loltribble Profile Joined April 2015 Netherlands 80 Posts May 10 2015 01:34 GMT #1

The Korean favorites in the likes of SKT Telecom T1 take on Europeans champions, Fnatic! Can the 4 rookies who are lead by the only player who has participated in 4 world championships, Yellowstar, pull of a trick and upset the world? The groupstage game looked incredibly promising and got everyone psyched for a incredibly close and bloodthirsty series!



Game 1







Both teams opted for the standard lanes and put Marin on the Maokai against Huni his Hecarim. Huni blew the flash pre-3 minutes from Marin and shortly after he 1v1’d him with both junglers arriving too late to get either a second or a revenge kill.



With Marin his flash down, Fnatic kept focussing on the toplane where Huni had a very comfortable 20+ cs lead but gave Marin a ticket to get back into the game. Reignover and Huni did not succesfully controlled the minionwave and eventually after a kill onto Marin, Reignover got destroyed by a couple of NPC minions..



Some fancy action across the map gave SKT the lead in kills, turrets, a 1-0 dragon lead and outcsing Fnatic in every lane at the 20 minute mark. SKT by this time was in full control of Fnatic’s blue jungle and started to punish them for playing a slowpace game.



SKT did show, again, this tournament to be mere mortals as Bengi and Wolf got picked off in Fnatic’s red jungle. They got deleted as Bang was throwing abilities onto the 4 Fnatic members and Faker even his ultimate on the Ezreal to chunk them out enough for Bengi to take a triple kill!



More fights occurred across the map, as around the 26 minute mark a fight started in the red jungle with a Death Sentence from Wolf that got followed up by a Twisted Advance from Marin onto Reignover. Huni who still had his ultimate available blew on a out of position Faker as he got forced back to the fountain. Chaos, Chaos and more Chaos! The fight moved deep into the blue side jungle, but with some great peel coming out of Marin his Maokai, SKT took another victory as they traded 5-3.



The baron was still live and SKT created a pick onto the Fnatic members and split them up with Bengi jumping onto the backline while Faker and Bang took out the tanks and a Febiven who was caught out in the middle of all this. SKT outplaying Fnatic again in the teamfights this game as they 4-0’d them, picked up their 3rd drake and the baron!



SKT pushed out their lanes and grouped up top as they forced their way into the base and ended the game in their favor.



Analysis:



Fnatic’s first mistake was letting Bengi have Rek’Sai, there is nobody else to blame here but the coach and Yellowstar who are making the decisions.



SKT made a mistake giving Fnatic a free advantage with the Hecarim vs Maokai match-up. When you play against a Hecarim, you would always want to put him behind early by using a laneswap.



Fnatic lost total control of the match when they stopped warding. They gave SKT full control over their blue jungle and instead of fighting for a chance, they created another chance for SKT to take more control over the match.





Game 2







Fnatic too quick control over the map with some beautiful teleport plays coming out of Huni and a 1v2 solo kill onto Faker who tried to gank for his toplaner.



As the second drake spawned, Fnatic was in full control of the area yet SKT with a very questionable engage, with Marin teleporting in with 0 rage on the Gnar bar, dropped 2 members to Fnatic and the drake.



Fnatic was focussing the bottom side as Huni teleported in to complete a 4 men tower dive that gave him 2 kills and a total of 4-1 trade for Fnatic, who only dropped Huni to the roaming Faker.



A bloodthirsty start with kills all over the board gave Fnatic a 2.5k gold lead at the 20 minute mark and a 2-1 lead in turrets while the drakes were split.



Fnatic their first Ace in the game occurred after a fight for the 3rd drake. Huni who teleported in to Equalize the backline and even took out Faker did not get punished by Marin who again looked questionable on the Gnar. Missing yet another chance to impact a teamfight for his team by failing to optimize his Gnar ultimate. As SKT was aced, Fnatic takes down the baron as SKT responds with their second drake.



Fnatic seemed to have learned from their groupstage game and force themselves onto the midlane, being able to group up SKT and dropping down a 5 men equalizer to take a 2-1 trade in their favor and the T2 midlane turret.



By 30 minutes Fnatic was leading by 10k gold and 6-2 in turrets.



SKT tried to go for a desperation play right before the second baron spawned to takeon a 5v4 fight against Fnatic who was without their unkillable Febiven. Fnatic was so far infront by this time that they stalled long enough for Febiven to arrive and help them to clean up the fight with a clean 5-0 Ace!



