At around @925 I say that BunnyFufu got kicked from the team due to trying to shotcall. It has been corrected by Jack, the owner of C9 that it was in fact Zeyzal. My bad. I'll try to be more diligent in the future. Apologies.
It wasn't only due to politics though. While he was an insanely gifted player it was widely said from many pros that he played without a brain. We saw proof of this later in his career. There is no doubting his skill on Lee and Nidalee but he also struggled to adapt to the changing meta especially with tanks and more reliance on vision control and macro. Good video but its not the entire truth of why his career ended up the way it did.
@@Aflacist no he correcting himself The previous reasoning he gave why bunny fufu got kick Is not actually the reason for bunny Its the reason why zeyzal got sold to flyquest Well to be pair having support shot call for a player like blabber ,licorice , jensen wont really fit their playstyle
it sucks that he was restricted in so many ways from becoming a champion , but everything happens for a reason and i think that those that recognized his skills and potential know that he was a true champion
When I saw Jeremy Lin play from his time on the rockets onwards, he fell off which is why he was a journeyman around the league. But melo pushing him out of the knicks definitely was unfortunate.
i don't think rush's downfall was necessarily politics. Just very unfortunate things happening and essentially the league evolving i would say probably not for the better in some cases. The biggest thing that would be political though would be the echo fox problems going on and the way the players essentially treated him that got him kicked off the team to begin with. Which due to poor performance in his last split with echo fox didn't make teams seek him out which i don't think he performed super well when he got back into the LCK.
Yeah great video but politics sounded like too much, better to say burocracy, or even timing as it was, specially because pausing for a whole year was probrably the nail in the coffin for his carrer and it was his own decision, ofc other things were pretty bad and out of his control, but not even nuguri is uncontested after a 6 months break, imagine Rush, it would be pretty hard to bounce back from that, probably im being unfair for having the benefit of hindsight, but it is what it is.
@@domomota1491 its just a catchy way of getting people to watch, politics is still kinda what happened in the latter half of his career in korea/echofox
His situation was definitely the side effects of politics because riot changed residency from 2 yrs to 4 yrs out of fear that the old 2014 rosters of samsung blue and white (who by end 2016, all 10 former samsung players were competing in LPL across different teams) would reform as full 5man korean teams in China but counted as residents. Strong likelihood that LPL pushed riot to change these import rules out of fear of having foreigners dominate the local league, especially at that time in 2016 when there had been over a year of mass korean imports and them being viewed as going after the LPL pay cheque.
yes XWX is greedy not like there was just a perma ban for his manager because the manager was proved to take to take money out of players salary as an "agent" and sold swordart's car and kept the money
You have your whole timeline wrong, along with the allegations, but ok. not saying it might not have some legs later given what we know now, but just wild at the time.
@@Izento Even at the time it was known TIP had corrupt management as leftover from LMQ. XiaoWeiXiao wasn't just stupid and greedy, he was trying to find a way out of the dumpster fire org. Just think about the logistics of selling your riot account. Riot knows, what you say, on their client. He wasn't stupid enough to not know that. It was intentional to get caught.
His situation was definitely the side effects of politics because riot changed residency from 2 yrs to 4 yrs out of fear that the old 2014 rosters of samsung blue and white (who by end 2016, all 10 former samsung players were competing in LPL across different teams) would reform as full 5man korean teams in China but counted as residents. Strong likelihood that LPL pushed riot to change these import rules out of fear of having foreigners dominate the local league, especially at that time in 2016 when there had been over a year of mass korean imports due to Kespa sister teams being disbanded (something along the lines of 20+ KR players jumped to LPL) and them being viewed as going after the LPL pay cheque.
