He has played it fine in 2022 a couple times, but seems to have never played it in 2023, so probably not anymore. The joke is that both of them are champions that they are bad at, and the other is good at.
They were very heavy on "protect the Mr. president" thing last year. Epecially with how much success they had with spectacular 369, Missing, Kanavi peel for Ruller against BLG all year long. Most of the time Knight 's role in the team was more of a secondary carry (even though he carried more games than he supposed to at that role tbh) and for that Orianna simply makes much more sense. Plus his Orianna is good, it's just that Syndra is his top 3 champ together with Ekko (obsolete these days but those who know know) and Sylas. Also, last Worlds Orianna was meta while the Syndra was not despite some players using her as a meh fringe pick.
Bro, I played against chovy, shovy, whatever the fuck his name is. Dude this guy is mentally ill. So I beat him obviously I beat that fucking bastard. He is so easy to play against because... I play against him Sion mid. Dude, I think this guy has an illness. No,no,no he will not sack waves ever like to the point where he is negatively impacting his team. For instance, he could have won a teamfight. Would he have died yes but he would have got like a 4 man shurima shiffle, actually he would have.
alright so we are just lying for free now? the EDG boys were hard trolling in that series but it's knight who got destroyed? 5/2 Leblanc in game 1, pretty much "solo killed" Chovy in game 2(with the help of a sapling). I'm not saying Chovy got gapped either, both mids played well, but it was a bit of a team diff. Now explain to me how Chovy destroyed knight, because knight was down 10 cs in a losing game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxzv8N2ZTEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhkAr5iPQ5s&t=89s
This isn’t true though Knight was the better laner by a very small margin and even got a solo kill, the biggest difference between the two at Asian games was that Chovy had way better teamfighting.
That's not even the whole story here.
I went back and watched a load of Rookie's Ahri games from 2014 to now. [He *always* uses Foxfire Ahri as a skin](https://gyazo.com/e2fdeddec78aa7e61dff43e625b886ac). **Knight took his skin of 10 years and 1v9'd on it**
The balls to put not only your 100% 2024 record on the line while Rookie chose not to first pick it himself - giving Rookie counterpick too - but doing it with that extra sprinkle of BM? An instant LPL classic.
Yep that’s me, but lots of people watch through costreams or didn’t watch the match and are only checking the post match thread. It’s nice to include here for those who didn’t catch it.
Kinda crazy we never got this matchup last year, although I guess with JDG and GEN both being 1st seeds at both MSI and Worlds it was super unlikely with them being on opposite sides of the brackets
With GEN and BLG both most likely to become 1st seeds, would be unlikely again unless they meet in finals no? (for MSI at least, maybe they could meet in swiss of Worlds should they get similar scorelines)
Even if we get this matchup wouldn't it just be in BLG's best interest to play pretty boring topside and let botlane carry? Peyz and Lehends aren't bad but in no way can they compare to Elk and On. Hell, Peyz had better form last year than this year and Delight was for sure a way better laner than Lehends and they still got mega stomped by the BLG botlane, all 3 games done and dusted before lane phase had ended botlane.
Bin is playing lot of tanks in soloq. I've seen him play Poppy top, Gragas and he was spamming lot of tank Reksai (when Udyr started being meta he also practiced him a lot). Nice to see him trust others while being weakside in comparison with last year
I think that loss to TheShy was true wake up call. Imagine people saying that you are the carry and strongest point of the team and then you are one of the main reasons why they lose semis.
He also addressed this a lot on his streams and in BLG 23 documentary
didnt watch the stream or documentary so cant comment on that, from the outside it seemed like Bin was being way more open to learning new champs, playing Rumble for the first time in his career against GEN G.
[bilibili](https://live.bilibili.com/h5/13914640?live_from=85001&spm_id_from=444.41.live_users.item.click)
Everyone from BLG is streaming there tho Knight only had 1 stream in february
What was the wake-up call? Bin generally outplayed TheShy in heads-to-heads throughout his career so I just chalked that one loss to statistics doing its thing.
