Likkrit's thoughts

Welp, I can’t sleep, so here is a long post right now (the poll is meh) [he previously posted a poll asking whether he should write a long post or not]



0) to all haters



1)Advancing from groups



2) quarterfinals



3) thoughts



4) plans



5) Draft analysis for those who interested/represented in the first paragraph



0) By the way, we showed the best result in CIS history with a huge fucking gap, performing with one team better than the whole LMS with 2 direct slots, so screw you;



1)We couldn’t push the group up to the end, we should have won against G2 the second time, but unlucky. Games in the group stage were awesome, we managed to show in practice our signature champions, Stejos played as a young god almost all the time;



2) Before the quarterfinals we faced some unsolvable problems (after the groups we had no scrim partners left + we had to release a couple of picks), which were impossible to fix. As the result, we had to take some extreme measures, which in majority were our drafts. We simply had no time for practice, the loss is on our side rather than on our opponents.



3) “No one sees how she, who walks the life with a smile, cries at night” - Jason Statham



4) We are not going to disband, next couple of weeks going to have a vacation, after that I’ll stream, maybe sometimes in English.



5) Bans:



Nidalee on red-side is a must-ban

Ryze - a lot of H2k strategies is based on this champion, we couldn’t give them such a huge tool to apply mid/map pressure. We just couldn’t take this champion into our draft.

Olaf - Jankos’ performance on this champion was extremely strong, so we weren’t ready to give him to them anywhere except for their first pick.

Sivir is ultra broken, you counter her only with Caitlyn/Alistar or Ezreal/Karma (Zyra) and it’s not for sure, after the first game we decided not to challenge her

Kennen - we didn’t want to see Odoamne on him + it allowed them to pick AD jungler with higher efficiency.



Picks:



Caitlyn was a must, she covered an important hole and one of our three most basic problems + we managed to survive bad match-up on botlane 2v2 in 3/3 games equally or with an advantage



Gnar was a must, the only champion in our pool who could lane against Jayce



Olaf was a must, reasons why are mentioned above + a strong jungler, with whom Stejos was comfortable



Syndra - a great pick with which Kira performed on quite high level and which could have won us series if not for a critical amount of mistakes



Bard/Alistar - interchangeable in this series guys, which were a must if we didn’t take Zyra first, which was impossible since on blue side you need Caitlyn, and on red side Caitlyn + Olaf



Elise - strong+comfortable pick, nuff said



Alarm clock aka Zilean - our serious mistake in draft which lost us 3rd map.



Why not:



Banning Jayce - no bans left/practically didn’t influence our losses



Picking Zyra - look above



Taking Tahm/Taric - we would have been eaten alive on lane



Picking Vlad into Syndra - our stupid mistake



Bonus paragraph: thanks to everyone who watched us up to 5 am and rooted for us, sorry we couldn’t have performed better



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