and just has a chip on their shoulder.
You know, like, in my opinion,
you know, it was like a top 2 team last year.
Didn't make worlds dim, make on the side, didn't make for stand.
That probably feels pretty shit to be a top 2 team
and not make any of those tournaments.
Absolutely.
So they all just have like a little chip on their shoulder.
And like, honestly, same thing for me,
like last year, like I was talking about earlier,
like my extraditions were like trying to take
serious off of international teams.
And then now you're making those set internationales.
Like, this is me off.
Yeah.
Just know the way to put it.
For sure.
So, like, I'm sure everyone's like,
I'll use from my point of view,
just looking at what's ahead of us,
which is currently TL,
but like, the lead gets off.
Oh, yeah, I didn't read out all the matchups.
Bad hosting.
CMTL, first matchup.
That's awesome, because you're playing TL.
I don't know.
It's a very good first matchup.
Yeah, that's incredible.
Then sent, sentinels, DSG.
I feel like they're both happy about that draw and then line dig, which is interesting
because I'm really interested about inspired and how that team works out.
But Griffin, what about your expectations, man?
Because you just back and up a bit, you lived in Korea.
Where did you move to Korea?
Where you 17?
Oh, 16 so.
That's crazy.
Like two and a half years ago, yeah.
Yeah.
And you lived in Korea for how long?
Oh, like two years.
Then you lived in Brazil or you're to play in LTA North.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Yeah.
have been north-fured and gloves, but...
I don't know, I don't know, I like to laugh.
And now you're in the LCS, so that feels like a really crazy journey.
But you just started earlier than so many people do.
But like, what are your expectations now that you're in the LCS on flight
questions and org was done really, really well, but they've gone with the
super, super-yong roster now where you're 19 and you're like the middle age on
the team.
Yeah, like I'm third.
Yeah, because Gakos and Cragine are both a team, which is crazy.
What are your expectations?
Like, and how does it feel to be in the LCS?
I mean, for me in terms of my expectations,
is like, I think I learned a lot.
The last few years, I felt like I matured
a lot as a player.
And before I was pretty emotional and kind of sporadic
and sometimes impulsive.
So moving into next year, obviously everyone's
expectation or everyone wants to win, right?
That's like a given.
But moving into next year, I just want to have fun,
fun and compete.
And obviously, my biggest goal
is to go to, like, as many international events possible.
Okay, I feel like I haven't caught too many international.
So that's going to be great.
So that's my first goal.
It's just to go to many international sticks here.
And the second is just to, like, have fun and be, like, a good teammate.
And we're kind of, like, kind of the team environment to be,
like, as best as possible.
Yeah, like, traveling as much as possible.
Because, um, a different side notice, actually, from, like, Korean and Brazil.
It's like, Korea is, like, so, China hard.
The schedule is a lot trick there. Everyone's like feels really brotherhoodly.
In Brazil, there was like less like back as like basically like you can play
screens and you could technically leave afterwards, which I kind of didn't like too much,
but I actually still have like two cranes on the team and like just cranes with like we kind of would
sit for a few days. Yeah. So I kind of want to have like that type of environment where
everyone is like happy having fun and I feel like obviously the expectations for our roster
Listen, hi, I'm not going to be, you know,
I don't think it's like low.
I don't think it's low either.
But it's not like last but last week.
Most of them are in quality.
Yeah.
I'm not like just in championship winning,
but I do think like,
obviously I really had a good impression on
the first day of experience.
Well, I got to have confidence from that.
Yeah, but I don't like the general sentiment
is like the expectations aren't the highest.
I like to go to worlds or not to go to worlds
but like to win the lead in general.
Yeah.
But my personal goal is just to make sure
that team environment is like fun.
One, I don't think too is actually floating.
I kind of take is like,
Claude is like, obviously a foreigner.
Yeah. And I was like that foreigner.
Ain't what I was in Korea.
And I felt like it is hard to be a foreigner.
And if I like last year maybe like Claude was sad at times.
So I just want to make sure Claude is always like in a good state.
That's like a personal goal.
Just because I can know if you're like, I'm like,
she's in my shoes that I was.
Yeah.
A few years prior.
But yeah, my expectations that I kind of want to just make
as many international events have a good team environment.
And I have a comfortable environment,
everyone's having fun then.
You get to make us, yeah.
Yeah, I feel like the expertise for Flagwester
is everyone is like, you're definitely not the bottom.
There's actually, I've noticed a lot of excitement
about the Flagwester.
I feel like the team has done a really good job
of giving you goals that you're able to accomplish
if that makes sense.
Like with the rebuild of all the young players that are exciting,
it's like I think the fans are currently
giving you the right to make a few mistakes.
Whereas if like, I just ran back,
if somehow they managed to run back
everyone from last year, it's like,
okay, they need to win 80% of their games last year.
They have to win 85% of their games
to this like this impossible goal.
Whereas now I feel like you can make some mistakes.
So I like the attitude that you have,
that's really cool.
Yeah, I mean, I think in general,
it's like, obviously,
or also that will take time to build.
You're so young.
I mean, the only concern I have
is I know a lot of times support jungle.
synergy is really important.
I'm like the structure of the program can be difficult
to adapt to and like the combined ages 37.
Like it just feels like that's gonna be the hardest thing
but I'm wondering like,
because of your time in Korea
and because of your time,
like you've already been chasing pro for three years,
do you feel much more experienced
than a normal 19 year old jungler would be?
Yeah, it's kind of hard to say
because I only have a slain here, one obviously.
Yeah.
But for me personally, I do think that,
again, we're only gonna wanna do some scrims.
But I think like for a lot of this one day, I didn't think what I, well, I worked with the team that much, but I already played a split in into one and I actually felt like I learned like the most like,
but I learned a lot.
What do you, what do you, one thing I'm trying to do this year and this is more of a person goes, I'm trying to do it.
I want to find more what we say or what I say, so I feel like I say a player's good.
I want to say why they're good.
So like what did you learn in split one?
Okay, so I felt like when I played in Korea, I don't think I learned too much of Korea.
I actually, I really, yeah, maybe because of Cochise Lab
and because of this general lower level.
But here, I felt like in Korea was more like just mechanics.
OK, not much brain, but a little bit of brain,
but like, not too much team play.
I feel like when I first had my first play in Brazil,
I learned a lot more about like, General Support,
how to play slower, because like, before I was too used
to playing like quick and like quick rewards, like with payoff,
I feel like now I'm tier one.
You have to play lots lower, like you can recycle pressure.
You don't have to force a new lead.
And you can kind of like reap like small winds
and like bills pile up, right?
But I think the biggest thing is I learned is like
instead of like, and like how I, you don't want to play it
with like, general sport with like party or like vision
or like then covering and me like just clearing
and stuff like this.
So I feel like my first play in tier one
in Brazil actually learned like significant
maybe more than I did in Korea.
I think it also has to do like with a lot of things like
There's less of a language barrier,
so I can talk more about my teammates.
And I'm someone that likes to kind of talk a lot,
kind of argue a lot, and being in law,
I did have like, like, I like my coach personally,
and I like my support.
So I felt like I learned a lot from just like,
seeing how they view the game,
and how I view differently,
and I like my new point of views,
combat versus like the veteran's point of views.
But I feel like I got a general press,
like obviously, I'm still really experienced.
I feel like I got a decent grasp of how I want to play the map.
So it's just all about, like,
see if it's good enough or like,
if I keep working on, you know,
how I perceive the game, but yeah.
Is that some okay, if I're gonna take advantage,
what do you just said?
Now, I wanna talk about you.
We just spend a long time, so,
you've been very good.
Go ahead, man, I'm excited.
I'm excited for Griffin.
He seems very excited, no, it's not fun.
I'm excited for Griffin too, yeah, this is.
He's like, animated, it's like moving all the time.
I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,
I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,
But he's excited, like you're going to see a sickness men over there.
Yeah. Shopify last year. I told you we're going to talk about last year.
Yeah, so you guys know when we so much like as a castor, because you lost all of your games.
So I went, I did this stats pool where I just took all of the LTA North versus LTA, LTA North games from across the year.
So I just got like a larger sample size because we had like three splits in four formats.
And you guys had like a 40% win rate.
Another stat that I found,
I was shared with the Montenegro,
and he told you that.
It's like, I don't remember the exact order,
but contracts,
fudge,
palfax,
and oh, no,
say us,
we're 1234 in the League of Deaths.
Yeah, we make place together,
we die together as a team, you know?
But you guys were by the end of a top three.
Yeah, you were all, you were top three even in split two, I believe.
And yes, yeah, absolutely.
And you guys beat me.
Yeah, I don't remember.
So it's weird, because when I was looking at all the numbers, I could like, post them later,
they're on my phone.
They're not too important.
The silly stats we have, like, time with a major lead, time with a major deficit.
You know, total kills and deaths, win percentage.
You're like, third or second worst in like every single stat.
Yeah.
But it probably doesn't, did it feel like that was the year or did it feel like it was
is the year where you finished there. I'm wondering what...
Well, definitely feels like they were finished there.
It doesn't feel like...
Because I learned it improved throughout the day.
Right. And obviously, we won the important games, right?
That was like, that's all that really matters.
Like, you win the important games at the end of the day.
Like, you'll have the opportunity.
You just don't want to lose every single game,
so you don't make playoffs. Right?
Yeah. I mean, you guys are talking about expectations, obviously.
Yeah.
Now it feels like, before I was like, oh, Shopify was like,
the bottom team right before Lusher, you know, Shopify is just like in six
days team. So our expectations weren't super high on our team Lusher, of like, you know,
if we make playoffs, we see what we can do in playoffs and so. Right. Now that we, you know,
obviously came top three, it feels like if we don't win, we're going to be unhappy. The
whole, like we just have to. Yeah. That's like, if we, if we don't win, yeah, it's like,
we raised the standard now. We came top three and it feels like if you don't win now, it's kind of like
it's going to be a huge let down, right? Yeah. So our expectations are to win, and
everyone's definitely way more driven to win now, I think, because we got a taste of like
how it could feel to win, you know, we got a taste of like possibly being, you know, able to
to beat the best team.
And then now it's like we can actually do this, you know.
And we actually believe we can do this, we actually believe we can be the best team, everyone's
getting more emotional, everyone's getting more upset, we make mistakes, everyone's holding
themselves to high standards.
So I think we still need to work when the best team right now, I think, but we have a lot
of drive now.
And I like it.
The energy is a lot more intense, which is fun.
I feel like you guys almost have like a clutch factor too because what I was feeling like an employee else
I have a time move face to you guys. It was just it's hard to beat you guys because
Like even if we get you know an insurmountable world lead
You would like choosing someone a bush to get a call out kill get down and then what the way bound is works
It's like suddenly back in the game. Yeah, and I feel like that happened so often
Where's you guys like a special later on to the year?
I think I think contracts is a big part of that as well. I think he's like really good at making the funny place
Obviously that you need as a team and sometimes he looks like he's in thing and sometimes he makes the best play kind of reminds me of
Barbara a little bit when I used to play with him to be honest in that way
So yeah, I think I think we have a good shot this year. We need a lot of work. We're not good enough right now
But we have a little drive. So that's one happy about yeah, I need to tell people because I know this is gonna release on like the 15th
We're doing this on Monday the 12th. So for the people that are like why did flat quest start screams so late?
It's like to particularly start at like three or four days earlier than people
I want to hear about Zini because
I didn't watch LCK challengers, but several people
who told me that he was one of the best,
if not the best midlaners there, incredibly hyped,
probably would be an LCK of BDD wasn't the guy above him,
especially with the way BDD played at worlds.
How good is any, because you played with him in Scrims in Korea?
Yeah, obviously he's like the classic,
like really good mechanically.
I think the war is sometimes when you get like,
I mean, he's played for a little bit,
But he's like kind of young.
Yeah, a couple of years, right?
Yeah, he's played like two years now.
I'm not sure the exact time.
But sometimes you expect like a young players
to not be a smart, generally.
Like they mechanically like intense.
And they make really crazy plays.
But then they're not so smart.
I actually find that he's really balanced as a player already,
which to me is like really impressive
because I was expecting like, oh, he's like this
mechanical genius or something.
And we're gonna have to like teach him like events, concepts
about macro, whatever, like team play and all this stuff.
but he seems to be able to tell us what to do in games sometimes
and like tell us where to go,
what to play for, how to play around him.
We obviously scrimmed with him in Korea.
We haven't been scrimming with him yet.
We've even been scrimming about two days.
So I'm excited to see how he is when he's in LA.
We have to make sure we take good care of him, obviously,
because as Griffin said, being a foreigner is difficult.
So obviously he's really good.
the main thing for us right now is the team is to make sure that everyone else is on the same page,
so that when he comes in and can actually screen with us, we're ready, you know?
How's a language barrier?
Probably he's learning a lot of like he was taking in most lessons every single day and he was like
asking everyone what does that mean? What does that mean? So he's very motivated to learn English
and he's like really trying hard, which is great. Are you translating much in game?
Because like Reven? In game, people speak Korean? Yeah, people speak Korean, Reven,
and speak screen, I had coach, but in game, it's like fine.
You just ping and he already understands
most of the words anyway.
It's kind of easy.
Yeah.
For remodeling, is it a case?
Has a mother?
Yeah, you had to do some language barriers in the past.
Sorry.
What do you think about any?
Have you played against?
Do you play against a weird one?
Do you win?
I'm going to do this for you.
Yeah.
Let me let me know.
Overhats.
Let's see.
That's right.
If I try to build them up, no.
OK.
I apologize if I just, like, I don't even think
is a topffm of there.
I think like, Mid and LTS, I was, yes, sorry.
What's your topff?
I think it's like, clutch up up there,
quid should be up there, me, and then,
what's the line with there?
Same.
That's my topff.
I mean, I would say, I would agree with him
with everyone accepting that.
I could have been before that.
Could you not agree with him?
The Koreans, I don't know, let's stick to the green,
and then it's like, I don't even think
that guy's topffm, like, my word.
Sure.
you don't include me, I wouldn't consider him top three in that board that I listed.
So you're breaking, like, you're working on like six, seven, six.
What is he overranging?
I think that's one thing that actually impressed me about them is just
playmaking sense, you know, like each have like that that's that sense in
games, or it's like, if you go here, you're going to make this play.
They're going to come here blah, blah, blah, and then you're going to get a
pentacola, and you're going to look like a snurf.
Okay, like, do you have like a little bit of that sense?
No, like decent amount of that sense, but everything else was like,
I was like, I don't know, just wasn't screaming against a Korean mid.
You know, I was screaming against, like, the Korean mids, like I was screaming a showmaker who was completely blasting me in line.
And then I go the next second stop, play on nice.
He's doing a break.
We can get a break.
It's like, three day.
There enough money.
I'm not sure.
I don't want to go to the top.
Not sure.
Make her, yes.
Help way.
Nope.
Yeah.
If I mean it's Swiss, so you never know, maybe you'll play in round two.
And I was telling Griffin it was a combo of like because of course I faced T.L.
Like one of us is going to lose, and to facing one of these two guys.
So very good chance to either you or your old team plays against one of these guys.
We're going to slow him.
Very good friend, you might slow him through the chance.
Let me be a zero to start off with.
Yeah, how you gonna match against contracts?
That guy's master for you.
I don't know how to pick up about that.
I think every time he's all created,
he's going to bounce his rope.
Just stay at that table.
What was your peak in Korea?
It's like you.
You were there for two years.
Yeah, I got rings seven, and that rings 12.
But rings seven was early Tuesday.
So I don't really cut that.
Yes.
It's pretty high.
Wait.
No, no, no, no.
No, it was a great four-hour.
OK.
I was like, I thought you had to.
He's not going to say anything to the student.
I don't know much of thumb members.
Yeah, it's on your next one.
It's fine with it.
I do want to talk about the other teams,
but I actually really like,
Griffin, you're answer about what you've improved on.
And I'm wondering if I could ask a paying fudge about that.
You had at this point in your NTL.
You're off season with probably pretty crazy.
But if you want to talk about what I'll season go for it,
but the bigger question is,
what have you been working on?
Where do you feel like you needed to improve from last year?
And what have you done?
I think I, because I'm still friends with everyone on T.O.
Yeah.
Back, I was messaging them like when they got the draw show up and that's like how I'm facing you guys and like I know, of course like the T.O. forever.
So I was telling them to bring the draw, but like for him, so I was talking with Coral, going to the T.O. app season and I think like the biggest thing for me was just finding my own like player identity.
because I feel like last year, I've missed our team environment
and might be in like how bad it was.
It was hard to maintain like a solid player identity.
So to me, like the past year,
for months, however long it's been,
since the competitive again,
it's just been like trying to find the,
we wish my player identity, like trying to see
how I visualise the game while I want to push the game forward,
how I want to slow the game down,
like how I visualize lanes and like just coming into a more,
I'm super confident in my vision of the game and then translating that to my team in
luckily, for me, like I'm not dealing with any language barriers issues, they didn't
20, 23, like everyone just speaks English, naturally, or the inventors, but then it's
English is pretty good, but now, so, like, I've been leaning into more of like, not like
full shop color, but like more of a shop line role on C9, then I definitely was on T.O.
just translating like my strong opinion about the game,
to like, and apply it upon the game.
And like I've been, you know,
stepping into that world more and more.
Like as the week's going.
Yeah, you also, you were ranked one
for brief time in solo queue.
Yeah, before I went with his ability
to play like every role in his family.
That was my plan.
And then I was going to crew.
Yeah, so I was like, I didn't bother to maintain it.
OK.
I correct me from wrong.
I'm just going to, I feel like when you were at your best on TL
and like the Trist, Chase, like 80 carry meta, you were incredibly good
at getting resources.
Like you were good in your, I mean, face, so when you're lane,
and then you were really good at finding lanes to like pick up a bunch of gold.
And then when you had the gold, when the team fight,
but I feel like when that translate a little bit more internationally,
like you were so good at getting gold, but then your use of that gold
wasn't nearly at that level.
I think you probably had submissions in team fighting.
How has that been going with C9?
And I'm actually really curious when you're saying you're doing more shock calling, like,
has your vision of the game changed since that time?
And then like, that opposed love's gold.
Blabber, lost farming.
I mean, Sven probably is fine playing.
We've side occasionally.
It's doing it.
See, like, he lost gold, too.
I know that everybody loves gold.
The place he gets extra gold now, so he has going to change things.
How is that going to, how is that balance going to work on the team?
Well, I don't think, naturally, like, I think I'm a community player.
But I think, like, the reason that I was just trying to see a map like as close as possible.
And honestly, just go from there.
Like, sometimes a champion, you're just trying to get resources.
Right.
Like, so you don't need to be the one to carry the game every time.
