The Long Beach City College League of Legends suffered close losses in their debut matches of the preseason Wednesday, after taking defeats from the University of Michigan and Carthage College.
The League of Legends aka LoL team kicked off their preseason with two matches against teams who made high placements last season.
Simon Prak also known by his in-game name “Sterlyn”, the team’s Attack Damage Carry whose main goal is to inflict more damage on the enemy team.
Simon Prak, also known by his in-game name “Sterlyn,” is the team’s attack damage carry, and was tied for the most “kills” in one match with five, with over 25,000 damage against the other team.
Prak and Isiah Fonseca, game name “Ragnarok” accumulated almost a total of 20,000 gold each, across both matches.
Asher Bolton, in-game name “Asher,” was the team’s jungler for these matches, whose main objective is to play passive, while collecting necessary resources for the team.
“I have never jungled competitively, I’ve only done it solo queue. Competitive is very different,” said Bolton.
Bolton has previous competitive experience when he played on his high school team, and also coaches them currently.
Bolton had a tough couple of games, trying to help secure kills for his team by playing around areas that enemies don’t really cover, and flanking behind them.
Team fights were a crucial part of the game, allowing for a heavy push to the other base and take over the objective.
LBCC was not able to take control and overcome the other teams, only winning one of the four major team fights across the matches.
The team had a revamping with only two returnees and four new players which caused overlapping roles, and switching positions needing to occur.
“Adapting to new roles very last minute was one of our biggest caveats,” said coach Derek Barraza during a post-match interview.
The team hopes to rally back and start the regular season strong when matches count, and spots for a National Championship are up for grabs.
LBCC League of Legends starts their regular season matches scheduled for Wednesdays throughout the semester.
