League of Legends Worlds Analysis, Finals - SSW vs. SHR Game #4

Samsung White vs. Star Horn Royal Club Game #4

Reverse Lanes

Bans

Lucian Alistar

Lee Sin Jayce

Maokai Zilean

Picks

1. Rengar 2. Ryze

3. Corki 2. Braum

3. Janna 4. Lulu

5. Kassadin 4. Tristana

5. Orianna 6. Pantheon

Lane Match-ups – Samsung White

Top -

Kassadin is moving into a rough match-up. Lacking range and only having one (sometimes two) spells to fight against Ryze's three, he will be losing any harassment or trade attempts. At 6 things will only be worse as Ryze will gain AoE and spell-vamp where as Kassadin will still be unable to make use of his auto attack spell. Kassadin's best bet is going to be getting what farm he can scrounge up against Ryze and wait for either a Lee Sin gank or his level 6. At level 6 Kassadin may just want to let the lane go and look to roam for ganks.

Mid -

Orianna against Lulu is a very even, farm heavy match-up. Both have good clear speeds, can harass while hitting creeps (though harder for Orianna), and can take on neutral camps for extra CS. Lulu's harass is easier to hit, so Orianna is going to have to be consistent with her ball movements to properly trade. The winner of this lane, is pretty much going to have nothing to do with the lane itself, and the effect they bring to their team in the mid-game and in roaming.

Bot -

Corki/Janna should have a solid time against Tristana/Braum. While their opponents are strong in their own right, Corki can far out-trade Tristana, especially with Janna shield. On top of his Q providing quick burst before a Braum stun can be procced, Gatling Gun will run while stunned, limiting some of the potential of the stun. SSW's duo should be able to bully their opponents and keep them behind for most if not all the laning phase, they just need to watch out for aggressive plays being made when Braum lands a Q. At six, Corki's poke should solidify the lane as a win for them, especially as he will be closing in on his item-spike and Tristana will not.

Jungle -

Lane Match-ups – Star Horn Royal Club

Top -

Ryze should have a pretty decent time against Kassadin, having stronger bully potential and able to keep Kassadin away from using his auto attack buff. As Ryze naturally builds tanky, this only helps to increase his strenght against Kassadin. Ryze should look to bully Kassadin at ever opportunity and keep him away from the creep line as much as possible. With both buying scaling items, Ryze should not even have to worry about his power-dip.

Mid -

Lulu against Orianna is a pretty even lane. Both have good farming, decent roaming, and lack kill potential against each other. The upside for Lulu is that she has an easier time harassing. Lulu can use her shield on Orianna to get down her Q after, or on a ranged creep to give it the extra range to hit Orianna. Lulu can also push, just slightly faster than Orianna and then speed off to roam. Mostly this lane is just going to be a farm fest, with both needing to make plays elsewhere to contribute to the team early on.

Bot -

Tristana/Braum, while strong, will have a bit of a rough time in the 2v2 lane. Corki is able to get out his burst quickly, and will be able to ignore a good deal of the Braum stun reducing his damage because of it, as well as being able to escape if he desires. Tristana/Braum should look to farm as best they can, and look for opportunities to proc Braum's passive without having Tristana jump in, as it will give her a better chance at dodging Corki's Q. At six, SHR's lane will be hard pressed to keep in the fight, as Corki's poke will prove to be strong against them. If they can get the right opportunity, they could potentially win and all-in fight, proccing a Braum stun and then using his ultimate to further CC Corki, followed up by Tristana using her ultimate for the kill. This will be tough to pull off, especially with Janna running interference, but it is not impossible. Outside of this, SHR can choose to farm defensively and take the CS loss that they will incur, though it should not be too huge of a difference.

Jungle -

Pantheon has strong gank opportunities in top and bottom lane. Double stun with Braum or Snare/Stun with Ryze will be very strong against Kassadin and Janna. This time around though, he must be careful at level 6, as all the lanes have some decent escape tools. Orianna can speed down the small lane, Kassadin can ult away, and Janna can prep a Tornado while running. Pantheon will have to make good use of long gank ultimates, heading behind SSW so that their lanes cannot escape.

Team Composition/Strategy – Samsung White

*Win Condition – Get catches with Rengar in any of the lanes or jungle to get kills. Use the big synergy with Rengar/Orianna to start off team-fights and get the engagements. Mid power-spike with Corki/Janna to control objectives, and then scale with Kassadin and Orianna for the win.

Poke, engage, clean-up. I think this is the core of the SSW strategy. They are playing a team that has a strong engage with Rengar/Orianna, able to get of some early poke with Corki and then burst, and they have Kassadin to clean-up fights while being mobile. The composition is a bit awkward, but not without its moments of synergy. Against SHR it is better than their last composition. I feel picks are going to be huge, and using Kassadin to clean up will be essential. SSW should look to use their power at the first two dragons, letting SHR start them and then poke from the outside and waiting for the right moment to go in with Rengar/Orianna. Outside of dragon, avoiding team-fights and relying on Rengar/Kassadin ganks will be SSW's best strategy until they can pull a lead.

Team Composition/Strategy – Star Horn Royal Club

*Win Condition – Run a pseudo front-line again, with Lulu providing the HP necessary for Pantheon or Ryze in the early game. Protect Tristana with the front-line again.

This has a little bit of reminiscence from last match. SHR will have a pretty durable front-line, though this time with 3 members instead of 4. Lulu will have to choose well who to use her ultimate on. Not using it on the front-line will really hamper their lock-down and tank ability, while Tristana may need it when Rengar or Kassadin dive her. Good choices are going to have to be made by SHR in how they use their ultimates and where/when they fight. They need to make sure that they do not let Corki dictate the fights, while also not getting baited into engaging into a bad spot. Hopefully, Pantheon can create a lot of early pressure, especially against Kassadin, and will get them into more tanky roles so that Lulu can focus on saving Tristana.

Game Notes -

Tense start for the junglers. But it does end with SHR getting 2 blue buffs, and SSW getting 2 reds. A very nice recovery by SSW.

