Hello y'all I hope you have having a good day! I am a support/adc main, and a lot of people (often fed mid laners in my games), have said "why play adc", or "imagine playing adc in s10". As a support player this season, I would normally agree that I have more impact then my adc, and here's why:

NOTE: This is meant for Iron to Bronze players, and some of these points may not apply to higher levels of play

WHY ADC FEELS WEAK:
Like I said early, this season I am a support main, playing Senna, Thresh, Rakan, and Lux. I play quite often with a duo who mains ADC. He plays a more supportive style, often we play weak side, and at level 3 I tank the minions to guarantee his freeze, and I just leave him (more so when I play Thresh/Rakan). For me this feels great, I get to be everywhere, and I still can help my duo by getting mid prio with a gank, and getting them to roam bot (many pings required). This play style normally gets me near 100% KP. Or if I play Senna/Lux, I play for myself. I stay in lane to get xp and constant gold from the support item. This play style gets me medium KP, but generally highest damage in game.

You are probably wondering what this has to do with ADC. Generally when I play Senna support, I have highest damage because I am only focused on 3 things. My map, so I can R to save/kill someone, trading in lane, and not getting caught. I don't have to worry about CS, and because I am the support, the chances of the picking me to focus is really low (never been flash engaged on as a support Senna). Because my main focus is that trading, I get high damage and I impacted the game more if I was better by out trading, and because I got the support quest at 6 minutes into the game, I get to control vision (probably the strongest part of my game is my vision control).

Now let's say you were the adc in this case. You have to worry about CSing, not being caught, the wave, and worry about being targeted (the being targeted is not huge though). You can't constantly trade in lane, because you have to CS, and generally ADCs don't have high mana pools, so you can't just spam your abilities to trade. You also have to manipulate the wave. You have to freeze it/slow push/fast push, that all takes time and effort, the time and effort the support is using to deal damage, and carry.

This makes ADC weak, and why a good Caitlyn player can instantly win. Why can a good Cait player win? They can win because they can control the wave, CS, and trade effectively. This doesn't just apply to Caitlyn, but watch good Caitlyn players, (like xFSN_Saber) because they tend to do it more often/to a higher degree. This is why especially at lower levels, when you can't do this properly, it makes ADC feel useless as you can't fight and get gold until much later into the game.

Another reason ADC feels weak is the way their damage has to come out. Unlike a Darius, who will just run at someone and tank the damage, then just button mash into a Penta kill, as an ADC, you have to kite, and not take damage in return. To compensate for being so easy to kill, you get to deal more consistent damage then the other roles, IF you get to "stand and shoot". Not literally stand and shoot as you have to move/kite/orb walk but that is hard. Then most ADCs (that I play), take lethal tempo, so you get to break the AS cap. Now while you are attacking 5 times, a second, you still have to kite, and not get hit by anything. Another thing that is also important is Auto spacing, if you have longer range, (Caitlyn into Sivir), as the Caitlyn, you should never be auto-ed by the Sivir, especially in a late game team fight. But the problem is, at lower levels (where my ADC account currently is, as I make a new only ADC account to help me make this post), most ADCs that I see, don't kite, and in a fight they stand and shoot the closest person, and as the enemy front line moves closer, they don't move back. This is why, especially at lower levels, when you can't do this properly, it makes ADC feel useless, as you just get blown up, before you get to use your strengths.

The final reason ADC feels weak, is their inability to get gold. As an assassin in SoloQ, kills are a pretty stable source of gold. Supports have their support item, and mages generally get the mid wave. A tank might have to lose a few waves here and there to group and protect his team, and a bruiser can side lane then TP flank into a fight. As an ADC, your only consistent way of getting gold is farming. If you are playing with a Graves, chances of you getting the jungle camps is low (but if you have a J4, who have like 16 farm at 16 mins, you can get the jungle camps as more gold). So that leaves side lanes. As an ADC, you generally don't want to fight bruisers, as they tend to be mobile or take ghost, so they can run you down (Fiora, or Darius + ghost). This means, to get gold you have to freeze side lanes, which is A) hard, and B), doesn't give any pressure. So you have to have good Macro and be able to look at your map, to see when you see enemies, as if you see 5 enemies top, you are free to push bot (watch a TP onto your face though)

Overall, the main issue with ADC is it's high skill floor, as a good ADC player, can easily take over the game, but the time spent learning ADC, will get you further if you put that same time into a different role. (Hardest mechanical position, learning a different role will be easier and get you a high rank). Also, because you are tied to a side lane at the start of the game, you can't roam, or impact the map (you don't even get TP, and hitting a cross map Ashe R is unlikely to be a consistent way to impact other lanes).

HOW TO CARRY:
Now that I have listed the main issues of ADC, I will help you ways to win more games by avoiding the weakness of the role, and playing to its strengths.

The first weakness is a bad laning phase that is dominated by supports. The easiest way to get around this is by picking a high range ADC, that can use the "push and poke" strategy. The best ADC's for this right now are Caitlyn, Ashe, Senna and Jhin. Caitlyn and Ashe's high range, and CC allows them to have permanent wave control, and Senna and Jhin's trading patterns are really strong (Senna AA + Q, Jhin Q + 4th shot), and they have good utility. If you don't like these champions or don't want to play them, you can also do the "just scale" strategy. You generally need to outscale them, and your job is to CS, and freeze the wave. You can still poke back, as if the trade is dangerous, your tower is close, and if you are winning the trade you can chase them down the lane. Because you outscale, (let's say Twitch into Caitlyn), you can safely farm minions. Yes, you don't ever have prio, and you technically are losing yourself the lane, but by not allowing the other ADC and support to snowball, you get a chance to carry the team fights with your better scaling. Also, you force the enemy support to stay in lane, while your support can roam, because if the enemy support leaves, you just run down their ADC, but if your support leaves, you have your tower which is basically a champion that can't die.

