League of Legends LII: Sin of the Blind Monk

[Math_Mage]

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Kinda sad about the G2 TBH. That was a legitimate steal by Royal; Fnatic had the game won in spite of the huge L1 deficit but Desperation Baron worked. G3 was how G2 should've gone if not for the L1 stuff.

Also, Puszu is so far behind not necessarily due to farming but rather due to playing so much alone and safe vs. jungler/solo. Notice how much Yellow roams. That's a trade-off; they trade Puszu's farm for plays/kills but that's certainly going in their favor at the moment since whenever Yellowstar roams there's always some key fight that he wins for them. It really screws over Royal's attempt to roam and kill early on.

Strategically, Fnatic has completely outplayed Royal every game. Level 1 deficit/2v1 has just ****ed Fnatic over two games out of 3 (and yeah, xPeke being unable to CS with Fizz vs. Ori; worth noting he did the same to Alex Ich's Fizz in groups, though a kill turned that around).

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I disagree about Puszu. I think the causality is backwards: Yellowstar is roaming because they can't handle the 2v2. Fnatic has had to push their strategies to the max because Royal is just outplaying them in the micro.