Yeah, I mean, like, to be honest, like, I think, you know,
Mike and I, like, a top two team right now, and we're all should be like,
top two in our role at the moment.
at the moment. So like, if I have a bad game, I've won bad games in terms of
because you know, Thanos or Spider-Man or Blubber or Vulcan is like smurfing, and like
same as them, like I've smurfed games or they've had bad games. So like, that's just
how it was, you know, I think that's like how it is on like when teams are machine
well are doing good individually, like you just could win games even when you
and then I think a big part of like a flaw
what I had in myself is like, like, mentally wise.
I was staying in the game until,
like maybe not as much last year,
but like, you're as prior, like when I was, like, more rookie.
And I'm like, pretty calm when it comes to that.
And it was matured a little bit.
Like my games, get my thoughts.
Like more games, matured.
And so, like, even when I do fall behind,
I'm still talking a lot, like,
I'm kind of trying my best to guide the game.
Yeah, I think everyone can be greedy.
Like honestly, the editor, especially,
is a really fucking greedy, but I've been having
a lot of discussions with them specifically
about side-to-side stuff and just like,
if you're good, you want more gold.
This is a way that you can get, like,
you want more gold, share the make sense,
but then why are you giving up this side-wave?
Like, this is your side-wave.
We've information where the jungler is,
the jungler is showing top-side for some reason,
why you scared of their top lane or when you're up,
like two levels in your smurfing game.
And it's like, there's your actual goal on the map.
Like, how can you get this?
And like, you know, it's time to do a bot,
but like, on point topside, we can play top camps.
Like, you know, Crutch1 and a minute or whatever,
we're gonna be topside, one of the other camps,
like there's no objectives,
drag and sign return was down,
to et cetera, et cetera.
So like,
like, to tie all back to the et cetera on for a long time,
It's always like, I've tried to develop over the past three
moments and so on with you and scrims and whatnot,
like just my strong idea of the game.
I can just translate into that to everyone else.
Yeah.
I really want to get to budget, but I
it's going to be weird if I ask the blabber question later.
So if I just ask the blabber question right now,
I have to hear about blabber because I feel like
from a fan or narrative perspective,
he had the period from probably 2018 to 2022, 2023,
where it's like, holy crap.
This guy's like the best player in the league.
He's amazing jungler.
And then last year was the first year
he like didn't make a whole pro in some respect.
So he had this pretty big fall.
He's, who's a pro, plus your?
Cheese.
That's a pro.
It's an inspired river.
Yeah, definitely inspired.
That's why we're very, who?
Clocked, right?
It might have been contracts.
I think it was contra-man's number.
Yeah.
Definitely inspired.
But it's just like, how do you feel like it is playing
is he still that player that he's like,
I think it's a pretty complier,
like I think he's pretty cerebral about the game.
I'm sure Fudge is no stories about
he'll be like,
oh we have to play for this club
and if I don't get this club at the game it's over.
And then it was just talk for like three minutes
about general pathing and I like if they get this club,
he loses rappers and then he loses rappers
and he loses drugs and then he loses drugs
and then he loses whiffs and mal,
even though it's on the other side of the map.
And then suddenly, two levels and you're lost in the sauce.
So he's still a pretty cerebral player.
And I think mechanically he's pretty well.
Of course, as is like his mid-line partner.
I guess that's very, where I go into a 2v2 with him.
And I'm like, fuck man, if you just landed that,
I don't know, it's in XLW.
Oh, sure.
We would have won.
It's just like, oh, that was a pretty 2v2 to take.
We've probably shouldn't have done that.
Yeah, it's everything.
So I think like the thing with Blabber is he's an attack dog.
but very good mechanically and can think clearly
with the game.
But then if he sees an opportunity, he'll take it.
And then there's something catches egg.
It's not the best opportunity.
You'll just suddenly your dogs, like,
three dogs over with no leash.
And it's like, oh, shit.
I got to get to my dog now.
Oh, man.
Did you track Glamour's Korean LP?
I think he was GM.
Probably?
I think we're all like, Jim.
Yeah.
That didn't track.
There was a corner because you're painting a contract.
He just washed.
That's just me on.
And it was my job.
That was sure.
OK, we'll touch.
What have you been working on?
Because last year you had from a fan perspective a big blow up.
I know your stock was low, accuracy, nine, but you've, I feel like you've completely
replenished your reputation and to be in the top tier.
What are you working on?
I'm going to help the players.
But what are you working on?
Because you see, you want to be the best this year?
Yeah, I mean, obviously, top lane is about a lot more about lane phase now.
So that's been the main focus.
It's not shut up on the standing.
you can take different combat centers, spells, all that stuff. I'm sure we're talking about the season after this is what it's a big part of it. Obviously it's like
lane phase is very important in top lane and in general top end bot lane.
That's been I mean focusing game in terms of like in general like team stuff. I think as a player I can
get a bit angry at times in game and use focus on what's the best player or what should I do next.
And that's been my main focus in streams recently as obviously I go for something in
streams, which is a risky play, and I die level three to the enemy's uplay now.
And then obviously you can be hard after you feel like you're in a bad spot to think about
what's the best play.
That's basically my new skill that I'm trying to develop is re-focusing.
And I was already decent at it, because obviously I was on the team that we usually had bad
early games and then came back right. Yeah. We were already pretty good at that, but I think in
terms of the actual quality of the practice, that's the most important thing for us to do as a team,
not just me, but as a team to refocus after a bad play. Because you're going to go for bad
plays and streams, you're going to make mistakes and then making the rest of the game still useful
and trying to get to that teamfight in mid game where you're both two items and their two items
in a half, that kind of stuff is important to make the useful. Yeah. That's been my main focus out of
like, in terms of like the emotional aspect of the game,
in the end has obviously been like,
how do I play this matchup?
That's been happening for this.
Man, I have a total non-secret of question.
I'm sorry if you don't want to answer this.
You started your career in an A at least.
You had like a bad spring split.
You walked in for them and then we went from now.
Can you?
And spring, that's what I was like.
You're really, it was really sick that one game
when you saw a cut off the fire.
It was like, it was like, it's been lost in the game five.
But then, by the end of the year and your performance
and MSI, you're like, one of the best players on the team,
and you have this really quick plot, long-winded story,
because there's a weird connection between everyone.
You used to be on C9, he's on C9.
You lived with L.S. Ellis with your coach.
Right.
Did playing midlane for years grew up your ability to play top lane?
Because I feel like you had this amazing top lane trajectory.
Then you played midlane, and you're trying to awful,
and you're also trying to do all the L.S. things
where it's like, I'm gonna take all the e-con runes like first
guys, it's like you're not doing a bunch of stuff.
So we play Midland, you're also playing Midland in a different way.
And then like that falls apart and they're like, okay,
I guess I'll go back to top lane.
And I think once you did that, you ended up being like,
the glue guy, or so many, like, okay,
I won't pick the good matchup.
I'll just play what the team needs.
And I think I've heard you talk in the past about how,
like over time, you lost your killer instinct a bit.
And you kind of got in that back recently,
but I'm just wondering, like,
had you reflected it all?
Oh, yeah.
Time was this later, was this a huge mistake to play with me?
I would say it's less about mid lane,
but more so about where was that in life in general?
Like I feel like I lost focus on the game a bit during like 2022.
I started being more like social doing things that aren't too
with league and just like, I don't know, talking with girls,
whatever, I'm not having to have a friend.
And then obviously like, you know, you get distracted a little bit.
stuff folks on the game, lead wasn't my number one priority I would say.
Like, all right, it was still a number one priority, but it wasn't like the only thing I had,
you know what I mean? I know what you mean for sure. And I think that's how it was for pretty much
most of the 2022 summer period till last year. And I think last year is when I like was like
all right, it's like really enough, you know, like just just play the game. And that's when I
I was playing the game more obviously.
And I think I improved.
I made it the main thing, like the only thing basically in my life.
And that's so hard now.
Now I'm here.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's difficult obviously.
It's sacrifice.
You can't have as much fun at night with your friends on this go to something.
You have to play solo queue.
But you know, I want to do it.
And I like regain that.
It's kind of like the natural urge to play solo queue instead
that or too think about the game or to watch bugs that natural urge I think came back after a couple of years.
Yeah, there is a difference when it becomes your only thing like you're dreaming about it. You're like,
I don't know, yeah, you're like, you're on your own bed thinking about the matchup that you play on
terms and everything. So yeah, that's really cool. Okay. We need to talk about other teams.
Wonderful. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just narcissistic.
We're going to talk about all the other things, but I know Team Liquid and Lion have a
lot of story. I want to start with Lion because to me, they are like the biggest
banger bust, feaster famine team. When I just think about the way that that combination
could work, we gasped up inspired so much last year of being this amazing godlike player. It's
Like, surely, if he's as good, then just team should win again, right?
Because, berserkers and Saint, I've written canics.
I heard that you were sharing with Simura,
which makes me not super confident about his visa situation.
I don't know nothing's been announced yet.
I'm not on the line, but he's just going to lie in my life like two hours ago.
Oh, that's awesome. It's through.
No, his business is not there.
That's cool.
All right, line, it's not a dark one, French doing that.
So who's their chocolate?
Tocca.
I missed it.
Yeah, he was doing the draw show.
Dark one was doing the draw show.
Oh, that's it.
Oh, stick, I haven't seen that either.
Oh, yeah.
He's back.
This is good though.
I'm going to totally change it here,
because this is from the stupid stats I was pulling.
Much.
And this is near and dear to your heart.
Well, and it's a very unfair staff for dokelet.
But I have to, wouldn't we?
They have to find it.
No, no, no.
So you know how like gold at 15 is a stat we use all the time?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I did a cumulative gold at 15 for the year.
So it's not like a average.
It's like how much gold were you down?
Mm-hmm.
Dokela only played in like 20 games.
And I think he was like, third last.
As in like humans like negative growth,
almost the worst plan in terms of correct goal of 15.
Yes.
Despite playing less games than majority of the players.
They're in all roles.
Yes, how well.
To be fair, he was weekside all the time.
River quit all new play together.
up your eyes lane and his team fighting was still good. But it's just, it stood out to me a
little bit. Um, I mean, I think he's good. Plus, I don't know.
That's the thing. I think he's up to, but he was really far behind of the end. Like part
of his strength, I think, was the fact that he was always useful in team fights and really
got a playing weekside. Um, okay. That makes that to me really interesting. He could actually
be really good on a team with Presercron St. because they're so resource heavy. Yeah. I know
this is supposed to be pros. I should stop talking about line. What do you guys think about
this line team, it's saying inspired, how is it going to mix?
So yeah, I think the current narrative is like,
they're the team that's waiting to mentor boom.
That is one narrative.
I mean, can't be true, but also can't be true for literally
every other team in league.
Like, just a big blue y'all.
So I don't know how much like anyone should be banking on that.
Like, personally, I'm not banking on like,
stained inspired, like having a fistfight in playoffs,
to win this what. Yeah. So, like, so, um, like, I don't think they're going to
end to boom. I think also if it's like a narrative that this overblown, they
probably heard about it, and like even if they're not like full and addressing it,
they're at least like thinking about it in the back of their mind. This can't
be the downfall of our team, but I think like as a team, like this should have a
pretty good base level, I think all their players are pretty good.
To me, the question mark is aisles, but I think the other four cores are pretty good in my opinion.
So I think that should be top-through team, and it just depends on how much their ideas on the game mesh,
because I don't really know much about those records saying to like, I know a little bit about
and like a little bit about I was but like I have of course never worked with them.
Yeah, so it's like, it's one of the times it's written to me, because we had so many issues.
We just wrote them once in Korea and like, seen I into welfare some, but it's also like,
I think one of their first grunts that's ever so who knows. I think they should have like a high-based
level. It is just, where is they're seemingly not? It is the answer I don't know, and like I think
the whole narrative about them meant to be moving is like a little overblown. It's just definitely
overblown, like for sure some of their players can have hotheads, but like
half a leak is probably hotheads. Like, you heard folks talking about like,
you know, you get some really mad. Like, I get really mad. I'm sure, like, Griffin's going to get
beat you up out in one game and scream like punches monitor. So like, yeah, I think that
that narrative is a blown by I think they should be like, yeah, one of the top competitors this year
if not this or this split enough, if not this year. Yeah, I need to finish my stab because I brought it up with out numbers.
You're a good man. All right. Yeah. Yeah. So that the negative leaderboard, this is across the
little cumulative gold difference at 15. Lickrich was the worst. Negative 8,000, 700 gold.
And you only put like half the year. Contracts, second place. Did play a lot of games. So per game,
It's very unfair to him.
Yeah.
Um, obadaga.
It's near to $7,400.
Dokelin, negative $7,200, only $1,22.
Games.
Palphax, $6,400, $2,064,36200,
sniper $5,600, then they're more close.
It's interesting.
I don't know.
I think I don't know.
You might be.
Yeah, I'm probably close, man.
I don't know.
Just when I read the names on that,
I'm like, you know, a lot of these guys had bad years.
Yeah, I mean, so dokelin is like the exception to that.
Just because, I mean, as soon as he joined the team,
they went from last place to first.
So, dearly, it wasn't like he was doing it.
Oh, yeah, no, he's definitely good like team play-wise.
Obviously, his lane phase is not a strong suit.
Like, that at all, small game will definitely be way better.
Really.
And of course, I believe I will be better in lane.
But he's a good team player.
Maybe it will actually work better.
Then Zemudo, who knows?
Yeah.
Who thinks Zemudo is better than who in the lane phase?
But obviously, Douglas.
I mean, I think Douglas is a little bit smarter about the game in general.
So, what does that to see how the team shapes up obviously,
I think, I actually think they're probably going to be the hardest team to play against by the end of the year?
I do think they have the highest ceiling, isn't it?
I think they have a really high ceiling as well.
What are your thoughts on inspired Griffin?
Relancer.
He can't be washed.
I think they're pretty much all about some.
Okay, I'm not sure.
Like, yeah, I'm not really sure.
Have you interacted with inspired much?
Because I know inspired talk with L.S.
and you probably still talk with L.S.
Yeah, no actually, I lost split.
And decent bit, you would lost my games.
And I would actually reach out to them for personal opinions.
I thought like, jungle.
No, obviously I can't do that because he's like a candidate
to try.
I mean, basically, it's like a pro-conservant.
But obviously, generally speaking,
I mean, obviously, it's hard as really smart about the game.
Yeah.
Like, I mean, if you just see the way he ever talks about the game,
like, yeah, he's got me really fun to compete against for sure.
And, uh, no, I mean, I don't know how they will do.
Obviously, I think the split, there's actually a lot of interesting
teams where feeling it's actually kind of hard for me to think what team will be like
good at each stage of the year. Let's say okay. But now I'm excited to play against this
matter. I do think lime maybe might have like a meant to move but just because I think their players
like till easily but maybe they don't and they go crazy you know you never know really. I feel like
it's really hard to judge from our perspective how it seems will mesh and like how personalities will
mesh. I felt like being inside the team directly, right? So yeah, it'll just be interesting to see.
My power rankings for lock-in would be different than my power rankings by the end of the year.
As you were saying, you think they're going to scale, but you may be not at the start.
Yeah, I mean, mainly because then I've been already able to swim right now from the same thing.
Yeah, pressure occurs not here as far as I know won't be here until
So we got the close.
Yeah.
Okay.
Uh, what if?
Can we do power in his real quick?
I mean, so yeah.
So I hate your power in.
But we can do them.
I mean, just highest chance of uh,
just lock in.
We're going to start with lock in.
We're just going to lock in.
C9 one.
My logic.
We're going to stop there.
Yeah.
Let's go.
I'm free to feel free to disagree.
Go ahead.
The point is pros, but I'm just starting the conversation, see that one because least roster turnover and Caspoca.
And we do have that start to be fair to everyone else.
Yeah, I've had start.
Number two's hard for me, because I wanted to put T.L.
I think T.L also has a pet stop.
Because the head start.
It was mainly because of the head start.
But I'm unsure how quid Jose Morgan.
It's a lot of moving pieces to push together at the same time.
Yeah, then the next two are Lion and Shopify in that order.
Well, man.
What about the P.
Pardon me, pardon me.
Yeah, but I do have, I'm not sure about it,
I think you burned out like crazy at the end of last year.
And if he could also be due to like mental,
mental rather than actual like burnout from league.
Because like I mean coming from a rough environment.
Yeah, I also burned out, but I still played a lot of league.
Absolutely.
Even after the split ended.
So yeah, like then I could just be mental.
I mean because you're here, I'll go fly quest five.
Yeah, honestly don't mind.
Like I said, I think having lower expectations,
you have less pressure on yourself.
Yeah, I think as Ricky's that's good.
you want to be able to improve and have the ability to feel like your
expectation and low, and then you'll go up, you know, so yeah. And the bottom
three is always hard to get like super analytical about, but
senternals because they actually have a lot of good players.
What is the roster actually in the middle? In fact, I'm buck.
Yeah, real who he. Yeah. So four.
Yeah, let me just say, they're not going to be
It's like a little too list.
It'll be hard to judge his face after walking to because like it's Swiss.
So the schedule is going to be a thing we won't really know anything until like the end.
All this sort, right? Like it's a way.
I mean, it's like three weeks. Three weeks of regular season through.
Well, six weeks.
Yeah.
The run number of games is decent.
Like it's twice as many games as split one last year.
Oh, really. Okay.
Yeah.
It's a little less severe.
Yeah.
And it's best of three's.
But you're going to play like,
we kind of won, you're only going to play the one
best of three, and then you're going to play your
friend in the best job.
Yes.
Like, lion and fly are like dark horse roasters.
And the sense of, I don't know if they're going to be
insane now.
Like you guys in lion, but just feel like they can scale
incredibly hard.
Like after screaming, got to us when he was on
flight last year, and I felt like, I don't know,
you're a few of this pretty else.
I felt like it was pretty good, like,
mechanically, like I'd ever spoke with him about the game, but I'm sure he had
at least took some thing from like learning for the last year and like I still
pretty have a opinion of Claude and been master like I think like they were
probably undersold for a good they were last year because they had like
probably best-stop, best-romal best-support for most of your. So like I
I still have pretty eye opinion on them,
and then like, popping in a cactus.
So like I think you two in line
which would just be dark horses
or go throughout the year,
but I'm not sure how good you guys are now.
I'm like, to me the immediate favorites should be
CNITL and like, drop by.
Even just cause like low roster turnover,
like yeah, of course it needs new,
but do you know how to play with contracts and B-Boy
and sales and then like,
why's it like,
plucking in one position is the most difficult.
Like as it is seen for for CNITL,
like I ever want to see that I know that I play with each other
because I played with each other for years at this point, no?
I really dumbed that story.
When we were into Dallas finals,
I was walking across the street to Starbucks,
Terrible walk.
Like you had to walk across the highway,
and there was like,
all these off-ramps and you were waiting a light.
She's very confident.
I'd say very foolish though.
He just like walks straight across when there was no walk sign.
Clearly he was fine.
But I'm going with that.
Just like he might not be warding properly
or check in many of them.
I said, we're here with that on the show.
I'll be talking about money.
