grinded super early. So I didn't do so hot. Yeah, they definitely did not have the the same results
They did beat Genji. I think that I think that was like their peak
But yeah, I definitely I definitely agree with you where it's like oh, well, the teams that were literally playing
tournaments and we're all like bootcamping and practicing
should definitely have huge, huge advantages for this lock-in tournament.
Some of the other teams did go do Korean boot camps to like varying degrees of success.
But team Liquid and Cloud Nines were the ones that were literally playing in Caspacup and getting this early star.
It's just so different when you're actually in competition and playing games like that.
So yeah, we were meaning on you for the Cloud Nines stuff, but I think it is definitely legit.
Yeah, I mean, while Tailed didn't do well in a Casper Cup or as Scott Nine or whatever, the thing is like from talking to all the coaches from talking to a lot of players like while they didn't do well in stage, they were destroying everyone in scrim.
So I was that's like okay, never heard that before.
Or you could laugh, you could laugh.
But I was not to say the exact numbers,
but they were slamming all the n-18s over there.
And they were slamming all the LCK teams
and scrumptious as well.
So they had been having a really good time.
And I know even more recently,
as far as, like, practicing everything here.
I did the draw show.
And when I was talking to all the players
and stuff that were there for the draw show,
literally every player was like, we just want to watch a show.
Like everyone was just trying to avoid TL.
I'm kind of looking at them as the big dogs.
So yeah, they have made changes.
It's never caught nine.
They didn't say we want a dog room.
Well, you can see it in their eyes.
I'm sure.
Sure.
And people were going to courtesy nine, too, of course.
But also I just didn't think it's small.
Because the cloud nine were the ones that beat Gen G in the first game.
I remember one of our teams beat Gen G.
And I was like, whoa, sick.
I was like, I saw that.
Then you look at the players that were playing with Gen G.
I was like, oh, I don't care where it is.
Yeah, it was the off-brand, Genji.
But yeah, I think that they're going to be really strong.
And it's kind of interesting, because I talked
to Spawn and talked a lot about, I think people
were kind of had this expectation that once they got
a quid that they were going to be getting inspired
and this whole super team thing,
he said they were never actually even interested in Spawn.
And they weren't really pursuing him,
so that they had like one, maybe, one quick phone call,
but it was never something that they were really eating
going after. And it's kind of interesting hearing about jungle, like the various people
that they were interested in, you know, was saying that they were like hoping to even get
blabber because they were saying like, oh, could like, blabber be available, could we get
someone like that? And once, you know, that didn't work out. Obviously, blabber was staying
with C9. You know, they started kind of looking at at VODs, and it spooks us on the
team that they had access to like, you know, scrim bots and stuff from him. They had access
from like various other people,
and that he was really impressed with Jose,
and how Jose had been playing.
And it's interesting because when I think Jose is someone
that people were really kind of confused on as a pickup,
but he was saying that, like,
especially when Jose was playing on the roster with Miru,
he felt like he had been really really impressive,
and that he was the only jungler he felt really that,
like in all the vads that he had seen
of jungler's kind of like in an A and in the South and stuff,
had actually been doing really well individually
against inspired and actually even like besting inspired
and a lot of these kind of scrims on an individual level.
So I thought that was really interesting.
He was also talking about Morgan how they had been
interested in like in other top lanters like Castle
and so on, but that when they were like doing trials
and stuff for top lane, they had tried out playing with Castle,
they tried out playing with some other top laners and whatnot.
And that Morgan just was like slamming everyone in their practice and in their scrims,
and just creating such larger advantages than all these other people they had played with.
So I know I've heard from a number of different people that Morgan has been pretty incredible,
and I think really underrated.
I had some people telling me they think Morgan is the best player on TL, which I was very
surprised by, because I haven't been blown away by him in the
to care anything.
So I'm honestly really interested,
like, you know, based on what I've heard
and based on that kind of hype,
I'm getting even from the coaches and stuff.
If Jose and Morgan are gonna be as good
as people are telling me,
like this team I think is really, really scary,
because quit everyone knows
and it has been the best mid-laner
in the region for a bit.
And Yon and Kor, even when this team sucked,
looks like potentially the best modeling in league.
Yeah, I also talked to them
and I have some specifics as well as far
individual things that they really really life from those players for for Jose
you get to bring it up the mechanics like just even this like the fact that he
consistently gets super high rank every time they go to create boot camp and his
mechanics and like individual fights and one B1s and for Morgan they
specifically wanted someone that could play on the same temple as quid which I
think is really important as far as your solo laners you know being on the
and being a model compliment to each other's game plan.
So I thought that was actually huge.
And then I remember he said that Morgan even exceeded
their expectations that they had for him,
as well as, I don't know if he'd nice to do you,
but he was like, I love Morgan out of game too.
And he's like a huge leader for the team.
So I mean, that's always nice to hear
because team Liquid literally released a video
about how terrible their team environment was last year
at the end of last split.
And it was like, that was the main point of that video.
And they had the like meeting afterwards.
And there are all of the players and spawn themselves
who are like referencing like, yeah,
like it was just horrible.
And like they knew like this has to get blown up.
So it is really good to hear that after like such
a terrible split of team environment.
Now presumably they have really good team environment
and Morgan's fitting in well and being a good leader for the team.
So, yeah, I think all of that stuff like Boads, Boads,
pretty well for them also.
I know for Cloud 9, some of the changing of bringing in
Dom full-time and them all like me
to so it's talking about having so much time together
and then bringing APA in.
I don't know if you guys saw this on Twitter or I don't know
if anyone actually calls it X, but APA,
Nobody knows.
Yeah, thank God.
A-T-A.
For a presentation?
Yeah, A-T-A literally,
he made a PowerPoint presentation
about his origins and his personality.
And I saw some of the actual slides and stuff.
And it was like, I don't know,
that's just not hard for me,
because you're going into a team,
that meters it, like their synergy is like this already, right?
They've all been playing together.
And then they might be a little sad,
because they wanted to keep Loki and Loki had to leave.
So he comes in and APA is always a big personality stuff.
And so he's making a presentation.
And I don't know, it seems like they probably
are messing well over there too.
So I'm hoping that we start out
lock-in tournament with the absolute biggest banger.
You did a good job on the Drasho Pitting Cloud 9
and Team Liquid together right out of the gate.
Rig this year, gentlemen.
Because by all accounts, these are the top two teams.
And both of them have good in-game and out-of-game prospects.
So I just think that match-up is, is cook it up to be amazing start to the LCS return.
Yeah, it's going to be super interesting.
I mean, I caught an eye and I, from talking to an arrow,
he seems like really, really excited about how things were going and how APA was kind of coming to the team
and like how APA was bringing kind of like a different vibe because one of the things that he was really talking about.
ABA being really good at is like obviously he's very vocal.
He brings in a lot of shock-allion stuff,
but also how he's someone who really has the
event city to like, when he is creating advantages,
he's really good at being able to see the best way
to snowball the map and kind of like,
you know, it doesn't need to be prompted or asked
to be able to, you know, take his lead and kind of like
give it to others.
That's kind of the national way he likes to play the game,
which I think is pretty cool.
And he was talking also about how he was really
like working with Dom and he's like Dom is just like
regular coach, not like some weird, you know, different thing.
But he was weird content creator, personally.
Yeah, but he was just saying, you know, he liked it.
It felt like it worked right away because he's, you know, really
knowledgeable.
I was lots of experience and I've been around for a long time.
So, I think it's, I think it's pretty cool.
And I also think, you know, when I think about to me, like,
we haven't seen it yet.
But I feel like there is room for top lane, even in competitive,
to go more aggressive with counter picks and to play in more
that Lane dominant style and to use combat sums.
And when I think about that,
I think about Thanos, I think about Cloud9.
Right, like he was by far the best landing
top laner in movie last year.
I don't think there's any argument.
Like even when I was on the book outside of Who's Better,
it was about how book was playing the map
and it's unique picks and different things like that.
So I feel like that is a style that could really work well
with APA, if APA is going to play some of these facilitating picks
that I think are really strong right now.
Rise, Galileo, Tulia, picks that can move around the map
with the tier three boots, the fast recalls.
all these things, you can get out to these sidelines.
And I feel like if there is a team that I was looking at
to try to experiment with some of these double combat
items, dominant top lanes, like cloud nine,
I feel like really should fit that bill.
You know, as Vend is like Mr. Stability on the
Botside Vulkan, really aggressive,
like to play the map and APA wants to play them out too.
Like I feel like that's kind of like a recipe
to try to snowball fanitose.
And I feel like that can work really well with the game changes.
You know, one thing that you maybe think of
while you're saying that is, like,
So this is kind of it's probably a pretty hot take and I hope it's wrong, but I feel like Lane
Solves might come back with the changes they've done. So I think with the quests. So yeah,
I think the idea of quests is good, but after playing with it and seeing some people,
like I worry that the quest might not be enough to deter it. Like I think you could like
if the option is going to a terrible master where you're going to get completely slammed or
order's lane swap and just get super late class.
It's not that bad, I think.
I think the question might not be.
Why do you speak this evil into it?
So I think it's just the truth.
I don't know if this is a hot take,
but I think I somewhat agree with you,
but I think it is too much once you're already in game.
I think what people will do is they will roll swap
in James's life.
Hmm.
So I think that that is what they will do.
Are you going to do that?
I don't know if you can do that in pro play.
That's a good question.
Yeah.
But like, in Soloku, I actually think that
is the correct place sometimes like if I blind pick
mouth wide and I'm playing against I don't know like
whatever stylus top or whatever you know it doesn't matter.
Um, all asked my middle owner like you know you play top and
but you can't move their in game but if I swap mid lane for
top lane in chips like I get the mid lane roll quest is
mouth late and if they didn't guess that I'm doing that they can't
move their champions now match. So that is something I do have a
bit of a concern about I was thinking about because I was like
Man, I hope it doesn't become something so stupid
where we're just doing roll roulette in champslecks
where it's like, everyone blocks their champions
and then at, you know, 20 seconds or whatever
we're all fucking just swapping back and forth
and you're just guessing we're going to...
Honestly, though, that's not very different from flex picks, right?
Yeah, because you're swapping your rolls away.
It's like, oh, I have a flex move once you're in game.
Yeah, that's the big difference, yeah.
And that's still accomplishing what the, like,
quests are intended to do and I don't have a problem with flex picks. So I actually have a
problem with you know swapping roles and stuff like that. If you want your literal, the human
then is playing that champion to play the other champion or whatever and you're fine with
roll swapping. To me that just kind of feels like a flex. And there's a cost to that because you're
now having you know APA or whatever landing top and Thanos is landing mid and you have to like
You have to play that role.
Yeah, and I hope it's off the case.
And I will say that I think if it does end up being the case.
I think we'll see.
I think Quest are adjustable enough.
That's like you can increase for a ward or make it.
So I think there's ways to try to determine
so off like I really like the idea of Quest for Lanesaw.
But that was just kind of my feeling because I remember seeing some
Twitter posts from Bartonette,
for people who aren't familiar with their EOS player who plays
plays barred top and doesn't lane every,
they just run around.
And I think they're posted,
they average, like, not CSing or leaning,
they still finish their top lane quest before 20 minutes.
And so normally early quest is like,
I don't know, 12 minutes or so.
And so delaying your quest in 12 minutes to 19 minutes,
I think it was this average,
which is like the extreme of not CSing or leaning,
that doesn't feel like that big of a deal to me,
to the point where like you would've just,
And it's definitely, it definitely is a positive.
I will say to take the other side of it,
talking to a number of pro top laners,
they feel like the roll of quest is so extreme
that in some of the tougher matchups,
literally getting the top lan quest completed
away or half a wave later can get you zoned off the waves
and can really snowball the game even in the more difficult matchups,
because it's like they hit a wave ahead,
You know, you're there already 13 or whatever, you're 12 and a half.
Now they hit 14 and now they're 14 and you're 12 and they're like standing in between
you and the minions and stuff. So I do think the roll quest is really powerful.
I would be very surprised personally if in pro people can just ignore the roll quest and still
have success. I would really bet against that.
And if I hope it's on the case, I hope it's on the case, but it is, it is a worry
Yeah, back onto Team Liquid though, and the topic that you were talking about with APA.
One of the things with the way that APA does play, which made me excited for him joining
Cloud9, is that self admittedly from APA himself, as well as people that played with him.
Some of the reason why he did struggle when they had different jungle partners and were changing
and jungles is that APA for the longest time
was a midlayer that plays for the rest of his teammates
and does not, like, isn't the shot caller
and isn't the one leading, a lot of the mid-Jungle duo.
But then when APA had to be the one leading,
and they've got like rookie jungle junglers coming in,
it definitely adversely affected him.
But blabber is the most strong will jungle,
And it's always, you know, calling shots and be like,
we can fight here when you do this, we are that.
So I feel like it is a theoretical, good partnership
as far as APA not having to be the leader of the partnership.
Blabber has a very like, you know, good view of how he wants
to play the game and should be able to lead that as a duo.
So even if it's not APA playing for Morgan or whatever,
or excuse me, Ron team, fanitose.
I think those are going to be the two best top lanus.
So close there, but even if it's not a PA plan for the Anthos, if it's a PA
plan for blabber, I mean, Cloud9 was one of the teams doing the Kendra Zillion and
you know, all kinds of interesting combos there.
So I'm very excited to see what blabber looks like because I remember when blabber
played with Niske, who always played for the first time in the box.
It was a really good combination.
And so that's one of the things that kind of intrigues me as far as the place Dallas
is of the player.
It's interesting.
A few people I've talked to coaches have said that they feel like almost it's like
reverse how people are playing.
People always talk about how in competitive jungling you have to be the team's dog and
like cover all lanes and dual things are in else.
And a few people I were telling me they think that now I want to say should be almost
first that jungle can become so strong and gets so much income in the current state of the game
that junglers like when you talked about giving up objectives and stuff because like dragon's
taking longer and whatnot they're like you should junglers should just be like power farming
and trying to get to a point where they're up gold they're up experience because these champions
are no longer just like little weaklings and team fights like if you play well you can kind of
I don't know if it's going to be interesting
if they wanted to play it more or less now.
Yeah, and another thing with jungle this season
that especially early game, the power farming
is so important because one of the changes they made
was that it's now 35 jungle streets instead of 40
to finish your quest.
But it's still the first break when it's still at 20.
So getting that first might upgrade,
it usually happens right around
when the first respawn crab is coming up.
And if you've been farming non-stop the whole time,
and you double-crab your opponent,
you'll have the upgraded smite, and they won't.
Where normally you'll have,
you'll be like one camp away,
unless you delay your camp for after the 30 second mark,
you get like the extra-general street.
So like that timing is super critical, I think.
Just didn't, cause if you have a one-case smite,
and they have it 600, it's not even a smite,
like that's just a smite murder.
Especially if you're like taking dragon as well.
And usually like that crab or that dragon will also get you
level six after you get it.
So it can just snowball out of control if you are able
to just like farm normally.
But if you get like invaded on one camp,
you get pulled to a lane that's bad for your pathing.
Like that can have extremely snowball effects on your game.
Yeah, I definitely agree.
All right, moving on to number three, Shopify.
There was some mobility here with Shopify and Lyon,
but Shopify kind of edging out in our average year.
And so it's interesting because there was
that Reddit post I was front page.
I was like six of the eight teams
are having visa issues and Zinney's not here
and Zinney was one of like most hyped up
offseason pickups as far as Korean imports
for Shopify.
And I talked to Chronicle or also,
and he was like, yeah, Zinney should smurf your league.
And, you know, of course, I thought,
I don't know if I can do it over exactly.
It's going to smurf our lead or not here, but to that effect,
you know, as soon as you ever had to up.
And a lot of the teams did have these these issues.
And as we go through, you know, we'll be catching up.
So they haven't had like maximum practice time together.
But Ziny is here because like,
it was like two hours after that reddit post,
were demontated and post like a picture.
It was like, well, Zini's here.
So I'm very happy that a lot of the players actually
will be able to play.
Not all of them.
The vast majority.
But I'm not just the right one.
I love them.
Exactly.
And so they don't get maximum practice time.
But I also talked to some of the Shopify players,
and I was like, oh, how crazy is Zini?
Because they also did a bootcamp.
And they were like, come down.
He's still young.
And so they weren't like, I went from the chronic
or a few back of you, it's a smart for your ass
to some of the teammates feeling like,
yeah, still young. So I was like, okay,
I tempered my expectations a little at least for the start,
yeah, because that's, you know, based on,
that is based on last season their boot camp that they were playing.
Yeah. So it's not like fully, you know, up to date.
Maybe he's warmed up more here, but it's always a question of like,
how well do you adapt when you're going overseas?
And you have had these issues, you know?
and he is very young, but theoretically the Shopify teams should be really exciting.
Yeah, I think it's really interesting. And Zini is interesting and kind of unique as a prospect
because so like quid, obviously he came over, he wasn't super hyped up over there as far as
you know else the KCL prospect and obviously he didn't have success immediately, but then we saw
how incredible he became, right, he became MVP, caliber, you know, one-one, and then you
have guys that are coming over like Loki as well. It's like, Zini was right so heavily above
these people as far as the prospect in the LCK. He was kind of like jailed behind BDD. But
from what I had been told, even the KTE main team and stuff was considering using him for for this
year and like had interest in in using him for this year. A few different people told me that
He had multiple LCK offers from main teams.
Like this is someone who has been looked at
as a very top level prospect,
even for the LCK for quite some time.
And kind of just because he was having to be on a team
behind BDD, it's like, okay, well,
yeah, it's hard to take BDD spot.
So it's, you know, they were talking to the Montez,
like they were actually like pre-surprise
that he was interested in incoming,
but really excited that, you know, he was interested.
Cause generally it's like a PLSK offers
in your air and career, you're probably gonna stay in Korea.
And he was talking a lot about how they really wanted
to get people who were really focused heavily on effort
because he felt like they fell off super hard
at the end of last year.
And he felt like that was a lot based around a lack of effort
and that like that kind of fallen off.
And so they wanted to get someone
who kind of like as he put it had like young energy
and was like really like a grinder and really dedicated.
And that's something that they're like super focusing on,
for the roster and for their kind of mentality coming in this year.
You deserve my to me a short quick story where when I I talked to Demonte the first thing
he messaged me back about as any, oh yeah, this kid is cracked.
I played him in so many mid lane matchups and he beat me in everyone.
And I was like, well, I sure hope so, I hope so, I hope so, guys, you have been a pro
player no long time.
But he was like, yeah, he's so he's like, my he could beat me and one more.
But you know, Demonte, I think he's pretty good because did you see that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's been nodding.
Yeah, there was like that duo.
Oh, shout out to Shainak because that was really cool.
Yeah, actually, yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't see how it actually goes.
Yeah, I saw him at the beginning.
It was like, Revenant Demonte had some crazy win rate.
Like, they were actually close to the pro players.
Yeah, yeah.
And Greg, like, duo is going to give you a pretty big advantage early on
compared to soloing, but still school to see, right?
It's like, I love the idea of coaches actually being good at the game
because you can kind of say whatever you want about league and it's
you never really have to prove it, but being able to sit down and be like, yeah,
you know, like, see the stuff I'm saying is valid because I can do it.
It gives a lot of credibility, so I thought that was super cool.
And I think for Shopify, they were so inconsistent last season.
Like last year, right? It was like, they could look like the best team ever,
or the worst team depending on the week. And not to put it all in
Halifox, but I do feel like his performances were a big part of like, if a team did well or
didn't, like when they were doing well, he would be playing out of his mind like that's
been the lead and then when they weren't he would be like, oh my god, like what's happening
out there? So I mean, this is pretty much the same roster minus mid. So I think they kind of got
that same thing. See, that's going for him, like the synergy and then bringing in a new player who
like you mentioned as they're having motivation issues, having a new guy come in,
who's like, it's just going to work really hard. It's going to motivate everyone else too,
because if you don't want to be like, they guys slacking off because that's just about it.
Yeah. The month they also talked a lot about kind of like contracts and you know what they need
from him to be able to get. Because he was saying like their goal is basically they're actually
hating, they need to get up three like, go to worlds like that's what they're shooting for.
And he talked about the motivation thing, but he was also talking about how
There were just like two loose in like how they were playing and they were just kind of like doing a lot of things off of like feel or oh like this looks like a good fighter
Oh, this looks like this should be we might win this and not really necessarily thinking through like
Okay, why are we fighting like what should happen in the fight like really trying to be more a cerebral about it and plan it out
So he's talking a lot about that with context. They're really trying to focus on like him making sure that before he takes any fight
He has an idea of what should happen and will happen
like when they're going in and really trying
to kind of like have purpose in that.
And you know, you know,
things that the game is like really lane focus right now.
So you're talking about how for like,
fudge and bevoid, it's like their job is basically
like just be good individually.
Like that's supposed to be their focus.
And the rest of the team is supposed to be,
you know, these three people that are working together
to be able to control the map or like make plays
happen and stuff like that.
And I do think it makes a lot of sense with where the game is going,
like a lot of people kind of reiterated.
That's me that they think it's super lane-focused
because of the roll quest, because of the kind of snowballing
nature of the one B1.
So a lot of teams even, I know,
we're saying that they don't even want to move their 80
carries for grubplights or anything,
because they don't want to lose like roll quest progress.
So I think it's going to be interesting to see like obviously
mid-Jungle supports always super important,
but it feels like maybe even more so the season as far as
I see any 80 carry going up the grubs I am reporting that guy's
grubs I swear grubs are dog they're not good right now
so I definitely agree with what I've ever said that
maybe the other thing is yeah flood floods I think you were the one who asked him about
what he's been practicing whenever maybe during the draw show or something and he was like
yeah I've just been spamming just lame individual matchups and mechanics too so
I think that does vote well with where Fudge was if you can continue, because
Fudge's arc has been up into the right, so I think he is, if you can continue his
improvement back to the top there of Toplay and moving on to Lion though here for
number four, they had the Mudo and then with these issues, this is one of the ones
that did not fully work out.
And he's just gone for the year of my understanding.
Yeah, it's second year in a row.
He's just had, which is crazy because he's Canadian.
It's not even like he's coming from some low country.
It's like this is Canada.
Like, clearly boomed.
That it's so surprising to me that you could have that kind of issues from Canada.
Without getting a geobaltyx, we've got to, we have some decent problems.
Yes, I've got some problems.
We got some problems.
Hey, you guys, huh?
Uh, look, don't go though.
I do think it's Canada?
I don't know. I mean, I think Douglas greater placement. I was surprised he didn't get a
starting offer just based on how he did last year. He did get an offer. It was just not for our
team. He didn't want. Just okay. He didn't get good starting offer. So I think that that's great,
you know, I'm a huge Dokele fan and I think he showed a lot of development as a player last year
on 100 thieves where I think you know, like a lot of top laners he came in early being like the
Jason, I rarely a guy, Fiora, whatever.
And then in a lot of some years playing,
he was like the Rumble Sion teamfight tank guy,
which I think that Lion is really gonna need
oh no worlds.
Yeah, yeah, he's a great.
So my concern with Lion is that,
so obviously, Devin Spired,
who's been one of the best junglers,
or like the best jungler in A for...
Vitterl MVP.
Yeah, for a while now.
I will say, I feel like inspired
he's had a lot of success with rookie teammates,
which I think is definitely something that's impressive,
so I'd bathe in all, but it doesn't make you wonder
how is he gonna play with better in players?
Because I kind of feel like this team is,
it's not that, they don't seem like they'll have
a lot of synergies, they may own paper, right?
It's like I could totally wrong,
but I feel like they're mid-linear-saint
and then they're bringing in Pazerker for 80.
These are like to really highly reputable Korean imports, right?
I feel like we're going to have a lot of expectations from their teammates and kind of like from the past that they've been known to be kind of like that.
And so I would expect inspired works best with players who are just going to listen to him like just devout followers just what inspired size is the truth.
Go.
And so I don't know how that's going to mesh with St. Invisorker who are also like players who've had a lot of success and probably have strong ways to playing the game.
And it's, I found it interesting, one of the questions I was talking to was saying he felt like one of the problems for lying is going to be just like philosophically the way that inspired things is correct to play the game is very different than how I was saying once a way the game
Because he was saying that like his opinion Saint really wants to be the guy to carry every game like he wants to put himself in a position to succeed he wants
You know, the focus to be on him from the beginning of the game to the end of the game from draft, you know, like he, that's kind of like how he sees it, right?
Like, okay, you put the resources in to me. That's the plan. We stick to the plan and then if I play well with when the game is kind of like, how he saw Saints, Saints,
Saints, you know, vision of how the game should be played. Whereas inspired is someone who like,
doesn't want necessarily a plan in that way. He wants it to be the game to play more like naturally, so to speak, where it's like,
everything should be based on what is happening on the game and the plan should be like free
flowing and you know and and so it's kind of interesting if you have people who have to kind of like
different very different visions on how the game should be played and how that should work and
Lion like I put them as fifth is a beginning for a lock in prediction and I know it's kind of a hot take
but a number of people I've been talking to were saying they think Lion is really not good right now
A number of coaches, definitely said that they think they should still be a top 4 by
as they get more time and so on, but I had a few different people pros tell me coaches
tell me they think that line is the worst team in league, which I found pretty shocking
because obviously the expectations for a line are really high and for a line as an org
to go out and get inspired and try to build, whether you want to call them a super team
or not, like Pizzaker say, inspired are a lot of big names and some pretty big star
So the expectations are super high, but from what I've heard it hasn't really been working yet.
I didn't get a chance to talk to a rain over.
He's the only coach I didn't actually get to talk to, so I didn't really get to get his view.
I tried to reach out a few times, but
yeah, it's maybe a hot take, but I feel like from based on everything I'm hearing, I think they're gonna have a slower start.
Yeah, I think that's totally fair. I have the same worries.
I put them third because I think when you just look at the actual strength of the players and this team, they are just really insane.
And so I think it's not unlikely that this team is going to have a good start.
You know, I haven't looked at their full schedule or anything like that.
But I think if they come in and they start winning, you know, obviously, like the cracks are going to show when you're winning.
But I don't know, if there was one team that's going to mental boom this season, I feel like we'd probably be this one.
just that so many strong personalities on one team and like you mentioned, they have different
ways to play in the game. So yeah, I'm going to have my own that. But I think I think don't
lose great for vibes. So I think it's a really good pick up for them. Yeah, so many,
so many players from other teams have the opinion that they're waiting for a lie and
to mental boom and fight with each other. I mean, I think multiple, multiple pros that
that it's both in the draw show and in the pros.
It seems possible.
It seems very possible for this team.
So we'll have to see how it goes.
Yeah.
Moving right along, because we are deep in this already.
Sentinels with impact is back, baby.
We're talking last season.
I was like, oh, man, be so cool if impact came back
as a coach or do you guys think he could get picked up
on a team and he did get picked up on a team?
I mean, he's a veteran, sentinels also did like some value,
it feels like shopping during the off season.
And they're like, oh,
Deskai, he did in the Skonstal.
They're like, Deskai, he got a really good job.
Get, you know, winning the promotion tournament,
getting back in at would any of you players like a full-time spot
on a new organization in the LCS.
And then we'll get impact, leadership, you know,
impact just got, you know, remove from team liquid,
impact. Oh, yeah, I love League of Legends. I'll keep playing. So he's back in. And then we got another
bro player, a humbuck coming over to the league. And one of the fun things also about humbuck
is that he in 2020 for he also played with Zinny because he also played on Katie Challengers.
So I thought that was an interesting relationship. We're getting both of them over here. Zinny, of
of course was the bigger of the stars there with them,
but I mean, we literally had the GM on,
and he was talking about, yeah,
we're not gonna spend to win a whole bunch
and go crazy right off the bat,
but it seems like if their goal was,
do a lot of this value shopping,
and create a competitive wall.
Yeah, competitive team here, they did that.
I feel like they did do some good,
know value of work here. Yeah, I, I had time to go and blue yesterday. I was kind
of talking to him about it and he was saying, you know, he was really looking for players
that he felt like we're undervalued or underrated, you know, based on that and really
trying to get, you know, players like the most most bang for the buck right, like build a
really strong roster without, you know, obviously they're not going to drop a million dollar
contracts and importing the biggest stars. You know, so obviously it makes a lot of sense, you know,
taking a lot of players from disguise who had kind of better performance, especially towards the
the year, the team kind of turned around and you know what's they brought in dark wings and
where hell and everything. Team was having a looking a lot better so they brought them in.
He said impact is like really hungry to actually prove that he is really good and it's like
he had a bad year last year. Impact sounds annoying that, no one's denying that, but the year before
he was MVP, right? And so you definitely have to give him the benefit of the health that he can
bring it back. This guy is without a doubt in my mind the best top laner that's ever played in
in the league, you know, when you look at the all-time,
he's on so much here across so many teams.
And he was really, really impressed with how
we're how it was playing, even like in bad situations.
And once they kind of like started with the GST Core,
they brought it in the impact, and then impact him
or hell, really wanted to work with Homboc.
So they both really talked very positively about him.
And he was saying he kind of sees Homboc as like a similar player
to River where he's like really wants to be
swirmerishing all the time, really wants to play aggressive.
really has as belief in his mechanics and then wants to challenge you, right?
Like wants to fight you and look to help play you and kind of skirmishes and stuff.
So I feel like it could be a really exciting team.
There's a lot of question marks on it. I think for me, it's like no team can actually win
at a really high level without a very good mid-linear. I just think the game has always been like that.
I think the game maybe even more so this year than last is going to be like that.
I think Midland is so important.
So I think Darkwing's has to develop
and has to have a good year.
And I think that is definitely possible.
He showed some really good games
at the end of the last split.
I think he showed some pretty rough ones too though.
So I think a lot of their success is probably gonna hinge
on.
You can impact get form back
and he's Darkwing's able to develop
and become a consistent carry.
Cause I just think Midland has to be able to do that.
Yeah, I'm pretty much covering everything.
I was gonna mention,
I've talked to Impact a bit about it because friends of them,
and he seemed pretty excited about the team.
And he did mention how last year on T.L.
It was a really rough year for him.
And he felt like the team atmosphere was super hard,
where he was trying to balance how he wanted to play the game
versus what beliefs were being imposed on him
from coaches and the rest of the team, whatever.
So he said, in and not looking very good because of that.
And so he's excited to have a lot of agents
in this team and work with, you know, like,
kombaki, he just say Dark Wings is like super new,
so they're working with him a lot to get up to three.
And I think Dark Wings has a really difficult job.
But when you look at the competition,
like this isn't saying, he's up against, like,
all of these players that could be an LCK.
So he's definitely got his work cut out for him,
and we'll see how he does with that,
which is why, you know, I think, I think fit is fair for them.
I think there's a chance that he could be really good,
but I think they're also, you know,
there a newer team and yeah, it seems hard.
Yeah.
Another new team, well, it's an old team, but all super young new players.
Fly Quest is our next one up, which is really exciting that, yeah, we had really
high hopes for this team last year and it blew up and they kind of
limped out of competition with kind of exploding basically.
it seemed like from the inside, there are so many problems with this team, with conflicts
between players and everybody who's just playing for themselves at the end and whatever.
That blew up and they didn't meet the super high expectations that we kept on building
and building and building up for them for this big finale.
But if you're in a world where everything's exploded like that, I do like the route that
they went where they're like, you know what?
All right, we're going to go up basically from the ground
and get a bunch of young players
and really especially like Griffin,
who they're able to get back from LTA South.
He's been doing a lot of content already.
Actually, me here did an interview with him
where they went to the gym.
And he was, like, he's just so happy
that whole time it's so excited
and like wants to prove himself
and wants to live the dream of winning.
And he was like, yeah, he even was saying,
he'll get a tattoo of the champion
that he uses to win the first thing
that he wins, basically.
And they have obviously got go still super young
and they have got go permanently now,
no swapping there.
And keeping Masu and Quad is like the core for their carries
and getting cryogen is just like a lot of youthful
exuberance, Masu did say during the draw show
that he didn't think that they were very good yet.
Obviously, this team is super young.
One of the benefits of being super young
and getting signed like this to a build team basically.
Though, is that you don't have a lot of pressure.
There's another thing that Griffin referenced.
He's like, yeah, nobody expects us to win.
They don't, nobody's looking at us
to be in good even at the beginning.
But Griffin, even with that, he had confidence.
He was like, yeah, I think that by split three,
we will be one of the teams that can make worlds
in one of the top three spots.
So he both was like, yeah, there's zero expectations
and we're not good now, but thinks that to me,
in a short timeline, I'm just getting to split three,
already thinks they can get a world spot.
So that is super hype.
I'm worried about this team personally.
I don't have them bottom to you,
but I'm very worried about the team.
But because, because I think coming off
So they were the best team in North America for like a year and a half, two years, whatever.
Like they were just really good, but it's not the same team anymore.
They don't have inspired in Blipo, in Buccio, which were the main characters of that team.
I think that Quad and Masu are both new players who came in and they basically just completely
played the follow-up role, right?
It was like, they were good.
I think they played well, not trying to take anything away from them, but it's so different
when you have a veteran leading you and you just have to like do what you're told.
You don't really have to figure stuff out in your own.
You're being given the answers and you just have to do what's expected of you.
And then right now, it's like their whole team is so green.
I feel like you kind of want someone with more experience on this team, especially
because it's going to be like some, it's going to be shell shock in a way where it's
like you go from winning so much to their probably going to struggle in the beginning.
And I think that's very hard for a player, especially when you start your career so high up
And then you have to struggle really hard
because your expectations are probably higher
than maybe they should be.
So I'm on this team.
I don't have high expectations just because they're all so new.
Quad to be fair has played quite a bit.
I think it's a bit of a bit of stuff.
He's not in fact better than ever,
but he has been blowing competitive since like 2018, 2019, right?
So he's been around for quite a while at this point.
But I agree with you.
I mean, I think that the roles that they are filling have to change a lot, right?
Because you went to a team.
I mean, you lost to your clear best two players.
I think they were the best two players in the whole league.
Busy-o in inspired, right?
You lost super vocal people in inspired as well as football.
And Busy-o is doing a lot of chocolate, too.
So it's like you lost all the vocal leaders on your team.
Mosu is much more like introverted and quiet, so it's quite at least hourly.
And they're gonna have to do much more of that kind of shot-calling role. I know
Even talking to think hard you know he's saying it was like kind of me and but not really like just the idea that
Heat comes like there was sort of like these big voices have inspired and
And put both and in the early game. It's like most of Embrusio had laying together so much
They didn't even need to talk so he said like the often just like didn't talk at all
During the early stages of the game and there's only pings and stuff like that because they're just so on the same page
And that's just not possible when you're bringing in someone like cryogen, who he I think literally just turned 18 yesterday or day before
And you know, he's totally fresh and they haven't played together hardly at all
So it's like Moss who has this step up into a role where he's now like leading the bot lane and talking a lot more and making sure that cryogens on the same page
And what is going to have to take way more of this leadership role
But that's so hard though having it there have in my experience any time a player has to burn in more responsibility like that
their own performance tanks so hard because you go from just worrying about yourself,
following along, and now it's like, okay, I got to come up with a plan and like make
sure everyone else in the same page. Like, yeah, it happened to me when I was playing,
I noticed it with like so many players and so many teams I've been on. It's just like as soon
as you start having to worry about everyone else, it's like your own family. At least,
at least Griffin is pretty strong, wild. I talked to him a bit too, and that was like a mean
in LTA's school where they called him Batman and his support was Robin and so you know
maybe he can like you know going to be one of these like strong jungle this is not what we're going
at least early game that usually works really well then maybe they also are going to need someone
for more broad like Laina Simon said split pushing and it's called stuff like that.
I think art is super excited about Griffin like he thinks he's like insanely good he was really
really having them up to me like he said he thinks he's going to be like you know
be able to get to level of inspired like he thinks that he's like that kind of a talent
and when I was talking to the people saying that they weren't like they had like a number
of junglers that they were kind of considering and that they weren't like super hot on
graphing or anything but he said that they when they didn't air view with them he like blew them away
and they really got a lot more excited about them as a result so I mean it's going to be interesting
because the card was also talking about along the jungle stuff how I think I think that like
His specialty is working with junglers because he was like, yeah, like,
you notice all these junglers that worked with that, like,
these pull-out seasons, he was like, you know,
and Lira was really popping off, you know, he's coaching him.
And he said, like, talk to you.
He said inspired last year, we're saying talk to you
is the best jungler besides him in the whole region.
And in LTA, and that, like, he was working with him there.
He said, when contract set is, like, breakout years and stuff,
he was working with him.
So he was like, he's like, I'm the jungle.
I'm, like, you know, jungles my specialty.
You know, he was really excited about it.
and feels like he really has a strong vision on how jungle should be played and playing around
animal timers and once teams that want to enable their junglers and he thinks I think,
you know, not just like, oh, I taught them everything. It's more like he's philosophy of how they should
play the game. He thinks he's jungle focused and so he thinks that's going to be beneficial for him.
And he usually excited about it. And fight Western general, talking to, you know, to the team,
just seems they feel like they have like the next generation of stars, right? And they don't think
I think that they're gonna be slamming walk
and don't think anyone does.
But I think Carlos saying the way that you should
judge if this team is doing well is if they're winning
team fights, because he's like, we have a team with teenagers.
Like our hands have got to be like the best hands, right?
And they're gonna be one of the youngest tier-one teams around.
Crying, I think literally just turned 18.
Gacko's is 18.
Griffin, I think it recently turned 19.
This team is super young.
I mean, Quad is going to be the oldest player
on the team, he's 23.
So it's like they want to fight all the time.
They want to make it aggressive plays.
And that's kind of like his baseline
of we need to be winning team fights,
or like something is going wrong.
And the rest can be all learned
is kind of like their perspective.
But honestly, I think flag versus team
I'm most excited for out of any team to watch,
because I just, I do feel like they have a lot of
pretty much really exciting young players.
And I'm just kind of hype to see
What's going to happen with them?
Yeah, it should be fun.
Meanwhile, at the bottom holding hands
are perennial, bottom two teams,
Dignitascent disguised are next.
Dignitascent edges out disguise this time around
with their pickups of remaking the old energy team
with Balfog's FBI and Ignar all joining.
XU rejoins the Dignitascent organization
with a new general manager, by the way.
to change to Jonathan, who is a...
He worked with,
Seel G.
Amazing General Manager.
I just played Jonathan at Travis's Magic Tournament.
This last weekend.
I think he's...
I did.
It was really close though.
We were running a very...
Good job, dude.
We were running very similar days.
It literally came downstairs into the park.
It came down to like counting the last,
like a couple of turns I would ever.
whatever, and it technically was going to be a tie, but he was honorable, and since I was winning he
forfeited the last one. Wow, that's not a good look for it. That's why that's why he
was winning. He had to imagine how I think their task stocks are going to go way up now.
You make something like they like losing. I don't know what you want in your LCS team.
I like I like Jonathan a lot. And actually I think that's a good test, right?
Actually, who might be the human that hates
Dignitas or institutions of most of any human in the world
has returned to the organization.
That must be like a clear signal, right?
He's like, how am I?
Cool, new GMA, new blah, blah, the shit and stuff.
I'm sure not to go well.
Change the things.
And so I'm going to have this one to rejoin in Oregon.
I'm going to have an automatic experience.
I don't be fine.
Well, I mean, the changes and stuff
So I'm just trying to find the scenes of they're gonna have,
I mean, honestly, I feel like they, I would change my ranking,
I was even thinking about because I did my power in
games in my head with what their intended roster is gonna be.
But they're gonna be playing with mobility and breezy.
I think they are gonna be the worst scene.
The bottom lane, legit is not gonna be here for the whole lock.
That's what I had heard.
And so I think they are gonna be the worst team in lock-in
because they don't even have their bot lane.
you think, you know, basically like,
my understanding from talking to Swiffer,
he was saying that like, okay, last year,
obviously it was a disaster, he came in
and just started talking to all the players
and the coaches, and they kind of tried to talk
to everyone and determine like, all right,
like, who was kind of creating all this negativity,
who was creating positivity,
because I don't know if you guys saw it,
but like, Photon didn't interview where he said,
like, he came in and he once tried really hard,
and he just had felt like it was so negative
that everyone had already given up basically, right?
