Nah but at 0:49 Keria gets slowed by thresh r and makes the split second decision to flash unload e r and heal in less than a second. Wtf man... and yes it did make a difference 100% if zeri didnt get those shield and max hp buff hwei could have gotten her and it could be a different outcome. Amazing
Kerias plays almost always go under the radar too, he literally won T1 a title by stopping knights back which is something people only noticed a fair bit after the dust settled, I didn't even notice till I saw it on TH-cam breakdowns lol
Regardless of who they use, this just makes T1 scarier. We all know Guma is a formidable marksman with all his experience, now they have an explosive hyper agro rookie. I can see Ruler and Viper being used to Guma, then sudden sub in Smash to either catch them offguard or throw them off for when Guma returns.
@@jasonclassmate2292 once you’re in the seat on stage there’s no swapping out, and once the other team knows whose playing they’ll know what to do. This “Surprise” shit sounds dumb as fk tbh.
@@SyphexG59 coaches plan drafts before games and the idea that you have two laners with different chamion pools that can be swapped based on side selection complicates drafts. It's not exactly a surprise (though nobody said that) but they do have to prepare for more variables.
Love what Smash is doing but after what happened late last year, I don’t think I’ve ever routed as hard for a player as I am for Doran this year. The guy comes in after the Zeus drama and the flame starts. Yet, he’s quietly going about his business and putting up solid performances. Just the quiet professional. Let’s go my man, you’re doing great work.
remember when caedrel was joking about west should be trying to convince smash and rekky duo to go to west league , with this prospect even if its not joking there is 0 chance smash gonna choose west over lck
Must be hard for Ruler to have so many fathers... Guma and now Smash.. this ruler guy is getting fathered way too much Also lets give credit to Oner for his crazy BO3 against GenG
@@zeyadmo660 bruh even caedrel uses 'father' a lot as a verb for ranking these players, what are you on about? or are you just a new viewer??? so like, since you accused op of being parasocial for describing these players' rankings by 'fathering', are you also accusing caedrel of being parasocial because he uses the same vocabulary?????
Yep! I don't know but these people from league community were still acting as if it didn't happens before😅even Faker the GOAT got benched before for Easyhoon so the team can have better performance😂Faker struggle his passion for playing LCK in year 2018 bcs of their loss against SSG on Worlds 2017😉
Are we also forgetting that teddy was literally replaced by gumayusi himself, with how t1 is performing rn there is a possibility that it will happen to him as well lmao
Smash is phenomenal this match. Oner and Doran as well, they were so good this series and Keria and Faker's back up is just as great as ever. A really good 3-game series
Well, imo guma is better with positional adc like cat, ashe, varus, jhin but for mechanical adc like kaisa ez zeri, smash better. If guma wanna his spot back, he gotta polish his mechanical champ to same level as his other champ
I think Guma's taking a sideline for now because of team dynamics. Doran's gameplay style is as not resource intensive and he is much more stable than zeus was, and that allows for an explosive bottom laner. A bit less focus on the topside allows a very aggressive adc to flourish. I do think guma's learning from this as this also helps redefine their roles. I suspect guma will repeat what faker did with easyhoon. Props to oner though, dude's been playing like it's still worlds.
doran been actually pretty good for them. he seems to trust the shot calling based on what i saw from this series. obviously this post is about the rookie but just wanted to point out doran. smash is pretty fkn good lol
Dora is still underestimated by western audience, this meta in LCK makes top laners really weak even with a carry champ and he still comes back and tries stuff, he plays safe most of the game until there is a team fight. People only look at scoreboard (funny when baus has been doing great lately in pro play) but fail to see that every other lck top laner played worse than him since the start of the season, I much prefer someone stable like Doran that doesnt 50/50 a game..
