With Team Liquid being a powerhouse for the last couple of years in the LCS, teams have to step up their game with ideas on how to trump the repeating champs. And 100 Thieves are doing this by bringing in some new and expensive talent. 100 Thieves brought in imports to replace some of the players they think are dragging their team down. And many teams seem to go down the route of buying raw talent, but history has shown that this is not a good idea without pre-existing synergies. Hopefully, 100 Thieves’ import purchases may not impact the team’s ability to perform well.







100 Thieves is a team that had an unfortunate season, as they struggled to climb the leaderboard. The old team consisted of Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho in the top lane, Maurice “Amazing” Stückenschneider in the jungle, Choi “Huhi” Jae-Hyun in the mid lane, Bae “Bang” Jun-Sik as the ADC, and Zaqueri “Aphromoo” Black as the support. At the time, this roster seemed amazing on paper, but in practice, they had an incredibly upsetting season.







One of the reasons being that there wasn’t much synergy between teammates. They lacked good communication and did not build adequate synergy. Bang is a player praised for his amazing mechanics, but mechanics alone cannot carry a game in a competitive environment. Clear and active communication between players is key to a team’s success. Another reason for the bot lane’s suffering is Aphromoo and Bang did not hold up to the standard that they once had. 100 Thieves bot lane is comprised of veterans, but on the big stage, it seemed like they were rookies, especially the bot lane. Bang had some mistakes that split but it’s fair to think that their best chance was to just play around the bot lane and try and get him fed. This attribute was something Aphromoo didn’t do as well.

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100 Thieves took all of this into consideration when looking for new players. They looked for great synergies, mechanics, and most importantly, players who are known for good communication. They managed to scramble a team that now consists of Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho in the top lane, William “Meteos” Hartman in the jungle, Tommy “ry0ma” Le as the starting mid, Sun “Cody Sun” Li-Yu as the ADC, and William “Stunt” Chen as the support.

With the new roster and some familiar faces, I think that 100 Thieves have a really good shot this split at taking down the giants that are Team Liquid. Team Liquid made a risky pick with Broxah as the new starting jungler which I think is risky for the main reason that jungle is a role that needs to communicate and play around the team. And being a new import on a top NA team the pressure will be on him to perform. And with Meteos back on 100 Thieves and knowing some of the players I think that won’t be a real issue for him. On the other hand, Broxah has never really played or talked with any of the Team Liquid players so I think his biggest problems will be adapting to an NA roster as well as communicating with a whole new team that’s the best of the best in the region.







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The top lane matchup, if the two teams fought, would be between Ssumday and Impact. This matchup is the same as last split and I don’t think much would change.

The jungle would be the most interesting matchup though with Team Liquid Broxah facing off against 100 Thieves Meteos. This matchup would be hard to say for sure who would win and who would lose because both junglers have such an aggressive playstyle. I think it’s also a safe thing to consider the fact of which champions both would be on. In my honest opinion, I think it would be really neat to see a matchup between them where Broxah is on Lee Sin and Meteos is on something like his Jarvan. Both would have such good map control and I think we would be seeing many early skirmishes over things as little as scuttle crabs

A match between Team Liquid’s Jensen versus 100Thieves’ recently acquired ry0ma. For this, Jensen would normally win lane. However, there is room to debate ry0ma coming out on top. This is also ry0mas first time playing at all in the LCS coming from the Oceanic league. so naturally Jensen has an advantage being the veteran. Mechanically speaking, Jensen would also come out on top but with the 2019 split, he’s been pretty bad performance-wise and was one of their sole reason that Team Liquid lost Worlds.

And finally, in the bot lane, we have the unstoppable duo that is Doublelift and CoreJJ against the new and definitely improved bot lane that is Cody-Sun and Stunt. Now a lot of the effectiveness in any bot lane is synergy between the ADC and the Support. In that regards Doublelift and CoreJJ have that covered, especially because they have had a split of practice and games together and went to Worlds together. Also, both are regarded individually as the best ADC and the best Support in the LCS. With that being said, if Cody-Sun and Stunt want to win a 2v2, they would struggle immensely. While Cody-Sun and Stunt have a lot of potential in the bot lane, it would come to synergies and avid practice.

Overall I still think that Team Liquid still has an advantage over 100 Thieves. This is mainly due to players being the best at their respective roles, but, I think this match will come down ultimately to jungle difference and whether Broxah can keep giving Doublelift those resources he needs to carry.

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