Hey everyone, we're going over a pretty cool replay today
Well, we'll be talking about how faker playing Akali smashes another Korean pro player, son playing LeBlanc
This matchup seems like it would come down to who has better mechanics but faker gets a lead through smart minion wave
Management and then extends his lead with his insane mechanics
with that being said, let's break down the matchup
Akali is an AP Melee assassin versus Leblanc, an AP ranged assassin
Since LeBlanc is ranged, she should have control of the lane early on even though their waveclear is equal
They do equal damage in burst trades with Akali winning extended trades if she can get multiple Qs off
the most important part of the matchup is the fact that LeBlanc uses mana and Akali doesn't
If Akali can out-sustain LeBlanc, it will force her to take a bad recall or overstay and die.
Knowing this, let's make a game plan
Mission 1: let the wave of push
Just like in all the other melee vs. Ranged matchups
If we don't let the wave push to us early, we run the risk of allowing the enemy laner to freeze
mission 2: stay healthy
Since Akali doesn't have mana all she needs to do is ensure that she isn't forced out of lane until LeBlanc runs out
of mana, but this doesn't mean to avoid trading entirely
mission 3: play around big cooldowns
LeBlanc's main trading ability is her W and it's super important to trade every time
she uses it since she has no escape when it's down
Ok moving on to the gameplay
Before laning starts Faker's team invades as three and a 3v3 breaks out in the enemy jungle
Faker ends up using flash and dying and the rest of them fight for a while while the enemy team
eventually gets three kills and Faker's team gets two
LeBlanc got one of those kills but had to use both of her summoners for it
So LeBlanc is going to have a 300 gold lead on faker now
but he still has a chance to level the playing field and actually get ahead and here's why
Faker died really early in the fight. So he got back to lane without missing many minions
he gets back to lane just as LeBlanc starts recalling after the jungle fight
Faker needs to think about the best way to punish LeBlanc for this, he can either hard push the wave or last hit
Which one do you think would deny LeBlanc the most CS?
the correct play here is to last-hit
If he tried to shove the wave he wouldn't be able to do it fast enough to crash onto the tower before the next wave
is here.This would essentially create a slow-pushed large wave for LeBlanc to collect when she got there
But if he last hits like this
He gives the enemy wave time to kill some of his own minions to deny LeBlanc.
When LeBlanc finally shows up to lane, there is no big wave for her to collect and she is a whole level down
Anyways, the wave is pushing to LeBlanc here, which is actually really good even though our mission one is to allow the wave to push
Let's jump into sandbox mode to illustrate why
In an ordinary game where both players are in lane right away
If Akali try to push like this
She would take a lot of auto damage at level 1 and some W damage
Then when the wave pushed the enemy LeBlanc would freeze and since Akali was harassed so much
She wouldn't be able to break the freeze without risking death
But since Akali got pushed without taking any harass
She has a big wave building up. So LeBlanc can't harass her and then she'll also have to CS under Tower
If we look at the CS after she's done clearing that faker has 18 and LeBlanc has just 6
After she's done clearing the wave she tries to stop Faker's jungler from stealing her own jungler's blue
But faker pings her right away and doesn't go to help
Faker knows he probably can't do much to help Kindred there and I'm sure he knew that she would escape since LeBlanc doesn't have either
summoner spell
So LeBlanc is back in lane and Faker is going to be working on mission 1 now
He doesn't want the wave pushed anymore since he doesn't have a big wave to protect him. So it's back to the standard game plan
while doing that he also starts mission 2 not playing aggressively and
using his Q if needed to grab CS that he would have to walk up too far for
After working on missions 1 and 2 for a while our first real trade of the lane happens
LeBlanc goes for a Q and W onto Faker
So he uses his shroud right away and trades a little bit of damage back with his Q
Then a fight breaks out in top jungle
So LeBlanc starts to move but it was over before she got there and she comes back to mid
When she returns to the lane though, the wave is frozen pushing to faker
This ties directly into mission three because now LeBlanc is going to want to break this freeze
But she is going to need to use mana to do this. So if faker can prevent it she will eventually run out
let's keep going and see what happens
A few seconds later fakers Thresh is looking for a gank in mid.
Of course, there is no way that they could pull this off with LeBlanc having W
So faker baits out her W by staying in range of her after she uses her Q
Unfortunately, she still ends up escaping
The wave is still frozen and LeBlanc is out of corrupting potion charges now
So everything is going according to plan Faker knows he doesn't need to play super aggressively since she'll be out of mana soon
So he goes back to how he was playing before with missions one and two in mind
LeBlanc uses Q on Faker. So he does the same thing as before and stays in range to bait out her W
He tries to get her with his E. But misses then as she tries to collect these last CS. He uses shroud to go in
LeBlanc doesn't have her W and doesn't have any mana
So he runs her down, pops ignite, and kindred throws an auto to help finish her.
After killing her, he shoves the wave and recalls
So after all of that the CS count is Faker at 56 and LeBlanc at 29
And to show how much that really is, Faker has a total of 2,555 gold
And LeBlanc has got 2265
So, he basically got a whole kill lead through pure CS and as I've said before in other videos we've done on Faker
Faker's snowballs gold leads harder than any other player I've watched so before closing out the video
let's see what happens as soon as he gets back to lane.
Faker goes to crash this wave into the tower and LeBlanc
W's in to trade
The only way faker can kill LeBlanc right now is if she doesn't have her W and he's aware of this
But she obviously doesn't. He lands his E and goes all-in playing it perfectly and diving her 100 to zero to close the lane out
Okay, so let's do a recap: before laning started Faker fought in a 3v3 in the enemy top jungle
where he died really early and blew his flash
LeBlanc got a kill, but came to lane really late as a result which gives Faker a whole level lead since he didn't push
and just last hit while she was gone.
He crashed a large wave into her tower to get a big CS lead and then let the wave push back to him
As the wave pushed back the wave was eventually frozen in front of Faker's tower
LeBlanc kept trying to break the freeze but Faker wouldn't budge and used his shroud to trade back
LeBlanc ran out of mana and greedily went to grab a few more CS so Faker ran her down for his first kill
Then after recalling and coming back to lane, Faker showed us what he can do with the gold lead and a hundred to zero LeBlanc
Under her tower to close the lane out
Okay. Well that's going to be it for this one. Thanks for watching