Garena Premier League

GPL Match Reports 20th May

21/5/2012

20^th May Game 1: Saigon Jokers vs Team Singapore Sentinels

SJ Bans	TSS Bans
Morgana Galio Lulu	Vladimir Twisted Fate Shen

 

SJ Picks	TSS Picks
Urgot Lee Sin Soraka Jarvan Cassiopeia	Taric Sivir Udyr Ahri Wukong

 

The game kicks off with Udyr pulling off a level one gank on Jarvan after red buff, netting TSS a quick first blood on the top lane. Right after, Udyr moves to mid for another successful gank on Cassiopeia followed by a counter jungle kill on Lee Sin giving TSS the early 3-0 lead.  

The early ganks allow Wukong to control the top lane and take down the top tower very quickly. With the top tower down TSS is able to grab an easy dragon with no resistance.  TSS pushes their advantage to grab an early baron at the 16 minute mark before SJ gets wind of their plans. With the baron buff, TSS takes down the middle inhibitor and pulls far ahead with a 22-2 kill lead.

Seeing TSS at a 17 thousand gold lead at the 20 minute mark, SJ decides to surrender ending the match with only a single inhibitor down.

Player of the Match: Harleluyar’s Udyr ganks set the tone for the game; quick, deadly and precise were the best words to describe his exemplary play.

Key Plays:

• Udyr pulls off a fantastic tower dive at level 3 on a retreating Lee Sin
• TSS grabs the baron before SJ is able to realize what is going on
• Udyr baits the entire enemy team and escapes unscathed while the rest of TSS mops up

20^th May Game 2: KL Hunters vs Taipei Assassins

KLH Bans	TPA Bans
Dr. Mundo Trundle Nautilus	Shen Twisted Fate Galio

 

KLH Picks	TPA Picks
Janna Ryze Vayne Nocturne Warwick	Alistar Morgana Sona Graves Fizz

 

Both teams decide to invade their opponents jungle at the start resulting in blue buff being traded on each side. At the bottom lane, Graves places a huge amount of pressure on Vayne but overextends allowing Nocturne to gank Sona and get first blood.

Throughout the early game, Alistar performs extremely well getting ganks on the middle and bottom lane multiple times. This allows him to pick up his gold per 10 items early on and snowball from then onwards. By the 13 minute mark, TPA builds a 5 thousand gold lead and outfarms KLH by a huge amount.

Unable to pressure mid, Ryze leaves Morgana with the freedom to gank bottom lane several times. By 19 minutes, TPA amasses a ten thousand gold lead and proceeds to take Baron down followed by the KLH’s top inhibitor.

Snowballing from the early game, TPA is able to destroy the enemy team in the safety of their own base. At this point KLH’s defeat is inevitable and TPA secures the win soon after.

Player of the Match: Once again Bebe shows the world why he is considered by many to be top AD carry in Asia.

Key Plays:

• Alistar’s early ganks and oracle allow TPA to snowball  a huge amount
• Graves takes out Vayne and Sona singlehandedly at the bottom lane
• TPA dives the top tower effortlessly, driving back KLH to the false “safety” of their Nexus

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