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I feel like certain picks were slept on these worlds.

Galiö··2 votes·2,539 views

Mainly Poppy and Heimerdinger.

Most of the teams played the entirety of worlds woukd have been easily countered by a poppy support and/or a heimer botlane.

We only saw one game of Poppy support and she dominated the game. A couple other poppy games that kind of spiraled out of control, admittedly enough. We only saw one (maybe two) games of heimer.

I dont understand why teams didnt play them.

8 Comments

Tr4shB4NSYST3M5 votes

Thinking about it now, Poppy W would have gotten so much value vs literally all 3 FPX comps in the finals.

GeminiRune3 votes

#EXACTLY

ChompyWulf2 votes

It might have helped, but I'm not so sure. Game 2 G2 clearly planned on doing Grag/Yas, so no way does Poppy come in. Game 1 G2 was quite competitive, and Kench offered some anti-dive defense. And at the end of the day, a huge problem for G2 wasn't just protecting their back line, they NEVER got into the FPX backline at all.

Poppy may have helped, but when GimGoon and LWX combined only had one death, there are other big problems that Poppy just doesn't solve.

Galiö2 votes

Could have sent Yasuo mid or top and Gragas jungle. Had Poppy Support. Just example for Game 2.

GeminiRune2 votes

I was talking about that with a few folks after the finals. Basically Poppy was the most talked about, especially in the amount of engage comps that conspired in several games. That and I know I'm a fan of competitive Poppy cause I really feel like the W buffs really upped her value

Galiö1 votes

I've been talking about it since play ins. Like if you're against a naut, kaisa, lee sin, renekton you can easily play poppy into that lol

GeminiRune1 votes

All tournament yo. She was absolutely a viable pick. Put us in as strategic coaches or something

Full Brain2 votes

You have to be good at those characters which is why they didn't get played much. There was a lot of room for different compositions this year but most of these teams are basically comprised of young one tricks who can play like 2 other characters barely at an acceptable level for worlds. FPX targeted Jankos with this and used G2's reluctance to ban out Tian's picks because their character pools overlap to gain an advantage by just picking Tian's character early. FPX won every draft by focusing on jungle mid pressure spreading to the rest of the map. G2 lost every draft by trying to show off and look clever.

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