Samsung
White vs. Team Solo Mid
Picks
and Bans – Samsung White
From
Samsung White we have seen a vast variety of champions during the
group stages. 6 from Mid, 5 from Top and ADC. From Jungle and
support we see a smaller pool, 3 each, but that is mainly because of
the strengths of the specific champions in those roles.
Banning
out SSW is going to be extremely hard, especially if TSM wants to
make one of the generic bans that we have seen in the group stages.
TSM can try to focus all their bans into the Jungle, and force Dandy
onto a champion he has not shown, but I would wager it will be tough
to throw him off his game. Instead TSM should choose a
play-style/compostion that they want to play, and ban out champions
that will throw a wrench into this plan (IE. Rumble against
team-fight or death ball comps).
Expect
SSW to pick primarily assassin mid lanes and know that Pawn can play
many of them, banning him out should be pointless and any mid lane
bans should be made if that champion hinders TSM's strategy for that
game.
Picks
and Bans – Team Solo Mid
TSM
have shown their strongest strength in well crafted compositions.
Their first win was with a Yasuo composition with subsequent wins
following siege/sniper compositions or death-ball/protect the ADC
compositions.
Forcing
Bjergsen onto an assassin on assassin match-up would be a good way to
really hamper TSM's ability to run either of these compositions.
Xerath/Orianna/Lulu bans/picks would really hit TSM's ability to play
these compositions from the mid lane, and force them into the
assassin/brawling meta that SSW love to play. Alternately SSW can
ban/pick out Tristana, Kog'maw, and Xerath. Taking out 2 potential
champions for both TSM's protect the ADC and long range siege
compositions.
Spending
all bans on these area's though would allow TSM to potentially grab a
disengage composition which works wonders against brawl/engage
compositions. Rumble being a big part of the disengage.
As
another strong note, Amazing has only shown prowess on Lee Sin.
Banning him out could really remove him from the game.
Playstyles
– Samsung White
We did
not get to see much from Samsung White in the group stages other than
clear domination. Samsung were able to easily steamroll through
their group and played primarily brawl/skirmish centric compositions.
Samsung White played compositions in which they wanted to fight and
continue to fight. The only composition we saw that was not
engage/brawl oriented was their first game in which they played a
heavy disengage composition.
We know
however, that SSW can play other styles, including long range poke
compositions with Jayce, so TSM cannot assume that what SSW showed is
all they have and will need to prepare for more than brawl
compositions.
In
games, we saw a very kill centric play-style from SSW, often times
they would ignore objectives to get kills as well as play very
overconfident and overaggressive. We should assume that this was due
to the weakness of their group, but it may be something that SSW
bring into the Brackets. Sometimes teams do falter when they think
they are the better team.
Playstyles
– Team Solo Mid
TSM
have two primary play-styles that they like to run, with a third
coming in close.
#1 TSM
love death-ball/protect the ADC compostions, and they are really good
at them. These compositions excel against engage and assassins as
well as being a monster force to be reckoned with in the late game.
SSW should be prepared to ban this out, or to run either a strong
split-push or long range AoE composition into this. Champions like,
Rumble or Ziggs really but a damper on the death-ball compositions.
#2 TSM
also like to run siege/long range poke compositions with disengage.
Xerath and Kog'maw are their preferred champions in this composition
while running disengage or anti-engage in the other roles. SSW can
counter this buy running a heavy wave clear champion and setting up a
strong split-push in the other lanes. Also, if they ban Rumble when
TSM is prepping this composition, then a strong engage composition
should be able to counter the siege.
The
third composition that we did see was a Yasuo composition. TSM like
many teams, have learned how strong these compositions can be,
especially since they include some of the very strong champions.
Countering this out is done by recognizing its coming and either
taking Yasuo, or stopping many of the picks he works so well with.
Weaknesses/Strengths
– Samsung White
Samsung
White is a dominant force. In groups their players put on a show of
individual skill and got to show how mechanically strong they are.
Outside
of individual play we saw very practiced vision control that looks
like its become second nature to them.
Samsung
White did play very overaggressive and overconfident though, in their
group stage, costing them several fights and causing them to take
much longer than was necessary to close games, showing a bit of
unsafe play through this.
While
we did not get to see much of Samsung White's strength outside of
individual performance and really one play-style. SSW was also not
challenged during the group stages. I feel this will be a major
hindrance for them going into the Brackets. While every other team
in the Groups was challenged, met with success and failure, learned
and grew as a team, Samsung White really gained nothing from them.
They played strong, but sloppily at times, and even played champions
that they probably would not play if they felt challenged. The oomph
behind TSM and behind the other teams in the brackets may help to
give them an edge and bring them up to SSW's level and surprise them.
Weaknesses/Strengths
– Team Solo Mid
TSM's
individual skill does not seem as good as SSW, however it is close
and TSM still have the ability to outplay SSW individually, though it
will be an uphill battle. The duo lane of TSM may have the roughest
time and depending on the team composition/lane match-ups will want
to consider lane swapping.
TSM's
strength will lie in their ability to make and play team
compositions. While the Asian scene is heavily into the
skirmish/brawl meta, the LCS teams have faced and created a large
variety of different compositions and play-styles. TSM needs to play
to this strength and take the mindset “We can win” not just
relying on “I can/must win lane.”
How to
win – Samsung White
SWW
certainly have the edge in this match-up and to win they really just
need to make sure that they do not fall prey TSM's compositions.
They need recognize TSM's compositions and how to dismantle them both
in picks/bans and in game. If they can keep TSM from getting their
compositions rolling, then SSW should be able to draw TSM into their
preferred style of play
How to
win – Team Solo Mid
TSM are
going to have a much harder time than SSW when it comes to pulling
out wins. They need to and might just have to rely on their
compositions to pull them past SSW's individual skill. That being
said, TSM has some well crafted team comps and can play them to great
affect. Prepping 3 or 4 styles and running through how to get them,
prevent getting dismantled, and run scenarios in which SSW try to
avoid them, will be necessary for TSM to make it through the best of
5.
During
the matches, TSM will need to make sure to not get drawn into SSW's
game like every team in SSW's group stage did.
TSM
must play to their strength and stick to it as a full team.
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