Luann Eades

There's a lot to unpack from 2020's first international tournament, from Korean champs T1 being eliminated in the group stage, to Kang "TheShy" Seung-lok's concerning performances. But here are five of the biggest takeaways from the 2020 Mid-Season Top Esports was easily the best team this tournament, dropping only two games, both to FPX. Their intelligence and poise, combined with their LPL-style pop-offs went unmatched. Each player on Top Esports carried their weight in their own lanes and the team came together during teamfights to create perfect engages with their near flawless mechan In the beginning dump points into Double Up to really bulldoze clusters of enemies, at level eight start dumping points into Strut to help you kite enemies while your tank tackles them, and start seriously upgrading Make It Rain at level 14. Glacial Augment helps a lot with t 2017 was more of the same for G2, winning both the spring and summer splits, marking the organization's third and fourth consecutive titles, Leagueoflegendsportal.Com cementing them as a European dynasty. However, it wasn't all smooth sailing for the juggernauts. Following Zven and Mithy leaving Europe to play in North America for Team SoloMid, and the exits of Trick and Expect, G2 was left with a roster consisting solely of their superstar Perkz. The team built around their mid laner, signing Martin "Wunder" Nordahl Hansen, Marcin "Jankos" Jankowski, Kim "Wadid" Bae-in and Petter "Hjarnan" Freyschuss for the 2018 sea G2's first game in the LCS was on January 14th, 2016. Following the departure of SmittyJ and Jesse, G2 added Kim "Trick" Gang-yun and Kim "Emperor" Jin-hyun to play in the jungle and bottom lane. Still led by Kikis and Perkz (although no longer with a capital "z"), the fresh young team faced off against Elements and former Gamers2 mid laner Eika, in their first LCS g In Evil Geniuses' first split back in the LCS, they made waves by signing high profile players in reigning MVP Dennis "Svenskeren" Johnsen, former Team Vitality mid-laner Daniele "Jiizuke" di Mauro and Bae "Bang" Jun-sik, who won two World Championships back when he was a part of SKT T1 in 2015 and 2016. The team also added former Cloud9 youngsters Tristan "Zeyzal" Stidam and Colin "Kumo" Zhao. Despite looking inconstant at times, EG finished the split in 3rd place, losing to Flyquest in the semi-fin This is a fun build that works surprisingly well on standard matches, but will likely struggle in ranked matches. Your goal, in the beginning, is to farm minions before pushing hard in the mid-game. The end-game is where you’ll sh PC MOBAs force players to be quick with their fingers in choosing the right loadout, targets, and even position on the battlefield. This caveat makes matches more intense. However, a mobile MOBA tries to simplify this with more accessible shortcuts and acti As a ranged hero, Xayah heavily relies on the deadly feathers that she throws with frightening precision. Her whole appearance tells that she’s wild and dangerous, and it goes along with her quest to protect her people. You shouldn’t be fooling around with such a masterful warr Taking cues from popular mobile MOBA, Wild Rift features dual-stick controls. While this makes point-and-click skills turn into skill shots, Wild Rift did overhaul the UI to make handling Champions much more fl For instance, Champions are capped at Level 15 instead of Level 18, making matches faster. Players can customize Champions with Runes, some of which only activate at certain levels within matches. Moreover, players have access to two Spells that aid them in battle, which is a welcome change from the usual one Spell from other mobile MO The recent addition of Yu "JackeyLove" Wen-Bo seems to have unlocked something in this team. The upcoming Summer Split will be JackeyLove's first full split with Top Esports, and fans can expect the young bot laner to be one of the main contributors as they compete in the Another blade-wielding assassin, Akali in her genuine form looks as if she’s one of the Mortal Kombat female ninjas. In other words, you know exactly what to expect from this dangerous and murderous champion. And that’s what makes some of her alternative skins even more valuable as they tend to create fully original lore behind the charac SK Gaming finished as the second-worst team in the League of Legends European Championship this past spring. After winning just four out of their eighteen total games, SK announced some major roster shakeups that they hope will help propel them back into competition among Europe's fin Standard ability allocation, Infinity Edge to milk Critical Strikes, Essence Reaver to keep pausing abilities, and attack speed boosting items like Berserker's Greaves and Rapid Firecannon are recommended. Early game you’re farming minions in the bot lane, mid-game you switch to objective stealing and assisting team fights, late-game you’re focusing on tower takedo