The next weakness, is kiting and spacing. This is something you will get better at as you play more, but you should still try to actively improve this skill as it is the core of the ADC role. The way I learned was first pick a champion you feel comfortable on, and you feel like their autos are "smooth" (or one that just "clicks"). For me that was Varus, something about his autos felt good and smooth. Once you have your champion, only play that champion (generally it should be a high AS champion) in normal games (and ranked, if you like to learn in a higher stakes environment). After a few games on the champion, now you challenge your top lane or jungle buddy to a 1v1. Yes, you the ADC, challenge them, the top laner, to a 1v1. You pick your champion, and they pick a melee tank (they have to be melee and not burst focused). I would play Varus into Garen. You go to bot lane, and you play to 3 kills or first tower. As you this, think about your spacing, if he is melee and you are ranged, he should never get close enough to kill you. For me personally, I have the [a] key bound to 'attack move', (look up these settings, and set them up in a way that feels good to you and don't change them), and my mouse button bound to 'target champions only'. So to kite, (this is the cheating way), I start by making sure I can only hit champions, then I [a] (the auto goes off), then I right click behind me, then once the auto is ready, I [a] again. (Again, look up a full guide). As you do this more and more, it will become natural, and in a game, you should never be standing still unless you are bush cheesing or recalling. (When you are hitting baron, practice kiting around, and moving side to side)

The next thing to work on to get better and carry is your CSing at all points in the game. If you are maining/one-tricking a champion, go into practice tool as them, but use any abilities or buy any items. If you are not maining/one-tricking, pick a mage that does no damage with their autos (think Anivia), and again don't buy items or use abilities. Just practice last hitting for a bit. This will improve your lane CS. Once you feel good with that, 1v1 a ranged AI BOT, doing the same thing as before (no items, no abilities), but see how much CS you can get while killing them as fast as possible. This will teach you how to CS and trade. Also see how fast you can hit 100 farm.

Once you feel good with that, do the same thing you started with (1v0 in practice tool, no items, no abilities), but you can CS from multiple lanes. See how fast you can hit 100 farm, and 200 farm, and if you can break the 10 CS per minute goal, and the 11 CS per minute goal. Then do it again with 1 to 3 AI BOTS. This will teach you how to farm by rotating to waves. It isn't the best as you can just sit in a side lane without worrying about being collapsed on, but the idea is still there and it helps a little. To do this effectively, good wave management is required so you don't miss CS in a lane while getting it somewhere else. (Note: The goals might be very hard without items, as minions get stronger as the game goes on, so once you can fully buy your first item, you can buy it, and then continue)

I can't really help you with wave management, as it is by far the weakest point in my game, and if I had better wave management, I could be much higher ranked. I would advise you to watch streams to see what they do, and watch videos about this topic.

TLDR:

ADC weakness:
- No lane control
- Proper kiting and spacing required to deal max damage
- Hard to safely get farm and have your team play around you
To Carry
- Play lane bullies to learn how to influence the lane (and if you like that style, just main a lane bully)
  - Play hyper-carries and learn how to survive and to team fight (and if you like that style, just main a hyper-carry)
- Get good at spacing and kiting (1v1s, practice tool, watch more specific videos)
- Get good at farming (last hitting, mid game CSing, late game CSing vs Teamfights, watch more specific videos)
- Learn wave management (again watch more specific videos)
- This is the hardest role to start learning, so to climb you must put in more work than all the other roles.
General:
- Watch pro play
- Watch streamers (Challengers, and unranked to Challenger)
- Watch the specific videos

Thanks for reading this, I hope this at least helped 1 person. (Sorry for bad English, as I was a bit rushed while writing this; It also might be a bit hard to follow, I would love to hear feedback!)

Recently I found this video, I thought it might be useful to translate to the English audience, due to LPL general audience seemingly having a very different (and somewhat deeper) understanding of the game. The following is not my views, just the view of the video maker.
Anyways, the dude starts out with a disclaimer: he is just a self-made media, he could be wrong, but try to focus on his thought process, and decide for yourself if he is right.

