tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46664988938845123232024-03-13T21:12:33.591-07:00League Analysisbummer2000http://www.blogger.com/profile/02074073642778522361noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666498893884512323.post-91348255133536749402013-03-26T06:39:00.003-07:002013-03-26T08:34:40.921-07:00Ban Picks in Competitive League of Legends<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">This article is a viewer's guide to the bans
& picks, where I try to explain the logic behind the champion and set a
general framework for how to ban. HotshotGG has famously said that 90% of the
game is won in champion select, as much of a team's play-style and teamfight
potential hinges upon the champions they get to play.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Several things I will need to say first to
lower your expectations. First, you won't be able to call out ban picks like a
caster just by reading this article, you need to scout the teams individually,
there is simply no way around that. Second, this is not an article that talks
about team comps(though I do touch upon the issue to illustrate ban picks), it
is an article that tries to show the intentions behind the pick and bans of a
team, and shows the general thought process of today's ban picks.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">NOTE:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Currently working with different Blog sites, this is an insurance policy for me.</span></div>
bummer2000http://www.blogger.com/profile/02074073642778522361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666498893884512323.post-70788792346678007422013-03-14T11:08:00.003-07:002013-03-14T20:23:22.654-07:00Lanning Set-Ups: WE in Season 3 (3/3)<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Current Roster: Weixiao(AD), Misaya(AP), Caomei(Top), ClearLove(Jungle), Fzzf(Support)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE boasts one of strongest carry lineups known to LoL, with Misaya(mid as well as play-caller) and Wexiao at the top of their positions, and Caomei showing massive improvements from last year. Only TPA has a comparable line-up of laners that can win games solely through lanning. They manage minion waves very well, and have good coordination which is where I believe they are ahead of most pro teams. So far in Season 3 they have only dropped one game to iG's unconventional bruiser duo lane.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many perceive of WE as a five man team, but they themselves always refer to themselves as a six man team, with "Aaron" as a strategist behind the scenes. He has been seen hitting Caomei on the head when he plays bad, and acts as a statistician and routine enforcer as well. His job includes setting exercises, watching foreign streams and scouring forums for interesting posts(reddit?). As scara has recently pointed out, a well prepped team will easily defeat a one that comes unprepared. Having the infrastructure for dedicated scouting will be one of the most crucial factors for any of the teams going forward. If the NA teams of LCS wish to have a fighting chance in Season 3 they will need this type of logistics.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China looks to become a very interesting scene as they utilize picks that are not seen anywhere else(Morgana Solo, Elise Sup), play different Lvl 1s(early blue invades, explorer ward baits etc.), and have a three strong teams in WE, iG and Royal.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notes: This is meant to be an appendix of a series I was writing on Lanning Set-Ups, so some terminology comes from prior parts of the series. All game vods can be found here: <a href="http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_18208063_ascending_0_mode_pic.html">GIGABYTE vod page.</a></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">**<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Abbreviations: SW=Sight Ward, VW=Vision Ward, EW=Explorer Ward. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bush terms come from the intro map. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bush Map as shown here.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE: Weixiao(AD), Misaya(AP), Caomei(Top), ClearLove(Jungle), Fzzf(Support)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">iG: XiaoXiao(Suport), kid(AD), illuSion(Jungle), Zz1tai(AP), Pdd(Top)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cho'Gath</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">iG Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Singed Flask, SW, HPs; Ez forgot to buy; Kayle Flask, SW, HPs, MP; Elise VW, 4SW, HP, MP, EW.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olaf Flask, SW, HPs, MP; Pantheon, Flask, SW, HPs; Xerath Flask SW, HPs, MPs.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-1-2-1, Singed at Blue ramp, Kayle drops ward into ML2, Elise drops SW into Bot tri, Jarvan E into MR1, Ezreal mid lane. All ramps secured.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:42</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:10</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pantheon drops SW into bot tri, they back into their own jungle.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal and Singed takes Wolves, Jarvan, Elise and Kayle take Wraiths. EZ suddenly realizes he forgot to buy and goes home. Smiteless Red for Jarvan.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xerath and Olaf take Wraiths, Lee, Panth and Amumu takes Wolves. Smiteless Blue for Amumu.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:11</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the end WE counteracted the iG kill lane of Lee+Panth by sending Ezreal and Elise mid, and letting Kayle take bot lane, a 1-2-1 set-up. iG has Olaf at top, Xerath played by Xiaoxiao, their support player mid, and Lee+Panth bot. The game evolves into a peculiar "no jungler" game, as Amumu and Jarvan both stay in lanes to help their solos against 1v2s. iG comes out slightly ahead as Xerath farms easier than Kayle.</span></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Game was streamed in poor resolution on the Chinese stream, so exact pot numbers may be off. Note this was before Flask nerf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interesting lane set-ups coming from both sides, iG wanted to shut down Weixiao with a double bruiser mid. WE went with a double mid and sent Misaya bottom to counter this. NA teams would probably send bot duo to top to avoid this rather than doing double mid.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">iG had the superior teamfight composition with Amumu and Xerath combo dealing ridiculous damage, WE were able to prolong the game with very intelligent split pushing. Kalye and Singed would push simultaneously, while the other three defended mid, as iG split to deal with two waves, WE grouped instantly to pin iG on the sidelines, dealing heavy damage to the sideline towers without actually being there. iG had trouble sieging against Weixiao on EZ, who built Iceborn second and with LW did heavy damage. However iG wiped the floor with WE once Baron dances started with Pantheon initiation and eventually won the game.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GIGABYTE StarsWar Season 2 Round 2</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">WE vs. iG Game 2</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></h2>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">iG Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blitzcrank</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evelynn</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kha'Zix</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amumu</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twisted Fate</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">iG Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cho'Gath</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olaf</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumble</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caitlyn</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Master Yi</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Irelia</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise Support, 2 SW, Cloth, 2 HP start with Explorer.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu Support, 4 SW 1 VW, 2HP, EW. Irelia, Flask, SW, 5 pot. Kayle, Flask, SW, 4HP, 1MP.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:35</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pings for River bush. 5 man into Bot tri bush. iG seems to have the Lvl 1, so the side ramp route seems a bit odd.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:35</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Team pings ML1 and enemy wraith bush, then pings for self Blue entrance. Kayle drops ward at ML1, rest of team goes into MR2.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:44</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caitlyn trap at R3</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:55</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pings into Bot River bush, but then 5 man swings into both bot lane bushes, then upwards toward bot river bush.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:55</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man into RB2, 1:02 Nunu SW into RB3, swing around on red side EW into Wraith Bush 1:09.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:20</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man into enemy Blue Bush, Elise SWs it 1:23.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:20</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Different pings on which way to exit the enemy jungle, Nunu wins and leads the team through ML1. 1:23 Cait traps ML1.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:38</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumble B, rest of heads toward own wraiths.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:38</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pings on Wolves and Blue.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:10</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal and Elise take bot golems, Cho gets help on Wraiths and then Elise helps with Red while Ezreal swings bot. Cho uses smite. Cross lanes.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:10</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle and Irelia help Olaf with Wolves and Blue. Nunu Cait take top golems. Olaf saves smite. Cross lanes.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:01</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Irelia uses the pushed out wave to drop a ward at Blue entrance.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:30</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cho route: Wolves, Blue. Shows himself at top tower.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:30</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olaf route: Red(Smite), Wraiths, Wolves. Olaf helps to clear the bot wave out, axing the minions down.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4:05</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cho rotates mid to clear the wave out.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4:03</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle manages to solo kill Mater Yi while Meditate is on CD. Proceeds to push the lane in.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4:11</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise drop a ward at dragon in response to Kayle's kill.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4:11</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ward is seen by Irelia's ward and pinged out.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mater Yi rushes towards Red, sees Ezreal die and heads upwards.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4:29</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kalye and Olaf enter enemy jungle through Wraith Ward and then rush to bot, they manage to kill Ezreal.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">iG lost the game because they bet on the wrong lanes, they expected a Standard set-up with Caitlyn Nunu bot lane and went with cloth armor on Elise support, limiting her to two wards. This would spiral out of control very fast. WE had a good reaction call, the split second Dragon ward was pinged both Olaf and Kayle ran through the enemy jungle to converge on a pushed Ezreal and Elise to net Second Blood. The game was effectively over by 7 minutes with a 4-0 lead plus dragon for World Elite. It is worthy to note however, that iG should have predicted this seeing Olaf walk upwards through river on their Dragon ward. The most tell tale sign of a good team is reaction on ward information.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note that Fzzf chose to EW the Wraith Bush and SW R1, having two extra minutes on Wraiths seems much better than having vision on Red, which tells me they simply supposed iG was starting their own Blue upon Warding the Red side of their jungle. Another possible explanation is WE knew iG's aversion to the Wraith ward. Sometimes iG starts Golem, Red on their junglers and walks around the jungle simply to avoid the Wraith Ward, by putting SW in R1 they can have definitive read on the jungle route. Both Jungles showing to support the solo lane is quite common in Chinese games.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GIGABYTE StarsWar Season 2 Round 4</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">SKT1 vs. WE Game 1</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rosters</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE: Weixiao(AD), Misaya(AP), Caomei(Top), ClearLove(Jungle), Fzzf(Support)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SKT1: Reapered(Top), Beelzehan, (Jungle), MighTiLy(AP), Raven(AD), StarLast(Sup)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryze</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evelynn</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miss Fortune</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kha'Zix</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twisted Fate</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zed</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olaf</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caitlyn</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xin Zhao</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amumu</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SKT1 Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu 4SW, VW, EW, HPs. 1-2-1-1. Shen at ML3; TF+Nunu at mid tower, Cait bot tri, Xin R3.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olaf Flask, SW, HPs; Sona 4SW, VW, EW, HPs. 5 man towards enemy Wraiths.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:35</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu drops EW in MR 1. Upon seeing the 5 members of WE, Nunu and Shen counter ward WE's Wraith bush.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:35</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EZ enters MR 1, pings out the ward. 5 man march into EW into Wraith bush at 0: another ward into R2 at 0:54. Touch and go.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:08</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen and Nunu move back to ML 3. TF sees EZ exist their jungle.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:08</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE exit enemy jungle, EZ Qs MR1 before existing through Wraith ramp.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:17</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu moves into the Wraith Brush, puts down the VW to clear the ward, a misplay as Sona walked out of the jungle in MR1's sight.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:15</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona drops a SW at ML1, pings out Nunu, and Wraiths. Amumu walks around the second tower to avoid the Wraith Ward and Olaf walks through R3 to reach Golems.