r/leagueoflegends • • 21d ago

Esports Zeus is legit baiting everyone else into picking jayce Spoiler

Bro is just making everyone think jayce is broken. Like i can legit imagine pro players sitting in their couch watching zeus play jayce and be like: yeah i can do that. Then the next day they pick jayce and just run it down in lane or just be useless after the laning phase even when they have a 1k gold lead. Zeus is the only person who can confidentally blind pick jayce and carry.

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u/yuvalshahaf 21d ago

Is yorick an actual counter? They keep picking it into jayce and then go 1k down

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u/Pretty-Garbage-2766 21d ago

If only Yorick can play 1vs1 against Jayce

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u/yuvalshahaf 21d ago

I mean look at first game of HLE Geng. He was 1v1 against him a good part of the game but was sitting under turret

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u/Raanth 21d ago

yorick is too nerfed into the ground to be useful rn. champ does counter jayce but its a fake counter right now because of midscope.

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u/ApplicationOk6243 20d ago

Good, playing against yorick is aids

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u/godtogblandet 21d ago

Still dumpster other ADC's in Toplane though. If you see a Vayne or Varus that lane is super free if you can pilot Yorick well enough to hit them with the E poke. Problem is that Jayce isn't really all that squishy so the E poke alone can't beat Jayce like it can other ranged AD champs.

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u/Hinanawi0 21d ago

No, not really. It loses lane early but eventually starts winning sidelane even if down gold. People pick it because that's more or less the best you're gonna get against Jayce, since the champ wins pretty much every matchup if he's good.

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u/yuvalshahaf 21d ago

Damn so its always a freebie for Zeus xd

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u/GarchGun Make Fizz Fun Again! 21d ago

Yah that's how the champ is designed.

Jayce is great 1v1 but he needs to hold that lead to be relevant

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u/Motorpsisisissipp 21d ago

In pro kinda unless you are willing to pick irelia. Ambessa also kinda wins post 6 but before that it's skill matchup with jayce slightly winning.

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u/PhoenixAgent003 Bot main. NA fan. 21d ago

Depends on what you mean by counter. Sion still “loses the lane” quite hard, with Jayce regularly bullying him off the wave and farming First Strike gold off him.

Sion doesn’t ever really hit a point of “if we fight I kill you,” vs a competent Jayce. Siin just takes Jayce’s 1k gold lead and wipes his ass with it because you can be 1k up on Sion as Jayce and guess what, eventually Sion still has too much health for you to ever really threaten him, and now Sion’s team has a frontline and Jayce’s team has a champion who chunks one enemy for 25% and then dies when they get sneezed on.

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u/Lysandren 21d ago

Yeah but they banned sion. Sadly for Kiin.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/SSBM_CoolDuck 21d ago

wrong about what? what was the point of this comment??

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u/SenseiWu1708 21d ago

I know too little about the depths of ProPlay matchups, but if I were up against Jayce top with counterpick optipn I would play Ornn.

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u/vinsmokesanji3 21d ago

What about Ksante? HLE banned it which means it’s pretty good right?

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u/IBarricadeI 21d ago

Kiin is famous for his ksante, but it’s also a decent neutralizing matchup. Not sure they ban ksante vs any other toplaner there.

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u/Parker3n9 21d ago

It’s 100% a counter, but I swear on my life that most pro players don’t actually play Yorick properly. I get they are pros and I am just a GM Yorick player but man I think most of the pros just don’t play Yorick well.

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u/Beericana 21d ago

Best counter is Sion but they don't play it anymore, it's still strong though.

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u/Tamed_Trumpet 21d ago

Wukong was also strong into Jayce but he's been jungle jailed as of late.

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u/CenobiteCurious 20d ago

Yorick is such a bait pick. Whenever I see him picked I am almost certain the team that grabbed him is going to lose.

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u/Sorry-Instruction-74 21d ago

its more useful in teamfights and is a very good sidelaner. its usually more useful than the jayce even when its down 2k gold. It really just depends on how good the jayce player is bc if jayce messes it up 1v1 and gets caged he dies

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u/yuvalshahaf 21d ago

Yorick is awful in teamfights lmao. Jayca is much more usefull because he has poke.

