Damn honestly Link sounds like a terrible teammate and has a terrible mindset to everything. He never ONCE blamed himself here on anything.

He was just a better shotcaller than me probably.

PROBABLY? Hai was like the fucking reason why c9 has world class shot calling, and Link is here saying hai was "probably" better than him at shotcalling.

A lot of people blamed me for picks and me failing my lissandra ulti when in reality it was a god awful fight that we shouldn’t have even took.

Is he serious. There is NO excuse for a pro player to ult a wrong target.

I expected Dexter to play in the similar way meteos did. Be the shotcaller,be the fucking man and lead the team because you have the most flexibility in the game at all points. It obviously didn’t happen and I was annoyed because it felt like I was playing three-four roles on the team as the shotcaller.

Complains about Dexter not playing exactly how he, Link, wanted him to play while at the same time bashing double/aphro for making Dexter a "tool". Also complains Dexter didnt take the shotcalling responsibility while talking about Link himself wanted to step as the shot calling after playing with c9.

Monte didn’t do that much lol but he got the ognRotations credit but whatever.

Kinda the opposite of what Dexter said in AMA like 3 hours ago...

but we failed like usual LOL and then I did some stupid shit where i tried to backdoor an inhib and we lost to a late game tristana.

Whenever everyone else failed it's a serious issue but whenever he fails, its just LOL all good

I eventually started to try after I realized what CLG meant to me.

A steady paycheck?

I had to sit them down together and watch a replay and reconcile. Think we would have gotten smashed harder if I didn’t who knows.

Yes, take credit for everything you did right while literally throwing other teammate under the bus except yourself because "LOL who knows"

However, the one time that was good was when he visited us and made us play sivir comp and that won us like the first 3-4 weeks of lcs. So I guess props to him for that lol. But I mean it’s a fucking sivir comp. You group up and you win right? But I guess that’s amazing for clg considering how hard it is to get people to group on the team.

Yes completely ignore that every other person in the scene saw how much CLG's rotations improved after Monte joined. Never mind that the numbers prove Monte's CLG had the best early games of the NA teams. Nope it's all cause double played sivir...oh wait Monte made him play that too.

obviously i “choked” during every playoffs l0l when i truly believe the entire team underperformed at every single one.

Denies that he chocked; instead it was the team's fault because everyone failed "l0l". Clearly ignoring the fact that Link is a choker. Everyone in from the pros to the average viewer could see that. But nope not his fault again.

Zion would make a lot of calls, some good and some bad. I mean it’s why dignitas and coast never really did well. To be more precise: inconsistent. I’m sorry but that’s just the truth. Eventually I’d help him a lot in terms of how to make more of the better calls and help him grow a deeper understanding of the game. He would tilt in scrims time to time. He was still a teenager so it’s understandable. He did a lot of the stuff that I used to do in terms of like shutting down and whatnot.

I bet you guys can all assume by now that you know what kind of jungler that I’ve always wanted to play with. Someone who makes his own calls, decisive, aggressive, willing to make the crazy plays.

The most outgoing and charismatic person I’ve really ever met. Good friend, yet a horrible teammate. Because he just has a natural loud and aggressive tone a lot of things come out as if he is attacking you. Likewise, he is one of the most lane-focused players to ever exist. Nothing else matters to him I swear. If he doesn’t win lane he can’t accept that he can’t win the game just by scraping by. That’s what it feels like to play the game with him.

You have to be able to pressure with little items and vision control. Yet if aphro cant do what he does normally in soloq and what is RIGHT then of course hes not going to enable other lanes what they need. Do you know how many times lustboy has come mid to ignite me at level 1 vs bjergsen then dyrus/santorin come out from the other side holy fuck. Did you guys see how many 3v3s happened top side at MSI involving top/jungle/support? Aphro is being held back from truly being the #1 support in NA and i think a lot of his mentality has become jaded by double’s play and attitude towards the game. In terms of being a leader, he wants to be, but I don’t think he has what it takes to be. Maybe in a few years, but he’s just a natural lazy chill guy. He was the primary shotcaller of this season and that really fucked with me and my confidence. I didn’t really know what that meant and it really confused how I made calls in the game. I got frustrated as well because he was assigned the primary shotcaller but he didn’t act like one.

I tried to get everyone to theorycraft with me in terms of figuring out what’s strong, what’s new, what’s meta, what beats the meta. I’ve probably watched every vod of ogn and around 90% of edg’s vods more than scarra/zikz. I was at one point doing level 1s, telling jake what buff to start or what was ideal because his gank path would most likely win us the early game (again goes back to win conditions). I tell everyone what lane they should be in and what lane they shouldn’t be in. I make sure people buy aegis/or correct items and many times people fail to listen. I remind people to buy pink wards. I have to tell people how to play the teamfight or what I think is best and what everyone needs to do specifically and it fails because I know I can’t do it by myself. Then me and aphro work together and figure out rotations and late game calls. After replays I clearly see people’s problems and try to tell them and proceed to help them further (at least with zion i worked with him the most this split). When I get no response or it’s just like silence or I saw no improvement in gameplay. To me there’s no point in playing. I refused to believe xmithie/zion/aphro/double were incapable of improving or something. I gave up on double. I realized zion is just a slow learner. Aphro is held back by double. Xmithie’s playstyle is the opposite of what I want so it’s going to take time. And since I don’t really have that much time left in terms of my motivation/my willpower to play this game anymore I figured it’s better if I just step down

Honestly IMO Link threw everyone under the bus except himself. He doesn't see any flaws in him and it's just "everyone losing trust in him". That's the reason why he did bad all these seasons, that's the reason why he's leaving etc. The rest of CLG seem hard to with, especially Doublelift. But Link seems downright narcissistic and delusional, and seems to blame EVERYONE but himself.