11-21-2011, 10:22 PM
Just finished watching MLG, so I'm going to type some stuff about it.
[spoiler]Holy. Shit. TSM like a fuckin baws.
Dan said it in one of the interviews that they were scared of TSM more than anyone else simply because of the familiarity and good god did it show. TSM just straight fucked them. Every single time Epik went to do something, TSM just beat them to it.
What I absolutely couldn't understand was Epik's banning. I get that they're a great team, but wtf guys. Stop letting them have that jungle Maokai! I get that you're afraid of other stuff, that's a totally reasonable mentality, but you clearly couldn't handle that. Stop leaving it on the board. Same thing with that Karthus; Karth should have been their first ban going into the second game of the finals, no question about it. And don't get me started on the Yorick. There is no reason they should have kept all three of those champions open going into that third game. Yeah, they used the first pick to finally snatch that Karthus, but look how well that turned out.
Solo Mid's absolute advantage, to me, came from their awareness. They were just aware of everything. I think it was game two where EG was kind of split up and TSM had vision of a couple of them being not in mid, so they just five-manned two turrets down. Completely free. They saw EG was out of position and bent them over for it. They constantly had an amazing roam game and serious ganks because they knew where people were and where people were going (some amazing TPs by Yorick, too).
Their combat awareness was also phenomenal. There's a fight towards the end of the third match where Yorick got a triple kill... go watch that fight. Fucking amazing awareness by Yorick and Ezreal that whole time. Yorick's triple was because he was managing his Ez ghost's attacks, switching between squishy targets while he pushed the beefier champs around with his own champion. Insane. Also watch the actual Ez. He stands just, like, pixels outside of Karthus' Defile, never taking more than one tick of damage from it and poking at anyone in range while actually moving behind the enemy team to position skill shots at the squishy targets. Like... amazing. That kind of small-scale awareness is just really, really impressive.
I wanted TSM to win those matches, and I'm glad they did, but holy hell I thought it would be a lot closer than that. TSM just put on a fuckin' clinic.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Holy. Shit. TSM like a fuckin baws.
Dan said it in one of the interviews that they were scared of TSM more than anyone else simply because of the familiarity and good god did it show. TSM just straight fucked them. Every single time Epik went to do something, TSM just beat them to it.
What I absolutely couldn't understand was Epik's banning. I get that they're a great team, but wtf guys. Stop letting them have that jungle Maokai! I get that you're afraid of other stuff, that's a totally reasonable mentality, but you clearly couldn't handle that. Stop leaving it on the board. Same thing with that Karthus; Karth should have been their first ban going into the second game of the finals, no question about it. And don't get me started on the Yorick. There is no reason they should have kept all three of those champions open going into that third game. Yeah, they used the first pick to finally snatch that Karthus, but look how well that turned out.
Solo Mid's absolute advantage, to me, came from their awareness. They were just aware of everything. I think it was game two where EG was kind of split up and TSM had vision of a couple of them being not in mid, so they just five-manned two turrets down. Completely free. They saw EG was out of position and bent them over for it. They constantly had an amazing roam game and serious ganks because they knew where people were and where people were going (some amazing TPs by Yorick, too).
Their combat awareness was also phenomenal. There's a fight towards the end of the third match where Yorick got a triple kill... go watch that fight. Fucking amazing awareness by Yorick and Ezreal that whole time. Yorick's triple was because he was managing his Ez ghost's attacks, switching between squishy targets while he pushed the beefier champs around with his own champion. Insane. Also watch the actual Ez. He stands just, like, pixels outside of Karthus' Defile, never taking more than one tick of damage from it and poking at anyone in range while actually moving behind the enemy team to position skill shots at the squishy targets. Like... amazing. That kind of small-scale awareness is just really, really impressive.
I wanted TSM to win those matches, and I'm glad they did, but holy hell I thought it would be a lot closer than that. TSM just put on a fuckin' clinic.[/spoiler]
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