For Echo Fox, it’s about remembering there are other ways to play the game other than full out aggression. Will it be Dardoch who carries for Echo Fox? Or the rare, talented North American mid laner Tanner 'Damonte' Damonte? For TSM, it’ll be about carrying their recent momentum into more concentrated of a form. Against Echo Fox, though, a team with truthfully multiple threats, that can be a tall task. Without him, TSM would be a complete mess. It was, after all, his insane play on recently reworked Akali that won the final crucial team fight to carry his team across the playoff line. They’ve managed to turn their split around and end up in the playoffs.īut it feels like a similar story to all of TSM’s iterations over the years, namely, that the burden of carrying the team lays at Søren 'Bjergsen' Bjerg’s feet. But it’s never quite that easy to count TSM out of a (domestic) competition. On paper, it’s pretty fair to say that Echo Fox holds the advantage over TSM. Echo Fox, on the other hand, seemed to excel when left alone to their own style, namely, open faced aggression, which is not surprising for a team with both Heo 'Huni' Seung-hoon and Joshua 'Dardoch' Hartnett. In fact, many were scratching their heads trying to figure out exactly what it was about the roster that wasn’t working.

They were a far cry from their dominant selves from yester-splits. The simple truth is that TSM’s appearance in the playoffs was… unexpected, to say the least. Regardless, they’ve managed to best TSM in all three of their matchups this split, putting them as, if on no other stat than that, the favoured choice between the two. On the same note, however, Echo Fox has seemed off in their own ways, not replicating their unbridled victories from last spring. While that may sound impressive in other splits, TSM have largely looked like one of the weakest forms of themselves. Even with that, Echo Fox managed to hold onto a 3 wins to 0 losses against TSM. With the wild four way tiebreaker at the end of the split in the NA LCS, the teams in the semis actually had an extra game of play to look at, another shot to skew the stats in their favour.

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