Samsung
Blue
vs. Cloud9
Game #3
Standard
Lanes
Bans
Lucian Yasuo
Alistar Zed
Thresh Zilean
Picks
1. Lee
Sin 2. Syndra
3.
Maokai 2. Janna
3.
Braum 4. Rumble
5.
Corki 4. Khazix
5.
Jayce 6. Graves
Lane
Match-ups – Samsung White
Top -
Maokai
will be able to bully Rumble early and will be extremely safe. Will
not be able to kill Rumble early though. Must build early MR to
outlast Rumble's all in damage as it grows, especially when Rumble
gets his double Mpen items. Needs Lee Sin to gank for the kill,
great CC on both and enough damage. Needs to be wary of the counter
gank, as Rumble/Khazix damage will be much higher.
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 -
Corki/Braum
are going to run into an even match-up against Janna/Graves. Both
sides have good burst and all-in potential. Trading or harassment
will have to be done around Janna's shield, avoiding Graves when it
is up, and getting poke off when it is down. There is no real plan
of action here, just the need to outplay. Once level 6 comes into
the equation, avoid the all-in until Corki is able to get down a
solid amount of poke. Remember, Graves/Janna are going to have huge
burst at level 6.
Jungle
-
Another
Lee Sin vs. Khazix. Lee Sin should look to farm primarily, and make
ganks onto pushed lanes. Lee Sin can turn any of the lanes into
SSB's favor, if he is able to get in successfully, however all the
lanes also run the risk of a strong counter-gank. Vision and trying
to control Khazix's jungle will be very useful in controlling the
ganks.
Lane
Match-ups – Cloud9
Top -
Rumble
can attempt to bully Maokai early, but should not have too much
success. Maokai will heal a lot from his passive due to Rumble's
spell spamming. Rumble does win the all-in trades at the early
levels, but since he lacks sustain Maokai will come out on top over
time, this does however, mean that Maokai does not have kill threat
on Rumble unless Rumble is significantly lower on HP. Once Rumble is
able to get his double Mpen items (Sorcerer's Boots and Haunting
Guise) he will have kill potential on Maoki, especially so if Maoki
does not get early MR. Very vulnerable to a gank, but very high
damage output if Khazix is there for the counter-gank.
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 -
An even
match-up in lane, Janna/Graves are going to have to rely on Janna's
shield into Graves Buckshot while working around Braum's shield wall.
The good news though, is that with Braum close, Graves will deal a
lot of extra damage. The lane should go even, with both sides able
to fight/harrass/trade with the other. Once level 6 hits, the lane
will shift some, with Janna/Graves having huge all-in and burst
damage potential while Corki/Braum will have poke damage for going
for them. After 6, C9 should look to get into fights quickly, but
safely (when the location of Lee Sin is known) to avoid extended poke
damage from Corki.
Jungle
-
Khazix
should be looking to farm most of the time against Lee Sin. Get to
level 6 quickly before joining the team at objectives. Khazix will
be most successful mirroring Lee Sin and attempting to counter-gank
when he shows up. Outside of that, ganking Maokai if he is pushed or
low will be successful and a Syndra stun can potentially lead to a
strong gank in mid.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Samsung White
*Win
Condition – Play the game. Group up together as a team after the
laning phase and push primarily turrets and to a less extent dragon.
Poke and protect and whittle Cloud9 down.
Samsung
Blue have all the advantages this game. No lane is weaker than the
other and their team composition is far superior to Cloud9's. All
Samsung Blue have to do is not get behind in the laning phase.
Afterward, they can come together and let Jayce and Corki poke
Cloud9. If they get C9 low enough, then SSB can engage, however they
don't even need to. By poking, SSB can force C9 to have to engage
onto SSB's much stronger front-line that can easily protect
Corki/Jayce from the weak engagement abilities of Cloud9. Get to the
15 minute mark without falling far behind, then just push into C9's
turrets and keep C9 on the back foot.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Cloud9
*Win
Condition – Force mid-game team-fights and snowball them into a
win. Rumble will be essential here.
I want
to start off by saying, that I'm not a fan of the Rumble/Janna picks
because they don't give CC chain/multiple pick potential with Syndra,
OR I don't like the Graves pick as C9 have a disengage team and he is
such short range. There is almost an anti-synergy on C9's team,
especially when looking at SSB's.
Cloud9
is going to have to pull off an early win in this game and against
Lee Sin this is going to be hard. Janna/Rumble/Syndra and to some
extent, Khazix can all run some decent form of disengage, however C9
lacks both pick and poke potential. With Corki and Jayce on SSB,
they have no reason to hard engage and all C9's disengage is a bit
useless without some form of poke or long range turret siege. Cloud9
are going to have to draw SSB into fights at dragon and in the jungle
corridors where they can use Rumble's ultimate to lock SSB into
fights. Even then, the strong burst and protection that SSB can
offer Jayce and Corki are going to make it very hard for C9 to get
in.
