Breakups are hard.

That's especially the case when you've been together with someone for a while. You go through the highs and lows as a unit, enjoying the good times until the bad times finally outweigh the past memories of joy. When you break up, it can be hard, and especially when you see your ex already dating someone else. Questions and comparisons sneak into your head. Are they better than me? What kind of car do they drive? Editor's Picks GorillA on ROX Tigers: 'I wonder if there ever could be a team like that again'

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In esports, breakups are common. Some teams last only a couple of weeks as a unit before a member is kicked, or worse, the entire team disbands in a blink of an eye. On other occasions, though, it could be a group of players, five or six, who have been together for a year or more breaking up, going their separate ways to try and find the right team to make their dreams come true.

I'm here to analyze one of the biggest team breakups in League of Legends memory and tell you, at least for the moment, who is winning the breakup. Which player is seeing the most success after leaving their former teammates, and which ones are looking at old pictures with said player wishing that they could go back in time and right their wrongs (insert Wolverine photo meme here)?

The Breakup: ROX Tigers

The ROX Tigers from 2016 will go down as one of the best teams in League of Legends history, but they could have accomplished so much more than they actually did. The Tigers did win the League of Legends Champions Korea summer season, defeating KT Rolster in a memorable 3-2 final. However, it still stood in the massive shadow of rival SK Telecom T1, the South Korean dynasty that beat the Tigers for the LCK spring title, and then ended up taking home the Triple Crown of international events with wins at IEM Katowice, the Mid-Season Invitational, and the World Championships; ROX fell to SKT at Worlds in one of the most memorable matches in League history during the semifinals.

Four of the five starting members, excluding star jungler Han "Peanut" Wang-ho, had been together since late 2014 when the Tigers first formed. After losing to SKT T1 at Worlds, the entire team left in the offseason, including the head coach and assistant coach. When the breakup had settled, the players and coaches had split up into five different teams across two different regions, with head coach and former substitute mid laner Hae "Cry" Sung-min (now "Zet") moving over to EDward Gaming in China's League of Legends Pro League.

Song "Smeb" Kyung-ho

Song "Smeb" Kyung-ho says KT Rolster may not be a well-oiled machine quite yet. Provided by G2 Esports

New Team: KT Rolster

Status: Feeling super(team)

Starting off our rundown of who is winning the ROX Tigers breakup, we have the ace of last year's team, Smeb. The top laner could be called the catalyst of the ROX Tigers breakup, being the first member to leave the team in the offseason and then signing with KT Rolster, hopping from one elite team to maybe an even greater starting five.

On the surface, Smeb is flying high. He is 7-1 in the standings, the new KT Rolster is living up to the immense hype given to it in the offseason, and Smeb's teammates are notoriously tough to play against. Individually, however, Smeb isn't the Smeb of old. He's currently the back-to-back reigning MVP of the LCK, and unless something drastic changes in the second half of the season, he won't make it a three-peat. Out of all the players on KT, he might be the one with the hardest adjustment to the team, taking a backseat in the first eight matches to AD carry superstar Kim "Deft" Hyuk-kyu and veteran captain Go "Score" Dong-bin in the jungle. Smeb was the undisputed best top laner in the world in 2016 and possibly the best player in the world, but that narrative has changed on KT, his stats currently putting him around second or third best in South Korea for his role.

Smeb might be speeding down the highway with his new team, grinning in the camera, but is he truly happy? I would guess yes, and if the new KT Rolster is finally the team that Smeb can use to defeat SKT T1 and win the Summoner's Cup, he won't care what his stats look like or if he receives any individual accolades.

Han "Peanut" Wang-ho

Han "Peanut" Wang-ho. Provided by Riot Games

New Team: SK Telecom T1

Status: Sharing the love

Peanut is in a similar position as Smeb. He left one of the best teams in the world to join the best team in the world, and his record (7-1, as well) puts him in a comfortable position in the LCK standings. Yet, at the same time, like with Smeb on KT, Peanut's role has been diminished on SKT T1, and he has gone from the superstar jungler considered possibly best in the world to more of a cog in the machine on the three-time world champion.

The other issue is that Peanut, while putting up good numbers, hasn't been all that great this season. When it has come to facing his former ROX teammates, Peanut hasn't been able to take games off them, losing 0-2 to the Afreeca Freecs and being switched out for Kang "Blank" Sun-gu in the series versus Longzhu Gaming. While his starting position doesn't seem threatened, Blank -- the criticized starter last year on T1 -- has been better than Peanut in limited time this split, including coming into that Longzhu series down 0-1 and pulling it back to a 2-1 reverse victory for SKT.

Lee "Kuro" Seo-haeng

New Team: Afreeca Freecs

Status: Please, let's get back together, guys. Please. Pick up? Please.

On one hand, Kuro 2-0'ed SKT T1 and his nemesis Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok in thrilling fashion. On the other, Afreeca is the only team of the ROX breakup clubs that is under .500 and starting to sink. Against the top teams in the league, Kuro and Afreeca have been world class, sweeping SKT, beating Samsung Galaxy, and even taking a game off of KT Rolster in a close set.