And so, after these interviews and everything,
they decided that really wasn't all that one of the games.
Well, they only wanted to keep photons, right?
So it was everyone else, apparently.
So they decided it was kind of build around him
and are really kind of like excited about him
as an individual player.
So I think it makes sense.
I think the one pick up that a lot of people
are going to be kind of wondering about his power box,
because I think a lot of people are pretty negative on him
over the last, like, you know, what new two years.
But, you know, he has stayed around and so for feels like this environment, it's going to be good for him and that he is still really motivated and really still like a very hard worker.
So, it's going to be interesting, I mean, they wanted to kind of like have that stability of this, you know, this ball in that I played together, they were building around obviously they're not going to have that.
So that is going to be tough, but you know, it is, I think,
I think it's really up to PowerFox and Photon to be like the big carries for this team.
I think if PowerFox can get back to kind of like peak levels of PowerFox and Photon can be as good as people think.
Then I think this team could do some promising things.
But I think XU needs to develop a lot.
I feel like XU showed some good moments and showed that he can get himself into good positions.
But I feel like XU's problem throughout last year was really that he can also throw all those problems.
all those leads away, right?
Like he kind of just was over forcing a lot of plays,
I felt like.
Yeah, I thought by the end of last year,
he was actually playing pretty well, which I mean,
it's, it is hard to be a jungler on a low tier team
because you don't have winning lanes to play off of
and you really would always have to be making
the hard choices of like, okay, you know,
if you're on the first place team, all your lanes are winning.
You can full clear nonstop, they'll probably have vision.
They're jungler, you know, we'll have to sacrifice stuff
to go for games to whatnot.
But when you're on the losing team, it's the exact opposite.
like if I just spoke clear where you're going to lose the game.
So you have to decide like okay where can I sacrifice what
plays will work and your job is just so much harder.
I think you did pretty well given the circumstance, but again,
I think he's found himself in one of those test spots.
And so I don't know.
I don't think I don't think it's going to go to all for them.
Well, they have FBI and stuff though.
I feel like it should be more stable on paper than what he had
with DSG.
Oh yeah, I mean, with their roster,
what they're talking about, they're playing with subs.
It's super cursed.
Yeah, I mean, but I think when you have subs,
no one's gonna really expect anything.
You know what I mean?
It's like the team shouldn't,
the coaches and the GMs and whatever,
shouldn't have any crazy expectations.
They're kind of screwed from their thesis stuff.
But it's like, once you have FBI there,
once you have, it's like your carries are photon
and polyphox and FBI.
It's all people with experience.
So in theory, that should be a better environment
for XU to actually get to show,
kind of like what he's got, right?
And I think, you know, it's palphox.
He's kind of has to be on that redemption arc.
All right, for disguise, then, which, yeah, with sense,
I think, thoughts have subs, maybe disguise,
do deserve a little switcheru here at the bottom,
and bump them up.
And bump, bump, bump, bump, bump.
Is there somewhere to be here?
There's being one spot.
Oh, for me, though, I was going to touch on jungle first,
actually, because I think that's a good point.
I did hear that Keyesno is going to have to play instead of
Kriya or Kriya, but it's funny because I've actually
seen a lot of Keyes now in solo queue and on Challenger streams and stuff and every time
he's been impressive. So, yeah, I think they do also have, you know, these issues because
cryo is Canadian as well. And he was supposed to be like who they're building the team. Yeah,
and they wanted to be a jungle focus like jungle carry team. So that does suck, but I do
like, he's not, I think he's known as, is a good replacement at the very least area
up to, you know, scramble a little bit. It probably also is going to throw everything kind
of off as far as what their plan was and practice and everything like that. But yeah,
it was going to be a rough, either way I think.
I mean, I think the thing that is like just being sure that the thing that's really hard
for disguised is like, I don't think they wanted to change their roster per se or
change so many players out, but the reality is they're the guests lost.
That would, yeah, every other team has a permanent slot, right?
So because promo relegation is really, really stressful, if players get an equivalent
offer, like an equal offer, even like a minimum offer on any other team, they're probably
going to leave because they don't know if disguised will have their slot.
they'll even be in the league next year, right?
So I think that is something that makes a lot harder for them to kind of like have
that stability.
We'll see if that changes over the years.
Maybe if they have better results, people are, okay, for sure, you're not going to lose
in promorgaligation, you're like a top 5 team or whatever, and then maybe they can kind of
get some more stability in that way.
But that is something that it's working against them, and sendals kind of picked him clean
a bit, right?
Sendals came in, scooped up all the players, and they had to rebuild, right?
The only person they kept was, was Castle, right?
And so, that obviously, I think Castle is spoken of pretty highly when you talk to
other top laners.
I think he's been pretty solid.
But then it's like a lot of young players, a lot of people that are going to be taking
more of a risk on, like, Kyra, they're super hot on, I know, like his whole thing is he
thinks like, we should be giving up objectives, focusing on getting the most possible goal
for Kyra, we should have gold advantages, but like objective deficits.
And then we should show up to the late game fights, and we should win.
That's the way that he envisions it and really putting all those eggs and
Incara's basket. And so Ajad is someone that I think a lot of the Tier 2 guys have been hyping up to me for a long time
They feel like he's kind of like the next coming of Mossu and a player of of that caliber who who can be
Really really strong individually the question is when you have like so many kind of like uncertain pieces
Like how are they gonna all work together? You know how it's called me gonna fit in. He's supposed to be kind of like more of a stable player
But I do think it's difficult when you have so many different pieces changing all at once and all coming together and and a lot of those are young players and
Repeats and stuff too in and like you mentioned dealing with the visa issues could have different roster that your main player not being your main player. That's hard. So
Not a lot of expectations these guys. That's the bright side.
Castles impressed me, you know, he's been on loads your jeans pretty much the whole time he's been here and he still managed to stand out as like
You know looking pretty good, so I think that says a lot.
Maybe we'll surprise this.
I think the only reason that disguise we're able to keep castle is because
Sentimental's got impact and so they are in the top of it and they're like,
Ah, fine, you can keep them.
You can keep one.
Take everybody else.
But yeah, I'm so excited.
LCS being back just feels so, so, so good here.
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You know, including a cool play each week if we're talking about play, we will have like a video component of that.
So if that sounds like a cool idea or a few of any other suggestions, hit us up, let us know.
LCS returns with the lock-in tournament. It's going to be really fun. We actually never address it, but it's going to be Swiss format tournament.
It's all BO3s and BO5s this year. It should be really, really fun, simple formats.
You're going to be able to understand them, and there's going to be lots of very good games.
It's going to, again, this Saturday, January 24th at 1 p.m. Pacific is cloud 9 takes on TL.
What a banger!
If you want to play Pokemon Go, my friend is in the comments, and I will probably
I'll do that yet, please stop.
Welcome back to the OCS, 2026 opening week.
Razz, let's go!
Emily, there's everything in there!
Oh, there's everything out there.
Every team, a lot of booths.
They're all giving away something.
You can kind of judge my half-wester's giving away.
Sessionals giving away jerseys.
It can trade in in old teams jerseys.
OK, let's take it away.
You're not to trade in, actually, if you show up here.
Let's go!
Oh, my God!
Where are we going?
My eye's in.
I'm getting stuck.
I was trying to discuss with some fans outside.
What to do about when talking about last year?
Is it just the LCS this whole time?
I think it might have been.
Yeah, I think we're just back there in another year.
There you go with all of us saying LCS, definitely.
I can't believe I'm a company man.
There's no way you never did that.
Before, literally, the rehearsal for the first day,
I kept saying like LLA, and I was like, no,
I'm going to look in the mirror and say LTA, LTA, LTA.
LTA LTA.
I never said LCS, I almost said LLA.
As you can see, LCS in white, LCS in black,
we got branded mugs.
Like we're in it for the long.
You don't invest in a named LCS, the green colder,
unless you know you're going to stay that like this for a while.
Anyway, we're doing lock-in tournament again as well.
Another thing that comes back from 2020-21.
It's like a different format that it was back in the day.
Whoa!
The idea is the same.
We're going to see which team is going to make it
to first stand, it's a fashion tournament,
it's not the size of Spirner Sermon,
but here's how it works.
It is a Swiss stage, best to do three.
No best to ones, and I'll see yes.
No best to one.
For the first time ever.
Ever?
Yeah, so you, some of you are switching over from LEC.
Welcome.
That's true to the best to three of them.
You've been your land of freedom.
We've blessed you.
Yeah, they're doing cheerless, too.
It doesn't feel right in best to ones.
But we're doing full best to three of you.
So you can see round one here.
Those were all the teams.
They draw into matchups.
the winners play winners and the play loser that goes off with.
Here's what we got.
C9 TL up first.
You think this was scripted because they're the two strongest teams on paper.
Yeah, I think it's a big thing.
How's this happen?
Normally you get that.
Or maybe we just saw that good scheduling.
Good scheduling.
It sums up for everyone involved.
Yes, you versus Sentinels.
Hey, you stole our players.
We're going to get our look back.
I love that already.
Right up the gate.
Likewise, first and shop by rebellion.
Everything just thrown up there.
The fact that we have Sentinels in the LCS.
Yes, sir.
Welcome, guys.
Yeah, it was a, you said a new name because we have a new org, uh, and you should recognize
some of those names from this guy's last year, but also, I'm going to get a shout out
to Homba, former PT challengers, uh, and also was on, bro, last year.
Yeah, fun fact, the sky's in Shopify are the only two teams from last year,
whose five players are still in the LCS.
Whoa.
We are, right?
Actually, yeah, kind of everything.
I'm making me think now, you're like,
It is actually correct, it's that same thing.
That's incredible.
But yeah, for Sentinels, they used to be Phoenix Run.
It's long, long time ago.
But God, long, long ago.
I actually didn't know.
I forgot to call that until I saw it on social media.
Did not get the connection.
But another thing that's new, new patch, new year, new everything.
I think the biggest thing, if you've been playing League of Legends,
League of Legends, the roll quests I love in the 80C man getting
go by level 20 top laners late in the game.
It's just been such a fun time for me.
Yeah, there's new roll quests for every single roll.
It's kind of resulted in a lot of
lanings phases being extended, especially in competitive.
So yeah, this is definitely the biggest change for me going into the years.
Yeah, the one thing that people are highlighting the fact that
top laners can of course goes to level 20.
They get bonus experience based on that.
So why you're saying lane slots are not really a thing
and full like quest completion,
which is definitely around the 12-minute mark.
It's like, okay, 12-minute hit.
Our top winner now gets bonus experience,
send the ball a up to the top lane.
Now we get to get away from it.
I mean, cash back, not getting adjusted when 80 carries,
get extra income is insane.
So they already get the extra item slot,
but now they're hitting four like four true items,
not counting the boosts.
Way sooner than they would have before.
Yeah. But Emily, I know you also watch a bunch
global league.
I do.
This is the first LCS, but what's changed?
Yeah.
So I did want to just run some highlights from LPL and LCK with a few interesting jungle picks.
So this is jungle juice.
If you had no, I'd face this and so would you.
Oh, god.
Oh, oh.
It is absolutely disgusting.
But then we've also, uh, cannot be actually lost the same.
But, uh, jungle, atrocks.
We've also seen jungle emphasis, so a lot of really interesting champions coming through.
coming through in the jungle so fully expect to see that in the LCS as well. I know for
a fact, some of our junglers, specifically I'm thinking of contracts, I'm already practicing
using your scope for. Yeah, I want to see some of that. And then yeah, the next, the next thing
is just a little cute bot lane clip, after we see Knotbee dying here. I really like this
little sonder pick by Kariah into the racon. I thought it was really cool, in the extended lane.
I really liked it, so there's a few tiny little cool things for some will we get?
Because T1 did other teams who tried, but then also they're not carriers.
So I'm not sure if they'll sound a real work there.
But it's really cool.
I'm the chair of their play.
Can you do it?
Are you carry it?
It is a good reconcounter.
Yeah.
I mean, just like talking counter picks, the fact that counter picks really matter now.
We're starting to see like gunblade can in and like not even though it's like, don't
play these champions.
Laced off, don't kill them out, but now you can play them out.
I'll also say just because your red side or blue side doesn't mean you have counter
So the first selection is they're calling it.
You used to this speed.
You get first pick and blue side now it's first pick or side choice.
Yeah. And almost universally it's first pick is the choice that
teams make and they have the first selection and then they usually
get turned on the red side.
Yeah. So it's a little bit of a mind meld when you're on the
caster desk and you're seeing the picks be in different order.
Still breaking my brain.
It's been a little bit.
But that's going to be that's the main implementation of it.
Some teams are still choosing to be red side sometimes, which is crazy.
That happened in L.E.C. earlier today.
But just a small thing.
Yeah, track.
And that first I was like, I wonder how much it matters.
You ask them the coaches and everybody you're like,
yeah, it doesn't matter.
Yeah, there's going to be someone out there that is specifically,
like, no, our strategy is based around us being on
the blue side for this reason.
And I cannot wait for that moment.
Yeah, geometry of the map.
Also, fantasy LCS, it's back.
That's the day.
You don't have that long.
But unlike last year, where the rosters locked
when Brazil started, they're not part of LCS fantasy.
I'm reminding you now so you can get in now.
Yeah, locker roster.
My secret hack is whoever's playing DSG, load them up.
But we'll see, I'm giving it away.
There's a lot that happened in the LCS, this offseason.
And this is probably one of my favorite offseason charts
that's ever been made where big numbers
I'll go over first.
So there were 43 players that played in LK and North Split 3.
16 of them stayed on the same team in the same position.
13 of them stand the league went to different teams.
Fourteen of them are not only getting more,
and then we brought in 11 new players
from around the world.
Wow.
To give us the 40 that are here in the LCS lock.
It's also a color-coded chart,
C9, four-returning players.
Very helpful.
Got five, four-returning players.
We've spent too long on this.
If I did this, that's why it's on Twitter,
as well if you want to take a closer look at it.
But we're going to do analysis.
Okay.
All 18.
Very rare.
In four minutes.
Okay.
The second's pertain.
Emily's going first.
She's going three teams in a row.
In five, four, three, just go.
Three, go!
Go, go, go!
It's practice.
They said I was cheating.
When I left anyway, this is the starting roster
for Dignetoss.
Today, you'll notice if you pay attention
to the roster announcements, FBI and Ignar
are not here yet.
So we're going to have mobility and breezy,
I think the biggest story is a Pelopox looking for redemption after really rough season
in the top of the last year and ask you back on his former org after
tracking them publicly on the LTA broadcast.
Next roster.
All right, we got Shopify.
This is a fun one.
Like Jack already covered, they kept most of their roster, so you see,
But this man in the mid lane, I do not have enough time to talk about how good he is.
He is such a tight mid lane crossback coming out of the LCK.
I was watching him on KT Chounders since 2024.
He is absolutely phenomenal.
I'm super curious to see what he can bring to the Shopify team.
And next team.
DSG! Okay, so we do have most of the starting roster here, Castle, Colmy, Sejad, and Lyons,
however, his note is going to be subbing in the jungle for Kriera. And that is really
unfortunate, actually really loved Kriera last year on the auto ref actually really helped
turn around that team when they were struggling. And a lot of DSGs kind of impetus going in and
picking him up was having him be a Kriera journalist. So we'll see how his note does in the spot
but you'll notice a lot of their roster changed,
and why is that, right?
I don't, I wonder why.
I wonder why.
It almost feels like in the bed of night
when sent to those came into the league.
We've come three of your players right here.
Rahal and Louis, the centerpiece of that DSG bot lane.
It's ours now.
Dark Twins, he was developing.
He's looking crazy with all of his new picks.
We got him now.
When did you enjoy Senjunals?
Yeah.
We all have us.
I don't know part of this lineup.
You can see here, right?
The heart size coming through.
And then on top of that, we got humbucked the bro
and your own levers out there if you believe in them,
you gotta be supporting them.
And Katie Schallinger.
Of course, Katie challenges all of the above.
And I gotta tell you right now,
in fact, you lied to us.
You said you were taking a break,
but then immediately,
designed this lineup alongside Golden Glutin.
You know what's in the next lineup?
Go to the next lineup.
Fly Quest, my goodness,
a new direction for the team
that was hit international after international championship,
after championship.
We decided to bring in our six men,
Gackles into the lineup that it really carried a player.
We got Griffin from Lounge,
from the LTA South.
He was incredible player.
a lot of his creative picks, like the best one
known as playing him.
We got him now.
So thank God for that.
Quad and Masu, we joined in the roster.
Thank goodness for that.
Because Busio got, I could not take the losing
any more players and then we got cryogen from here
three.
So guess what?
Busio, we got a new one.
We got a new player coming through.
And then Lion, first of all,
I'm going to go over here because all of the sadness
it is for Simudo and not come through.
I'm happy at least.
We got jokes on back and leave.
So big jokes.
And this doesn't look like a photo shop.
with a big boat.
We caught up and then inspired,
I would be incredibly sad for Austin,
but we got the big three online MVP and inspired.
We got a saying that was also looking really good last split.
And we got the former LCS MVP back at our region,
at Berserker and I'll make it this roster look beautiful.
Back to you, Jack.
Great job, Emily and Razz, but guess what?
My team's are better. We saved the best for last.
We got C-I'm, who I think is first or second best team,
still deciding on what I believe for that.
But they only made one roster change.
APA came over from Team Liquid to join them in the mid lane.
I looked at all the stats from last year.
And even though C9 didn't represent North America internationally,
they were the second best team across the board.
Now with flag quests, losing their players.
I think that puts them right towards number one.
Incredibly solid year aside from a few hiccups later on.
Biggest question mark for me is going to be the performance of blabber and APA.
Blabber last split didn't make first team all pro in any of the three roles.
First time since 2022 that that has happened,
but a lot of hype for the C9 roster.
This team looked with roster on the other hand and in last year, horrendously 22% win rate in split three.
So they switched out three players.
They were in Jose de Odo, who's been everywhere.
LCS Brazil, Latin America, they're bringing more than from the LCK,
quit former LCS MVP from 100 thieves.
And a lot of people were saying that this team is absolutely dominating in scrims.
So Team Liquid, did they win the offseason?
Did they see nine win the offseason?
Let us know in chat who you think won these offseason and Team Liquid
has also made some changes. Let's check it out.
Hi everyone, Cole J.J. here. I'm here to announce that this will be my last
year at Tim Naked. I'm not interested in old names. I'm interested in the new names.
So...
Did you just call me an old name?
Next year, really the mid-laner of gameplay, more than 3 champions.
Next year, we need funds to last games.
They must finish.
Next year, we need a Tomlena, who we make other games.
I mean, we need to build up an A-Planet.
Yeah, it's an California stopping race.
You're right.
This is our last year on Team Liquid as John Gigi.
Next year will be a whole new team.
Yeah, I didn't even do it.
What?
No, I'm just saying we won't be team Liquid next year.
Because we'll be team Liquid and leave it where next year.
So we are getting a big naming spot.
Big naming sponsor to have us to make a better, better contents and support team.
Thank you, Hall.
Thank you, alien there.
Thank you, alienware.
Others say it'd be really funny if this is the C9 intro, and it is.
Yeah.
I'm Howard Show and C9 here. They're arriving. Also, I don't know if they're in this version of the car.
Okay, this is just the player. There are coaches of suit up.
Really? So, what do you have in there are in full suits for the debut of this team in the LCS?
We need to see this. I think it's also waiting for them to do the clown car that we've been asking.
I know, eventually, I don't think Sven did enough, enough action in that.
I'm going to have to talk to him, but so much happened.
We did a really quick break now, but since Cloud9 versus Team Liquid is going to be our big match up in 50 minutes,
we have a little bit more time to talk about the changes.
So the biggest thing is the fact that
OPA has switched teams and quid's replaced them
and they're immediately playing against each other.
Yeah, that's going to be really, really fun
and I think quid joining this entire off season.
That was like, okay, who's going to get quid
and who's going to get inspired as like the two big players
that LCS worries were buying for.
And I mean, quid has just been phenomenal.
I am really curious to see what he's able to do
with this key and especially given how flexible he is.
Yeah, that's the thing is that that is probably
the craziest kind of offseason pickup you can't have
is quit as a player.
I like I feel like he generally fits in
with any environment that he's involved in
and that like we got to see a little bit of it
happened within Caspeca,
even though it was a short run,
I felt like the highlight for me was how well
he worked with Jose Diodo in such short amount of time.
So it is a really great pickup to be able to see in the LCS.
Yeah, and then by contrast with C9,
APA joining C9, Loki actually did leave for personal reasons.
So I'm really excited to see APA on this roster,
but I do have to call out that initially it did look like C9
we're going to be running back their entire roster, right?
The Loki.
Now with APA, though, I mean I'm just really excited
you see a midlaner like APA, pair up with flabber.
I think they have a lot of potential as a mid-Jumbo duo.
And they've made a lot of content throughout the
offices and talking about that relationship.
Either they were very open and honest
that they were wanting to make the,
they wanted to sign back on with Loki,
but then being able to have a player like APA
that has a semblance of like leadership skills coming in
and saying what he really wants.
Of course, this is of course the announcement
that came through really early on with Loki
for personal reasons going back to Korea.
But then going back to the topic of now we have a PA.
I think that was quite honestly the best choice they could have.
Because who expects APA to be on the market, they didn't expect that at all.
They were like, oh, we didn't even reach out to APA,
because we didn't even think that team was willing to be moving on away from him.
And so APA coming in is a glue type of player.
And we saw at Kasvakop, the Falea player,
where he's constantly looking for angles alongside and working with Labyrinth.
I think that's a relationship that will immediately glue.
Ultimately though, APA is going to be looking at this as a big
rookie match.
Because you can kind of tell, I'd say, from the year and
video that APA news with the way that that team had been
going, that their time together was done.
And I think I kind of agree with this poll, like if you're
thinking about who would you rather have going to the last
offseason, quit or APA?
Well, team look at actually got to make the choice.
Yeah.
And then C9 got the other one.
So it's very exciting to me that C9 has gone with an
and A-Mingler. Actually, the last one I remember them having with Golden Gloom before that,
it was high. So it's been a while since they haven't had an import and sold in.
And all of the North American sold in, Jojo and APA, by far the most successful,
the last eight or 10 years, it feels like in the league. So I want to see what type of
dengency can get on Team Liquid. But if I'm just looking at the way these roster is
come together, it has to come up as one thing, whereas. But for me, like the team Liquid team,
There's a lot of talent there, just from individual rates.
Yes, and I think it was smart from the organization's perspective.
To take a look at what happened last year and say,
we are prioritizing like team culture and making the idea work.
So, like for instance, throughout the off season, the main criticism that Team Look
had was not picking up inspired and like not picking up certain North American players.
They picked up Morgan for the top lane because they look like hey,
look the best of the people that we tried out.
But going towards Jose Dioto, it was simply because he was a better fit for the team.
And immediately, of course, every time we hear from them talking about the comments of how much these guys
like appreciate and love working together, and that they are really just friends.
And I think that would make this environment 10,000 times better than what it was at the end of last year.
Yeah, and I am in particular really fascinated with how Jose is going to fit onto this team,
So I feel like if all you remember of him was his skinned on fly-close, he's evolved so
much as a player since then where he still has this just massive carry potential, where
there are a lot of jungle picks right now that are really going to aid the way he likes
to play.
But he can also be more of a facilitative jungler, he's a massive voice.
He also just seems to be a great vibes guy to have on your team.
He is, but I got a question, is it getting better?
going to get bought.
Because let me tell you, we're going to talk about the bot lane right now.
And if you were to ask, I'd say the average fan at the moment, of which bot lane would
you rather have.
I think a lot of them would say, y'all JJ, rather than it's been blocking.
But that's generally because, and I had a chat with Sven, son, a little bash on this.
Oh, here we go.
Team Liquid plays through them like crazy.
If you think about the way they played last year, if the bot lane and team look would
want to trade. You were getting dope. If they lost a trade, they were getting
built up by the jungle. Yeah. Meanwhile, Sven is needing to play safe because
blabber's doing whatever blabber wants to do throughout pretty much every
early game. Sven also takes more scaling rooms than the team look at
bot lane. The rooms have changed now every any carry takes cash back, but
I was looking last year. Like, quarter nail them took free boots and 10% of
games. The support average is like 50% because they're always taking
biscuits. Y'all were taking the lacquer to the instead of bloodline. And
then going to half health on Baron can didn't have lifestyle later in
game. Like they sold out for landing phase in every single game. They still might do that.
They do it for a reason. It does work for them most of the time. But I'd say you're going to
actually end up underrating C9's bot lane most times because they're so steady. Yeah.
That's why it's super interesting to see them in this meta because I feel like the current meta
with the extended landing phase. Like we talked about with the roll quests, no lane swaps.
There's a lot less early action in terms of lanes moving outside of Drake.
And so two things to look at, one, it is who they're going to gain thought,
but also just how is that two-be-two gonna work?
So I feel like TL will have playing to that two-be-two.
They will have their strong-laning bot lane.
But then, by contrast, how many times is APA gonna roam down to his bot lane?
Because he can be a heavily roaming mid-laner,
especially on something like the Tulu.
I hear all of what you guys are saying,
especially the note.
So who's better?
And I just had to say, young J. J.
I just had to say, no, it was a big day.
And a lot of it was because what I loved about John
wasn't even necessarily like the consistent lanes.
For me, it was about how strong his team fighting was,
so consistently.
The amount of times internationally or domestically,
team liquid would be down and out in the game,
maybe 3K, 5K, gold down, and who would I trust?
It was Captain Young!
Like, John would be somebody on Kaiser that I fully believe
would be able to carry out a fight and would be so focused and when they went down
to Brazil last year, I was like, oh my god, a lot of those games is being one out through
yon. So yeah, I mean for me, I'm super biased on that regard. I got to give it to them.
I wonder what the fans believe, but that's just how it is. So you can see some of the players
leaving the stage. They've done their final check checks. They're going to be doing their
final things to get ready before the game. We're going to be talking about predictions. Okay,
But we're gonna take a little bit longer to do so because you're gonna have to give a good reason
Why you think your team is gonna win? So
Razz
You said y'all is a better bot lane. I did but tell me who's gonna win the game and why I did I spoke highly of
Team Liquid's overall decision making when it came to the offseason and how good it generally was for the long-term
But then I'm thinking about the short-term
It's about this damn game whether you win or not and I and we talked about quest completion
And who do you think benefits that the most in this league?
Tantatose.
Tantatose, get him to this league.
The strongest top-later by far.
His laning stats were incredible alone.
But then we give him the Astrid.
So your team fighting is quite bad.
That's right.
Wow.
Hey, he can improve.
That's right.
Because that's an outdated opinion.
He improved on that heavily.
And then he got lainsawped against.
So then it was cushioned heavily.
The fall of anybody that had to deal with his damn laning.
And now he's back having excellent landing phase, a great teamfighting.
I just think that right now, he cannot be stopped.
And just based off of how they were able to perform in Korea
and coming back into the States, not really having any fears
at all with visas or anything like that,
it just has to be cloud nine.
It just has to be cloud nine.
So I'm just going to give you guys a recommendation.
If you just laughed your forehead up a little bit,
it just is them.
Now, this is a teamfight from Team Liquid.
They had a pretty large goal leap,
they're not, the six-kig oldies for remember going up against non-chimp.
That is a big oldie guy, wouldn't this game?
That's a good question.
Because this moment decided at all,
because Team Liquid is pushing forward, pushing forward,
and then in general, they started to feel the fist of non-chimp
as they were facing too heavily and quit real life.
Ooh, I'm stuck. I'm going gold,
but then I'm losing this one out.
So for me, I just realized that it has to be cloud nine,
because this is a team that perform at Casper Cuck.
They didn't have any of these problems.
You know, who did have these, the problem is it's a little bit just Morgan Morgan.
He just got here.
He just got here recently.
They had to play out with a few other top liners in the meantime while they were practicing.
So I feel like it's a question is who's gonna win if there were a face you guys together?
In the finals that there would be a team looking versus C9?
That's a tough question.
I'm not gonna answer that right now.
What's today?
Today!
It's called 9 for sure.
Okay.
All right.
Good job, Russ.
Emily.
Yeah.
So I was talking about jungle mid.
I feel like that's not gonna be a huge surprise.
I already touched upon this, where I think APA could be.
And I feel like we do this every year,
where we're like, who is the perfect mid-flavoured kind of like Goldie-Law, right?
So, you see three mid-flavoured ones.
That's not who's behind you, Jack.
He's had so many.
There's so much.
And Loki, in the reason why I pulled these plates, specifically,
I'm getting proud of you.
It is that I think, Johnson, obviously was a lot more standard mid, had incredible success with C9.
Niske to me is the platonic ideal of what a mid laner.
I should be for blabber.
Because blabber can absolutely, he's a farm demon.
Sometimes, even if his path gets disrupted, he will find a way, an incredibly efficient way to get back in the game.
His farming is insane in the jungle.
I think there are a lot of kicks that blabber can be really good on right now.
And then, Loki, I wanted to bring up because Blabbering
Loki said specifically, and you kind of heard it in their
columns, or if you were able to watch any of their scrims,
they went in together, and Blabbering really appreciated that,
right? Because the more important thing is not always the call,
but whether you're going in together. And I think if APA can
combine all of these three things, but specifically,
Nishki's kind of map awareness and room potential,
I think he could be a really great mid laner for Blabber,
specifically and allow blabber to play more farming carries,
which also suits the matter right now.
Like you said, Ress, we're talking about today.
I think these are undividually like our top two teams in the league.
And so at the end of the split or walk internet,
maybe I'll feel differently.
But I am going, let's see nine.
Oh, nice.
Two lines.
Three, see nine.
What we see three?
Yeah.
I actually feel a little bit called out in this C9 copy.
in my lies because I posted a power ranking a week after I had done an interview, but
they got posted at the same time. So I said, you can see top left. See not fit when
locking for sure, right? And then my podcast I put to you look at number one. So I need to set
the record straight. Check for babies were not the same day. There was a week apart. But I needed
to update my opinion. I would say this is going to sound like lazy analysis, but I assure you
The track record is there, okay?
Yeah.
See, I know it's all about me tracking their solo queue.
This goes back 10 years.
Yeah.
This goes back to World's 2015 action.
When I was tracking, see, nine solo queue.
And I said it was a worrying trend.
Yeah.
Game of Shinock made this great game.
It was any tag team, where you picked your duo,
you competing against other NA duo's,
and you see who could climb to the top leaderboard.
Guess who absolutely freaking dominated this game?
Team Liquid, absolutely dominated.
Look at the total LP man.
Yeah, they did.
When this was taken, Ryan even though quit
Jose finished second to Yon Court, quit was ranked one.
I didn't know that.
By the way, dark, different.
It was ranked one.
By the way, Yon Court, J.
won it because they were both top five.
Jose was top 10.
Morgan couldn't play because he was in Korea.
So that's no one, Astrix.
But whenever I see a team,
and Clop 9 was this team back in 2015 when they joined the league,
the whole team was top 10 in solo queue,
and they went 25 and 3.
So when you were this good in solo queue,
I do think it translates, especially the start of the season.
Not a wording.
And that's why, actually,
I talked to their analyst and you said,
Jack, have my jacket.
Whoa, he just gave me the jacket.
I'm going to give it back.
It's an amazing jacket for an amazing solo cue team.
That is definitely going to be C9 today.
That's actually true.
It's actually really warm.
The L.J.R. Furn.
Don't you want to give it back?
Okay.
I want to.
So here's the predictions, 212 and 212 and I think all of us are really excited to see this match at the LCS is finally back.
But to me, the biggest question, give me your biggest question mark from this game that we need to see your view.
I need to see how well Morgan performs on day one.
Because yesterday's the all was the aspects of like he just got to the states, so there's going to be time to acclimate.
But I want to see what role he provides is he's just going to be on full weekside role, no matter what as we send our full resources towards the bottom lane
or are they going to let them like thrive a little bit because they did, you know,
talk about it in the late phase. So that's my big question mark because that's the biggest
challenge. My big question mark is the mid lane matchup for everything that I said
of why I think APA can really complement blabber as a jungler, especially in the current
meta. There is a very extended leaning phase right now, right? And made it such an important
pressure point on the map. So I feel like even if there's not a lot of jungle intervention
or support intervention in the mid lane, the way that the mid lane goes is going to be very
crucial to deciding who wins this game.
And that is where I'm like, I don't know,
like, quid can be an absolute leaning monster.
My last thing is I need to see a flabber
against back.
Yeah, he's had one of his worst splits in the last five years.
The title of Top LCS Jungler was taken away from him,
by inspired.
I think he wants it back.
So we're gonna see if you can do that this year.
I am wearing the Team Liquid Jacket.
Opening week, presented by MasterCard, starts now.
Let's go! We're back!
For the Blackers, I was very happy to be able to win the first title for them.
Here's my point with all five members alive!
So it's a bit crazy.
Winning every title is a big step.
And my career still has a lot to come.
Since the beginning, I knew that eventually I can become a gold public league.
I first started out at Washington, and I was really young,
and my favorite players were viewers in the world.
Playing in the Alcés always didn't feel like real,
because it's like kind of like dreaming up to be like an astronaut.
But what I wanted to do was you can't go find Alcés on Alcés team.
It was definitely a inspiring moment.
I remember one of the finals that I did,
a collaborative series in the crowd, started chanting for him.
Did I remember he was like, the super emotional,
and it just gives you motivation to see yourself in those shoes one day.
For majority, I'll see if it was that is the dominant,
if then see nine, so if you went twice and then TL,
Well, I would say there's been really great sea high airs, the OGC Night roster, the
roster's with Jensen Snike, third with me and Zen, and the four years that we want.
Sure that old down CS pass, but I don't think that means we can't start a new down
stake, and yeah, I'm looking forward to improving.
Coming to Russia for only Korea, I was inspired by foreign E-PAP.
They said tender really high for Korean food.
I was hoping that I can do like that.
I'm following their step.
Man, we just found a feeling that I really can't kill him.
Just upcoming split, any of the teams go in.
There's a lot of good players spread across different teams.
And new players, they inject a lot of uncertainty.
Playing in the LCS, this is like my childhood dream.
But naturally as humans, we always want more.
Once we reach a new peak, we want to go in higher.
I think I am in that next generation of players,
because you all know these old folks' amount of entire.
LADY's in German welcome back.
It's 20, 26, and it's time to kick off some professional League of Legends here once more.
There are tons of new changes here in this season on the Rift.
And here at the Rotterdam Games Arena in lovely Los Angeles, we got just as many changes
off the Rift.
We got new teams, new players, new squads, and new opportunities to show everybody who's
the best and who's the rest.
And we're about to kick it off here today.
And we're doing it back under the right name,
back under the right letters, back as the L-C-S.
Now let's go ahead and start this off right before I get to the team's crowd.
I need your help.
When I say who's back, you say L-C-S.
Now who's back?
Oh, come on, you can do better than that.
Who's back?
Let's go!
Let's waste no more time as we introduce our first two competitors.
Here are the new season.
They both happen to be competing in Korea in the Casper Cup during the off season.
So let's go ahead and get a bit of a feeling all starting with Team Liquid.
In the top lane Morgan,
a jungle holds a yellow,
mid lane quid,
80 carry on,
and support,
por jay jay!
And now the opponent's
please welcome,
Climb!
No!
Top laner, Santa Toes,
jungler, blabber, mid laner APA,
80 carries Ben and support Vulcan.
One more time for TLM-C9,
the first two competitors today,
back for the LCS.
Oh man, it feels so good to be back here at PLCS Kobe, and it sounds so sweet!
When you spin, it's off the tongue!
Oh, super excited here.
We got Jad Armstaves there behind Team Liquid.
Did you think there's previous employment by Team Liquid, a fact that his flip-flop down
on the wall!
He's gonna put him up!
Oh, interesting stuff there, Jad!
Looks like it's going to be talking about a whole day up here.
We've done to our pick up 14 liquid.
I know they are excited about them.
All right.
Before we get into champ select,
we're going to go ahead and quickly hear from the players on stage.
So welcome back to the LCS as well.
I know you've been here before on Flag West.
How does it feel being back on the LCS H now team with it?
It feels great, especially in liquid.
I think we have a good team and a lot of...
I don't know. A lot of them stuck here.
I'm pretty happy to be in league mid and I'm excited to be back.
What are we happy about for in this match-up that is going to let you guys beat Senand?
I don't know. I think a lot of comes from the airport weren't you?
I think we're playing a lot and playing a lot of solucy.
So we're pulling a lot of people. I think that's not a fail for us.
And we're going to do a little bit.
All right, solucy, you guys are in crushing. Thank you, Jose.
I'd like to get ready. We've got Razz on the other side.
Talking to APA.
That's right. I got APA with me with a lighter blue on.
You've now down down this cloud nine blue distance you joined how the bend working with the team eight cuts for top with a new play
All right, it's been nice so far. I've actually been enjoying myself for the last year last year was kind of health
But so far it's been good any expectations that you plans that you have going now
Of course on your new role on cloud nine. All right, I think we're gonna shoot on the week. I think we're the best team
It's supposed that and you just talked about team look at a little bit you join that team
That was the start of your career in the LCS. Now you're going up against them. I'm message for them
All right, good luck. You'll do it
And now let's start the show
Thank you very much, rats and chat and ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the LCS
It feels so good to say it again. It's so good to be back
I'm Captain Flowers joined by Kobe and a zale here as we welcome back our league
We welcome back our James and we have our players to show us what they got. I mean, it's just so fun, man
I got to get part of the draw show
I'm not saying I'm not saying I'm not saying it's a good
That's awesome
Turned out pretty damn good this time. We've got APA on C9
You know, what are these expected top teams going up against his former team in the kickoff?
Yes, crazy
He also tweeted out that he was going to tackle
it's going to be really fun.
T. L obviously a ton of changes over on the other side.
They won. Let's go to the Quits sweepstakes.
Everyone had felt like was trying to get this.
Everybody had a tip in Europe in an A.
Everyone really was looking for Quit.
And it's also, you know, really makes it even more interesting.
Because Quit in the NBA have a relationship.
These guys are friends.
You know, they're like, they're not like, they're like,
I don't know.
They're like, you know, you know, they're not like,
you know, they're like, you know, you know,
have a relationship. These guys are friends.
You know, they practice against each other. They're talking all the time.
And so that's an end that is going to be really fun because even if you're happy for
your friends to get us one on a good team on TL, you still definitely want to beat
them and show them that they made a mistake in replacing you.
And one of the big things for Quid is you have to bring his coach,
spooks over with them and well, spawn and spooks have a long relationship, a long history
there. So adding that coaching staff also really should help with integrating quid style
into this team liquid roster and whatever you're talking about team liquid coaching
spawn is in the building he's basically here as a corporation a lot of
an inside the riot games arena and T.L. fans are always happy to see it
absolutely and this year though it's gonna be a different thing and I talked to
spawn quite a bit you know he's saying this moves is gonna be the guy that is
handling the drafting on stage spawn it's gonna be more focused on big
picture stuff on the you know interaction between the players and how they're
actually you know really kind of working as a team okay we are gonna have this
And it's more stepping into that drafting role and really more focused on that aspect day to day.
So they are going to be, you know, this kind of tag team duo and new coaches on the other side as well.
We got a narrow, but I will dominate as well suited up.
I know that's the best team I'm impressed that you're looking good here over there in double suits.
Let's get right into the draft up into those coaches.
All right, draft is started up and team liquid.
They know all too well about APA Ziggs.
They're going to band that one away immediately alongside the chase that we've been seeing a lot of in solo queue
Various top has been an absolute menace. That's going to be band away. I don't the other side. A colleague mouthlight and rumble band out by C9
And I'm seeing Orion is still up. So we're looking at some Orion is your style for each year for the mid lane
I don't expect any deviations from that meta
It I'm going to get you some first by being on the right side first election. I was about to say it looks like we might have a graphics error here
But I've got a first selection.
I've got to get my brain used to this with the red side getting the first pick there.
See, not takes it's here.
Yep, exactly.
Gonna be going for this year as you're worried, you know, very classic matchup.
It is really all about can you force the flash off the or if we do have quit selecting,
which is the expectation.
A being not known for his is here, but he did have some good as your games last split with TL.
