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Who needs the meta? DFM earn another win at Worlds 2022 with unorthodox champions
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Three days into the 2022 League of Legends 메이저사이트 World Championship play-ins stage and it’s still too difficult to say which teams are headed to groups, but the LJL’s DetonatioN FocusMe are on track to possibly secure a second consecutive group stage run after earning their second win today by taking down the PCS’ Beyond Gaming.
This victory came from the team’s willingness to 메이저토토사이트 bring comfort picks to the Worlds stage, something only a few teams have chosen to do in play-ins so far.
DFM made history for the LJL last year by being the first team from the region to advance to the group stage. Should they stick to the playstyle they showcased today, they may be able to bounce back from a winless group run into one in which 메이저토토 they contest the best the world has to offer.
The power of comfort picks
Most of the metas in League this year have forced teams to stick to very particular team compositions. Only very rarely have players been able to venture away from those meta picks into comfort ones, and even fewer players have been successful in doing so.
DFM, seeking to separate themselves further from the lower half of group A, opted to craft a team over their own complete with multiple champions that, while aren’t the strongest in their roles, are ones that their players know they can play well. In particular, the team’s top laner, Evi, brought Lillia back to the Rift, while mid laner Yaharong aimed to strike fear in his opponents with Vex.
This wasn’t just any top lane Lillia, however—it was tank top lane Lillia. This peculiar build in an unorthodox role began with a Frozen Heart rush, which would slow down the onslaught of attacks from Likai’s Gnar. With just this item, Evi ran laps around the members of BYG, escaping with little health even when he did get caught.
Chasing the Bashful Bloom proved to be worse than following the poison trail of a Singed for BYG, as Evi brought the PCS’ second seed straight into the hands of his teammates laying in wait. The combination of Lillia and Vex’s ultimates, as well as a lockdown from Harp’s Amumu, completely immobilized BYG’s meta team composition and left them unable to answer efficiently—even when they had the chance for a small lead.
Amumu finds even more friends
The support meta of the play-ins stage has almost entirely been dominated by tanks and engage champions. Amumu continues to be one of the most prioritized champions for support players, now at a 60-percent win rate across eight games, after being a prized pick across multiple regions toward the end of their respective Summer Splits.
While Amumu has been overwhelmingly paired with Miss Fortune, who has dominated the ADC meta at Worlds so far, Yutapon opted to accompany Harp’s Amumu with Kai’Sa. Playing as a champion that thrives with any item she can get, Yutapon enjoyed a large funneling of gold through hard engages from Harp—many of which were done without vision of the enemy jungler 토토사이트추천
Throwing himself into clusters of enemies gave Harp’s lane partner all of the room he needed to burst through the large opposing health bars from safety. Thanks to the pressure from Harp, Yutapon walked away from DFM’s second win with a massive 12/3/11 KDA, completely removing the opposing bot lane from any interference.
It’s likely that Amumu will continue to be an important pick for teams, particularly those that emphasize their ADC’s ability to carry. Both teams in this match are set to take on the major Western regions tomorrow, as DFM will head into day four with a match against the LCS’ Evil Geniuses, while BYG will battle the LEC’s Fnatic.
Humanoid opens up about Fnatic’s scrim woes during Worlds 2022, and paving his own road to improvement this year
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After their surprising loss to LOUD on day 메이저놀이터 three of the 2022 League of Legends World Championship, Fnatic’s star mid laner Humanoid remained transparent on the current issues plaguing him and his team, especially when it comes to practicing and preparing for the tournament.
Before the start of Worlds, his teammate and 메이저놀이터추천 bottom lane star Upset revealed that the team had yet to scrim before the tournament, sending LEC fans and analysts into a state of worry. The lack of prep time after the 2022 LEC Summer Playoffs was already a major issue, but right before they were set to travel over to North America, both Upset and Hylissang tested positive for COVID-19.
“I think this Worlds was hard to prepare for because our plans got ruined by a lot of people getting sick,” Humanoid said. “I was sick a week ago and then [our] bottom lane got COVID so then we couldn’t really scrim much… It was pretty hard so far.”
Riot and Fnatic had no choice but to delay the two players’ flight to Mexico City, which meant that Fnatic had to scrim with their substitute players, AD carry BEAN and support Rhuckz. It was an unfortunate circumstance that could have had disastrous results, but the team powered through with a 3-1 record heading into the fourth and final day of play-in groups.
Although Rhuckz did play relatively well in his Worlds debut on day one, Humanoid said that the full starting roster has yet to practice together, which is a huge problem. If Fnatic can get out of play-ins, the 22-year-old thinks this team will finally get a chance to scrim together the week after play-in stage ends. Health-wise, the 안전놀이터 team is doing pretty well except for Hylissang, who is still feeling a bit under the weather but game-ready.
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Humanoid opens up about Fnatic’s scrim woes during Worlds 2022, and paving his own road to improvement this year
Fnatic is hoping for smoother seas in the coming weeks.
