C9 vs Gen.G - Pre quarterfinals notes

C9

Team Stats

Played a lot of relatively “weaker” opponents in the past months, but do not have stats that match it:

• 14 times between -2k and +2k at 15 in their wins
• Rarely completely smash early (5 games out of 35)

Players Stats

Fudge:

• Stats don’t look great, and they do worse when they play with him early
• Is not a reliable damage source even on damage-oriented champions
  • 22% dmg share in their wins as GP, his best champ

Blaber:

• Great stats, lots of early action and GD@15 in their wins
• Very high support proximity
• Looks like a standout player, but maybe a bit too reliant on kills to get his team ahead

Perkz:

• The main carry in their wins, but gets insane help from both support and jungle
• C9 is reliant on Perkz’s success to win games

Zven:

• Consistence incarnated:
  • Same D@15 in wins and losses, low sup proximity, high consistent damage share
• Does much better when there is some successful action bot early

Conclusion

• C9’s successful plan is to support Perkz with jgl + sup and use this pressure to dive bot
• Simply put, they’re one of the most “by the book” team in terms of overarching goal
  • C9 wins when they find early kills bot, loses when they don’t

Gen G

Team Stats

• Closes out games fast and drags out their losses (which is good)
• Average+ GD@15 stats
  • They never totally smash early but also rarely get smashed
• Their stats do corroborate their ResidentSleeper status

Players Stats

Rascal:

• Average stats incarnated: not ahead, not behind, not too much damage, not too little
• A solid player that is not really part of the early-game plans of the team

Burdol:

• Turbo inted in their losses with an average -2060 GD@15 in those
• We’re not seeing Burdol tonight except if Gen.G want to BM Cloud 9

Clid:

• Solid consistent player
• Does much better when he actually plays with Life
  • 26% sup prox in wins, 20% in lossses

Bdd:

• The crux of Gen.G, they win when he’s ahead and lose when he’s behind
• The true carry behing Gen.G’s wins, with a 29% damage share in those
• Despite this, does not get enough early-game help from his support

Bot lane:

• Ruler is very good and consistently gets ahead, but does require more attention from his support
• High damage share but still below Bdd in wins, telling me he gets a bit more resources than needed

Conclusion

• C9 is much more reliant on their early game to win than Gen.G
  • They get ahead as a team, but also behind as a team
• This series will be decided on mid 3v3 and Cloud 9 can actually make it work

3-1 Gen.G, C9 wins one through Perkz carrying after a successful hardcore camp from Vulcan and Blaber