EPTI thought that Giants! had pretty good map movement and warding too, when they pressured inner top, and the good call to drop the drake to get 2 towers. Getting more towers early eases a lot of the work when latter on Shen can splitpush while Ahri and Varus have strong wave clearing. On the contrary, I found that EG did pretty well to pressure top as a team to deny Giants! pushing. They failed to capitalise or take the tower though (I guess you have to blame Krepo for getting harassed so hard), but it stopped Giants! cross-map pushes.
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
I thought that Giants! had pretty good map movement and warding too, when they pressured inner top, and the good call to drop the drake to get 2 towers. Getting more towers early eases a lot of the work when latter on Shen can splitpush while Ahri and Varus have strong wave clearing. On the contrary, I found that EG did pretty well to pressure top as a team to deny Giants! pushing. They failed to capitalise or take the tower though (I guess you have to blame Krepo for getting harassed so hard), but it stopped Giants! cross-map pushes. | ||
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Swords
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On April 15 2013 02:20 Tula wrote: maybe they got outpicked, they probably shouldn't have gone for the blue steal, but that doesn't really change my point. Leona/Varus got bullied in lane by Zyra and Kennen (who played a great game to be fair). The latter two champions are by far the most common picks from Giants. If you truly want to be a professional you MUST prepare for games like this, otherwise the joke is on you. Maybe I'm harsh on them, but frankly the lackluster way EG prepares for their games has been bugging me all season. Obviously you cannot predict every pick and ban, but you can plan ahead to some extent. If you don't have a solid plan to deal with someones signature champion than maybe you should ban him out. They didn't and they lost, so now they get mocked for it. I agree with what you're saying (in terms of "this is their job they need to be better prepared", but I still think it's kind of unfair. If I remember correctly, that failed blue steal really hurt Leona/Varus, they had to deal with a Kennen with 3 assists and a Zyra with at least one kill and red buff - which gives that lane a huge starting advantage. You can prepare for a lane, but starting with a disadvantage like that is pretty hard to deal with at a professional level no matter how much preparation you put into it. Krepo did get first blood though, so maybe some of this is on him not using that advantage to help keep the lane even. I still don't get why they didn't just ban Kennen though. | ||
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nxk
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Darkshark
Germany27 Posts
The second thing i don't understand is, why did they swap lanes in the mid game. Wickd just lost the 2nd tower top without anything he could do against it. I would have stayed with Krepo and Pete top, maybe they would be 20-30 cs behind, but they wouldn't lost their tower so fast. Well, WP by Giants. | ||
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XaCez
Sweden6991 Posts
LCS Europe Week #9 Fnatic vs DragonBornsBans Lux Leona Draven Elise Thresh Twisted Fate Picks Zed Jarvan IV Kha'Zix Nocturne Zyra Kayle Miss Fortune Twitch Jayce Malphite | ||
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Redox
Germany24794 Posts
On April 15 2013 02:29 Darkshark wrote: The second thing i don't understand is, why did they swap lanes in the mid game. Wickd just lost the 2nd tower top without anything he could do against it. I would have stayed with Krepo and Pete top, maybe they would be 20-30 cs behind, but they wouldn't lost their tower so fast. Well, WP by Giants. Obviously to get dragon. 2 man bot, + shen ult from top. So potentially 5v3. | ||
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nxk
United Kingdom2291 Posts
On April 15 2013 02:29 Darkshark wrote: I don't understand, why they did not ban Kennen or/and Zyra. I don't understand the Kha'Zix ban, isn't Exterminare a great TF player? I can not remember a game, in which he carried hard with Kha. So why don't ban out kennen instat of Kha? The second thing i don't understand is, why did they swap lanes in the mid game. Wickd just lost the 2nd tower top without anything he could do against it. I would have stayed with Krepo and Pete top, maybe they would be 20-30 cs behind, but they wouldn't lost their tower so fast. Well, WP by Giants. Actually that laneswap mid game was an attempt by EG to take dragon but they were stopped by that ward that they couldn't clear because their pink ward couldn't see it. But even with that ward EG could have taken the dragon, guess they didn't want to risk losing the smite war. | ||
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XaCez
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Sven Stryker
United States423 Posts
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Infundibulum
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Tula
Austria1544 Posts
On April 15 2013 02:44 Xacez wrote: I take it nobody is interested in this game? interested maybe, but so far this is one of the strangest games I have ever seen :p And that was probably one of the most wasted Teleports I've seen  | ||
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Lylat
France8575 Posts
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United Kingdom2291 Posts
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JBright
Vancouver14381 Posts
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Redox
Germany24794 Posts
On April 15 2013 02:51 Infundibulum wrote: oh god DB what was that.... malphite teles in well after they died Always nice to see cocky YamatoCannon failing. Wp Fnatic. Soaz Jayce is beasty. | ||
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Djin)ftw(
Germany3357 Posts
sigh. This pre game "show" is always a pleasure to watch | ||
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