Yeah.
I'm going to start with Fudge.
Top lane roll quest.
I think that's it for the teams.
I want to talk a little bit about the gameplay updates.
I want to give you guys some time back because I know you've been here for like an hour already.
You're all three different roles.
So I'm going to start with Fudge.
Top lane roll quest.
Or just the meta in general.
So it is.
It's not like John the Latter way.
Yeah, no, it's not like it's pretty.
Okay.
Obviously, XP is crazy.
You're up like a level to if you're going to 10 CS from an enormous
CCS, not missing ways, then you're just going to be naturally up like a level
on a half on everyone in the game by like mid game.
Something you go for then because of the bonus experience,
or you like a greedy or player because you're getting bonus experience.
You play, you play, you make value documents in game obviously.
Yes, there's cases where it's good to go for ways.
It's not good to go for ways, right?
Obviously, and also with the failites now,
it makes it very hard to gain.
So, it kind of picked up lane also because of the combat spells
being able to be taken now.
You have TP and mid game where you can take combat spells.
Are you taking a lot of combat spells?
It depends on the matchup.
Obviously, if you pick something like,
I don't know, you pick Darius now.
Going flash goes, you have TP mid game.
game, you can go flash at night on Renekton now and like versus
not, for example, you know, like these kind of
metrics with if you had to go T.P., which you did in the
past, or you didn't have to, but it was much better. Yeah, it was
a little harder to play. Now it makes it a little more
spicy, obviously, but also it's harder to gain. So it just
makes landing more importance and makes kind of pick
more importance. Um, kind of tough like Phyllis, so
broken. Yes, Warden, then you see that. Oh, yeah, the
I'm getting it basically, right?
So if you don't do it again, because it's popular, it's
yeah, I'm embarrassing.
I have to play like Evelyn or something to get through.
So yeah, top lane is more landing, which is great.
Could you actually, historically,
you've been really good at breaking that land.
Yeah, I mean, I want to, I feel like that's the reason
why every top lane I wanted to play top lane.
That is one of one you want, you know?
Yeah.
So that's what it's like now.
If you went on the one, you're up to levels in enemy top lane.
It's really hard for the enemy team to help the enemy
And you just start the game, it feels like you have more control for sure.
Jungle are failets annoying you.
Do you have less hate you see to carry or is it better?
Honestly jungle.
I feel like, I mean, the question is really add too much.
You get like some extra golden.
It's nice a little bit better.
I can't actually also think you're.
So Joel and General I think actually now this seems like.
It's good for me because it seems like it's less,
less, it's just like farm engineers, which I kind of like farm engineers, because I like
having agency.
Who doesn't like farming?
Yeah.
I thought I'd have you photo it out, I'll feel a good, I don't know, pretty happy.
Even though I think general general is weaker, I think I've covered more of my weaknesses
and like amplified my strengths.
So I think it's, I personally like to change this, you know.
How do you work around failites, just like a, you know, someone who's struggling to work
around failites in the jungle?
I mean, you get kind of dodged it, like most of the time, like I say better right now,
for Joel is, you kind of have to farm.
So it's like harder to gain.
And you can't just take care.
So you have to really be kind of efficient.
But yeah, I think you just have to be efficient.
Because you can change the path you take to gain
to gain more, or are there different options?
I can't leave, I can't leave.
Yeah, you're trying to get that.
I can't, I don't think it's, honestly, it's kind of just similar.
I feel like, I don't feel that much.
I think that's what I'm trying to do.
I don't want to say the same thing.
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do.
It doesn't feel that different.
Same shift difference.
Yeah, your question doesn't really do that much.
It's just like, I think generally compared to last year,
I mean, last year was kind of farming medicine,
but generally speaking, it's like campsite just
take care of taking us harder.
So you just have to farm more and like kind of just
teamfired again, like, yeah, and if you got a good team
fights, yeah, you win.
What is the last time jungle was in farming that?
2018?
I don't know idea, I'm like, I don't think I've got to jump,
but there's no middle of us.
Like down in the jungle.
Like I, G's worlds, yeah, 2018.
Max, six years.
I will say no, I don't know if it's just like just a feeling,
like I don't really have.
to definitive like up in the end of this,
but I feel like junglers got a lot better at just
being efficient.
Yeah.
And teams like I lot better at playing on junglers,
because I felt like in the past it was more like
junglers would try to play for later.
But I feel like people just got better at the game
and realized like you kind of have to play around
the junglers' timers and all that stuff.
So I think that's also a reason why it just became more meta
to play like this.
So yeah.
Yeah.
See, all full clear is also like the correct way to play the game.
Yeah.
And Jordi, as long as you don't overdo it, but yeah.
Yeah.
What about mid lane?
I'm feeling like the biggest thing is what, just the boots, I guess?
Yeah.
Like, to be fair, am I being the boots are pretty broken?
It's like when you have like, the merch ones, for example, like,
chain these clusters, I think, because what they're called?
Yeah.
First, you know, like a sender and a colleague,
it feels like you can just never die of them.
And then, you know, like, I don't even know what that, I don't even know.
Yeah, it's interesting.
It's kind of hard to remember them all, because people learned
what the upgraded boots were last year from feats,
but the midlaner boots are like kind of the same,
but just a little bit weaker versions of all those boots.
Yeah, so.
So I think like,
I need to put up this little, which is nice.
Yeah.
That's kind of about it.
Like any time I'm playing for like a midlaner,
I'm just playing for like the boots.
Yeah.
I mean, the boots were strong.
They're like, I'd rather have like the XB at top of any of the.
What's the strength of the rolls now, do you think?
I mean, so cute and pro probably different.
But if last year, jungle and support are kind of the same rules
to my opinion, a little bit changed.
But I think like, top, my opinion is stronger.
That's like mid to second.
And then ADC is like either the worst or the best.
So is that in terms of roll question in terms
of the strength of the roll?
Because I'm actually more curious in like both
in my opinion.
Like I think like both go.
OK.
So top lead is the strongest roll in the game right now.
It's the top one.
Or like the ADC plays really well on the team
plays around the ADC really well.
because they get so much gold and that critters more damage now.
Like sometimes you'll see an AC just one hit everyone.
Well then sometimes you know there's still an AC there's going to die to that random
a call that you have a new team, a random renectin with ignite.
So yeah but then every game I just see fan of this like a little 15 and like enemy AC's level 12.
Yeah. People flushing their forehead and they're gone.
And you know they're gone.
All right, what do you think?
Three on a side, they jump a little.
I still feel so okay, but I think every role,
like I think they did a good change
because I feel like Toplan always lacked agency,
generally speaking, so now they're making it,
so it can actually, like, you want to build it yourself
or lead all the fear of gapping that we toplaner.
But for me, I think all roles feel pretty strong.
I think the role is just more available to everyone.
It's like all the plates and such.
Yeah, faster meaning waves I think in there.
As we've been doing this for decades, I've had a CS,
and then plates, so there's just more goal to available
if you're playing the game well
and you're winning your lane,
like especially in solo queue,
you can snowball, really hard.
You take top-line turret,
you bought, take ball-in turret,
defense, suddenly, grab two lows,
and up an item, and the game's just over.
So Fudger, either boss broken roll in the game now,
or do you think it's the jungler or the middle end?
I don't even say like the most broken,
I would say like Griffin said it was more balanced,
but obviously I'm a top-lane on bias,
you know, I don't wanna give myself too much credit.
If you're a better top-lane of the enemy top-line,
it feels like you can really get them now.
That's like the biggest thing to me is like if you're a head in lane, it feels like they can't play the game
Like obviously because of the
The vision and also just feels like yeah junglers just have less time is now generally
because it's mess with
There's new side selection rules. Yeah, I don't know the point of this
I'm gonna start off this
I don't understand why this is changed. I'm trying a little bit in our scrims
That's like, even when we would be blue side with second pick or right side with first pick,
that was like, it just feels like I'm playing red side.
So the point of it, so I didn't have anything to do with this change.
I pitched this change in like 2012.
Because I just changed in 2012 when I joined Ryan.
It came out of the movie.
Yeah, I got it.
Yeah, I was a QA analyst.
They couldn't do it on the text out of the time.
And then it just got potted down the road.
down the road, but like even in pro play, blue side has a 55% win rate for like the last 10 years.
That's crazy. That's like the most broken champion in the game has like a 54% win rate.
So like clearly something's going on. Is it the map geometry?
Four is the draft. Right. That's the question that is trying to answer. And now every team needs to
You know, it's a bit of a, like, is actually is the camera angle on redside, even for
pull player display, because like, at least in the past, low elo for sure, it mattered a lot.
Like any, oh, yeah.
Camp on redside, if you're not like an experienced hit the game, it's so much harder than
blue side.
But I mean, as you skill improve that difference got smaller.
But does that matter, like the position of Baron Pit, the position of dragon Pit, right?
Like which one, and is that more important than top lane.
Ticket.
Right?
Right.
I think that's the, yeah.
Obviously the map parts, I actually think like the neutral objective
been on a bush position is like it's kind of even based off like what happens in the game.
I do think the blue-sided vanage is bot lane,
trybush mainly. Obviously top lane doesn't have two paths that you can
gain from, compared to like that you can come from.
Yeah, or escape from.
I do think blue sets slightly pivot to that, but it's like kind of
Doesn't matter in my head, just my opinion.
Yeah.
So right now, you're choosing between things.
It's really confusing.
It's like a web blue side, but with second pick,
and then people were like, well, what's happening?
Guys, I guess it's all good.
It's all good, it's all good.
It's all good.
So obviously, but I'm just like, is this really,
I probably also is just a competitive,
a kind of thing, especially with the fearless.
Yeah.
But traditionally, at least going back last year,
like when I was coaching, I just like blue side
because it was easier to prepare, right?
like you can control the draft better as the blue side team.
And that's still going to be true,
unless top lane counter pick just becomes amazing.
Or I think you guys probably experienced this last year.
Later in fearless, sometimes right side just got better
because if you're no longer preparing
and controlling the draft and blue side
because you have like five minutes to prep.
But that's a very interesting.
I think that's a change that could end up being hard useless
or could end up being kind of cool.
I think my tick right now is like blue side or second pick.
Call it become pretty broken, for that's like.
But you don't get both choices, right?
So yeah.
I suppose.
Yeah.
Like, if you can, as you get blue side of second pick,
sure.
Hey, my opinion, that should be like the strongest
combination, both like.
OK, that would be the next knee up just now.
Blue side of the second pick.
I choose blue side.
Then like, you guys are probably just
choose, it's like, for a second pick.
Really?
Yeah.
That's a top-liner.
Because blue side.
Yes, you're second pick isn't your lost pick.
Yeah, you're lost pick.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
Blue side has a 55% winner at historically.
And we just said this probably not about the map, so it doesn't that make first pick better.
I know.
It's a top lane, though.
It's a top lane, it can be, to me, counter pick.
I am.
So obviously, but yeah, there's this arguments for the, I do think like the prep is a big thing.
Obviously, first pick does matter.
And even in fearless, usually comes down to like,
over the zone, there are a couple of times left and they have to bend these chains on right side.
So we said, first pick, we'll call, we'll call, we'll call first pick.
Yeah, come on.
Yeah.
That's quick, was quite good in general,
because I guess it's an experiment
who knows, maybe the map actually does make a big difference.
I mean, my head just doesn't feel like it.
Maybe it's just a little bit popular.
I do know that our bot lane seems to think
that Blue side is broken because of the map.
And like the way jungle pots around it's,
I remember them saying that a lot, but I don't know if it's just
Coke.
It could be Coke.
Who knows?
Yeah.
I think calling it first pick and last pick is better
than first pick and second pick.
Yeah, that's what we came to instruments today, actually.
It's okay.
Yeah, coach said, last pick, not second pick.
Oh, yeah.
It's last pick.
I'm sorry for the theory, but I've thought a lot about this
and I just want to get your take-work work.
The first pick is really good.
But I feel like the one-two almost like exposes it's tough
because you have to do the blind pick on the side.
So often.
So if this still doesn't work, like if let's just say
first pick is still really broken,
I think the next step would be like a one, one, two, two.
Then, last pick gets way more powerful.
I think, unless you're just stepping on first pick side.
It also just depends on me, I don't know.
Yeah, it does.
Like what did the blind pick, I think, also, like,
doesn't it just most teams like choose to decide?
Yes, uh, like a five side selection.
Oh, and also better teams get choice.
So I mean, like a lot of team got side selection and traditionally they always choose
both sides. Yeah, but even in regular season when it's balanced, like in all the
regular seasons when it's like half your games are, blue side half your games are
red side or half your games are choice half your games are either choice.
Blue side would still almost almost always be around for technology.
Which is, uh, interesting. Anyway, I think that's it for this episode of pros.
What about Griffin's way?
Let me get Griffin's opinion on this.
On track.
Red side.
How's it really?
A lot of things.
How much do you think about, Dr.
I don't care.
OK.
What about?
I'm enjoying this off in blind fit.
Yeah.
That's a personal Twitter.
Yeah.
Let me play, bro.
You're doing.
OK.
That's it for pros.
Elsie has to lock in.
It's going to be up.
Not this coming weekend, but the weekend after 24.
Yeah. 24th.
Wait, do we know who plays what
days? Do we know who plays what
days? We should know about tonight.
Okay.
It will be announced by the time this comes out.
Okay, so we definitely do and you'll have to check
at LLLASPERS.com.
It's on the card.
Oh, my God.
We know that now.
Saturday, January 24th, C9 TL,
Sension, CSG.
First game.
First game versus former team.
That's a sign.
Then, battle of some deproves.
A little couch.
flat quest shop. I'm going to find a better name for that. Yeah, you're first match up on Sunday
and then minding second. Yeah. Yeah, because then you get the E audience to you. Oh,
but you audience. Oh, because it's just too late for the second. Yeah, good. Cool. Okay.
Let's go!
We're not clutch fight!
We're from one, the jungle might be dead!
But they'll be happy we'll be out from the back!
There's a lot of way to start out here, let's see it!
I think...
I'm fighting for the party for long time.
Yeah, I'm fighting for the party for long time.
I'm fighting for the party for long time.
I'll see you in the front.
Looking hard.
Nice.
Look, look.
I'm not going to think about it.
Look, look, look.
Look, look.
I'm suitable.
Kill the kids, no.
Look, look.
He's from breakfast.
He's stuffed up here.
Be the bird.
OK.
Be the bird.
That's you.
That's all the bug.
Look, look.
Kind of a bird.
I got a new crow.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
Kind of smart.
That's a lot of fun.
You're like, you're like,
you're like, yeah, good luck in your life, buddy.
You're just lucky in your life.
Well, well, you're not going to get there.
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Raz, bringing you in.
I got a classified chat.
If you were a bird, what kind of bird would you be?
Okay.
I picked one.
Wow, yeah, I got a chance.
Are there in League of Legends?
There's a chance.
I know it's the most bird.
Yeah.
Half bird you get half square zero is also part bird that's like a quarter you get like twenty
fuckers
Got like a bird
Bird armor that's on head. Are you trying to say he's a cosplayer? Yeah
See here. Yeah, all right you get 25% bird for a zero damn 50% for Quinn 100% friend of you
There's more birds is the dragon. I don't know. I couldn't figure it. I guess you're a dragon a bird
Shavana thinking about no
But I give him a dragon
It's a good question exactly I'm thinking about a resolute now
I thought I got a good answer for it. I got a good answer for it and that's where it's not
It's not realistic, but I'm only a chair. Oh, no, no. No, no. Yeah
It's not a little chat. All right, alright, buddy
So more happened than birds yesterday.
8A, he is former team.
Yes, sir.
That's the dream.
I feel so good.
He gave us a place.
And then he was also the reason that they
won in multiple critical team fights.
That's true.
Yeah.
You got to hit him.
He was playing a zero for one of them.
Twenty-five percent bird champ.
Do you not think that the Ecosophilia
Niddly was crucial in their game.
Yeah.
Yeah, in that it healed up, APA.
True, I gave him a text on top of the time.
I couldn't believe they won that game one
after the nearly fell star far behind.
After Blabber died for the first crap fight.
And when they began.
They used the crap as bait to get Blabber close enough.
I mean, honestly, though, there were so many good flash shock
wave engages from Jose and Quid together.
I'm not that was a really positive thing,
even though Team Liquid ended up losing.
the synergy from them already on the team.
That was definitely a man who's trying to justify the team liquid was better than C9 based on his
precision. By the way, predicted both of the teams to win?
Yeah, so did you, I imagine. No. Okay, you predicted C9 to win?
No, I predicted the deal. I was wrong. Okay, and then the next series.
Who did you predict to win? I was happily wrong. Meanwhile, you predicted both at the same time.
Hold on, who do you think? Who are you talking about?
What's up with that?
What do you call it?
I printed cheap liquid to win.
I was wrong.
You also printing the clock.
No.
We have to go.
You got clocked.
What are you doing?
I lost a week ago.
Change your mind over time.
The fans out there are the jury on this one.
I'm sorry.
But you did hit the next series.
Yes.
So next series.
Yesterday was the day of rejects getting their revenge.
That's how I saw three.
That's the very harsh way to.
Well, that's what they would be called if they had lost.
But now they're winning.
So it's like, I think the less in here is never make changes.
is that the issue of state-fancy and liquidity should never
I mean, it is unless it's to your prediction for the T.O. Cloud
time game. Yeah, actually, if I wouldn't have made changes, I would have been correct
because I originally predicted C9. So that is the way.
Let's not joke like...
Everyone's having different things.
I, Mr. Consistent, that never flips, never flips. I'm interested in the Swiss
bracket. I kind of want to see it personally because I love Swiss
This is a rough start, but I mean,
rougher for the teams that lost.
I would say.
Team Liquidat, the roughest start I think is for
Sentinels, because the SG was considered to be the
worst team they were playing with us after two.
They were playing against three players that decided to leave
that team.
And they still won.
So I think the SG probably feels the best out of everyone.
Yes, because like everyone's pretty much came out with
their power rankings.
I'm sure I know we're getting it into it.
I'm not that's not the point from what I'm saying.
But the fact that most people had DSG,
7th or 8th. Yeah, and they took out sentinals a team that I think a lot of people were pretty curious about like I had them six
But generally a lot of people were like, I think this team is really exciting to watch like a lot of
DSG players that move down to sentinals like those are like the positive players from that roster and then you have like impact that's still
Like maybe you can be that's 244 impact and then go anything can go for that team and then yesterday happens
You're like, ooh
Reset, I expect they let's look at what we did with our power ranking. So this is before yesterday
the preseason power rankings and I'm also going to say just because day one was different
doesn't mean it was a fairly wrong anything could still happen it's true this is
pretty into the split you never know what is going to happen later but this is what we have a
lot of blue at the top except for one person that cannot speak but I will speak for them
can't get you crazy yeah he also did that with hundred thieves last year that is true
Yeah, he's done to a neat team.
Interesting.
