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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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FlyQuest

Top: Omran “V1per” Shoura
Jungle: Lucas “Santorin” Tao Kilmer Larsen
Mid: Tristan “PowerOfEvil” Schrage
ADC: Jason “WildTurtle” Tran
Support: Lee “IgNar” Dong-geun
Coach: Anand “Curry” Agarwal

FlyQuest is an intriguing case study because they improved the exact positions that most people would say they needed to, yet I think they might be worse off than they were last year. I love the additions of PowerofEvil to replace Pobelter and IgNar to replace JayJ/Wadid. On paper, those are pure upgrades.

Otherwise, FlyQuest kept the same core of players that propelled them to a fourth-place finish in the spring. Unfortunately, that is the same core of players that flamed out spectacularly and missed the playoffs in summer.

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This team has major deficiencies in their ADC role, with WildTurtle being one of the worst statistical bot laners in North American League of Legends last year. Santorin, after a spectacular spring, was just okay in the summer, and V1per had a poor rookie year. There’s potential in this squad for sure, but they could also be one of the league’s doormats.

Grade: C-

Golden Guardians

Top: Kevin “Hauntzer” Yarnell
Jungle: Can “Closer” Celik
Mid: Greyson “Goldenglue” Gilmer
ADC: Victor “FBI” Huang
Support: Yuri “Keith” Jew
Coach: Nick “Inero” Smith

Speaking of LCS doormats, here’s a team I would bet folding money on missing the playoffs in both splits in 2020. Every move that Golden Guardians made this offseason had me scratching my head.

They dropped their, at least decent, native jungler Contractz for a wildly overrated import jungler in Closer. They let go of Froggen, one of the team’s centerpieces last year, to replace him Goldenglue, a native mid laner who has never shown that he can be close to even decent compared to his contemporaries.

They kept young, struggling ADC FBI, which is a bit disappointing but at least understandable if they hope he can continue to develop in North America. However, instead of attempting to find a strong, native support to help elevate his game, they role swapped Keith who could never consistently crack the LCS as an ADC to be his support.

Every one of these changes, in my mind, is a surefire downgrade for GGS, and they were a team that was in the hunt for a gauntlet spot during the summer. As a result of these changes, I’d go ahead and cement them in the bottom two in the LCS.

Grade: D

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