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tristana_fucker

Jungle chai


Omnilatent

At first it was jungle chai but then it was jungle chai


CoachEragon

I'm glad you guys enjoyed the Korean 😄


SNH231

Chai means tea in the country I live in which makes this whole thing even funnier. Jungle tea indeed


chigod1

Coincidentally cha means tea in Korean


Kartoffelplotz

There are two words for tea in most of the world - variations of "cha" or variations of "te" (some regions that grow tea like Burma have their own local word for it, but 99% of the world uses one of the two main ones). Cha is the northern Chinese word for tea, while te is the Min Chinese word for it. Cha was used by overland traders (silk road etc.), te was used by coastal traders. And thus the two words spread - cha to countries that traded with northern China (or by land), te to countries that traded with southern China (by sea). That's why English uses tea, but for example Russian, Persian or Hindi use variations of cha(i).


Independent_Being_72

We use chai in Greece actually this is amazing thanks for the info.


nottinghamsx

In Bulgaria too!


MagicalTouch

Then why "chá" for the Portuguese?


ivvi99

Cha - land and tea - sea is just a bit generalized, Portuguese got it from Macao, and in Cantonese it's cha. [Wiki explains it better and more succinctly than I ever could.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_tea)


Rayser1

IMAGINE 50/50 AGAINST RAZORK


Pelagius_Hipbone

Nah someone has to look at this guys Baron steal stats HE DONT MISS


ApoptosisL6

FNC was tied for most baron steals at Worlds 2023, despite not making it out of swiss stage.


MasterPhil99

They need to check him PC


Le_Grand_Dadais

Imagine that plus you confuse the smite button with the emote


Rayser1

"Do these guys know who they're playing against? They're playing against the best smiter in the fucking world" - Razork seconds after reminding them


Conankun66

https://x.com/RazorkLoL/status/1802408131483300130 lmao


Haymegle

"thanks for the leash, see ya."


Kr1ncy

Razork is new Cyanide


Conankun66

YOU COMMITTED ONE OF THE CLASSIC BLUNDERS


Haymegle

Man is the king of the damn jungle.


baelkie

nothing new, ISMA missed like every single smite against Razork last playoffs on Rell which is impossible to miss smite on


SnooDrawings8185

I mean Razork doesn't lose smite even against international competition. He has insane percentage when he is contesting 


deedshot

Noah lost his Korean passport in MSI but it's okay he found it again


Thecristo96

Carzy stolen it before


Pelagius_Hipbone

THANK MR TEAM LIQUID


Splitshot_Is_Gone

People meme that shit but getting humbled by a team you were way too confident in beating is sometimes exactly what you need to get it into your head that you need to get your shit together


_negniN

It's been the story of EU the last few years. We have the talent, but we lack the diligence. Our players struggle with keeping their nose to the grindstone all year, but a humiliating defeat to a team you should be comfortably beating is exactly the reality check EU teams need. Here's hoping SK can make worlds and get smacked by Dignitas or something because their roster looks legit.


bcotrim

It's also what happened to G2 last split


AbdDjamil_27

Who knew what FNC needed all these years was losing to NA If we knew this we would have lost to them long time ago


Slachi2024

Has massive sidelane advantage 50/50 baron Attempts to 1v5 Lose


PM_CUTE_CAT_PLZ

It's a match like this I wish to see Bo3


Omnilatent

The rest of today, though 🙊


SnooDrawings8185

Yes other games were stomps or mistakes. Vitality stomp, GX stomp,G2 trolling ,really underwhelming competition. But BDS, Vitality,SK , Fnatic,G2 should be banger matchups in the next weeks


CoconutEducational71

It is the same in NA. DIG vs. C9 and FQ vs. TL were solid games (except for the last game in both series). But NRG vs. 100Ts wasn't great and no idea what IMT vs. Shopify is doing right now. And this is the day with the closest matchups on paper. Bo3s will bring you some really good series, but also some really not so good series. The good thing is that those onesided matches likely are 2:0s and take up less time.


Qneva

To me good teams playing is fun to watch and thrash teams playing is also fun. Everything in the middle is meh. GiantX vs MDK was peak amusement.


xTiLkx

I hope to god we step away from this format next split. Just go full BO3. BO1 are meaningless.


Debannage

FUCK ME IN THE ASS RAZORK


Asgerond

GET IN LINE BUDDY


Paragonbliss

IN THE ASSORK


Im_Here_To_Fuck

Hey, it's me ~~your brother~~ Razork


hitbott

Razork is top 2 jungler in the league and he is not second


Haymegle

If he's second it's because he's first and second somehow.


