Dunno how everyone can still be on doublelifts dick when he sucks in half of CLG's games and they are in 4th place @_@
Hi. I got a lot of time. Incoming wall of text. Skip this post if you don't care.
1) Breaking the KDA illusion - why Cop's high KDA does not mean very much.
Looking at Cop's KDA, he has like what, 5 times of Doublelift's KDA? Sounds impressive right? Unfortunately, this is where things get shady. Watching Curse's games and CLG's games, it becomes clear as to how Cop achieved such a high KDA. Consider this: Who are Curse's biggest threats? Voyboy and Saintvicious. Consider this: Who has a crosshair on him all the time on CLG? Doublelift. In the former case, Saint and Voyboy put so much upfront threat that Cop can remain safe in the back, knowing that he can just auto or press R as Miss Fortune and things will go his way. In fact, Voyboy and Saint's KDAs are substantially lower than Cop's, yet they're the ones posing the most threat, and it's kind of hard to deny that. There are many games where Cop had zero deaths, and that really inflates his KDA. Onto Doublelift's case - he's the guy that CLG expects to carry, and he's the guy that gets dived on 24/7 by every team in the LCS. I don't know about you, but when you're being dived on by 3-4 people, surviving is almost a miracle. Aside from a few silly lane deaths, Doublelift's deaths have been due to how much he is focused. Even with that setback though, Doublelift currently leads LCS in terms of kills. Would you not want your ADCs to get kills? This leads to point 2.
2) Cop's "support adc" vs Doublelift's more aggressive playstyle in the World Stage - the fall of Cop's safety net.
Recall in point 1 that Cop's inflated KDA comes from him playing safe and letting the rest of his team put out the real threat. Now consider this: NA's solo lanes are the weakest out of the participating regions, however, NA's botlanes are generally stronger than (at least) EU's botlanes. Why would you send a passive and safe player to take advantage of this strength? As you can see here, Cop's 'stand back and play safe' playstyle heavily backfires. No longer can he reliably call on Voyboy to dominate his enemies. Knowing that botlane is NA's strongest point, other regions will simply use their natural advantage to screw over NA's toplane and then dive Cop. Cop, usually not having to deal with this situation due to his team's offensive presence, finds himself stuck in a hard place. Doublelift, on the other hand, is more used to handling divers and is undoubtedly more mechanically skilled than Cop is. Unlike Cop's passive farming playstyle, Doublelift will know how to press his advantage in lane against them and potentially carry the other two (probably) losing lanes.
scarra made a pretty long post as to why he considers Cop to not really be an option. Check it out
here.
3) Pro Player Opinions
From what I've gathered, Scarra (as seen above), Saintvicious, Reginald, Link, and even Cop himself chose Doublelift to represent NA (although Cop has a somewhat darker motive). It's not a large sample size, but his prowess is definitely respected. Jebus even mentioned that Doublelift's performance is respected on the Korean scene and that says something considering NA doesn't get a lot of respect internationally.
Furthermore, what we see on screen isn't even a quarter of the amount of games these pros have played together. For example, people often rag on Regi's questionable plays in the LCS matches, yet many pros consider him to be one of the best (if not the) best mid in NA. Scarra, Saint, and Chauster in particular have been the most vocal in praising Regi's playmaking ability. What does this have to do with Doublelift? I'm sure that these people know what they are saying when they consider him to be the best ADC is NA.
One last question someone might ask "But doesn't CLG run protect the Doublelift? Wouldn't that skew over his performance?" Well let's just say dive comps naturally counter that comp, and in regards to his performance, it has been shown time to time that he's able to carry his team when all lanes have been lost.
To end this message I'd like to point out
this thread to give an idea what the pros think would be the best lineup to represent NA.
IMO Cop is probably the 5th best ADC in NA, after Doublelift/qtpie/wildturtle/Nientonsoh. He might be the most consistent, but he's also consistently letting his team do the carrying for him.
That is all.
tl; dr: No screw you i want you to read all of it.
lol im such a nerd.
