loltribble Profile Joined April 2015 Netherlands 80 Posts Last Edited: 2015-05-11 09:00:11 May 11 2015 07:57 GMT #1 The champions of the 2 best teams of the world face eachother in the final of the Mid-Season Invitational 2015. Faker’s SKT T1 is facing the triple carry threat, EDward Gaming. A final with 2 midlane world champions facing eachother. Would we be able to see undefeated streaks get broken on champions like Leblanc and Jinx?





Game 1







Bengi replied to Clearlove his thrashtalk with a level 2 invade on his red buff. Marin had set-up the invade with a ward placed onto Clearlove's red. Bengi forced Clearlove to recall and steal away his buff. Immediately after, Bengi jumps into the midlane, chasing down Pawn who was chunked down from a 1v1 duel with Easyhoon and blows both his summoners and takes first blood.



Bengi his early game took out both Pawn and Clearlove and secured a 1.1k lead for his team after 10 minutes.



The first reply from EDG came in the botlane as Clearlove picked up the Thresh Lantern express into a Bang’s Kalista who got ulted by Deft and slowed by Thresh his box, as Meiko secures the kill EDG picks up their first dragon of the game.



SKT who had learned from their passive early game against Fnatic collapse onto a recalling Pawn inbetween his middle turrets with 4 members. Pawn his recall got sped up by a death as Clearlove his desperate attempt to save him got punished with a death too.



In the meantime, not long after SKT’s midlane aggression, the toplane went crazy. Koro1 picked up a solokill onto Marin by chasing and poking him down!



Inbetween all the action, Bengi was continuing his dominating game by obtaining a lot of vision in the blue side jungle of EDG.



Koro who was looking to be the biggest threat on EDG’s side again, got a VIP gank assigned to him by not just Bengi but also Wolf. A 3v1 gank onto a low health Gnar was supposed to give SKT the turret and the kill, but as Koro1 activated his super powers to escape by jumping away he picked up a kill with the boomerang onto Wolf!



At the 20 minute mark SKT was leading the game by 3k gold and 2-1 in turrets but EDG had a 2-0 dragon advantage at this point.



Koro1 was playing a good game but kept overextending and in return he kept being punished by the bloodthirsty SKT members who punished him over and over again for this.



A fight at the 3rd dragon where Bengi got caught out in the middle of EDG’s team got turned after a misposition from Pawn who died without using his Shockwave. Right before his death Koro1 landed a 3 men Gnar ultimate into the wall of the ramp but Pawn didn’t force the ultimate onto the SKT members.



SKT who wisely kept their backline safe, punished EDG and took out 4 members 1 by 1 and rushed the baron!



Eventually Bengi’s overextension lead to a mid turret for his team but a forced escape into SKT’s red side jungle. SKT chased them down and split the low dps composition from EDG up as they pick up 4 kills.



SKT continued their domination with more vision control and more punishment across the map. Pushing out their lanes and setting up for the next baron, SKT acknowledged the Kalista strength and took it down with brute force. EDG’s Clearlove who tried to steal the baron got send to a quick death. Marin in the meantime was keeping the backline of EDG busy enough to not be able to reach his carries. SKT cleans up the fight 4-1 and ends the game!



Analysis:



Bengi was the MVP this game, his early aggression dictated the game and gave his midlaner Easyhoon free farm. Bengi his aggression blew Pawn’s summoners twice in a short amount of time and forced kills onto him. Also his aggressive warding and counterjungling set the pace for this game.



Koro1 could not carry this low damage team composition that came out of EDG, nor the lackluster performance from his midlaner Pawn who didn’t seem to be able to land a single proper decisive shockwave or to even position correctly in teamfights.



Bang his early QSS build was the key for SKT to keep winning teamfights.



All credit to SKT who grabbed EDG by the throat and forced their own playstyle upon them.