@sleepyheartss Never. Fuck Zeus. That was a bitch move he pulled. If Doran didn't sign with T1 they'd literally have no one. Bro deserves all the hate for trying to sabotage his own team
Why would anyone say Guma has a small champion pool? Man's played one hero per game jn EWC and even played many more at worlds. Canr really see the thought process
Because people like to rewrite history for drama, zofgk 2023 (faker being injured) wouldn't even make it to worlds without guma's consistency. He has played basically all adcs except ez and zeri, champ pool was never an issue for guma, i don't get this disrespect at all
@@lanoxparadox5040 His champion pool is unique in that he can play every ADC well except Zeri, Kaisa and Ezreal. The problem is that these 3 have been meta defining. Zeri was OP at many points in the last 3 years, and T1 had to ban her as Guma couldn’t play her. T1 were fisted by ruler/peyz’s Zeri many times. Kaisa and Ezreal were meta last worlds too. In this regard, his champion pool has flaws. All the top ADCs can play these champs well.
@@JohnSmith-kj3jy to add also now with fearless champ diversity is crucial, guma is a top adc but there could be problems when it comes to bo3 bo5. they could get away with avoiding his less comfortable champs in worlds but not in fearless now
@@lanoxparadox5040his ezreal and zeri are way way worse than his other champs, thats the problem. Normally pros have comfort picks that is 10/10 and other picks 7-8/10. Guma's Ezreal is prob just 6/10 at best
They forgot that guma played cho'gath as an adc... remember when T1 change the meta into 2 adc bot lane plus all the cooking with keria that guma needed to adjust to.🤣🤣
He was resigned for 1 year for a reason. T1 did not want a multiyear contract with him. T1 know that Guma is the worst player on the team and the most replaceable.
@@0012al Yeah, but like do you even know what you're talking about? Guma has said several times that he only resigns with 1 year contracts to keep his motivation to be better at the game than other adc's.
My goodness give Smash a chance he fucking deserves it. He was grinding for so long in the T1 academy dude could have already debuted in an other team then T1 but he didn't want to cus he loves T1. Maybe you guys should give him some of that back instead of always crying for Guma. Also Guma ain't that good as you can see ok.
If they were so much of a problem they wouldnt make top 1 or 2 of so many competition ober 3 years. Or you know, win worlds twice. Don't get me wrong, i see what the new players bring, but saying they were liabilities is ridiculous. You don't win worlds with any passengers.
Duro got a fever in this game as Caedrel said in the stream, the geng academy support cannot make it. So its either they forfeit or play with Duro in this match.
They probably still need guma. Smash enables a different playstyle for T1. But it doesnt meant their old playstyle is inferior. Depending on meta, they both will have the chance to shine.
What're you talking about man? Guma's coming back (on T1) soon. Not to mention he's under contract. It's only been a few LCK cup games. Faker himself heavily hinted on Guma's return on media.
@ Guma has a one year contract, and that doesn't mean they have to put him in, and I see no reason why the T1 staff would want to. And Faker is a PR bot he probably wanted to shut the guma fans up tbh. I'm a huge guma fan, and I'd rather have him go to another team than have to deal with this bullshit imo.
@@SyphexG59 being able to play that champ doesnt meant the significant impact is there. Same goes to guma. He can play zeri. But he cant bring out significant impact on his zeri game. If smash can bring out significant impact on every adcs. We might as well call him super faker, even faker himself cant do that.
Nobody:
Ruler: Y'all see this kid right????
Smash got that T1 genes, he trust and believe that his teammate will follow up, all-in and cover him
Yeah he fits the insanity of the T1 circus perfectly
if only he was a top laner...
The root of all trust is faker
@solanaceous noob
Nah but at 0:49 Keria gets slowed by thresh r and makes the split second decision to flash unload e r and heal in less than a second. Wtf man... and yes it did make a difference 100% if zeri didnt get those shield and max hp buff hwei could have gotten her and it could be a different outcome. Amazing
keria is the fucking goat dude. Not only the greatest support, but one of the greatest players ever
Kerias plays almost always go under the radar too, he literally won T1 a title by stopping knights back which is something people only noticed a fair bit after the dust settled, I didn't even notice till I saw it on TH-cam breakdowns lol
His Poppy was super clean too... him and Oner should stay forever.
