I was about to go on a tangent about how WE seemed to be losing this game with a Diana like that, but now I have no clue who will win. Either Insec will get MVP this game or WE will win the game like they were supposed to with a fed Diana.

And would you look at that, WE get aced.

Fusilero

United Kingdom50293 Posts

August 01 2015 12:12 GMT

#582

8 kill diana gets a full combo onto namei, namei is k. Good rylais buy.

ptbl

United States6074 Posts

August 02 2015 05:35 GMT

#583

I don't follow LPL at all. So, I was wondering how a team that has Dade and Looper suck so much? Is it the other three chinese players that aren't pulling their weight?

Haasts

New Zealand4445 Posts

August 02 2015 05:54 GMT

#584

The long-awaited midlane matchup of Golfing Ezreal vs Yas-U-o.

Edit: Ahahahaha at Ruo's hyphy-ness, trying to flash-auto-steal the blue buff as Braum vs Rek'sai/Mao.

Edit2: Advantage: science. Triforce/Shiv Yasuo, hmmmn.

Goumindong

United States3529 Posts

August 02 2015 06:57 GMT

#585

I think QG vs WE might be the most interesting lane matchup I have see in a pro game

QG is running mid Teleport(APish)* Nautilus against Kassadin.

*started Dorans ring into ruby/negatron

Haasts

New Zealand4445 Posts

August 02 2015 06:58 GMT

#586

Uh so Doinb's intricate knowledge of Kassadin's matchups mid led him to counterpick with Nautilus? Missed the p/b.

Edit: Kinda wasted TP/Flash in botlane, there :/

Edit2: 10mins, has Aegis/DRing/Ruby.

Goumindong

United States3529 Posts

August 02 2015 07:08 GMT

#587

On August 02 2015 15:58 Haasts wrote:
Uh so Doinb's intricate knowledge of Kassadin's matchups mid led him to counterpick with Nautilus? Missed the p/b.

Edit: Kinda wasted TP/Flash in botlane, there :/

Edit2: 10mins, has Aegis/DRing/Ruby.

Yea he is building tank. I think he did counter it but I am not sure that it's been successful. Kassadin has more CS than he does and I don't see him winning lategame.

On the other hand, right now, nautilus is so strong against Kassadin they can't do much.

Haasts

New Zealand4445 Posts

August 02 2015 07:10 GMT

#588

TIME FOR CONAN TO CARRY

Goumindong

United States3529 Posts

August 02 2015 07:11 GMT

#589

Yea that dive was ill advised.

Edit: spirit visage on doinb. Now that is strange. Why SV instead of BV?

Edit2: seeing the high MR on the other team should have made mystic go BT first. Because lots of MR means he will be targeted first and he needs to not die and continue fighting more than he does need to do a lot of dps (after all they have no armor). WE could have turned this if they had realized that graves can't die

Haasts

New Zealand4445 Posts

August 02 2015 07:21 GMT

#590

Beautiful double TP flank from Naut/Mao; the tankline let Vayne go ham.

Goumindong

United States3529 Posts

August 02 2015 07:25 GMT

#591

It's interwsting that QC is letting the jungle be the AP carry and running three tanks in the lanes (support/top/mid)

Edit: this also means that naut has been played in all lanes except as an ADC this split.

Haasts

New Zealand4445 Posts

August 02 2015 07:44 GMT

#592

I'm curious to see the pick order for that match - unless it was a Kass counterpick, I'm guessing they picked up Naut & Mao early, and baited Graves so they could then grab Braum as a counter?

And yeah, love Naut's flexibility - quite majestic to see him bobbling around midlane getting all the farm

Goumindong

United States3529 Posts

August 02 2015 09:10 GMT

#593

So the casters think that Invictus had a good draft

Gragas, trundle, braum, vayne, viktor

Vs

Maokai, Janna, Elise, kog, orianna

Wow are they wrong. There is no viktor/Vayne synergy. No vayne/braum synergy. Janna/Kog counters your bot lane team fight structure. Ori counters your mid lane team fight structure. Invictus relies on gragas getting good ults or they lose the game. Maybe they can out skirmish but rng got the better pick/ban

That was posted at the start of the game. IG is roaming a lot better than RNG and its given them a big lead. RNG should still have the late-game of they can stall it.

Edit: nah IG was always one step ahead of RNG and so they never got a chance to get online. It's been crushing.

cLutZ

United States19573 Posts

August 02 2015 09:20 GMT

#594

I just hate Vayne as a pick. I swear she either loses the game or does exactly what all the other ADCs would have done.

DarkCore

Germany4194 Posts

August 02 2015 09:29 GMT

#595

Vayne is good because she eats through Mao like paper. Also her team fighting around stuff like dragon and baron is so much better than Kog because she can kite endlessly, doesn't need to use her steroid to kill it faster (if Kog uses W to kill dragon then it goes on CD) and is a good clean up champion. A lone Vayne tends to be more threatening than a lone Kog because of her dueling potential.

Really like Time, is Kid benched or something else with him? I've always enjoyed watching Kid, he often goes unmentioned but he's practically synonymous with iG for me.

Fusilero

United Kingdom50293 Posts

August 02 2015 09:37 GMT

#596

The official reason is that Kid is getting his visa for season five worlds, now whether you believe that or not is another matter :>

This match is more or less the decider for RNG, if they can't make this 1-1 it's no playoffs for them

The RNG playoffs dream remains alive but with only a 1-1 they must 2-0 Vici next week and M3 must be 2-0d by EDG.

Zero with the carry for a freakishly clean King game. Also with this win Ekko is now the fourth champion hu1 has won a game on all LPL and increases his non-rek'sai record to 5/17

I REFUSE THE IDEA OF INSEC PLAYING POPPY ON MORAL GROUNDS

Haasts

New Zealand4445 Posts

August 02 2015 15:19 GMT

#597

Awww man, I missed out on some prime LPL teamcomps this evening

Fusilero

United Kingdom50293 Posts

August 04 2015 10:46 GMT

#598

+ Show Spoiler [LSPL winner's bracket final] +

Congratulations to Energy Pacemaker All for their 2-0 defeat of Hyper Youth Gaming, with this win EP.A will be the first team to qualify for LPL Spring 2016 from the LSPL. Now HYG must defeat 2144D for the other LSPL slot for next split. Fun fact with this meaning gimgoon's qualification for the LPL the golden xenics roster of gimgoon/swift/coco/arrow/piccaboo are all in a premier league for the first time since they broke out in OGN Winter 2014

+ Show Spoiler [LSPL loser's bracket final] +

Somehow HYG has given 2144D a composition of Ryze/Gragas/AP Ez/Kalista/Thresh in exchange for Hecarim and Lulu. Not sure how this happened.

I normally despise the idea of losing in the P/B but if there's losing in the P/B it's that, it speaks to huya's bigget problem that they lack serious carry threat outside of XQ (Who is to be fair, a really big carry threat) but they hamstring their drafts because they have to accomodate him and enable him to carry. That being said if you're dependent on your ADC why would you give them kalista/thresh which basically means you won't have an ADC if a 2v2 happens. HYG played really well to try to overcome that disgusting 2144D composition but AP Ez with five dragons is too toxic.

Good early game eve play transitions smoothly into some great teamfighting on gnar from 17 to secure the second game for Hyper Youth Gaming, it all comes down to one final map between HYG and 2144D for the final direct seed for LPL Spring 2016

Hyper Youth Gaming takes the third and final game against 2144D securing their place in the LPL for next split, I look forward to their games against LGD :>