After their final sport of the LCS Spring Break up common season, Dexerto sat down with Staff Liquid’s CoreJJ to ask some troublesome questions on what went flawed with the group. Not solely was he sincere and forthcoming about communication points inside the group, he had tangible hope for his or her capacity to carry out in Summer season.
Jo ‘CoreJJ’ Yong-in has lengthy held a popularity as considered one of if not the perfect assist gamers in North America. He’s been on Staff Liquid for 4 years, sticking with the group by a few of their largest accomplishments and best failures.
Throughout that point, he’s been placed on a roster alongside a few of the greatest gamers on the planet. However stacking a group like that brings together with it an extremely excessive set of expectations. 2022’s roster failed to fulfill these expectations, and, sadly for TL, 2023 has solely been worse.
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Staff Liquid completed their Season with an 8-10 document, tying them for eighth place and leaving them simply outdoors of qualifying for Playoffs. Their unsteady exhibiting with such high-tier expertise has left folks with a whole lot of questions, and CoreJJ was keen to reply a few of the most troublesome ones.
In Dexerto’s interview with Core, he didn’t shrink back from admitting the place a whole lot of the issues have been with the group and revealed why he’s assured they will compete for a prime spot in Summer season.
Regardless of their greatest efforts, one thing on TL bought misplaced in translation
Staff Liquid was marketed as and built from the ground up to be a Korean-speaking roster. Summit and Pyosik have been meant to be a powerful topside for the group, whereas Haeri and Yeon made up a few of the greatest Academy expertise we’ve ever seen, gamers that dominated just under the LCS degree that might additionally communicate Korean with out requiring extra import slots.
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Nevertheless, even with the language barrier being overcome by the way in which Staff Liquid structured their roster, communication was nonetheless an issue with this group. Pyosik admitted that it took for much longer than he anticipated for Staff Liquid to mesh as a group in his interview with Dexerto, and that’s a sentiment CoreJJ mirrored.
“What we have to enhance is like, for instance, we misplaced a whole lot of video games with Lucian/Nami. We have to work out why we misplaced, we have to work out how we are able to win with this comp, what’s the actually essential factor this champion must succeed? Whereas the season is happening, all the pieces is knowledge, proper? You’re going to have a whole lot of knowledge, and that’s the place you want communication. You discuss to your teammates and take into consideration the sport, discuss what you want, what you are able to do higher.”
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At first of the break up, Staff Liquid was held up as one of many hardest working groups that was placing probably the most hours into solo queue and scrims. Nevertheless, that apply is just price as a lot as their outcomes give them. After making an attempt so laborious in apply forward of the season solely to lose in the beginning of the break up, morale wasn’t precisely excessive.
“Our early losses made us play worse and worse. Since we misplaced a whole lot of video games with what we practiced loads, we misplaced our approach. We needed to discover a new win situation, and it took a while.”
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When requested about whether or not he thought there was a giant hole between TL’s efficiency on stage and in scrims, CoreJJ wasn’t wanting to make excuses. In truth, he took the chance to element simply how laborious a group can nosedive on account of having an entire lack of momentum.
“At first, I used to be considering that there was a giant hole. However, in the long run, we have been simply not constant in scrims and in stage video games. Once you’re not constant on stage, enemy groups attempt to play extra secure and attempt to play extra centered, so that you make much more errors. We’re not taking part in clear, however not less than we are able to make actually good performs regardless that we make errors. That’s what I may see in our final sport.”
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Of their final sport of the Spring break up, Staff Liquid confirmed the best and worst their team has to offer .
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After getting picked and shedding a teamfight on Drake, Summit and Haeri managed to commerce again an inhibitor off the again of pure mechanical talent. There’s clear expertise right here with these particular person gamers, they’re simply struggling in the case of taking part in like a group. Humorous sufficient, that is precisely what FlyQuest’s Impression thought was the problem with TL once we requested him about why he thought Staff Liquid was shedding.
CoreJJ went on to say that, whereas it could seem like TL is noticeably behind the highest groups within the LCS, they don’t must cowl a lot floor to place themselves on the prime of the desk.
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“I believe it’s very tiny issues that we’re lacking. Our gamers individually can play nicely towards the highest groups within the league, so I believe, as soon as we enhance as a group and discover our win situation, we’ll be a extremely good group.”
CoreJJ isn’t discouraged regardless of Staff Liquid lacking Playoffs
Regardless of the circumstances, CoreJJ was in good spirits once we talked to him. He was elated that they’d gained towards EG (even when it wasn’t the cleanest sport), and nonetheless appeared very optimistic about his group’s probabilities in Summer season.
Yeon specifically was a scorching matter coming into the break up. He’d been the Academy system’s worst stored secret for some time, and was clearly a standout inside the system earlier than coming as much as TL’s LCS roster. And, whereas he nonetheless has loads to be taught in keeping with Core, this player is one to watch out for.
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“I believe he has a whole lot of good concepts, and he has a extremely excessive ceiling. However… He additionally makes a whole lot of errors. He’s determining what’s the optimum technique to play the sport. He doesn’t wish to be a regular AD carry, he needs to be the perfect participant. As soon as he figures himself out, he’ll dominate.”
Yeon’s pursuit to grow to be an ADC that may surpass the likes Prince or Berserker has resulted in him making some huge errors. The ambition that comes with desirous to be the perfect participant paired with a scarcity of expertise can result in catastrophe, which might be a part of why Yeon has been inconsistent to date.
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These inconsistencies have been ironed out a bit within the second half of the break up, however these adjustments got here too late for Staff Liquid to make playoffs. CoreJJ mentioned was his largest remorse of the break up.
“I believe, in all of our losses on stage, we realized loads. I want we may have realized all the pieces loads earlier in our season.”
He left us with a vow that subsequent break up might be totally different.
“EG was fifth place, 9-9 final Spring Break up after which gained the whole event. That’s League of Legends. Typically you want time. Some groups be taught quicker. Some groups grow to be a group quicker. As everybody can see, the LCS standings are actually tight, and each single win and loss can change the standings. It sucks that we bought eighth place, however I’m going to verify it’s not gonna occur once more.“
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