Doublelift by no means didn’t make an LCS Finals look in no less than one of many splits since 2014. Will 2023 be the 12 months the streak will get damaged?
Not the 2023 100 Thieves followers have been searching for up to now. Coming into the season by breaking up the roster that received the primary title within the org’s historical past, and made three consecutive finals, and by signing two of probably the most recognizable names within the LCS historical past, the expectations had been sky excessive for the Thieves. However other than a seven-game win streak towards the tip of the common season, 100 Thieves’ Spring Break up positively didn’t fulfill their followers.
Offseason additionally began out tough. The org obtained blindsided when Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg introduced that he was retiring, this time for good. 100T CEO Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag mentioned they’d no thought concerning the star participant’s choice till he messaged them an hour earlier than he put out a press release, all of the whereas the remainder of the squad was preparing for a bootcamp in Korea.
gang’s all right here pic.twitter.com/bFmOPSoIQj
— 100 Thieves Esports (@100T_Esports) May 13, 2023
100 Thieves LCS Roster for the 2023 Summer time
- Prime lane: Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho
- Jungle: Can “Nearer” Çelik
- Mid lane: Lim “Quid” Hyeon-seung
- AD Carry: Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng
- Help: Alan “Busio” Cwalina
To discover a alternative for Bjergsen, 100 Thieves held tryouts in Korea, finally deciding on a younger prospect from the Challengers workforce of Gen.G. Lim “Quid” Hyeon-seung is a 19-year-old participant who has been part of LCK’s developmental system since 2020. Whereas he isn’t probably the most sought-after prospect popping out of the Korean Academy system, Quid is a participant with a whole lot of potential. He even subbed in for the primary Gen.G roster in the course of the 2022 LCK Spring, successful a collection towards Kwangdong Freecs. 100 Thieves followers shouldn’t count on him to run the league from day one, however he’s nonetheless an thrilling rookie to have within the LCS. One huge query mark although is about his visa scenario, as in Quid at present doesn’t have one. He is likely to be a bit of late to affix the roster, and it’s not clear who could be subbing in for the Thieves in that case.
Quid additionally isn’t the one signing for 100T for the Summer time. The longest-standing 100T participant, and a company corridor of famer, Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho is again in crimson and black after a break up with Evil Geniuses. Sadly, Ssumday didn’t have his greatest break up individually on EG. The veteran high laner has been a daily on the very best LCS high laners record most of his profession, however he couldn’t discover an excessive amount of success this Spring. Not as a weak facet participant and never on carry picks.
Referred to as up an previous good friend.
Welcome house, @Ssumday pic.twitter.com/Y9hcz1zfUR
— 100 Thieves Esports (@100T_Esports) May 12, 2023
Ssumday might want to step up his degree so much if this 100 Thieves workforce needs to get again to their glory days, and he’s not the one one. 100T already had a whole lot of inconsistent video games final Spring, and the performances of Busio and Nearer had been a giant a part of it. Each gamers had their champions that they carried out on, however as soon as they had been banned out they had been liable to wanting invisible. One fixed in all their wins was Doublelift carrying, and it would grow to be so much more durable this break up.
100 Thieves’ bot lane targeted type of play is likely to be so much more durable to execute with the large adjustments of patch 13.10. Whereas many ADCs Doublelift relied on nonetheless high tier, Riot confirmed their willingness to start out nerfing the position whereas bringing energy to different elements of the Rift. This may imply the opposite 4 gamers might want to step up and assist carry the load. One huge constructive with the potential meta adjustments is the jungle picks. We mentioned Nearer struggled on some champions, however he at all times appeared good when he had the sources on picks like Viego. So a extra resource-heavy type may deliver the hyper carry jungler again in him again out, which carried groups to finals earlier than.
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