• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 09:07
CET 15:07
KST 23:07
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL22] Finals Preview: Sweet Victory!12[ASL22] Ro4 Preview: Mirror Mirror6[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: Within Reach5[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: In A Tizzy11[ASL22] Ro16 Preview: Holy Diver5
Community News
Weekly Cups (October 19-25): Clem triples first in 5.0.175Evil Geniuses - shutting down20ISSL (IntoTheTV x SOOP SC2 League): Premier6Weekly Cups (October 12-18): 5.0.17 era begins1[$1250] International ShieldBattery League97
StarCraft 2
General
No more SC2 streamers on team liquid? Behind the Blue - Team Liquid History Book SC2 Power Rank: epic29 Weekly Cups (October 19-25): Clem triples first in 5.0.17 How do you feel about the mass reverts in the 5.0.17 PTR?
Tourneys
Stellar Fest TWO the Moon (Dec 16-20) Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament RSL goes to London! 2026 Offline Finals Nov 21-22 ISSL (IntoTheTV x SOOP SC2 League): Premier RSL 2026 Offline Finals LCQ Sign-Ups
Strategy
[H] ZvP Mid-Late Game: Stalkers Collossi HT
Custom Maps
[D] the control group Simple Questions/Answers [G] How to playtest arcade maps [A] Nemrods 1/4 players
External Content
The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 549 Endless Sparkles Mutation # 548 Shining Bright Mutation # 547 Temple Of Terror
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion Rollback Netcode in Brood War Mathematicians needed to calc "Low Econ Epicness" SCHNAIL now supports Remastered Ziemie's Starcraft 1 Prequel Campaign
Tourneys
[$1250] International ShieldBattery League [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [ASL22] Grand Finals 2v2v2v2 Tournament Stage 1: Community Poll
Strategy
50,000-Word Terran Builds Memo 2026-10-22 Cliff Jump Revisited (1 in a 1000 strategy) Simple Questions, Simple Answers
Other Games
General Games
Deus Ex 3!? Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Armies of Exigo - YesYes?
Dota 2
Dota 2 Champions League Season 3 Begins April 25!
League of Legends
[TL LoL EUW IHs] Teemo shall perish
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread Trading/Investing Thread
Fan Clubs
Reynor Fan Club The Flash Fan Club Serral Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece
Sports
Football (Soccer) Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
Recent Gifted Posts
Blogs
Why I built Repalyzer (1.1.…
BlueStar
Innovate or Game Over?
TrAiDoS
ShieldBattery on Mac
Kraekkling
[ASL22] Ro4 Day1 Ticket Giv…
bITt.mAN
Can Bots Beat Pros?? Starcr…
namkraft
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 8000 users

[IEM] New York Discussion - Page 99

Forum Index > LoL Tournaments
Post a Reply
Prev 1 97 98 99 100 101 169 Next
tissue
Profile Joined April 2009
Malaysia441 Posts
October 15 2011 01:31 GMT
#1961
I think quite a few people are saying that in the Sypher-Crs match, Jax should have left the tower and continued to dominate top lane. I'd like to ask when it's appropriate to do that. It probably has to be a convergence of various specific conditions in the game. Generally I just take any tower when given a chance without reservations.
billy5000
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States865 Posts
October 15 2011 01:46 GMT
#1962
On October 15 2011 10:31 tissue wrote:
I think quite a few people are saying that in the Sypher-Crs match, Jax should have left the tower and continued to dominate top lane. I'd like to ask when it's appropriate to do that. It probably has to be a convergence of various specific conditions in the game. Generally I just take any tower when given a chance without reservations.


same. i'm wondering as well
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. Vonnegut
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17303 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-15 01:54:14
October 15 2011 01:53 GMT
#1963
Always kill tower. Change wards and ganks appropriately.

