Star Horn Royal
Club vs. OMG
Pre-game notes on
SHR and OMG can be found here:
Everything mentioned
about these teams in the above links apply to these matches as well.
Read them for major notes about the teams.
Updates from
Quarterfinals -
OMG have made a much
stronger showing than expected from their group stage performance.
Before the group stages, I would have given this match hands down to
SHR, however after group stages it's anyone's match. Both sides are
strong, come from the same meta-game, have a champion pool that is
big enough to survive picks/bans but not wide enough to throw curve
balls unless forced into them. I expect some intense games and will
be extremely surprised if we see a clean sweep.
Both teams have
shown the ability to play several different styles and team
compositions, although neither has played some of them entirely to
their strengths and both teams will fall back into their desire
team-fight, even with teams that are much better at say split-push or
poke or skirmishes. Most if not all of these games are looking to be
bloody.
Looking at the pick
and bans, I'd love to see OMG throw at least one or two Orianna
bans/picks to get her away from Corn, something that EDG failed to
really do. From SHR's end, make sure to ban out or take Ryze,
Gogoing is so very strong on him. Every other champion is going to
be desired by both sides and we will see if one side is able to play
one of them better than the other and draws a ban. Twitch comes to
mind however, and OMG should be ready to ban him away from Uzi if
they let him through and he takes over a match.
As a last note, SHR
is going to need to step up as a team as a whole and not be the Uzi
show that SHR's wins, expect their final one, showed against EDG. If
all of SHR can step it up and be a force to be reckoned with, then
SHR will be able to make a much stronger showing.
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