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IMT vs CLG

Admiral Howe·6/24/2017, 12:57:56 AM·2 votes·733 views

Wanted to talk a bit about today's game between 2 teams that are on top right now. CLG and IMT have been looking impressive, improving and winning but this match had to come and i was hype for it. A few things proved true in the games. Xmithie is the real deal when it comes to what IMT needs as a shot caller, both in a dominant win and a slug fest with them on the ropes until a crucial fight turned CLG on their heads. A lot of top teams have the ability to just whether an onslaught from a good team and then go on with your plan and still win when it really matters. That is what IMT did today, showing the C9 win wasnt a fluke and they really are a top team. Being able to yank victories from good teams that are ahead, being able to fight out a tough series, being able to stomp, IMT is showing it all this split. For CLG, ill say at least Dardoch is more patient, more team focused and Stixxay doesnt look lost when Aphromoo is screwing up like last split. I feel like game 2 was a huge bullet in the foot for CLG because they put Darshan, probably the best teamfighting tank/bruiser player in NA, on a pure split pushing 1 v 1 squishy. Why? His games on Shen, Galio, Gragas, and Renekton were fantastic, stick to those picks, build on them, put him on Jarvan 4 or Kled, they can still make Darshan split but when it comes time to fight, he wont be so squishy that one cycle of poking CC isnt going to kill him outright. To me, CLG is played like a 3rd or 4th place team, not a 1 or 2. It was nice to see someone make Rek'Sai work but in a LCK game, PappaSmithy said something important about Rek'Sai. Rek'Sai is comparable to Nidalee in that if you cant snowball and hold on, youre screwed and the Rek'Sai pick is useless, as we saw here when CLG couldnt hold on. A lot of mistakes from both teams, but only one was able to play past them and find a plan to win.

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III BAKURYU III 6/24/2017, 2:20:54 AM2 votes

I thought CLG were going to be much better than what they're showing as of right now, their smart plays are gone(most likely went with Xmithie) and the Dardoch trade just isn't looking that great for them.

This is the trade that both teams got - Xmithie - 6-7 split EXP player, has 1-2 bad splits < 6 fantastic splits, team player, calm headed, 2X Champion

Dardoch - Great talent, rages, flames, has some tv show because of him, will most likely be on every NA team sooner or later, 0 championships.

Really expecting Dardoch to be on TSM next year, mark it down.

2017 Summer CLG = 2013 Summer + 2017 Spring CLG combined CLG gets pretty good leads but after 20 mins seem to not know what to do similar to the 2013 Summer, and getting 18 kills per game by dying 18 times also is identical to 2017 Spring.

CLG has a ying yang schedule facing off against NV, C9, FQ, TL, DIG for their next opponents in which scares me considering CLG seems to step up their game against the good teams, but lose to the more lower tiered teams. Counting the Immortals loss CLG could easily go something like 1-5 within week 6 but we'll see.

Great post, keep up these as I'm enjoying them ! Also Great win for Immortals !

FB Ospraey6/24/2017, 2:37:40 AM2 votes

the thing is, no one is crediting the overall imt. olleh is causing so much stress in champ select for the enemy teams. the reason is, he can play bard, morgana and thresh. champs like those with perfection. this causes enemy teams to be scared of what olleh has to counter your pick. also the kid never misses anything, I swear he was a sniper in his past life. also cody sun. the dude isn't even seen as anything. people can steal his Caitlyn or his varus. but hes shown he can go off on tristana or even a champion like jhin. these two put so much strain on champ select for the enemy. lets also bring up "the notorious" POB. Pobelter had a great first year on immortals but, people only credit that success because of the super team they had with the "Korean brothers". 2017 spring split pobelter didn't look remotely promising. but, in this split so far POB has been the most consistent mid lane. he can play assassins, utility or even harass champions all well. the next player is flame. wow flame has been solid. people should be able to see the fact that flame isn't like most top lanes. flames been able to delay so many pushes on the towers hes at. this even netted them a first tower in game 1 against clg. flame is also good at creating a cs lead against his opponents. Finally, the saviour of immortals. Xmithie. this mans been going crazy. every one credits the fact that he is like a big brother with all the utility champions he played on clg. but, xmithie has been destroying with these aggressive jungler. xmithie has had some amazing elise games, especially against c9 in game 3. what do you think of the players of immortals

woodvsmurph6/24/2017, 9:00:16 AM1 votes

Fiora is an ok pick for Darshan, but the execution was poor by clg as a team. When you are up so many kills, just group 3 or 4 and keep check on the enemy team and let fiora outscale renekton and apply pressure by splitting. You have a Rek'sai and a tahm kench to easily rotate to help fiora if she get's doubleteamed while splitting; or, you can force a 4v3 on the rest of imt via fed ahri ulting in, tahm plus rek'sai diving behind enemy team with ult, and ashe arrow. Because clg wasted the power of fiora - splitpushing and pulling multiple people to stop her - and she was generally late to fights - the fiora pick looked bad. They didn't play correctly to their win conditions and they got out-rotated on some occasions. Such as the 4 man push on top outer tower followed by renekton being able to tp bot and pick up a huge wave while saving bot outer tower - preventing clg from trading early towers. All clg got was a few summoners and one kill. Because of plays like this, imt stayed even or ahead in gold despite being far behind in kills.