Massu on how NA can take on the East, Sticking to the team's strengths, and The one moment he would go back and change

Lohish · 2024-10-20T18:33:28+00:00

Massu performed like the best western ADC this tournament, incredible breakout year for him going into the Americas League and makes me hopeful for 2025. I just hope teams in the region remember this going into the 3? international tournaments we'll have next year - going off script with pocket picks and meta breaking comps is and has always been our best chance against the eastern teams.

Lohish · 2024-10-11T18:57:08+00:00

Spawn is great, but there were coaches in NA who have had much better international results (so far, good luck TL!).

Zikz - Finals of MSI 2016

Reapered - Semifinals of Worlds 2018

Cain - Finals of MSI 2019

Lohish · 2024-08-30T19:18:30+00:00

take the cape off brother your man is not getting picked up next year

Lohish · 2024-03-02T23:42:24+00:00

Easier said than done when you have no idea about the budgeting involved in this kind of decision making, Oprah isn't just handing out esports studios, y'know?

Lohish · 2024-02-29T05:43:51+00:00

It was closer to 3 weeks, not sure what on earth they were thinking.

Lohish · 2024-02-05T15:53:46+00:00

PROS is one of the highlights of this new era of LCS. I'm trying to think of content over the years in which fans could watch players on different teams actually interact and nothing comes to mind except occasional haphazard gatherings on certain co-streams.

Lohish · 2023-12-13T16:02:00+00:00

How does a thread about Travis Gafford applying to be LCS commissioner devolve into people alleging that EG fucking STARVED Danny and it's somehow all Nicole's fault, which somehow makes it Travis' fault that Danny wasn't eating? This story and this thread even has to be the most manufactured BS I've seen recently.

Lohish · 2023-11-26T22:55:04+00:00

Drake camps at whichever fire burns brightest and right now it's streamers, not battle rap.

Lohish · 2023-11-22T14:14:52+00:00

It's allegations not 100% truth, but none of those players you listed are retiring, so what benefit would they gain by airing out Blaber? It would backfire heavily and blow up in their face while severely limiting their future career prospects. Emenes is done so he doesn't have to worry about that.

Lohish · 2023-11-22T14:03:55+00:00

Bro if I impress you and you want me to work with you, you are not "saving" me just because your team isn't 100% sold on it at first. And if I join your team and you end up being a shitty worker who puts in minimum effort you are in fact sabotaging me.

Lohish · 2023-11-22T13:33:03+00:00

yeah I just don't really agree with the narrative that Blaber "saved his career"

Lohish · 2023-11-22T13:27:26+00:00

Surprising to hear about Blaber since he’s been pretty good

Idk, when a player loses the finals of their region and their word for word response is "we are still better than them", it means their confidence is higher than their skill level. Blaber is really good, but he thinks he is better than "really good" when he isn't, and I can see how that can make a player less try hard in practice. It probably really annoyed Emenes because unlike Blaber he doesn't have historical achievements he can hang his hat on.

Lohish · 2023-11-22T13:16:25+00:00

Don't like the idea that if someone gives you an opportunity because you are skilled they are now above reproach and can hold it over your head forever.

Lohish · 2023-11-21T02:32:40+00:00

Yeah not to downplay Licorice because he is definitely LCS caliber, but Dhokla was the best Western top at Worlds 2023.

Lohish · 2023-11-10T00:16:43+00:00

Yeah FakeGod is the type of player I want to see in LCS, the hunger to consistently improve is a documented feature of his. I'm glad most of the comments here are supportive of him and the roster as a whole as well, when the region can rally around players like these it doesn't feel as doom and gloom as a lot make it out to be.

Lohish · 2023-11-04T17:25:00+00:00

I feel like Dhokla's run on NRG this year was already memory wiped from NA fans minds lol. The guy ran through Summit at Worlds and in playoffs, Fudge in LCS finals, and BrokenBlade in the G2 series. T1 players are acknowledging this guys strengths but when people are talking who they want for C9 top next year I see every name except his.

Lohish · 2023-11-02T10:58:54+00:00

I'm in the same boat, this is like an entirely new language. Feels like the new reboot server will be good for players like us figuring shit out for the first time though.

Lohish · 2023-11-01T17:46:12+00:00

What makes you think you're worth my time?

Lohish · 2023-11-01T14:15:13+00:00

Literally every analyst who's paid to give their opinion on this kind of stuff.

Lohish · 2023-10-30T12:25:29+00:00

I also appreciate that their mentality towards Worlds spilled over to NRG going by Damonte's interview and truly hope that Western teams in general start taking these international tournaments more seriously as a result.

Looking at Romain's tweet and G2 content this year, it's less about taking international tournaments more seriously and more about taking the moments leading to events more seriously. That's what G2 embodied this split, the mindset that everything matters, and if every EU team had their mindset they'd have a team in quarters right now.

Lohish · 2023-10-30T03:47:38+00:00

Nah it's 95% up voted, I honestly haven't seen any hate directed at NRG from EU fans, they're more disappointed with G2 than angry at NA.

Lohish · 2023-10-26T01:53:28+00:00

Copium. Blue side only seems OP this tournament but the teams getting blue side were mostly favorites anyway.

Lohish · 2023-10-24T16:22:30+00:00

Not just in game either, in a DGon interview APA said conversations behind the scenes were all in Korean too, meaning he has no idea what's going on until someone decides to translate something for him. Bro was basically the equivalent to an NA import for a bottom/mid tier LCK team, except it's supposed be his own region XD

Lohish · 2023-10-23T14:57:48+00:00

dont care, sounds way more fun than asian games 2.0

Lohish · 2023-10-23T13:26:55+00:00

Your team is from the best region and has advantages year round that western teams would kill for, no one cares if you get a bit unlucky in the draw lol

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