Baron Division — Week 1

The other captains gifted me a couple players from the apex tier LBLCS championship team and I happily accepted. And how in the world was Jungle Jim available at pick 22? Haters think Twenty1 can't hang with the super-Masters in the midlane but this guy has balled out in every other role, so I'm not worried.

Draft day ace TacticalPorkchop with yet another banger of a team chock full of peak LP. He did get denied the Pjerg/Hortikius synergy but this botlane should be one of the absolute best if Dylan can focus on his main screen rather than Twitch chat.

The Catboys show a very strong jungle-mid core and Tier 1.5 players in every other role. With no off-roles! I'm not knocking on wood but this could be the most successful Catboys split in SCDL history. At the very least, it's a content factory.

Excited to see what Rizz and Spec can accomplish this season without Verszia weighing them down. Because Verszia was their only problem last season, right? Competitive in all roles, the only question mark I have is MAWZ - bot lane is super important right now and I just don't have a read on this player.

Some would call Rizz and I insane for letting Lest get the trifecta with Cuddle and Dream, which in any other SCDL split would be unstoppable, and... we are, but at least there's real competition for them this time. I'm not sure ad astra has the right champ pool to complement the mid-bot 1-2 punch and briikachu might need to grind some more solo queue to get the most out of their ADC.

Like honestly the Bandits are solid in every role but they don't have a stand out strength anywhere. This feels to me like a jack of all trades, master of none situation. But they have Vacant Tech so they'll make playoffs somehow.

On paper, the very strongest jungle-mid duo in the entire division. That alone might carry them well above this ranking. But I have real questions about the off-role top laner that was picked with Vacant still on the board, and Askalabos is going to have to convince leunarie to spam Nautilus games or something.

Pulling off the 8th pick draft slot is always a challenge but especially without the third-round reversal we've had in the past. It feels like newcomer Earleking was a bit unprepared for draft day and just spammed names they recognize. The missing team logo only confirms my suspicion.