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In a surprisingly hard-fought series, FlyQuest took down Team Envy 2-1 on Saturday during Day 2, Week 6 of the North American League of Legends Championship Series in Los Angeles, California.
Bloodlust was high early in Game 1, as FlyQuest (7-4, 17-10 match record) and Envy (2-9, 6-18) fought skirmish after skirmish for the first 20 minutes of the series. This amounted to an 8-8 kill score, but Envy had managed to find a slight gold lead. However, with five Ninja Tabi's purchased by FlyQuest by the 10-minute mark, and more tank stats to follow, Envy simply had no chance of winning a teamfight with its lethality-stacking team composition and lack of magic damage. FlyQuest demonstrated this a little more than 36 minutes in by taking an easy 4-for-0 fight and subsequently the Nexus.
Game 2's early game was also hectic, with six kills by the six-minute mark split evenly between the teams. Afterward, however, everything came up EnVyUs. Top laner Shin "Seraph" Woo-yeong's Ekko was able to win the split-push despite being heavily focused by FlyQuest, and in the meantime the rest of Envy grabbed turrets and maintained a monopoly on neutral objectives. Using their two Mountain Drakes to two-man Baron at 26 minutes, Envy stormed in and demolished the base of FlyQuest in just over 34 minutes.
In the deciding Game 3, just about everything went the way of FlyQuest. FlyQuest not only grabbed every single one of the early kills but also every dragon in the game, including three Infernal Drakes. An "Balls" Van Le's Nautilus even grabbed a solo kill on Seraph's Rumble en route to a 3/0/3 KDA as the kill leader in the game. A lone pick onto Daerek "LemonNation" Hart's Blitzcrank prevented FlyQuest from taking a perfect Game 3, but it still managed to close out the series in just under 31 minutes.
FlyQuest hopes to carry that momentum forward when it faces its former sister team Cloud9 on Sunday at 6 p.m. ET, and Envy will look to bounce back against Immortals at the same time.