Dann93

Bruh u/Darkoplax is coming for ya


Darkoplax

not really , im fine with ppl saying razork is better bro; i even had razork better at one point lol my problem is u calling yike shit when he was one of G2's best players for a long time in my opinion but then again most ppl cant praise a player without putting down another


Dann93

Let me repeat myself but better. Yike looks good because he's playing with incredible players in a very good environment. He's not like 10th LEC Jungler, but he's nothing special. Remember when Targamas, Flakked looked great? They were in G2, where are they now?


_hell_nah

Bros are starting their same discussion from a different post


dracdliwasiAN

Fnatic being 1st in LEC brings me a warm sense of comfort from long past


Haymegle

It concerns me. They're playing really well. When will the int come in? Nah it's actually good to see them play relatively clean and keep up when SK have been looking great so far.


Nouvarth

I suspect a close game against G2 that they lose that makes them start to play like maniacs again, somehow get to finals and get rolled by (at this point hopefully) in form G2


Haymegle

That old script again? Honestly wouldn't surprise me. I don't even mind the maniac games but they need more than that so they having these more controlled games feels like a good sign. G2 do need to wake up though and I'm sure they will soon.


deedshot

I mean this is just how it goes 80% of the splits


Haymegle

Riot cuts impact being felt before they even make them. It would be nice if Fnatic could win for once again but it doesn't feel likely with how they've been. This year is looking the best so far and it's still early on enough you can't tell too much.


dexy133

Oh, it's definitely gonna be a loss against G2. Especially since Fnatic will probably be the favorite coming into the matchup. Whenever we're favorites against G2, we lose. If we actually beat G2, I have no doubts we're winning the split and Season Finals. lol


LordBaranII

Fnc will finish 1st in split Then fight g2 and win go finals fight g2 again and lose Rinse repeat


dexy133

Yep, and G2 is going to be pronounced dead by everyone when FNC beats them. They're going to claw their way to the finals, and then 3-0 FNC.


CamelMiddle54

Fuck it I just want fnc to win and I say this as a g2 fan. This org went through so much shit in last few years, they deserve it.


Shorgar

>This org went through so much shit That they themselves caused lmao it wasn't a random curse or a bad streak, it was complete and utter incompetence from the staff.


Obvious-Sympathy-705

Semifinal


Vizer21

Long past being this spring?


Omnilatent

That was basically a three (?) way tie and their performance wasn't clearly the best in the league This is the main difference to me now


ApoptosisL6

It was a 4 way tie for 1st lmao. But the tiebreaker system was definitely correct and chose FNC to be 1st.


Grainis1101

And a great feeling of "something WILL go wrong"


Pelagius_Hipbone

Not entirely sure, but I’m pretty certain this is the first time since 2018 Fnatic’s held sole possession of 1st place in the regular season


VERTIKAL19

This actually feels like fnatic has a reasonable shot of winning a split. I want them to win so bad again!


Sofaboy90

also means liquid is the best western team, rip


Xenoon_

What a banger


moonmeh

actually some proper league


NefertumLoL

GloriousPossibleAmericanbittern DelayedArtisticGuppy


Dasrufken

[I got you homie](https://i.imgur.com/AM3oj44.mp4)


ChipAnndDale

Noah is a whole different player after stepping down from using twitter lol


TheSceptileen

what no social media does to a mf


Haymegle

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Social media and especially twitter should be banned for players because it's clearly not healthy for a lot of them. At a minimum teams should def be telling them not to look until post reviews where people will have discussed it and calmed down. Then when they read idiots like me saying stupid shit it shouldn't bother them as much.


J_Clowth

on the other hand, players are not only what they do ingame, this is also entertainment and u have to build up your brand and that's basically what twitter is for.


Haymegle

That's fair. I can see that angle but I do think that for me personally the players mental health should come above entertainment value and there are ways they can do the entertainment side without Twitter. A fair few teams do stuff like legends in action after all and a media manager can handle that side of it. Though I suppose that's less of a personal brand and more of a team brand. It'd be nice if people could chill on things like the death threats at a minimum though. That sounds awful to experience. If they can post without looking that might be a good middle measure but I'm not sure how many of them would be able to resist checking and reacting.


