A Replay of Last Year’s Finals: SK Telecoms T1 vs ROX Tigers in the Semifinals
The #1 teams from Korea and China collides in today’s quarterfinals and Korea comes out the victor. How did they win 3-1 against the top team from China? Here’s a quick recap of today’s matches.
Game 1 – ROX Wins
Comparing both teams first gank pretty much sums up the whole game: Peanut and Smeb gets a clean kill up top while, down at the bot lane, EDG 4-man dives the ROX bot lane duo only to trade 2 for 2.
ROX cleanly executed their plays, repeatedly turned around plays initiated by EDG while EDG keeps on fumbling and playing in a level nowhere near their regional performance. Clearlove’s performance on Olaf was just… disappointing. Look at his damage, he dealt less damage than Meiko, EDG’s support.
Game 2 – ROX Wins
Even from the pick and ban, it’s looked like EDG hasn’t learned their lesson. Running almost the same line-up from Game 1, ROX finishes the game with a faster time. 9 minutes and 36 seconds faster than Game 1, to be exact.
19 minutes after the game has started, EDG gets aced. After 4 minutes, they lose Baron but still tried to fight, fails and gives up 4 kills to ROX. At the 24-minute mark, ROX has a gigantic 15k gold lead.
Coming into the 2016 League of Legends World Championship, EDG was undefeated in the LPL. In this series, Korea’s #1 team threatens to sweep them off the tournament without giving away even one game.
Game 3 – EDG Wins
Despite being 0-2 in this best-of-5 series and giving up early 2 kills to ROX, EDG was able to turn around the game. With Scout doing Clearlove’s role of ganking the side lanes, EDG was able to pick kills and objectives.
Near the 14-minute mark, EDG turns around a seemingly dangerous clash at the bot lane. Even though the fight starts 4v5 in favor of ROX, EDG miraculously gets the advantage, and the kills, once Koro1 teleports in. This gives EDG their first gold lead ever, and eventually their first win, in the series.
Trivia: Koro1 on Rumble, despite going for Fervor of Battle, got a score of 3/5/14.
Game 4 – ROX Goes to Semifinals Against SKT
With Peanut playing all previous games as Lee Sin, the rookie jungler of ROX picks up Olaf for the first time, not just in this series but all throughout his run in the 2016 League of Legends World Championship. And he shows up, big time!
Finishing the game with a score of 11/0/5, Peanut takes for himself the biggest killing streak in the whole tournament so far. And with a 100% kill participation just like GorillA, ROX just shows that the gap between them and EDG isn’t close enough for EDG to contest ROX’ semifinals slot.
Will we see a replay of last year or will ROX finally secure a win against SKT? Which of the 2 Korean teams will proceed to the finals?
Subscribe to INQUIRER PLUS to get access to The Philippine Daily Inquirer & other 70+ titles, share up to 5 gadgets, listen to the news, download as early as 4am & share articles on social media. Call 896 6000.
