Big Plays: Eye of the Storm

RiotPreeti·11/7/2014, 7:13:53 PM·68 votes·98,554 views

Welcome to the Big Plays Spotlight! In this feature, we highlight the most epic plays, from meticulously-coordinated early tower dives to mind-blowing cross-map jukes.

Part of the strategy behind League is a solid understanding your team’s win conditions. Here, Blue team’s high-damage assassin comp isn’t designed for a straight-up team fight. They don’t want a fair fight; they’re looking for vision control, a numbers advantage, and the element of surprise.

With that mind, 장래희망 김정유, a Gold-ranked support main on Janna, makes the most of Baron and her team’s vision control to create a pick opportunity. Seeing a gap between Lucian and the rest of his team, Janna aggressively Flash ults to sever the marksman from his front line. Akali, Ryze, and Yi seize this opportunity by bursting down their first victim and continuing to snowball their numbers advantage. By the time Zed joins the party, the fight's already over.

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215 Comments

LuckyReden11/7/2014, 7:44:16 PM63 votes

I showed my friend this, he said " That Janna is Korean, doesn't count"

Faneaorin11/7/2014, 7:48:24 PM31 votes

The part that her team actually reacted to her flash ulting correctly is probably the more impressive part of this 90% of the time in silver/gold elo you jana ult the carries away so ur team can focus down the tanks in a similar set up and you see your teammates chasing the person u ulted out of the fight and rage that u ulted them away....

Anyway awesome play and great champion :D

CookieWolfAlpha311/7/2014, 11:46:13 PM31 votes

i thought being a good Janna was just shielding the ADC ....Like if u cri everytiem item 3070 _item 3070

ChikTikka Quick11/8/2014, 8:03:10 PM21 votes

umm... the full video got taken down due to a copyright claim by Sin Heonsu.... +^_^+ Considering it's footage of the League of Legends game, wouldn't Riot have full copyright?

Mârty11/8/2014, 12:56:20 AM18 votes

This is actually not that great of a play.

She burned two high cooldowns for something that could have been accomplished with one spell.

The Q she launched was really early. The enemy team was face checking baron. Had Janna anticipated their path and charged the Q instead, launching it at full power, she actually would have CC'd Amumu/Leona/Garen for half a second longer, giving her team a much better opportunity to delete amumu in that time - while still having flash + monsoon available should Vayne get into trouble (or to heal up any damage lucian would get in).

This is flashy, but was totally unnecessary and only worked because they were so far ahead already (full health, baron buff, clearly ahead considering how quickly amumu blew up) her team would have lost that engage otherwise. Zed being late didn't help the enemy team either.

Eye of the Storm11/8/2014, 9:38:52 PM12 votes

Oh look it's me.

lilthunda11/8/2014, 7:16:12 AM4 votes

The post has been removed due to a copyright claim? Looks like a streamer wanted it all to himself!

Rauchen Gaming11/8/2014, 12:55:40 PM4 votes

Lol the video is no longer available due to a copyright claim xD

ErrantLord11/8/2014, 12:31:04 AM4 votes

Korean Gold = NA Diamond

Erdrik11/9/2014, 2:53:16 AM3 votes

The hell?! ""How to use..." This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Sin Hyeonsu."

hellyale11/9/2014, 5:57:19 PM3 votes

" "How to use..." This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Sin Hyeonsu."

Doesn't riot own the copyright? Not the players?

CherryButt11/9/2014, 7:46:01 PM3 votes

It seems awfully silly to me that a certain "Sin Hyeonsu" can call copyright on the video when Riot very clearly owns the game. o:

Youtube is so silly nowadays.. But hey, the preview here on the website still works; I'd have to say that's a pretty awesome play by that Janna! ^w^

Fishy259911/10/2014, 3:45:13 AM3 votes

If you look carefully, you can see that the opposing team didn't even do anything "pro". Zed had the opportunity to escape, but tried to kill Vayne instead. Garen just used his q and then spun, and then if you watch after that he just stands in one place basic attacking and then ulted which did nothing to help his team. It only looks pro because Janna made a smart move and the team did what any team would've done.

The25thBahm11/10/2014, 12:20:37 AM2 votes

Video's been copyright claimed Riot, can't view.

Ardond11/8/2014, 2:55:07 AM2 votes

I would be impressed if I was not so puzzled at whey Janna has a Randuins

Kayana Koe11/10/2014, 2:57:58 AM2 votes

Full Video was removed for copyright? W0t

DragonTroopBeta11/10/2014, 5:56:08 AM2 votes

removed for copyright reasons.