Will we see more "fighting for early game dominance" or "scale to late game" strategies from TSM now

JavelinJoe·9/30/2016, 5:32:55 PM·4 votes·374 views

It is obvious that while they may have preformed exceptionally well for the early game they could not even contest a late game RNG. Their decision to forgo a tank champion for more a AOE burst (wombo combo) with shields and heals comp was pretty risky. With minimal ways to stop the engage by RNG it was clear that if they had not gotten a significant lead before 15-20 minutes (not just gold/cs but kills, assists, objectives and with all lanes dominating) they would not win. They looked like they were doing just that until the 1 for 4 near dragon that they suffered, which would effectively decided the game's winner.

So will they, or better yet should they, move away from that early game dominance focus and draft a more scaling team with 1 or 2 tanks to absorb some of the damage and some champs with more instant CC like Malphite or Bard. I like Oriana and Kennen, but they are so telegraphed that landing good CC with them is difficult and easily dodged (unless a Lee Sin delivers the enemies right to you or your abilities to them).

5 Comments

III BAKURYU III 9/30/2016, 8:12:23 PM2 votes

The Lee sin pick was meh. While Lee is good early falls off the face of the map late game / teamfights and he just didn't fit their comp all that well.

YambrinZ9/30/2016, 6:55:27 PM1 votes

Their big mistake was cheesing RNG and stealing Lee Sin after the remake. Lee did what Lee always does.....makes flashy plays early and then disappears. First picking KENNEN?!?!?!?!?! Of all champions KENNEN?

Cremepie9/30/2016, 8:17:22 PM1 votes

Im not sure what they will do in the future, but man that comp was absolutely atrocious. Like okay they had two ball carriers for ori but its not just about your comp that matters. RNG had sooooo much peel and Engage and TSM had 3 immobile squishies...

Whatever TSM does next, they MUST NEVER DRAFT LIKE THIS AGAIN. Absolutely garbage team comp.

Yxgl222HaX9/30/2016, 10:16:48 PM1 votes

The orianna was a good solid pick with lee. The problem was the kennen and nami picks. If they took like a gnar or olaf top, mabye got a support with a bit of beef to them like taking away the alistair or mabye picking up a braum so they where not so fragile then they would have been fine for the most part. Would have helped to just not pick jhin when hes so much better at champs like ashe trist and lucian. The only real form of ball delivery they had was lee which is basically late game fodder. So a champ like gnar would have been much better to mega- shockwave. They gambled to much on being ahead early and lost that gamble