Views: 1369 Why M5 succeeded so well at IEM Hanover
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Ah, as another major IEM tournament passes by I cannot help but think back at how the tournament went and why M5 succeeded in not only winning the tournament but also not dropping a single game.
TSM being the only team thus far to beat M5 at a IEM tournament were seen as M5 biggest rivals at IEM Hanover along with the fact that they’re in a gaming house practising heavily both at NA and EU-West Servers. All eyes were at TSM to perform well at Hanover and a possible Final rematch of M5 vs TSM. It turned out however that they were ill-prepared falling short against Curse he managed to more or less outplay them at every front with sloppy play by almost every player of TSM they got knocked out in the group stages.
AAA for M5 is what kryptonite is for superman. M5 have always had a disdain for facing AAA with a bad track record against them, perhaps the only team in this tournament they were fearful of. Luckily they didn’t have them in the same starting group and were knocked out by Dignitas so they never had to come up against them.
With talks by Saintvious of how they’ve “figured out M5 and know to take them out”, which is a very plausiable statement seeing as they’ve been without doubt having discussions with CLG.EU whom beat M5 at the Kings of Europe tournament of possible tactics. CLG enter the second game with a strong early-mid game team composition (
Caitlyn & Ahri) as oppose to M5 late-game oriented team composition ( Ashe, Vladimir & Kennen) yet despite this M5 secured every single Dragon allowing them to come into the game late-game even though they were behind by 9k gold at one point (imagine how much they would be behind if they didn’t get Dragons?!).
I’m not sure what is with the ******** spouted by some commentators about Darien only knowing how to play a few champions top ( Gangplank, Irelia & Shyvana). On the contrary being able to play many champions alongside his team-mates at tournament level, being the only player to have successfully played Wukong at a IEM 2012 tournament. Other teams being restricted in this area as Hotshotgg confessed himself and similar thoughts can be implied towards TRM as well as many other players.
As said by Rivington they’ve played more games than he has done within 2 years of League of Legends in a single month (can’t say for sure if he has actually played that many games though?). Unlike TSM who may practise countless of scrims and solo queue matches M5 do it in a way that it is both at high level of quantity without hindering its productiveness as evidently seen by their performance.
M5 has been so flexible in their tactics that they don’t have any set standard play, we’ve seen them countless of times terrorize the enemy jungler to gain their advantage there on the other hand we’ve seen them be able to play a straight-up late-game when their favoured junglers have been banned. Roaming support, people soloing 1vs2 etc. They’re able to pull out countless amount of strategies out of the bag while excelling with them at tournament level (unlike the Blitzcrank/ Alistar bot flop by CLG).
TSM Flops out at Group Stages
TSM being the only team thus far to beat M5 at a IEM tournament were seen as M5 biggest rivals at IEM Hanover along with the fact that they’re in a gaming house practising heavily both at NA and EU-West Servers. All eyes were at TSM to perform well at Hanover and a possible Final rematch of M5 vs TSM. It turned out however that they were ill-prepared falling short against Curse he managed to more or less outplay them at every front with sloppy play by almost every player of TSM they got knocked out in the group stages.
AAA lost to Dignitas at the Semi-Finals
AAA for M5 is what kryptonite is for superman. M5 have always had a disdain for facing AAA with a bad track record against them, perhaps the only team in this tournament they were fearful of. Luckily they didn’t have them in the same starting group and were knocked out by Dignitas so they never had to come up against them.
CLG failing to capitalize on the advantage
With talks by Saintvious of how they’ve “figured out M5 and know to take them out”, which is a very plausiable statement seeing as they’ve been without doubt having discussions with CLG.EU whom beat M5 at the Kings of Europe tournament of possible tactics. CLG enter the second game with a strong early-mid game team composition (
Caitlyn & Ahri) as oppose to M5 late-game oriented team composition ( Ashe, Vladimir & Kennen) yet despite this M5 secured every single Dragon allowing them to come into the game late-game even though they were behind by 9k gold at one point (imagine how much they would be behind if they didn’t get Dragons?!).Humongous champion pool
I’m not sure what is with the ******** spouted by some commentators about Darien only knowing how to play a few champions top (
Gangplank, Irelia & Shyvana). On the contrary being able to play many champions alongside his team-mates at tournament level, being the only player to have successfully played Wukong at a IEM 2012 tournament. Other teams being restricted in this area as Hotshotgg confessed himself and similar thoughts can be implied towards TRM as well as many other players.Practise, practise, practise and doing it well
As said by Rivington they’ve played more games than he has done within 2 years of League of Legends in a single month (can’t say for sure if he has actually played that many games though?). Unlike TSM who may practise countless of scrims and solo queue matches M5 do it in a way that it is both at high level of quantity without hindering its productiveness as evidently seen by their performance.
Innovative strategies
M5 has been so flexible in their tactics that they don’t have any set standard play, we’ve seen them countless of times terrorize the enemy jungler to gain their advantage there on the other hand we’ve seen them be able to play a straight-up late-game when their favoured junglers have been banned. Roaming support, people soloing 1vs2 etc. They’re able to pull out countless amount of strategies out of the bag while excelling with them at tournament level (unlike the
Blitzcrank/ Alistar bot flop by CLG).
The only time they lost in the tournies was becasue TSM got Cassiopia, but since then, they banned her every single game.
But, why did they lose the IPL 4 Qualifiers and who did they lose against, didn't get a chance too see it? Ppl say it is because of ping, is it?
I don't know if M5 is just to good, or the other teams are just to bad. M5 is training, training, training while I see other teams do a lot of streaming. I wished they all took LoL as serious as M5, imagine how cool the games would be in future tournaments?
I think its just a combination of both. The worse other teams perform, the better M5 look. Nonetheless I feel that they have a knack of knowing how to stay ahead and make a "come back" while being very knowledgeable of the meta and tactics revolving around it.
That's why they never loose. Simple as that ;)