In an interview with Travis Gaffordthe former Fnatic top laner returned to the start of his team’s Summer Splitas well as on top their current weaknesses. Bwipo also cited the teams he distrusts in the North American championship, before moving on to a certain way that the League of Legends community has of apprehending things, which he finds erroneous. As usual, he didn’t minced his words while keeping his good humor, giving an interview full of bite and freshness.
Team Liquid, a complicated start?
Today Team Liquid counts 5 wins for 2 lossesbut Bwipo recalls that his team literally stole a game. This was the encounter against Flyquest during the second week of the LCS. The toplaner prefers to say that his team is 4-3 for him, because even if the numbers say otherwise, he cannot consider this a clear victory. According to him, Team Liquid still has some problems at the macro level. Their decisions are not always sharp enough, which can create moments of hesitation. In addition, some decisions are not necessarily relevant, or when they remain relevant, they are not necessarily taken for the right reasons.
This difference at the macro level is, according to him, what marks the border between a team with international ambitions and a team that performs well in its league. Team Liquid has the potential to be ranked in the first tier, but has not yet raised its level of play enough to be part of this tier. This is also one of the ambitions of Bwipo, who believes that today the team is seen as a strong team, but it is possible to beat. He wants the team to become the kind of opponent that opponents say to each other before the start of the week, that the best performance they can do is a 1-1 (the loss of course taking place against Team Liquid).
Besides, no team in NA can’t really claim at the moment fall into this category according to Bwipo. Evil Geniuses are the strongest team, but they still lack something to become a real threat on the international stage. The toplaner has ambitions to take Team Liquid to the top, but he readily admits that the team still needs to improve to rise to the challenge. This progression mainly concerns their vision of the game, so that their in-game decisions are better.
What bothers him about community analytics
The former Fnatic then continues on a concern caused by the analyzes of the community, in particular on the team drafts. For him, the community sees things in binary ways, and if a champion is not good then he sucks. This lack of nuance bothers him, because some champions can just be average or ok. It is not necessarily because a team does not choose the champions supposed to be the strongest that its draft is missed. Se restrict just to OP characters would be close the door to certain optionswhich may be relevant in a given situation.
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