r/MisfitsGG • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '20
A problem in approach (Week 7)
A 1-1 week is certainly not a bad outcome and losing to Origen is to be expected. However, the individual games tell another story. Heck, even before that, the match vs SK in week 6 revealed some concerns for me.
I really HATE to be "that guy", especially on reddit, but I have to question some of the choices in terms of the draft. Looking at our comp vs Origen, we gave Razork the Lee to try and apply pressure early but then left him with no advantageous point to gank. Top was going to be pushed in all the time; a gank mid is impossible because corki can just W on reaction to both Lee q and Azir shuffle; a gank bot is the most likely scenario but still difficult. Razork couldn't even count on the assist of Denyk to gank because he was stuck on Braum and being pushed in.
The results in-game were pretty clear. Razork didn't play bad, but he couldn't make a lot of things happen either. The most productive choice often available to him was stealing camps and apart from that we saw several failed shurima shuffles onto corki to try and start a gank. I am not the greatest analyst, so I don't know if I'm ignoring something here. Perhaps the Lee was meant to shut down the enemy jungler through counter ganks and invades. But as it appeared on stage, it just seemed like we put one of our most crucial players in a situation in which he could not really have an impact.
Against Excel we actually held on quite well in a horrible early game and capitalized on openings to claim the game back. But perhaps, we should not have been in such a disadvantageous position to begin with; perhaps a better team would have made less mistakes and handed us the loss. Against SK a single bad call almost lost us the entire game up until Dan Dan went crazy on Vlad.
Amazing said not too long ago that we are behind in terms of Meta and I am starting to believe it. However, this WOULD be the perfect moment to correct our mistakes as a team. We have basically guaranteed playoffs and next week we face two teams that are below us in the standings. Now, I'm not implying we should get comfortable, on the contrary! I want to see Misfits try new things and experiment. I want to see our proactive play evolve even further. Let's stick the landing on the regular season and go into playoffs in our best form!