Thorin is back with the conclusion to his Top 20 teams of all time. On gfinity.net, Thorin has what he believes are the best League of Legends team to ever play, and his list doesn’t miss a beat. Just here what he has to say about his #2 team, last years World Champions, Samsung White:
Line-up:
Top – Looper
Jungle – DanDy
Mid – PawN
ADC – imp
Support – Mata
Accomplishments:
2014 OGN Champions Spring 2014 (3rd)
2014 OGN Masters (1st)
2014 OGN Champions Summer (3rd)
2014 Season 4 World Championship (1st)
Over the first seven months or so of this line-up’s existence, there was only one team in the world that could best them in a Bo5 series: sister team Blue. Two straight OGN seasons saw them reaching the semi-final and losing there to Blue, when other bracket draws would almost certainly have yielded a minimum of two finals finishes. During this time, Ozone/White took care of SKT for Blue, beating the best team in history in three straight offline Bo5 series and with relative ease.
When they reached Worlds, overcame Blue and won the title, the trophy was less important than the fashion in which they did it. OMG and NaJin Sword had given SKT moments of pause at the previous Worlds, but nobody could stand before Samsung White at the Season 4 World Championship. The games they lost were almost a testament unto the power level of the team, as they would play even world class teams with so blatant disregard for any lurking danger that they would end up losing two games out of the 17 they played.
Even so, such risky play was seemingly a price worth paying, as the same approach was not always foiled, yielding some of the most ludicrous high level LoL stomps ever witnessed. Such was the double-edged sword of White and at Worlds it ultimately was used almost exclusively for lopping off the heads of every opponent that came before them. Their peak came only in one tournament, but it was one of the most high profile of all-time and their violent destruction of all opponents there was chilling.
SKT dominated by playing the most effective style, while White dominated playing however they wanted in the moment. The rest of the competitive teams cheered when China opened its cheque books after Worlds.
So what team takes the top spot? If you follow eSports you probably can guess, if not, check out #1 and the rest of Thorin’s top ten here.