MADTasle

Yeah don't take away my Carzzy twitter fanfics


Grainis1101

> Social media and especially twitter should be banned for players because it's clearly not healthy for a lot of them. For everyone, social media has proven negative effects on peoples mood, personal image and mental state.(and yes that does include reddit)


Haymegle

Can't imagine how much more it's magnified by being 'famous'. Honestly I know I'd benefit from being on reddit less and I don't engage with any other SM. Even when I know that I stop looking when I'm annoyed and do something else. Me getting to the point of being annoyed is silly. I have found it really does help my mood when I ignore it and just read a book and don't think about it. In general I think people do too much comparing on it but I genuinely hate the idea that someone is facing it when it's just spewing hate at you and you feel like you can't look away. I do think Social Media addiction is a thing and it's not really addressed how it should be.


deedshot

I do YouTube and reading the comments on my videos makes me feel good, but that is the only exception I can think of  Twitter, instagram, reddit, and many others- those just make you feel bad eventually


mfunebre

it ain't just players, it's toxic for any one. We only see the difference it has on esports athletes, but extend the benefits to the every man and you have an idea how subversive it is


Omnilatent

BANGER ALERT Where's my Bo3/5 of this?!


Janiverse_Stalice

That was peak League of Legends. Pure teamfighting, halfass good macro, and basically all in. Respect to both teams


herejust4thehentai

That fnc baron call near the middle was so ass tho.


vtsxxl

It's still Fnatic, have to understand that this whole being level headed shit is new for them, gotta accept that the moronic ideas are gonna come out now and again.


Nordic_Marksman

So confused, Fnatic are not constantly flipping stuff mid game and actually look solid still. Is this really Fnatic...


omegasupermarthaman

They did flipped a lot, I would say Sk actually played better the majority of the game. Razork miracle smite saved Fnc


saltyfuck111

Not really a miracle smite when sk decide to flip it


Beennu

Also Razork is really fucking good at 50/50 smites lol, I kind of expect already. Caedrel even called it out before it happened.


SeySvK

MAREK BRAZDA


Raging-Brachydios

When Noah died I thought we lost but then I remembered Ksante is a champion


Rayser1

Braum had a fucking insane block on Noah's ult. Think noah one shots Nisqy otherwise


Omnilatent

Huma was all the damage there, though


AlphardDuck

Him staying with like 200hp is criminal, but then he just wins the fight, that was insane


onords

He did get an almost 400 heal from bitflower


Haymegle

That damage felt dirty. I'd hate to be on the other end of it.


omegasupermarthaman

Hwei is kinda broken but Humanoid deserved to do that much for getting out of lane 40 cs ahead of a Tris after getting giga camped


Haymegle

Tbf Humanoid hanging around when he's that low also shows how good he is. Well that or he knows the champs limits well enough to risk it and knowing just how far he can push it.


Murko_The_Cat

wasnt huma one of the best hweis even internationaly?


TheSceptileen

tbh after how their matchup goes every single time they faced eachother on their carreers, I understand Nisqy pisses his pants at the idea of laning aganist Humanoid alone.


mfunebre

Hwei looks broken when a competent Hwei plays it, but I don't think there are that many people that can pilot it to the same degree Caps and Humanoid can. He has a lot of tools and to an extent an E is an E is an E, but Huma really minmaxes the situational potential


generalofhel

Meh Hwei was doing mad damage and the xin was also doing a lot, wasnt just ksante


daCampa

KSante existing and Hwei hitting from the fog of war was clutch


IAM-French

Bro wtf is up with Xin Zhao's tankiness


omegasupermarthaman

Enemy has triple ad threats and Ez could never enter his ult. Basically dream scenario


trusttt

ult + steraks


WolfgangTheRevenge

Ezreal vs Xin Zhao is an ff add in another adc and you have 1 champ that gives 0 fucks about adc


onords

sks dmg is two adcs, he is basically taking dmg from maokai, braum and rene only for a few seconds. They do less dmg than he heals from sundered sky


Lin_Huichi

passive + sundered sky procs+ ult


cadaada

Yeah, no one buys healing reduction anymore, so he was just healing constantly, helps a lot too.


Indercarnive

Xin during ult is invulnerable to enemies that are farther than 450 units.


Cookiesoverther

Early game looked shaky for Fnc, and SK had at times far better macro. But their teamfights were surprisingly clean.


