2012-04-02, 09:10 AM
Nalek Wrote:Wanna shut down Fiora? Have Cho or Malphite lane against her and rush a frozen heart.
[COLOR="#cc8899"]Blind pick match, so that wasn't really an option. We had Blitz and Teemo top vs Fiora and Alistar (yes, I know, weird setup - Gangplank was solo bottom vs a duo lane, I think Sona and Ashe). I was jungling as Mundo. Our main problem was that Teemo and Blitzcrank had each given Fiora 3 kills before the end of the laning phase. Once teamfights started happening she started snowballing out of control. She was at 9 kills after our first big team fight, then 18 kills less than 10 minutes later. By the time the match ended, the enemy team had around 45 kills - 35 were hers. Despite 2 exhausts and 2 ignites, Teemo's blind, and half the team having Thornmail, it took her being extremely reckless in our base and all of us focusing her to take her down at all. I was able to backdoor 2 towers in their mid lane during the game, and almost took out their nexus while a skirmish was going on at the entrance to their base after Fiora had died (I finally died with the mid inhibitor at 50 HP - Blitzcrank was nearby and could/should have ran in to finish the job, but decided to run away despite both myself and Gangplank spam pinging it). Essentially, there was no room for any counterplay at all - Alistar was mostly able to CC enough to defend towers from me backdooring, Fiora was strong enough to push on her own without any team backup, and her team was fed enough with assists that 4 of them could hold off any offensive push we attempted and give her time to wreak havoc.
All told, it was an extremely rage-inducing match made worse by poor play on Blitzcrank's part (he finally started getting good grabs in late in the game when Fiora essentially stopped giving a damn and ran into pomegranate) and some poor laning early game. In retrospect, I could've ganked more up top, but I was more concerned with keeping pressure off Gangplank in a 2v1 lane. [/COLOR]