Things get shaky whenever the team goes up against the lower-ranked teams, though, as Afreeca has been embarrassing itself against the bottom of the table. Afreeca's postseason chances are starting to slip away, and Kuro, once a king of the KDA, has not had the same impact on the Freecs as he had on the Tigers, finding it difficult to establish himself on the new club.

If any of the players are sitting in their bed late at night, watching old highlight videos of the old ROX Tigers on a laptop, that player would be Kuro. I'm sure he already has called Park "TusiN" Jong-ik, Afreeca's starting support, "GorillA" a few times in hopes of bringing back the happier times in his career.

Kim "PraY" Jong-in, Kang "GorillA" Beom-hyeon, and Kim "SSONG" Sang-soo

Kim "PraY" Jong-in and Kang "GorillA" Beom-hyeon embrace during the 2016 League of Legends World Championship. Riot Games

New Team: Longzhu Gaming

Status: Building upward

Longzhu Gaming was once a dumpster truck on fire but has been turned into an efficient, improving team this season with the help of the multiple former Tigers who made the post-breakup move to the club.

In esports, especially League of Legends, bad teams usually don't stay around a long time. If a team or club fails to perform, it usually ends with disbanding. There aren't a lot of historically bad clubs that have been around the scene for more than a year or two. Longzhu, formerly Incredible Miracle, is the exception. The organization has been around since the start of professional LoL play in South Korea, and has always been bad. Great players have come and gone through the years, but the team, as IM or LZ, has never made it deep into a relevant tournament or had great success. Even when the team got a rich Chinese sponsor last year in Longzhu, the roster it built with its money failed to deliver, missing the playoffs in both splits.

PraY, GorillA, and SSONG are bringing a winning culture to Longzhu, and that might be the most incredible (pun intended) thing to ever happen to the IM/LZ organization. The season started slow for Longzhu, but the team has picked up steam and now sits in a tie for third place at 5-3 with a chance of breaking away from the pack in the second half of the season.

Going to SKT or KT is like dating a supermodel who already owns a mansion. Making Longzhu a winner is like renovating a run-down house and making it nice to live in. In its five-plus years in existence, the words "Incredible Miracle," "League of Legends," and "successful" have never been used in the same sentence. If things continue on the upward trend, we might finally string those words together.

Jeong "NoFe" No-chul and Hae "Cry" Sung-min

New Team: EDward Gaming

Status: Lost in translation

NoFe and Cry (now known as Zet) are the outliers in the breakup. Instead of joining a LCK club like MVP or Jin Air, the head coach of ROX and his sub mid laner-turned-AD carry went to China, signing up with the long-reigning dynasty in the LPL, EDG. So far, so good for Zet under his new ID and role, playing well and holding his own in the bottom lane. NoFe, following his breakthrough as a head coach on ROX, has led a makeshift EDG team to the top of the standings once again in China, holding a 4-1 record even without legendary jungler Ming "Clearlove" Kai starting in any of the games.

It's hard to judge NoFe and Zet relative to the other former Tigers since we don't know how they'd fare against LCK opposition. From the past year, it would be easy to say LCK is far and away better, but without any meeting between the two regions before MSI, it's hard to say if EDG's 4-1 record is impressive even next to Kuro's 3-5 below-average record on the Freecs.

Still, Zet is actually starting, albeit in a new role, and NoFe is establishing himself as a star coach with lesser pieces than he did on ROX, so you can't say they aren't doing well in China through the first half of the split.

The Verdict: Who's winning the breakup?

We can cross Kuro off immediately. Sorry, Kuro.

Lee "Kuro" Seo-haeng, mid laner for Afreeca Freecs. Riot Games

NoFe and Zet are doing well in China, but since they're in a different region, it's almost like that guy who tells his ex that he has a really hot significant other in a different country but doesn't have any proof to back it up. We'll see how they fare in the second half in China and if they make it to MSI, where they would more than likely meet up with a former Tiger and his new team.

Peanut has been outperformed by Blank and subbed out in an important series against former teammates against Longzhu, so that disqualifies him from winning the breakup so far. He's still probably going to win Worlds, though, so he'll have the last laugh.

That leaves us with the former ROX trio at Longzhu or Smeb. When it comes to individual stats, none of the former Tigers are living up or surpassing their former selves aside from Zet -- who is under a new moniker, in a new region, and playing an entirely new position.

Right now, Smeb is living in a mansion, taking annoying Instagram filtered pictures of his new superteam, laughing at how beautiful life is. The Longzhu players are in a cramped apartment, still trying to figure things out, but learning to love one another more every day. In the end, if PraY, GorillA, and SSONG can get Longzhu even to the finals of a single LCK season, it'll be the greatest accomplishment in the club's history and officially make the once laughingstock of the league a legitimate contender for a world title.

And that's why for now -- before SKT T1 win the spring split, summer split, MSI, and the World Championship -- I award the PraY, GorillA, and SSONG the winners of the ROX Tigers breakup.