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen crosses the river into WE's R3, seems as if he is checking if WE really hasn't done Wraiths. TF helps Xin with Wraiths, bot duo takes Golems. Xin takes Red with help from Nunu.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olaf takes Golems with Amumu undetected. Both CS goes to Amumu(hiding his jungle route), EZ and Sona take Wolves.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nice opening from WE predicting the wraith ward coming from SKT1 and avoiding it completely, Caomei gains a lvl advantage against Reapeared from Golem exp, which he uses nicely to bully Shen. Overall every ward from WE served its purpose. The Wraith EW saw TF and Xin start Wriaths, and actually baited Nunu into wasting a VW(check your tabs supports!). The SW in ML 1 saw two Xin ganks, and the R2 ward made sure Nunu was headed bot doing Golems and Xin really was starting Red. Ezreal did suffer in the beginning as Golem exp was visibly stronger than Wolves.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Game ended when SKT1 forced themselves into a first pick Twisted Fate by not banning it on Blue side. Misaya destroyed the match up with Zed and despite a 51 armor start from Mightly. Weixiao stayed even in CS, even with the lane pushed into tower and being behind in experience from blue side Golems. Caomei was also massively ahead after a Reapered Stand United to save bot lane. WE simply won on too many fronts for SKT1 to handle. SKT1 has been abysmal in StarsWar League, going 0-6, and losing to the lowly AG. They have more games to play, but have no chance to advance from the group stages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GIGABYTE StarsWar Season 2 Round 4</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">SKT1 vs. WE Game 2</span></b></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miss Fortune</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryze</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olaf</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evelynn</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zed</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kha'Zix</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumble</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xin Zhao</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lulu</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Graves</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lee Sin</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SKT1 Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumble SW, Rejuvenation Bead, SW; Kha'Zix SW, Flask, HPs, MP; Sona 4SW, VW, EW, HPs.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise Flask, SW, HPs; Kayle Flask SW, HP, MP; Lulu 4SW, VW, EW, HPs.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:38</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4-1, EZ goes straight down mid while the rest of team invades through ML2 into Wraiths.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:38</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-2-1-1. Elise headed for bot River bush, Graves+Xin at mid tower, Kayle at MR2 Lulu at Wraiths.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:06</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona EW on Wraiths, SW on R1, exist jungle through Wraith ramp. EZ sits in midlane.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:06</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lulu places EW into Wraith Ward,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:15</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kha'Zix drops SW in top tri.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:33</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise drops SW in front of Dragon. 1:38 Kayle Wards at Wraith Ramp.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona, Lee and Rumble take Wraiths and then Red, EZ helps Kha'Zix take Blue, hits Lvl2 and goes back to buy. Lee saves smite.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Graves and Lulu take Golems, Xin solos Wraiths, Lulu then swings down to help him with Red, Xin uses smite.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:20</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lanes for WE end up being Kha'Zix top, EZ Sona mid, Rumble bot.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:20</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swapped lanes from SKT1.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:30</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona and Lee enter enemy jungle through MR 2, Blue. Sona and EZ follow up on the blue steal, Lee takes it.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:30</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lulu heads to mid immediately upon seeing, Elise heads to blue. Xin with no smite finally backs off.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:30</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lee Sin rotates top lane to help hold top while EZ and Sona chunk mid.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very nice early 1-2-1 set up with Blue invade coming from WE. Starting Red with a lane swap, SKT1 was very aware of a late Blue steal from WE, however they did not expect it to be "that late". Lulu wastes some time trying to come mid, but then decides against it and heads back. Graves had trouble taking the tower down early after Lee Sin came to help, WE gains Dragon off the play in by the 10 minute mark as SKT1 has two members stuck top.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE's game plan took down mid lane early, limiting Kayle to half the cs of Weixiao and giving Kha'Zix plenty of room to roam. However, WE failed to push the gold lead and gave up kills being a little too cute and lingering in fights. In the end they teamfought better and won the game off a fight where SKT1 failed to finish off low health Kha'Zix and EZ.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some things to note:Weixiao took Exhaust on EZ, while Fzzf on Sona took Ignite. With the nerfs to ADs in season three this has become somewhat of a norm when facing multiple divers. Bebe from TPA does this quite often as well.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GIGA</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">BYTE StarsWar Season 2 Round 4</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">TPS vs. WE Game 1</span></b></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE: Weixiao(AD), Misaya(AP), Caomei(Top), ClearLove(Jungle), Fzzf(Support)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPS: MiSTakE(Sup), NeXAbc(AP), GoDJJ(AD), Zonda(Top), OhReaL(Jungle)</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evelynn</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amumu</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twisted Fate</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryze</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kha'Zix</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPS Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jarvan IV</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lee Sin</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumble</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zyra</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miss Fortune</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twitch</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPS Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle Blue Pot, 4HP, SW; Rumble, Rejuvenation Bead, SW, HPs. Elise 2 SW, Flask, HPs, EW.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen Cloth, SW, HPs; Nunu Faerie charm, 4 SW, EW; Zyra Flask, SW, HPs, MPs.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-1-2-1 set up, Rumble at ML 3, Kayle at mid tower, Elise and Jarvan at Wraiths. Elise puts WE in MR 1 heads to put SW at R2 once they see TPS head in.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man dive into bot tri bush, Zyra places SW into MR2 along the way. Lee sin Q into brush, 5 man into golems, spots MF and then backs out.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:05</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle puts SW into TPS Wraith Bush, Rumble drops SW into TPS R1.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:05</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu drops a EW into bot Tri and</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:17</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu and Twitch back, head to top lane. Cross lanes.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle and Rumble take Wolves; bot duo and Jarvan takes Golems, then smiteless red.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Top duo takes Golems, Lee, Zyra and Shen give a Smiteless Blue.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:10</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu puts SW into R3, walks past a Rumbles R1 SW.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:23</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twitch finally pops his head out of top bush after seeing the lane set-up.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jarvan invades into TPS Red without taking wolves, he stands on Nunu's SW in R3</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lee sees Jarvan and starts Wraiths, Big wraith stolen by Jarvan smite.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jarvan shows up with blue at top tower to push the wave out, mean while TPS's bot tower goes down to half</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As is usually the case from TW teams, they didn't show themselves until WE showed their lanes. MiSTakE's SW in R3 shows the extent of mind games between the two teams, they obviously knew that WE had warded their Red-side jungle and by now knew Lee Sin's route, because he didn't show up at Wraiths or Red. Sure enough the SW in R3 spots Jarvan who came in for a Red steal, since he took red first vs. Lee's blue start and Kayle was pushing the wave into Zyra's tower. Lee gets away with only the Big Wraith stolen.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE showed very deep understanding in the way Cross Lanes work, sending Jarvan top negating TPS's top duo while putting heavy pressure bot lane. OhReal's jungle path would have been ineffective going top (3v2 no hard CC), so he backed early to help their own bot. The pushing power of Jarvan and Rumble was so great they managed to push the wave into GoDJJ's tower, while Lee Sin and Shen at bottom could not push out. Again WE takes dragon while TPS's duo is stuck top, since top tower was still there. WE also doesn't swap lanes until they've taken dragon. WE later wins the game through team fights and their early advantages. Elise with Warmogs proved to be a very tough support to deal with, as she could initiate, tank towers, and Repel out of danger.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In usual WE fashion, they also let Rumble die to achieve objectives on the other side of the map. Aaron has said that it is ok if Caomei dies, since his champion pool doesn't need much gold and as long he can ult, it's K. Sometimes I think they send him to lane without a ward on purpose. "Ditching private Caomei" seems to have worked very well for them though.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some advanced tactics to look at is the push initiated by WE starting from ~19:00 to 22:00. What is really interesting to note that they time the top wave to push to coincide with their push at bottom. The play would gain a Dragon and some tier 2 tower HP as well. At first it's not apparent why the top lane would push as both waves were intact, and slightly puzzling why WE didn't push the wave when it was only one screen away, however notice that WE's wave is a cannon wave, and TPS's isn't. This is not accidental, in fact, you can see this being done in several other of WE games where they utilize the "slow minion push". The basics to building monster waves is to let your own wave push as slow as possible, while taking as little damage as possible. The reason for the former is to <i>let your next waves catch up</i>. The detail that makes it work is that minions reinforce faster on your side of the river, so letting the wave stay on your side as long as possible gives you a bigger wave. If WE had obliterated the incoming wave, they would have actually had a smaller wave when it reached enemy towers. By leaving the wave as it is, but with a cannon minion, WE's subsequent waves were able to catch up, while TPS's wave was still on route, and become a problem that needed addressing. This also prevents the enemy team from killing off the wave immediately since it builds up on your side of the river. Another way to achieve this is to only kill the ranged minions of the opposing wave, as they do the most damage, and leaving the melee minions to act as little speed bumps. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GIGABYTE StarsWar Season 2 Round 4</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">TPS vs. WE Game 2</span></b></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twisted Fate</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amumu</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kha'Zix</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryze</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen Rejuvenation Bead, HPs, SW; Volibear EW, Machete, HPs; Kha'Zix SW, Flask, HPs; Nunu 4SW, 1VW, EW, HP, MP.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volibear EW into ML1, 1-1-3, Shen at Blue ramp, Volibear mid tower, Nunu and Twitch R2.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:42</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man into enemy wraiths. 0:55 EW into Wraith bush, walk around through R3 to R2, SW into R2.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:06</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyone collapses to the tower side of Wraith Bush, Nunu VWs Sona's EW.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:26</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE backs out, Ryze SW into ML2, pinged by TPS.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen heads top, Nunu Twitch does Golems, Voli and Kha'Zix does Wraiths. Nunu, Twitch do a smiteless Red for Volibear as well and head <i>mid</i>. Kha'Zix heads bot.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EZ, Sona does Wolves; Ryze, Singed, Xin does Wraiths. Singed Xin take a smiteless Red. No swap from WE.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:36</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Voli takes a fast Lvl 3 at Blue and bush ganks Singed for first blood.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:30</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xin takes a Blue and helps defend mid in plain sight, while bot pushes heavily.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPS opened with an innovative strategy off duo mid with Nunu and Twitch, which shut down very Ryze's early cs very well, however their lack of escapes meant that Xin Zhao easily took out Twitch with a flash gank over the Wraith wall. OhReaL managed a First Blood on Singed. In the meantime, EZ and Sona managed to take out bot tower, and spotting Nunu backing for wards took a Dragon again the story of the early game was giving up Caomei's life to take objectives.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE was up 2K at the seven minute mark but TPS took the game back with 2 consecutive ganks on Weixiao that ruined his 22 KDA in SWL, and later took Baron while 5 WE players were chasing Shen in bot lane. TPS then derped rather hard and initiated under enemy tower with bad coordination, GoDJJ blew up instantly and Misaya survived Shen and Kha'Zix to mop up the game.