Ionia vs Noxus Grudge Match

[quote=Visfarix]Today's JoJ has announced who the participating summoners in this epic match will be! I've compiled a list of each summoner and their respective premade 5v5 and solo q ELOs as of today. Let the speculation begin! Note: some of the summoners were not ranked in either Premade or Solo que so they got a n/a score and were not included in the team average score. [b][u]Noxus[/u][/b] [u]Vorath[/u] -Premade (5v5): 1424 -Solo (5v5): 1355 [u]Edwy[/u] -Premade (5v5): n/a -Solo (5v5): 1488 [u]Roku[/u] -Premade (5v5): 1555 -Solo (5v5): 1887 [u]Poisonidon[/u] -Premade (5v5): n/a -Solo (5v5): 1820 [u]Friend[/u] -Premade (5v5): 1405 -Solo (5v5): n/a [u]Noxus Team Average[/u] -Premade (5v5): 1461.33 -Solo (5v5): 1637.5 [b][u]Ionia[/u][/b] [u]Poruku[/u] -Premade (5v5): n/a -Solo (5v5): 1406 [u]NeoIllusions[/u] -Premade (5v5): 1650 -Solo (5v5): 1565 [u]Eclipse[/u] -Premade (5v5): 1493 -Solo (5v5): 1652 [u]Frozt[/u] -Premade (5v5): 1836 -Solo (5v5): 1914 [u]Guardsman Bob[/u] -Premade (5v5): 1882 -Solo (5v5): 1725 [u]Ionia Team Average[/u] -Premade (5v5): 1715.25 -Solo (5v5): 1652.4 My Conclusion: Of course while there are many other factors that will play into how the match will go and its outcome(like bans, picks, etc), I think player skill and team cooperation will count for a lot. While the average individual player skills on both teams is rather even, it feels like the Ionian team will have much better team cooperation, cohesion, and maybe even communication. However we can't count out Noxus as 2 of their players are complete unknowns in the premade ladder, which means they could very well end up being crazy Rambos and fail at team play or be the exact opposite and end up being saints and saviors for their teammates. Anyway this is all speculation because I'm just so riled up and can't wait for the match on Friday.[/quote]

[quote=animorte]Yeah, it's gonna be pretty cool.[/quote]

[quote=Trojan995]Who do you think they're going to ban? I mean, with only 10 champions the bans will be even more important than ever. I feel like a good move for Ionia would be to ban Rammus, considering he's the best tank choice on that team and the other choices aren't fantastic. Edit: Vorath has most of his games with Sion. Maybe banning rammus isn't a good idea after all. Edwy plays morgana as one of his main characters, but he's had a few rammus, MF, and shaco games in his recent games. Roku plays both morgana and vlad consistently, but he's had a lot of rammus games in his recent match history. Poisonidon has sion and vlad in his most commonly played champs list, but hasn't been playing any games recently with any of the other noxus champions. Friend only has Ionia champions in his most commonly played champions, but he's had quite a few recent games with vlad and singed. For Ionia's team: Poruku plays akali and ezreal commonly, and EVERY recent match has been akali. I guess we know who (s)he's playing in the match. NeoIllusions doesn't have any of the Ionia champs in her most played list, and the only recent game she's played with one of the champs was with Ashe. Eclipse commonly plays ezreal, and he's had practice with kennen and ashe recently. Frozt plays udyr as one of his main champs, but hasn't played a game with any ionian champs recently. Guardsman Bob is exactly as Frozt; plays udyr commonly, but no games with Ionian champs in the games log.[/quote]

[quote=Kael312]im so psyched for this, and glad its not like CLG on one team and randoms on the other[/quote]

[quote=Visfarix]Oh man now that you've listed the commonly played champs of these summoners bans are somewhat harder to determine. I was expecting Ionia to ban Rammus because he is Noxus's best tank. Sion and Singed tend to be more of off-tanks than anything else so a Rammus ban should weaken their team... For Noxus, I'm expecting them to ban Ashe or Kennen. IMO Ashe probably the strongest ranged DPS and Kennen is the strongest caster on the Ionian team. Ezreal can pick up either role, but I don't think he is quite as strong as either Ashe or Kennen are in their individual roles.[/quote]

[quote=ExamplePrime]Shen, Rammus, Amumu or Ashe[/quote]

[quote=Trojan995]Even though Shen and Amumu are commonly banned tanks, I think that they'll refrain from banning either of them because if they ban Amumu, Shen can easily take his place and vice versa. A better ban, mostly because there are so few champions to fill the roles, would to ban a champion that is irreplaceable.[/quote]

[quote=caucheka]another thing too, is that the winning team will decide the next item to join LoL. either a fancy new pair of boots or a fancy new dorans item. i want the boots. but we'll just have to see...[/quote]

[quote=animorte]I wasn't previously aware of those conditions. Nice to know.[/quote]

[quote=caucheka]it was mentioned in the JoJ, that they will add one of those 2 items. i would still like to know what both of them do, despite who wins. another random note but yay health/mana pots become eggnog for the holidays.[/quote]