Alpha Azur’s Team Rallies From a Deficit to Win Second of Three League of Legends Scrims

ULTRALMTM — Alpha Azur and teammates came back from behind to win the second of three League of Legends scrimmages, or practice matches, on Thursday. The team had trailed for much of the game before a late fight turned it around, and the win was the high point of a three-game session streamed for more than three and a half hours.

The opener went the other way. Against a strong opponent, the team held its own early, with the bottom lane and the jungle and mid pairing doing well, but lost ground in the middle of the game. In the review that followed, one participant said that dying during the second dragon fight was a mistake, and another said a cleaner game of farming would have given the team a real chance. The group agreed that the first-level play had been good and that the loss came down to when to fight.

Communication was the main theme of the reviews. One participant explained that a call of “no straight” during a fight had confused teammates, then admitted it was obvious only in his own head. Another voice reminded the group that what is obvious to one player is not obvious to the others. The participants also stressed agreeing on a plan for the early game before it starts, and that a team fight is weak without Wukong’s ultimate ready.

In the third game, the team leaned on Orianna in the middle lane, and the post-game talk praised the power of that pick. After the last review the participants turned to draft planning, weighing which champions to ban and pick for the real match the next day and noting that they would only use champions they had practiced in scrims. They closed by agreeing to start the next day’s practice at 4 p.m.