LPL LCK difference in MSC was due to different solutions to the "exam problem" of the version change from 10.7 to 10.10.
During LPL Spring Playoffs, the best ADCs were Varus, then Kalista, then MF and Aphelios. Due to rend being nerfed in 10.8, Kalista falls out of the top tier by MSC.
He starts talking about "poke trend". Poke trend is the unified response by the LCK and LPL to the new dragon soul season. The thought process earlier in the season was that controlling the dragon requires fighting, so teamfight oriented champs like mf, rumble, ornn, azir. But as understanding of the season continued, teams started using poke champs like Varus, Ezreal, Kalista to get lane priority in bot to setup for dragons.
Baron nerf combined with other changes to season 10 meant easier to get advantages, harder to close out game. Therefore, team have more incentive to pick poke champs because it is harder to defend a siege while being poked down. To close out games, the dragon is now crucial, while the baron, not so much. So poke champs are double incentivized because they a. allow dragon control and b. make defending harder, so closing out games easier, especially with baron.
Poke used to have a problem, which is, its hard to take baron due to lower DPS on ADC. However, with this season, this problem has become irrelevant, as baron is irrelevant, and only dragon soul matters. Baron is nice to have however.
So by 10.10 (MSC patch), everyone is picking poke, resulting in Varus with 108% Pick ban, with Ezreal Aphelios taking the next spots. This is common understanding between LPL and LCK.
Difference between LCK and LPL toplane understanding. Case study: Jayce. Jayce in LPL was in the gutter during Spring, both unpopular and had low win rate. However, LCK Jayce was had 62% win rate, high ban rates and 25 games played.
LPL and LCK have different toplane understanding due to different playstyle, LCK is known for steady macro style, nearly makes you fall asleep, emphasizes highest reward for lowest risk. LCK combines getting advantages from BP through counters or easy safe matchups + getting advantages from jungle vision, finding situations where you outnumber opponents, in order to maximize advantage for toplane.
Example: T1 vs FPX, Jayce vs Vlad. Jayce counters Vlad early, but in the end, he didn't really even get that much of an advantage, and was unable to hold back the scaling of the Vlad. However, what comes after shows difference between LCK and LPL; T1 makes Jayce split push, investing tons of vision to ensure his safety. This ensures Jayce can continue in a 1v1 situation where the champ excels. Due to vision advantage, Jayce can both oppress opponent in lane in split push, while also getting to the fight faster than you, not to mention using vision advantage to surprise you to solo kill you, etc. This is LCK's understanding of toplane, and what led to SSG's Season 7 championship.
With theShy being in LPL, caused LPL to have a different understanding of toplane, which is: if you did well in lane, you must team fight, if you did comparatively worse in lane, it is even more important that you teamfight. If you get counter lane in LPL, the jungle and other lanes will come to help you to maximize counter advantage in laning phase, with aggressive tower dives etc.
To summarize, LPL has laning phase and teamfight phase (5v5 ARAM), while LCK has laning phase, then look to extend laning phase into midgame. Therefore, LCK laners do not hurry to oppress opponent, as what is important is that its relatively easier for you to farm up compared to your opponent. Metaphorically, LPL is a straight fist to the face, while LCK is death from a thousand cuts.
The difference in style can be seen from BP (ban pick), T1 chooses to ban Irelia vs FPX, yet neither Khan nor Doinb play very much Irelia. Other LCK teams did a similar ban. LCK doesn't look for absolute counters in toplane, just looking for easy to play, easy to farm up and scale picks. This comes with the issue that its harder to transfer a lead into victory. Therefore, as long as LPL teams don't mess up too much in laning phase, once midgame comes around, it becomes much easier to just blow open the LCK macro. Furthermore, the vision investment in assuring the split push laner safety means less vision for main teamfight, which means lack of vision leading to the team getting caught out. LCK risk averse style means they are also too hesitant, while this worked in the past due to laner skill difference, nowadays with LPL and LCK laners going toe to toe, the flaws are starting to show.
He starts talking about individual teams. JDG as the Spring champions found it hard to find other teams for inspiration, so they continued their Spring playoff's understanding and playstyle. But the patch changes caused their mf ornn combo to suddenly be out of place. It was still kinda ok for them, but too many problems with execution led to their MSC failure.
JDG's issue with jungle was that Kanavi likes Marksmen junglers or mage junglers, when Graves and Kindred are gone, he can only look for mage junglers. And FPX took advantage of Kanavi's tendency to gank early, farm midgame, so they invaded him often midgame to make him irrelevant. This was a result of learning from their earlier mistakes in Spring where Tian was trying to gank while Kanavi was farming, and if Tian failed to catch people, Kanavi could then have more impact than him in teamfights. So FPX, after learning from mistakes vs JDG in Spring, rekt them through abusing Kanavi's weaknesses. Not to mention mf being weaker meant JDG's favored pick of mf couldn't defend Kanavi's jungle anymore. In summary, FPX figured out Kanavi->figured out JDG and beat them.
Moving on to FPX. FPX took a season to finally work Khan into their team. Last season FPX revolved around Tian, however with S10 jungle nerfs, if Tian ends up walking back to empty camps after being counterjungled, then he's in big trouble.
Doinb therefore tries playing carries for stability, but that also mean Tian gets less resources. Therefore, he looked much worse this season due to jungle getting fucked, causing instability in his performance in Spring, as you can't get 100% return rates on every investment on ganks, fights, etc. Once you fail to get return on investment, you're wasted.
FPX tried Marksmen jungle, experimented with other new picks, but even throughout MSC, you could see Tian's struggle with new jungle. However, all Tian needs is time, getting Khan into the team was the more exciting thing to see, and FPX trying new things in MSC was also great.
Moving onto IG. IG bombing out of MSC means they're no longer a tier 1 team. To understand what is going on with theShy and IG, we need to look back at Spring. On March 11, patch 10.4, theShy brings out Kalista top, causing ludicrous economic difference between toplaners, resulting in IG experimenting with other different marksmen toplaners, such as Vayne. The concept is that such marksmen oppress opponent toplaners from developing and farming up as much, turning the game into a 4v5, thereby increasing teamfight advantage. In order to teamfight, you must stay roughly economically equal. If gold difference is too large, you cannot win teamfights. Therefore, marksmen top was a good solution to winning teamfights...but the meta as we mentioned, has been moving towards poke heavy comps.
IG looked so good in Spring due to teamfight playing to IG strengths, and theShy was able to assert pressure in BP, with nobody believing he couldn't play Sett well, and other picks like Rumble and Ornn being up. With 10.5 changes to make toplane more impactful, IG continue to develop their concept of using marksmen to oppress opponent toplaners->4v5 = win teamfight, with a formula emerging which is Quinn for renekton, vayne for mordekaiser.
In IG vs JDG, theShy being less than stellar on Sett was exposed, leading to less pressure from him on BP, especially since Leyan also can't play Sett. But this is a major issue, as Sett is a meta champion these few patches, upon failing to make it work, IG gave up and moved towards the LCK's champ of choice, Jayce. However, that doesn't fly in the LPL, so theShy just can't look good on Jayce due to the champ not suiting LPL meta and playstyle. LCK uses Jayce to continually get ahead by extending laning phase, while LPL's laning phase actually ends, which means theShy is on a short timer to lane kingdom his opponent, which rarely can happen.
Regular season IG was trying new things and experimenting, but failed in playoffs because they suddenly just ran out of champions, because their investment in practicing picks in the regular season got banned away, picked, or weren't suitable in the meta. This was a major issue as from patch 10.7, everything became super bot focused, while IG is a top-jungle-mid heavy team, so their lack of strong botlane became an issue. While other teams also tried to BP for toplane advantage, they don't depend entirely on toplane advantage, so other teams fared better.
IG also failed to keep up in meta understanding. 10.7 patch, Wukong was permaban, but by 10.10, he started to be let through again due to 10.9 nerfs, so Wukong now being let through meant theShy's marksmen now got countered, as Wukong can easily turn the lane over and run over the marksman once he gets any advantage. This is an extra large issue because theShy seems to have gotten mechanically worse as well, lots of weird situations and fights where theShy just randomly dies.
The new jungle as well as current jungle pool is a poor fit for Ning as well, combined with Puff+Southwind being unstable/not that good, means Rookie is the only person looking good. Its a big issue because especially in current meta, botlane cannot die, especially not in a 2v2 death with no investment from other lanes/jungle. Rookie is also struggling, as the Neeko he invested in disappeared from the meta, and Rumble etc. as well. So he ends up with Syndra and LB, none of his investments in Spring paid off. A player practicing a pick also requires his team to practice with him to play around that specific champion pick. etc.
According to his opinion, Sett not being practiced was a major dealbreaker for MSC, as the natural response to Ornn is Aatrox or Sett, but IG only can play Aatrox, so that gets easily banned away.
In summary, multiple factors combined together led to IG imploding the past few months, no idea how they'll go from here or what the outlook is.
Moving on to TES, in all the games vs LCK, they didn't lose a single tower on the high ground (the base), exposing LCK over reliance on macro to the point where their offensive ability is too weak. TES look so much better because everyone found their role on the team. TES in Spring relied too heavily on Karsa. Knight loves farming and scaling, but development requires time. Karsa past 15 mins loses presence, and Knight also looks out of place on roams. But MSC, Knight improves his roaming, working with Karsa, was able to build advantages for other lanes, allowing him to develop safely. Mid jungle finding their coordination also improved game rhythm such that TES now has non-stop pressure on the offensive. This means that once Karsa is about to exit his comfort zone in the midgame, TES are already about to get dragon soul, which means the fast paced meta perfectly suits them, makes it feel like TES are unstoppable with the slightest advantage.
YYJ and 369 also improved, talks about 369 being able to carry more now, and is just an overall well rounded toplaner.
Talks about "solo kill", "gank", "counter gank (I think?)" being high variance, the most fundamental and consistent factor to success is map movement for faster supporting of teammates, leading to situations where you outnumber the opponent. Working as a team means you have tons of failsafes, no need to be dependent on one player to carry.