On October 15 2011 06:31 Glasse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2011 06:23 MoonBear wrote:
On October 15 2011 06:22 LaNague wrote:
so, why did they switch to twitch.tv?

sound sync has huge problems there.

ESL has partnership with TwitchTV. Pretty recent actually.


I hope they go back to own3d because the stream quality is horrible, there are lag spikes which is causing the sound to go out of sync. It was fine yesterday but today it was just horrible.

Probably is the venue.
twitch.tv/cratonz
DarkRise
Profile Joined November 2010
1644 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-15 01:59:23
October 15 2011 01:56 GMT
#1964
It's ok to take top and bot tower early BUT NOT middle tower.
But yeh i rather keep tower up unless your 2 kills up early game
Pooshlmer
Profile Joined August 2008
United States1001 Posts
October 15 2011 02:01 GMT
#1965
I think it's if you kill the tower and dominate your lane, don't just leave and let a hypercarry freefarm unless the laning phase has broken down already.
tyCe
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia2542 Posts
October 15 2011 02:06 GMT
#1966
Glad that Sypher showcased their strength today. They're a very strong team and very close to the level of SK. I think I'm going to predict an all-EU final tomorrow even though I'm a big CLG fan. SK has what it takes to win this. SK-Sypher finals after tough 2-1 victories in the semis (maybe with a pinch of luck involved as well). SK to win the finals 2-0!
Betrayed by EG.BuK
Promises
Profile Joined February 2004
Netherlands1821 Posts
October 15 2011 02:08 GMT
#1967
Sadly I had to miss today's matches, but I see there have been some Veigar's around. Can anyone tell me what the build and skill-order of these Veigars was? I'm quite curious =)
I'm a man of my word, and that word is "unreliable".
Darkchylde
Profile Joined January 2010
United States473 Posts
October 15 2011 02:12 GMT
#1968
R>Q>E>W

Open boots + 3 pots, dring, DFG, Void and blow some fools up.
3 Lions
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3705 Posts
October 15 2011 03:16 GMT
#1969
is it safe to assume that semifinal 2 will start a bit after 12:30 EDT? If the Fnatic vs Sypher series goes to all three games I would assume that it would end at about 1:00 PM EDT...
Unless they just skip showing game 3 and start showing SK vs CLG instead 0.0
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33712 Posts
October 15 2011 03:47 GMT
#1970
say hi to the fucking TL people there, even if you're loser LOL players and not manly SC2 players!

(mind you I sold out BW to cover SC2 in may)
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
NoobieOne
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1183 Posts
October 15 2011 03:59 GMT
#1971
On October 15 2011 12:16 3 Lions wrote:
is it safe to assume that semifinal 2 will start a bit after 12:30 EDT? If the Fnatic vs Sypher series goes to all three games I would assume that it would end at about 1:00 PM EDT...
Unless they just skip showing game 3 and start showing SK vs CLG instead 0.0


assuming it starts in time sure.
Still why not watch Fnatic play. They play pretty unique and its fun to watch.
Blitzkrieg0
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States13132 Posts
October 15 2011 04:10 GMT
#1972
Fifty minutes a game should be plenty unless they really drag all of em out since they're really close.
I'll always be your shadow and veil your eyes from states of ain soph aur.
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17303 Posts
October 15 2011 04:17 GMT
#1973
On October 15 2011 12:47 Waxangel wrote:
say hi to the fucking TL people there, even if you're loser LOL players and not manly SC2 players!

(mind you I sold out BW to cover SC2 in may)

You'll join the dark side soon.
twitch.tv/cratonz
Two_DoWn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States13684 Posts
October 15 2011 04:29 GMT
#1974
On October 15 2011 10:53 Craton wrote:
Always kill tower. Change wards and ganks appropriately.

FALSE. Dont spout nonsense, especially if people are actually asking something and trying to get better.

Killing a tower is generally the proper move after the laning phase ends.

