Samsung
White
Top – Looper
1. Win – Rumble
3/3/10
2. Win – Maokai
3/2/20
3. Win – Ryze
4/0/2
4. Win – Alistar
3/0/9
5. Win – Kayle
7/2/22
6. Win – Maokai
2/1/13
Jungle – Dandy
1. Win – Khazix
3/1/9
2. Win – Lee Sin
11/3/13
3. Win – Lee Sin
2/0/9
4. Win – Khazix
6/1/8
5. Win – Khazix
6/5/17
6. Win – Jarvan
3/3/18
Mid – Pawn
1. Win – Zilean
2/4/10
2. Win – Yasuo
9/1/7
3. Win – Talon
1/0/2
4. Win – Zed 5/0/6
5. Win – Katarina
12/2/16
6. Win – Fizz
10/1/4
ADC – Imp
1. Win – Tristana
9/2/7
2. Win – Twitch
11/1/9
3. Win – Vayne
8/0/2
4. Win – Corki
5/1/6
5. Win – Lucian
13/2/9
6. Win – Twitch
11/1/9
Support – Mata
1. Win – Nami
3/1/14
2. Win – Thresh
0/5/15
3. Win – Janna
0/0/14
4. Win – Janna
1/0/14
5. Win – Thresh
1/3/28
6. Win – Janna
0/1/17
Banned
Against
Yasuo –
5
Kassadin –
2
Alistar
– 4
Ryze –
1
Zilean
– 4
Tristana
– 2
Banned By
Nidalee – 3
Maokai
– 2
Thresh
– 2
Zilean
– 1
Rengar
– 1
Twitch – 1
Ryze – 1
Janna – 1
Fizz – 1
Ryze – 1
Janna – 1
Fizz – 1
Lucian
– 3
Zed –
2
Group
Notes -
Samsung
White has great mechanical skill and great warding. Countering their
vision control and keeping your own will be paramount to a victory.
Fighting
small skirmishes and 1v1's or 2v2's in lane will be difficult, as
Samsung White are very mechanically skilled. However, they are not
unbeatable in the lanes.
Samsung
White are very overconfident in these matches. They take 10-15
minutes longer than necessary in several of their wins, and they put
themselves in positions to get caught, give up kills, and lose
teamfights when ahead due to aggressive overplays. Often times they
will lose out and getting objectives, to dive and get kills instead.
However, this must be taken with a grain of salt because when SSW do
this, they are generally far enough ahead that these mistakes still
leave them with a large gap over their opponents.
Samsung
White looked very dominant in their group stage, however, their group
also looked like the weakest group in the bunch. I feel that while
they have no shown their full strength, they have also looked much
more dominant than they really are, because of the weakness of the
teams in their group. Case and Point.
Kabum
– Wild card team, hardly expected to put up much of a fight against
the team favored to win worlds. SSW was able to easily outperform
them.
AHQ –
Picked Blitzcrank twice, both times into a bad lane match-up. Played
a level 1 invade poorly and got aced, allowing SSW to steamroll
through the game with their already superior composition and lanes.
In the second game, AHQ again opt into a bad bot lane match-up,
allowing SSW to get the upfront damage they need for their
snowballing reset comp. Ryze also gets screwed by AHQ's failed
invade, and AHQ as a whole do not respect the resets at a dragon
fight, focusing on Thresh instead of Katarina or Khazix. Very poorly
played both games.
EDG –
Both games EDG misplay their team composition and play into SSW
hands. In game #1, EDG lose out on the level 2 rush in a lane that
they MUST establish their dominance from the very beginning. At this
point the lane is mostly lost, and Tristana will begin the dominance
she will show throughout the game. Up top Maokai does not respect
the damage Rumble can bring and gets himself killed twice in ganks,
and then proceeds to get pushed out of lane in 1v1s after that. Bad
item choices against the Double AP disengage comp of SSW lead to EDG
being unable to sustain through the disengage. Disrespecting SSW's
item power spikes and then attempting to fight a 5v5 when already at
half HP across the board, end up handing SSW the game.
In
game #2, EDG play the lanes much better, but once again misplay their
team composition, this time to an even greater degree, and play into
the strengths of SSW.
On
top of this, EDG flat out stated that they were not preparing to
fight SSW, but rather the other teams in the group so as to make it
out.
Samsung
White faced VERY weak competition in the group stages.
Teams
facing SSW in the quarterfinals need to respect their skill, but also
understand how their group stage played out and why they looked so
dominant. As the brackets progress, the qualify teams need to play
their game against SSW, and not play into SSW's hands. They need to
understand why AHQ and EDG lost, and realize that they did not play
to their team's composition, or to lane match-ups.
I feel
that Samsung White gained the least out of any team from these group
stages. In the other groups, especially in groups C and D you could
watch the teams grow and learn. The competition that was alive in
the other groups will offer great experience for the qualifying
teams, while Samsung White’s experience in the group stages really
offers them nothing, except perhaps overconfidence.
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