And has really been working on that trying to expand the champion pool, trying to beat the allegations.
I thought he's limited champions now. Also we have to think about the top lane here with Midlane taking care of because with grumble being banned
And that's a renectin is really big priority here. Huge band of Mbessa if you don't get countered by renectin
So a lot of times the strategy you can go for is used as your third pick here
Four team liquid and then you get to ban basically safety bands and you can ban away the renectin
or you can just pick it yourself there.
More Morgan, then it tells Versus Morgan
is one of our most high matchups in the entire league
that everyone is looking forward to.
As soon as Morgan pick up 14 liquid was announced,
I went into the editor's stream.
I was like, oh, how do you feel about the pick up?
And he was actually really complimentary.
He was like, I'm excited for him.
We have to deal with your next and right here.
To have a really strong competitor.
Blabber taking away the nearly here from Jose as well
is a really big pick.
So, like you say, if you always want to have some CC
to pair an Italy, I think we're just going to get an alien
to be able to have that dive.
And then this basically this way to you from taking the M
Bessa on the team liquid side, which is what I was
exactly talking about.
Yeah, I mean, I think it makes a lot of sense.
Renekton is also Morgan's most played all time.
And I think, you know, it is one of his most successful
if not, it's the most successful champion.
So you're getting a denial pick there.
You're getting fanitosed on a lane dominant champion.
Without it, he was the best lane in top laner in the league.
last year. So you're putting a lot of eggs in the
Thanos basket, which I just think makes so much
sense here, put pressure on Morgan and you're
coming into this new environment. And the
thing is when you're playing against
Renekton, Italy, you just want to have something
safe that even if they target you even if they
dive you, it's not going to be a big problem.
And I am that role perfectly trying to fill it
with some sort of take there. So really
good response. I feel like from team
liquid. Renekton, Italy, even if they're
going to get that point, click, you know, follow
up, should be very resilient up there and sign. It's just such an amazing front line here to
put in front of Corquio Rihanna in the double carries. So really good responses, I think, from both sides.
Absolutely, I mean, even if you got the sign, pass it pops up, you farm the way you get the
XP and then you go home guards down on this new season that allows you to, oh, I don't even
more quickly. It is very difficult to keep sign on down these days. Now, you know, I'm going to
to get fined away so strong on this current patch.
Yeah, I think they're only worried about that more consistent damage from 80 carries, even
though Varus did get buffs on this patch and is really popular, and lesser going on hit
Varus, you definitely don't want to play Lee Thouty Varus into a team that is already
sure.
So definitely could go some more on hit 80 carries here, and there are some good options.
I felt he was there for everything like that.
with a lot of changes on this match.
Meanwhile, C9 going to target the jungle there a little bit, getting rid of the
knock turn, kind of removing the opportunity to combo that with the Orianna Shockwave
it paired with Quizz Ori.
As what are we going to get here from TL?
Is it further 80 carry focus and it'll be Alistar instead?
Only worried about the extra engaged here because that's the one thing if you are
locking in, Renekton Italy definitely going to want a little bit more solid support here.
We work coming from Bolkins.
still have options like relatively on and all these time.
Not like this, yeah.
But anything is that Nico is still up to and Nico right now and a lot of the other major
reasons I've already started playing earlier than highly prioritized so still can't see that
other engaged from the bottom lane and still has a very strong lane itself.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, there's lots of options obviously you're off the not all this here on this side,
but you would touch on them.
You still have a parallel.
You still have a con Leona, Nico, even things like board, which has been very
successful on Jarvan relatively popular on this patch and what did the bill but I
was a definitely known for the least in so we're becelling this right now I
mean at least it's a signature for a lot of players but I was a definitely
really like it as well so we'll keep shifting on through here what else is it
gonna be key on the interesting cuz it gets a nerf though not quite as
the last saw at worlds and will
this go much more standard
here in general 11 14
liquid. Oh, sir, Bart. I
mean, Bart, looking as
very good at the bar, we'll
see if he is going to walk
he did lock it. So is going
to be selecting that? I'm
curious to see does he
go more for a lane focus
in a with this karma or
they want point in clicking
cage? Obviously, you have
this in to start off fights.
You have the sign to kind of
alt in. We don't have any
like just guaranteed go button.
So would be interesting.
So in a definitely is really
strong. I think these days.
a lot of you are.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Died them at Coast Healing
Builders very strong champions that
can vote on the damage and heal damage.
But Nami, going to be the choice.
Normally, often thought of right next
to Lucian in most setups, but this time
she's leading with a cork.
I kind of think of this combo.
I kind of think of Dago and how he would play
the cork he's so aggressively.
You know, with this Nami pairing,
you obviously throw the E on him.
He goes forward and he's kind of just forcing
people to try to engage on him.
There's not really that hard engage over
I'm going to have a really powerful 2v2 and it's going to be up towards the top side, where
and blabber needs to start snowballing in a vintage.
So which side of the draft do you guys like the best?
Here are first game, if 2020 sticks with all the new challenges.
I just think it's an easier draft to play.
I think there's a lot more pressure on C9
to get things done in the early stages
with this knittedly renectin.
And I think that is the more difficult half of the draft to play.
I feel like it's pretty even in my eyes
because having the double-sureema carries for later,
too, with the Xer and Siver does give you a lot of objects.
It does.
force of team fights, you are going to be half of a beat proactive though with your
playmaking. So honestly, I think that with these drafts and my eyes being very close,
it's going to come down to the playmaking. Do you have good Bard ultimate? Bard is such
a variable champion. It could look completely useless or a 1 v 9. So only 9 for 1 team or
the other team. Yeah, well thank you. Who's still left the region? So the title for our best
Bard is up for grabs and Vulcan was making a good case. Yeah, Vulcan went the 1 extra
out to me the most in New
Seoshadow, which wherever
but he else stood.
But in that shadow,
he's the one who stood tall.
So we'll see what he can
bring here.
It is week one day one day
one of LCS 2026.
We got our two teams that got to
compete in the cast
become in the off season for a
little bit of extra stage
time, a little bit of extra real
practice together as a squad.
And I think that means a lot
in situations like this.
I feel like the beginning of
every year is always about
which team can work together
better.
Yeah, I can already see the Bander of the Union on the APA.
Y'all inside the APA diving, because I have you mutate bros,
Scott, what do you want to say with your hands?
Oh, team mates, no, for sure.
Yeah.
The first rule when you're playing with the team,
that has APA is, it's the mutant, as well as his e-motes.
Very good.
Yeah.
Gotta keep him mutated.
APA always going in with the mental warfare,
the type of games.
It's just like, you could not have drawn a better first game
for our return of the LCS with these two teams being so hyped as flowers with a looting
to. These are our two teams with the most practice after being assembled, playing in the
Kesbook up, practicing very heavily together. Of course, Cloud9 besides APA, keeping all
these other members over here. So really building up a lot of synergy and the hype between
these two teams. These are expected to be without a doubt our top two. And the typing just continues
to see your APA squid as well starting to go back and forth.
APA, by the way, are discord with some discord messages with squid.
Got a very spicy with it.
So one of the players, this is the update from the pause on stage.
I wanted to play her selected the wrong runes.
So they were asking for a remake and then it has to be discovered.
Okay, was this player error?
It's player error.
You got to deal with it.
Yeah, tough attack.
You're going to play through.
And if it was not with a bug, then they would have to remake.
So they're checking to make sure none of them immediately stand out as bizarre to me.
At least from what we can see, we can't see secondary or anything like that, so I don't
know, we'll have to find out what ruins they do want to change.
And essentially like his Al's talking about, it comes down to, did the guy click it and
the client didn't register it or did he just forget to click?
Okay, forgot to click.
It's a him problem.
If the client didn't work, it's an everyone problem.
So hopefully we can get that resolved as a P.C. where it goes and like you're talking
about as well, it might not even be something big like the wrong keystone.
It might just be a minor room, but sometimes that can make the difference in your landing
phase going a good way or a much different way.
Okay, so the update is that there was a visual bug.
So when the players selected their rooms on their screen is showed that they had actually
selected the correct room, but I guess it did not actually update even though it showed
that did on their screen.
So it was obviously a client bug that's not the player's fault.
So there is going to be a remake then for it.
There's very blue.
Yeah, we got the moon dog cosplay.
The other shout out, pushing, pushing, pushing.
No moon dog picked up as yet in the series that we did get them out.
They get some others though, you know?
Some kind of lies and hovers.
So we are remaking now.
Right?
The sales that I'm going to believe since the client did not just play
correct out.
So I assume they're in the process.
They're just really not there.
I don't know, you're going to have to talk to them about that later, but we are going
ahead, restarting that one since it was found that the player did select the ruins
that they thought they had in the client kind of short change them on that one.
So we ought to be able to get back to them here ASAP.
Yeah, that should be a full moment though.
We're going to have the same champions, obviously, same everything except those ruins
will be changed.
You can't change anything else up.
This is going to be really exciting.
I do think that top lane matchup should be so interesting, obviously, we're playing
best of us.
We're not having any best of ones this year.
This is going to be really fun kick off obviously with the Swiss stage we're going best of threes,
they're going to be on it into full best of five for playoffs.
Everything whole year through though, it's going to be best of threes, best of
five.
So we're going to get a lot out of the fearless.
We're going to see more of this top lane matchup.
Morgan, I had heard some people even saying that Morgan was potentially the best player on
T.L. based off scrim.
So this guy's been playing really, really well.
It's exciting to see how he shows up.
shows up but this is all the chat that they were going back and forth with. By the
way, out of the eight-eight new giant beard, you know, it's actually not to him to his beard.
Oh, here, this is the theory of the own person. Yeah, once it becomes a certain size, it's
a become separate from the person. It's the sixth man on the bus. Yeah, that's an
advantage.
Uh-huh. See if you can get in there for the tackle as well still expecting some action
on stage between these two.
You get like a set bonus buff.
You go for like, you know, like,
reserve champion, you go for like,
Olaf or something, do a little more damage.
We got the beer.
We got some TFT synergy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The beer bonus.
I don't know if my mid laners lock and Olaf,
I'm giving him the report buff.
Like, I'm not so sure unless it's Baker.
I mean, they're our exceptions to every rule.
But I also think it's highly unlikely I ever end up
in the same lobby with Baker.
You know what I mean?
There's a difference between three and a lot of the time world champions and
Skarner.
It's just not the same world.
But we are back in the lobby.
It's getting remade off your screen right now.
We're about halfway through slamming all those picks, getting them locked in, making sure
the rooms are correct.
And then we will be live on the rift.
I ended up in a lobby with Cloud Templar and he institutes me.
So you're not a guy.
Definitely don't like your means, be dreams.
Also don't be heroes, so Todd's.
Because they bite just into you.
This is the end of me last week.
Somebody in the crowd have been coming so low to you game.
And it's not happy with the results.
I'm saying I'm going to be stabbing myself.
I've been dabbling in some 80 carry rules.
So apologies if you follow me.
Okay.
I was going to say we need bally pair of bumps,
but it doesn't even sound like we do.
Bally is actually going in right now.
That's getting done is so OP.
We'll get into the new items though.
Well, yeah, one of the funnest parts about the the new season is the new items. We don't have any really good dust can dawn users in this in this match-up
Yeah, no echo or Diana
Paris
But man, that item is crazy though. It is really good on the champions. It's really good on that is for sure
I feel like that it's kind of true of a lot of the items like there are some of these items that are more specific to some champions
But they're super powerful when on the right champion, so would be interesting.
That took us good dog user right there.
That is a huge catch.
Yeah.
Good nap catch.
Is it eating a muck?
Go speeding away.
Q auto gobble him up.
To strong going in.
All right, we're loading into the game.
Sorry about that ladies and gentlemen.
Sometimes the ruins don't get registered, but now we are locked in.
Everybody's ready to go and we're ready to hit the rift for our first.
are first game here in this best of three.
Just like in the outside earlier, it's best of three's best of five's all year long.
Imagine playing best of ones in 2020.
It's a game to hear.
I was going to say it.
We got CL in the blue.
We got C9 on the red.
Our best of three between the two teams that I think a lot of us have a number one and two
for predictions at the end of the lock-in.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm told.
Yeah, I think Lion, another team that a lot of people are very excited about, so we'll
be interesting to see how their season starts off.
Look at this intimidating discord message.
Bang, Bang, same thing, same thing, same thing, you line by line, you got to keep reading.
APA, it could have very close friends by the light.
This is, I can tweet this.
He's not a fountains.
Holy sh.
I always love quiz reactions, they do.
This is so awesome.
Yeah, I mean, aren't we home on the press?
Yes, we are.
But now you're the enemy until the match is over.
All right, all right, all right, all bets are off.
It's a play-offs are concluded.
All right, the front of me is in mid lane.
We'll see how that match up.
It does go currently.
We're getting the early Orianna push there.
And what should be top down clears here for both junglers,
ending up with possible, you know,
gank opportunities towards this bottom lane
that aren't trading pretty heavily.
Yeah, I mean, they both already used both bear and heal on.
either side, and a potion for all four has been popped.
Quarcing a lot of damage now, but it's been going to have to be careful.
Yeah, pretty good sustain form.
They're looking for the level two.
Okay, going in further, it's been involved in retreats, then down to about 200 HP.
We are going to get some pretty intense trading here, but nobody's in lethal range just yet.
Broken down to 100 HP.
Oh, it's pretty good.
And this is the core, no pun intended, of the team liquid, roster, they rebuild here.
they wanted to keep yana corgi a year as we talked about this as being the most
fearsome bot lane duo that we have in the entire LCS with the corki nami
have a lot of power there more than though taking a decent chunk of damage here
from the renectin and we'll see if the a reset here is going to be meaningful can yana
corgi a j actually get that first little baby turf plate they're going to get the
push in at the very least and get their nice recall timer yeah they'll be able to get
this recall, but oh my god, it's obviously helping out Sven and Vulcan, you know, being
able to get back more quickly. There's less of a punish there. Yeah, I think it's just, when
your recall time goes off, are you going to have the better buy because a little dagger for
silver? That is looking pathetic. It's not feeling great. It's not the size of the dagger.
He's got one dagger in one hand, and then the other hand, he always, let's be reasonable.
It's fully equipped. He's a duel exactly. It's one step above glowing mode man. Let's be realistic.
That thing does not feel very favorable trace.
Loing mocos crazy to season.
All right.
Good.
Some different definitions of crazy.
Yeah.
I like the enthusiasm.
Yeah.
All right.
They'll take us to the asylum here in the glowing mode.
Let's see.
Top lane here.
You're going to see Morgan go ahead.
Take his first recall.
Teleport back into lane.
Once again, not an amazing buy.
It's a cloth armor and a refillable.
Nothing that you're going to write a postcard home about.
But again, he has a really judgmental buy these buys.
The buys aren't great, man.
It's an off-brand crappy t-shirt and one dollar star somewhere flyers.
It's not great.
It's not a ten-moon fan here.
It's not the price.
There's immediately on goes forwards.
Vending a little bit of trouble and has to get away through that magical journey.
Popped the flash as well.
Summoner spells down and he is in danger here.
The bottom lane once again.
Going away up to yeah.
Well, now the wave is going to be held against them.
So this time it's actually worse.
Last time it was at least pushing towards Sven and Vulk in.
and Vulcan, but Yonjay, they got hands.
They're just going so aggressive with the trading.
Even though the farm is very, very even,
these trades all going in Yonan, of course, favor.
Yeah, and the menu we've just got a melting here
in front of them, too.
So TL have a really good position with the minion wave.
They have massive sustain advantage
because the buy did allow Yonan to also get a refillable
in addition to having Nami, sustained advantage here.
So TL, they've got the upper hand and combat power
and huge, huge sustain benefits.
Yeah, you get these little cocoa puffs over here.
From Vulcan in the back.
He's kind of growing up some,
so Michelle, this is the cocoa puff.
But it's not gonna be the same.
Yeah, and I mean, people have been talking a lot about T.L.
Both in Scrims and in SoloQ.
There, just recently we have the tag team duo's competition.
Yeah, they're talking to both the top two spots.
And by a mile, you know, one KLP or more out of that next spot.
I mean, I was covering this while they were doing this competition on the final day, with
24 hours still to play, everybody else was playing for the bronze medal.
That's it.
Like Team Liquid was so far ahead.
The only way that the first place could be upset was by the other team Liquid.
What was crazy?
Team Liquid have always had that grind mindset all up to times led by Core J.J.
You know, he was one of the early ones hosting in-house.
His before we even had champions Q and really always encouraged both with Team Liquid
with main team as well as their Academy team
when they had them that everybody really prioritized
a lot of hours plays.
They respond when I was talking to him
in this office, and he was telling me how,
every season he's always like,
all right, core, is this the year you want to coach?
Cause he's like, I think something's gonna be such a good coach.
And he goes like, no, he's like,
okay, go prove to me you're still good.
And then he'll go get right one of the solo queue,
and he said that's like their yearly tradition.
And he's like, all right, he's still got hands.
I like it. I like it.
They're bottom lane definitely does have hands and will that result in dragon priority for them?
They've had a lot of prowling here, but they're gold overall.
Wait a second. See if we get a tight spot here.
Yeah.
So they'll grab.
Those are the owners of the middle of everybody.
Shopsway, they've already come down from the top.
Blacks will be danger.
Trying to get away.
Queen finds first blood with a quad-plot work lined up.
You'd a flea place there as C9 wanted to see if they could contest, but TLS the punish.
The synergy here, a hall is hand-quid, picked up by Team Liquid, and they instantly go for a flash-shock with play,
quid then following up one last auto attack, a flashes are invested for them, but remember, first of all,
the whole John's coming in, standing some danger, trying to get away from this one, stun, and the wall from Vulcan keeps his 80 carry alive,
but again, it's John and Cole relentless in the bottom lane, too.
Me, too.
I don't know what I'm just gonna say, that it is worth flashing for first floods, again, it actually feels so nice,
And then they put the gold back on it.
It's not just the feet's quest anymore.
Get that thing out of here.
We got some real rewards for getting first blood bonus.
So well worth investing there.
I think from Quid and Jose,
to be able to get that.
And then as you say, this bottom line pressure
is unrelenting.
Yeah, I mean, they're going right now.
I also love that the gold is back in first hour.
That feels really, really good too.
Those are great changes in my mind.
You know, it's aggressive blaze,
but they are able to punish blabber.
And blabber has not really been able to affect any lanes
just yet. He doesn't have any sort of a CS advantage over Jose. So yeah, I think
T.L. are super happy with the pace of this game. The pressure on that
spots, I nonstop. And here it is one more time. The ball is right on Jose's head.
And he's just going to find his woman to go straight in on the blabber, flash in
with that Q3. Brett, Insenaka, shockwave there. Blabber has no ability to flash away
from that shockwave. Yeah, Jose's eyes were on blabber. Guess where blabber's eyes were.
grab a crab.
That's right.
Look at that juicy crab.
It's a little longer.
It's going to come again.
Hold on.
Flavor if he dies a second time.
It's tragedy for the C9 jungler.
With a low during the replay, we got to investigate how he got in there.
He's going for the invade Orianna.
It does cost you some increased quest progress when these laners are going for
Invite like it into the jungle.
But your quest progress gets refunded because you got to kill and kill and
get way more so quit here we go beautiful replay thank you very much
observers and we see quid just chase him down and it is rush it is just insane
or we are here the ultimate came back up for quid and he's the lead's
blabber again I mean that was really well played you know blabber and thought
okay I'm more than a mobility I can clear this more than get out there but
that phase rush proc allows him to chase him down in the jungle gets back and
range for the shockwave, gets a second kill.
And just like that, Quinn is really accelerated.
Top lane, yesterday's this nice little CS League for Thanos.
He's a couple of waves ahead, but it's silent.
And if you haven't really blown it up for this point,
it usually is not going to get out of control.
Yeah.
I mean, you talked about it as if we're getting a dip
for the game even start.
But Quinn was the most eligible bachelor
of all the LCS.
All the teams were trying to court him.
And for a good reason, Quinn is a star.
and being able to chase down blabber who audnidly, you know,
this is a champion where you have so much mobility
that you do feel like you have the pass
to go do types of stuff like that,
but Orianna really nice usage of all the extra speed boost there.
And Regbuff is your second reward on top of your two kills.
On top of all this gold that he has,
Regbuff by the way feels really nice.
Again, it got some good buffs, especially for the early game.
But he just talked about it yet, but you know,
that that play where we did see the first one on the blabber.
It's like the double flash spent there.
AP still has this flash, you know,
I want to see C9 look to attack Quid,
but that is why T.L. are playing behind him.
This is the flashest Oreo on against a zero width flash.
If you can get multiple members there
and at least try to punish that.
That is something, but Quid nearly has the flash back
at this point.
Best defense for Quid is a good offense.
Make an attack him.
Take it, me if I gave you.
Exactly, he's genius strategy for him.
He's just gonna go ahead and paint the jungler.
All right, we've got no neutral objectives
play for a flight a while now four minutes on the next Drake because
Jose de Odo claimed the first one just 60 seconds ago and then the
ripped out not going to be rearing his head for another five minutes or
so but it is C9 with three grubs to their name we'll see if maybe
Thanos can get some pressure on one of the sidelines put those grubs to
good use but when you're losing in four out of five positions it can make
it more difficult to push off and really get some plate money quits going to
go ahead grab the second plate from mid lane and honestly I think it
feel alive with the nurse to avoid grubs. I don't know if anyone else feels
as strongly, but I think they are just garbage. I think they are trash now. So if
once you're mistaken, dragons and then you get to avoid grubs, but that is a
super uneven trade. And it was like they kind of forced you into just taking the
constellation prize. John, every low on HP, they're luckily does not get caught by
the temperate. Oh, great. The walk away on this one, Corbinite, Bob, we all still
a little bit of a danger. He can
survive a way. Make sure that
C9. I'm going to get anything
else when become blighting up
the wall from Jose. Connects on
no target. That's T. L. Reinforce
with their jungler. C9's got
walk away. Yeah. That was a
year thing though. You're
young and aggressive. They both
can actually hit that all T.
There was no flash. They only
likely would have come in. They
probably could have finished them
off because that misses because
of the great bubble. You honestly
able to walk away and look at
quickly. Quarassum top right
back up that Nami's sustained is
why they're trading so aggressively.
They want these trades constantly.
We were on the top side.
There's those invested as ultimate.
Renekton ultimate is one of your big kill
possible windows.
Morgan though has been doing a good job trying to hold
him off just farming up as much as he can on the top side.
Does get the pop up for a question for both of them here.
And then it does has been able to get his little CS lead here
for Renekton and get his turret plate money.
But in the end, you do get a team fighting
Sion for later for the side of T.L.
And they knew that they were opting into this
when they saw the Renekton Niddly
lock-ins on the side of Cloud9.
So if you're on the T.L. side,
you've got to be feeling pretty dang good
about the way that this game is going.
Yeah, they gotta be really, really happy.
Phenato's definitely still at a much longer point right now
if they were to be a team fight
once his ultimate is back,
because he's on the Black Cleaver.
When you make that pit stop for the Bramble,
of course that is going to slow things down.
If you think you're trading or another ulti there from quit,
can't threaten anything lethal, this time with APA.
Just runs and flew with the spear.
Nice solo kill from the C9, man.
Let me see some ol' chat here, come on.
Where's the response APA?
He's rolling, there we go.
Okay.
He's on board, yeah.
He had to finish up the minute way.
And if it is the minute way, he has changed, actually.
Before he would just instantly type even while he's like C.S.
saying, you know, now it's like focused.
He's locked in, I got to collect my gold, then I'll have the luck for it.
Right.
It's a good score as well, very strong at all.
Yeah.
This is why you got a mutant before the game starts.
You're not going to give you an inch.
And let's see again how he found it.
So quit just over invested in like this.
This court day day to stay.
That's good.
Like he had really caught a lot of confidence there.
And he was just counting on, all right, I'm going to do this heavy trade.
I have Corp behind me.
It'll be fine.
And he just underestimated the extra soldier damage here from the last year.
and his shield plus cordia jake kind of walking back over was got enough to keep him up
so that is a big shutdown for cloud nine and this makes it way more interesting
because there's double charima carries a talk about a chip select here
you know even though bottom lines give thing getting considered a lot spend farming
okay and now the AP has gotten a kill back in and mid lane
this is here on one item power strike is under attack okay APA tries to get out
but hold the video, it's ready to flash, follow,
quiz, good flash here, it's round, Jose.
These are jungler after my own heart.
He's gonna take that kill himself.
Make sure that he gets accelerated in this game,
through the one TL.
This Jose pickup here, this Jose quits synergy.
I'm liking what I'm seeing already.
And this is very early on here from them.
That's gonna lead into Dragon number two, stacking for TL.
Again, Dragon stacking to me is just the most important
objectives in the whole game now with Ottercar
the game removed and tops out of the
marketing reduce a little bit.
Labyrinth Vulcan are getting a little bit
antsy here trying to sneak around
the flash.
With has no flash.
They know it.
They're chasing out to the only
on it now.
He doesn't get caught with the tempered
phase shortly.
This should just be the death of
Quidd.
They want to put that money on the
blabber.
They can do it.
There we go.
Blabber getting away out of that
one.
They do it.
At least find the kill.
But it is two drinks.
They bring team liquid.
Yeah.
take that kill. So no goal for blabber there, but still being able to punish that missing flash is really nice, but yeah, like he's he just on Kobe, it's great to see the aggressive play from quit in Jose di Odo this duo looking good thus far here against the nine, but the goal pretty much dead even.
I just always get that kind of like worried feeling if I've been nearly on my team and they are ended up behind.
You don't have to say anything after we're team there.
Yeah, I'm just always worried if there's no
Because this type of a situation 0 and 2 start not being able to really affect the map early. It's the nightmares near now
I mean you basically become poking healing, right, but they have an army see your poke isn't really that relevant
Yeah, and I mean you can try and highlight
Ooh, some attack speed bonuses for a civer and is here a little bit too, but that is reaching
You know that's what we're looking for here
I like I said I still think they have lots of ways to play out these team fights here at four cloud nine even as the game does progress here
There is a lot of playmaking available on that squad, but TL. They just seemed really locked in at the moment moving over to Rift Harrow
This is a really nice
You know rewards here with Rift Harrow with so much value out of towers just being instantly accessible
You don't have to take the complete tower to get the gold
Okay, here comes your dive. Morgan's gonna try to get away, but they put APA in front of him so he cannot use the all team to get all the distance he wants.
Morgan tries to get back underneath the turret, but then the tow's APA and Vulcan together.
Or enough to force the 3B1 find the kill in exchange for that hero that holds any Odo got in the top side, and now that's immediately summing up.
So what's a quick mistake is your one. Our last couple of secrets is a bad team liquid going for the objective and five nine saying,
Okay, fine, you can have that objective. We're gonna get a kill somewhere else.
for Dragon. It was going after
Quinn. It going for the kill
there. We'll see. They do get
the bottom side. But again,
Rift out does get guaranteed
value now since Rift, you know,
turret plates give you a lot of
the gold and so it actually
feels a lot nicer. If you
don't finish up at least
the tower on bottom side. Yep. Yep.
You're going to play something
here too as well. You know,
there's plates on all of these
towers except for the next
towers. So, you know,
it's your two. It's your freeze.
So even though they don't kill
that you're two, still more gold
there for Quinn.
and Labyrin has to fly away from the shockwave or would've been a third death for this
hitling and it's echoes of hell yeah so he is going into more that supportive style he has
brought up the item we also have the handlepipes for Vulcan that I was showing earlier you know
on from that lower third the handlepipes are ridiculously super it's basically anything that
can use it should use it bar slow as with the knee bottoms is gonna apply that so you know with
the additional tax speed from the
Nettelie plus the BAMO PIVES tax speed.
It's not bad. Like it becomes pretty
relevant for both the SIVER as well as
the SIR. At the very least, it did get the
cost increase this patch. So three out
of you. The region more gold to still get
an op item went from an extremely
op and cheap to just upbeat.
That's that. That's actually a
lead to a quick. That's a screener.
Instead of as plus plus, it's just
as. It's just, it's still really
good. You could be a little bit more
on who you're going to get it on now just a little bit
you know he was confused by it.
I feel like pay the money.
Yeah.
We've gotten the sins of the long ago times of EGIS of the Legion.
Get like, or a stats are really strong in the elections.
And then speaking of the echoes there, it does require,
or at least greatly increased effectiveness if you're still doing damage.
And literally at the post.
The damage is conditional.
Yeah.
So, standard.
Whoa.
Super low on that one.
Y'all and Core J.J.
are just keeping the gas pedal down against this guy all game long.
Yeah, that is just frightening damage.
I mean, when you have that mandate, you throw at the e-buff,
Y'all just walks forward.
It's then going to fight that.
It's not even close.
How do you use this spell shield?
How do you use the bear?
How do you use the altar?
And really nothing was committed over on that other side.
Y'all exhausted.
Has to falc away.
Looses about 60% HP and hits him with the potato frog.
Side steps.
You have to get it again, nicely done, y'all just letting them know, nice try.
I mean, Bulkin just has not been able to hit these altis at all.
And Bliver barely missed the spear.
It wasn't that bound target, but I believe it clipped a minions.
We couldn't fully connect and actually commit to that play.
Got to hit some some skill shots here.
If you're going to turn this game back around 4.9.
Early down the dragon.
You know, the early couple of ones you don't start to sweat too much.
But number three is coming up in 12 seconds here and team Liquid already trying to move in to take the vision
So they can actually win the fight first Morgan here. Yeah, Morgan's gonna see Paul Kim but a quick match
Go journey through the wall means that the C9 support is fine. Jorge J also very importantly side step the spear
It was coming out from blind. Yeah, so far. He's on T it out APA still very far away. No teleport ready
For that C9 midway to Thanos wrapping around from the side looking for the angle here against team liquid
He's already popped the dominance. He's charging up some theory.
Boking gets away. That's a journey through the wall.
With throws the ball.
Finds Thanos.
See how trying to position respectfully towards that flanking
Renactive.
Dragons losing his patience. He's going to reset afterwards with pit.
4,000. He's going to be inspired.
Team Liquid. Still to make this one and half.
Thanos was full theory. But no dominance.
Time to wait flies out. Who's with the auto?
Trying to stay on top of the dragon.
Thanos, you have the flash forward. Try to be the front line.
It's definitely taking down.
Who's the auto? Grab the kill.
But more we're going to straighten it back.
It's one from one here on the top.
and he was going to ask to try to make his way back
in the front of his mother to get a New York just yet.
88 is engaging, Morgan's dead body finally gone.
10% of his nothing.
88 down to 180 feet is still looking.
Team Liquid gonna walk away from this one
and ultimately it's a one for one and see nine
stop the Drake staff.
Oh, just barely clouded at that time.
ABA on the side here was getting so much damage down on Morgan.
Look at Morgan as he was trying to walk in
was kind of getting cooked by these soldiers.
So even though Thanos is all expired before the fight,
morning time just as fast and then if you keep all about APA and the side creating space for
water to secure the dragon then it gets chunked low here the flash looks a little bit funny
but I think he's scared of a flash auto following so I think he wanted to early flash to grab
a boy that okay cloud nine bringing it back this is what we wanted from our first series
of the LCS returning in 2026 they get this gold right back within reach Dragon picked up
four cloud nine as well. And now we get to see that Sharima power
talking about for the carries crit synergies have come in for
spend big i e-crets can come through and you saw the power of the
ride lies second item for a pa in the previous one. It helps out so much
so annoying the extra slow cc is very very valuable and allows them to
play out these team fights much, much easier. So cloud nine getting
there side of the team fights operational.
I mean Morgan obviously is picking up some MR and now trying to build towards that,
but you were landing against Thanato soon.
He had a lot of armor early on.
He had the sunfire, he had the brambles, so there's a lot of gold invested in this
physical damage reduction left some pretty vulnerable to APA in this hour.
Could just get rushing out.
Yeah, they're going to Tier 1, Vulcan, tempered fate onto two.
Connects it this time.
Follow up, not going to be there.
Jose and Yon trying to get back up into the wall.
See nine, reinforcing with every man on the map.
The Tier 1 still stands.
John shunned by a spear, but immediately healed up by Core JJ, C9 hit control back over
their side of the jungle.
They have Morgan during this whole time is pushing mid lane, so they're trying to get
mid lane priority, which is going to draws then over to farm the rest of it, and they might
even go for an extra play here.
Team Liquid all the time.
Oh, C9, they try to stop it.
Defensible, they coming out for the APA, couldn't move on to the other goal for it.
When it comes lightning, and users in JLLT, APA is jumping down, holding the auto taken
the kill, Fana toast on the run, here comes Morgan, like a free train at the jungle and
it's core change and taking the kill, it's y'all taking the turn, it's team liquid,
taking everything they want in the bottom lane.
Once again, the macro firm team liquid is really exquisite here, Morgan stays mid, pushes
mid, draws them over to that side, and then they can reenact this play on the bottom side,
they go for the dive, and since Morgan is on side on, he can get their quicker, just
old on over, chased down the extra kills here.
Really nicely done once again.
Jose has been such a star pick up here, Portiel.
It's good to see him return to the LCS.
Can he actually got shot outside here?
They can easily chase on Bruza with the Nami
with the Oriana both of them speeding up the extra chase down.
I mean, this is really, really well played by CL base.
They send four down towards bot.
See, nine respond with five.
So they just leave Morgan there.
They disengage on the four.
And not only is Ben went mid lane, but Vulcan showed mid too, which I think was kind of that big issue is you show multiple members there in that mid lane.
And then of course, the other going to look for the ring case, they punished there, they take the tower,
they'll play them up so well, still have that dragon advantage you're up to K now.
It is a gold lead for Morgan now on the sign at this point, and he is going to become a real problem in the front line.
I can visualize the chat now, spamming the 2K 2K for a
from his stream, and there's a look at the history of this guy.
Really outstanding stuff so far, in this series, I think it's pretty
unquestionable that he has outclass blabber in this game, with a lot of the
initiative that T.L. members both him and with half-taking, but they
have yet here to really turn it into a full breaking point for this game.
The FLAB 9 are very much still capable of taking over these teamfights.
ABA has a key component that flowers absolutely loves and hates.
My favorite item in the game.
It's the armguard for a zero.
ABA doesn't have his flash currently, but he does have some extra playmaking ability there.
Yeah, I mean, I just always feel like the late of the game goes though.
The harder and harder it gets for these comps that need the land, the probe that need to find these big engages.
see that it's just not been able to to really hit the skill shots when it counts almost all the
boardals had missed and important moments where I feel like every time we're seeing
a spirit hitting a minion or nothing we're just not really seeing the coordination there on these
plays and the execution went at really counts and it's just going to be harder and harder
when we get to the stage that Morgan is just from a group. The Spears are just going to
take by him. That spirit does still earn a bit of an awning. Those have been a few of our
to be able to heal himself up.
We do have the next dragon alive.
Now, temperate.
It's on the yellow with nobody else.
Folk and try to set up up in the wall.
Looses half his HP for it.
Morgan's looking to wrap around here.
But the sun disk stops the flank from going all the way.
Morgan backing up a little bit as poke is traded back and forth from either side.
Yeah, Morgan feels so confident here.
That is Jack show done for a sign on here.
The durability is just through the loop.
So he's just trying to fight the antidote to stay in combat.
that stack up his jack show and you can see he's like infinitely
tapy.
Yeah, it's the novices they end here.
So massive resistance is massive front line here for team
look where they're trying to bully, flat nine, anywhere away from
this objective and I think they're going to successfully do that.
And it's trying to find a way out.
Yeah, it's just wanted it, but immediate valks from y'all on a
C9 all take a magical journey to stay grouped up.
And is separated from the rest of the team right now and C9's
going to begin the drink.
That's the video, no.
You're on the front line.
Team liquid.
He's already forced to use the on-going.
He flashes out and stays alive.
The stands will strike to the top yard.
But now, hold days ready for the re-engage.
Morgan, look at the pressure on his back.
That's a mid-exange.
No stun, dragon down to 3000.
C9 still regrouping, but he'll buzz an injured.
T-L, we're going to T-P-S, the drake, and they will take it.
This is what C9's trademark last time bought them.
This is not soul, but T-L, a blind and soul point.
Yeah, and they've got control of the map.
I mean, another really good engage.
from Jose and with this combo here.
They find another shot play on to the
Adir, let's take a look at the
resource and blow by Adir and it's
just Jose hit his W on to the
Adir's is moving back and forth
and it caught the Adir, his offer and
the flash would have to be used
defensively and really the
consumable fight because even though
he lives he's so lovely can't
reengage, you can never step up
he'll get flash on kills.
Jose feeling happy about that one
and rightfully so he is playing
great in his debut with T.L.
I swear for me at least that W is hard to hit.
It's kind of skinny.
Okay?
But he has been nailing it every single time.
You talk about spoken like a ball of air.
True.
It's got a shot at a circle.
Also, it speaks to the discrepancy between hitting your skill shots.
And you're awesome.
A lot.
I'd say this W for Zin is about as skinny as an Italy spirit.
There you go.
Both are pure ability.
Yeah, one of them you just chuck it in the other when you stab it. Easy. Now, Team Liquid,
they are still in a 2000 gold league game state, but that is still playable for C9.
When you've got the hourglass fully purchased for APA, so now you can use the states as
again, and they really need to see a big serving of shuffle year if they want to have a
favorable fight I feel. Well, the other thing I really talk about a lot when you have
Renekton is D.P. Flanks.
All right, where's your T.P. awards?
There's nothing they have a crab.
But there's no word across the map.
There's not even a ward in the river,
except for this one of the barren pit right there.
So, you know, C9 has no forward vision.
If Renekton just has to walk straight
at them in the team fights, he is pretty useless.
And that's mostly what these team fights have been for
Thanos. He has not been able to find a single good angle.
Even in that one where he's wrapped around behind,
he's all expired before he moved forward.
Which is kind of why we're seeing,
of the
is because of you know a front line difference in the tank
sign on difference here that's why even when you're getting you know 20 30 CS advantages for some of these matchups
of you know losers or carry champion versus Zion
you always have that feeling
and I would love to have that be falls on beyond my team later
All right, C9. Let's see what you guys can do to come back into this one. We do have
Baron on the map. He's been there for the last nine minutes or so, but nobody's confident
enough to take a stroll over there just yet. You are seeing some things toward that top side
river, but it is just about two minutes until there will be Mountain Soul for the side of TLC9
has got to make sure they stop it. Also got to say the carries that keep on alluded to for
cloud nine scaling away three out of power spikes are really big for both this year and for
for a year, Sven getting that lower
dogs. We will see does this actually
make it that much. And Slayer is back.
Exactly. And it works so well
Versailles. So does this make it that
much less scary? It's been in a
capable, you know, place right now.
Is he? Are they able to feel for
him? Is he able to auto attack
actually? Because if that's ever
can fully auto attack, then the
damage now actually does become
very, very meaningful. Yeah, I can
fully agree. So the difficulty is
is that question?
Can you actually auto attack?
And that's always the top part when you're playing 80 carry without a big front line.
There's no one really there to step up and eat damage for you, right?
You know, Bart can't do it.
Rectom can't really do it.
That's why APA is forward and trying to ship and poke and prod and get damage down because
if you just allow TL to play how they want to play, it's a shield on young, it's heals
and speed ups on young.
He's just stepping forward and shipping your HP away until you can't even take the
fight.
It's going to be difficult for them to find the correct positioning.
They actually make sure their carries are hitting without getting caught and killed.
Can I blabber tosses out the spear?
Just going to get some wave clear out of that one.
60 seconds until the Drake spawns and that bottom side river is fully TL control right now.
Small thing too, but it is really nice on the correct patch.
If you can let your minion or their minion kill off the last little bit of your turret plate,
to deny that little bit
extra gold, especially when there are crystals
already formed up on your tower and you know
they just wanted to get that one ono and
cash in some minions
pretty nice here, but
not with the foot back. Yep, they want to let the
minions eat the cost, but see nine is going to
take some of that themselves. I don't want to eat
the cost. That's what it is, minions
lower the cost. That's both you try to get
right through the wall here. Drop the
Exalt from Hothado. That's an important cool
now not to have. See nine stay
grouped up here in their jungle. They've got to approach into a T-out that already has control over the river like I said moments ago
See, nine did not change that map state in those 60 seconds T-out going to continue to defend the entrance
Ports this river area towards this dragon pit
Okay, and everybody has flash ready for this fight this dragon soul fight
They look at quid and not gonna find anything super valuable here. We've become like attacking mobile cloud nine players
for the flash away, decensively.
