Dyrus counter 14/30/2023 If Olaf gets a level advantage, his E true damage more or less guarantees that he wins every single trade in melee range. In all 3 games Olaf went unbanned, TSM last-picked Olaf for Dyrus, who counters melee champions if he gets ahead. (In Game 1, he swapped into Dyrus’s Olaf down a level and a half + 2 waves at the 4-5 minute mark.) By banning Rumble, TSM ensured that Hauntzer would either play a melee tank or wouldn’t be able to protect Altec. Because GV highly (and rightfully) prioritizes Altec’s farm, their poor understanding of lane swaps means that Hauntzer is often swapped into extremely poor lane situations. One of Gravity’s biggest problems is that they are awful at lane swaps and rotations, but their two most important players play the side lanes. Unfortunately, Altec turned to Ashe with Tristana banned, and got run over by Dyrus’s extremely fed Olaf. TSM kept on banning Rumble and also banned those two champs, which gave Bunny the chance to pick Janna, which should have helped peel away TSM’s non-Olaf threats. Hauntzer’s playmaking on Shen (involved in every kill but one, flash taunt to win the game) and Altec’s positioning on Tristana (she could reset and jump away from the Olaf) were considered threatening enough to be banned away. In Game 3, TSM deviated from their ban strategy to try and focus down the picks which they thought helped GV won Game 2. Overall, TSM’s ban phase ensured that Altec was GV’s main damage threat and that they only had one player to reliably protect him – Hauntzer. This is probably because they realized that even on champions like Alistar/Janna, Bunny isn’t much of a peel player, no matter what pick he is on he is first and foremost a pick-oriented playmaker. It’s important to note that after leaving Janna and Alistar unbanned for Game 3, TSM also left them unbanned for Game 4. If Bunny isn’t on a peel champion, that leaves Hauntzer (who already has to engage Gravity’s teamfights) as their only peel-oriented player, as neither Move nor Keane are comfortable playing defensive roles. This series, Bunny got Thresh and had the chance to pick up Shen too, but TSM didn’t care because those picks aren’t nearly as good at peeling as Alistar or Janna is. Bunny is a good Alistar and Janna player, but this season he’s been better known for his Thresh and pocket Shen, so at first glance it would seem confusing why TSM is banning those picks instead. (This fell into TSM’s hands, as those champions are also very weak against Olaf.) These bans from TSM serve to underscore the weaknesses of Gravity, and give TSM an easier time countering them as the game goes on.īy banning away Hauntzer’s Rumble, which is one of his mains and also only top laner which both deals enough damage and allows him to engage fights, TSM is forcing Gravity to choose between giving up Hauntzer as a damage threat (by placing him on champions like Shen or Maokai) or as a reliable engager (by placing him on a damage threat like Ekko or Ryze, something they haven’t done after those champs fell out of the meta.) Gravity chose to keep Hauntzer on engagers, so they gave him tanks like Maokai and Shen. Specifically, Altec is their main damage dealer and Hauntzer is their main engager/peeler/playmaker. I wrote here and here that Gravity’s key players are Altec and Hauntzer. (In TSM’s third game, when they banned Shen and Tristana, they still banned away Rumble, Rumble also went banned for the last game.) These bans do a great job of highlighting Gravity’s weakness as a team. In 2 of TSM’s games, they banned the same three champions – Rumble, Alistar, and Janna. Dyrus’s Olaf play was the most important part of TSM’s victory, but it wasn’t the only thing. While Dyrus’s success was integral to TSM’s victory, I wanted to take a look at TSM’s overall compositions and how the overall team composition countered Gravity more than any individual player. Dyrus’s dominating performances on Olaf led fans to dub TSM’s team comps as “Dyrus comps” built around helping their veteran top laner succeed. In TSM’s first round series against Gravity, they brought out a very unusual draft strategy which eschewed most of the popular meta picks in favor of less popular champions such as Olaf and Lulu.
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