Samsung
White vs.
Samsung Blue
Game #2
2v1
Lanes, SSW Top
Bans
Thresh Zilean
Rumble Alistar
Twitch Tristana
Picks
1.
Maokai 2. Lucian
3.
Rengar 2. Janna
3.
Corki 4. Ryze
5.
Jayce 4. Khazix
5.
Morgana 6. Galio
Lane
Match-ups – Samsung White
Top -
This is
a really awkward match-up, though one that is really in Maokai's
favor. Mostly this lane will just be a farm fest on both sides, with
neither having kill potential, but with Maokai having the ability to
combo Galio for higher damage. Essentially, the game will be, farm
and move to team-fights. Maokai should be looking to make sure he
has his ultimate on when Galio wants to try to ultimate,
significantly cutting back on the damage. Have fun with your free
lane Maokai.
Mid -
Jayce
is going to want to look primarily to be safe and get poke onto Ryze.
Farm from range, whittle Ryze down without taking damage in return,
and then wait for an opportunity to all-in when Ryze is low. Jayce
does not need to make any big plays though, as simply farming will be
enough in this composition, providing poke in the mid-game against
the lack of engagement on SSB's side.
Bot -
Corki/Morgana
are going to have a pretty even time against Lucian/Janna. A lot of
this lane will be dependent on Morgana landing her bindings, keeping
Lucian or Janna in place for Corki bombs while providing damage. If
Morgana misses her bindings, Lucian will have free reign to go in
against Corki and out-trade him with Janna's shield. As a couple
levels come into play, it will be harder to catch Lucian, due to his
dash, but will be necessary to keep the lane going even. At level 6,
NWS will gain poke, as well as all-in, provided they don't let Lucian
dive in to his bullying right away and push one of them out. Morgana
will have to think about when to shield herself at level 6, to
prevent Janna from knocking her away when Morgana uses her ultimate.
Jungle
-
Rengar
is going to want to focus on farming to 6 as quickly as possible.
His top and mid lane should be very safe, while the bottom lane is
going to be running even but will be safe against getting killed.
Once 6, Rengar can make use of it anywhere, with high damage and
solid CC every lane. Any one of them would be a good option.
Lane
Match-ups – Samsung Blue
Top -
Galio
is going to be entering a farm fest with Maokai, neither able to
really pressure the other, as tankiness and sustain will keep them
going. Galio can however, very quickly wave clear. It may be his
best option to just, clear the wave and then disappear from lane,
looking around in the jungle or river, just being in a closer
position to join a fight if one were to occur.
Mid -
Ryze is
stronger than Jayce in a straight up fight, especially if he decides
to pick up an early armor item. The problem however is going to be
getting in range to fight, as Jayce can poke at Ryze from a long
distance, and is able to wave clear faster to push Ryze back. Early
boots may be a good option, allowing Ryze to dodge skillshots and to
get in range for trades/harassment against Jayce. Mostly, I don't
see Ryze being able to stop Jayce without some help to keep him
slowed or CC'ed, however Jayce will not be able to stop Ryze from
farming completely either. The downside, Jayce's power-spike comes
in sooner than Ryze's and that will affect the mid-game team-fights.
Bot -
An even
match-up, Lucian/Janna can turn it in their favor early and keep it
that way if they play it right though. Janna shield + Lucian Q will
be very strong at level 1, and should win them the lane, as long as
they can dodge Morgana's binding. As the lane progresses, OMG's lane
should continue to bully Corki, with Lucian saving his dash to dodge
Morgana's binding and effectively winning the lane by dodge out on
that damage. At 6, poke will be going over to Corki, as well as some
strong all-in potential with Morgana's ultimate. Lucian however,
come dive Corki instantly, putting down his burst damage and moving
into the culling to get him to half hp or lower. This will prevent a
lot of NWS's ability to fight back if he can pull it off
successfully.
Jungle
-
Khazix
is going to want to farm, trying to keep up with Rengar and move into
his level 6 with poke, giving his team some much needed chase
potential. As far as ganking goes, looking for one against either
Maokai or Jayce will be the best bets, especially with Ryze using a
Flash snare to start the fight.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Samsung White
*Win
Condition – Get some solid poke and skirmishes in the mid-game and
turn into a solid 5v5 fight. Turret siege with Jayce and Corki.
SSW
have a very solid composition, they have strong brawling potential,
good poke, good catch, a front-line and a half. It's just all round
strong with no big weakness. Their biggest strength will be with the
poke that SSW can put down and the protection that Maokai and Morgana
can provide. This is doubly so with how little engage and how little
poke SSB have. SSW have no need to engage at any point and can just
siege SSB and wait for opportunities to provide themselves. SSW just
need to avoid Ryze and Galio flanks and they should be able to safely
and methodically take this game.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Samsung Blue
*Win
Condition – Get a nice solid 5v5 team-fight and take down SSW while
they are distracted with Galio.