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GIGABYTE StarsWar Season 2 Round 5</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">WE vs. NJSH Game 1</span></b></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE: Weixiao(AD), Misaya(AP), Caomei(Top), ClearLove(Jungle), Fzzf(Support)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NJSH: Expression(Top), NoFe(Jungle), a Wolf(Support), Locodoco(AD), Yelloout(AP)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vod: http://news.starswar.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=11&id=112</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NJSH Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xin Zhao</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twisted Fate</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryze</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NJSH Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jarvan IV</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lulu</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumble</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zed</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nami</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kog'Maw</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Varus</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vladimir</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lee Sin</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NJSH Play-by-Play</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumble SW, HPs, Rejuvenation bead; Nami 4 SW 1 VW, HP, MP, EW.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lulu 4 SW 1 VW, HP, MP, EW. Zed Fort pot, SW, HPs.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:41</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-1-2-1, Rumble to ML3, Vlad mid, Nami and Jarvan Wraiths, J4 Es MR1, Upon seeing 4 NJSH Nami wards MR1 and is forced to mid tower, Kog moves from bot tri to R3.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:41</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-4 set-up, Elise holds top tri, four man Wraith Ward. Touch and go Ward.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:06</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumble moves to ML1, Nami VW dewards the Wraith Ward. Kog stands in bot River bush.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:06</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise moves to mid, uses spider to scout ML1. Hi Rumble. Lee and Varus head to MR2, rest to Wraith Ramp.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:23</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zed, Lulu and Elise ML2 Ward.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vlad helps Jarvan with Wolves then Blue with smite, Rumble stands guard on Blue Ramp. Bot duo takes Golems. Standard EU lanes.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zed and Elise take Wraiths, bot duo helps Lee gets smiteless blue. Lee then goes for Red and camps top as Rumble still had his SW on him. Standard EU lanes.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The game was Standard EU lanes with Najin giving up golem advantage, Weixiao pushed the lane early and was constantly 10-20 cs ahead of Locodoco form an early Jarvan gank. Mid lane Misaya was ahead of Yelloout as well, but Lee Sin gave up the Wraith camp for Zed so he wasn't as behind as the trades showed. Overall the both sides were probably happy with the lane set-ups, Lee Sin got to see lots of action top, and WE were happy to ditch Caomei as they usually do and win the other lanes. I like the NJSH's 1:23 ward at ML2, as WE was pinging the location and having Caomei stand guard rather than help with Blue, shows some concern of a Cross Lane with Blue Steal as WE already used their only VW to clear.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some regional things to note about: Chinese casters consider Vlad a counter pick to Zed, as he can avoid the lvl 6 burst by pooling out. Interesting enough, they also view Lulu as a "NA and Korea pick", citing her lack of sustain and survivability as unfavorable. Out of 36 games Lulu was only picked 6 times, and 3 were Korean picks, in NA LCS she was picked 36.4% of the games. Also Chinese teams believe that kills should be giving to Jarvan, as getting him tanky early is very beneficial in teamfights, this might explain ClearLove's absurdly high KDA for a jungler at 6.7.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Najin was clearly the weaker teamfight team, but they orchestrated several good catches and showed impressive team movement. WE's team fight advantage never showed. Unfortunately NJSH also did most of the bad plays. Expression outsmarted himself and tried to enter a teamfight from behind, was late and did nothing. They came very close to winning the game when they were 5v1 at nexus and double towers, but Expression took far too much tower damage for nothing, then Loco derped and tried to back in range of Kog'maw, which turned a won game into two inhibitors and an eventual loss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">13:40</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US"> After second blood on Rumble, Lee Sin pushes to tower, Elise went mid and Zed shifted bottom to do a three man gank, netting a third kill. Rumble heads mid due to dragon pressure and loses two waves top. This is a good display of coordination and shifting momentum from top to bottom and pulling laners away from farm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">30:10</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US"> Very well orchestrated teamfight. Lee Sin jumps the Dragon Pit and waits at Golems Varus comes in from behind Red buff, Zed from tri. The three of them converge and blow up Weixiao taking Red, then split different ways once the teamfight starts. negating Rumble and Vlad's AoE. Catalyst for the fight was Lulu clearing wards around Baron, luring WE into a false sense of security. They win the fight 2-0 even with 2 members late.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">34:00</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US"> Elise waits in bot bush for over 2 minutes while WE is pushing mid as five, knowing that WE eventually needed to clear the wave. They rotate bot but do so scattered. Elise let's Jarvan pass, and only engages on Kogmaw, blowing him up almost instantly. The patience on this play is amazing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GIGABYTE StarsWar Season 2 Round 5</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">WE vs. NJSH Game 2</span></b></span></h2>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NJSH Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumble</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elise</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twisted Fate</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kayle</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xin Zhao</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Renekton Rejuvenation bead, SW, HPs; Kha'Zix Faerie Charm, SW, HPs MPs Leona 4SW,1 VW.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Standard EU on Purple</b>: Some factors that might have cause disdain for playing Cross Lanes, and instead opt for Standard EU lanes on Purple. Most notably is probably WE's go to duo of Sona+Ezreal does not make for a terribly good Purple side top. Sona has no escape, no hard CC, EZ has no AoE with an unreliable AS steroid, which means they don't push terribly fast, can't dive very well and are fragile enough where 2v2 ganks can be deadly. Swapping is not something they like doing often, and reserve as more of a 'Wild Card'. These are the my reasons, WE Game 1 against iG shows that the iG didn't expect the swap, and they're the team that has played WE the most extensively; b. WE punishes Purple side Cross Lanes very well, keeping the duo top lane for long periods of time with the jungle showing early to push the wave out top. It will be very interesting to see the clash of plays-styles between the dive heavy NA teams and the Chinese Junglers. The difference lies somewhat in the Junglers reaction to a pushed lane. NA Junglers tend to wait in the inner bush longer, while Chinese ones simply show up and push the wave out.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course the trade-off of not doing the swap is that you face a duo lane that has experience advantages over you. Even if you do Wolves the enemy bot still reaches 2 before you, and taking Wolves first limits jungle routes more severely than Golems. It's a testament to Weixiao's AD prowess that even faced with these disadvantages he doesn't fall behind in farm much.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's interesting to note how the farm was split in the WE vs. iG game. Since they sent Jarvan to hold bot lane most of the game Weixiao was free to take mid farm, Wolves and Wraiths, achieving 200 cs by the 17:30 minute mark. There could be some potential here for speeding the growth of AD's due to their farming potential of small camps.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second game is a highlight of abusing ward information to gain early advantages, WE recognized the swap and Jungle Red start from SKT1 on Purple, and used it to steal a blue early with a roaming support, with no real chance of contest. A very clean play that should be reenacted: Blue side Double Mid counters swapped Red start Purple.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">WE starts with this opening pretty much every game, it's a clear-out with dual wards in the enemy Jungle that places an Explorer Ward at the Wraith Bush and an Sight Ward at R1 or R2, depending on the resistance you see enter the enemy jungle. There are several clever things about this opening and I think it definitely evolved in the context of the Chinese scene. iG has been adamant about not letting the Wraith Ward see anything, going around tier two mid tower, and even trying to solo Red with Jungler without taking wraiths(Note: illuSion almost died and had to back, against NJSH), to the extent that at times you don't know the jungle Route until their jungler is double-buffed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">a. Vision Ward bait: General consent of pro teams from Korea and Asia is that it is worth placing the Vision Ward down to deward the Wraith Bush. The Explorer Ward here uses that mentality against itself and opens up 3v2 bush ganks at the bot lane. A counter to this is anticipating the clear-out and dropping a ward in MR1 for Blue or ML2 for Red, and checking the supports inventory on their way out.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">b. Jungle Route Lock Down: The only route that would be 'invisible' to this is Vision Warding the R1 or R2 ward, and let Jungle+Bot duo taking Golems, and then Red. Not an uncommon route to avoid the Wraith Ward, however this requires you to know which bush the Sight Ward is in, as both R1 and R2 can spot Red, not something I would imagine teams wanting to guess at.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This a very nice strategy that resembles a horizontal push across the map. First a team needs to recognize which side-lane will "slow push" towards enemy tower, group mid bringing the wave up, and then push the lane opposite of the slow pushed lane. To understand a "slow push", look up the game notes for WE vs.TPS game 1. You might not always succeed in taking tower, but it's close to guaranteed tower damage. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">P.S Thanks to all the redditors and
scarra for supporting my last post. I want to give special thanks to Hemes @
Leaguepedia, aka to Tawianese LoL fans. She has spent a ridiculous amount of
time updating the Asian scene on Leaguepedia giving a glimpse of these
spectacular games to me as well the rest of the World.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is when Blue Side sends their duo to
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this start Blue side looks to send
their AD + Support towards bot lane and their Bruiser towards top lane. This
grants experience advantages that can be acquired through taking Wolves and
Golems.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A common way to start for both sides is to farm Wolves with mid and top, have jungler farm Wratihs solo, and have the AD+Sup farm Golems; after the 1:40 camps bot lane then helps jungler take out the Red without smite. You will end up in lane around 2:10, and 1 cs short, but the opposing bot lane solo is usually too afraid to push freely.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite Riot's past attempts at negating
blue side advantage, it still factors into the game heavily. Most teams will
not choose Purple side given the choice. People may wonder why Blue side still
holds an advantage when most games are played in the Cross Lane set-up, which
negates Golem advantage. There are basically two scenarios that can happen in a
Cross Lane; either Blue side takes bot tower before Purple takes Top, or vice
versa. In the first scenario Blue can opt to keep the Bot duo in the bottom
half of the map and try to take Dragon while 4-3 while the bot lane is pushed.
In the second scenario Blue can simply give up the tower and send their top
laner bottom for an easy dragon. You can see this happening in WE's games
StarsWar, where they send their top lane to Dragon once the top tower is low. In
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than needing a second minion wave. This grants considerable advantages in
securing early kills especially on skill based damage ADs such as Urgot, Graves
and Ezreal. It is also note worthy that Golems can be given to the Support to
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well Bot, because it allows Top to take wolves. Shy won both match-ups of
Kha'Zix vs. Olaf and Olaf vs. Kha'Zix in IEM Katowice due to having a lvl
advantage through wolves. He took two points in Taste Their Fear at lvl 4rather
than the much more common Void Spike(which he still upgraded at lvl 6), and
bursted down lvl 3 Olaf in a single spell rotation. As Olaf, getting early lvl
2 aggression with an Undertow and Reckless Swing meant sOAz could not trade any
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end up on top lane or on bot lane on the ward information you have. Generally
it is advisable to end up at your Solo Lane to support, if the enemy Jungle
tries to 3v1 then you profit, if not, you can still get ahead in levels and
preserve your tower hit points. If you have no wards in the enemy Jungle doing
a straight back for boots often means you lose your Solo Lane
tower(IWillDominate loses his tower 3 minutes into game: Team Normal Stars vs.
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set-up to assist their solo lanes against 1v2 situations. Starts for both side
would be Wraiths, Red(Smite), Wolves and then Blue; or Wolves, Blue(Smite Save)
into Red, Wraiths and Wolves again, with the former being slightly faster to
reach tower. The idea behind a Jungler route like this is if the enemy jungler
comes to tower dive your solo lane than he is essentially wasting his or her
time since you can defend easily, and you gain an advantage in your 2v1 lane by
grinding their tower down faster; hence a more defensive set-up. With this in
mind the Jungler shouldn't be shy in taking farm or pushing the lane out, the
goal here is to delay the time your tower goes down. Though it seems counter
intuitive, the top laner usually ends up with more farm when the jungle show
himself in lane and takes farm with him, this is evident in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEHuwYymquM">WE's StarsWargames</a>.</span></span></div>
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their Duo side, and end up in their solo lanes to support. Of course, what
happened in Katowice should serve as a reminder that even a 2v3 is not safe if
there are teleports on the map. You also need to consider how much CC the opposing jungler and support bring to the dive, with teams like TSM using Leona and Taric to man handle a 3v2 situation under tower.</span></span></div>
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the enemy jungle from wraiths to gank their Duo lane. At 4:30 the early game
wards have already expired, but mid and duo lanes haven't gone to buy yet.
