Only one recreation into his LCS comeback with 100 Thieves, Doublelift inked his title within the league’s historical past books as soon as once more. Along with his second kill of at this time’s recreation in opposition to Cloud9, he reached a complete profession mark of two,100 kills, turning into the third participant in LCS historical past to succeed in that quantity.
Sadly for Doublelift and 100 Thieves, the sport led to a loss. The defending LCS champions overpowered 100T within the mid-to-late recreation, claiming a Rift Herald that finally broke the map huge open in C9’s favor and solely snowballed their lead from there. Twenty minutes into the sport, C9 held a gold benefit of three,000, and the Thieves had been unable to climb the mountain.
Within the remaining minutes of the competition, C9 owned each nook of the map, making the sport virtually unplayable for 100 Thieves outdoors of makes an attempt for desperation performs. The sport ended with an extremely lopsided rating of 25-8 within the kill division, whereas C9’s gold benefit sat at 9,000 by the point 100 Thieves’ Nexus went down.
Doublelift earned his milestone kill in the course of the remaining minute of the sport after it had appeared all through nearly all of it that he’d have to attend till tomorrow to eclipse the two,100 mark.
The one different gamers to hit the two,100 threshold are longtime LCS AD carry WildTurtle (who’s taking part in for TSM’s NACL squad this 12 months), and Doublelift’s once-again-teammate, Bjergsen. Bjergsen holds the all-time record for profession kills amongst all LCS gamers, coming into this season with a complete of two,290. After grabbing three kills in opposition to C9 at this time, Bjergsen at the moment sits with a complete of two,293.
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Doublelift must closely outpace Bjergsen all through the course of the 2023 season to surpass him on the profession kill leaderboard record this 12 months. Until Doublelift performs a full season with out Bjergsen within the league like Bjerg did in 2022, it’s doubtless that the standings on the profession kill leaderboard will maintain in the meanwhile.
Doublelift and the remainder of the new-look 100 Thieves lineup may have one other probability to select up their first win of the season in opposition to Immortals tomorrow, Jan. 27.
