All posts by Tim Sevenhuysen

Tim Sevenhuysen is the founder and sole developer of Oracle's Elixir and provides a variety of consulting and contracting services throughout the esports industry. He is the former Director of Esports Analytics for 100 Thieves, served as Head of Data Science for Esports One, led Shadow.gg from 2017 to 2019, and was Statistical Consultant for Fnatic in 2015. Follow Tim on Twitter at @TimSevenhuysen.
Analysis and Opinion

H2K: They Do It Their Way

Around the world, league-leading teams like the ROX Tigers in Korea and Immortals in North America tend to play a certain style: hit ‘em early, hit ‘em often, finish ‘em fast. With aggressive Junglers and intense pressure, these teams are earning decisive early leads and then driving them home hard. This is true—in varying degrees—of each league leader in the five major regions, except for one team, a European squad that stands out in some interesting ways.

Through the first five weeks of Spring 2016, H2K is playing the game their own way, marching to the beat of their own drum. Led by their Head Coach, Pr0lly, they play slower, they prioritize things a little differently, and it’s working so far: H2K has an 8-2 record, tied with G2 Esports for first place in the European LCS. But can this style carry them to victory in the fast-approaching playoffs, or have H2K shown flaws that are likely to be exploited?

Let’s break down some of the unique aspects of H2K’s play style, and see what we can learn about Pr0lly’s team.

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Analysis and Opinion

Top 6 LCS AD Carries

We’ve just arrived in the Year of the Monkey, but for League of Legends, 2016 has felt more like the Year of the Marksman. We’ve seen AD Carry-type champions popping up all over the place, from Top to Jungle to Mid, spurred into action by sweeping itemization changes, champion reworks, and a meta game that promotes Tower destruction.

But you can keep your Graves, your Quinn, your Kindred; we know that the real AD Carries still play in the Bot lane.

Here are the six LCS players—three from North America and three from Europe—who I think have represented the ADC position best during the first four weeks of the 2016 Spring split.

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Check the Data

Jungle Hard Carries in the LCS

Image courtesy of @lolesports.

Dardoch dealt the most damage to champions for Team Liquid in their win against Dignitas earlier today, playing Nidalee and doing 31.2% damage share. That’s the second-highest Jungler damage share seen in the LCS so far in 2016, behind Rush’s 31.7% in Cloud9’s loss to Team Impulse.

Dardoch was just the 5th LCS Jungler to have his team’s highest damage share this year, and just the third to do it in a victory.

Svenskeren and Trick also had their teams’ highest damage, both playing Graves. Rush on Nidalee and Kirei on Graves had their teams’ highest damage, but in losses.

Jungle Carry Kings

Rush had his team’s highest damage share five times in 2015. That included three Evelynn games and two Nidalee games, and four of the five games were wins.

Jankos had the largest LCS Jungler carry performance of 2015 or 2016, with 38.2% damage share on Nidalee while playing Origen in Summer 2015.