He didn't stay with red teams, though.
Yeah.
He kept sent to the center of the way far down there.
Which currently looks smart.
Yeah, currently does this.
Because I was a close here is between his six and seven.
So it's actually looking pretty good.
So 100% of us had Dignitas and DSG at the bottom, though.
Yeah, we're all interesting about these power rankings
is generally speaking if we ignore Kangus.
Everyone else had a T-shirt on that.
It looks cleaner if we ignore Kangus.
We're one and two and dig DSG were seven eight and then three, three, six is where we see the most
variance, right? We have almost every combination of three to six with the only team not being somewhere in there is
Sentinels only being four to six, but pretty crazy spread of
different opinions between the third and the sixth place teams and parades, which when DSG that also has
compared to the game means that I think we could be in for a lot of really close best of three is here in
Absolutely. I'm like in what I'm seeing already a lot of lock and started out so so fun in the first day
I mean the first series was a banger because we were citing and back to fourth and so up the second series
The games were going so long. Yeah, so tense. I would say bigger, but it was a longer banger
Side what's a bigger back I think their games were shorter
Less kills you say they're a big
The one team I will say, just like as a topic changer, that surprises me from this power rankings and camera
You could just come along with me because like I am surprised with lion because everyone thought going in
This is a team that's like is fighting for a championship right?
What's going on here?
Wow, is he all had the pretty low jack?
Whoa, whoa, two slots lower that is still crazy. So like I think there's a lot of variants with like lion as a team
I mean, I want a lot of people thought, like for instance, my first take and I shifted it because I thought that the visa changes and everything would be a little tougher than what they have,
Berserker and we won, that they would be like a championship contender for split one. So I think that is a team that is of course playing today that a lot of people are curious about.
Yeah, what happened with a lot of people is, and this happened with all the other players on different teams too, we heard then talk about it during the draw show.
Yeah. They're looking at line and like, wow, good individual player, good individual player, good individual player,
But a lot of people have the opinion that the personalities,
that those players probably won't mesh.
That speculation, though, it is.
So, I think that's why there's a lot of variance
because in League of Legends, you know this very well.
Being a coach also rise is like, you got some good players
and they're just not good together, or they don't get along
behind the scenes and so could be some ups and downs.
I just like that line came in and they dropped a bunch of cash
on the league and like we're buying inspired MVP. That's our MVP because I'm coming with me.
Bring him back. Yes, another one, you know. I just think it is, I think it's so cool what they've been
in the game. How many of you can chat to form a MVP on the roster? Yeah, and then also have,
you know, Dokela, how many? That was a real question. You're not going to answer. You don't know.
I have no idea. Is that a jack fat? Did you look it up? I haven't looked it up either. That's what
So, fantasy else, yes, it's back, you know,
oh, she has to fish a lot to you, G, to learn more
and earlier, RAD, you spoke to some fans outside
at the tailgate, so let's take a listen to that.
All right, who am I speaking with today?
I'm on Amy's Curea from Jersey.
Oh, did you just play it?
We're actually here for work right now,
both last week and this week and just decided
couldn't really miss this, right?
Wanted to be here while we're here, right?
So absolutely what's your hot take for the LCS after their performance yesterday?
I think disguises is a top four team.
Oh, okay, I like that. That's a good one. I appreciate that one.
Thank you.
Top four. Top four. That is a hot tag.
Hot tag.
This is hot.
I would touch that's calling hot take.
I did like what I saw though.
We talked about it on the dive, but you know, even though they had to do this like emergency replacement.
He's no, I didn't actually go.
I had seen good stuff from him in solo queue.
He was mostly from just watching Challenger players streaming and then like getting him on their team and
be like, whoa, who is this guy?
But he definitely was impressive and as a replacement, I think that was one of the best.
Let's see if this is realistic.
Okay.
Top four.
So that means they need to be better than four.
So is anyone agreeing with that?
I'm not agree with that.
So they're all on hold on, I don't know.
Better than set nose, better than gig.
We'll give him that for now.
We have seen gig.
Yeah.
I mean, that's a good move.
That's a good move.
Well, it's just like if we're doing a theoretical,
like most of the over-top-up.
Yeah.
You got to pick, should I be better than shop-flight?
They couldn't be, but I'm obviously,
that's why I'm not agree with it, but they couldn't.
I think you would have to put like shop-ify and line-down,
sent-and-down, sent-and-down, sent-and-down.
Well, sent-and-down, they already, because they beat them.
So that's already true.
We need two more other than those.
Yeah, I guess you have to say line in and you have to say they're going to mental boom or something.
Yeah, you have to.
And then flight quest rookies would have to not work or something.
Mm-hmm.
It's like, I don't know.
A lot of it is based off the course you talked about,
because no.
But so, it's a gem.
Looked insane.
Call me.
Had like, an insane series.
So like, those are what you're basing it off of.
Obviously.
What other hot takes do you guys want to rest?
Let's go for it.
Who am I speaking with?
AJ Blast.
All right, AJ Blast.
What's your hot taking the LCS?
Be it players, teams, or games?
Topling Quest is overrated because a level 20 Cassante or a level 20 horn is still just as killable as a level 18 one
I love that take action. That's a good one. I appreciate that one. Thank you for the sake
So I call me through action immediately by the way
He's here all the time. I'm glad we got him. He is he is good. There's two parts of this because I agree with part of it
In that it's overrated, but not for the reason that he said because level 20 does make a big difference
between level 20 and level 18, but I do agree that it is overrated because a lot of people's
experience, including mine, majority, is from solo queue. And solo queue, you really can
just get out of control and win the game. But from all the pro-religion with LCK and LEC games,
with a lot more, it looks very, very similar as far as how games are playing out. And it's not
top laners like massively, you know, one-be-nining and stuff. So I do think it's overrated from
I'm solo queue perspective when you transfer it to pro.
None of these proteins are going top.
Like you got literally just,
you just go, you go bottom,
you go far, stack and dragons, that's all it's about.
I can throw so bottom exactly.
And honestly, the mid laners in pro play
have had very, very big impact.
I think underrated quest,
maybe to go with the overrated quest,
mid lane quest, the boot upgrades,
a lot of people are very impressed by them,
but it's kind of good, especially if you can like
time you're empowered to recall, it's like if you get it at a good time then that can
kind of a big impact.
Another underrated one because that first there was overrated because we're talking about
that first and when people have discussed like the overall quest with 80 carry everyone's
like 80 carries like ridiculous it's broken out because of the changes and then they
over corrected being like actually I still have no agency in the game it's one of the
worst like quests or roles still.
But then we just see and else the K or like an LEC some of the games will go really long
And the 80 carries just look like demons.
I've learned cashback.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Back is broken because you're getting your like six
seven items, still really early in the game.
Like 30 something minutes.
So that one, I think I'm going straight back to it being.
Kind of a roller coaster on that one.
Yeah, we're all going to go straight back.
We're all going to be broken.
All right, what else?
What else you got?
What's up?
Who am I speaking with today?
Church, Mr. Englsen, or G.
Perfect.
And what's your take for the LCS?
I think Sentinel's roster booms before Lion.
Oh, I liked that one.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
She said Sentinel roster booms before Lion.
Boom! See, that's not the correct way to run on that.
I haven't already.
Yeah, that's not a major boom.
OK, get it now.
It's a defensive golden glue.
All right.
We made a big deal about D.S.G. not having their full roster.
But Sentels didn't have that much time to practice.
They've been running up their human here in time.
So like, it's one game.
Church was that one game too?
Watch his three games.
They won the first.
Just sure they won.
And then they lost the next two.
I was like, we made a big deal.
They're not having the full roster,
but then these other guys didn't have as much time to practice.
It's a lot to do.
Diffference is not as big as life you would think.
The quality of the room.
If you're first series you're losing the DSG,
that's a big boom.
I did that.
Jack made a presentation promoting sentinels.
Our day number one.
Yeah, well, I gave me a jersey.
Yeah, interesting here.
That was a little sentimental defense going on.
Razz was part of the team if you watched his segment.
Oh, he did.
Hold on, this is like relaying.
A little bit a little bit.
But that would be relaxing that one.
I'm interested in the next take.
Yeah, we got a, we have another question.
Yes.
What's up, brother? Who am I speaking with?
So.
I sell it to you to take for the LCS.
Loud Nines going to win an international title this year
because of I will dominate.
Oh my, we got a believer.
We have a believer, thank you.
I appreciate it.
There we go.
I'm not going to get out of the way.
I'm going to get out of the way.
Let's go.
We're not going to get out of the way.
I'm not going to get out of the way.
That's the real thing.
I've never made it to international as a player.
Your world world season two.
I'm just kidding too.
Oh, he's world two.
Yeah, he's world two.
Yeah, yeah.
OK.
Is that count?
He's undefeated.
I'm going to say it did come because I kind of like
our call.
Okay, so I think back in the day.
That's crazy.
I wanted an international.
Yes.
Speaking of which, a team that struggled at your national
last year was flagwest.
And captured.
All right.
Now we're talking.
We're talking about, I know, I'm sorry.
I don't, this is not an area where I show up on the show,
but I felt like I had to get this off my chest before we
before we get any further into 2026,
we got to talk about it in the elephant in the room
from 2025, because y'all were here
in the same chairs, these same couches,
watching the same legal legends that I was last year,
and as a North American fan,
throughout 2025, I was excited for fly quests.
I was excited for a team that went to game five,
against Gen G at World's 24, and they gave up the head,
and they could do it.
Then at MSI in 25, they do the same day.
damn thing, it's BLG, and they're giving us the hope.
They're so close.
They're within striking distance.
They can do this.
It gives so many North American fans so much hope.
Great!
And then we get to worlds.
And I don't know what I saw at worlds.
It wasn't the team that gave me that hope that gave me
that excitement that gave me that reason to say,
hell, yes, I'm cheering for North America
on the international stage.
And I don't want this to come across as me
kicking fly quest when they're down.
And I don't want fly quest to kick themselves
when they're down.
I want them to be the team that I had that faith in
that I had that true deep down excitement for us
in North American fans.
I'm not mad.
I'm disappointed.
Yeah.
And I want fly quest to see that, to feel it.
I know they feel that own disappointment already.
And I want them to use it as a catalyst and be better.
This team showed us that they were on the cusp
of excellence, only to fall short at the finish line.
Fly Quest, y'all are rebuilding now.
And I want to see a house that was built with straw
and twigs, B-re forged in stone, plant your flag,
and do it well.
Hell yeah!
I feel it's fired.
Well, it's my left team.
Oh, yeah, I'm prepared.
I'm prepared.
Yeah, a lot of them left.
Boosio actually went across the ocean.
I think he's got to throw it.
to that because like another thing that he talked about before he did this as well is that
they didn't just try and run it back and they didn't just try and rebuild with a bunch of
big name imports like they're trying to start from scratch and build from there. So this is what they
were right. This was inspired, dripple, they're both off the team. Busio went over to Europe and
they kept lawsuit and quad and rebuilt it. We do want also to do a poll about who to the fans think
were the biggest reasons flag quest succeeded in 2025. So type the player names were going to come
back to that because we can do a bit of a check-in on like where they've gone,
Buseo, Overnake Corps, actually probably just finished his game.
Yeah, probably not actually. Might have beaten G2,
Commonly for him to do as well.
Yeah, I was able to do whatever a lot of times.
Yep.
And then, in Spire, we're going to see later today,
but I'm interested in tracking what these players do throughout the year,
because I do feel like the fan percent from us definitely,
okay, inspired totally around the show,
Buseo,
We were saying might have been the best player on the team in split three.
I think Triple ended up being a little bit underrated for some reasons.
But then also was a huge reason they lost some of their games.
And then, quite a mostly, I think, for a lot of people, we're just there.
So what's going to happen now that they are actually the focal points of the team?
I'm really curious to see.
Yeah, it's very interesting because, as you say,
the overwhelming sentiment was that, you know,
Masu and Quad were not the biggest contributors at the end.
the end. Yeah, I think Mossu's hype was really in the first year. Yeah, that
that flag question was doing a lot of stuff. And so for this year, I want to see him
really be able to reproove and regain that start.
We're looking at 245. That's not crazy. That is exactly what I expected. Why are you
guys freaking out? I'm crazy. We were telling the stories all year. Those are the
best players. Wait, let's see what point seven. Make that one point seven up. I just
I just feel like this is uncold for Quad and Masu, man.
I think do the most damage.
They're the carries.
Yes.
I think you can check that.
Okay, thank you guys.
That was a good deal.
This is, I'm glad we're doing this poll,
because this gives a good proof of the snapshot
of a lot of people think Quad and Masu was just there.
Yeah.
And so this year, if this year is like,
he said on day number one was,
you know, time for the revenge for a lot of,
you said, rejects, but maybe we'll use a lighter term.
Yeah, we're appreciate it once.
Exactly.
Yeah, we're going to eventually
under-appreciated once.
It's been theme continues.
It's perfect here for Mossu and Quad
to really come into their own and prove
that they can be the big carries
because the rest of the new teen
here are so young,
Griffin and Crowgean, especially.
Yeah.
Gakos also still really, really
insanely young.
Now, he doesn't have to be behind Wipple.
He's got starting space.
So I think this is a really cool,
And I do like, as you said, the rebuilds going for,
all right, it's going to be a lot of young players.
Yeah, we're going to need some time, but they do a very high
hopes eventually.
Yeah.
Raz cooked the books a bit, got Mossy up to 7%.
And God.
Good job there.
Now I appreciate that.
Let's talk about the new players on this team.
Because you already mentioned the young players.
They're actually so young.
They're the youngest LCS team ever, which is crazy with the average
age of the league, actually, increasing basically every single year.
but Gakko's 18, Griffin 19, I think,
cried in 19 as listed as well,
but Griffin is actually as a 19 year old
middle of the pack in age on this team,
which is insane to think they're very young
and the question a lot of people have
is how long will this team take to build?
They brought them to think cards
and we're critical a lot of young players before.
I think that's what really good understanding of the game
and is good at teaching macro,
which I think is a great coaching choice for such a young team.
But how long until they reach their potential?
Yeah, it's great because talking about the two players
that's remained between Quad and Masu.
These are going to be new roles for them.
Because a lot of people, when you think about veteran rosters or veteran players,
you think about, well, you're carrying on lessons from previous teams or previous experience.
And they're going to have to come on with a previous experience of last year.
A lot of concepts were taught to them.
A lot of ideas of how you should play the game is there.
And now Masu's going to be playing alongside Cragion that didn't have that.
So a lot of that is going to be needing to be happening from Masu and Quad in-game.
So these are new roles and responsibilities.
and talking about like the younger players
and bringing on thin car and even hearing that like,
oh, when they come into,
what's called like,
like initial meeting before scrims,
like the players have to come in with a concept
or like a vod from just to keep them
bought in on concepts and learning.
So completely new direction for the team
and I love it.
Yeah, and today, so the question of how long
Griffin did an interview with me here,
and he said, they're gonna qualify for worlds this year.
He's like, oh,
But he liked that they don't have high expectations this split, but by split number three they're going to be top three.
Griffin is confident. We spent a lot of time on
Flaquist. They're playing in Shopify today. We need to do predictions.
Razz, I know you have thoughts. I do have thoughts. I think this team for a lot of people.
There's going to be a little bit of doubt when it comes to Shopify because they got top three last year.
People like well team liquid and like C9, just blow up a tunnel.
Yes, and then like the drama within a
And it couldn't even be Brazil.
Exactly. There's a lot. There's a lot of question marks there.
But this team, not only A, you have an A in my mind,
a top two top later in Fudge, like top two,
top two, and he's number two.
That was awesome, of course I.
You're number two.
I just think that with the top lane pool being
is what it is right now.
And Bipo being as strong as he is, but not being in the league at a moment.
Like Fudge showed the level of consistency last year,
and he's now going to, you're carrying on the same coaching
staff, same team with an upgrade in Zini and Zini is the player that if you watch
him play his mechanics are incredibly strong and the pull that he plays is massive.
Like wanting to willing to pick stuff like ball cause and you can see when he was able
to accomplish and else at KCL, three time champion, two time MVP, like in general, he
is someone that deserves the hype that he has and so I wonder how he's going to be
able to perform because I know that contracts is someone that loves to play around
his lanes and specifically the mid lane and you have someone that's talented to him.
I also am predicting Shopify, but I'm very, very tempered in my expectations for this team.
I think, especially at the beginning here, because I talked to a lot of the players.
Okay. And I was trying to go off the Zinni High 2.
Quanticular told me, Vinnie is going to run our whole league.
Yeah.
Murph on our league.
And I was like, well, come down there, buddy.
Our league's not that easy to smurf.
He's like, hey, I just come up with an optional part of it.
It's not exactly the same as the players.
And contract was like, yeah, all right, you know, come down.
Zinny is good, but he's still young.
And so to me, it kind of, I got the vibes of like,
maybe they're gonna need some extra time
and maybe, you know, some of the practice early on
was a little bit bumpy for the scene.
But I do think that this team should have very lofty expectations
because they did deserve third place.
place, I think they earn that rightfully.
And as you say, we're supposed to no longer in the league,
but Morgan has joined.
So some people will think, all right,
that's going to make this top lane tier list here
with floods, maybe Morgan should be better.
But honestly, I think Shopify
have a really strong chance, floods,
if you can continue with these improvements,
I'm going to go shop afar.
You're kind of on the fence though.
I'm so close to that.
I'm going to take a change of mind with some stats.
I don't get everybody up here.
Okay, quiz, it's time.
How much attention were you paying like a game?
These are the four teams to play today.
You need to match their 2025 records with logo to team.
So draw a pile of the entire year?
These four, it's not that hard.
OK, the lowest one.
The biggest one is not the only one.
We can get the lowest one.
So I know what is it.
10 to 29.
What's a draw the line?
So you're OK.
Oh my god, I could hear this.
All right.
Yes.
I think that.
OK, you don't need to draw it again.
Draw the other one.
I'm going to do all the sticks.
It's going to do all the sticks.
I can't believe this one.
Why?
Why is one other game?
They did.
I think it might be a pain.
It's a dad, baby.
Maybe it's like this.
I think it'll see.
Okay.
No, it's not.
You were what?
Except Shopify was this, and Lion was this.
So Shopify was 26 and 37, and you're telling me that was the third best team in the league.
Interesting take.
Because there are Claude.
That matters.
Who's the opponent?
It matters.
They had easy opponents too.
Okay.
But 20, 25 all pros.
Players can go to more than one line.
Oh my God.
Need to tell me who was first team all pro and he was 30 malpros. These are all shop fire
First thing also goes to inspired easily. Don't remember given away in split two and three
So first it's inspired could be twice
I'm just gone twice
Brother okay, that's correct keep going. Okay. Oh, geez, me
True, who else was first was quad
I think quad okay, okay, that that was correct. Okay. You know what?
That's okay!
I'm gonna go up!
That's second team in the first team.
Second team, jump!