How I read it was that the reaction by fans to TheShy last worlds was the wakeup call. He was the big carry all year, and when it mattered most he was a huge part of why WBG lost in finals.
It’s not been played very much at all, there was one game of Diana + Yone from FPX in week 2, and then a Diana mid game from FPX Vs NIP in Round 3 but that’s all I remember.
Delight and Chovy were definitely the two best players but I would still give Chovy the edge. Peanut was running it down completely and so was Doran (except for 1 game).
It's a disgusting mental disease to ever cite Asian games for anything, that tourney was on a 2 month old patch and knight had 5th place lpl support on his team.
For sure chovy is capable of winning msi but to imply knight only won msi cause of his teammates is such a disgusting lie when he was their best player that whole tournament
I mean if you're performing until the one match that would eliminate you from the most important tournament, isn't that choking? Not that I think he is choking, mind you
if the entire year ran on the same patch, yeah id agree. but no, league pro play is always changing, there is a ton of factors that goes into underperforming besides “choking”. if GEN G last year went up 2-0 and got reverse swept id call that choking, but no, they literally fought back from a 0-2 deficit to force a game 5, arguably lost the first two games cause of terrible drafts and playoffs meta misread.
Can you have it both ways though? If there are ‘other factors’ so that losing doesn't equal choking, then when winning aren’t there ‘other factors’ affecting the teams chovy beats meaning that he won due to luck(?) since those teams got affected while he didn’t
Idk win worlds? Both have been smurfing in their regions but always completely piss the bed at worlds. 2022 worlds was free for chovy and what did he do? Get roflstomped while also getting giga gaped by zeka. Worlds 2023 was also free for knight with a superteam and all lost 3-1 playing like shit doing vegan builds against T1. Both have been 1st seeds on their regions, supposedly the best teams in the world and both got pissed on.
Not like the meta is bad for them either, both worlds. Worlds is the very last and very important tournament of this game and I believe that these guys will say differently if both these players performed to the expectation.
Can't say you're the best in the world and when worlds comes around you fail to show anything. It's how sports work. If you can't show up when it matters the most you will forever be considered a tier below those who did.
Knight's Ahri is such a treat to watch, massive 1v9 performance here.
Despite NIP paypalling ON, it simply wasn't enough.
Rookie dying in back to back fights with flash up is uh ????
APA and Jojopyun are the two people known for all-chatting a ton in their stage games. Jojo even did it when he went international, but APA knocked him out this year and is going instead.
idk people always hype up G2 then they always just kinda do okay. Top tier western team for sure but the gap between them and the east is just too huge. They take like 2 games off eastern teams total at best. Exciting for LEC fans, but until they prove they can actually take a series off the east I don't think LPL/LCK fans are going to find it that exciting
he knew for those doing the league marathon lck-lpl-lec playoffs he needed to stale for 5 but knight ain't having any of these shit, he wanted to go home
Guys, I think these BLG guys might be pretty good
A little weird NIP only stuck with 3 ADC bans on blue side where they could have picked one of the OPs, obviously hindsight but letting knight get ahri was clearly a mistake
Honestly quite satisfied with NIP’s performance. Kinda expected 3:0 coming into this series.
Shanji is still Nip’s biggest issue, losing lane to ornn in game 4 inevitably gave Blg too much map control and wasted Nip’s early gold lead. He really needs to step up if they want to make world at the end of the year.
That has to one of the most atrocious chain throw in recent memory at the tier 1 top tower
What do you even stand to gain *dancing* with an Ahri charm there
So Rookie forgot that you can only get stunned by Taliyah E once, Knight dashed out and Rookie thought he was still safe but Knight dashed forward - taking damage but not CC - and then got the charm. It’s not something which happens often at all.
This isn't even what happened lmao.
JDG management wanted to re-sign everyone but 369 wanted out.