Game 2







The best start EDG could hope for and the worst for SKT, as a level 1 invade ends up in a 5v5 teamfight going 3-0 in favor of EDG. Meiko picks up first blood and Pawn and Jinx the remaining kills.



EDG’s early lead got slightly cut down after a good midlane gank from Marin and SKT focussing their mind onto the toplane and taking down 2 turrets by 10 minutes.



Clearlove who was recognizing that Marin his Flash was down, focussed his time onto the botlane to pick up multiple kills onto Marin and forcing him to roam the map.



A midlane 4v2 fight came up as SKT collapsed onto EDG, taking out Pawn who strangely enough ran away from his turret but towards Clearlove who came in from the topside river. SKT made quick work of their advantage and take both members down as Koro1 , who arrived late to the party, couldn’t influence the fight in his team’s favor.



SKT seemed to be coming back into this game after some good aggressive plays coming out from them.



EDG grouped up mid as Marin and Easyhoon land a Shockwave/Equalizer combo onto EDG. Only the supports got traded after this aggressive play coming out of SKT but EDG re-engaged after their cooldowns were back up. A unexpected Twisted Advance coming out of the still unkillable Koro1 gave EDG enough peel to let both Deft and Clearlove pick up a double kill each and both mid turrets.



As we reached our 20 minute mark, EDG was leading by as much as 6k gold, 4-2 in turrets and 3 uncontested dragons.



EDG created a double pick onto SKT, by first taking down Bang and little moments later on Marin to secure their first free baron of the game.



EDG was taking it down fast but stopped around 1600 health, whereas Bengi was hovering around the outside of the baronpit, tunneled in and….MADE TOOK THE BARON FOR SKT!



Even with the Baron, SKT only bought time to sit out their first loss in the finals as EDG was still leading by more then 5k gold and even zoning SKT from the 4th dragon spawn which they picked up after a crazy teamfight!



SKT who decided to rush towards the midlane to take the T2 mid turret, got stopped by the backline of EDG returning to lane and Koro1 teleporting behind the team to take out Bang! Marin took out Deft with an Equalizer and the fight went in slight favor of EDG and set them up for their 4th drake. As EDG picked up their 4th drake, SKT engaged and a 3v3 fight got turned slightly in favor of SKT as the remaining members from both teams arrived at the slaughter site. Easyhoon flanked EDG but didn’t have enough damage to take out Pawn who was picking up a double kill and Deft who positioned himself at max range to pick up a double kill for himself.



At the next baron spawn, EDG took it down without letting Bengi even getting a chance to steal it again, which would’ve brought SKT back into the game. EDG forces the middle Inhibitor and the bot T2 turret. They pick up their 5th dragon without SKT stopping them and set up for a final push to take down game 2 and tie the series.



Analysis:



SKT made a big mistake by taking on a high damage level 1 composition with the amount of cc that EDG was running.



EDG threw their lead with some cocky plays but SKT is to credit for their punishing playstyle that has got them to the finals.



EDG , on the back of Koro1 and Clearlove got back into the lead and provided enough peel to come out on top in teamfights. Pawn’s his positioning though was questionable again during the teamfights this game.



SKT is to blame for their naive level 1 teamfight but, EDG did terrible with throwing their lead and their bad positioning in teamfights.



Game 3







EDG taking control almost as quickly as they did in the previous game. A powerful invade from Clearlove forces SKT to back off their own blue buff as Koro1 even teleported in for a potential fight.



Showing a lot of aggression, Clearlove, Meiko and Deft commit to a 3 men towerdive and take out 2 SKT members which gives Clearlove a double kill after a flash/snowball onto the low health Bengi.



Meiko who again was allowed on his Annie was controlling the map together with Clearlove, creating vision and roam potential for their team and picking up the first dragon at the 10 minute mark while leading by 1.3k gold.



A baited countergank from Clearlove in the toplane gives him a double kill as Bengi and Marin both went down again to the fearless yeti. In the meantime Meiko and Deft pick up a kill each onto Wolf and Bang.



