It's a shame most comments are 'Alliance goofs' as opposed to noting how well Kabum played that game. Every lane won early, they grouped fluidly for that first dragon and then aside from two noticeable flubs* their mid-game progression looked extremely good. Wards went from middle of the river to the far side of the river to the opposing jungle. Each second tower was grouped after vision and minion control was established and taken without ever letting Alliance trade back for a tower of their own. The gold lead smoothly grew 4 to 6 to 8k. Sure, after all towers were down and a 10k gold lead was established they had noticeable mistakes (positioning and strategical) in cracking the base and/or closing the game, but prior to that they never once looked lost. And one of the most common critiques current teams get is "all the first turrets are down and they don't know to get the second set."

*Both mistakes were primary the fault of Elise. The bad tower dive top and then in the bottom lane after the tower went down the entire team started retreating and then got baited back by Elise going in. But as someone previously noted, this guy loves going ham and also made some good plays like the insta-dive on Twitch on the last inhib tower that lead to the game ending.

Slusher

United States19143 Posts

September 28 2014 09:48 GMT

#7529

I liked blues hover picks a lot better than their actual picks

riyanme

Philippines940 Posts

September 28 2014 09:48 GMT

#7530

after the defeat of NJWS on C9 hands...
ALL dreams went KABUM for R8!!!

skykh

3006 Posts

September 28 2014 09:48 GMT

#7531

Is Alliance the kt arrows of europe?

Maluk

France987 Posts

September 28 2014 09:49 GMT

#7532

On September 28 2014 18:47 Apex wrote:
I feel like Fnatic most definitely outpicked Blue here

Do you think that Blue actually tried to get good picks ? Please. They couldn't care less at this point.

AlterKot

Poland7525 Posts

September 28 2014 09:49 GMT

#7533

On September 28 2014 18:42 Fusilero wrote:

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Seriously he's my candidate for MWP right now.

Holy shit how did FNC get all these champs. Also I like Rumble ult in this comp, just use it purely for zoning rather than damage and it will be ok.

RouaF

France4121 Posts

September 28 2014 09:49 GMT

#7534

o_o fnatic team comp sucks, so little hard cc, they have 0 way to catch people. I think yellow should have picked morg, better against thresh/mao and gives the ability to make picks, also I doubt peke will be able to be effective on zed. Imo they are trying too hard to counter dade, his zed didn't win last time.

krndandaman

Mozambique16569 Posts

September 28 2014 09:50 GMT

#7535

--- Nuked ---

Redox

Germany24794 Posts

September 28 2014 09:51 GMT

#7536

On September 28 2014 18:49 Maluk wrote:

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Do you think that Blue actually tried to get good picks ? Please. They couldn't care less at this point.

I am sure they care a lot. Especially since they lost last game vs Fnatic. They just have less pressure.

Lord Tolkien

United States12084 Posts

September 28 2014 09:51 GMT

#7537

And Dade also starts with a flask.

GG Zed.

Fusilero

United Kingdom50293 Posts

September 28 2014 09:51 GMT

#7538

Wait how did heart get there, peke was near the bottom brush. Did heart go through the brush behind red?

ketchup

14521 Posts

September 28 2014 09:52 GMT

#7539

This game is already crazy wtf

Maluk

France987 Posts

September 28 2014 09:52 GMT

#7540

On September 28 2014 18:50 krndandaman wrote:

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yes because getting 0-2'd by fnatic would be an embarassment.

Korean teams are good because they also know what counts and what doesn't. In a long term perspective, showing zero strategy in this game is way better than actually trying to win.