Two-time LEC champion Armut might need performed his final sport for MAD Lions. The Turkish prime laner has reportedly reached a verbal settlement to affix Dignitas within the LCS, according to Jaxon.
One of many faces of MAD Lions’ back-to-back LEC titles in 2021, Armut joined the org after his SuperMassive squad knocked MAD out of the 2020 Worlds Play-In Stage in a historic sequence. He changed Orome, Elyoya changed Shad0w, and the remainder was historical past. Internationally, they have been up 2-1 on DWG KIA within the MSI semifinals that 12 months earlier than bowing out, and have been swept by the identical Korean group within the Worlds quarterfinals a number of months later.
This previous 12 months began off as a catastrophe, nonetheless. Armut and co., with Reeker within the mid lane, missed the LEC Spring playoffs fully earlier than turning it round and qualifying for Play-Ins with Nisqy. They have been ultimately defeated in that part of the event by the LCS’s Evil Geniuses, 3-0.
The entire reformulation of MAD has been a microcosm for a predictably and chaotially entertaining offseason in skilled League.
In some ways, 2022 was the 12 months of the superteam, from Brazil to Berlin. And whether or not it was the LEC’s Group Vitality, Group Liquid in North America, and even FURIA within the CBLOL, all fell massively wanting expectations and splintered. MAD Lions is keeping jungler Elyoya after the celebrity was hunted all offseason by groups around the globe, and including again AD carry Carzzy after his lackluster break up on Vitality. UNF0RGIVEN is reportedly heading to 100 Thieves in consequence. And with assist Kaiser reportedly joining the remnants of Vitality, he shall be changed on the Spanish org by longtime Fnatic assist Hylissang.
The highest lane could be vacant ought to Armut’s transfer throughout the pond materialize, and no phrase has manifested thus far on who his MAD Lions alternative is likely to be.