There's your ulti from the Nami.
The Anatoes continue to retreat
back towards the rest of C9.
Joseoro, take it up to another damage.
Those in the ulti, C9's not really intimidated by it.
And they're like, yeah, he wants to shuffle.
And he hits quit.
Not really for shut down.
As the guardian angel falls across,
move into the middle of everybody's body.
And it's cloud nine.
Longer still life with mobile kills.
Morgan's gonna get one back, but it's still three.
From what?
For C9.
They clutch it just in time, close up with everything
is on the line with the dragon soul,
who's staring them down.
They trust him as they are in the severed damage
and they get it done.
We've been more to re-engage this year.
Yeah, I love the D.
The space creation you're from there,
those flashes for it,
that is east back out to Dodgers Thund,
getting you'll back up.
That is buying space for Sven and APA to be hitting here.
Those that go sport here,
but knocks them back,
it's kind of the safety and APA realises,
you're getting low, then it doesn't survive on the side.
You're on his getting pushed out.
Eight the ages flashes forward, catches quit there,
and then spend full sends it flashing in on
of both those day as well as more going to knock him down
massive deep but in there, they're going to get bare minimum.
Yeah, y'all can call it coming to stop it,
but no blabbers got to smite secure.
See nine, not only do they stop so they take the bearing
and don't lose any additional men doing it.
This is a massive swing.
a
one of the LCS being back
team liquid and cloud nine
here are going to push it to
some late game objectives
okay we're going to have
multiple parents I can already
foresee it and this game
bear power play currently
though two and a half minutes
left four cloud nine let's see
how much they can actually get
done with it.
And this is quite a bit of
gold on the map to grab here
in a lot of plates they could
farm away on their definitely
if this tier one made pretty easily, I think,
unless T.O. wants to try the force and engage,
but that would be difficult.
This one's going to go down really fast,
Vulcan, dangerous spot.
Yeah, Vulcan's going in, but everybody else is going
with them, and they're not going to chase, shuffle back.
They caught themselves, a fish out of water.
And now they're putting the DPS in the Morgan Talk bar.
My double kill first fan on the Sivr,
and C9's DPS has officially scaled.
We got to get a listen in the cops were teiled there,
because why don't you know why they are reacting to a magical
person in there?
I mean, a court agent walks back to the magical journey with a
rest of Cloud 9 could take it in and the Oriana is off in
Nardia, a top lane over there, Cloud 9.
Now with this fairing, they pull over the base wide open.
Nardia is not a friendly place this time.
A year my friends, C9, are bringing the violence to the team
Rick would have marift as they pushed toward their first year,
three throw it up the game, the mid lane and hit her.
will be their target. There's still 25 seconds on Morgan Sion.
Core J. J. Finally back a lot now with the bigger and hit.
He's already down. Yeah, I mean, look at Biling is well, right?
They're pushing their farming these plates as well.
Today it's so much gold from this.
T.L. has to look at really good throughout most of this game.
They get outplayed in one bite. And then they kind of lost their minds there.
And got punished so heavily for it.
When you're playing this style of composition,
you need both your carries there.
That's the whole point of sign going forward is buying time for them.
a bit of quits on there. You don't have nearly enough damage. She get anything done.
And like I said, these are two of the best carries of melting tanks, a zero and
super, a zero of 18. So, if you count a control ward as a real item, then you can stay
useful, both. Last but not least, bro. In last season, you would have been because you don't
maybe. Yeah, it goes in front of the big shuffle. Quartz JJ is going to be the target
almost killed but not quite there.
When he approached those down in the quand he is gone.
He was saying y'all both walked up.
What do you damage into the carries?
Is that double kill back to Santa Tows?
Watch football killed for the crocodile.
Morgan just might be number four,
but it's ATA taking the credit.
Only course still standing.
And see now, I'm marching the next day.
It was T.L. in control it felt like the whole damn game,
but it's C9 showing up with a matter of most.
C9 with all five alive.
they may have trailed to the majority of the game.
But they're the ones who will see the Internet
since then, we're going to stay between the first game
in this best of three.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
and NBA, give it away.
We're going to his team, man.
What a way to start out the LCS.
This series, we're going to continue some more hype
right after this.
That baby.
Oh.
And you're not always expected it, actually.
Yeah.
not a sign on Zinn or
not a knock. I want little
pin.
I just go into little
me for that dance.
Yeah. It's a great night.
We're having this off camera
question about like, what's
we're not contanking up.
You go in absorb damage.
It'll hit your pop.
It buys enough time for the
silver is here to win.
like without like, uh,
they could age.
But no, it was ridiculous.
Five heads late.
Uh, that's not how I was expecting
Italy and Renekton to be executed.
Definitely not.
I mean, this game turned on what is our
Pagoda moment for this week,
APA from Cloud 9 Kia,
turning the game around on his former
team and game one here,
finding the angle as an
easier.
You have to be precise to be able
to see it like the casters
called out this base pressure from
Vanato's going in and out,
allowing both the Sivir and the Azir to be able to
chip them down and an APA saw that angle.
Get the TV out after basically chasing down
those videos. Jose just engaged down. They say
Ori no flash, Ori no flash.
Oh, boom, get to the Oriana and it's the
memory of the shutdown. And it's really
great to see the way that S9 follow up and
also kind of just waiting around that
timer for APA previously. We've had a lot to
say about APA's Azir, especially in team
the game fights where he would be looking for these angles and it'd be disconnected from the rest of us team, right?
This was great and the whole team was there, support.
It was happening again and again.
If you guys see another Pagoda moment playing this spam that Pagoda email in chat because there's going to be a few of them today.
And something else we're going to be doing throughout all of L.S.H.S.
Lock in is player of the game.
Yeah.
So player of the game, every single game, our votes are in for this game one.
We gave it away.
It's APA.
I think Sven probably had a good argument, but the game changing place that APA had.
We forget about the early game when Quid was two and zero.
Look how he's going to take over the game in Oriana.
AP got a solo kill.
Yeah.
I didn't expect him to immediately afterwards in all time, too.
Yeah, the XG all chat.
That's the old APA back.
I was like to set up for him and Quid in the chat as well.
That was really fun.
Mm-hmm.
But yeah, I'm curious to see, because I know we have a really cool
PGV tool.
Uh-huh.
Jaka, yeah, but I'm too.
We get the fixed out.
Oh, good cat.
Good cat.
Let's go.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, good dog.
Good for you.
And I was just looking at stats.
We'll see.
We wanted to check healing done in damage
running this game because that was here
was 917 damage per minute.
You can see Zeven with 41,000 on the server.
I was talking about health.
Zeethyre damage.
Zeven is underappreciated because he's not
flashing lane.
Yon and Cordyaj had the prior.
But who killed the Nexus?
Thank you.
Question.
It's definitely a question.
But I wanted to check the healing done in this game as well.
Well, 25,000 healing from the needley,
maybe it's not the Renekton needley of all.
Yeah, maybe it's a new or ancton needley.
Mmm.
It's the support you're making.
I don't think that the needley is the one.
The way they wanted to be.
It was the strategy that the dive, the top side of the map.
We're no longer diving in the game.
It's up to you to our echoes of healing.
I still think it didn't go as planned.
But it didn't work out.
We saw how much healing was being done from that Italy,
when, especially with sandwiches, right?
Where he would go in as this were an actin.
Not only something, he's really good at,
but it take away from Morgan as the cast already pointed out.
That's Morgan's like the most famous champion.
And he just be topped up.
Like he just go back out, still has dominance on.
Okay.
Get topped up, I knew Leo.
Where do we go from here?
Ooh.
I thought that was the team look at when.
Sam.
I want to see more from Morgan personally
as the person who predicted team look good.
I know we got in like three days ago.
But you'll be the care of the team, Morgan.
Spawn. Spawn, my man.
I guess it's not even spawned. Spooks, my man.
Spawn told me that Morgan should be an MVP candidate.
But you know what happened, though?
What happened?
They just made him in touch.
Like they're just, by the way, your team look at how,
have a week's eye tank, please.
Like I want to see what the special sauce is
from this new top laner, Morgan.
That is not the debut you would have had in mind when he arrived here.
Special sauce?
Or in game two.
Oh, I'm Jack, is already cringing?
I really liked the way that T.L.s. mid-Jungle played up until that APA turn around.
We'd actually pulled a bunch of footage of Jose and Quid working together with this
Oriana's in Jalcomo.
I thought they looked really in sync with each other, much more in sync than Flabber and APA did
despite the setup we kind of had pregame.
So I would continue to build on that because I thought that was a huge bright spot in addition
to their unboxing.
I will dominate in a narrow for bringing the suits, so game-1, C9, had first selection.
They first picked a-seer, game-two since T.O.L.A.L.A.St.
they have decided they won first pick, but they'll be on the red side, because C9 has selected
the blue.
So, game-two coming up after the break.
And all the gifts here today, Emily.
These have to tell you, Rye, just not the big one.
Well, flowers.
We're looking at a turbo hybrid power train.
That's already a problem for the rest of the ref.
The 30-inch panoramic display tube that is unfair control.
Guys, all wheel drive with the rainbow?
No shot anyone's catching this.
This seems completely OP.
Don't debate.
This first pick we have to lock it in.
Now, he'll tell your eye turbo liners.
Pick it before your opponents do.
Red Bull gives you wings.
The enemy will be alive.
If I could put it out, I'd be back in the dark.
Go see.
If they're not coming.
Get back.
Stand to your code for Eels' own on Ureads.
I'm not going to die, I'm not going to die, I'm not going to die.
I've got the power, of course, normally don't really ever do them, um, for the, I've
than two so far.
That first one was just a presentation about myself,
like who am I, like the story of APA before I became APA.
You know, stopped well, all I could stuff now with,
like view the game, like why, like one, well,
give, you know, set up, et cetera, et cetera.
The second I gave was just about, like a push concept,
and I think, present patients on concepts like that
to me in the past, so I would always find from, you know,
of course, I'm still, this whole player coming into a new team.
I'm sure they have ideas of how they're really game and of course having a few
days of screaming with them they do and we'll soften to match and how we do things but yeah, we'll see.
here to the L-C-S, and by no other name,
shall it ever be called a game.
We are in the middle of our first best of three here.
It's a total of two.
We do not speak definitions.
However, the definition of game number one was T-L for so long.
Until C9, when they're one big fight,
everything just self-destructs for team liquid
and C9 quickly ends.
They're up one zero.
That's one of those games you're watching on the casual.
That's a really wrapped up book of a snack. You come back the other mechs is exploding like what the
Yeah, it's five minutes. You missed it all. It's also one of the games where if you're playing in it you just don't get friends
Don't worry we scale and you kind of mean it
When they do in the people you're like whoa we actually
Actually really really fun. I always feel like those are the most fun one what did you get the back and forth?
But seem liquid probably don't feel that way. So game number two here. Let's see them back out into
Champions elections and see if they can kind of rewrite history here.
Cron 9 up to series point here. I'm really curious to see how TL will look to starting off game too.
Simply because I wasn't really that worried about the lost team by the they had it in the river.
You know, I just felt like okay, you know, I've seen that kind of outplayed that the game is going to stabilize.
It's going to go on. I was more worried about they lost their minds in the jungle.
They see this portal, who is not even there, and you full-cented that costume's a game. Like to me that was the game.
Yeah, and that was, it was weird because the park came out, and of course, like, oh, that got a little bit, and he went back up to it, like, more people.
You saw them all come out.
It's a clown car, people will just keep coming out of the...
Yeah, thanks.
All right, let's get into the draft for a game number two here, though.
All right, the first band is over on the T.L. side.
They are going to continue to band out the A.P.A. Ziggs alongside Mount Platinum.
that's about C9, take it out, rise and chase.
I'm feeling to Leah here, boys.
Rise is banned out and Oriana and a zero where you're already using
game number one.
I really like subtly a combo, is you know, to Levi, good ol' classic.
Any sort of to Leah plus AD kill jungler.
To me, those types of cons, especially if you just lost the game,
where it wasn't your control for so long, and you couldn't finish.
I feel like that's a big priority.
Rumble, though, did get through the bands this time around,
so they went for the first pick on.
Go to Varus and Varus is a really strong.
So that is definitely a concern.
They're just slamming Varus and the Jarvin coming through.
I can understand Morgan though.
You just spent 20 minutes under a tower,
I can't see her neck then.
And then you lost on the team fights.
And when you play that role for the team,
it is so adorable to care.
You're like, ah, I think I'm around the beam of winning side.
All right, let's see what they can follow it up with because Rumble here definitely deserves being built around as far as it's income goes up
Go, Jin can be played into various no problem. Your lane is fine. I don't know the various cutting the recent bus on this fact
I actually thought that those bus on top of
Various is already like pretty high pro presence was gonna mean that he was gonna be perm a
you know 100% basically pick that and so we'll see how powerful currently is because they
bucked both his Q damage for the out of the and on hit for W and the interesting thing to
me is that improving or not seeing a top yet but in solo queue I feel like this thing is
kind of starting to run rampant in top lane it is a press yeah it feels like there's almost
almost nothing you can really do in a lot of these matchups you just kind of take it you know
you're getting out range but also there's high percentage damage you can shred tanks you can
versus you down.
So I do have that kind of in the back of my mind.
Like, yeah, maybe San Jose could slap that up.
But we are, of course, expecting,
even that it is for play that's then will be piloting it.
And for my two cents, I also do like Aurora match
of Inter rumble.
So this could be theoretically a San Jose Aurora as well.
You have more than two cents.
Yeah, there was many, you like.
I'm only giving you two of them.
Oh, okay.
So he's covering San Jose, two cents.
I was so generous.
you got more sense in your like yeah I can't we stop this
senseless violence all right let's get into the second half of the
draft here as we do have plenty of question mark still with where these
champions are going to go on the C9 side with the Aurora and the Varus
both being flexible over on the team liquid side these are pretty hard
locks for top lane for jungle for 80 carry so we'll see how they want to
focus their fans here as the clock ticks down and we still don't see anything
I'll do it on the side list for C9.
Now, this is to me, always need to think of, you know,
a melt-by-sorty band, but then also Alistar.
If you want to play Alistar, you really do not want to be
leaving that's Alistar, but it is in so much power away.
There's a couple of pretty good engage champs.
That's Alistar works really, really well-sealing.
They're all obviously Alistar, but it's kind of things like this.
So, definitely leads me to believe C9 is looking for some more
guaranteed hard engage for Vulcan.
All right.
Let's see what else we can round it out with because the
the supports are plentiful at the moments.
And again, Nico's still up as well.
So there's a lot of engaged options.
They don't just have to go with a melee engage.
Although, five times, we'd like some front line.
And I think that you always want
to buy plus something.
You don't want, like, buy to be the only, you know,
melee to buddy.
melee to their, it's actually dive buddies
are the best way to go.
Yeah, you really do need to actually
be the damage get over this off.
But of course you have to run both equalizers
and working to try to get in there,
but having some sort of front liner flying in
at the same time could be really strong.
I like the Casio pin here, taking that away from APA,
so they're thinking like you were thinking Kobe
that this definitely could be a war atop
as an answer into the rumble.
So trying to limit the pull here in the mid lane.
All right, what's it gonna be for our fourth pick of the draft?
If there's does get locked in, it's throwing back to what we were
talking about at the very beginning of this draft,
potential of the Torea when you have rise band away when you have a zero
and all the out to fearless and that is the pick here for C9 and I think it's
one of the best champions you know for APA when I think about how he was
playing last year I really felt like Torea at that time was maybe his best
champion so it's definitely going to be something that fits well for him y'all
and hovering the ace all you can see a leading to the side look it over
I mean I'm still waiting for the tackle he said on Twitter there's a
more likely to tackle them if they win or if they lose the series you know
the yons going for like the victory bow and his tail okay yeah
NBA seems like if I lose that attack the land goal
yo no get flocking for quit though this guy has one of the biggest highlights of LCS
of all time
uh on yone so let's see quit yone with a rumble and buy engine all of this
this screams, Varus? I'm sorry because you are going to have a very very difficult time
moving around at all in these teamfights that dive for the Varus is just so well constructed
by team with. Yeah, and I mean Tom Canch is going to keep that gin safe from that jarvan
you know coming in, you can eat them out of it. They're considering the Alstar that was kind of my
expectation based on the Silas band, but obviously you've seen some some less powerful
the latest super cons of me always kind of I feel like
scales better than the Al star. I think you're really really powerful in those
deep bites. You have a very weak landing pace. So sometimes when you're
something gets something like that Tom Ken, she's a hey, I can just take a
free lane. I can have that powerful engage later on. It's also a really good
appeal. When you look over and you see there's all these dive buddies coming in
because the unit is the vibe. There's the rumble. You pop R. You run across
them all. CCM all up with that charm. Can be pretty effective as far as
that powdery gauge goes.
All right, same question as last time except now
with a brand new coat of paint,
which side of the draft do you feel is feeling more?
For me, I love dive.
I think that this is exactly what you envision
when you try and get a first-pick rumble
that you get to layer on top of a rumble
or you're yo-no-you're by and you're gin-like.
So I just feel like that is super, super well-focused.
Okay, from the team liquid side,
the counter draft is it packed?
Well, by the way, it's a various top.
And then it's blanks in the abot so they actually are going to do a fair stop. I was mentioning because this is
There's top is like un-lanable and okay, no mind wait. Is it is it?
Okay, I guess it was messed up in chips like it was visual book. Okay, so it doesn't look like they actually did swap those things around on my screen
And it chips like it was showing that they had I guess
So we're just gonna wait until we're in game
Not trust what we see chips like that more
all right let's get into a game number two if you didn't see
get number one by the way you should catch up on that real quick
yeah John Park in the ADX that was a failure let's see about the follow-up
here will part two deliver as well all right let's check it out here
C9 up one to nothing remember it is best of three's here in the Swiss
staged so let's see how the second one goes 43 second to the game one has been
muted the entirety of team liquid and also his own mid-lacat
That's a very fun fact, 43 seconds, so funny.
Probably he's like one time he's like, oh, I forgot to mute it.
You can see when people are surprised by, you know,
Summoner choices.
There was like 10 things on the fact that you're on his playing barrier.
And then more than on the other side was spamping into teleporters.
So obviously, you already down that combat Summoner for his been in Vulkan.
But if you can get pushed, which I expect them to be able to have, you're with this
virus, I'm recon. Then it can get really difficult sometimes. You can end up with some pretty
bad bases. We're kind of lane lock. They pushed you in, and they base and TP back, and you
get stuck. All right. As we wait for the action to really start to boil here in the
lane and phase, we've got to hang a standing by for an interview with APA's biggest fan.
Much I'm here with Stacey APA's mom, who's here to cheer APA on the new team. And I got to start
off. What's it like to raise a champion?
I raised them to be a champion.
Did you take credit?
Absolutely.
I think so.
I'm pretty good.
On a new team now, so I see you got the new gear as well.
How hard was that to throw away all the team liquid jerseys?
It's not throw away.
It's just packed up.
Nice and neat.
It's fine.
It's good.
We'll show up it for now.
Did you see that I can give you anything?
They gave us more than team liquid does.
And I did see you talking with Jack actually,
a little bit before we win live. What did you tell you?
That they picked the better mid-laner.
I think so. Thank you so much.
Stay safe. She said it. Let's hear what the cast is everything about that.
I like that because there's always, you know, this issue when you get replaced on your team
is there going to be any sort of confidence stuff afterwards?
But Cloud9 have been really welcoming to APA and
and a small note, Klanan have also given me more stuff that she'll ever give me.
I think that's it.
How cheap!
That's it, that's it, that's it.
Oh, no.
They also did better against the cup.
Yeah, also, I mean, you're going to be building that confidence for sure.
You know, if you're able to take them down in a match like this, you know,
it's a great start for APA in-game one.
You've had that big play on the Azure chip, that is not really known for.
Ooh, y'all down to 200 HP down here, have to flash away to avoid the grand-day.
to avoid the grand entrance from Vulcan.
Score JJ tries to cover the exit here for his 80 carries.
Time for the flash forward piercing arrow.
With the heels enough to keep y'all healthy now,
Sven could be in a little bit of danger.
It's holding the auto wraps around from the side.
Vulcan with the battle dance.
Re-inthourcing the Rath of his team.
Headbatter Gramps first blood.
Anybody judge's making two holes at the auto falls.
And C9 comes out on top on the early scrap.
It all starts with the 80 carry duel.
And you're able to seize Sven's side stepping the W from
on. They get the advantage mid lane
priority leaks over and means that
APA, he always talks about loving
this roaming style and especially
on to Leah here. He's able to get
the advantage in mid lane to roam
first. Cloud 9 just clean up huge
in that bot side fight. And this is
always the worst feeling. You know,
you losing early scrimmess. You look
across at your your lane or it's a blue
buff on the enemy mid lane or the
APA getting back and the loss
chapter by this early. Great trade
this year from Vulcan, you on is but really, really low and see nine have
first move from mid lane. So they're just fully committing to this place. Then
flashes in, you wasn't able to finish off. Yon, but because APA is their first,
Jose goes in, but he's got to get out immediately. Black was able to flash forward
and it takes him down. It's really just all about the priority had through mid,
mix all the difference. Oh, and you can see the frustration for
Locked in, locked in. He's still locked in. And he's able to lock up quit here, big, big
trade from APA. Blue buff two, so his men has already back to full. He is feeling so good. And we
remember the beginning of the previous game. It was constantly on and Jorge J winning out of the
2v2s in bottom lane. It was quit getting ahead early with the Oriana kills onto the knitterly
of blabber. It was a great start for T. Allen game one. They still ultimately don't come out with a win.
And now in game two, C9 is up over 2,000 gold just five minutes into the game.
And again, there is a like this side for the team comp is that you could be so proactive.
Wait a second. We have an invade from blabber. So he's going to take away Gromp.
Jose is going to find an APA's looking for solo kills.
Yeah, there's no way for the mid laner from team liquid to do anything about this.
So blabber just takes his gromp prize.
Jose Diodo is left a camp down and C9's
loving away things are going on.
I mean, AP is blasting this mid lane right now.
You know, he'd spent the rest of his career all on TL, right?
Now, you get to have his debut on a new team against TL.
He gets that kill because he had pushed early.
And that is really starting to snowball this mid lane because
quick gets that down.
He doesn't get an early for Zerker Grizzby.
He doesn't get that early VAM Center to try to heal through
some of this damage.
AP gets a blue buff early loss chapter.
You can really start to slam home that advantage in these range versus melee matchups when you have that kind of a start.
And ABA as a player has always been a lightning rod for criticism on the teams that he has been on.
People always looking at his champion pool, the individual plays he's making, and his whole time on Team Liquid,
you know, had, there are people in both sides in both camps, but always bringing up these sorts of issues,
and especially going for
his quid who basically everyone
had decided is the best mid
later of the Aussie. I love the
interview that King is just did with
APA's mom and how Jack was really
comforted and said, yeah, we got
the better mid later. You know,
straight from Team Liquid. It's this
series does mean a lot for him
individually and not only did it
was he able to roam first to
make the big team play there,
but now he's able to pound
lane afterwards, getting all the
benefits of that roam and the blue
in the blue buff and everything.
I mean 2.5k gold lead and we are not even seven minutes into the game.
That's a crazy start.
Especially for pro play, even in a game of solo queue, if I see a team up over 2,000 gold
at seven minutes, it's a pretty crazy start.
But in pro, this is quite a mountain to have to climb up here for team liquid very, very early.
Another nice seismic shot there from APA in the mid lane as well.
Constantly hitting these onto Quities up almost 20 farm, seven minutes into the game.
And his ex is his most famous champion, but I always felt like Tulea was his second best champion.
So we'll see how he plays out the rest of the game because Tulea with ultimate very easily can capitalize on something like an Aurora ultimate.
And kind of trying room up to that side of Matt more keep playing off the bottom side where Sven and Vulkan will soon have their old high CC available.
Just play making all over the place.
I don't know if it's just me, but I've always kind of thought it was funny how much discussion
there has been about aviation.
Being pulled, my buddy has never had any issues, but it's like he came in and everyone's
like, ah, he's a zig-zag's one trick, and then it's, ah, he's an asle one trick.
And then there was the 80 carrying that, ah, he can only place your son in a corky.
And then last year, people were talking about, well, he can only really play to Leah.
And it's like, okay, well, are we kind of adding a lot of champions in here at this point?
And it's not like this is just like no name people saying this.
Jorge J. In the draw that you did earlier this year literally made fun of it also
Yeah, it can joke, but he's he's make it a little bit of a twist to the dagger. He said there mid later only as three champions
But I guess in a best of three you only have to win two games and two so
Mass some Kobe he's got
I do have a week proud that's quit rap. Well done buddy. Immediately in
games, but out from the holes in the Eodo, they are looking for ABA, but quit
my just dice first. He's down to 100 HP. Both movement is about to fall.
Quinoa wins. Out of the holes in the Eodo, picks up the kill, but he should die to
blabbers, Jarvin, right after. And the flag marks his grave on double kill back to
blabbers. Nice try there from TL, but blabber right place right time. And
Now it's going to be able to move up towards this topside even put a little pressure on a Morgan.
I think he grabbed these grubs.
Morgan's doing well in that one day one, you're given this counter pick.
That fanitose has a gun for.
And fiber off to a great start.
This guy absolutely knows how to snowball games.
Yeah, fiber when he's snowballing, I think people don't.
The only criticism they'll ever have is if he like dives too deep and like gives away a big
guy or something.
But he definitely is as he said, very good at snowballing these leads.
And especially you want to play around your winning lane, your lane that has these
advantages, this mid lane that's, you know, constantly chunking them out, getting health
advantages.
And so they are able to capitalize it is not only those kills, but all the neutral
objectives so far in the side of cloud nine, in addition to this large gold lead.
And by the end of the year last year, I think a lot of fans were feeling like Blabber
was not performing to his usual level.
It gave one of this series also very rough on the Nidalee.
But now he's able to step up here in game number two, the early performance has been awesome.
Yeah, it really has.
I mean, he's right place right time.
Makes a good play down on Botside is here for the counter game exactly when he needs
to be APA pumped up about that.
Barely got knocked down.
If you live, that would have been devastating for T.L.
But still, it is a great play for them.
Early Sunder's guy has gold on top of that.
And a fast Sunder's guy, you are feeling so good.
Oh, knock up off the back of the chains of corruption.
And they take out Core Tray J. Easy.
Easy there for C9.
Nicely used the chains and the grand entrance.
They brought four men down to guarantee they had the fire power.
That's a 3000 gold lead.
Good, at least we get the first turn plate in mid lane.
So you get the tiniest of consolation prizes
grabbing some gold back for himself.
But, actually done here for C9.
Again, the path to victory here is very quick dragon sole
for this team.
It is kind of the strongest early objectives that you can go more.
The easiest line if you are winning and if you're looking for snowballing,
a game where you do have an early lead.
So, bottom side, very critical there.
But with the ocean dragon up, they're making a mid-play.
Wow, the dragon has been started up.
Yeah, a quid has to snap back down to a quarter HP.
That's today.
Team Liquid only has this drake down to about one third,
but they might be able to still secure it.
See nine at least wants to go in for a fight.
is ready to challenge here from a smite.
The Odo tries to find the opportunity to go in there,
but the trade gets secured by C9.
Team Liquid's gonna be careful.
Keeping their jungle alive,
just by a hairless out bar.
That's friends gonna be next to Dye.
Fulking gets back over the wall.
It's C9 taking the objective,
but losing their 80 carry and trade.
Hold the Odo escapes with 25 HP.
I mean, at the end of the day,
that's incredibly good for C9.
They get the dragon.
Then it doesn't even have TPs.
They're gonna be the total disaster for them.
Tia had the extra member, got one kill, but still lost the dragon at the end of the day.
And I have to say, really, really good, like, you know, patients and
concentrations from bladder there.
When Jose turns on you to try and suppress you and blabbers just staring at this dragon
and he's still able to get that smite.
He doesn't die.
He doesn't give over, you know, any extra gold here, security objective, like
remaining calm under pressure during dragon smite fights is very, very big, especially
with the importance of snowballing here. So, you know, any time you see a
jungler under the rest, being able to get these, uh,
smites is going to be big and even bigger with the new season where
they've buffed up some smite damage. Once we see these things
transforming here, uh, blabber already has his 1,400 damage,
where it's Jose is still on the 900. So it really further
emphasizes farming your camps and getting your upgrades here so that
you, you can't get these. And honestly, I really like the changes,
you know, with smite because you also deal less damage to the, to the, the, the dragon and the objectives, you know, as non junglers, right?
So it's harder to actually steal it away with an ability like a various Q or whatever.
You need both, brother.
And let's see, I think it's great.
It always feels terrible if it gets the little way by a random spell.
Um, but I'm sure it's rocking.
Yeah, they're the worst.
They are like a, um, that guy's got two smites on basic abilities.
Um, but, and pro play especially, I think it's really, really fun to kind of see that smite duel, right?
because when it's 1,400 on both of them, and
laners are doing way less to it, it's going to come down to you guys nailing your
smile. And so the timing there becomes more important as a result.
Okay, Team Liquid has got to be aware that C9 is in the jungle. They are looking to
steal away the blue buff. There's going to be no contest for this. TL so far behind
two Drake's three grubs, 3,000 gold. Not even 14 minutes into the game. I still see 14
minutes of the checkpoint because of turnt place falling for so many years. At that point in the
game, even though they no longer fall.
I'll be your checkpoint.
Yeah, it's my lesson.
I'll check that from you.
I'm always going to check in at 14 minutes into the game.
No one can see where things went.
And right now, it is all seen on all the time.
We're going to get a custom graphic made.
Flowers check point.
That is my checkpoint.
Now, I am claiming it.
I am planting my flag here.
And TL is just struggling to find a part of the map that they can plant their flag right now.
Because it seems like this very modest 90 gold,
leave in the top lane is about the biggest thing they have to write home about.
Yeah, absolutely, and I mean, it's interesting because, you know, coming in this on everyone that I was talking about.
Oh, immediately though, it's a full tent of the bottom lane and APA is down. Nice set up there.
Forty-al, the fatesfield does exactly that and quit caches in.
So, you know, I was hosting the draw show. I talked to a lot, every coach pretty much, you know, doing interviews with them.
And then I talked to a lot of players at draw show. And everyone was telling me that they are scared of TL.
The TL is the team that they want to dodge.
People are giving a lot of respect to Cloud9 as well,
but people are ultimately, yeah, my coach just told me,
just don't get to you.
That's the match that you want to dodge.
But see, now I'm coming out here.
You're happy about getting that match up.
The Antos said that they were going to stop them
and let's make it work.
And so far, so good.
They win game one.
They're crushing the in-game two.
And Cloud9, not deterred by all of this hype
that has been forming around TL.
And if you too, oh, then nobody's going to know that game number one you were losing for most of it.
And so it looks like a stop.
I'm not going to score a board.
People all mean we're going to score lines as APA does get jumped on their bike
grid who does have the fully evolved boots with the quest.
He has his blade of the ruin king completed.
It is full build, y'all name.
So APA does have to play with respect despite the fact the early game has gone so well for
C9.
And it's only going better from here as they go after the Rick Hill.
The gold lead has shrunk from 3,000 down to about,
I don't know a little bit over 2000 gold here, so Team Liquid at least stopping the
believing, but the next strike is going to be a big target because it would be so
point for C9 and Team Liquid is already putting men in the river to get early control.
Yeah, I mean, they absolutely have to stop that dragon stacking, but getting quit in this position
of power is massive. It wasn't long over talking about this, you know, nearly 1k gold lead.
He was getting slammed.
Quit is such a playmaker. He had an incredible 2025 individually, you know, even
on a team that wasn't you know winning
championship. He was looked at as the best mid
later in the league has a massive individual
plays got signed by T. L. And these are the
kind of the games that when you are signing
a player like this, you expect him to carry
you expect him to be able to take over to save
you in these positions. You got to put the eggs in
the quick basket and hope you can make it
work. Well, they're going to slam the ripped
tailed egg into the tier one turret basket and all
that stuff is falling all over the street
because that turret is gone, gone, gone, gone.
First turret for C9 brings the gold, be closer
up to 3K and C9 are the first ones into the river looking at their
sole point Drake and they get the engage here. Team Liquid, they're looking for it.
Hey, Jose Diodo, gonna be in some danger.
Blabber wanted to go in, but Jose stays away. Now the full of engaged in the
Core J. J. But an equalizer down at the top. Jose, we engage after Blabber.
They're looking at the first time the C9, J. But Jose dies first.
Both junglers in the picture. But Morgan is also gone. It's a two for one favoring C9.
And APA, 1, 3. Quidd, continuing to try to escape into the bottom lane.
They're gonna toes goes over the wall a little bit more damage is all they need
And they're toes goes on a killing spree
C9 we're gonna clutch fight free for one their jungler might be dead
But they'll be happy with the outcome of the battle. That was a clean chase. He got the slow and it's enough for them to chase down
He actually get here. Here look the idea to go for the kill on the enemy jungler, but
Immediately get to shove watch the counter gauge from Vulkan. He's just standing right on his carries as soon as quick goes forward
He is in position to just turn this around, goes immediately back in, it's the charm on three members from TL bounces the charm over on the core, so you can't devour it, carries actually save them.
That was beautiful from Vulcan, really making it impossible for quit anything in this fight.
And I feel like that's a great contrast to what we were levying some criticism towards in game 1, with the tempered face not being on the money in the early fights from Vulcan.
This time around having that OT impact big.
Well, I'm out of the way.
But he's still taking 40 years.
We can go for it.
Actually does day 40 years.
All right, right back on onto the map here.
Team Liquid, they said multiple members tops
I do ensure that Liquid can maybe get some
turret play money.
You know, Corgi Jay up here, try to shout out
to him because they know all right.
Yeah, we still need to put as much money in to this
Yona as we can.
They're still hoping as they'll that quit basket is
even though it doesn't have a lot of gold in it,
it. You still got to try and get more
it. Do it. The best basket you got. You know, you don't really have a lot of options here.
But it is so tough dealing with Vulcan CC because there's nothing you could dodge. I mean,
you have all this great mobility here as quit, but Vulcan is going to press R and jump on your head and you are trying.
Like, there's no avoiding that. And I feel like it's exactly what you guys were talking about in the trap, right?
You're not going to get punished in lane. We clearly saw that in the early game.
And now, that recalling is ready to run ramp, and Anato is trying to escape here in the bottom lane.
Goes between world, so the Odo has no opportunity to make a truly impactful play there.
Instead, they will just force their opponent back.
It will allow more.
You're going to take the tier 1, turn it at least, but meanwhile, C9 is doing the same thing
on the other side of the map.
So even trade tier 1, put tier 1.
When you're behind, you always feel pretty good about that, but we've talked a lot about
the supports.
These are supports by age.
There's some pretty massive discrepancies now in the LCS from the oldest and most experienced players.
to do some of the youngers. We have obviously some of the most experienced players here.
Volkan, 9.27, but has been playing in the LCS for so long. You know, Core has been around
since back to when he was on Dignitas as an 80 Gary before the World Championship.
So, you know, these guys have a tremendous amount of experience at this point.
And Core, Agent like Van Wine, he's playing in well these days, but this Volkan definitely
gained the best of them in this game.
It's a birthday is coming up on there. There's some point eight's point nine's in there. There must be some early early
Some of his birthday is today, too. I remember inspired solidies somewhere
start MVP from last
Pretty sure yeah, might be that guy, but anyway, you're on the target now
Cataclysm comes down on top of his head the damage just pours in one more auto attack from blabber gets it done
EQ backwards towards the rest of the team to make sure he can escape safely
equalizers set it up to clear out the way, but team liquid won't do much more than that.
Morgan now could be the target.
You have to try to escape through the slow coming out from Thanos with between worlds.
He's overheated.
He's slowed by the weirding again.
APA setting up the rocks.
But nice and skate, thanks for core.
Means that Morgan survives.
I mean, technically the meanwhile,
quit is making money still here for T.L.
while they're, you know,
trying to chasing Morgan around the jungle.
So they're still trying.
They're finally as much as they possibly can
into the split push here at four quid for the young a two items currently for him and trying to
Create a feasible dragon soul team fight. It's gonna be hard. It is definitely going to be hard
But you have to get that really dream engage here to try and get a assassination
I would say onto spend you know spend has definitely been a big issue from the backside
of these deep fights, this leafality, various, as we said on the new patch,
did get some extra little bits of bumps there, and it has been pretty annoying,
long-range damage for them to deal with.
It is really frustrating, and clearly I think we know a fight
that's going to be a win for T.L. has to start out with a one-shot on Sven.
The problem is, when you're this far behind, usually you can't just have like one person
kills him and everyone has to send it. So then you have three or four melee stacked up,
And that's where Vulcan becomes so damn powerful.
Ooh, Thanos hose, taking a lot of damage.
You're from quit nearly dies with the Sudo Death Marks
snapback from the soul I'm bound.
But it's quit here at 400 HP.
Does have the Q3 to dash over the wall.
He'll be fine escaping on that one.
Jose Dioto is hanging around the area and case somebody
from C9 was there to try to snipe the last little bit of the kill.
Critically though, gentlemen, it's not the top side of the
napton matters at all right now.
It is less than 60 seconds until the Drake spawns.
That is soul.
That is hex-tex soul.
you've seen nine secures it absolutely massive power spike just 23 minutes into the game.
Nightmares are made of hex-tech solely thout embarrassed by the way.
Sven, poke is already doing for minutes and hours of damage and it's also going to slow you and he's gonna
land it's gonna poke that much easier so we do have all five unleashed teleports ready
on the map right now. Remember that C9 does have that extra map wide utility there,
air.
Let's get back in to the
first place.
There's a big way to
keep the pressure on the
mid lane.
Well, team Liquid tries to
show up to contest this
early positioning on the
bottom side of the
one.
We'll look at him.
He already lost like 30% of
his HP.
That's just one.
You from Barres.
If you get tagged again,
pretty much can't fight.
So that is the difficulty
of dealing with this
fairer.
So look at EPA setting up for
an.
And more going to so far
away right now.
Rumble is showing on the
mid wave.
So cloud 9 now they need
the teleport to come in here.
All right, let's see how it's gonna go Morgan tried to get in their APA immediately fires off the wall
See now I'm gonna stop EPS here with the drink right now
Black everybody engage under the cataclysm
Shane's corruption does not hit a target here to follow up on the curtain call is already open
Trade gonna be secured by the side of team liquid no soul just yet
But what about the fight say that's going to get in wants to fire up a twofold hack for the weirding only
Morgan now holding you out of the two of the AP
Black are on the front line
to get away, blabbers still chasing and
corn JJ's next to die.
John needs the business name to
blabbers spear and see now.
John would have picked up three.
They're not done yet.
You're going to see Thanos go for the
recovery as teleport to join up with
the rest of the team if he needs to
nearly a seven day old lead.
Baron's going to be the target here for
C9 even though they lose out on the
soul.
Morgan is able to burn down the dragon by
some miracle there for team liquid,
but because you lose so many members,
if I'm not going to try and finish the game
with a parent block here.
This thing should be guaranteed,
unless Quaid truly is magical
and create something out of nothing here.
All right, Quaid.
This is animated protagonists
for Boss at this point.
And it looks like it's Boss.
All right, see nothing.
They will happily not achieve a soul
if they can get a massive team fight win
into a parent 7,000 gold lead, see nothing.
I mean, it's just almost impossible to come back from at this point.
You have to think blabber now finishes up the GA.
He is way ahead.
Come on, so we're going to go for a little bit.
No, he's going to shoot.
I don't vision it.
I'm going for it.
I'm going for no matter what.
I love it.
I'm going for no matter what.
And even the top side now quit is in some serious danger.
He has to snap back.
But he's immediately thrown back on to those stones at a
are kids brave, see nine picking up another one,
enemy mid-laner down for 35 seconds.
