I was the last pick on my team, with us having first ban:
Vayne, Shen, Amumu, Nocturne
Draft:
Rumble
Corki (Parkinsonian), Garen
Cho'Gath, Xin Zhao
Alistar, Trundle
Taric, Malzahar
Teemo
I liked this team, having two ways to alter enemy positions is nice and it made up for our general lack of hard CC. I also felt like we could have used more magic damage, but I suppose Teemo covers that pretty well. When compared to their team, I liked ours even more. We had nice poke to harass their numerous melees and several ways to break Malzahar's suppression. Our escaping ability was also superior, with only Alistar lacking a way to get out of a fight quickly. As long as we kept Malzahar and Xin Zhao under control, it seemed like we would have the upper hand. That's what we play the game for though, as no one wins at the loading screen, not even against an all support team (lol Rioterz).
Lane Matchups
Top: Teemo vs Cho’Gath
Middle: Corki vs. Malzahar
Bottom: Alistar, Garen vs Rumble, Taric
Jungle: Trundle vs. Xin Zhao
Early Game
Our bottom laners were somewhat ambitious in the early going, getting First Blood within a couple minutes. Alistar planted a
great Clairvoyance near their red buff, spotting Xin Zhao killing his small golems. Alistar and Garen went for a gank, one from each side and were
successful in the surprise attack. Unfortunately Alistar died in the process as he got stunned under their tower, but it probably got Xin Zhao a little nervous about jungling. The laning phase was very uneventful and slow when it came to objectives, but plenty went on in terms of kills. I was hard-pressed to do anything of value against Cho’Gath, so I was forced to just farm away while he whittled my tower down. He was only able to kill me once though, so it wasn’t horrible. Middle was a lot of the same, with either side too scared to engage fully. Even with assorted ganks, there were no real kills between the middle laners. The bottom lane was a different story, there was a lot of action down there. Alistar would find himself out of position many times, subjecting himself to a Taric stun and Rumble’s entire arsenal. Garen was usually there to pick up the pieces though, netting a couple kills.
Mid Game
The odd thing about this game was the pace at which it happened. It was very slow going, resulting in early roaming (early as in before the first turret kill). Alistar and Trundle wandered around quite a bit, with mixed results. The ganking attempts tended not to work due to the enemies’
good presence of mind to stay back in their lane. Xin Zhao didn’t do too much either, as he would often go in alone and allow our guys to retreat at low health. With all of the roaming came opportunities to take out turrets, which Malzahar was the first to take advantage of, destroying our middle turret at the 15 minute mark. After that, the momentum shifted back and forth for a little while. A small teamfight up top got us a turret and a couple kills, and other shortly after got them the same results. Much of the action was focused in the bottom lane though, as they would not give up on taking out our turret down there. Our team was pretty well set up for defending a turret though, with Alistar’s AOE stun and headbutt combined with Corki’s fantastic poking. At one point we were able to catch them out of position, taking a couple of them down and forcing a retreat. They kept sending champs down there to defend their turret, but they had no way to penetrate our defense. The momentum at this point was in our favor, as we knew that they couldn’t stage an offensive, and it seemed like they knew it too, being quite conservative in their play.
Late Game
We gradually staged our offensive here, poking at turrets when we could and catching the enemy champions away from their pack. This snowballing was kind of interesting, as we didn’t really communicate too much during the match. Most of it was actually Garen whining about either me or Alistar, or Trundle whining about having no support. It seems like we just knew to focus Malzahar when possible, with Xin Zhao coming next. Alistar would initiate and pick out a target for us with Headbutt, allowing us to feast on him. Having multiple ways to cancel Malzahar’s ultimate was very important here, as he would then be out of position and quite easy to kill. The event that won us the game was an incredibly close Baron fight. We started attacking him with the enemy somewhat close by, but with a couple Madred’s items it would
go quickly. They caught on to us though, and came stomping in to go for the steal. Cho’Gath could have had it very easily with his Feast, but he blew it way too early to secure the kill. As a result, we were able to snag it and turn the fight around on them. While this was going on, a couple people had gotten killed and more were left at low health. With the added boost from Baron, we were able to get out with 2 or 3 people alive, and 4 enemies dead. We took this opportunity to push all the way to their Nexus, winning the game at 46 minutes.
Post Game Scoreboard:
Replay link: Ranked Game #33 - Teemo
What I learned:
- Cho'Gath seems to be a pretty bad matchup for Teemo, he doesn't have enough burst to even make a dent
- Having Corki makes playing defense so easy, the missles are amazing for poking and forcing retreats
- Malzahar's ultimate leaves him very open to attack, I don't know why I hadn't figured that out before
- Trundle is a funky champion to use it seems...I don't think I've ever seen him built the same way twice
My Score: 2/4/10
My Build: Philosopher's Stone, Mercury's Treads, Malady, Madred's Bloodrazor, Nashor's Tooth
Summoner's Spells: Exhaust, Flash
Current ranked record: 15-18 (0 leaves)
ELO rating: 1185
Thanks for reading.
-Chickenmoo
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