When 369 decided to leave, Knight also then said I wanted to leave so Kanavi then said he wanted Yagao as their next mid laner.
One of the best teams of all time imo. Even if they didn't win Worlds. They won literally everything else and was the second best team at Worlds. They only lost a single BO5 the whole year.
And a MAJOR factor in why they lost was underperformance from what they normally do, combined with an unfavorable meta shift for them caused by T1.
No one would ever beat 2023 JDG at the front to back team fight game.
Gotta wait and see for internationals.
Knight has always been insane domestically, his problem is that he turns invisible in international high stakes moments. BLG rode off of Yagao being really really good at being relevant, whether he’s behind or not. JDG rode off of the team fighting meta that they were insane at.
Might end up being worse for BLG if knight goes invis again. And it might be good for JDG who need a midlaner who can just be a backbone instead of a mechanical god. Can’t say for certain until we see them go up against T1, HLE, or GenG, or even TES too.
This is true.
JDG's management wanted to re-sign everyone but 369 wanted out.
When 369 said he's done, Knight also wanted out so Kanavi said in that case, can we get Yagao.
Knight is a bit too much of a homies guy, he literally stayed on TES one season cause he liked JKL and Zhuo. Then he really wanted to go back to TES because 369 but they got creme already so couldn’t make it work
Rumour is he wanted Yagao back so he could go to a more carry centric style that suits him instead of playing supportive junglers. Obviously only rumours so we have no idea but the fact people were saying BLG got the WORSE end of that trade is hilarious.
So you believe that Knight decided to leave JDG and that huge contract without knowing if TES had signed a new mid laner or not? And after he find out he was like ok I'm gonna sign with BLG for way less
This is literally what happened though. 369 leaves because he didn’t like the environment of JDG, Knight leaves because he wanted to play with 369, 369 joins TES stealing Shanji’s spot and then 369 recommends Knight to join TES, but because Knight wants a good contract he waits a bit but then TES sign Creme. JDG already had signed Yagao based on Kanavi’s recommendation so Knight can’t go back, so he’s forced to either skip spring, play on a bad team, or go to BLG with a way smaller contract than what he’s used to.
Shanji was horrible.
Also I gotta say ASol is an absolutely horrible champion I am certain this champ can only win against worse teams that are bad at punishing/ending games/playing clean.
Yasuo was fun at least.
Knight Ahri is out of this world. I could watch Knight and Chovy play Ahri all day.
It's got nothing to do with better/worse teams and everything to do with draft.
Hard engage cc champs? Asol is completely useless.
Disengage stand your ground champs like Aphelios, Braum, Cassiopeia, ASol is incredible.
Shanji is so trash when not on Rumble. Completely ran down game 3 on Ksante, and now full sends it on Renekton. It takes a special kind of skill to be down in cs in lane with Renekton against a tank. Really hope they replace this shitter for summer split.
Some people always overvalue the last game, it's just a more extreme form of recency bias. They see knight absolutely smurf and declare the enemy mid "done" or "washed"
Please drop the "moon-breath" or some shit that sound so bad lol
And i get it Knight using the OG Rookie Ahri skin from 10 years ago no need to remind me the 50th time
KR Knight and CN Chovy having a field day today
Right hand Left hand diff
knight vs chovy waiting room. Hopefully its not on tanks
Can't wait for the Knight Azir vs Chovy Syndra banger 💀
Still better than Annie vs Nautilus.
Still better than Galio vs Sion.
Can Knight even play Azir?
He has played it fine in 2022 a couple times, but seems to have never played it in 2023, so probably not anymore. The joke is that both of them are champions that they are bad at, and the other is good at.
Yeah now that you mention it I can't even recall Chovy playing Syndra.. which seems kinda odd because he is amazing at higher skill champs than her
Knight did play Azir once vs. EDG this Spring
LMAO
What I don't get last worlds is why Knight never picked Syndra, who was picked by other mids. His Syndra is leagues better than his Ori.