Translator thoughts: Kind of already covered what we knew about LCK vs LPL, biggest takeaway seems to be explanation of the rise of TES, fall of IG, and FPX and JDG's struggles in MSC. Also interesting to see differing ban pick concepts between LPL and LCK. As well as a clip of Ning saying that at Worlds, the one who wins is the one who improves the fastest, while G2 coach's opinion from last year seemed to be that the one who deteriorates the least wins. There are some other details that I left out, but the overall ideas and concepts are here.

My love to taric beginned with pre season 8. I was a blindfolded plat hardstucktop main before. To me 300 cs min 25 as wukong with 3 x 500 gold lethality camp steal item was a good performance, carrying the inting bot players. I was venting about toplane impact, playing flash ignite on early dominance toplane champs like renekton, jayce, wukong, olaf. Strong laning, and build skills, 0 macro game and team skills. I loved to experiment with builds, and off roled with an insipid ap varus bot/mid. Then some items got nerfed but I didnt lose hope, and kept digging for op strategies, searching lol.wiki and testing interesting mechanics / interactions. With 100 % tunnel vision on inhib in 20 minutes.
1 game, I trolled a bit in soloq and pulled of a reworked taric. I used to play him a bit pre rework and wanted to check if I can pull off sth nice from him. The results where insanely good. Taric had 5000 physical damage sustain min 1- 6, and pantheon was the most oppressive laner at that moment with potential to poke for 2400 damage from spear at this stage. With that discovery, I realised that taric is the most broken toplane champ in s8-s9 meta, bcs he could lose lane and impact game unlike classic toplane champs that ned to win HARD to not get swallowed by other lanes. He also had a lot of decent matchups.
I started to spam him with double tear build. I reached diamond for first time this way( with 50sh attempts in the past per season), and finally got to play with good players. And I started to learn the game too! Once you got to play with and against good players, you improve really quickly! I found an ardent nidalee player (Nid2improve or sth like that), with climbing and improve urge. We spammed plenty rankeds and we reached d1 togather. He showed me the magic of League, mini maxing every little second of his gameplay. He was calculated af, and we spammed early red invade and facerolling enemies with nidalee 2Q + taric E 2AA ignite burst. We knew that ignite taric can dish out 400 damage lvl 1 (300 after reductions) and nidalee with 2 spells and 1 auto can easly execute fools. and we were sneaking from tribush with perfectly calculated 1:26 enemy red rush, catching enemies on cooldowns.
He was a totally diffrent player than me... but he was a very good player! Toxic, but super agile, with insane speed, rythm feeling, and jungle clear knowladge. I guess draven type of player. Skilled but 0 social skills. We separated after quarell 1 game bcs I didnt warn him from roaming quinn. He said that I am low apm player and he doesnt see my potential and deleted me from friend list.
I was a bit broken after this, and scared to play solo and demoted to p1. It was an early s8 or so. I thoght a bit about league and I realised that there are like 20 or 30 skills in league, while I mastered only 2 of them with an op strat. Most players are good, in their own areas, but we cannot see it bcs we can only see how bad they are in areas where we are good. But they also win 50 % games right? There is a korean draven main vincent that does speed runs with draven and he see lol as an action game ( like mario). There is a dopa that wins rankeds with a strategy + high tempo view on the game (like chess). There is pants are dragon that tries his best to understand the meta with strong social skills. There is finally tf blade that disrespects every rules in this game and mindblows enemies in mindgame. Holy fuck his spacing and limit testing is so good. And there is a funny cheesy tilterella that abuse cheese, abuse others tunnelling, focuses on realising what others think about, and how to faceroll them. And there is trash yassuo player that vents but is ardent to win.
All those players are different and use champions that supports their playstyle, and the kind of play they enjoy the game. And I realised that I am lucky and Taric can support really a lot of player's skills! Adc's, warriors mechanics for orbwalking. High APM. Low ad made wave menagement really challenging. I had to master recalls to not int games on serious levels. I started to shotcall for baron plays. I abused lvl 3 power for 3:15 scuttle bcs taric wins every 2v2 there. I had a feeling that every kind of skill I put my time and thoughts into will be rewarded. Even the way you talk to your teammates can impact your ranked performance right? They are good in 4-5 areas of 30 and you need to respect them for it. If you play with them you are generally on similar play level to them. Never try to blame them, they wont menage to improve during your game. If you want to win you just need to get better, so you can carry another players. There is no other solution.
-do you know jungle mechanics? -no? - how do u want to not get swallowed by enemy jungler -do you know how to put an agressive vision? -no? -do you still think that lazy ward protects you from enemy jungler ganks? install outplayed and check your deaths after every session. -do you realise that game begins pre draft stage? You need to chill, tell a joke to duo player, share memes, check ping, have a gaming mouse keyboard. Any% guys. Dont get tilted because of non game related stuff.
just dont vent about current state and find a solution. There is always a skill that once learnt can result in unleash of your potential and successful climb.
That thinking motivated me to get skilled, and I started to relearn the game from basics. I trashed my skills into a bin, watched skill capped challenger, spent tens of hours in practice tool on wave menagement , thought about how I can impact other lanes and improve my mechanics. I re calculated taric, and made a toplane guide, abusing kleptomancy, ignite pre nerfed cookies timewarp, and I was a first blood king, with catalyst raptors cloak mejai roa as most often purchased items. ( every single item in this build had like 200 % gold efficiency and I was able to remove all taric issues, speed, mana, tankiness in every game.
At some moment I made a simple excel math model. ( I suck with propability so I just listed all possible results of early laning. 1 win 0 equal -1 point on lose. (A team with more points post laning wins a game model). The results where interesting. If you never lose your lane the chances to have stronger team in group stage is 60 sh % if you always win your lane it increases to 66 or so. If you made your teammates to not to menage to lose their laning you have 75 % to have a stronger team in midgame,
And yes I was abusing ohmwrecker to end games in 15 minutes shotcalling my team before they even menage to int their lanes. I think my fastest win was 11 minutes this way ;' ) good times it was.
With that motivation even after strong meta changes that started to nerf my strat I got to 75 % sh wr rank 1 taric world march april s9 on shitty eune server master 100 lp. I was playing max 4 rankeds, checking ping every game, preparing mentally before every match. I was focusing on... focusing on all skills togather and make sure I dont fail in any area of skills ( vincent speedrun, egrills cheering teammates, dopas macrogame) Ofc I was not even close to unleash janna support power level of cheering.
Due to private problems I had to quit spamming rankeds, but I menaged to end the season as master eune and d3 euw with decent wr. I remember how tilted I was when admins repeatadly refused to award me with targons peak role on discord server ;'). I had really hard time to be satisfied.
In current season I am not even close to my early season 9 mindset. I hardstuck in d2 -d1 elo with at best average performance and I am scared to play rankeds. I totally lost powerfarming skill, and a lot from early agression. I dont have motivation to encourage and shotcall to cheesy plays. Taric's laning keeps falling off and is about to die, and I am not even close to min 15 speed runs on enemy nexus.
2 others fun facts if you run a cheesy strat in "high" elo your account is provital for trust of your teammates. high diamond is a limited player pool, and if they dont know you, they will just look at your stats and estimate you with them. Its easier to win on high wr account with an environment of people that know , respect and fear you than on much lower account where you boost friends. At some point s10 I had 65 % on trickster taric and 45 % on infernal taric, master and diamond 1 account in the past. Many d1 players still recognise me in my server and agree to follow my ideas, while on d4 every player picks carry champion because he doesnt trust in his teammates. While this approach seems to be good for a player, because he is is granted a chance to carry, well, the game doesnt have enough money to support 3 other players thinking like you per team . If enemy wins his earlygame your team will be crowded, and tilted because of resource share.
I have no clue if its an accident or it just works this way, but I think that a player with many accounts can be a gold on 1 account and diamond 4 if he doesnt play a lot of games on each. League is a marathon, a game with extremely tough environment to learn from. if you are placed with gold players you will be granted a chance to learn only gold level moves. Even if you do good 1 game, you might assume it as an error because it was 1 of the 11 lose streak game. Thats an issue of multi- player game. Think, adapt, overcome or you will be swallowed.
About sources to improve. I recommend to stop to subscribe most NA streamers (solo renekton, glaccier etc). most youtube channels are related to meta and making exciting content. While this is fun and chilling to watch, the level of play showed there is like... a level of knowladge that mens health newspaper shares. Good for begginerrs, maybe check it from time to time to stay updated to trends, but league isnt a stock market. Op.gg or league of graphs wont give you skills but a lot of information that is really really hard to interpretate.
My climbing adivce is try to abuse any %. Dont tunnel get skills in areas u ignored before. Learn whats your allies and enemy thinking. Think about what enables them. Shotcall cheer and interrupt. Pay attention to details.
Taric is the one that gave me this wisdom. The only champ in the game that supports so many skills, builds, has early game power, shotcalling potential. A perfect champion to learn the game the protector and enchanter... it was.
I am confindent that riot will fail to give us enough tools to show our skills. Because we are fucking skilled guys. Please trust in my point of view on taric, and my reason is how much I am dedicated to him. I really want to avoid him to be jg + funnel till d1 exlusive. His early laning on support role vs 2 ranged champions is way way too passive, unless you have duo laner with taric champion knowladge. Imo thats an issue already : the champion is granted to test his limits 3 times vs 2 ranged enemies per laning per game ( flash timers) . It is extremely difficult to learn taric on support, and a support role as taric. Why? because he the lowest threat range in entire game. If your adc doesnt have kinda draintank skillset, he will be shit scared and feel 1v2 on every last hit vs 2 ranged enemies. and those drain tank skills, limit testing, damage taking are essential skills for your adc.
and on top of that issues taric will lose up to 1000 mana in early laning. You had a potential to have around 2000 mana pool in ~8 minutes catalyst pom boots. thats s10. now it will be only 1000 if you rush 2 mana crystals. If you are lucky you will be drafted against ad and melee teamcomps and taric would do well vs them , as always. but imagine how fucking passive will be laning vs moonstone brand that will excell taric even in taric areas? Will you be ever granted a chance to limit test your champion? Because flash E also needs to meet some requirements, u need to survive to level 3, then most likely recall bcs adc didnt sacrifice minions for health, and then maybe a leap of faith on them. If your gold adc will trust you Will riot balance that. Yes but we will be forced to wait. And I dont expect more than 20-40 mana per level.
And yes even with they dont we will overcome. We will pick taric as an counterpick vs full ad melee comps, play with duos if we want to win etc. with a good win rate! But the balance is not about win rate. Taric is already a sharp dedicated tool. Too sharp for being the only melee paladin champion. I want to have a chance to climb with taric every game, win because of my skills, not my teammates, and even in bad games have a lot of things to do.
because we dont deserve to get a scared adc, that thinks that taric is a scaling enchanter that will grant him R. He wont be able to play around it anyways, and this is my gold ranked support expirience.
You can be nice, You can explain to him that he should give up a bit of early laning, save health for level 3. You can explain that ur level 1 sucks. But you are not guaranteed to be listened. Oh cmon he doesnt even speak english.
If we dont step up, taric wr will remain the same, pick rate will drop, and we will be treated like the marginal minority. So please, dont be scared that taric will lose some of his nature because of riots glance on him. HE IS ALREADY LOSING IT AND ITS HAPPENING.
Please support the adjustments idea. We generally have a similar point of view, we love high apm tank taric that can do thing sand I am confident that 90 % of players wont be satisfied to be limited to R powerplays. Because this is going to be his gameplay expirience
Thanks for attention guys!
PS.Sry if I am too narcisitic, impolite somewhere. I am not native english speaker and I might have a hard time to make some phrases sooth enough. And I dont feel a better person or player than others!
PS 2 prob the last chance to try taric top ;) https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/infernal-taric-top-guide-10-13-536838

