TL used to just be able to withstand the early game and outclass teams with their mechanics and macro later in the game.
It really doesn’t matter who TL are playing at AD carry if they don’t get their drafts cleaned up. In the final team fight of the game, Doublelift’s opponent Apollo “Apollo” Price picked up a pentakill on Aphelios to seal the win for IMT. Even when Broxah’s Olaf tried to gank to relieve pressure, he was under threat of dying himself in a 2v1. IMT exploited the Qiyana/Gragas combo to make life impossible for Nicolaj “Jensen” Jensen’s Zoe, while Paul “sOAZ” Boyer’s Renekton destroyed Jung “Impact” Eon-yeong’s Zac. Unfortunately for them, there would be no redemption, either. This time, there would be no excuses for TL. IMT won their first matchup this season in Jake “Xmithie” Puchero’s revenge game, but it was also Mads “Broxah” Brock-Pedersen’s first game after travelling to North America. It seems that Doublelift’s motivation was restored in a matter of a day, as he was reinserted into the lineup for their second game of the week against Immortals. Instead, their former position coach Eugene “Pobelter” Park styled on them, picking up an insane triple kill behind Elder Drake to seal the win for CLG. Considering their Ornn, TL had a much larger effective gold lead and should’ve been able to close out the game. In a game that TL were supposed to destroy, they fell behind early before stabilizing with a 3k gold lead at 35 minutes. Their first game was against the last place Counter Logic Gaming, featuring a mid laner that was their coach only a few weeks ago. TL were confident enough with Tactical that they benched Doublelift to begin week seven, citing his lack of motivation so far this season. They beat both TSM and 100 Thieves with ease, even with Edward “Tactical” Ra replacing Peter “Doublelift” Peng. TL FALL OUT OF PLAYOFF PICTUREĪs surprising as their season has been so far, Team Liquid looked like they had righted the ship in week six. They should make a run at the second seed for the Spring playoffs. C9 have already locked up the first seed, but TSM has four games remaining against teams at or below. This is their fourth 2-0 week of the season, but it was also their cleanest set of games - especially considering the combined 21-7 record of their opponents. But in this win over C9, and their later win over FlyQuest, TSM have shown that they may be closer to unlocking it. TSM picked up another four kills, Baron, and finished off the game with ease in under 27 minutes.Īs up and down as the season has been for TSM, they have shown all along that they have the potential to be a great team. It was another perfect looking combination that allowed Bjergsen and Kobbe to instantly blow up C9. Biofrost’s Rakan held his The Quickness until C9 were out of turret range, layering his crowd control with Broken Blade’s flash into Facebreaker. C9 repelled it, forcing TSM to kite back, but Broken Blade and Vincent “Biofrost” Wang were ready for the re-engage. TSM knocked down C9’s outer turret and went for a dive. It was the perfect wombo-combo, resulting in a four for zero fight and mountain drake for TSM. Dardoch used his Cataclysm to keep them all grouped together, while Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg’s Zilean double bombed and Kasper “Kobbe” Kobberup’s Xayah pulled her feathers across the entire team.
Sergen “Broken Blade” Çelik used his The Show Stopper into Facebreaker combo to set up four members of C9 for his team. WOMBO COMBO, BABY! #TSMWIN /AProbK6qV7īut really, the game came down to two huge team fights from TSM. A 14 minute fight in the river netted them a two for one exchange. TSM lost trades twice in top lane by overextending on dives, but they kept the tempo up. Opponents start to question whether C9 even make mistakes, considering positioning misplays to be high-level baits. That’s easier said than done against a team that was previously undefeated. TSM killed Licorice twice in the first 12 minutes. Not only is Shen vulnerable early, but teams always want to attack the champion with the global so the enemy never has an unfair numbers advantage. While that may be a fine matchup for Shen, TSM made sure to attack him early and often, particularly with Joshua “Dardoch” Hartnett’s Jarvan IV.
C9 let Sett through on red side, opting to pick Eric “Licorice” Ritchie Shen into it.
This time, TSM put it all together and pulled off the biggest upset so far this season. TSM have had the talent, but were plagued by inconsistency. They were in control of every game they played and looked unstoppable, especially as no other contenders were separating themselves from the pack. For the first 12 games of the LCS season, no team truly challenged Cloud9.
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