For transparency: Esports News UK editor Dom Sacco used to work full-time for British Esports between September 2016 and February 2021, and currently does some freelance work for them, producing their weekly email newsletter.
Getting one pentakill in League of Legends as a casual player is an achievement to be proud of, but getting three – in a single match – is almost unheard of.
But that was the case for Klatisada – a jungler playing for team ‘Sandstorm Red’ representing Cheshire College South and West (CCSW) in the British Esports Student Championships yesterday afternoon. A pentakill is of course when a player secures five kills in short succession.
The student was playing as Viego against the NWSLC Monkeys from North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College, and a string of early ganks helped him snowball to become a true King in the North (on both the Rift and in the UK)!
Sandstorm Red picked up the win with 38 kills to 7 and a gold lead of almost 20k within half an hour.
Granted, this is a lower elo division 2 match in the British Esports Student Champs, and Cheshire’s players were a mix of bronze to gold, with Klatisada almost Platinum, while NWSLC Monkeys were a mix of unranked, iron and bronze players, so do bear that in mind here.
Klatisada told Esports News UK: “I am an extremely competitive person and have been since I picked up this game. It’s why I loved the competitive environment, especially making plays with my team such as the unpredicted pentakills, which couldn’t have been made possible without the help of my friends.
“While my competitiveness has led me to some rough situations (such as penalties and bans on previous accounts which I’m not proud of), I believe it also makes the plays and victories so much more rewarding.
“Juggling my A-Levels with wanting to play League is difficult, especially at only 16 years old, but I still have a great time with my good friends playing the characters I love, such as Viego, Kindred and Lee Sin.”
Lauren, a teacher at Cheshire College South and West, added: “The players all worked really well together and supported each other, they were calm and relaxed for their first game of the season. There was a lot of pressure there!
“And I am dead happy that they enjoyed the game as much as they did. They all were very excited and yelling when those pentakills came in!”
“I am an extremely competitive person and have been since I picked up this game. It’s why I love the competitive environment, especially making plays with my team such as the unpredicted pentakills.”
Klatisada
Klatisada was the highest elo player in the match at Gold 1, and has a winrate of 48% this season. However, it does look like a relatively new account, with no ranked stats according to data-tracking platform OPGG before the 2022 League of Legends season.
And Klatisada did admit he was using a smurf account, “but not by choice, as I was very toxic some time ago”.
Caster RoryB told Esports News UK: “Stats-wise, the speed of the pentas were 33.5 seconds, 37.4 seconds and 9.5 seconds respectively and all occurred between 20 and 27 minutes. Klatisada on the quest for their pentas spent 41 seconds underneath or behind enemy towers.
“Viego also doesn’t get pentas as commonly as many think, ranking 28th behind champs such as Irelia and Gangplank and the majority of the AD marksman roster. Also, let’s not take any of the success away from the other Sandstorm players, who played very well, and ther was a very fed Vex on the NWSLC Monkeys.”
Fellow caster, Milky Cereal, added after the match: “Klatisada is the best jungler in division 2, not because he got pentakills, but because he got a kill in the top-lane early, and a gank in the bottom lane with proactivity and awareness… plus his mechanics were pretty much on point as well in this game.”
“Klatisada is the best jungler in division 2, not because he got three pentakills, but because he gets kills early and ganks with proactivity and awareness. Plus his mechanics are pretty much on point.”
Milky Cereal, caster
Host and caster Giniro commented: “He just smurfed out of his mind! The third pentakill was beautifully executed, you had that wombo combo with the Ashe arrow hitting, the Shurima Shuffle putting them all together and the Viego just diving right in. It was just like magic, really.”
Klatisada of course received the MVP (most valuable player) award from the casters.
Elliot Bond, head of broadcast and events at the British Esports Association, also told Esports News UK that both teams went into this match with the same number of wins and losses from the Winter 2021 Season, and their results had placed them both into Division 2 of the Spring 2022 Season.
Esports News UK also reached out to Klatisada and to the college’s teacher for more quotes, and we’ll update this article as we hear back from them.
There are more highlights from British Esports’ LoL matches this week here:
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Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