The duo's in the top lane do a lot of brawling, both trading blows, but SHR are able to pull out the kill onto Corki in the top, while at the same time Pantheon and Ryze are able to kill Kassadin. SHR take a 2 kill lead, in 2 different lanes.

SSW decide to switch the lanes to a 2v1, but SHR switch as well.

Both Ryze and SHR's duo are bullying their lanes pretty well.

Rengar reaches 6 and now is the time for SSW to make plays and get back in the game.

SHR make a huge mistake. Pantheon gets over zealous with his ultimate and makes the gank, without knowing where Rengar is and it all goes awry. Rengar is able to counter-gank the turret dive and SSW get 3 kills for 1. and SSW get the dragon.

SHR go for another Pantheon gank, get the kill, but once again Rengar is there for the counter-gank and Kassadin teleports in just to secure both kills.

SSW are doing an amazing job of responding and waiting for the Pantheon ultimates.

SSW turn their attention to dragon but Ryze TP's into a bad spot and the fight starts off with SSW jumping on him and SHR are forced into protection mode. SSW clean-up, take the ACE, Dragon, and the mid turret. The TP was really bad, and got SHR split-up. SHR should have just let that dragon go, and taken another objective. SSW can now nail the coffin shut.

Another Pantheon ultimate and another Teleport to counter it.

SSW can now run their mobile skirmish composition, pressuring turrets and forcing rotational mistakes out of SHR until they are able to force their way into SHR's base.

End Game Notes -

SHR try to play the same composition that they played last match, but SSW respond with more engagement, more mobility, and some good power/control with Orianna. A lot more AoE from SSW.

SHR were looking good, but Rengar had Pantheon's number once level 6 came in.

What SHR should have done -

they did well, the composition was good, the best they had done on yet.

The loss came, from Rengar having Pantheon's number. If maybe, SHR had waited on seeing Rengar before Pantheon ultimate, things could have been different, but SHR tried to be proactive, and it just didn't work out, but they tried and tried well. SSW were just really prepared for it.

The second point of loss, was that dragon fight with the bad Teleport and SHR getting split-up. Not only was SHR at a power dip and SSW at a power-spike, SHR had to be together, not in a flank position. They need to be a 5 man team and they weren't, they should have just backed off, or have been ready for the fight sooner.

League of Legends Worlds Analysis, Finals - SSW vs. SHR Game #3

Star Horn Royal Club vs. Samsung White Game #3

Standard Lanes

Bans

Alistar Rengar

Jayce Lee Sin

Zilean Lucian

Picks

1. Maokai 2. Twitch

3. Braum 2. Thresh

3. Ryze 4. Fizz

5. Tristana 4. Jarvan

5. Rammus 6. Singed

Lane Match-ups – Star Horn Royal Club

Top -

Maokai cannot really do anything to stop Singed in this lane. Singed is just too tanky for Maokai to threaten and is able to wave clear fast while ignoring him. Maokai is going to have to look to do the same, go heavy into pushing the lane and be prepared to take creep damage. Good regen for both mana and hp will be important. Would love to see Maokai pick up a flask for the start, or on an early back, and to level up his Q first. Otherwise normal build will be fine if TSM expect Singed to run around the map.

Mid -

Ryze is strong against Fizz, especially if he decides to pick up and early Negatron Cloak. With Ryze's snare, he can guarantee that his full combo lands and Fizz is unable to pole hop away from a Q or an E. Ryze should be looking to harass Fizz at every opportunity, running in to snare/Q and then backing away before Fizz can retaliate. Things will become more dicey for Ryze at level 6, as Fizz will be able to throw his fish when Ryze snares to ensure that he can follow-up when the snare wears off. Ryze may want to consider Flashing away from the fish and then going for an all-in on Fizz. I would suggest Tear → Negatron Cloak or requesting a gank from Rammus to get ahead in lane.

Bot -

Tristana/Braum is a decently strong lane in this match-up. Braum puts a lot of threat out with his passive which Tristana can almost guarantee to proc, using her jump to stay in range, if SHR's duo decide to go for an all-in. Braum is also able to keep up with Tristana if she jumps, and provide the wall she needs to keep Thresh from locking her down. While they may not be able to fully bully the lane, they have the option for these strong trades when/if Braum lands his Q onto Twitch. At level 6, Braum will be able to negate Twitch's ultimate, while Tristana can also simply blow him away. As long as they avoid the Thresh hook at this time, they should be safe, and able to capitalize well on any opportunities.

Jungle -

Rammus has a strong early-game, provide good CC and strong gank abilities. In this match-up though, his real strenght is going to be in the team-fights, which is normally rare to say about Rammus. Before then, he will be best suited to look for ganks on the bot lane against Twitch/Thresh, especially if Braum is able to block Thresh's hook and get his Q slow down. Mid lane will also provide solid gank opportunity, with Ryze able to easily set Rammus up with a snare onto Fizz.

Lane Match-ups – Samsung White

Top -

Singed can pretty much ignore Maokai in this match-up, which means the lane is really whatever he wants to make it. Singed can clear the wave, pushing it against Maokai and then run off, or Singed can even proxy, putting more pressure onto TSM's top lane. The power of Singed, especially against an opponent who cannot control or harass him, is his ability to quickly wave clear and then disappear and I expect to see SSW utilize this.

Mid -

Fizz is going to have a rough time, especially before level 6. Ryze can keep him at bay with snares and then retreat with free damage. Fizz will have to choose between playing defensively or preemptively pole hopping towards Ryze when he comes in for harassment, allowing Fizz to be close enough to follow-up after the snare. At 6, Fizz can use his fish from snare to ensure the ability to engage Ryze after the snare. With enough tricks, Fizz can outplay Ryze, but it is going to be very difficult.

Bot -

Thresh/Twitch are running into a bit of a rough match-up. Once they can win, but it will be an uphill battle for them. Braum provides a lot of strenght against both Thresh and Twitch, while Twitch having no escape naturally makes him vulnerable to strong trades/all-ins with Tristana making use of Braum's passive. In the lane, Twitch should look to get any damage he can get freely onto Braum while letting Tristana be, as he can't really bully her. Getting Braum to burn his sustain, and then getting him hurt will severely hamper the all-in potential of SHR's duo. Thresh can look to hit hooks or flays, but SSW's duo should avoid the all-in until they are sufficiently ahead. At 6, a solid hook onto Tristana can lead to an all-in kill, but Thresh will have to stop Tristana's jump with his Flay for it to be successful.