EDG is now in the lead by as much as 4k at the 16 minute mark and having the midlane turret down to give them more map pressure and jungle control.



The Chinese champions continue to gain vision and pick the naive facechecking members of SKT off and sending them to their demise.



Just after the Baron spawned another Dada777 like play coming out of Wolf who get’s punished for it as it created the opportunity for EDG to take down the baron just under 23 minutes into the game.



There was no stopping EDG, even a 4v3 fight in SKT’s blue side jungle as Meiko and Pawn, who were on their way from the fountain, got there just intime to take revenge for Deft’s death with a Quadra kill onto Pawn’s Azir.



SKT for some reason kept fighting and facechecking their own jungle against a double sightstone composition that was miles ahead of them. EDG accepted the mistakes made by Korean champions and transferred them into kills, kills and more kills.



SKT had enough and hit the surrender button, EDG leading 2-1!



Analysis:



There is a reason why Clearlove his Nunu had a 20+KDA in the regular split in the LPL. He is the best Nunu player when it comes to synergy with his team and it translated into a unstoppable force this game.



Clearlove often picks up kills on Nunu so that he can snowball the objective/jungle control which provides his team enough map pressure to snowball onto his lead.



SKT got caught by surprise, they didn’t expect EDG to come out this aggressive while some research would’ve given them enough information about Clearlove’s Nunu and not to forget Meiko’s Annie.



There is a reason why Annie is banned against EDG, he showed it in the first game and is showing it off in the second game.



For the second game in a row, SKT is giving EDG the composition that they want and they are being punished for it incredibly hard. On top of that, their “star toplaner” Marin is having a terrible series, even in their first game victory. He keeps dying and having limited to no impact in teamfights with the Rumble.



Game 4







SKT punishing EDG with Faker in their line-up. Koro1 got caught out multiple times and had a quick 5 deaths in the game.



The Korean champions punished EDG for trying to engage into fights with their poke composition and Faker getting early kills onto his Kassadin.



Together with the kill lead that SKT picked up, their vision control was marvelous throughout the entire game. They made sure that EDG was not able to sneak upon them, instead punish them and baited fights.



Marin even 1v1’d Koro inlane with some terrific Gnar combo’s and a ultimate into the turret range to finish off the big tree!



Despite Pawn picking up a double kill after SKT picked up their second drake, Marin responded with a beautiful Gnar Ultimate to take out both Deft and Clearlove and continued to snowball and become a huge impenetrable wall for his team.



SKT kept punishing EDG for their overconfident plays, not only in kills but also by trading their 2 toplane turrets for 3 turrets in the bot and midlane. Shortly after a fight occurred in the midlane as Marin his Gnar split the entire team of EDG up, giving Faker enough time to pick up a couple of kills and take a even bigger lead as the game continued to go into SKT’s favor.



EDG who picked up the 3rd drake of the game, got punished by none else but Faker himself and with a double kill onto the Godlike midlaner.



SKT was not in a rush to end the game, they instead kept letting EDG engage onto them with their poke comp. SKT simply punished EDG over and over again for their mistakes and after destroying EDG as the 4th drake spawned, the baron was a much better option for SKT to send this one into a final game.



SKT was able to finish the game shortly after the baron buff ran out as they, impressively, applied pressure on all 3 lanes that were pushed into EDG’s turrets.



Faker coming out big and forces a 5th and deciding game.



Analysis:



EDG had the perfect composition to get a 3-1 victory over SKT and pick up their first international title. Sadly for them SKT was able to punish every single mistake that EDG made.



Koro1 tried to ward deep, SKT punished. Koro overextended in lane, SKT punished. Deft appeared on the frontline, SKT punished.



Is this to be blamed onto EDG making mistakes? You could say that, but in fact it is SKT who made it happen. SKT punished EDG and not once, but the entire game. Only top teams are able to punish the smallest of mistakes and turn it into a huge advantage.