Fnatic took down the baron and rushed towards the midlane to equal the series.





Analysis:



As questionable as we might’ve found the Rek’Sai going over to Bengi again, it didn’t give SKT the edge that they needed.



Reignover and Huni dictated this match with beautiful ganks, Huni his teleport ganks were out of this world getting maximum effort from each and any one of them. Then when you look at Marin his teleport plays, getting into teamfights with 0 rage on his Gnar bar, Ultimates who hit 1 person and then even not into a wall, should’ve made SKT worry. A bad game can happen but it was a disaster, one of the reasons why I am not fond of Marin in general on skill champs such as Gnar.



Fnatic their optimistic gameplay and not showing respect for the Korean Champions was the key to winning this game. Punishing SKT for their arrogant plays and warding good enough to pick the SKT members out from beginning till the end of the match.



Game 3







SKT initiated the laneswap and got rewarded by a questionable towerdive on the botlane by Reignover who gave up first blood to Marin but in return the red buff for Steeelback.



Fnatic punishing SKT by taking the first dragon of the game as they spot out Marin and Bengi in the toplane.



A moment for the League of Legends history books, where as Fnatic’s Febiven solo killed Faker TWICE in a couple of minutes! Using his Deathmark and forcing “best player in the world” twice to the fountain to overthink his punishment by the Dutch midlaner.



Fnatic their aggressive play gives them a 3-0 turret lead by outrotating SKT and punishing them for their sloppy lackluster gameplay. A 4k gold lead was picked up as Fnatic lead by the 20 minute mark.



As Fnatic seemed to be cooling down on the aggressive plays and punishments, SKT was allowed to pick up the 3 outer turrets and cutting the gold lead down to 2.5k.



Fnatic tried to recover as the 4th drake spawned but a great job zoning Huni and Steeelback by Marin and Wolf, gave SKT enough time to take out Febiven and Reignover which lead to a 28 minute free baron. Not only the baron went in favor of SKT but also the gold lead as they knocked down the bottom and middle T2 turret and pushed out all of their waves.



SKT was back in control, punishing Fnatic for their naive playstyle that was picked up for no reason. Huni get’s picked off twice in a row in his own red jungle which first lead to SKT’s second baron and shortly after even to losing the game.



SKT pushed hard onto the bottom lane after Huni got picked off and end the game with brute force, taking the lead in the series.



Analysis:



SKT is lucky to be in the lead after a poor performance as in this game. Their composition saved them more than their individual plays. This is not to discredit SKT, because it is by far a magical art to punish teams and run away with the game.



Fnatic did everything they should in the first 20 minutes, punishing SKT their solo laners, solo-killing Faker twice, Rotating, Teleport plays but it wasn’t enough. Against a team like SKT, you want to keep on pushing until “Victory”appears on your screen. Giving teams as SKT just a small window to just take a turret, is enough to lose the game and potentially the series.



Fnatic’s change of gameplay around the 20 minute mark was the key for them losing this game.



Game 4







Fnatic came out with a demonic aggression. Punishing SKT for their standard lanes. Yellowstart started the punishment on the botlane getting first blood on Bang.



SKT didn’t seem to be able to do anything early despite getting the first 2 drakes.



Reignover who is on the Rek’Sai obtained a digusting lead, having 5 kills at the 20 minute mark and even going for a Warrior enchant combined with the hexdrinker for a combination of magic resist and damage!



Fnatic has lead before against SKT but not with 6k gold at the 20 minute mark.



Being so far ahead, Fnatic opted into a sub 22 minute baron kill and with their buff they took out the mid and bot top inner turret.



What a display of brute force it was by Fnatic who seemed to have tilted SKT with Bang engaging a teamfight on the 4th dragon spawn of the game. SKT got punished by Fnatic who took down the dragon and shortly after another misplay by SKT get’s punished and ends in a 3-1 trade for Fnatic who took down their second baron.



The teamfights during the game were nothing more but tickle fights for the likes of Fnatic who were leading by 15k at around the 30 minute mark and were looking to end the game to force a 5th and final game in this series.



Fnatic got the fight that they were looking for but perhaps not that they wanted as Reignover got caught out and forced a Sejuani ult out of Bengi. As Reignover fell, the rest of Fnatic collapsed onto SKT and aced them trading Steeelback for 5 kills and the game!



