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League of Legends World Championships 2015 |OCT 1-OCT 31|
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HORRORSHØW
Member
disgusting
TharpDaddy
Member
First time I've seen Pobelter on tilt.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Yeah I don't get the Blitzcrank or Olaf pick.
Primethius
Banned
Man, the way CLG is exploiting KOO's weaknesses though...
Primethius
Banned
Phreak: "The upsets continue..."
Yea... about that...
Yea... about that...
TharpDaddy
Member
It's time to whip out the Huhi.
Losing all brain power and picking Blitzcrank with those picks/bans on the board is not part of the meta.
TharpDaddy
Member
Mid was the issue this game, not support.
Wrong. Horrible vision control and map rotations. Bad pulls. A big reason these lanes fell behind was because of how Aphromoo played this game.
TharpDaddy
Member
Which has nothing to do with him choosing Blitz. Pobelter played incredibly poorly, as did Aphro, but that would have been the same regardless of support.
HORRORSHØW
Member
orbwalkin
HORRORSHØW
Member
the outplays
new zeke's. shroud + 2 amp tomes
gives ap, mana and cdr and u pick someone and get stacks like stattik and when max stacks both ppl get a ton of ap and crit chance
Blitz is unsafe to roam on the map because you have a double sightstone + Ashe vision comp. Ashe can zone grabs or engage before being in grab range, and the other targets of Kennen, Morgana, Rek'sai, and Viktor, all don't mind being brought in after level six when any real fighting starts.
This is why there were times when you saw the 2v4 top where Aphro is just wasting time and unable to hold the turret anyways, and he doesn't know where to roam aftewards. There are low defensive options on Blitz that make his 2v4 even weaker than other support champs, and they weren't able to leverage Elise early game power.
If CLG don't want to take the tournament seriously just because they got two wins early on it shows who they really are.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Heimer support literally would've been more useful than that Blitz idk what CLG was thinking. You literally can do nothing on Blitz when you fall behind like this, pulling anyone will just end poorly. Not banning Ashe was also very strange.
Kotetsu534
Member
The casters doubted whether Ashe ult alone would be enough for KOO to get the engages off to stop CLG's sieges, but they didn't account for PraY's supreme accuracy (and to be fair, Hojin had a great game, and Pobelter made it easy). Group A should have CLG, KOO and FW all at 2-1 going in to the second round of games, perfectly set up for drama.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
I also don't get the Azir pick when Viktor was up since Pobelter is good on Viktor.
I thought that would be his fall back.
I thought that would be his fall back.
thestopsign
Member
Should have been a Braum support, would have helped a lot more than Blitz.
Hydrophobic
Member
Are you sure it's them not taking this seriously and not just real bad pick bans?
Shining Sunshine
Banned
A lot of losses are lost at the pick and bans. CLG just had weird ass picks.
if they would have taken that. Clean sweep for NA today. Oh well. Not a bad showing. Clg should still get out of groups ok"Haha, man, we are rolling over this tournament. Time to pull out my patented Blitzrank."
If you make bad picks and bans you are not taking the game seriously to me. Blitz got picked into a bunch of champions that counter him, with the support role still potentially open, and then he got counter picked even further. Blitz doesn't even fit the rest of the peel/push comp CLG had going.
wouldn't be the first time
HORRORSHØW
Member
lol the analyst desk
Shining Sunshine
Banned
awkward moment!
There have been so many bad pick ban phases in this group stage. I'm fine with CLG getting crushed now though. I want to see if all this positive team attitude stuff can keep them off tilt at worlds. They haven't even shown a clean game in their first two wins yet they go for this cocky comp against their top competition.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
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#FAITHAGE #FAITHAGE #FAITHAGE #FAITHAGE #FREESM #FAITHAGE
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Not sure, but I'm gonna be disappointed if Zion's comments aren't put of a recap on this match.
Kotetsu534
Member
I just realised that the second half of the group stage will see each group finish on its own, separate day, with the teams playing (at least) three matches in one session. I don't know if this was common knowledge or not, but I'd assumed they'd be continuing with the rotating days off for each group till the end. Will definitely be more intense like this.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Morgana is 100% win rate in 5 games now.
Should be more contested in the future.
Should be more contested in the future.
HORRORSHØW
Member
did not know that. interesting indeed. second half of groups is going to be bonkers regardless. tsm and fnc have the same record after the first half. imagine if tsm makes it out and fnc doesn't.
that's really cool
Next week will be intense indeed. It will be so important for the teams to avoid tilting since they are playing three games during the same day.
Stone Ocean
Member
RIP IG