Game
Notes -
I'm not
sure why Cloud9 give up Corki, Sneaky has been super strong on it and
they had no need to lock in Rumble/Khazix as both of SSB's top/jungle
were picked up.
Aggressive
late invade without a tornado setup by Janna costs C9 and they lose 2
for 0. SSB try to respond after by heading to take C9's blue, but
they get caught out and lose 1. Both junglers switch and steal each
others red buff.
A great
Tornado from Janna saves the C9 duo from death.
Laning
phase goes rather slow. Will have to talk about lane match-ups and
team compositions and how every game C9 is letting the top side
jungle go.
Rumble
TP miss-communication with Janna flash ends up with nothing gained.
Cloud9 leave Rumble down, waiting for an opportunity and C9 draw out
a fight, going 3 for 1. However they all get super low and SSB end
up taking the dragon.
After
getting the kill on Jayce, C9 head back into the jungle instead of
just going middle, ends up with Syndra dieing.
Meanwhile
the duo's fight in the bottom lane and C9 come out on top, 2 for 0.
Lee Sin
duels and kills Rumble in the top lane.
The
laning phase is starting to end, and both teams are at even gold.
Compositions will come into heavy play now.
SSB
have been picking on Rumble, smartly.
Hai
tries to make a sneaky play, does draw out a TP, but why is he in the
jungle behind the SSB mid T1 turret when they had just seen Lee Sin
in their top jungle.
C9 are
not respecting the Lee Sin this game. Syndra dies, and then SSB take
the mid turret.
Talk
about the TP advantage on Rumble, vs the 5 man advantage of SSB.
SSB,
having made it through the laning phase, now start to dominate with
their team composition. Case and point of the team composition
difference is that massive hit onto Graves at the mid T2 turret.
Cloud9
cannot engage without losing the fight and SSB have no need to engage
onto C9 as they have superior poke with C9 have little pick
potential.
Cloud9
are able to lock SSB up in C9's jungle. Rumble's equalizer misses,
coming out too early, but it does zone SSB. They are able to take
out Jayce early, but are too far behind the for Equalizer to do
almost nothing. The mobility of SSB and the use of the jungle wall
allow them to turn the fight around, and SSB go 5 for 1.
C9 try
really hard to get a pick, but at this point its just desperate and
C9 lose in a 5v4.
Item
Notes -
Corki's
Brutalizer and Black Cleaver are great pick-ups in this match. The
CDR, HP and shred are huge. SSB do not want to engage, so any chance
to get more poke, and then increase the burst when C9 do try to
engage are huge.
End
Game Notes -
The
team composition really wins this game. There was very little Cloud9
could do against SSB's composition and though they made good tries,
they were just unable to overcome the team disadvantage.
What
Cloud9 should have done -
Have a
better pick/ban phase. The Janna pick was way to early, especially
when C9 had already gotten Syndra. Syndra sets up one pick potential
and when you grab a pick champion, you really need at least 2 pick
potentials if not 3. There was an open door for C9 to pick up Corki,
keep Deft off of it and keep Sneaky on one of his favorite and very
strong champions. C9 could have later picked Janna, or Nami or
Morgana, C9 threw away options here. Seeing the Maokai Braum pick on
SSB's next rotation, C9 could have then picked up Khazix and their
support, saving the top pick for either Ryze or Rumble. SSB's team
looks very engage heavy, however they are also very strong at
protection. By locking in Rumble for disengage and by not having
Corki at this point, it let SSB see that, ok we can't engage against
their disengage, but SSB still had 2 primary picks, and they choose
Jayce and Corki, wrecking C9's plan that they can no longer change.
C9 essentially said, here is our team, now pick your last 2 primary
picks, we can't change our team. SSB were given 2 counter-picks, as
Blue Side, to C9's entire team. C9 lost this game in champion
select.
Inside
of the game, Cloud9 needed to recognize how behind they were in team
composition and picked a lane to absolutely camp and destroy SSB's
lane. C9's bot lane shows their strength in game 1/2 so we are given
2 choices here. Absolutely stomp SSB's bot lane and focus tons of
jungle ganks onto them, and try to shut Corki down or let
Sneaky/Lemon do their own thing and completely ignore them, making
heavy 3 man fights and ganks in either top or mid, and always on that
lane. The other option would be to fast push in 2v1 lanes. Just,
open up the map because C9 cannot fight and win in lanes, so the more
options they can create in the jungle and for rotations the higher
their chance to at least fight even.
Going
forward, C9 should shut down Deft, I still feel this. The other
lanes are going decently even, but the duo lane is winning handily
every match. Get Corki first pick, take out Twitch and Lucian and
Lee Sin. Don't waste bans elsewhere and remember how good mid Lulu
is against Zilean. Prefer Balls to pick up Ryze or Maokai, and let
Rumble fall in this next match.
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