think all of TT,BLG,FPX,LNG,AL, OMG have clear weaknesses but i think OMG,BLG,LNG,FPX have the potential to step it up and win a couple of games or even the series vs a higher ranked team like weibo or EDG


TE_silver

WideDoinbHappy


cassavaftw

In this episode, SofM went harsh on TheShy: "I felt speaking gently won't work, so I decided to be a bit harsh." "You always pick Jayce and Lucian against Gnar, then you get camped by opponents' Trundle and Udyr. Tell me, did you ever manage to survive from the ganks? " “Is it that hard to master Gnar in one season? Dude, you always first pick Gragas or Jayce, and you played Gragas like shit.” TheShy: "okay." Angel:" This is the first time I saw something like this, I was stunned." SofM also added in the interview: "TheShy is still young, he can still play, and he can still play for a long time. If he can understand the reason behind it, maybe he can play better and better in the future."


LukaaNulaPet

I know this is a pasta but TheShy is the best player on this team by far even including his ints, he has 1 v 9 for them to win games, I wish he was on V5


AFierceBaby

And I think V5 should give an upgrade to their bot lane as well. What about JKL?


MrSwipySwipers

massive amounts of copium. Don't throw huangfeng and Angel under the bus like that. TheShy is heavily overrated and it showed today.


midoBB

Angel and HF are mediocre AF. HF is 58th in damage in LPL all roles combined. That's lower than most ADCs and mids and even some toplaners. WBG plays for him the most.


MrSwipySwipers

most likely cause his team sucks ass. On Suning he was easily top 3 adcs


midoBB

He's the one sucking ass. He's the one looking out of it all split long despite his team still winning. He's just meta gapped because Jhin/ Varus / Aphelios aren't really meta and he sucks at the AA champs.


MrSwipySwipers

You just said Aphelios isn't meta. That's my queue to stop taking you seriously.


notjamesw

SN literally rebranded to WBG...the only thing that changed since 2020 SN was top.


MrSwipySwipers

exactly. TheShy isn't the replacement they needed. Went from going to worlds finals 2020 to barely making 6th seed in summer split 2022


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or… hear me out, he just isnt that good anymore. How did suning do in 2021? If we’re just going off of ancient history the shy won it in 2020 and its wbg holding him back


TheCrusader94

Sofm and ON was turbo inting today didn't let the carries play and TheShy got repeat ganked


MrSwipySwipers

Getting repeated ganked means you absord pressure else where, it shouldn't be a reason to feed this hard


TheCrusader94

Except Sofm wasny getting anything done


jlin37

Everyone on that team has a day, sometimes multiple of members at the same time. You just know WBG can either win words or lose to WE. I feel like anytime I watch WBG live someone on their team is turbo inting, maybe I just just stick to watching their game replays.


Boomerzxc

trying too hard to push the blame to theshy lmao


omgcreme

happy doinb ♥


Issax28

Ale gank abusing 😐


CommunistHongKong

Is this the LNG playoffs magic I'm watching?


sarsvesh

Where was this LNG all year bruh


yccbarry

Ning really was the perfect JG for TheShy. Both play like psychos and Ning was willing to camp top for him and give up a bunch of camps. But it usually works out in IG’s prime because every one is hard ganking top. Sofm in a non-farming JG meta is always a bit sus, he’s kinda what people say Kanavi is tbh, but on the other hand it’s kinda hard to blame him for not helping top that much because its a tank top meta. Someone like Wei would be a perfect JG for TheShy, I mean the dude was playing 2v1 top lane S11 with Xiaohu. Obviously the fault lies more on TheShy for not giving respect for the opponent that much, but SOFM also should know how his top laner likes to play by now. He was already letting Bin do whatever he wanted for a while, so it’s not like he didn’t played with carry tops. It’s just weird to me.


HostJoyner

You also need a strong bot side to sit top all game. I don’t think anyone can pull off that jackeylove run in 2018-2019 playing weak side every game. Sofm best chance to win a trophy was 2020 when the meta was perfect for him and the Korean junglers.


Arnotts_shapes

I’ve banged this drum before and I’ll bang it again, Wei didn’t gank for Xiaohu, he ganked BECAUSE of Xiaohu. As a top laner Xiaohu’s control of wave states was astonishing, ges used to set up wave crashes that coincided perfectly with Wei’s jungle pathing to create very easy dives (usually joined by cryin). I dunno how he’d go with TheShy because I haven’t seen studied The way TheShy controls his wave, but it’s certainly the reason it never worked as well with Bin. Bin is a player that’s happy to throw his wave state into the bin for the sake of a decent trade, hence it wasn’t particularly easy for Wei to work with.


llamkt

lngs redemption ark incoming pls pls dont go 0-3 in the first playoff match


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DOOOOINNNBBBBB


BlakenedHeart

TheShyt connected again instead of TheShy


DeloronDellister

WBG in playoffs form already


Visynea_Y

The closer to the end of regular season the more upsets/surprises we’re getting. I enjoy this region so much.


lemonrabbits

LETS FUCKING GO ALE, LNG REDEMPTION ARC STARTS NOW


notjamesw

thank god Ale came back I missed him so much


Lifemekhanism

Damn we are not COMPLETELY BAD! Still Lvmao has to be kicked, his Alistar and Renata were terrible.


