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LMQ’s tremendous teamfights

Riot·9/1/2014, 4:45:57 PM·4 votes·10,131 views
The NA Regional Qualifier was an enormous grind for 3rd place LMQ. They were pushed to five games by Team SoloMid during the semifinals - eventually losing - and then found themselves with an 0-2 deficit against Team Curse in the 3rd place game on Sunday. Fortunately for them, they managed to complete the comeback. A third place finish locks the team into the 2014 World Championship, and they are bringing a love of teamfighting that is almost unparalleled among the rest of the competitors. No matter how a game is going, they’ll look for kills. Any fan who likes kills is in for a treat when LMQ takes to the Rift. LMQ’s bloodthirsty nature was on display against Team Curse. All three of their wins were studded with spectacular engagements. The bloodbaths resulted in several games that averaged over a kill per minute, and culminated in a crazy twenty-eight kill game in Game 5.

Battle on, LMQ

The prodigious killing that LMQ engaged in throughout their series against Team Curse is a precursor to how they will play in the 2014 World Championship. How can it stand up to the rest of the world? Korea’s Samsung Galaxy White employs a similar teamfight-centric style so any games those two teams play will be glorious wars. If LMQ can catch a team that prefers passive, objective-focused play, and force them into numerous fights, they can make noise in the tournament.

Game 3 - Baron Battle: FIGHT!

LMQ maintained a tenuous lead during Game 3, but both teams had been beating each other up badly through the first half hour of action. That all changed when LMQ decided to force Curse’s hand at the Baron. The three kills LMQ earned off of this fight put them securely in the driver’s seat, and they never looked back for the remainder of the series.

Game 4 - Snowball fight

This game started off exceptionally slow, teams happy to farm for fifteen minutes. At fifteen minutes, though, it was time to fight. LMQ’s four kills for no deaths led to their killing Baron as he spawned, and then securing Dragon. From there, it was one of the hardest snowballs that has been seen in the LCS this season.

Game 5 - Fight for the win

After two games worth of battles, it was this final cataclysmic engagement that sealed the LMQ win. Curse was already behind and decided to attempt Baron while LMQ went back to base. Unfortunately, LMQ caught them, aced them, killed the Baron, and closed the game out several minutes later to secure their position in the 2014 World Championship.

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14 Comments

im Cris9/1/2014, 6:14:08 PM5 votes

LOOOOOL Curse is so bad.

YellowLift9/2/2014, 12:41:59 AM4 votes

TO ALL OF YOU THAT SAID TSM WILL LOOSE VS LMQ AND CRS AND C9 GET REKTTTTTTTT TSM RULES

Mandalore6520209/3/2014, 5:19:21 PM2 votes

I know alot of people are upset that LMQ is representing NA, but personally I think they deserve it. There have been 2 teams in NA that have boosted the NA way of playing over the last year and a half. 1)C9 with the structured objective style of play, coined in part from the koreans, it took the scene awile but now the teams look much stronger and its shown by how TSM play and in DIG and CLG in the early parts of this split. b) LMQ (this is kinda the point of this post) the NA scene has developed its own meta, as it should the picks, bans are different than Korea and sometimes EU EX: Swain top, but LMQ not only gave the entire NA LCS scene international experience delivered to them, but also a VERY different style of play, when we look at TSM, C9, CLG ect the only blood thirsty super aggressive teams in the NA LCS is EG, who like to try and fight from behind and LMQ, the difference is LMQ preforms it better, they just go go go go go. Where C9 is structured and like a machine LMQ is like a bloodhound, forcing the NA scene to once again adapt our current style of play to compensate for the aggression that the other top teams didn't necessarily have.

you may agree with me, you may not, but for the help that they have inadvertently given NA I think they deserve a spot

Ssataniko9/1/2014, 11:55:32 PM2 votes

"LMQ'S TREMENDOUS TEAMFIGHTS" is an utterly ridiculous title. In a very entertaining and wildly sloppy series CURSE repeatedly obliterated LMQ is straight up teamfights, and a truly brillaing teamfight squad like C9 was surely gobsmacked by the lack of focus of both teams. Curse, as is their want, crumbled again under the pressure, even with a 2-0 series lead. Their pick/ban phase collapsed into nonsense and narcissism (Voyboy's "break-the-meta" Akali pick was essentially pressing the Self-Destruct button). In the end LMQ won, but it was hardly because of their "Tremendous Teamfights" (unless of course that's just more Lolesport hyperbole for a team they've desperately tried to promote all season long).

Jennibelle9/1/2014, 4:52:50 PM2 votes

Meh, something about this seems very wrong to me.

Budderbrudder9/1/2014, 5:13:26 PM1 votes

Cuz I wanna know, just whenwhen can we teamfight again? oh-oh-oh-oh

LegolasNew9/2/2014, 1:42:35 AM1 votes

A：EDG C9 AHQ SKGaming B：ALL SSW TPA LMQ C：TSM NJW OMG KaBuM D：SSB SHRoyal Fnatic DarkPassage

Dezu Senpai9/1/2014, 6:58:10 PM1 votes

It was a really good game. Crs played well they just let their emotions get in the way and when in a pinch tried desperate moves to try and pull themselves into the game again. Both teams are amazing.

Scooby Pwns On U9/2/2014, 8:06:50 PM1 votes

this series was nothing but lmq playing like GARBAGE for the first two games, then once they stopped playing like intentional feeders the series was an easy 3 in a row pickup. curse was never beating lmq, lmq was beating themselves