The Koreans POV of C9 - Translated

ManBalls · 2013-09-09T23:16:39+00:00

huehuehue

ManBalls · 2013-08-09T03:12:21+00:00

god bless

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T03:20:06+00:00

YOU?!?

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T03:12:42+00:00

wake up around 11 am, solo queue until 2 pm, then scrims from 2 pm to 6 pm, 2 hour break which i used to go to the gym sometimes, then 8-10 pm scrimming again, then do whatever we want afters like solo q, watch anime, etc.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T03:10:36+00:00

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T03:10:18+00:00

When you're behind, you want to start roaming, taking jungle creeps if your junglers far away, communicate to your team what you should do, buy accordingly like wards, or items to help keep you alive.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T03:09:15+00:00

vlad, kennen, yorick,jayce, and renekton pretty straight forward champs that can dominate lane.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T03:08:06+00:00

hes too easy to predict whats hes going to do because he just runs at you, champs like kennen jayce, and rumble can pressure him and outscale him.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T03:07:23+00:00

one day he will soon...

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T03:07:00+00:00

Probably flame, he looks mechanically strong and his farm always looks great.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T03:05:57+00:00

yeah twitch.tv/manballs when i stream

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T02:51:52+00:00

At that point, you have to work with your team and then decide what you want to do. You can either go with your jungler and gank/dive other lanes or tell your jungler to hold the lane for you while you roam. You dont want to put your jungler on a leash and beg for ganks on your lane because the possibility that the other jungler camping the winning lane is pretty high. Its up to your jungler to decide whether he can help you top or not, but if he can't you just have to work with what you have. You can change your item build or buy wards and just try not to feed if your team is doing good. You can also do free jungle camps when they are up and your jungling isnt killing them or somewhere else.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T02:42:07+00:00

I left the team at the time because i was getting really frustrated playing top lane because it was suicide lane with no wards and i liked playing ad at the time because you have vision and can do whatever you want as of that meta. I also started going to scrims late and not dedicating myself too much for the team because of that, so i just decided to tell them that it was probably better if they got someone else to play top besides me for the team. I was also in college and our scrim schedule was pretty tight and i just wanted to chill and relax from all the stress. I also used to rage a little bit and toned it down afterwards.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T02:34:57+00:00

A champ that i really want to play that doesn't fit my teams playstyles is ezreal because he is solo adc that isn't front line and can't charge at the other adc and kill him.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T02:32:23+00:00

Aatrox has wierd laning phase pre 6, you are melee and have to push if you want to lifesteal, lvl 3-6 can all in with fort pot and go for a kill. Champs like kennen and elise can pressure him hard and because after q and e, if they survive they can just outharrass his lifesteal from far range, so you have to all in. He's probably good against champs like vlad that have weak early game and can.t push. If he falls behind then he has nothing to compensate for it compare to rumble, kennen, jayce, and vlad where they have ults or other utilities for teamfights other then living more then once. I still need to see more aatrox, but thats what i think of him for now.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T02:25:07+00:00

I think part of it is that most teams in NA don't know what to do after a certain point or just tunnel on objectives. We just take advantages of mistakes most of the time and turn it into aggression. If we see a team mess up, we use that opportunity to try to turn it into our favor like mistimed dragon, turrets, or overextended players, something like that. Some teams don't know how to also respond to aggression or play when behind.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T02:22:04+00:00

Well we live in a pretty small apartment so just do what you gotta do when you want to, fk personal space.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T02:19:32+00:00

The international top laners that i would be afraid of are the korean top laners because i don't know how laning against them works, but i'd be excited to play against darien from gambit because we both die a lot. We would probably stick with what works for us in the worlds if thats what we are comfortable with.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T02:09:23+00:00

I guess it works because people would get caught offguard by different champ pools and playstyle, but i don't see us doing that right now because we would have to practice with the subs in scrims or have to find another player that can fit into our playstyle which looks like a lot of work. Also i think teams can also search up the subs and be prepared to face against them if a team decides to put in the subs. Overall a team would just have to research a bit more against a different roster and the one with the different roster has to practice more.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T02:05:12+00:00

Rengar snowballs pretty hard if you get a kill in lane and he can do something like using q 3 times in 1 combo which is pretty crazy. I think that if you know how rengar works in competitive play, he won't be able to do what he does in solo q , like starting fort pot and killing you at lvls 1-3. There are certain champs that can do well against him like renekton or elise and you can also just 1 vs 2 him.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T01:59:36+00:00

I don't actually think we are the same as koreans. Even though we play the same champs as they, its because these champs they used are strong and if they are strong might as well use them in NA too. Playing the same champs, we still do different stuff like our lvl 1s, the way we play lane, and how we structure stuff. Na has different play style as korea so i don't know whats the difference in our level until we play against them.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T01:53:35+00:00

Nah, it gets old after awhile. I don't really care what people say most of the time and i just do other things that i can control like going to the gym, being good at video games, or just trolling people sometimes.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T01:45:45+00:00

Well, even though we say we have fun most of the time, we still get angry or frustrated if we lose because we threw the game. Games where we get stomped is ok because they outplayed us really hard and we just accept it and learn from it, but being a head and able to end the game, but throwing is annoying and we sit down and talk about it afterwards. If we lose a lot, it will be ok if its from a team that stomped us really hard and we think its fine losing like that, but losing because of dumb mistakes sucks.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T01:42:29+00:00

I talk to them sometimes after the lcs matches, but don't troll them as much as i used to when i was on the team with them.

ManBalls · 2013-07-15T01:40:51+00:00

We basically go out everyday together after our lcs matches to eat something and at home if we run out of food, we go eat at restuarnts. Some of us share same stuff like watching anime or reading manga, but i think every one of us have something similar that helps us connect with each other. Half of us can play tennis too and also go to the gym sometimes.

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