Could even be his bot lane partner Sneaky. Since he was the long time veteran at the time. Sneaky looked better with Hai/Smoothie/Zeyzal/ than when he was with bunnyfufuu
The import rule did slow down na not having any actual na players tho. Don't think LCS has done that well when there are so few native talents to root for
I get that we want local talent for na. But when the masters games are filled with rats ghosting stream sniping win trading and elo boosting . Pretty hard to get in good quality games all the time . I think this is the sole reason NA is just shittier than europe and other regions. We lack playerbase for high quality tier master games and riot doesnt give a fuck either
good video but you talk a bit too slow, watching the video at 1.25 still felt a slightly bit too slow. Maybe like 1.3 or 1.35x speed would be good. a lot of the intro could've been shortened as well, good info nice topic
Good video, I think the audio mixing of music/vocals is a little off. Music fades in really hot and drowns out your voice, and the max volume on the music is a little higher than your voice so once it’s over it feels like the bottom drops out of the audio.
He was forced to go into the military. Lol no one ruined anything.he had some hiccups but he had to go into the military. And Rush also had a ton of bad steaks. He wasn’t always great in the splits he played in. For a lot of the time he wasn’t great in the LCS
@@MushMunkey what his win rate on Lee Sin? The most played jungle and the most popular jungle ever. He also has 50% on a slew of junglers. Out of his top 3 jungles splayed he has a winning record on 1. Out of his top 10 jungle played. He has a winning record on 3 of them. Rush was not a good overall professional jungler.
League isn't dying because of the game state or the community being too toxic or all this silliness, it's dying because these absolute gems have moved on, and in their place we just have a bunch of boring placeholders who don't fill the gap left by these creative, inspiring individuals who made us laugh, and made us care, they made being a pro a dream, not a job.
The sad part about Rush's return to streaming is also the fact that people target int him and bettors go out of their way to ruin his games. The guy really has had insanely bad luck
@@Skylark0000 He didn't get screwed; he wanted to be more casual as a pro player while everyone else on the team wanted to be serious and give it their all, so he switched to streaming and content creation because that better suited what he wanted, and he made a lot more money doing it.
I get that we want local talent for na. But when the masters games are filled with rats ghosting stream sniping win trading and elo boosting . Pretty hard to get in good quality games all the time . I think this is the sole reason NA is just shittier than europe and other regions. We lack playerbase for high quality tier master games and riot doesnt give a fuck either
Good essay and good clips to go along with it, but I thought the pace of your speaking was a little slow. I would also recommend taking a page from other video essay type content that either employs quieter more chill background music, or forgoes background music altogether. Your music choice in the first half of the video is rather distracting underneath your speaking, and while I get you’re maybe trying to use it to build up certain emotions, to me it detracts more than it adds. Am looking forward to your content going forward
I’m just slightly confused. I saw some other videos like two years ago on the whole rush thing and then this. What exactly ever made rush a competitor? He had two good splits, then a bunch of bad splits, then quit to stream, then quit streaming for the military and then never played pro again. Is there anything that even would make it seem that he would ever go anywhere or be better? Wasn’t he struggling to integrate with the meta. It seemed like he was just a challenger jg player that played during the Lee-nidalee mobile jg meta and then fell off. I mean he was never as good as he had been as the Meta kept shifting and he struggled on any team he was on
Agreed blaber and inspired are the same example of this. Shit jglers that should've never been allowed to play pro. Challenger trash. Stick to SQ kids.
I think what's also impressive that Rush not only got Rank 1, but he also made it to LCS when he has not played League one year into making as of this video that was released. ua-cam.com/video/0pbqbdXLI1k/v-deo.html
Hello I really liked the content that you're putting out and I think it's really unique to the point that you can gather a ton of audience. But I think that you should improve the way you're directing it overall. It feels really dragging since the start because of the speed you're talking and watching the video itself on a visual level isn't also the best. The way you cut from one scene to yourself and cut again then cut again to yourself makes me nauseous. Hope you improve it in that way. I really do think that the content you put out is good.
While the uploader did in fact made a lot of mistakes in this video, he didn't make the mistake you're saying, although the explanation was VERY misleading. Rick was the owner, while the racist guy was the investor. However, this video never shows the investor, and for some reason whenever the uploader mentions "investor", he shows a picture of Rick Fox instead. So yeah, VERY misleading. But he did correctly point out it was not Rick Fox being the racist.
