Asumi Sena’s CC NEXT Falls to LR After Baron Fight Goes Wrong

VSPO — Asumi Sena and her CC NEXT teammates lost their League of Legends match against LR on Monday evening, when an attempt to stop LR from taking Baron, the game’s powerful late objective, went wrong with CC NEXT ahead on dragons, three to two. LR pushed on to take the team’s towers and finished the game within minutes.

Asumi’s stream ran from the afternoon’s practice through the 20:10 match. Asumi, Kanae, Shishido Akari, Takamiya Rion and Yufuna spent the early hours on a scrim, or practice match, talked through how to answer LR’s likely picks, and then went over the scrim together.

In the match itself, the five called out their bans and picks aloud before heading to their lanes. The opening went to plan: an early gank in the top lane picked up a kill, and the team collected three dragons to LR’s two. When LR went for Baron, CC NEXT moved to stop it without the full team in position, a player was caught, and the fight fell apart.

The review afterward was encouraging rather than critical. The players pointed to the decision to commit, not the fighting itself, as the problem, and said that regrouping for the next dragon fight would have kept the lead. They also agreed it was better to take this kind of loss during the regular stage than in the playoffs, trading calls of nice try. Shishido Akari, closing her own stream, apologized to viewers for a misstep in the late fight and said she would not repeat it. Viewers had cheered the team’s fights earlier in the game and, after the loss, wrote that the team could take the next one.

The team set a scrim for 14:00 on Tuesday. The regular stage’s final day is Friday, Nov. 6, and the playoffs are set for Nov. 21 and 22. Asumi kept streaming after the call ended, playing ranked games for more than two hours, and signed off saying she would call it an acceptable day.