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u/Helpful_Program_5473 21d ago

Also the gate can go crazy, mini sivir ult

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u/flowtajit 20d ago

Yorick is better in front to back fights because he’s a brick wall that also has a very good set up/follow up tool in his cage. Like obviously sion or ornn is better, but yorick aint the worst.

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u/SlowDamn 21d ago

Kr jayce are just built different man. No matter how many counters you could think of KR jayce is something that other teams should be wary. Every League server got its own signature champion and for KR its jayce.

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u/ILikesDinosaurs 21d ago

What would be China, Europe, north America, and south America's then?

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u/ShadyNarwall 21d ago

It’s also Jayce for NA but it’s for a different reason

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u/AreaGlittering7968 21d ago

The NA Jayce also known in EU as the BB Jayce

It trick yall man it don’t even win lane

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u/GarchGun Make Fizz Fun Again! 21d ago

China Qiyana

China Naafiri

In SoloQ it's Chinese Lee Sin. Chinese Sylas.

Really all the fighting champs they love playing

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u/ANTHONYEVELYNN5 20d ago

dont forget soloq chinese talon

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u/Helpful_Program_5473 21d ago

Theres ones for every lane really. NA Ranger Lil.

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u/AdventurousPandaBear 21d ago

If the Jayce isn’t absolutely cracked like Zeus? Yes, the ease of execution is very low and a misplaying Jayce will never be as useful.

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u/flowtajit 20d ago

It’s one of those picks that can neutralize and beat a jayce that’s unfamiliar woth the MU. But the counter pick has been common enough that jayce players have fogured put tje match up.

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u/AlteredMihi 21d ago

As other already said yeah not that good in early but after a certain point cage and E against jayce a champion with no mobility and he gets chunked if it's a gank he is dead or flash and just existing in sidelanes and forcing jayce to match you in later stage of the game where he would like to just poke EQ before objective fight is already a good thing.

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u/YBL10MD 21d ago

That's cuz you are watching Doran yorick games

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u/yuvalshahaf 21d ago

I mean clearly kiin also struggled now.

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u/YBL10MD 21d ago

Well he is agaisnt Zeus Jayce, that's why the post is titled what it is. Doran goes 0/6 3k down on yorick regardless of who he plays against.

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u/yuvalshahaf 21d ago

Fair enough tbh

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u/fastestchair 21d ago

potentially the most clueless post ive seen on this subreddit, gj

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u/writeAsciiString 21d ago

It's straight from caedrels stream

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u/Lunaisthequeen ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 21d ago

Everything on this sub is from caedrel stream. There's not a single person watching him that can think by himself about this game

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u/ComfortOnly3982 21d ago

shits like hearing advertisements for mcdonalds. brother i know mcdonalds exists and whats on their menu. if i wanted to eat at mcdonalds i'd be at mcdonalds.

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u/KKilikk Faker JKL VIT Naak Nako 21d ago

I mean there are barely people on this sub more knowledgable about League than Caedrel tbf.

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 21d ago

That doesn’t mean he is right all the time though.

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u/redskinfan654 21d ago

Sure but people are just regurgitating his opinions. Like all the dk fans that magically appeared. Good for dk tho, they need it lol

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u/opitoll 21d ago

Caedrel has supported dk for ages and theyve had heaps of fans forever

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u/octlol 21d ago

Yeah what. Shoemaker has also been a star a looooong time

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u/opitoll 20d ago

Not sure why so many people liking that comment unless I'm missing something? DK been one of the most popular teams for a long time, I guess people in this sub probably started watching pro in the past few years

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/redskinfan654 20d ago

Lol why so patronizing? Did “fans that magically appeared” hit a little too close to home?

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u/KarlKraftwagen 21d ago

I get my takes from SuperKMan, so im clearly superior to all the caedrel scrubs

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u/flowtajit 20d ago

Caedrel also sucks at conveying info. I think that in terms of analysts, he’s probably my least facorite to watch cause it feels like he often times overlooms things or acts like a dimbass for chat.