I mean, there are always layers to every situation, but he also played like shit. I never really followed him, so I didn't really know who he was and didn't have an opinion about him. When he rejoined the LCS, I watched a few of his games and thought his team definitely needed to replace him. I don't think politics got to him, his play did. That's not to say there wasn't some other shit going on behind the scenes.
At around @925 I say that BunnyFufu got kicked from the team due to trying to shotcall. It has been corrected by Jack, the owner of C9 that it was in fact Zeyzal. My bad. I'll try to be more diligent in the future. Apologies.
It wasn't only due to politics though. While he was an insanely gifted player it was widely said from many pros that he played without a brain. We saw proof of this later in his career. There is no doubting his skill on Lee and Nidalee but he also struggled to adapt to the changing meta especially with tanks and more reliance on vision control and macro. Good video but its not the entire truth of why his career ended up the way it did.
Zeyzal in 2020 or earlier?
This doesn't add much context. Zeyzal wanted fufu gone? Who is Zeyzal?
@@Aflacist zeyzal the GOAT best support NA tbh
@@Aflacist no he correcting himself
The previous reasoning he gave why bunny fufu got kick
Is not actually the reason for bunny
Its the reason why zeyzal got sold to flyquest
Well to be pair having support shot call for a player like blabber ,licorice , jensen wont really fit their playstyle
One of the smartest, funniest and most entertaining streamers. So glad he started streaming again when he got back from military. Long live Rush!
I love him. I respect him. Rush has always showed himself as a honest, kind and lovable man.
it sucks that he was restricted in so many ways from becoming a champion , but everything happens for a reason and i think that those that recognized his skills and potential know that he was a true champion
Rush is the Jeremy Lin of LoL, and it hurts to see. He didn't deserve this
When I saw Jeremy Lin play from his time on the rockets onwards, he fell off which is why he was a journeyman around the league. But melo pushing him out of the knicks definitely was unfortunate.
nah, hes a bum like ben simmons
Honestly it more reminds me of d rose than lin. But yea similar (if d rose got injured by his teammate) lol
im so glad he came back from the army it was insane not being able to see him for like 2 3 years
He has said on stream he wishes things were different. He really did get the short end of the stick too many times....
Neverlucky, truly neverlucky
i don't think rush's downfall was necessarily politics. Just very unfortunate things happening and essentially the league evolving i would say probably not for the better in some cases. The biggest thing that would be political though would be the echo fox problems going on and the way the players essentially treated him that got him kicked off the team to begin with. Which due to poor performance in his last split with echo fox didn't make teams seek him out which i don't think he performed super well when he got back into the LCK.
Yeah great video but politics sounded like too much, better to say burocracy, or even timing as it was, specially because pausing for a whole year was probrably the nail in the coffin for his carrer and it was his own decision, ofc other things were pretty bad and out of his control, but not even nuguri is uncontested after a 6 months break, imagine Rush, it would be pretty hard to bounce back from that, probably im being unfair for having the benefit of hindsight, but it is what it is.
@@domomota1491 its just a catchy way of getting people to watch, politics is still kinda what happened in the latter half of his career in korea/echofox
@@domomota1491 but bureaucracy is part of politics. Politics in this case were basically office politics.
His situation was definitely the side effects of politics because riot changed residency from 2 yrs to 4 yrs out of fear that the old 2014 rosters of samsung blue and white (who by end 2016, all 10 former samsung players were competing in LPL across different teams) would reform as full 5man korean teams in China but counted as residents. Strong likelihood that LPL pushed riot to change these import rules out of fear of having foreigners dominate the local league, especially at that time in 2016 when there had been over a year of mass korean imports and them being viewed as going after the LPL pay cheque.
He won Twitch chat's heart. That's for sure
Naturally funny and also humble
@@The_Real_Dream_Chaser Rush is humble? Funny yes but humble no
@@marko_josic_art its just a meme
Rush is number 1 most humble and smart
yes XWX is greedy not like there was just a perma ban for his manager because the manager was proved to take to take money out of players salary as an "agent" and sold swordart's car and kept the money
You have your whole timeline wrong, along with the allegations, but ok. not saying it might not have some legs later given what we know now, but just wild at the time.
