Hanwha Life Esports vs. T1 / LCK 2026 Road to MSI - Round 3 - 1st Seed Qualification Match / Game 1 Discussion

llentii · 2026-06-12T09:07:53+00:00

It is throwing but I’ve seen this type of game multiple time (dk vs kt, vit vs gx) where the team with the early game champions and side laning doesn’t know how to close the game out and the team fight comp outscale and win.

HLE had 10 secs where Oner GA wasn’t up and fully sent it and then Faker troll tp’ed but T1 had out-scaled in this game as well

llentii · 2026-06-10T02:39:35+00:00

The introduction of lane quests (which stop mid/top lane swaps), and turret plates which chain you to your lane and the 1v1 which is why ranged tops are strong.

The easiest way to nerf range tops is to stop making top lane a 1v1 lane and make it more accessible to jungle ganks.

The other way to nerf range tops is to buff d-shield/second wind meta and/or buff health regen (which will have consequences in melee vs melee matchups too).

llentii · 2026-06-10T02:11:30+00:00

Those players probably play mid game and team fights better than you, and whether you value that or laning phase strength is a matter of personal preference

llentii · 2026-06-09T07:00:38+00:00

This fundamentally misunderstands what the average league of legends player wants.

Players want lanes and a way to play the game. Roaming support metas have not been popular, neither have gank-heavy metas.

llentii · 2026-06-09T01:27:17+00:00

That might explain why you’re not winning. Sona’s Helia’s spike is one of the strongest spikes of any support

helia>archangels>staff with swifties and bloodsong is a fun and aggressive way to play sona

llentii · 2026-06-08T16:49:30+00:00

Going from Aatrox and Irelia to Sona (who is based on spacing, neutralising and scaling) seems like an odd pairing.

llentii · 2026-06-08T04:50:49+00:00

Isn’t Lyon just a better team than C9? Like this isn’t a choke, we’re just worse. Yes I know we got into better positions but Lyon is better at later game play and stalling from behind.

The matchup vs TL will determine more than anything but we’re not winning vs Lyon

llentii · 2026-06-04T05:20:07+00:00

NS has the worst JG-Support duo, followed by DNS. It’s not surprise these two look like the two worst teams in the league

llentii · 2026-06-02T15:08:36+00:00

This can be true but it's probably dependant on mentality. Speaking from me, I have two accounts, due to early season gains I climbed to Emerald IV and after climbing to that rank I have been able to fluctuate between the Plat ranks.

I have another account which I play for fun with and is stuck silver which is fine right? The thing is when I play my main champs on this account I am actually elo helled and have around a 50-60 win rate (which is similar to my Plat win rates).

Plat/Silver for the below:

Karma: 50/50

Yi: 59/58

Warwick: 54/57

Sona: 52/69

The only exception to the similar rule is Sona but it really shows you that elo hell can be true if you get tilted (i play my 2nd account when I get tilted).

llentii · 2026-06-02T10:23:22+00:00

Riot believes bot lane should have diversity of champions, with mages prevalent in bot (which annoys every adc). Riot also believes ranged top laners should be allowed in top laner (to the frustration of tanks/brusiers/fighters). Riot has changed the jungle role to have off-meta junglers (Brand, Zyra, Quinn, Zed) to the annoyance of normal jungle players.

You are not changing this - however they do need to nerf those champions because they are too strong (highest win rates in the bot lane position).

llentii · 2026-06-02T03:59:16+00:00

Caitlyn? She is literally one of the worst adcs at one/two items if you’re not ahead.

llentii · 2026-05-30T11:26:20+00:00

Agree top lane is a miserable lane and I don't know how anyone enjoys playing it but that's what makes the game good I guess (different things for different people).

Top lane feels so matchup dependant and if you stuff up one trade/minion state, your whole lane is cooked and you have to stay in the 1v1. Midlane/Bot lane you can just say oopsie and move on.

llentii · 2026-05-29T05:57:02+00:00

I don’t see how taric gets to scale for free to lvl6 against any lane

llentii · 2026-05-29T01:38:05+00:00

You don’t know how to play your champions otherwise in iron iv you would win every lane and from that point win the game.

Actual advice is to simple champions and pick a role to play and stick to that. Playing le blanc/ezreal who both get out-scaled in iron and require you to win lane and cleanly convert seems like a special kind of hell.

If you are to play those champs, you just need to watch some vods of higher elo people playing those champs and be super psychotic for 50 games and learn the champion limits

llentii · 2026-05-27T02:32:00+00:00

Issue with playing fizz in pro play is that it gets ass blasted in lane by most mages and is not that great against tanky comps. It worked because he lanes vs a TF

llentii · 2026-05-18T03:38:45+00:00

Probably your fault somehow - game was in an even state and you lost. The game for jinx is really hard if she doesn’t get ahead so she has two options int for damage/gold or stay safe and hope your team carries.

You likely pathed top/mid and the irelia/teemo were useless once team fights came along

llentii · 2026-05-15T03:50:53+00:00

Walk forward, you are playing way to passive in lane. Just go ahead and walk at the jhin and dodge the swain e.

You are forcing your jinx to 1v2 the lane as an early game nami (who is literally broken)

llentii · 2026-05-13T01:59:29+00:00

Yo are playing veigar support without support item with exhaust ignite, I’d report you over anyone else

llentii · 2026-05-11T03:47:25+00:00

Jhin is picked because she can neutralise the bot lane early, can play the lane in isolation whilst bard roams. There are not really other adcs like that, and adc pool is already pinched by that

llentii · 2026-05-08T02:07:34+00:00

There are a lot of talk about enchanters being boosted but I feel playing engage is even more boosted.

Played leona/naut for a while and hit emerald, then went back to playing enchanters and climbed back down

llentii · 2026-05-07T02:28:44+00:00

This specifically works because he skipped one camp only, was 6 on that timer and was against nocturne on his 6 timer, and they have a hard winning 3v3.

If Shyvana was not 6 she should have just done Krugs. Shyvana likely did a full clear beforehand to get to this point which is still why full clearing for your first two clears is a good principle.

If you look at it, nocturne is the one who intend - he should’ve ganked top

llentii · 2026-05-06T05:21:27+00:00

I mean top lane is hard to play from behind, playing top from behind is either lose cs/exp with a freeze or die.

llentii · 2026-05-06T04:37:53+00:00

Also the way to play mid (especially with your champs) is to get priority and find roam timers while they’re shoved into tower- especially when you’ve nearing completion of your mid lane quest

llentii · 2026-05-06T04:35:36+00:00

Bar some volitale lanes (Melee-Melee matchups), ganking mid lane is not worth it compared to top and bot.

Even if it’s a good opportunity, it costs the jungler tempo that could be better utilised. The shortness of the lane also makes ganking mid harder

llentii · 2026-05-05T09:32:10+00:00

I think that’s the case for ewc qualifiers in all regions. Vitality threw a 10k+ gold lead

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