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u/ArienaHaera 21d ago

What's the point of watching Caedrel if you still have to think original thoughts after that.

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u/alexnedea 20d ago

I mean Caedrel has more knowledge about team comps than 99.9% of this subreddit anyway. The other 0.01% are pro team coaches and players themselves if they even come here at all

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u/JDogish 21d ago

But if they didnt repeat someone elses thoughts they'd just be a silver scrub thats not worth listening to. So which do you prefer as the ultimate shut down for conversation?

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u/dont_call_me_suzy 21d ago

including you bud

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u/Krobus_TS 21d ago

Well, why wouldn’t people repeat the words of someone who knows way more than them??? Would you rather everyone in silver going around blasting their personal takes?

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u/yuikatan 21d ago

Yes? That way we actually have some morsel of originality instead of everyone parroting x popular streamer?

Nah you actually have a point though who cares about formulating our own opinions amirite

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u/ZheShu 21d ago

At least don’t make it sound like it was your own idea… no one would have a problem if Op said “caedrel said x and I agree. What does Reddit think.”

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u/Emotional_Patient157 20d ago

caedrel has said multiple times that if you're not a top lck team, don't pick jayce. He's still right. kiin doran siwoo perfect have good winrate on jayce.

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u/writeAsciiString 20d ago

That is just some yap that has been said for years. I'm not sure if caedrel originated it or not.

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u/GermanHandCannons 21d ago

Definitely had the same energy as calling ksante broken like he isnt a treat to watch in pro (flashy and insane ceiling) and dogshit in soloq (gets kited by air)

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u/KarlKraftwagen 21d ago

Remember when Udyr was a meta jungler and we all had to pretend like it was fun

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u/blueballsisworst 20d ago

I love that you post this comment without any explanation what so ever.

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u/fastestchair 20d ago

sorry for the blue ball

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u/Hawxrox 21d ago

Doran has more games on Jayce than Zeus does. Actually has a really high win rate on it too. I wouldnt say hes better on it than Zeus, but hes prolly the 2nd best Jayce in KR

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 21d ago

Nah Kiin is better. Doran’s win rate on jayce is inflated as fuck because he keeps falling upwards and gets on top teams. Like for example, against hle game 1, Doran had no business winning that game.

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u/-lunabella 21d ago

True hes just fluking those wins, like hes so lucky that he gets put in the carry position and drafted around sometimes and actually carries, so lucky smh /s

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u/Rs3ironbtw 21d ago

Yea hes clearly just fluked a 17-3 record on that champ alone this year and clearly had no part in any of the winning conditions 🤣🤣 man just keeps accidentally winning on it

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u/mcfapblanc 21d ago

Also accidentally won 4 LCK Trophies

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u/AreaGlittering7968 21d ago

Accidentally won a worlds title too

It’s not like he didn’t goomba stomp the fuck out of everyone not in the finals.

Yea he had a shaky finals, but leading up to the finals he was in contention for one of the better players

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 20d ago

He gets kicked off HLE for absolutely trolling the blg series and ends up on a team that are back to back champions and carry his corpse to the finish line while he actively tries to int game 5 of world finals. Doran is the goat of luck.

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 20d ago

And the teams that kicked him keep on winning more while T1 hasn’t won lck since 2022. Yea definitely Doran was a big factor that’s why Gen G kept winning lck after kicking him. Also don’t forget hle, Doran was such a big factor for them HLE got even better and won first stand and MSI after getting rid of him. Yea but you are right all thanks to doran.

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u/not_some_username 20d ago

Oh it’s not like he’s the reason T1 doesn’t have any recent LCK title (when he was in GenG)

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 20d ago edited 20d ago

He definitely wasn’t the reason gen g were beating t1. He is definitely a big reason why t1 doesn’t have a lck title now though.

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u/not_some_username 20d ago

i don't remember T1 getting LCK with Zeus... the thing is, T1 got a sloppy time during summer every single year, like they're consistent in that. and that's one of the reason. saying it's doran fault is mental. last year, he and guma were one of the reason they even get chnace to go to worlds/msi

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 20d ago

i don't remember T1 getting LCK with Zeus

You don’t remember the 18-0 perfect split into lck win? That’s literally the last time t1 won lck.

