Samsung
Blue
vs. Cloud9 Game #1
Standard
Lanes
Bans
Zed Yasuo
Alistar Lee
Sin
Maokai Zilean
Picks
1.
Thresh 2. Ryze
3.
Elise 2. Khazix
3.
Tristana 4. Syndra
5.
Nidalee 4. Morgana
5.
Jayce 6. Lucian
Lane
Match-ups – Samsung White
Top -
Nidalee
is going to have a rough time against Ryze. While Nidalee can
out-sustain Ryze early on, its going to take quite awhile to overcome
the damage that Ryze is able to put out. When it comes to full
trades or all-in's, Ryze will come out on top, unless Nidalee can
land a spear to mark him with Hunt. It's gong to be a tough match
for Nidalee, and only get tougher as Ryze scales into the
mid/late-game. All in all, a losing lane for Nidalee, but one she
will be able to sit in and farm, in relative safety.
Mid -
Jayce
against Syndra is an interesting match-up, and one that can be even.
Jayce has slightly longer range and a much faster projectile to hi
Syndra with, while having the ability to fast push against her, as
long as he is willing to get in range of some of her skills.
Primarily, the lane will be one of farm, and attempted long range
harass. If Syndra uses her stun and misses, Jayce can go for the
all-in or for trade damage, having a lot more potential against her
when she cannot stun. Ultimately, farm, poke with Shock Blast and go
all-in when the stun is down. Once level 6 comes into play, Jayce
will have to be a lot more careful, as Syndra's kill potential
skyrockets.
Bot -
This
lane is very weak against C9's. Tristana gets bullied easily by
Lucian, and if Morgana hits a binding, that will only result in even
more damage being put down onto her. With Thresh somewhat neutered
in his ability to influence the lane, because of Black Shield, it
puts this lane in an even weaker position than if C9 had not grabbed
Morgana. I'd suggest a lane swap, and a fast push to facilitate
moving into the poke/siege composition that SSB has.
Jungle
-
Elise
has a stronger early-game than Khazix and can look to invade his
jungle, as long as she is backed up by her laners. Using spiderlings
to prevent Khazix isolation damage will be key, and any delay Elise
can cause against Khazix will be useful. For ganking, bot and top
lane will offer the best options, even though they are not very
strong ones, with shutting down Ryze and helping out Nidalee coming
up as a clear favorite.
Lane
Match-ups – Cloud9
Top -
Ryze
has the advantage in this lane, throughout all stages of the game
when on even footing. Early on Ryze can trade easily with his
spells, dealing more damage than Nidalee can heal for. As long as
Ryze can dodge spears, particularly by sitting inside of the creep
waves, he will come out on top in any trade or harass situation. As
the lane progresses, the advantage he has will only grow until
Nidalee is no longer able to challenge him. The only time that Ryze
would be vulnerable to Nidalee, is if he gets hit by a spear, so
dodging these should take priority over anything else. Just watch
out for Elise gank, as the stun could lead into a Nidalee spear.
Mid -
Syndra's
toughest time in this lane is going to be pre level 6. Syndra can
farm from a safe distance, keeping creeps between her and Jayce. She
should focus on simply Csing until level 6 and hold onto her stun
until then. Syndra and Jayce will have similar poke/fight potential,
but if Syndra's stun is ever down before level 6, then Jayce has the
ability to all in her. Once level 6 hits, kill potential lies with
Syndra and she should seek to be a strong bully in the lane while
staying away from Jayce's poke ability.
Bot -
C9's
duo is much stronger than SSB's lane. The bully potential of Lucian
against Tristana is very strong while Morgana is able to provide
lock-down and protection against Thresh, preventing SSB's only chance
of turning the tide of the lane. C9 should make sure to get the 2v2
lane and just bully them from level 1, and transition into the strong
mid-game of Lucian before Tristana can scale-up.
Jungle
-
Khazix
is going to out-scale Elise, however the early-game can be rough if
Elise takes over his jungle. Help from the laners if this happens
will be useful. Even with no help though, Khazix can avoid Elise
while getting enough camps to reach 6, and be able to then fight on
even terms with her. As for ganking, the best bet will be top with
Ryze against Nidalee with bot lane coming up second.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Samsung White
*Win
Condition – Get lots of poke down onto C9 before fights and force
C9 to back off or fight with low HP.
SSB
have a team almost completely focused on poking. Jayce and Nidalee
have very long range and very hard hitting poke. If they every land
both their Spear and Shock Blast on the same target, that target will
essentially be removed from a fight. Samsung Blue have to concede
the early game to Cloud9 and survive until the mid-game, roughly the
18-20 minute mark, before SSB's team composition can really come into
effect. At this point, SSB will need to group up as five and start
to siege objectives as a full team. It might even be better to try
some extremely early sieging and go for the 5v5 turret push as early
as 9 minutes, but will be risky to try that. Once SSB come together
as a team, they should play the turret game, almost completely
ignoring C9's team and avoiding any team-fights. Push one turret
after another and generate a gold lead that can be snowballed into a
win from turret gold.