o k guys it is your boy kong)balding back again for another lets play video and today we will be speed runnning league of legend so basically stay tuned until end for neww w merhc anannoucnemt !!!!!!!!!!!
atrox - ok so i think he is kinda cool but they killed my boy for the rework so maybe not sorry boris
ahri - not as quirky as nami why even in game ?
akali - more quirky than ahri but ninja scary shroud make axe not hit
alistar - godless abomination but he is purple and has cool horns so thats pretty cool
ammu - has no friends so you should be his friend that is very alpha i think but if he ults you beat him up because that is not friendly of him
aniviv - what the fuck is this
annie - nobody plays this champ
aphelis - i dont really like kpop
ashe - why here auto range so long and slow turbo cancer actual annoy lane matchup
marcus aurelius - i mean he is a dragon which is pretty cool i actually like this guy
acer - he is cool yellow bird like big bird from sesame street pretty cool if ask me 😎😎
brad - wtf is a meep ???!??!?!?!11?
blicrank - just dodge his hooki its not even hard man?
bran - why he do more damage than me on sport role???
braum - tyler1 did not like him back in like season 6 or something so i do not like him but compared to the new cancers he is not that bad i think
caitlyn - hat looks dumb
cameile - wtf you are 0/10 but second q did 942 true dmg to me ?
cassiopeia - i think snakes are cool
cho'gath- if he has nightmare skin be very afraid that means very skilled cho'gath player but any other skin probably a kid literally no one but kids play cho'gath
corki - mashallah
darius - he has axe and it spin and he draven brother pretty cool
diana - was cancer pre update is still cancer post update like wtf riot how do i even play against ?
dr. mundo - has medical license seems like cool guy
draven - if you see another draven you are playing blind pick so are you okay ? everything going good in your life? if you are to the point where you are playing blind pick you can just dm me man i promise it will get better : ))
ekko - if you play this champ fuck you
elise - she cute
evelynn - see ekko
ezreal - just click
fiddlesticks - fidlestick throuw le crouw do le damaaj
fiora - i am up 3 lvls and 2 items why she still beat me
fizz - flop
galio - why my galio never ult me but enemy galio use himself as drone strike and i am children's hospital???
gangplank - i like oranges so he is pretty cool
garen - you can try to be friends with garen players but its like befriending a wild animal. like if you stop feeding them they will probably just forget you
gnar - kinda cute i think, and he have spinning boomerang
grags - i think if grags in real life he would be american like me we have same body type pretty swagger i think
grave - ummmmi actually think grave kinda cool but if you just abusing him because this meta maybe ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
hecarim - has he been a think since like s7?
heemerhonger - turret
illaoi - nice biceps jus like draven
irelia - i thought she was kinda quirky but her face look kinda weird in that one cimematic lmk what you think gis
ivern - put shield on me so i get one shot by the full support sona in 1 second instead of .5 ty ivrern
janna - ahhahashdahahahahhahahahah
jarvan iv - idk i dont really have much opinion on him he is pretty cool i think
jacks - Counter Strike EFFECT RADIUS: 300CAST TIME: NONECOST: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 MANACOOLDOWN: 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 Counter Strike ACTIVE: Jax enters Evasion, a defensive stance, for 2 seconds, causing all non-Turret icon turret basic attacks against him to be dodged. Jax also takes 25% reduced damage from all champion area of effect abilities. Counter Strike can be recast after 1 second.
At the end of the duration, Jax Stun icon stuns all nearby enemies for 1 second and deals physical damage to them, increased by 20% for each attack dodged, up to a 100% increase.
MINIMUM PHYSICAL DAMAGE:» 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 / 155 (+ 50% bonus AD) RECAST: Jax ends Counter Strike early.
jayce - ok
jhin - last time a jhin was useful in your game ?? me was 1992
jinx - who
kai-sa - at least she isnt' meta anymore
kalista - put this champ out of meta agin pls
karma - why my karma always shield herself its every karma player
karthis - literally who
kassadin - fuck you
katarina - fuck you
kayle - i like morgana better
kayn - i thought he was cool before a few patches ago but now he is in everygame and kinda fucking annoying ?
kennenn - i feel like kennen plaers are dogshit 99.99% of the time and their champs broken ult puts them 2 divisions higher than they should be ?
kha'zix - champ was released like 30 years ago so you might even beat him in 1v1 if he not fed
kindred - furry wtf
kled - bro kled players are fucking psychopaths if they somehow lose lane on their broken ass champ they just ult down botlane and it works every time
kog'maw - mog'kaw spit liek pllblbrlbrlbrlrltrltrtlrltbrbtbrtlrtbrtltrtt
leblanc - in season 10 ?
lee sin - ahaha he's blind nice eyes dumbfuck
leaon - i mean she is pretty quirky but why she hitting me with her sword and where my hp go ? does chain vest give damage now or something wtf??
liaaasndr - if you are fed fuck this cdhamp i think
lucian - literally just worse version of draven but got fed up with bot and went to solo lanes he cute
lulu - she turn me into turtle wtf
lux - hehe xd
malphite - takes frequent visits to lux skull, cannot decide if malphite players are more attractive or intelligent like rock solid brother
malzahar - purprle
maokai - maokai
master yi - if funneler maybe malphite should visit (in game), if not funneler maybe malphite should visit (in game)
miss forutne - 🥰🥰
mordekaiser - ult me dumbfuck i win that 1v1 everytime if you buy qss you are maybe like big weiner
morgan - i like her better than kayle
nami - sexy fish most quirky i like name she is fihs
nasus - wtf my toplaner just free farm with nasus why he have 400 armor and one shto me?
nautilus - like leona but not even quirky wtf
neeko - can turn into more darwin very good i think and also has tail copter go wsssh wwwsssh i like neeko
nidalee - wtf furry
nocturne - why they put heat seeking missles in game
noo noo william - wilpump
olaf - i guess this riot's prototype draven he kinda cute but also he beat my skull in
orianna - why
ornn - like why even queue up if you want to play this champ just so boring and broken for no reason
pantheon - nice hat
poppy - draven probably punt poppy across 3 football fields
pyke - he good i think also can just execute give me cash in and also he green kinda cute
qiyana - 200 years dogshit company
quinn - revery quinn i want to turn into bird
rakan - wtf is this guy even also every rakan i have is dogshit i think every rakan player should become a enchanter slave : ))
rammus - roll
rek'sai - i mean she cute but will gank you 6 times before you are level 3 so like wtf rexxar
renekton - boom waddup
rengar - idk hes a cat i guess not a cute as yummy
river - ahahaha river in s10
grumble - wtf is this ?? why they put a squirrel in a robot? looks like a fucking neopet
ryze - blue?
sejuani - i mean she literally never die but as least cant kill me : ___)
senna - fuck you riot
sett - idk
shaq - i have never seen a good shaco support ever, did they just coinflip their way to my high rank (silver 2)
shon - ult me dumbfuck do you not want lp
syhvana - why her e make my hp go boom
singed - flip minion like a burger
sion - literally no one plays him
sivir - literally no one plays him
skarner - literally no one plays him
sona - why even play sona, only champ that gets one shot faster than adcs
sorka - revert pls i want to give my teammates mana :)
sawin - e hitbox fatter than my cock like ???? make him a midlaner agin so i dont have to play againt him not quirky at all
sylas - season 10 xd
syndra - kinda cancerr but kinda quirky
tahm kenhc - ?? wtf is he? he is fish? he is frog ? i like him he cute
taliay - big nose haha
talon - havent seen one in a while idk
taric - lol
teemo - maybe qss for blind but he kinda useless i want to stuff this hamster into sock and swing into wall (in game)
thresh - non degen supports play him so he cute
tristana - bomb go boom
trundle - wtf he smashing my skull with ice
tryndamere - champ is just cringe i dont even dislike him but like wtf who decides they wanna play tryndlemere
twisted fate - cards cute
twitch - umm he is kinda stinky 😝😝 but he also kinda quirky ngl 😳😳
udyr - why
urgot - alpha swag boss alpha monster swagger
varus - poke varus make me want make computer go boom boom, nerf pls, on hit is swagger tho
vayne - in season 10?
veijar - i want to lock him in a cabinet with no food or water for 2 months 🥰🥰
vel'koz - literally who
vi - if your teammate picks can just lock in nunu, if enemy picks enjoy free lp unless your jg is a complete mong, this champ is so dogshit useless like holy fuck just dont die to ganks for like 5 minutes
viktor - bzzzzrt
vladimir - fuck this champ he so fucking good reee
volibear - revert pls
warwick - revert pls 0 skill
wukong - holy fuck please revert i cant take another 3 minute knock up wtf why riot
xayah - she cool i think
xerth - he cool i think
xin zhao - nobody play him but he is just like version of vi that is not complete dogshit
yasuo - lol
yorwick - hes actually kinda broken but big arms so cool i think
yummy - my pet cat i lock in cage and forget about in closet sorry yummy
zac - why
zed - in season 10
zigg - my faboirte he go boom
zilean - also go boom but dog fucking useless but he old so its okay
zoe - fuck you riot : ))
zyra - pretty quirky also cool plants i like zyraw
ok guys that is it for this episode lmk what you think in the comments below
your friend,
king_ball

