For the third week of Brawl—it’s already midseason—we played two different themes. First up was “other people’s mains” while the third game was “lowest mastery champion." Also, to note, ToukasRage is now the back-to-back winner of LOL Sketch, the man must be dethroned!
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🔵 Blue: OnlyMagicalGirls, SNC Hikari, Macros2308 (GM1), ToukasRage, Adarasto, TheDarknessT (GM2)
🔴 Red: SNC Big Bear, SNC Cerionna, So Not Cool, huskyrunner18, EJooN
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With the teams distributed, the idea was that whatever your lane opponent mained, you would have to play that champ. The main strategy, as it turned out, was to put the worst jungler in the jungle. Toward that end, Blue forced Jinx into the jungle—since that was Arctic’s main—while Red would feature a Soraka jungle (SNC Hikari’s main).
The matchups were as follows: Blue vs Red teams
- TOP: Nunu (OnlyMagicalGirls) vs Lux (SNC Big Bear)
- JNG: Jinx (Hikari) vs Soraka (Cerionna)
- MID: Ashe (Macros2308) vs Morgana (huskyrunner18)
- ADC: Taliyah (ToukasRage) vs Zoe (So Not Cool)
- SUP: Adarasto (Camille) vs Tristana (EJooN)
Hilarity was sure to ensue and both teams were excited to take their weird comps to the Rift. With stellar casting by Jasonbk23, we were off to the races! “If blue side doesn’t invade, they’re trolling.” And since SNC always listnes to the caster, blue did indeed invade, albeit to little success. [ Jasonbk23 Twitch | GM1 | GM2 ]
An early river skirmish led to a Morgana first blood—with Camille traded back—but all the attention was still on the off-meta jungle matchup as both of Jinx and Soraka were looking to Lethal Tempo each other to death. The Soraka was even cheekily stealing red buffs behind some lane priority. Jinx took the opportunity to invade blue side as well, with her trusty Nunu alongside, leading to some fun fights in the jungle. Meanwhile, mid lane was looking pretty even, although the caster did say: “The Morgana seems to not have missed a Q all game!”
By fifteen minutes, Blue had opened up a slight gold lead, with Tristana support starting to be too much bot lane, as the Yordle Gunner was snowballing with a 5/1 stat line and the team ahead 15-8. For team Blue, Taliyah was the only one with a positive KDA, but in a matchup like this, anything was possible. A beautiful dragon fight at seventeen minutes got Blue back in the game, as Ashe pumped out major damage and then Taliyah finished things off with a Weaver’s Wall slide past dragon pit to finish off the escaping Soraka.
A baron from Red at twenty minutes was the beginning of the end, as they were pushed into Blue’s base a few minutes afterwards. A triple kill by Ashe helped hold off Soraka and Co., but in the end, it was Red with the win, as Tristana (EJooN) and Soraka (Cerionna) carried the day behind 14/6 and 11/9 stat lines. What a game!
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For our usual group ARAM, TheDarknessT came in to replace Macros2308, as Blue was out looking for revenge. Put onto the Yasuo, Timel and Toukas took control of the game with their Yasuo and Volibear combo, as grandmaster Saijax Cail-Rynx Kohari Icath'un slowly came to grips with his skills. “So I just auto-attack people pretty much right?”
With Red lacking much in the way of CC, and Karthus (So Not Cool) confused about using his Q until mid game, the game was close but the front line of Riven (Cerionna) and Yorick (EJooN) couldn’t stop the opposing team.
“I have no idea what X does” was heard a lot…which would lead right into our next game. In the end, team Blue took the win behind the 22/12 Yasuo. First game for Timel, first win for Timel!
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For this game, we just looked up the lowest mastery champion from championmastery.gg and the player would have to play that champion. With everyone on unfamiliar champions, this would put the game on even footing, right? An early scuttle skirmish highlighted people’s unfamiliarity with their champs as Evelynn cursed her target with Allure, but couldn’t figure out how to proc the charm.
And did we see a Sona jungle? Yes we did! Timel was forced onto the Demacian Virtuoso and gave the performance of a lifetime, helping her laners by, well, we don’t know what exactly. But we’re sure she was great! The story of the game however, was the Statikk Shiv Rakan (OnlyMagicalGirls), who got an early lead and proceeded to take over the game, ending up with a 12/7 stat line.
Even with a fearsome Evelynn racking up kills, team Red couldn’t avoid getting stomped, as four of the five members hit double digits in deaths, while the bot lane of Blue went a combined 13/5 and 13/4 on Heimerdinger (Adarasto) and Vayne (EGirlFox), respectively—versus Aurelion Sol (huskyrunner) and Shaco (Big Bear).
This was a fun one, and now everyone has one more game played on their least played champ!