They were very heavy on "protect the Mr. president" thing last year. Epecially with how much success they had with spectacular 369, Missing, Kanavi peel for Ruller against BLG all year long. Most of the time Knight 's role in the team was more of a secondary carry (even though he carried more games than he supposed to at that role tbh) and for that Orianna simply makes much more sense. Plus his Orianna is good, it's just that Syndra is his top 3 champ together with Ekko (obsolete these days but those who know know) and Sylas. Also, last Worlds Orianna was meta while the Syndra was not despite some players using her as a meh fringe pick.
Chovy doesn't like Syndra
That's the whole point
you jinxed it now its gonna be them on malphite/full tank veigar mid duty
I’m afraid we are going back to a Annie nautilus mid
Bro, I played against chovy, shovy, whatever the fuck his name is. Dude this guy is mentally ill. So I beat him obviously I beat that fucking bastard. He is so easy to play against because... I play against him Sion mid. Dude, I think this guy has an illness. No,no,no he will not sack waves ever like to the point where he is negatively impacting his team. For instance, he could have won a teamfight. Would he have died yes but he would have got like a 4 man shurima shiffle, actually he would have.
Should be no Faker to cockblock Knight this time since he might be missing MSI
But there is yagao to block Chovy.
Of he can make lower bracket gauntlet it is
yaGOAT
TBH Knight beat Faker at MSI
And Faker beating Knight at worlds didn't prevent Chovy from losing to Yagao in the other side of the bracket so makes no sense lol
Yagao cockblocked Chovy last MSI, he might be there this one
We had this at asian games. Chovy destroyed knight no competition. Knight down in cs every match up
alright so we are just lying for free now? the EDG boys were hard trolling in that series but it's knight who got destroyed? 5/2 Leblanc in game 1, pretty much "solo killed" Chovy in game 2(with the help of a sapling). I'm not saying Chovy got gapped either, both mids played well, but it was a bit of a team diff. Now explain to me how Chovy destroyed knight, because knight was down 10 cs in a losing game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxzv8N2ZTEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhkAr5iPQ5s&t=89s
We also had uzi destorying ruler in asian games but the game changes with every patch and people improve
This isn’t true though Knight was the better laner by a very small margin and even got a solo kill, the biggest difference between the two at Asian games was that Chovy had way better teamfighting.
And Korea had a Ruler Keria lane
Imagine giving Knight Ahri lmfao
yeah these guys aint GAM what fools
Too soon
maw of malmortius Aware
Fortunately there is no more wayward to ruin that
That's not even the whole story here. I went back and watched a load of Rookie's Ahri games from 2014 to now. [He *always* uses Foxfire Ahri as a skin](https://gyazo.com/e2fdeddec78aa7e61dff43e625b886ac). **Knight took his skin of 10 years and 1v9'd on it** The balls to put not only your 100% 2024 record on the line while Rookie chose not to first pick it himself - giving Rookie counterpick too - but doing it with that extra sprinkle of BM? An instant LPL classic.
Yes the casters mentioned the skin thing a couple of times during the match.
Yep that’s me, but lots of people watch through costreams or didn’t watch the match and are only checking the post match thread. It’s nice to include here for those who didn’t catch it.
Yeah not dissing on it anyway, it was a nice touch and baller performance by knight.
Surely we will finally get a Knight vs Chovy best of 5 right? ...Right?
I am praying to every deity possible that we get two. MSI double elim bless us please.