The past two weeks of games have really emphasized just how important draft is. Largely in part due to the current state of the game where there are clear best in class champions (e.g. Varus, Aphelios). You could argue that a lot of games are won after pick and ban, people like LS or Dom have something like a 69-70% correct win identification in the LCK and LCS off of draft alone.
Granted, it isn't as simple as "hur dur whoever gets Aphelios wins the game" (see C9, CLG, or today's game of DIG vs. CLG). Teams have shown that they can beat Aphelios. But generally speaking the key is being able to adapt your draft to what the enemy team is selecting, while still getting the S tier champs for yourself. No better case can be made for that than TSM's ABYSMAL draft against Flyquest today.
For context, so far in S10 draft generally follows this outline (using LCK as example). Also, here is a chart of the most highly prioritized champions from the LCK.
Jumping into today's TSM draft, this isn't to say that Syndra is necessarily a bad first pick, but given her high presence and virtual permaban status FLY leaving her up baits TSM into first picking it. Also, given that they pick support AND jungle next phase it communicates that this Syndra is really going bot.
At the end of the first pick phase we have Syndra/Lee Sin/Nautilus vs. Trundle/Aphelios/Ornn. Which in and of itself doesn't look too bad on paper. The true crime is looking at Trundle/Ornn/Leona, TSM opts to for MORE magic damage when in reality what they need is tank killers. FLY has revealed at this point that they're intending on playing a front to back meatball comp. AP characters just cannot dish out enough DPS to get through the frontline before AziAphelios delete everything in sight. Who on TSM's team is going to kill those tanks? LS even said on stream that sending Syndra mid and picking a hyper scaler such as Jinx could perhaps salvage the game.
Truly mind games by Curry.
For contrast, look at C9's draft. Every single game so far they have 1) picked the same early game jungler 2) picked scaling relatively safe botlanes and 3) rounded out their composition with adjustable mids and tops that can establish priority and work around Blaber. EG failed much in the same way TSM did by selecting a hyper scaling midlane (Kassadin) and then pairing it with an early game jungler. THERE'S A REASON WHY C9 BANS TRUNDLE EVERY GAME!!!
As an aside, if you're curious here are the champion priorities by side in the LCK. It's missing some of the games after Thursday but the general themes still stand:

