Najin
White Shield vs. Cloud9
Tie-Breaker
2v1
Lanes, NWS Top
Bans
Rumble Thresh
Syndra Ryze
Alistar Maokai
Picks
1.
Zilean 2. Nidalee
3. Lee
Sin 2. Corki
3.
Zed 4. Elise
5.
Rumble 4. Janna
5.
Janna 6. Talon
Lane
Match-ups – Najin White Shield
Top -
Kassadin
will be easily bullied by Nidalee in lane. However this pick is not
for winning the lane, but moving into the mid-late game and deal with
the obvious split-push that Cloud9 have set up. Kassadin will be
great at stopping this later on. While laning, he simply needs to
survive and get what CS he can. Should expect Elise to try to gank
and play very safe for it.
Mid -
A very
volatile match-up, if either champion gets ahead the lane will shift
heavily into their favor. Zed should get as much poke as possible.
At level 2 Zed will have the all-in potential and use it to push
Talon out of lane or at least away from the creeps. At level 6 the
match-up becomes a game of chicken with their ultimates, whoever uses
theirs first most likely losing the fight. Any damage brought in by
the junglers will help shift this match-up.
Bot -
A
fairly even match-up I believe. Both Lucian and Zilean are lane
bullies in the bottom lane, offer good damage at the early levels.
They are facing Janna/Corki though, another strong lane so the
match-up should go even. Rush for the first level 2 and take
advantage of the lane. Later on, especially at level 6, the all-in
potential should switch in NWS's favor.
Jungle
-
Lee Sin
against Elise. Lee Sin is very much the stronger jungler and will be
able turn any of Elise's ganks into a win for his team if he can
counter-gank properly. Lee Sin needs to make plays around the map,
and primarily make sure that the Nidalee does not snowball out of
control.
Lane
Match-ups – C9
Top -
Nidalee
has a great lane up against Kassadin. However she must recognize
that the point of Kassadin is for the split-push denial later on.
Knowing this, Nidalee needs to shut down Kassadin as hard as possible
and grow her lead to where he can not stop her or Zed later on.
Elise ganks or even an early tower dive will be huge in keeping
Kassadin down.
Mid -
A very
volatile match. This lane will swing very heavily from the first
kill/forced back on. Talon must respect that Zed will take an early
lead at level 2, and accept it. From level 3 on, the match-up will
be a bit of a toss up. Zed will have the greater poke potential as
well as being able to trade evenly with Talon. Creep damage will be
on Zed's side, as Talon must go onto Zed to get down his harassment,
while Zed does not. Early help from Elise can really shift this
match-up. Level 6 will be a game of chicken, whoever uses their
ultimate first and tries to fight will most likely lose. Talon
however, can combo Zed and then ultimate out. Dealing some damage
and fast clearing the wave before moving elsewhere.
Bot -
An even
match-up I believe. There is a lot of bully potential and all-in
potential on both sides. Janna will have to make good use of her
shield to maximize the protection on Corki and allowing him to get
use out of the extra AD damage it provides. Try to rush to level 2,
however it will be hard against the experience boost and AoE damage
of Zilean. Do not over commit and lose the lane early.
Jungle
-
Elise
will have a harder time against Lee Sin that other match-ups. His
damage in ganks will be more lasting if she is unable to push out or
kill NWS's lane member before he arrives. Elise should still look
for solid gank opportunities and must decide between bot and top
early on. Preferably, Elise should look to keep Kassadin down, as he
will be the biggest hamper to C9's 1-3-1 split-push team.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Najin White Shield
*Win
Condition – Shut down Cloud9's split-push ability.
Najin
have created a team that is designed to stop C9's split-push. They
played the pick/ban phase wonderfully and have set themselves up with
highly mobile champions capable of fighting against and catching out
C9's split-push. With Zilean, NWS will have a natural advantage in
experience which will really help this out. As long as they don't
fall behind early on, NWS should scale into a greater split-push with
Kassadin.
Team
Composition/Strategy – C9
*Win
Condition – Play the map much stronger than NWS and split-push with
great strategic map play.
C9 have
built a very strong 1-3-1 split-push team. Nidalee and Talon will be
able to both push a lane, forcing NWS into splitting up to deal with
them. In the meanwhile, C9's 3 man squad is holding onto strong wave
clear, poke, and disengage which gives them the ability to both
turret defend, and put pressure onto NWS's mid-lane. The keep need
against NWS is going to be keeping Kassadin from getting to the point
where he will be able to shutdown Nidalee or Talon.
Game
Notes -
Lane
swap initiated by NWS. Turns into a switch with Corki vs. Kassadin
in the bottom lane and Nidalee/Janna top.
Great
return damage from C9 up top when Lucian goes aggressive.
Elise
does not check top red bush when going for a jungle invade. Did not
back off when Zed hit 6. bad timing unfortunately.
