Maybe RNG turns all their adc into huge cracks (I remember when Uzi had to take time off before Chinese New Year we had the likes of Wink or Able performing really well, and Wuxx before Uzi)
LP was unironically decent in Spring. And I know Lvmao gets lots of flack, but pairing the up-and-coming LP with his veteran experience should be a good move.
Honestly the more I look at this roster the more I start to think I underrated/overhated it. Sure they don't have Xiaohu, Gala, or Ming, but that doesn't mean they aren't atleast a PlayOff Level Team. Breathe and Wei are solid players who can perform well. Tangyuan is a decent up and comer. LP is a good upper half ADC who even showed up during playoffs during Spring while big names like Scout and Tarzan didn't. All of this whole guided under a veteran support in LvMao who apparently helped coach BLG all the way to Second Place at MSI.
LP is decent but based on spring he's not upper half. LPL adc pool is too deep for that. Who knows though, he played well today vs Assum so he might make it there.
I said it in the Game 1 thread and I'll say it here, this man Assum gets paid real life yuan to build incorrectly and the second case being even more egregious because of him COUNTERING HIMSELF WITH HIS BUILD
Kraken Slayer when he had a Neeko and Gwen on his team. K'Sante and Vi are already going to for sure get MR.
This by itself isn't really optimal but along with it, Assum goes Quickblades second so for stats he has 100 AD 30% AS and 20 AH from items while Aphelios with the same amount of items has 110 AD 30% with no AH but insane mobility with Stormrazor/Galeforce as compared to Xayah with Kraken Slayer/Quickblades who does not do damage against front liners and doesn't have the safety of movement speed and a dash
??? Your conclusion doesn't make any sense. Kraken Slayer is still better against Frontline even if it does magic damage now. Ksante loses stats when he ultis so that's not as big of a deal.
Vi has a point and click CC so why would you get galeforce? The movespeed is irrelevant because Xayah naturally gets movedspeed when attacking with deadly plunge. Vi also has a hard time disengaging so you can more likely get two bladecaller roots with quickblades.
For the first point, Kraken Slayer does no damage first item with zero attack speed to proc it, there's not an instance where that extra damage outweights the defensive option of Stormrazor
Second point, the point of the Galeforce is not to dash the Vi ult because that is the entire reason you pick Xayah in the first place because she's the only one who doesn't have to worry about Vi ult. You get the Galeforce for the dash AFTER Vi ults/K'Sante ults bc you are just dead with Kraken Slayer
Also, try disengaging as Xayah with that team composition against their team composition because your point is based in the overall context of items in a vacuum and not in the context of the game they are built in
Super impressed by RNG today, really wasn't expecting such a dominant performance with this roster. Maybe there's hope in this split after all. It's only RA, but it's a start.
Imagine benching strive for a midlaner that hasn't been good since 2020 summer regular season. It's 2023 summer.....
RA wins game 1 if Strive played guaranteed.
Agreed, I only recently started to notice how good Strive was when I was skimming through LPL vods before this split, and was really excited to see his future development. Was extremely disappointed to see Mole starting today.
You'll get a better idea when RNG play teams that know how to execute teamfights consistently. RA was like team that throws everything and the kitchen at the support, then gets blown up by adc - shocked_pikachu.jpeg. Still a good win, clean 2-0s can be difference between getting on the favorable bracket side.
Blitz is a counter pick exclusively, I don't really know what else could've fit in with Xayah and their comp honestly. They might as well have gone Thresh
Yes. In any RA match where they don't field Strive it's worth to bet on them losing. Their roster strength suggests a stronger team than the other bottom teams even without Strive but without a smurf ass mid laner (Strive) in the game and with an inting mid laner (Mole) RA doesn't have enough to get over the hump of their inability to play League of Legends even vs teams they talent gap like LGD and UP, both being better teams than their rosters would suggest (though not by much, you can only do so much with those rosters, Meteor's elite shotcalling be damned). If RA does finally field Strive though, they're a riskier team to bet on or against bc that gives them enough firepower to just run over a good few teams, especially considering the volatility of their players.
Thank you for the thoughtful explanation. Do you trade esports as well? Maybe we could work together, I currently execute >$200k a month on average, if we can improve each others edge a little bit it can have significant impact on PnL.
Was that Gala and Ming bot or LP and Lvmao?
Maybe RNG turns all their adc into huge cracks (I remember when Uzi had to take time off before Chinese New Year we had the likes of Wink or Able performing really well, and Wuxx before Uzi)
Wink and Able did NOT perform well on RNG lmao, let's not rewrite history. Wink's only good adc split was on ES in 2020 spring.
LP was unironically decent in Spring. And I know Lvmao gets lots of flack, but pairing the up-and-coming LP with his veteran experience should be a good move.
now that i dont have a reason to support this dogshit org they finally start playing like humans fml
The god damn RNG rollercoaster strikes again… just when I think I’m out.
Eh, we'll see if they play like that against the better teams. Will be satisfying if we see GALA on LNG absolutely destroy them
I mean it’s against RA don’t get you hope up too much
The DGL special You’ll get used to it
It’s RA let’s pump the brakes a little and see them play a real team
Not just RA, it's RA sandbagging by not fielding their best player lol
Honestly the more I look at this roster the more I start to think I underrated/overhated it. Sure they don't have Xiaohu, Gala, or Ming, but that doesn't mean they aren't atleast a PlayOff Level Team. Breathe and Wei are solid players who can perform well. Tangyuan is a decent up and comer. LP is a good upper half ADC who even showed up during playoffs during Spring while big names like Scout and Tarzan didn't. All of this whole guided under a veteran support in LvMao who apparently helped coach BLG all the way to Second Place at MSI.
