Tag Archives: Yeon

Analysis and Opinion

Academy Standouts: 2021 Summer, Week 12

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.

Last week involved the Academy (Worlds) Finals, as well as the last few stages of the Unified Grand Prix tournament that determined the seeding for the last few qualifiers into Proving Grounds.

Haeri, Mid, Team Liquid Academy

Photo of 101383792849832093.pngMy choice for “series MVP” from the Academy Finals was Haeri. He was solid throughout, and he stepped up to carry game 5 on Lee Sin with a 4/0/9 scoreline to shut down Cloud9 Academy’s reverse-sweep attempt.

Haeri did well to apply side-lane pressure in the mid game and ensure TLA could trade objectives, and he made some useful Teleport plays as well. He tied Armao for the highest kill participation on the team (excluding Dhokla’s one game in as a sub).

Haeri Stats

  KDA KP GXD10 DPM CSPM
Fs 5.2 83.9% +49 474 9.3
POs 3.8 70.4% -57 474 8.7

Continue reading Academy Standouts: 2021 Summer, Week 12 →

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 →