It’s no secret just how many issues have seemed to plague Dignitas since their return to the LCS. Now with the team’s 0-4 start to the Summer Split, they’ll look to their veteran support to help dig themselves out of the hole they’ve been stuck
In Evil Geniuses’ first split back in the LCS, they made waves by signing high profile players in reigning MVP Dennis “Svenskeren” Johnsen, former Team Vitality mid-laner Daniele “Jiizuke” di Mauro and Bae “Bang” Jun-sik, who won two World Championships back when he was a part of SKT T1 in 2015 and 2016. The team also added former Cloud9 youngsters Tristan “Zeyzal” Stidam and Colin “Kumo” Zhao. Despite looking inconstant at times, EG finished the split in 3rd place, losing to Flyquest in the semi-fin
Flyquest has outperformed all exceptions this split, in large part due to their 22 year old German mid laner. Along with having the coolest name in the LCS, PowerOfEvil has led his team to four victories in a row. During week 5 he flexed his expansive champion pool, playing Orianna against Golden Guardians and Corki against Counter Logic Gaming, both firsts for him this split. PowerOfEvil was also the first player in the world to win a game as Corki this year. Immortals’ Eika and DAMWON Gaming’s ShowMaker in Korea were the only other players to use Corki, both losing their games on t he daring bombardier . As Flyquest looks to finish out the season strong, they will lean on PowerOfEvil to be a dominant force in the mid l
If you’ve been following China’s League of Legends Pro League for a while, then you’re probably aware of LGD’s consistently poor performances in recent years. However, this may be coming to an end, or so their fans hope, with the additions of former RNG top laner Xie “Langx” Zhen-Ying and former Dominus players Ling “Mark” Xu and Su “xiye” Han-
This is an ADC build that synergizes well with durable champions like Blitzcrank by doing a ton of damage with items like Blade of The Ruined King, Black Cleaver, or Mortal Reminder. Press the Attack rune is absolutely necess
Ssumday continued to be one of the most impactful players this past weekend, being the first in the LCS this split to use Lucian in the top lane. While playing against Golden Guardians on the versatile marksman, Ssumday outperformed his top lane opponent Hauntzer, who was playing Gangplank, by out farming him by 25 CS (creep score) at the 15-minute mark. In terms of XP (experience points), every one of Ssumday’s teammates was losing to their respective opponents at the 15-minute mark while Ssumday himself led Hauntzer by an impressive 912 XP. The South Korea native utilized this early game advantage to carry his team to an impressive victory over the Golden Guardi
Similar to the Animal Crossing: New Horizons delay, the PS5 and Xbox Series X are both manufactured in China, and with a lot of manufacturing grinding to a halt, this could effect the availability of the systems when they launch later this year. The extent of what these manufacturing delays might mean is still yet to be seen, as neither Sony nor Microsoft has come out to address any delays they may be currently suffering from. As a result, this might be a similar situation to the launch of the Nintendo Switch, which saw consoles flying off the shelf faster than the company could hope to stock t
Dignitas went through even more inconsistency in the following Spring Split, benching their new jungler Jonathan “Grig” Armao in favor of Matthew “Akaadian” Higginbotham. After missing out on playoffs, Dignitas dropped Grig and acquired jungler Joshua “Dardoch” Hartnett and top laner Omran “V1per” Sho
“If at first you could try this out don’t succeed, try, and try again.” Those were the words of Gamers2 for those two years as the organization struggled, split after split. Despite his team’s poor performances, Ocelote was set on his vision of building a winning team, and was willing to take the necessary risks to do so. On June 2nd, 2015 , the young owner took a chance on sixteen-year-old Luka “PerkZ” Perković to be the team’s mid laner of the future, replacing Jérémy “Eika” Valdena
Fnatic cleanly swept them 3-0 and won the 2018 Spring Split. The European fan-favorites would win again during the Summer 0f 2018, while G2 suffered an early exit from the Summer playoffs at the hands of Misfits in the quarterfinals. Despite the somewhat disappointing 2018 Spring and Summer Splits, G2 secured themselves a spot to compete in the 2018 World Champions
This strategy works because of a mechanic with Senna, where killing minions has a chance of dropping souls, which Senna can collect, granting her bonus attack damage. So Senna actually doesn’t need the gold from CS to get stronger, she can just collect the souls that drop as her laning partner farms. Although DIG Academy lost with this strategy, Zven collected enough souls early game to the point where Immortals couldn’t handle his damage output, and Cloud9 was able to take the win. Zven and Vulcan will look to continue their domination for Cloud9 in the second half of the spring sp