The Off-Meta Build That Broke Korean League of Legends
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In the esports history of Korean League of Legends there was one moment that will always be remembered. When a no-name challenger team brought Heimerdinger of all champions on to the worlds stage picking him against future Legends of the game. This was an Off-Meta Build to top all other offmeta creative strategies and today I'm going to break down exactly what happened. This is the story of how GSG beat CJ Entus in Game 5 of the NLB 2013 Winter Finals.
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Been wanting to tell this story for a while. Of all the Off-Meta Builds (or strategies) in the history of League of Legends this has to be one of the most iconic. If you were around back then and following Korean League I'm sure you remember it. I hope you guys enjoy :)
Love you Gbay!
Do a gameplay video gbay
I started playing League of Legends around season 3, and I now see how much history I have missed. Thank you for keeping the beautiful history alive Gbay99!
been waiting for you to tell this story as well.
3:20
It was started by a taiwanese player called Lantyr.
Insec perfected it and popularized it in pro play
This is not only a nostalgia for older League fans, but also interesting story for newer league fans like me. Thank you for telling this story, Gbay!
time for a video on fortify promote Gbay
I also highly recommend watching a vod of the game, it's so incredible. I always go back to it once a year to re-watch it.
I would consider myself an older league fan but this one was really cool in that it was just before I started watching. The first competitive league I watched was Season 3 Worlds so it was cool hearing about how ManDu did before he got onto the team that won the first tournament I watched. I got both the nostalgia and the new story in one.
Dont try it, not gonna work again ;D
I would consider myself someone who hates playing league of legends (or any MOBAs for that matter), so definitely not a fan. Despite all this I find gbay videos very entertaining, random stories about teams and players told in a masterful way, edited to near perfection.
"League of Legends makes no sense."
That single statement pretty much sums it up 😂
You’d probably get banned for trying this today😂
For newer players: This heimerdinger was even more toxic than you can imagine. His rockets werent a skill shot in the normal sense, he would just send out 3 rockets to the 3 nearest targets without having to aim, meaning that his poke wasnt dodgeable and even had a better base damage, while the ap ratios sucked. His turrets didnt have the beam attack, but their autos and durability were stronger in the early game, making them easier to push with and better agains towers. His passive aura would slowly heal everything around him, his lane minions, his turrets and his teammates (and even his teams structures like towers and inhibitors got the healing), making this 4 man squad very sustained and hard to harass out of lane. Imagine everyone on his 4 man squad gets 2 rejuvenation beads for free.
This means, on this push, the enemy team had to endure a blue buffed heimerdinger that could deal undodgeable poke all the time. Meanwhile the enemy just heals away the poke you deal, and even the enemy minions take more damage to kill than usual. Pure gold, if it wasnt such gambling that you had to win the game in 15 minutes.
Shit, old heimer rockets made me think of old midlane Soraka again.
@@NotASummoner Soraka Mid incidentally was a good counter to this strategy. Her E was spammable for free and could be used to give herself mana back in the day and in combination with her Q it let her last hit without exposing herself. Her old Q had the same max range as her current Q's max range + AoE radius but didn't require targeting and had a small delay. You could easily sit on 2 ranks and just max W while working to a catalyst or stack dorans rings if you died. She'd likely wind up building full tank items initially but tank soraka was ridiculous back in the day.
@@GrimoireM I meant when she was an ultra oppresive midlaner who walked up and spammed Q to instantly waveclear and poke at the same time.
Heimer old w also had no cast animation, and had about twice as much range as similar abilities and dealt good damage immediately
@@oniuserjh yeah heimys w range was insane . You were able to hide behind minions first but when there was few left he just poke you down
The way Gbay makes any league story sound so heartwarming and filling is incredible. Love the content.
Thats what your mom said🤣
@@kdvr766 true
Calm down 😂😂😂😂😂
YEAH!