I love that confidence in the console
sitting in from APA, you know, the new guy on the team
as we saw in the content, you know,
his mom making a presentation for him
and he didn't give him multiple presentations to the team.
But now Flapher's in, yeah, Flapher's already dropped
the cataclysm hose of Yoda wants to try
to turn the agro back around on this van,
that there is his under some pressure,
but not a new locker-to-brainer,
there was over the top,
who say his low flashes back over the wall,
but Morgan's going to die.
APA and a killing spree and team liquid are on the run.
health bars are shattered, Morgan is broken and quit is still yet to respawn.
The C9 Agro continues.
I mean, this is such a long respawn timer on Morgan, even if they don't end the game
right here, they're just ballooning this goal, they've even further.
And they're keeping in for this.
They're going to grab the mid lane in hip.
They already took down that top lane T2 question is, do they go for the top lane tier
3?
It looks like that is going to be the answer.
They've already got the wave here.
Why not cash in a little further?
Morgan still dead for another 10 seconds.
C9 continuing their pressure.
The top lane inhibitor turret will be taken.
And it looks like the call is to back away.
They no Morgan spawning in five seconds.
They don't want to overstay their welcome.
They've got 11,000 gold.
And a lot of that's ready to be spent right now.
C9 hit home.
Yeah, the damage has been done.
Cloud 9 claim full supremacy on the rift.
the rift. Theo, they need that real magic now. You've got to be like five people in a brush.
And hope that's going to be great. It's going to be tough. I know.
Well, and great about their new look at debut, looking to try to put the finishing touches on to this one.
Bringing in the new coaching, the addition to the coaching staff year with an arrow and I will dominate
I'm being there for the team and I always I remember last year a narrow talking about how yeah
The first couple of games my traps are great. It's after that. We're fearless
You get the better of me. Hey, this is game two. If you're playing basketball
You can give me two good ones. That's good enough
See nine are looking to take this one here that tier two turn in the bottom lanes gonna fall and
11,000 gold lead the bear and still on them for now
Now as Blabber goes forward, Cataclysm on Core JJ forces into Flash away over the wall.
All for Flash there is going to feel just fine.
And as now that Baron is finally going to wear off.
See now I'm thinking about how they want to keep this one going.
They've got less than a minute until the dragon spawns.
So control over this bottom side of the map is going to help them one way or the other.
Yeah, they're going to go about this the safe way.
No need to rush into an ending play where there's even any chance that you possibly throw
the game away. Just wait for the Dragon Soul to come up. Yes, the dragons are like
tank here now in the new season when you have multiple earlier ones taken. But that's
not going to be a problem at all. So just get complete vision leading up to the
dragon. You know Team Liquid will be squirming and feel the pressure and make them
come to you. And I mean, Yana and quit aren't even close to getting their I.E.
They're well on no gold. They just bought Yana's doing no damage. When he is hitting
The first two items were identical.
But now Blabber is up in an entire guardian angel.
Over his counterpart in Jose Diono, and that is a tough, full item to be behind from
Jose Dioto's position.
C9, they're going after the dragon.
Yon and Core already chunked down to half HP.
C9 is slow DPS on his Drake.
They're waiting to see.
If it's a fight against the other, they're going to take instead.
Click it's away here to fates the up for now.
between worlds not going to get it done from
fanatones but a nice size make sure
these core JJ is out of there
quits still trying to run away. He goes into the
soil unbounded by himself a little bit of extra time
but with core already out of the picture
C9's got a soul in a 5B4. Y'all continues
retreating. The actors wants to tag him with the
weirding but if doesn't half the range
doesn't have to be angled. C9 continuing
pressure now into the enemy base.
Yeah this should be the game here.
Morgan's going to lay down the equalizer
to clear the wave though really smart
the other way that Kwanan would want to use is bottom side right now and moving over.
So they're actually going to force the recall here, T.L. They buy themselves a little bit more time.
Yeah, the difficulty for T.L. though is they use all their playmaking tools in a losing
flight there. Quidgy suits his ult as flash and his QSS in a fight where they got nothing.
Right? And he is the only one who's even kind of close as far as the,
But yeah, I'm certain I mean just look at this down the middle those gold these are absolutely enormous
I mean Zen has as as forfully complete items. Y'all doesn't have free yet
Morgan is a running for his life of the moment that life might be four-fifth gentleman Morgan
Slow down by the smite followed by the slow from the golden egas size mixed up forces the flash
Which means the jarvan EQ can follow and guarantee hit the target
going to the game.
And then the game is
going to be a little bit
more important to the game.
More kids about to die
between worlds lost in the
abyss goes the poor little
mechanical yorano as team
liquid now scrambles to defend
their nexus with the remaining
four players.
Quit is still down the bottom
lane. He's got to get back to
the base. He has no teleport
to join quickly. The recalls
got to be chaneled because
seen I'm pushing one of the
Second next is to start as about to follow Stanfield takes a little damage from Pwibba to Wilma Madder,
blabber with a re-engage,
Corey's the target, and they switch the focus over,
they knock down Pwibba and C9 with a triple kill for the new midlayer,
makes Pwibba work a team liquid to nothing.
They twist the out of midlayer and they're gonna take first place in the LCS.
It's a great start from C9.
It has to feel amazing for APA.
Based off against C9 that replaced you,
flattened down to a big place on the easier in the first game.
Create a big advantage in the early game in game 2 and C9.
Look in the hot to start this 20, 20, 60.
Hot to start this season against the team.
Everybody else wanted to dodge.
If you come out swinging and hit the element now,
those knuckles are looking like they're ready for any challenge.
for any challenger.
Let's see now I take the stage
and take their first bow with 2026.
And they did it with two different looks.
Children resilience and game number one
and the ability to snowball and stop in game number two.
Gonna be a really fun year man.
I feel like we have a lot of great draws
to kick off Swiss.
Yeah, I think this lock internment
is going to be incredible.
And this is that final fight, really one more time.
TL, it's kind of desperation hours at this point,
but see nine knows they can really just send it
on pretty much anyone.
Yeah, I love APA.
I'm going to go matter what.
We can look, we can look, we can look.
I can go, I can go, I am going, no matter what.
And they get in there to finish it off.
Remember, APA also on the Azure game made the decisive play
at the dragon to go in.
So this guy, yeah, he is so
just picked up onto the team, but he's fitting in not only in-combs, but also playmaking
in-game.
The confidence is really showing for this cloud-night squad early on in our lock-in
tournament.
Yeah, I think if I'm given a play over the series to anybody in this one, it would be
APA for me.
I think that like you're talking about the playmaking when you're behind, that's what brings
you back into the game.
And the absolute blood first when you're ahead is what guarantees you're the ones
finding your way to the enemy nexus.
the triple kill to end it off.
Just the icing on the cake here as Team Liquid
felt like they never really had any footing in game number two.
Early on, C9 was winning in the bottom lane.
Flapper was having so much better
of a game early on in the jungle in the second game too.
Just felt like T.L. was out of storage,
the entire time C9 gets the win.
And now we're joining C9's an APA in the fan zone.
Thank you very much, Cam Flowers.
I'm here with APA, congratulations.
on your first win, where in the new Jersey,
and I gotta start there, what's it like?
Your first transition to a new organization in the LCS.
I mean, so far it's been good.
Like, you know, it's been very welcoming.
I enjoy, I mean, I only have team spirit,
but I enjoy everyone on the team.
Like, all the staff that's very nice
and like, I feel very welcomed.
It's just very enjoyable so far.
Well, we're rooting for you on the new team,
but I also gotta say what's it like,
I haven't LCS back,
because that's also awesome news to have.
I mean, I did be in LCS.
I was like the biggest fan of the LT and I'm like,
I'm calling LCS no matter what.
So I'm very happy that LCS back to you.
Does that mean that you're going to be an LCS champion again?
Is that your expectation for seeing how you think that you and the team in general?
Is that kind of high expectations for yourselves coming into this year?
I don't know what our expectations are.
I mean, that like a official team meeting.
But I feel like, you know, just do well.
Literally, that's it. Just do well.
And should we do the team meeting right now?
What do we think, guys, Vulcan, are you winning the LCS?
We're going for top six this year.
Top six, okay.
Honestly.
You know, a little bit, like maybe top 8 is good for us, but we'll see.
I want to bring it back to that last series because to all over team liquid, a lot of
people are expecting you to be the top two, and generally on the power rankings, that's
what the expectation was.
And game one, first up draft, I want to talk about that because you were primary
engages here.
How much pressure is that for you?
I'm an host, Jillian.
Good one.
Like, I was ups, yes, and a bad matchup somehow with scaling runs.
So I was completely chillin and like I told my team after I saw the hood quit I was like this game is where I'm gonna go
Yeah, so what happened in that from your perspective because that seemed to kind of wild from just a viewer side of how easy that was for you to get that's
Oh, he just doesn't know the matchup
It's a buzz up
Sometimes that does that's all it amounts to
I have one last question here actually surprised guest here your family is around to cheer you on so we have your brother
If we can get them on camera here at Quentin Quentin,
I gave you the chance to ask any question that you wanted to
of your brother APA. So what question would you like to ask him?
When are you saving this thing?
Never.
Is it just going to keep growing on?
I'll keep growing. I'll give those days.
We'll be eventually.
Are you going to match it?
No, I can't grow one.
All right. All right. Well, hey, thank you so much APA.
Congratulations on the win with that set.
We're going to throw this short break.
But on the other side, we have the debut of Senals
to take it on this guy.
There
I'm not going to die.
Let the gives you wings.
The human body was built to remove, not directed at death in one singular posture for 12 hours a day.
It's time your chair evolves.
This is secret lab type U-Vo.
I didn't automatically engineer this for you, game, I read one of it, I understand, but in your every move.
You're going to the field.
Okay, Bobber.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Okay.
Take it off, Ash.
Sorry, guys.
Sorry, I'm not talking.
No, I'm not talking.
I'm not talking.
Okay, let's do a drink.
Okay, okay.
Okay.
You're a connection.
I can do this too.
Oh, man, we got to go get him.
We got to go get him.
See, nine.
We got to watch five.
Three for one.
They're jungler by P. Dead.
But they'll be happy with the outcome about.
I have the best.
Don't wait on me
I'm already gone
Don't pray for me
It's a can of a street, I see it in your eyes, Don't fall all over me tonight
That would make that no slice.
Welcome back to the L.C.R.E.R.E.
You need to be the size of the size.
We're going to have a little bit of your job, everybody.
Oh my gosh.
We're driving at the studio and central.
It's going to take some time to wrap my head around the fact
that this is not a bell or a key in coming in.
It's just me.
Whenever I would see that jersey,
it would have radically just registers in my head.
Yeah, I don't care about those people.
I'm not going to read that.
That's not legal letters.
You don't deserve the mind share in my head.
You know, if you're not legal legends,
Get in my face.
There are true League of Legends organization, remember, this is Phoenix 1, come back.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
And like I said at the top of the day, I'd forgotten that they were Phoenix 1, so they
themselves mentioned it.
Nice.
But would you have to talk about these rosters because, as you covered, at the beginning of the day,
or as there was a little bit of a switcheroo with some of these players.
This guy could create job with those players.
What happens if we take them now?
I mean, this is the tough thing for disguise, because they're the only team with the
guest slot, right?
So you don't have a guaranteed spot down to the year, which means, hey, your team could
be relegated, your org might not even be in the LCS next time, so, you know, it does
make it more difficult for them to hold on to players if other teams are interested.
The only remaining player on their roster at the end of the day was Castle, and that's
who they decided to build around.
Yeah, and I really did like the choice from disguise.
Of course, Kisno's coming in.
Last year was playing on the side of Dark Zero.
The intended roster was to be able to have Kriro.
And Kriro is an incredible carry jungler.
And I guess the strategy was just
to be able to play around him a bit now.
That being said, you're going to have to change that a bit.
Still, I think the pickup upsogent lines
who I felt like had a pretty impressive run
of line last year, though I would have loved to change this name
because now you're no longer a line.
And you're a line.
You're still confusing me, buddy.
with a little bit.
Masadjid, I think had a really stand-up performance last year
when he was in a nice yellow, nicknamed the mayor of Copperville.
I've got like, I'm interested in seeing
what kind of pixie's going to play here,
because it just makes like, vain and stuff all last year.
So that will be nice, but it should be a slow run for the team
because they're just a budget green players.
I mean, well, I'm talking to Ido.
It's like the intent of building this team was bringing
and he was supposed to be kind of like the centerpiece of the team, right?
We have this Carrie-Soul jungler, and you have these kind of like stable laners around them.
And he's supposed to be kind of given that agency to go crazy.
And it's like the whole identity of the team was supposed to be around him and they're like,
oh, we don't have him.
Yeah.
So that's going to change things up a lot.
I think Castle was impressive to me individually, and even when TSU was struggling,
I think Colmy should be stable for them.
The big question is, how are subject, as in kids know, going to perform?
Because subject, there's a lot of hype when you talk to people about him in Tier 2.
Yeah. People are kind of looking at him as like the next
Moss who sort of speak, right?
You know, someone who is really more focused on team fighting,
you know, is really strong in that team fight stage, not as dominant,
necessarily in the leaning, but, you know, can you take that to the
next levels? The big question because some players really struggle
to transition that. Yeah, especially in the 80
career position, I think where you do have so much reliance on your teammates.
And additionally, the current meta really does favor like super,
super strong laners, right? We've been talking a lot about how there's extended
leaning phase, it can be the extended bought two V2s. So we'll see how he does there.
Back to Cryera, I do think I'm curious to see whether disguise decide to continue to go
with that and just walk in a carry jungle, kind of stick to their plan to keep the rest
of the team on the same page, or what they want to do.
But pretend kids know it's cryera.
Of course. In my mind, it's already that time.
But I think whenever we make comparisons to like Masu or like Danny and Joe Joe and
those on E.G. Like those comparisons are made real by the veterans on that roster
being able to like basically give them a speedrun of like all the concepts and especially like a strong coaching staff and everything like that.
That's why the biggest question is going to be there for disguise because when they made that same gambit last year at the beginning of the year
you know it was like a question mark how it would work with some of the players coming in
in and it just didn't work and they had to like really re-tool and change their mindset
and then bring in real hell afterwards. So I wonder if because they're not going for the
long run with this roster, it's going to be a challenge and I want to see if they can make
it land of course going from winter to spring.
Well now those some of those players they brought in right specifically Dark Wings in hell
are now on sentials on the other side of the stage. I am curious to see what you guys thought
for predictions going into this.
I did just because of a lot of roster substitutions.
Did go to, oh, for our sentinoles.
I do think this is going to be a really tough uphill battle
for disguise, but you gave them a game.
So, talk to me about how disguise will take this.
I'm giving them a game simply because I think sentinoles
is also going through a lot of those things,
where it's like so much new players coming in,
you feel kind of fearing things out.
So, I don't think we're seeing schemes as stable just yet, right?
and I look at some of the mistakes that TL made
or even C9 in the early game and things like that.
And those teams are considered to be kind of top of the table.
So I just don't think anyone is so clean
that you're unbeatable at this point.
And man, like, sent to those confused me.
Because I have them at like six or so when it comes
to my power rankings, and I know that'll be a discussion
we go into tomorrow and everything.
But it's like, but what kind of impact will we see?
We'll see impact from last year.
We'll see an impact from like 24-ARA, like dark wings,
even though like he was really raw coming in.
But I play off, see look incredible, right?
So it's like I really need to see the level
that they're coming in on, because conceptually having
better employers like who he and impact
and having a coaching staff like Golden Blue and Dayo,
like that is a big win.
That should mean that this team can level up quickly.
And having like Rahal and who he is a balling
that worked on DSG last year,
like all of these things conceptually,
if you tell me this is how it should work,
I agree with you.
But then last year, hurt me when it comes to how impact works.
I just need to see that work out for me.
But yes, I do have two owing BST today.
Yeah, you know what else we need to see?
Jack was checking out, sent me'll still get earlier.
Ooh.
I'm out here at the LCS opening tailgate and I'm walking through the central
booth and it says I can get a free central jersey.
How do I qualify for one?
Yeah, so if you trade in any old team jersey,
that includes like KSM, CLG, golden guardians, any team that's not in the league anymore,
we'll give you a free set no jersey at no cost.
Also for the fans at home,
If you have any old team's jersey,
you can go to the Sentinels YouTube channel
and there will be a way to redeem a jersey
if you're not able to come in person.
Wow, the good thing about this
is I always come prepared as an old school LCS fan.
So, TSM for life, I guess.
Apparently I get to keep this too
and get a Sentinels jersey.
So looking forward to that.
And there it is.
Yeah, I know this is Jeff.
This is like a really jersey.
I knew wearing TSM under my jacket
for seven years would eventually pay off.
Eventually it would pay off. Yeah, you don't still have it on under there. You're not going to do the action switch, right?
Well, thankfully for me, I never owned a TSM journey. So I'm unfortunately not able to do that.
Maybe I'll take a look at the other ones.
But let's meet the teams ahead of us today starting with the skies in the topway makes the noise.
We are castle in the jungle.
Kids know.
In mid-late, call me at bot, subject, and support. Alliance.
to show you.
Yeah, he's scaling.
Oh, or how?
Thank you.
The new kids on the block versus the team that defended their spot to kick off their opening weekend of LCS.
A lot of top front sendals, Jack.
They're new to legal legends, esports, but they are a sugar not as an org when it comes to esports as a whole.
And it's really interesting seeing how they're making their entrance into the LCS.
They're not going all out right away trying to just sign giant big names or have a mass
amount of big name imports.
What they did is they signed true of the more experienced naturalized imports and impacting
who who's actually American citizen at this point because he's been here so long and
gone through that process.
They bring in dark wings as well and we're helping.
Robin DSG who really stabilized that team towards the end of last year.
then have the fresher important. Yeah, they were talking about it on the lounge earlier, you know, this is kind of three bits of last year's D.S.E. roster brought in
but they worked incredibly well. If we just look at the stats last year, but four dark wings were Helen who he joined
DSG, uh, I'm sorry, rather than just dark wings and her health, these are two and 18. That's not a great jet stat right there. After the
It's a great step.
It's such a group of deaths.
Almost 50-50 win right?
After those two join.
Yeah, I don't say if I was really going to try and make it insane.
It's a 400% more wins.
It has 20 games.
Oh.
Yeah, that's a massive cut.
That's a massive cut on impressive.
That's a much better tag.
Let's talk about it from the DSG side now.
Because what happens to them?
They went into the offseason.
They had to defend their spot as the guest team.
team disguised as the one team of the LCS that is not guaranteed the spot year over
year they had to defend it and what was their reward for defending it almost a full
roster rebuild.
And who's the first opponent that team that took most of their roster I mean it's a crazy
start of the over the escape.
I really is a rough deal.
Yeah.
But I will say they also don't have their full roster to make things worse.
Yeah.
So it's just really lucky for DSG which would make it even more impressive if they're
able to win.
today about ESG is I was really impressed.
We're all wondering, shadow, no, what can you get here?
What do you get here?
You'll have some stories about kids in a later,
but I want to really quickly talk about ESG and Ido plus Castle.
He didn't join the team until partway through the season, true.
And I feel like he was a big part of their turnaround.
So they got to hang on to Castle and Ido.
And they're kind of building around that.
We know Castle is one of the best top winners in the league in the landing phase.
And Ido's going to try and put together these puzzle pieces to make a team
it's the last place. That's got to their goals to make sure that they can pick up wins
and make some upsets happen because they're dealing with having the fewest resources of every team
really. But that's part of the fun of being a DSG fan. I see a couple in the off-
flags having their jerseys on is that they are the underdogs. They have to defend this spot. They
had to do a full rebuild safe castle who is kind of there. At this point it's hard to say
franchise player was been two years, but you know, closest to that that they would have. But
and we are in to pick and ban and already a lot of focus around him.
Things like Jace and Rumble take it off the table.
Yeah, and currently we don't have a mouth right man.
It has basically been a permabane on 26.1, but LCS is on live patch and it's been nerfed
in the previous series, Cihanna T.O. were still banning it.
And currently, I don't have decided to leave it up and roll it up.
Also important to note that while the S.E.A. is on blue side because of the global changes
and the competitive level settles have first pick.
So they get that first choice,
not fight his up, but instead they go
for the a zero for Dark Wings.
These in chance we get to see in a zero
to Orianna trade, it both teams decide to go for scaling.
Castle also decides to just powerpick his top lane.
And I said matching with the Orianna,
they decide to match with the Tlee,
which I do like when you're playing Renekton,
who's more of a player who wants to isolate like win one B1.
If you have push and roam from your mid lane,
you can snowball that top lane match up even more.
exactly and also your opponent's impact to historically has been one of the
goats in the top lane. But last year we talked a lot about how we
picked up a rough year if not his worse on record. So this is showing
castle I think some confidence saying I'll blind pick and just
give me that Renekton give it a crack. Absolutely historically
impact has been very good in neutralizing Renekton's last split
not with standing where he had one of his worse performances
and his decade long history in the LCS and it would be very standard
first three picks for Sentinels, if they decide to lock in that Kassante and throw him
top.
Korki and the Kassante are going to be locked in for Sentinels, so we have a lot of our
carries.
There were saving the jungle and support pick for second rotation, but we do at least
know that it will be the Kassante trying to equalize that renectin in the top lane.
The surprise actually is DSG just slamming this panpion very early right now.
It's going to be a support jungle flex.
We were wondering how B.S.G is going to play, because I know it's said with cryra,
the plan was to give him a bunch of resources, let him play his unique champion, and then
carry the game.
But now, because they're playing with kids, no one weak one, does that change how they're
going to try and build their team strategy?
Or are they just trying to have kids, no, do an impression of a cryra is supposed to be playing
like, well, we'll have to see.
I don't know where his plan is going.
I'm leaving more of the ladder here, as a support made myself, Pantheon is a little
the business of the current moment. I really don't like a lot of the matchups. This
win rate incredibly low in terms of solo queue as well. Doesn't mean that it's
unplayable. It's so creepy. Flex. But I'm anticipating the anti-unclassically
having the combo in the jungle and mid. Yeah, globally so far and 2026 on games of
that in here. It's 49 jungle games to two support games. So it's possible, but I'm
like a possible.
Um, heavily dependent on matchups. So we'll see what sentals lock in for their
support role right now. They're focused on the 80 carries as they've been on
A long-side not-less DSC will take out the poppy and the barred.
Man, I love seeing some barred.
I was hoping we would get it every series.
We still might. We could. It's this.
Yeah? If anything, this means that we can delay it
so that, you know, on next game, it's not here. It was banned.
But Niko is on the table.
That one I am expecting to go into the sport world.
Yeah, this will almost certainly confirm that Kiznol
will be playing the ampion in the jungle.
A lot of engaged and hard CC coming out early from DSG.
from DSG. And it's Hombock actually. He's going to give us our first
carry jungle. Look with the Kiana. Yeah, what a way to make a statement.
Dave, you Hombock player. We haven't talked about too much, but he's one of the
newer players to join us in an a and all ready. This is a statement saying
day one game one, lock me in a very squishy, very high burst damage a
assassin jungler paired with who he on the alicer and the answer will be
the Kaisa for DSG. I think the Kaisa makes sense. Every single person can give Kaisa a passive stack for him to fly into the back of the team fight if things are going well.
But you just have to see the standard nature of the Sentinels team comp when they feel like they're going to be the stronger team going into the game.
Very stable lanes. The safe blind picks good scaling strong front line with the only curve ball being that Kiana, but I think because they have such a strong front line in the
outster and the kastate that the composition for sentimentals makes a lot of sense.
A little bit of spice on top of all that nice sentimentals and game number one having
a more standard trap dsg when I look at this composition though I don't see the same
type of scaling tools I see come up that really wants to get going early on.
So I know as well was seeing some champ select bugs and things not getting traded, I'm
going to end up waiting because I thought I'd like to actually be a little teaser because
Maybe I'm not exactly the same bit as I was falling from. I think it's still going to be panicked
I'm gonna do it. It's pantheon jungle to Liam. Yeah, they didn't do a switch or on but it's D.S.G.
Versus sent no to kick off their LCS season right games arena
Makes some noise
For the new kids on the block first the team that defended their spots sent no's welcome to LCS disguised welcome back
Happy to have you again
to start off the year three
bets of DSG's roster last
year is now playing for
Sentinel's DSG with a full
rebuild.
Let's see if it gets him
away in here today.
Send everybody top to kill
Castle.
They're revenge for him to
not coming over as well.
We don't have as much time
these days.
There's been a lot of early
game changes specifically
around the minion spawning,
but a reminder congrats to
DSG.
They defended their guests
But here in the 2021 promotion tournament, but it's not over yet yet.
Oh, they're starting to clock already.
But you just need to remind them.
We can remind them that the clock is ticking.
They got a little wild though to get everything together.
And that's what I know was saying.
You mentioned the coach.
This is a rebuild.
This is a team that's going to happen.
Take some time to kind of get things together.
Absolutely.
And diving into this game a little bit already.
I want to talk a bit about Sentinels.
And why I actually think this team might surprise people.
I think there was a lot of people that were well-meed by their original roster announcement
because three players from DSG, if who seemed like a bottom-to-ear team for a lot of the year,
and then impact you had a bad split on Team Liquid. But when I just look at the way the team
is constructed, I think the player's strengths, when they're at their best, works really well together.
So I think for hell, was a great hypercary. Oh, last year. He actually won a series of recennies.
he let go he and goal percentage and that was with Dark Wings in his middle
inner. So there, uh, willingness to give most of the resources to Rael was
working because I wouldn't say Dark Wings was doing poorly on his
control. And I'd say with the season changes, that can actually be
amplified. Uh, really. That, those carries as well as who he is the
shocker. Like, it carries just has so much gold now with cashback and
the inflated gold from the Valkress. Come back, Golden Glitz. I
think it did a good job putting this team together. He didn't have massive
the amounts of resources and I think it has carries the make a lot of sense
and if you're going to have a hypercare like we're hell, why don't have one
the best team fighting top winners in the history of the league and impact if
he's able to have a bounce back split. So that's where I like what
Sentinels do is doing and I think because the fit is so good between the
players, they might surprise a lot of you. And you did rank them much higher than
I'd say the average percent of those and even even much higher so only fourth
place but still higher than I'd say the average was for them across the
board. So we'll see if they're able to deliver and yeah I'm speaking on
last year, it really was like, he's coming in for one split. I talked to him a little bit earlier before coming into the game and he was like, look, this is still basically my rookie year.
He's the only one split. This is his second split. So I'm still looping him in with the other rookies that we have right now.
Kind of got APA treatment that we gave a couple of years back. And yeah, he was solid, but now is the chance for him to try and stand out in the mid lane.
But maybe they just put the resources in there for help regardless either way though catch up on the game
We see that junglers are just passing opposite sides. We're gonna trade for different scuttles no early game action here
But I still want to look at the SD's comp think that they're the one a little more pressure to go for earlier plays if we're gonna see any they really are and they have tons of river vision at the moment as well
Utilizing the new
Superworts box the failites to get extra vision in the river you said that bottom lane is just completely lit up
but they're not really able to do anything with it because both
Chungrich is full cleared, got the crab and are likely on the way back
to this.
But it does mean the DSG have a lot of vision protecting
Sejad and other of these rookie players coming in here.
Sejad, you know, most recent winner of MVP, most valuable
prospect and we're given out to NACL players, some were confused
thinking, well, why did he not win first team all pro because
prospect is not player.
It's not that he was the best as role.
It said we felt confident he would be a great prospect going forward.
So he's already the likes of lawsuit, bucio,
dope, big names have won this award in the past.
So maybe some pressure as well on suggest,
but so for a landing face going all right for me,
that's actually a head about a wave of C.S.
Yeah, hopefully it's just a little bit of hope,
because most five of the prospect has resulted
in so many players finding Tier 1, L.C.S. success.
And so only four and a half minutes in,
but T.S.G. is sticking with him.
I wonder what the coordination is going to be like,
because I know to make matters worse in the off season.
And these are just the difficulties
that they're going against in YGST,
should be favored as an Earthsea as an underdog.
They get loose through their players,
and then on top of that, being powering for low-mostains,
they also don't have their full roster.
So yeah, I really plan with a lot of difficulties
for this first game.
So how about let's see this?
Let's catch up on Kiznose early game here,
because as a emergency sub,
didn't have a lot of time to practice with a team
if any at all, how would you kind of expect,
if you're putting yourself in the coaching position,
I do a approach, saying, okay,
This is how I want to play around a pantheon jungle right now.
I mean, for the most part, if you're dealing with a player that's not going to be
their long term, you kind of actually want to mold your team a little bit around him.
They came as comfortable as possible, and then the other four people should be able to
do that.
So I would hope that it's just, what do you like in the jungle here?
I like pantheon.
That's the most comfortable with, okay, great.
Now let's have it make sense.
And in that case, they really have built a cohesive team proposition.
It's high execution, but it's anyone who goes in and lands the first CC, whether it's
on Kiana Azir or Korki, everyone else kind of flies in
and tries to one shot that squishy.
And I will say as well, like Castle is the one who's
going to have to create a lot of pressure on there.
And I think because he's the one that is in the most
winning situation.
And also the one with most experience on the team,
at least with this organization.
So also one other fun fact, where basically there's
Lord dumping kids now, right?
Now that was my case, two minutes later.
I was like, we're going to get some kids no fans in the audience.
Again, it's a tough position.
Yeah, somebody shouted out right there.
fun so I heard about them. He was actually a recommendation from
Sir Jed coming in. So the two of them, old friends, played against each other.
It's a rather a Kizzo's first ever 5-5 experience was screaming against
Sir Jed when he was off rolling in the jungle. Apparently he got body.
Sir Jed was playing like Shaco and Cain. So maybe that's it about that.
The Shaco text later on. But they've also played on the same roster together.
So it's cool to see that Sir Jed not only is a rookie coming into the team,
but also is a rookie that's like, hey, I know a guy that can come in and
replaced by Ruff who's experiencing some visa issues.
I mean, things looking good for them so far.
Pretty uncontested with what DSG has wanted to do.
Call me has held push in mid lane.
The Nico support has appropriately kept the hours to push in.
They've had really good vision in river.
And a six minute 40 second uncontestable Drake
because they had so much river control.
That's a good for seven minutes of play.
Not through Shabby coming here from, I'm going to be emergency,
to be some before DSG. They get the shove in the bottom side as well. Still,
Sajan is maintaining his CS advantage. And I'm happy to highlight the fact that
Lions help you out with that a lot. Actually, with the back of that, I'm not looking
for a play. Flash and Dark Wings response from Call Me. But send us a look at four. He didn't see
hot one. First blood that's set. No. That's the next way to start your LCS life there.
Your mid laner goes flash for Flash. Even though Call Me felt pretty safe,
you're near walls and your
kiana. So instant punish
there by humbuck has no
problems getting the one
shop button off on the kiana.
Yeah, sometimes you just get a
little. We're confident they're
thinking, okay, I played the one
view one, but humbuck can maybe
flashes well that is a two for one
seminar trade, but that first blood
gold being back in the game.
Last year we had to get used to not
having that anymore because it's
the streets of strength. Now that
is more gold in the pocket of
kiana who is going to have a
pretty juicy back here. Yeah,
stealing crooks as well. I don't feel like that's going to be able to get matched by
Pantheon as Pantheon's on the other side of the map. That's completed item.
So that is a really nice job of making sure they have something to play off with.
The net profile fan hydrant could be huge.
Watch this one more time. I mean, call me probably this feels like you say if
wants to get back to the wave, humbox on full vision. Yeah, he is.
He just doesn't respect the EQ flash into all because that is a perfect one-shot
angle for humbuck. He'd keep running backwards. Beautiful play.
Yeah, so unfortunate upset from the midliner of DSG, but that is only first blood if you remember they still have that dragon from earlier
So slight goldway now for sentinels, but all that gonna be on at the Kiana for now quick call it as well
It's going to go in a plain black t-shirt when they had a merch 10 outside giving away bunches of
Sentinels merch. Yeah, he gave his jersey away. He's such a good guy wearing his jersey
Well, you know, you're so dark when it's on the back. Yeah, sure. That's you.
But we see here's some humbuck fun facts newer player coming into the league
Kind of a story player himself. He's new to NA, but he played through the okay bro pipe line
Also play with Morgan a little bit a new top laner for team liquid as actually we'll get back to that here because DSG
Our posture around the grubs, but sent no's currently fully them off humbuck with that big power spike on the item
Confucian. Yeah, you don't want to mess with that Kiana if Kiana and Pantheon are in the same place
and there's no numbers just to manage the Pantheon has to run.
At this day, Chambac can absolutely run the map.
He's got the 1000 gold advantage, completely firm self.
And even though one group did go over to Kizno,
the lead will slightly extend for Hambac's Kiyak.
Yeah, and this is a tough spot to be in for Kizno as the Pantheon.
Falling behind the Kiyanna, and now a lot of camps
cleared behind as well, because you're 71 to 89.
Hambac, having a great debut.
Also, fun fact, he's playing with a lot of players that are coming
He played with Castle a little bit back in the day on KTC. He played with Zinny, who will see tomorrow on Shopify,
Rebellion. So,
Hamburg might be new to North American audiences, but not new to a lot of players playing here in North America.
Yeah, the KT Challenger roster now having two players in the US this split.
We'd like to see Zinny tomorrow.
Hamburg was on that team in 2024.
It was not on that team in 2025, and now he's over here in the LCS.
And I think a lot of the successive sentinels will hinge on whether or not
hop-box ends up being a top tier player for them because I think Darkwings were
held an impact on more known quantities and if this team's really going to start
contending for a title, it would have to be around exceptional play from their
jungle. And that is one of the things that they really wanted to upgrade as well.
When you look at kind of the difference between DSG, the Sentinels rebuild. Yeah,
giving a player like hop-box is a big boom to four players like Darkwings who
can play more stable mid lane and then just give resources to Reheal and now they
have more firepower here in the jungle.
But speaking of the thoughts, I'm still impressed that
Sajad has been able to kind of hold things down on his own down there.
I'm going to go for a reset here.
Maybe that's going to be a first item from Cleveland as well,
which would be a head of Rell who expectations.
Well, I definitely thought Rell would have kind of the advantage
in just landing phase and pretty much every point in the game.
Yeah, I think a lot of it does have to do with the matchup.
Niko into Alster is always going to be more Niko favorite and harder for
Alster to roam to say top lane since vision up there.
so easy for top laner to turn that into an isolated one-d-one.
So I think he's just conceding a lot.
He's actually down more than it looks,
because that's a 70-stack call already from the crisis.
Well, in fact, actually,
find the third and toe post strike,
looking for the solo kill on Castle,
flat in forward, lines in, in-pack,
welcome back to the LCS.
I mean, absolutely, and I just got to say,
it box still got it.
Yeah, yeah, he's still got it here,
so a beautiful job by impact getting the solo kill
all this top-weight are in the lead.
Getting the solo kill onto Castle beautifully does.
He's teaching these young kids how it's done,
as Darklings avoids call me with the flickback on the size of the show.
Next track is up, send noles.
Not only do they get a solo kill top-layer,
but even on the bottom half of the map,
they're able to get an advantage,
pushing into the skies off of the second drake.
Let's get another look at that,
so Castle, if you're trying to get the wave in,
then it's just a TP from impact.
Yeah, so you can see Castle push up the wave
It was just trying to clear it and then go back,
but Impact realized this was a time
for him to go in.
Despite the level of this advantage,
knows he has the soul of Hugh XO,
if he'll angle able to go under the turret
using the Cassante all out.
Yeah, through the minion wave, too.
That's some confidence.
That's some calculation from Impact coming in.
And that was the question on my mind,
was which Impact were we gonna get MVP impact
from the previous four or last year impact?
Just because you're the oldest player on the minion wave.
The top laner doesn't mean you don't got an ages just a number.
I've never seen a point nine after an age.
30.9 years old.
Yeah, I mean, it's just a decimal rather than the most.
Yeah, conserving space.
You can work it out.
Once you hit 30, you don't say how many months old you want to.
You know, 31 soon.
Yeah, soon, yeah.
Not the oldest in the league, but yes,
definitely using that, it's very, it's the oldest top winner in the league.
Yeah, four to days the oldest one.
Now we're just going to start calling him out.
Who he, let's just list all the 30 year old there.
We have a big chat.
Fox actually pushing Kizno one of the young kids out.
Oh, you have that one too.
Yeah, I'm ready.
It's, I have stats.
So, courted it as you can see the old is pretty much like who you also very experienced.
But again, like I think in the past of these sports, you would honestly when I started
them league, people were saying, oh, if you're 25, your hands are going to fall off.
That is clearly not true.
Fakers, 30, corgi j's, 31, you can see who he's over 30 as well.
And they're still at the top of their game impacting the solo kill on to Castle here in the game.
So I've just turned 30 a couple months ago.
So what I'm hearing from that is that I still have a chance.
You still have time.
I still have time.
If you devote your life to League of Legends for multiple years,
you still have an outside chance of making a child to us.
Okay, I did play on the playtest team yesterday
to warm up the stage, and I had a great mouth liking.
Congratulations, mouth liking, mid.
Think about it, everybody.
How about another invade on the Kizno right now?
We've resolved to try and lock him down,
but the Supreme Display of Talon, take a hold of your knees.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
The circumference of the roundabout now,
the grand star full Kizzo's look for all on the right.
How old, old, old, old, old, old, old, old, old, old.
And all the wrong side of the wall.
So we asked him to flash, but it's still a kill.
D.S.G. will get two members.
I'm an extremely goofy play that we saw right there.
I need to catch myself up on it because of the peers that
secondals went way too deep to Lee Wall created such an interesting
connection.
I've never seen that for the cut off, because the count off is going to
track the nearest terrain in the South.
circle and chill and runs out of terrain. So I feel like that delayed the
piano ultimate once you see the replay. I've got it in the crossing. There is
travel time on it. So and it made a huge amount of terrain connecting two big
pieces of summoners riff. So yeah, that's gonna be a full-time program moment for
sure that. But I mean just looking at the numbers here, there's a push really
to be three, four. Oh, no, just three. Okay. Yeah. It's going. Yeah. Because of
are amazing, but it also needs that they're
just completely outnumbered. I think this
was a batting day by Hompock, and then
also DSG doing a good job of collapsing
and completely staying in the game.
Almost to mistake there. Now, I
guys, almost costing the kill ends up
just costing this flash. We'll see if that
ends up mattering before that flash
cool. That comes back up. Yes, one of
those moments where again is a rookie
coming in. This is his first game
playing at the LCS on this stage. So
moments like that do happen. Still
all the flash to get the kill at least
that's gold into the pocket of
of the judge who now has a sizable lead.
I mean, we're out.
And this is the Kisicon.
So him having the 1.7,000 gold lead.
One from the landing phase, two from staffing his call.
And then three from getting that shutdown on the Hobak.
That's exactly where you want the gold to be going.
And yes, he's absolutely in this game.
One thing I want to track now, though,
is what Sentinel does now that there's no flash on the Kisik?
Because at the NACR level, he has the MVP coming in from NACR.
Yes, he found a lot of success.
That's mossy's replacement on flight-less challengers.
But you don't get punished for things like not having your flash around Harold plays at an ACL.
Does it seem like sendals punish that more?
So eyes will be on suggest going forward if you can say safe currently though.
It is the Harold not contested.
DSG just have kids know.
So this one has been pushed up.
Try to raise your foot on his turret.
We should be getting that extra gold now.
If impact and withstand this pressure getting that extra gold on his ears.
Going to be real nice about who he's up here to cover.
So give it up, Rick Harold.
But there's that.
to squad. Yeah, actually five heading thinking about heading of sharks are circling onto an
Alicernic and Sontae two tanks hard to take down, but they just dropped the hairless.
Maybe they killed the turret first. Yeah, I'm a teleport coming in who he pops the
ultimate early. In fact, with the third and top of the strike, it's going to be a sacrifice
of the Alicernoy flashes. Get out just in time. Yes, she will only get the turret. That's
It's got to be a little disappointing for the SG.
If they send five, they definitely get at least one kill.
But then, so Head would have lost the midway,
because Kai's always kind of circling the river
to sign it to go down and catch that wave.
Still equalizes turrets.
