C9 Majorly OutPick/Banned in Game 5

They really played great in the first three games, but for some reason, they where just not cloud 9 in the last two.

It was not just the drafts, but there overall play was just off, I have never been one to believe that a team would take money or its scripted, but the way they played in those last games? The Drafts?

That was not cloud 9.

This didn't feel like being simply outdrafted. Being outdrafted would imply that you were forced to get losing lanes due to prior bans/picks not giving you real options. In this case, C9 opted into everything they took.

They left Janna, Lulu, Kog and Galio open. WE picked Janna, a very powerful support for any adc, but even more so for a champion like Kog who needs to be protected due to his immobile nature. That's fine though, as it left Galio for C9 who had played it with great success in play-ins. Only C9 didn't pick Galio, a 100% pick/ban champion at worlds this year. They opted to pick Caitlyn and Sejuani instead. Now, Cait and Sej are strong picks in their own rights. Sneaky had a bonkers performance on Cait in game 1, despite the defeat, and Sejuani is a priority pick in most games. However, and this to me is very important, Galio is far more potent than those two. He creates pressure on the entire map when played mid, gives the team a high income, high level tank and great waveclear as well. We saw in the game just how ridiculously tough he is. He also opens the draft either for a carry jungler, which Contractz has been very good with during worlds, or a good split pusher for Impact, such as the Gnar that 957 ended up with and that Impact has shown excellent proficiency with in the past. After that, WE picked up Galio AND Gragas, meaning they had their 2 frontline champions already, after which C9 picked Shen. Impact is great on Shen, and he made some pretty good move with him during the game. But since he wasn't against a Maokai or Chogath, that left the top lane wide open for Gnar to destroy everything. And they had to know it wasn't going to be a tank top, since WE already had Gragas and Galio. They needed some more damage or, alternatively, very strong split push pressure.

The last this is the Orianna pick. It is Jensen's most picked champion I believe, probably close with Syndra if anything. He's very good on it, and I will not dispute that it was an ok pick. The issue I have with it is that they didn't really have a good way to bring the ball to Kog, which meant that there was little in the way of reaching the only major teamfight threat on WE. Jensen's a very good LeBlanc player. Contractz could have played warrior reksai or Khazix or maybe even and AP Elise if Galio had been picked up. Those might have had a chance of picking off the Kogmaw.

I would have been sad if C9 had lost even if they had drafted in a more... reasonable way. But this just felt like a throw, a loss at champion select. This doesn't feel like WE outplayed them, it feels like C9 tried to give everything away to WE.