Meanwhile WE had very flashy moments throughout all the series, iG this time seemed a much better team especially at pressuring objectives and taking them, meanwhile WE relied a bit more on the slight teamfight superiority overall. Last game was really crazy but i can't get over Caomei's performance which was really underwhelming to say the least, his presence in the last fight showed how far behind he was compared to any of the iG members, he basically was just a meatshield with no damage whatsoever, and in the last teamfight he wasn't even in the right position to try and be a distraction, since he got kinda separated from his team and after using his ult he did basically nothing. Too bad i'd say, but apart from that very close games!
Amazing series. Very fun to watch, it's a real pleasure to see these two teams battle, no doubt they are both Top 5 teams in the world. Game 5 was sick. I love seeing Ezreal being played, such a flexible AD. Zzitai malphite was great. PDD is always a joy to watch. Gah, really enjoyed this.
I hate to criticize anybody's skill, but for me it appears that IG has a weaker support and jungler but a much stronger top, and both teams have good AD/AP.
All in all I thought this tournament was fucking great. The regular season was fun to watch and the playoffs were very interesting, seeing the IG/WE games in particular. It is awesome to have a league where KR/Chinese/TW teams play each other, very fun storylines.
It's easy to call XiaoXiao weak... but at the same time I think he's a really smart player who gets more flak for doing crazy shit. He's incredibly adaptive, like in the game5, he took speedsong at level 2 sona because they were doing a silly amount of laneswapping between top and mid. His crescendo in that final teamfight of the final game also WON THE GAME.
(And after that fight, if he/they had let Fzzf take down the inhibitor OR let him recall, the super minions/lulu harass&distraction adding onto Shen could have potentially slowed down IG's ability to force down the nexus off that one fight. But they couldn't afford to let someone stronger stay behind, either.)
I think most people realise Illusion is the weakest link and not XiaoXiao. It's just XiaoXiao sets himself up so nicely for jokes so what you gonna do.
Both are weak links. Its hard to watch Game 3 (the 2nd played game) and seeing XiaoXiao getting picked repeatedly to buy WE huge amounts of room on the map that they should never have gotten. And that's a pretty common theme with him, he gets caught a lot, frequently either dying or blowing ult/flash to save himself before fights.
On April 24 2013 04:40 Numy wrote: I think most people realise Illusion is the weakest link and not XiaoXiao. It's just XiaoXiao sets himself up so nicely for jokes so what you gonna do.
what? Illusion's Hecarim was really instrumental to iG's wins.
Also after watching these games, I can't believe iG's manager and coach didn't get selected for All Stars. In my opinion, iG had the better team comps and strategies throughout the series.
iG gives WE their first tournament loss since Worlds, and their first loss in a Chinese tournament since August 2011.
On April 24 2013 06:55 caelym wrote: Also after watching these games, I can't believe iG's manager and coach didn't get selected for All Stars. In my opinion, iG had the better team comps and strategies throughout the series.
Chinese all-stars are a total landslide for WE totally irrespective of their performance.
On April 24 2013 06:57 TheYango wrote: iG gives WE their first tournament loss since Worlds, and their first loss in a Chinese tournament since August 2011.
On April 24 2013 06:55 caelym wrote: Also after watching these games, I can't believe iG's manager and coach didn't get selected for All Stars. In my opinion, iG had the better team comps and strategies throughout the series.
Chinese all-stars are a total landslide for WE totally irrespective of their performance.
quite sad; losing on blue side; unacceptable. shamfurrr display.
It was bound to happen though; their games are always so fucking close.
On April 24 2013 04:40 Numy wrote: I think most people realise Illusion is the weakest link and not XiaoXiao. It's just XiaoXiao sets himself up so nicely for jokes so what you gonna do.
what? Illusion's Hecarim was really instrumental to iG's wins.
Also after watching these games, I can't believe iG's manager and coach didn't get selected for All Stars. In my opinion, iG had the better team comps and strategies throughout the series.
chinese all-star selection is more than fan-voting
they will also count in MVP points in LPL, and other factors. (i heard expert voting, media voting stuff, not sure about that)
On April 24 2013 22:35 allen_ami wrote: u rly cant blame caomei for his performance in the last game
he was the one being sacrificed by team decisions, several early lane switch ending up lvl2 rumble vs lvl4 malphite and so on.
and later shen needs split pushing, which makes caomei the 4th priority on the team considering the farm.
there is no need to doubt his individual skills, he is no HSGG
He got underleveled because he and his team misplayed the switches. They weren't sacrificing anything, they wanted him vs malphite but got outplayed during the switches and lost out on way too many waves.
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