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The most immediate thing to notice in this game is that Saigon Jokers went ahead and picked Morgana for their jungler. This was once a pick that was a bit more viable back in the times when smiting would proc the spellvamp passive and heal Morgana, but this definitely a strange pick for Season 3.
Morgana wasn't alone in the jungle however and was also joined by Nasus but not entirely. Morgana still played the game out as a mid laner while assisting in counter jungling and objective control, shoving out the wave with W and then attempting to roam. Unfortunately, the traditional single-jungle strategy with Lee Sin was looking to work out much better and he seemed hardly effected under the pressure of double smite.
Although the strategy did not work as effectively as the Saigon Jokers may have wanted, it's an excellent strategy in theory so long as you can catch your opponent off guard. Both Nasus and Morgana have incredible wave-clear and lane pressuring ability and by no means did Morgana far too far behind from her counterpart in the mid lane.
Unfortunately, as the game dragged on for the Jokers, Chawy would make their life a living hell and continue proving his worth as a Southeast Asian All-Star. Without being able to take any noteworthy early game lead, Saigon Jokers were crushed even with considerable effort in executing their strategy.
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It's not often a team sitting near the bottom of the ranks with less than a 33% win ratio can take down a team as monstrously successful this season as ahq, who only lost 2 of their 23 games before this game. Fortunately for the Bankok Titans, JaeYoong proved to me an excellent addition to the team.
JaeYoong played Vayne in the top lane in a 1v2 while the bottom lane was occupied by Sek on Graves. ahq utilized their trademark early advantage to get the beginning advantage, acquiring first blood and grabbing an additional kill by diving ontop BKT's top lane, which unfortunately for them, also allowed for JaeYoong to acquire a kill on solo lane Vayne.
Let's not credit the double AD carry composition as a whole though, as the entire team has been showing stronger performances lately. InTreso was performing incredibly well, staying ahead of his opponent middle who was playing Fizz and accompanying JaeYoong in well executed ganks in the mid lane.
As always when behind, ahq was prevelant, never easily surrendering their sacred and incredible win record. The teams stayed relatively even, but JaeYoong was really bringing the pain to ahq. Unfortunately for ahq, the war of attrition would definitely go in favor of the double AD composition of BKT, allowing them to win a very much needed win against the dominating team of the region.
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While the Taipei Assassins aren't the legendary one we are used to, they have been improving steadily and were holding off pretty well in the early laning phase. The focal point of this game cannot be undermined, which is Chawy's incredible control on Varus. A battle that could have gone horribly wrong went incredibly right for Singapore Sentinels by proper summoner spell management and excellent control.
A potential death for Chawy became a 4-1 start for the Singapore Sentinels without even a flash being burned for the nearly killed AD Carry. While TPA were stumbling when trying to crawl out of their early deficits after the old roster swaps, they were giving back a fighting change in this matchup.
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After a 26 minute back and forth, Taipei Assassins were putting up quite a fight to Singapore Sentinels, applying pressure and causing SGS to fall back into a defensive position even though slightly behind in turrets and kills. It's safe to say that Bebe was doing a great job stalling any disdavantages had by TPA, as he was 7-2-5 40 minutes into the game and utilizing the power of blue Ezreal to stop SGS in their advances.
Eventually, Singapore Sentinels' slow push would be too much for TPA to hold off, but not before TPA pulled off an incredibly strong fight. Finally, TPA seem to be slowly crawling back up to their previous stature and putting up fights against the top teams in the region.
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RESULTS
