5 Takeaways from the League of Legends Mid-Season Cup

He is respected because of constantly testing new champions and coming up with new builds to try. In fact, he is responsible for different LOL champion builds that started to be used by professional players. LOL players started to notice Hashinshin due to his criticism of League of Legends and his very vocal style. Eventually, players started to gather as they found his commentary funny and educatio

Thanks to some wonky blind-pick games that allowed for mirror matches, Varus had a 108% presence this tournament, a record that may prove to stand for a long time. The only losses on Varus were to another Varus in a blind-pick mirror match. The marksman’s ultimate, chain of corruption, has the ability to turn fights around and his constant damage output combined with his long-range makes him an incredibly strong pick in the game’s current m

The League of Legends strategy of Legends ‘ 10.6 Patch will deliver some anticipated skins for champions that haven’t received cosmetics in ages. There’s also some minor rebalancing for Twisted Fate and Death’s Dance. Additionally, an entire Wukong rework will be making its way to League of Legends . That will hopefully put the Monkey King back on his thr

After 2019, Dignitas made major changes to the roster that competed in Worlds under the Clutch Gaming brand. The organization shook up their entire five man roster, making changes at nearly every position. One of those changes was famously the young, talented support Philippe «Vulcan» Laflamme. who was bought out by Cloud9 for a whopping $1.75 million . He went on to win the Spring Split with his new team and now looks like the clear best at his position in North Amer

In the west, G2 Esports and Cloud9 look like two of the strongest teams to ever play in their respective regions. G2 just recently lost to FunPlus Phoenix in the 2019 World finals while a North American team has never made it out of the semi-finals. With the lack of international competition, the chaos caused by COVID-19, and the Asian teams just looking weaker than usual, this could be the west’s chance to finally secure themselves a ti

Ivan Pavlov (better known as iPav999 and iPav) is a Teemo main. He is considered to be the best Teemo player in the world and used the champion to reach master and challenger tiers on several accounts. The streamer’s dedication is praised as he often streams 12 hours per day and often educates watchers. He teaches advanced Teemo strategies and builds. He also created the Teemo book. iPav is among the funniest League of Legends streamers because of his in-game commentary and various ways in which he manages to tilt his opponents, among many other thi

DAMWON Gaming showed flashes of brilliance, but their overconfidence and questionable draft choices, such as support Cho «BeryL» Geon-hee playing Karma time and time again despite being near useless on the champion, led to their ultimate downf

Varus seemed to be the only champion to be a perma-ban for every team in the Mid-Season Cup. The few times he slipped through the banning phase, he’d be immediately first picked by the blue team, making the red team who didn’t ban him regret

Hashinshin (real name Robert Brotz) is renowned among NA LOL fans for his constant innovation. His name is a wordplay on «Hashashin», which was an assassin medieval organization during the Middle Ages in the Middle E

There’s a lot to unpack from 2020’s first international tournament, from Korean champs T1 being eliminated in the group stage, to Kang «TheShy» Seung-lok’s concerning performances. But here are five of the biggest takeaways from the 2020 Mid-Season

Annie Bot creates numerous videos on a consistent basis. Also, he makes his streams funny as he creates rare situations in the game. His mastery of the champion and numerous duo queue games with professional LOL players led to over 450,000 followers on Twitch and 185,000 subscribers on YouT

«I’m the greatest. Everyone else is just trash.» Since then, he often used the phrase «Everyone else is trash». Nowadays, besides playing professional LOL games, he often streams and has humorous sarcastic and ironic statements about other players. He is also often interviewed by game casters because of his open remarks and attit

Jared Carr is known in the gaming world as Annie Bot and is renowned as the gamer with the most games played with Annie, which is a champion in the game. He played over 12,000 Annie games and started to become popular as challenger players started to notice him in ga

The China native played Zoe twice, landing every sleepy trouble bubble imaginable, not dying a single time. He even switched from a carry role to a support-like role, playing Orianna against FPX in the finals, finishing with a KDA (kill/death/assist) of 2/2

Another blade-wielding assassin, Akali in her genuine form looks as if she’s one of the Mortal Kombat female ninjas. In other words, you know exactly what to expect from this dangerous and murderous champion. And that’s what makes some of her alternative skins even more valuable as they tend to create fully original lore behind the charac