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to take down a tower first won the game by close to 3-1 margin. Blue side has much more options in snowballing the game with early towers, where as Purple is usually looking to get their two members out of the top half of the map as soon as possible. For Blue side if Top tower is still healthy when you've taken down Purple's bottom tower than you can transition top. If you are likely to lose Top tower than middle tower or Dragon make for good calls, depending on how far the bot lane is pushed in. </span></span></div>
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actually play around being down a tower quite often, where they leave the solo laner to
farm freezed lane, instead of rotating their bot duo. This is very effective on a laner like Shen, since you don't lose map
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is when both teams send their AD and
Support duo bot lane. By doing so Purple side is giving up an immediate
advantage in early exp. Reasons for Purple opting a Standard set-up is to give
Blue a hard time due to superior match-ups. </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pattern seems to be that you need a
even harder kill lane to counter-act exp advantage. Some interesting picks for
Purple side in bot lane would be Taric + Sivir since they can all in you
starting from level one(TPA vs. SF5). In general picking Taric on Purple side
is very interesting since he has a lot of mind game potential, as he has high
dive potential in Cross Lanes as well. iG has tried duo Bruisers bot lane(iG
vs. WE), and Blitz Lulu(iG vs. LGD). Caitlyn + Nunu basically works everywhere.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Sona is typically much more of a Blue side pick than a Purple one, if she runs into Standard Lanes where she is countered, she still has Golem exp to fall back on; also since Purple is more pressured to take tower early in Cross Lanes you need more of a CC heavy support for diving.</span></div>
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AD + Support bottom is a late clear-out. This is done commonly if Purple side
feels they have a stronger lvl 1 and opts for deep warding. There is more than
enough time however for the bot lane to transition top and take Golems if they
exit your jungle by the 1:10 mark, so early clear-outs can be confusing.</span></span></div>
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rarer set-up, and is least expected by Purple. Both teams need to be willing to
give up Golem advantage for this scenario to even happen. Blue side can look to
punish a Blue start Jungle by overloading the Red buff with a 3v2. Another
reason for sending AD top is to avoid kill lanes where the character is less
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where both sides send duo's top lane. This is probably the rarest type of start
in the game and a fairly large disadvantage to Blue side. Reasons for this type
of start may be that Blue picked a top laner that is not suitable for 2v1, such
as a Nidalee(TPA). As blue side if you are sending your duo to avoid theirs then you run the
chance of being eviscerated as TSM has been by CLG in game 1 NA LCS, where lanning set-ups made for a 300xp swing before they even got to lane. WE sends their AD+Sup duo to mid lane if they feel like the opposing duo lane is too strong.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This article is meant to give the community in general better tools to think about lane set-ups, and understand how the game is played accordingly. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have two goals in this article:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A basic problem facing theory-crafters and players alike is a lack of terminology to describe what teams are using as their lane set-ups. Therefore I have set-up four segments to describe common lanning set-ups and have given them each a title. Here is diagram of each of the starts I will be talking about through this article:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the terms are established I discuss why each set-up was chose, and how they shape the start of the game. This will naturally flow into some exposition of Lvl 1 strategies. In this section I draw from all the games I've had the chance to see, and note them to the best of my abilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally I back all of my discussion with detailed game notes of 8 of WE's games from the current GIGABYTE StarsWar League Season 2. I believe China is posed to become the strongest League of Legends region, with a possibility of even toppling South Korea. With the recent addition of Godlike to the Royal roster, China is shaping to have 3 world-class teams that all have insanely strong ADS, unique strategy and picks that are not seen in other regions. WE is the strongest team in China as of now, and arguably the world as well, tearing through IPL 5 and going 9-1 SWL. This part specifically deals with WE as a team, but has shaped many of my thoughts in the previous sections. I put this in the last section to make it a lighter read, and you could skip this section, but I feel that it is definitely a worth-while read, and I go more in-depth on WE's tactics.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with the last article I will be using a Bush map and it's terminology to describe where wards and players are. The Inner Bush and the Red Bushes are new(R1, R2, R3). The rest are the same, with ML as short for Mid-Left, and MR for Mid-Right.</span><br />
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bummer2000http://www.blogger.com/profile/02074073642778522361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666498893884512323.post-50100879503168733222012-11-12T08:17:00.002-08:002012-11-29T17:34:08.170-08:00The Science Behind Lvl 1 Strats and Openings (5/5)<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In all 9 games TPA groups after leaving fountain. As I mentioned previously if you 5 man steal something against a team that is split, you will usually come out ahead a smite on your Jungler, which can either facilitates another steal or prevent one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taipei Assassins always goes for this ward, without exception. This Ward has been described by casters as the “Throat of the Jungler”. Note that the Ward position discussed here is actually referring to two Wards at once, one the Ward which is placed directly in front of Wraiths, and second the Ward that is placed inside the Wraith Brush. Teams prefer the later one, however due to the extra possibility of being assaulted when approaching this bush, the former one is the more commonly placed.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>b.</b> Allows you to track their Mid as well as their Jungle. Wraiths are by far the most farmed camp of all, you can see when the enemy mid is there, if he is going bot, when the enemy jungle is there is he going mid or bot or to the blue side of the jungle. It is very hard to avoid this Ward as a jungler without wasting time.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This has caught on very fast, before the worlds I didn’t see many teams do this, afterwards the Korean teams have sometimes opted for Penta wards on even the non tank supports and triple ward the enemy jungle in the first minute.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Taiwanese casters say that Bebe and Stanley bring a crit chance mark just in case they get lucky in a lvl 1 team fight. They believe its existence would be removed come season 3 due to the amount of QQing if they actually got a lvl 1 crit off (so far they haven’t). Personally, I think it would be awesome to see, as well as hilariously retarded. Dat 0.93% too stronk!</span><br />
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where the first 4 buffs are located; these four quadrants are separated by
River and Mid Lane. Every opening will be centered near one, or multiple of
these buffs. Controlling 3 of these areas will tell you where the enemy team is
by process of elimination. How safe an opening is can be determined by how many
quadrants you have knowledge of, giving you the whereabouts of the enemy team.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lane swapping can occur for various
reasons. In the Standard EU style, the bottom lane of Blue side will always
acquire an advantage through taking Double Golems. If you are on the Purple
side, you can lane swap your bot lane to top lane and do the same, evening out
the openings. Typically speaking, Purple side usually opts for a more
interesting strategy to offset Blue side’s inherent advantage, which is
something I will miss seeing in Season 3. Most of the openings mentioned here
are for Purple. Blue side tends to Ward heavy and start normal.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lane swapping can also be done to avoid
unfavorable matchups. This can be further delved into three categories. First:
to abuse certain bruiser champions that have a hard time going 2v1, especially
those with short range and little wave clear. Second: to shut down certain
players who are deemed too strong. Lane swapping was done 5-6 months before the
NA scene in GPL to shut down Stanley; in a standard meta Stanley would win the
lane, in a reverse meta at least both tops got no farm. Third: To give your AD
an easier time through the first few levels. Note that both times TPA picked Vayne
on Blue side she was sent top.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lane Swapping in the Korean fast push meta
is also meant to give a team wide advantage by pushing the towers down. It was
not uncommon to see both sides with a tower down by 5 minutes into the game.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is probably the safest opening a team
can have, and is applicable to both Purple side and Blue side. The team starts
off split in a 4-1, with the Support placing an early ward down at your own Red
(close to the pit so you can see an invade if they come from Wriaths), and then
joining up with the team through Mid lane, where you then 5 man move into the
enemy Wraiths and drop a Ward. By doing this you will gain vision of three of
the four quadrants. Please remember however, to send some skill shots toward
the Red Back Bush when doing so. You can finish This start hard-counters early
and late invades into your Red, just wait for one of the enemies to eventually
back and jump on them 5v4.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do not put the Ward down at your own
Wraiths, you won’t be stopping someone from putting the Ward down there. MVP
lost the ESL Korean Qualifiers to KT2 because their Wraith ward didn’t see the
Red invade, top laned got killed, and tower went to half.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe that this is a superior opening
than the ultra passive 1-1-1-1-1 cover all entrance strat. The reason being
that you cannot counter ward the enemy wraiths if you are you are playing
Purple side reverse EU. Your side lanes are also prone to being pinned under
tower where the enemy team swings as a group. It is impossible to transition
out of this opening , while you can do Red steal, or swing around for a late
blue invade due to being grouped in the Passive opening. TPA never does the
1-1-1-1-1-1. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. The 2v1 mid, Teleport Opening:</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This opening gives blue side a very strong
start. Take teleport on you AP, who is usually Karthus(who can farm from super
long range), and also a CC heavy support that can roam, like Leona and Taric.
The reason you do this on Purple side is because you can get a 5v3 advantage at
the enemy Blue in a late invade. 5 man steal the blue and teleport your AP bot.
Their jungler is now forced to start at his Red. Try to shut down their mid
lane, and roam your support when you can.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The common response for Blue side is to
roam their own support mid as well, however this defeats the purpose of having
a solo lane for your AP. Beware of what happened in M5 vs TPA game 1, where M5
was able to steal the Blue back uncontested. The Korean 1v2 laners now start
with buying a ward sometimes to prevent being dived by the Jungler. The Koreans
have also been giving their initial Blue to Mids who are against 2v1s. This is
actually quite smart because the top lane is really the only gankable lane in
when one team goes 2v1 mid, so the JG isn’t that mana strapped since he only
farms.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teams tend to transition back into a more
traditional set-up with this build. The reason being that Mages tend to have
strong AOE ult bursts, so having the two of your squishes in mid lane is
dangerous post 6. Another reason is that Mages start to have good wave clear after 5. You will also lose farm on your ADC due to him/her having to
roam around.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a number of variations you can do
with this strat as well. SAJ vs. DIG, Karthus didn’t bring Teleport, and instead
they opted for a four man steal on to red. When the enemy is likely grouped and
over all stronger in a lvl 1 fight you can forgo the steal and send Karthus bot
immediately, forcing a lane switch if they have a Mid that is bad at dealing
with 2v1.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. The Najin Opening:</span></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, the Najins probably didn’t invent this
opening, and are probably not the first to use it, but it was executed to such
perfection in their <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df_buzrJvgE">civilwar</a> that I had to name it after them. This is basically a slightly risky
Purple side Red invade that you should attempt when both sides have a
traditional Blue start Jungler. Start off as a five man in River bush, start
the invade at 1:40 with a vision ward into bot tri, top should back at this
time. Steal the Red on to your Jungler and <i>make
it seem like</i> your mid and bot gave a hard leash to you Jungler. Do this by approaching
the lane from bot river bush and walking into mid lane from the entrance right
of the tower.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WIdwZ2Rlhlk/UKEg7CvCduI/AAAAAAAAAKo/xPrl7Bdtjm4/s1600/Najin+Start+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WIdwZ2Rlhlk/UKEg7CvCduI/AAAAAAAAAKo/xPrl7Bdtjm4/s320/Najin+Start+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This works against the Blue side advantage
in multiple ways. First off their bot lane will be doing Golems at 1:40, and the
other three members are likely at their own Blue + Wolves. Second, Bot lane on
Blue Side has a tendency to go aggressive on Purple side due to them having a
lvl advantage. Your Jungler will be able to swoop in and net a double if this
happens.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Late Blue Steal</span></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA will does this quite often when they
are on Purple Side in a reverse EU start. After taking your own Wolves with 4
people, Vision ward ML2 and then invade at 1:55 with 4 people. You have a
chance to catch their mid, and a high chance of forcing their Jungler off blue.