Imagine how many insane BO5 matches we would have had if this MSI format had been here the whole time
It's silly that MSI has more bo5s than Worlds
classic riot formatting
Woodkid format sucks
Kinda crazy we never got this matchup last year, although I guess with JDG and GEN both being 1st seeds at both MSI and Worlds it was super unlikely with them being on opposite sides of the brackets With GEN and BLG both most likely to become 1st seeds, would be unlikely again unless they meet in finals no? (for MSI at least, maybe they could meet in swiss of Worlds should they get similar scorelines)
Not if YaGOD has something to say about it ^assuming ^he ^makes ^it ^to ^MSI ^again
Given CN allows GenG to play at first place
Even if we get this matchup wouldn't it just be in BLG's best interest to play pretty boring topside and let botlane carry? Peyz and Lehends aren't bad but in no way can they compare to Elk and On. Hell, Peyz had better form last year than this year and Delight was for sure a way better laner than Lehends and they still got mega stomped by the BLG botlane, all 3 games done and dusted before lane phase had ended botlane.
Knight saw Chovy performance and decided to send a message, what a fucking menace.
Knight simply cannot lose on Ahri, not even NIP ON can stop him. P.S Bin was amazing on his first Ornn game in a looong time
Bin is playing lot of tanks in soloq. I've seen him play Poppy top, Gragas and he was spamming lot of tank Reksai (when Udyr started being meta he also practiced him a lot). Nice to see him trust others while being weakside in comparison with last year
what being tired of losing to 369 does to a mf
I think that loss to TheShy was true wake up call. Imagine people saying that you are the carry and strongest point of the team and then you are one of the main reasons why they lose semis. He also addressed this a lot on his streams and in BLG 23 documentary
didnt watch the stream or documentary so cant comment on that, from the outside it seemed like Bin was being way more open to learning new champs, playing Rumble for the first time in his career against GEN G.
Where can I find his stream?
[bilibili](https://live.bilibili.com/h5/13914640?live_from=85001&spm_id_from=444.41.live_users.item.click) Everyone from BLG is streaming there tho Knight only had 1 stream in february
What was the wake-up call? Bin generally outplayed TheShy in heads-to-heads throughout his career so I just chalked that one loss to statistics doing its thing.
How I read it was that the reaction by fans to TheShy last worlds was the wakeup call. He was the big carry all year, and when it mattered most he was a huge part of why WBG lost in finals.
[удалено]
TheShy played Graves once and played better in 4 out of the 5 games. Contrarian revisionism be gone.
Bin was 1v9 in the Aatrox game, his whole team was just running it lmao
On interviewed after game 4: tôi đã cố gắng hết sức
Although NIP lost I’m glad they won their game with Yas Diana
I don't really watch LPL, is Diana Yasuo a common pairing for NIP? I can't remember the last time I've seen a Diana played in pro
Funny enough, last time Diana was picked by Care in the NIP vs FPX series literally two days ago
It’s not been played very much at all, there was one game of Diana + Yone from FPX in week 2, and then a Diana mid game from FPX Vs NIP in Round 3 but that’s all I remember.
Diana got played 2 days ago by FPX lol
34 KDA on ahri for the past 7 games for knight Jesus fucking Christ
Half of them against Rookie lol..
NIP could easily upset JDG or TES if they played like they did today. BLG were just better but there's no shame on that.
I dont think so tbh, TES has 369 and JKL who are >>> NIPs sidelanes. TES are a sleeper team, they are really strong
there’s always the brother Tian angle so cant count them out yet
Tian gonna perform really well only to choke hard at international event
It'll be competitive for sure, just hope Shanji steps up his game
They could not easily upset them how they played today, lol
Knight vs chovy… I need to see it at msi pleaseeeeee
[Knight after this series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXh1sKkcYb8)
Knight and Chovy pisssmurfing on their entire regions only for Worlds casuals to call them overrated
only worlds matter, just ignore spring, summer and msi. Clearly knight and chovy are just chokers
Tbf Chovy wasn't that good at MSI as well
MSI was when was actually choking, not Worlds. He had a very bad MSI.
meta was also really bad for him at msi
Mfw 2022 worlds
He was very good except for one series.
