TL;DW – LTA North Edition: 100T Hand Game 2 to SR
Week 6, Day 1 of LTA North Split 2. SR vs 100T. SR is on Blue, 100T is on Red. SR’s roster is Fudge (top), Contractz (jungle), Palafox (mid), Bvoy (bot), and Ceos (support). 100T roster is Sniper (top), River (jungle), Quid (mid), FBI (bot), and Eyla (support). SR is 0-2, 100T is 1-1. 100T won the first game. For more information on what early, mid, and late game mean, see Terms at the bot of the article.
Champion Selection: The Rumble of Approaching Thunder
3 junglers taken off the board during the first ban phase as Jayce, Vi, Sejuani, Varus, Kalista, and Maokai are removed.
SR starts off by picking Xin Zhao. 100T take Renekton and Nidalee. SR grab Ahri and Sion. 100T counters with Yone.
In second ban phase the bot lane is given some attention as Poppy, Rell, Lucian, and Ziggs are banned away.
Returning to champion selection, 100T take Alistar. SR decide to round out their comp with the lovers’ duo of Xayah/Rakan. 100T final pick Smolder. SR opts for a very convention team fight come with good peel and engage. 100T on the other hand are trying to cover their base with several early game powerhouses and the scaling late game power of Smolder.
Team comps are: SR – Sion (top), Xin Zhao (jungle), Ahri (mid), Xayah (bot), Rakan (support) vs 100T – Renekton (top), Nidalee (jungle), Yone (mid), Smolder (bot), Alistar (support).
Early Game Highlights: 100T Makes Some Early Gains
Game starts without too much incident. Just some deep wards from both teams.
Lots of skirmishing in all lanes.
Quid and Palafox fight. Quid gets Palafox low. Quid Flashes on top of Palafox, who Flashes away to survive. Palafox has to back.
Contractz takes the first Drake (Hextech) without much issue.
Contractz gets caught out in bot river by Sniper and Quid. They chase him through red side bot jungle. Sniper gets the kill for First Blood.
Contractz starts up the Voidgrubs. River tries to intervene but gets pushed off. SR gets all 3 Grubs.
River tries to steal Contractz Red Buff. Both teams gather around. Quid tries to push Contractz away, but he engages on him instead. A team fight ensues. Bvoy takes down Quid. Sniper responses by taking out Contractz.
SR try to continue the fight, but River drops Ceos. Bvoy tries to take out River but he Flashes out of the way. Palafox manages to finish of River but Sniper chases down Bvoy and kills him. The fight goes 3-2 for 100T.
Early game ends due to time. 100T has the gold lead (1.3k) and the farm lead.
Mid Game Highlights: SR Start to Claw Their Way Back
SR starts up the second Drake (Cloud) while 100T try to engage on Bvoy in mid lane but he manages to get out of it with his Feather Storm. Bvoy chases 100T a little. They respond by jumping back on him again. He manages to get away thanks to Ceos.
Bvoy roots Eyla and Sniper under outer mid turret and gets away. 100T start retreating but Palafox arrives and deals a lot of damage to Eyla, who ends up dying to Bvoy. Fudge then kills FBI under turret. The rest of 100T retreats. Fight goes 2-0 for SR and Contractz takes the Drake uncontested.
100T try to engage on to Contractz in blue side bot jungle but he manages to disengage. As 100T retreat, SR target Sniper who is by himself and chain CC him to death. Palafox gets the kill. 100T returns to try and back up Sniper but they arrive too late. SR turn on them. Quid dives in but gets killed by Bvoy. Fights goes 2-0 for SR, who take Rift Herald off the back of it.
SR starts up the third Drake (Ocean). 100T throws out some obligatory poke but don’t really contest. SR secures the objective, while Sniper takes the outer top turret. Quid goes in after the Drake goes down but immediately jumps back out.
