By a great coincidence, the LoL pro Doublelift was matched with his entire team in solo queue. This should actually be a huge advantage over the opponents because the team knows each other. Actually.
What was the situation? Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng plays the role of ADC for the League of Legends team “Team Liquid.” He recently talked himself into a corner during an interview.
In his stream on March 19, he played in the solo queue of LoL. By a great coincidence or a lot of luck, the system of League of Legends decided to assign him his Team Liquid as the 4 other team members.
Doublelift was clearly surprised and immediately noticed that all eyes were now on the five players who are already competing as a team in professional tournaments. Team Liquid has already won 4 consecutive LCS championships. They must be able to easily defeat 5 players who were randomly thrown together.
“If we lose this, we are done”
This is how the pro reacted: When he saw the team composition, his first reaction was “What the fuck?” Then he explained “this is just our team. It’s just TL [Team Liquid]. I have never seen anything like this in my entire life. I have never had a lobby with my whole team,” explained the ADC player.
“If we lose this, we are in big trouble…,” says Doublelift and already fears the consequences a loss would bring.
How did the match go? As DotEsports reports, the players of Team Liquid faced “Pobelter” from CLG and the bot lane of Cloud9 Academy.
Doublelift died on the bot lane early on twice in unfortunate succession, and the enemy jungler was able to secure two more kills for the opponents. Thus, Team Liquid fell behind in the early game. Their opponents used the advantage and secured objectives, overpowering the mid-lane. In between, there was a brief optimistic moment for Team Liquid during a Baron fight, but ultimately it wasn’t enough. The opponents destroyed Team Liquid’s Nexus – the game was over.
But they didn’t lose their fun. Even during the match, the team joked: “This game will definitely end up on YouTube.”
This is how viewers joked: On Reddit, the clip and news about the loss reached many players. Fans of Team Liquid joked “Man, with this synergy, we are done” (via Reddit)
Others wrote in the Reddit thread:
- They lost HARD
- Doublelift and his superstar team against the pathetic low-quality solo queue of NA, which isn’t worth his time
- How could they possibly lose that?
However, the opposite can also occur when a pro wins against a team of 5 players alone. Even if the skill differences were significantly larger.
