Kings of Amateur vs TNC's Final Form

Kings of Amateur vs TNC's Final Form
Publish Date 17 Mar 2023
Author Jerico Arguelles www.facebook.com/jericollogy
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Despite ending the first half of MPL-PH Season 11 in the 8th place, TNC has finalized their lineup after many iterations in their match against Onic Philippines. They became stronger than ever, can Nexplay Evos replicate their victory against TNC Pro Team or will TNC reverse the tides as they unleash the final form of their line up?

Starting off the first game, TNC initially banned high mobility heroes such as the Wanwan and Joy, meanwhile NXPE took away utility heroes such as Diggie and Faramis. NXPE drafted a safe Gloo pick, followed by the Pharsa and Kaja. On the other hand, TNC drafted high mobility heroes namely Valentina, Benedetta and Claude. TNC’s overall composition contained a lot of mobility and reliable damage, while NXPE’s win condition revolved around crowd control and pickoff potential.

Despite the numerous ganks from Nexplay into Innocent, he was able to safely escape each ganks using his timely Battle Mirror Image. The game even until the balance was broken when the third turtle spawn, it was secured by BoyetDR despite being pinned down by KINGKONG’s Heavy Spin. It was moment later when TNC spotted DomengDR clearing the exp lane. They 4-man conceal into the lonesome DomengDR however a great disengage Go Away! was casted, outplayed TNC allowing Nexplay Evos to react and had their own counter play. 3-1 in favor of Nexplay Evos and on top of that, DomengDR survived. 13 minutes into the game, just a moment after the Lord spawned, BruskoDR casted a conceal + flicker + Divine Judgment into K1NGKONG almost bursting this tank jungler if not for the Heavy Spin. This allowed Nexplay Evos to take control over the Lord pit while TNC had their own version of this conceal play, targeting DingDR however, they were not able to burst down the Gloo as well. Domeng retaliate with Eyes on You! and Failling! Combo killing Escallera over the tri bush while Boyet secured the lord. Nexplay with 6.3k gold lead, they took down all of TNC’s inhibitor turrets in addition to the pickoff to Escalera once again. Despite TNC efforts to defend their base, a last hit from DingDR’s Gloo was all it takes to end game number 1.

This time, the draft was shifted, it was Nexplay that banned out high mobility heroes while TNC focused on banning out high sustain heroes such as Yu Zhong, Gloo and Akai. It was a Fredrinn first pick for TNC while Nexplay answered with a Pharsa and Melissa. It was surprising for TNC to prioritize their mid lane Faramis and gold lane Moskov, giving away high priority exp laner such as Lapu-Lapu and Benedetta. TNC had a soft and hard crowd control centric team with sustain from the Faramis, while Nexplay had a very aggressive pickoff centric line up with early and late game damage.

Similar to game number one, Nexplay had a dominating early game. However, TNC was able to shrink the gold lead of Nexplay by securing some objective around the map. 15 minutes into the game, Nexplay won a huge Lord fight, they were able to secure the second Lord however, it was defended successfully by TNC. By 18 minutes, another Lord fight broke but this time, it was K1NGKONG that secured that Lord at the cost of his life, extending the game for TNC to gain items. By the time the fourth lord spawn, TNC had a split push play but the Lord was ultimately secured by Nexplay. The lord marched down the middle lane but was successfully defended by TNC once again, but this time Nexplay had a crucial mistake for forcing to end the game despite the members of TNC still alive and they were punished three for none exchange. With 1 minute death timer, TNC marched down the middle lane, and GoyongDr and BruskoDR despite their efforts to defend their base, it was a 5v2. Nexplay’s base fell with a Moskov comeback. With this, TNC ties Nexplay 1-1, extending the series to game number three.

TNC still a respect ban to DingDR's Gloo together with a deny to Joy and Wanwan, while Nexplay respect ban to Benthings' Faramis, they also banned Fanny and  Diggie. It was Nexplay who took Fredrinn this time, while TNC secured Valentina and Arlott. With this set of bans, Yu Zhong was opened once again to be taken by DingDR once more. Akai was TNC's answer to Fredrinn, they also went for Karrie and Kaja for duo split backdoor play. While Nexplay, went for Pharsa and Chou. 

Game number three had an even early game up until Nexplay Evos won a clash 9 minutes into the game just before the first lord. The gold lead balloon to Seven Thousand in favor of Nexplay after the minutes-long lord dance ultimately secured by them. DomengDR's Sniper were proven to be lethal however,  TNC Pro Team was able to extend the game to the point where the gold lead does not matter anymore. The immortality items from Nexplay were proven to be crucial in the third long lord dance while Innocent was not able to backdoor Nexplay’s base because of the combined effort of GoyongDR and DingDR. With 4 members down, Nexplay secured game number 3 and denied TNC Pro Team a reverse sweep series.    

 

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