Jungle -

Jarvan is somewhat lacking in any solid gank opportunity. Unfortunate as he is a strong early gank jungler. One of his best opportunities will be found against Ryze, as there is no escape in his inventory. Unfortunately Fizz cannot help set up the gank until level 6. Jarvan might be best utilized invading Rammus' jungle, particularly on Singed's side as he will be able to support quicker than Maokai can. At 6, he should focus on middle, helping Fizz reach his strong points while keeping Ryze down.

Team Composition/Strategy – Star Horn Royal Club

*Win Condition – Bulldozer wall moving forward as Tristana shoots from afar.

This composition tickles my fancy. I like it a lot. SHR get Maokai and Ryze, something that game up huge for them in the semi-finals. On top of that, they have Rammus, another strong wall with AoE and peel, and who is a curve-ball pick. Ryze will get beefy as well. SHR just need to get to the late-mid game portion, once both Rod of Ages are stacked up and Tristana is at two items and they can pretty much, roll, over SSW's team. There is a lot of peel, and a lot of lock-down on SHR's team for Tristana, and if SSW tunnel vision Tristana, then all the incidental AoE damage from SHR will add up. This composition, as long as they don't get behind and don't get picked off by Twitch/Fizz in rotations, should be able to just, brute force and bulldoze their way through SSW's team.

Team Composition/Strategy – Samsung White

*Win Condition – Outplay SHR.

That's all there really is too it. There are several potentials for picks with Fizz and Twitch and Jarvan and Thresh, and they should look to get them. However, there is no real synergy in team-fight situations and it will be up to individual skill to win any 5v5 fight. If I wanted to win as SSW with this composition, into SHR's, I would fast push a lane in 2v1, open the map, and then brute force down another turret in an unexpected way. This would force open SHR's jungle, allowing SSW to find the picks they need. If they can't do this, then well, they are going to have face a bulldozer.

Game Notes -

A great gank by Rammus, and a great escape by Fizz. Also a great retreat by SHR when the ward spots out Jarvan. That ward by Rammus is huge in letting SHR know to retreat.

A great hook by Thresh, threading through creeps, gives SSW the needed damage to stop SHR's bullying.

Braum shows off what being a man is about.

Twitch roams middle, instead of heading to bottom, and is able to gank mid for the First Blood, but only barely.

SSW try to dive Ryze, but they miss Fizz's ultimate and it comes back to bite them big when Rammus counter-ganks. Singed runs to the fight while Maokai TP's. Jarvan locks himself and Fizz in with Ryze, Rammus, and Maokai. SHR come out with a 2 for 1, almost a 3 for 1 and then almost a 4 for 1. With the HP and man advantage, SHR take dragon.

Singed is out attacking a pink when blue buff is spawning for SHR. SHR ditch the blue and pincer Singed. Maokai throws his sapling to cut off the one avenue of retreat and Singed has no where to go and falls down.

First turret to SHR's duo lane, bringing the gold lead to 3.4k

A beautiful flash by Ryze, ends with a trade kill in the middle.

A gank top goes awry as SSW are there with Jarvan and Singed TP's in. SHR are able to stick around after to take the top turret, while the bottom turret gets taken by SSW.

SHR's Rod of Ages are about half full for both Ryze and Maokai, they are ahead and getting tot he point of bulldozer.

SSW go for dragon, get it, but SHR go in for the fight. Jarvan locks down Maokai, but this positioning is what loses SSW the fight. He locks himself in range of Tristana and is stuck separated from his team, giving her a free kill. The Cataclysm does keep the AoE protection from Maokai away from the rest of the team though. SHR goes 3 for 1, but over chase and split, letting it turn into a 4 for 3.

SSW are starting to run out of time and have made very few plays this game. It's looking good for SHR as their team scales even more into a bulldozer with Tristana riding it.

Beautiful out play by Ryze against Fizz.

SWW need to run the split-push, but its hard with Ryze beating Fizz and Maokai beating Singed now. The options for SSW are almost out. They have to catch SHR in a mistake.

Twitch 1v1's Ryze, scaring Ryze by making him think he had backup, Ryze doesn't even fight back. The mind games. I guess that is an option, crazy Twitch picks.

SSW start to set up some baron vision/control trying to draw out a fight and mistakes from SHR. And.... Fizz blows his caviar onto the support Braum. SSW dives in to save Fizz when the fight turns onto him, and SHR's massive front line just says, thank you very much, lets fight. Tristana goes and hangs out on the outside, chasing Fizz and making a nice circle hopping around the fight. SHR get 4 for 0 and then take Baron. Whoops Fizz. SSW even knew that all of SSW was around. Just a bad choice.

SHR are now in the position to win and SSW can't do anything to stop it.

SHR take mid and bottom inhibitor and then start to push in to top. SHR get a little too close without Tristana near, and SSW lock them up under the turret. Fizz is able to go straight for Tristana, pushing her back out again as SHR just, tank under the turret. With the help of the turret, and without Tristana being able to fight, as her front-line is all distracted, SSW are able to go 4 for 1. SHR just got slightly too close, and just slightly away from Tristana. That was an oops. But the game is still in hand for SHR, they just need to make sure to stop Fizz with their tank wall.

SHR head back to SSW's base and take both inhibitors again. SSW make a fight, but this time SHR are able to lock down Fizz, and there is just too much tankiness for SSW to deal with while Tristana fires away.

End Game Notes -

I love this version of the protect the ADC composition. I'm going to call it Protect the Quarterback, the permutation of this composition. Instead of using a lot of shields and buffs to give your ADC safety, you instead create this massive front-line that just holds the other team back and allows the ADC to free-fire from behind. Such a NA football team.

This game was just, a strong showing for SHR. They pulled out a super solid composition and played it really well into the composition that SSW chose.

What Samsung White should have done -

Woo! Second time I get to say this.

