TSM STOP WITH AP EZ!

CBrizzie·7/11/2015, 11:15:08 PM·4 votes·1,700 views

Anyone else feel like TSM needs to give up the AP Runeglave Ez? I mean come on, they lost last week with it against GV. In their defense GV did build the team comp around countering the pick. But this week, they lose to T8! A game T8 should not have won. Please stop with the AP Ez, it just isn't working! Competitive teams know how to play against it, and it starts out too slow and has no real early game pressure. TSM was not able to contest 1 dragon against T8. T8 was also able to get 2 BARONS! Next to TDK, T8 has the worst record in NA LCS. If you can't win with the AP Ez against them, it is just not gonna work. The shock factor is over, please move on!!

19 Comments

TurquoiseYoshi7/11/2015, 11:54:12 PM3 votes

TSM did lose most high-level picks. T8 had Kalista, Maokai, Thresh, and Azir. Also, Bjergsen went 4/1/0. Nobody else on TSM had fewer or equal deaths. You also said T8 had the 2nd worst record in NA after TDK. That just isn't true. They were tied for seventh before the week started, and are now in control of seventh.

GForce9x7/12/2015, 12:07:14 AM2 votes

I was waiting for TSM to pick up Azir. When T8 did on their last picks, I was really really worried that TSM was going to pick up Ez, especially since Bjergsen had smite already up. T8 already had hard engage with Maokai, and I think Azir vs. Ez is a matchup that's so much in Azir's favor. They both have potent poke, but Azir has excellent zoning and brings a lot more AOE to teamfights. All Ez really brings to teamfights in that regards is his ult, and it seems like most of the time, they were burning his ult during the 'waiting game' to try and chunk down some health to prep for an expected teamfight. Most of those ults whiffed or didn't nail priority targets, and was therefore wasted and down during most of the teamfights.

I like the plan they had with the Naut/Vi/Shen combo to lockdown a carry, but it seemed like they were never able to completely execute it, much of it due to their initiation being disrupted by the Gragas and Azir ults. And even with all of that hard engage into the backline, TSMs carries really didn't have a way to penetrate into it without putting themselves in a risky position. Just like last week's loss against Gravity, I feel that this is a game that they lost during the pick phase. Only this time they weren't exactly counterpicked by T8, they countered themselves into T8's comp.

anonymous1197/12/2015, 12:42:33 AM1 votes

Azir counters hard engage and ezreal doesn't work well with hard engage. I've hated tsm's draft phase for almost this entire split. I think it's a huge factor in their mediocrity.

PoisonedTea7/12/2015, 1:07:21 AM1 votes

They won when Keith played with them on it. I know it was TDK but still a win. They just lost to T8, T8 TSM should not be losing to T8.

Izzy3317/12/2015, 1:53:14 AM1 votes

inb4 Dyrus face check comments

Teslyn7/12/2015, 2:47:58 AM1 votes

is this a stop ap ez .. or is this a TSM fan boy sad his team lost?

ponkzy7/12/2015, 3:02:55 AM1 votes

team8 should've won because tsm have no idea how to control objectives and have terrible shotcalling and drafting. tsm lost every single part of that game, and if they won because of ridiculously op ap ez, i would've cried