He can literally only play ryze and sol. Fakers champion pool is endless. I feel like hes just gonna be forced to play his crappy Azir, and we all know how that will go vs faker. hopefully sttixay can carry...
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He can literally only play ryze and sol. Fakers champion pool is endless. I feel like hes just gonna be forced to play his crappy Azir, and we all know how that will go vs faker. hopefully sttixay can carry...
I disagree. Slightly.
I think the biggest advantage SKT will have will be in the top lane. Don't get me wrong, Darshan is my favorite pro player to watch due to his ability to carry games by picking champions he can carry with. With him adapting to the current tank top meta everyone is playing, he is just slightly behind in his laning phase. Duke has already shown he can take over a game with a tank in the top lane and really turn team fights on their head. The only advantage Darshan will have is his teleport plays. CLG is very good at setting teleport plays up and often Darshan gets an advantage off it, however...I think Duke is going to give him a difficult matchup.
Huhi reminds me of how Reginald would play on TSM. He has no problem going in to create space for Stixxay to carry, or to engage on someone to create a skirmish to set up Darshan for a teleport play. Most of the time, Huhi is going to die but the rest of CLG usually come out ahead overall because of it. WIth SKT looking much better against RNG, this style of play will be much more difficult to pull off for CLG. Especially if Darshan is behind in lane.
If Huhi can keep up in CS and scale along with Faker, that will be a small victory for CLG going into mid and late game. I don't think anyone counts on Huhi getting solo kills on Faker, but I do think Huhi will be able to make a mostly positive impact on the game by not being drawn into the solo kill mentality a lot of other mid laners fall into when playing against Faker. He will stay focused on his team's win conditions.
Aphromoo may come under fire as well during champion select. He has shown quite a few ranged supports this tournament that has given CLG advantages in the game. We may see several target bans towards Aphromoo along with SKT's willingness to play Soraka. This may force him back to the tank type supports. Huhi will not get much of an advantage counter picking Faker and Darshan will have his hands full top lane against Duke regardless of what he plays...and that is why I think a game or two from SKT will be on banning out Aphromoo.
All that being said, CLG seems to have some mojo going for them this tournament. I hope whatever it is, it continues and CLG finds a way to bring the trophy to NA.
But Xmite will carry him
SKT-T1 is going to treat CLG like a porta-potty after a protein shake and Taco Bell lunch on Colon Blow Wednesday.