But who he, I think is pretty fortunate
to get out of that one a lot.
And so when it was moments where maybe you come to everything,
you can write the Harold and to another turret,
convert into two, but Dragon also on the map,
they want to go for a reset and now back on the map for this.
But if they do that, right now probably gets mid.
So like I under I really understand
Said heads mindset here saying I have a lead on the quirky if I match him I'll always win
Yeah, so there is a smart individual call there for him to
Make sure his game is in a good place. I don't think he suggests gonna have a chance to get a second item though before this dragon final
Though as I say that much position top side. They're TP top side
Everyone again going to dark wings. TV response from sendals. It's only call me in a kizmo olden in dark wings has the backup of the team
He was the target, but who's talking to who's the breeders to let it down and not lay him in the mark as who he's in some trouble
Overheld, I'm joined in for the first kill
As Sentinels do hold the life for one, the Arc Wing's pushes can't go back while we've got a head
Well, they're not a two, so Jeff can free fire, but he only gets one while that trickle goes to Ra-How
I get a bit of an awkward fight you could see that DST was trying to fly in from all angles
But the Kisid is couldn't find the right angle and as you mentioned, didn't have the two items yet
the White House yet, so that'll be a gold
bit that he had now to manage because
were hell ended up getting some
kills out of that. So I actually like
the idea of the play, but the
execution is ended up falling a bit
short. I mean, you see Alster, no old.
You see a TPU is he's early. You see
a lonely, a zeer, but set no
else really good defensive play.
It is watching this one more time.
You can see Castle needed to avoid
getting one shot. So he's not in
there right there. His no kicks
damage is almost dead before the
fight starts. And then Rahel also
arrives first. So there was no
of combo one shot you would ideally have.
Doesn't fly in here either,
because they can get the kill out of a homo
without all being everyone on sendals and already
fall into the back of the turret.
So a pretty good response on second watch there
from sentibles to retreat to their turret.
Well, still doing that.
And the story gets worse for DSG.
Not only do they not find an advantage
to stray for that top play back to back.
Top plays.
But another dragon goes to sentinoles
the more experienced roster.
But the brand new or cure
or care finding some purchase in this game.
They got a slight gold lead and now they're up in objectives.
And I think if this team is going to succeed,
it's going to be off the back of the team fighting for sure.
We're held. You want him to get to three or four items.
That's where he was shining.
Last split on Jinx and Affelios.
Dark Wings, a good control-made team fighter.
And impact, as we mentioned, a really strong team fighting tank.
So even though they're not blowing out BSG,
I feel like this is generally how a lot of essentials game you're going to look.
And Castle finds a nice little chunk there at the Humbuck.
You know, it's trying to push them away from the Raptor as the team pushed into the mid turret, but don't have a quite enough push is now impacts a lone top side.
Yeah, and here's also where an experienced team is going to be able to outperform a team that is just put together play with the sub drumlers.
You could see five people were grouped there from mid lane, but they didn't have a reliable trigger pull.
So they ended up losing a bunch of farm in the side lanes.
And now they're redeploying, but they're completely down on tempo because the D push is there for sentinals.
They can get the faylite in the bot lane, so they have full vision now for Dark Wings to push.
team, not to mention it gives time now for Homebox to move to the top lane and think about pulling off the game to get the turret.
Castle does have the turret, but it's very low.
Impact pushes the cannon wave here.
All out, walls, council, bad, get it in!
He will fall in the top lane, Grandsauphal, what's given to my kids that we can clear up the waves and damage to the impact, but
I don't know if Panther will have enough to actually threaten the kill.
Impact is trading right off back, Homebox says, I think you can help my body.
And it doesn't even matter.
So, Jen will get their shutdown but impact with the solo kill.
Wow, in back on block, they're getting a two for one.
It looked for a bit like Hobbock betrayed him.
And then, yeah, if he trusted him.
But I actually say that was correct.
Yes, they knew Kaiser was on the way.
He needed his backhamps.
If Kaiser arrives, I think he kills them both.
So, he protected himself and back up the kill anyway.
Perfectly done.
All according to plan.
right there. But the SG we have seen even though they're falling behind this was a
composition that we highlighted needs to make early plays. They are trying to
defend. They're trying to be aggressive as well. Kidnau coming in here to attempt to
save Castle. It's a nice look. Yeah, he was sneaky. He was going to be close enough to
protect from a gang but the one shop potential from the Kiana. And yeah, this just
looks like the biggest betrayal. But it's because the entire river is controlled by
to get to the top of the game.
And he's going to get pulled back
from the top post strike.
So I don't know how much of a difference
that really made either way.
Some slight mechanical errors being shown by some of the younger players on DSG.
While you're sentals, I love how much they're playing the map.
League of Legends were well beyond the days where you just stop playing.
And you win the game.
You have a lot to do with the game.
today's where you just stop lane and you win the game, you have to actually play
summoners rift and said we'll seem to be doing that very comfortably with also a
very new roster, three fifths the same for the issue last year, but did you
will commit a lot of members again to the mid lane, to clear this turret, two
TPs coming in, what's the thing? It was actually one A flight, in fact, on the
flank Darklings is ready for it, but sendals can't find it, so they actually
commit two TPs not going to land any kind of engage. I mean, the biggest
surprise this game is how starver hell is of gold.
I was thinking he was going to be the hyper carry for this team getting
most of the resources but he's you know a good 30 40 CS below Dark Wings
and the crisis 2.2000 gold ahead of them despite being equal and kill so
that's still going to be their window back in the game three item Kaiser right now
this is where 80 carries really start to take off is around the three or four
core item marks with the 80 carry quest giving them extra gold with all the
taking cash back. They're taking what I think was intended to be a slight increase to 80
carry. And now we're going to have to go looking at the back fall on the dark wings that
is a teleport from who he this time with the on seal's bulb book. So send them. Man, they had
TPs for days, always defending these top lane plays. Do you see not going to find a big
cat? I love to get this turn eventually. I think they might be able to get it on the next wave.
Because they're going to see Kaisa on mid. They're going to see an action on bot and maybe
be able to push up, but they have to respect the Pantheon ultimate.
They're sorry, the Pantheon ultimate is down.
He had to get just to use it and my people are pushing and get it, but who
is left so they're just going to continue to trade with?
Yeah, it's not nulls happy to just keep a slower pace game.
They do have great scaling tools available to them.
And the pressure is on, I think, for player like suggest three items completed
working on a fourth, very far ahead of Rheel, who had he stand out performance
last split.
And the player like said, yes, he's not new to competitive
He's been playing some high school. He wasn't one of the Riot affiliated high school leagues
So he's been playing for many, many years now
Between tier 3 tier 2 and NACL but still rookie at the tier 1 stage for LCS and now he's got to put out a big performance here
Yeah, humbuck lying in weight hoping that someone squishier walks through
He's gonna go for the steal so much damage
And not his not does not even realize it yet
Because no, I think it's maybe reading the code
Oh, so head
T-Kane in.
It's fine.
Yeah, it's just very far forward for Hell.
They still have Humbock on the flank.
He's now spotted the HEC, the lonely Kian, all alone.
But the boss was committed by Lions Resleteam.
They were chasing back and they were held straight back from Catsville, Catsville, and the
fighters have him, though.
and the shutdown of his own now suggest it to be in for a big win for D.S.G.
And that's the big win they have such a big advantage now can they take this dragon and then go for a bearer and then run out of time watch this one more time
And the TREAT, that's three full people trying to deal with castle.
Wow, he's just completely free hitting the team.
So DSG, arguably pull ahead in this game with that fight.
One of those moments where when you track impact there, I don't know if he knew where his AD chair was.
They're going to get the Baron, so DSG.
The Rebuilder roster that gets team that had to defend their spot are getting themselves
in a very comfortable position in this debut game for most of these players here, 2000 gold
lead, equalizing dragons and get the Baron, and they're back in the game.
Yes, a jet working on his Zonias as well.
That's going to make him very difficult to kill and keep by to nuts the slingshot that we see in that
game.
In this game, off of that flight.
I mean, just you would expect Sentinels to have a cleaner fight setup, but I feel like
homo getting spotted, having to kind of retreat, use ultimate solo on the renectin, allowing
the Kaisa to free hit his front line, but it's been a part of position of 3,000 gold
beat now for Kaisa.
Insane and sane lead for a Sajid.
The rookie 80 carry.
Again, we talked about in the lot, but there's a lot of reason to be excited about a player
of his caliber.
He was Mossies replacement on flight West Challengers.
We know kind of the expectation that we have a player for Mossu now and Zajib was the one
that stepped in filled his shoes was able to win the same award Mossu did now and the
same lead as Mossu and having a pop off game number one makes you wonder what else is
just get capable of.
The promise tier two and tier three pipeline.
Yep, bearing it's fruit here.
It's 26.
Don't watch you.
Don't look.
You don't need a pantation.
I mean, this is a very impressive showing by DSG. It's really bad news for my fantasy team as well because I was thinking a team with a substitute.
Yeah, surely just load up on sentinel players they're taking van and Joe, they are not. This would be a huge upset for DSG to win this now.
Even if they had their full roster, I would have favored sentinel's over this version of DSG, but I mean, yeah.
Yeah, sometimes.
So after he grows, watching the dive,
mediocre Zelkobi all had GST 8th of 8th in their power rankings.
My power rankings on JLXP, I put them 8th of 8th.
So I am very impressed with what they pulled together
in this.
They picked a high execution team composition.
It's a Kisakomp, they're playing with the sub jungler.
And now they have Baron buff, Equal and Drake's 3000 gold up
and looking to advance the game.
Can they push into another turret here?
And they just took the mid turret, they took the bottom turret.
One last tier two turret.
He has two thousand gold lead this barren has
ballooned up to a four thousand gold lead now.
And they do actually take down the final tier two turret.
Sendals still.
This is the third time now.
The Dark Wing has been the split pushing on his own.
And he's getting close.
Oh, yeah, he's getting close.
He can't get hit here.
T.P does not go off.
Dark Wing is trying to get out of there,
but does have the shuffle to his game call me.
No Summoner spell, though.
Yes, still no T.P.
There for.
Oh, that's a weird wall.
There just costs a TP and an old cool down, but that should be up before the next big of Jack
to speak enough. It's a minute for Dragon. It's not Dragon Soul, so a Sentinel's again can scale
and they did a good enough job of slowing down the Dragon stacking up DST that even could give
this one a way and just continue to catch waves if they want to do.
I mean DST really looking to make a statement here early in game one. I know they still
haven't won this game. We still have the best of three. Are you trying to cast the first of
a feels like you're trying to cast your curse? Maybe a little, but it's just, listen,
for those you hear that I'm following like the overwhelming
opinion was that this week was a top two in T.L. and C.N.I.
maybe lying sneaking in there didn't have fire
building they have shop five didn't never before right
shop five five quest sentinels
and you would be an abrogacy it would be exactly
I mean just you diggers just everyone's seven and eight but
D.S.G. and gave one now with a 4,000 gold lead on their young
to carry are going to try and I mean if they win one more fight they could
potentially end the game they eliminated six tourists already and it's not
only the young eighty carry it's a jungler subbing in and it's there's
other actually back to that lion with a pop loss in the back of the
way they got him on by just pop like a moon the as you will happily accept
the jungle donation is now looking for impact gets a flash away from the
flick back and send those out with four members will live away from this
dragon and I like to play. They don't overchase in the 5-4. They're just going to take the free dragon.
Keep extending their gold. Keep growing.
It's a Cheds Kaiser. My God. They are looking good.
Yeah, if you would said, if you'd asked me ahead of time, what my expectations were for this.
I would have said, unfortunately, ruined for the players on the SG, but I'm expecting
a 2-0 for Sentinels. Thankfully, nobody asked me that. I had a time, so I don't have to admit that, though.
because that would have been a little embarrassing.
Sendals so far not been able to really solidify their league.
They had one at one point.
They were up a dragon.
They were up some gold.
But then one bad teamfight in DSG had been able to run away with it.
Now again, the scaling I don't want to keep reminding people because games
if they go long, these sets of gold leaves don't matter.
Where you're true.
Renact in with the Tolia with the price.
Like, yeah, you can still blow somebody off.
But if you give a Cassante for items,
if you give in a zero for items,
I can get really tough to end the game.
It can.
I mean, if Dark Ring is able to get one more item,
he's really gonna be pumping damage.
I even say, Rahel, even though individually
he's 4,000 gold down on the Kaisa,
if he completes an infinity edge,
he's gonna be a strong cork as well.
We'll be able to coast with she's in a couple of auto attacks.
But at the moment, like, this is previously
what a completely full build Kaisa would be.
He saw that's a slide, but yet another item?
Yeah.
I'm actually kind of curious,
when we see more of this,
What is going to be the seventh item build for all these 80 carries previously explored territory usually we wouldn't even get to that point in a pro game
We're 31 minutes in man. Yeah, 17 is our 18,000 gold
Of items right now. He's unbelievably fed. I also call me with a decent enough lead over his late opponent
To really the only lead percentals is Homboc who just got picked in that last blade just lost his spell shield there
The bearer has started Hombocs and after tried to wait in
to the right now, this guy's
decide to walk away,
so Janet half-health if he
goes down even with that
zone is that's a bad news
for G. S. G. So send those
do push them off with the
objective. You took way too
much damage there and
actually doesn't have any
life still in his bill.
He took legend to lacquer
D. He has absorb life,
which gives him 21 health
per target killed, but that's
actually really badly.
If you don't have blood
light on the carry, because
you start bearing in
barren itself, I can take you
like half-health. So really
diminishes their ability
to force and hash surprisingly.
Yeah, maybe something to look at for that seven
fight. Yeah, think about it a life steal.
But he's the api. I want to get that.
Yeah, I want that death cat.
I'll use a big up tap. One shot by a kind.
So speaking of, hop-box, to use the supreme display of talent,
defensively, Castle was able to find a flank there.
The flanking, Renekton, always terrifying for squishy junglers.
And it's hop-box will actually walk back into the jungle,
called these line and wait.
Castle and Kisner will walk forward,
to clear out this control ward, Humbock, one nasty call me as the Flash's World.
Fantastic start, but a rough second half of the game for Sentel's jungler.
I agree, the first blood look great after that. He's really had a hard time entering any fight.
So with no jungler flash or alt, DSG is going to continue to try and hold control here on the river.
And really, anyone can land CC, but allows the chi-c to fly in. So it's very difficult for Sentel's
to approach. You see, Darklin is going for a bag. Baron's been started. Darklin is
going to be finished with the fourth item and can see me in time. Maybe it changes things,
but the SG no contest will pick up the Baron. Second up the game. Another Baron power
player. Same with the game with this one. Yeah. And important note, the power of actually
getting Baron has been diminished this season. The gold reward is about half of what it was
before and it's a little bit tanker to take down. So Baron isn't as game warping as it
as it would have been in past seasons, but as you say second Baron, the Baron minions
still very strong, the gold still coming in almost full build price now, another ride
on, to complete the sixth item dream for price up, but I think they're just going to slow
the control this and play the word, so the SG as long as they don't wonder, can control
this game very far, I don't know me territory, but should be able to get it back
off.
get some vision down around Dragon on minute and ten for that to come up to you.
So you can use this barren pub either to see Dr. turret or just control waves and go
for their dragon soul now they are on that soul time.
Yeah, they don't want to overforce too much to give on box Kiana a big angle, but I don't
even necessarily think that with the big front line and even with is your cork that
they're necessarily winning the front to back because the Talia and the Kaiser just
to have such a big item in advance.
Oh, Colby!
Usually we just want to try and help out the team on the bottom
though it was guys he don't get the whole he lives!
Kids know that savior of his man-to-later dumplings
will take down castle though because DS2
were expecting a mid-later down there.
Now they gather jungle kids know
what the grand start will plop lines of shit dominating
as the rookie Gary's exhaustive but he don't care.
Who we try to flood line for the team
kids will do in the same with the trade of kills back in Fort Gome.
Will get shut down by dark wings.
Oh, what a scrap in the bottle.
Oh, my God, it's a bloodbath.
Three, first, three.
Soja had gets even more gold.
So he's now 5,000 gold up, but you can see these
your cork your range was starting to pay off right here.
Love the picket's hand there by homo.
Oh, really sloppy moving towards moving
between those lanes.
That's the moment where you'd want to be able to get the pick.
You can see they do get the kill,
launches the Kiana, but that distracted him from the fight
of top.
Yeah, so they have to retreat on the bottom side and then I am just trying to engage
beautiful W there by Kaiser at the end.
And it's just where Hal is damaged is actually starting to be real here as well.
And it's tough to point out that Graham, how am I supposed to one rocket on, yeah, we see
the coach camps right there.
Rehelmist one quirky rocket onto the stunned Talia if that had landed Talia would not
in the live for all the unrabbled Earth for the seismic
shelves and then that made who he's job harder.
So really tough.
That was a great fight from Humbach to actually get on to call me.
But they couldn't kill the Tolera and now it is dragon picked up by
Sentinels there actually.
I'm just realizing he got to have a nice time.
No, they did not.
So three the three dragon count right now.
That's really makes things fortunate for Golden Glue.
Why he was the one excited after that fight.
I couldn't, if they couldn't secure the soul right there,
That makes this game very even and now they're actually on a bit of a timer because the crisis six items the cookies for and a half
So guys it cannot build seven. No, you got your boots. That's the joke seven. Yeah, so it's real seven item
This is it. This is the full build. You can get a you know, a mixer, but that's it. You probably already has one to be honest
Because yeah, all right, so suggest does not get stronger than this point in 64 AP level 18
every enemy wants. You could start becoming an AD if you wanted to get more gold.
Sell all those arrows. Just on my everything. But I think that last push was
their strongest window. Oh, and that we were to all now. Call me is really
fishing for these great softballs. Well, he is she using their semi-global
to try and catch our members of the sendals, but who is just watching over the
bomb loss and right there? No, no, no, come on. Sentinel's trying to turn it over to
The jet is on touch, you got a huge shield.
Dark wings trying to push him away to the jet position.
He's safely trying to bring forces on and out him.
The carry for the S.G.S.J. is shut down and sent no toll blind.
This is still anyone's game.
You can see them pushing back the mid lane.
Two for two, but the carries are alive and no real objectives up.
How much can they get off this opportunity?
Yeah, he's going to go for a turret here.
What a hero playing, though.
It's actually impact going for the turret.
But either way, sendals will get it dark wings with clinical precision keeps his eyes on
such a jet.
We'll get a look at a replay here in a moment I assume, but I'm just going to be following
what Dark wings does in that fight because he's able to find all the gold, all the gold
for his G is on such a jet.
He was fishing first again the whole time.
So the start actually, and for hell gets hit by any of those first spells, the game might
be over.
But then they all commit and now all eyes are on.
He honest, a jet.
You have three on his doing the stopwatch and then all big to the side to get the execute
But he then sticks around with no all no someone's watch Darklings up at the top here. Yep
Waves for this done so didn't wasn't quite in range. He was trying to get the autos off during the stun
Kill the weapons in that split second darkwinds dashes flips him back and gets the kill
Some of those moments where if the enemy Midland is just not paying attention
You can probably unload a bunch of damages A.P. C.C.
But Darkwing's new. He was paying attention.
I feel like it's a jet was like an inch closer to the wall. He gets two bottles off on Darkwing's while he's stunned and he games over.
Yeah, but he just couldn't quite leave those autos in and now we're here in what is an even game.
But I got to go back to expectations when I looked at Sentinel's roster. I looked at where hell to be the primary carry.
Yes, now five items has come back in this game. But Darkwing's is the one that's actually pulling off some of these big plays.
Whether it's just split pushing in the bottom side and getting towards there.
or, you know, that moment, dark wings of my expectation for him was like,
okay, how does he stand out this year?
He's still technically in like a rookie year, and he was solid,
but how does he stand out as a mid laner plays like that?
If you can chain those together, that's how you start getting fans as a mid laner in NNA.
Yes, the NA hope here dark wings on sentinels, but they co-barren very quickly.
They just have to be careful of getting snap engaged on because they want that fight
because it's now a five item quote,
We still want trying to keep on because of max item is here.
That's 3000 gold.
It is you mentioned when you're this late in the game.
Yeah, doesn't really matter that much.
And if you look at the front line, especially this
Cassante with the portal plasm harness with how many
Resist you can get as well.
It's going to be extremely hard to kill.
So the front line is much stronger here for
Sentinels and less.
They can get some type of assassination onto either
the is here or the cork.
And that's the DSU is able to get their gold lead
gold lead initially around a dragon fight where they out executed.
You could say the same thing if Sentinel just find their one pick and they find the
Kian ultimate into a wall on something like Lyas.
Even somebody like a Kizno with a GA, you can blow some of the up and try and get
some big damage to all the people.
It's pretty big.
It's starting to land Castle has a flank here, but Sentinel's they have the
his year ultimate.
Now the weavers wall yet again.
Don't please barely get sober and gets back to his team now.
It's Castle who might be caught out.
But they're not in the direction of Catholic flashes board jumps on the
Rheal has about three to save DDSG feel confident to push forward
because of the low health bars of dark wings and Rheal
happened to use the cleanse.
No flash and quirky either sendals.
That was a tough moment there.
They thought they could turn on Castle, but DSG were ready to actually
bounce.
Yeah, Dark Wings ended up being at the back of the city party.
And now they're going straight for Baron.
Yeah, Dark Wings back first is down.
Darkrees back in shield and now a T.P.
Answer from Castle Darklings going to hold the wall over there who he
T.P. is in as well.
The S.G. though almost got the pick on the impact, but he's got the
unstoppable.
They're in shred is real, and they've also given away position on
Soul.
So if D.S.G. just push them off and then move towards
Soulduffy at the end of the fight, over the wall,
what was something to hide?
Supreme display of talent tries to turn things around.
Darklings can free fire has the ultimate to buy space for
and that's enough an incredible
engagement from DSG goes
a ride as sendals hold the
line. That's crazy. They
one shot Reheals quirky,
but dark wings and humbuck
and impact fight back the
end day. Yeah. So, but this
is important if to me, so
for Baron, I'm taking
soul every time and it's
General Saxony teleporting to
control the Baron. But so
he's going to go over DSG.
Yeah, this would be the third
back in DSG get that soul.
Call me is here to watch the barren go down, but we'll back off wisely, away pushing
top, away pushing mid-centals are given away a lot for this barren, and now they will
pick it off, but the soul for the barren trade, and a basically dead even goal game, 42
minutes in.
This is one way to start your LCS journey here, and if you're sent to those or these
players on DSG, suggest you really want to have this piece pop up on one, he has changed
his items.
So he's one of Shadowflame for a Shadowflame.
I can't remember which one that was.
Beforehand, Nash is too funny.
Is it still hasn't it?
I see his inches.
Yeah.
Why haven't we all?
He's remembered Shadowflame.
So he's fully apricy now, which is they're in these situations
where they're just kind of trying to poke each other.
And now his W would take like half of the his year or the
quirky's health, but they are using the Pope battle because they
have no sustain and quirky rockets or a couple of
zero autos are chunking them out of the start of these fights as part of how
sentinose is stayed in this game but now we're definitely in a lost state because
the team that was getting pushed in got barren so their minions will push back but the other team
has a cloud soul so they'd be able to chase anybody down if sentinose leaves their base by
two big of a margin. So if DSU just wait out this barren they're in a fantastic spot
Maybe they find a way to make action happen, but
expecting the game to go a little longer here.
Everyone is approaching full build for game one of LCS
between these two teams.
What a way to start this season.
That's the post.
That's one right there.
Think too more than two times.
It might even kill because he would proc the pass
with his 700 AP.
Might even just get him.
Shadowflame.
This huge damage.
Ram Kisah at the very end of the game.
Rattis is just being a sarcaste. You would play because an area I'm watching here
Who doesn't play if you guys know if you have crazy? I like tank guys. I think it's fun
Okay, you fly in losing front primary engage, Kesa
I consider when wins all this
But DSG right now still have their backs against the wall. I'm gonna keep reminding those of that fact that they have to make
very creative plays which to their credit they have they use that to lay on
Pantheon beautifully back to back to back there been three-best things moments
where they've used weavers wall to try and get on the members of Sentinel with the
grand starfall on top of it if they can find one member caught out then that's a
way to win the game but Sentinel's have not been given them as many opportunities
in the second half. I know this is going to be a completely useless stat but it's
just a big number so I like it. Okay I almost guarantee you without checking that in
your first ever LCS game. No one's ever had 25,000 gold, but that's what
Sichette has. So they've increased gold in the game. Yes,
Kathak, this game's 45 minutes long. But I bet you've known in their first
ever LCS game, set 25,000 gold. Do we get stats? There's a Leo. Leo
or stats guy. Can you check that globally? A rookie 80 carry in.
I say LCS. I don't need to. No, let's make this crash.
This is terrible. I think this boy, let's build this kid up. And I mean, it is
important to remind people that this is a rookie 80 carry coming in. I think he has played
exceptionally well as cats will now find out how healthy more experienced bot laner all the
lone TV coming in don't matter hell cut out a position DSG by the pick. What a disastrous play there
for a hell he was greeting a wave to try and get his mom but we're two minutes down there and
and from out there, there's
more seconds. There's no
reason to not wait for
the wave to enter. And now
the team's in a tough
part. Dark ways. Go for a
point. There's a jet by
the audience. We're going to
split it out. We'll go in.
And it catches the jet of
the back half has to use
the open to try and get
over the wall. But there's
just nowhere safe to go.
Shut down the homo and dark
wings. What a crazy look.
Dark wings is having an
insane game. Yeah. He's
pulled off all of the big
plates that they needed. They
lose their 80 carry 45 minutes into the game in a lane that doesn't happen in
hibiter and then they find the re-engage. I need to see that one again. Just
see exactly what angler we have. We have to.
So such a jet thing.
I'm not going to go.
Just to print.
I'm pretty pretty pretty.
No, no.
Nice.
Can I?
I think you have to get that time on.
Thought he was out.
Wasn't quite out.
The Supreme display of talent.
That's a travel time.
We saw it earlier.
Who would be crazy looping three walls together.
That time around.
So, Jadna out of danger zone.
But it's not the game over.
Because of the waves pushed in for DSG.
It's just some gold descent and holes.
Where everyone's pretty much full build.
look down the entire roster right now.
Everybody except for top and support has full build now.
That's five items on humbuck.
That's crazy.
Even supports just being on three completed items is surprising.
Lions will get there.
I believe it.
Yeah.
The formation will be completed soon for impact.
So he's going to be even tankier.
So we didn't have the many map in that last replay,
but I did find it.
I think the SDM might have been able to win off this,
except after they got the kill,
castled to go back to base because he was a little bit low but then he teleported
bot lane so it was like a guaranteed 44 and 43 if they get the pick whereas I feel
like if they just push that wave with more people they can do you know it needs to
have four run on mid top and maybe break the second inhibitor but now we are elder and
bear in 20 seconds away likely to be the game deciding sequence here and
sentinals have really pulled it back max build on quirky and as you
And for us to know, though, we still have G.
On Kizno, three zonias from mid 80 carry and bot lane of DSG.
They are ready for a fight.
But it will come down to one big fight.
Huge poke on the Rahel.
Elder has spawned.
So if they can't get a reset for Rahel,
he's in a rough spot.
DSG will start up the older.
Have Rahel decided for Ma and said a bluff.
There's your so can't heal up well off of that poke.
Elder, delish is more time to poke with Kaisa.
So Jim, a very safe path.
I like that.
If not, then who he had a trap late for him.
Now Castle will face check and see who he's walking all the way around.
Maybe the captain finds something, but the Elder Dragon Guardian
have helped who he does find?
Yeah, he does a trick!
Had the Zone is to try and stay alive,
can't get out of there, all over the wall?
Not the realm, it's a jet-still stay-ons!
Now it's lions with the flag, it's Castle will be lying!
It's Elder still focused with impact.
It's stoning the Elder, because of my god.
All he goes for hell, don't look at them at the gorking!
He's done, I get him at the gork!
with the team by way of the Elder Dragon.
It's a dead, trying to find something
willful, quadriciled around.
Only Lagans alive in a minion wave and mid.
He's hoping to be able to put you back
with that's probably gonna be a game one win
and game one heartbreak for DSG.
Oh, they held the line for so long,
but who was it?
Muhe with the flank around the buff
and finds the jet.
The S.E.T. tried so hard to keep their 80 carry alive.
All game, he played so well.
But who he on support will find those engages,
Sentinels, have some of them,
he means in their base,
but I think with their way of spawning,
they should be just by walking in the cannon line.
He's gonna try and stop it,
but with Elder Dragon on Sentinels,
no shot of that.
Welcome to the Elf's, yet Sentinels,
congrats on your first game win!
Sentinels, say win one against his die.
a hundred and one thousand gold for their team by the end of this 141 kills in 49 minutes.
It wasn't how they would have drawn it up, but Senchinals take the one O lead in the series.
Oh, you want a wild game one.
That was back in fourth.
There were so many incredible plays by so many members.
It was dark wings really keep in the minute.
But again, who she at the very end, finding the big engage on to the AD Carry.
The props is a giant for saying a live as long as he could, wasn't able to live the entire time.
Yeah, it sounds good luck.
Let me know what happens.
Let me think of this game.
Well, we started planning this.
I'm going to go.
So what we're going to break down may not feel as relevant.
It's still pretty cool.
I mean, the game started out looked like sendals.
We're going to stop it.
I thought then we had this great team fight from a DSG that kind of brought them back into the game.
And then, of course, chaos and sood later.
But I want to go back to this earlier dragon fight and talk about how to guess you actually at least pulled back with their position in this game.
It was really all off of this fight and so much was about this engage here from Lion.
So watch the Niko up in the top right there.
That is really, really critical.
Also the fact that Humbok here is going to get marked on this flank.
Niko goes into the same time.
on three members and then Castle Gear is in position to follow a plashes in on the quirky
Yes, he can't finish him off, but looking what's happening on the other sides of Castle's
buying time here, a Zeer has gotten caught off of that nickel, everyone piling in and putting
damage onto the Zeer. Well Castle is just buying time. Who he is kind of kind of give his life
to try to peel as well. And it just the space that was created allowed all of these carries
here at the pile-in, saw Jed as well as call me, go forward, get all of these kills,
take away the dragon, and to be it felt like this was going to be the defining moment
of the game. This was going to be the moment that really swung things. Of course, it
was not. It became a very wild game of kind of back and forth play, back and forth plays.
But it was a lot closer, I think, than we really kind of expected, based off of both
the early game and the game and kind of like game.
Yeah, I was like, oh man, but boy,
how much do you sell out?
Oh no, how much, what do you do?
The little thing that you tried to listen to,
you had to drop a game, or was like,
oh, yes, you should just win this game from me right now.
They got a major pick, like, out towards quirky.
Like, surely they can end it here.
His doesn't happen.
They ended up getting soul, cloud soul, for bearing.
You think that that would be more meaningful,
but honestly, cloud soul into the composition,
though you're fighting into a zero and a lot of star.
I don't think it's going to help you.
So, like, so much of that game was chaotic without, like, with reason, I guess, but it was tough.
We also brought up a deer, right?
And Dark Wings was, like, King's mission on cast, Dark Wings, and this is the year,
was the person kind of keeping them in a lot of these close fights.
His shuffle ended up being kind of the reverse,
we had wide game designers, our supposed to game the same.
The eggs came the same way, but generally this one.
That did earn Dark Wings player of the game, and here we see that all
important shuffle. The big thing with that they managed to get
on to suggest who was. So incredibly fed for the vast majority of this.
He was true seven items out of about 35 minutes in this game, which I was
I was asking them to go for minute, like item completion stats.
Those are just so much more gold than the game right now. There was a
ridiculous how quickly he actually finished that you know did it so incredibly fast
but quite the dark wings found a lot of big place here even those aged reacted so fast
he reacted with the flash saw the flash follow then zonus it like that is pretty insane
yeah but just forcing all of those tools meant that then humbuck comes in the old lands
there's just nowhere really for him to go and to me it just felt like deistie in critical moments
just kind of rushed things like that so they got actually the the kill thoughts I that play
that big is the air shuffle was right after
a hell died for free, Topwood, right?
All they needed to do was walk a little bit more slowly,
clear out the brushes with Nico clone,
but instead they're kind of face checking these bushes,
call these walking up as the Leo, like everyone's just walking in blind.
That was really the only recourse that
sendals had from that spot, so credit to them for finding those plays.
But I felt like DSG really lacked kind of polish
and some patience in moments where they should have been able to close the game.
You could say the exact same thing,
re-winding the clock towards the bot siege on in like the inhibitor.
Yeah, like, back that they were able to get a kill on Hombok because it seemed like Hombok had a pretty good play, but then he got completely taken out by the to the old sea and
everyone was able to be burned on him. Great. Next wave is coming in bot lane. Surely on that bot lane wave you start to siege and try to end the game from there.
No, Pantheon ulti comes straight through before the the minions even come in and they end up dying to the his ear.
how the game on from that point on because they were the more disciplined and slower
pace team in comparison to B.S.G.
Yeah, I feel like you think kind of lovey that criticism of Apple teams, right?
But like when there was one player who was able to get off a good play, then they would
kind of chuck it back towards their opponents.
Right now we do know that D.S.G. have chosen first pick, since it'll have chosen
I mean, what is it for a ride?
Who shocked?
Not me.
Almost.
Right to them.
I mean, they have a lot of experience.
You got who you got.
They got guys there that can kind of continue looking
place even in those moments when things were looking bad.
They've got to be happy.
I think too.
It's going to walk away with that wind because it did look like
it was going the other way.
But during the LCS lock in, you could win a trip to a
League of Legends event.
See your master card on file and make a purchase from
the Infiance floor for a chance to win.
Two and an after the break to see if this guy is going to bounce back in game two.
You can't escape there.
Very come to escape there.
Holy smokes! You don't work so great, boss.
Tell me about it.
It's a real inferno down here.
And I'm burnt out.
Here, try a red book.
It's devilishly great.
Red book?
Oh, that tea's heavenly.
Wait a minute.
Watch there.
Oh, yeah.
I forgot about that.
Wings? Wings? I can't have Wings!
That in my position!
Red Bull gives you Wings!
Wings of a ground before Dubgity to get there!
Get ready to turn it on to us!
Or the package first!
Go feed!
The Beast Knives of the Moon!
Get fat!
Stand to cure our code for Eos' home on O'Reaks.
Yeah, I think.
Sentels is a new org for our team would be important to just get the stage matches in so
Us going into New York for our first match would be kind of nice because maybe that every team's a little nervous to try to look good for their new org
They want to look bad and honestly they have three X DSG members on their team and we're kind of like the new DSG
So it's like old DSG versus new DSG and you know, we're gonna show them that was the better DSG
the
life is heard from the jet he went to prove
the better DSG and for a lot of the game they were on
the way who he on sent no use beyond the
as he found the game winning engage in jet I got a
staff that might make it feel a little old they made me feel a
little old who he role swapped from mid to support
to support. We talked about that a lot, but he had in 2019. It's 2026, which means he is now
in a support over twice as long as he was a Tier 1 midliner. That's a cool step. How crazy is that?
Yeah, it's all secret. I mean, it's like a midliner that rolls up his work. This is over double
the time in his career has been spent in the sport role. Great find there at the end for him.
Even though his dark wings, it was finding a lot of the plays that kind of kept the in the game before
that. I'll give you one more. Yeah, as a former
CLG fan. Uh, when CLG won some
respect in 2015, X Smithy had
visa issues for worlds, who he was
the midlane substitute. So he was
going to play jungle for that
team at world. If X Smithy's
visa didn't come through. I never
knew that. Double if knew that. I
also hear double if just streaming
with essentials right now with
their CEO and Tareco. Over on on
their co stream. So I'm sure
double has plenty of stories. Oh,
and we'll see what he does if you don't tell them.
Shout out to the coach who's going on over there.
I'm sure that they're feeling very happy about how that game went.
Maybe I'll win a lot of action as well based on the way it ended.
Really got it out there.
I think expectations going into the series was the
Sentinels was going to win, but the question was by how much.
And then they should have lost that game, man.
Yeah.
So, Jed was 5,000 gold ahead on Kaisa.
Maybe he should have put a little bit of light still somewhere in his build, because he
didn't end up getting pulled out a fair bit towards the tail end of that game.
And then, just DSG's inability to play cleanly and cohesively as a unit, because they
are playing with a substitute jungler, and they're also a newly assembled team.
And ended up costing them, and then Dark Wings really clutched up in some big moments
there for Sagenels and funny thing is there's no pictures on the one zero. So it's
still one more game and you're out of the series no matter how close that game
one is. Exactly. We see DSG now on the red side with first pick to go for
M. Bessa, banding out the J's Varus and J4. Sendals, band out the Oriana
rise and the rumble and let's see what they decide to lock in as the response
here. I'll bring the Lucien, so maybe you have focus on the bottom side here.
things like Lucianami I've been seeing kind of propping up here and there
it's great pairing with the Lucian. Yeah I like the fact that DSG in both games
has just decided the castle's gonna blind pick because they want him to have
a prior over impact they don't think impact and be able to get a good counter pick
and they know that they know the draft they're draft.
Plainami we got a sign right there hey oh it's up it's about to be very
happy because that's locked in this would be a very early bot lane matchup but
Oh, they did it.
I'm sorry, fan and the audience.
They just come and later.
It could still come on Pick 3.
But they want to have a little bit of flexibility in case DSG
pick something that is highly counterable here on their two,
three, so top lane picked already.
Lightly to see jungle, and then they have to expose themselves
with something and it'll probably be an 80 carry pick
before this one, two, three is done.
What I'm interesting.
They just power up.
They both sold in a pair of way.
OK, so well, keep in mind, it could be in best of jungle.
We have seen the jungle creep up here and there.
It's one of the changes from the off season.
Things like Malphetta, best I did expect to be
junglers, but here we are in 2026 on the current patch.
So a rocket still going top lane or mid lane depending on what
happens with the rest of sendals draft.
I would expect them like an 80 carry picks here for DSG to kind of
hold that flag for as long as possible.
Yeah, not to mention they'll still be able to
in theory counter pick support a little bit, but
support we're getting fairly targeted with bands in the
four or five. You know, one of the most picked 80 carries on the patch, so no big surprises there in the draft and
Nami looks to be lost. There we go.
And the crowd goes mild for him. There we go. Oh, no, okay. There we go. There we go.
Now they're having fun with it. All right, so Lucian Nami, a bot lane into the Nara,
Diaz, she will have to find a support that will help keep the Nara alive, but also how
will enough, because when I think of you, Nara, I am initially when I saw her on release,
was like, oh, she didn't feel like a skill in any carry.
I was shocked at how aggressive you could play in aura in the 2B 2 from level 1.
Because you're cute alone in your past and you have so much power.
So, they could still go for something to try and answer the Lucian.
I mean, even though that's a little scary to think about,
because they're very powerful duo.
Oh, for sure, but Lucian, I mean, also doesn't necessarily get that strong
until a couple of levels in.
Okay.
There's potential for some fist fighting in the bottom side.
And I do wonder how Rahel actually is dealing mentally after that game one,
because he was getting slaughtered in the game.
made what could have been the game losing mistake getting picked in the top lane if Dark
We didn't build them out. So he's the big one for me, but really is to step up in this game too for
Sentinels
Now on a
Also 80 carry that notoriously can get punished if you're out of position. You have one mobility spell
But you're still relatively sure range outside of your ultimate. So
Can be tough to play the things like the Aurora things like the M best already that can try and dive on top
if you as an 80 carry they're going to ban away the nodolas and the Lulu. So then
Chanter plus an engaged support. Meanwhile DSG will ban out some mid laners. We
got Syndra and their Victor are taking off the table and now Sentinels get to pick
for themselves. So the lanes are the name of the game for them here. So we'll see what
they want to lock in. Currently hovering the Casupia. They're trying to target
ban. Dark wings a little bit because if there would be one criticism on his champion
pull that he only plays control. Maybe he could play some of the more unconventional ones.
So Casio if you end up being what's locked in with boots.
Hatched by boots and I'm Casio if you have that for me off.
Why do you think they changed that?
Did you have any insight for them?
Yep, because they didn't want to just give Casio if you had extra staff when the
Quest was being added.