SSW chose a composition to show off, have a little fun. Rumble would have been such a great pick into SHR's composition, but Looper wanted to play Singed. SSW thought they could win this off individual skill and team play, even though they were play a losing composition into some losing lanes as well. But hey, that's what you get when you let your guard down just a little bit.

In the game, SSW didn't make enough plays, they should have hard pushed a lane in a 2v1 at the start, opening up the map, and then taking another turret somewhere else as well. This would have let deeper wards and more opportunities for picks in the jungle and in rotations with Twitch/Fizz.

SSW kinda of just let this game go, though they did try in game, they could have done more in the early early stages to secure them a much stronger chance.

League of Legends Worlds Analysis, Finals - SSW vs. SHR Game #2

Samsung White vs. Star Horn Royal Club Game #2

2v1 Lanes, SSB Top

Bans

Lucian Alistar

Lee Sin Zilean

Maokai Ryze

Picks

1. Rengar 2. Thresh

3. Twitch 2. Jayce

3. Janna 4. Khazix

5. Talon 4. Corki

5. Rumble 6. Mundo

Lane Match-ups – Samsung White

Top -

Rumble should be fine, if not stronger in this lane match-up, but it will be close. Rumble can bully Mundo early, getting good slows and flamethrowers, however as the lane progresses it will be harder for Rumble to bully Mundo, especially when Spectre's Cowl comes into play. Rumble should look to bully as much as he can, and transition into a stronger mid-game before Mundo can take over the lane.

Mid -

Talon is a great pick against Jayce, able to get in and deal a ton of burst damage, circumventing the poke of Jayce and forcing the fights. On top of this, Talon deals almost all his damage up front, preventing Jayce from stopping the engagement with his knock-back. Talon will have to wait until level 6 to really hit solid trades/all-ins, however with his general build of Crystalline Flask, he should be safe to farm in lane and sustain through the poke of Jayce. At 6, Talon should be looking to all-in and use his ultimate as often as possible against Jayce, even if it only gets him some damage and not the kill, it should be plenty to push Jayce out of lane or put him on the defensive.

Bot -

Twitch/Janna are going to want to look for the 2v1, as they will lose the 2v2. Twitch's harassment ability is much weaker than Corki's while just one Thresh hook or flay can really push SSW's duo out of the lane. If SSW do try to fight the 2v2, Janna is going to need to be on her game with protecting Twitch. Using shields to block some of Corki's harassment and well timed Tornado's to stop Thresh from creating engagements. SSW will come out behind in the 2v2, but at the very least they should be able to get some CS to stay alive.

Jungle -

Rengar should once again look to heavy farm and reach level 6. In this match-up however, Mundo presents a juicy target, especially with the damage potential of Rumble. If possible, find the gank or even the tower dive onto Mundo around the level 2/3 mark and keep him down, letting Rumble get an item or two before Mundo picks up his MR. At 6, Rengar should switch his attention to mid lane, taking out Jayce with Talon, or alternately looking to help out the weaker bot lane, now that Twitch has his strong ultimate.

Lane Match-ups – Star Horn Royal Club

Top -

Mundo is going to get a bit bullied early one, Rumble having high sustained damage from the get go. Mundo however, should be safe enough to get his farm, or even just cleaver farm if necessary. As the lane progresses, Mundo will have an easier and easier time, especially when level 6 and first items come into play. Spectre's Cowl and Spirit Visage will give Mundo an edge against Rumble and he will then be able to start bullying Rumble in the lane.

Mid -

Jayce is in for a rough time against Talon. While Jayce can poke Talon and hit him from range, Talon's damage is completely front-loaded so that Jayce will be unable to prevent any of it with a knock-back. Up until level 6, Jayce should still be able to fight Talon, and even win some trades, but once Talon get's 6, his damage is just going to be too quick and too much burst for Jayce to be able to deal with. At this point Jayce should just give up the lane and long range farm with Shock Blasts while stacking up his tear and preparing for team-fights.

Bot -

Corki/Thresh can dominate this bot lane and should use early wards to find their duo opponents. In the lane, Corki can offer strong harassment against Twitch while Thresh can put on the kill pressure. Level 2 will offer the greatest strenght for them and should be rushed, with Thresh immediately going for the flay/hook on either Janna or Twitch. Follow them around the map and force the 2v2, using the early/mid game power to keep SSW's duo behind.

Jungle -

Khazix should look to farm till 6, picking up his spike rack so that his team has an easier time spotting out Twitch and Rengar and stopping their engagement. Early on Khazix should look to protect Mundo as he is a very juicy target for SSW. When Talon hits 6, it might be wise to wait mid for him to try to all-in Jayce and then counter-gank, however he must be wary of Rengar if he is 6 already. Even if Mundo does not get ganked, he will be able to provide solid support against Rumble, so long as Khazix/Mundo are not low and can kill Rumble through his damage.

Team Composition/Strategy – Samsung White

*Win Condition – Take the huge mid-game power-spike to Dragon control and force through SHR. Outside of dragon, find picks and skirmishes in the mid-game, especially in the jungle. Hard engage if SHR try to siege.

SSW have a great team to fight against the siege/wall power of SHR. SHR try to play the composition that SSW have been dominating on, but SSW already know how to destroy it. Talon and Rengar will dive in to hard engage, Twitch will unload from a distance, and Rumble ultimate will tear through and cut off SHR's team. SSW have countered this siege wall composition with massive hard engagement. On top of the hard engagement, their team is able to have great dragon control and great ability to find picks in the jungle or in rotations and assassinate targets. SSW will be looking to do these three things, and throw themselves at SHR whenever possible

Team Composition/Strategy – Star Horn Royal Club

*Win Condition – Siege down SSW's team during the mid-game and the late-game, disengage from SSW's hard engagement.

SHR are playing a composition very similar to the one SSW has been running and SSW are ready for it. SHR are going to have to play extremely well to be able to overcome the hard engagement that SSW is playing with. SHR should be ok in lane, minus Mundo, and can transition into the siege/wall composition that SHR have. SHR will have to play to their siege composition, however I would recommend that Khazix hold onto his W whenever they do not have vision on Rengar, as that wide area slow will be necessary for SHR to be able to disengage. Also key will be vision on the sides of whatever area they are pushing as a team.