You tell me when you've watched 10+ years of LCS and then wonder why his shit loosely matches up. I'm not gonna waste my time with you homie.
@@Izento Even at the time it was known TIP had corrupt management as leftover from LMQ. XiaoWeiXiao wasn't just stupid and greedy, he was trying to find a way out of the dumpster fire org. Just think about the logistics of selling your riot account. Riot knows, what you say, on their client. He wasn't stupid enough to not know that. It was intentional to get caught.
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@@Izento bro what? ur legit just wrong
Man this guy was an amazing player, that C9 game vs CLG will always be a classic
The 2 year rule switching to the 4 year rule was so fucked up bc it should of grandfathered the players already there like the 1st iteration
Rush will always be #1 🏆 in my ❤!
His situation was definitely the side effects of politics because riot changed residency from 2 yrs to 4 yrs out of fear that the old 2014 rosters of samsung blue and white (who by end 2016, all 10 former samsung players were competing in LPL across different teams) would reform as full 5man korean teams in China but counted as residents. Strong likelihood that LPL pushed riot to change these import rules out of fear of having foreigners dominate the local league, especially at that time in 2016 when there had been over a year of mass korean imports due to Kespa sister teams being disbanded (something along the lines of 20+ KR players jumped to LPL) and them being viewed as going after the LPL pay cheque.
NA has destroyed many pro import players careers with their horrible orgs.
Rush is the man. Btw amazing documentary!
One of the most humble and funny league players to ever play competitive, love watching him to this day.
this is one of the best series we have on league of legends i love your content !!
Kind of curious to hear more about the bunnyfufu incident, looking at the roster it was probably Jensen that chewed him out
My guess is Meteos.
Could even be his bot lane partner Sneaky. Since he was the long time veteran at the time. Sneaky looked better with Hai/Smoothie/Zeyzal/ than when he was with bunnyfufuu
@@NotGilmore sneaky never flames ppl
@Little Stuart Bro played 2 games and those 2 games were hated on tfym
@@NotGilmore Sneaky is extremely chill and even when losing very memey.
Found it hard to listen to the content of what you were saying as the music volume felt too loud, interesting video.
The import rule did slow down na not having any actual na players tho. Don't think LCS has done that well when there are so few native talents to root for
I get that we want local talent for na. But when the masters games are filled with rats ghosting stream sniping win trading and elo boosting . Pretty hard to get in good quality games all the time . I think this is the sole reason NA is just shittier than europe and other regions. We lack playerbase for high quality tier master games and riot doesnt give a fuck either
@@jungyo8417 no one plays this shit game anymore
good video but you talk a bit too slow, watching the video at 1.25 still felt a slightly bit too slow. Maybe like 1.3 or 1.35x speed would be good. a lot of the intro could've been shortened as well, good info nice topic
2 min into this and i couldnt agree more
I watch every video at 1.5 lol. Once you start you can never go back
@ holy shit it actually sounds normal paced at 1.5
Same. I thought it was just my ADHD making me want to click off to a new video
the way you tell his story is great man! amazing job
I remember the hope for his return and that gut feeling that something tragic is occuring
Rush is one my inspiration back in a days, I've learned a lot from him. I've become one of the known jungler in my city because of him.
Good video, I think the audio mixing of music/vocals is a little off. Music fades in really hot and drowns out your voice, and the max volume on the music is a little higher than your voice so once it’s over it feels like the bottom drops out of the audio.
He was forced to go into the military. Lol no one ruined anything.he had some hiccups but he had to go into the military. And Rush also had a ton of bad steaks. He wasn’t always great in the splits he played in. For a lot of the time he wasn’t great in the LCS
Agree 100%
Lol you did not watch anything except 0-3 kindred. Very casual comment
@@MushMunkey what his win rate on Lee Sin? The most played jungle and the most popular jungle ever. He also has 50% on a slew of junglers. Out of his top 3 jungles splayed he has a winning record on 1. Out of his top 10 jungle played. He has a winning record on 3 of them. Rush was not a good overall professional jungler.