Well, I think we're to bid the better choice.
You can't wear boots.
Yeah, as Casio said.
There's still always the argument that Velcos should also probably not buy boots then.
By that logic.
But you know, we don't want to open that can of worms here.
It's gonna be Wukong, a locked in with the Recon.
So what the scene was lacking was hard and gauge.
Now they got it.
I was just getting a download of stats in my years.
Oh, I couldn't let it over here.
I was trying to pass it off to be like,
hey, don't go over here.
I can talk about Recon as well.
And I'm not gonna be that early game.
How are that I expected with the,
you know, I had to keep trying to believe the,
the Lucian and the Nami, but maybe you still can't find
as she'd you, W and the, to find a pick.
Yeah, it was something about Seheds,
Seheds CS in the first game being extremely high, you know,
but that's all I could make out.
Okay, but they also confirmed that he is the all-time global leader
of rookies with gold in the game.
I mean, I confirmed that when I said it.
I'm just going to go for that.
I'm going to get that.
That's just true.
Because I've proven it's absolutely true.
But you're going to be one of the final pickier course on those.
So AP solo laners for impact and dark wings.
And we do know what the full-con lock in.
It is not Ambassador jungle.
that will be impressa toplay so sendals
uh... they were able to be the counter pick for impact last time around
it was the kind of like uh... kissante hold the line against the next
and but he still got a solo kill and now he gets a proper carry counter pick
his when was
hit or miss last year now when it became a really big metapick in the
lck team look was started first picking it and that was
coinciding with some other issues with the team look with team so ended
losing a lot of games on when but
It's something you definitely want to be able to add to his champion pool for this year.
For this year, eyes will be unimpact, does he look better than last year?
Right now, though, DSG backs against the wall need to pick up two wins in a row,
and eat their first series win, meanwhile, Z-nose, the newest forward in the LCS start
enough strong with a game one win over and bear opponents game two of DSG versus Z-nose starts right
out.
And I got the stack.
You got the Statue.
Look at this, Dad.
It's another,
Sejet related stat.
As we might get to the Statue.
We might get to the Statue.
This is quite a level one.
Yeah, I would say in the level ones are a less popular because of how early the wave spawn,
but doesn't know does get to safety.
You have to run back right away.
So it's the fifth highest CS in an NA debut game ever, ever, but listen to who he's behind.
This is what I actually find.
And I'm gonna get to the Statue.
Power people, freeze,
Alex Ich, and Kobe.
Kobe from Jesse.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
for European imports.
So it's actually the most
C.S. in in North Americans.
And there we go.
We found the goal.
And you tell, baby.
And a talent suggested with a great game one.
Still was I'll pick up the win,
but got the lead over his lane opponent.
Now can he do it again?
Sentinels currently here with a slight push in that bottom side.
So it's looking like the level one is going there, Wayne.
But I want to do some table setting for these compositions,
as well. Judges like we did for game number one. It was very clear in game one that
DSG needed to win early game sendals have the scaling. What do you think about game number
two and the pivots that each team has made? I mean both teams are very squishy. You don't have
the same type of Cassante Alster front line or like the Kaiser one shot. I'd say the
engage is still slightly more in favor of DSG. They have the better trigger pull. Lines is
is recon definitely there, but also just like Aurora Rucan is a combo that 100
views was dominating with last year when River Quid were playing it so much. And then
on the side of Sentinels, while they do have some good scaling, like when in Casio,
both really pumped damage, neither one of them ever really ring that much CC. Vi is
a single point in clicks. He sees Comet is trying to kill Dark Wings. Yeah, I mean, he's
getting a massive lead over Dark Wings in this early game. And then Lucien Army is also
more like whittling you out. So the snappin' it goes in there, whoo.
I want the big play, can't get it.
Honestly, respect for a temp thing, thinking of Dark Wings is window shopping.
You have a chance, Dark Wings though, trades flash, and we'll now get the wave in himself.
So, you know, again, respect the call me for the attempts, not going to find it, though.
Yeah, they'll both likely just trade TPs to get back to wit, to lane. Dark Wings is
likely okay with that trade. Vise over the gank, and we'll conquer the gank both fairly
threatening, so look for more action in the mid lane now that both mid lane is having
no flash.
Both of them will TP.
I was wondering it will either one choose an ATP because with the home guard's change
area to get into fast as a hell, actually avoids the grand entrance from Lyons.
Just steps barely over that circle and we're going to get a good chunk onto the jet.
Yeah, how much thinking about a dive?
It's completely on vision.
No barrier and heal up.
This would be difficult to execute, but it looks like sendals want anything.
Big wave so they will commit to it.
It's for helping it and on to suggest who he was taking up first.
Now, Humbach taking up afterwards, but gets out of range and
sendals are fine.
And Darklings is dead.
Midland though first.
Blood is picked up.
Dia, she found the play midwall.
Looks like sendals were not able to find their spot.
Well, that's the danger when you show as a jungler is it.
Let's the other jungler go wherever he wants without any fear of
character.
So knowing that Midland was no flash.
He makes the repeat gate.
And then not only what is going to be a difficult game with heal barrier and both flashes
up for the side of DSG, Humbox VQ just gets stripped interrupted by Lines' Recon, so the
Gank fails miserably.
Another good early start here for DSG.
Yeah, solid DSG jungle passing from Kizno last game on the Pantheon, it took him a while to
actually get onto the map and make action happen, but this time around on the WooCong of
all things.
To really don't really see WooCong Ganks until you're level six, but like you'd highlighted
no flash on the mid lane meant that it was much easier to pull off.
Now also gold on Kizuna,
it's easy to do with it this time around.
Yeah, another attempt to prove himself.
This is really an interesting debut for the LCS,
because we know he's not going to be the long-term starter.
Once Kriera is able to join the team,
but it's definitely a great job to secure a future
for you to have some big games and lines diving
over the public for a big trade-on to who you plan pretty aggressive.
And Kizuna's just going to go back.
against still no flash on dark wings and a second kill on the DSG's jungle air.
I mean I think it's worth asking the question is if he should buy boots to walk away from
these ganks a little bit faster on the Casio Pia.
No, that's not true, you know, she's she's been there.
I mean this was a good gank once again by his nose.
We call him.
It just starts to snowball this leg.
Yeah, and his nose also waving.
I haven't mentioned this yet, but when you look at the tier 2 players, a lot of them have
played with each other.
at one time or another. Dark wings and kids know actually were on the same roster last year
for conviction. So, just know the way that it was old teammates in, I'll take two kills from you.
And that means that call me also gets a CS lead, but Hombock will get the first dragon.
So even though we've seen multiple kills on the kids, no objective lead starts off with sendals.
Yeah, I make sense all the tempo is used by kids, no to gank mid. So Hombock can go take the dragon.
not to mention by kills dragon very fast and very safely with the percent health damage
that has so nicely done there by how buck even if his game was a big miss.
And we see the bot lane C.S. differential going to complete opposite from last game.
Rahel has mounted a size of a lead over a subjet so even those subjet lines were not
they were able to hold the line from that game that dive attempt earlier.
They have not been able to equalize the lane states.
Yeah, I definitely feel like I don't know completely behind the scenes, but from other
rate of carries that I've worked with in the past, if you have a bad matchup in game
one and you fall really far down in CS, you need to pick a winning matchup in game
two.
You're ego is all in the line right there.
So I think that's why they're going Lucianami and playing ultra aggressive, pathing
down bottom line.
Like it's to their detriment even going for that initial dive, but it's one of those
things where no, we're going to try and put this other bot lane in the dirt after what
they did to us in game one.
especially after the work he's able to get the highest CS ever of a debut rookie
and a and a play for North American governor. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Dark rings hits
a little six on the middle and finally call me does still have a experience advantage
slightly right now. Dark one should catch the soon here after some of these minions.
But the big thing that I look at is anytime to WooCon hits a little six. And now
his no has hit level six. WooCon has ultimate available. And this is when the WooCon
ganks can really start to become lethal and still technically no flash on
dark wings it's going to be up maybe about 30 seconds here another thing today
feel like I didn't watch the first series super closely for this exact thing but I don't
think a jungler has gone top yeah and it's just been the official 13 minutes of any of our
four games which is counter to what I expected could happen because of how impactful top
and can be if you can get a lead now yeah but it it to me it's it's about that little fail like
You just throw one workout out and you got these big fat walls that it just seems like
this kind of ungangable lane and it ends up being in complete isolation.
So Castle and Impact are just having a grand old time, fish fighting each other and not
wearing it all the way at the truck group there.
But Impact is again slightly from self there about a wave up.
Now that we'll get pushed in by Castle.
But the question on my mind was still which version of Impact will we get?
24 MVP or 2025, you know, really rough year over all and in the debut, I mean, he gets the solo kill in game one and now already holding his own with a
Maybe slightly here in the top lane. Absolutely good tank play from him in that first game hard to make more of a different Sanca Sanca Sanca, then getting the solo kill and being a level 20 max item tank
He's not going to start up the grubs and vise on the bottom side. So Humbach
not in the same road. We'll be giving this one up.
Buddy, you got to help out this this 80 carry. He goes on the line.
He was down in the game.
We're going to put him in the dirt. It's also a bathroom to be chopped
in against the two kill WooCourney has ultimate.
But they're completely on top of the word.
So Jen is still a five lines of level six.
Call me has hovered to help out another 2-Fourney.
themselves trying to lock down who he call me. We'll get in there and pick up a third kill for DSG.
Nice job there by call me. No vision sweeping by sentunals when they're going for that dive.
I think questionable play to wait that one. It might be more or a hell.
Has the flash available? Has the barrier available? We'll need to use either one lion,
try to predict. As Rahel says, no, I'm just going to hold my lion and doesn't have to use anything.
I mean, he's not the one who died. He didn't the kill didn't go to anyone in his lane. And now he's
this. He's 37 C. U. C. S. Not in her
gold up and it's only going to
increase as he's going to shove
in this cannon wave and then
likely reset to go for a buy
with about 13 to 14 hundred
gold. So, Jed, it very far
behind right now in this bottom
lane and match up. And that's
yes, you've been hovered a lot
from home, Black. That's too
dive set up. One attempt. But
either way, not the best start
considering how well, so
Jen was able to play in game
number one. Castle pushes in a
way of top side. We'll get one
play right there is in fact looks like he's going to have to reset does have the
CP summoner spell to get back absolutely and you can see essence reverb being
completed by a hell meanwhile the call on the other side so it's it's no
really combat power there for unara and how about because you don't want to
continue to play around boss size so I like the DSG finally has a little bit
of vision there to have better defense so in back state for another wave I do
want to highlight though where hell yes has the first item but so does
his kids know. Woocom Trinity Force power spike is pretty big and I was wondering, do they
go for the dragon sentinels have the power spike in their bottom laner but this Woocom
does have a lead over by also how about no ultimate from that earlier place. So DSG will
deny the dragon stacking and get one for themselves here as well. Now just go for the
reengage here double charm up onto who he ever helped to call he goes out as well as the
to not be ultimate bubble lands, the jet cannot follow up on lines is engaged.
So DSG do not find the play and that actually delish the drag.
Yeah, it was not secured.
Yeah, that was something where
uh, Kiznos is going to be really sad he came.
He left the dragon out because
where hell has the essence you ever is going to play super aggressive but unless Kiznos
is in game position when he goes in he's just too far away to be able to make an approach.
They didn't even get a summoner spell out of
hell's Lucian.
So yes, they got the dragon.
I think they're always going to get the dragon.
We got Trinity Forest, we'll call him.
And now Hobbock.
So our first top gatekeeper.
Yeah, we have a TB coming in as well.
The needlework was already used from Impact.
He does not have the ultimate available.
As the public is usual,
we'll miss that the Flash and Castle teleport coming in as well.
From Dark Wings, it's going to be underneath the turret,
but he is fine, okay?
There was a lot that just went down there.
They're just all too tanky.
Yes, well, you're going to go top lane.
You're never going to get the kill.
They missed everything on everyone.
That was, uh, that was a phone one right there, you know, nobody's punished.
But, uh, Castle does have TP and oh, we find a pick in the jungle.
Hanbok caught out as Kizno with his mid lane, there will find a kill.
We had nice pick there by Kizno, making the most after everyone's trying to retreat from that top play.
Castle says get out of here. Ooh, Kizno has to flash away from Dark Wings though.
That's fine. Gaze still available. Dark wings is very strong with that ultimate available and rod of ages completed, but
Not strong enough. You want to catch this mid wave and that will be a blue buff stolen by kids now.
And I'm calling you. Yeah. I think myself out a little bit. I'm like,
did they stop Casio from being able to buy boots because I feel like he should really be kind and soon.
Please go to the rod of ages. I can think of the team. They change it in 26.2 and I just didn't read it. I don't think they did.
I would have missed that as well. I'm assuming that we will get that eventually.
Time for boot start. No good. Okay, but if the now the real concern is this dark wean snow because I've heard so many stories of players not reading the patch now.
There's no way. There's no way.
Golden glue. What a poledin. Surely. Yeah, you can cast him. I'm going to double check.
Okay, all right. I'll keep taking a look at what's happening on the map right now. Well, I'll have to
the harald in about two minutes time. So sendals still hold a bit of a current map
leave just by rotating a little faster, but they do not have to go lead any more DSG
have managed to equalize that with gold being on their jungler and mid laner, meanwhile
for sendals isolated more on their bot side, Rehel picked up that one kill. So DSG
would consider it's four to one in kills. Don't actually have that big of a lead over
their opponent. Just being I guess I had in the grubs department right there. Did I buy
We're here to take a look I'm like so sure that she can buy boots
Let's pull the audience. Let's say yay if you think cast can buy boots
That's a result yeah, she can definitely buy boots. Why doesn't you say yay if you think dark wings is going to buy boots this game
He was the place
She's gonna buy my faith
I'm gonna point into this.
He's got a her goal.
Yeah, he's about to buy boots.
Okay, back in, let's see it.
Now he's still in another way.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Yeah, this is really delaying things.
He's just so slow.
Yeah, we're waiting for it.
Taking some damage from call me right there.
And it's tough to lane against the right,
this point who has malignments completed,
plus upgraded boots.
So call him, definitely pick a thing.
He's gonna definitely buy boots.
It's guaranteed.
I really hope the Mike picked that up.
All the cast doesn't have toes.
No.
Yeah, we're not going to get into this.
Let's get off that real fast.
Send those pushing in another wave here in the mid lane.
Okay, is now ready for a potential play.
Could use a play for trickster with a wall.
Has a cyclone.
Not going to go for it.
I'm just going to ignore whatever they're shouting now.
Because assuming it's nothing.
I have to get from line and down on top right now.
hell, but his was a really cool, from who he
to keep him alive, but him comes
going, he's still alive.
Wow, hell, the line.
I'm locked with the kill on the
punish.
That's crazy.
The angle was actually so good
for DSG, but sent me was able
to outplay at the biggest thing is
the bubble onto the WooCom.
That was incredible.
I was in court and he'd be able to
engage on her.
Hell, that would have been enough
damage on top of the award
damage to get the kill, but it
just makes her.
I think that's all that.
Right, else like around for
another wave and his
punish kids no with a blast cone playable tracer gets in range to cyclone
he built boots he built boots i'm sorry i didn't respect your game you definitely
read the patch and you can just be a shamed audience member who didn't believe in him
there we go tier two pick up uh sendals they were able to hold the line for a
help for a brief moment but him dying there is tough it gives such a window here to get
some more see yes let's get another look at that play I believe this was the first
in gauge. Yeah, I mean, Dashes in lines is ready to actually snap and gauge him. So he's completely
trying to punish for health. We're playing super aggressive at that bubble is ultimately what
saves the life of her health. He then gets the kill back on to call me, but he stuck around and
got killed the second time. I think Golden Gloves can have a little less hair if I be
the best.
There's this play after he survived it where the end of the night Lucian still
in a very far head but six hundred gold ahead of his counterpart and they're going
to continue to give gold into this Lucian.
This should be first hurt for him.
Yep.
Harold will charge in.
We're home.
We'll pick that up.
Get another wave here.
And I understand moments like that as a carry.
You think you have your sport near enough, but it was such a fast play, but the castle survived
this play actually goes for the wave.
to be once in pass. As his own way behind him, in pass going to
try and step clear this one out. We have a nominee coming up as well
to be squad. Good cover from call me, but he's one. Do you want to
take the equine spots? I would chisno. We have two dives out. We have
the same time. The nominee again. Obescution. Midson from
Castle. He's taken too much damage. But he's got the castle
light. D.S. G. Support. We'll save the life of the
top-later body blocks. How bombs? More breaker.
can not kill the ambassador.
I mean both sides that were defending the
dive played it very well. Dark wings even though it
looked like he was completely out of cooldowns had a
perfect flash on the Wukong E to make it so he couldn't
get followed up by the Wukong R and then castle
right there is just able to do a clips and
best of things. The shields just keep coming and I
say lines as well. Just body walking the vibe
the end of it. Very well played there on both sides. Yeah, sometimes even if you don't have
CC, you can just stand between the enemy jungler and your top laner, hop on, get some damage on the
kid, nobody comes to cyclone, call me, he's there, they got to kill this pass, TP answer, dark
wings is there, trying to get damage on the call me is for Helen, who he are even nearby,
but call me will make it the safety for now, send those, do they want to put that splash
from it, but it's not gonna climb there, call me out of there. What a great escape right there,
impact burning flash and teleport and coming away with absolutely nothing. The overall
map pressure still looked like it was in the favor of Sentinels, but they expanded so much
on that play. And now DSG are the first ones back on the map, so call me up and get a free
way of top and suggest it's just pushing mid lane, getting closer and closer to that
Lucian's power.
Ooh, another close game, that game number one, DSG has been, came in with a lead, a
and it was a banger and this time around sent a list of the turret lead
but the gold and the objectives in favor of DSG gold about even but they have the
grobs and now one extra dragon on top of it so
who I mean we kind of came in it was a rivalry for some of the players maybe
just three minutes of the roster went over to DSG but either we're out of
way over to send those I didn't think it was going to be a close match though
to the game.
The game is now another play from
D.H.G. on the third
wings.
Call me again, Fed.
3 1 and 2 on the Aurora.
They have better trigger pull on the side of
GSG.
They have part of Gage and also this game
they're playing well together in terms of
creating numbers of advantages so that
you just kind of go all in on these plays
dump all their coolounds and secure
kills.
And that's the third time they can
able to punish Darkwings this game.
Call these have any fantastic
performance on this Aurora.
to get a lot of things
that's going to be a lot of
things to be aggressive.
I think Shadow to kids no
man coming.
Short-term substitution right
here.
How to pre-solid early
team on the Pantheon.
There's going to be a lot of
things to you.
Aggressive about that first game.
But it was more the team not
being able to close it.
Help get his 80 carry super
super fed in here.
Back to that game.
Midland gives him the two kills.
Good objective control.
Really playing well on We call.
Three-o-n-two incredible
performance and also we have to talk
My not be as aware of a newer player coming into the LCS joining us from the TCL where he was
find most recently for a team called Misa with Closer actually, jungler that should be
known to North American audiences before that he was in the non-shimp pipeline over in LCK.
So he's definitely got experience under his belt that he is showing that experience right now
with a big lead in the mid lane, but Dark Wings still trying his best to find something on the
Castle there.
Yeah.
He looks like things.
Wow.
Look at that road.
He's taken another KT roaster.
Yeah.
There's so many of them.
We're just collecting them.
There's actually a really funny web between Castle, Call Me, Hombock, and Rahel.
We have more downtime.
Maybe I'll have a chance to kind of explain that.
But there was one tournament where Rahel basically just smashed all of them.
So yeah.
Now.
Okay.
Shadowleak, Pedia.
You can just find a map exactly right on there.
Called the LCS Walk and Journey.
You're a little senior.
Oh, David.
David, David, it hasn't been smashing so far.
This series, that's for sure.
But really, try this best here in game 2, 220 C.S.
A lot of resources going towards him,
going to be hitting infinity edge very soon.
Got a ton of power on this electroculation,
which is again more lane focused.
Really wanted to win this lane in a big way.
And the map pressure is starting to move back towards
sentials.
And it's because of the solution, not me.
That's in the mid lane.
Did she cast up on that way?
So they always get mid push first, and then they can move
decides castle fences himself a one B one has a level up over dark wings
betch by Gays the Vailways you have to play correctly though
the first out is done castle with the side step and the solo kill
really nice movement there from castle mercs trahthtrinkers well just
makes it so that castle damage doesn't even seem like it's happening
now after the normal and bestest shield and the eclipse so castle
just completely wrecked arc wings here it was a double AP solo lane draft from
You know whichever one you're going to be up against the lane, MR will be high value.
Yeah, love this from Castle.
Until motion rides.
So it's really going to be on Lucian to try and carry this game, because you can see like
Castle is going to win both side lanes.
Yeah, makes the game super interesting that Segenos is always getting pushed mid, but then Castle
kind of beats everyone inside at least at this stage in the game.
Castle having a great performance here in game 2.
One zero one with a bit of a lead as we're held a focus, but not gonna go down teleport in from Darkwing's right now
He doesn't have the teeth away behind and so now something else up to walk up and they will push DSG back Darkwing's big damage
He's got a home guard's there plus the boots finish, but not fast enough
DSG will be able to back off as ooh that looks like a no GP that drags up and 10 seconds
So they're trying to get everybody here. We're hell's gonna go for a fight net. Yeah, I mean there's coins
The flash away, Kizuna trying to get the safety, but Reheals coming in the wall
they're closing in.
On-box, locking Kizuna down from long enough, and that is a kill, picked off.
It's traded back to only for jungler, as Lions now trying to keep Castle White.
On the other side, some of the pet-fine games aren't we just can't land them?
Call me, he's now joining on the fight.
The solo laner!
Yes, Kizuna!
Hold your home alive, don't look over her health.
You just can't knock her down!
Send a lady, carry!
trying to get the fight to get the best kill.
We'll fight it.
He's going to hell.
He's back.
That's all right.
We'll save Gatsle's life.
And it's a slaughter for both of you.
These fights are crazy.
Can't guess they could.
But all it in mid lane.
As dragons above to spot in 10 seconds.
So they see the TP challenge ball in and say our time is now.
We're going to fight.
And they just send it all the way on to work on.
on to work on. You can see her house running up lines goes pretty deep on the middle of the map here, but then it casts a landset first that doesn't all on a dark wings. I think it's a different story on a little slow on this approach. So they take their time killing another perfect pixel thought by castle there on the castle ultimate. He lasts a long time. And this is where the fight gets extremely crazy. You're not on the backside. Foster how just getting a couple of crits. And then at the very end.
I'm going to show you what's happening.
But shout out to Rahel.
You were the first one to point it out when you're a pro 80
carry and you get smashed by rookie like that.
You got a chip on your shoulder.
Three one two.
He played that fight beautifully with a sliver of a health bar
sticking around for much longer than I would've expected.
But it was basically a wash for go teams.
The goal this still about where it was.
Diaz G have a lead.
three dragons now, plus the ground. So they are still in the advantage to position.
Cemals will get their fourth turret though. That's really the only metric for their head in. Maybe
they're ahead and finding picks. All the lines get safety. Yeah. Dragon going over to DSG
in the aftermath of that fight is pretty big because it puts them on sole point. The infinity
head is also really big for a hell, because at this point now, if he gets a little bit of
to not be speed and gets a quick lose to combo off on pretty much anyone. Now he's
starting to threaten lethal damage. So he's going to play extremely well but he's
down both flash and barrier so it's a pushing pull. If he does dash forward at this
point, lines would be able to get him because he can't answer the flash. So once this
flash comes back up it'll be interesting to see if he's still far enough ahead to play
extremely aggressively. I imagine you will have that flash by the time dragging this up.
We have four minutes. Yeah, he should have that flash. No time. So DSG. I mean, if they can force the issue, I go for the bar and ball for right now.
Sentels, they don't have their one with them.
TV could come up and castles pushing another way if you're mid.
Sentels will try and catch that one, but it's still focused on the bar and castles.
Just run this fight. We'll help away from the fight.
Call me as well.
What? The bomb under who he castles?
Incited by her hell, who will stay alive.
The Lucien just won't go down.
and how about those in life away?
He's not a will be traded.
It's jungle air for jungle or support for top
sentinels coming out a little and have them
with their health down to health bar.
They have to back off.
That was a level 17 and best of trying
to carry the game there.
But he had a mall and mercury treads
against a three item loose.
So he ends up barely losing that duel.
And then I think at the very end,
his no saw, it was 43, probably one of the keep fighting,
but I think could have just kept clicking backwards
to give them the two for one and stand it ends up
being a trade in the favor of central so I mean
castle sees his angles thinks he's unstoppable
this day to the game and does a good job
keeping her hell in fact and who he pretty much out of the fight
can now this where he wants yesterday maybe walk away
or at least make sent me was keep chasing
because we're how was so low but it ends up just
giving her a little bit of extra gold now
working towards that course for a while
most to finishing that one here as he has a 1.7k gold lead over
Sejet. The Baron was the mate there from DSG.
Oh, now they might just be able to capitalize against still no flash on the
Rahel and then a little more damage.
Whoa, I'm coming than we saw from Castle. Absolutely burst it down.
Call me putting the game on his shoulders. Storms are Casproct and is
completely one-shot or hell who's going full damage. No MR and that was
through barrier from the looks of it as well. So massive burst.
Light turned into a barren start once again here by DSG.
How's all the gold right now? So they can try and possess
they will TP in. They have Gwen go into the mid lane. DSG's
answering on the top side here. They're about half hell. That's a flash dodge
for dark wings. But everyone's so turned by a lot. The impact on
be the front line now. Keep everybody away from the cast here.
Yes, double. Lane this place.
Quick, keep it dark with the light.
And to find these other two,
on my back of the kids, no dots away from the cyclone.
So, DSC does not bother their kids,
put together the line of the dark wings.
Why is not on the cast of the opia?
On the block did not have the snake behind them,
so he will die.
And DSG find themselves the P-5 win.
Two kills, very low,
don't know if they're going to start bearing again,
because Reheal is now alive.
You could tell the plan was very clearly by DSG,
make them come in and let's win the fight,
but they couldn't quite get the right angle.
I'm going to check them a little longer than they wanted to kill Darkweeds in Hobbox.
So a good play, but could have been better watching it one more time.
They didn't really wait for Sentels to get super close to the Baron,
so that Engage didn't end up being clean at their stage.
Actually looked a little questionable.
Then you remember, once you have the native carry and the other native carries and found
so DSG is able to turn this around at the very end of it, Darkwing's falls for the sixth time at this game.
And Hobbox falls as well.
Good start of the five or seven goals if they just played around Dark Wings maybe they find something else
But it was a five before that was gonna be a tough play anyway, but it did stop the Baron yet again
DSG I'm now used that as an agmit twice one time with a number advantage
And we see even though Dark Wings went down. He did so much damage to DSG. We're not able to stick around and go for the objective afterwards
Now send no
I mean, there are all the bits up except for who come all the much of you have in eight seconds.
Seven is in a dangerous spot. Castle has the ultimate available flash of a hell, but he goes coming shut down.
Reheals does not get pause this time. Castle can't find it. He's looking to give us an illusion.
He takes the boss turn away. Reheals does not have the damage anymore.
And if he has cheek and clean up the rest of the members, the illusion will come out of the block, but he flies back in.
And still look at the rule god, but Rala is still alive and you can kite back maybe you can find the miracle
But can't know the emergency song with the triple kill in the ace seven kill Rukong
And this is a replay of what are the baron fights for watching it if the one we just saw and it just did incredibly risky bear
And by schedules they don't have plant vision bear and 20,000 house so they can't push it quickly and who you all instantly gets deleted
to win.
We're out on the outside here.
Get blasted away by the Super Blasco and tries his best to carry this fight from the back
in as a nice side step.
And ultimately it's a woo-crong with the fully stacked massive.
He's going to get the chase down and I believe this is Kim Soul now in the aftermath of
this fight.
He's going to even more difficult for Senkles to win.
And that was Kim's no on your screen right there, chocolate to himself, unemergency substitute.
It was supposed to be cryra that couldn't get him in in time.
of the set. I know a guy and what a show in from kids know so far. He had a decent
game one, but an incredible game too here on the Luke Kong. So let's take stock here.
Really fed Luke on. Extremely fed Aurora and then very burstable carries. Low mobility
Casio Pia who's been kept down this whole game and a complete glass cannon on the
So I think DSG if they can get an engage
Onto real the game is over for hell's got to be very careful right now. He's building some life steal
So you can if you get chunks trying to heal back up, but it's not poke. He's got to deal with it first and here
The ultimate from him is called me kicking the damage
Rele is a lot of lines goes in but where's the follow-up Rele's not up, but there's just no damage behind it
And now that G any from his note in fact by a lot of space for Sen. Let's try and stop the
wound gun. You'll train his life for the support shut down to impact his no finds something for his trouble
This is a really good series. Yeah, he's fights are just absolutely not stop and they're all about the outplay
So real is able to avoid this
version of the full send where it didn't even look like calming land of anything and almost like he didn't take that
Yeah, yeah, that's early barriered
So, and the McKails also was used at some point in this fight from who he still
were held just. He put that beautiful castle also has not been able to land these
public executions on to Lucian. It's tough. It's a Lucian with that
eability rule. Let's pursue. Can get you out of danger and it's a decent
long cast time at home. Uncle C Castle. There it's still alive. So Sam is just
reading a point and they're going to try to take this five before. Castles get
chased away and he will make it back to safety. But it has been a battle in the
top river so much action happening here and no one's been able to get a big enough
leave from it to actually execute on the purple warmth. This quite DSG having that dragon
soul four minutes until elder. I expect even more action around this top half so it
comes down to vision. There's a lot for DSG. Something we haven't talked about at all that
I'm just noticing now is impact is actually really big. Somehow castles 2000 gold down.
Does get done is probably the most broken item in the game currently. Gwends it a great
user of it and on three and a half items if they don't catch impact as well as
Reheld then they could still be in for a lot of pain and we saw what he was
able to do well all over the wall of the lions.
He's relatively tanked you know so they want to all come in and do it and now
the public and does what they've got real.
It's good for them to trouble it back it's good person double kill the
last time around. I think there is the correct call here.
Ripsol already wired. This is going to be their third
pair and up the series. We'll see if it can be to their first win.
This is a much later bear and last time around by this point and game one.
first one because of how much sentals has made the work for it, but when they
4,000 gold lead and team fights like this, DSG might just be able to pull it off.
Yeah.
I'm there.
We're able to land on our hill and that's where everyone flies in this time.
Lions, combos today are always dodging.
If it's a call, we took a bunch of damage from impact right afterwards.
But then everyone's able to get close enough to just burst down, impact, win, as well,
and finish off the fight.
That's flashes out from homebark flashes up from dark wings.
So even around this elder dragon fight, you won't have flash on your big engage, you won't
have flash on your low mobility AP Mage Midlainer.
Sentinel's job is only going to get harder here as DST will use this bear to push in some
waves, damage there on the turret.
As Castle will push in this bottom side, Sentinel's have five members grouped, oh maybe
they look for a snap and gauge here.
Yeah, she will back off as they only have a cannon minion.
I mean, Ceket is really not behind any more at this stage in the game.
You can see four full items working on his fit.
That's the same as for Hell.
With the triple kill to Castle, you were highlighted with that.
Two K gold lead, but now Castle actually has the lead over Impact,
but he is slightly isolated.
In comes Impact, in comes Hompock, no flash on the vise.
Got a chase and down in packs looking for the slow Castle.
Has a lot of magic resistance.
It comes Lines, it back came off.
if that's the flash to say he is not me will cover the retreat
the sg have multiple members but sendals will get out they were looking for a pick and it shows now
how much stronger castle is in fact can no longer just hard when that one be one definitely not one minute
until the other fight we're gonna have another one two other fights in two games between
I guess I don't want to call sendals old the sg because sendals is a new team they are new
But that's how DSG sees it because he's always watching right now. So I wouldn't buy that as well old Phoenix one
Ah, true. Yeah, there's deep they got pieces. Yeah pieces of a lot of old teams for a new team
But just looking at this game
I wonder if they can clutch it up once again last game. They're able to win through experience of making team fighting
It looks like they're in a bigger deficit now as DSG is just trying to take control of the jungle here and set up for helping and two of the bigger differences from last game to this game
Darklings not having a pop off performance on the cast compared to the as year
And who he is not on this primary engage support that can really find that play both of those things
We're in sentinel's favor last time around now DSG don't have to worry about a who he's like you don't have to worry about dark wings
You know on this really you know
Kind of like quasi engaged
Midlander here they can find his own plays but try and gaze more defensive tool. So
Dragon though coming up in five seconds that's gonna be the big fight all right. That's dance completed for the
and Bessa, still sitting on a few components for Unara,
but really just look to see who they can watch
on the start of the fight.
They're going for Humboldt.
He's got the guardian angel of Colmy.
He sees who he has just tried to pop the nommy.
Not enough damage, he can still tell it more castle.
Final on the space, don't we miss the portrayed eggs again?
And Colmy lives!
Almost burning down for Hell'sronic in the damage.
In fact, needs to be the huge signals
but until the cause of death,
the Hell just can't get in range!
The fire is the following way!
I think Rell will get one but that's one for four DSG are gonna make the march through Midlay
What cost they don't even need the elder how would have to one before it looks like DSG is gonna send us to a game three
I mean, he's got to look for some miracle here. Get out to the way he dodges line the game again
But there's a nobody members the ace for kids no and what is a view three on roster?
They have the way they have the death timers DSG
have won game number two.
They have equalized the series.
And right in the arena, here in for a treat,
we have a game three.
45 kills in an absolute banger.
The 10-kill who caught his well,
leading the way for Kiznall.
That's got to feel so satisfying for DSG being
a scy-off underdogs coming into this one,
feeling like they had game one just in the bag.
not having it, but coming back again to lounge,
break this one down, how they do it.
How did they do it?
That is a fantastic one.
Three words or less, right?
Yeah.
Okay, I'll go for it too.
All right, I'll take it.
Wow.
Do you think it was an underpass?
I think it was an underpass.
I think it was an underpass too.
This game was very chaotic, but a lot of it is on DSG.
And there's not a lot of faith coming around with DSG,
But I think in the last two games, we got to see some great
or self-douder, I said they would lose with one game.
When?
It was the most DSG favorite person.
Let's just talk to the players, because specifically,
I'm going to focus on towards parents, because DSG
has a lot of great positioning on parents.
But I think the first few plays we're going to talk about,
I think, the lack of patience when it comes to playing around it.
So this one around here, they're on the objective itself.
Castle is going through mid and just pushing it hard.
And then he's going to take positioning because they have a great
control ward, A in the line bush and then B of course if you want to even get that far
but so far that is the take but Castle says actually I think I found a fight here guys
you guys come along with me so they have to ditch the barren all together so then join the
fight that Castle has going through mid lane which makes it awkward for Sajid who's here trying to
figure out how do I enter the fight at all so I think here even though PSG ends up coming away
initially with a one for one no the fight goes long enough and it's a poor position because
because you have to deal with the tarcturing on the left side.
So they end up losing numbers for that.
So it's like, okay, if we're a little bit more patient here,
let them come into our barren, then it's going to be a lot better.
So you look at this situation here,
and it's the same problem in a way when it comes to patients,
because let me actually show fog of war here.
Lies in is a great position.
Barren vision is hard for them to approach.
Problem is, Castle just burns Altia immediately
trying to get a pick on towards him.
Pretty sure it was dark wings.
If you just wait a little longer for lions to actually get the set of four you,
and this fight becomes immediately much better.
Because remember, it's a 45.
Rahal is not here. The bike shouldn't be this close for how great of a set up that you had,
and especially walking into a castle, a Gwen that's just throwing all to that you.
It is going to be a difficult. It's going to be difficult to approach the fight in general.
So in the end, yes, they win the fight, but they're so low HP, and Rahal is coming back from base,
that you're going to basically lose it in the next run.
But thankfully, this time around,
Sentinels is on Baron.
They're the ones that are going to be basically setting it up.
For DSG, great TP coming in from Rheal.
And so now it's called me setting up with a great ulti.
Immediately because of the slow,
you're able to get Castle going straight into the back line.
And this is a much smoother fight for DSG
with the lead that they currently had.
So this is just like,
criticism of Rheal about DSG and how they set up around Baron's
and the lessons that they can learn going in,
especially in going to game three,
and being able to finally click it together
in the last five.
Yeah, I mean, to be it's like you can look
at it through negative lens,
but you can also look at it through the positive lens
that they're getting themselves,
both in game one and into in-winning positions.
Yes.
Where they just need a little bit more patience, right?
It's not like, oh, you don't have the hands,
you're just getting blown out in lanes.
No, you're in these games with a really good shot.
You see to slow down coordinate,
it was the same thing we saw in the turret diving game one,
up by the inhibitor tower and bot lane.
It's the same thing we saw where Darklings came in with that is your shuffle where they had picked up her hell through just stops skipping steps and communicate a little bit about what the engage is going to look like before it happens and I feel like they would be crushing these two games.
Yeah, and I feel like the even further like silver lining it. I also felt like rising kind of demonstrated it in your like barren setups where they learn a little bit each time right like a like a little bit.
They're scaling mentally.
But I think it is really heartening to see how they kind of are learning real time how to play together,
because like we already covered,
Kizno is substituting in, right?
They don't have their starting juncture.
Yeah.
And I did think to like single him out specifically,
I thought he looked a lot more well coordinated with the team in this game to you than he didn't game one.
I understand.
I think especially just looking at the series as a whole,
a player that I wanted to be able to call out is I think in the bottom lane, Sajad, in
game 1, Kaisa, was very fluid, very smooth. I think it's team fighting is mechanically
very impressive. And it came to, you could make some criticisms in terms of, like, because
you had, like, a note, actually, about he before the team fight. He was super-greeting and he
is sitting on, like, 2K goal trying to get a full complete item for a base. And then the other team
just forced the fight, and it was super close fight, it was over by the Redside
Jungle.
There were people with like one HP or one auto of HP, and he was sitting on two
K-Gold.
That's one where it's like, to me that's an experience, you know, it's getting a
little bit greedy when coaching, recognize it and finish.
Exactly, but package that all of that up, and at least from the mechanics standpoint,
this man is ready to play into your one key is doing a very great job.
Yeah, I feel like on stage today.
So super interested to see who the standout player is going to be in the final game
of the series.
end up playing in this game, call him player of the game.
Call me.
Oh, I can't.
I can't even write that.
I can't even write your best.
But he did have a few early slip-ups, but his more ended up being such a massive difference
when he carries, especially in these fights.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think he was playing super aggressive, you know, wasn't it fair to just kind of throw
himself in?
great pick on Rahel, I had a point where Rahel was like two-care head, was able to
basically sold out delusion. This was a pretty big moment, you know, being able to actually
get that catch, get that kill, you know, onto him, did feel like a bit of a game changer
and called me, I think, you know, wanted to have a stronger game too. I think he was looking
as good in game number one. So it's great to see some of these players that are at least playing
with a lot of confidence. Clearly there are some mistakes being made in stuff, but I like when
when you see young players or new players to a lead come out and just play with confidence,
right?
Play with aggression.
It's okay to make mistakes.
You need to practice the way you want to play and you need to have the confidence to be able
to do that.
100%.
Because I felt like even just progressively throughout the game, this play is we're getting
cleaner and cleaner.
I think it's a really good time, especially for the players coming in for DSG.
For how well they are cleaning it up from Game 1 to Game 3, thank God we're going to best
three for this one. Yeah, and send select first pick and DSG select
blue side. That's a shocker. The incredible global trend we are not
breaking it here. No, maybe someday. Yeah. One day. But I have flipped
their predictions based on what they've seen because I've been
really pleasantly surprised by how. DSG has been better. Yeah, DSG. Are
you flipping? No. But I still think they've been better.
Razz is thinking about it.
Tell with the fine, I'm flipping.
I'm flipping.
I don't have my flip-flops, so I'm just,
I'm not going to be throwing my shoe to the camera.
I think we have some back there.
Whether you're face-up, right?
I'm not bringing it over.
I'm not going to do it now.
