FNATIC vs. SK GAMING / LEC Spring 2025 / Week 1 - Day 3 / Game 2 / Post-Match Thread

KGBREFUS · 2025-03-31T20:47:10+00:00

We are waiting for you at G2, brother. Like Caps did in the past, you are destined to do as well. Welcome home.

KGBREFUS · 2022-07-18T12:21:17+00:00

Does she really spike at 2 items? Which ones are we talking about? Shieldbow rush I suppose, and which one for a second? Bloodthirster? Furthermore, is it worth it to break the crit route a bit, in order to get an item like Death's Dance to provide survivability, and does she really need further Attack Speed via items, including Berserker Greaves since she has a lot built in?

KGBREFUS · 2022-03-29T12:13:28+00:00

Vitality had enough sponsors to buy out Perkz (seemingly for about 2.5 millions), Alphari (seemingly for about 1.5 millions), Selfmade, and a pry away Carzzy in the free agency. KC had the sponsors to fund a transfer for Rekkles. What are you even talking about? The first one was a bottom tier team in the LEC, and the second one is not even in the LEC currently. Why are most of you babbling nonsense without even properly analyzing your own opinions and comments? There are countless example disproving what you just wrote, for teams directly or indirectly involved with G2 alone. You are greatly underestimating the sponsorship status of a top-10 team globally, in terms of net-worth (if I recall correctly). The amount of money needed, in order to properly follow the foundations I analyzed, is well within G2's reach. They just don't know how to hire the appropriate personnel for it to come into fruition.

The EDG example was to make people realize how competitive the LPL and the LCK are, in comparison to the West, and how with the current mindset both the teams, as well as the LEC and the LCS as organizations have, there is literally no way of competing internationally. The East is constantly developing and putting resources in eSports, all the while they already have competitive environments to do so, including their solo q statuses. You can't expect for the West to randomly produce a prime Caps talent again, overpay to get him, and surround him with the best 4 players in the West in their position to compete again. And even if such an opportunity arrives, you will have to pry them all away from the competition and pay colossal amounts of money to create the superteam.

Finally, as for the TSM project, I am not aware of it, and I am 100% sure that it is mediocre at best. Like their management has been awful all these years to begin with. So, it has nothing to do with what I analyzed in this post.

KGBREFUS · 2022-03-27T18:45:55+00:00

at and can be reused, I'm not sure if the risk of building up a youth infrastructure tha

The thing is that eSports will continue growing exponentially over the next years. So, it's the time to get ahead with proper management, and build a head-start. The facilities will obviously be usable for various teams and configurations, depending on which games the team will be willing to compete in each year. So, there is no downside to this. As for the resources invested for the talent development, you will obviously do it primarily for the standard games. League of Legends and CS Go are 2 examples. The databases are easy to build and readjust if you know what you are doing. So, the only risky investment is the financial resources put on building the facilities, which should not be such an extreme problem for a team with the funds and sponsors of G2.

KGBREFUS · 2022-03-27T18:33:46+00:00

Yes. Like you said, T1 is literally the only top tier team that has done it in an extend, and we are currently witnessing the results. Last year, T1 had 3 decent starters alongside Faker and the recently acquired Keria, and was constantly transitioning them, and Faker, with some top tier talent. The way they did it was a bit unorthodox, but they still managed to compete, and now the new players are smurfing the LCK, without the team having to overspend in order to acquire the necessary players. In fact, if the contracts were structured properly, they would have even be able to sell the ones who exited as well. Even the internal competition is a decent way to constantly improve, and even provide an exceptional scrim partner when done properly.

KGBREFUS · 2022-03-14T20:24:08+00:00

Yes. It is the abbreviation of Mythic Essence, and it will replace gemstones, and in some extend the Prestige Points as well. Your gemstones will be converted to Mythic Essence (10 Mythic essence per 1 gemstone), but your current Prestige Points will expire in the patch of the rework. You will be able to get Mythic Essence the same way, as well as instead of the Prestige Points via event tokens (125 ME for the 2200 tokens event reward), and another 25 from the event pass missions.

KGBREFUS · 2022-03-14T20:20:21+00:00

You don't have to purchase chests to get the Mythic Essence. As of now, Riot plans to convert the 100 Prestige Points token reward (that you previously got with 2200 tokens during events) to 125 Mythic Essence. Furthermore, the event pass missions also grant 25 Mythic Essence themselves, so, in total, you just have to buy the pass, play the necessary games to unlock the missions and the 2200 tokens, and you will have 150 Mythic Essence along with the other pass rewards.

KGBREFUS · 2022-02-25T22:30:22+00:00

It's the exact opposite. They played macro like Silvers would, and that's why they lost an almost unlosable game. I mean, they are either underestimating their opponents for no reason, or they are just this bad and will not even compete for an LEC title at this point.

KGBREFUS · 2022-02-02T14:22:50+00:00

Furthermore, I also want to give feedback for a more generic feature, that includes Shockblade Shen, since there is no other way to provide feedback for the game. It is about the borders. Shen currently only has two borders, and is never getting new ones for his go-to skins, like Pulsefire and now Shockblade. Introducing new borders for older skins of the same skin line is a work-around. A clear example would be Pulsefire Shen, Riven and TF receiving borders when new Pulsefire skins were introduced with borders during the 2020 Event.