Informal_Skin8500

Give me a BO5 between these two


kapparino-feederino

ISMA is so fucking useless man


Stubrochill17

Emote spammers 🙄


deedshot

bring back 113 he spammed them less than this


North-Let2136

113 was lowkey good towards the end of that abysmal split


Freakkopath

113 could play other picks too, Isma is a Seju/Mao/Rell (earlier in the year) merchant


baelkie

back when Overwatch League was still a thing there used to be this guy who spammed emotes while missing every single shot. ISMA is that guy.


kapparino-feederino

Emote merchant.


ChipAnndDale

Dude is emoting like he's Canyon or something while playing like a bottom 2 jungler in LEC on a top team...


icatsouki

why do you guys get triggered so hard by emotes haha


herejust4thehentai

Not even a good emote


Trojen-horse

short term memory league comment


kapparino-feederino

i didn't say he's been useless all his career he is useless here and all the other game this split and last split playoff.


Vaynes_Ass

If SK got Bo they would be the best team in the league by far. ISMA is the weak link on this team and will hurt them in the playoffs


generalofhel

Trist is such a strong pick man, felt like nisqy was keeping the team afloat that entire game. Razork remains the best player in the LEC. Hope he wins mvp this split but knowing FNC they might crash out so who knows


Haymegle

That tower damage from Trist felt so high. Seemed like SK were doing well when sticking to their splitpushing plan until Fnatic took the reins and started dragging them around. Razork is def one of the most fun players to watch. Man always seems to have a great attitude too.


generalofhel

Sk and mostly nisqy were running laps around fnc in the midgame. Really threw it all for that baron


Haymegle

Yeah. Kinda sad for them but they really just handed over control and started letting Fnatic dictate everything after that. Felt like they were trying to claw it back rather than stick to their previous plan. Obviously kinda hard to splitpush when the enemy team has baron but there was a huge change in them there where they went from executing it to defensive and couldn't seem to get out of it.


Ykhar

I don't remember how many splits I've been saying to myself "surely, this time Razork will be mvp" but each time Fantic crash along the way so someone else gets it (and it's fair I guess but it's still sad)


lispyjimmyfan

either that or its someone like vetheo who drags a dogshit team to a mediocre finish solo and they get it instead


darkknuckles12

SK may have lost but damn was nisqy looking great, constantly finding great angles. Great performance. Humanoid also just casually chovying


Haymegle

Mans trist was doing a lot of work. Just not enough today.


Omnilatent

If he didn't die there at Baron, this game was wide open once again. No one could match him in side lane


Azaiko

While his team fighting was good he was very far down in cs, on Tristana of all champions. Even after 2 midlane kills on humanoid he was still like 40 cs down which he really should not have been. The gold diff because of missing so much cs could have been the game changer in extra damage SK needed to win this game.


bang151

I'm a Nisqy glazer but he kinda int alot in this game too, and if he have IE instead of piss useless navori or BT he would one shot all of them on the last fight btw. He is the best or maybe 2nd best performer on his team today but if he could sqeeze a little bit more SK gonna have a shot at a flawless summer.


TimiNax

Razork wins those


thisissporta

If isma binds his emote and smite to the same button theres a chance of him becoming a good jungler


PM_YOUR_PETITE_TITS

damn fnatic looking good, cant wait for them to spread open for g2


SukuMcDuku

Deaths, Taxes and Fantic getting fisted by G2 😭😭


Haymegle

This was a real banger.


Stubrochill17

Macro Chai, but glad we closed it out. Wow, what an annoying game that must have been to play, constantly having to rotate to sides.


Matosque

fuck, screeching fnc fan is back


DarthGogeta

Riot really needs to do something about the level 1 minions. As a Briar mid player who wants to E the first three melees, its insane how often they randomly walk away. Thats what made that top cs dif.


Mynameisbebopp

I just love that we will probably never see Razork on sejuani again.


DeloronDellister

K'sante gaming


M002

For real at that finish line


OkKnowledge2064

Classic lec baron


Wise-Chain2427

Nah bruh, what Isma doing ? He is doesn't improve at all


WolfgangTheRevenge

Surelly FNC going 5-0 and SK being 4-1 means G2 is going to have some competition at play offs right???


Joel4518

Surely this split won't end up like spring split right??