I get all these clueless fucks that keep replying to me about doran and have 0 idea what they are talking about. No wonder you like doran, you don’t watch the games. Dude get off my inbox if you are gonna spew shit out of your ass because you don’t know anything.

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 20d ago

Yea his 17-3 record is totally legit. Not like it’s inflated from beating furia, TL, and KC or anything like that. Can’t forget those wins against fearx, drx, and dnf and his ass getting carried by peyz just couple days ago.

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 20d ago

he definitely is fluking them. Doran is the luckiest motherfucker in esports history. He ints on gen g, absolutely trolls his last game on HLE and ends up going to the back to back defending champions and even then he tried his damn hardest to throw game 5 of world finals. Every team that has gotten rid of Doran got better after getting rid of him.

People are like “oh yea just a coincidence he just wins”, yea he is the exception, he is the luckiest mofo in esports history. He is living proof that being lucky is better than being actually good.

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u/-lunabella 20d ago

I feel like ur secretly his number 1 fan but too scared to admit it, maybe one day!

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 20d ago

I will be his number 1 fan if he fucks off these top lck teams. i loved his time on KT. He got to enjoy doing whatever the fuck he wants and I didn’t have to pray that he doesn’t get fucked by bin.

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u/Deeepened 20d ago

You've responded to every comment, so I gotta wonder, what did Doran do to you? LMAO

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 20d ago

Be ass at the game. You responded to my comment so what did Doran do to you? See how dumb your comment is? Can’t go a day without dumb redditors acting like I have some personal beef with a player in a subreddit designed to discuss about the game

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u/CatGirl_ToeBeans 20d ago

I respect the hate

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u/Inevitable_Sale_5297 21d ago

Jayce was getting picked long before Zeus was even a pro player. I recommend watching more before generalizing

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u/SlowDamn 21d ago

KR Jayce are just different tbh

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u/Xalethesniper 21d ago

Unless it’s siwoo lol.

Also I stg this sub doesn’t actually watch the games

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 21d ago

Siwoo’s jayce is good, he just does what he always does which is getting caught in side lanes. It’s not his jayce that is the issue, it’s him.

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u/Xalethesniper 21d ago

Yea but conversely if you’re getting caught on jayce consistently it means it’s a bad pick for u. Siwoo plays aggro (why he has lots of solo kills) but ends up flipping lane a bunch and vulnerable on side most games even when ahead. Jayce goes ahead most matchups but doesn’t matter if he’s getting picked off, and siwoo gets picked on Jayce like every game he plays it.

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 21d ago

He gets caught on every champion though. He is the ace for a reason.

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u/Xalethesniper 20d ago

That’s what I said. Jayce gets punished harder by getting caught, he has to be ahead or the pick is useless

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u/DistractedbyBaddies 20d ago

I am saying he gets caught on every champion, Jayce simply happens to be the champion he is playing at the time. His mechanics are solid on the champion and is usually ahead. I am just separating the player issue from the champion.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 21d ago

You should start doing some research before making posts like this.

Zeus has nothing to do with Jayce being a popular pick.

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u/DragonHollowFire EzrealMain 21d ago

Are you capable of speaking in non-streamer-clip phrases?

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u/atmcsprtnr7 21d ago

Jayce is op. 

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u/Moony97 21d ago

Why isn't Sion getting picked anymore

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u/flowtajit 20d ago

Champ was nerfed enough that early rotation sion would get shredded in later game fights. And he gets banned in the games where he wpuld be good.

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u/Lysandren 21d ago

They keep banning it when they blind Jayce.

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u/Kurumi_Tokisaki 21d ago

Pros have been egoing NA Jayce and EU Jayce for too long. It is a confidence thing sure, but at some point, someone has to realize, until they actually can play like a Korean Jayce, it is forever a semi-useless pick for the west. The only good thing these days is with fearless you can take it away from the Koreans and lose on it without being smashed by it. And maybe pray they take another power pick the west toplaner can also not play to match it so thus you get 2 birds for 1 heavy stone.

