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EP vs. OMG
Energy Pacemaker actually started off their game against OMG with an advantage by taking out the bottom lane, grabbing a kill on Kane's Caitlyn. Becoming a little bit overzealous with their lead would allow things to swing way out of control for OMG, however. San on Vayne was able to grab a crucial double kill.
The rushed dragon would prove to be an awful idea for Energy Pacemaker, where they should have just used their small advantage to pressure lanes ins tead. The greed for dragon allowed for Ogoing to take top tower for free, providing a lot of pressure in favor of OMG. EP were unable to capitalize with double buff on Vayne.
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Despite the deficit, Energy Pacemaker did a good job at keeping OMG at bay, but OMG were able to shove the lanes harder, resulting in vision inside the enemy jungle and easy security when taking out towers. As always, OMG is fantastic at grabbing utilizing leads out of small advantages,
At this point, Vayne was far too out of control, going 7-1-4 before the 20 minute mark. On top of that, she had a trusty enough team composition to keep her out of trouble and completely crush the opposition. With San essentially soloing half the team, the rest of OMG to do whatever they pleased, allowing OMG to crush through Energy Pacemaker.
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RC vs. PE
Royal Club has been extremely fond of the Shyvana pick and today is no exception. In addition, they've also been loving support Annie and it had worked out yet again since it assisted them in acquiring first blood on Jing's Lee Sin. A second kill would be picked up with a brave Shadow Dash into tower onto JoJo. The game looked in RC's complete control.
Royal Club seized their advantage and took it even further by acquiring the first tower kill of the game. They'd surmount that lead further by taking another two towers before losing their own. It was at this point that every member of Royal Club was doing well, with Zui's Twitch being the most noteably fed.
Have you seen my bear, Tibbers??The gold difference grew further and further apart as Royal Club used their massive waveclear to keep Positive Energy occupied in every area of the map, giving them complete global control. Positive Energy were in a defense position all game and Royal Club. Royal Club owned the nemy jungle as well as baron.
At this point, JoJo's Zed was the only person on Positive Energy with kill potential and Royal Club with baron buff weren't going down easy. Uzi's Twitch proved more terrifying than ever in the final late game teamfight, allowing Royal Club to finish the game off and continue their excellent week 5 performance.
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LMQ vs. iG
LMQ Tian Ci came into this game with a vast improvement since their earlier season performances while Invictus Gaming came into the game off a back of a rather bad streak for their standards. Both teams started the game off passively in the jungle with a standard 2-1-1 setup in lane.
In a crazy and wild fight bottom, 7 kills went off with Invictus Gaming ramping up a huge advantage off an excellently executed PDD bait. The gold distribution was fairly even with Illusion's Shyvana receiving the majority of gold and only Nami and Lee Sin receiving the gold on the enemy team. This would set pace of the majority of the game.
Several, several kills for an early game battle in the bottom lane.?Off of that advantage, Invictus Gaming was able to take an easy tower and develop a rather large kill lead on top of grabbing a dragon. Shyvana's success would be proven unhindered yet again and Kid was performing very well in his duo lane setup by pulling ahead of a Twitch lane in 2v2.
Although Nami was doing her best to disengage tower dives, Invictus Gaming utilized their gold advantage to acquire tankiness and freely roam behind enemy towers. While LMQ were able to gather some kills, their gold deficit was much too large and Invictus Gaming finally broke their poor game streak, taking out LMQ, who defeated World Elite yesterday.
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YG vs. WE
For the final game of the day, World Elite were looking forward to making up their loss against the lower rated team of LMQ last night by making something happen this game. Starting off with an offensive engage in the enemy jungle, World Elite were not able to take any strong level 1 fight and the two teams proceeded to jungle normally.
World Elite would eventually acquire first blood for Mann with the assistance of Caomei by taking out Otto's top lane Vi, a pick that wasn't working out too well for the innovative fellow. Syz attempted to provide many ganks for his team, but was never really able to do much more than show himself in the early phases of the game.
Though generally comfortable split pushing, World Elite switch it up and roam a lot this game.-?Rather than split pushing, a tactic that World Elite is comfortable adhering to, World Elite committed to roaming and causing mass disruption in various areas of the map, utilizing their strong CC and utility-centric composition. This allowed World Elite to gather a game-changing amount of map vision.
In the end, the strong amounts of poke continued by the strong follow up engages made for a very defensive Young Glory with only Otto's top lane Vi left doing well on the team. Young Glory were able to acquire some towers before ultimately falling due to World Elite's switched up tactics and strong utilization of their composition.
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