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After their surprising loss to LOUD on day three of the 2022 League of Legends World Championship, Fnatic’s star mid laner Humanoid remained transparent on the current issues plaguing him and his team, especially when it comes to practicing and preparing for the tournament.
Before the start of Worlds, his teammate and bottom lane star Upset revealed that the team had yet to scrim before the tournament, sending LEC fans and analysts into a state of worry. The lack of prep time after the 2022 LEC Summer Playoffs was already a major issue, but right before they were set to travel over to North America, both Upset and Hylissang tested positive for COVID-19.
“I think this Worlds was hard to prepare for because our plans got ruined by a lot of people getting sick,” Humanoid said. “I was sick a week ago and then [our] bottom lane got COVID so then we couldn’t really scrim much… It was pretty hard so far.”
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Riot and Fnatic had no choice but to delay the two players’ flight to Mexico City, which meant that Fnatic had to scrim with their substitute players, AD carry BEAN and support Rhuckz. It was an unfortunate circumstance that could have had disastrous results, but the team powered through with a 3-1 record heading into the fourth and final day of play-in groups.
Although Rhuckz did play relatively well in his Worlds debut on day one, Humanoid said that the full starting roster has yet to practice together, which is a huge problem. If Fnatic can get out of play-ins, the 22-year-old thinks this team will finally get a chance to scrim together the week after play-in stage ends. Health-wise, the team is doing pretty well except for Hylissang, who is still feeling a bit under the weather but game-ready.
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With such a bumpy road set before him, it would be easy for a player’s confidence to be shaken at such an important event. But Humanoid believes that the adversity he’s dealt with over the past year has helped hone him into his best, most reliable form yet 메이저토토
“[Over the year], I think I learned how to be at my best at the most important moments, especially at Worlds and [in] playoffs,” Humanoid said. ‘It happened to me many times, where I would get burnt out in past years, but now I feel really good, and I’m just ready to stomp everyone.”
Fnatic still tops the standings in group A, tied for first alongside Evil Geniuses. Humanoid actually had plenty of praise for the NA team’s young mid laner Jojopyun, praising him as the best mid laner in the group—besides him, of course. But now, the confident Czech star will need to put his money where his mouth is when he tries to lock in first place with a win against Beyond Gaming at 3pm CT.
T1’s Worlds 2022 jersey invokes some classic SKT nostalgia
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T1 revealed their uniforms for the 2022 League of Legends World Championship today, and the kits should invoke memories for 토토사이트 some longtime fans.
Across the chest of T1’s Worlds uniforms is a massive logo for SK Telecom, the former naming rights owner of the famous League team. Although SK Telecom doesn’t own the rights to the T1 name anymore, the wireless service 안전놀이터추천 provider is still a major sponsor of the team.
The “SK Telecom” logo across the chest of T1’s 2022 Worlds jersey harkens back to the mid-2010’s when the T1 organization was 토토사이트추천 formally known as SK Telecom T1 in the professional League scene. T1 won all three World Championships under the SKT banner between 2013 and 2016.
This season, Worlds is being held in North America for the first time since 2016. SKT ran through a gauntlet of competitors that season, defeating three titans in Royal Never Give Up, Rox Tigers, and Samsun Galaxy en route to their 2016 title.
“We wanted to add a bit of 2016 nostalgia magic to the 2022 World’s addition by adding the large SKT logo,” T1 CEO Joe Marsh said on Twitter. “2016 saw us visit and win in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles – we hope to do the same in 2022.”
During their last two Worlds appearances, T1 reached the semifinals in each of them, but have failed to make it to the tournament’s grand final since 2017.
T1’s Worlds jersey also includes the organization’s logo emblazoned in gold above the right breast, with the Nike “swoosh” logo near the left shoulder. T1 partnered with Nike as the team’s official apparel partner in 2020 안전놀이터
T1 will begin their Worlds run on Oct. 7 when the tournament’s group stage begins in New York City.
Slicing and dicing: Humanoid brings Fnatic towards a top finish in the play-ins stage of Worlds 2022
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These final matches of the 2022 League of Legends 메이저토토사이트 play-ins stage will determine what teams continue to chase their group stage dreams, while many others will join the field of those that have already been eliminated.
Fnatic, the LEC’s third seed, commanded 메이저사이트 a strong full-game lead over the PCS’ Beyond Gaming to emerge at the top of group A, where they have guaranteed themselves either first or second place. Depending on the results of the match between the LCS’ Evil Geniuses and the LJL’s DetonatioN FocusMe, Fnatic may be able to bypass the qualification round completely and achieve a spot in groups.
While BYG are not yet out of contention for the elimination round, their fate lies in the hands of the performances of the other teams in the group, as well as two tiebreaker matches likely to take place after the day concludes.
Making up for a frustrating loss
Fnatic accrued their first loss yesterday to the CBLoL representatives, LOUD. In doing so, the LCS’s third seed, Evil Geniuses, were able to catch up in wins to Fnatic, bringing the two western major regions to a tie at the top of group A.
