This week marks the first ‘super’ week in the League of Legends Championship Series. During this week, coL.LoL will be participating in five matches. The action starts on Wednesday at 1:00pm PST / 4:00pm EST where coL.LoL will play their first match against Team Solo Mid.
 compLexity |
1-3 | VS | 4-2 | Team SoloMid |
After an extremely fast paced early game, coL.LoL was defeated by Team Solo Mid. Five minutes into the game, tier two turrets for coL’s bot lane and TSM’s top lane were destroyed. This gave a massive influx of global gold to all players extremely early in the game. For the next six minutes, both teams were playing very safe and were focused on trying to establish an early lead. It wasn’t until Reginald’s Xerath managed to catch Lautemortis out of position that the first blood was made by a teleporting Dyrus. After catching Reginald out of position and securing the kill, coL.LoL was able to force a fight for the second dragon spawn where the managed to kill off TheOddOne and finish off the dragon. It wasn’t until TSM decided that they wanted to get baron that coL.LoL felt the pain of TSM’s Xerath pick. Acquiring the baron, TSM was able to push up all of the lanes and ultimately win the game.
coL.LoL finished last week’s matches strong with a win against Good Game University, marking their first win of the LCS. As this is the first matchup between TSM and coL.LoL, the game can easily go either way. While coL.LoL was playing their games last week, TSM had a week off. We can only assume that TSM has been practicing hard all week, so you can never know what tricks they may have up their sleeves. With a roster of veteran players consisting of Dyrus (Top Lane), TheOddOne (Jungler), Reginald (Mid Lane), Chaox (AD Carry), and Xpecial (Support), defeating this team will require a lot of patience, accuracy, and complete coordination.
| NA Standings | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Curse | 6-0 | 6 Points |
| #2 | Dignitas | 5-2 | 5 Points |
| #3 | TSM | 4-2 | 4 Points |
| #4 | CLG | 3-3 | 3 Points |
| #5 | compLexity | 1-3 | 1 Points |
| #6 | Vulcun | 3-5 | 3 Points |
| #7 | MRN | 1-3 | 1 Points |
| #8 | GGU | 1-6 | 1 Points |
| League Championship Series Week 4 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| compLexity | TSM Snapdragon | ||
 Kayle |
Ban | Ban | Shen |
 Singed |
Ban | Ban | Kog Maw |
 Orianna |
Ban | Ban | Vi |
 Twisted Fate |
Pick | Pick | Taric |
 Xin Zhao |
Pick | Pick | Miss Fortune |
 Fiddlesticks |
Pick | Pick | Jarvan IV |
 Varus |
Pick | Pick | Malphite |
 Rumble |
Pick | Pick | Xerath |
| compLexity |
1-3 | VS | 6-0 | Curse Gaming |
Like in all of the matches of tonight, a starting lane swap meant sub five minute turrets were taken down for both teams. This brought added pressure and mobility for both teams. Curse was able to pick up first blood due to lack of vision by coL.LoL and they were able to keep Chuuper’s Ryze at bay. Despite picking up the first dragon, coL.LoL could not get away from the aggressive Curse Gaming. While picking up several kills, Curse was able to split push lanes and apply enough pressure to win them the game.
The second game of tonight is a rematch against Curse Gaming at 3:00pm PST / 6:00pm EST. In their first match of the LCS, coL.LoL fell to Curse after nearly securing a comeback. One of the deciding factors of that game was the superior positioning of Curse leading into team-fights. Now that coL.LoL has a couple more games under their belt and have reviewed what went wrong the first time around, they are ready for the rematch. The lineup of Curse Gaming is Voyboy (Top Lane), Saint Vicious (Jungler), NyJacky (Mid Lane), Cop (AD Carry), and Elementz (Support). Curse is currently undefeated in the LCS, and coL.LoL is looking to make that change.
| League Championship Series Week 4 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| compLexity | Curse Gaming | ||
 Nidalee |
Ban | Ban | Shen |
| Kayle |
Ban | Ban | Vi |
 Tryndamere |
Ban | Ban | Jayce |
 Thresh |
Pick | Pick | Taric |
| Jarvan IV |
Pick | Pick | Xin Zhao |
 Ryze |
Pick | Pick | Twisted Fate |
 Twitch |
Pick | Pick | Miss Fortune |
 Zed |
Pick | Pick | Elise |
| compLexity |
1-3 | VS | 3-5 | Vulcun |
In the final game of tonight, coL.LoL fell to Vulcun Command. Early pressure and agressiveness managed to place Vulcun in a secure lead very early into the game. Xmithie was keeping Lautemortis underlevelled and underfarmed by counter jungling and forcing him to help out other lanes. This was an important part of their strategy which worked out in their favour as the levels and items were simply not there for Lautemortis and so initiation was practically suicidal. After Vulcun grabbed the first baron and nearly got teamwiped in the process, a comeback looked viable for coL. As soon as members were back up for Vulcun they pushed hard into coL’s base killing off the nexus towers. After noticing that all of Vulcun were going back to their base, coL went in for a final effort of coming back and taking the second baron. Xmithie managed to steal the baron and coL was unable to escape which left their base wide open for Vulcun to destroy.
The third and final game for Wednesday night at 8:00pm PST / 11:00pm EST is another rematch – this one against Vulcun. Vulcun has been on a hot streak since last week gaining their first win of the LCS and then two others against CLG and Team MRN. This shows that they are definitely a challenge and that coL.LoL will have to paly at their best in order to overcome this obstacle. Last week, coL.LoL lost to Vulcun after an insanely aggressive early game on Vulcun’s part which lead to an extreme shutout. Now that coL.LoL knows how agressive Vulcun can be, they will have to choose wisely on how they plan on countering it. Going up against Vulcun’s Sycho Sid (Top Lane), Xmithie (Jungler), mandatory cloud (Mid Lane), Zuna (ADC), and Muffinqt (Support) will definitely prove to be a challenge worth tuning in to see.
| League Championship Series Week 4 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| compLexity | Vulcun Command | ||
| Nidalee |
Ban | Ban | Zed |
| Singed |
Ban | Ban | Vi |
 Hecarim |
Ban | Ban | Kayle |
| Taric |
Pick | Pick | Twisted Fate |
| Jarvan IV |
Pick | Pick | Alistar |
 Diana |
Pick | Pick | Elise |
| Shen |
Pick | Pick | Kog Maw |
 Ezreal |
Pick | Pick | Xin Zhao |