Immortals continued its recent roll with a 2-0 dismantling of Team Liquid on Saturday on Week 4, Day 2 of the League of Legends Championship Series in Los Angeles.
Immortals jungler Joshua "Dardoch" Hartnett's Elise and support Kim "Olleh" Joo-Sung's Thresh jumped Team Liquid jungler Kim "Reignover" Yeu-Jin's Kha'Zix and support Matthew "Matt" Elento's Karma in the jungle to start the teamfighting in Game 1. The 2-vs-2 fight erupted into a full 5-vs-5 that Immortals cleaned up by snagging four kills and giving up just a single kill. Immortals' 5,000 gold lead at 15 minutes slowly grew as it tore down the tier one turrets. Team Liquid made a desperate Baron attempt at the 23-minute mark that Immortals punished with impunity by slaying four members of the team as they were trying to get away with the buff. In Immortals' final push, it scored an ace to push the kill count to 21-2 in the 29-minute Game 1 win.
Team Liquid cleaned up its play a bit in Game 2 and didn't have any early mistakes, which allowed it to keep even with Immortals for the first 16 minutes. Liquid took control of the midgame as it rotated around the map knocking down towers and finding picks. Immortals didn't knock down its first tower until around the 26-minute mark as TL's jungler Reignover took away jungle resources to keep Immortals bogged down. However, Liquid once again made a major blunder involving the Baron, this time allowing Immortals to grab it with a decisive 4-for-0 teamfight at the 28-minute mark that swung the gold lead in Immortals' favor for good. Liquid continued to commit to unfavorable engages late and got blown away by Immortals AD carry Li "Cody Sun" Yu Sun's Miss Fortune and his Bullet Times over and over. Once Immortals secured another Baron late, there wasn't any hope left for Team Liquid in this 42-minute Immortals win.
