Samsung
White vs.
Team Solo Mid
Game #1
2v1
Lanes, SSW Top
Bans
Orianna Alistar
Lee
Sin Zilean
Rumble Maokai
Picks
1.
Ryze 2. Janna
3.
Elise 2. Khazix
3.
Thresh 4. Lulu
5.
Twitch 4. Lucian
5.
Jayce 6. Zed
Lane
Match-ups – Samsung White
Top -
Even
match-up. Lulu has slightly better poke potential but Ryze's damage
if he reaches Lulu is superior. Kill potential lies on Ryze later on
while Lulu is able to whittle Ryze down and keep him at his tower.
Ryze will need to use his all-in strength come level 6-7 to push Lulu
back. The more damage Ryze can get onto Lulu, the less safe it is
for her to push.
Mid -
Jayce
is at the advantage in this lane. He has range and poke over Zed,
while still be really strong in the all-in's or the damage trades.
Jayce should look to farm and keep the lane pushed, try to deny Zed
farm by getting him low and forcing him to back. Build up your tear
and damage and move into the mid game siege with your team. It would
be advised to bring exhaust, as this will be a huge deterrent when
Zed reaches level 6 and should win the fights in this situation.
When exhaust is down, a good knock-back should keep Zed from being
able to deal enough damage to get the kill.
Bot -
Weaker
lane for SSW, mostly due to Lucian being a bigger bully than Twitch
in lane. Good offensive shields will cause a lot of damage. SSW is
going to have to play safe in the early levels and attempt to get a
good hook onto Lucian. A solid hook early, or even a solid flay
could shift the match from the start, but will be very risky as
Janna/Lucian's damage is much safer and easier to get off. Lane swap
is a solid option and can shift back to 2v2 around level 3-4 if it is
wanted.
Jungle
-
Good
solid early gank potential, especially with Ryze and even Jayce.
Stronger early game than Khazix, able to deny his isolation damage.
Look to control where Khazix goes early, making sure not to allow
Khazix to get the first strike onto her. Elise should be able to
have jungle control until level 6.
Lane
Match-ups – Team Solo Mid
Top -
An even
lane against Ryze. Lulu can poke from a greater range, but must
respect that Ryze will pump out more damage from close range.
Aggressively pushing Ryze into tower would offer the most benefit to
Lulu, however it will require solid warding to make sure that Elise
does not catch her in a gank, and easy task for Ryze to setup.
Mid -
A bit
of a volatile match for Zed. He is fighting against a ranged
champion who can poke and who is also very strong in trades and
all-in fights. It will be hard for Zed to harass Jayce, but should
be able to keep up in farm. The lane will change once Zed gets his
ultimate, as he will now have kill pressure, however Jayce's ability
to fight back is really strong still, especially if he nabs Exhaust
as a summoner. Zed will need good shadow play to keep on Jayce
against his knock-back. This lane will require more work from Zed.
Bot -
TSM
have the stronger lane and should seek to lane bully from level one.
Offensive use of Janna's shield with Lucian burst will be key to
taking control and once TSM's duo takes control, they should be able
to keep control, constantly bullying and/or pushing. Lucian must
just make sure not to get hooked at a bad time, and they should win
the lane decently.
Jungle
-
Khazix
will need to farm and outs-scale Elise. Avoid her early, but mirror
her, counter-ganking her when possible. As long as the laner does
not take too much upfront damage, TSM's 2 man fight should be
stronger.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Samsung White
*Win
Condition - Survive the laning phase and make it through the
mana-scale point of Ryze and Jayce. Get picks with
Ryze/Twitch/Thresh in the mid-game. Take your mid-game/late game
power and push towers with the siege potential of Jayce.
Samsung
White's team doesn't have all that much synergy, but they are strong
champions that have options to work together. Jayce is great at
sieging and poking as well as having strong burst. Along with Ryze
and Elise, this will be a deterrent for solo engagement by TSM. SSW
also have 2 hard CC's and a snare, where as TSM have 1/2 a CC in
Janna's Tornado. SSW have a strong ability to get picks at any point
in the game and should be using this to catch members of TSM during
rotations and when SSW sieges turrets, this is even facilitated by
Twitch who can play the assassin role. As long as SSW do not get
beat early, they can make it past their early weak game, scale-up
their Tears, and then become extremely strong. If any lead is
gained, the SSW have the ability to siege and poke out TSM with
Jayce, TSM have very weak engagement
Team
Composition/Strategy – Team Solo Mid
*Win
Condition – Win lane, Win game.