Game Notes -

The ward that SSW walk over allows Twitch to pull off a lane freeze where as Corki does not. Does not really lead to anything.

SHR are able to get Twitch into the 2v2 lane after a bit of work.

Rumble sense tingle and he checks the lane bush, saving his life.

A ward spots Talon out, and it lets SHR's duo escape, and then go aggressive right after, pushing Twitch away from lane.

Not much has happened so far, but now the ultimates are going to come in.

A 3v3 starts in bot lane, both top laners moving down and both mid laners having to run to the fight. The whole fight goes 5 for 4 in SSW's favor but First Blood to SHR.

From Start to Finish -

Talon is in the river before Jayce, Jayce cannot really fighting Talon 1v1 right now, so Talon has the lead.

Rengar opens up on Khazix, stops the counter-gank, but I think it would have been a better opener on Corki or Thresh, closer to Rengar's duo lane.

Both TP's come in, and Janna/Twitch get pincered.

Rumbles ult goes across four and deal a lot of damage

SHR chase, get the 2 kills onto the duo, but now Talon is here.

Talon ultimates for the speed, flashes and then does his silence port, allowing his ultimate to come spinning back into all 3 members of SHR. (very key)

SSW are able to get 3 kills here, but are now low themselves.

Jayce comes in and they get Talon, Rengar gets away because of creep blocking.

SHR split targets instead of focusing Rumble. They do get Rengar, but Rumble gets 2.

The two major points are, Rengar starting on Khazix is bad. And then the second is SHR splitting the focus at the very end.

SSW make a very sloppy dive on Mundo up top, and Mundo is able to delay for a kill, but Rengar beats Khazix top and the fight goes 2 for 1 in SSW's favor. Misplay by SSW not killing the turret, and by SHR for chasing too far.

A great Janna ultimate heals up Twitch and separates Corki away from Thresh. Prevents a ton of damage onto Twitch and heals back so much.

SSW are starting to take over and are creating skirmishes. SSB should not be fighting them, but should be turning into the team-fight at this point in the match.

Janna for the super save again.

SSW are just running away with the game now, constantly creating small fights and never letting SHR move to play their team composition properly.

One thing to really take from this, is that SSW are ganking the strong lane. Rumble gained a lot from the first big fight, and SSW return to it shortly after as 3, not just 2.

The Rumble ultimate on top totally missing Mundo was a little over confident, cutting Mundo off but doing no damage.

SSW are going to take a few towers, take baron, and then just hard dive down middle with their hard hard engage team.

End Game Notes -

It was going well for SHR, however the moment that SSW hit their ultimates, they make a huge play in the bot lane and do not let up. They transition the strength that Rumble gained into the top lane and the jungle and continue to find picks and skirmishes in the jungle and lanes and grow a lead that cannot be stopped.

What Star Horn Royal Club should have done -

Their team composition was good, but it was one that SSW has been playing for several games and they know the hard engage counter and play it well. SHR needed a stronger disengage to stop them, say Nami or Janna instead of Thresh.

In the game, after that big first fight, SHR needed to come together and start their 5 man siege, catch SSW off guard by sending all 5 middle right after that fight and start the push/siege. You have to pull SSW into your composition and not let them tear yours apart.

Going forward, I'd like once again, to see jungle mass bans and Insec pull out something crazy. Outside of that, pick a more aggressive team. Tried the late-game, tried the siege, but they need to make a team composition that can bring the hurt from 6 minutes on. Get out of that lane as soon as possible.

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.

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

  SHR vs. SSW Finals

Top

Cola vs. Looper

1. L – Ryze 0/4/1 1. W – Maokai 3/0/8

2. L – Mundo 4/3/3 2. W – Rumble 7/0/10

3. W – Maokai 7/1/10 3. L – Singed 2/4/8

4. L – Ryze 0/2/1 4. W – Kassadin 3/1/7

Jungle

InSec vs. Dandy

1. L – Khazix 0/4/0 1. W – Jarvan 5/0/9

2. L – Khazix 0/6/2 2. W – Rengar 6/1/10

3. W – Rammus 1/3/14 3. L – Jarvan 3/3/6

4. L – Pantheon 3/6/1 4. W – Rengar 5/0/13

Mid

corn vs. PawN

1. L – Orianna 1/4/0 1. W – Jayce 7/0/7

2. L – Jayce 1/7/3 2. W – Talon 3/2/13

3. W – Ryze 5/5/11 3. L – Fizz 3/6/7

4. L – Lulu 0/2/1 4. W – Orianna 7/1/9

ADC

Uzi vs. Imp

1. L – Tristana 0/2/1 1. W – Twitch 1/0/7

2. L – Corki 1/5/4 2. W – Twitch 9/3/7

3. W – Tristana 6/3/7 3. L – Twitch 3/4/8

4. L – Tristana 2/4/0 4. W – Corki 3/2/8

Support

Zero vs. Mata

1. L – Janna 0/2/1 1. W – Thresh 0/1/11

2. L – Thresh 2/5/4 2. W – Janna 1/2/15

3. W – Braum 0/2/12 3. L – Thresh 3/2/9

4. L – Braum 0/5/2 4. W – Janna 1/1/16

End Series Notes -

Congratulations Samsung White.

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

  Star Horn Royal Club vs. Samsung White

Pre-game notes on SHR and SSW can be found here:

- SHR Quarterfinals

- SHR Semifinals

- SSW Quarterfinals

- SSW Semifinals

Everything mentioned about these teams in the above links apply to these matches as well. Read them for major notes about the teams.

Notes I made before the Finals -

I really expect SSW to dominate the finals. A white wash with SSW winning all the matches is not unexpected. They have the strongest individual skill and as such all the other regions have been playing to the Korean meta-game the entire time of Worlds. It's a little bit unfortunate that no one has been trying to play around, or completely bypass the style that SSW has been playing. Instead, they've been trying to beat SSW at their own game.

TSM is the only team who has taken a game off of SSW, and while it can be said that SSW was messing around, TSM played great in game 4 as well while totally doing nothing in game 1/2. This entire worlds, every region has decided to "play the Korean meta-game" instead of playing to their own strengths. It's been very unfortunate.

