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Analysis and Opinion

Academy Standouts: 2021 Summer, Week 7

Academy Standouts highlights the players who performed best in the most recent week of NA Academy play. I’ll discuss a few of the most noteworthy standouts, then list some other players whose performances caught my eye below.

Palafox, Mid, FlyQuest Academy

Photo of 99101098225032611.pngWhile the former FLY Academy roster has been up in the LCS taking names, Palafox has been back down in Academy showing how he earned his way into the LCS in the first place.

Sylas, Irelia, Yone, and Akali were his tools of choice this week. He was assertive, applying a lot of pressure on his lane opponents, picking up solo kills and threatening a few more. He created leads in lane and carried some big team fights, too.

Palafox Stats

  KDA KP GXD10 DPM CSPM
Week 7 4.2 70.8% +397 566 7.7
Overall 4.8 65.5% +461 612 7.8

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Analysis and Opinion

Academy Standouts: 2021 Summer, Week 5

Academy Standouts highlights the players who performed best in the most recent week of NA Academy play. I’ll discuss a few of the most noteworthy standouts, then list some other players whose performances caught my eye below.

k1ng, Bot, Cloud9 Academy

Photo of 98767975937423972.pngThe king of Academy was back on top this week. Well actually, k1ng was in bot lane, but never let facts ruin a good tagline.

It was a pop-off kind of week for C9A’s star carry, with kill counts of 6, 6, 9, and 6 on 4 different champions and high damage output, despite some struggles getting going in lane, partly due to gank attention.

k1ng Stats

  KDA KP GXD10 DPM CSPM
Week 5 7.7 70.8% -402 637 8.7
Overall 4.1 64.2% -193 518 9.3

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Analysis and Opinion

Academy Standouts: 2021 Summer, Week 1

Academy Standouts highlights the players who performed best in the most recent week of NA Academy play. I’ll discuss a few of the most noteworthy standouts, then list some other players whose performances caught my eye below.

Note: For the Spring split, I added amateur play into this article series, but with the change in format where Academy teams are now playing a double round robin of best-of-two series, there are many more games to track, so I will be reverting back to covering only Academy in these articles. That does not mean I am not watching the amateur tournaments, but standout amateur players will be highlighted in other ways, such as the Mobalytics Top Prospects list!

Contractz, Jungle, Evil Geniuses Academy

Photo of 98767975969375854.pngContractz played Diana, Nidalee, and two games of Rumble, and his presence on those AP carry champions was… magical.

Yes. I went there.

If we take a look at the man’s stat line from last week, we can see that he posted +1,610 GXD10 across those 4 games.

…Wait, what!?

Contractz Stats

  KDA KP GXD10 DPM CSPM
Week 1 4.7 79.2% +1,610 665 6.4

That kind of jungle diff just isn’t healthy. Continue reading Academy Standouts: 2021 Summer, Week 1 →