LPL W4D1: The Rise of Shyvana and Misaya's Mortal TF

 

 

 

 

 

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Coverage

EP vs. RC

The first day of the final week kicked off with Energy Pacemaker vs. Royal Club, the former putting their faith in the increasingly popular Shyvana pick. Royal Club had a strong level 1 that could threaten Energy Pacemaker's jungle early, but both decided to retreat to their own jungles to start the game off after some initial forward warding.

Upon completing the red buff, LaoPi would run to gank bottom, not grabbing a kill but focusing a lot of attention there and essentially camping the lane.  After a failed attempt, LaoPi would simply push the turret in attempts to taking it early, though Lucky's Lee Sin appeared to give the turret a bit more life.  LaoPi would overstay his welcome as Domoho would be the first to let his turret drop.

As the screencap depicts, this game was an AoE hellfest.?

Despite the early assistance by LaoPi, Energy Pacemaker would lose a second tower to Royal Club bottom, also giving up a kill to Uzi's terrifying Twitch.  This allowed Royal Club to back off after the first blood and grab a dragon only at the cost of GoDlike's death top lane. Despite a strong engage from mid turret by EP, the global advantage of RC would allow them to come out on top and proceed through the middle turret.

What was appearing to be a close game in the kill score was actually a complete territorial and global gold advantage for Royal Club.  Even in the aftermath in a massive teamfight near middle, Royal Club was able to hold off Energy Pacemaker 2v3 amd take yet another dragon. Eventually, through the course of superior objective control, Royal Club would take EP down.

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iG vs. PE

Shvyana's popularity has been increasing at a rapid pace and this game is no exception.  Illusion decided to pick it up while the rest of the team went with very standard picks individually for this season.  Jing's Lee Sin would provide more early success with a first blood on PDD top, a very overextended Ryze for this stage of the game without any wards.

After having the most MVP points, it only made sense that Namei and Sicca would not be given any peace in the bottom lane.  With the help of Requiem and the pressure from Illusion, iG would follow up their first blood deficit with a double kill in the bottom lane, with Kid still nearly dropping to Namei. iG starting a premature second baron would cause them pain, as they would soon find out.

JoJo's shockwaves were truly on-point all game.?

Though Invictus Gaming found the initial pick-off and were able to secure the dragon smite, they suffered many casualties when all three of them were hit by JoJo's beautiful Shockwave.  At this point of the game, it was all about the baron vision and towers, which Positive Energy had a clear advantage  of while also having one more dragon count than iG.

With some solid baron control, PDD quickly went from 0-5 to 3-5 and iG picked up baron as well; things were starting to swing back in their favor.  While iG could pick members of PE off, PE were performing far better in terms of teamfighting, always landing Crescendos, Shockwaves, and Trueshot Barrages in unison.  This would reflect in the final two teamfights, allowing Positive Energy to close out the game despite iG's greatest attempts at a comeback.

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WE vs. OMG

OMG embraced bravery in their final game against World Elite by allowing Misaya on Twisted Fate, which  was immediately locked in - a natural choice given their 100% win ratio with him.  The game started out quite passively with World Elite taking an early lead with TF's passive as well as a dramatic farm lead for Caomei. Unfortunately for WE, Misaya was not able to pull off a successful first gank bottom.

TF's pressure bottom caused him to lose a very early mid tower, throwing the pressure onto WE as OMG caught up in the gold lead as well as holding an objective over World Elite.  OMG's method of dealing with Misaya was an intelligent one, focusing him down and camping his lane, causing World Elite to retaliate.  Misaya was being punished for locking in his Twisted Fate.

Tunneling on Misaya's Twisted Fate proved to be very successful for OMG.?

By constantly sending back or killing Misaya, OMG continued to have gold pouring in for them with yet another dragon taken for the squad. However, not all hope was lost as a nice gank bottom would allow for World Elite to pop right back into the game at only a marginal deficit. Between grabs, charms, and Lee Sin kicks, Misaya was still not having a fun game for himself.  

The continual focus fire eventually led to OMG acquiring a free baron.  An impulsive and awkward Stand United onto Fzzf's Nami left World Elite feeling very unorganized and pressured.  Eventually, World Elite would be brought down to their knees and Misaya would experience his first Twisted Fate loss this season. 

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YG vs. LMQ

The final game of the day was between two struggling teams, but teams that have shown potential.  Once again, Shyvana was picked up as well as a mid lane Zyra from YanSir on Young Glory.  YanSir would be bringing the main in the mid lane, forcing Noname to hold the lane for their Kassadin who was forced to miss many creeps.  Despite his efforts, LMQ were ahead in both bottom and top lane.

Noname found his vengeance and proceeded to land first blood onto YanSir.  LMQ's advantage would only grow with Vayne acquiring her second kill extremely early, bringing that hypercarry late-game status that much closer.  Young Glory was having trouble doing well in fights due to their ADC being zoned completely by Kassadin, but they were still bringing in strong fights at a gold deficit.

Much of LMQ's success rooted from zoning Dragon incredibly hard from fights.?

With some excellently set up Tidal Waves to synergize with the rest of their chasing ability, LMQ were easily able to ace Young Glory and snowball the advantage extremely hard in their favor. Vayne grabbed most of the cleanup gold and a Baron was seized by LMQ shortly after.   

Young Glory were forced into a defensive position as LMQ rampaged through their jungle, pushed the sidelanes, and approached mid with a 5 man baron push with 3 down for Young Glory.  Kassadin was able to single handedly zone Dragon once again from teamfights, allowing for an easy inhibitor pickup.  LMQ would slowly but surely calculate their moves and push a victory with their well-deserved snowball.

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