Man didnt notice that. What a chad
Keria didn’t do much there I’m sorry. He had a lot of great plays this series but pressing his Lulu buttons was not one of them
Rekkles wasn't kidding about smash
Smash as being so aggressive is the t1 need and having the best support in the world, he can unleash his smashes
Don't forget Doran man. He did not int this series and played really well.
I was sad that they subbed out Guma, but seeing how aggressive and fearless Smash is, I want him to stay in the roster.
This team produced more world champion player more than they beat geng
T1 rookies has been to more worlds finals than chovy ans knight combined
Gen G fans: We gonna count the most useless matches we've won against T1 and not how they got mopped by T1 in the biggest tourna 😊
@@Adp32306 so burnt lmao
Its weird seeing T1 play Kaisa, Ez and Zeri
I'm not used to it lol
If you think about it, it make sense with Doran on the roster
that's why guma is out
@@OMAN4-6 Guma will perform better at Worlds🤣
That is why guma can never be considered a good ADC.
@@0012al what are you talking about Guma is two time world champion
GenG getting SMASHED in saturday
Regardless of who they use, this just makes T1 scarier. We all know Guma is a formidable marksman with all his experience, now they have an explosive hyper agro rookie.
I can see Ruler and Viper being used to Guma, then sudden sub in Smash to either catch them offguard or throw them off for when Guma returns.
"Throw them off guard....." Yeah sure it will.
2 times world champ believe@@SyphexG59
@@SyphexG59 could be used based on drafts but im too stupid to understand
@@jasonclassmate2292 once you’re in the seat on stage there’s no swapping out, and once the other team knows whose playing they’ll know what to do. This “Surprise” shit sounds dumb as fk tbh.
@@SyphexG59 coaches plan drafts before games and the idea that you have two laners with different chamion pools that can be swapped based on side selection complicates drafts. It's not exactly a surprise (though nobody said that) but they do have to prepare for more variables.
Love what Smash is doing but after what happened late last year, I don’t think I’ve ever routed as hard for a player as I am for Doran this year. The guy comes in after the Zeus drama and the flame starts.
Yet, he’s quietly going about his business and putting up solid performances. Just the quiet professional. Let’s go my man, you’re doing great work.
Well put 👏
Im only worried internationally cos Doran is pretty good domestically
guma: "yare yare daze"
LMFAOOOO
You can see the smile on Rekkles’ face.
remember when caedrel was joking about west should be trying to convince smash and rekky duo to go to west league , with this prospect even if its not joking there is 0 chance smash gonna choose west over lck
Smash himself said that he wants to be in T1 all of his career if he can.
THANK YOU GUMAYUSHI o7
Must be hard for Ruler to have so many fathers... Guma and now Smash.. this ruler guy is getting fathered way too much
Also lets give credit to Oner for his crazy BO3 against GenG
Parasocial asf😭
@@zeyadmo660 Are you a parrot?
@@DungeonSynthPog7 ?
@@zeyadmo660 just throwing random words atp
@@zeyadmo660 bruh even caedrel uses 'father' a lot as a verb for ranking these players, what are you on about? or are you just a new viewer??? so like, since you accused op of being parasocial for describing these players' rankings by 'fathering', are you also accusing caedrel of being parasocial because he uses the same vocabulary?????
Remember Bengi at worlds 2016. T1 had to put him back in the main roster.
Yep! I don't know but these people from league community were still acting as if it didn't happens before😅even Faker the GOAT got benched before for Easyhoon so the team can have better performance😂Faker struggle his passion for playing LCK in year 2018 bcs of their loss against SSG on Worlds 2017😉
Are we also forgetting that teddy was literally replaced by gumayusi himself, with how t1 is performing rn there is a possibility that it will happen to him as well lmao
@@fvjxznvueaepd8u no one is replacing anybody because of 3 games of LCK cup
@@fvjxznvueaepd8uidk. I would wait for the actual lck season to happen.
Smash is phenomenal this match. Oner and Doran as well, they were so good this series and Keria and Faker's back up is just as great as ever. A really good 3-game series
Gen G was surprised cuz smash is going in all the time 😂
Well, imo guma is better with positional adc like cat, ashe, varus, jhin but for mechanical adc like kaisa ez zeri, smash better.
