Tuesday, November 11, 2014

League of Legends Worlds Analysis, Finals - SSW vs. SHR Game #1

Star Horn Royal Club vs. Samsung White Game #1
Reverse Lanes

Bans
Alistar Rengar
Zilean Lee Sin
Rumble Lucian

Picks
1. Ryze 2. Maokai
3. Khazix 2. Twitch
3. Janna 4. Jarvan
5. Tristana 4. Thresh
5. Orianna 6. Jayce

Lane Match-ups – Star Horn Royal Club

Top -
Ryze should be able to easily farm and scale up in this lane, while applying some pressure to Maokai. It is unlikely that he will be able to apply enough pressure early on to matter though, and the same goes for Maokai. This lane will be an even farm fest unless the jungler's intervene. Ryze must be wary of the gank from SSW, while knowing that Maokai must be far down the lane for Ryze and Khazix to secure a kill onto him.

Mid -
Orianna has to be careful in this match-up. It is one that she can win, or even dominate, however its quite fragile. Orianna's ability to duel and to respond to trade damage is strong, and against Jayce, as long as she can survive his trade/burst, she can put out much more sustained damage and win the 1v1. The counter to this, is that Jayce has great poke and can get Orianna into kill range with 1 or 2 good shock blasts. Orianna will have to hide behind creep waves while farming with her ball. Ball movements are going to be a little tricky, as Orianna will want to try to harass Jayce with it, however when the ball is far from her, Jayce will be able to have a safer all-in or trade damage. In the end, Orianna should focus on farming, and wait for an opportunity to capitalize on Jayce making a mistake. Carrying Exhaust will really drain the kill potential from Jayce as well.

Bot -
I feel like this is a fairly even lane. Both are pretty bad at harassment early on and want to farm. Tristana/Janna can get off a few pot shots with her shield, but Tristana has no AD ratios to make real use of the shield. Janna shield can block Twitch damage, and the trades should go even. Thresh hooks can make a difference, but a well placed Janna Tornado and shield will be able to stop anything major. All in all, a fairly even lane that will be defensive for both.

Jungle -
Khazix should be looking to farm this match-up, as with all match-ups. He will end up out-scaling Jarvan, but his early-game ganks will be weaker. While farming, it would be best for him to keep an eye primarily on Ryze, looking to gank Maokai if he is pushed near Ryze's tower and protecting him from a Jarvan gank during other times.. When Jarvan is nearing 6, it would be a good idea to keep an eye on Orianna, as Jarvan will most likely seek to gank her with the power of Jayce.

Lane Match-ups – Samsung White

Top -
Ryze vs. Maokai will be a fairly farm centric lane. Maokai will sustain through Ryze's harassment while being unable to apply solo kill pressure against him. Both champions will be picking up Rod of Ages and will begin to scale up slowly. Maokai however, has great item pathing ability with SHR's team having a double AP comp. Gank pressure will be stronger for Maokai, with Jarvan they will be able to put kill pressure onto Ryze, alternately, Maokai should only be under threat of a gank if he is pushes up to Ryze's tower.

Mid -
Jayce will have a slight bit of control in this match-up, even though he may lose trades or all-ins. The potential for Jayce lies in his poke and his lack of need to engage onto Orianna. Just farming and trying to get Shock Blasts onto Orianna will be enough to control the lane, or at least keep it as a farm fest. If Jayce is able to get enough poke down, and/or Orianna or her ball are in a bad position, Jayce can head in for more harassment and trade damage. If Orianna's ball is in bad spot, Jayce can hop in and knock-back Orianna, getting mostly free damage due to the travel time of Command: Protect. At 6, Jayce will have to be more careful, but will still be able to safely farm and keep control.

Bot -
A pretty even lane, both just want to farm and maybe get off some harassment. Twitch will lose alone, but not by much, and if Thresh can get in for a hook for flay, will come out on top. Both sides will only come out on top in trades by a little bit. Mostly this will just be farming, and looking for an opportunity to capitalize on a misplay of the other duo. At 6, Thresh can try to bait a fight while Twitch gets into position to attack Tristana, needs to be aware of the knock-back though.

