You may have failed miserably in this attempt, but you still made Long Zhu think on their feet. Hell, even Khan built 2 lethality items on J4, something you NEVER see in pro play.
You may have gotten steam rolled, but i still give all props to you for bringing something new to the Worlds stage.
Monsta Moo10 votesTheir style was extremely fun to watch. I loved it!
GForce9x2 votesIt's obvious their cheese/gimmick/off-meta tactics are probably going to not work against the top tier teams, but it's still fun as hell to watch. Even if they end up getting stomped, they are by far the most entertaining team to watch at worlds.
HellbornCreator1 votesI think khan build the lethality items because he knew the game was over and an easy stomp. Don't get me wrong I was hoping GAM would win but they didn't really make Long Zhu think on their feet. They just did the same strat that used to be used against lane swapping a couple seasons ago.
ChompyWulf4 votesKhan built two lethally items because he could. LZ got so far ahead they could rush a couple cheese items and close the game out way before any comeback was possible. This looked more like a stomp than forced to think on their feet.
Pale Pirate1 votesIt's super fun indeed, but what was the point of the rolane swap?
Zedex1 votesDude, they sucked.
They tried a sub-optimal strategy in a setting where everyone does the strategy with the least risk.
I love these boards. What they did was awful, and thats why they lost. You never see that shit in pro play because its not good.
They were literally only in Worlds to do this non meta shakeup to make people think, "Oh, theres something different." The rest of the games will be proper, with teams using real strategies and trying to win. Not some team who was clearly paid to throw or was only there in the first place as comedic relief.
Melledoneus1 votesRemind me what they did. I am ignorant when it comes to the pro scene.
Electro5221 votesIn their game against Long Zhu (the Korean team who beat SKT for first seed from Korea), they were drafting normally up until they chose Mordekaiser last.
Then, their lane selection was bonkers. They gave Cho'gath to their jungler, made their mid laner take Lucian to the top lane with teleport, had their ADC take Tristana mid, and had their top laner take Mordekaiser bot with their Karma support.
However, before they went bot, Morde and Karma took wolves to try and have an XP advantage over Long Zhu, but, Long Zhu read it all, and had their bot lane get into lane first, allowing them to be lvl 2 before Morde and Karma got into lane.
Long Zhu took advantage of that by having their jungler place a ward behind their bot outer turret, having their top laner TP down to bot, and the 4 of them dove Morde and Karma, killing them both.
Then, Morde makes it even worse by TP'ing back to the bot tower after respawning, while the 4 members of Long Zhu were still there, and lvl 3/4 compared to Morde's lvl 1.
It was pretty smooth sailing for Long Zhu after that.
EDIT: Are you no longer a Warden? Your name isn't blue anymore.
EDIT 2: Just looked around, and everywhere else, it shows you're still a warden........so why doesn't it show it here?
Melledoneus1 votesPretty interesting stuff. A shame it didn't work.
Also, yeah. I'm still a Warden, I think eSports is just weird that way. Could be a bug, I'll look into it.