Star Horn Royal Club
vs. Edward Gaming
Picks and Bans –
Star Horn Royal Club
Lee Sin,
Ryze/Irelia, and Orianna seem to be some of SHR's strongest choices
and should be very sought after by SHR. The good news is, that
though EDG do play these champions, they are not nearly as high
priority (except for maybe Lee Sin) and SHR can either expect to get
these champions, or have them banned. I really expect Lee Sin and
Orianna to see the highest ban priority for EDG, at least at the
start. The ADC's are also very different, SHR preferring the late
game scaling champions like Tristana/Vayne or using Caitlyn as a lane
bully or tower pushing beast. They have not made any real move
towards the more mid-game/lane bully champions like Lucian/Corki or
the pick ability of Twitch.
SHR should focus on
getting either Insec or Corn the champion of their choice in
jungle/mid respectively. If there are multiple champions that either
are comfortable in play, then a first/early pick of Ryze will be
optimal. Support picks or even an ADC pick in the middle of the
table should give SHR time to formulate a strategy.
Ban out Maokai, as
Koro1 from EDG will play him every game and has not shown much
prowess elsewhere. Twitch would also be another solid ban, and
Rengar/Zilean as well. Outside of that, generic bans until watching
how the series goes. I'm not sure that there is any one player to
try to ban out on EDG, as none of them looked extremely strong during
the group stages.
Picks and Bans –
Edward Gaming
EDG haven't show any
superior strength onto anyone during the group stages. A heavy
preference to Maokai and Rengar, but I wouldn't go into the matches
making plans around these two, as they will most likely be banned
out. If possible, nab these up as they have been EDG's most
consistent champions. Twitch can be a focus as well for EDG, perhaps
Koro1 or U can play Kayle for solid Twitch composition. Regardless,
I'm not really sure what EDG are going to do or can do, from what
they have shown in the group stages and perhaps should focus on
counter-picking SHR rather than crafting their own strategy.
The standard ban
style is to pick on Insec, by banning out his jungle and forcing him
onto something rougher to play. Lee Sin for certain, followed by
Rengar and Khazix. If EDG have a pocket jungle pick this can be a
strategy, otherwise I might let this go, aside form banning/picking
away Lee Sin. I'd like to see EDG ban out Orianna in every game
unless they plan to pick her, as Corn is highly proficient on her and
is probably his best champion. In the top lane, ban out Irelia if
you plan to play Ryze or Rumble or potentially even Kayle. However
that can leave Ryze up for SHR to grab.
Play-styles – Star
Horn Royal Club
SHR play a very
methodical game. They put a lot of focus onto towers and onto
objectives and in group stages were one of the few teams to pull out
Caitlyn for fast tower pushing and 2v1 lane swap fast pushes. SHR
have shown that they will play the turret game and bypass the other
team as well as playing solid team-fight compositions.
Generally SHR will
play for the late game, making good plays in the mid-game to get a
lead and then slowly starving out their opponents as they tighten
their grip for the win. SHR do not however, hesitate and will close
out a game as soon as they know they can.
Expect to see solid
play throughout the game with most games SHR making safe plays, not
risky ones. This can hurt them if they ever fall behind, as they
won't make many moves to come back.
Play-styles –
Edward Gaming
EDG like to brawl
and will make some very aggressive plays, often times way to
aggressive and it gets them killed for it. They will often bypass
objectives to go for fights and kills and this sets them up for long
games that they don't close out. In Group stages they missed a lot
of opportunities to push turrets or objectives and get gold
advantages that way, rather choosing to fight very brawl style
engages that they may not even come out on top in.
I'm not sure what
else we will see from EDG, they took Group Stages so lightly and made
a bad showing of it. Hopefully they have come up with some new stuff
for the quarterfinals.
Strengths and
Weaknesses – Star Horn Royal Club
It has to be said
that one form of weakness is their ability to communicate due to the
three languages that they speak and their reliance on Smart Pings.
There can be a breakdown in play because of this when one person sees
a mistake happening but cannot communicate it in time. However there
is a certain strength to this as well, as for SHR often times its Go
Go Go and the whole team goes.
SHR's bot lane shows
some vulnerabilities in that they love to push and stay pushed. SHR
as a whole like to keep pushed up, and while this creates a certain
map strength, it can leave lanes, especially bottom, vulnerable to
gank opportunities.
The one other thing
I can note, is that Corn does not seem comfortable on assassin
champions and forcing him onto one may yield results for EDG
Strengths and
Weaknesses – Edward Gaming
I find brawl centric
styles of play to be a weakness as it will often draw out the game
longer than necessary and lead to a lot of potentially punishable
mistakes and missed opportunities to nab an objective for the bigger
picture. Objectives seem to be more of a prize for winning a fight
rather than an active area of focus. This does however, make the
individual players strong when in this chaotic extended fight style
and if they can draw SHR into it, EDG can take the lead in being used
to this play.
If EDG do not get to
brawl, however, or SHR craft a team that is very good at fighting as
a team against the brawling strategy, EDG are going to have a very
hard time.
And to note, in the
Group stages EDG did say they were not focused on the matches, but
rather towards the quarterfinals. This mindset really really hurt
them in group stages and is almost a self-defeating prophecy. If you
want to win, have the mindset to win. I do expect EDG to be having a
good mindset for this stage of Worlds, however they should have come
to the group stages that way and since they didn't, it will effect
how good they are as opposed to how good they could have been for the
quarterfinals.
What Star Horn Royal
Club should do to win -
I think SHR have
this in the bag. EDG can and may throw them for a loop with some
picks and ban strategies, however SHR seem the much stronger team.
Ban out Maokai and force Koro1 onto something uncomfortable. Keep
Clearlove off of Rengar, and then prepare a team able to fight in the
mid-game. Once past the mid-game and the brawl chaos of EDG, move as
a team and focus on objectives and keeping EDG down.
React accordingly
during the series, spotting out what EDG has been working on and
force them back onto the champions they gave a mediocre showing on in
Groups.
What Edward Gaming
should do to win -
Keep Lee Sin and
Orianna away from SHR. Be aware of the top lane Irelia counter-pick
and go from there. EDG will have to draw SHR into their chaotic
fights. Lots of jungle skirmishes and champions that are good at
them. Keep SHR constantly in response mode, even if its risky and a
bit fool hardy. Do not give SHR time to regroup in games and
communicate.
Other than that,
whatever you've been hiding/working on EDG, bring that out.
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