I couldn't stop laughing when everyone just fucking ran down mid breaking everything, it's just so unbelievably stupid and somehow they made it work so well
Damn this game is amazing
yea and its crazy how much they planned this with the summoners and the enemy picks they made multiple carriers from this one game that will always be legendary
It worked cause they planned for all of the potential issues like he mentioned, being under leveled, being behind on farm. They had contingencies for the weak part of their strat before they even stepped out. That win was a tactical mastery. Just completely out decision made your opponent starting in the draft, and never faltered from the idea of the plan once. 1 hesitation and the whole thing could have come down on them, but they played it near perfect.
Man I miss how nutty old league was.
you and me both bro
Of all the off-meta games you've highlighted, this one has to have been the most infuriating to play against...
That Picture of Papasmithy and BabyTime is amazing.
also shout out to SoLo now called Heart, current head coach of Hanwha, ex-coach for RNG during their golden road (LPL & MSI) and also ex EDG!
All players except Clear went on to win the LCK.
Cheonju = Acorn (KZ, KT Coach)
SoLo = Heart (RNG, EDG Head Coach, HLE Coach)
Easy = Easyhoon, ManDu = PoohManDu (Both SKT legends)
Wasn't Heart the support of Samsung Blue?
Yeah, the same Heart as Samsung Blue Support, he was a jungler before they recruit Spirit
I've been looking for this match for like 2 years. I thought it was lost to time. Thank you for posting this. Watching this live was so brilliant. It was a meta shock that was like season 1 meta chaos.
One brilliant detail of this strat is that in those days of LoL, there was no better botlane than EzSona, bc their Es ensured they were basically unkillable with the move speed and blink escapes. They also, like today both scaled really hard. Of course CJE snapped them up when they were left open. Their one weakness? No shove power. They could not match the objective shoving of GSG, and never got their time to scale. Now its arguable wether CJE shoulve ever bothered sending cho and sona to mid. They prob shouldve just played the game out as normal on their end, but you have to respect just how calculated every step of the plan was.
Shen was also a priority pick, so just by leaving them all open they knew there was a good chance CJ would take all three. In terms of CJ's response, the main thing they did wrong was Space's Ezreal itemisation. Ezreal already struggles to deal with Super Minions, and building into Iceborn Gauntlet made this much worse. It also put them at a huge disadvantage in fights as Ezreal could never out-poke the other team but also because of his lack of DPS had no hope of killing the HP-stacking Olaf and winning a fight. When the first inhibitor went down he had a Vamp Scepter and Boots, he could have easily pivoted into BotRK or picked up a Madred's Razors (I just checked the wiki to make sure these both existed in 2013) so he could actually clear waves and/or hurt Olaf, but instead spent 10 minutes building an Iceborn Gauntlet really didn't do anything. Ezreal was their only damage dealer, he had all the gold, and he spent it on something that didn't help.
i remmember those, graves taric was also an pretty cool bot lane to watch
2 in one week?! My boy is *BLAZING* . Thank you for these blessings
This is literally a sport anime plot
3 Things I feel are underrepresented here:
1st Towers back then were soo much thinner and gave more gold than towers today excluding plating. At that time Towers were so weak that riot had to do multiple hotfixes to buff them after these kinds of Strategies suddenly started appearing.
2nd Season 3 Dorans Items are way way better than they are today. 2 or even 3 Dorans items were not uncommon even for people playing ranked. Given the amount of money they would have in that game from the turrets alone they could have easily outbought their opponents however Buying Dorans was just better given you intend this to be your last back before the Game is over.
3rd This game had impacts way beyond this team itself. A while after this game Happened I remember in EUW people have figured out how to pull this stuff off in normals. perfecting it to the point where teams would win the game at minute 9 occasionally. The changes were (If I remember correctly) replace TF with Sona and then you would 5 man Top Until you get the first tower and only after that Olaf would start Roaming. These changes happen for a few reasons: First these games were not against pro players so Pushing toplane is more effective since it takes Those players longer to react - by the time they show up the first tower is usually gone like 3 minutes into the game and second the change from TF to Sona was because tf doesnt provide much for this teamcomp. Sona however back then would increase EVERYONES Attack damage by having Q passive active. So anyone in the push comp had about a longsword of extra AD (at lvl 1 permanently) and her passive triggers on towers making the push even faster despite not helping with the wave.