I expect Star Horn to be toppled by Samsung White, because their regions are so close. In my mind, TSM had the best chance to topple SSW, and now that that is over, SSW are going to clean sweep the Finals, with SHR playing the same game as SSW, but having weaker individual skill.

Having said that. I would love to see SHR take a page from Kabum! and play a team focused composition and style, focusing on synergy and team play to topple individual skill. Kabum really are the heroes of this Worlds.

Anyways, the Finals are in the hands of SSW, and its up to SHR to come up with ways to win, and honestly, there are not many of them. They play the same style as SSW, and are outmatched in individual skill. However there is one strategy that I'd love to see SHR try. Ban out all the junglers. It will require baiting out at least one jungle ban from SSW, but if SHR can get Elise/Jarvan/Lee Sin/Khazix/Rengar banned, Insec has shown that he has a huge jungle pool, and this could give SHR the advantage. I feel that this is the only way that SHR can win, and they should be able to pull it off at every blue side pick.

Updates from Semi-finals -

The above is pretty much entirely true. I don't know what SHR could even be able to do. I feel that they have to hit some pretty “gimmicky” pick/ban phases to even tickle SSW. Ban out nothing? Or Ban out all junglers. There really is no other role to target.

There's, not much SHR can do. I'd really try some crazy jungle bans/pick phases.

League of Legends Worlds Analysis, Semifinals - SSW vs. SSB Game #3

Samsung Blue vs. Samsung White Game #3

2v1 Lanes, SSB Top

Bans

Zilean Rumble

Alistar Maokai

Jayce Thresh

Picks

1. Rengar 2. Twitch

3. Ryze 2. Janna

3. Sona 4. Lee Sin

5. Lucian 4. Kassadin

5. Twisted Fate 6. Fizz

Lane Match-ups – Samsung Blue

Top -

Ryze should have a pretty decent time against Kassadin, having stronger bully potential and able to keep Kassadin away from using his auto attack buff. As Ryze naturally builds tanky, this only helps to increase his strenght against Kassadin. Ryze should look to bully Kassadin at ever opportunity and keep him away from the creep line as much as possible. With both buying scaling items, Ryze should not even have to worry about his power-dip.

Mid -

Twisted Fate is going into a really rough match-up. While he can put pressure onto Fizz for the first level, it becomes increasing risky, especially at level 3 on. His best bet is going to be staying far away from Fizz, using Wild Cards to farm from a distance and waiting until level 6 to make plays elsewhere on the map. Respecting how much of a counter Fizz is will be essential for any type of safety or ability to be useful around the map. Avoid Fizz, long range farm, and gank other lanes with ultimate.

Bot -

Lucian/Sona have the advantage over Twitch/Janna, having very strong poke, all-in, and sustain. They should be able to take over this lane, especially against Twitch who cannot do quick harassment trades and whose range is short enough for Sona to get in to hit him. SSB's duo should be looking to bully the lane from the very start and continue to for the entirety of the laning phase. Really there is nothing that SSB need to worry about, being able to stop Twitch's level 6 attempts as well with Sona's ultimate.

Jungle -

Rengar is going to want to farm as quickly as possible, getting to 6 and making use of his ultimate to pull of solid ganks, especially against Kassadin with Ryze. Even before 6 a gank against Kassadin should be strong. Rengar should look to protect Ryze and Twisted Fate against ganks, with his bottom lane fine on their own, however his focus should still be on farming until 6.

Lane Match-ups – Samsung White

Top -

Kassadin is moving into a rough match-up. Lacking range and only having one (sometimes two) spells to fight against Ryze's three, he will be losing any harassment or trade attempts. At 6 things will only be worse as Ryze will gain AoE and spell-vamp where as Kassadin will still be unable to make use of his auto attack spell. Kassadin's best bet is going to be getting what farm he can scrounge up against Ryze and wait for either a Lee Sin gank or his level 6. At level 6 Kassadin may just want to let the lane go and look to roam for ganks, especially for Fizz.

Mid -

Fizz is a huge counter-pick to Twisted Fate and should be looking to dominate him early on. Fizz will have to wait until at least level 2, but then he will have a great time pushing Twisted Fate around. Pole hop can dodge Twisted Fate's stun, while his dash will get him in range to deal way more damage than Twisted Fate is able to return. Bullying Twisted Fate will be essential for keeping him down and keeping him from being able to to make plays around the map. Once Fizz hits level 6, instead of just bullying Twisted Fate, anytime he lands his fish ultimate, Fizz should be able to get the kill onto Twisted Fate pretty easily, or at least send him home with very little health.

Bot -

SSW should be looking to hit the 2v1 lane swap, as this duo of Twitch/Janna is weak to SSB's duo lane. In the 2v2, there would be little that SSW's duo could do, and so they must make sure that they find the 2v1. This will let Janna roam better than Sona, and let Twitch get the farm he needs to reach assassin status. If they end up in the 2v2, they will have to scrounge up what farm they can while not getting pushed out of lane too early by SSB's duo.

Jungle -

Lee Sin is going to want to use his early game prowess to help out Kassadin primarily. Ganks against mid will also be strong, mostly due to Fizz as a counter-pick, with Lee Sin providing that over the hump slow/damage to secure the kill. At 6, ganking Ryze should help Kassadin pick up a kill/assist, so long as Rengar does not counter-gank. An early Sight Stone from Lee Sin will help his team keep track of Rengar.

Team Composition/Strategy – Samsung Blue

*Win Condition – Get picks and snowball into a lead.

SSB have a strong team with a lot of pick potential. Four champions are able to provide solid CC (though Sona's is on her ultimate) and will allow SSB to capitalize on SSW's mistakes, as well as make their own plays. This is a real team composition from SSB, even if there are some squishy members. SSB are going to need to play strong individually, and play for picks as long as they can. With a lead they can siege up a turret, as long as they are very careful about the Twitch and Fizz engagement. They will need good wards to prevent flanks, and will have to have good reactions to turn onto members of SSW. Stun Card from TF and Sona's ultimate's should be used after a snare from Ryze or Rengar hits, to prevent the dodging from Kassadin and Fizz. Must be warned, SSW are going to be looking for picks too. The strength of SSB will be how fast they can get to them with TF/Rengar ultimate where as SSW will have more opportunities. It's going to be a very pick filled brawling team. SSW have mobility, SSB have the control.

