Game Summary: Team Dignitas vs TSM & Coast in LCS Week 8

Team Dignitas vs. TSM

TSM Lineup

Reginal	TheOddOne	Dyrus	WildTurtle	Xpecial

 

Banned: Lee Sin, Elise, Aatrox

 

Team Dignitas line up

KiWiKiD	Crumbzz	Scarra	Imaqtipie	Patoy



Banned: Karthus, Shen, Rumble

 During the Laning Phase TSM only changed Jayce and Kassadin, so Jayce had Solo Top against Ezreal and Sona, and Kassadin Mid against Diana. Zac was alone against Graves and Thresh.

For the first five minutes, nothing happened, everybody farmed and the junglers engaged from time to time to help out on the solo lanes. After these five minutes, Zac and Jarvan went mid to gank against Kassadin, and yes, Zac picked up the first kill. Shortly after TSM destroyed the first tower, because no Team Dignitas champion was on Bot Lane. As Team Dignitas killed the first dragon with a five man, Jayce pushed the Top Lane and lowered the towers bar, just to take it down a few minutes later.

In this time, towers began to fall everywhere. four towers in two minutes. When trying to get the second dragon, Nasus interrupted and stole the dragon, but two of TSM got killed in the following teamfight.

One teamfight followed the other until Diana, also fed with minions, was three levels ahead, and Team Dignitas also was 5,000 gold in front. 25 minutes played and in the Top Lane jungle on TSM side Team Dignitas first aced, but did not push any lane as they were low on health.

Again the next big teamfight was fought at the dragon, that TSM wanted to pick. With three kills and one loss in the fight itself, four players chased Sona, but were not able to catch Ezreal, who managed to escape.

After half an hour the game had following stats:
15:15 Kills ; 4:4 Towers ; 2,000 gold lead for Team Dignitas.

However, TSM got into the game and pushed Team Dignitas back. So TSM got themselves another dragon and took the gold lead from Dignitas away. As the Team Dignitas squad first tried Baron, TSM interrupted them, but got a 0:2 in the teamfight afterwards. Another attempt at Baron instantly had to be aborted because of a lack of damage.

TSM got pushed into their base and Team Dignitas took all the towers outside the base out. As they tried Baron again a few miutes later, again TSM came to interrupt them, but they got destoroyed in the teamfight, with a tremendous kiting and 3 kills Ezreal led the team to an ace and an instant push to the Nexus and the win.

Conclusion: The game was at most times very open and both teams had chances to win, but unique mistakes on both sides led the game in its direction, so that Team Dignitas was able to win against TSM

Team Dignitas [ 1 - 0 ] TSM

Here is a video of the awesome kiting from Ezreal with the ace and the Nexus push.

 

 

 

Team Coast vs. Team Dignitas

Team Coast line up

ZionSpartan	NintendudeX	Shiptur	DontMockMe	Daydreamin

 

Banned: Ezreal, Kassadin, Zed

 

Team Dignitas line up

KiWiKiD	Crumbzz	Scarra	Imaqtipie	Patoy

 

Banned: Riven, Ahri, Elise

In the laning phase of the game, Coast did not change anyone, but for Team Dignitas Graves and Sona went to Top Lane, Gragas Mid and Zac solo on the Bot Lane. Five minutes in the game and Zac and Jarvan went to the Mid Lane, to perform the same way as they did against TSM, but Twisted Fate played it cleverly and did not give them a chance to get to him.

So after 10 minutes Coast got a dragon and Zac brought Aatrox to use his passive to protect him from dying. Coast also destroyed both towers out of the base on the Bot Lane

16 minutes after the start the first kill was set in a fight between Aatrox and Fiddlesticks for Coast, and Zac and the top lane outer tower for Team Dignitas. Zac burnt his passive as Aatrox and Fiddlesticks got him, but the tower killed Aatrox whereas Fiddlesticks destroyed the blobs to protect Zac from reviving from them.That happened in Top Lane. In the meantime the Team Dignitas champions pushed the Bot Lane to the Inhibitor Tower, where Jarvan died because he trapped 3 Coast members in his ultimate. At this moment Team Coast had a 2,000 gold lead.

After a teamfight in mid lane, where Team Coast's ADC Vayne died, Team Dignitas went to get the dragon, while the members of Coast wanted to get the Baron. Team Dignitas was fast at the dragon so they instantly ran to the dragon to maybe steal it. Without their ADC Coast took very long with the Baron, maybe too long.

All Team Dignitas champions waited in the Jungle behind the Baron's pit until he got very low. Then a very good timed combo from Jarvan and Gragas stole the Baron kill. Jarvan used his Demacian Standard to get in the pit where he Smited the Baron, while Gragas rolled his barrel. They made enough damage to kill the Baron and get Team Dignitas the Baron Buff.

A Mid Lane push from Coast was stopped at the tower, who got very low, before the game started to cooldown and both teams went to their jungles for the Buffs.

Team Dignitas with the Baron Buff on their side pushed all lanes to the base of Team Coast so we had the following stats after 30 minutes:
7:9 kills ; 4:7 towers ; 6,000 gold lead for Team Dignitas

Shortly after this the Baron respawned and Team Dignitas went to get the Buff back on them. With this, they invaded their jungle and pushed all lanes to the Nexus Towers who fell shortly after this. Without a chance of trying to kill any of the Team Dignitas champions Coast had to look as the Nexus got destroyed after 33 minutes. So Team Dignitas got the second win in the second game that day.

My personal opinion to this match is that Coast really tried their best I guess, but all the time the Team Dignitas squad was a bit better, that in the end made the difference.

Team Dignitas [ 1 - 0 ] Team Coast

As a result of this after Week 8 af the LCS Team Dignitas now holds the 3rd place together with CLG and TSM with a total amount of 11 wins and 12 defeats.