LOL's first team to dare to sign a North American player as a foreign aid? It's a good mentality

★ Game Horseshoe Original

In LOL's professional games, the most heard is Korean aid, and it can be said that it sells well all over the world. After all, the Korean LCK has won nine of the past 14 World Finals, and it's not uncommon for players from the strongest regions to be in high demand. The other most common is the merger of regions, where some players are employed in other nearby regions. North America has also been very keen to poach people from Europe in recent years, after all, there is no need to think about communication. However, just this year, there was a very rare situation when the European LEC actually signed a player from the North American LCS. He also became the only North American player in the European division.

Jojopyun

This player is Jojopyun, who once debuted at EG to win the LCS, and at one time he was even considered to be a future star in North America who could succeed the likes of Pilsen's big brother. The result seemed to be short-lived, and last year he left EG to join C9, but the old North American giants have been hanging out of the world championship all year long, third in the spring, fourth in the summer, and a year as a goalkeeper. Jojopyun's individual performances were not ideal, as he was still a very young player in '04, but there seemed to be no room for growth in North America.

MAD signed with Jojopyun

The Spanish team MAD basically made an "all-western class" last year, and only the midlaner was not Spaniard. As a result, because of the finals in the winter tournament and 1 G2 win in the European annual finals, this team with no strength relied on the strange competition system to directly lie down and advance to the global finals. The final outcome is also obvious to all, they didn't have the ability to play S15 at all, and they were eliminated in the play-in round, and this is not the first time for them.

Maybe it's to get rid of your bad luck? MAD will merge with a minor league club for the new season and will eventually be renamed Movistar KOI. The mid laner was changed from Poland to Jojopyun from North America and Canada, and the original mid laner Fresskowy was relegated to the second team, and the other players remained unchanged.

Is it really possible to sign a North American foreign aid?

It is not uncommon to see European players poached in North America, such as Zven in the early years, Perkz later, Bwipo and Inspired, etc. This is the first time I've seen a European team sign a player from North America. And the choice is still the mid laner who did not perform well last season, and age may be the only advantage. Although the European division has always thought that it is stronger than North America in the past, EU > NA, but after its own ace G2 group stage for 3 consecutive years, and North America reached the quarterfinals for 2 consecutive years, I am afraid that no one in the LEC has the face to say such things anymore.

Maybe Jojopyun is really a reinforcement for them? However, we think a more plausible explanation is that, on the one hand, there are no more mid-orders available in Europe, and on the other hand, the development prospects of North America are worrisome after the severe shrinkage and merger. One wants to be an experienced and potential midlaner, and the other wants to go to a bigger stage, and they hit it off.

In the end, it will be up to the North American and the European team to create a spark. MAD is also a magical team, they have always been a shame in the World Championships, but they have been able to achieve some results on European soil almost every year, and the team logo used to be a lion's head, which turned out to be more like a snake on the ground.

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