Team
Solo Mid vs.
Samsung White
Game #4
Bans
Zilean Orianna
Rumble Alistar
Ryze Maokai
Picks
1.
Thresh 2. Yasuo
3.
Khazix 2. Lee Sin
3.
Lucian 4. Braum
5. Ahri
4. Twitch
5.
Mundo 6. Kayle
Lane
Match-ups – Team Solo Mid
Top -
Mundo
is going to have a rough time against Kayle and can expect to spend
most of his time against the turret. Getting onto Kayle alone will
be almost impossible against Kayle's speed-up and his slow and any
attempt at Mundo to do so, pre-6, will most likely end up in failure.
Mundo will have to get his farm with cleavers and then just seek to
become the ultra tank later in the game. Must be worried about dives
from Kayle and Lee Sin, as Mundo is vulnerable to tower dives.
Mid -
Ahri
has a pretty even match-up against Yasuo, able to farm safely and to
harass without too much worry of a response (though if Yasuo can get
it it will be a heavy one). If at anytime Ahri can land her charm,
then she can put out a ton of damage onto Yasuo. At 6, she will have
the 1 on 1 advantage as long as she does not get knocked-up by Yasuo,
however getting the kill will be hard while staying safe, as his Wind
Wall can block her out. The biggest threat in this lane will come,
not from Yasuo, but from Lee Sin ganks at 6 and the amazing synergy
he has with Yasuo. Ahri should look to get early AP and seek to
clear the wave in 1 or 2 spells, then play safe or move to side
lanes.
Bot -
Once
again TSM have the stronger lane. This time however, Braum can
protect Twitch in an all-in. The best plan will be to focus on
harassment and have Lucian dodge Braum Q with dash. Thresh can land
hooks to give Lucian the chance for free damage, however going in
with the hook should not be attempted unless there is a clear
advantage and Lee Sin is known to not be near.
Jungle
-
Khazix
vs. Lee Sin. Khazix as always in this match-up should look to farm
up and mirror Lee Sin for counter-ganking while avoiding Lee Sin in
the 1v1. Kayle can offer an opportunity to gank, as he will most
likely be pushing his lane. Otherwise focus on getting 6 then be
prepared for Lee Sin to gank middle.
Lane
Match-ups – Samsung White
Top -
Kayle
has the definite advantage over Mundo. Range, slow, and speed-up
will keep Mundo at bay while Kayle can also fast push with his AoE
auto attack to keep Mundo under the turret. Needs to be mindful of
Khazix ganking him if he is pushed, however a good slow and speed-up
should get Kayle away safely.
Mid -
Yasuo
is going to have a difficult time against Ahri, but not one of a big
disadvantage. The match-up is just trickier for Yasuo. He has to
properly use his dashes to get into Ahri, while avoiding damage and
especially Charm. If he can do so, he can trade solid damage, and
possibly come out ahead. Wind Wall will be essential later on to
protect him from all of Ahri's spells.
Bot -
Braum/Twitch
are weaker than Lucian/Thresh, but not by too much. If they choose
to 2v2, they can play defensive to allow Twitch to get farm, as Braum
will be a good deterrent against the all-in play from TSM. As long
as they avoid taking too much harass/poke, SSW's duo should be able
to keep close in CS numbers.
Jungle
-
Lee Sin
just really needs to farm against Khazix and then reach level 6. At
six Lee Sin will have huge gank/skirmish potential with Yasuo and can
abuse TSM together. Watch the lanes, don't let Khazix get a good
gank off, and just farm to 6 and take control.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Team Solo Mid
*Win
Condition – Get picks in the mid-game and snowball them into a
lead.
TSM
have a good composition to get picks and against SSW's to poke.
Thresh/Ahri can toss out Charm and hook to lock-up a member of SSW
while Mundo and Khazix can throw out poke to keep SSW at bay and
whittle them down. TSM should look to take the extended siege fights
and not go all-in against SSW. Force out Kayle's Intervention and
then back off, reengaging after it ends. Remember, SSW's two
objectives. Twitch/Kayle ultimates and Lee Sin/Yasuo ultimates. TSM
do not need to rely on their ultimates and can poke/pick to draw out
SSW's, then engage when they are down. TSM need to realize that
SSW's engagement is weak and using warding/sieging to take control
and play the turret game.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Samsung White
*Win
Condition – Use the two synergy's of Lee Sin/Braum/Yasuo and of
Kayle/Twitch to create the proper skirmishes and fights. Force
fights at neutral objectives to draw TSM in.
SSW
have a composition that has two strong points, and their entire
fight/ability to win will rely on that. Kayle allows Twitch, with
the right positioning, to get out a massive amount of damage in a
team-fight with their ultimates. If Twitch can flank, and find the
right line of attack, a 5v5 team-fight can be won during
Intervention. The other avenue of attack is the synergy between
Yasuo and Braum/Lee Sin. The right setup by either of them can lead
to a very strong Yasuo ultimate and the engagement that SSW need to
get into TSM. SSW in the mid-game will need to use these synergy's
to take the fight to TSM and break through TSM's pick/poke. In the
late-game, Yasuo and Kayle will both make very strong split-pushers.
Game
Notes -
SSW put
on heavy pressure early, burning a flash from Khazix. TSM do respond
though and secure 2 buffs. TSM are able to get a sneaky ward into
SSW's jungle.
SSW
initiate a lane swap again.