SSB are
going to have their work cut out for them again, but this time it
will be in getting into SSW's team. SSB have the ability to win
lanes and control the game, however they have no real way to force a
team-fight. They are going to need to utilize dragon and jungle
objectives (as 5) to force SSW into fights. Other than that, Ryze
and Galio are going to need to get into good flanking positions to be
able to even think about getting into SSW's team. Even then, Galio
is against 2.5 AD champions and Maokai who's ultimate is a circle of
protection. If SSB can find the right fight, Galio's ultimate should
give the rest of the team time to clean-up and deal the damage that
they need to.
Game
Notes -
SSW go
for an invade, but are completely caught out and SSB get First Blood
onto Ryze, letting him grab Tear at level 1.
SSB
look to have handicapped themselves with the Galio pick, but we shall
see how it turns out.
SSB
start a very very early dragon. Khazix is not even level 3. They do
a good job of juggling, but are seen by a ward from SSW. SSB totally
ignore Jayce and he is able to get TWO kills and dragon in what is a
1v4 or a 1 and dragon v 4. I don't know why Ryze did not try to
fight/zone Jayce. SSW go a little too aggressive after this, they
already had a 2 + dragon for 1, but when they tried to save Jayce,
SSB get a 2 for one for themselves. Fight ends up being a 3 for 3,
SSW getting dragon, SSB ending up with brand new double buffs on Ryze
and Lucian.
During
that time/fight, Galio has gotten a lot more CS than Maokai.
CS and
levels start to even out.
Rengar
goes very aggressive onto Janna, but knows the play is a 3v3 with 2
ultimates to 1, and with SSB split. River ward has shown him
Khazix's position. Maokai uses TP to zone Khazix out and to pin
Galio, but cancels it after Galio flashes away.
Look at
this split by SSW at the dragon. They have 2 threats on each side,
and their poke is coming from both directions. SSB cannot initiate
onto one side, especially since they are already on dragon, without
the other side of SSW closing in on them. Normally in this you want
to collapse on one side, but its already too late, SSW are too close
for SSB to be able to hit one side and run. SSB do get the dragon,
but the fight trade is a 4 for 3 in SSW's favor.
Outside
of these two spikes, the game is going fairly slow. Both sides
looking to get to and play the power spike they want.
A great
catch by Janna nets a kill on Corki, but because of the Trinity force
Corki is able to deal a ton of damage to Lucian, when Maokai's TP
comes in, he is able to clean up Lucian easily and him and Morgana
can kill Janna.
Rengar
gets a catch on Ryze in the Jungle, and this would actually get
Rengar killed, but a long range Gate-Blast from Jayce hits Ryze while
he is snared. A great plan and execution by SSW.
Janna
gets caught trying to wards and the damage from Corki is just too
big.
Rengar
tries to catch Ryze again, but this time Ryze turns it around and
forces Rengar to flash to safety.
Janna
gets caught again.
SSB are
getting caught out a lot now, especially Janna, and with Janna down
SSW take an easy dragon.
Galio
uses his ultimate just to try to secure 1 kill, and it is not up when
they really need it.
SSW are
just, rolling SSB around now, drawing them into split up situations
and finding them in rotational mistake after rotational mistake.
End
Game Notes -
SSB
really handicapped themselves by picking Galio.
Without
any form of real engage and with no poke on SSB, they just cut their
options in this game to almost nothing. They have no way to deal
with Jayce/Corki, and no way to get in to fight them, especially
against Maokai/Rengar/Morgana being a wall and just enough disengage
against Galio.
I feel
that Ryze would have been stronger with TP instead of Ghost, able to
help around the map to get SSB ahead.
What
Samsung Blue should have done -
Again
with the awkward pick. Galio offered nothing to this team, and SSB
built nothing into their composition to deal with the poke/protect of
SSW. SSB are just getting destroyed by picks/bans and even picking
into awful champions against the SSW composition. It's just... bad.
Going
forward, SSB have to step back, take some very deep breaths, have
some warm soothing tea or coffee, and regroup. Mentality here is
going to be the very first step.
After
that, SSB need to craft a team that they want to play, and decide
what champions would defeat that team and ban those out. There is
going to need to be a little bit of rigidity in the next team
composition for SSB, with a few picks being flexible. They cannot
ban out SSW, and they should not even try. Ban out champions that
are going to mess with SSB's composition choice.
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