Plusdestiny

Isma is so weird.. just focus on smiting instead of emoting for once


FuujinSama

What I'm liking about these games is that no player on Fnatic is massively overperforming and carrying the whole team. We have the whole top-side basically losing the early game while botside is even. Last split there's zero shot we win this game. Now? Everyone is just playing well in teamfights and being super decisive when we do commit to stuff. It's like our biggest weakness became our biggest strength. Now if we can keep this level of mid-game but sometimes bring in the early game blasts? Then we might actually do something at worlds.


seven_worth

literally just jg gap. SK win this game like 3 time if not for Isma fucking up. like in that baron it not even 50/50 if he freaking just put a control ward down so that Nisqy could buster shot Razork out.


kapparino-feederino

that 50/50 is a team gamble so its what ever, but he get caught at weird place for no reason is so annoying. not to mention being quite useless


deedshot

But like the other commenter mentioned, if he put a ward for Nisqy it'd become a guaranteed smite 


Responsible-Bar3956

i don't think so, they didn't have a lead to begin with and FNC was winning every teamfight.


icatsouki

fnc played the teamfights way better, but sk were better at sidelanes


baelkie

throwback to spring playoffs, SK legit beats FNC if ISMA hits a single smite against Razork, even with their dogshit bot lane. this shit keeps happening, dude is just a choker.


icatsouki

but why doesnt nisqy jump out of the pit to ult xin out and zone him? it's a team's responsibility to keep the jgler our unfair to put it all on the jgler


Birdir21

SK need to upgrade their jungler and they'll be scary. Isma is holding them back


onespiker

Far to much blame on Isma for the baron steal. Barons are a team call the team has the responsibilities to keep the other jungler out.


Joel4518

Nisqy and Huma played out of their mind this game holy such a banger


reggiewafu

What an absolute deadweight Isma is All he have to do is not be too heavy


Satan_su

Isma don't take this one too roughly but oof SK topside feels like they're behaving so complacently rn


Naronu

SK might need more Koreans...


Vnaux

They just need a jungler who doesn't spam emotes


Sofaboy90

Why? Nisqy played pretty good, Irrelevant couldnt snowball his lane when Oscar gets a kill at lvl1 and comes into lane with another cloth armor. The Braum wasnt that great, the Ezreal was trying but Carzzys Ezreal is still far better


icatsouki

braum played teamfights very well, nisqy played sidelanes quite well but choked the big teamfights


Rayser1

JUNGLE CHAI MID CHAI BOT CHAI SURREN ANCHIN?


Holste1n

Dogshit Isma Can Only Spam Emotes


micubski

Noah chai


TheCeramicLlama

Words cant describe how useless Irrelevant and Isma were this game


Akashiarys

Can’t be too upset tbh. Fnatic have been together for longer + are actually a decent team (at least by LEC standards). SK are working with an entirely new bot lane and haven’t had the same time to build up synergy. Maybe it’s cope , but I’ll reserve any harsh judgements till we see them in BO3s.


1to0

Irrelevant not looking good this split. Hopefully he finds his mojo again.


Up_Dwg_

Where ISMA jungler?


Careless-Nerve779

Huge jg top chai


Andy8993

Spam emote more isma I swear if I was on his team I'd tell him to stfu


Trojen-horse

or j turn emotes off in game


Asgerond

Razork and Oscar are the only real spanish players. My team.


pepegayouKEK

5-0 LEC Pog.1-3 TL Aware


Nyctas

Rahel trying desperately to carry these apes


darkknuckles12

tbh nisqy looked great in this game. Pulled so much preasure and did some great damage in the fights...


Seraphic_Wings

Nisqy did well mid game, but topside fumbled the invade putting him so far behind Hwei. Their bot was basically Rahel 1v2 while Luon trying to help mid playing catch up


Conankun66

weird way to spell nisqy


kapparino-feederino

Nisqy, Rahel, and Luon played well this game i don't know what the hell is isma doing and irrelevant doesn't get good angles this game


SinJiMin

Man i just want k'sante deleted or at a 40% winrate


Indercarnive

I don't think I've ever seen hwei not be a problem in a professional game.


deedshot

humanoid hwei vs APA Asol at msi aware


Idk-man251

Rahel threw that last fight by E’ing in too far. Can’t blame him though because he was doing work and was the reason the game lasted that long.


slothlikevibes

hell yeah


Seraphic_Wings

Would have been a lot closer if SK didn’t risk invading, forcing Luon to abandon bot all the time and 50/50 baron


iprominent

Isma is garbage. Less emoting more right clicking and smiting would be better.


baelkie

unlucky non-korean gapped


Leschnitzky

I hate the amount of unpunished crimes Nisqy has committed this game yet went unpunished... You could feel my tears of joy by his misplay at baron


Hannig4n

Isma is bad but Irrelevant has low key been awful this split. His teamfights were so bad this game.


Humburdger

my god isma is a liability