Bang’s QSS gave him a free pass to do whatever he liked in teamfights and Faker’s Kassadin came out big by not dropping once to the likes of EDG.



Koro1 who has been performing like a Faker of the toplane the entire tournament, fell into overextending and greedy plays that caused SKT to snowball off of his mistakes.



Game 5







EDG brought out the pain train as SKT opted into a laneswap giving EDG a free card to play their prefered playstyle. A 4 men tower dive onto the botlane gave EDG the lead in gold.



Clearlove and Meiko continued to roam and create opportunities for EDG to extend their lead and map pressence.



After picking up the drake EDG rotated bot to pick up a kill onto Wolf and the first tower of the game.



EDG’s low damage but high CC team comp gave them a small 1.5k gold lead at 18 minutes after winning a 5v4 fight in the toplane where Pawn picked up his first double kill after being on point with his skillshots in this game.



SKT was even on drakes with EDG and picked up their second drake as EDG was too late to contest the objective. Nonetheless, EDG seeked for the fight and managed to pick up a double kill onto Pawn after Meiko headbutted Marin’s Mega Gnar away from his carries.



EDG was grabbing a bigger lead and winning fights across the map as a 5v5 occurred in the midlane. Pawn layed down multiple godlike bindings as SKT had no answer to the high amount of interrupts and cc coming out of EDG’s team composition. Meiko was headbutting people away and Koro1 engaging with his Twisted Advance to lock the enemies down for his teammates to delete from the map. EDG takes down SKT with a 4-0 fight and leading by 3k gold.



Faker during all of this kept coming away alive and was stacking his Mejais soulstealer up. As strong as EDG was in the teamfights, they couldn’t get Faker out for good.



As the baron spawned, the focus was onto the dragon where Clearlove flanked SKT together with Koro1 to lock down 2 SKT members and try to focus get a baron kill for their team. Faker’s pressence was enough for EDG to back off from the baron. A chasing Faker onto Pawn got taken down by Koro1 who was just around the corner of the baron pit trying to recall but helped out his midlaner.



The fight continued, after both teams reappeared at the dragon, EDG flanks SKT yet again and take down the baron and 7k gold lead!



EDG pushed into the top and midlane but couldn’t secure a inhibitor. SKT was not letting them anywhere near them and even managed to take down Pawn and Meiko as they gave themselves some more breathing room.



As the 5th drake spawned, EDG pulled it off again, despite SKT having a pink ward in the bush above their red buff. They got flanked by Koro1 and Clearlove again and Bang and Bengi had to suffer from this ambush after Pawn and Meiko did their job’s locking their targets down. EDG rushes towards the baron and as they were taking it down, Faker tried to interrupt the Baron.



Could Faker make a godlike play on Leblanc to steal a baron and give his team a chance to get back into this? The answer was no, EDG takes down their second baron and even blow up Faker!!!



They forced themselves into SKT’s base, pushing down the middle inhibitor and securing their first ever international tournament victory!



Analysis:



SKT got baited into picking Leblanc. Leaving it open for SKT was one of the strongest strategies we’ve seen this entire tournament. This was only possible to go into EDG’s favor if their low damage midgame composition would be able to do their job properly in the early game and chaining the CC systematically.



SKT unfortunately did not respect the early game power coming out of EDG. The laneswap that got initiated by SKT gave EDG the opportunity to take the lead early on with towerdives, deep warding and the early dragon.



Maokai his Twisted Advance, Morgana her Dark Bindings and Alistar his Pulverize was enough cc to disrupt the teamfights in the early game by locking down targets and blowing them up. Meiko who was doing a great job in zoning carries or to headbutt them away like he did multiple times came out big in this too.



SKT was hoping for Faker to make the mad man moves on his Leblanc, which he did but unfortunately not enough. The amount of cc coming out of EDG and control during the teamfights was too much for SKT to answer.



