5 Takeaways from the League of Legends Mid-Season Cup

FunPlus Phoenix, although still one of the most dangerous teams in the world, still have issues they need to iron out. They constantly make poor decisions, and their in-your-face, aggressive play backfired against teams who were ready for

Flyquest has outperformed all exceptions this split, in large part due to their 22 year old German mid laner. Along with having the coolest name in the LCS, PowerOfEvil has led his team to four victories in a row. During week 5 he flexed his expansive champion pool, playing Orianna against Golden Guardians and Corki against Counter Logic Gaming, both firsts for him this split. PowerOfEvil was also the first player in the world to win a game as Corki this year. Immortals' Eika and DAMWON Gaming's ShowMaker in Korea were the only other players to use Corki, both losing their games on t he daring bombardier . As Flyquest looks to finish out the season strong, they will lean on PowerOfEvil to be a dominant force in the mid l

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

There could be some exceptions, but a cosplay by Roulette is authentic to the core. Moreover, the creator stepped away from the original looks of the character and went for a lot more challenging (and equally more impressive) skin of Captain Fort

While educational streams are very popular due to the number of people that want to learn the game, some streams are popular because of how entertaining they are, both on Mixer and on Twitch. The 10 streamers below are renowned as some of the funniest streaming the game right

Tyler Steinkamp (known as Tyler 1) is a full-time streamer that never played League of Legends Support guide of Legends as a professional. He became popular after receiving an ID ban from Riot Games for toxicity. Fortunately, he was not banned from Twitch, like Del

Top Esports mid laner Zhuo "knight" Ding's performance in the Mid-Season Cup was nothing short of brilliant. The twenty-year-old on Corki, despite losing both games on the champion, popped off, even winning teamfights single handedly to turn the tides of the games. Knight was able to get his hands on Syndra twice, before the champion, for all intents and purposes, became a perma-ban for his opposition due to his unrivaled skill on the Dark Sovere

The addition of Dardoch presented a situation where Akaadian and Dardoch had to compete for the starting jungler position. Since TheGamer spoke to Aphromoo, Dignitas has announced that Akaadian will be the starter for the foreseeable future. Aphromoo gave his thoughts on the situation. "I do think everyone definitely is coming with their best foot forward and I’m not personally too shy of having that kind of thing happ

When asked if he thinks Clash has helped with any of the issues in solo queue, Aphromoo laughed and said, "No, I’ve never played Clash in my life man." The support added his thoughts about solo queue, saying, "But, even though solo queue still sucks man, I still play it anyway. It’s the only type of practice you can do by yourself. There’s nothing else besides in-houses but once teams start actually practicing, no one wants [to play solo queue] n

Although Miss Fortune is not a mobile champion, her Make It Rain skill gives access to some kiting while Bullet Time can easily change the course of team fights, especially when they happen in tight corrid

This strategy works because of a mechanic with Senna, where killing minions has a chance of dropping souls, which Senna can collect, granting her bonus attack damage. So Senna actually doesn't need the gold from CS to get stronger, she can just collect the souls that drop as her laning partner farms. Although DIG Academy lost with this strategy, Zven collected enough souls early game to the point where Immortals couldn't handle his damage output, and Cloud9 was able to take the win. Zven and Vulcan will look to continue their domination for Cloud9 in the second half of the spring sp

Aphromoo also spoke about his individual goals as a player. "What’s most important for me and for my goals is to make sure I play well and focus on vision score. I know my vision score has been lacking in the past years. Since I’ve come to DIG, I think our coach, Invert, was one of the first coaches that definitely coached me on my vision control ever, so that was ni

Knight, along with JackeyLove, 369, yuyanjia and jungler Hung "Karsa" Hao-Hsuan will have their eyes on Summer Split title, looking to get revenge on JD Gaming for beating them in the 2020 Spring fin

Varus seemed to be the only champion to be a perma-ban for every team in the Mid-Season Cup. The few times he slipped through the banning phase, he'd be immediately first picked by the blue team, making the red team who didn't ban him regret