C9,
Talon and Elise, take a pink ward at a bad time and let Zed get
behind them. Collasping NWS catch out and kill Talon. Note 4 pink
wards down on the Dragon side by NWS.
Unfortunately
for C9, both kill are on Zed.
Thinking
about it, C9 should have banned Zilean if they wanted to run this
composition. The experience advantage Zilean gives really makes
things rough for getting a lead to split-push.
Nidalee's
vision is a bit lax and Zed makes a good roam and kill top. C9
responds by taking bot turret and getting very deep vision into NWS'
bottom jungle.
Lack of
vision on the top side of the map costs C9 a lot.
A big
commit top against Kassadin pays out and C9 takes a kill and top
turret.
Crazy
amount of wards in NWS inventory for taking dragon. C9 is at a
double Trinity Force spike though.
C9 get
initiated on and get split. They lose 3 and NWS head to dragon.
Corki
makes a great play, 1v1's Lucian and is able to stop dragon when
Nidalee tp's in. Baits in Zed, and Nidalee is able to catch and kill
him. C9 take dragon. Meanwhile Kassadin gets top lane.
While
the gold is close, C9 are at an experience disadvantage. They do
still try to apply the pressure, trading turrets with NWS.
C9 push
mid while Zed split-pushes top. Do not quite get the mid T2 turret,
but Zed runs to try to flank instead of taking top turret. (Here we
see a huge difference in play when comparing Asian teams to LCS
teams). The flank does not work, it does draw C9 off the tower but
after a ton of damage. C9 move back to mid to pressure, but get
caught and being weaker in the 5v5 give up 2 kills for nothing.
C9 make
the decision to stop trying to fight NWS and make a sneaky move to
take T2 bot turret while NWS take dragon. NWS collapse after taking
dragon and letting their turret fall. End up chasing C9 to the top
lane near baron while Nidalee TP's bot lane, pulling NWS away from
Baron.
Talon
and Nidalee wait in the bot lane bush, until they see that NWS has 4
members middle and start to pressure the bot lane forcing NWS into
trade or stall decision.
C9 end
up taking the bot lane inhibitor, sneaking Corki into the bot lane
with Zed while they let NWS take Baron. C9 actually end up getting 2
kills as well, almost getting 3.
C9 keep
NWS busy in mid, clearing waves and Nidalee split-pushes bot lane,
Nidalee gets a Nexus Turret, and C9 gets Dragon and top T2 turret.
NWS send 4 mid to push, but all of C9 rush towards NWS' base, forcing
NWS to recall and saving the mid-lane of C9.
C9's
continual split-push keep NWS at bay, unable to push against the
3-man squad of C9.
Elise
is not with the 3-man squad and NWS push and take C9 mid inhibitor.
However when she gets back C9 put a lot of damage form Corki pokes
onto all 4 members of NWS. Meanwhile Nidalee and Talon split-push
both top and bottom against just Kassadin.
Nidalee
ends up dieing to Kassadin (he is just too strong atm) but Talon,
gets greedy. Instead of taking a guaranteed inhibtor, he heads mid
to try and catch NWS's low members, gets obliterated by Lucian. This
is really the end point. C9 needed that inhibitor. Just an
overzealous, heat of the moment excitement decision.
NWS
take baron and C9 take bottom inhibitor, but lose 3 members. NWS
rush middle.
Talon
and Nidalee setup a catch top and it almost goes so well, but Zed
uses shadows so well and survives. If the kill had come through, C9
would have won.
Elise
and Corki sneak into the base of NWS, but Kassadin is able to get
back and help Zed save the base. And then NWS are able to end the
game.
Item
Notes -
Talon
builds so much better than last time. Going for Last Whisper after
Brutalizer and Tiamat.
End
Game Notes -
C9
though behind, play this game super strategically.
An
amazing game. C9 once again show cracks in NWS and potentially the
entire Asian region. NWS do not know how to deal with the strategic
split-push and map movements of Cloud9. It really shows that NWS
only know how to play brawl focused, skirmish compositions.
If C9
had not gotten behind so early, then they would have dominated this
game.
The
overzealous play by Talon really solidifies the loss for C9, but the
intention was good. Still should have taken the inhibitor.
What
Cloud9 should have done -
First
let me say, they played amazingly and ran NWS ragged.
All
Cloud9 needed to do, was to not get so behind early. A few misplays
early on really kept C9 from running away with the game. Elise
getting caught right when Zed got six, and then C9 getting caught and
collapsed on in the mid lane a few times.
The
only other thing that I would have changed, would have been 1 thing
in the pick/ban phase. If C9 wanted to run this 1-3-1 composition
(which they showed at least a split-push with Nidalee in the first
run) would be to drop the Maokai ban and ban Zilean. Prevent the
experience lead that he gives, which will hamper your split-pushers
early on.
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