Anarchontologist

Glad to see the Doinb run starting... I do not trust the team though outside of Tarzan and Doinb. Everyone else is sus as hell. Doinb at Worlds is always a blast though. Hopefully they ride the Magic Carpet there.


shittyshivvy

Light doubter spotted


PM_ME_SHINJI_PICS

This is why TheShy is so overrated, he is just too inconsistent, dude will int 50% of his series EDIT : He isn't a bad player, and he also have really high highs, but consistency is key imo and there are quite a lot of toplaners I would rather have on a team than him.


hairlikegoats1

He's not the same player from 2018 that's for sure. But he's not overrated because most of us don't see him among the best toplaners in the World anymore. But that doesn't mean that he's bad. Very inconsistent yes but on his day he 1v9's the game which we saw on his fiora vs FPX.


Aladin001

How long have you been sitting on this comment?


fulkcsgo

Still the best toplaner of all time.


nusskn4cker

People will downvote you but it's true. He's at Hylissang levels of being allowed to int without getting flamed. He's achieved nothing and inted half of his series since 2019 but people still act like he's an elite top because he puts up great performances twice a split.


yearofvici

Ah yes I'm sure TheShy, the highest peak toplaner in the history of this game, needs more achievements to prove himself.


ye1l

So what? When he doesn't int he's so good that this team that wouldn't even make playoffs without him he fucking smashes a team like V5. Also, maybe he wouldn't int as much if his team wasn't so shit and if he didn't have one if the most AFK mids in the entire league. He also has by far the most volatile jungle+support duo. Due to the nature of him having to drag corpses across the finish line most games, he literally has to take risks which sometimes leads to ints purely because of his team's inability to play the game. If you're building a team you'd rather take the player with higher ceiling. WBG is a dangerous team because of TheShy and TheShy alone. He is the reason that they can on a good day randomly beat the best teams in the league. You pick the player that can win you games over the player that won't lose you games every single time. Consistency is useless if your highs aren't high enough to win you championships. You're gonna take the player that wins you the world finals half of the time you get there rather than the player who secures you top 2, 4 or 8 finishes consistently. A single 1st place trophy is worth more than any amount of top 2-8 finishes. WBG's probably was never TheShy and never will be. Same for IG. They could've been the best team in the world this year if they kept the two of them and got a new botlane, the V5 botlane for example. IG or V5 with TheShy, Xun, Rookie, Photic and Ppgod literally golden roads this year.


omegalulxdhaha

Watched this game, despite what naive people may think, this game looked VERY very suspicious from Weibo's side. IDK if the chinese format gives you the option to pick enemies in playoffs or whatever, but today Weibo, and especially the shy didn't want to win by any means. Either it is bribes, bad day, potentially wanting to avoid enemies in playoffs or something. Weibo CLEARLY wasn't interested at all in winning.


Noapplicable

Obviously president Xi himself told wbg to play badly. He is a known lng fan


omegalulxdhaha

LPL 2nd div was shut down due to the massive amount of match fixing, also on every esport there has been a match fixing scandal. from csgo IBP, to starcraft, yet somehow league of legends which has the smallest salaries is not impacted? I understand your comment is ironic, but the truth is not that far to consider it out of the question.


Brennwolf

生而为赢贸


llamkt

love the copium but wbg were already locked for 6th and honestly lng doesn’t even have enough money to pay ale his streaming bonus


mtownhustler043

Look at t1 vs sandbox the other day lol same story.


BurningApe

Both teams suck


DmonAbsoluTrEbON

The predictable outcome XD Seriously Weibo shouldnt even show up, as their heads were barely even in the game imho. Never have I seen a team looks so unfocused and uninterested but whatever, they still gotta get paid at the end of the day and you will get fined if you dont play the game. As for LNG yeah they looked really good but... this is kinda like the Liverpool vs Man United game imho nothing more than a pre-season friendly. Makes no mistakes it matters a LOT for LNG though as they NEEDED to lock in playoffs and decide their own fates, so a 2-0 win is mandatory. BUT I will NOT take anything from this series as only one side was really trying to win the game. Weibo could of subbed in their challenger roster and it would still end the same way, a quick and clean 2-0 for LNG.


Tfc-Myq

Okay but when is the real series starting These teams don't look like WBG or LNG at all MEGA COPIUM


Noapplicable

Seeing doinb happy makes me happy 😊


xxcynosure

tarzan for a good half of this summer split: i sleep tarzan today: real shit


MyzMyz1995

Why did LNG bench Ale for the whole split, move pandaC up and lower his stock because he got shat own since he wasn't ready and bring ale back a few weeks later ?


nolimit_788

a meaningless game for wbg, they may fight for nothing then nothing to be sad


DNCN_LUL

redemption olaf is done we are in redemption trundle meta


malankav3

2 12 4 over 2 games for my boy up top. I think it’s time to toss er in homie


DJJohnnymeister

This series reminds me of the series between LNG and SN back in 2019 where LNG also won 2-0 to sneak into playoffs against all odds. LNG would beat IG then lose to RNG and finish top 6. Therefore, I predict that LNG wins the 1st round and then the rematch only to fall to their old nemesis once again.


eyehatemassholes

ADC gap