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League of Legends World Championship 2017 |SEP 23-NOV 4|
- Thread starter zkylon
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Fnatic is getting a lead and turrets without taking fights, they are absolutely looking better than GAM right now. If GAM stalls out to late they can probably get the win since Tristana is huge, that's true.
There hasn't even been any proper fights yet, but Fnatic really needs to start making plays.
Sivir seemed to kill tanks very well this game.
The story of the game is definitely the missed Orianna ults though. They've missed so many.
edit: gg fnatic
Optimus didn't hit a single ult that mattered in those teamfights, well played from Fnatic. Also props to Soaz, what a beast even though he went 0/4 early.
Yeah he did surprisingly a good amount of damage on them.
Yeah he did surprisingly a good amount of damage on them.
SuperBowser
Member
Tense and messy, but Fnatic survived the nerves. Soaz and Caps made some really nice moves in the final minutes of that game.
RelaxedOtter
Member
Sad to see GAM going out, but that was a pretty good day by Fnatic, so props to them.
thestopsign
Member
Wow and I wake up to the start of a 0-10 NA week incoming.
Really well played by GAM this world's. They're the strongest wild card team by far.
Even a single one hit Orianna ult could've tilted the teamfights in GAM's favor. It's really sad for Optimus.
Even a single one hit Orianna ult could've tilted the teamfights in GAM's favor. It's really sad for Optimus.
B- but Fnatic was the wildcard... :d
Ori usually is really reliable when played by pros, but when Optimus played her, he seem to suffer from the GP curse. Farm up well, but it doesn't matter if u can't hit shit in teamfights.
Hydrophobic
Member
Jesus Christ immortals.
Soulblighterr
Neo Member
How do you miss shockwave when you have a Maokai on your team?! Wtf
Hydrophobic
Member
Man I really overestimated Immortals in my pickems
No one would blame you for having IMT above GAM in your pickems before today started
Yeah, I thought GAM's cheese would get exposed early but it turned out the team had a lot more substance than just their cheese picks.
Hydrophobic
Member
Yeah the pick/ban versus IMT is definitely just interesting picks and not cheese. Cool to see it work out even if it means NA is now cursed to go 0-11
If not for the Cassio Seraph's Embrace shield, she would've gotten blown up and Cody might've gotten away with it. It was still a really bad play and it probably would've been better if he just escaped than if he got a kill on Cassio in exchance for himself.
Yup, they really showed that there are more viable champs and strategies than the World's meta. Gettting to see a non-troll Urgot ban was fantastic.
No NA teams play tonite so I can watch without further disappointment until tomorrow night.
TSM is gonna shit the bed again aren't they?
No way they're gonna lose to Misfits twice...
Hydrophobic
Member
I think getting rid of Cody Sun is an over reaction. This was his first season in the LCS and given how much better he got from the start of spring until now he could probably still improve. He definitely fucked up, though.
Prototype Viktor
Member
Man I can't believe I fell asleep before the GAM vs GAM game where FNC won
Also maybe this will teach teams stop thinking Ori is a safe pick when so many ults can wiff. Pick Viktor punks!
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Also maybe this will teach teams stop thinking Ori is a safe pick when so many ults can wiff. Pick Viktor punks!
Hydrophobic
Member
I'm prepped for the 0-11 future, but I don't think that one implies the other here. Have TSM or C9 gone into a game where they drafted all losing lanes? Because IMT did that versus GAM and it showed.
DeathbyCheerios
Member
I don't know, yeah it was his first full season but they had 4 chances to get thru today and he screwed every single one up
Hydrophobic
Member
Yeah but 4 chances on one day doesn't mean Cody Sun can never ever be a better ADC. Have you never strung 4 losses together before? I'm not trying to cover his performance, it was bad. I'm just saying that after he had a fairly positive split and an okay first week that making the decision to let him go because of this single day is hasty. Also a reminder that these are the best teams in the world.
Kirye
Member
No NA teams play tonite so I can watch without further disappointment until tomorrow night.
TSM is gonna shit the bed again aren't they?
I was SO excited for TSM last week until they shit the bed against Misfits. I kept thinking "Alright they're gonna turn this shit around... now!" Every team fight and kept being disappointed.
FW and WE are gonna bring their A game, I just hope TSM does the same.
I can definitely see TSM going 0-3 if they play like they did the first week. C9 is at least willing to try different things (Naut top, Graves Jungle).
If you told me that IMT did literally nothing during the break I would believe you though.
You have to ask yourself who they would replace him with though. Both import slots are taken by Flame and Olleh and NA ADCs aren't exactly lighting the world on fire, except for the world's greatest ADC and Domino's streamer of the year imaqtpie. I think the real issue with IMT is that xmithie was easy to ban out if IMT was on red side; he only really looked good on Gragas. Which meant that IMT decided to let FNC keep Broxah on comfort pick reksai and opt for a snow ball champion when they're not good enough to do it.
Unfortunately I have a feeling that Week 1 was TSM's A game.
Kotetsu534
Member
My thoughts:
- Pray is a god. One of the all time best Varus games to kick Immortals into the tiebreaker. LZ took their foot of the gas today but it didn't imbalance the group, which was good to see.
- Immortals imploded. Their last game was just sad - their morale was shot by the 0-3 day. Caught out by Marines with the Urgot, terrible errors against Fnatic - letting Cassi flank, then hanging around for ages and giving up three kills, then Cody's suicide - and letting slip a very strong position against Longzhu when they didn't force baron despite complete vision control and Cho.
- Hero day for Fnatic. Caps' best day of his career, Rekkles consistent as ever, and sOAZ even had his moments. First team ever to go from and 0-3 start to getting out of groups. That base charge against Immortals is their payback for 2014.
- If only Optimus knew how to use Ori's ult. It's not even that he whiffed it repeatedly but that he used it right at the start of every engagement so Fnatic never had to respect it and could just charge in. They played the smarter LoL than both Immortals and Fnatic.
- The standard of play today was low - surely at least six teams from groups C and D would've made it through out of this group.
- Pray is a god. One of the all time best Varus games to kick Immortals into the tiebreaker. LZ took their foot of the gas today but it didn't imbalance the group, which was good to see.
- Immortals imploded. Their last game was just sad - their morale was shot by the 0-3 day. Caught out by Marines with the Urgot, terrible errors against Fnatic - letting Cassi flank, then hanging around for ages and giving up three kills, then Cody's suicide - and letting slip a very strong position against Longzhu when they didn't force baron despite complete vision control and Cho.
- Hero day for Fnatic. Caps' best day of his career, Rekkles consistent as ever, and sOAZ even had his moments. First team ever to go from and 0-3 start to getting out of groups. That base charge against Immortals is their payback for 2014.
- If only Optimus knew how to use Ori's ult. It's not even that he whiffed it repeatedly but that he used it right at the start of every engagement so Fnatic never had to respect it and could just charge in. They played the smarter LoL than both Immortals and Fnatic.
- The standard of play today was low - surely at least six teams from groups C and D would've made it through out of this group.
RelaxedOtter
Member
Wow, that was a really strong game by G2.
Nightwing123
Member
I'd take the inconsistentcy of RNG over G2 anyday so I'm happy with this result. RNG actually have potential.
