![]() ![]() Is that a changed mindset in the organization, or does it have to do with your new players on the roster? Last season, TSM's early game was its weak point, and now, it's your greatest strength. We have a great early game right now, at least most of the time. We've been practicing hard on our early game and mid game, and once our mid game becomes better, we'll be in a great spot. If the game goes more than 40 minutes, it usually means that someone f****d up their lead. With the way the game works right now, winning is not hard if you are ahead. ![]() ![]() That's why you see OpTic's games go so long because, sorry to say, they're not a good team. We've been focusing a lot on how to actually win a game from our individual leads so we can close games out consistently. Even now, our early game is still better than our mid game, and that's something we need to work on. We had leads in a lot of our games, even in our losses, but our mid game is where we would drop the ball and not push through as well as we should have been. ![]() We were sloppy in the mid game for the first few weeks because we were still a new team. What has TSM been working on to improve so drastically? TSM has now won three games in a row, including giving TL its first loss. He helped us secure drake, and after that, I was able to take on Ezreal 1-on-1 top side and take all of the turret plates to continue getting to the point that I needed to carry teamfights. Smoothie played super well in laning phase and got me a bunch of kills, but also went an roamed mid to get kills as well. Once I got the kills and bought items, it was my job to carry the game from there onwards. Today, Smoothie hit every hook and got me kills. They can trade, but the big plays that result in kills are usually made by the Supports. AD Carries don't have always have the most agency in the lane. I think Smoothie had a good game today and played super well. What did you think of his performance today? TSM as a whole played great, but Smoothie was unreal on Thresh. Ezreal is fine against Kai'Sa, but if you're behind, it's really bad for either marksmen. After that, our gold lead at 15 minutes was astronomical. Then, we got Ocean drake, went to Top Lane, secured Rift Herald, got top tower, and then mid tower with the Eye of the Herald. No one was dying anywhere except for the Bot Lane, so the mid game played out from our advantage: We took all five plates on the bot tower before destroying it. They didn't have any more safe mechanisms, so the entire game ended up snowballing out of control from a bad level 1 and good hooks from Smoothie. Stixxay could only farm from max range with his abilities, and they kept getting ganked and there wasn't much they could do about it. Sword and Boots, you want to have more than that by then on Ezreal to try and match.Īfter that, we got the Ocean drake, and after that, it felt like CLG's bot lane couldn't really play the game anymore. Stixxay only had Sheen, and if Kai'Sa has B.F. Sword, which is the best early buy for Kai'Sa. I went to base afterwards and got my B.F. When Bjergsen roamed down bot, that was when things went really wrong for them. Things snowballed from there: since Stixxay used flash and died at level 1, he didn't have flash against a Thresh with flash and a Taliyah mid. If Ezreal doesn't get at least one of those items on his first back, it's very bad for him. Usually, you want to have your TP for your first back to buy your Sheen and Tear of the Goddess, or at least one of them. But today, Stixxay got hooked and died at level 1, and that's really bad for Ezreal. Normally, as Ezreal, you just lose a few CS early on and then once Galio has all of his abilities, you're able to fight. Level1 is hard for Ezreal and Galio, and Kai'Sa and Thresh have a good Level 1 and Level 2. I've played this matchup before in practice as all four of the champions are pretty standard in this meta, but it is never this one-sided, even in scrims. Can you tell us how you got such a massive advantage over Stixxay and Biofrost early on? I'm here with Zven after an absolute stomp of CLG, which started right from the get-go in the Bot Lane. Zven sat down with Nick Geracie to break down TSM's stomp of CLG, his team's mid game improvements, and the bizarre world of the current Bot Lane meta. In week 4, TSM dismantled Counter Logic Gaming through a dominant bot lane performance from Jesper "Zven" Svenningsen and Andy "Smoothie" TSM rolled right into Sunday in full stride to defeat FlyQuest, and now sits at 6-4 behind Cloud 9 (8-2) and Team Liquid (9-1). OpTic was followed by a clean win over Team Liquid to give the North American champion its first loss of the split. In the past two weeks, TSM has won all four of its games games to claim sole possession of 3rd Place. ![]()
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