Don’t do the Passive start here, leave someone to grant vision of your Wraith
entrance so it isn’t seen. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a highly solo-que friendly strat,
being easy to execute and with few wards coming from the enemy team. It also
screws over 2 people from the blue side, the top laner who is giving a hard
leash and planning to let the lane push towards him, and the Jungler who has to
start Red. See Game 2 vs NJS.</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Notes: All in-game icons and pictures are copy-righted materials belonging to Riot Games. Combinations of these icons with arrows and other such marks are of my doing, please contact me for usage.</span></span></div>
bummer2000http://www.blogger.com/profile/02074073642778522361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666498893884512323.post-91334155782922748602012-11-11T21:49:00.001-08:002012-11-29T22:10:54.161-08:00Finals: TPA vs AZF (4/5)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>S2WC
Finals Round</b></span></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA vs.
AZF: Game 1</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Players:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AzubuFrost:
Shy(Top), CloudTemplar(JG), RapidStar(Mid), Woong(ADC), MadLife(Sup)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taipei
Assassins: Stanley(Top), Lil_ballz(JG), Toyz(Mid), Bebe(ADC), Mistake(Sup)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lulu Faerie Charm, Sight Ward x4. 4-1,
everyone except lulu in ML2. Pretty even Lvl 1.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona Faerie Charm, Sight Ward x4.
1-2-1-1, Irelia top tri, Sona, Amumu wraith entrance. Karthus mid. EZ Blue
entrance.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:32</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lulu wards own Red bush. Maokai saps ML1.
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:42</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona Wards ML2. Spots TPA.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:58</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA seeing Karthus mid, 5 man wards enemy
Wraiths. AZF sees the ward go down.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:09</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona and EZ counter ward TPA’s Wraiths.
(TPA pings it out, no vision.) Standard EU.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bot lane takes Golems. Standard EU.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Game
Winner: Azubu Frost<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening
Winner: Inconclusive <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conclusions:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very
passive start from TPA, albeit with good warding. If you don’t see the enemy
team at your red or their red, it just means they’re starting blue. Azubu Frost
seems to have anticipated the 5 man wraith ward and put a ward down at ML2. I’m
not a huge fan of this ward since it doesn’t spot jungle movement very well,
Maokai is not going to counter jungle you. I guess it does give Karthus a side to lean
on in lane though. In this scenario, where Blue side is allowed to take Golems
in peace, I would usually say that Blue had an advantage, but it had no bearing
on the game so I listed it as Inconclusive. TPA was ahead early but lost the
game at a dragon fight which gave RapidStar a quadra kill. The AOE comp from
Azubu kicked in and they were never able to take a teamfight, despite winning
the lanning phase.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two
things to note here; It seems that TPA expects the enemy to counter ward their
own Wraiths if they don’t see the support present in their 5 man Wraith
warding, this is evident in Game 1 vs NJS, as well as this game, where blind
pings happen on spot. Unless Stanley wasn’t really adjusting his monitor I
think it is a logical guess. Second, this is the same set-up that happened in
Game 4 of this series. TPA was able to net an early double kill off this. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<h3>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA vs.
AZF: Game 2</span></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AZF Bans <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nidalee</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blitzcrank</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kog’Maw</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skarner</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orianna</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jayce</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AZF Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA Picks <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mundo<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anivia<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthus<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jax<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caitlyn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zyra<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Play by
Play:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zyra Faerie Charm, Sight Ward x4, Health
pot. Lvl 1 goes to AZF, with a root and a stun.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona Faerie Charm, Sight Ward x 4, Health
pot. Karthus with teleport. 2-1-1-1. Caitlyn and Shen at Wraiths, Cait drops
a trap on entrance, Karthus holds mid, Mundo heads straight into MR1. Sona at
their own blue.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:30</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AZF opens with a 5 man rush towards TPA’s
blue.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:31</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mundo spots multiple AZFs incoming. Sona
drops ward at Blue.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:53</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AZF wards TPA’s Blue. Maokai stays at
Wraith entrance and saps MR1.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:53</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA 5 man squatting in MR1, gets spotted
by a sapling. Sees AZF split and wards the Wraiths.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:04</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AZF sees the ambush and retreats through
bot tri. Maokai pings the Wraith ward.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:16 </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai Bs to replenish mana.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:16</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mundo waits around in MR1, then goes to
join the rest of team at own Wraiths, Karthus replaces his position.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal and Maokai take Golems. Zyra, Jax
and Anivia wait mid. Zyra, EZ help Maokai with red. Smite saved.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthus steals the big Wraith over the
wall, then heads bot through river. 4man Red start for Mundo, smites.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:08</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anivia immediately heads bottom while
Ezreal and Zyra head mid. TPA sees all of this through Wraith ward.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:08</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caitlyn shows mid. Sona wards ML2.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:22</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bot duo makes it to mid.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:22</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now mid duo heads immediately to bot.
Sona pulls blue for Mundo on the way out.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:44</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bot duo shoves mid, Anivia senses danger
and hugs the tower. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:44</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona wards bot tri. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:51</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ez and Zyra move bot. Zyra drops ward on
MR3. AZF sees Mundo moving bot and pings fervently. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:51</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthus teleports mid. Karthus sees the
duo leave and shoves hard. TPA sees Zyra drop the ward through the Wraith
brush, Mundo goes to wait at the blind
spot at dragon entrance.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:03</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anivia moves mid, EZ starts farming. Zyra
fires her snare to check the river bush and drops a ward down outside the tri
bush at the Dragon curb, to find Mundo.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:03</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA bot lane and Mundo jump on Zyra,
first blood goes to Caitlyn. Meanwhile Karthus takes his own Wraiths while
Anivia is under tower.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Game
Winner: Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening
Winner: Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This game
opener showcases the mind games between two high level teams, and why getting
purple side is hardly a disadvantage at the pinnacle of competitive play. There
are so many intelligent things both teams did that it makes describing them all
rather difficult. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First of
all, Cloudtemplar actually did the Golems first to avoid the Wraith ward and
took Red without TPA knowing. There was no tangible advantage gained in this
game, but it is the first time I’ve seen it done against TPA. M5 took wraiths
regardless of the Ward and nearly gave up first blood in game 3. Second, AZF
clearly suspected a lane swap coming in from TPA, since they did not commit
their bot lane until Bebe showed up mid. What they didn’t expect was Toyz
burning teleport immediately, as a result Karthus lost nothing from Woong
shoving the lane. Toyz shoved the lane back and then took Wraiths, putting him
ahead 10 cs at 3 minutes. This lead would snowball to nearly 50 ten minutes
later. Essentially TPA lane swapped once while making AZF lane swap twice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA
managed to get first blood because they predicted how Zyra would ward. AZF saw
Lil_ballz heading towards river through their Blue ward, so Madlife correctly
dropped a ward at MR3 because Mundo may head mid. TPA however saw her ward
somewhere in the river through the Wraith ward, and knew that the next logical
position for Madlife to ward would be at the Dragon curb (warding at the tri
brush is for prevention of the enemy jungler coming through your jungle, since
Madlife had already warded their own Wraith entrance hence eliminating that
possibility, it was only logical to ward in the river), so Lil_Ballz hid in a
blind spot waiting for her. You can actually see Mistake snickering as Madlife
walks through the tri brush to ward. This sequence of plays really shows how
important information is in the game, both the information you have, and the
information the enemy has. For me, this is undoubtedly the best opening play in
the Tournament. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AZF lost
the game when they initiated a 3 man tower dive at top lane after seeing Toyz
back in mid, Karthus called down an ultimate at base and then teleported to
reverse killed all three AZF members, Bebe in bot lane scored an Ace at 14
minutes. Opening play definitely factored in here as RapidStar was eager to
make a play after being screwed by the lane swap.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA vs.
AZF: Game 3</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jayce</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blitzcrank</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthus</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AZF Picks <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orianna<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mundo<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anivia<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leona<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vayne<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jax<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vladimir<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Play by
Play:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu Faerie Charm, Sight Wards x 4,
Health potion. 5 man Wraith entrance. Lvl 1 goes to AZF.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leona Faerie Charm, Sight Wards x 4,
Health potion.5 man bot tri. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:49</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wraith bush warded.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:05</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man wraith brush warded.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:45</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man helps mundo with wolves. Jax 4<sup>th</sup> pots
and heads bot. Reverse EU.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:45 </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vlad Bs for 4<sup>th</sup> pot and heads
top. 4 man help Shen with wolves and Blue. Standard EU.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:22</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vayne, Mundo and Nunu invade Red, takes
it with smite.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:22</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen V-pinged away from Red by Vlad.
Takes his own Wraiths</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:44</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 man gank up top, Vlad pools away.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:11</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leona and Shen invade Red, Shen leaves
two lizards, ganks mid unsuccessfully. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Game
Winner: Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening
Winner: Inconclusive<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conclusions:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quietest
opening of the night, with both teams mirroring each other and 5 manning the
Wraith Ward. The real difference in openings and what eventually led to TPA’s
advantage was the difference strategies used by their 2v1 lanes. On AZFs side
Woong and Madlife pushed aggressively against tower, denying him farm but
letting him gain exp. On TPA’s side, Bebe and Mistake attempted to zone Shy.
When the lanes swapped back Stanley had a 2 lvl advantage on Shy, which later
led into a kill. Woong, in my opinion, is simply a tier below Bebe in terms of
skill, and it showed. Vayne got fed off questionable engages and AZF typed out
surrender at 20, being behind 10K and a Baron.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two notes
on this game. First, by now you may have realized that TPA ALWAYS GOES FOR THE
WRAITH WARD, 100% the time. There are a lot of things this ward accomplishes
which I will discuss in the final part of this post. Second, thoughts on the
invade from Azubu. I just wanted to note that the timings on this invade is
very different from the Najin version, this was aimed at catching people with a
strong lvl 1 comp, not buff stealing. Azubu Frost has shown that they will go
balls deep for good warding and a possible catch when they have a stronger
lvl1. TPA read this correctly however, and avoid any possible contact, while
also predicting the Wraith ward (again blind pinged.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<h3>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA vs.
AZF: Game 4</span></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AZF Bans <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nidalee</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blitzcrank</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthus</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skarner</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AZF Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA Picks <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jayce<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.3pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orianna<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shyvana<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.3pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mundo<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lux<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Graves<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.3pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lulu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Play by
Play:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lulu Boots, Sight Wards x2. Even lvl 1
fight.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu Faerie Charm, Sight Wards x4.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:36</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man rushes in to invade into the top
tri. Everyone makes it in by 0:36.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:27</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu drops a ward at own red.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:48</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All 5 of them pass TPAs Red ward, they
camp the Wraith brush.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:52</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu drops a ward at enemy Wraiths. TPA
heads to groups at their own mid.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:35</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jacye pings bot and leaves at 1:35. AZF
split up with Shyvana, Graves heading top and Lux, Lulu trying to retreat
from Wraith entrance.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:38</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA says ambushes them, Lux lands a cluth
Q to avoid the Shen taunt and Flashes for distance. Lulu is forced north and
eventually killed. She manages to drop a Ward in Wraith bush. FB to Ori.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:58</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Graves and Shyv take away the Big Golem.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mundo starts Wraiths.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:10</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Graves tries to steal away Red with Q,
but doesn’t realize he is standing on a ward. Mundo smites Red, and they
chase for Graves.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mean time Jayce farms away bot, Shen
returns to bot lane at 3 minutes. Reverse EU from both sides. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:18</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen Flash taunts and Ezreal kills
Graves. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:43</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 TPA members steal Blue for Mundo.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Game
Winner: Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening
Winner: Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those who
watched the games progress on live stream and at the venue itself all agree;
the match was mentally over at game three. With Azubu taking out the NA
favorites in TSM amid a cheating scandal, and good outturn from the
Taiwanese/Chinese community, TPA was treat as the home town favorites. The mood
of the crowd, as well as 20 minutes surrender, got into Azubu’s head. This
showed in their choice of opening strategies, as well as their play. First off,
the five man into Red was a risky play by nature, which I will elaborate more
on. Second Woong’s play for Red was a desperation play, and this happened once
more in an attempt to stop Baron. TPA took the game with considerable leverage
from a passive opening. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thing to
note about AZFs rush to top tri. Shy used two gates on the way and they managed
to all arrive at 0:36. This is the only opening where Madlife takes boots, and
it was clearly a cheese strat. With 370 movespeed it still takes 28-30 seconds
to arrive there from the middle of the purple fountain. Pros get there by 0:34.
