So I'm not sure if I'm over reading into this, but I'm starting to wonder if the whole LI is overpowered thing is necessarily true.
The finals was a matchup of teams who primary strength was guards, with both of them beating LI teams along the way (I think we can still classify Machines as a LI team???). Last season's winner was a guard team (Wiggles) over a LI team. And the season before, Jests was a guard team and he beat a LI team.
Just for kicks and giggles I figured out the record of each offensive tactic this playoffs.
RNG 4-2 (two losses to PTB)
LI 2-3 (two wins against LP)
LP 0-2
PTB 3-0
Patient 0-2
Of course this might be slightly skewed by the makeup of the teams that won and the small sample size, but I found it interesting nonetheless.