If guma wanna his spot back, he gotta polish his mechanical champ to same level as his other champ
I think Guma's taking a sideline for now because of team dynamics. Doran's gameplay style is as not resource intensive and he is much more stable than zeus was, and that allows for an explosive bottom laner. A bit less focus on the topside allows a very aggressive adc to flourish. I do think guma's learning from this as this also helps redefine their roles. I suspect guma will repeat what faker did with easyhoon. Props to oner though, dude's been playing like it's still worlds.
He got firepower we needed in t1
Ruler tasted the Delaware Sumashi
guma is cooked
doran been actually pretty good for them. he seems to trust the shot calling based on what i saw from this series. obviously this post is about the rookie but just wanted to point out doran. smash is pretty fkn good lol
Its not guma that got subbed out that won them vs geng its doran not being zeshy and ego dying sidelines every game
Dora is still underestimated by western audience, this meta in LCK makes top laners really weak even with a carry champ and he still comes back and tries stuff, he plays safe most of the game until there is a team fight.
People only look at scoreboard (funny when baus has been doing great lately in pro play) but fail to see that every other lck top laner played worse than him since the start of the season, I much prefer someone stable like Doran that doesnt 50/50 a game..
Yall need to let this Zeus shit go bc istg it’s ruining your brain cells.
@sleepyheartss Never. Fuck Zeus. That was a bitch move he pulled. If Doran didn't sign with T1 they'd literally have no one. Bro deserves all the hate for trying to sabotage his own team
@@Adp32306 and oner astrogapping canyon
Dont kid yourself Doran is not good
I guess Rekkles is right Smash is Insane
Love seeing Smashy playing in LCK!
When geng in msi comeback with a counter strategy then they can switch back to guma with different playstyle
Omg Smashy Smash is crazy good!
I have a feeling that there were less politics in the guma situation and it is just plainly getting subbed out to give smash a chance
as if t1 does not doing subs from many years. T1 know their thing stop overreacting about it
Guma's playstyle is a more patient lately, but Smash just sends it all 😂
Smash gigachad
and people still saying sht about him, you gotta move on at some point, this smash is smashing the records
keria lulu
anyone notice the hook by duro that missed by a mile
missed E flay on wukong too. All he did in that fight was R then W shield Ruler.
I won't dunk on him cos he was sick and you could see him struggle on stage, but yeah not a good day for him
Why would anyone say Guma has a small champion pool? Man's played one hero per game jn EWC and even played many more at worlds. Canr really see the thought process
Because people like to rewrite history for drama, zofgk 2023 (faker being injured) wouldn't even make it to worlds without guma's consistency. He has played basically all adcs except ez and zeri, champ pool was never an issue for guma, i don't get this disrespect at all
@@lanoxparadox5040 His champion pool is unique in that he can play every ADC well except Zeri, Kaisa and Ezreal. The problem is that these 3 have been meta defining. Zeri was OP at many points in the last 3 years, and T1 had to ban her as Guma couldn’t play her. T1 were fisted by ruler/peyz’s Zeri many times. Kaisa and Ezreal were meta last worlds too.
In this regard, his champion pool has flaws. All the top ADCs can play these champs well.
@@JohnSmith-kj3jy to add also now with fearless champ diversity is crucial, guma is a top adc but there could be problems when it comes to bo3 bo5. they could get away with avoiding his less comfortable champs in worlds but not in fearless now
@@lanoxparadox5040his ezreal and zeri are way way worse than his other champs, thats the problem. Normally pros have comfort picks that is 10/10 and other picks 7-8/10. Guma's Ezreal is prob just 6/10 at best
They forgot that guma played cho'gath as an adc... remember when T1 change the meta into 2 adc bot lane plus all the cooking with keria that guma needed to adjust to.🤣🤣
i wonder which team is gonna buy smash
Guma re-signed just to be benched so sad......