I could see some easy cheese kills being picked up if your rank 5 team is down
with it. Second thing is I wanted to discuss the ‘safeness’ of this play. By
the 1:35 mark it was quite clear that either TPA was starting Blue, invading
Red or in the worst case scenario warded the Red. Since the only time Mundo
starts Blue for TPA is if he is about to steal Red, it really came down to a
50% call. In the third game AZF left as a 5 man group, with much less risk. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">>>Continue Reading: <a href="http://leagueanalysis.blogspot.tw/2012/11/the-science-behind-lvl-1-strats-and.html">The Science Behind Lvl 1 and Opening Strats</a></span></span></div>
bummer2000http://www.blogger.com/profile/02074073642778522361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666498893884512323.post-56462795072609209122012-11-11T21:46:00.001-08:002012-11-16T18:50:51.229-08:00Semi-Finals: TPA vs. M5 (3/5)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>S2WC:
Semi-Final Round</b></span></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>TPA vs.
M5: Game 1</b></span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
players:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M5:
Darien(Top), Diamondprox(JG), Alex Ich(Mid), Genja(ADC), <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taipei
Assassins: Stanley(Top), Lil_ballz(JG), Toyz(Mid), Bebe(ADC), Mistake(Sup)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M5 Bans <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lee Sin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blitzcrank<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jayce<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orianna<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M5Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA Picks <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yorick<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kog’Maw<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evelynn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Udyr<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vayne<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xin Zhao<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthus<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Play by
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-1-1-2;
Standard EU, bot waits in bot tri. Nunu boots, Sight Wards x2. Stronger Lvl1
goes to TPA due to stun+taunt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-4.
Karthus has teleport. Taric starts Vision wardx1, Sight Wardsx3, Health
Potionx2, Mana Potionx1. Kog’Maw waits at wraith entrance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:45<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xin
sees the ward go down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:45<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 man
deep wards enemy wraiths.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bot
takes Golems; Evelynn assists with wolves; Yorick waits in Blue Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4
manning own wolves; Karthus sits at mid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:53<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthus
steals big wraith. Rest of the team goes toward ML2.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:58<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yorick
spots TPA while in Blue bush, minions see Karthus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:58<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wards
ML4. 4 man moves in with Karthus incoming.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:05<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 man
stops blue, hangs around. Bot start farming.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:05<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 man
steal; Taric pinks the Blue bush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:27<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu
rotates mid to help. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:27<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a
prolonged scuffle Udyr manages to steal Blue buff while flash is burned up on
Xin Zhao. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:30<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthus
teleports bot. Kog and Taric move to mid to shut down Evelynn’s cs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:34<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xin
Zhao nunu counter steals blue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:50<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xin,
Nunu and Vayne three man dive for bot for first blood going to Nunu. Nunu
moves mid afterwards to support Evelynn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Game Winner:
M5<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening Winner:
M5<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conclusions:
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite
all the fancy play from TPA, M5 came ahead with the FB, countering novelty with
an awesome level headedness. The gold lead however, was to go into TPAs favor due to
Stanley doubling Darien’s farm (Not sure why, the camera never went to top lane
due to all the action bot. Feeder!) and Evelynn being held to single digit cs.
TPA was still in a very strong position, what eventually lost them the game was
an ill fated fight in front of M5’s tower which netted Alex Ich a triple,
beginning a reign of terror.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is
worth noting that this double-mid is essentially the same strat that Saigon
Jokers pulled on Dignitas in the group stages. They too were purple side, used
a heavy cc support in Leona, tried to shut down a melee-range snowball caster
in Katarina, and sent Karthus bot. Only they didn’t have teleport on NIXWATER
so they opted for a successful Red steal rather than blue. The purple side Blue
steal is much stronger because you have a 5vs3 at blue, and your top laner can
get into position much easier.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my
belief that TPA could have played this much better if they realized the
possibility of 3 man bot dive. If Lil_ballz had gone to secure his blue first,
with the help of Mistake, Diamondprox on Xin would not have the levels or
position to complete the play. All in all, great reaction from M5 and a very
interesting showcase of openings from TPA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA vs.
M5: Game 2</span></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA
Bans <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M5
Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lee Sin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blitzcrank<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evelynn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jayce<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA
Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M5
Picks <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orianna<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yorick<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kog’Maw<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taric<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zilean<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vayne<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Udyr<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nidalee<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zyra<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Play By Play:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taric Sight Wards x5, health pot. 5 man
movement. Nidalee ran teleport. Slight Lvl 1 advantage to TPA due to stun and
vision granting spells.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zyra Boots, Sight Wards x2, health pot
x1. 1-1-1-1-1 defensive formation. Kog at top tri, Zyra at wraiths, Zilean
mid, Udyr MR2, Yorick at bot river bush. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:32</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man heads toward wraith entrance.
Sapplings into MR2.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:32</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Udyr spots the sapling, retreats to MR4. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:45</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man reach around invade through MR4,
ward dropped at Blue bush.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:01</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kog and Zyra counter ward TPA’s Blue
bush.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:04</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man move towards baron. With two going
straight through mid and another three wrapping around ML2.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:04</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zilean sees them the whole time, yet
somehow Zyra still decides to exit through their own wraith entrance.
Miscommunication?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:12</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taric flash stuns Zyra. First Blood goes
to Vayne. 4 assists.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:12</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yorick moves up to mid lane. Kog retreats
through top tri.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:25</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taric drops a ward at Wraith brush.
Nidalee leaves a trap at back Red brush. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nidalee goes back; the rest assist Maokai
in taking Wolves then blue. No smite used. M5 sees Vayne and Taric leave, but
don’t see them coming to lane.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zilean helps Udyr steal Wraiths, and
Yorick helps with stealing red. Udyr uses smite. TPA pings this out as they
don’t see Udyr at Blue with their early ward.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:32</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai, Taric and Vayne attempt a Red
steal. Meets Udyr, however Maokai still has smite and takes red. A 4v4 ensues
with, Taric and Zilean going down near instantly, Vayne has great position in
the Red back bush and comes out unscathed to flash hunt Kog’Maw over the
Baron wall for another kill. Orianna then proceeds to steal three Wraiths
under Udyr’s nose. Zilean actually dies to the Nidalee trap. (I had to
rewatch that 3 times, thought it was a glitch at first since she was bot
lane.)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winner:
Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening
Winner: Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conclusions:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A
combination of bad play and bad luck really put M5 very far behind in the
opening, sending them 3-1 and down 1K by the third minute mark. Gosupepper
getting caught was a bad play, Alex Ich had a bad entrance to the fight being
pincered coming from mid lane, fighting for Red buff was questionable, and Alex
Ich getting popped by a Stanley trap when he could have lived was bad luck. One
must still admire the number of great calculations made by TPA. Going for the
Red steal knowing that Udyr was unlikely to have smite was a very good play and
helped swing a close team fight. The early 5 man roaming forced M5 to react and
constantly reposition. In the end the opening led directly to M5’s loss as
their top and bot towers were pushed down before the 12 minute mark. Top lane
is snowbally and being down 1-0-1 did not help Darien.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Couple
things to note. Again TPA chose to 5 man roam when they had a teleport on the
team, with Taric opting for nothing but wards once more. This type of roaming forces
the weaker Lvl1 one team to spread out, and when counter stealing early buffs
this usually means the jungler has to burn smite early with fewer teammates to
help, this is a recurring theme and opening advantage TPA has enjoyed
throughout the tournament. This is also the only game Taric won the entire
tournament.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe
that after the Zyra death Dimondprox should have just taken his own blue rather
than contest a Red at a disadvantage. They would have evened the buffs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<h3>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>TPA vs.
M5: Game 3</b></span></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M5
Bans <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA
Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lee Sin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blitzcrank<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evelynn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jayce<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orianna<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<td style="background: #8DB3E2; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-background-themecolor: text2; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.6pt;" valign="top" width="158"><div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M5Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA
Picks <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gragas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.3pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mundo<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kog’Maw<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anivia<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shyvana<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.3pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yorick<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.3pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nidalee<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Play by Play: </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu Boots, Sight Wards x2; 1-1-1-1-1,
standard EU covering each entrance. TPA has better lvl1.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona Sight Wards x 4; 5 man moves toward
own wraith entrance.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:30</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu Wards ML3.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:52</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man blue bush, ward put down. (Seem by
nunu’s ML3 ward.)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:08</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kog stays in MR1. Nunu counter Blue bush
Wards. Everyone runs out at the sight of TPAs swing. Yorick backs being
isolated at top tower.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:19</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 man swing to enemy Wraiths, Ward put
down. M5 spots the ward.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gragas helps Shyv start wraiths, TPA
pings this out.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anivia catches Nunu with Flash Frost over
dragon wall, Nunu burns flash, 5 man invade Red.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:00</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shyv and Yorick counter invade Red. Shyv
smites.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:55</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA takes Red, Mundo saves smite. Nidalee
teleports top.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winner:
Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening
Winner: Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conclusions:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall
advantage to TPA, Diamondprox had to do blue alone without smite, bot lane had
no wards, and one less flash on Gosupepper. However, bot lane is pushed in very
quickly by Bebe’s aggression and Lil_Ballz is forced to burn flash escaping
from a counter gank, so neither mattered. Lvl 1 openings did not affect the
outcome of the game much. M5 lost in the picking phase, Diamondprox on Shyvana
could not stop the pushing power, nor gank the highly mobile lanes TPA had.
Stanley ran rampant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA
repeated the same themes in the previous two games, 5 man movement early,
leading into deep wards and counter jungling with superior numbers(leading to a
smite advantage) and teleports to the farthest lane. This time Gosu decided to
rush a fast ward at ML3 in anticipation of this. Something worth noting is that
NJS, TPA and AZF almost never start boots 2 wards on their supports, and this
game shows how easy it can turn into a blind lane against heavy warding and
unorthodox movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">I believe
Alex Ich could have done better against Toyz in mid. If you want to see a
similar match up, watch this </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWsenw7hd6Q&feature=plcp">game</a></span><span lang="EN-US"> where our friendly neighbors SGS Chawy takes
a shit on Toyz Anivia, solo killing him under tower twice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">>> Continue Reading: <a href="http://leagueanalysis.blogspot.tw/2012/11/finals-tpa-vs-azf-45.html">Finals: TPA vs. AZF</a></span></span></div>
bummer2000http://www.blogger.com/profile/02074073642778522361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666498893884512323.post-74422959413430104832012-11-11T21:42:00.002-08:002012-11-16T18:50:21.015-08:00Quarter Finals: TPA vs NJS (2/5)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<h2>
<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S2WC
Quarter Finals Round</span></b></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
<h3>
<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA vs.