And you can see my entire report on LCK draft meta with some notes at the end here
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Nothing about marksmen in general bar over-the-top release Aphelios makes anyone playing or watching think "wow, look at all that ranged damage and utility! That's so unique" and yet it shouldn't take anywhere near the likes of release Aphelios to invoke that impression. They all are very similar to one another; they share decent-to strong dps with some burst at varying intervals and have a mobility/CC trick or two that keeps things interesting so long as their summoners are up. The key difference between them is that the older and more traditional ones are way more reliant on raw damage stats that just don't exist in the quantity it used to. Most older marksmen aren't even close to having remotely good dps despite finishing 2 items - slap a BoRK on a bruiser right now and they do just as much if not more damage than most marksmen in the game, let alone older ones. Giving 50 lategame health to traditional marksmen did absolutely nothing either; even if it were 300+ they would still probably be outshined by the current Conqueror Ezreal who sits at a whopping 40% playrate across all regions, plus Yasuo and most botlane mages.
The problem lies entirely in crit/LS itemization for marksmen. Not that old adc's items need to be buffed, mind you; they just need items that appeal to them whatsoever. The fancy part of traditional marksmens' kits is their range - everything else considered "fancy" is what they can't afford to make room for. MS from Zeal items instead of more raw stats? Kiting targets at close-range was considered outdated well before RR for anyone not named Vayne or Kalista. Typical marksmen fire from a perpetual 500+ distance because their targets are either immobile or immobilized - if they pick fights in close quarters without summoners in this meta they're slain already. Stacking mobility won't help older marksmen in the slightest.
Furthermore, most AD items and item proc damage in general is completely negligible for traditional marksmen; they can't function stacking lethality and don't proc anything nearly as many times as most melee would before getting burst down or CC'ed; even then, proc damage is kept in check thanks to BoRK/etc's base stats being pitifully low. Most marksmen that buy BoRK use it for PvE and use the active as a last-ditch attempt at kiting a non-tank or performing some sort of janky pick. As for raw AD items, they are either lethality items and therefore irrelevant to non-Varus or like BT and IE are antiquated luxury pickups for marksmen that don't have access to 700+-range autos. Oh, but half a dozen tier 4 and 5 traditional marksmen rush IE as well? Good for them; the reason they're in such a pitiful state is because the best thing they can do is hope and pray for IE crits to win lane for them.
What traditional marksmen need from items is a wider spread and higher focus on raw traditional damage stats:
AD - not lethality; just raw AD. They need their autos and abilities to hit hard reliably without stacking items that don't synergize with their dps. BT for one would be much more appealing to marksmen (and the cast in general) if it had a tad more AD for its cost regardless of how much lifesteal it offered.
AS - they can't weave abilities and autos or clear waves cleanly without it. Being forced to rush greaves and/or BoRK -> Ruunan's really stings and takes a lot of itemization options away from a lot of marksmen, traditional or not. Marksmen would love if IE had some AS for example - Yasuo and CDR Tryn are the ones loving IE instead as they brainlessly get their fix of raw AD and super crits while most marksmen that are looking for a solid spread of damage stats while building it are forced to make do without.
Crit - no one in particular is in need of more crit, but there should definitely never be any less crit than what there currently is. There is no reason to take crit away from items - adding crit to something new however wouldn't hurt unless the item itself was overtuned.
Another viable offensive lifesteal item and to a lesser extent more lifesteal scaling - having just 10% LS is so key for older adcs it hurts, yet BoRK is the only offense item that offers a relevant portion of it while still remaining an offense item. In that vein, it wouldn't be ridiculous in the slightest for a Zeal item to include LS. Stacking LS items currently is terrible as well, save for Scimitar which is about as luxury as it gets.
Everything else on adc items from low pricing, proc damage, mobility and total LS can be cut down to make room for what older marksmen currently need to function. What assassins got from lethality items is exactly what traditional marksmen need from crit and LS itemization: the priority of stats that help them function as a class. S10 marksmen items don't need to be overtuned or buffed at all; they just need to be relevant to the marksmen themselves, melee hypercarries be darned. If they wind up breaking Yas and Tryn then by golly nerf the sonofaguns; they've had it coming for a while now.