In conclusion while this is a nice summary of the game it seems a few things related seem to have been forgotten
I played against this stray a few times. We didn’t have a problem playing against it though. Might just be the skill lvl.
@@JuiceIVStat Effectiveness heavily depended on the patch and a few of the champs have been nerfed soon after. That is why it never really became a meta thing. I would say up to around gold skill level at the time it was a valid strategy. Anything above that I cannot confirm. Also since you need communication you could only ever pull it off in normals anyways.
Throwback to rengar building 6 dorans blade.
And they would take promote as a summoner spell
@@seppirgendwas7114 I had to do some research since I did not remember Promote being part of that strategy and I was right: Promote was removed during Preseason of that year. By the time this strategy started becoming popular it was late Summer of 2013. Promote was removed since it was a summoner spell that was impossible to balance even in a vacuum long before this became a thing. It was either the best Summoner Spell that would exist or the worst(Most of the time the later).
I like this more rather than seeing ranked, even tho I don't care a lot about competitive league.
You speak for most of us.
To some extent, the "4 ppl being an annoyance offmeta while the jungler powerfarms" is what Gigabyte Marine did against Fnatic with Levi's Nocturne at Worlds. I think there's real potential to that part of the strat, even if the plates made the old strats mostly irrelevant.
Not even mentioning acorn or heart at the end, the absolute disrespect.
I would give everything to see LS and his goons cast a game like that today lol
I wish strategies that changed the entire gameplay like this happened more often. It’d make things so much more interesting and unpredictable and wild
Gbay, we need an skt documentary, shit would be nuts.
Or about the entirety of LCK/OGN's history.
I'm so glad you made a video about this match Gbay. This match means so much to me on an emotional level, winter 2013 were really hard times for me and Korean LoL was one of the only things keeping my head up and this game is the only highlight of that era of my life hahaa
the old Shurelya's on Olaf is such an amazing detail you missed, it's absolutely brilliant
This is beautiful. I love hearing about these weird strats and builds work and how some people actually pulled them off.
This is one of my all time favorite matches since Monte presented it on a stream a few years back. It's great you have given the full youtube treatment though, the extra context and editting make it fresh again. :)
This story is amazing man, thanks for retelling it to us!
What an incredible story. Another excellent documentary gbay. I love seeing you still active always with interesting content that not many other people are covering. Keep up the good work, man!
I haven’t played league in years but watching your videos makes me teleport back to the good ole days when I was obsessed with the pro scene and it’s the only content that makes me miss it as much as this. Love everything your doing, you deserve a ton of support from all the old heads.
This was insane. Great pick for a doc!
Insane. Gbay thanks for this man. So refreshing
Not playing LoL anymore but great nostalgic video. You made me remember how me and my friends tryed to do this. That was my favorite time of LoL back then.
Thank You for that :)
Did not know this story, awesome! Thank you Gbay99
Well done gbay! I enjoyed this a lot. Very straight forward and fun to watch
This was amazing. Never would’ve imagined this.
Recognised Heimer from the thumbnail instantly!
You deserved way more views on your videos. Top notch quality.
thanks man I'm very thankful and happy with what I have too though :)
The quality on these videos are insane, keep it up!
Super well done documentary. Keep it up, love ur videos.
FINALLY someone did a piece on this amazing game. Remember watching it and having my mind blown. Thanks!
Really enjoyed this story, thank you for telling it!
Awesome video. Absolutely bonkers stuff. Keep up the amazing work, you're one of only three league content creators I regularly watch anymore on CZcams.
I got the chills near the end of the video, love these stories.
that's hands down the best league video I've ever seen holy shit
I got shocked at the end when you said those two players were actually Easyhoon and PoohManDu
This video dug up my memory of watching this match- stopped playing league in 2015. Incredible times
Your off meta videos are the best! It’s so much more exciting than just normal strats
I never thought GSG this would be showcased here, I first saw this 7 years ago, I wanted them to make a name for themselves. Thanks Gbay99
Here's an old video that covered this match that I did manage to enjoy. czcams.com/video/znhQwo7w1ak/video.html
Your videos are really great lately, keep it up!