The MVP’s this game were by far Pawn and Meiko. Pawn started to land bindings onto Faker in the laning phase and continued to get close to a 100% hitrate on them throughout the game and landing them multiple times in the teamfights. Meiko was both peeling and engaging for his team, making sure that his carries were safe enough to deal the damage that was needed.



Everything for EDG after the early game was about the teamfights in which they were superior on and eventually won them the game.

Bengi replied to Clearlove his thrashtalk with a level 2 invade on his red buff. Marin had set-up the invade with a ward placed onto Clearlove's red. Bengi forced Clearlove to recall and steal away his buff. Immediately after, Bengi jumps into the midlane, chasing down Pawn who was chunked down from a 1v1 duel with Easyhoon and blows both his summoners and takes first blood.Bengi his early game took out both Pawn and Clearlove and secured a 1.1k lead for his team after 10 minutes.The first reply from EDG came in the botlane as Clearlove picked up the Thresh Lantern express into a Bang’s Kalista who got ulted by Deft and slowed by Thresh his box, as Meiko secures the kill EDG picks up their first dragon of the game.SKT who had learned from their passive early game against Fnatic collapse onto a recalling Pawn inbetween his middle turrets with 4 members. Pawn his recall got sped up by a death as Clearlove his desperate attempt to save him got punished with a death too.In the meantime, not long after SKT’s midlane aggression, the toplane went crazy. Koro1 picked up a solokill onto Marin by chasing and poking him down!Inbetween all the action, Bengi was continuing his dominating game by obtaining a lot of vision in the blue side jungle of EDG.Koro who was looking to be the biggest threat on EDG’s side again, got a VIP gank assigned to him by not just Bengi but also Wolf. A 3v1 gank onto a low health Gnar was supposed to give SKT the turret and the kill, but as Koro1 activated his super powers to escape by jumping away he picked up a kill with the boomerang onto Wolf!At the 20 minute mark SKT was leading the game by 3k gold and 2-1 in turrets but EDG had a 2-0 dragon advantage at this point.Koro1 was playing a good game but kept overextending and in return he kept being punished by the bloodthirsty SKT members who punished him over and over again for this.A fight at the 3rd dragon where Bengi got caught out in the middle of EDG’s team got turned after a misposition from Pawn who died without using his Shockwave. Right before his death Koro1 landed a 3 men Gnar ultimate into the wall of the ramp but Pawn didn’t force the ultimate onto the SKT members.SKT who wisely kept their backline safe, punished EDG and took out 4 members 1 by 1 and rushed the baron!Eventually Bengi’s overextension lead to a mid turret for his team but a forced escape into SKT’s red side jungle. SKT chased them down and split the low dps composition from EDG up as they pick up 4 kills.SKT continued their domination with more vision control and more punishment across the map. Pushing out their lanes and setting up for the next baron, SKT acknowledged the Kalista strength and took it down with brute force. EDG’s Clearlove who tried to steal the baron got send to a quick death. Marin in the meantime was keeping the backline of EDG busy enough to not be able to reach his carries. SKT cleans up the fight 4-1 and ends the game!Bengi was the MVP this game, his early aggression dictated the game and gave his midlaner Easyhoon free farm. Bengi his aggression blew Pawn’s summoners twice in a short amount of time and forced kills onto him. Also his aggressive warding and counterjungling set the pace for this game.Koro1 could not carry this low damage team composition that came out of EDG, nor the lackluster performance from his midlaner Pawn who didn’t seem to be able to land a single proper decisive shockwave or to even position correctly in teamfights.Bang his early QSS build was the key for SKT to keep winning teamfights.All credit to SKT who grabbed EDG by the throat and forced their own playstyle upon them.The best start EDG could hope for and the worst for SKT, as a level 1 invade ends up in a 5v5 teamfight going 3-0 in favor of EDG. Meiko picks up first blood and Pawn and Jinx the remaining kills.EDG’s early lead got slightly cut down after a good midlane gank from Marin and SKT focussing