NJS: Game 1</span></b></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Players:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Najin
Sword: Maknoon(Top), Watch(JG), Ssong(Mid), PraY(ADC), Cain(Sup)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taipei
Assassins: Stanley(Top), Lil_ballz(JG), Toyz(Mid), Bebe(ADC), Mistake(Sup)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evelynn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vladimir<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morgana<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthus<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NJS Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jayce<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skarner<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oriana<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kog’Maw<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taric<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mundo<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryze<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Play by
Play:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu Wards x 4, Mana potion x1. 3-1-1
Mundo, Jayce and Nunu top tri; Oriana at ML3, Kog at bot tri.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Standard EU opening.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taric Faerie Charm, Sight Wards x4. 1-1-1-1-2;
Irelia top tri, Skarner at Wraiths, Ryze mid, bot duo at MR2. Standard EU opening.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3man ward top-tri.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Irelia spots the incoming Jayce Q and
retreats does not see ward go down. Bot duo sees this and proceeds to ward
enemy Wraith Brush. Which is pinged by TPA (no vision).</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:57</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4-mans wards enemy Wraiths.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:57</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryze sees the Ward go down. NJS proceeds
to 5 man swing towards TPA’s wraiths. And eventually makes it to Red back
brush undetected.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:20</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jayce comes down to help Mundo with
Wraiths. They suspect something, 4 people in hide in Wraith Bush, standing on
a NJS ward.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mundo takes wraiths hugging the wall,
Ori, Jayce and Mundo then swing to Blue buff. Nunu and Kog take the Golems.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:55</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunu drops a ward in Red bush spotting
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:50</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Irelia backs for 4<sup>th</sup> pot.
Skarner smites and takes red. Goes on to take his own Blue.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:47</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mundo steals Wraiths. Then steals red
without smite, gets to see Skarner on his way out. Standard EU from both
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Game Winner: Taipei Assassins</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening Winner: Inconclusive</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conclusions:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very slight gold lead for TPA, real nail
bitter at Lil_ballz wraiths, and again when he was stealing Skarner’s red.
Three seconds off and he would have been dead. The game was a gradual loss for
NJS due to every position being outperformed except for Maknoon’s beautiful
play on Irealia. Bebe beat Pray’s Ezreal on Kog’Maw, with a large part of it
being the ineffectiveness of Cain’s Taric. You could tell they were
uncomfortable with Taric in the picking phase, by the amount of switching and
deliberation. Most Asian teams agree that at the time Nunu, Sona and Blitz were
the OP supports, Blitz was still on the table, but pros feel like Nunu actually
counters Blitz, hence the Taric pick.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There has been quite some speculation as to
why TPA knew that NJS was camping in their Red brush, some Korean websites have
even suggested cheating. Lil_Ballz himself has only been known to say that “well,
of course they were there.” (source: GPL game #114, Taiwanese casters discuss
this issue.) Originally I believed TPA deduced NJS position by spotting their
support with one less ward, however this is not the case. I think part of it
can be attributed to an educated guess, because they obviously were not around
their own Red, and TPA pinged their own Wraiths as soon as they knew they were
spotted at top tri. Another possibility is that TPA studied how NJS likes to
play. After viewing about 10+ of their games, something both Najins really enjoys
doing on purple side is 4 man hiding in the bot river bushes, and then invading
Red at 1:40. Top goes back at around 1:40 for the 4<sup>th</sup> pot and they
take red. This is somewhat similar to what happens here. I will be doing a more
in-depth discussion on NJS’s opening strat later in to the article.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe
both sides played their hands very well, it was the most tension filled of any opening
in TPA’s nine games. The Bebe positioning at bot tri rather than wraiths
suggested they probably knew how NJS plays. I don’t think they needed Toyz when
warding NJS’s Wraiths, leaving an opening for them to sneak in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA vs.
NJS: Game 2</span></b></span></h3>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NJS Bans<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vladimir<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jayce<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kog’Maw<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evelynn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthus<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orianna<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NJS Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TPA Picks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ezreal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Corki<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skarner<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morgana<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blitz<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jax<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anivia<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Play by
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Plays<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona Faerie Charm, Sight Wards x 4, Health
pot x1. 2-1-2; Jax at top tri, Sona wards top river bush. Morg mid. Corki,
Maokai wraith brush. Standard EU.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set-up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blitzcrank Sight Ward x 4, Vision Ward x
1, Health pot x1. 1-1-3; Anivia holds wraith entrance, Ezreal mid, rest rush towards
enemy Wraiths. Reverse EU opening.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:44</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona Wards top river bush.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:56</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai saps ML2. Spots the</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">0:50</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 man deep ward enemy Wraiths. They swing
around back to their won Wraith entrance. They 5 man roam to ML2, gets seen
by sapping. Blitz drops a vision ward. Everyone retreats to own Wraiths.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sona, Corki take bot Golems.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:40</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shen moves to bot lane. 4 man takes own
Wraiths.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:55</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4man pulls Blue with Blitzcrank, fails. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:20</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maokai eventually gives up after being
outnumbered. Starts Red with Morg leash. Has to back upon finishing due to no
mana. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:30</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skarner finally takes blue after a
scuffle with NJS, uses smite. TPA opens with a reverse EU.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Game
Winner: Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening
Winner: Taipei Assassins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conclusion:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very small
gold lead for Najin Sword for getting bot golems, and reaching lanes faster. I
still gave the lead to TPA due to how Watch is screwed heavily from having no
mana from saplings and having to do Red start, not to mention losing a Blue
buff. He plays it out very intelligently by camping top and siphoning off exp
from Maknoon and preventing any damage being done to their tower in a 2v1 lane.
Watch manages to top Lil_ballz in levels soon after. Najin lost because they
were outsmarted and played the Korean meta to the T, while TPA recognized this
and <i>let them</i> take an early bot tower.
What this meant was that Maknoon had to roam around a lot while Stanley tried
to freeze the lane and build straight GP10s. This worked due to the Shen pick,
they only lost 1 kill to a wild Jax, but had a 2 thousand gold lead on Stanley
over Maknoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notes on
this game. Mistake actually failed the Blitz blue pull, twice. If you want to
do this remember to stand at the edge of the ML2 bush, or you will be resetting
the Blue, and you will be chasing it into a bush, rather than having the enemy
team chasing it into your team. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I don’t think Najin realized that TPA would not
be outmanned when they started losing towers, Shen could always make sure that
they were on even footing, hence stalling out the fast push Korean strategy.
Najin had a very good chance to snowball the game after a won 3-0 teamfight and
a free tower. But they misjudged the Shen ult cooldown and engaged on a 4v4 on
a TPA that didn’t back from the last fight(it looked like a good engage), Shen
ported in and TPA leapfrogged the gold lead with a 3-1 and free tower. Morgana
ult was 2 seconds from being off cool down.</span></span><br />
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>>Continue Reading: <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://leagueanalysis.blogspot.tw/2012/11/semi-final-round-tpa-vs-m5-35.html">S2WC:Semi-Final Round. TPA vs. M5</a></span></span>bummer2000http://www.blogger.com/profile/02074073642778522361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666498893884512323.post-26299083753088475332012-11-11T21:38:00.002-08:002012-11-17T21:00:56.306-08:00Study on Lv1 Openings and Strategies (1/5)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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series of articles is devoted to studying the strategies used by the Taipei
Assassins in the Season 2 World Championships. Though the number of games are
few (9 in total to be exact), they reveal many interesting things about the
game openings and strategies in general. I picked TPA as a target for study
because they won the Championship and Scarra highly recommended their opening
strategies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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plays often have high impact on the game itself. League of legends is a snowbally
game, early advantages can lend themselves to incrementally larger ones until
the losing team is forced into risky play to come back. With the amount of lane
swapping and 2v1s in the meta, some games are lost simply by having bad lane
set-ups or bad starts, having a solid lvl1 strat is incredibly important. I consider
“Lvl 1 strat” and “opening play” as a continuation of events from the start of
the game until the lanes are settled and stable farming begins. This is usually
between 0:00 to 4:00 in game time, when the initial wards placed down expires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the conclusions after the play-by-play. There will generally be three
paragraphs here. The first showing the results of the opening play and its
effect on the game. The second paragraph is where I will add additional notes
to the details of the strat, comparisons with other openings, and general
musings. The third paragraph is where I believe the teams could have played it
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the author. I am not a high Elo player, but I do believe in the power of
observation, and I follow multiple pro scenes quite in-depth. I try my best to
keep what I write accurate and empirical, in the sense I haven’t put any of my
own theory crafting into this article, but instead chose to draw on what
professional teams are already doing. I enjoy constructive criticism, and
non-rhetorical discussion, so feel free to leave opinions if you feel like you
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it can be hard to describe what is going on in the many bushes of the League,
so this I why made a map of the bushes on Summoner’s Rift. All the terms in the
following article will be in accord with this map. MR just means “Mid Right”, ML “Mid
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bummer2000http://www.blogger.com/profile/02074073642778522361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666498893884512323.post-32665290900733740682012-11-02T09:28:00.003-07:002012-11-16T21:54:34.586-08:00Support Lessons with TPA_MiSTakE<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Introduction</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mistake is the play-caller, captain and Support player for the Taipei Assassins(TPA). After being ranked as the 84th world wide team, TPA managed to defeat Najin Sword, M5 and Azubu Frost to win the World Championships, taking out the #3, #2, and #1 ranked teams on an incredible tournament run. Mistake now shares with world some of his insights on the support role and bot lane in general.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You will find Runes, Masteries, Skill point allocation, Counters and general thoughts on every currently viable Support from a world class League of Legends player in this article.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Credit goes to Mistake, and I urge you to check his stream at: </span><a href="http://zh-tw.twitch.tv/mistakelolz/b/335859544" style="color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration: none;">twitch.tv/mistakelolz</a>.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Alistar</b>: Nerfed this patch. His WQ combo is hard to pull off, and too mana intensive. Madlife mains Ali, and Clg.eu uses him as a jungler. He is a good jungler, with great CC. If you want to play passive, you will never lose lane with him.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Nunu</b>: In my mind, he is only second to Sona. In the finals we chose to ban Sona and Blitz to pick up Nunu. Madlife doesn't use Nunu much so he was left as the best support. He has AS/MS debuffs on both E and R, making him good at protecting your AD.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Taric</b>: An underrated support in S2, I think we were the only team who managed to win with him. Taric's strong point is really relative to the Big Three of Corki, Graves and EZ. His E can mitigate a lot of early burst damage. Has burst second to only Sona. Sona has burst with Q-AA-R, Taric's burst comes from ERW, which is all magic damage. Taric is a great pick against heavy physical damage ADs.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blitz</b>: Blitz is the most underrated support this tournament. He can do massive damage in lvl 1 scenarios by stealing buffs and grabing when the opponent fails to provide good vision.