The professional player from the USA, Yilang “Doublelift” Peng (26), is known for his skills as an ADC in League of Legends . Now he comments on the ADC Lwx from LoL world champion FunPlus Phoenix in a Twitch stream. He is not overly impressed with him.
This is what Doublelift says about LWX: In a Twitch stream, Doublelift explains the ADC of G2 Esports, Perkz, as “probably the best ADC of the LoL Worlds 2019.”
Doublelift then adds: “And I was very, very close to Perkz.”
Doublelift has destroyed world champions in training
However, Doublelift thinks very little of the ADC of the world champions, FunPlus Phoenix. What he did with this “guy” in training was already disgusting. He cannot even imagine what Perkz did with Lwx.
When Doublelift saw Lwx at Worlds, he thought:
“Oh my God, that guy won Worlds? I can definitely do that too. I am not worse than him anywhere.”
Mechanically, Doublelift thinks he is on par with him, his own champion pool is just as good, if not better than Lwx’s. According to Doublelift, Lwx’s gameplay is simply nothing special.
Doublelift – never made it out of the group stage of Worlds
Who is that? Doublelift is a legend in western LoL:
- He was a player for Counter Logic Gaming in 2011.
- From 2015 to 2017, he was the carry for TSM. With them, he won the LCS 3 times.
- When TSM no longer wanted him and sorted him out, he switched to Team Liquid and led them to 4 titles in a row.
Doublelift has won the LCS 7 times and is one of the biggest names in League of Legends outside of Asia. He has 1.3 million followers on Twitch – so he is also a big deal there.
Internationally, however, Doublelift has never accomplished anything significant. His teams generally drop out in the preliminary round of Worlds – often in extremely close matches. In 2019, Team Liquid was eliminated in the preliminary round. Yet again with the narrowest result of 3:3.
Doublelift blames it on “damn bad luck,” which haunts him and his teams every year.
The team of Lwx, FunPlus Phoenix, has dominated the World Championship. In the final, Lwx did not die a single time and achieved impressive kill numbers.
ADC in today’s LoL is no longer the focal point
What’s behind it: Lwx was actually a rather inconspicuous player at FunPlus Phoenix despite the many kills. The “playmakers” of his team were midlaner Doinb and jungler Tian. Support Crisp also frequently earned scene applause.
ADC Lwx managed to rack up a ridiculous number of kills without really standing out.
Lwx made hardly any mistakes, had to take few risks or initiate, but could focus on his farm to be present in team fights chosen cleverly by Doinb or Tian.
A game like Lwx’s must really bother someone like Doublelift. Because he thinks: With this team, he could have shone as much as the supposedly “boring, unremarkable” Lwx.
In the current LoL meta, the classic ADC, as played by Doublelift, seems to be taking more of a backseat. The big stars of Worlds 2019 were found in the midlane and jungle.
There, they exerted significant influence over the game, while the ADCs primarily farmed and provided damage in team fights. Perkz couldn’t leave his mark on the World Championship either – but only shone in a few moments, such as in the final minutes against SKT1.
Whether FunPlus Phoenix would have won the World Championship with Doublelift, we will probably never know. Two things are certain: Doublelift has immense skills in LoL – but his ego is even bigger. And success in practice matches at a LoL World Championship simply means nothing.
