Predictions

H2K vs Giants Gaming

The current head to head record between these two teams for the season is H2K 2 – Gia 0 (Week 4 and Week 8). I don’t see any reason for the results to change.

Week 4’s head to head was a relatively clean and short game (30:39 was the match time). H2K got ahead early and never really looked back. Giants got their first objectives (dragon and tower) around 10 minute mark and by that time, the score was 7-1 in H2K’s favor with H2K already taking down three towers.

Giants’ bans were not very good in my opinion. Loulex is a proven Gragas player so banning Rek’sai an taking Evelynn instead of Gragas did not limit the H2K jungler. The Rumble ban is well deserved as Odo has been ripping through the EU LCS with the little yordle. I know some people may say they should have banned Hjarnan’s Sivir instead of Kalista. You have to keep in mind that at the start of the split, Kalista was a must pick or ban. In my opinion Giants should have left up Kalista and banned someone else, maybe Gragas or Alistar (both are top five pick or ban champions). H2K first picked Sivir after the Kalista ban, taking away the other top tier adc and that left the Giants’ adc on Vayne which was very underwhelming. If they had left both adcs open, Adryh would have been able to play the top tier adc instead of being on Vayne.

On the other hand, H2K’s bans were very good. Pr0lly (or whoever does pick/ban for H2K) does a very good job. The Jax and Morgana ban are self explanatory, they are both comfort picks for Giants’ Werlyb and GODFRED. Pepii played well on Xerath in his match against the Copenhagen Wolves Week 1 but not enough to warrant a ban. That being said, I don’t think there was any other ban that H2K really needed to make.

Second time, four weeks later, was more of the same. Actually it was probably worse. Ryu played like an absolute god this game going 14/1/4 on Ahri. Adryh got absolutely decimated, going 0/9/1 on Jinx and being picked off by Ryu multiple times. Giants first picked the OP Ryze and Werlyb never got the ball rolling as he did his best to convince Riot that Ryze was not OP. I know I’m being hard on them but Giants have so much potential and it’s sad to see them get decimated, granted it was against one of EU’s top teams. Pepii, again, tried to carry the team from the depths of hell going 3/3/1 on Jayce which is respectable considering the score was 4- 24 not in his favor. With a 0/14/3 bot lane there isn’t much Giants’ mid laner can do to win.

Bans this time around were better for Giants. They stuck with the Rumble ban for Odoamne, Thresh ban for kaSing and a Sivir ban for Hjarnan. This allowed Fr3deric to get his hands on one of the top tier junglers while Loulex stayed on Gragas. However Adryh was not able to be on a top tier adc once again.

H2K’s bans were almost identical to the previous match. The only difference was the Ezreal ban in place of the Xerath. This was a good change as Pepii had not played Xerath since the first week and his AP Ezreal in prior weeks wrecked havoc.

Conclusion: H2K 3 – 0 Giants

There is simply not enough of Pepii to carry Giants Gaming through this series. The main matchup will be the mid lane especially since Pepii is the main carry of Giants. I do think the deciding matchup will be between the top laners. Both tops enjoy playing carry style champions and if one of them is able to get ahead, it will influence the entire game.

Unicorns of Love vs Roccat

The current head to head record is tied at 1-1 (Week 2 and Week 5). Both matches were played with Kikis starting in the Jungle for UoL. One match was played with Woolite as adc for Roccat and one match with MrRalleZ. It’s hard to predict the results since we have never seen UoL play with their substitute H0r0 (formerly known as Beelzehan and he played on SKT T1 #1, SKT T1 S and Meet Your Makers).

This game was played with Woolite as Roccat’s adc and Kikis as UoL’s jungler. Roccat had and maintained a lead throughout this entire game despite UoL coming out on top. The game showcased Roccat’s inability to close out games. There was one point where Roccat had baron buff and were up a large amount of gold yet they were being pushed in almost every single lane. I do believe that they improved considerably in this department since the start of the season.

UoL this game ran heavy poke with PowerOfEvil going AP Kog’Maw. The Kog plus Sivir also gave them spectacular wave clear which is why they were able to pressure Roccat despite being behind. They had great disengage with Gragas and Sivir ult which allowed them to stall out the game.

This game was played with MrRalleZ as Roccat’s adc and Kikis as UoL’s jungler. Roccat was able to defeat them this time around in a convincing fashion. They were able to secure objectives despite being down in kills for the majority of the early game. The first major teamfight of the game came when Roccat was down in kills 1-4 and they completely decimated UoL, taking four kills without losing a single person. After that the game was one sided. Roccat secured a 21 min baron after that teamfight and pushed their lead all the way to victory. They only allowed 3 kills and 1 tower after that teamfight and took 9 kills, 7 towers, 1 dragon and another baron.

UoL did not have as much wave clear this time around (Sivir + Kog vs Jinx + Cass). They were able to get some picks early after Kikis died early to Jankos but after that one teamfight the game was snowballed way out of control.

Conclusion: Roccat 3 – 1 UoL

It’s hard to accurately predict this game since we have never seen H0r0 play with UoL. He is a solid jungler and definitely better than Gilius. In an interview, Kikis once said he was the backbone of UoL and I do believe that there is some truth to the statement so it will be interesting to see what H0r0 can bring to the table. He is a very good Nidalee, Lee, Elise and Shaco (^^) player. However Roccat has looked dominant in both head to head games despite losing one and I believe they have gotten better in recent weeks with Nukeduck playing exceptionally well. The main matchup will be in the jungle with Jankos vs H0r0. Their pressure throughout the early will dictate the pace of the game.

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