I kinda disagree with a major part of the list. I think top, adc and support are fine. I generally would put Poppy up a tier in support and put her in the list in top and I would put Rumble down a tier and Jinx up a tier but for the most part, I think it’s fine. The major problem I think is mid. The champion pool every pro around the world seems to be practicing is Syndra, Orianna, Yone, Ahri, Sylas. No Corki, Smolder, Azir and Tristana at all. I still think these champs could be played but we are most likely looking at an AP mage mid meta and with Ashe and MF and Jinx being strong we are probably looking at junglers like Jarvan and Xin Zhao being meta which enables counters like Lee Sin and Khazix. I don’t consider the Americas Challengers a good viewpoint about what is meta at all btw. If you look at SoloQ and inhouse it is manly AP mids and Yone/Yasuo that are being played.
I think there a couple of things in here that i can agree with. but i do have to disagree with the general premise behind the thought. Typically speaking, in previous years for Worlds, inhouses (especially public ones) are by in large a pretty inaccurate scale for what will be picked on stage at the tournament. Last year in particular i think we reached an apex of that because scrims are getting more and more public, but teams always default to what got them to the tournament for the most part unless the meta has flipped dramatically, which it hasn't this year. For the Mid pool, I do agree that champs like Ori/Syndra are likely to be factors, which is why i mention them in the video, but i'll just say this now, if Sylas becomes a common pick at worlds then that is 100% to the detriment of whatever team picks him that champ is complete garbage right now. As for the JGL, it seems to be consensus that im sleeping on J4 so i guess we will see since most of his power often comes through item imbalance rather than raw numbers, but once again i mention Xin multiple times in the vid as a pick i hope to see regularly at the tournament. Unfortunately the historical data would show that teams invest EVEN MORE into Maokai/Sejuani the more important the games are because of their consistency, so i would expect more Xin/Lee at the start of the tournament, which slowly moves back to Mao/Sej as we get closer to finals
I should also note that it's also very team dependent. There are a lot of teams I could see preferring mages in the mid lane over what they have been playing because they were already attempting to play a low resource mid style (teams like T1 or LNG with Yagao), but I also think there are a lot of teams at this tournament who got here off the fact that they were better at playing through their mid laner on a hyper carry than the other teams in their region (HLE, DK, TES, FLY come to mind) and I would be more surprised if those teams stop going towards these picks in the mid lane generally
I’m stg fiddle is just hidden op there are specific matchups in lane where as a counter he just completely neutralizes a lane and offers so much team fight and choke point control on top of just one of the jungle clears rn
Just as a list of examples Playable into K’sante Udyr aurora Smolder Just straight wins Nasus Renekton Olaf Vlad Rumble Corki Leblanc Can give explanation why it is if wanted
You definitely don't have to convince me of Fiddle's strength that champ is crazy underplayed, the only issue is that teams don't have a lot of practice with him, but he is essentially good Kennen right now in terms of what he does to the meta
Could definitely see mages being much higher prio. I have to admit from a personal perspective I'm a little surprised Syndra would be the pick over Orianna for a top tier control mage though with the changes
This kind of videos looks cool I hope you are not like other youtubers like this 1 month and they are be gone. If you can make contact or collaborate with a pro player will skyrocket this analysis
i used to love lol eSports but over the last year it hasnt been the same for me i guess i just realized there will never be another 2019 g2 and the west is too far behind to ever recover. watching people like perkz slowly fade away was depressing to say the least. ive been subed for awile and love the channel to keep up with what i can
Would be really cool to see a video on your pickems as Worlds goes on!
This would be cool. Though I understand why he wouldn’t want to.
Skarner Tier 1 nice, I was trying him the other day and saw his winrate was low and was confused because his kit seems so good with all the CC he has
I quickly scanned your jungle list, but J4 should be at the top, he's gonna be pick ban i think.
