By Helmight
I’m not
usually one to slap the word “epic” onto things, but there’s no other way to
describe this game. Curse and compLexity went back and forth more times than I
can count, fighting and clawing at each other’s bases down to the bitter end – and what
an end it was. After 57 minutes of play, Curse finally managed to pull off a
breathtaking victory against compLexity.
compLexity
went into the pick/ban phase with a poke-heavy strategy in mind. With Caitlyn,
Morgana, Elise, and Orianna, their team was focused on sieging down Curse’s
towers and protecting Caitlyn from danger. Meanwhile, Curse’s comp was far more
interesting. IWillDominate brought out the jungle Skarner for this game,
creating a sort of pick/teamfight composition that relied on the power of Quas’s
lategame Jax to succeed.
For a game
with such an exciting conclusion, the match between COL and CRS opened just
about as slow as it gets. With both duos occupying bot and generally even
matchups across the board, farming was the name of the game for almost ten
minutes straight. Finally, a sneaky brush gank by Kez brought about First Blood
and seemingly opened the gates for both teams to begin their aggression. Dragon
got started off by compLexity soon after the pick, but IWillDominate somehow
managed to outsmite Kez for the steal. Though the first objective slipped away
from COL, they wouldn’t be denied - Westrice was easily able to answer the
dragon by taking the top outer tower.
The game
then fell into a predictable pattern: Westrice and Quas would 1v1 each other in
a side lane while the remainder of their teams pushed mid back and forth. It
was a sound strategy for compLexity in theory, as Lee Sin could easily fight
Jax at this stage in the game, but at the same time they found themselves
unable to properly siege on any of the inner towers. Meanwhile, Curse was
fighting back against the pressure of COL’s poke and couldn’t really make a
play themselves. The first teamfight of the game was largely indecisive, with
two members from each side going down after COL attempted a push for Curse’s
mid inner tower. After the failed fight, both teams switched gears back to
farming. They knew they were in for the long haul at this point, and it became
a question of whether Curse’s lategame Jax would be able to beat out compLexity’s
lategame Caitlyn.
The first
break in the game came with a Curse rotation towards the bottom lane, where
Quas and Westrice had been dueling for the last few minutes. With the slippery
Lee Sin drawing in Curse’s midlaner and jungler, compLexity made a beeline for
Baron Nashor, hoping that Westrice could keep them occupied for long enough.
However, the Blind Monk wasn’t quite slippery enough – after taking down COL’s
toplaner, Quas immediately channeled his Teleport and arrived at the Baron just
in the nick of time. With the entirety of Curse collapsing on them, compLexity
tried pulling out of the pit to avoid the fight. A clutch Glacial Fissure by
Xpecial however prevented the escape and Curse would eventually take the ace
off of compLexity, as well as the Baron.
From here
on out, it was a topsy-turvy, back-and-forth game. Curse would make good use of
the Baron to secure all of COL’s inner towers, but when they went back to
refresh the buff they were met with a brilliant Command: Shockwave by pr0lly.
Now with the advantage, compLexity would take down a pair of inhibitor towers
and the middle inhibitor – only to get aced in the aftermath of their success.
Curse then used their numbers advantage to secure a pair of inhibitors from
COL, swinging the game back in their favor. It seemed as though Curse would keep
up the pressure through to the end of the game, but compLexity was not out yet.
Another clutch Shockwave killed off Voyboy and Quas as Curse tried sieging the
bottom inhibitor tower, and compLexity ran off down midlane to end the game.
With their
exposed inhibitors falling, Curse’s remaining members mounted a desperate
defense that took all of compLexity’s members low and killed off pr0lly. With
COL in full retreat from Curse’s respawned team, Quas channeled his Teleport
onto an allied minion inside COL’s base. The lategame Jax ripped through an
inhibitor and both Nexus towers, but was stopped short of ending the game by
RobertxLee’s recall. COL’s marksman forced Quas off the Nexus for a moment, but
could not forestall the arrival of the rest of Team Curse. With the support of
the rest of his team, Quas leapt back for the Nexus and ended the game after a
wild 57 minutes.
CRS bans: Ziggs, Tristana, Evelynn
COL bans: Rengar, Kassadin, Kayle
Player
|
Champion
|
K/D/A
|
Minions Killed
|
Curse
|
|||
Quas
|
Jax
|
6/4/8
|
464
|
IWillDominate
|
Skarner
|
2/3/11
|
217
|
Voyboy
|
Lulu
|
3/2/13
|
414
|
Cop
|
Lucian
|
8/0/8
|
501
|
Xpecial
|
Braum
|
1/3/13
|
75
|
compLexity
|
|||
Westrice
|
Lee Sin
|
0/8/7
|
545
|
Kez
|
Elise
|
2/4/5
|
156
|
pr0lly
|
Orianna
|
5/3/5
|
477
|
ROBERTxLEE
|
Caitlyn
|
5/3/5
|
549
|
Bubbadub
|
Morgana
|
0/2/9
|
31
|
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