A win here would guarantee Fnatic a top two spot in their group, either earning them entry to the qualification round or directly into the group stage. But a loss to BYG would bring the two teams to a tie, and possibly open the remainder of the group to force them into even more tiebreaker situations than the day started with.
To prevent the day from being greatly extended for both themselves and the other teams in play-ins, Fnatic sought to actively fix the issues that plagued them yesterday, particularly in their bot lane. Hylissang returned to a Maokai support pick for himself that pressured the opposing bot lane into a solid early lead for his ADC, Upset.
Wards proved worthless to the support player as he tossed Saplings into nearly every brush on the Rift, giving Fnatic the awareness they needed around objectives. The second Hyllisang was in range of an enemy, he threw himself directly into them, rooting them in place and setting up Upset’s Aphelios to initiate a barrage of 200 years of collective gameplay development.
While Hyllisang still had his iconic inting moments, his aggressive nature prevented the entirety of BYG from accessing Fnatic’s carries, never once handing a lead to the PCS team.
Perfect Execution
Fnatic’s early lead resulted in the team’s overextension, chasing 메이저토토 their opponents deep into their jungle for kills despite having no vision of most of the map. Much of this regained gold for BYG was funneled directly into their mid laner, Minji, who had a plethora of powerful ultimates to steal as Sylas.
But instead of taking more teamfight-oriented ultimates, Minji often stole the Perfect Execution from Humanoid’s Akali, hoping to outplay the Fnatic mid laner in one-versus-one fights. For nearly five minutes, the two mid lane carries dashed into and around one another using the same ultimate, giving kills to both sides before Fnatic’s jungler Razork entered to end the fun.
Yet, in team fights, Akali’s sheer amount of mobility, even without her ultimate, worked in the favor of Humanoid. The Fnatic mid laner was free to jump directly into BYG’s backline after they had been locked down by ultimates from Wunder’s Gragas and Hyllisang’s Maokai, allowing Humanoid to burst through both enemy carries simultaneously.
When Humanoid saw an enemy without assistance nearby, even if that enemy was a tank, he dashed right into them and sent them back to the fountain in seconds. Crowd control wasn’t enough to lock him down as he simply pressed W and turned invisible, leaving BYG without some of the most important abilities they needed to come back into the game 토토사이트추천
After breaking through a barrage of Stopwatches from BYG, Fnatic earned a top spot in their group, now moving even closer to a group stage run. Humanoid emerged from the game with a massive 11/2/3 KDA after slicing through enemies at what appeared to be a kill every minute.
Hitting their stride: Evil Geniuses return to form, exact revenge on DetonatioN FocusMe at Worlds 2022
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Far from safe regardless, North America’s third 메이저놀이터 seed brushed aside DetonatioN FocusMe tonight and injected a dose of confidence with their play into their fans ahead of a crucial showdown with LOUD for their Worlds 2022 play-in group’s second seed thanks to jojopyun and Impact’s monstrous performances.
In their loss to DFM earlier in the day, it wasn’t the early game that did EG in. Rather, it was getting caught out on flanks before crucial 토토사이트 late-game teamfights. Usually, the culprit was Impact on Aatrox, and little by little, EG had let the LJL champions back into a game before ultimately succumbing to a loss to a Japanese team that felt very reminiscent of the past few international League of Legends tournaments for NA.
By virtue of having the shorter average win time over the course of their three victories, EG had side selection in the first tiebreaker and chose the blue side. They came into the matchup 3-0 on the blue side.
Aatrox, the highest win rate champion at Worlds so far besides Amumu, was picked immediately for EG top laner Impact. Thresh and Aphelios were selected for Vulcan and Kaori, respectively, which they had used to slaughter Beyond Gaming earlier in the week, and Akali for jojopyun and Trundle for Inspired rounded out a confident, comfortable composition for EG. DFM opted for full dive with Hecarim, Vex, Kai’Sa, and support Sett.
With a level two gank and a solo kill later each for Impact and jojopyun, EG’s domination over the early game rang out to the tune of a 2,000 gold lead. It wasn’t a commanding lead, and as mentioned above, it could all evaporate if EG went back to old bad habits.
Instead, the North American representatives’ solo laners grabbed DFM by the scruff of their collective neck and stuffed them into the ground 메이저토토
The youngest and oldest players at the play-ins, jojopyun and Impact, respectively, looked like they were in a trance on the Rift, individually outplaying their opponents in lane and beyond, all while being completely in sync with the rest of their squad. It was a microcosm of their team as Inspired, Kaori, and especially Vulcan on Thresh looked almost alarmingly comfortable in the victory.
Thanks to this win over DFM, EG will take on LOUD immediately, the winner of which will dodge a best-of-five against reigning MSI 토토사이트추천 champions RNG and instead await the winner of tomorrow’s series between MAD Lions and Saigon Buffalo. DetonatioN FocusMe will play the loser of the upcoming contest between EG and LOUD in a best-of-five series at 6pm CT for a date with RNG to play for a spot in the Worlds group stage.