@@TheUnderJaker ur trolling
In the splits he was playing he was good in the first 3 and then came back to the shitshow that was EF.
Rush was one of my favourites :(
Same
League isn't dying because of the game state or the community being too toxic or all this silliness, it's dying because these absolute gems have moved on, and in their place we just have a bunch of boring placeholders who don't fill the gap left by these creative, inspiring individuals who made us laugh, and made us care, they made being a pro a dream, not a job.
this video was dragging on too much. Couldve been done in half the time
Mr. Rush will come back to LCS and dominate the shitters we have
sorry but there's no way he's out performing blabber or closer right now, in his current form
Future world champion
Kinda makes me sad to see Bunny in this video. I mean, look at the dude today. I miss the good old simple man and not the buffon he became ...
The sad part about Rush's return to streaming is also the fact that people target int him and bettors go out of their way to ruin his games. The guy really has had insanely bad luck
People always want to take down others who have more natural talent than them, especially when that person knows they have the talent
Got me big sad my guy. Enjoyed the video, didn’t care for the music. Keep going tho! U are on to something
Keep it up man
I legit been hoping for Rush to return to LCS every year
I’m watching this in 2x speed since the talking is so slow. It feels like I’m watching it at normal speed
Do we know who flamed bunny fufu?
The age thing btw, Didn’t Ambition (Korean Pro who transitioned Mid to Jgl) become the Oldest Winner of Worlds in 2017?
Normalize your audio bud, cant hear much
Seeing BunnyFuFu in the opener was a little heart breaking. That guy got absolutely screwed.
What happened?
@@Skylark0000 He didn't get screwed; he wanted to be more casual as a pro player while everyone else on the team wanted to be serious and give it their all, so he switched to streaming and content creation because that better suited what he wanted, and he made a lot more money doing it.
@@FLABREZU He wanted to be a serious pro untill some of the c9 members started being dicks(probably Jensen).
Great video fam
i feel like your channels gonna blow up
good luck 👍
well at least he is back now on twitch and has a successful stream
Feels like I’m watching in slow motion
Watch at 1.25x dude talks too slow
Rush literally just said on his stream this video is fake news lol
Rush is a live Legend 🤍
5 seconds in and my man already forgot Core
tbh rush got washed in na, he was rank 1 in kr in season 6 or something, when he went back after his time in na he had trouble getting chall
we had a mini episode in this one "How bunny fufu got bullied off a team"
Damn if they were nicer to BunnyFuFu then maybe he wouldn’t be the content creator he is today 😔
rush if my favorite streamer of all time. sad hes not really active anymore
he streams like everyday lol
A total victim of circumstance, I'd say. So unlucky for his career
I get that we want local talent for na. But when the masters games are filled with rats ghosting stream sniping win trading and elo boosting . Pretty hard to get in good quality games all the time . I think this is the sole reason NA is just shittier than europe and other regions. We lack playerbase for high quality tier master games and riot doesnt give a fuck either
I thought this is the same Rush who just retire of Wild Rift recently or is it?
Rush never played wild rift, probably another rush
Damn I remevwr this era of lol, was so hype
Nice vid
Great Video
Good essay and good clips to go along with it, but I thought the pace of your speaking was a little slow.
I would also recommend taking a page from other video essay type content that either employs quieter more chill background music, or forgoes background music altogether. Your music choice in the first half of the video is rather distracting underneath your speaking, and while I get you’re maybe trying to use it to build up certain emotions, to me it detracts more than it adds.
Am looking forward to your content going forward
More people should have a look at that 2015 jg spreadsheet before they talk about Rush or IWD being average players.
