CLG vs. FOX should be a win for CLG - Echo Fox have a lot of issues to work out beyond the initial laning phase.
Pick/Ban – love CLG’s first three of Kalista, Rek’Sai and
Fiora; I can’t get over the fact that Fiora is going to get fed. FOX get two
priority picks in Alistar and Elise then pivot to some solid, flexible choices in
Trundle and Ezreal, but I worry about their power. CLG are going to
be beastly in the midgame if they don’t get caught too many times early. FOX will need to keep their lane phase strong and get to the right teamfights and kite
properly. Even though FOX got to counter CLG, I think CLG’s lineup are just
better for this fast-paced meta. Despite having the Alistar, I think it will be
hard for FOX to force CLG into a big fight before 30 minutes.
FOX played a very deliberate early game to try to take some
turret damage, but I think it was a mistake to leave Darshan in the top with a
frozen lane. I think Fiora wins the matchup vs. Trundle anyway, and you are
getting her close to the items she needs for split push. In addition, Keith’s
Ezreal already loses to Kalista in the early game and he lost a lot of farm by
not freezing the bot lane. I feel like Echo Fox need this game to slow down and
fast pushing turrets at the loss of farm is not the way to do that.
Huhi did a great job keeping Goldenglue down. Viktor can
rekk your split push if he gets to one-shot power, and Huhi understands he
needs to play aggressively. He can die if Elise ganks, but this is the right
way to play their comp. FOX fail a dive in the top and give more gold to
Stixxay – I don’t know if they’re playing their comp right. FOX eventually
rotate Solo to the bot to get caught up in farm but Keith stays too long in the
top and is swallowed by a Morgana binding.
22:30 - CLG have taken the mid turret and are all over the
FOX jungle. They don’t really want to teamfight with this comp against Alistar
but their gold advantage is too much and Darshan sets up a kill with Grand
Challenge. From here, CLG’s rotations were on point and Echo Fox couldn’t match
power for power despite some nice flanks. All three carries are fed and they
slowly strangle the map. The late game was a bit conservative given the 5 digit
gold lead but still rather elementary.
As I mentioned in the picks and bans, I felt CLG won that phase and their superior waveclear and rotations prevented Fox from ever getting to their win condition (late game Ezreal kite/carry around teamfights). Trundle got tanky but they never got the damage they needed and were run all over the map.
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