After ♎recently getting traded from Team Liquid to Team SoloMid, professional 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:League of Legends bot laner Yiliang Peter "Doublelift" Peng opened up about his time with Team Liquid . The legendary attack damage carry revealed he didn't want Team L🌞iquid to drop Jake Kevin "Xmithie" Puchero after the 2019 season.
After the addition of Doublelift at the end☂ of 2017, Team Liquid dominated North America for what was essentially two straight years. During that time, the team won four straight LCS titles and captured a number two finish at the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational, defeating reigning world champions Invictus Gaming in the semi-finals before ultimately losing to Europe's G2 Esports the finals. Doublelift was finally traded following a 9th place finish in the 2020 Spring Split.
"We threw away a good thing by kicking Xmithie," Doublelift said in his vlog. After winning four titles with the team, Team Liquid dropped Xmithie after a disappointing finish at 2019 Worlds, 168📖澳洲幸运5开奖网:replacing him with Mads "Broxah" Brock-Pedersen. "I was 🉐the only one on the entire team that wanted to keep Jake," Doublelift said. The twenty-siಞx-year-old veteran explained how keeping the same roster can help teams grow, and he had confidence in the roster with Xmithie, despite their international struggles.
"Me and Jake had great communication, we narrated the game really well, the team's decisions were a lot smoother and cleaner... (we) won every single split that I played with him, he was my g𓂃ood friend on the team, he was someone who I thought was really important to the team," Doublelift said of Xmithie.
The seven-time LCS champion clarified that Broxah was not the team's problem during the 2020 spring season, adding that after his benching, "The only people who were really supportive of me were Steve and Broxah." Doublelift said that Broxah was "a teammate that I could lean on, and I felt like he was my friend from inside the team... (He) was always asking me how I was doing and trying to sympathize with me and stuff like that."𝐆 Doublelift later called Broxah and Steve Arhancet, the team's owner, "the superstars" in the situa♔tion.
Team Liquid dropping Xmithie definitely contributed to Doublelift leaving, but it was nowhere near the sole reason. By his own admission, Doublelift's relationship🐽s with his teammates were deteriorating, and his drive to compete under Team Liquid was fading as well.
Either way, the drama and commotion are in the past, and despite the optics, the move should benefit both Team SoloMid and Team Liquid. In League of Legends, teamwork and synergy👍 are often more valuable than pure skill. Both teams will look to compete with the likes o💃f Cloud9 during the 2020 Summer Split.
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