Thank you for yet another, beautifully crafted, inspiring video. I doubt i will ever get tired of hearing you tell these stories.
Oh man, that was amazing! I loved that video Gbay!
This is an incredible story and I hope it gets more traction!
I remember you from older videos ! where Irellia wasnt reworked yet. I completely forgot about your channel until you got recommended to me!
I gotta say I really like your shift in content !
yo keep it up gbay. you defo have a knack for making this stuff
Beautiful video as always
I have such respect for you and your content that im at the point where i live the video before i've even seen it so i wont forget. Its fantastic.
This video was amazing well done!
Incredible video!!! Amazing narration!!! I've loved every second of this
Great video as always bro
That strat was insanely calculated, very good story and video :)
The conclusion is so good.
The fact that I could watch this with my brother who has never even seen league played and he understands whats going on is a HUGE compliment to Gbay. Good work, keep it up
I live for these underdog stories. Truely amazing.
Amazing story, with an amazing storyteller, thanks for the video :)
I'm not big on documentary style videos but I've stuck around because I like your videos.
This one, though? Absolutely loved it, despite the genre. What madlads!!
Ravioli
Great story love your vids man keep em up
Thanks for the great video as always
Oh shit this is such a throwback. Thanks for the content and the trip down memory lane
This is amazing, am gonna watch it again
have loved every one of your videos keep it up my man
Bruh
I'm so glad I know this channel
This story is amazing
I love it 💖💖💖
Great content Gbay! Love your documentaries
Remember seeing this story on a reddit thread. thanks for the great vid as always!
6 years of playing league and i've never heard of this thing. I think you did an awesome video man.
Another gbay99 video, HELL YEAH BABY!
This was such a crazy game to watch
Gbay gang! I've been loving the essays man, keep up the good work! Btw, if you have spare time to grind league ranked I wouldn't mind seeing the road to diamond series but maybe in a more casual format where you just try out new builds and have fun with the champion.
Long ago... A friend played Heimer in this over an hour game we were losing. We were left with only nexus turrets and he sold all items and bought 6 rabbadons. Game went for another hour. Enemy just couldn't finish.
I wish I had recording of it.
this is my favorite game of pro league ever, been waiting for a while for your video on it
Nice vid dude!
Awesome video man
Ur channel is a gold mine for Leagues' history, man. Keep up the FANTASTIC work you are doing Gbay
As always awesome video!
Awesome vid dude
What a brilliant way to finish the video.
Love this video, great work, great editing, so much fun watching your videos :)
A long awaited upload, finally some actual league content with intellectual value! Cheers :D
It honestly makes me so happy to see what good teamwork and communication is capable of accomplishing. I wish the state of league was like this... So many cocky players and such little team fight focus/game knowledge.
Gbay ive been meaning to make a video about this for three years, damn your lightning fast quickness beating me to the punch :P
Looking at that picking phase feels really nostalgic
Woah the nostalgia train's hitting hard! I miss the days where pro were always pushing the limit of the game. Nicely done Gold Bay!
This was actually a really good video
this is, hands down, no contest, my favorite game of league, and im glad you're telling it's story again here
i had no idea about the player's futures tho, thats awesome
This is actually amazing, I hope the balancing team never catches up to how crazy people can be. I kinda dislike that the game is so dictated by what riot wants and not by discoveries of the players, even though the game is much more healthy and stable now.
i never understand competitive lol, but your explanation was a simple and easy to consume. good for you!
It makes sense. The players all had insane game IQ. Probably one of the hardest out drafts I’ve ever seen
I got goosebumps when you mentioned who those two players became
I loved this, thank you
Seriously, Riot needs to pay you for documenting the history of League. Love it.
Damn I miss season 3, I was just starting to rank up for the first time and paying attention to competitive tournaments. Mandu was a freaking legend.
I've been playing for years and I never knew about this game, this is incredible
That was an enjoyable video.
Good work. ❤✌🔥🤘