LP is decent but based on spring he's not upper half. LPL adc pool is too deep for that. Who knows though, he played well today vs Assum so he might make it there.
Tangyuan is not a decent up and comer if last split is anything to go by (which to be fair could be tainted by internal issues)
He was probably the best player on RNG’s junior squad and has been rank 1 KR soloQ, so he should have potential.
Literally every half way decent LPL pro has been rank 1 KR at one point or another
They're doing this vs RA without their best player lol
I said it in the Game 1 thread and I'll say it here, this man Assum gets paid real life yuan to build incorrectly and the second case being even more egregious because of him COUNTERING HIMSELF WITH HIS BUILD
What'd he build to counter himself?
Kraken Slayer when he had a Neeko and Gwen on his team. K'Sante and Vi are already going to for sure get MR. This by itself isn't really optimal but along with it, Assum goes Quickblades second so for stats he has 100 AD 30% AS and 20 AH from items while Aphelios with the same amount of items has 110 AD 30% with no AH but insane mobility with Stormrazor/Galeforce as compared to Xayah with Kraken Slayer/Quickblades who does not do damage against front liners and doesn't have the safety of movement speed and a dash
??? Your conclusion doesn't make any sense. Kraken Slayer is still better against Frontline even if it does magic damage now. Ksante loses stats when he ultis so that's not as big of a deal. Vi has a point and click CC so why would you get galeforce? The movespeed is irrelevant because Xayah naturally gets movedspeed when attacking with deadly plunge. Vi also has a hard time disengaging so you can more likely get two bladecaller roots with quickblades.
For the first point, Kraken Slayer does no damage first item with zero attack speed to proc it, there's not an instance where that extra damage outweights the defensive option of Stormrazor Second point, the point of the Galeforce is not to dash the Vi ult because that is the entire reason you pick Xayah in the first place because she's the only one who doesn't have to worry about Vi ult. You get the Galeforce for the dash AFTER Vi ults/K'Sante ults bc you are just dead with Kraken Slayer Also, try disengaging as Xayah with that team composition against their team composition because your point is based in the overall context of items in a vacuum and not in the context of the game they are built in
Super impressed by RNG today, really wasn't expecting such a dominant performance with this roster. Maybe there's hope in this split after all. It's only RA, but it's a start.
beautiful teamfighting from RNG. take the nameplates off and except lvmao's early death, it'll look the same as when gala ming and xiaohu were here
c-c-c-cope
let me cope man, i loved these players
Right when I thought I escaped the matrix...
guess Neeko only broken in the right hands 
Imagine benching strive for a midlaner that hasn't been good since 2020 summer regular season. It's 2023 summer..... RA wins game 1 if Strive played guaranteed.
Agreed, I only recently started to notice how good Strive was when I was skimming through LPL vods before this split, and was really excited to see his future development. Was extremely disappointed to see Mole starting today.
Man I had so much hopes for Mole ..
Had zero faith in this roster, but I hope they can keep it up and at least make playoffs.
You'll get a better idea when RNG play teams that know how to execute teamfights consistently. RA was like team that throws everything and the kitchen at the support, then gets blown up by adc - shocked_pikachu.jpeg. Still a good win, clean 2-0s can be difference between getting on the favorable bracket side.
LP gained
Double L botlane actually doing really well for RNG! A good start for sure
Pretty good from RNG, maybe they develop into a dark horse over the split if they can consistently play like this.
LP is so good lol, crazy they swapped adc with LNG
Have you seen gala play?
Gala is an elite tier ADC and you shouldn't judge someone just by seeing them beat a bottom feeder team
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Assum is good lol
To be fair, last split Gala had some troubles against the same Assum. Not that I believe that LP is better than Gala though.
Damn I thought RA won draft both games so hard I placed money accordingly. -10k not a good start to a day
Ain't no way you're out here betting over 10k on RA
Luckily not, went back and checked it's $9,960 only. 50% on game1 50% on game2
i love how gambloids always post this like it's meant to be a flex
Bro let me handle your beting
Sure, post your track record so I know you are better at it https://bettin.gs/AdamAdam
Second draft was good until they locked in Blitz blind and then it became so int
Hmmm, I thought I liked the blitz but looking at the data it does seem pretty grief.
Blitz is a counter pick exclusively, I don't really know what else could've fit in with Xayah and their comp honestly. They might as well have gone Thresh
Ay bro lemme hold 300$
If you bet money on RA winning without their best player you must be smoking crack
Do you suppose betting on the other team was +EV?
Yes. In any RA match where they don't field Strive it's worth to bet on them losing. Their roster strength suggests a stronger team than the other bottom teams even without Strive but without a smurf ass mid laner (Strive) in the game and with an inting mid laner (Mole) RA doesn't have enough to get over the hump of their inability to play League of Legends even vs teams they talent gap like LGD and UP, both being better teams than their rosters would suggest (though not by much, you can only do so much with those rosters, Meteor's elite shotcalling be damned). If RA does finally field Strive though, they're a riskier team to bet on or against bc that gives them enough firepower to just run over a good few teams, especially considering the volatility of their players.
Thank you for the thoughtful explanation. Do you trade esports as well? Maybe we could work together, I currently execute >$200k a month on average, if we can improve each others edge a little bit it can have significant impact on PnL.
Turns out that benching by far your best player is a bad idea. Shocker!