League of Legends: How every LCS team can upgrade their roster
By Josh Tyler
With the League of Legends Spring Split entering its mini “offseason” how can each LCS team improve their roster?
The LCS season is over and the kings of NA League of Legends have been crowned. Team Liquid secured themselves their third-straight LCS title after executing an incredible reverse-sweep over TSM on Saturday. But as we saw last weekend and towards the end of the regular season, Team Liquid is not invincible.
As a result, Liquid could (and should) be looking to tinker with their roster and see if there are any upgrades they can make. And if the reigning LCS champion’s roster has holes in it, that certainly means that the other teams could upgrade theirs.
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We’ll be looking at available, current players in the LCS who could swap teams and make their new team’s roster better. This means that if the player swapping into a new roster requires an import slot, the new team either needs to have one available or be swapping out an import for the new player. We’ll also try to keep these projections somewhat realistic (i.e. every team would improve if they added Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng, Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg, or Jo “CoreJJ” Yong-in, but those aren’t likely to happen).
1. Team Liquid
Out: Jung “Impact” Eon-yeong
In: Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho
I don’t want to keep beating the dead horse that is Impact, but dear God that guy got absolutely abused by Broken Blade. With step-up performances from Xmithie and Doublelift leading them to their reverse-sweep of TSM, a lot of eyes were probably looking at Impact to see where exactly he was.
Yes, he played stellar in the previous week’s series against FlyQuest, but as I noted in the preview that was likely the benefit of getting to bully V1per. One of the statistically weakest top laners in the LCS last split, Liquid should certainly look to upgrade if they truly fancy themselves as a competitive team at Worlds.
That player is Ssumday, who was statistically a monster on a pathetic 100 Thieves team last split. Although he would take an import slot, and CoreJJ and Jensen both currently occupy those slots, a quirk in the residency system will allow Jensen to gain NA residency status for this split. With one open slot coming, Ssumday would be a perfect fit.