Fnatic continue their winning spree and after a 3-0 last week, they score another one and against the leaders of the current rankings to that - Gambit Gaming.
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A couple of games had to be played before the highlight match of the evening, however, starting with SK Gaming against GIANTS! The match started slow, almost glacial and by the twentieth minute only five kills were on the scoreboard.
One team fight later the picture was completely different. One kill after another went into SK's pocket and ten minutes later, where before there was equilibrium there was now a 20K gold lead and 10 kill difference. GIANTS! could not turn this sudden spike of domination and surrendered the game shortly thereafter.
The next game was a match between home-turf team aAa and EG. Although similarly one-sided to the previous, the winner stood out much earlier in the match. Hiding behind a tank line of Renekton and Cho'Gath, EG's Miss Fortune and especially Cassiopea melted one aAa player after another. With a 2/0/6 and 4/0/2 on those heroes, respectively, EG had no trouble claiming the victory shortly past the 30th minute mark.
As we mentioned, identifying Fnatic vs Gambit as the highlight match of the day is no-brainer. Gambit came into it as the group leaders but Fnatic were actually packing more wins, only lagging behind in terms of win ratio. In community's eyes, you could not get two LCS Eu teams more evenly matched than those two.
As expected, a kill for a kill was traded during the first fifteen minutes of the game, the two teams not within 1K gold difference of each other. As minute 20 came and went, however, push came to shove for Gambit Gaming. The initiate/deinitiate combination of Jayce, Nasus and Blitzcrank switched between aggressive and defensive play whenever the need called for one and Yellowstar's Varus was always untouchable. Even the speed-boosted Volibear of Diamondprox could not reach Fnatic's carries and Gambit lost one objective after the other, either after team fights or to xPeke's split pushing. At minute 37, the Russian nexus was dead.
At the very bottom of the rankings, Copenhagen Wolves met Dragonborns in a match whose tempo was very reminiscent of SK vs GIANTS. The game started incredibly slow with the two teams simply feeling each other but an ace for CPW at the 20th minute (with a quadra kill for Bjergen's Kha'Zix) irreversably pointed towards the eventual winner of the game.
Frighteningly similar was the last game for the day between Gambit Gaming and SK Gaming.
The match was equal in terms of kills for the first 15 minutes or so but nevertheless it was obvious that SK were losing ground: they were down three towers to none and Alex's Kha'Zix was sprinting ahead of farm compared to Ocelote's Twisted Fate.
Bad turned to worse after a team fight at SK's mid tier two tower as the ever-elusive Kha'Zix jumped in and out to pocket a triple kill for Gambit, a play that put the Russian at a 5K gold advantage. Whatever little presence SK had on the map was gone in an instant and just three minutes later, right after Gambit's shopping spree, SK were done for.
