Xayah

Both highest CS of all time in a winning team, okay? And let's go, we're going to talk about this.

Who are the other people in this top four? We've got Teddy, we've got Ruler, we've got Uzi, right? You know, sure, you can get lots of CS in losing games where you're just like, you have multiple, you know, you're playing Sivir, all the inhibitors are down, you're playing Xayah, all the inhibitors are down.

You can just farm 900 CS, 700, 800 CS, it's just like, anyone can do that if you just let the game progress.

But to be on a winning team, you know and be able to go and do that shows real real character right uh you know this is a player made the knockout knockout stages of worlds uh has one of the highest you know has a very has a has made worlds multiple times in his career has been amongst one of the top uh players in his region and by every metric except well every metric except for things in the top first 15 minutes of the game one of the best AD carries of all time not just not just in Europe and I mean around the world and even in the TSM teams where he didn't perform so well still had incredible stats because the only thing that matters for AD carry is how much CS you're getting and how much damage you're dealing per minute and of course I'm talking about Kobe and this is one of the reasons why this guy incredibly underrated player you know you just look at Every stat that matters for an AD carry.

But HLE, I kind of... have some bias towards them.

Even though I was saying Xayah doesn't have as much aura, he's my favorite top laner as far as just enjoying.

I always have a soft spot for the people who are cooking with the picks.

It's just fun to watch, right? I was excited for the Nasus and the Fiora and all the stuff he's brought out.

I mean, their solo laners, when they're playing at their best, can be the best in the world, period, right? Like, Bin and Night at their best are the best in their role.

Of course, they can lose, and there's other incredible players at this tournament.

I think especially top lane is, like, ridiculously stacked when you're looking at, like, Xayah and Keem from LCK.

But...

Is that inherent to the AD carry role there, or is that kind of just the nature of playing in a mobile carry in League of Legends? Isn't that just, isn't that non-role specific?

I would say that's definitely have an advantage if you play Xayah, and you can just ult the Rengar.

Of course, that's nice.

But what if the ult is not up, right? It's still the same issue.

Like, sure, you can have a couple more tools, maybe Ezreal E, but that usually is not enough to save you from a crazy red assassin really looking to just get you.

I think it's a general AD carry issue, but I think there are outliers that can deal with them.

I think Xayah is a good one that could deal with those specific threats we're talking about.

Maybe Ezreal, but not really.

Selsing goal.

I've got Aina here with Xayah, Kunya and Murillo, but I'd pick Milenkovic if he's fit.

And I've got no problem if Diamande does play.

I just thought he looked a little bit like he's still... adapting to the league against Palace so um that would be probably mine but I would put I would put Milenkovic in ahead of Aina if fit and then shift Jair out to the right uh Milos and Williams as wingbacks McAtee, Schlager and Sangare in midfield and then Gibbs-White in behind a lap so even though Dan and Joy I thought had his best game for us at Palace I would just like us to beef up midfield for sort of what the lads are saying just doing it a different way a bit of energy bit of um battling and grafting to keep the game tight and then minoz uh gibbs white and de lapp can still be uh the attacking threat also i just think calafiori doesn't play as a left back he plays as a winger so we're probably going to have to do something to to combat that because that spacing behind minoz could be a real problem so if we can add an extra body into midfield or something like that to combat calafiori I quite like to see it.

They really try and counter the enemy draft or synchronize with their ADs.

Like my AD carry was playing Xayah.

I'm going to play Rakan this game, you know? That's not what you should do.

That is not the correct approach for autofill support.

He was down, you know, 20, 30 CS even after this, and just constantly getting poked out and, and, um, you know, I was thinking that, like, looking at the, the comp on, on both sides, I really felt like TL had made some weird choices in draft.

There was this first round Xayah, Rakan, and then usually when people go, like, early Xayah, the other team goes, like, non-committal engage and, like, long range and all this sorta stuff.

And then into the Xayah they did Aurora, Wukong, Jax.

And you have Victor mid that absolutely can blast Aurora in the 1v1, 'cause you just outrange, you slowly poke, and you just get the push.

And so I was really thinking that this was gonna be a slow game that TL would just kind of lose.

So yeah, definitely big props to, to Thanatos there.

Some of our honorable mentions are the Jose Lee Sin kick, which was very recent, and Saint had this, uh, many good Sylas games, but he had the one where Inspired was on Nocturne, and Saint was on Sylas, and they had to defend against Team Liquid doing Baron.

And they're able to jump over the wall and kill Jan's Xayah, um, with a really nice combination from both Inspired and Saint.