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Analysis and Opinion

Academy Standouts: 2021 Summer, Week 4

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.

Kumo, Top, FlyQuest Academy

Photo of 99322534298200420.pngLast week I included Kumo in the “additional standouts” and wrote:

If he can keep up that level he can definitely become a player to watch once again.

Well, he delivered an even stronger week this time around, driving FLY Academy to a 4-0 week over Golden Guardians Academy and Dignitas Academy (which may not sound like the stiffest opposition until you note that DIGA 2-0ed C9 Academy in their other series this week).

Kumo Stats

  KDA KP GXD10 DPM CSPM
Week 4 7.5 72.8% +459 588 7.6
Overall 4.8 64.2% +30 508 7.8

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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 →

Analysis and Opinion

AC/AM Standouts: 2021 Spring, Week 13

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

Jojopyun, Mid, Evil Geniuses Academy

EGA’s budding star Mid laner had a huge series against TSM Academy on Saturday, destroying his mid lane opponent and carrying in a pair of Orianna games and one mid lane Renekton pick that brought some great flexibility into the best-of-five series. Earlier in the week, Jojo also brought out a mid lane Sett pick that nearly won game 2 against Cloud9 Academy but wasn’t quite enough.

Jojopyun Stats

  KDA KP GXD10 DPM CSPM
PG 3.7 64.6% +1,260 495 8.4

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