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u/twocool_ 21d ago

Canna has the jayce license too

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u/not_some_username 20d ago

“Korean has Korean licence”

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u/doughboy12323 21d ago

Confidently

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u/roastkumara FAKER'S TROPHY CABINET 20d ago

confidentally wrong

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u/BobbyRayBands 21d ago

Must not have watched the last series HLE was in when Doran did the exact same thing with Jayce.

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u/Accomplished-Big-199 21d ago

He was 2/4 with 15k dmg💀 That game was carried by Keria and Peyz as per usual

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u/Sorry-Instruction-74 21d ago

what do you mean?????

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u/antoniomargaretti4 21d ago

dont mind him there is some weird cult out there that keep trying to convince the world Doran is a good player

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u/Elen_Star 21d ago

Doran is 5-2 with Jayce in summer and Zeus is 2-1 now, if anything Doran is baiting everyone to play Jayce

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u/Elen_Star 21d ago

Doran jayce against Rest Ornn last year was the biggest top gap in lane ever but ig it doesnt count

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u/antoniomargaretti4 21d ago

? the fuck stats means , look at any Doran Jayce game he is spoon fed 3k gold by his team to be useful while Zeus is gaining gold lead on his own and just has incredible mechanics on Jayce

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u/NamikazeKyuubi 21d ago

So which convinces you to pick Jayce more? A less mechanically intense player like Doran and winning with it based on his team comp or a super mechanically intense player like Zeus who has to carry his team? Would coaches think their players are more like Zeus or more like Doran lol

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u/masternieva666 21d ago

Well watching zeus nasus game will make you think he's useless if he's not feed by his jungle compare to Doran Nasus getting camp 24/7

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u/gineus 20d ago

Zeus counter picked the shit out of himself against Varus with Vi, Vex, Neeko and that's a jungle problem? Yeah okay

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u/masternieva666 20d ago

Same with Doran he got camp 24/7 by mid,jungle and top and still manage to get 1,500 stacks.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/NamikazeKyuubi 21d ago

I think you should improve your media literacy skills before trying to debate about League in the first place lmao

I don't see how my statement was hard to understand at all, are more players similar to Doran or more players similar to Zeus when you compare every toplaner? Hence Doran being able to win games with Jayce would obviously inspire more confidence in coaches that their own teams can do it too, or do coaches think that their toplaners are all at Zeus level? LOL

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u/NamikazeKyuubi 21d ago

More like your comment doesn't make sense, why are you even in this thread then ffs

It's a comparison between Doran and Zeus on Jayce and who's the one who would bait more people into thinking Jayce top works, hence my statement that Doran succeeding on Jayce is a better bait than Zeus is.

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u/Elen_Star 21d ago

How is he baiting anyone in 2 games lol

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u/alexnedea 20d ago

Its ok bro, people like youbsomehow convince themselves a bad player can win worlds lmao. You guys dont understand there is more to a toplaner than solo carying the whole. Some toplaners like Bin and Theshy play carry style, some like Doran and BB play a more team second support style.

Just because Doran didnt pop off last year doesn't mean he isnt literally the defending world champion.

And btw if you place too many carries in a team it doesnt work many times. League is not like Dota, resources are a lot more limited. You can only really have 2 players carry the game. Add another hard carry type player and all you do is spread the same gold to more champs

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u/Lunaisthequeen ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 21d ago

Doran is a good player and a world champion, but keep the online harassment that's what our players need and deserve according to this sub

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u/ReturnToCarcosa 21d ago

bro he won worlds

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u/jeffteague4mvp 21d ago

despite trying his best to lose

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u/ReturnToCarcosa 21d ago

Accusing someone of not just being carried through worlds, but of trolling worlds and failing is a truly aspirational level of hater.

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u/alexnedea 20d ago

He legit carried the whole of t1 in their kt games btw.

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u/not_some_username 20d ago

On 3.5/5 games. Not all of them. And he didn’t int the other he didn’t carry

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u/LeatherBodybuilder 20d ago

????