We will see if we're either flip-flopping
pays off, as we see who closes out this second-series,
right after the break.
I think they're in with their eyes, right?
I spoke to them.
Why are we going to wait in 25 years?
The night.
There's no need to play for the games.
Yeah!
I'll stop play that.
Yeah?
Can I check?
Yeah!
Go to the goes now!
Go to the�...
And welcome back to game number 3 between Setinals and Disco.
and even series for day one of the return of LCS for both of these same
sentals first ever series in the LCS yet and it's a better.
It is a better the total game time, the total kills and also just the total
amount of gold is changing hands. These first two games have been absolutely
insane and Senators has got to be realing a little bit because a lot of
times when you're the big favorite like that and you win a game one in
such weird fashion of being down kind of whole time and squeaking it out.
you know, a lot of times that came to the almost snap after reality and put the other
team in the dirt, but the opposite happened.
Yeah, all two.
They were gravity that time.
They kind of fell down.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, he's in a better.
Yeah.
DSG.
And it was a different way they did a better.
So again, one, it was the Chad that was the main character.
He was the hero with all the gold.
This time, call me had a breakout performance in the mid lane showing the Aurora and what
that's able to do.
Meanwhile, dark wings, we went into game thinking, yeah, they had a lot of mid lane.
The ZERO's already picked, what else is our wings have, and the Casupia did not impress.
So I think some more eyes will not be into our points to see what else is capable of, and what are the champions?
Because we know he's good on the ZERO, and what else is he able to play?
I don't think the Timo, sorry to the answer, but that is a great drawing though, incredible.
Absolutely incredible drawing, especially if they did that today after they got here.
I will say, I think that Sentinels will just pick Garquins Champion earlier this game,
because the victor and the cinder bands didn't come through until the four five.
Yes, I think just making sure that he gets
preferably even just victor.
You know, the straft would give them a nice scaling option later again.
And only Orianna's been banned. They've been in their rise on their side.
But we see here that the Midland pool is much bigger.
Beep-up, bird.
I don't get the right answer, maybe.
Is that a bit of a shirt?
Yes, yes, yes, and they'll be okay cool. That's another dark place champion. That is
So you know, I'm either burnt. You live up to the name though the week is bring them all up
Can we get a third bird champion for dark wings now?
But it's a five of course
Who were all the bird champions?
Well, not saying design team we need I think make it everyone. Oh, we are here. Yeah, so Ziya we're con
There's a couple do you consider as zero bird? Yes, okay? So that's already enough bird champions. There we go
We fixed it.
They haven't liked it in a middle
uniform yet though.
It was Jay for her first pick.
Sian and Zinge out of the answers for the
issue.
Wow, taking the sion away from impact.
Also, I'm a little shocked that
Jarvan is up this late in the series.
He's such high quality.
Super early in the series that I've been watching.
So Hombok going to have to have a good performance.
He's really underwhelmed expectations.
The side from his first gig on piano.
That was great.
And we got the effelios to pair behind at the J4.
Also shout out we have a resident fan.
Elsie has you per fan who always brings the J4 sign with him.
His license plate has the number one most steals across the world.
Maybe top three at our member in the world.
He's say number one. He's say number one.
One day we'll interview him.
We'll hear his story live.
But for now I'm just going to tell people that we got a really cool fan that always comes.
I think it's comfort choices across the board here.
They blindpip the ephelios for a hell.
I mentioned last year his ephelios jinks were the things that he found the
most success on even if they weren't super meta.
So, Sessionals is going late game here with those first three picks.
Meanwhile, call me.
We saw what the Aurora could do.
A colleague similar kind of high execution threshold mid-laner.
You can find a really easy way to do that.
You can see that.
All a similar kind of high execution threshold mid laner.
You can find really, really big highlight plays.
And essentially, it was just warming up
to get to this point here, into the Victor low mobility
Mage, that yes, can get some shielding
and can slow you down a little bit.
But the colleague, if you're able to outplay,
can still give it a lot of problems.
Now, it's about the bot lane, BSU,
banning away things like the Lumu, the Thresh.
Interesting to see the Thresh pop up here.
Yeah, it's because it's a great pair with the Fellows.
So it gives him a little bit of actual mobility,
and then a fellow's thrashes a very strong 2v2 lane.
So they're just trying to eliminate the best two in Chanters
with the Affleos so far.
They actually saw a double pentacillin belly out earlier today.
Now that I remember I think that was with the thrash support Shadow LEC.
They had a double pentacillin.
It takes a special type of skill to run into a fellow's twice a part of the pentacillin.
200 years, times two, 400 years.
400 years were experienced in that moment.
Bard though has been left up and that is locked in for Lions.
Yeah, and I love Bard against Victor Efeleo,
especially with trash bands.
So Lions could land some huge barn all the minutes,
and it's going to be just really difficult for the Victor
and Efeleo is to deal with that throughout the game.
But if you get enough lock down, Bard sometimes
can be a little squish here.
Adolesce can be a tough matchup for him.
Rell also will provide more primary engage,
Because currently it's just that J4 has the big engage.
Sure, they will pair that with the REL now.
Less defensive tool for a belly issue.
Can still help heal for a belly
or say bad situations, but in general, I see REL more.
So I was like, let's go in.
Let's start for sure.
It's absolutely a hard engage champion.
So the peel isn't necessarily there for how I do really
like what DSG has done in their four, five bands in both games.
I think about huge value pushing guard queens to Casio.
one. Impact pulling out the pocket
more to catch. Which version of
victory in the get jam? Yeah,
impact more at Kaiser versus
Zion. What's interesting here is
at least historically a little
long fact about impact. You really
cared about the opponent's support
champion when he picked more to
Kaiser as well. He loved it into
nonless specifically because it
would just eliminate his ability
to engage because he's eaten
all the way in and solo him as
more to Kaiser. I don't really
feel like there's a champ in this
game that he will be able to alt and easily kill. So it's a nice of an angle as he
usually finds, but I think he just wants it into the sign.
I guess maybe you could say the colleague, but that's assuming she doesn't have the
smokescreen up. So yeah, that's a great tool to have by time and not all. But we'll see
how, in fact, once the pilot that one, it could just be about that one. Do you want?
I'm looking at the rest of the math thinking, then you have great engagement, low mobility,
80 carry and low mobility mid lane bar loves to find these low mobility champions to
Snipe with long-range oats follow-up with you know the magical journeys in the
cosmic bindings and you have to call me follow-up on that with a silver speed boost.
So I'm really liking blue side draft so far here.
I think red sides are going to come down much more to execution.
And as the coaches go get one final fist bump of the day win or lose.
Somebody's got to take it.
Just guys, Sentinel's tied one to one.
And their debut is for LCS in 2026.
I understand now that you're saying you like blue side
draft is in the team that is playing blue side.
Yes, but it's so hard for me to disperse my brain from the team that had first pick.
So that's just going to take a lot of getting used to this first selection.
I'm happy with us though.
Neither of us made any mistakes with that in the first two games.
And I'm going to say that we didn't make a mistake there either.
So better selves on the back here.
When means the series goes your way to start off LCS
that nos versus DSG on the Rift for Game 3?
Quick rush for Brush Control in the bottom lane.
Another early ward by DSG up towards where
Hombock is going to be starting.
They want for really scouting on the Jarvin to try and make it.
So he doesn't get any cheesy games off.
And I mean, let's look at what Sentinels is supposed to do in this game.
they need to scale with the
aphelios and the victor, but I think
more important than he do wins and
lanes early on so that they don't fall
far behind. I mean, DSG is kind of
ran the early game in both the
first and the second game. So I
wonder if we're going to see a little
bit more aggression out of her
hell, who he with this aphelios and
well. Yeah, last game they were able to
get the C. As advantage on Lucian,
but the dives didn't really work out
for them. So we'll see if this time
around they can actually execute
a bunch of kills down there, but
the early game, you know, it's about even in terms of health bar trade. There's
something really cool. As a support man, I love watching just pros like who
keep playing, Lainey phase, using the realm. They'll be able to get that shield
to walk in, push lines out of that rush, and now he's using this great effect.
Just to keep that shield up anytime he's getting traded on. Yeah, and
Sentinels a little bit of, oh my goodness, there's a final level two early
flash, or it on to Lions, not gonna find the kill. They got the heal out of
lines for sure. But as you can see, sentinel's crazy that they originally
Phoenix wanted for those that were watching him. That long ago,
jadot my young, you know, longest absence from the little heek before
returning. That's eight gears five months. I don't even know what you got to
think. That's a great stat. That way for the loss.
It's coming back and shatter it. Oh, yeah. 13 and a half year high.
But that's the most, 18 coast back in here. Also be a long one.
to be a shout-outs and all that we're
are Phoenix one again. They've been
fantastic so far great content and
they are co-streaming as well if
you didn't hear earlier the CEO
with double lift and Terric are
actually watching along with us.
So they watched one game one, one
game loss. Maybe they can
share on the team to a victory
here today as the early reset
came in from her health and who
he getting that call for the
failures. We're pretty important to
win any of these games and Swiss
the way this format works is this
to stay. Best of three Swiss that started with a random draw. So the winner of this series
win counts for exactly as much as the winner of the C9 TLC series. Both just going to be
the one O team. So go to the upper bracket essentially for since the lower bracket.
No way to tell what seems better between you know C9 or the winner of this.
They're going to be too easy. Yeah. They just both want to know. It's going to be incredible.
As, uh, yeah, the low action early game here. Despite the fact that we have the J4 and the Zin
in the early games as it's in the
old action in the early game go for
these early games as it's in
oh actually lines this spot out
how about right there and we have
a flamethron kiznoh he's
going all the way up will
commit to the game on the
lions who is flashless he'll
let rooted in place for
health is not quite half the
damage kiznoh still hanging
out on the right now looking
for the plank under a hell who
he and how about our split up
the wave is pushing them away
who's so right held his
I'm going to blow it down to dry.
Keep to the kill this the jade.
First blow the DSG.
And that could not have gone any better for DSG.
The struggle continues for Hombok in these early games.
I feel like similar to game two highly telegraphed games.
He's sitting around.
He's warded.
He gets spotted up by the barred.
And then they still go forward.
So it just gives so much time for his note to move around.
around and then when the kick doesn't work, it just means that
Sentinels is so overextended and then great discipline as well to save
the kill for the server.
Yeah, I understand the idea they got lying so low.
He's out of Summoner spells, but execution wasn't there.
And Kisno was prepared for it had the flank angle and now we're
subject with a BF sword first back.
We saw a hell go for the early back with the coal.
I'd say there's a slight stats differential in the 80 care department right now.
Yeah, they might be able to get some push now with the server,
but it's an interesting juxtaposition because
for how hadn't really been going called.
So, Jed has been gone going calling the first two games.
Siver of Greek called champion.
At the same time, he's probably going to like 400 CS this game,
so he could still buy it later.
And the CF store is going to give him a lot of really power here with Siver.
But top lane is actually going fairly well for impact.
He's getting the shove on the castle,
getting that wave under turret repeatedly here.
He gives it how much action.
The junglers have put towards the bottom side.
And this is a pick that expecting to win this lane as only about even to outdo as they both will go for their first resets and TPP midline as well.
About even it's all about that bottom side currently, where there's the slight advantage for the side of D.S. G. Dragons up as well.
And several notorious for having wave clear wave push.
I want this to always hit the same for a colleague though. So I'm curious which junglers and feel more confident to go for that dragon base on the wave positions.
Yeah, I mean once you call these six as long as the colleague can get there before the dragons dead
can stop a large impact on that fight and they are just fighting so much around this bottom lane. I think it's
I mean this is just the biggest surprise of this DST series for me is
Suggested lions have been the same or bested
Rahal and who he which a complete rookie lions did not have high stock after his four season with lion a lot of people like
Why would they pick up lions right these very experienced he's working very well with this rookie
and the whole game is being played through this bottom line now, especially now the difference
one and zero.
So much of the win condition of sentinel section on a failure, so try to keep her
hell out of the game.
And they still have kids no down here.
They saw that the J4 left, so when the victim's lightning will miss, his no cannot commit
to the play.
Well, we're actually kind of tough to gain the move speed buff, can make it tricky to land
those skillshots, but now, hombox sees a top lane that's under half health, not going to commit
to it though.
use the shadow around earlier.
So, guess, oh, that's where a lot of his health bar went
and he will just wisely back off.
Yep, looking for some fruit in the river.
Gonna be able to gobble that up, this Kizno.
freely takes the strength through mid and bot control.
I'm a little pressed here by call me as ability
to have the shove on the bridge.
Yeah, I think part of that is just because
there is so much river control.
And Garcoye has probably had to respect the gink
of Kizno's Zinge out.
But this is, I mean, it's a pleasant surprise
that GSG is competitive.
I mean, really worried.
I need to be just completely on guard.
Really worried after how the beginning of last year went
for DSG.
Uh-huh.
It took him half a year to kind of find
a formula to work with dark wings and her hell.
Then they lost him right away.
I was like, oh, man, is it just gonna be this like,
oh, it's another DSG, let's walk into this lamp.
And here we not.
Yeah.
Like, so that has been great.
His nose also really good.
For the emergency stuff, we need to keep hammering that home.
It was meant to be cryo.
Vista issues mean the cryo I can't compete yet.
We're hoping that you're able to make it in soon.
But I mean, this is a great substitute to start off.
I think his no was a little slow in game number one.
If we're being honest on Pantheon, but since then has really picked it up.
Yeah, but just from like an entertainment standpoint, if you're worse
team in the league is giving you matchups like this, you're going to have a lot
of really entertaining games.
So I'm just personally very excited that we have not only a
cool best if we format but also competitive teams. I did also note that you
took the sendals jersey off. The camera doesn't come back to us, but he's not
currently wearing it. So does that mean anything to do with last game? I took it off
after game one. It was a bit. Okay, the cardigan looks great. It's the Dark
Win jersey. I'll bring it back if he's able to win this game. As I mean if you're
talking about Dark Wings, you're still losing the solo lane matchup versus
call me just in the C.S. Department. And he also was struggling in that last game as well.
He is here with fantastic. Now, he could be in trouble here. Call me. It's a big burst of damage.
His arcane storm will go out. Dark wings go links up with the jungler, so call me. We'll back off.
Yeah, looks like the grubs will still be going over to J4. I've heard very, you know,
mixed opinions on if grubs is low key broken or if it's completely useless.
It really just depends on the game, it depends on if you're able to get a lot of turd hits off or if you can randomly block skill shots with it.
Okay, right off.
And this game, I actually feel like they're relatively useless against the Sivr, just because the Sivr is going to be able to withstand any, any super push that you have later in the game anyway, but it's still decent experience for Hamba.
You also don't have like a solo laner that's really going to be pushing hard isn't it?
again uses the more guys are ultimately on the castle dodging out on the
thus making smash and castles in some trouble here has the flash available
wait for that shield cool down pull back in and he is alive did not have to
use the summoner spell just keep clicking away with the door and shield with
second wing with spectres cow damage doesn't come out fast enough yet for
morticars but you can still see impact pretty comfortable in the
smash up it's not a castle is necessarily losing at those since top lane
just do anything but stay in lane. The only thing is to matter, a turret plate, kills and
C.S. And currently, Castle is actually not lost many plates. Looks like he's just
down one plate and it's actually up in C.S.
Oh, he missed the cannon. My night is you said it. Not as point five. They're not as
valuable as they were last. Oh, it's true. Yeah. So I switched it to some minus one.
Give it to you with the meta.
My story minus one.
But he will get a push in here as in fact, we'll walk up rather than
team. So that will be team's hit in the
election now. We have to play too. So
it's not here. There we go. The
little mini demolished. Everybody gets
with those crystals now. As gold in
the favor of DSG into one grub picked
up, I sent a little but answered for
that dragon here and extra. I can
do the minute and a half DSG. We're
able to get control over a bot lane
and mid lane for that dragon because
of Colomies, Laney and Frowes. And now
we're 18 CS up over Dark Wings.
Doesn't look like that's slowing down
then he's out soon. And I think the
the game for DSG is just keep controlling dragons.
They have a sion scaling in the top lane who's going to be a strong tank for most of
this game.
Siver can keep just shumming lanes in.
You can see completed his first major item as well, far ahead, wherever hell's
a failure is going to be doing it.
And then they just move around with barred in and we're both pretty strong in the river.
So no need to rush this DSG in a good position.
So I want to have kind of a wider conversation because it seems like we have some time
before the dragon about some of the mid laners coming in.
call me I'm getting almost hints of like how Saints started off last year where he was
a great individual performer and was getting big leads. I know it's only one series
sample size so maybe too early to call that but so far you never really know how the
you know Korean players coming into the NA ecosystem are going to perform but so far
very impressed was how call me is looked yeah he's looking solid especially because this
team has been on such limited practice yeah oh nice little finding there from lions on the
the Hombocs and all in from
his no get a teleport out from
top lane the advantage of
TPM means that we're going
to have more members from
set no was the barn open
the lane but not safe his
nose life and he cannot
equalize on the Homboc
right now. We give to the kill.
We also teleport advantage
there by impacts more to
Kyle. So he comes in and
makes a big difference where
a sign on can't join. But they're
pretty low. So I don't think
Sentials can just straight up
in this dragon fight out. The
sign is on the way. The
The general is a completed item, so he's feeling confident to walk up, as Ultimate has
goes to Bable, and comes to sign that Splash at a hop-box where Hell is getting shunked
out, hops go simsself.
So, Jed not committing any summoner spells will only use the ultimate pop that happy
be, say, get outta here, and after that Dragon's gonna be ours a little later, a kid's
not back on the map and running straight there.
Yeah, big tempo win actually by DSG, even though they lose the fight, initially look at
this, they're gonna be able to get an extra way bottom where Hell's gonna be really sad
that is needed carry watching this happen is always infuriating and they get yet another
plate.
So, Jed the first one to complete the request as well.
So how many really really good start here, Ellen, early CS advantage, but that's gone.
Now it's 20 in the lead for such a awesome session.
Let's call him.
He'll confidently walk up and take that plate.
Yep, using all his cool nails, but nice little trick there on a cally, throwing your
shirt in into your shroud, and then flying back to it after taking the plate.
So open up a bit more believe, one and a half thousand.
Dark wings does have the upgraded laser though, so that will vastly improve Victor
shoving ability.
It's going to be much harder for call me to actually get that mid lane push anymore on the
Acolly.
So if you're 5 points, right, which will help, but it will be answered.
So it's not going to be as free of a push for this dragon as, yes, you do not immediately
pull the trigger on it.
And now top lane castle again in the Shadow Room.
Impact is just using this almost on cooldown here, more damage and now I'm going to lock
as well, in fact, picking up the kill and a new castle.
Yeah, nice job there.
Doesn't matter if you're walking over vision,
if you're stuck inside a mortar Kaiser
ultimate, the entire time.
See if Impact can start snowballing a bit of a lead here.
He was getting close to killing the Sion before
should be able to finish his the Andries shortly.
Gonna definitely get a couple plates here
after getting that kill.
But even though, Hombock showed to upside,
Kizuna was not close enough to dragons
to just immediately run there.
So the media thought would be, oh,
son, they'll see how they get a kill,
but they're punished because they give up
under the dragon.
They have a chance to contest this if they want to.
Yeah, we'll see here.
I think we're held up, push back yet again, though.
Oh, no.
Yeah, has to respect the possible dives
since they don't have vision on Drake.
If he stayed, there's a chance
that Zinn would have just dulled him.
I mean, who's just the game of chicken there
by recalling since Kizuna was on Drake?
And if you don't have who he would do,
even the two V1 die with Bard,
ultimately the turret, they can kill you so fast.
So, he is she will get the dragon.
She's about to eventually show back here.
There's that one health.
I think he thought the pet would do it.
As he all sorts of smites away the blue buff.
But now, Louie runs all the way topside castle
is the focus.
He has the ultimate goes on stopable C.C.
I'm new and gets to safety.
Cowards!
I have to see flies away.
We're hell, gonna hope to get a few plates here,
but I think the swap is going to follow them.
Try to do a cheeky little swap there to get
possibly some mid plates.
I should see if they stay out there because you want them to be in mid lane soon, but I think
they're going to keep our hell up there against the sun for each another wave.
I mean, the top lane is down to three plates remaining, enough chunk to maybe they feel
if they commit people there.
They can try capitalized on Castle who also build magic resist so the AD coming in from
our hell, we can either have to play that will be felt much more.
It really feels more and more like this game is going to be coming down to the late game
teammates and how well can subject position on this silver versus how safe could
we're how in Darkwing's B on their like double hypercase. So it's a lot of
it's on like call me in lions for like flanking and threatening the Victor
of Felios and how well they can do that because we know the
silver's gonna be scaling well. And silver also with the Ghost and Flash plus
the ultimate such high mobility for a champion to otherwise doesn't have like a
to get on top of a little of the
spell shield is DSG now start up
this hero they have to get
walking up from the mid lane
so set goals have a couple
members here but they're not
immediately going to trigger
now we're going to run red and
white on the feles he's ready
with my vigil as well to
force coming in that kids are
trying to keep up on the way
volts and well smart the
objective and now no moving
on the right health you
fellow you want to burn all
the lion's up and everybody sets
He sets up Coleman to go to the Diabetes Supply,
away into the smoke screen, Dark Wings.
Now they will get the damage out of the fight.
But he will not just kill Coleman.
No, they're sure against what does safety.
Double kill the Coleman.
DSG will give the objective and they'll get out with a trade
of kills, two for two.
It's crazy that that fight was actually two for two.
It looks so bad for DSG at the very start because kids know.
Basically, he used all his cooldowns just to get the rip Carol.
And then when a 5-5 fight breaks out,
out. It's usually the team that didn't invest in going for the steal, but lines
as Bart ultimate disabled and that for so long. All new is waiting in the
brush and he capitalizes on Dark Wings on O'er's solo kill for
Call me. That's just a guessing game right there. Call me left that fight
with almost no help but a red buff moved around had a bit of regen and then
goes for it. But watch this fight one more time. Yes, you do get the
this might steal. Look at this.
And go back to Velios and Mortocard.
We're going to clean up the fight until they get heavily delayed.
And call me. Can't really get that much done when he flies in here.
Neroly finishing off.
But then like, look at that. They think call me out.
They think he's completely out of fight.
He's at 50 health.
A super smart of him to stick around.
Use the red buff region and get him next kill.
Dark wings did not expect that one coming here.
And it seems like also impact tracking that fight.
the reason that he wasn't hit by the bar adult is he pulled castle into the death row.
So that seems to be the name of the game.
The TFI is just get the front line out of there, but then you also aren't doing any
damage you're threatening the back line at all.
So yeah, it's just a tough position for sentinels in that moment.
Great execution from DSG.
And now call me 3000 plus a 22 CS lead over Dark Wings.
He's off to the races.
And Waves pushed galore, but call me after winning player.
the game on Aurora now has the gold to kind of carry this game because the front line
is there for sentials but they're too low mobility carries too flashless low mobility
carry so if a colleague gets the right flank he can eliminate them from fights it wouldn't
matter how much damage they're doing.
That's DSG trying to push this wave into get more plates on the mid lane.
Dragons up in a minute and so is a baron in a minute and a half it seems like DSG will be able
to use this gold be just keep pushing for these objective stacks.
Sentels will have to find a really creative avenue in.
They have the kind of front to back and gauge tools with the row and the J4,
but as we highlight it and pick and ban,
your back line has to worry about a part old thing though.
I'm going to call me flying in and even your front lines get into a silver
who can kite back and just shred through you.
I'm a really really favoring DSG's position right now.
It's going to be very hard for sending those to get back in this game.
I mean, two drakes, 2000 gold, you're getting kind of close to what objective
to be found is going to turn on like they do have a legitimate lead in this game.
But game one, they had a very large lead as well, running with a convert game two,
they had a lot better.
So I still feel like this is winnable for both sides.
I think it's really about just playing the dragon game right here.
How are they going to set up retake and try and get this third drink?
Also like to highlight anytime new items come in and so the back will finish.
Lions on the bar going for the handlepipes, even with the extra gold added to my purchase.
So good.
Well, this item on bar, you drop one W on a teammate, drop one Q on an enemy.
Your auto is also able to slow once you get enough times picked up.
So those meets will just slow on auto and then you get faster auto attack speed.
You're really, really good item.
That was nerf in this patch that we're playing on compared to where the other regions
are playing.
So what's a three-nervous more expensive, but I still feel like the poor value is so incredible.
They might just be taking gold here and giving up this Drake.
Interesting.
Oh, no, they TP in.
the lead. Drake contests. Drake is secured for
seven goals. This call me an impact. Now
one B one in the bar goal. Well, land. That's
castle's trying to follow up. Lysi to
Big chunk. Rall. It's a trouble. His
kids know diving deep with his top
land. Rall the die impact does not win
the one B one in the death roll. The
double kill that's a judge. As D H E
will win the team five. Still drag and
picked up by seven goals. They're
able to get three members out of their
D S G a two for zero. Yeah, I mean,
you can think the plan there for
and they just couldn't escape after
that barred ultimate, sectioned them off
and then kids know flew in with the
zin all as well. So really open
this game up now 5,000 goal
after a sweeping team fight when they
push all the ways afterwards they
have total vision and they didn't get
the drake, but I think they got to
figure of it after that one. It does
slow the dragon snack in for DSC, but
they got a lot of gold for that one
as a candle lion's man. I'm the
can't lie in this man. I'm on the bar and it's finally really good old.
But look around how he's just in no man's land. This just what happens when you force a
trick without having waves pushed as well. You don't have a good retreat path. So they
just completely annihilate him. The more gold goes over to Ciber. And I mean, he's got
a feel great about this bar angle. The batteries can't dodge his ultimate. He's going to
either get them killed or burn a flash every single time. And we talked about lions earlier
saying it's kind of a tough position for a player like him to be. And I mean, he's
on the team, a lion, his favorite organization in LA,
he named changed to lions because he wanted to play on that team.
Then he dropped a year after they joined at North America,
but this series so far, he has shown he is a very solid
engaged support, he has found multiple angles
to give DSG winning team fights.
Yeah, big shout out to DSG.
Took them a while to win their first match last year.
Yeah, they win their first match here in 2026.
It's going to be onwards and upwards for them.
It's always so hard to judge based off the first game here because we are talking a lot
about Kizno and him being emergency substitution, but even though Senators has everyone,
they weren't really getting homebuck as well.
So they haven't had their ideal amount of practice either, even if they are a more experienced
team across the board.
Definitely on the back foot, though, not wanting to lose to DSG.
I will say some of the things we've learned, though, because I had a lot of questions about
and was coming into this series. One thing we've learned is I will say impacts are looking
better than he was last year. That was the biggest question mark was which version of
the project would we get? I don't think this is MVP impacts, but it is solid impact. He got a
solo goal if it signs head of a neck and he's got the lead right now in this top lane matchup.
One of the other questions that had was how his dark wings can develop as a player. One crazy
carry performance in game 1, rough performance on the Casio Pia. This game still a lot to be
to be determined but about 50 50.
Reheals been the biggest surprise for me though.
He hasn't really been able to bring it together.
He was the one that was like, oh, that's the rock of a team.
That's the one that will be able to perform.
That was my expectation too,
is that Reheals was going to be this like hypercarried for this team.
They're able to get a bunch of gold and then carry team fights.
But he doesn't have been able to get leads.
Against the jet, the rookie AD carry coming in here.
So I guess there's always two sides to the coin.
Tough for Reheals not being able to find these leads so far,
but great for Sajed on a debut performance as a rookie here in the LCS's, who
he gets drunk over the wall right there. DSG are fighting for buffs at this point, and
extra Agnes in a minute and a half, Baron is still on the table right now. So, if they find
a pick, they're on the Baron side, they could just look for it, or they can look to find
Dark Wings, swinging a miss, from the E.T.F. or F. Flash at a Dark Wings, that summoners
will bound for the Mid-Lane. There is Castle now, Sloan, Ressentettinals, Force Flash
out of the top laner. Castle trade summoner spells for Dark Wings and no kills either way.
Yeah, definitely you can see sentinels is kind of hoping for any type of fight there,
thinking that maybe Castle had overstep, but all things considered that's a win for DSG,
getting the flash out of Dark Wings Victor makes it a much more vulnerable target in the next fight.
Call me as definitely on award. Good chance he realizes it. I would think.
control this, but gotta be a little careful.
Sivers still three full items.
If you like DST's gonna look to contest this, they will have Bart Altimits soon.
Can always look for the pick with that seven seconds until that is available.
They're gonna try and burst it for sure, but he doesn't have the best gun, but he's
gonna try and cycle the better team fight guns on this streak.
And call me even if he does TPN won't have flash, so it's not even like that much advantage
if they can stall this dragon, maybe they can find a pick, but it looks like him can get
Now from the movie, he has sent no one to be the one to pull the trigger.
His no four specs to check.
She's ready for the impact of health bar.
As who he will die as well, the board will not regret.
He's got such a hell of a good wall.
Such a hell of a good wall for the day boy.
Massive damage from the server.
I'm triple kill the kids.
No, what did they be?
These rookies are breakfast.
They stuffed W.
What a team fight there by DSG after a mistake from Call Me.
They keep a calm head, they secure the drink and they're likely going to turn this in a baron as well.
It's the roguies that make the different look it's a jet.
Holden is on on the impact.
Dr.'s choose no shields he gets the kill.
They get the portal from on how he immediately flashes.
Side steps doesn't miss a beat.
Never catches an auto gets the reason of W kills another one.
He's not getting credit for the kills, but I feel like he carried that fight.
Oh, incredible performance.
You all such edges. You don't fire today.
Yeah, I love that.
I love that.
Watch, watch.
He's lucky.
No, we go.
You're not far.
Yeah.
That was expected.
I knew.
Again, I got to talk with some of the players before they took to the stage today.
And vibes were good.
But it was very much more like we're just going to kind of have fun with it.
We don't have the full roster together.
We're going to give you that.
I'm lucky.
It wasn't like, oh, we're going to smaaat.
And it's called means doing just that.
Another solo kill on a dark way.
So what happens if a colleague gets going in the sideline,
he just went into bush for the other guy to show up
and then he one shot him.
So very nicely toned by call me.
And they kept the expectations low
and the feelings are so good when you are the underdog
like this and you're this close to victory.
So they're playing with style and confidence now.
And we saw Papa Smith, the Twitch Shatch,
say right there, baby, mom, super forming
for a reminder, it's a Jebra Placed Masu on Black West Challenger, as Masu with a huge
call-up for the region, so Jebra the one that took his spot in tier 2, and what a debut
from this young ADK, ADSG will take the middle inhibitor, they're looking for the top turret
next, and it does a little bit like they're slowing down with the re-cannon of power
or barrier power cannons, fingers walk up, impact will pull two of those under the turret,
but the rest of the sendals just can't quite stop the onslaught, that is DSG.
Castle's starting to the turret doesn't have to flash a vehicle.
It's an interesting picture of the damage right now.
But the turret does go down the barn ultimate and it's around Tom.
The first flash of the Zinge out.
No chance, the survival, call me with this fifth kill on the game.
And DSG with five members strong, Baron, on two waves.
They're going to look to end there right here right now.
Back from Castle, we can TP to the wave and help with the push.
And they're going to do just that.
Super is our now coming in the mid-way.
He's going to be real tough for them to do that castle taking down this first one.
You always have to watch out about a call on the flight to.
Impact has the ultimate available.
He's trying to one.
Do you want call me right now.
The first next is durable fall.
Kids know.
Go back in on the impact.
He's just in shutdown.
Will pull kids know into the old and get the GA.
But that's only an item cool down.
That's not the full kill.
Now we come down in the death trail.
And you want slaughterhouse.
tries to engage, but the damage cannot follow what Amma will get one
arc wings with a big shutdown, but DSG, they took down the next
this turret, DSG, then it need those three out of five members, they
just needed this one shot, they'll win their first series about CS.
It only takes them one series to get on the board here in 2026 smiles all
around for DSG, some incredible rookie
Dave Hughes. This was a shocking result.
Based on our expectations. Incredible upset
Suggest on screen. You can see him celebrating there.
He wanted to shout out his brother watching at home.
Elbarra Elbarra, you should be proud right now.
Because the jet jets had one of the strongest rookie
abuse we've seen in a while. And DSG just upset
sentinels who just based on experience alone. We thought you would be able to better this young roster.
Lot of rookies here, a well-earned bow from this guy's.
Sugget and Lions really popped off in that game three. They had a great series, but this game
three in particular, knowing they're going up against Rael who wants to hypercary this game
on a failure. So not only did they have good four, five fans, good prep to make sure that
that he couldn't have a good protection for his
friend.
That's the dominant lane basis.
Yeah, also another game.
We're instead of saying we're going to
scale a call.
They had a slight advantage.
A media by the PS sort and just
never let him breathe.
They ended the game 75 CS up 80
Caribar's 80 Carried.
Decliced across both 80
Carried and support and he was just
he was dancing on.
He had a nozing movement on
several.
He played great whoever picks a
jet for their fantasy this week
Congratulations.
You just cashed out.
You have a crazy.
I think I might have had lions actually.
So I got to check my roster line.
I got to absolutely slaughtered out three
sentinels players, thinking that the team
with the substitute in a bunch of rookies
wasn't going to stand at the same time.
I was completely wrong.
And I would have been with you there.
And it just based on expectations,
the loan sentinels were the favorites to win this.
Now, how big of an upset it is,
we'll have to kind of wait to see how the rest of the power
ranking shape out how send those look against other teams.
How do you look against other teams?
Other teams.
But for a debut, I still would say it's an upset.
And I still would say a huge performance for DSG,
especially with a very young developing players.
I did not see a power ranking that had this team higher than 7.
It was set up there and perhaps with the everyone.
And they just, they won 21, but they probably
should have won game one as well.
And we have the German guy.
So, yeah, Simon, here we go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, thumbs up, thumbs down to the drum.
Yeah, I'm like, how about hit a rust here?
So, Senators are gonna have to reach back and dirt all
happen, and the nice thing about the format here for
Lockin' is it is Swiss.
So, they're gonna be able to get another chance down
at the zero one, and guess who that is, you'll want to.
But, it's time to celebrate the winner, so we're doing it
Emily at the fans zone for an interview.
You guys can chime in and make fun of hitting the entire time.
Hello, I am here with Victoria's AD carries.
So, Jen, congratulations.
Welcome to LCA.
Thank you.
Your team and fans are here behind you cheering on.
I said that they can come in and interject if they like.
So, first of all, congratulations.
How do you feel, plan stage?
Yes, my second time playing on stage.
I like playing on stage.
Now, I like having the eyes watching me.
So, honestly, it feels great and I'm happy we've got the win.
How much can you hear the crowd when you're up there?
like does it help pump you up or can you hear it at all?
Yeah, I can hear the crowd.
I mean, for some reason, when they make a good play,
like I don't really hear the crowd that much.
So I think the crowd is on our side.
So yeah, I can hear a little bit.
And then, obviously, you guys didn't necessarily
have the full starting lineup with you,
but you looked really, really strong in all three games.
Actually, so what was your prep and practice
like going into this week?
Yeah, we had some scrims.
We were playing with cryo.
He was playing like 100 something paying from home.
And we had kids no sub been for like two games of scrims yesterday.
And I mean, I played with kids no for a while,
so I know like exactly how he is.
And I honestly like, you know, it sucks.
We didn't get to play with the full roster,
but kids no, I played with him for like a year.
So he kind of fit in pretty well.
And then looking forward, what do you think you like,
this is kind of your full introduction.
I think your games really spoke for themselves,
especially that last ever performance,
but just introduce yourself.
Like, what do you like to play?
What kind of 80 carry player are you?
Yeah, I'm such an, I play.
I like any short range hyper, hyper carry,
you know, like Xary, Smolder, Kaiser, Vane,
server.
Those are like the champs I like to play.
And, you know, I think my team fighting
is my best skill, so that's kind of me.
Are we gonna see the Vane at some point?
Cause I remember watching you on Vane, it was pretty sick.
You know, probably not, but if there's an angle for it,
I'll try to look for it.
But I don't know, that champ's kind of weak.
I'm lucky.
All right, well, thank you so much for taking the time,
really congratulations. Welcome to the LCS. And we will toss it back to the lounge
to close out the day.
There it is. Nice to hear from Mayor of Copperville himself. Of course, thank you,
thank you, thank you. That was like his nickname, of course, back into your two, but just to be able to
Just a win.
— I'm not going to ask you about your calling.
I'm copper.
— No.
— I'm a lead call to self-bet.
— It's crazy.
— You have an anger.
— At least it will bully you guys when you win.
— This is the reason.
— You have a big year.
— You had a reason.
— Not a compliment these days.
— I'm both real.
Now, you had an incredible day in Congress as writing saying,
Like, you haven't had a great debut from a rookie in a while.
That was at an exceptional debut.
And for DSG to take down sentinels,
after losing three players that he's got.
I know, it's actually crazy when you think about it.
Sendels took three of their players.
The issue had to play with a jungle sub.
Well, I know I told me their roster
is meant to be built around Kriera.
He's not even here.
Yeah.
They're power ranked for everyone pretty much
seventh eighth, bottom of the league.
And when they're a debut, I mean,
that is an incredible start.
And it's got to build a lot of confidence for him.
It is wild, it is wild.
I'm interested to see who the player of the game of that one was.
Let's actually pull up the player of the game to drop the day.
So I'm going to call me. Let's find out.
Oh, it's not a call me.
Okay.
Nice. You want both player of the game.
It's all midlaners.
It is.
Midlane looking strong with you.
OP. OP meds.
We're all trying to sign up a similar to complaining about top laners.
You never say all top laners.
So OP.
Ah.
Five for five, bogs.
Midlane.
Even more important.
This is not that good.
Well, it's important, best role in competitive gets even better.
It's interesting, crazy, crazy.
Any takeaways from the first series of the day that you cast it?
I mean, honestly, I thought it was going to go T.L.'s way in game one.
That was a pretty big surprise to me.
I felt like they had kind of outscale.
They felt like they were looking really, really cleaning and control.
See nine wins, one big teamfight.
I felt like the wheels kind of fell off there for T.L.
You know, they had a kind of a wild engage in the jungle,
which really kind of threw any chance they had in that game.
game from there. They got the lone out in game 2. So I think that was a bit of a surprising result.
But here is our LCS lock-ins, Swiss stages where we are at. So the one O teams are going to be
C9 and DSC after day one, and then TL and Sen are going to be in the 0-1 bracket. Of course,
we'll have two more games tomorrow. We're going to be filling this out and then we'll be drawing
matches. And that's going to be really exciting. And immediately you just do not want to pick
Team Liquid.
All right, up to zero, and imagine getting
Team Liquid when you're zero, one down already.
That's going to be tough up for tomorrow's games.
Black West versus Shopify Rebellion.
We get to see the debut of ZD in the LCS.
That's going to be interesting to see.
And of course, it's going to be dignity toss versus Lion.
Yeah, and Griffin coming in a lot of people
really excited about him.
Gakko's going to get his opportunity.
I mean, Black West obviously full of new young players.
I think that's really, really exciting.
I'm pretty hyped up for Lion to their debut.
a lot of people are telling me that they're not doing this well in scrims, but I think on paper,
this team should be really, really good. So even though they're not amazing right off the rip,
I think they're going to become a really strong team. And I know a lot of LLA fans were really
excited just to see the org, Lyon, building this really kind of stacked roster. And so it's going
to be fun to see where they go. Yeah, the concept of the super team that's been what people have
been talking about with this roster, like bringing back, berserker, former MVP of the league,
is pretty crazy and also just I just want to see how the team does together. At first I was concerned because
Biblis was like, I don't know, Bizarre is going to be here on time. Thank God he is. And we're going to see him tomorrow. So that's going to be good.
Yeah, going to be a banger, but that is going to be it for us here today. We'll be back tomorrow at 4 p.m.
Eastern 1 p.m. Pacific and it's going to be flight quest versus Shopify. We will see you all there.
and
ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the LCS in field so good to say it again it's so good to be back
Breakfast! Thanks, that's up here!
I'm just gonna be the best I can do.
I'm just gonna be the best.
I can feel it in the end
No limit to what I can see, I'll be a swell
I'm left and down