The only thing we can safely say is that Peke has been playing like garbage since S3 Worlds semi and that soaz has absolutely no idea what to play toplane in S4. His Renekton is horrendous and his Karma shenanigans don't work in S4 with the bruiser manaless OP shit top.

Compare C9's lackluster performance against GG in IEM Cologne (when they had, like Fnatic, almost no practice whatsoever), and their fairly crisp performance here.

Yes, Fnatic is playing poorly, but C9's play has gone up several notches now that their practice regimen is in place.

Sneaky/Lemon still weak bot lane, however.

onlywonderboy

United States23745 Posts

December 22 2013 20:43 GMT

#3295

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Early game - No invades. C9 almost catches out Rekkles in the bottom lane river bush but he may have been tipped off by Fiddle's passive. Standard lanes.

3:30 - Sneaky getting bodied in lane. Down 4 CS to 20.

4:40 - Cyanide ganks top, burns Balls' Flash
5:20 - Hai down 25 cs to 42
5:40 - Meteos ganks top and burns sOAZ's Flash

8:00 - Lane gank from Meteos on the Bot lane. Crowstorms in and sets up a kill on Yellowstar for Sneaky.
8:40 - Balls turns around a 3v1 with a godly Equalizer. Dies along with Cyanine
9:05 - Lemon gets Death Sentenced and dies. 2-2 in kills, C9 up 300 gold.

10:20 - Balls roams Mid and with the help of Hai gets a kill on xPeke. Run into sOAZ and Cyanide on their way out by Fantic's Blue buff. Sends out another Equalizer and along with Hai they turn around and kill both sOAZ and Cyanide. Meteos uses Crowstorm but doesn't add any damage in the fight.

15:00 - C9 sends balls top to stop sOAZ's push. Cyanide steals dragon from C9. Also gets bursted down, but rides lantern to safety.
15:40 - C9 try to push Mid lane to get the turret, Lemon gets out of position and dies. Hai gets a solo kill on Rekkles in the bot (and gets bot tower). Fnatic catches Sneaky with a Cacoon under his own tower and blows him up. Gold is even.

17:50 - Fight breaks out mid. Fnatic shuts down first engage with a 3 man Ori ult. C9 shuts down Fnatics reengage with a nice Solar Flair. Hai comes out of no where and blows up Rekkles. Fnatic looks to disengage but Hai is able to burst xPeke and put him at how enough health to die to an Equalizer tick.
20:00 - Hai melts sOAZ

20:20 - Yellowstar engages over a wall and tries to fight C9 while Sneaky is Bot lane. Messy fight ends in a 2 for 2. Sneaky is walking back from Bot lane and takes a free dragon. C9 is up 2.5K gold.

23:25 - Fnatic try to start a fight. Really bad engage. Sneaky gets a triple kill and C9 gets Mid Inhib Tower and Middle Inhib. Gold lead explodes to 6K. Another great Equalizer from Balls prevents Fnatic from committing to the fight like they wanted to.

28:20 - Hai goes really deep and dies under tower after getting hooked. Meteos tries to follow up with Crow Storm but Equalizer helps make the fight not a complete disaster. Hero xPeke saves sOAZ with a shield. Waste of Baron buffs but C9 still clearly in control.

AsnSensation

Germany24009 Posts

December 22 2013 20:43 GMT

#3296

Maybe we can see a trend here, fnatic always needs a whole season to regenerate back to form

Season1: Worldchamps
Season2: Garbage
Season3: Reigning EU champs back to back 3/4 worlds
Season4: ???