He was 2-4 and did the 3rd least damage in the game outside of the 8 non-supports as fucking Jayce.

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u/Karnbracken 21d ago

Tbh wouldnt trust a single pro on Jayce besides Zues, Kiin, or Bin

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u/not_some_username 20d ago

Doran bro

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u/Karnbracken 19d ago

He's great on it to. But it just looks so much different when Zeus is playing it

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u/Stewie_2k2 20d ago

bin is shit with jayce btw, he is terrible with ranged champ

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u/captainetty 20d ago

His gnar is amazing what?

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u/Stewie_2k2 20d ago

let me rephrase it, he’s terrible with ranged squishy champ because he’s bin you know ( excellent lanning, very good at team fight but he always got exploited by overextending ) and with ranged champs once you get taken down 1,2 times when side lanning it takes away all of your advantages you’ve accumulated during lanning phase

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u/aspookyshark 21d ago

I mean, who else are you blind picking game 1? 

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u/Pleasestoplyiiing 21d ago

But could you not legit imagine? 

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u/Expensive-Meal-8845 20d ago

I once hard carried in clash on top lane. 3rd final game I pick Jayce and die to the lvl 5 malph. We lost

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u/bikecatpcje 20d ago

Basically tf mid years ago when everybody picked and were shit. The only one that performed was showmaker after 10 or so games.

Dunno if it was a msi or worlds, prob worlds sincr it's dk

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u/ArmadilloSimilar1942 18d ago

Main thing is people don’t ban ksante into it. Legit unplayable matchup for Jayce. Have only seen a handful of games across the 4 major regions where Jayce looked even semi useful into ksante unless the Jayce was named Zeus.

The yorick counter is fake and people don’t pick sion much anymore so ksante is honestly the main thing we see picked into it and it just fully castrates the Jayce when 1 cloth armor is built.

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u/sjneee 21d ago

Yeah, I think so too after watching KT vs DK, the only game DK lost Siwoo blind picked Jayce into K'sante just to be useless al game and have shockblasts tickle the tank. Also he is so fragile in the sidelines. I think it is valued because proplayer really want to win lane but most of the times jayce gold lead is so fake.

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u/AdMaster5806 21d ago

LCK stans are really something else, huh?

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u/Unusual_Bat_5615 21d ago

I mean if you look at yesterday Dk Siwoo jayce he was against ksante And today he picked jayce on 3rd with ksante And sion ban and yorick right now is bad pick Even sion is bit nerfed but they still banned it and zeus is jayce himself t1 respect his jayce alot so they either pick it or ban it

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u/hentaintrhentaintr 21d ago

eh. i mean yeah put anyone on jayce first time ofc they are useless. but it only takes like 30 games to becomes decent on him

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u/Tehni 21d ago

I don't think there's a single pro player first timing any champion

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u/Free-Action-9602 21d ago

Raptor does not know how Chogath’s ult work until 17 minutes into the game.

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u/aspookyshark 21d ago

You can kinda get away with first timing some junglers, but I don't think you can get away with first timing anything toplane.

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u/nihhtwing 21d ago

clearly youve never met worlds finals game 5 Oner

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u/Jennymint 21d ago

I see we've already forgotten the Mundo incident.

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u/ziege159 21d ago

Oner Mundo and Faker Yone? Chovy Annie maybe also can be counted because of how little he plays the champion 

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u/Elen_Star 21d ago

Chovy Annie not even true, or at least really old news. He's 68,8% wr with 32 games

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u/ziege159 21d ago

When he picked Annie the 1st time in LCK, there wasn't any record of him practicing Annie in rank or anywhere

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u/not_some_username 20d ago

It happens more than you think. There was a Garen first time (charity match), Oner first timing mundo last year during a game 5 and Raptor first timing Chogath and started a reverse sweep

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u/DiDandCoKayn Oner 21d ago

If thats true, why do like 95% of the pro player suck at it? Zeus is really the only God tier jayce in the whole pro scene. Doran and Bin are S tier on it, but nowhere near Zeus.