Oh, that's big enough.
That's incorrect.
I'm not talking to the finish.
I'm talking to the finish, I'm talking to the finish, I'm talking to the finish.
That's incorrect.
Here's what?
Okay, we're gonna go right.
Now, come on, Jackson, third.
That is correct.
That's correct.
Me, like that's third.
That is correct.
Nice!
No, that is incorrect.
Okay, that is correct.
That is correct.
Nice!
And second goes, Boss-Coup.
Quad, but you're close.
And then, Boss-Coup got the second all for first team.
Okay.
point I'm trying to make here, the you geniusly illustrated for me.
Here we go.
That flag question with Masu and Quad got first team, first team, first team, second team.
The players on Shopify got 13, 13, 13, no second team or first team.
Yet you're saying Shopify is better.
Very interesting thing.
Let's get to the point.
Let's get, I mean, just based on Alprote, who's got more.
I can't sense team genius in a little bit.
Name these two players.
I mean, they're 25 tier one stats.
Hint.
I've seen this thing.
That looks like that looks like Zini's pose.
Who's this player on the other side that it was 53 wins and 13 losses last year?
That was a quad ball.
Interesting.
So in this, we can reveal, I feel like in today's
Jats stats.
That's been made by Microsoft, for sure.
You proven to me that last year,
Fly Quest was better.
They had more all pros.
And they had amazing stats on their first team mid laner.
Their team changed a lot.
I'd like to think that Fly Quest could probably win.
Yeah, one to one.
He's not exactly a sure thing.
What's quasi-alticates sales, that's, huh?
But that up there. Probably pretty good. Yeah, probably. Yeah, okay.
Thank you. So anyway, I'm a fly-quest supporter. I'm a fly-quest believer. I have them third in my power rankings. I know that's a little bit of relief.
But when I look at the team, I just feel like my big point here is that Quadamasu are you slept on man.
I think they're super underrated and then I trust their ability to develop rookies quickly.
You believe in fly-quest more than the fly-quest players believe in themselves right now.
now. Just agree. No, Martin told me they're good.
Everyone else does not.
Fox soon said on the draw show, we don't think we're better than Shopify.
He's keeping expectations. Look, I'm going to keep the expectations.
They drew this matchup. He said, I don't think we're better.
I'm going to keep the expectations high for the LCS.
Woohoo! Woohoo!
She's like their show.
From Blackers, I was very happy to be able to win the first title for them.
It was 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 the gold of the league.
Yeah, I can't hold your camera, baby.
Double with hearts around the fight.
And first, I started on Washington Cs when I was real.
And my favorite players were fierce in the loop.
Playing in the LCS always didn't feel like real,
because it's like, kind of like,
dreaming out to be like a astronaut.
But when I went to the Chicago finals when I was 13,
it was definitely an aspiring moment.
Well done.
The most talented team for the LCS.
I remember one finals I did.
The driver won the player of this series and they proud starting chanting for him.
And I remember he was like the super emotional and it just gives you motivation to see
yourself in those shoes one day.
The majority else he was down to see Dominate, TSM, C9, T11 twice and then TL.
I would say there's been three great C9 errors, the OG C9 roster, the roster's with Genshin
sneaky, third with me and Zen, and before he is that we want.
Sure that old Donuts CS pass, but I don't think that means we can't start a new Donuts
team, and yeah, I'm looking forward to proving.
Coming to our shift for our new career, I look inspired by Corning, okay?
8th, 10th are really high for Corning.
I was hoping that I can be like that. I'm following their step.
Just a coming split. Any other teams to win? 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
at y'all know, these old folks might have retired.
Welcome back to the opening weekend of LCS 2026.
Please head by MasterCard.
Today, we see our remaining four teams take to the stage for the first time in the new season.
Later on in the afternoon, Lions New roster debuted with some familiar faces, including last year's
last year's MVP as Dignitans are challenged to lie to the occasion with a new roster of their own.
But first, last year's number one team flag quest has rebuilt for 2026.
While Shopify has made only a single change, both teams are ready.
So let's waste no more time.
First off, please welcome the youngest roster in the LCS.
It's flying Quest with Gactos in the top lane.
Griffin in the jungle, what a need.
Flodlane, Mousu, and Support Cryogen.
And they're viewing their new mid-laner today on the opposite side of the rim.
It's Shopify, Rebellion.
We're fudge in the top lane.
Contracts in the jungle.
See me at mid, be boy, 80 carry and support sales.
One more time for Shopify rebellion and their opponent's
fly quest as we get ready to hop into our first festive
free here today.
The players will take their seats, adjust their settings
for the final touches and before we get into champ select, we've got to do our introduction
here on Captain Flowers joined by Emily Rand and Azale here for today's TriCats. Yesterday,
I think we got a pretty good day one. I'm excited to see what we get here on Gator.
Absolutely. I gotta say, I think it's something that most exciting roster form
coming into 2026. So many new players, so many young players as well. Then I just can't
wait to find out how they're going to perform at the tier one level.
Yeah, and before we get into champion select we're gonna quickly hear from some of those players on stage right now
Thanks flowers. I'm here with Griffin LCS debut
How's he drilling before this first game?
Yeah, okay
Yeah, so I feel like good. I think everyone's pretty excited
I appreciate everyone for watching. I think this is gonna be like a pretty big moment for everyone on the team
Obviously this my first time playing my stage in LCS. You know, I plan to see people all before
but we always have people like Carlton
that's playing for the first time.
So, I appreciate everyone watching.
It's a big moment for all of us.
Thank you.
Hell yeah, let's leave it back.
Good luck in the game today, Griffin.
We're gonna send it to you on the side of the building,
but...
Yo, you want the mic to?
Griffin is high, throw it here.
For me, I'm just gonna think my own game
but staying calm and we're ready to win.
Oh, no, no, work focus.
At the end of last year, I did an interview with InterTos
and he said,
You were the top three top laner
only behind him in Blipbo, and Blipbo has left the league.
So are you going for the number one spot, or are you going to be number two top?
I'm definitely going to be number one this year, that's the show.
I like that. You also have Zini on your team now.
How's it been playing with him? Super high prospect coming in.
I mean, Zini is obviously going to be the best mid laner in the league without a doubt, so
he's definitely, uh, he's definitely hyped to play, and I think he's very, uh,
I mean, he's the best really.
So you have the best mid-liter and the best pop-later here.
I'm the best bowling.
Okay, let's go. Let's get these games started then.
All right, both teams are...
That's down the confidence.
That's like an easy win.
You got the best...
The best pop-later, best mid-liter, best jungler, best bowling.
I do want to ask, like, what person would say, like, no, I'm not going to try to do that.
No, I'm comfortable with number two.
I always think it was a tune for number seven.
like it's good enough to get my spot back next year, you know.
If I'm not eight, I'm great.
Probably not the championship mentality,
but clearly, Fudge has confidence in Shopify.
Obviously, the roster only having got one change.
They're with a big team compared to 2020.
I do, actually.
I do miss the Thursday.
Yeah.
That was a fun time.
It was.
Fudge though, definitely, I think deserving of that confidence.
I think he was great last year, a four shop of five.
But I got to love the vibes from Griffin, man.
this guy is so fun to hear talk. If you haven't watched
pros episode within it was fantastic. And him and
Fudge were actually bantering nonstop when I was in an
air room earlier. They were just talking back and
Borough and Griffin just saying, you guys have to
ban three jungle camps against me to even send a
chance for a life like how much like well what about your
scarner he said yeah well I invented the grass scarner too
like you it's just so funny hearing them banter back and
Borough so we'll see if any jungle camps do get
banter against him. Well he's also really fun to listen
and talk, but he popped off in C.B.Law, right?
Like he was the main carry for his team.
And this is interesting.
Flyquists have selected second kick
while Shopify has selected right time.
Ooh.
At the first time we've seen this happen in the LCS.
Usually it's first pick.
And it's like blue side.
Yep.
Okay, well, let's see how it shakes out
than as rumble and bests out in Casio Pia.
And out by Shopify rebellion, flyquest,
moving to Poppy and the chase with one band left to go.
Yeah. So, and Bessa, and Bessa jungle is something that Griffin does actually play. So,
maybe he got one band, you know, could be a band against him. Of course,
Quad always known for the Castile and Castile is actually quite strong now in the season.
So, I do think that's going to be a main stay on the bands against FlyQuest.
You mentioned the best of jungle. Jayce jungle was also super popular on the
lander here for the first week of the new season.
Pretty much every jungler playing those Jarvan, a more traditional pick that has been very,
very popular in the jungle as well. And as
Ferris is locked in for Shopify, it is a
flex between 80 carry on top lane, and
we'll call it the first pick here for
flight. Yeah, and it's no surprise to see
the virus locked in immediately. You know,
really high priority pick. Really dramatic
win rate outside of, I believe, the LCK right
now in terms of just winning globally across
the world. We have the Male Fight
locked in. Male fight jungle, Male fight
type of silly jungle. I think it's going to be
a lot of people who are
in the middle of the
world.
Yeah.
I feel like I don't even
care if you don't have
place Alice.
You just press silence.
I feel like Griffin is the
type of jungler to practice
jungler.
Well, and then you have to go
and top or something.
So we would have to see some
more like eight typical
lanes.
So I guess they're saying like
you won't just slam
silence because you don't want to
like blind silence top and
we're not willing to play
you know, who going top and
silence jungle?
But I have a little bit
surprised because that is always
If you're in play mouth, but you have to pay the tax of the silence.
So, statistically, I know, I remember I was talking to Freak and that's supposed to be like the sharpest counter,
so to speak, in the entire game of any combination of champions.
So, they are not going to go forward, though, and that is going to be the gin, who is the other side of that.
I'm sure that's what I'm going to tell her about it now, but I will see how that works out for Masu.
Yep, and the is your kind of standard fits into any composition and super high-prime.
And it also something that Ginny has had insane highlights on during his KT Challengers career.
I personally, as someone who watched him in Challengers, I'm super excited.
JVM here in the LCS and he is incredibly comfortable on this pick, like most else came up winners.
I mean, he is just such a talented player.
This is a guy who I think we would have seen in the LCK probably a while ago.
behind BB, one of the very best most experienced mid-linters in the entire world.
But this is a guy who had LCK offers and I know, you know, talking to the mod that he was saying,
he was surprised that he wasn't just going to join an LCK team because he got multiple LCK
offers and decided to come, you know, join Shopify was really excited for the
prospect of playing with this team.
But he is really, I think, a player with incredibly high expectations.
You know, this is someone who was looked at as a potential top LCK mid-laner
off the lead to K mid laner, prospect voice.
So, for him to be coming here, starting his career into your I, in the LCS, I think
is a really, really exciting, this guy could be something special.
Alright, we've got the second, half of the band completed now with Nadlus and Sion
banned by Fly Quest Shopify, Rebellion, removing recall and quen from the pool of available
choices.
That's fly quests for that.
Now, that was thinking about a couple of different things, but it will be karma to
pair with the gym.
Yeah, we have a nice and chance to respond to be supporting that gym.
What Shopify want to respond to here?
I feel like we need some sort of hard engage.
So if we're like West Side, like yes,
you have the Wukong who can go in,
but it doesn't feel like it is, you know,
the first thing you want generally
Wukong functions better as follow-up.
And if you're going to go in and share the support,
you know, that is something to be your ping.
Of course, we are expecting to be melt by jungle.
It's going to be melt by jungle because we have that
monectin coming through and say,
it's just going to slam down the bar.
Okay. So bar,
melt by those are kind of like the primary engages.
obviously have the verus as a follow-up. You have potential
a zero-shuffles. Lots of ways to engage. It is going to be
Cassante for GACCO. So the go button really just is kind of
the WooCon Orionacombo and that is just about it. Where's all the
other side? There's so many ways to start up the fights and
there's really vulnerable carries in both the gin and the Orionac.
So I kind of like what Shopify has drafted out here in this
first game. Yeah when I'm looking at how these
compositions each kind of play out this space and set up this
required of lifeless. In my opinion is a little bit more difficult. They obviously do have champions with
the potential like the Santa, like the Rukon kind of jumping on top of you. That really
love what Shopify has brought to the table here. I'm especially excited to see contracts on this
job. I'll bite. Yeah jungle mouth fights exciting. Having zinny on like these staple mid laner
for as you mentioned earlier, Emily pretty much any type of comfort situation in League of Legends
is a great way to get a gauge on, you know, how he's going to look here for his debut,
pretty much every aspect of the mid laner skill set can be applicable to his year.
Absolutely. And contracts is a guy who's been around for a long time, competitive, you know,
2017 coming in cloud nine. This is first ever a mouth-light jungle game of his career. And he
is going to be playing PTA mouth-light. So it's going to be exciting to see how he performs on it.
Contracts always one of the players that is very quick to pick up new decks in the meta,
which is only always enjoyed about him.
Regardless of the style of his attack,
if it's a carry, if he thinks it's OP,
he's gonna play it and he's gonna play it well.
Yeah, this is I heard about some of these new jungle picks coming through
and saw them in the OTK and LPL.
I was like, contracts is going to be all over this.
He is exactly the type of jungler who wants to play out something like this.
It's interesting too, because mostly we haven't been seeing a LHQ for the
mouth-eye jungle, but he's gonna go PTA.
I am expecting it to just be, you know,
exeaks tank, you know, that kind of more
standard style, not going to see, like,
blapy or anything crazy.
But the clear from alpha is actually quite good.
Now, you really can power through the jungle pretty quickly.
Of course, your ganks are not really anything until you're six.
This is, this is like kind of a nocturn territory.
You don't shut at them.
Maybe even worse than the other way of auto-intelating, you know?
I have a lot of aggressively, yes.
I do want to break up Ziti again, as you see on the side
of your screen. This he is one of the most hyped midlane prospects coming out of the LCK.
Everyone was kind of wondering where he would end up after KT Challengers and I did really quickly
pull. What I think is one of his most famous play on this year, the he's playing currently,
but this is a huge turnaround fight against Domlan Kia Challengers. I believe they were
that we're holding that way in 2024.
It's one of his most famous kind of is your shuffle place.
That completely turned the game around.
I think he actually got CMP4 with his game as well.
Yeah. I mean, this guy has been around for a while and challengers and really looking
incredibly strong as people are going to take a foreshot to the face and it's getting pretty low here.
We've seen a lot of pretty dominant to me too.
As I will say, it feels like more skewed than normal because last year,
if you had a really bad 2G2 matchup in bot lane, you just slap it.
Now you can't do that with roll quests. You are very much lost.
This is just in less you are willing to get crazy and swap in shamps like.
You can actually swap your roll. People I've been seeing experiment with that more.
So I think that might end up coming to competitive later,
where it's like your various can just play as the top laner,
and you can swap things around. But that is a big commitment,
and you can't swap back and forth.
We did see a little bit of that to last year as well, especially with the cork eating,
with that and then with
it.
But right hand Flint.
A doctor, net check belt
and I got me all the
people.
But from this top the
dead he sent me alot
to farm up there.
But yeah this gin karma
bot lane can't really
настure the way I'm
forcing out that fats.
Hats teeth At least.
So we'll be able to come
back, but is at least going
losing a couple of Loans
Manas said, not the best
by it's just the tier with
to be in the top of the
team.
And I think something that's
kind of really going to be
interesting to see is how
Mossu and Quad kind of
evolve into their new roles on
the team, right?
Because they were kind of
known as more quiet players on
this flight quest team last
year.
You had a team, you know,
with with inspired with
football, with really opinion
players who were loud, who
were going to be shocked
going to be talking a lot about
it.
And, you know, you'll talk to
Mosul and Busio didn't even talk when they played in game because they were so on the same page
So they could really just play with pigs when you're playing with someone who is
brand new to the cheer one scene like riding cryogen just turned 18 recently
You have got to talk you have got to tell him what you want from what you need from him and it's gonna be more of that leadership role now for Mosul and Quad
That is kind of crazy that he's half my age. That's
That is wild, but yeah, you got somebody new to the league
He's got to find his own identity in the way that he works with the team, the way
that he can be his best support.
And right now in that bottom lane, there is about, you know,
wave and change advantage for most of the people in terms of the farm.
Little tiny advantage there for Quad in mid lane as well.
As you can see, supports making their way over as any not going to be hit by that
empowered inner flame as cryogen.
Just more to say was the way.
I mean, it's just such a different year and such different expectations for
last year, at the end of the world,
they were the longest standing tier one
roster in the world.
513 days together, the expectations
was, you know, you're going to dominate
LCS, you're going to try to challenge
the top teams internationally.
That's what people were expecting from
Blacklist.
Now it's like a total rebuild, right?
You lost three of your players.
You lost arguably the two best players
in the West period with inspired and busio.
And now you have three super young players.
You have new coaches coming in.
you have a complete overhaul and everything is kind of now a
restart. You know, they firmly believe that they have the future of
of League of Legends here in North America on this team.
They think they have some really talented young players, but
you have got to develop those players and see how quickly they can do that.
Exactly. It's a long-term investment versus looking to just immediately be right back
in contention for, oh, we're going to guarantee that we're top two. We're just going to
get the most expensive guys the most experienced guys we came. I think that's kind of what's
This roster is that yes, it is a long-term thing, but you can see the potential with
these players.
So if there is that high roll, and everyone kind of just works from the word go, they
could be really good really fast.
Yeah, they're really exciting young team by contrast, I think it's really interesting to
look at Shopify, right?
And have almost their entire roster, I was wondering if I just didn't go for it,
you did not.
But they kept their entire roster, right?
Except for Midland.
They did that Midland swap.
Did you see?
see. Yeah, it's last coming out immediately. The follow-up
stuff in the force from contracts. It appears Griffin is caught in a
place. He cannot escape. It's first blood over the shop. A five.
Conjectures had the earlier level six. Their Griffin was not quite
six in contracts. Just flashes in on them to slow him. Griffin
flashes out. But you still have the ultimate follow after that. So
well played there by contracts gets that early kill and it goes to
as any. Yeah, that's huge for Shopify. And also just like you said, getting that level
sticks really well, down when you're looking at this null fight kind of coming online,
exactly at level six immediately gets the return on that old and level investment. And
should give them a little bit more control down on this about side as we might be preparing
for a drink. One thing that I always look at whenever it's a zero versus one of these
in mobile standard type of major like an Oriana or a syndrome is a sort of the hit
little sick.
I kind of just like seeing it's year go for the shuffle, blow the flash, especially
if you have something like mouth fighting who's already used as old, blow the Oriana
flash now as soon as mouth fighting has his old buddy again.
We have bad enough to kill.
I'll see if that's what Shopify wants to go for here as any does still have that
ultimate available has his own flash, wants to with a flash as well as contract is back
out on the map.