Analysis:



SKT looks clueless, they look weak and without any form of creativity to deal with the overaggressive European Rookies lead by one of the most respected players in the west, Yellowstar.



Reignover his build was questionable, building the warrior enchant into Hexdrinker and not the sightstone. I thought it was a very questionable build, yet he proved me wrong by collapsing and building onto the lead that he had gotten his team and leaving SKT without any chance of coming back into this game.



There is only 1 thing to say about SKT, change your playstyle or go home!



Game 5







Bengi’s Nunu came onto the rift with a invisible buff called “Demonic Rage” as he denied the first red buff from Reignover by stealing it right under his nose. He continued his path of doom by going towards the botlane, taking away Reignover his blue buff and killing him, claiming first blood and securing the 5 minute sightstone.



Early on in the game Bengi already got a 1k gold lead over Reignover his Gragas and continued to steal his buffs throughout the game.



The chaos that Bengi’s Nunu caused, was unchallengable by the European Champions. Reignover who had no clue how to respond tried to gank non stop instead of farming up, committing a lot of time on the toplane. Fnatic’s toplane presence got punished by 2 kills, 1 onto Huni and the other onto Reignover as SKT took away everything they could from their opponents.



At the 20 minute mark SKT was leading by 4k gold and even took out the baron at 20.34. With the baron buff under their belt, SKT continued to push their advantage and took out the 2 middle turrets.



At this point, Fnatic seemed to have given up all hope on getting back into the game. Bengi continued to create vision and steal buffs as the lanes were happily pushed out by SKT without any Fnatic member daring to come near them.



SKT did not rush their win, they played it slow but safe and secured a second baron at the 30 minute mark leading by 13k gold and 6-0 in turrets. A couple of minutes later SKT did force a double inhibitor push on the bot and mid lane and stalled the game even longer for a 3rd and final baron!



After picking up the baron, the fight that was initiated by Fnatic got punished by SKT with their gigantic gold lead and a quadrakill for Bang securing their final spot.



Analysis:



A notable fact about this 5th game was that Fnatic didn’t get any turrets nor did they get more then only 1 of each of their buffs.



The only reason why Fnatic lost this game was because they are not familiar with good Nunu players. In Europe Nunu is hardly ever played and when it is played it isn’t even near the skill level as the Asian teams play this champion.



Fnatic their naive and perhaps inexperienced playstyle towards Bengi’s Nunu cost them objectives and caused a lot chaos in the mind of Reignover who did not have a clue what hit him.



Bengi’s Nunu carries SKT to the finals of MSI and Fnatic can be proud to have pulled off a 5 game series against the Korean champions.