Prior to that, its often important to think about the pros and cons of the situation. Killing a tower does give you gold and a bit of map control, but its a double edged sword. A smart lane opponent will keep the wave as close to the second tower as possible, meaning that if you want to farm, you are going to have to extend very far into enemy territory. It shortens the gank distance from mid and from the jungle.

This is exactly what we saw in the CRS vs Sypher game. Jax was killing nasus incredibly easily. By taking the top tower down, he let nasus farm within the relative saftey of his second tower. This meant that in order to farm, pobelter had to go into enemy territory, making aggression and farming much more risky. So while nasus was free to farm, jax had to roam around not actually doing anything helpful for his team. When he DID go top, GP had an easy time of walking from his wolves to get him off the creep wave while nasus farmed. So at the end of the game nasus was carrying with super amounts of farm, while Jax was failing miserably.

Had Jax kept the tower up, he had the ability to farm both the creeps and nasus in the relative safety of top lane, rather than the enemy jungle. Nasus would have had nowhere to run to, and he likely would have been completely shut down.
"What is the air speed velocity of an unladen courier?" "Dire or Radiant?"
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17303 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-15 04:41:09
October 15 2011 04:38 GMT
#1975
Ugh, I hate when people used flawed scenarios as "proof" of something. Pobelter lost his advantage because he stopped pressuring the lane and when he did choose to farm he failed to ward appropriately to deal with ganks. When you kill that tower you move your wards to their blue buff and the top river next to mid.

Further, they ended the lane phase quickly by killing the tower, which is exactly what you want vs Nasus. The team, however, failed to actually do anything with that and sat back passively and did nothing while letting Nasus afk farm top.

Their problem was not that they killed the tower.
twitch.tv/cratonz
Blitzkrieg0
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States13132 Posts
October 15 2011 04:44 GMT
#1976
I agree with Craton. If you take an early tower and they sit at top you need to push other towers down 5v4 and secure dragons off that advantage. If you let anybody just free farm their way back into the game you're just killing yourself.

I don't see how Jax could ever run away from Wither though so dying to ganks would be somewhat inevitable. There are other objectives on the map you can contest though.
I'll always be your shadow and veil your eyes from states of ain soph aur.
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14220 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-15 04:52:27
October 15 2011 04:49 GMT
#1977
On October 15 2011 12:47 Waxangel wrote:
say hi to the fucking TL people there, even if you're loser LOL players and not manly SC2 players!

(mind you I sold out BW to cover SC2 in may)



so what your saying is that tyler and sheth are starting a TL lol team to take over the moba world with maner and amazing?

I really want vods for these matches I've missed all the clg games beacuse of class.

Edit: I'm still waiting for CLG to actualy let SV to go jungle veigar and shock the world.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14220 Posts
October 15 2011 04:51 GMT
#1978
On October 15 2011 12:16 3 Lions wrote:
is it safe to assume that semifinal 2 will start a bit after 12:30 EDT? If the Fnatic vs Sypher series goes to all three games I would assume that it would end at about 1:00 PM EDT...
Unless they just skip showing game 3 and start showing SK vs CLG instead 0.0



its probably what they just estimate that the next semi finals will go for. if it goes for 1 hour 20 minutes each game with like 20 minutes in-between thats over 4 and a half hours of content to go though before they get to the end.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17303 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-15 04:55:08
October 15 2011 04:53 GMT
#1979
I don't see how Jax could ever run away from Wither though so dying to ganks would be somewhat inevitable. There are other objectives on the map you can contest though.

Done properly, you've got wards covering any gank angle, plus flash and leap to minions or wards.

I'm going to just cut off the inevitable response of "but Nasus had TP, it wouldn't be 5v4" because it's irrelevant. If you're actually forcing Nasus to TP in, he isn't farming his way back into the game. They had him 0/4 and underfarmed in lane -- they needed to force fights and they didn't.
twitch.tv/cratonz
Two_DoWn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States13684 Posts
October 15 2011 05:12 GMT
#1980
Taking a tower at the 8 minute mark does not end the laning phase. It only pulls pobelter out of position from what he actually wants to do, farm. How are they supposed to press an advantage when no one is actually itemized and leveled for it?

