5 Takeaways from the League of Legends Mid-Season Cup

The smoke has cleared from the League of Legends Mid-Season Cup, which saw China’s top talent square off against Korea’s finest in place of the canceled MSI. After a tournament full of mechanical outplays and some head-scratching throws, the LPL’s Top Esports were the final team standing, besting the reigning World champions FunPlus Phoenix 3-1 in the Mid-Season Cup fin

Ivan Pavlov (better known as iPav999 and iPav) is a Teemo main. He is considered to be the best Teemo player in the world and used the champion to reach master and challenger tiers on several accounts. The streamer’s dedication is praised as he often streams 12 hours per day and often educates watchers. He teaches advanced Teemo strategies and builds. He also created the Teemo book. iPav is among the funniest League of legends news of Legends streamers because of his in-game commentary and various ways in which he manages to tilt his opponents, among many other thi

The China native played Zoe twice, landing every sleepy trouble bubble imaginable, not dying a single time. He even switched from a carry role to a support-like role, playing Orianna against FPX in the finals, finishing with a KDA (kill/death/assist) of 2/2

Thanks to some wonky blind-pick games that allowed for mirror matches, Varus had a 108% presence this tournament, a record that may prove to stand for a long time. The only losses on Varus were to another Varus in a blind-pick mirror match. The marksman’s ultimate, chain of corruption, has the ability to turn fights around and his constant damage output combined with his long-range makes him an incredibly strong pick in the game’s current m

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

Malphite is in a lot of ways the quintessential representation of a tank in League of Legends. He is a big bulky champion with a lot of sustain and not much damage and all of his spells either give CC or just make him even tank

However, rumors still claim that both systems will still be releasing by the end of this year, even if we don’t know the exact date yet. With both the PS5 and Xbox Series X coming in as the most highly anticipated pieces of gaming tech for 2020, any delays would be immediate news and likely spark fan outrage. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, but considering the current halt in the market, anything is really a possibility at this po

DAMWON Gaming showed flashes of brilliance, but their overconfidence and questionable draft choices, such as support Cho “BeryL” Geon-hee playing Karma time and time again despite being near useless on the champion, led to their ultimate downf

This level of somewhat basicness can lead most players to think that he is a champion that only noobs choose to play due to his lack of complicated mechanics but that couldn’t be further from the truth right now as he has a win rate of 52 perc

A similar situation can be seen happening to Nintendo’s Animal Crossing : New Horizons as the manufacturers for the custom Switch that comes with the Switch Bundle are located in China. Again, the industry is a worldwide collection of independent companies and tech giants all coming together to deliver games, and in the past a majority of the manufacturing has been performed in China. As a result, when something like the Coronavirus begins spreading through the manufacturing center of the world, production can halt and shipments get dela

The thing about Illaoi is that no matter how annoying she is in lane, she becomes more dangerous in team fights, being able to somewhat Isolate enemy ADC’s and in team fights, if she uses her multi she can turn the tide of a losing fight real qu

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

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

Garen currently enjoys a 51 percent win rate and while that isn’t the highest on this list he does enjoy the lowest ban percentage out of all the current S rank champions at 13.57 percent. His simple kit and seemingly infinite heals for himself make him a solid frontline for any t