2013-10-02, 11:08 AM
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100th win, 200th Ranked game this season. Qual'd for another series.
By the end of laning phase, bottom was missing both lane turrets, top outer was down, and we had yet to take a single turret. We did, however, take the first dragon.
Cait had about half of Trist's CS through all of laning and beyond, mostly from getting constantly bubbled by Nami and having to b from Tristana's subsequent harass. (Yes, our Cait was getting harassed by Tristana). I managed to keep both opponents low enough that Xin could come gank and kill them, and that was about the only thing saving the lane from complete and utter failure. After laning phase the entire team went nuts warding and clearing vision in our own jungle, catching Darius/J4 a few times in the process. Each catch had us recover a little more, push up a little more, until eventually we had a near-Ace and pushed up mid with Heimer, Cait, myself, and Shen still alive. Took their inner, base, and inhib in mid, then top inner, then Dragon. And from there fought on even footing, started outscaling the enemy team hard (I very nearly had a completed Void Staff while keeping up with Oracles.
In the aftermath, a few things caught my eye that resulted in their team throwing such an amazing early lead:
1. Darius and J4 both primarily build Armor, when the primary damage threat was AP coming from Heimer and eventually myself.
2. Bruiser Fizz, while damned near impossible to catch/kill, didn't contribute nearly as much as AP would have (being able to instagib either myself or Heimerdinger). They didn't need a bruiser, they had Darius and J4. They needed that assassin.
3. Between Heimer's turrets and my plants, we had so much persistent AP damage that J4 completely melted every time he ulted someone. Darius started dying a lot more towards the end as well, usually from being away from his team and getting caught out alone. His build wasn't exactly spectacular either.
Basically, in the end game they were entirely reliant on Tristana for their damage and she just couldn't do what she needed to do. My team came together and made smart decisions, theirs split apart and threw. Very hard fought match but a rewarding win.
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100th win, 200th Ranked game this season. Qual'd for another series.
By the end of laning phase, bottom was missing both lane turrets, top outer was down, and we had yet to take a single turret. We did, however, take the first dragon.
Cait had about half of Trist's CS through all of laning and beyond, mostly from getting constantly bubbled by Nami and having to b from Tristana's subsequent harass. (Yes, our Cait was getting harassed by Tristana). I managed to keep both opponents low enough that Xin could come gank and kill them, and that was about the only thing saving the lane from complete and utter failure. After laning phase the entire team went nuts warding and clearing vision in our own jungle, catching Darius/J4 a few times in the process. Each catch had us recover a little more, push up a little more, until eventually we had a near-Ace and pushed up mid with Heimer, Cait, myself, and Shen still alive. Took their inner, base, and inhib in mid, then top inner, then Dragon. And from there fought on even footing, started outscaling the enemy team hard (I very nearly had a completed Void Staff while keeping up with Oracles.
In the aftermath, a few things caught my eye that resulted in their team throwing such an amazing early lead:
1. Darius and J4 both primarily build Armor, when the primary damage threat was AP coming from Heimer and eventually myself.
2. Bruiser Fizz, while damned near impossible to catch/kill, didn't contribute nearly as much as AP would have (being able to instagib either myself or Heimerdinger). They didn't need a bruiser, they had Darius and J4. They needed that assassin.
3. Between Heimer's turrets and my plants, we had so much persistent AP damage that J4 completely melted every time he ulted someone. Darius started dying a lot more towards the end as well, usually from being away from his team and getting caught out alone. His build wasn't exactly spectacular either.
Basically, in the end game they were entirely reliant on Tristana for their damage and she just couldn't do what she needed to do. My team came together and made smart decisions, theirs split apart and threw. Very hard fought match but a rewarding win.