Skarner

Just kind of awkward team fights for her to play out.

Game 3, Jayce, Skarner, Azir, Corki, and Rell for top esports against an interesting flex play of the Gragas, Lee Sin, Yone, Syndra, and Nautilus.

They ended up moving the Syndra into the bottom lane to get the Yone-Azir matchup, which is favorable for Yone.

Another really good opening from Top Esports in this one, and yet another bungling of the transition phase, this time around the 16-minute mark.

43 kill banger in game four.

Two comps that you could just tell we're going to have to have to brawl nonstop.

Trundle flex top for Siwu, Pantheon, Victor, Jinrel to battle against T1s, Olaf, Skarner, Locke, Sivir, and Karma.

Sivir and Karma both extremely, extremely good for Olaf and Skarner and Locke actually now I think about it, but In my tournament days, my teams ran a lot of stuff like this.

Control mage, AD carries.

The only ones that actually stand out as, like, frequent and high win rate are Caitlyn, Ezreal, and Skarner.

Caitlyn's nine and two, Ezreal's seven and one, Skarner's nine and one.

But, like, they played 16 Jarvan games for a 37% win rate.

Yeah.

And, uh, 4-0-6, able to just muscle their way through it.

And for Owner, his game on the Skarner was pretty solid.

He died five times, but 1-17 and was back to the...

it reminded me of what, what owner did it remind me of? I think the 2024 poppy against, uh, toppy sports.

The BLG poppy game where it was just no hesitation.

Uh, Engage when you see it.

He did it on the Skarner.

It was just so good to watch him.

And that, That was the beginning of it, just waiting for those game fives.

It was Irelia, Nidalee, I think, that clear, and Raptor played, and it was into the Skarner that...

Gideon basically didn't get to play, and that was the end of the series.

And it was

Yeah.

I think it's going to be owner if it's T1.

Like, they're showing the propensity to put him on these carry champs and then having the impact that he did on Skarner.

Oh, you're saying that he is going to pick the Talon?

I personally felt like the POM should have gone to owner.

I felt like owner had he won game three by himself, like by playing Skarner and just finding the engages that he needed.

But Doran has been more reliable compared to earlier in the season, like this round three, four, where he had a lot more trouble.

And, you know, maybe we got quoted out of context.

Yeah.

Not great, but I don't hate it because while this happens, I see Skarner ganging bot side.

So I don't hate this because I know, okay, well, his top side is up.

This is what I was talking about earlier about knowing enemy jungle tracking and knowing how do I punish this? He's ganging bot side.

Grubs should be seen as more of a bonus when you're playing jungle and not so much as a priority, in my opinion, as the game is right now.

But I like to clear my butt side here and then probably what I'll do is recall and then I'll go for the grubs because they are good still and they give you XP and money.

I see Skarner approaching bot, so I obviously look for the counter gank instead.

There's no danger that he's doing the grubs either because we know he's bot.

The other ones I thought he was fine.

Um, he had a pretty good Skarner game and that's a really top Skarner game into the, uh, into the Maokai and then the setup that BNK had.

That was the only game of the series that was actually really fun and competitive was the Maokai and Asus Skarner draft.

It was all about the zoning.

And Valdez and I were talking about how if you're the one who's defending, then you're winning the fight in most cases.

You can't do consistent damage.

You can't kill tanks.

There was a Skarner they had to deal with in this draft.

[laughs] I'm just kidding.

I just thought the Skarner was kind of racist.

[laughs] Skarner was crazy, bro.

I have to say.

You know, Gideon was doing so well, too.