The LoL pro and Twitch streamer Yilang “Doublelift” Peng struggles with his own league in the League of Legends. The 25-year-old is convinced after Rift Rivals that the LCS is just trash. You can already see that from the many imported mercenaries.
Who is Doublelift? At 25, Doublelift is one of the veterans in League of Legends. He has seen almost everything. He is one of the most well-known LoL players in North America.
He was with Team Solo Mid for many years and has been the ADC of Team Liquid since November 2017. With 1.2 million viewers, Doublelift also has a fairly large Twitch channel.
This is how he sees the Rift Rivals: In the recently held showcase match, Rift Rivals, 3 US teams faced off against 3 teams from Europe. Team Liquid looked the best among the US teams. But overall, Rift Rivals was a dismantling for the US teams.
Doublelift says: “It feels good that we performed the best. But every NA team tried their absolute best to win, and every EU team just seemed to play around and still won quite easily or was at least close.”
Doublelift says that this weighs heavily on the morale, but the competition itself is just trash. It is terrible here.
What is the problem? Doublelift sees several issues:
- On one hand, there are too many imports in NA, almost half of all players actually grew up in other regions.
- The environment in which players grow up in NA is just bad.
This is how Doublelift sees himself: On a positive note, Doublelift says he is one of the few exceptions in the USA who has what it takes to be a top player in a world championship team. He would have a realistic chance to be a top ADC there. He has similar praise for Jake Kevin “Xmithie” Puchero, the jungler of Team Liquid. Doublelift also sees potential in him.
But the rest of the region needs to work harder, put in more effort, and also get their teammates to try harder.
Doublelift says: “I also admit to streaming Solo Queue with the attitude of ‘I don’t care’ – that’s really not a good mindset.”
What’s behind it: Actually, the “US market” is larger than Europe. Many of the well-known Twitch streamers are former US pros – the big entertainers on Twitch like Tyler 1 play in NA. Many European LoL fans also orient themselves more toward the big US teams like “Team Solo Mid.”
However, in practice, the “small league” Europe seems to have surpassed the big leagues for a longer time.
Here you can see once again that “personality” and “image” do not necessarily have to align with actual skills in LoL.
