Regardless of pick and ban I don't think UOL had a shot of beating Fnatic in a best of 5 or even three because Fnatic is such a better team compared to UOL. But here will be my overview of the pick an bans for Fnatic Vs. UOL.
Game 1
Fnatic Fnatic - Bans attack POE. Varus Oriana Victor. Make sence because Febiven does play Azir and Victor does well against Azir.
UOL -Kalista Janna lulu - Rekless on Kalista against Vardags will result in kills in lane which is not needed and Rekless does have the ability to hard carry on this champion. Janna is a top tier pick so getting rid of that I think is smart. The lulu can be annoying with Olaf and can run straight at POE and Vardags.
Fnatic
Sivir
Elise
Shen
Riven
Azir
Yellow star on support Shen I think that's a little different than normal but the main thing I see here is the Riven. Huni playing Riven I think is going to be interesting especially with Huni's play style and Reignover can easily protect him with the strong Elise counter gank. Where as UOL has Nautalis and Reksia in that "2 v 2" Easily goes to Fnatic.
UOL
Alistar
Reksia
Naut
Lucian
Kog'maw
I like the Alistar Reksia, I dont like the Lucian Nautalis. The kog'maw is just because of what is left of his champion pool.
Game 2
Fnatic - Bans attack POE. Varus Oriana Victor. Make sence because Febiven does play Azir and Victor does well against Azir.
UOL - Kalista Janna lulu - Still not understanding the Janna ban with the team comp UOL is running.
Fnatic
Sivir
Olaf
Alistar
Rumble
Azir
Standard team comp they've ran that numerous of times throughout the split.
UOL
Shen
Elise
Bruam
Lucian
Ezreal
- I think the Ezreal is still potent just not has in charge as it used to be. I would of liked to see something like a kassadin from POE if you aren't going to ban the Azir out, and have more wave clear in the top lane since Kassadin has poor wave clear.
Game 3
Fnatic - Bans attack POE. Varus Oriana Victor. Make sence because Febiven does play Azir and Victor does well against Azir.
UOL - Janna Azir Ahri. Bans all around I think the Janna is a good ban and so is the Azir. The Ahri ban the only reason I can think of why UOL is banning that is because of POE"s champion style being very immobile and Ahri's abilities favor immobile champions.
Fnatic
-sivir
-Alistar
-Lulu
-Rumble
-Olaf
The lulu olaf combo is very annoying for the ADC and it does ignore the CC that UOL does have already in place. The Sivir also will be speeding up everyone as well as the alistar's righteous glory if that is built. Rumble's equalizer will slow them so its a very heavy engage team comp.
UOL
-Shen
-Elise
-Bruam
-Lucian
-Kayle
Good first pick rotation, don't think Fnatic favors the Elise so I think you could of grabbed something else instead such as the Alistar since it is a top tier support pick. Bruam and Lucian again i don't see why UOL is still trying to work with this. Then Kayle with devour. I don't know why he went with Kayle i was expecting him to go with something like Syndra something hes is comfortable on or something he can "hard carry" with.
Overall
Fnatic ban out POE and UOL tries to keep playing lucian and bruam/alistar. The real question is though, where was Hylissang's thresh and Morgana? I think those 2 champions of his are the reason why UOL is so good. He has carried them a few times in playoffs with those champions and he played bruam 2 games and Alistar for one game. I don't think their draft was terrible I just think Fnatic overall is a better team and the only way I saw UOL picking up a game was either out of 2 scenarios.
Scenario 1 - Hylissang and POE go nuts and 2 vs 8 and carry their team.
or
Scenario 2 - They win a game with "cheese" picks and hope scenario 1 happens 2 more times to even come close of winning the series.
synergy they were going for anyway?
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