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Fighting for everything Photo via Riot GamesĬ9 have looked like one of the most dominant LCS teams in 2020-and yet their chance of qualifying for Worlds is still in jeopardy. But both sides have stumbled multiple times over the past couple of weeks. They used to be forever top-three teams, poised to make a run at the finals. In recent times, TSM and C9 have never both looked so questionable when their time to play came around. Of course, these teams have met each other several times in a best-of-five setting. Vladimir will be almost guaranteed to fall much further behind in the 1v2 lane than Maoki, and without much gold will be largely insignificant for a long stretch of the game.The 2020 #LCS Summer Playoffs continue on Saturday with facing off against followed by going up against on Sunday! Head over to now for the League Lounge! Thank you for watching and have a good night! /ZYyYdSm5qr- LCS August 24, 2020 If the lanes are swapped the situation is even worse. If Cloud 9 seek the standard 1v1 and 2v2 lanes, their duo lane risks getting bullied by the Kalista Kennen lane, and in the top lane Vladimir will also get out-laned vs Maoki, at least for the first portion of the game. Vladimir is one of worst champions to prevent this happening. The post C9 bounce back from massive deficit against TSM, win their last game of week three of LCS 2022. I wonder if he may have been slightly baited into this pick by the enticing ability of Vladimir to pool through a Vi ult, but regardless of the reason it was selected, I strongly disagree with this choiceĪs discussed above, the real danger of TSM’s composition is that they pull significantly ahead in the laning phase and then snowball this lead into an insurmountable lead with their hard-engage capabilities. These two teams gave it their all to prove outside circumstances arent bringing them down. Instead I would have rather seen LemonNation go back to the Annie pick, a champion he has found success with earlier in the season, and use the flash Tibbers potential to seek rotational catches much more aggressively.īalls ends up picking Vladimir, a champion he’s likely had recent success with in scrims to warrant the bans from TSM in previous games. IMT or NRG I’m pretty sure I’m wrong, but can anybody explain why Does it have to do with seeding I like TSM’s chances a lot more against the likes of ABX or C9. Since then, the organization has expanded into games such as Valorant, Dota 2, Rainbow Six Siege, and more. Yes she can sometimes land Dark Bindings out the fog of war, but against a team as organised as TSM, landing a dark binding onto a priority target is rather optimistic. Cloud 9 has been a regular feature in the esports scene since its glory days in CS: GO. Therefore, the same as in game 1, C9 are at risk of facing a TSM team that can both out-scale them and neutralise their siege – so, again, they must ensure that they have enough play-making and hard-engage capabilities to seize an advantage through rotational plays and picking fights around objectives.įor these reasons I disagree with the choice to pick a Morgana for LemonNation. If TSM last-picks something like an Ahri or Xerath for Bjergsen, TSM’s total wave-clear will be enough to neutralise C9 siege attempts. Sion has good wave-clear under turret for a top-lane champion, and Kalista, with Turtle’s normal Runaan’s Hurricane build has respectable wave-clear too. C9 recognise that they must get an advantage through early to mid-game rotations and engages and Sivir with her On The Hunt ultimate is the best ADC to help facilitate that objective.
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With a Lucian pick TSM would still have a major scaling advantage over C9, still have more than enough wave-clear to neutralise siege attempts, but would also have that little bit more mobility and mid game strength to make it even more difficult for C9 to find their necessary engage opportunities.Ĭ9 last-picks Sivir for sneaky. Although not scaling quite as hard as the Jinx, Lucian still scales great into the late-game alongside a Lulu (check out this recent game for a demonstration: ). However, I feel that Lucian would have been the superior choice. Both teams got priority picks suck as Lulu and Ekko for C9 and Camille and Lee Sin for TSM. With the sound of Silver Scrapes playing, the final battle began with a hotly contested pick and ban phase. Jinx isn’t a horrible pick, TSM probably consider the previous Gragas Lulu and Nami choices to provide enough disengage ability to protect Jinx from C9, and Jinx will scale amazingly into the late-game alongside Lulu and Nami. Game 4 was simply all C9 as they steamrolled through TSM with Jensen dominating Bjergsen in the mid-lane taking the game to a final game.