If there are any grammatical errors, please feel free to notify me



Both teams opted for the standard lanes and put Marin on the Maokai against Huni his Hecarim. Huni blew the flash pre-3 minutes from Marin and shortly after he 1v1’d him with both junglers arriving too late to get either a second or a revenge kill.With Marin his flash down, Fnatic kept focussing on the toplane where Huni had a very comfortable 20+ cs lead but gave Marin a ticket to get back into the game. Reignover and Huni did not succesfully controlled the minionwave and eventually after a kill onto Marin, Reignover got destroyed by a couple of NPC minions..Some fancy action across the map gave SKT the lead in kills, turrets, a 1-0 dragon lead and outcsing Fnatic in every lane at the 20 minute mark. SKT by this time was in full control of Fnatic’s blue jungle and started to punish them for playing a slowpace game.SKT did show, again, this tournament to be mere mortals as Bengi and Wolf got picked off in Fnatic’s red jungle. They got deleted as Bang was throwing abilities onto the 4 Fnatic members and Faker even his ultimate on the Ezreal to chunk them out enough for Bengi to take a triple kill!More fights occurred across the map, as around the 26 minute mark a fight started in the red jungle with a Death Sentence from Wolf that got followed up by a Twisted Advance from Marin onto Reignover. Huni who still had his ultimate available blew on a out of position Faker as he got forced back to the fountain. Chaos, Chaos and more Chaos! The fight moved deep into the blue side jungle, but with some great peel coming out of Marin his Maokai, SKT took another victory as they traded 5-3.The baron was still live and SKT created a pick onto the Fnatic members and split them up with Bengi jumping onto the backline while Faker and Bang took out the tanks and a Febiven who was caught out in the middle of all this. SKT outplaying Fnatic again in the teamfights this game as they 4-0’d them, picked up their 3rd drake and the baron!SKT pushed out their lanes and grouped up top as they forced their way into the base and ended the game in their favor.Fnatic’s first mistake was letting Bengi have Rek’Sai, there is nobody else to blame here but the coach and Yellowstar who are making the decisions.SKT made a mistake giving Fnatic a free advantage with the Hecarim vs Maokai match-up. When you play against a Hecarim, you would always want to put him behind early by using a laneswap.Fnatic lost total control of the match when they stopped warding. They gave SKT full control over their blue jungle and instead of fighting for a chance, they created another chance for SKT to take more control over the match.Fnatic too quick control over the map with some beautiful teleport plays coming out of Huni and a 1v2 solo kill onto Faker who tried to gank for his toplaner.As the second drake spawned, Fnatic was in full control of the area yet SKT with a very questionable engage, with Marin teleporting in with 0 rage on the Gnar bar, dropped 2 members to Fnatic and the drake.Fnatic was focussing the bottom side as Huni teleported in to complete a 4 men tower dive that gave him 2 kills and a total of 4-1 trade for Fnatic, who only dropped Huni to the roaming Faker.A bloodthirsty start with kills all over the board gave Fnatic a 2.5k gold lead at the 20 minute mark and a 2-1 lead in turrets while the drakes were split.Fnatic their first Ace in the game occurred after a fight for the 3rd drake. Huni who teleported in to Equalize the backline and even took out Faker did not get punished by Marin who again looked questionable on the Gnar. Missing yet another chance to impact a teamfight for his team by failing to optimize his Gnar ultimate. As SKT was aced, Fnatic takes down the baron as SKT responds with their second drake.Fnatic seemed to have learned from their groupstage game and force themselves onto the midlane, being able to group up SKT and dropping down a 5 men equalizer to take a 2-1 trade in their favor and the T2 midlane turret.By 30 minutes Fnatic was leading by 10k gold and 6-2 in turrets.SKT tried to go for a desperation play right before the second baron spawned to takeon a 5v4 fight against Fnatic who was without their unkillable Febiven. Fnatic was so far infront by this time that they stalled long enough for Febiven to arrive and help them to clean up the fight with a clean 5-0 Ace!Fnatic took down the baron and rushed towards the midlane to equal the series.As questionable as we might’ve found the Rek’Sai going over to Bengi again, it didn’t give SKT the edge that they needed.Reignover and Huni dictated this match with beautiful ganks, Huni his teleport ganks were out of this world getting maximum effort from each and any one of them. Then when you look at Marin his teleport plays, getting into teamfights with 0 rage on his Gnar bar, Ultimates who hit 1 person and then even not into a wall, should’ve made SKT worry. A bad game can happen but it was a disaster, one of the reasons why I am not fond of Marin in general on skill champs such as Gnar.Fnatic their optimistic gameplay and not showing respect for the Korean Champions was the key to winning this game. Punishing SKT for their arrogant plays and warding good enough to pick the SKT members out from beginning till the end of the match.SKT initiated the laneswap and got rewarded by a questionable towerdive on the botlane by Reignover who gave up first blood to Marin but in return the red buff for Steeelback.Fnatic punishing SKT by taking the first dragon of the game as they spot out Marin and Bengi in the toplane.A moment for the League of Legends history books, where as Fnatic’s Febiven solo killed Faker TWICE in a couple of minutes! Using his Deathmark and forcing “best player in the world” twice to the fountain to overthink his punishment by the Dutch midlaner.Fnatic their aggressive play gives them a 3-0 turret lead by outrotating SKT and punishing them for their sloppy lackluster gameplay. A 4k gold lead was picked up as Fnatic lead