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    Apex Legends: Saviors could be the most important season in the game's history

    Season 13 of Apex Legends has the potential to change the meta in a way no other season has, with a genuine alternative to Gibby available maybe the first time in Apex history

    · May 9, 2022
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    Ranking the top 5 mid laners at MSI 2022

    There’s arguably no position more exciting coming into the 2022 Mid-Season Invitational than the mid lane.

    · May 7, 2022
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    Ranking the top 5 junglers at MSI 2022

    The jungler attending MSI 2022 range from some of the most elite in the best leagues in the world, to players casual League of Legends players probably have not heard about.

    · May 6, 2022
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    Ranking the top 5 top laners at MSI 2022

    Top Asian teams have almost always boasted the strongest top laners in the world — to the point that it’s difficult to make sense of it. Will this time be different?

    · May 5, 2022
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    Is the Grudge engraving really mandatory in Lost Ark raids?

    Since Argos was launched in the global servers of Lost Ark, there have been discussions about the Grudge engraving. Grudge gives the user bonus damage to Boss monsters (scaling with level), but increa

    · May 5, 2022
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    Riot's favoritism towards the LPL? Why MSI being played on 35 ms is a huge disadvantage to the LCK

    The Mid-Season Invitational 2022 (MSI) starts in less than nine days. With each region’s representing teams safely making their way to Korea, they’re quarantining for five days before their tournament run starts on May 10.

    · Apr 30, 2022
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    China passes Orwellian streaming regulations, asks creators to “eliminate those with incorrect political position”

    The battle for control of the streaming ecosystem goes on in the West, but when it comes to China, the government is very much in control of the situation.

    · Apr 20, 2022
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    Fresh Placement Accounts: The problem that plagues high elo KR solo queue

    ‘Fresh Placement Accounts'. In Korean, they're called ‘생배', but for our convenience, let's just call them FPAs. It's a term that the Korean community started to use to label those accounts

    · Apr 15, 2022
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    Summit has always been a coinflip player. Can he change?

    Is there a way to make Summit a more consistent player, or has North America finally caught onto Summit’s greatest weakness?

    · Apr 9, 2022
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    King atop the mountain: How Summit's lane kingdom was built... and then conquered

    Cloud9's start-of-season iteration cobbled together by then-coach Nick "LS" De Cesare brought up a lot of question marks. Next to the two bedrock players of 2020 C9 — jungler Robert "Blaber" Hua

    · Apr 8, 2022
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    Now is the right time for the LEC to expand

    Recent rumors have pointed to a 2023 expansion of the League of Legends European Championship, to add two more teams to the current line-up of 10. Whether this is in the works and how far planning has

    · Apr 6, 2022
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    Is there hope for TSM going into summer?

    Is there still hope for this TSM roster?

    · Mar 26, 2022
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    The number you need to know: T1's 16-0 win streak

    T1 have now strung 16 straight wins in 2022 LCK Spring with an overall game record of 32-6 (84.2% win rate). No team in the LCK is remotely close to them.

    · Mar 15, 2022
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    Korean solo queue has some serious issues, and Faker called them out

    After Chinese pro player Yu “Qingtian” Zi-Han intentionally threw one of Faker’s ranked games, a massive conversation has been started about the state of Korean solo queue.

    · Mar 12, 2022