their mind onto the toplane and taking down 2 turrets by 10 minutes.Clearlove who was recognizing that Marin his Flash was down, focussed his time onto the botlane to pick up multiple kills onto Marin and forcing him to roam the map.A midlane 4v2 fight came up as SKT collapsed onto EDG, taking out Pawn who strangely enough ran away from his turret but towards Clearlove who came in from the topside river. SKT made quick work of their advantage and take both members down as Koro1 , who arrived late to the party, couldn’t influence the fight in his team’s favor.SKT seemed to be coming back into this game after some good aggressive plays coming out from them.EDG grouped up mid as Marin and Easyhoon land a Shockwave/Equalizer combo onto EDG. Only the supports got traded after this aggressive play coming out of SKT but EDG re-engaged after their cooldowns were back up. A unexpected Twisted Advance coming out of the still unkillable Koro1 gave EDG enough peel to let both Deft and Clearlove pick up a double kill each and both mid turrets.As we reached our 20 minute mark, EDG was leading by as much as 6k gold, 4-2 in turrets and 3 uncontested dragons.EDG created a double pick onto SKT, by first taking down Bang and little moments later on Marin to secure their first free baron of the game.EDG was taking it down fast but stopped around 1600 health, whereas Bengi was hovering around the outside of the baronpit, tunneled in and….MADE TOOK THE BARON FOR SKT!Even with the Baron, SKT only bought time to sit out their first loss in the finals as EDG was still leading by more then 5k gold and even zoning SKT from the 4th dragon spawn which they picked up after a crazy teamfight!SKT who decided to rush towards the midlane to take the T2 mid turret, got stopped by the backline of EDG returning to lane and Koro1 teleporting behind the team to take out Bang! Marin took out Deft with an Equalizer and the fight went in slight favor of EDG and set them up for their 4th drake. As EDG picked up their 4th drake, SKT engaged and a 3v3 fight got turned slightly in favor of SKT as the remaining members from both teams arrived at the slaughter site. Easyhoon flanked EDG but didn’t have enough damage to take out Pawn who was picking up a double kill and Deft who positioned himself at max range to pick up a double kill for himself.At the next baron spawn, EDG took it down without letting Bengi even getting a chance to steal it again, which would’ve brought SKT back into the game. EDG forces the middle Inhibitor and the bot T2 turret. They pick up their 5th dragon without SKT stopping them and set up for a final push to take down game 2 and tie the series.SKT made a big mistake by taking on a high damage level 1 composition with the amount of cc that EDG was running.EDG threw their lead with some cocky plays but SKT is to credit for their punishing playstyle that has got them to the finals.EDG , on the back of Koro1 and Clearlove got back into the lead and provided enough peel to come out on top in teamfights. Pawn’s his positioning though was questionable again during the teamfights this game.SKT is to blame for their naive level 1 teamfight but, EDG did terrible with throwing their lead and their bad positioning in teamfights.EDG taking control almost as quickly as they did in the previous game. A powerful invade from Clearlove forces SKT to back off their own blue buff as Koro1 even teleported in for a potential fight.Showing a lot of aggression, Clearlove, Meiko and Deft commit to a 3 men towerdive and take out 2 SKT members which gives Clearlove a double kill after a flash/snowball onto the low health Bengi.Meiko who again was allowed on his Annie was controlling the map together with Clearlove, creating vision and roam potential for their team and picking up the first dragon at the 10 minute mark while leading by 1.3k gold.A baited countergank from Clearlove in the toplane gives him a double kill as Bengi and Marin both went down again to the fearless yeti. In the meantime Meiko and Deft pick up a kill each onto Wolf and Bang.EDG is now in the lead by as much as 4k at the 16 minute mark and having the midlane turret down to give them more map pressure and jungle control.The Chinese champions continue to gain vision and pick the naive facechecking members of SKT off and sending them to their demise.Just after the Baron spawned another Dada777 like play coming out