Jungle -
Jarvan has a stronger early-game than Khazix and much better gank potential, especially with his top/bottom lane. Using the double CC of Jarvan/Maokai or Jarvan/Thresh, SSW should be able to pull of successful ganks in either of the two lanes. Once level 6 comes into play, Jarvan will have to look to top or mid for ganks, as he will be much less effective against Tristana/Janna at this point. Locking up Orianna will provide Jayce the window he needs to kill her, while the long duration lock-down on Ryze with Maokai will give SSW enough time to get the kill.

Team Composition/Strategy – Star Horn Royal Club

*Win Condition – Play safe, do not get far behind, and scale into the late game.

Not much to this composition that hasn't been said about it before. It's a very late game focused composition, however it has good protection in Orianna and Janna to try to prevent the mid-game weakness and dives. This is going to be a long game for SHR. They will have to just, be safe and scale, get early wave clear and ward up the jungle, never run through it without vision knowledge. This composition will be all about how long SHR can hold off, and what they can take in trade. If they team-fight or even skirmish early on, it could go very badly.

Team Composition/Strategy – Samsung White

*Win Condition – Win the mid-game. Snowball into a lead. Siege with the full team using Thresh/Jarvan/Maokai to protect.

SSW have a very strong mid-game team with pick, siege, and assassination potential. They are going to need to win by the 35 to 45 minute mark though, otherwise SHR will out-scale them. Knowing SSW though, that's pretty likely. They know how to pick about late game compositions. Look for early dragons, forcing SHR to give it up or fight. Take an early turret or two to open up the map and make pick and/or assassination potentials more likely. Once a lead is generated, SSW can siege turrets and slow whittle down SHR while keeping them confined.

Game Notes -

Ooo, Orianna has Teleport. I like, but she is going to have to play safer than normal.

SHR look for a 5 man invade, but they are sitting directly on a ward. SSW move around and cut off SHR's escape route, but SHR do muscle one. SHR almost kill Jayce, but he barely gets away, and then SSW are able to kill Janna. Super super close, and way too risky for either to actually do, but it does work for SSW. First Blood and a starting Spirit Stone to Jarvan.

Both duo lanes now swap to the bottom lane.

Look at how much vision is in SHR's bottom lane before the turret dive in mid goes through.

Thresh and Twitch move together after shoving in to go look for wards and ganks.

Jayce is destroying middle.

SSW make a great plan to dive top as 3, and have it timed to the wave, to Jayce having pushed his wave in, and having Jarvan there. There is a 30s to 1m of ahead of time planning going into this. SSW play it so well, get the kill on Ryze with almost no HP loss, when Orianna TP's in, they kill her as well, but only because of the Exhaust from Jayce, otherwise Orianna would have gotten 2 kills.

SSW already have a very solid lead in gold, and a massive lead in pressure. I'm sure it feels bigger than it is for SHR. SSW are going to have an easy time turning this early lead into a much bigger mid-game lead.

SHR's duo are able to take the bottom turret of SSW, but in their retreat they are cut off by SSW, behind their bottom turret. SSW get 2 kills, and the bottom turret. SSW are just all over the place, moving from objective to objective.

Jayce/Twitch explode Khazix.

SSW dive so deep into SHR's base, but they come out with 2 kills for 1.

SSW are just, dominating, they are not letting SHR's late-game team have any chance.

The plan – Focus Top/Bot, ignore Tristana as she will be irrelevant the whole game, never having the time to become relevant.

SHR should run as 5 to the top lane during dragon. Retreat and then charge bottom as 5. Run away from SSW and try to take objectives. Otherwise SHR are too behind to come back. SHR have already broken the T2 turret line, before 20 minutes.

Thresh says, Hey look at me! And dives into 4, and all 4 run. SSW just have too much power at the moment. Aegis/Giant's belt on Jarvan for example, against Athene's on Orianna.

SSW play so well with Jayce, able to hit the long range snipes while locking down the opponent's champions with another of SSW.

Fast close out by SSW.

End Game Notes -

Don't play a full late-game composition against SSW. You will get crushed.

What Star Horn Royal Club should have done -

They just picked a way too late game composition and allowed Jayce into Orianna, a very very bad match for Orianna, in terms of power-spikes. Jayce is one of the few champions that really keep Orianna from having an in game effect anywhere except the late game. Picking Tristana, Ryze, Orianna, was just too much late-game and too little early and mid-game power.

If they wanted to play this same composition, they have to ban Jayce, and potentially Twisted Fate.

I still want to see them completely throw the jungle into chaos during pick/bans.



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