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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 States17281 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 States33592 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 States17281 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 States17281 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 States14105 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 States14105 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 States17281 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.
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