It's a little deadly flourish there from Mossu, say those want to get over to the magic
journey and indeed he and B boy can both take that one to get to safety only the one kill after
seven minutes really the gold difference is just the kill plus the assist money so not a
super active early game for my other side just yet. Yeah, and it makes sense given both of these
compositions especially given where their junglers want to be right hitting level six and then
kind of taking control of some of these early skirmishes I do have to point out flowers even
playing swaps did have a little bit more actions than the extended leaning phase we're seeing now.
You know, my evenings are also much more
eventful if I eat poison rotten.
I don't particularly think that makes them better.
Yeah, I'm going to say, give it a car crash.
I'll be home with pretty action packs.
Yeah, but it's not exactly the best way to spin.
I'm not a pro.
No, not driving.
I'm sorry.
I've never lost in the line to your side on this issue.
But Shopify, we're happy with their nice little early lead here.
Teleports, you can see, are ready to go for everybody on the map.
except for the top laners.
Quad has his.
You've got them ready and available.
Not just for Zanyan B boy, but also for
sales who does have the summer spellbook
on the board.
So I want to see if Shopify can really
catch flight.
Let's go, guard with all these C.P.
Griffin goes into the cyclone.
Contracts, tanks, the front of it.
There's a curtain call free shots and contracts.
Then he goes in for the shuffle.
But the only five is the token.
They're on a Griffin.
And the rule clock is about to die.
Again, people who digs the kill.
Zany's stay in a lot.
Quad at least find him and know the kill.
Credit goes over to cryogen.
It's a two for one.
They bring Shopify rebellion.
Yeah, it's good for jump by at the end of the day.
Here's any trying to go for the big play with that flash.
Shuffle.
It's a catch-up.
Yeah, me boy, and danger now down to 300 HP.
You're going to see sales down to 200 as well.
But fly quests don't have the fire power to finish off those kills.
Yeah, but they will get be able to get mid-prior off of this,
which actually does work out well for them as we see.
Gakos and Fudge continuing to go at it.
And now contracts is we don't have a Drake take yet,
But he is going up and going to get at least one of these
groves.
Yep, is able to grab one grub.
Bevel way, walking away with two kills.
It is always terrifying to see an accelerated
poke bear's amount of damage.
This guy starts to do is just ridiculous.
So, our going to have to be pretty careful about that now.
Okay, let's see here.
We do have the one grub taken by contracts for the Shopify side.
Now Griffin is up there dealing with the remaining two grub.
As they owe you, Kobe and I had a conversation about this yesterday about how grubs the efficacy of that objective feels significantly less in 2026 than it did in 2025.
So, not going to be as happy about being able to take the majority of the grubs as you would have been in the previous year there for fly requests.
But hey, two to one is still a thing. We've still got that first drink on the board. Ocean drink as the first one oftentimes gets prioritized earlier.
But this time around 10 minutes on the clock still nobody there.
Yeah. And as we see, uh,
it's Shopify kind of trying to move in after that
skirmish,
re-established vision on this spot side and take
advantage of the push that Boris did
establish down there. Also, as you
are pointed out, Zill, those, uh, long
range errors are starting to hurt.
Yeah, but it's going to be a little bit
difficult. But Mossy and Crigeon have done a great
job in the TV too. So even with those two
kills going over and the play going
over to be a boy, they're always pretty much
that even Mossy has his ghost play done.
And they did create a pretty massive CS advantage, you know?
Most four waves.
Yeah, exactly.
Good.
Good 20 CS down there in the ball and his quite nice.
Top lane, even though, you know, we've seen some pretty heavy trading, it's basically
dead even in now Shopify.
They have first move here.
This is going to be completely unconfessed.
If you can see, Moss, even cries in, there's walking in the base.
Griffin is still disfarming.
He does not have that completely died in it, because with his Eats rush, it's a lot faster
completion than something like the track or something at their side.
And he's got CDR boots as well.
And it looks like Shopify wants to make a move after what?
the softest down in the
inforers divide and when
contracts shows up, they've got
more than enough damage.
Contracts will take his first
kill of a game that
shop flag go up for one.
I mean, it's a taxing
contract.
I think they have to spend the
halty as much going to have
to flash out.
Okay, is any overstays
as well?
Yeah, it's a little greedy
there and Griffin cash is in.
Five more stuff.
Yeah.
That's a really nice pickup
for Griffin kind of taking
advantage of the fact that
Denise was overstaying.
I was very pointed out that yeah,
contract is completely comfortable on this mouthite.
It is the exact type of champion that we already covered.
That he loves to play.
And we see him already being just really, really confident
going for so many of these engages with a scene.
And this item is just so good for mouthite jungle now.
And as you see, he's at the ALT-HACE is so nice.
You have an A-E-E burn and slow after you cast your ALT-HACE.
So with this relatively cheap build you're early on,
it's just ready to go and we'll see how it's in he died.
It's like he's a senior caught by a flash D and that is just about that.
You know, you're dead before the blast ticket damage comes out from the cyclone.
So not really that great meanwhile all out here with the top side.
Fludge in some danger and Griffin is going to pick up his second kill of the game.
Fly Quest striking back.
He was a rough start for Griffin, but he has made up for it a little bit now.
If he voyquires on another piercing arrow, meanwhile back in midway, it's caught.
The torpedo finds the robot and
co-phome on another kill towards that jungle mouth fight.
This is exactly what I want to see from both of these junglers, right?
Really getting involved with their lanes as we see
briefing kind of showing up to try to stop this
mid lane push.
This is going to splice it.
Yeah, curtain calls opened up.
Third shot misses for shot also just a little bit off the mark.
There's a people avoiding some serious damage.
continues retreating back out of the pixel brush
cryogen dust on the ward down activates the
daylight. Yeah, and this ziny is going to
start becoming a huge problem on this
is here. We can see why they poured so
many resources, contracts, it kind of
always been there for sales has been
rotating up on the board. And he is in a
really, really good spot heading into the
mid game. I want to see that that mid
lane kill again just to see, you know,
was it a flash of little wall like the
had no vision because I believe Quad had flash. So there was always that possibility
of being able to react. But of course if they come with a flash all out of fog, it is
pretty tough to react to that. But that is something that is just so important against playing
its mouth. Right? If you could flash that all the, it doesn't necessarily have a way out, you
know, and yes, this is a really powerful build, but it's not like you're some
full-peer tank where you're just invincible if you do avoid that engage.
So one thing that I'm noticing that's really demonstrating just the focus that Shopify had had on
on the mid lane, contracts with multiple visits there.
The one man on the map right now who's quest is not completed.
He's quad on the Oriana and they're looking to keep him away from it for a little bit longer
now too.
Shopify setting up for what could be a dive but fly quest knows.
Quad is the one with a target on his back so far in this first 14 minutes.
There you go.
They're falling.
That's the checkpoint.
This is a regular thing in the game now.
I've got to keep checking in at this point on the clock.
And so far, it's been a good 14 minutes for Shopify.
Yes, and you see kind of how they're really trying to take control of this
spot size map.
Both teams sending their 80s, mid, try to get mid prior, the most important
thing ever in the history of League of Legends.
As we see Shopify, maybe something up for a dive again.
Okay, cryo and quad.
We're going to look to see if they can try to stop this, but as soon as
contracts gets the chance, he's immediately full sending it here with the
ultimate.
Get shuffle back towards the team and zinny's taking his third kill of the game.
game. The Azir gets fed Oriana's dead.
Shop a thought to know the playboard.
Yeah, that was a great redive and set up.
They had the wave more money in the pocket of Zini.
And we'll see if Griffin wants to try to respond
with a potential dive onto Fudge up here.
Okay, immediately, Gat goes goes and goes all out
over the wall, brings Fudge away from the safety
of the turret, dominance or not.
Nice, like that.
Is done for the burst from fly quest is clean.
Need a fourth kill.
I mean, maybe that dive looks so easy.
get going set to the perfectly just pulls him fully away from that tower.
They knock him down.
Gotta be a bit critical of Quattal on that block side.
That all was a max range.
No, that's great.
That was a great side step on that bearish one, but Quattal needs to flash that mouth
by the whole body.
That was literally max range with flash up your pro player on land.
You have no pain.
You got to flash that.
Maybe he thought they would have been able to kill him.
But obviously it was proved wrong after as a TD arrives.
or Shopify rebellion, the Harold's going to lose some patience.
Clydinger does get slowed down by the binding there.
And Shopify are going to clear out the vision, maintain control with the
Harold pit, and this objective is going their way, no contest.
Yeah, Shopify were just able to kind of muscle their way in.
As we see this that you called for.
Okay, so yeah, no vision.
This was the earlier one, not the last kill.
This was that previous one.
So it's the server showing us he was fully out of vision here.
And it's basically just going to come as a total surprise.
He's going to flash out all three act from when you don't have any
idea that he is approaching the bottom one.
I'm not going to be like, right?
Yeah, that's a little bit.
The bottom one instead of flash for sure.
If you knew the mouth was there and it was a max range.
Oh, so that's when you got to flash.
If you don't, it's just, it's just so hard.
He flashes then after being altered and just got hit in by these years.
So then it's kind of insult injury because you can't even
avoid the next one.
And with how much CDR the mouth it has, like, the ult is up a lot.
Yeah, it's like if you're not flashing the altar you shouldn't be flashing right because at that point the spell is just going to be wasted
But sometimes those are some of the small areas that can end up costing more as the game goes forward
Griffin's time to the wall here is fly quent one to go after the drink
Say it was caught out by the deadly flourish
He does open up a magical journey takes that to safety over the wall contracts ready to contest here for the smite. It's knocked up by the first cat off the side clone
And that's enough to force shop and fight back now
to get some kind of a
funnish to put fake.
Find Griffin here's the
arrow.
Short of the wall not going to
find the target.
Now, the target is that
target has contract wants
more damage.
It's going to be a shot.
Good.
That's why Quest gets to kill on at the tower.
Now, the hero is going to be an Uber back home to stay.
But it looks like they're going to drive it through the ditch instead.
It's all right. They're not in trouble.
The Tier 1 turret should just fall down here, though.
And it's a very good sequence for Quest.
Yeah, why would I manage to get that Tier 1?
I do want to point out, though, while that was happening,
Zini could not join because of TP, right?
So he was able to push this in, get this turret up here in top.
and mid tier one also went down during that entire sequence because it just took so long.
Initially I thought you have to fight for just gonna go for a soft contest and completely back off once
they pulled Black West away from that Drake pit, but.
Gotta say, Proclasm harness also pretty shown on the malphite here. That was the second item completion.
So did purchase that of these cheap kind of supportive style items for the malphite is
is one of the reasons that it is so strong right now.
You have two support items essentially here.
Really fast completion times.
He was on two full items there where it's like just
try for some pieces for the other general look.
Jungle Malfight shops the same brands that
jungle-liver has.
Like, they don't shop out names.
They don't care about brands or clouds.
Sending does not care about anything right now because he is dead for the next 40 seconds.
Well, I've played them out there from flight Quest, but now the attempt to finish.
for Shopify piercing arrow gets the first kill.
People is in the killings breathe.
Gripping in a little bit of the dangerous,
the change of corruption of the world.
Don't find the target but cludges in hot pursuit.
The crock gets fed and quad is out of mana out of options.
Out of time as he runs towards the Italy turrets,
a flash size mixture from contracts to guarantee there's no execution.
And Shopify get the better of the trade there up to 1,000 gold.
Yeah, a flight was thought that
have a, you know, an angle onto Zini, get him out of the game, kill the Ray Bosses here.
Really, really nice collapse from Shopify coming in.
It's just didn't give them so much more map control on this topside.
It's been a tough game for Quas. I'm not going to lie. It's 0.5.
Now half this point. It has been targeted at once.
Well, it looks like the target is right now on the Mount Fight contracts.
That's a getting from the top.
It's not like this target is particularly threatening since he is 2-0 and 6. He's got his
old up in 3 seconds. He's blocking away.
He didn't even proct to safety belt. He's chilling. He's fine. Two minutes until our
next dragon spawn, but with both teams only at a single Drake so far, I'm not feeling
like the Drake wincon is really the story of this game. We do still have that good gold
lead fore Shopify rebellion over 2 1 1 1 1,000 now. It's flyquest will be tapped with the
they're on red side jungle, Shopify thinks they have enough of a lead to just force their way in here and try to steal away these minor objectives in the box.
Well, and they know that GACO's can't join for a little bit because it's T.P. is down, so we'll see how much pressure they actually want to give this to.
He's going to lose his whole boss at jungle and Griffin Griffin has even, you know, cross mapping to try to steal a camp for anything.
or anything. They were kind of soft in testing this, but they didn't end up being a
lock-in. So they kind of just watched them take both the crugs and the red buff and
push-bought all the same time. And Blacklist really starting to fall behind. More
more. It's nearly 3K now.
Okay, knock-up. They're on sales to try to get away. But the curtain call has opened.
First two shots. Find the support. Third hit, Sidney. Fourth one. State.
State! State! State! State! State! State! State! State! State! State!
the first shot down over the
lawsuit for shot gets it done.
Now contracts on the run.
Deadly flourish will not hit
it for the next PC.
Shopify continues.
They're retreat defensive
mouth.
I'll see to make sure he doesn't
die there.
Yeah, it's going to proc the
harness as well.
Biggest problem there for a
first shot by honestly was that
city was completely right.
So, you know, if you have that
threat of the term with the
mouth.
I'll, you know, you could actually
maybe look for something.
But Ziny, we've done the all.
Then was completely out of man
and we need back over the wall.
wall, so they couldn't really turn and fight at that point, which meant contracts just
has to run for the hills. The DP, not going to find much of anything, it's just to
spell it to be down towards that bottom side. Seeing if there was an angle there, but
quite of course had the empower recall available with the tier 3 boots.
And I feel like if you're fly quest, you want a fight that that goes is involved in. If
you think there's a fight, you need to take it all. He is the one point of strength for them
on the map right now up 600 gold individually does have his first two major items completed
with iceborne and thorn now so it's a ton of armor obviously the MR is a bit of a vulnerability
right now you can see the cloaking inventory working towards a big MR item to be able to deal
with the easier defense issues yeah you see yeah he's got a huge yeah you know it's not like
they're uh they're not name brand right we're all shopping at the valve fight store today
that Shopify rebellion are first to the bottom side river looking at this third drink of the game
Fly Quest thinking about contesting for it, but remember, nobody's super stacked.
Fly Quest still wants the challenge.
I'm gonna be strong.
I'm gonna be like Rimsom, the U-Car goes in to take the objective.
Contrast versus Blom, it's not first and down.
Maltzoo's in danger as fudge slices and dices into the middle of the fight.
Sending wants to go in.
Any fives will shuffle on the cryogen.
Everybody else barely needed to escape.
The quag is the single out of attack to get Sending back.
He tries to fly up to get away.
A little bit more damage is not there.
From Shopify as people fires away in the barrels with the wall,
to get.
Oh, no.
Lost is still on the run.
It's one dead on the side of Shopify.
Two dead for Fly.
But they were able to steal away the dragon that is so big.
Griffin stealing the dragon makes that super worth while.
A second dragon grabbed for them.
Zinny goes in for the big play, but it was really fast flashes from Fly
Quest to avoid that.
Everyone was able to flash away except for cryogen.
And then as a result, Quad just turns and actually knocks down Zinny.
able to get that kill barely survives as if it's something comes in for the shield he has.
That can be a protect as well. Critical that he's able to live there. We didn't get a full view
on this deal at sea. Now he's under it. Just keep it tight. Nice.
Yeah, he pays for it with his life here. But like he said, I actually think,
fly-close. This is completely worth for them, especially since
The plot is able to get this kill onto Dini on the back half of this fight.
They've got those young hands, the quick clash is coming out on the flat west side.
That's true, the abrogation of this team is almost like 20 years old and changed.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
That's so close.
That's wild.
That's wild, man.
Yeah, I mean, there are very young team.
There are already a young team.
There are, you know, one of the youngest teams in an action when we would go.
But they got even younger. This was last year though, but it looks like quad might not be getting much older on the ramps contracts
We're gonna take him out before old age can strike as grip is in the middle of everybody with free man
City, contract gonna hit there by the R2 and city retreat
Like West trying to find these kills. They don't have the birds to get anybody here to get that goes into the back lines
If he's gonna be taking look they can down get those kids to kill
He's done some quad.
But he can't find it.
The shield is real and quad stays alive.
That is massive.
But they win out this fight three for zero.
Well, see if they can try to push her bare and they really want to go for it here.
Yeah, you're seeing arrow coming out from B boy.
Contracts has to be the one keeping anybody from fly quest away from this
Various fly quest now.
Still all five players alive going after the bear and it's 15.
to the back of it.
It's 15 seconds until Zinny is back
alive.
Five seconds on Sayos.
People and contracts stepping up
cryogen.
Gonna be your target here at the start.
Bare in half.
Hp.
Now.
Seconds of health.
I heard.
Gackos.
He's low.
Griffin.
Low.
It goes.
Tracks.
Trying to take about flashes in the back of it.
Once.
For the smile.
Oh.
I want to sit.
To guarantee it.
For flight quest.
The damage finds it, but he dies himself.
Sayos and people are chasing him down.
They want to get his many of these kills as they can.
Griffin's still waiting in the truck,
roach, seeing him face an opportunity to try to turn.
Clive him with a monster in her plate.
Box 2 down 108 feet.
He stays alive.
People are getting to a kill.
He's on a rampage.
He gets a second there on moss, too.
Sayos, no is Griffin and Gack goes to the only two left
and Lodg, the mayor, when he tries to go in.
Fun, box, dominance.
He walks from an aslizer, but dies into the coma,
and he goes back in.
Gack goes to his hiding and fudge his chasing.
Griffin and Gettles, struggling this relaxed him out.
But, Fudge finally gets the kill.
Now, what about the last one?
If they can get the kill, I'm Griffin here, it's massive.
Because that's the last Baron, but no, Griffin survived.
One of them, fly out!
Oh, I'm not a bear, and that was insanity.
Contracts.
That's what's happened is Ulpekimov.
It was a couple seconds.
As he was going for that, if that's the oldie comes up.
He tried to kill Ulpekim.
But Griffin barely survives.
We got to go back to this.
Right at the oldie back in, right on cooldown,
can't finish grip. He blanched in the back of the pit.
Ults the business off. I saw about 70 help on the bear in from this
Mike from contract 70. When this might come in, he tried the time.
His smite with his W, but the W for the mouth, it wasn't perfectly
synced up. So it went off. The W is literally mid-clap when this
Mike came through from the wolf column. So not perfect timing
there from contracts and gripping back to back of deck of R secured.
And then this was just insane. Emily. Yeah. And I mean, look at all those
the feeling coming out of the heels and she was the how many times I thought that
Shopify would be able to take advantage of these blinking health bars
Diesel dying a little bit
I look at the complete different reactions from the coachings at the same team
Paul just looks happy
Paul looks like one of those anime ghosts is like left his body the fight before that
I do want to put it down.
Wait, hold on.
We don't have time for that right now.
Immediately Griffin's coming in and B-boys going down.
Perfect engagement from Black West.
