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[Leezard]

Yellowstar played an insane Annie this game.

 

[Ambition]

Poor monte

 

[brian!]

lemme see dat leona tho...

 

[Leezard]

There's the Annie ban.

Yellowstar has deserved it.

 

[brian!]

dam that leona anticipation by wolf
yellowstar looks scared as hell
lmao picked it anyway, they went too all in on those picks

 

[Leezard]

FNC might get stomped with this team comp.

It's a really risky comp.

 

[brian!]

it was like an insider trading draft, skt blew them out of the water with it

i believe tho...
potential play of the year with gragas knocking them into huni's clint eastwood squint

 

[Prototype Viktor]

I want to see someone go crazy and do Azir as ADC

 

[Nekofrog]

hey tsm

look what fnatic just did

they sent someone to stop a 3 man tower dive on the toplaner

WHODATHOUGHT

 

[Ambition]

Man pls win Fnatic

 

[brian!]

they'll probably be even more fun to watch next season with rekkles, i dunno how rekless plays, steelback being behind maokai on cs was pretty wack tho

 

[Leezard]

Febiven solo kills Faker.

gg.

 

[Ambition]

:OOOOOOOOOOO

 

[PhillipCostigan]

Febiven just styled all over Faker

 

[Peanut Butter]

Faker just got Worldstared.

 

[cHinzo]

That solo kill on Faker was pretty awesome.

 

[Mister Negative]

korea?? hello??

 

[Ambition]

Monte is so quiet. lol
Febigod wttttffffff

 

[brian!]

locodoco wasn't there to make tacos for faker last night so he didn't eat anything

 

[PhillipCostigan]

HOLY

 

[brian!]

watching fnc is so fun, there is always shit going on all over the map early on

 

[cHinzo]

I can still remember all those comments about Fnatic not having any tactics, only messy skirmishes and fights. :d

 

[brian!]

I can still remember all those comments about Fnatic not having any tactics, only messy skirmishes and fights. :d

probably a dbz style situation where krillin and piccolo are like, yo gohan jus focus a bit man..

bang using the pause to get unlimited stacks on muramana...someone stop him...

 

[Kotetsu534]

I can only imagine the salt if this game is remade, SKT ban Zed, and then roll over FNC 3-1.

 

[Ambition]

I can still remember all those comments about Fnatic not having any tactics, only messy skirmishes and fights. :d

tbh their play was messy during the LCS. This is a whole new Fnatic!

 

[brian!]

i didnt watch a lot of lcs this split, but the fnatic games i saw always seemed like they had a particular idea and were trying to carry it out
i thought they were great in the playoffs

I can only imagine the salt if this game is remade, SKT ban Zed, and then roll over FNC 3-1.

im cool w/ this happening just for the worlds payoff
and then tsm beat fnatic in the finals
and then faker buys out tsm...

 

[cHinzo]

tbh their play was messy during the LCS. This is a whole new Fnatic!

I would say UOL were matching Fnatic's agression with their playstyle, so they end up in lots of fights trying to fight each other to take objectives and map control during the EU LCS Finals. I don't think Fnatic has changed their style much this tournament. They still go for early pressure for Huni. Then try to pick-off people in the jungle and win teamfights to secure objectives. When u look at Fnatic vs EDG, that game was also messy from Fnatic's part. Lots of action and teamfights, but also lots of deaths, because EDG is used to the agressive style of the LPL teams and can match it against Fnatic. With their superior teamfighting and laning (also getting an early fb helped) EDG came ahead quickly and the game ended in a stomp.

Fnatic is still playing agressive against SKT in these games, but the difference is that SKT is still playing their own style and following their gameplan.

Edit: damn the SKT defense is stronk with this comp. Looks like the Cassio pick isn't working right here.

 

[WesternHeretic]

Watching this is reminding me of my solo-q Zed games (with a lot more CS and mechanical skills), but in general get a lead in lane, and then become useless in team fights.

In season 3 you would just split push, death mark the other guy under tower and have your team play the 4v4. If they win you get drag/baron + tower, if they lose at least you still get tower and create pressure.

However in this meta you're force to back off the split group as 5 and then become useless in team fights unless you're super far ahead.

 

[Ambition]

Maokai and Alistar have godlike peel. gg :/

 

[cHinzo]

Fnatic cracked in game 3. Bang's Ezreal was untouchable in this team. Huni's positioning was really awful this game against the easy point and click lockdown from Maokai.

 

[Mister Negative]

wait what i looked away for 30 seconds and the game ended?

 

[Leezard]

Cassio really did not work out.

 

[PhillipCostigan]

Bang is so good. It's easy to play the Ezreal with so much peel, but even when he wasn't backed up and needed to fend for himself he played flawlessly. Really good mechanics.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

Febviven still doing what Bjerg should have done, play someone that can kill and just ignore the tanks who don't do damage til later

just too bad that Zed falls off a cliff without help

 

[cHinzo]

Azir, Sejuani and Alistar... Damn that peel.

 

[Fracas]

why did huni stop playing rumble

 

[Achtius]

easyhoon in game 5 if it happens?

 

[Shining Sunshine]

SKT loves coming out from behind. I wonder if they're doing it on purpose.

 

[riskybusinesstomcruise]

No idea what happened to Fnatic.

(But damn they are playing out of their minds! Cool to see them show up so hard)

 

[Fracas]

holy cow this is intense

 

[Mister Negative]

Damn SKT played that fight as well as they possibly could've I think. They're just too far behind.

 

[Shining Sunshine]

China would have surrendered.

Edit: wtf faker!

 

[Skux]

This is nuts!!!

 

[cHinzo]

Game 5 here we go! Who would have thought Fnatic would make it so close?

 

[Neofx]

That was awesome.

 

[clemenx]

This is so awesome finally some tangible progress from a western team against a Korean one.

 

[Kotetsu534]

I did not believe this was possible. Fnatic have been rattling SKT in every game with their early aggression and pressure on Marin. If they win, it'll be only the second time in LoL history that a western team has beaten a Korean team in a best of 5 (Gambit's win at IEM was all Bo3s, but CLG.eu did beat Najin Sword in OGN Summer 2012 3-1).

 

[HORRORSHØW]

huge huge props to fnatic for bringing it.

 

[Fracas]

Despite the first game, I've been super impressed with Febiven for a long time now.

Dude's got a career ahead of him.

 

[ShdwDrake]

Febevin is yet another god mid laner produced from Europe.