Heh, I
noticed I use that win condition when I dislike team compositions or
find them very weak. TSM have strong bully lanes with Lulu and
Lucian/Janna early on, and then Zed at level 6. TSM will have to
find their desired match-ups and win the lane in a strong fashion.
Lulu will fall off Ryze around level 5-6 while Twitch/Thresh will
become more even at the same time. If TSM haven't won by this point,
then they will most likely get rolled over by SSW. Without any form
of hard CC (outside Janna Tornado), TSM have no way to lock-down and
guarantee kills against SSW. On top of this, their poke is weak,
especially compared to Jayce, while their hard engagement is also
very lacking, with Khazix or Zed having to dive in, relying on Lulu
ultimate to save them. Against 3 hard CC's it is going to be a very
difficult attempt. The only other option that TSM have, is to
split-push with Zed, and he will have to do it soon, perhaps even at
level 6 switching to go fight Ryze or going 1v2 against Twitch/Thresh
while Lucian/Janna push mid. Zed has to get the solo fight/small
skirmish, as Thresh/Elise/Ryze and even Jayce with Exhaust can stop
him from getting a kill in team situations.
Game
Notes -
TSM do
not expect or ward for the lane swap and allow SSW to get a 3 buff
start.
Both
sides push into the side turrets instead of freezing.
SSW
give some early jungle farm to Ryze, getting him tear before going to
lane (very well played).
SSW
play the lane swap way better. Allows Twitch to really bully Lulu
and eventually leads to ryze getting top with a big advantage in the
top lane match-up. SSW really invested in Ryze, and TSM did not
respond to the investment in anyway.
Solid
escape from TSM gets them away from a TP gank, but the decisiveness
of SSW leads to dragon.
TSM
trade turrets, bot for top. And TSM get good damage on the bottom
turret.
TSM get
a good catch, earning First Blood, but a barely missed kill on Jayce
and some great moves by Jayce, net SSW at 2 for 1, instead of a 2 for
1 for TSM.
Superior
vision and SSW catch out a gank attempt from TSM and net SSW a pick
kill. They knew where TSM was going next and were prepared for it.
TSM
engages, makes some fights and plays into SSW's game.
Mata
makes so many great hooks on Thresh.
TSM
know they can't stop SSW's push and take top and mid for bot
inhibitor. However TSM do not expect SSW to go all the way and
Lulu/Khazix get caught. I like the play, if their base members did
not get caught.
End
Game Notes -
TSM
really just got dictated by SSW and it all started in the early game.
They didn't play the lane swap properly and did not ward out to
catch it. SSW getting triple jungle buff was huge, and the emphasis
they put onto Ryze really got him ahead and put Lulu behind. This
was really the shining start to this match and led to SSW taking the
lead early, moving past their weakest stage.
White
come with a strong shock and awe performance. An aggressive jungle
start and bringing out the Jayce power in this first match.
TSM's
composition was very much depending on individual play and not
overall team composition.
What
Team Solo Mid should have done -
Grab a
stronger team focus in champion select. Kog'maw instead of Lucian
with the Lulu pick and Syndra instead of Zed. I really did not like
the Zed pick when Syndra is up, or even Ahri. Zed does one thing and
then he's almost out the fight. If he's not ahead, and once the
other team picks up QSS or Zhonya's, he has an extremely tough time
contributing to his team.
Inside
the game, TSM needed to play the level 1 much better, finding and
perhaps expecting the lane swap and either countering it or taking
turret dominance early.
When
TSM noticed they failed the early game, they had the opportunity to 4
man the bottom turret and take it out. This would at least give TSM
something they take, and they have chosen to do, rather than letting
SSW dictate the game. From here move into the 2v1 because of how
behind Lulu is, and perhaps even move Lulu mid and send Zed to play
1v2 against Twitch and Thresh. An early tower push could have
recovered TSM's early game and then opened up the map for Zed to
split-push, as TSM really needed to happen early.
In the
end, TSM tried to play SSW's game, rather than playing their own and
of course they got out-played.
Going
Forward for TSM -
Don't
let SSW dictate the game again. Taking SSW's bans last time into
consideration, try going for a siege/disengage composition. Ban out
Jayce, and work picks and bans to get Kog'maw, Elise, Xerath, Syndra
if possible.
With
the Orianna bans, it will be hard to run a protect the ADC/death-ball
composition. However a tanky top like Maokai and Lulu mid. Would
work well and is another way for TSM to play one of their strong
compositions.
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