Taking a tower CAN be a good way to end the laning phase. However, If you take a tower at level 1, you are still going to have to go back to lanes simply because you cant do baron at level 1 with dorans blades. Now, it wasnt level 1, but CRS was to underfarmed to properly play out a 5v4 scenario on the rest of the map while nasus farmed.

And even if Jax wards blue and river, all of the ganks came from wolves, which wouldnt have been warded, and the run distance for someone to get to safety was immense, especially when factoring in GP and Nasus slows.

There is a reason that when you watch scrims you hear people ask if they should take towers when they have the option too. It isnt always the best decision simply because not only does that 1 person have to be ready, the rest of the team does as well.
"What is the air speed velocity of an unladen courier?" "Dire or Radiant?"
Prev 1 97 98 99 100 101 169 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
OSC
23:00
King of the Hill #266
EmpressLilyy17
Liquipedia
OSC
21:00
OSC 5000
WardiTV666
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
ByuN 651
IndyStarCraft 95
mcanning 59
SHIN 55
StarCraft: Brood War
Bisu 1954
Shuttle 1581
Horang2 952
EffOrt 952
Soulkey 673
BeSt 641
Mini 375
Soma 364
firebathero 228
hero 192
[ Show more ]
Snow 135
Zeus 117
Mind 116
Last 114
Hyun 83
Pusan 75
sorry 73
Sea.KH 57
Barracks 47
Bishop 40
ToSsGirL 39
Yoon 35
Classic 33
Noble 30
910 25
LancerX 22
soO 22
Free 21
Trap 20
Rock 13
yabsab 13
Sacsri 9
Icarus 6
Dota 2
Gorgc12867
Counter-Strike
x6flipin362
Other Games
singsing2017
B2W.Neo1614
Liquid`RaSZi1135
Mlord533
DeMusliM444
XaKoH 292
Pyrionflax290
mouzStarbuck238
Livibee196
QueenE31
RotterdaM15
KnowMe3
Organizations
Counter-Strike
PGL1830
Other Games
ComeBackTV 387
StarCraft: Brood War
lovetv 10
[ Show 12 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Adnapsc2 14
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• Laughngamez YouTube
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• C_a_k_e 2529
• WagamamaTV599
Upcoming Events
Yamato Cup
53m
IPSL
2h 53m
Artosis vs RiceHat
Kyrie vs Sony
Map Test Tournament
8h 53m
WardiTV Weekly
21h 53m
Ultimate Battle
21h 53m
Rush vs BeSt
Replay Cast
1d 8h
Rogue vs Classic
Patches Events
1d 22h
PiGosaur Cup
2 days
Kung Fu Cup
2 days
The PondCast
3 days
[ Show More ]
KCM Race Survival
3 days
IntoTheTV X SOOP
5 days
WardiTV Invitational
5 days
IPSL
6 days
WorsT vs nOmaD
Dewalt vs andersOn
IntoTheTV X SOOP
6 days
WardiTV Invitational
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-10-30
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
HCC Season 3

Ongoing

Acropolis #5
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 4
International ShieldBattery League
BSL Season 23
IPSL Winter 2026-27
PGL Masters Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 5
1win Private Club #2
Thunderpick World Champ. '26
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
1win Private Club #1
Logitech G Play Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #3
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026

Upcoming

1xBet Invitational
SC4ALL II: Brood War
BSL 23: Non-Korean Championship
HSC XXX
Stellar Fest 2: Lunar Cup
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Offline Finals
BLAST Bounty Winter 2027
eXTREMESLAND 2026
PGL Major Singapore 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 6
BLAST Rivals Fall 2026
IEM Beijing 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.