He was resigned for 1 year for a reason. T1 did not want a multiyear contract with him. T1 know that Guma is the worst player on the team and the most replaceable.
@0012al brother you're on all the videos this is not healthy
@@0012al touch some grass dude u are being parasocial asf
@@0012al Yeah, but like do you even know what you're talking about? Guma has said several times that he only resigns with 1 year contracts to keep his motivation to be better at the game than other adc's.
@@0012al You're a numskull. Aside from Faker, everyone else signed 1 year contracts. Does that make them all lousy by your logic? Stupid fvck.
Looks like Guma not coming back to the main team anytime soon 😢😢😢
Its lck cup bruh. When meta changes from ez kaisa. Guma prolly returns
@@Adp32306meta is Varus Ashe… it’s a guma meta not kaisa zeri
Smash is just gonna be the motivation for guma to lock in and comeback strong then T1 will have 2 strong adc able to play any meta
@@vedantharwani9278Its not about meta. Its a Fearless draft that makes guma in trouble of ez kaisa. Guma will gain another chance when cup is over.
My goodness give Smash a chance he fucking deserves it. He was grinding for so long in the T1 academy dude could have already debuted in an other team then T1 but he didn't want to cus he loves T1. Maybe you guys should give him some of that back instead of always crying for Guma. Also Guma ain't that good as you can see ok.
:Wa da hell
ZEUS WAS THE PROBLEM
Guma was the problem
If they were so much of a problem they wouldnt make top 1 or 2 of so many competition ober 3 years. Or you know, win worlds twice. Don't get me wrong, i see what the new players bring, but saying they were liabilities is ridiculous. You don't win worlds with any passengers.
Guma was the problem and has been the problem for 3 years.
Just like your brain @@0012al
@@0012al ya and that's why they are 3 times world finalists and 2 time world champions right? Get off the Kool aid.
Don't wanna be a party pooper but if T1 beats GenG in regular season it's either another worlds championship or play-in exit, no in between
Wasn’t the lowest t1 ever placed at worlds semis?
after zeus leaving we needed a new carry thread. And here comes Smach out of nowhere.
Better than gumatrash
no wonder Guma was benched, Smash is just better
I believe other region will started looking for lck rookie and give them an offer to join their main team,
They have been doing that since like season 4
@@marcustang8784ah really? I didn't know that
berzerker:
Noah and Jun:
Where have you been?
Zeus no longer being on the team is creating a strange effect where T1s Toplane threat is now low so they need to funnel it somewhere
Because Gen.G can't meta abuse anymore.
true
i really dont understand why geng went for duro, there are way better supports in the market unless they are already signed
Don't judge him on just one series when u haven't even watched him in any other match....
And he was sick this series
He's there to stabilize Geng's salary structure. Lck has a salary overcap penalty and the other 4 are crazy expensive lol.
Duro got a fever in this game as Caedrel said in the stream, the geng academy support cannot make it. So its either they forfeit or play with Duro in this match.
The reason is, geng can't afford expensive support because they took ruler,
Guma you will be missed o7 Hopefully he'll get picked up by a decent team before summer.
They probably still need guma. Smash enables a different playstyle for T1. But it doesnt meant their old playstyle is inferior. Depending on meta, they both will have the chance to shine.
What're you talking about man? Guma's coming back (on T1) soon. Not to mention he's under contract. It's only been a few LCK cup games. Faker himself heavily hinted on Guma's return on media.
@ Guma has a one year contract, and that doesn't mean they have to put him in, and I see no reason why the T1 staff would want to. And Faker is a PR bot he probably wanted to shut the guma fans up tbh. I'm a huge guma fan, and I'd rather have him go to another team than have to deal with this bullshit imo.
@ They really don't. Smash can play everything guma plays. I don't think kkoma is gonna swap out smash, preformance wise there's no reason to.
@@SyphexG59 being able to play that champ doesnt meant the significant impact is there. Same goes to guma. He can play zeri. But he cant bring out significant impact on his zeri game. If smash can bring out significant impact on every adcs. We might as well call him super faker, even faker himself cant do that.