of Wolf who get’s punished for it as it created the opportunity for EDG to take down the baron just under 23 minutes into the game.There was no stopping EDG, even a 4v3 fight in SKT’s blue side jungle as Meiko and Pawn, who were on their way from the fountain, got there just intime to take revenge for Deft’s death with a Quadra kill onto Pawn’s Azir.SKT for some reason kept fighting and facechecking their own jungle against a double sightstone composition that was miles ahead of them. EDG accepted the mistakes made by Korean champions and transferred them into kills, kills and more kills.SKT had enough and hit the surrender button, EDG leading 2-1!There is a reason why Clearlove his Nunu had a 20+KDA in the regular split in the LPL. He is the best Nunu player when it comes to synergy with his team and it translated into a unstoppable force this game.Clearlove often picks up kills on Nunu so that he can snowball the objective/jungle control which provides his team enough map pressure to snowball onto his lead.SKT got caught by surprise, they didn’t expect EDG to come out this aggressive while some research would’ve given them enough information about Clearlove’s Nunu and not to forget Meiko’s Annie.There is a reason why Annie is banned against EDG, he showed it in the first game and is showing it off in the second game.For the second game in a row, SKT is giving EDG the composition that they want and they are being punished for it incredibly hard. On top of that, their “star toplaner” Marin is having a terrible series, even in their first game victory. He keeps dying and having limited to no impact in teamfights with the Rumble.SKT punishing EDG with Faker in their line-up. Koro1 got caught out multiple times and had a quick 5 deaths in the game.The Korean champions punished EDG for trying to engage into fights with their poke composition and Faker getting early kills onto his Kassadin.Together with the kill lead that SKT picked up, their vision control was marvelous throughout the entire game. They made sure that EDG was not able to sneak upon them, instead punish them and baited fights.Marin even 1v1’d Koro inlane with some terrific Gnar combo’s and a ultimate into the turret range to finish off the big tree!Despite Pawn picking up a double kill after SKT picked up their second drake, Marin responded with a beautiful Gnar Ultimate to take out both Deft and Clearlove and continued to snowball and become a huge impenetrable wall for his team.SKT kept punishing EDG for their overconfident plays, not only in kills but also by trading their 2 toplane turrets for 3 turrets in the bot and midlane. Shortly after a fight occurred in the midlane as Marin his Gnar split the entire team of EDG up, giving Faker enough time to pick up a couple of kills and take a even bigger lead as the game continued to go into SKT’s favor.EDG who picked up the 3rd drake of the game, got punished by none else but Faker himself and with a double kill onto the Godlike midlaner.SKT was not in a rush to end the game, they instead kept letting EDG engage onto them with their poke comp. SKT simply punished EDG over and over again for their mistakes and after destroying EDG as the 4th drake spawned, the baron was a much better option for SKT to send this one into a final game.SKT was able to finish the game shortly after the baron buff ran out as they, impressively, applied pressure on all 3 lanes that were pushed into EDG’s turrets.Faker coming out big and forces a 5th and deciding game.EDG had the perfect composition to get a 3-1 victory over SKT and pick up their first international title. Sadly for them SKT was able to punish every single mistake that EDG made.Koro1 tried to ward deep, SKT punished. Koro overextended in lane, SKT punished. Deft appeared on the frontline, SKT punished.Is this to be blamed onto EDG making mistakes? You could say that, but in fact it is SKT who made it happen. SKT punished EDG and not once, but the entire game. Only top teams are able to punish the smallest of mistakes and turn it into a huge advantage.Bang’s QSS gave him a free pass to do whatever he liked in teamfights and Faker’s Kassadin came out big by not dropping once to the likes of EDG.Koro1 who has been performing like a Faker of the toplane the entire tournament, fell into overextending and greedy plays that caused SKT to snowball off of his mistakes.EDG brought out the pain