Larssen on form as MnM take first win (Road to Challenger Series: Day 1)

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ENUK editor Dom Sacco shares his views on UK League of Legends team MnM Gaming as they take part in the EU Challenger Series Qualifiers (CSQs) this week.
 

Day 1: Monday May 23rd

 

The competition (Millenium)

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Millenium took part in the Challenger Series last split, however they acquired an entirely new roster for the CSQs.
The roster is being referred to as slightly more amateur, and before the match MnM said they’d be disappointed if they lost.
Regardless, French organisation Millenium are a big name in esports, and let’s not forget over the years they’ve had some well-known LoL players including YellOwStaR and sOAZ.
 

Rosters & picks

Millenium

  • Blomster Finn (top) – Kled
  • Nerroh (jungle) – Elise
  • Kruimel (mid) – Taliyah
  • Murmel (ADC) – Caitlyn
  • Akutsune (support) – Shen

MnM

  • Rifty (top) – Camille
  • Kadir (jungle) – Lee Sin
  • Larssen (mid) – Orianna
  • Luddehz (ADC) – Ashe
  • Hadow (support) – Karma

 

The match

MnM got off to a rocky start, with two early bot lane ganks from Nerroh taking out Luddehz and Rifty dying in the top lane.
Despite this, Larssen and Kadir established an early CS lead over their opponents.
And it was MnM’s young promising mid-laner Larssen who picked up a quadra to help MnM take their first tower and really get into the game.

He also helped them clean up and take a baron at the 20-minute mark:

As the match went on, it was largely even, however Larssen continued to be such an effective force in teamfights.
Millenium did cause MnM some trouble around objectives. They pushed down mid and aggressively on a couple of occasions to take towers, killed several MnM players after MnM took the baron, and Millenum stole a drake at one point.
Elsewhere, Rifty looked a little nervous and hesitant at one point when solo pushing in the bottom lane, which seemed unlike him. He lost in a 2v1 skirmish with a 2/4/5 scoreline at one point. However, Rifty came alive in the latter half of the game.
At the 30-minute mark, Larssen had 332 CS to Kruimel’s 232. At the end of the match, he had 411 CS!
Rifty and Larssen picked up the final few important kills of the match to help MnM take their first win in the qualifiers. It was an important one and bodes well for the UK org’s chances in the rest of the qualifiers.

Final score: MnM 1 – 0 Millenium
 

MVP: Larssen

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He made some incredible plays as Orianna, picked 12 kills, 9 assists and over 400CS. And only died once. What a monster.
 

Post-match reaction and comment

 

Other stuff

That great British casting duo – Excoundrel and Medic – were on point as usual.
And today they gave the Rift Herald a nice new British name – the Rift Harold!


 
Image source: MnM/Sammy Lam

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