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Assist Support for NA LCS Kill Leaders

August 10, 2016 Tim Sevenhuysen

Behind every carry there are helpful teammates; behind most kills, there are assists.

The tables below show where the assists came from for the three AD carries and three mid laners who had the most kills in the NA LCS 2016 summer regular season.

ADCs

ad carry kill leaders teammate participation

Doublelift received more help than the other two players from his support, Biofrost, with Bio helping on 85% of Doublelift’s kills. Surprisingly, Bjergsen only assisted on 62% of Doublelift’s kills. Part of that is because the TSM duo lane created lots of kills all on their own (Doublelift had 14 kills where Biofrost was the only assist, compared to 9 each for the other two ADC/support pairings in this graphic).

By comparison, WildTurtle and Sneaky both received more help from their junglers and top laners. In particular, Impact was very helpful in providing assists on Sneaky’s kills, while Pobelter did a lot to help WildTurtle.

Mids

mid lane kill leaders teammate participation

Jensen was the overall kill leader of the NA LCS this split, and also had the highest ratio of solo kills among the three mid lane kill leaders. He synced with Sneaky on a lot of kills, getting more assists from Sneaky than the other two mid laners got from their ADCs.

Pobelter’s jungler and support stacked up a lot of assists on his kills, with Reignover’s support of Pobelter being much higher than the help Meteos, and especially Svenskeren, gave to Jensen and Bjergsen, respectively.

Across the board, Bjergsen had low assist rates from his teammates, relative to Jensen and Pobelter. This suggests that Bjergsen did more of his own work, and that more of his kills came from smaller engagements, where his kills would come with only one or two assists rather than three or four.

Analysis and Opinion

NA LCS Power Rankings – Part II

January 13, 2016 Tim Sevenhuysen

In part two of my NA LCS offseason report cards and power rankings, I’m counting down the five strongest teams in North America, from 5 to 1.

I’ll rate the quality of each team’s offseason moves, provide a target to aim for in the Spring split, and break down my reasoning.

For part one, which covers teams 6 to 10, check out Monday’s article.

Read at Unikrn →

Analysis and Opinion

Princess or Pumpkin? Cloud9’s Week 1 Fairytale

October 7, 2015 Tim Sevenhuysen

Are we really seeing this? Are Cloud9 actually 3-0 after the first week of the World Championships? Better believe it. Hai Lam continues to lead to his squad of merry men on an ascent from the depths of the North American LCS to the top of the world.

But is Cloud9 a fairytale or a fluke? Are they the real deal, contenders for a deep run in the knockout stages? Or are they about to be brought back down to earth? That is literally the million-dollar question.

After Cloud9 dramatically qualified for the World Championships by running the North American gauntlet, winning three best-of-fives in three days, I wrote in detail about the team’s “Hai Rise”, describing how Hai’s return inspired massive improvements in their early-game play, followed by refinements to their late-game. The more time the team has had together, the better they are executing on the new style they’ve adopted.

It’s tempting to look at Cloud9’s growth and say the sky’s the limit, and there are definitely plenty of positives in Cloud9’s play. But try to rein in your enthusiasm: there are some big warning signs that could point to Cloud9’s impending crash.