Storm did quite a lot of work with KotL giving him mana early on but he can't kill people when Kinguin gets to their group up phase and Storm doesn't have BKB yet (and he wasn't even going for it next). Also the Naix never became any sort of a threat to anyone. Not sure if Fnatic could have done anything differently in the lanes to help him early on, probably not because Brew and Storm both needed help.

This sort of 5 man lineup is sort of exactly what springs to mind when I think of Kinguin at least. Before they've done it also with some Tide, Ogre+Dusa etc

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

February 21 2018 17:32 GMT

#123

I thought Storm would snowball to victory but LD and DK too strong

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

February 21 2018 17:34 GMT

#124

On February 22 2018 02:31 spudde123 wrote:
Storm did quite a lot of work with KotL giving him mana early on but he can't kill people when Kinguin gets to their group up phase and Storm doesn't have BKB yet (and he wasn't even going for it next). Also the Naix never became any sort of a threat to anyone. Not sure if Fnatic could have done anything differently in the lanes to help him early on, probably not because Brew and Storm both needed help.

This sort of 5 man lineup is sort of exactly what springs to mind when I think of Kinguin at least. Before they've done it also with some Tide, Ogre+Dusa etc

You have to slightly sack Brew in that scenario. LS already does poorly against DK and Abaddon, and he's all but useless versus them when behind in farm.

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

February 21 2018 17:36 GMT

#125

Liquid is at least two tiers above OpTic, this game isn't even close

midou

Bulgaria1168 Posts

February 21 2018 17:38 GMT

#126

Best team in the world meets a T2 team. Draft analysis is meaningless.

cecek

Czech Republic18921 Posts

February 21 2018 17:38 GMT

#127

"And this game is well and truly Secret's"

Nice closing words by Tobi there lul

spudde123

4814 Posts

February 21 2018 17:42 GMT

#128

We'll see how the rest of the draft goes but I like that Fnatic took Warlock so they are guaranteed an easier 5v5 teamfight in his game

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

February 21 2018 17:43 GMT

#129

I like Fnatic's support duo here, plus they're banning out the tankier cores on Kinguin's side

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

February 21 2018 17:45 GMT

#130

Fnatic is really going in on this teamfight, plus they banned all three cores they lost to last game lol

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

February 21 2018 17:49 GMT

#131

I think Fnatic wins this game pretty convincingly, although Kinguin can probably burst down any one member of Fnatic at most points in the game once Beastmaster gets necro

spudde123

4814 Posts

February 21 2018 17:53 GMT

#132

Beastmaster trying to dodge the Tide 1v1, Tide just follows him around -> PLD has a 1v0 lane bottom for the first minute lol

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

February 21 2018 17:55 GMT

#133

I really don't like that Fnatic's doing aggro tri, Clock should be romaing around to get stuff done, but at least Uni's doing really well. They really need to help out Abed though