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League of Legends LCS: Grading the 2020 team rosters

By Josh Tyler

Los Angeles, USA - July 21: --- during the 2019 League of Legends Championship Series Week 7 at the LCS Arena on July 21, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Paul de Leon/Riot Games)
Los Angeles, USA - July 21: --- during the 2019 League of Legends Championship Series Week 7 at the LCS Arena on July 21, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Paul de Leon/Riot Games) /
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Los Angeles, USA – August 4: — during the 2019 League of Legends Championship Series Week 9 at the LCS Arena on August 4, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Paul de Leon/Riot Games)
Los Angeles, USA – August 4: — during the 2019 League of Legends Championship Series Week 9 at the LCS Arena on August 4, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Paul de Leon/Riot Games) /

With all the North American League of Legends teams finalizing their rosters, here is how the LCS teams stack up on paper.

The League of Legends professional offseason has been hectic for the past few months, but things are finally coming to a close. With the recent announcement that Dignitas had rounded out their roster by adding Aphromoo, Grig, and Froggen, all of the LCS teams have confirmed their starting rosters for 2020. There are still several spots that are uncertain as far as Academy and coaching staff, but with these projected starting rosters finalized, how would we grade all ten of these rosters going into next year?

100 Thieves

Top: Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho
Jungle: William “Meteos” Hartman
Mid: Tommy “ry0ma” Le
ADC: Cody “Cody Sun” Sun
Support: William “Stunt” Chen
Coach: Tony “Zikz” Gray

After bringing in new general manager and former LCK commentator Christopher “PapaSmithy” Smith, 100 Thieves decided to go away from their previous philosophy of trying to “win” the offseason with big acquisitions as they had in the past and instead vowed to win by investing in young, homegrown talent. And, well, they only sort of did that.

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They brought in a solid coach in Zikz as the foundation and made up for past mistakes by bringing their ADC from 2018 and rising star Cody Sun as well as their former jungler Meteos. These moves opened up an import slot to bring back their carry top laner Ssumday, who was forced to languish in the Academy league last summer due to 100 Thieves needing to use their second import slot on mid laner Ryu when their first choice for mid Soligo didn’t pan out. It’s important to remember that this three-man core has worked together in the past and were part of that strong iteration of 2018 Spring 100 Thieves that dominated the LCS and eventually propelled the team to a Worlds appearance.

The big question marks come in their two other acquisitions. Both mid ry0ma and support Stunt are fairly green in terms of their experience. The Thieves showed us last year how a weak mid laner can hold a team back. Leaning heavily on ry0ma is a big gamble that could backfire or pay off huge dividends depending on his development, but overall he’s in a great position to prove himself with the core players around him.

Grade: B+

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