J4 even being slightly relevant at worlds especially with so many immobile carries being playable automatically makes him tier 1 imo
where is jarvan dude is SSSSS+ in solo Q
I kinda disagree with a major part of the list. I think top, adc and support are fine. I generally would put Poppy up a tier in support and put her in the list in top and I would put Rumble down a tier and Jinx up a tier but for the most part, I think it’s fine. The major problem I think is mid. The champion pool every pro around the world seems to be practicing is Syndra, Orianna, Yone, Ahri, Sylas. No Corki, Smolder, Azir and Tristana at all. I still think these champs could be played but we are most likely looking at an AP mage mid meta and with Ashe and MF and Jinx being strong we are probably looking at junglers like Jarvan and Xin Zhao being meta which enables counters like Lee Sin and Khazix. I don’t consider the Americas Challengers a good viewpoint about what is meta at all btw. If you look at SoloQ and inhouse it is manly AP mids and Yone/Yasuo that are being played.
I think there a couple of things in here that i can agree with. but i do have to disagree with the general premise behind the thought. Typically speaking, in previous years for Worlds, inhouses (especially public ones) are by in large a pretty inaccurate scale for what will be picked on stage at the tournament. Last year in particular i think we reached an apex of that because scrims are getting more and more public, but teams always default to what got them to the tournament for the most part unless the meta has flipped dramatically, which it hasn't this year.
For the Mid pool, I do agree that champs like Ori/Syndra are likely to be factors, which is why i mention them in the video, but i'll just say this now, if Sylas becomes a common pick at worlds then that is 100% to the detriment of whatever team picks him that champ is complete garbage right now.
As for the JGL, it seems to be consensus that im sleeping on J4 so i guess we will see since most of his power often comes through item imbalance rather than raw numbers, but once again i mention Xin multiple times in the vid as a pick i hope to see regularly at the tournament. Unfortunately the historical data would show that teams invest EVEN MORE into Maokai/Sejuani the more important the games are because of their consistency, so i would expect more Xin/Lee at the start of the tournament, which slowly moves back to Mao/Sej as we get closer to finals
I should also note that it's also very team dependent. There are a lot of teams I could see preferring mages in the mid lane over what they have been playing because they were already attempting to play a low resource mid style (teams like T1 or LNG with Yagao), but I also think there are a lot of teams at this tournament who got here off the fact that they were better at playing through their mid laner on a hyper carry than the other teams in their region (HLE, DK, TES, FLY come to mind) and I would be more surprised if those teams stop going towards these picks in the mid lane generally
no jarvan? what?
I’m stg fiddle is just hidden op there are specific matchups in lane where as a counter he just completely neutralizes a lane and offers so much team fight and choke point control on top of just one of the jungle clears rn
Just as a list of examples
Playable into
K’sante
Udyr
aurora
Smolder
Just straight wins
Nasus
Renekton
Olaf
Vlad
Rumble
Corki
Leblanc
Can give explanation why it is if wanted
You definitely don't have to convince me of Fiddle's strength that champ is crazy underplayed, the only issue is that teams don't have a lot of practice with him, but he is essentially good Kennen right now in terms of what he does to the meta
you know senna isnt played fasting anymore
Apparently some pros are spamming Syndra beacuse of stormsurge
Could definitely see mages being much higher prio. I have to admit from a personal perspective I'm a little surprised Syndra would be the pick over Orianna for a top tier control mage though with the changes
Honestly I don't see Rumble being top tier at worlds, a lot of his influence was his laning and skirmish strength but that got hit hard by the nerfs
It’s really funny because in fact fiddle top actually just counters it
This kind of videos looks cool I hope you are not like other youtubers like this 1 month and they are be gone. If you can make contact or collaborate with a pro player will skyrocket this analysis
i used to love lol eSports but over the last year it hasnt been the same for me i guess i just realized there will never be another 2019 g2 and the west is too far behind to ever recover. watching people like perkz slowly fade away was depressing to say the least. ive been subed for awile and love the channel to keep up with what i can
Imagine how exciting it will be when the West make a comeback though!
I think you literally cannot read patch changes
Nasus e changes e max which is the reason we're seeing him it changes waveclear breakpoints.