train as SKT opted into a laneswap giving EDG a free card to play their prefered playstyle. A 4 men tower dive onto the botlane gave EDG the lead in gold.Clearlove and Meiko continued to roam and create opportunities for EDG to extend their lead and map pressence.After picking up the drake EDG rotated bot to pick up a kill onto Wolf and the first tower of the game.EDG’s low damage but high CC team comp gave them a small 1.5k gold lead at 18 minutes after winning a 5v4 fight in the toplane where Pawn picked up his first double kill after being on point with his skillshots in this game.SKT was even on drakes with EDG and picked up their second drake as EDG was too late to contest the objective. Nonetheless, EDG seeked for the fight and managed to pick up a double kill onto Pawn after Meiko headbutted Marin’s Mega Gnar away from his carries.EDG was grabbing a bigger lead and winning fights across the map as a 5v5 occurred in the midlane. Pawn layed down multiple godlike bindings as SKT had no answer to the high amount of interrupts and cc coming out of EDG’s team composition. Meiko was headbutting people away and Koro1 engaging with his Twisted Advance to lock the enemies down for his teammates to delete from the map. EDG takes down SKT with a 4-0 fight and leading by 3k gold.Faker during all of this kept coming away alive and was stacking his Mejais soulstealer up. As strong as EDG was in the teamfights, they couldn’t get Faker out for good.As the baron spawned, the focus was onto the dragon where Clearlove flanked SKT together with Koro1 to lock down 2 SKT members and try to focus get a baron kill for their team. Faker’s pressence was enough for EDG to back off from the baron. A chasing Faker onto Pawn got taken down by Koro1 who was just around the corner of the baron pit trying to recall but helped out his midlaner.The fight continued, after both teams reappeared at the dragon, EDG flanks SKT yet again and take down the baron and 7k gold lead!EDG pushed into the top and midlane but couldn’t secure a inhibitor. SKT was not letting them anywhere near them and even managed to take down Pawn and Meiko as they gave themselves some more breathing room.As the 5th drake spawned, EDG pulled it off again, despite SKT having a pink ward in the bush above their red buff. They got flanked by Koro1 and Clearlove again and Bang and Bengi had to suffer from this ambush after Pawn and Meiko did their job’s locking their targets down. EDG rushes towards the baron and as they were taking it down, Faker tried to interrupt the Baron.Could Faker make a godlike play on Leblanc to steal a baron and give his team a chance to get back into this? The answer was no, EDG takes down their second baron and even blow up Faker!!!They forced themselves into SKT’s base, pushing down the middle inhibitor and securing their first ever international tournament victory!SKT got baited into picking Leblanc. Leaving it open for SKT was one of the strongest strategies we’ve seen this entire tournament. This was only possible to go into EDG’s favor if their low damage midgame composition would be able to do their job properly in the early game and chaining the CC systematically.SKT unfortunately did not respect the early game power coming out of EDG. The laneswap that got initiated by SKT gave EDG the opportunity to take the lead early on with towerdives, deep warding and the early dragon.Maokai his Twisted Advance, Morgana her Dark Bindings and Alistar his Pulverize was enough cc to disrupt the teamfights in the early game by locking down targets and blowing them up. Meiko who was doing a great job in zoning carries or to headbutt them away like he did multiple times came out big in this too.SKT was hoping for Faker to make the mad man moves on his Leblanc, which he did but unfortunately not enough. The amount of cc coming out of EDG and control during the teamfights was too much for SKT to answer.The MVP’s this game were by far Pawn and Meiko. Pawn started to land bindings onto Faker in the laning phase and continued to get close to a 100% hitrate on them throughout the game and landing them multiple times in the teamfights. Meiko was both peeling and engaging for his team, making sure that his carries were safe enough to deal the damage that was needed.Everything for EDG after the early game was about the teamfights in which they were superior on and eventually won them the game.