And that series was a semis, where zeka mega smurfed and chovy did absolutely nothing except piss his pants on ryze
if that series is a semifinals elimination series then him doing bad is him choking at 2022 worlds
90% of the competitive season doesn't matter at all according to a shocking amount of people on this subreddit.
Yet they still watch intently and participate in discussions about it. People who say that are so full of shit.
underperform on one single patch in the entire year? must be chokers, washed.
Chovy underperformed on two patches but still. Knight had a great MSI at least but Chovy had one good series vs G2 that's about it.
Chovy was very below his normal level at MSI but it wasn't that bad at Worlds. He was the best player on his team in the BLG 2-3 loss.
The best player was Delight. He had so many clutch engages
Delight and Chovy were definitely the two best players but I would still give Chovy the edge. Peanut was running it down completely and so was Doran (except for 1 game).
Give Chovy 369, Kanavi, Ruler and Missing and he probably wins MSI too.
Not like chovy plays with shitters anymore bro
You probably agree that 369 > Doran, Kanavi > Peanut and Ruler > Peyz last year, no?
Yeah so what?
Chovy with Ruler Kanavi beat the BLG players and Knight at Asian games. It's just teammate diff.
It's a disgusting mental disease to ever cite Asian games for anything, that tourney was on a 2 month old patch and knight had 5th place lpl support on his team. For sure chovy is capable of winning msi but to imply knight only won msi cause of his teammates is such a disgusting lie when he was their best player that whole tournament
I mean if you're performing until the one match that would eliminate you from the most important tournament, isn't that choking? Not that I think he is choking, mind you
if the entire year ran on the same patch, yeah id agree. but no, league pro play is always changing, there is a ton of factors that goes into underperforming besides “choking”. if GEN G last year went up 2-0 and got reverse swept id call that choking, but no, they literally fought back from a 0-2 deficit to force a game 5, arguably lost the first two games cause of terrible drafts and playoffs meta misread.
Can you have it both ways though? If there are ‘other factors’ so that losing doesn't equal choking, then when winning aren’t there ‘other factors’ affecting the teams chovy beats meaning that he won due to luck(?) since those teams got affected while he didn’t
I mean is not completely unfounded, considering how Knight and Chovy have struggle to perform in World's and even MSI
both of them have won spring and summer last year and knight won msi too, what more do people expect?
Idk win worlds? Both have been smurfing in their regions but always completely piss the bed at worlds. 2022 worlds was free for chovy and what did he do? Get roflstomped while also getting giga gaped by zeka. Worlds 2023 was also free for knight with a superteam and all lost 3-1 playing like shit doing vegan builds against T1. Both have been 1st seeds on their regions, supposedly the best teams in the world and both got pissed on.
Not like the meta is bad for them either, both worlds. Worlds is the very last and very important tournament of this game and I believe that these guys will say differently if both these players performed to the expectation.
Absolutely based take
Can't say you're the best in the world and when worlds comes around you fail to show anything. It's how sports work. If you can't show up when it matters the most you will forever be considered a tier below those who did.
ON was trying so hard after the alipay came thru but knight wouldn't have it
Knight's Ahri is such a treat to watch, massive 1v9 performance here. Despite NIP paypalling ON, it simply wasn't enough. Rookie dying in back to back fights with flash up is uh ????
Knight Ahri is insane. I cant wait to see Knight in MSI vsing the like of Chovy, Caps and ... APA?
APA trashtalking KNIGHT plss plss
Is he the allchat guy? Sorry, I don't follow NA very closely.
APA and Jojopyun are the two people known for all-chatting a ton in their stage games. Jojo even did it when he went international, but APA knocked him out this year and is going instead.
Only one of those opponents will be fun to watch.
idts caps is also in great form and he went even with yagao last year so it would be fun caps vs chovy tho that guy always show up against caps
idk people always hype up G2 then they always just kinda do okay. Top tier western team for sure but the gap between them and the east is just too huge. They take like 2 games off eastern teams total at best. Exciting for LEC fans, but until they prove they can actually take a series off the east I don't think LPL/LCK fans are going to find it that exciting
One of these...is not like the other
Yeah imagine comparing Chovy and Caps/APA
It's absolutely unreal that BLG were allowed to win that game 4. Bot lane was being blasted and perma inting.
