Should Cloud 9 change rosters? Has TSM's constant changes through the seasons really helped them out in the long run? Is Curse/Liquid truly the fourth best team in North American history? We are down to the last week of the Spring season of the North American LCS, and we've put the numbers together to see which teams have stood above the others over the past two and a half years.

Only NA LCS regular season and playoff matches were recorded, including matches for 5th and 3rd place. Promotional and expansion tournament results were not included.

Also, only teams having completed one full season of NA LCS have been added to the rankings. Team 8 and Gravity both have records of 9-7 (56%) this season but are in their first campaigns as NA LCS teams. Look forward to the reboot of this article in three years to see where they land.

1. Cloud 9: 92 wins - 26 losses (78%)

Want to know why Cloud 9 isn't flipping out and changing their roster drastically through a down season for them? Look at their record. They've statistically had the two best regular seasons in NA LCS history, and the only games they've lost in the playoffs were last season in their loss to TSM in the finals.

It would be easy to look at their domestic record this season and disappointing Katowice campaign and call for a roster change, but it's hard to argue with a final in every LCS season and two titles in their trophy chase.

2. Team SoloMid: 105 - 56 (65%)

The second king of North America, Team SoloMid have competed in all four completed seasons of NA LCS and have reached all four finals. They've won twice, thwarting Good Game University (Coast) in the first season and conquered Cloud 9 in the most recent Summer season final.

TSM aren't as dominant as Cloud 9, not outright destroying people in the regular season or playoffs, but they've continued their strong play throughout the seasons with different players slotting in almost every season. Compared to C9 who have had constant success through the same core five players, TSM's strength shows them as a team who is able to adapt with their roster through the seasons and still be a North American juggernaut.

3. LMQ/Team Impulse: 33 - 21 (61%)

LMQ/Team Impulse have only played in two seasons of NA LCS, but they already have the third best winning percentage. They got to the 2014 World Championships last year with their victory over Curse in the 3rd place match of the Summer playoffs, and they're looking to be one of the top three teams in North America this season.

XiaoWeiXiao is the only constant from the original LMQ and the new Team Impulse, having four new teammates this time around. This hasn't stopped the reigning NA LCS MVP, and his team of two Koreans and two Americans from threatening to become the first non-TSM/C9 team to lift the NA LCS trophy.

4. Counter Logic Gaming: 75 - 72 (51%)

Now here comes the drop from the two kings of NA LCS' history and the contender for the throne to the longtime teams who are still fighting to have their big breakthrough.

CLG are the main rivals of TSM even before the NA LCS was created, but they have not had nearly the same success during the playoffs. While C9, TSM, and Impulse to an extent, have thrived in the playoffs, CLG are below .500 in the postseason with a record of 7-12, having never made a NA LCS final.

Their regular season this year has bumped up their overall record and made them appear to be a challenger for the championship, yet will this truly be the season where Counter Logic can get the last laugh on TSM?

5. Team Curse/Team Liquid: 74 - 81 (48%)

The most memorable statistic you can take away from this entire article is that Team Curse/Liquid, up to this point where Liquid sits 8-8 in the standings, is an overall 64 wins and 64 losses in the NA LCS regular season. That's right, through all the crazy ups and downs Curse/Liquid have had over the years, their regular season record left them at a perfect .500. Not only that, but they have the fourth highest amount of wins in NA LCS history, trailing C9, TSM and CLG.

Curse/Liquid's biggest issue in the NA LCS has been their playoff runs, constantly losing in games they need to win. Their worst loss coming in last season's third place decider against LMQ that would have sent them to the world championships.

6. Vulcun/XDG Gaming: 46 - 51 (47%)

Here is the first team in our rankings who is not an active competitor in the NA LCS any longer. Vulcun, then turned Vulcun TechBargains and then the fantastic Ex Duris Gloria Gaming, are the strangest team in NA LCS history.

Their history began as a lowly team, mostly seen as cannon fodder for the rest of the more established teams. Out of nowhere, they upset Counter Logic Gaming in the quarter-finals of the first NA LCS playoffs, almost beat TSM in the semifinals, and then went onto finish 2nd in the 2013 Summer regular season. It all culminated with them making the 2013 World Championships, putting on a good show and falling admirably in the group stages.

That's where they changed their name to Ex Duris Gloria (XDG) Gaming and went back to being an awful, bottom-of-the-table team and finished last in the Spring regular season following their world championship campaign. XDG fell into the promotional tournament, lost and hasn't been seen since in the NA LCS.

But hey, at least they went out with a cool name!

7. Team Dignitas: 69 - 80 (46%)

Dignitas are one of the four teams that have played in every NA LCS season along with TSM, CLG, and Curse, but they have the worst record between those five longstanding teams.