I would
love to see a lane swap and fast push with SSB's team composition. 3
man or 4 man fast push in the lane swap and take out at least one
turret to move into the siege push earlier than normal.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Cloud9
*Win
Condition – Snowball mid and early-game power-spikes into a gold
lead and the win. Get picks with Ryze/Syndra/Morgana for extra gold
and to create number advantage.
Cloud9
have a very strong team, especially in the mid-game once the level 1
ultimates come into play. As long as Cloud9 can prevent SSB from
coming together and turret sieging, then Cloud9 should have the
stronger team in this match-up. Syndra and Morgana both have solid
ways to start off a fight with a pick, or just get a long ranged pick
and chain some CC for the kill. SSB's team can't fight in a 5v5, so
even just one binding or one Syndra stun will be enough to start an
engagement. Ryze can also flash snare to start things off and be
that front-line powerhouse that he is. The one thing that Cloud9
need to not do, is get stuck at turrets under siege. Get strong
wards and be prepared to flank and take fights to more open area's
like dragon. If C9 can get ahead, then they should have the game in
their hands by rotating through SSB's jungle until they find a pick,
fight, or open turret to kill.
Game
Notes -
No idea
what SSB were doing at the start. They had full vision of C9's top
jungle and never saw a member head in. They should have been
expecting the invade on their red instead of walking into it.
Nidalee
hops in to attack Ryze but does so without Hunt up and into a minion
wave. Forced to flash herself out to safety.
Nidalee
saw the ward go down top, but Elise still tries to gank from the bush
with the ward.
A great
read by C9 predicting Thresh warding gets C9 their third kill.
Ryze TP
secures the kill bottom (though he doesn't touch it) and turns into a
free dragon for C9. SSB do take the top turret though.
SSB
spend a ton of resources to take out Ryze in the top lane.
With
how far ahead Lucian is, C9 focus on bot lane, getting another
skirmish going 2 for 1 and drawing out the TP from Nidalee.
SSB get
a catch on mid and end up 3v1 at the mid turret, however they do not
push to take mid turret, big mistake.
Even
with the early focus on Ryze, he has kept up and is the best
split-pusher in this game.
For the
second time, Syndra gets caught in the middle by Thresh, due to
improper warding. SSB are still unable or unwilling to take
something from this point of power play. They are delaying any play
for Tristana to catch-up, however it is only hampering SSB as C9 are
able to extend their lead, and Ryze is also a super strong late game
champion.
Cloud9
properly play their composition by pressuring mid and bottom, forcing
rotations through SSB's jungle and getting catches and picks, ends up
generating an ACE for 0 C9 as well as the bot T2 turret. Game should
now be 100% over. C9 just need to do the same thing with mid/top and
pressure the next dragon and baron.
Mid T1
is still up for C9 when SSB could have taken it a long time ago.
C9 get
a good pick onto Elise, and a huge TP from Ryze secures the fight and
a kill. Chain CC ends up just barely killing Tristana as well.
Two
awkward ward positions do give SSB vision of Baron.
Game
stalls for a bit, C9 not making any strong moves. Really need to
start pressuring Baron and SSB top inhibitor turret and middle to
facilitate picks.
A pick
generates a Baron attempt, however C9 are forced off. SSB could have
kept baron low and forced it, however they get a bit greedy trying to
get kills and get caught and picked off. SSB trying to force the
fight, as a much weaker fight team, end up paying dearly for it,
getting ACED, giving up Baron, and only getting 1 kill.
Syndra
finds a 1v1 kill onto Jayce and C9 push down SSB's mid inhibitor
using Baron.
C9 now
shop, and then move towards bot lane to push. Even with SSB landing
good poke and getting most of C9 to half HP, a flash snare by Ryze
allows C9 to dive and kill 2 on SSB, get the inhibitor and push for
the win.
Item
Notes -
I
really dislike the early Sheen from Nidalee. In this composition she
needs higher AP/CDR for the poke/siege. The last thing SSB's team
wants to do is have a team-fight and Nidalee will not beat Ryze in a
split-push.
End
Game Notes -
SSB got
behind from level 1 from a silly play.
SSB did
not properly play their composition until around the 18-20 minute
mark. They played scared, with Deft so low on Tristana even though
the crux of their composition was Nidalee/Jayce and Tristana was more
of a late game fall back.
C9 did
take awhile to get back into the rotation/pick after dropping it
after getting the top T2 turret.
What
Samsung Blue should have -
Play a
different composition. This poke composition really does not fit
SSB. They take a bit too long to get into the mindset and they like
to 5v5 fight, when a poke composition like this needs to be running
away and focusing objectives not fighting.
In the
game, SSB should have grouped earlier and said, whelp Tristana is
screwed. They wait so long to do anything to try to get Tristana to
catch up, but she is never going to catch up when behind a much
stronger ADC, and against a team that is not only able to kill her,
but able to control the map. Tristana will get items, but the
overall gold difference is only going to grow. They had the
opportunity to take mid early, and never did, and then they could
have moved this into push/siege with good wards.
Going
forward, SSB need to remove Syndra and Lucian. Syndra is by far
Hai's best champion and has to be removed to throw him off his game
and Sneaky just played, so strong on Lucian. Look for lane swaps, as
C9's bottom lane is looking truly dominating.
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