We are about to reach over 150 champions this year , the problem is the same which affects TFT when they keep wanted to release new champions for that mode.
This game had under 60 champions when it leave beta ,and it also had 3 bans per team , that considering that among time Rioters give each team 2 extra bans and the fact that the amount of champions is reaching 3 x the amount of champions it had on release ,there must be a subject open on this.
My own idea ,was to create pool sets 1/2/3 , split champions among different sets , across how old they are , counter options if you pick smth, or based on how new they are .
Exemple:
Pool 1:
ADC: Ashe,jinx,tristana,sivir,twitch,kog maw
Pool 2:
ADC: Lucian,Varus,Draven,Miss fortune,kalista,vayne
Pool 3:
ADC: Xayah,Kai'sa ,Aphelios,Ezreal,Jhin,senna
This is an exemple for ADC role ,So if i am ADC main jinx , i go play pool 1 , the pool 1 has only those champions to pick as ADC .
The unknown problem , is how that affects waiting times for que ranked(here it comes balance across champions popularity), the point is that the game will still have the same amount of champions ,but the difference would be that , if you want to play a champion in ADC Role , let's say you wanna try a new champion ,so you select pool 3 and play regarding that.
When there will be more champions in pool 3 , then the pool 4 will be rolling out.
In this way , the new released champions getting balanced towards old outdated champions , and feels much more fun and less stressful . Also it allows you to master the game across different champions and doesn't feel overwhelming for new players.
About pro plays/tournaments ,those would run as usually happens now .(no pool restrictions/ only ranked would work as following=> normal games not affected/aram games/urf/events neither).
I feel like pro players will love this , they could run back in past and play the league as it use to be season 1/2/3/4 .
Or another idea , it would be to split champions on seasons pools(+- some champions to balance and feel every pool has low waiting times and better experience in ranked).
Season pool S1/S2/S3/S4 have some champions early been
Season pool S5/S6/S7 have some champions from early game , and some champions get removed from previous pool season ,to feel balanced.
Season pool S8/S9/S10 champions from this seasons released + some champions from season pool 5/6/7 ,and some base champs from season 1/2/3/4 , to feel balanced.

- no technical issues, glad to see improvement from play-ins and group stage,
- with the preshow i kinda wish there were more riot events,
- crowd was great today,
- the trophy case looks soooooo good, wow
- i wish semis and final would be played as bo7 in the future,
thoughts on drafts:
- fpx did what teams before should've done - denied xayah and kai'sa from perkz, that gave their botlane advantage over perkz who doesn't have as much experience on different adcs,
- game 1 draft from g2 was really bad imo. they had no winconditions, only stole fpx picks probably because they were scared of fpx playing them
- i don't understand how tian played 3 games on lee and g2 hasn't prepared for it well enough, if they couldn't handle his lee sin they probably should ban him and leave qiyana open
- i like how fpx drafted this series, they banned g2 comfort picks, had clear idea what they want to prioritize and g2 couldn't find any answer to fpx drafts
- g2 had underwhelming drafts, they drafted to deny fpx picks, while they should've drafted towards their strenght (early dives, lots of roams and super strong midgame when they can accelerate the game)
- fpx didn't have to show much, in fact they didn't, so probably they still had 1-2 pocket picks in case g2 adapted to their style. g2 tried to cheese with their drafts but it just didn't feel right. i'd prefer to see wunder on something like irelia, jax, ornn, kled, maybe even fiora. jankos could've played maybe nocturne if they wanted to use global comp. maybe sejuani, she's been nerfed but if i remember correctly her mid to lategame was nerfed, not early. i'd prefer to see caps on mages from game one. or some lane bully like jayce, because with champions he picked fpx was always winning 2v2 or 3v3 early. i'm surprised perkz didn't play lucian this series, having that earlygame champion he would've been more useful midgame. and i have no idea why rakan isn't played anymore. lucian thresh/rakan would be so much better than varus tk lane.
game:
- hate to say it, but i think this was the worst final i've watched. i expected good series, and i'm really dissapointed after waiting for so long for final,
- i was impressed with how good fpx was prepared for g2. we've seen this in g2 vs grf games - when jankos was put behind early g2 can't find early roams or succesful ganks.
- g2 on the other hand looked like they haven't watched fpx games. in finals i think draft and early game are 2 things that win you game. g2 was bad early game, they didn't go for early fights, they played incredibly passive. compare it to fnc series, fnc were looking for early invades and fights and got lead out of it. they couldn't find gans or rotations but lvl 1-2 they were always making some plays.
- starting with kai'sa ban from fpx it looked like they were going to win game 1 having prepared that. what makes me feel bad is that from this moment until the end of the series, g2 never looked like they had a chance to beat fpx. not even a single game. i just never had a feeling theycould actually do it.
- i'm dissapointed with g2 performance when they started falling behind. we are used to them inting some games, but it's worlds final, so i expected them to stay focused and play their best trying to come back, they didn't look prepared for having such a hard time against fpx, and when they lost 1st game it looked like they didn't believe they could win today.
- g2 players all had bad series today, they always seem to have 1-2 players int but always somebody steps up, we didn't see it today.
Don't get me wrong, I think g2 went really far in the competition and should be proud, but we all expected more from them. I'm not talking about results, but performance. I think it's a good experience for them and it's only going to make them stronger in the future. I'm excited for what's to come knowing we have 2 teams that can compete with any team in the world. s10 is going to be fun to watch :)

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[Translation] Analysis on Mid Season Cup Strategy Differences between LPL and LCK, and what is going on with IG

My point of view on taric. (my journey/ improve/ taric/ ranked / skills/ future)

Every single champ and why you as draven should not like them or should like them, it's really just suggestions honestly

Draft is more important than ever before and it's really starting to show

I've determined the reason older adcs feel useless in this meta: they can no longer build the stats they need to function.

Idea about balancing ranked old<=| =>new

Some thoughts on today's final

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