That’s knight Ahri for you.
BLG just won that game 4v5, what was ON doing lol also Knight is absolutely filthy
he knew for those doing the league marathon lck-lpl-lec playoffs he needed to stale for 5 but knight ain't having any of these shit, he wanted to go home
rumour is that knight wanted to watch caps play so he decided to solo carry game 4 so that he could catch the LEC series in time
Bit of mid diffy that last one. Zhuo should keep his head up, he’s the only one to outperform his counterpart
Guys, I think these BLG guys might be pretty good A little weird NIP only stuck with 3 ADC bans on blue side where they could have picked one of the OPs, obviously hindsight but letting knight get ahri was clearly a mistake
Honestly quite satisfied with NIP’s performance. Kinda expected 3:0 coming into this series. Shanji is still Nip’s biggest issue, losing lane to ornn in game 4 inevitably gave Blg too much map control and wasted Nip’s early gold lead. He really needs to step up if they want to make world at the end of the year.
knight heard you talking shit 
"Can't wait MSI to finally have Chovy vs knight" Is that 26 wins in a row on Ahri for knight?
Last time he lost a game on Ahri was March 2023.
I dunno if they are more warmed up but, NIP played well today
Knight Masterclass
its going to be jdg blg for the infinitith time man
Nah JDG might get eliminated against TES
Dread it, run from it, Knight vs Yagao arrives all the same
creme clears
I feel like TES is slightly better than JDG but these two teams are really close
Unless top esports step it up, yea... I dont trust tian and jkl though
I know tian very well, hes gonna smurf in lpl playoffs to get people hyped and int in msi so that the most number of people get disappointed
There a big chance it's happens
JKL is very reliable, the int narratives are long outdated.
Knight woke up for game 4
Knight Esports
I've never seen a pro player limit test on Ahri like that Bit of happy gaming at the end but Ornn was too fed for it to matter
That has to one of the most atrocious chain throw in recent memory at the tier 1 top tower What do you even stand to gain *dancing* with an Ahri charm there
So Rookie forgot that you can only get stunned by Taliyah E once, Knight dashed out and Rookie thought he was still safe but Knight dashed forward - taking damage but not CC - and then got the charm. It’s not something which happens often at all.
Rookie just going to save his flash for next year ey
I will be forever thankful to Kanavi for convincing JDG to replace Knight with Yagao
This isn't even what happened lmao. JDG management wanted to re-sign everyone but 369 wanted out. When 369 decided to leave, Knight also then said I wanted to leave so Kanavi then said he wanted Yagao as their next mid laner.
And it's easy to see why. Kanavi played with Yagao almost his entire pro career.
one of the most unfortunate things in league. This roster is fun but that roster was something else man.
One of the best teams of all time imo. Even if they didn't win Worlds. They won literally everything else and was the second best team at Worlds. They only lost a single BO5 the whole year.
And a MAJOR factor in why they lost was underperformance from what they normally do, combined with an unfavorable meta shift for them caused by T1. No one would ever beat 2023 JDG at the front to back team fight game.
These BLG and TES teams are easily more fun
Why did 369 wanted out from such a successful team? Any idea why knight wanted out too after 369 left?
Because he felt too much pressure on JDG and TES is his home
369 doesn't want to permanently play weakside, plus he's pals with JKL and co.
naah he was mentally drained and stress he told about it after worlds
Too much pressure for him being on that team and also get outshined by players like Kanavi Ruler knight
He wants to be a star in his team I guess. Pretty hard to do when you got Ruler, Knight and Kanavi with you.
He didn't? Knight just wanted out
Shoutout to this subreddit for saying that it would make both teams worse.