TSM and
SSW are both Triple jungling, but SSW get a catch onto Mid. TSM did
not expect it, but SSW did.
A
crafty catch setup for SSW does not pay off, burning a lot of time.
TSM are
letting this set-up dilly dally for too long. Mundo will be useless
without farm but Kayle can still provide his ultimate at 6 onto the
free farming Twitch. TSM should be forcing this situation to end by
fast pushing bottom all the way into SSW's base and forcing them to
show up.
Braum
stays near top, hiding to prevent TSM from starting dragon. However
TSM catch out a misplayed ward by Braum and then pull the trigger and
take dragon.
TSM
take bot turret, the first, but SSW take top soon after.
Lustboy
totally fakes out SSW and chases Twitch off, but SSW 5 man collapse
on TSM's aggressive play, gives SSW a double kill. This will be a
key point towards SSW's victory.
TSM
take mid turret, but a great collapse from SSW do get them a kill
onto Thresh. TSM do get top turret too, trading their bot turret.
SSW
start to set up for dragon a full minute before it spawns.
A pick
attempt from Twitch and SSW ends up creating a 3 for 3 kill trade.
SSW's kills however go to Yasuo.
TSM
push and take Mid T2 surprising SSW.
SSW
take dragon and make a great dragon fight. Twitch gets a pentakill
even though the fight goes 5 for 3 in SSW's favor. TSM needed to
just do some poke then back towards the lane, not up through the
jungle. The funnel really turns the fight with Twitch's ultimate.
A bit
of over-aggression from SSW earns them a turret and some kills, but
TSM turn it around to go 3 kills for 2.
Unfortunately,
Yasuo is super strong against Mundo and takes him out 1v1. TSM do
collapse and get a kill onto Twitch, but do lose Thresh. 2 for 1 and
dragon in favor of SSW.
Huge
skirmish in the red jungle of TSM ends up with lots of damage but a
disengage and no kills.
TSM
vastly out rotate SSW, and take mid inhibitor for their Top T2
turret, get out safely, and stop SSW baron. This is a testament to
NA LCS season and variety of play-styles and strategies.
*Note -
TSM also had the option at this moment, to give up Baron and to head
bottom to take T2 turret and possibly the inhibitor turret as well.
This would have put a bit of weight onto SSW shoulders, as the
determining factor for TSM getting just the T2 or also the inhibitor
would be on how fast SSW could make a call.
TSM
move top and take top inhibitor turret.
SSW get
a great catch mid, TSM disengage but are too low to stop Baron, SSW
take baron. This could close the game.
At this
point, 1 catch from TSM can clench them the ability to take
inhibitors, however a won teamfight from SSW will end the game.
A good
catch results in too much commitment by TSM, getting them a kill but
trading and losing them mid inhibitor. Thresh lantern was late.
At this
point, from TSM lose pressure and lose another Baron. TSM setup for a
sneaky inhibitor kill. However the play was a bit sloppy and
impatient when Khazix shows himself way ahead of his team.. This
loses the attempt and will lose the game.
Item
Notes -
Would
prefer to see Hurricane from Kayle in this setup. It would provide
great deterrent to TSM fully committing to a kill on SSW.
Mundo
should have given up on getting Spirit Visage and nabbed Randuin's
Omen. There is far more AD damage on SSW and the AS slow would be
good against Kayle anyways.
End
Game Notes -
TSM
make some great rotational plays and once again a North American team
is able to push around a Korean team even when 8-10k gold behind.
This turret play and map movement play is so effective, but still it
is never pulled out until the team is already far behind.
A few
impatient plays get TSM into very bad spots, particularly the first
dragon fight and then the end inhibitor attempt.
What
Team Solo Mid should have done -
I feel
that TSM's composition and pick/ban phase was good, though they did
let Yasuo/Lee Sin go.
There
were four distinct points in my mind that this game could have been
turned out differently.
1. The
lane swap really lasted a bit too long in my mind. I would have
liked to have seen TSM fast push bottom and force SSW to defend, and
closing down that long drawn out early game. Mundo needed to get
some gold/exp to keep relevant, especially early, and Twitch needed
to not be left alone to free farm.
2. The
first dragon fight that gives Twitch a pentakill was due to TSM
making a team positional mistake by running up into the jungle and
funneling for Twitch ultimate. On top of this, TSM had no need to
engage, they could have poked and looked for picks with their team
composition. Just because they landed a Charm/Hook did not mean they
had to go in, they just needed to whittle down SSW and draw out the
Intervention, waiting for it to end.
3.
After taking the mid inhibitor, TSM could have gone bottom and forced
SSW to have to make a quick decision on Baron. TSM could have
POSSIBLY gotten the bottom inhibitor in trade for Baron, but this is
a bit risky, perhaps one TSM should have made being so far behind?
Either way, they did stop Baron and things were looking better than
before. If they had gotten the inhibitor, that would have given them
the ability to push top with two inhibitors down.
4.
Khazix jumps out too early and gives away the entire TSM plan. If he
had not been so far ahead, all of TSM could have sneaked into SSW's
base and taken the mid inhibitor. This would have forced SSW to make
a quick decision, with SSW being farther down the lane. Base race or
turn around to try to stop TSM. TSM could have take mid inhibitor
and top inhibitor before SSW could get back, and then tried to escape
through top. If SSW had decided to base race, it would have been
really close and Mundo could have tanked the Nexus turrets.
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