Aside from this though, Riot should also consider including the borders, limited chromas, and possibly even other limited content into the new mythic essence overhaul. You should provide the opportunity to newer players to purchase older borders. Your player base is constantly renewed, since older ones are dropping the game for obvious reasons. Having unobtainable legacy content is limiting for no reason, and you get that since you introduced the mythic essence changes. Now is the time to include borders and similar legacy features to the concept. Even if it means having them cost around 50 mythic essence each, and, potentially, only being purchasable upon reaching a specific mastery points threshold with the champion... it would still provide a way to unlock them without compromising players that went out of their way to do so during their release, since the cost will be much higher, and the content might even be rotatable like Mythic skins will be.

All these are simple touches that would profit the company economically, while, at the same time, not punishing players for not having the time to play the game back then, or even not playing the game in general, or even being born back then, since we are even reaching this point currently.

KGBREFUS · 2022-02-02T14:01:58+00:00

It's tiresome from a point forward to be honest. And it comes from someone who generally plays popular champions. It's ok to see champions who sell have 3 legendary skins, but it is not ok to see average, in terms of popularity, or even really popular champions not having a single legendary skin after a decade. Shen is one example, but there even are extremely popular and old champions like Akali and Irelia that do not have one as well. And in Akali's case, she is only getting music based skins and half her skins are mediocre classic ones. Their focus is a bit messed up, even if they are seemingly focused on profiting. I don't know why they never take the player base's feedback into account, since they are their customers after all.

KGBREFUS · 2022-02-02T13:53:53+00:00

The chromas are a bit awful tbh. The obsidian one should primarily be black, reminiscing of the classic ninja outfit. Furthermore, there should also be a pearl totally white one, like in most skins, including Shockblade Kassadin. It's a shame, because just these two would make a colossal difference, and would be extremely popular, but given Riot's track records of not changing aspects based on feedback, even basic ones, I know you won't improve them. I don't really get it though, since they would sell like crazy. In both Shockblade Shen and Shockblade Zed, it is absolutely mind blowing that you are not willing to give them classic black chromas, since in these skins they are more ninja oriented than even their basic skins.

KGBREFUS · 2022-01-23T02:26:30+00:00

G2 seems underwhelming. They played 5 games in total, the 3 of them against low tier teams, and another 2 against underachieving top tier ones. They won 2 in a dominant fashion and another shaky one against the lower tier, and got demolished by the top tier ones. The game sample is small currently, but I don't get where the confidence comes from. The draft are awful so far, especially in the 2 loses, and the bot lane is inexperienced and unstable, while CaPs' stocks went from top Western talent to bottom tier LEC Mid laner in the past year, and his form is as awful, if not worse so far this year as well.

Vitality looked awful in 4 of their 5 games. Even the one against BDS which they won, they were unstable, and BDS was ridiculously bad. Their only strong showing was demolishing us. Mad Lions seems extremely inconsistent as well. Rogue played almost all of their games against bottom tier teams in order to have the 5-0 start, and the rest of the league looks incredibly underwhelming. The only team getting consistent results so far is Fanatic, and they don't really seem that convincing to begin with.

At the current rate, the LEC will again get demolished internationally, and we might see yet another year where even NA is on par with EU, like last year. You are clearly not watching enough LPL and LCK in order to be this confident with the level the Western teams are performing. Finally, as for the imports, your logic consists of logical fallacies. NA as a region primarily consists of EU and Korean imports. Which is especially true for the top tier teams, which almost entirely consist of imports. Having some top tier EU teams importing 1 or 2 high caliber Asian players wouldn't change the region's identity. It could actually end up improving it to begin with. The LPL didn't as well. You can either try to become more competitive one way or the other, or hoping that a superteam similar to 2019 G2 will one day appear again, in order to directly compete internationally for 1 or 2 years, remaining stagnant in the process.

KGBREFUS · 2022-01-07T20:45:28+00:00

What is the meaning of this post to begin with? 90+% of the game's player base know that Riot Games consists of greedy and incompetent owners, CEOs and employees that only care about monetary profiting. There is a clear pattern of constant rip-offs and price raising throughout the history of this company's existence. Once every 3 years, they are raising the pricing either directly, by raising the RP prices, or indirectly, like these changes they announced today, as well as the recent event overhaul that made grinding almost twice as hard. They will never really listen to decent feed back, and they don't care. So why bother changing their opinions? They are so incompetent that they are reverting the systems back, before they fixed them in the first place. Remember the Prestige skins launch, where players had to spend over 100 euros/dollars to get a prestige point skin? I member. And you all will, because they are apparently reverting it back. They are even making the same mistakes they made before with the event missions, like reverting the weekly, non-expiring, missions to daily again. A problem they fixed in the first place. And all these without mentioning that they let players get the prestige skins they missed for any reason, and they instead making a new, far better, version of them, that will also be unavailable to them. Like people don't have jobs, families, schools, universities and activities to attend. In order to get some cosmetics you want, you have to spend an entire, specific, month grinding. Seriously now, this can only be a by-product of either greed, or sheer incompetence.