Team Composition/Strategy – Samsung White

*Win Condition – Use the mobility of their champions to find picks and number advantage skirmishes. Have fizz control Twisted Fate.

Similar to SSB's team, SSW are also looking for picks, but where as SSB are looking for them with CC, SSW are looking for them with burst and mobility. More assassinations than control. Number advantages will work highly in SSW's favor. They should look to get past the initial weak laning phase and then start to take advantage of roaming ability, especially from Fizz. Fizz + Lee Sin can basically control a side of the river/jungle, forcing TF to ultimate to the other side of the map. SSW can make TF ganks more predictable and should. If all goes well, SSW have a team that will far out-match SSB in the late game, so they do having something to fall back on, should the game go bad.

Game Notes -

SSW are able to get a 3 buff start, playing the lane swap better. Since SSB sent their duo top, but did not invade and did not start Red, they lose out when SSW's duo heads bottom.

Twisted Fate gets too close to Fizz and takes a lot of damage. Watch how beautiful the Fizz play is though. He pole hops in, at level 1, as the creep he needs for level 2 is about to die.

A great Janna Tornado stops Rengar from his brush leap to try to smite the red buff.

Twitch/Janna just outplay Ryze/Sona and get a kill they really should not have gotten, killing Ryze.

A good defensive ward catches Rengar out and Kassadin/Lee Sin are able to pick him off.

Twitch is dealing so much damage on Ryze, since Ryze has no armor runes.

SSW are already pulling ahead in the side lanes, making it very hard for TF coming up.

*Fizz's first back gets him a Doran's Ring and 2 Amplifying Tomes. He could have bought say... a Sheen or say an Arm-guard. But this setup gives him more AP and some hp/regen. The AP will allow him to clear the waves much faster, even if denying him some duel potential.

SSB make a great 5 man dive onto the bottom turret of SSW. They use TF ultimate and Ryze TP. SSW follow, but are too late in getting there with Lee Sin and Fizz.

SSB move to dragon with the 5v3, but they are low. SSW make the engagement 5v3, are able to steal dragon, and get a 4 for 1 at the dragon pit. SSB's good play over reaches for more, and get picked on by the mobility of SSW. Too much is down for SSB to be able to make this fight. Greedy play that will really cost them this match. 3 kills onto Kassadin =/

SSW now use their mobility and strength to just, run SSB rampant. Starting with a 4 man dive mid onto TF and then taking the tower.

SSB do take the bottom turret, and get some pressure onto the T2 turret, but SSB are just demoralized now. Evidenced by TF's Mejai's and sloppy play.

SSB just, jump into the middle of the SSW team in the jungle, and get assassinated 1 by 1.

Game is over, not much to watch here now.

End Game Notes -

Already demoralized, SSB just get out-classed this game after a failed dragon attempt.

What Samsung Blue should have done -

It was the dragon fight. Morale was low, got a high point at the turret, but it fell when they got destroyed at the dragon and that was just the end for SSB.

The problem was greed at the dragon, but you can't overly fault it from an emotional sense. SSB had a 5v3, and thought, if we can just get one more thing.

League of Legends Worlds Analysis, Semifinals - SSW vs. SSB Game #2

Samsung White vs. Samsung Blue Game #2

2v1 Lanes, SSW Top

Bans

Thresh Zilean

Rumble Alistar

Twitch Tristana

Picks

1. Maokai 2. Lucian

3. Rengar 2. Janna

3. Corki 4. Ryze

5. Jayce 4. Khazix

5. Morgana 6. Galio

Lane Match-ups – Samsung White

Top -

This is a really awkward match-up, though one that is really in Maokai's favor. Mostly this lane will just be a farm fest on both sides, with neither having kill potential, but with Maokai having the ability to combo Galio for higher damage. Essentially, the game will be, farm and move to team-fights. Maokai should be looking to make sure he has his ultimate on when Galio wants to try to ultimate, significantly cutting back on the damage. Have fun with your free lane Maokai.

Mid -

Jayce is going to want to look primarily to be safe and get poke onto Ryze. Farm from range, whittle Ryze down without taking damage in return, and then wait for an opportunity to all-in when Ryze is low. Jayce does not need to make any big plays though, as simply farming will be enough in this composition, providing poke in the mid-game against the lack of engagement on SSB's side.

Bot -

Corki/Morgana are going to have a pretty even time against Lucian/Janna. A lot of this lane will be dependent on Morgana landing her bindings, keeping Lucian or Janna in place for Corki bombs while providing damage. If Morgana misses her bindings, Lucian will have free reign to go in against Corki and out-trade him with Janna's shield. As a couple levels come into play, it will be harder to catch Lucian, due to his dash, but will be necessary to keep the lane going even. At level 6, NWS will gain poke, as well as all-in, provided they don't let Lucian dive in to his bullying right away and push one of them out. Morgana will have to think about when to shield herself at level 6, to prevent Janna from knocking her away when Morgana uses her ultimate.

Jungle -

Rengar is going to want to focus on farming to 6 as quickly as possible. His top and mid lane should be very safe, while the bottom lane is going to be running even but will be safe against getting killed. Once 6, Rengar can make use of it anywhere, with high damage and solid CC every lane. Any one of them would be a good option.

Lane Match-ups – Samsung Blue

Top -

Galio is going to be entering a farm fest with Maokai, neither able to really pressure the other, as tankiness and sustain will keep them going. Galio can however, very quickly wave clear. It may be his best option to just, clear the wave and then disappear from lane, looking around in the jungle or river, just being in a closer position to join a fight if one were to occur.

Mid -

Ryze is stronger than Jayce in a straight up fight, especially if he decides to pick up an early armor item. The problem however is going to be getting in range to fight, as Jayce can poke at Ryze from a long distance, and is able to wave clear faster to push Ryze back. Early boots may be a good option, allowing Ryze to dodge skillshots and to get in range for trades/harassment against Jayce. Mostly, I don't see Ryze being able to stop Jayce without some help to keep him slowed or CC'ed, however Jayce will not be able to stop Ryze from farming completely either. The downside, Jayce's power-spike comes in sooner than Ryze's and that will affect the mid-game team-fights.