And then looking to make it a turn for one deal.
Griffin on a killing spree.
As contracts, mal-fight falls.
And now what the dragon begun.
Because the fact that Griffin stole the last one, this is Black West moving to sole
point.
Yeah, this is huge.
This is sole point for Black West.
I love what we've been seeing from Griffin in this game.
when it was contracts really
trying to get a hold on what's
going on here with the
crocodile he was in position
for he what he thought was
going to try and fight.
Yeah, but then it's team got
caught moving to the dragon
and he was trying to recall
gets I think found out on that
recall. So gets spotted and
it's up going down and that
is really costly now.
He's in the wrong spot too.
Yeah, Zany got to be careful
here. Has the sun disk to fall
back to the quad is still
looking. It's great going.
Coach Griffin's also about
to arrive defensive and
the first divide from Zanyi keeps him alive, but honestly, this game at its peak was almost
3,000 gold advantage.
Yeah.
For Shopify, now 2,000 advantage for FlyQuest, it's a 4.5k swing.
And you want to, what a massive difference.
These couple objectives, here's a name for Griffin.
Griffin is super fed now.
Getting that last dragon, securing the fair and over projects as well, is huge for FlyQuest.
They're in control.
Yacht monsters just use the curtain called a poke stop a fight down to the rest of the team.
could move up, take down this tier one turret and guarantee more money in their pockets.
Now, nearly a 3000 gold beat for Fly Quest, less than four minutes on the clock until
their dragon souls spawn.
Shopify went from driving the car to being stopped into the trunk.
Yeah, and I just want to point out we've talked about Griffin's objective control, right?
The Drake steal the Baron.
However, look at this.
He isn't participated in almost all of Fly Quest skills, right?
So he has just been absolutely involved with everything this team has been doing.
I do want everyone to cast their mind way back to that top side fight before Baron
that kind of set up.
The Baron take, because Gakos was actually the hero of that fight coming in with the
teleport ward above where the fight was happening.
So when Shopify were able to engage, he was able to come in completely onto the back.
I mean, look at his journey, you know, hit Challenger at 13, hit rank 1 at 16.
He was on T1 Challengers, which was very cool, played in the CB Law on loud for a little
bit.
And now he is here in NNA.
This is a guy who, you know, some people who have been hyping for quite a long time,
you know, LLS has been a big fan of it and talking about him for many years.
And so it is really cool to get to see him come out.
And it was fun talking to, to think hard about this team, because I kind of, I talked every
coach and I asked the coaches, how would you like us to judge your team?
Like, by what metric would you want us to judge success?
And he was saying we'd have to win team fights.
If this team cannot win team fights, something is wrong.
He's like, I got a bunch of teenagers on my team.
If we can't win with our hands, we're not going to win.
He's like, I can teach them everything else.
But they have to have good hands.
If I'm going to sign a 17 year old in 18 year old, you got to have good hands.
I think we've seen that today.
Yeah.
I'm a lot of these team fights, right?
As we see, the dancing middling begin.
Okay, so important to look at those sidelines.
The squad does not have a teleports, so flyquest do not want this 4v4 to break out, because
Fudge will be the one that can then immediately skew the odds for Shopify, so flyquest
you're going to disengage from this, that you have vision control here on the top side
river, because it's 30 seconds until the Baron shows up.
Quad does have his rabbit-on's death cap on top of the lootins, and the shadow frame we
talked about how the game was starting so rough for this Orianna, he was set so far behind.
He is the only one without an individual gold thief right now, but three full item power spike is planning.
And especially this is not the defense of items, this is not like a low and a panties and a zone is this is the one shot you with a combo.
Okay, Gak, that was just going in half maker to meet the way, but he won't find anybody immediately.
Now, fudge is also arrived here with a T.P. Fly Quest moving up, looking to re-assert themselves as dominant in this river area with the barefoot on the map.
contracts in any way to contract with three main knockup but nobody else is there nobody else isn't the same town nobody else isn't the same
damn's a code
lawsuit just shoots him down and
Shopify are not
coordinate the mouth
Griffin spins in with the hot one and he knocks people up in the air monster shoots him back down in the ground
cryojin kill sails it's three dead for three
to see three favorite flag
and that's going to be
baron as well. Yeah,
contracts to seize three
man. I'll see it as I get
big, but your versus not
there. You're as here. It's
not there. No one can
follow up on the play. He
goes in and insult the
injury flashes out as he
dies as well. So they
get the kills. They're going
to get the baron uncontested
at flag west are just running
away within this first game.
Yeah, and I love the way that
they ever approach setting up
these fights. We talked about
this composition with the gym with so many divers kind of wants to create that space, right?
And so they've been setting this up so well with their positioning from Gakko's who did this earlier.
This is where contracts just, I understand that too.
But yeah, you're a zero, zero near you as well.
The rest of the team was definitely not ready to follow up on this fight, which sets up beautifully for
still a plenty of eight feet of work, but they need a lot of value here in the piercing
arrow is curtain call opens up, be boy tack with two shots, make it three and he's
over to dead, who brings up all to a gunfight, it's not a winning play, fly quest, they're
going to take the kidals and the objective.
And sales has bailed on beware of this.
Sonius, don't matter the way, the president got taken out as mossy take down beware with
a final shot, loving and most critical tuning in at an opportune moment.
Yeah, I love what we're seeing from live was in this game.
Even when Shopify got ahead, they kept fighting the entire time through the mid game.
Got quad back into it, right?
Griffin and Gatso setting up so many of these picks.
And I mean, this is a young team with hands, like you said, the hands are working.
But it's our definitely working.
And, uh, Shopify, you know, started out really well,
but has not been necessarily on the same page with a lot of these
engages and some of them have been very costly.
It feels like fly is making these individual good plays.
They're cutting out.
It feels like we're having so many fights where it's really close
margins, very low health, but they're able to stay alive, to stay
involved in these fights.
And I feel like they're on the press.
It's a closing out this game cloud soul with these kind of champions
and these long extended fights with that much lose me.
and then you'll see.
Yeah.
Cloud Soul will call.
It's just wild stuff.
Every time he gets this buff, it feels like the champion has unlimited target access.
As FlyQuest, I'm looking to force their way into the enemy base now.
It's bottom lane.
The first target.
Here with the tier 3 turret line.
Mosu finds a quick shot there into B-Boy.
Takes off about a third of his HP.
As this tier 3 turret really isn't looking particularly sturdy.
Shopify continuing to scramble to try to defend.
As FlyQuest move up slowly.
to the first inhibitor.
That one should die in no time at all.
Deadly flourish locks up.
Zinny back near his own nexus.
Tries as the mid lane tier three is the next target for
fly quest.
Gripping quads working together on that one.
They've got it down to only the final plate as
they'll force their way into a second lane now.
And that inhibitor will also have no serious defense.
The top lane wave is in no condition for a full three in
hit play.
But I think fly quest are pretty happy with the state of
the state of the day of me, no kidding.
Mossy is almost to a true second item.
It's now at this point.
You're talking about Luke on, but Jim with that much
moves me too.
When Mossy was getting a crit, he's at 600 moves feet.
Yeah, it's been fun.
And that's without popping the ghost plate.
So it is kind of hard to find the engage.
I mean, at that point, you have got 100 to 0
because if he gets one auto off, he's going to pop
his ghost plate to zoom away.
You are not getting back to this guy.
Yeah, I'm going to see what if anything,
and Shopify can do here, but it's good for him still looking.
And it's just kind of so terrifying, right?
This is a con flying toward you.
Don't necessarily know where the rest of the team is
as we push up through.
He's got Stormry's now as well for the Blvd's team.
He's got the hit home guard ran as levels after a critical.
He's a 100% crit super move speed check.
He's going to be really pissed.
Oh my god, man.
Look at that guy.
to save both on the rip.
He's got the anime shout-and-trip behind this.
All right, Renekton, just go catch that guy.
Yeah, it's truly slicing dice.
He's going to make sure it's going to be on top of this, every time.
And now, you can see FlyQuest walking up the last remaining wave of non-super-demonions
as this tier 2 turret is tied.
Okay, Jin-jin, drop out of this.
Let's go on.
Okay.
The two are really hungry for this last inhibitor.
730 newsfeed without the ghost plate active.
What do you prefer to do?
Contracts go in.
He only finds the knock-up under Griffin.
That's not going to be a valuable and up target.
10th birthday on the two.
Contracts those still isolated.
Human in front.
Loss finally dies.
Quoth taking a kill at city goes next.
Cactos will claim that kill himself.
As far as he's juggling around.
At least there's the one kill back on the cactos for Shopify.
But they do hold the tier 3 turret for now.
Yeah, they are alive for now.
B-boy surviving alongside Buds.
They do still have some power and fun.
Got a 1k shutdown there off of GACOs.
If we've woken hit these arrows, it's great,
but there's just so much moves me to mix a lot more difficult.
Yeah, look at the two auto attacks.
Two auto attacks on the B-boy takes that much HP.
Deadly Flores doesn't hit sails.
So I request don't need anything more.
They already got what they came for here.
It's two and a half minutes of double super minions in every single lane.
It must feel so good to be mossy right out.
Like, you're the dream games.
You can't get away right now.
This is what dreams are made of.
It's just like this must feel amazing.
I sold this to Omraiser.
No more.
No.
Mercuriel Stint.
It's all right.
He'll survive.
I don't think you go faster though.
So I'm not really improving the purchase.
He does have his escape mechanism now.
He gets caught by a chains of corruption.
The last chance for Shopify to do anything
here would have to be fully crazy with the steal.
We'll see what contracts has ready to go.
Everybody on Shopify is in the area of the
parents.
All of the down to 3,000 HP is going to be claimed by
Grim and before anything else even happens.
Prior to down to 20% but it will not matter.
They cannot kill them.
Another kill on the contract.
But it's one back.
Grimson knocks everybody up in the air.
And Shopify adds a scatter.
That's a scatter, sitting once the efforts divide.
But the only thing could have is Shopify's roster.
Nobody's still standing.
It's a fight for two and fly quest on March and Dam man.
What a fantastic opening match for this flight was, Rossi.
Nicely done from fly quest.
A shaky start.
They were covering it in the main game.
and they spent it home late.
They'll go up one not been in this back to three.
Nicely done.
We'll see how Shopify can bounce back.
It's black West got it feeling so confident
after that one.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I really loved the way that they were able to coordinate
unlike what Shopify did.
So now we will toss it to the endless lounge
to see what they have to say about it.
Bangor game, Kobe.
Absolutely bangor game.
Also, pretty happy.
As a couple of junglers here
watching this game with some jungle focused action going on.
I mean, why could I put him pretty calm?
Awesome. And in this game, super fed.
But to me, Griffin is the player who kept them in it.
But if the start was contracts, making all the place.
So we're in a new jungle.
Hey, jungle, jungle, jungle.
Yes, I'm doing jungles.
My champion for this duel is going to be contracts.
Yeah.
You're going to take good.
Yeah, we know Griffin's going to win.
But so it's battle number one.
In the beginning, contracts was made a really smart jungle play.
So all junglers on this current patch know,
second crab is everything.
There's a big objective in the game, Jack.
So contract, he does a great thing.
You call your support to get there for the second crab spawn.
Second crab is so big, because it gets you to level six.
And so contracts, he flips this crab versus Griffin.
He wins the smite fight, gets his level six after.
And this is just gonna be huge.
Everything goes great for them.
Then they flash in, he falls the flash of Griffin.
immediately hold them, they win this fight and they give the kill to the Azir Jat, the Zinni
and they start to win the game over the early crab that they fought.
Yeah, we know, things changed. Let's go to my PC right now.
Second, the next crab that they decided to fight. Griffin, he's jumping the gut on contracts here.
How do you use his everything to secure the crab? They end up narrowly losing this fight,
trading one for one afterwards, but he's still trying to accelerate the action Kobe.
I think you're going to get us to the next play.
Alright, continuing with the early game, jump over to my computer.
We'll take a look at this dragon fight.
This is where, once again, they focus on the objective.
First, Shopify, they grab the dragon.
Let me speed it up for you a little bit here.
Bard played from Seios, gets the swap over on the quad.
They sweep him back again, playing around this mid lane where they got their early kill.
Contracts picks up that kill and jack, take it away.
Yeah, back to me.
Griffin was always there with the answer because
little bit of play gold.
Griffin punishes it.
So now after a bad start,
he's back on the board in
terms of the gold in this game.
Okay. I'm an answer.
You're answer with another
mouth-by-ultimate chat.
Bring it back to me.
My computer.
What did you look at?
God tracks here.
mouth-by-flash ultimate onto
the Orianna.
And he was ensuring that
Quattas gonna have a bad day.
And the Azir was gonna get
more and more money.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm a little disoriented at this point
because there's one more car.
I missed a place.
I missed a play so I'm going to cover one of your plays.
If you come to my PC, contracts then made a play on the bottom side, but Griffin was always
there to answer with yet another play.
So anytime contracts would make a play, Griffin would be there to answer on the other
side.
Music at the time from now if I'm being bought, gets another kill on the fudge.
And by the end of the game, he had almost like 90% feel participation, which I just love
the push and pull between these two drummers the entire time.
Yeah.
The map I was looking really good early on in this game, but the Wukong looked way better
as they went deeper, as they went further in.
That's what we take.
Even with the case being made and with Shopify losing,
I think you win the contract, the bet.
I'm going with contact them all the time.
What?
I'm holding them, telling quiet.
That's weird.
We're on the game.
We've tied the votes.
It is Griffin.
It wouldn't have been either younger than one,
because they were really driving the game in the early game.
90% top participation and 800 DPM.
Ridiculous.
On the WooCon, I've got to quickly look
that damage for the game though,
because I want to see how it ended up.
I won't black out.
This mossy little mosquito, that's a deadly mosquito.
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Not so little.
That's a lot of damage.
That's insane.
As Chris Malfa was early, Kobe couldn't keep it up and the lake in.
Yeah, I mean, there's no due damage.
You could see towards the lake in fights.
Projects is the old things people.
And if the team was not following up on this old,
there was actually zero damage there.
It had to be from the easier,
had to be from the virus.
And I have to say, Griffin getting some critical objectives, my opinion.
So he lost the crab objective.
Well, Dr. Scott the Baron.
We're getting all these dragons and Mossu made gin look incredible.
On one side, you're right.
You have to follow up on the Melfight Damage.
On the old days, they definitely had issues following up with that one.
That fight around the behind the Baron pit was really disastrous.
On the other hand, fly quest is a vicious and team fight heavy roster.
They are a scrappy team.
They're fearless. I actually feel like they they flipped the game on like the first cloud trick that was up
Yes, where if they lose that fight badly like he won the smite
They lost two people running away like they were they were fearless in this first game also most teams if they were like
Okay, we should start bearing we're like all basically at HP low HP
There's a mouth fight with all tea and a poke bears do we do it by the way that that that play at the baron
What they'd combo the mouth fight ultimate and a various arrow over the top and try to kill them as they couldn't see
You got to try it.
No, they didn't know.
It's the old confidence.
Game choose up next as we had to break.
Let's take a look at our commentary play.
Can't wait to hear this one.
Connected by AT&T and borderline by chat.
Enter.
I don't know.
Nice.
I don't know.
I don't.
that is unfair control guys all wheel drive with the rain mode no shot anyone's
touching this this seems completely open to bait that's first pick we have to
lock it in now he had to tell your eye turmoil pick it for your opponents do
let bogus you wins
and
I get a new players are very energetic to put it
They speak a lot, and they just like, they're very, uh, they move quite a bit, so it's a nice refresher, and they're very energetic, and it kind of is contagious, you just get more energy being around people like that.
So it wasn't really hard to kind of integrate them into the team and felt more like they were integrating us actually into like their, um, world. So it's been fun so far.
This hilarious to think of old man,
Mossy, you being like,
oh my god, these teenagers,
they move around too much.
How old is he?
Is he like 22 or 23 or something?
Let's see.
I don't know that, it's 67.
Anyway, well, back to the LCS, everybody.
Uncapped and flowers joined by Emily and the Zale
for the second game.
Here, there's best of three between fly quests
at least 21.
And he's the oldest man.
He's the oldest man.
He's the oldest one.
That's all we wanted.
All right, well, it's number one.
It was a little rough early on for Moss to quad and the youngsters, but they brought it back
in the mid game.
Shopify had a strong start.
They were up to almost a 3000 gold lead, but then it just completely fell apart in the
mid game.
Yeah, and I mean, with this composition, you really need to be on the same page.
We kind of identified how it is a little bit easier so in my opinion to execute as a whole,
but it really seemed like when it got to some of these mid and late game team fights, they
really just for not on the same page at all. Yeah, I mean, obviously one of the six
electric sore thumb is that engage the contract sad that through an engage over
by the bear and pit. We're here in the depth of dying where a bear is not there.
Renekton is not there. You know, even a zero is kind of far away. And the last
way, you know, contract was mouth-by-alting onto a barital to target. You know, so
there, communication was definitely kind of lacking, I think, from Shopify. And I
know, speaking to their coaches, that was a real focus for them coming to this
year is really making sure they talked to me about
wanting contracts always have a good idea of how the fight was going to go before he took it
and trying to be less instinctual and more kind of like cerebral about it.
It's a really kind of planning out how the fight should be fought.
You know, we're going to do it. That sort of thing.
And you can see they are still working on that because it's definitely,
I think, was a little bit rough in your mind.
Yeah, I think you could see some release shades of that.
Like I did think that early game was really good.
I thought that was really well coordinated when it got to the point in the game
in the game where sometimes you don't get the time to practice it in
scrims as it gets later as you're looking at these mid game and
late game objective contests. That's where really seemed like
communication started to break down on Shopify. By contrast,
fly quest looked like they were on the same page completely going
into them. They said to integrate into their world. Right once they all
found themselves on the same plane of existence, they were ready to
go and they were locked in. But now we're into a brand new game into a
brand new draft and bands are done for the first half.
It's poppy, Jarvan and gang like band out by flight class, Shopify, we're moving
in Vessa, Chase and Rumble as fly will first pick Talia for the second game.
Yeah, but it is going to be the selection of second pick.
Again, so we have a really interesting, I haven't really been seeing that at all.
So it is cool that they are prioritizing that counter pick and I really want to see what
they are going to do with it.
It is rise to Leia to very popular champions these days, mid lane.
I think is more important than ever in competitive play.
and the other two teammates that can move around the map really, really well, and affect those side lanes.
Yeah, even now we're kind of talking about this where it's like, oh, an extended leaning phase.
Guess what? Position just got even more important because the early mid-priot is so crucial for the reasons that you stated, right?
You because junglers might be doing kind of this power farm to six.
These mid-laners can pit six or even earlier roam to their side lanes.
as we see corky, another really popular staple bot lane pick coming in for a shop.
Why just be you, Nara or Faleos? That's what I would guess.
Those are kind of the general answers we're seeing these days.
