Following Cloud9's reverse sweep over Gravity in the NA Regionals, LCS guest analyst and current Enemy jungler Trashy spoke to theScore eSports about the match, Hai's jungle picks and his team's preparation for their upcoming match against Team Coast.

In your opinion, what did Cloud9 do that gave them the edge over Gravity?

First of all, they figured out after the first two games what they had to do to comeback, which was bringing more playmaking abilities. First of all, they went from high damage AD Carries to more utility AD Carries and then they went from high damage less supportive top laners to engage top laners and that kind of gave them more openings in terms of making decisions and making plays. Obviously Hai going out and finding his comfort picks — I don’t honestly approve of his picks — but it seemed to have worked out for him.

Elise was open in almost all of the games, but Hai decided to go with picks like Amumu, Shyvana and Kha’Zix up until Game 5. Why was Elise, who is arguably the strongest jungler on this patch, not an early priority for Hai or, in your opinion. Was he hoping to hide the pick until the latter games?

I don’ think he was saving it. One of the reasons why some people don’t pick it, is because what Elise bring is early game aggression, early game dive pressure, early game tower pressure, but later on in team-fights, champions like Gragas, Amumu, Ekko, etc… bring a lot more to teamfights than the likes of Elise. So I think maybe for the first game it was more about getting a scaling team comp that is good at teamfighting because they maybe didn’t have enough confident in themselves to snowball in the early game.

Cloud 9 didn’t play any playoff matches whereas Gravity did. Do you think that affected Cloud9’s plays seeing as how they had more time to prepare and also had GV’s set against TSM to study?

I think from the set I watched today that preparation didn’t have too much. The off-picks that C9 brought weren’t so much of a surprise — the only thing I was surprised about was the Amumu which I didn’t actually like that much — but after that it was all about who had the better pick/ban. I think pretty much whoever had the better pick/ban won every game, so at that point you could say it’s good preparation. On the day it just came down to the draft, that was the most important part.

What specifically didn’t you like about the Amumu pick?

Most of the time they were behind in the early game . The way Gravity play the game is when they get a lead they prioritize vision control very highly and when you have vision control and map control it’s very hard for Amumu because the way Amumu engages is just run at you and it’s really telegraphed and they can just disengage or they can just frontline it with the tanks and nothing will happen. The way it could work is when the game is even or they have better vision control, he could look for flanks or unexpected engages and it could have turned out better but the way the games went and the lack of early pressure from Amumu led to them getting a disadvantage and they could never find the right engages.

Cloud9 take on Team Impulse on Sunday. What are their keys to victory against such an aggressive team?

Honestly, it’s just controlling Rush. If Rush doesn’t get fed, I could easily see Cloud9 winning all the games, especially if Impact keeps going back to his tanks. So yeah, control Rush, try to play around him and have a solid draft. The thing about drafting at the moment is you want a lot of versatility in your draft, so when I see C9 draft in their last three games, they had engage, they had poke and they had disengage in almost all of their team comps which allowed them to be very versatile in the way they approached the map.

Enemy has an upcoming Spring Promotional Match against Team Coast. What is the team doing to prepare for that match.

We have been very focused around our team, how we do things: communication, our macro play, and our new coach, YoungBuck, has helped us a lot in terms of getting us on the right track. I hope we will see the new Enemy that has been evolving in our practices on the big stage. You never know, but I hope we see that team because I think we’ll have a really high chance at beating Coast.

What are some of the specific matchups that you are preparing for against Team Coast.

They have a very high farming [jungler] — kind of what like Hai did in two of these games — and if we are not able to punish his lack of presence on the map we may struggle and then on top of that their top laner is pretty solid and he has some counter picks that we have to prepare for and that’s pretty much it. The rest of our map should be in our favor for sure.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Sean Tepper is a Supervising Editor for theScore eSports. You can follow him on Twitter.