The team has not been outright terrible like others in the playoffs, yet have never really been able to get over the hump and make a serious run at a title. This season has been seen more as a rebuilding split for the boys in black and yellow, bringing in Gamsu and CoreJJ from Korea and hiring a head coach.

They are having their worst regular season in team history, currently sitting at 5-11 and confirmed to be out of the postseason for the first time in five seasons.

8. Team MRN: 10 - 18 (36%)

The only team to ever play just one season in the NA LCS, Team MRN sit in eighth place with an overall record of 10-18. An upstart and underdog team during the inaugural NA LCS season, MRN put up a fight against even the best teams in the league and were led by Nientonsoh's impressive play at the AD carry position.

MRN was one game behind Good Game University in the standings to avoid the relegation rounds to make the playoffs, but couldn't pull out the final push to get into the top six. In the promotional tournament, they met up with Velocity eSports, losing a close 2-3 series and disbanded shortly after.

A win here or there against GGU or Velocity and the whole complexion of the next two years of NA LCS would have changed drastically.

9. Complexity Gaming: 19 - 37 (34%)

Below the MRN Line, we now have three teams who all compiled the worst records in NA LCS history. First, we have Complexity, a team that played in the very first NA LCS, fell out through promotions, and then made it back during the most recent Summer season before being knocked out once more.

Complexity have the distinction of being the only NA LCS team to finish last place in every season they played in, first finishing 9-19 in their first season and then coming back a few seasons later to end up at 10-18. Their legacy lives on with players like Pr0lly who is coaching an elite-level team in Europe with H2k-Gaming, but Complexity as a squad go down as one of the worst in NA LCS history.

10. Good Game University/Team Coast: 38 - 78 (33%)

Team Coast will go down as the worst team in either NA or EU LCS history this season with their current 1-15 record, but they're also one of the teams who have been around the longest. They've competed in four of the five NA LCS seasons, and they hold the record of being the only team not named TSM or Cloud 9 to ever make a NA LCS Grand Final.

Yes, you heard that right, Team Coast (then GGU) are the only other team in history to make a NA LCS final that wasn't C9 or TSM. CLG? Nope. Curse? Nope. It was GGU, a team that was a game away from being thrown into the relegation rounds, who fought through the playoffs as the lowest seed and upset team after team before meeting TSM in the finals. GGU didn't win, losing a close 2-3 final that pushed the kings of North America to their limits, but it showed a promise that they could become one of the better teams in NA.

Sadly that never happened. GGU became Coast and then bumped around the lower echelons of the standings for the past two years.

11. VEGlocityfox (Velocity, Evil Geniuses and Winterfox): 29 - 71 (29%)

No matter what they've been named over their four seasons, VEGlocityfox have continually been one of the lowest ranked teams in all of NA LCS. Other than Team MRN and Complexity (3 seasons combined), VEGlocityfox are the only team in NA LCS history to never make the playoffs. They've played four straight seasons in the NA LCS, and they've confirmed their fourth straight relegation round with Winterfox failing to qualify this season.

It started with the train wreck that was Velocity eSports, going 5-23 in their first season, only qualifying through a close win over Team MRN. The roster dispensed and was no more, but management stayed under the Evil Genius banner with a new team to go along with the organization as well. EG took over Velocity's spot in the promotional tournament, ousted Determined Gaming to stay in the league and went on to their second season under their new brand.

Evil Geniuses wasn't the worst team in either of their two seasons, finishing 7th both times over the ailing XDG and Complexity. Still, they never made the playoffs, fell into the relegation rounds and routinely escaped death by toppling Cloud 9 Tempest and Coast.

Although VEGlocityfox have never done well in the regular season, they've constantly been able to get back into the league through strong showings in the promotional tournament. Three times they've had their place in the NA LCS put on the line and three times they've won, compiling an impressive record of 9-1 in those matches.

Winterfox find themselves in a similar situation: not in the playoffs and in second-to-last-place, only sitting above Team Coast. With their third name in four seasons it can be hard to track, but VEGlocityfox are statistically the worst team in NA LCS history.

NA promotional tournament history? The best. The kings of promotional tournaments. Starting with Velocity over Team MRN, VEGlocityfox have won four straight series with an overall record of 12-3.

While they would most likely trade all of their promotional success for one playoff birth, VEGlocityfox will need to put their promo prowess to the test and hope to get into the Summer season with their fifth straight victory in the do-or-die match.

Tyler "Fionn" Erzberger is a staff writer for The Score eSports, and he recaps each week's EU LCS and NA LCS. He is eagerly awaiting the return of Team MRN in the 2023 NA LCS season. You can also follow him on Twitter.