With Sion's tankiness, Kindred's ultimate, and Galio's protective capabilities, as long as one of the bot lane double carries survived, EDG could maintain a constant stream of damage pressure in team fights. There was nothing wrong with the idea behind this tactical system. Especially with Kindred entering the picture—in this version where everyone cared about GANKs while neglecting the jungle, getting Passive Stacks was more than twice as easy as before.
But what if Kindred's early development collapsed?
A Kindred with Passive Stacks and attack range could indeed put a little pressure on EDG. But what if teammates held him back so badly that he had no time to enter the jungle for stacks? With 500 Attack Range, wouldn't he become just like Xayah in the bot lane?
It was easy to be unable to reach far enough!
On the bot side, although they had initiated the fight, Kog'Maw and Lulu only had a slight HP advantage. If they fought Xayah and Rakan to the death at close range, it was hard to say how much of an advantage they would actually have.
The two AD carries practically stood on top of each other and traded blows, with neither showing any intention of retreating.
Very soon—
EDG Meiko had slain C9 Berserker.
But not long after killing the enemy Xayah, Luo Zhen, who was low on HP, also fell under the attacks of the enemy support Rakan.
C9 Zven had slain EDG AK.
The bot lane AD carries had actively dueled each other, yet in the end, it was the two supports who each emerged victorious. Although this scene played out constantly in ordinary Ranked Matches, it was indeed relatively rare in a professional game.
After both AD carries had killed each other, Zven thought the enemy support would fear