LoL eSports Discussion

[FakeGod]

I don't know much about League coaches

is Peter considered to be a good coach?

[MTD]

yes.

[zoraster]

he is? all i've seen is pretty negative stuff. Not that it's easy to figure out from our perspective, but the line of reasoning goes: Liquid has probably the most talented line up. The coach's job is to make sure that a team works together to efficiently use that talent. Liquid fell at multiple points.

[BROseidon]

Deilor is considered the best coach in the west. Yamatocannon and CLG's coach are also very good

[zoraster]

To my eye the coaching in LCS has lagged in development toward full maturity.

[dramonic]

Deilor is... whose again?

[quadz08]

Fnatic, I believe. He's the former poker player, no?

[Voidedmafia]

Fnatic, I believe. He's the former poker player, no?

Yes.

And of course coaching in the LCS is going to lag 'cause we're one of the last leagues to actually implement coaches as an official part of the game.

[BROseidon]

Fnatic, I believe. He's the former poker player, no?

Yes.

And of course coaching in the LCS is going to lag 'cause we're one of the last leagues to actually implement coaches as an official part of the game.

Also Korea has had an e-sports coaching infrastructure for a very, very long time.

[Voidedmafia]

Yeah. keep in mind Korea has been in the E-sports scene since the

90s

and the release of StarCraft: Brood War (more or less, it may extend back to the very original StarCraft or to another game. They've had two decades to begin, expand, and refine their coaching while the rest of the world is pretty much only now laying the groundwork to even be a hundredth of what Korea has. And while other scenes may have individual players that can stomp individual Koreans (and very rarely teams that can do so, which is why it's such an accomplishment to do so for any region that's not China), they have more for being a cohesive unit.

I honestly suspect that while Pro League of Legends may help roll the ball toward infrastructure refinement, reaching anywhere near the same level as Korea may take longer than the life of LoL itself. I mean, it might not, but that depends on how quickly everyone gets on the train and starts making everything fit to last for LoL specifically and E-sports in general.

[Venmar]

I just want to see NA or EU win to see Montes reaction.

[Siveure DtTrikyp]

None of the teams are on the level of the Korean / Chinese teams beyond fnatic, and they have stylistic mismatches against a fair few. It's not happening.

[Venmar]

[Espeonage]

If Rekkles is in form come Worlds Fnatic can do it, but they are the only team that can from EU or NA. Fnatic were always at their best with the protect the carry comps.

[Venmar]

I have always thought that protect the carry comps, especially ones that protect a Kog'Maw, to be very lackluster. They're too dependent on the ADC and have little if any wiggle room to come back if the ADC gets behind.

[Venmar]

Wow, I just found out that the support player for the team

Renegades

, an NA CS team that will be playing in the LCS next year, is a female player named Remilia. I think she will be the first Female player in the NA and EU LCS, if not all of comptetive League of Legends? This is so exciting!

[Cabd]

Welcome to like a month ago~

But yeah she's badass. She streams sometimes on twitch as well, her streams are always really good and showcase high level support play

[MTD]

interesting stuff being played today.
mid nautilus, cho...

[quadz08]

this LPL game has fiora, gangplank, AND darius

all at once

#juggernauts

[zoraster]

to be fair, gangplank isn't a juggernaut, right?

[MTD]

neither is fiora though?

edit: Skarner time!

[KaleiÐoscøpe]

Dat gp barrel at 5th dragon holy

[quadz08]

not really but, juggernaut patch changes, etc

also, bruisery toplaner meta

[Elmo TeH AzN]

Grats to KT honestly.

[MTD]

yep!

also I would personally have preferred QG overe iG but I guess there's no denying that invictus was better this series.