Game of the Day: Supa Hot Crew versus Alliance

By Helmight

            Alliance was in a pinch coming into today’s game. Sure, they’d won yesterday against Gambit, but with Fnatic only a game behind them, they couldn’t afford to lose again. Their opponents, the Supa Hot Crew, needed a win in order to threaten Alliance and Fnatic’s perch atop the standings – and they’ve certainly been “supa” hot over the last few weeks. Today’s match between the two was both close and not at all. While the two teams went blow-for-blow for the first 27 minutes of the game, Alliance’s first blood seemingly opened the floodgates for their aggression. A short and brutal stomp later, Alliance found themselves at the Supa Hot Crew’s Nexus with a decisive victory.

            It certainly was an odd game – no kills were gained by either team for the first 27 minutes of the match (an LCS record). Key rotations by both teams kept Shook and Impaler’s ganks from ever being fatal, which made them look for sneaky picks inside the enemy’s jungle. However, when first blood finally came down, it was to Alliance. Nyph landed a great Death Sentence onto an overextended SELFIE, allowing Shook and Froggen to follow up and take the kill. Immediately afterwards, a good Explosive Cask by Wickd let Alliance take second blood as well from kaSing. With two opponents down, Alliance raced for Baron, taking after swatting Impaler away for the third kill of the game. Suddenly at a 2k gold deficit, the Supa Hot Crew seemingly gave up – their teamfights and rotations immediately became sloppy and Alliance easily took the win after another 14 minutes of one-sided fighting.

            It was as though by gaining first blood, Alliance lost the ability to bleed. Shook would eventually fall to give Supa Hot Crew a kill, but he was the only one – the entirety of Alliance went deathless besides him. His death shouldn’t mar his performance though. Shook’s unconventional jungle Riven pick worked out fairly well in teamfights thanks to the champion’s surprising mobility and tankiness. Of equal importance to Shook though is Nyph – securing your team first blood is always good, but his Death Sentences and Flays were on point throughout the game. Finally, Froggen demonstrated excellent command of Xerath for a second time, landing key ultimates and Shocking Orbs from afar and letting his team mop up in the aftermath. Alliance could seemingly do no wrong this game.

            The Supa Hot Crew meanwhile looked more shaky than I’ve seen them in the last few weeks. They were solid all throughout the early game, taking an almost-equal number of towers and securing all three early dragons, despite initiating a laneswap against Wickd. However, their setup for the fourth dragon proved to be disastrous when SELFIE got caught and killed. Though they had only a small gold deficit, the Crew’s confidence had disappeared. Still, they looked decent enough until a teamfight in the bottom lane went awry as well and netted Alliance another three kills. After that, it was a stomp, plain and simple – Alliance went where they pleased and took what they wanted, with no regard for the Supa Hot Crew at all.

Supa Hot Crew (L)				Alliance (W)
Kills	Turrets	Gold		Kills	Turrets			Gold
1	5	60.7k		14	11			78.3k
Lineup
Position	Player	Champion	K/D/A	Position		Player			Champion	K/D/A
Top	Mimer	Dr. Mundo	0/2/1	Top	Wickd				Gragas	3/0/6
Jungle	Impaler	Elise	1/3/0	Jungle	Shook				Riven	2/1/6
Mid	SELFIE	Orianna	0/4/1	Mid	Froggen				Xerath	5/0/8
ADC	MrRalleZ	Lucian	0/2/1	ADC	Tabzz				Corki	3/0/10
Support	kaSing	Braum	0/3/1	Support	Nyph				Thresh	1/0/13
Bans
Lee Sin	Fizz	Morgana		Kassadin			Yasuo	Twisted Fate

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