SCAN EUW Invitational – RG vs C9

SCAN EUW Winter Invitational Match 2 – Cloud 9 EU vs Reason Gaming

Game 1

Bans – Cloud 9 EU ban out Annie, Renekton and Ziggs. Reason Gaming ban out Rengar, Riven and Kassadin.

The Action. A quiet start to the game was broken by a bit of back and forth between Reason Gaming onto Cloud 9 EU in the bot-lane, as both teams start fairly passively, with both the Jungler’s concentrate on farming.  It all kicks off with a 2 for 1 in Reason Gaming’s favour as Jinx gets a kill onto Sivir, but Shyvana takes two kills for Reason Gaming and uses it to grab another kill on Jinx later on as Cloud 9 EU execute an 11min, 3 man-dive top to take Dr Mundo & the turret. Reason Gaming steam-roll the bottom lane but Cloud 9 EU have control over the other two lanes.

The score at the 17minute mark stood at 5-7 kills, the gold-score 26K to 27K both in Reason Gaming’s favour and a 2 to 2 turret-tie in as Reason secured the first Dragon and then mid-turret in quick succession. 10minutes passed and saw the scores tied at all 3 out turrets taken by both teams and an 7-8 kill score in Reason Gaming’s favour with 3 kills l on Reason Trashy’s & Krislund’s Shyvana & Jinx respectively.  Cloud 9 EU’s kills shared mainly between Febiven, Hjarman and Voidle’s Gragas, Jinx and Thresh.

As the 30min mark approached Cloud 9 EU were in the driving seat, having pushed down 4 towers before taking Baron Nashor and picking up the kill on Dr Mundo, to tie the kill score at 8-8. They then pushed all the way through onto the Inhibitor by stacking their ample crowd-control and picking off individuals from Reason Gaming. 32minutes into the game Cloud 9 EU had a 7-3 turret lead and were 5-man pack roaming efficiently across the map before picking up the 2^nd Baron Nashor of the game. Cloud 9 EU then looked to end the game by pushing through mid, by ace-ing Reason Gaming with Trundle and Gragas taking center-stage as they swept through their opponents and onto the Nexus turret to take Game 1.

MVP of the Game; C9 Odoamne’s surprise Trundle pick finished without giving up a single kill and was a huge pain for Reason Gaming throughout the match.

Game 2 Bans – Cloud 9 EU ban out Annie, Renekton and Elise . Reason Gaming ban out Rengar, Riven and Kassadin.    

The Action. A similarly quiet start to the game, with both Junglers soon making an impact as Trashy’s Vi helps Sencux secure first blood before Lee-Sin comes in and takes down a low-health Vi. A 4-man dive down bottom by Cloud 9 EU and mid-lane gank put Cloud 9 EU 1-4 kills up at the 8min mark with Lee-Sin holding ¾ of Cloud 9 EU’s kills. Soon after Cloud 9 EU extend their lead with 4 more kills spread across the map & the first Dragon as Lee-Sin starts to snow-ball with a score of 5-1-1 after 11minutes.

The first turret falls at 14minutes in the suffering bot-lane of Reason Gaming as both Krislund & BarneyD die to a gank by Kayle. 4 towers to 1 in Cloud9 EU’s favour after 20min means a 11K gold lead as well, alongside the 5-15 kill score lead, and the first Baron Nashor of the game & third Dragon means that Cloud 9 EU are firmly in the driving seat and Reason Gaming’s all-AD composition being nullified by Cloud 9 EU already being able to afford armour items.

This is typified by a triple-kill for Kayle at the 25min mark at the 2^nd Tier top-lane as Cloud 9 EU then push through both top & mid inhibitors alongside both Nexus turrets to force Reason Gaming into a surrender defeat with final scores of 6-22 kill score and a 19K gold lead, 1-8 turrets all in Cloud 9 EU’s favour.

MVP Of the Game; C9 k0u on Lee-Sin shows why you can’t let him anywhere near his favourite champion, dominating the early and mid-game to snowball his entire team into a quick victory.

CLOUD 9 EU WINS GAME 2 AND THE MATCH