by the 20 minute mark.As Fnatic seemed to be cooling down on the aggressive plays and punishments, SKT was allowed to pick up the 3 outer turrets and cutting the gold lead down to 2.5k.Fnatic tried to recover as the 4th drake spawned but a great job zoning Huni and Steeelback by Marin and Wolf, gave SKT enough time to take out Febiven and Reignover which lead to a 28 minute free baron. Not only the baron went in favor of SKT but also the gold lead as they knocked down the bottom and middle T2 turret and pushed out all of their waves.SKT was back in control, punishing Fnatic for their naive playstyle that was picked up for no reason. Huni get’s picked off twice in a row in his own red jungle which first lead to SKT’s second baron and shortly after even to losing the game.SKT pushed hard onto the bottom lane after Huni got picked off and end the game with brute force, taking the lead in the series.SKT is lucky to be in the lead after a poor performance as in this game. Their composition saved them more than their individual plays. This is not to discredit SKT, because it is by far a magical art to punish teams and run away with the game.Fnatic did everything they should in the first 20 minutes, punishing SKT their solo laners, solo-killing Faker twice, Rotating, Teleport plays but it wasn’t enough. Against a team like SKT, you want to keep on pushing until “Victory”appears on your screen. Giving teams as SKT just a small window to just take a turret, is enough to lose the game and potentially the series.Fnatic’s change of gameplay around the 20 minute mark was the key for them losing this game.Fnatic came out with a demonic aggression. Punishing SKT for their standard lanes. Yellowstart started the punishment on the botlane getting first blood on Bang.SKT didn’t seem to be able to do anything early despite getting the first 2 drakes.Reignover who is on the Rek’Sai obtained a digusting lead, having 5 kills at the 20 minute mark and even going for a Warrior enchant combined with the hexdrinker for a combination of magic resist and damage!Fnatic has lead before against SKT but not with 6k gold at the 20 minute mark.Being so far ahead, Fnatic opted into a sub 22 minute baron kill and with their buff they took out the mid and bot top inner turret.What a display of brute force it was by Fnatic who seemed to have tilted SKT with Bang engaging a teamfight on the 4th dragon spawn of the game. SKT got punished by Fnatic who took down the dragon and shortly after another misplay by SKT get’s punished and ends in a 3-1 trade for Fnatic who took down their second baron.The teamfights during the game were nothing more but tickle fights for the likes of Fnatic who were leading by 15k at around the 30 minute mark and were looking to end the game to force a 5th and final game in this series.Fnatic got the fight that they were looking for but perhaps not that they wanted as Reignover got caught out and forced a Sejuani ult out of Bengi. As Reignover fell, the rest of Fnatic collapsed onto SKT and aced them trading Steeelback for 5 kills and the game!SKT looks clueless, they look weak and without any form of creativity to deal with the overaggressive European Rookies lead by one of the most respected players in the west, Yellowstar.Reignover his build was questionable, building the warrior enchant into Hexdrinker and not the sightstone. I thought it was a very questionable build, yet he proved me wrong by collapsing and building onto the lead that he had gotten his team and leaving SKT without any chance of coming back into this game.There is only 1 thing to say about SKT, change your playstyle or go home!Bengi’s Nunu came onto the rift with a invisible buff called “Demonic Rage” as he denied the first red buff from Reignover by stealing it right under his nose. He continued his path of doom by going towards the botlane, taking away Reignover his blue buff and killing him, claiming first blood and securing the 5 minute sightstone.Early on in the game Bengi already got a 1k gold lead over Reignover his Gragas and continued to steal his buffs throughout the game.The chaos that Bengi’s Nunu caused, was unchallengable by the European Champions. Reignover who had no clue how to respond tried to gank non stop instead of farming up, committing a lot of time on the toplane. Fnatic’s toplane presence got punished by 2 kills, 1 onto Huni and the other onto Reignover as SKT took away everything they could from their opponents.At the 20 minute mark SKT was leading by 4k gold and even took out the baron at 20.34. With the baron buff under their belt, SKT continued to push their advantage and took out the 2 middle turrets.At this point, Fnatic seemed to have given up all hope on getting back into the game. Bengi continued to create vision and steal buffs as the lanes were happily pushed out by SKT without any Fnatic member daring to come near them.SKT did not rush their win, they played it slow but safe and secured a second baron at the 30 minute mark leading by 13k gold and 6-0 in turrets. A couple of minutes later SKT did force a double inhibitor push on the bot and mid lane and stalled the game even longer for a 3rd and final baron!After picking up the baron, the fight that was initiated by Fnatic got punished by SKT with their gigantic gold lead and a quadrakill for Bang securing their final spot.A notable fact about this 5th game was that Fnatic didn’t get any turrets nor did they get more then only 1 of each of their buffs.The only reason why Fnatic lost this game was because they are not familiar with good Nunu players. In Europe Nunu is hardly ever played and when it is played it isn’t even near the skill level as the Asian teams play this champion.Fnatic their naive and perhaps inexperienced playstyle towards Bengi’s Nunu cost them objectives and caused a lot chaos in the mind of Reignover who did not have a clue what hit him.Bengi’s Nunu carries SKT to the finals of MSI and Fnatic can be proud to have pulled off a 5 game series against the Korean champions.