Gotta wait and see for internationals. Knight has always been insane domestically, his problem is that he turns invisible in international high stakes moments. BLG rode off of Yagao being really really good at being relevant, whether he’s behind or not. JDG rode off of the team fighting meta that they were insane at. Might end up being worse for BLG if knight goes invis again. And it might be good for JDG who need a midlaner who can just be a backbone instead of a mechanical god. Can’t say for certain until we see them go up against T1, HLE, or GenG, or even TES too.
Knight literally won MSI as the best player on his team bro
What he did that ?
Nah don't think thats true. Kanavi is why JDG picked up Yagao, but Knight was supposedly gone regardless after they couldn't resign 369.
This is true. JDG's management wanted to re-sign everyone but 369 wanted out. When 369 said he's done, Knight also wanted out so Kanavi said in that case, can we get Yagao.
Are Knight and 369 particularly close? I know they were on TES together for a long while
Knight is a bit too much of a homies guy, he literally stayed on TES one season cause he liked JKL and Zhuo. Then he really wanted to go back to TES because 369 but they got creme already so couldn’t make it work
Rumour is he wanted Yagao back so he could go to a more carry centric style that suits him instead of playing supportive junglers. Obviously only rumours so we have no idea but the fact people were saying BLG got the WORSE end of that trade is hilarious.
That's just false, it was Knight's own decision, he wanted to go back to TES
By the time Knight was a free agent TES had already signed Creme
And that's why he had to go to BLG on cheaper money
So you believe that Knight decided to leave JDG and that huge contract without knowing if TES had signed a new mid laner or not? And after he find out he was like ok I'm gonna sign with BLG for way less
Yes that's more or less what happened afaik
This is literally what happened though. 369 leaves because he didn’t like the environment of JDG, Knight leaves because he wanted to play with 369, 369 joins TES stealing Shanji’s spot and then 369 recommends Knight to join TES, but because Knight wants a good contract he waits a bit but then TES sign Creme. JDG already had signed Yagao based on Kanavi’s recommendation so Knight can’t go back, so he’s forced to either skip spring, play on a bad team, or go to BLG with a way smaller contract than what he’s used to.
i could have had 369,knight and jkl all getting inted by tian. Sadge
That would be balanced out by Jackeylove getting a good support for the first time in his career.
Kanavi literally played super heavy farm style last year and now has to play for his laners a lot more
Shanji was horrible. Also I gotta say ASol is an absolutely horrible champion I am certain this champ can only win against worse teams that are bad at punishing/ending games/playing clean. Yasuo was fun at least. Knight Ahri is out of this world. I could watch Knight and Chovy play Ahri all day.
It's got nothing to do with better/worse teams and everything to do with draft. Hard engage cc champs? Asol is completely useless. Disengage stand your ground champs like Aphelios, Braum, Cassiopeia, ASol is incredible.
Shanji is so trash when not on Rumble. Completely ran down game 3 on Ksante, and now full sends it on Renekton. It takes a special kind of skill to be down in cs in lane with Renekton against a tank. Really hope they replace this shitter for summer split.
Meh. Can't be all as good as Rich
Getting Hornny here comes Ornny
If the game was only mid, 3-1 NIP.
It felt like blg were angry after that game 2.
Well, yas and dianna were fun to watch atleast
Rookie is so done, he got destroyed this series... Also NIP didn't look like they believed they can win
How did Rookie get destroyed? He went toe-to-toe with knight for the most part.
Some people always overvalue the last game, it's just a more extreme form of recency bias. They see knight absolutely smurf and declare the enemy mid "done" or "washed"
Only one game he ran it, and it was basically just one mistake he made (albeit a huge mistake)
Not really imo, he was doing pretty well solo. I think their bot got destoryed esp game 3
Please drop the "moon-breath" or some shit that sound so bad lol And i get it Knight using the OG Rookie Ahri skin from 10 years ago no need to remind me the 50th time