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Lux</b>: Also underrated. Only Azubu Frost uses her. You can switch her mid to confuse the picks. Her E and R have very good burst. She is similar to Zyra. In the current bot lane long range poke is fairly important, so she has her uses.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Jayce</b>: Only used by Koreans. In this patch Jayce is really too stronk as a solo top, so it would be a wasted pick putting him bot. In latter patches he may be used more.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Zyra</b>: Also underrated in this patch, in that people are not sure how to use her. Madlife plays her very well. She is similar to Sona and Lux, her strength is how she has an instant way to use her full combo as soon as she lands E. This is amplified with early burst ADs like EZ and Corki. She also grants vision with seeds.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Janna</b>: I love this hero. But she was unpicked this tourney. Part of the reason is that the Global Movespeed is not as important as it use to be, because people don't play lanes 1v1 anymore. The shield nerf was the harshest, she can't trade anymore since your AD loses the AD buff as soon as the shield is off. Current bot lanes emphasis long range bursts that can kill in one trade, Janna cannot do this.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sona</b>: The strongest support this patch. Great early game damage, great passive, great sustain and also great CC. She just does too much damage and works into many team comps.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Soraka</b>: Not used much this tournament, W CD is too long, and people will not let you survive through early lvls. She also isn't threatening at all in a 2v1 lane. I would say this is her biggest weakness.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Fiddle</b>: Strong CC, ult that peters off in late game.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Leona</b>: A mediocre support in WC. She has a good initiate and good burst, however lacks any sustained damage, she is also heavily dependent on the skill of the user.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Lulu</b>: I used her a lot this WC. She can trade while receiving no damage in return. You pick her to make sure your AD can grow properly. Her R is the best protective skill for an AD since it directly gives HP to your champ. You can use her in different strategic settings such as double mids and fast pushes. With Shyvana and Oriana you can absorb massive damage in fights.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Morgana</b>: Developed by the Koreans to counter Blitz. She is similar to Fiddle, ult is weak late.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Any champion can support but you need to consider them as a team wide asset and probe their uses from there. In principle though, you need to have an ult that is non-reliant on items. Sona, Blitz have high utility ults, where as Morg and Fiddle need damage on their ults, making them second tier. You should base support picks on ease of laning, and overall team comp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The most generic set of runes, good for tanky supports and builds a good income. Both Flat or Greater MR Blues work. On tanks I usually use Greater, but magic damage is getting higher on bot lane supports these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">B. AS Runes: Gold Quints/AS or ArPen or AD Reds/Armor Yellows/MR Blues</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started my career as an AD player, so i feel confident in getting auto attacks in. Hitting more autos will eventually change the lane. Don't bring Magic Pen on reds, even if you are Soraka you won't be lvling QE first. MS quints don't have that much impact. If you want the MS, go for Tank Masteries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A. Tank Masteries: <a href="http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/mastery-tree-planner#&tree1=1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&tree2=0-2-3-2-4-3-2-1-0-0-0-3-0-0-0-1&tree3=1-0-3-0-4-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&v=2" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">1/21/8</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Mastery page gives you 5% MS, which is enough for many initiation moves. Vigor gives good sustain. Remember to use Indomitable to come ahead in trades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">B. Ms Masteries: <a href="http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/mastery-tree-planner#&tree1=0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&tree2=0-3-3-0-4-0-2-1-0-0-0-3-0-0-0-0&tree3=1-0-3-0-4-0-0-4-0-0-2-0-0-0-0-0&v=2" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">0/16/14</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Mastery page is recommended if you don't want to use Gold quints. When playing support, you really only need either Gold Quints or Greed. After that build whatever you want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">C. Utility Masteries: <a href="http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/mastery-tree-planner#&tree1=0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&tree2=0-2-2-0-4-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&tree3=1-0-3-1-0-3-0-4-0-0-2-2-1-0-3-1&v=2" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">0/9/21</a></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Alistar</b>: Tank Masteries and Tank Runes, you could also go for MS Runes and MS Masteries.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blitz</b>: Utility Masteries/ Tank Runes, but switch the reds for ArPen. In tournament play I copy Gosu Pepper's build and use Greater Mana reds. This gives you 1 extra pull, and also boosts your passive.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Leona</b>: Tank Runes, both MS and Tank Masteries work. She takes too much damage for Utility Masteries.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Taric</b>: Tank Runes but i switch out the reds for Magic Pen. All of his burst is magic damage. Both Utility and Tank Masteries work.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Lulu</b>: Red Magic Pen/ Blue Mana Regen (5 flat, 4 greater)/ Gold Qunits/ Armor Yellow. Any combination will work in the mana regen department. Lulu excels on 2v1s,</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Nunu</b>: Tank Masteries, I use Tank Runes but switch out the reds for mana regen marks. I got this build from Gosu as well.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sona</b>: Utility Masteries, use Tank Runes but switch out reds for mana regen. Gosu does this too.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Janna</b>: Arpen Runes, she gets to auto a lot, use Utility Masteries.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Zyra</b>: Red Magic Pen/ Blue Mana Regen (5 flat, 4 greater)/ Gold Qunits/ Armor Yellow. Same as Lulu.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have to have some GP10 as a support, but I dislike Gold seals so I won't talk about them here. If you use Tank Masteries you should get two GP10s, if you are going MS or Utility just get one GP10. If you are only getting 1 GP10, go for Heart of Gold. I only take Philosopher first on Sona, Zyra and Lux. These characters have long range and win through attrition. Taric, Leona, Nunu, Blitz, Ali rely on burst and need to absorb damage, so rush Heart of Gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are a ranged support use Utility Masteries, and swap out mana resist blues for regen. (He says so but doesn't actually recommend this on any character.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are going to play a 2v1 lane, Lulu and Taric are the best supports. Lulu also works well with double mids. If I'm not taking damage as a support then I use the 9/0/21 masteries, getting spell pen.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">III. Support Counters</span></strong></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Taric</b>: Counters heavy AD carries, such as Graves, Sivir, Caitlyn, Ashe. Most of their skills do AD damage. However, as long as the Sivir isn’t stupid, you won’t get to stun her.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blitz</b>: Doesn’t do well against EZ, since it is nearly impossible to land a hook against good EZs. He also does poorly against heavy tank supports, like Taric, Leona, Nunu or Alistar. His strength is in getting in the first strike, making it hard for the Support to help, and killing you in a single trade.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sona</b>: Near invincible in this patch, by which I mean she has few counters, she is only really afraid of ganks. Koreans use Zyra against Sona, since she has very long poke, this is however a very skill oriented match-up. Zyra doesn’t have good base stats to go against Sona. Remember to use Q on the seeds, Q has ranged poke, which is much more annoying. You get 5g for killing a plant, but I get 300 for killing you, so don’t be shy on placing them. Oh, actually Blitz counters her, once Azubu picked Sona they banned Blitz, it seems we have a consensus on this.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Janna</b>: counters Leona, when she Es you can just Q, and she will not be able to fly to you, try it. No godly reflexes required. Same thing for Alistar, however he is harder to catch since he doesn’t have a wind-up animation on W. Jana is afraid of continuous poke trades.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Nunu</b>: (He goes into discussion of current support types) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As of now we have the trio of OP supports that counter each other, Sona > Nunu > Blitz > Sona. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then we have the long range pokers Lulu, Zyra, Lux. Soraka is essentially a long range poker, but you need high lvls in e. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And then their are additional Tank Support options like Leona and Alistar.</span></li>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">IV. On AD&SUP Combos</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have an EZ, Graves, or Corki you should go with a tanky support. You have high CC good burst and a movement skill to deliver it. TPA rarely uses these three, because Bebe doesn’t like them, and we feel Kog and Vayne are underrated by the teams in the World Championships. M5 had the same idea, if you watch the reply they took Vayne as soon as we took Kog. We try to give them room to grow into hypercarries, by doing lane swaps, double mids etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Caitlyn, while not underrated, is definitely underrepresented. She was only shown iirc, in the Sk vs CLG game. Tristana has also been forgotten, she is a skill burst, Sivir is as well. Misfourtune and Varus are auto attack bursters. Ashe is in the past, doesn’t work very well now. If you have a poke AD you should use a poke support as well so you can synchronize your trades. I remember we had a game with EZ, Lulu and that combo works very well.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">V. Skill Allocation</span></strong></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Alistar</b>: R>Q>W>E. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It’s ok as long you don’t put too many points into E. Try to judge the situation and lvl E accordingly. Madlife maxes W first.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blitz</b>: R>Q>W>E. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Max Q or Max W first, maxing e doesn’t do much. At level six you do insane damage if you if you have lvl 3 Q. If you go W first you won’t need boots that early and you can bring armor pen for high damage.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Nunu</b>: R>W>E>Q. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">E or W first. If you have an AD that uses AS, Misfortune, Vayne, Kog, get W first. On poke ADs get E first.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Taric</b>: R>W>Q>E. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I use to do E first, but W is definitely better.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sona</b>: R>Q>W>E. QWQWQRQE. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Get Q first, take E at lvl 8. It doesn’t help that much in ganks, you could use better laning with QW.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Lulu</b>: R>Q>E>W. QEQEWR. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Max Q first. It hurts as hell, has asinine range, and you can do tricks with it with E. I like the E as well, but Q is how I max it.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Zyra</b>: R>E>Q>W. EWQEER. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Max E first, remember to use Q for plants.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Lux</b>: I’m not familiar with her, but I’d say max Q, damage is better.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Soraka</b>: Not much to say here. 王者無敵’s(TW solo que player known for playing a heavy roam style Pantheon support, 2000+elo, triple ganks with jungle to snowball the game heavily.) method is good. You can try it out, just don’t roam like he does. Maxing Q is nice for solo que. But please don’t let your AD sit there to dry. In 5v5s it is often required for the support to control the lane. Watch our game against Azubu, when Stanley went up against Vlad he was down near 20 cs but had a lvl advantage. This is due to the support zoning out Vlad. You can see M5 loves to do this as well. Maxing Q gives you good damage and it synergizes well with magic damage ADs like EZ.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Karma</b>: Riot wants her to be a support, but she has CDR issues. She simply needs some form of CDR before Kindlegem, her R is on too long a cooldown.</span></li>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">VI. Items</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A good principle is when you go defensive masteries go double GP10. When you go utility masteries go for one GP10. If you are going for a kill lane go for HoG, if you are a poke support go for Philosopher Stone. On Blitz solo que I like going for HOG and Glacial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Max CDR is 40%, if specing utility grants 6%, in the offensive tree there is CDR too, but it’s not as useful. Where do you get the rest of your CDR? From kindlegem, it combines into Shurelia’s and Zekes, so it is a nice buy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The four aura items on supports are Aegis, Iron Solari, Zekes and Shurelias, sometimes you can go WOTA, but don’t go Frozen Heart or Randuin’s, they’re too expensive. Buy Zekes if your AD is really carrying hard, buy Shurelia’s if you need kiting or chasing, or if your AD sucks and you need to bail him out. Get Aegis on tanky supports. I bring this on Sona as well since you need to get to the frontline to cast R. I wouldn’t consider Soulshroud, it has good stats but is too expensive. Double Aegis is never a waste, maybe on Weixiao it is though. You only get Iron Solari if they have a Karthus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*Originally posted on Reddit r/lol (<span style="background-color: #fafafa;">10/17/12</span>), I am the translator and poster. Spoken permission was given on stream for recording and dissemination. Note that this represents the player's thoughts on competitive play, and your solo que experience may vary. Editing has been done to create better presentation, the first paragraph has also been altered for a better introduction on the player. If you are interested in the following discussions you can search for them in this <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/11mf94/support_lessons_with_tpa_mistake/">link</a> to the original post.</span></div>
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