Recently, nobody has been enjoying the teleport top meta than LGD’s Acorn, and he has the results to prove it. From flanking the enemy, to helping finish off a fight in progress, nobody matches the level of efficiency Acorn has shown. Over at goldper10.com, Helfdazen has put together an in depth article on how Acorn uses the teleport summoner spell:
This analysis is on Acorn, the top laner of LGD. Acorn has been on several different teams over the years that have had some great success. He used to be on GSG, MVP blue, Samsung Blue, and now he is on LGD. He has mostly been known as the supportive top laner whose goal is to help with initiations, execute in team fights, and find flanks on the enemy. Not to say he hasn’t played a carry type role at times. He has played carry oriented top laners and has been in positions which required him to carry, but he has never been known as a clear carry oriented top laner like his teammate Flame.
Before teleport became mandatory it used to be more difficult to find flank opportunities with the unlimited amount of wards and teleport being very punishing if misused. During this time period Acorn developed himself as a highly skilled Rumble player. He would find flanks on his Rumble without teleport and create impactful equalizers to split the enemy team up.
On March 18th, 2014 Riot released patch 4.4 that reduced the cooldown of teleport if used on an ally turret by 100 seconds and buffing the refunded cooldown for cancelling teleport by 50 seconds. Teleport soon started evolving from being a situational tool to a mandatory strategic weapon. On May 5, 2014 Acorn made the switch to using teleport in every situation he was in. Acorn transferred his knowledge of finding flanks and opportunities from the past to the usage of his teleports. Now he is sitting in a similar position as he was in Samsung Blue where he is supporting the two main carries in mid and ADC with his teleports.
The analysis I will be conducting will be on Acorn’s teleport usage and success in all the LGD playoff games including the seeding match against VG.
Three full pages are needed to really get a feel for how Acorn plays. It is a great read heading into Worlds, as Acorn will be there, so check it out here.