Eyla gets locked down and chunked low. He tries to get away, but Fudge manages to kill him. Sniper comes from behind and tries to take out Bvoy but he Feather Storms to safety. Fudge activates Rift Herald, takes control of it, and start maneuvering it around bot river, knocking up the members of 100T so that his team can escape. Fight goes 1-0 for SR, who are now on Soul Point.
Mid game ends due to SR taking the third Drake. 100T maintains their gold (100) and farm lead.
Late Game Highlights: A Dazzling Dance of Doom
SR started up the Thornbound Atakhan. By the time 100T arrives, Atakhan is at half health. SR jumps on to 100T, which gives River the opportunity to steal the objective. Quid takes out Palafox. SR retaliate with Contractz taking out Sniper and Fudge killing Quid. FBI then kills Fudge. The fight ends 2-2 but 100T get the objective.
Both teams set up for the fourth Drake. Ceos steps out of position and immediately gets jumped on by Eyla. He dies to FBI. SR retreat. Sniper tries to cut them off but ends up dying to Fudge. SR back off and 100T take the Drake.
Both teams start setting up around Baron. 100T take the outer mid turret.
SR catches out Quid in top lane. He gets killed by Contractz but buys enough time for the rest of his team to come up. Sniper dives into the SR and causes enough havoc that FBIT is able to kill Contractz. Eyla gets snared and then knocked up before finally being killed by Palafox. SR push 100T away. Fight goes 2-1 for SR.
Both teams head to the Dragon Pit. 100T start up the objective. SR move to try and stop them, but Sniper comes up from behind them. SR turn on to him. Eyla dives in to try and help but he gets blasted away almost instantly by Bvoy.
Fudge and Palafox chase after Sniper. Even though Palafox lands the Charm and Fudge knocks him up, he manages to survive for quite a while. They do manage to kill him eventually though. Meanwhile FBI kills Contractz and Quid kills Ceos. The fight ends 3-2 for 100T and they secure the Drake.
SR start up Baron. 100T engage and push SR off the objective. No kills but 100T get the objective.
SR manages to catch out River in the red side bot jungle. Contractz gets the kill. They try to find more but Eyla uses his headbutt to disengage.
Both teams gather around Dragon Pit as the sixth Drake spawns. Quid starts up the objective. 100T push SR away and take the objective without issue. Now both teams are on Soul Point.
River gets caught out in his own red side jungle. Killed by Palafox. FBI comes up to try and see if he can get a kill but gets turned on and killed by Bvoy. They then chase down Sniper, pop his Guardian’s Angel, and then kill him for real (credit to Contractz).
Both teams dance around the mid lane as they set up for Baron. Ceos gets behind 100T to flank them as Fudge goes in to start a team fight. Sniper is the first to die, killed by Bvoy. FBI drops next to Contractz.
Bvoy takes out Quid’s GA and then kills him out right. They chase after River who goes golden under turret. Unfortuantely for him, this gives FBI and Palafox time to set up their abilities. He dies to Palafox the instant he comes out of status.
SR immediately march up mid lane and break into the 100T base. Eyla tries to stop them, but he dies to Bvoy. SR then destroy the Nexus.
Post Game Analysis: The Jungle of LTA North is Deadly
SR ends the game at 39:32 with a 4.7k gold lead. The final score is 23-10 for SR. It’s hard not to say that 100T didn’t throw this game. They were in the lead, and it seemed like everything was going good for them but. And then several members got caught out, allowing SR to get some much need gold and control.
That said, in the end, it was an excellent pincer move by Ceos to end up winning SR the game. So, while 100T didn’t help themselves by giving over so many unnecessary kills, ultimately, they were just outplayed.
The fact that SR managed to find a way to claw back a victory means that they have the potential to be a top team, if they can just slow down, look for angles, and stop over chasing.
Terms
Early Game: Any time before 10 minutes, first outer tower down, or first level 10 (whichever comes first).
Mid Game: Between early game and either 20 minutes, 2 inner towns down, half the players are level 16, or 3rd dragon killed.
Late Game: Any time after mid game.