Bot -

An even match-up, Lucian/Janna can turn it in their favor early and keep it that way if they play it right though. Janna shield + Lucian Q will be very strong at level 1, and should win them the lane, as long as they can dodge Morgana's binding. As the lane progresses, OMG's lane should continue to bully Corki, with Lucian saving his dash to dodge Morgana's binding and effectively winning the lane by dodge out on that damage. At 6, poke will be going over to Corki, as well as some strong all-in potential with Morgana's ultimate. Lucian however, come dive Corki instantly, putting down his burst damage and moving into the culling to get him to half hp or lower. This will prevent a lot of NWS's ability to fight back if he can pull it off successfully.

Jungle -

Khazix is going to want to farm, trying to keep up with Rengar and move into his level 6 with poke, giving his team some much needed chase potential. As far as ganking goes, looking for one against either Maokai or Jayce will be the best bets, especially with Ryze using a Flash snare to start the fight.

Team Composition/Strategy – Samsung White

*Win Condition – Get some solid poke and skirmishes in the mid-game and turn into a solid 5v5 fight. Turret siege with Jayce and Corki.

SSW have a very solid composition, they have strong brawling potential, good poke, good catch, a front-line and a half. It's just all round strong with no big weakness. Their biggest strength will be with the poke that SSW can put down and the protection that Maokai and Morgana can provide. This is doubly so with how little engage and how little poke SSB have. SSW have no need to engage at any point and can just siege SSB and wait for opportunities to provide themselves. SSW just need to avoid Ryze and Galio flanks and they should be able to safely and methodically take this game.

Team Composition/Strategy – Samsung Blue

*Win Condition – Get a nice solid 5v5 team-fight and take down SSW while they are distracted with Galio.

SSB are going to have their work cut out for them again, but this time it will be in getting into SSW's team. SSB have the ability to win lanes and control the game, however they have no real way to force a team-fight. They are going to need to utilize dragon and jungle objectives (as 5) to force SSW into fights. Other than that, Ryze and Galio are going to need to get into good flanking positions to be able to even think about getting into SSW's team. Even then, Galio is against 2.5 AD champions and Maokai who's ultimate is a circle of protection. If SSB can find the right fight, Galio's ultimate should give the rest of the team time to clean-up and deal the damage that they need to.

Game Notes -

SSW go for an invade, but are completely caught out and SSB get First Blood onto Ryze, letting him grab Tear at level 1.

SSB look to have handicapped themselves with the Galio pick, but we shall see how it turns out.

SSB start a very very early dragon. Khazix is not even level 3. They do a good job of juggling, but are seen by a ward from SSW. SSB totally ignore Jayce and he is able to get TWO kills and dragon in what is a 1v4 or a 1 and dragon v 4. I don't know why Ryze did not try to fight/zone Jayce. SSW go a little too aggressive after this, they already had a 2 + dragon for 1, but when they tried to save Jayce, SSB get a 2 for one for themselves. Fight ends up being a 3 for 3, SSW getting dragon, SSB ending up with brand new double buffs on Ryze and Lucian.

During that time/fight, Galio has gotten a lot more CS than Maokai.

CS and levels start to even out.

Rengar goes very aggressive onto Janna, but knows the play is a 3v3 with 2 ultimates to 1, and with SSB split. River ward has shown him Khazix's position. Maokai uses TP to zone Khazix out and to pin Galio, but cancels it after Galio flashes away.

Look at this split by SSW at the dragon. They have 2 threats on each side, and their poke is coming from both directions. SSB cannot initiate onto one side, especially since they are already on dragon, without the other side of SSW closing in on them. Normally in this you want to collapse on one side, but its already too late, SSW are too close for SSB to be able to hit one side and run. SSB do get the dragon, but the fight trade is a 4 for 3 in SSW's favor.

Outside of these two spikes, the game is going fairly slow. Both sides looking to get to and play the power spike they want.

A great catch by Janna nets a kill on Corki, but because of the Trinity force Corki is able to deal a ton of damage to Lucian, when Maokai's TP comes in, he is able to clean up Lucian easily and him and Morgana can kill Janna.

Rengar gets a catch on Ryze in the Jungle, and this would actually get Rengar killed, but a long range Gate-Blast from Jayce hits Ryze while he is snared. A great plan and execution by SSW.

Janna gets caught trying to wards and the damage from Corki is just too big.

Rengar tries to catch Ryze again, but this time Ryze turns it around and forces Rengar to flash to safety.

Janna gets caught again.

SSB are getting caught out a lot now, especially Janna, and with Janna down SSW take an easy dragon.

Galio uses his ultimate just to try to secure 1 kill, and it is not up when they really need it.

SSW are just, rolling SSB around now, drawing them into split up situations and finding them in rotational mistake after rotational mistake.

End Game Notes -

SSB really handicapped themselves by picking Galio.

Without any form of real engage and with no poke on SSB, they just cut their options in this game to almost nothing. They have no way to deal with Jayce/Corki, and no way to get in to fight them, especially against Maokai/Rengar/Morgana being a wall and just enough disengage against Galio.

I feel that Ryze would have been stronger with TP instead of Ghost, able to help around the map to get SSB ahead.

What Samsung Blue should have done -

Again with the awkward pick. Galio offered nothing to this team, and SSB built nothing into their composition to deal with the poke/protect of SSW. SSB are just getting destroyed by picks/bans and even picking into awful champions against the SSW composition. It's just... bad.

Going forward, SSB have to step back, take some very deep breaths, have some warm soothing tea or coffee, and regroup. Mentality here is going to be the very first step.

After that, SSB need to craft a team that they want to play, and decide what champions would defeat that team and ban those out. There is going to need to be a little bit of rigidity in the next team composition for SSB, with a few picks being flexible. They cannot ban out SSW, and they should not even try. Ban out champions that are going to mess with SSB's composition choice.