This video seems slow even at 2x speed
I’m just slightly confused. I saw some other videos like two years ago on the whole rush thing and then this. What exactly ever made rush a competitor? He had two good splits, then a bunch of bad splits, then quit to stream, then quit streaming for the military and then never played pro again. Is there anything that even would make it seem that he would ever go anywhere or be better? Wasn’t he struggling to integrate with the meta. It seemed like he was just a challenger jg player that played during the Lee-nidalee mobile jg meta and then fell off. I mean he was never as good as he had been as the Meta kept shifting and he struggled on any team he was on
Agreed blaber and inspired are the same example of this. Shit jglers that should've never been allowed to play pro. Challenger trash. Stick to SQ kids.
do you have a learning disability?
Video aside i cant believe they disrespected that support god bunny like that
Bunny fufu getting bullied is so Sadge. Why are humans so nasty sometimes
Damn Sneaky and Rush streams FeelsStrongMan
Can you do piglet next?
Piglet wasn't tragic tho
Making your support cry isn’t tragic, it’s fucked up and a shitty thing to do
piglet didnt got unlucky like rush, he just was a immature little kid with a big ego
I think what's also impressive that Rush not only got Rank 1, but he also made it to LCS when he has not played League one year into making as of this video that was released.
ua-cam.com/video/0pbqbdXLI1k/v-deo.html
good video!
Hello I really liked the content that you're putting out and I think it's really unique to the point that you can gather a ton of audience.
But I think that you should improve the way you're directing it overall. It feels really dragging since the start because of the speed you're talking and watching the video itself on a visual level isn't also the best. The way you cut from one scene to yourself and cut again then cut again to yourself makes me nauseous. Hope you improve it in that way. I really do think that the content you put out is good.
why the fuck you choose final fantasy song in back ground in 1:55
You're above 25 yrs old.
Do Summit next , the king of LCS top lane for a single split
literally UNLUCKY DUCKY
Speak faster next time
Good vid but man do you talk with your hands a lot
How was Rick fox racist, I missed that saga
wy are you swinging your hands at me
Not tragic at all. Rush is a god
it’s tragic because he was not able to pursue his talents and up to its full extent
Rush was a reason I watched NA and Looper retired made me stop watching NA.
Really ? Looper ? Aka Mata’s third summoner spell ?
unfortunately in the end pvman=gg ....
Gatekept by riot
dig your content :) but dont show your face so much while you got whacky wavy inflatable arm man arms going.
Rick Foxx was not racist? He was talked to from a racist. GG bud with the channel Also Rush was dealing with Military requirements.
While the uploader did in fact made a lot of mistakes in this video, he didn't make the mistake you're saying, although the explanation was VERY misleading. Rick was the owner, while the racist guy was the investor. However, this video never shows the investor, and for some reason whenever the uploader mentions "investor", he shows a picture of Rick Fox instead.
So yeah, VERY misleading. But he did correctly point out it was not Rick Fox being the racist.
"old-school fans" lol not even the og C9 squad
Rooosh smartest boi
Rush is like that one character with maxed out stats on everything except for luck.
Hmm, while I agree that Rush was really good, I don't think that rush was ever a world champion candidate.
Explain
good video but nothing tragic about this
Narration + clips are enough. No need to keep showing yourself.
I mean, there are always layers to every situation, but he also played like shit.
I never really followed him, so I didn't really know who he was and didn't have an opinion about him. When he rejoined the LCS, I watched a few of his games and thought his team definitely needed to replace him.
I don't think politics got to him, his play did. That's not to say there wasn't some other shit going on behind the scenes.
i don’t understand the need to put yourself in the video instead of just doing more B roll, something thescoreesports does too and it’s so annoying
Rush > LoseRiveria
u say he wants to be champion.... in a NA team.... sure ..... xDDDD
Why are you moving your hands so much... Your gestures don't line up with how you're emphasizing ideas nor with the ideas you're communicating.
I blame sneaky for being racist af
1.5x
Rush talent was unreal
OK so Xiaoweixiao got baned and ruined rush's life? yeah shut up
Rush had a huge wild rift community on UA-cam before he dropped the game 2 weeks ago
Youre talking about the wrong person
What
????????????
God this video is so fucking dramatic
Worst 1st sentence of any UA-cam video I’ve ever watched. And I used to watch Ali-A. Instant dislike