What was the reasoning behind Fnatic Jhin/Ezreal pick ?

option paralysis··13 votes·9,226 views

I don't get it. IG picks 3 champs with high CC, and then Rekkles picks Jhin, and they were full AD vs. a Sion. Even in my yolo q game, I'd say bruh don't pick Jhin into that. Then Ezreal after they got destroyed, like you won't carry with him if your team gets handled, which they did and Ezreal was useless. I don't get why they didn't pick Xayah immediately the first game and at least put up some fight from the first game.

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Jade Hawke14 votes

It sure felt a bit staged.

PowerSlave9931 votes

Just like i said in last threads. Everything is staged, fnatic was supposed to lose.

Leto GT2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Jade Hawke,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=oWeAUaQa,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2018-11-03T19:37:06.574+0000)

It sure felt a bit staged.

It crossed my mind tbh even tho it's far fetched. Semi-finals and finals were oddly inconsistent.

chipndip112 votes

Remember that thread that came up a few hours before the event that said that all AD teams weren't garbage?

Fnatic lurks the NA forums confirmed.

saltran2 votes

Sad but true

Jeddy0172 votes

To be fair, for an all AD team to work, you HAVE to get ahead early & finish the game before the tank complete some items (if there even is a tank).

But IG isn't some solo queue squad of randoms. IG took the game over from early on. It was all downhill from there for Fnatic.

Still, an all AD comp is not the smartest move on Fnatic's part.

Noor Sakata2 votes

It has nothing to do with being full ad , they picked AP later , didn't they ? they just played horrible in all 3 matches

chipndip11 votes

Being all AD makes tanks that much stronger.

Tr4shB4NSYST3M8 votes

Ah ezreal, the most useless and gimmicky of the adcs

GrReaper961 votes

He's just WAY too item reliant with needing item 3070 item 3078 to be any good while other adcs only need item 3095 to be significant

Tr4shB4NSYST3M1 votes

Its not only that, all his power is loaded into his Q where-as every other adc's kit is built around auto-attacking as much as possible w/ strong AA's, so literally every other adc will out dps ezreal, except MAYBE jhin, although jhin gets so much AD from his passive that even w/ his set attack speed he could probably out dps ezreal too.

FOR JUSTICE4 votes

them throwing it, as usual with EU/NA

Common Satyr2 votes

since they were all AD, a Kog woulda been the pick they needed. Some good anti tank magic damage.

Noor Sakata2 votes

Yeah , that was so stupid , picking Jhin into 2 tanks where you need a hyper carry champion? Picking Ezreal for what ?for asking your teammates to carry you ? at least with Xayah they could have a big chance to win while IG picked Kai'sa , Xayah , etc

MrEatButtAssPiss1 votes

Esports like this are staged. Professional sports are staged too. They still get paid no matter what so you know, put two and two together.

Jerry SeinfeId1 votes

to lose. Their picks didn't make any sense and they played like shit.

Jack Garrus1 votes

IG totally banned Rekkles all the time and fnatic here proved that they are overrated: without rekkles they can't play. Fnatic were so fucking arrogant that they deserve to loose. The first match they choose a full ad comp and the only one who did something was Bwipo. Broxah was fucking useless all the 3 games. I really don't know why they didn't change the fking broxah

Poske1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Jack Garrus,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=oWeAUaQa,comment-id=0008,timestamp=2018-11-04T13:05:18.331+0000)

IG totally banned Rekkles all the time and fnatic here proved that they are overrated: without rekkles they can't play. Fnatic were so fucking arrogant that they deserve to loose. The first match they choose a full ad comp and the only one who did something was Bwipo. Broxah was fucking useless all the 3 games. I really don't know why they didn't change the fking broxah

BUT BROROXAHHH LEE SIN

just the fact that he is playing Lee sin on the LCS stage (current Lee sin) shows that he is clueless jungler

Poske1 votes

[{quoted}](name=option paralysis,realm=EUNE,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=oWeAUaQa,comment-id=,timestamp=2018-11-03T18:54:07.762+0000)

I don't get it. IG picks 3 champs with high CC, and then Rekkles picks Jhin, and they were full AD vs. a Sion. Even in my yolo q game, I'd say bruh don't pick Jhin into that. Then Ezreal after they got destroyed, like you won't carry with him if your team gets handled, which they did and Ezreal was useless. I don't get why they didn't pick Xayah immediately the first game and at least put up some fight from the first game.

Jhin is like D tier champion Ezreal is like C tier champion

Rekkless wanted to give em a chance or some shit IDK

Watching him fight with jhin and scratch a target every second was... painful

Sire Hippington1 votes

Yea, Fnatic failed their drafts really hard in the first two games. Not sure if it's coaching stuff or rekless who calls it, but those two adc picks were horrible. Not only that, but the way they drafted, Caps was basically forced to solocarry vs rookie, and with no backup from botlane... Alss in all, rekless had a poor performance, he just played waaaaaay to farm heavy and defensive for those games, vs IG, you can't win through sololanes, you need to win through bot and he just played like a pussy while also getting outscaled on his picks...

Vs other teams, it might work, pick a save more utillity focused bot, play around the sololanes and gg, but vs IG you have to survive the sololanes and carry from bot, which means you need a carry bot. And if you still want to play something like jhin, you need to play it forward and dominate lane so your bot can controll river and roam mid. If you look at the gams, caps did pretty well in the raw 1v1, but at some point, it was just all of IG running mid as they please because they have 100% controll over bot side, shutting down caps and with that the wincondition for those fnatic comps alll on the back of bot drafting and plaiyn horrible.

I think if they went with the 3ed game draft in game 1, they might have one, but after 2 losses they were in not a good condition. Also,

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