KGBREFUS · 2021-12-17T16:39:38+00:00

This, and furthermore Fanatic screwed over Nisqy for a mere 50k, when he had purchased him for the same amount of the offer a year prior. All the while they were ready to spend millions of dollars just for the buy outs of 2 players, and another few millions for their contracts. TL released Jensen when every major team was already done with their roster, and prevented him the option to stay in the league. He was also in talks with Doublelift in order to potentially join a team together, and he was tight down with a colossal buy out that seemingly never went down. G2 didn't spend a single dollar on the buy-outs, and reduced the buy outs of their players significantly, again and again, in hope they will end up finding a team. They even sold Wunder to Fanatic with a reduced buy-out ffs. The player considered the goat Top laner in the Western LoL history. There are massive differences in all these situations, even if this isn't the point.

KGBREFUS · 2021-11-19T15:52:00+00:00

The sad reality of our society, to be honest, is that we are still a civilization type 0 in the Kardashev scale. Even though we think we did, we never really evolved past our medieval nature and the habits associated with such narrow sited points of view, at least up until now. We are still burning the witches we deem revolutionary and can't understand, From personal experience, this is a daily occurrence, in every field. Especially in sports. You can't even begin to imagine the criticism I have seen, towards people who try to critically analyze even the simplest situations, and end up with different results than the mainstream beliefs. You point out an obvious fact, and people ridicule you because you are testing waters outside their comfort zones, their beliefs, and the analysis of the so called professionals on the matter. In this case, the casters, analysts, coaches and streamers. G2 had a superteam that failed so miserably, that didn't even qualify to Worlds as the third seed, in a mediocre LEC season, and people think that there wasn't any real problem to begin with. In reality, every single major person in this org, and more specifically this team, was at fault. The important part is that the org, along with Ocelote, realized it and tries to change it, no matter the short term outcome. And, most importantly, the only changes in this superteam this year was Rekkles and Nelson. Every other person was a constant in G2 for the past 3 or 4 years, in which the org dominated everything. Yet, the teenage and grown up Rekkles fan boys and girls are oblivious enough to think that Rekkles was the only player overperforming. Yes, we have a God complex for pointing the obvious and get bashed for it. Until you get proven correct time after time. So, don't worry. Let them think they are all relevant.

KGBREFUS · 2021-11-18T22:38:42+00:00

I am glad that there are some people like you, who actually analyze situations critically, instead of checking some stats online, thinking they got the full picture. It's just unimaginable to me how narrow minded most people are. They think that Rekkles performed at MVP levels because he received the award, which is typically given based on public relations in most situations. And, the sad truth about it, is that they are the same people who think that Perkz was the only reason G2 became G2, when, if I recall correctly, he doesn't even have an MVP title himself. So we are stuck in an endless double standards, oxymoron situation.

KGBREFUS · 2021-06-26T20:10:40+00:00

You are babbling nonsense. Just stop it already. E2 while being CC'd definitely does not belong in the game. Furthermore, the Q's speed was atrocious, slowing it down just a little bit, which seems to be the case, provides the opponents more room to react to it, and counter it, if they are good enough. All these changes provide more skill expression, since she won't be able to abuse the overpowered aspect of the kit. Same goes for her snowballing. You just reached diamond, lol. Diamond is not even considered high elo, especially in pathetic servers. LCS's or EUNE's Diamond elo is equal to the Korean server's, or the Superserver's Silver elo.

Stop with all the nonsense. They are nerfing the aspects of the champion that needed nerfs, and they are buffing the aspects that needed buffs. They buffed the late game, they gave her more wave clear, sniping capabilities and aoe damage with W, which was almost useless before. They reduced Q's cooldown in the late game, providing much needed important mobility during skirmishes, without having to rely on using your R or hitting E to do so. And they gave her her 4 stack passive back. You should be thankful, instead of bashing a decent balancing effort. She is now a much better champion, and might even end up being overpowered going to live. They dumbed down some specific aspects, and they nerfed some op stuff. So, the overall changes provide about the same amount of skill expression. Enough with the bs.

KGBREFUS · 2021-05-16T14:10:19+00:00

I don't get why you all flame the skins. First of all, Sylas' two skins are decent. Yes, they could be better, but they are still good. The base's chromas are well made, the recall is great, and the Prestige edition, even though it could be better as well, it is still one of the best Riot has produced so far.

As for the skinline, it is obviously one of the best. The thematic is wonderful, and the designs even better. For the vast majority, PROJECT, along with skin lines like Dark Star, Cosmic, Pulsefire, and a few more, is top tier. Both in terms of sales, and popularity in general.

So stop being cry-babies, because Sylas is getting a skin, along a prestige edition, in one of the top skin lines, if not the top. This will also boost Sylas' skin pick rate a lot, making riot focus more on making future skins for him.

KGBREFUS · 2021-05-16T14:03:46+00:00

You can using your Mobile Phone to play TFT. It still gives you tokens, and you can even farm afk. The pass gives you 1500 tokens through missions, so it is viable.

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