But yeah, it's a continuum in the mid lane point.
It's like you've been extended, Ladyface.
Your roll quest gives you empowered recall,
and additional moves speed with your free tier three boots.
It really does work super well and good path of it.
And you have the mid lane working well with the support with the jungler.
And then kind of trying to take their lead and push this out lane.
That kind of seems to be the recipe for how big legends is played right now.
Now, we'll see if anyone is going to buck the trend.
I do feel like there should be a lot of room for, you know, second pick.
I guess we'll call like counter pick, whatever, you know, there's that's obviously
decoupled from blue side of the red side now, so I have to kind of change whenever
that killer.
I like counter pick, that's good counter pick, but in top lane, I think you should be able
to play with combat sometimes when people are blinding some of these champions that are
able to be punished.
I would like to see people try that more and try to play more of us will push
down.
last year in this one. So defensive capabilities for our
affiliates and cryogen is going to be on protection duty for that
immobile care. Well, also looking to make some picks here with the
dead sentence. We'll see if he can hit any man like classic it might be
2026. But we still have to appreciate where we came from right. And
the Zimshal walked in for contracts here on Shopify. I feel like we
got a tale of two contracts last time because in that first game,
he had an amazing start. But then the coordination with the team as
things went on, not where they would have like to see it. So I want to see contracts have that
first 15 minute performance, the whole game through here in the second one. Yeah, and I'm especially
looking for coordination with stios and whatever he decides to walk in. And then also with
Azini, right? Because Zini, they did so heavily prioritize getting his Zier ahead into a good spot.
And then we're really unable to take advantage of that. Even when they were doing a good job
sending him to sidelines to collect cool.
Yeah, absolutely.
This is actually the first Thresh in an A.
Since 2022's Springland A-Loo is playing.
If you remember what he was having for Quargette,
I had a, and he was a spamming thrash,
and that was kind of that era where
Quargette was really having him up and saying,
he's the second best of all,
or only worse than me, right?
He's playing the thrash.
So, cool to see the return of that,
Thresh of values becoming popular once again.
Anytime a value says there are a lot,
you start to think about Thresh a little bit,
that was such a classic pairing,
especially when he was first introduced.
Yeah, we even saw it peaking out a little bit already at world.
before this kind of extended leaning face kind of came in with all the early season changes
checking in.
Probably wrong league.
I'm sorry.
I'm not playing today.
Flag quest also taking out the nami and Gwen on their side where Shopify kind of
prioritizing taking some of these other jungle picks out of Griffin's hands.
Yeah, especially just really good parents with Tilea, right?
You know, point and click CC depending away.
They've already taken this in.
now you're taking out the vies, well, the pantheon, both easy set for that side of
make sure that's generally what you think about.
You can also, you know, generally looks forward to things like jargon, but that's a
band out.
And we've seen Wukong band out, so a lot of these common pairings are already gone, so
the interesting thing is see where Griffin goes, he's a very flexible player.
This guy plays all kinds of stuff, you know, he was, he was giving me never you're talking
about how he's like the only jungle who can play, ribbon jungle because these other junglers
haven't played enough ribbon and he plays all kinds of stuff.
He likes balla bear, he likes tower and he likes all kinds of different styles of
champion, so it'll be cool to see where he goes. As sales, it's going for Nico. So this time,
they are going more for the lane dominance here. Last time they were on the receiving end of that
karma, this time they should have the push and we'll see as long as they can play that well
with points and hooks, which is also very easy to do with Nico because you can just throw your
clone into the hook every time they're going for it. So it should be a good two to two for them.
Yeah, it's uh, Nico still a menace and I really like to pick here.
Sion coming in for Gakos in the top lane and here it might be that
volley there.
That's going to be a fan of the volley bear lock.
I mean, also has point in CCC, right?
You know, it is really strong right now.
This is a lot more magic damage, especially VAs going for the
Dustin Dawn style that people kind of are affecting mostly people
are going for that more AP style, but it's point in CCC for the size
make sure it is a really strong
do list and it's someone that
you know especially if you are
going more for those solo kills
bout builds you can kind of just
do all against people later on
it becomes really strong even in one
view once can take down solo
laners great on dives obviously
can turn off those towers. It is a
really powerful pick right now even
though it's not as popular and
competitive as it is in solo
queue it can be an absolute mess.
Yeah and as we mentioned it's
already something the Griffin is
comfortable bringing out right and
it's within this composition well
which also has really nice front line for this
of fellios to set up, right?
Like we see a lot of potential for the rest of his team
to kind of be setting up Mossu in a more traditional,
like front to back, five, five.
Meanwhile, we have fudge locking in the north.
This is the first competitive ball of air jungle
that I can see the season so far.
Oh, nice.
I've only seen, you know, moly scene games in top.
So it's popular in solo queue, definitely,
expecting the Desk and Dawn Rush.
Yeah, absolutely.
going to be going to be excited to see how he actually gets it done.
Yeah, we'll keep an eye on it as the game goes on.
The Sion being locked in there for Dacto is also makes the Gwend Band and Phase 2 make
a lot of sense.
Generally if you want to play a big meatball tank, banding away something like Gwend is
always a good choice.
Look, fudge with the NAR counter pick on that.
Again, this goes back to what we were talking about the start of the draft, choosing to
have the counter pick side of the draft means I better not see something lame that you could
the pick as your first pick as pick number five.
They get the mark in the sign on.
So now it's up to Fudge to guarantee that that choice
in the draft, that strategic decision has value.
Yeah, it'll be exciting to see if it actually does work out.
No, I feel like you have to really be so good at this championship
and to create big advantages, you know, really utilizing the passive
and the transform to get your health back
and just trading aggressively under tower, really punishing
for every single CS.
Because if you just kind of form even against the sign
for a while.
It's been a long time.
And then nothing, nothing you do matters.
And that's kind of just true of every sign I'm match up.
But yeah, we'll see if Griffin is going to go for the full, kind of like Solicuse style
builds, which will be dusting gone.
People really like Nivori, sometimes even as early as second, because once you have
dusting down, plus Nivori, you just straight up, kind of beat everyone one-by-one.
Like the cool of that reduction on that is ridiculous, you're just spamming out W non-stop, you know,
your equal down to that first solo, so it is super, super powerful.
And I'm super curious to see how this bot lane ends up going, especially with this
thrush pick and with Project and Mossy looking really well coordinated with each other in
that first game.
Okay, sales and be void losing a little bit of HP, your project and Mossy want to play
this so aggressively, but as the minions are just now really colliding for the first time
year. In the lanes we are waiting for Kangas who's standing by for an interview with
women's brother. On one second, that interview is coming up. The first plot
goes fly-quest gets paid. Moss who's got the first kill. Kangas, what is
Griffin's brother after say about that? Well, I'm here with Jordan and Griffin's
brother and sounding like game 2 is going over fly-quest and you flew all the way
out to cheer him on to tell me about what this experience has been like at the
right games are in a watching Griffin play. It's been amazing man. Seeing Johnson
play on stage has been such a pleasure. Yesterday we were at the
Black West facilities. They were very welcoming, watching him play and
communicate with the team. It's been really, really fun.
Now I know that you're older brother, 10 plus years on Griffin and you
started playing League together, correct? Well so I started playing
League Season 1 and I went off to college, left in my laptop and he
started playing, he started playing Rains. I came back and I think I was 22
or 11 and we started playing Rains together. We were five
I mean, you know, I hate gold, he hits gold.
He hits plat, I hate plat.
At some point, I could not catch up.
He just went diamond and masters, and I stopped there,
but it's been a pleasure to watch him climb.
Well, I know it means the world to him to have you here,
but I know there's a lot of people
that come cheer in him on and shout out to them.
Yeah, shout out to Chicago, man.
Everyone watching supporting Johnson, supporting Griffin.
Thank you guys all for watching.
Like what?
It's too low.
That's a Vermont spec, who can ask this?
to the top.
Some confidence there.
The two zero get caught as
punch.
Want to go for the wall up there
on to GACO's premises to see.
Back in the bottom lane.
It's Griffin.
Showed up for only a moment here.
But B boy and sales are safe for now.
That wall was actually so close.
They didn't look like you're just almost
tagged them.
And if they had that would have been close to a
kill because you're going to cancel the
kill you're going to get the auto after it.
And maybe be able to go for a flash ball
when it finished there.
So big deal that it did not hit.
but Mosson and Crige in back to back games,
crushing it in the 2v2,
I thought this was gonna be super favorite
towards Shopify based on the matchup.
When you pick me, go, you're playing
for the lane dominance, and it did not go that way.
Yeah, and I really loved seeing that really
aggression out of them, right?
With this, a fairly of thrash recognizing the windows,
they have to capitalize on any sort of hooks and pullbacks.
I mean, we expected to kind of be buoyant sales
as the bot lane coming in to be a little bit more of the stable one.
They've played together for a while.
This is their second year together, but Masu and cryogen are looking really
in step.
Yeah, they've been looking really, really good.
I think cryogen is the one who kind of have the least attention, least hype around him coming in.
People know Gat goes from last year being the sub for BIPO.
People know Griffin because of all the hype around him.
But cryogen, you know, I guess he just turned 19.
He used me if I just turned 18, but he has been around for a while.
hasn't played a tremendous amount of competitive. Only has those eight games of
NACL experience with talking to think Guardian thinks he has a lot of
promise and mechanically thinks he's really, really good and really has to focus
on kind of learning that more like shock calling style that you expect from
supports, you know, really often it is about support jungle in the early game,
dictating where you're going on the map, higher than play around vision,
and that's such a difficult thing to pick up really quickly. So it's going to be
about how could they do that. Well, I think it's karma did a perfectly fine job in
game number one. They were bullying the lane. They got that early tempo. They wanted
now here in game number two. It's all about the skills shots. Can we keep Moss
who protected and can we lock up those high value targets on Shopify rebellion? It's
a 500 gold lead here or just there about sport flag quest with no kills on the board.
As Zini is moving into the bottom side river. Keep your eyes on the road or
fludge down to 300 HV power shots. I try to train aggressively. Like we're talking
about earlier Isaac using the power shots with the bonus help from Megan on trying to keep
the pressure on. Yeah, you got to do that. You got to keep that pressure rolling here.
And Gakko's is going to go back to base. So if I'm just going to be able to crash this wave,
we'll see if Gakko's even uses the ultimate to get back to wave, or if he's just going to
accept that it'll lose a couple minions here.
The tenta dead send some cryogen, but no target. Griffin hanging around once more,
but he's only going to find a ward to clear out. And it does seem that we'll get the
Si on all tee back to the lane there from Gakko's not planning on needing that one to join
any sort of a fight here soon about halfway through the teleport time for him as well.
and he's going to be in some danger.
He immediately jumped over my Shopify rebellion,
but they don't have the first size.
We're close.
Back the other way has contract with low grip
and flash with the way people are from all over the mouth.
And city is down to 40% HP.
Blackquests look up for more.
They want the enemy ride for the game quite fine.
Them must be tagged people with a grab and done.
And they lock up the cork.
Flash of the wall keeps them alive.
Say it was in some danger.
Flate right back in the un-browled earth.
And Quad picks up another one.
Flag quest have a three-to-one game.
Nicely done there by Flag quest.
Sean fire really committed to trying to burst down Griffin, but the E came down.
He got that shield before they could actually get the kill off.
Contracts and sales both flash on it to try to one shot on there, but they couldn't
get the kill.
It meant they had to commit so much more to killing off this fall of air.
And while you're chasing off to this, no age will be ball of air in the back of the
pit.
You are getting roast it by the rest of the team.
Yeah, I mean, that gave Talia kind of a perfect window to get in here and do damage as
you see those flashes going down.
The squad is just going to lay down this wall,
hit the knockback right there,
which really just sets up the rest of this fight.
I also really liked Crouchen in this fight,
really trying to set things up on the Thresh.
And yeah, I mean, the,
the plan to end off back is really good from the Tullia
Thresh combo.
But definitely have to make sure that he is on the same page
with quad with you know who's doing what in what order right because you know the first
size of the shove pushed the hook out of the way you know the the flag can do the same thing
but really nice combo great skirmishing early on here in Gaccos definitely taking a
bit of a beating fludge is going to continue trying to trade aggressively here and this is
what you want to do you want to be in their face non-stop every time you're transforming in
the mega you're getting health back he has the fleet okay Griffin's in trouble again though
have to use the altar defensively over the wall and Shopify invade for the second spawn
of the red buff here in the fly quest jungle contracts is going to get away with claiming
that one has now Griffin missing the altar significantly less threat for his planes.
Yeah, and this should be able to set up Dragon for Shopify.
I was wondering, okay, when we see these mid laners roam right quad joining that river
fight previously, Ziny using the realm warp to get on to Griffin, he pinned down and then
and then be able to rotate up for Shopify to take this first drink.
So I like that we're already seeing the mid laners using both of their semi-globals
to join after their rest of their team.
Yeah, I really like it.
And I also just like the fact that contracts are playing around a better vibe.
The Sheen has been purchased now for Griffin.
But one of the awkward things about us,
can be on is that Bill Bath has a little bit weird.
So you know, you're sitting on a Kindle gem when they have tunneler on the other side
or a Kindle gem at a dagger.
It's just not that same amount of power that you are going to be having over on the side of the
on the side of the Zanzai.
Also, a contract is knowing yes that better buy, you know, using that mid lane movement
from Zanyan, just kind of getting in the face of the opponents here.
But once that item is complete, man, you are feeling pretty strong.
Dusk and Dawn is definitely one of the winners.
It feels like from all of the new season changes.
As boy grubs are claimed all three here for the side of fly quest, you can see grip and
activating the skryer plant next to the rave camp there that's shaking camp.
I still sometimes call it the rave camp from all those.
It's like bird camp covers all birds are rates birds. I don't know they're bird like nothing
We're like ghosts. Yeah, I'm going to rate the guy don't think ghosts. They could be they could be bird ghosts. Oh
Yeah, what if it's the ghosts of all the birds that got out of the camp?
That's got a grim
That's all they call them like when I do jungle passing for Jesus. I'm part of it. I mean to be fair that fits in the
Little what you call columns or boxes or nodes or whatever on a spreadsheet better than chickens does
Right. Yeah, you're the expert on there. I don't think that's one solval team birds. Yeah, there you go. All right. Well
We've also only got one kill on the side of Shopify rebellion. It's been a pretty quiet early game from them
And fly-question and join more than a 1000 gold lead because of it's a great claim. So he saw me in the early smoke and lost an unlucky
We'll look the other way. We didn't see it
Quad knows he's behind him though. That's a dangerous stuff. Yeah, quad throwing out the unraveled earth there prevents contracts from being able to charge
a lot of movements.
Then he's on a lot of
the one that he's on a lot of
t's.
I'm going to kick off the
t's.
That's too much audacious
way towards the fly
quest mid later and quad is
just fine does pop his
go stand up.
It's gonna have to use that
ghost has the phase rush
as well.
So obviously a lot of movements
be here when that does get
going and as much as every
time we pan off the top lane
flange feels like it's just
snacking back goes around.
It is 101 C S 201 C S and
There is your size, section to the on-mob.
It's a nice book, play in the mid lane, and bottom side, the 2B2 is a dump for
fly quest as well.
Five to one game now, and Shopify falls flat in two separate lanes at the same time.
And quarter-chit!
Threat the needle there with the dead sentence.
Monster is going to need a little bit more damage to finish off the kill and a single
lot of attack will do it.
Fly Quest, style and all of it in the 2B2.
This flag was violated so fun to watch, really making the most of this a fellow stretch.
They just seem so well coordinated and are taking every opportunity to try to make
Bivoy and sales life absolutely miserable.
I mean, that was just so well done.
They get the initial kill we miss most of that, but then this sniper cue threads through
on the mobile boy to be able to allow them to get the grab and move.
So we roots them up, sets up for that hook that cried in their nails, they get another
kill that is beautiful stuff laid down and it's coming through
back to back games from the flight was ballade. Last time they had to come back
this time they are just slamming them so both of them again same
how are you adding up? I guess you had no corner maybe you can't use the
coin with your root that's why I'm not actually sure about you know I don't
know how that interaction works but I'm assuming you just didn't have it
Mossive just backed it back sniper cues setting up grab some roots and
perfect votes there to follow from cryogen and then he realizes the
And it's still taking.
I can just walk through with the ghost,
power shot, not enough to knock him down.
Good shit, Mosso.
We're fine.
I agree.
That's probably about how I would
sell my brother's to a few locked in.
Mosso didn't even, he's like, I know.
That's clean cops right there.
All right, let me work.
This is all you need.
I feel like that's such an ADC thing, though, as
Brother, there's minions to kill like half a time.
And they're like, uh, Lions is typing him up, so I just just like, stony face farming.
So the observers did confirm. So he's Nico Kloom is just on cooldown. So he must have used it,
you know, in a trade or maybe trying to block a, uh, hook or something earlier.
Um, but I didn't have it, and uh, does get punished. Okay. So critically, we've got the second
to drink up the game about to spawn here in 15 seconds. Midlane and bottom lane
quests are completed for flycress. They are not for Shopify rebellion. Pretty big
difference in power there. I just like what's have to be a little bit mindful of
quads position. Stails does hit him up there with that all deep, but no, it's
Stails is Nico in trouble. As Griffin goes forward, he finds the kill.
Joe's back up the wall there with the Lantern State live for now. Shopify trying to
escape. Fudge not back with the size mixed job. Zinny's your next target. He
the last cone clears the wall. Nice placement on that one, but still it's only a
consolation prize. They've already lost their support and the control of the
outside river belongs to fly. Quads still looking for a little bit more.
Loss size McShuff won't fly. It doesn't make a smash prevents the counter attack
from Shopify and fly quests continues looking for any more opportunities.
They're already three and a half thousand go ahead and they just claim the
drink. I love this aggression coming out of fly for a straight because on the
the back half of that where they're still trying to chase after Zany in this mid lane.
They're also getting the Drake at the same time.
Really great use of all this bot side pressure.
They've been able to establish previously and as soon as they see the ability to go in,
Zayos has to use this defensively.
The rest of his team is not there yet.
So he dies immediately on the back half of this fight.
Yeah, pops the clone does try to get out, but Griffin guesses right.
And he can see when Gakos comes in, they have this kind of continued by midland, I guess
we're not going to watch.
But yes, there is some AP damage on the other side, like Ziny is a rise.
But for that fight, he had Merchats, a tear and a catalyst.
So you are not doing anything at that point.
And I like the choice Griffin made with the clones, because the other clone, if that
was the right one, if swung into the waiting arms of your teammates, even if he hits
the last one, he's dead anyway.
The bottom right clone is the only one that had a chance of maybe escaping.
So I think that Griffin made the right choice there 10 times out of 10.
Fly Quest up 3,000 gold still.
Just about 15 minutes on the clock.
7 to 1 score line early on here in this second game.
And Shopify has quickly got to find a way to stop this bleeding my friends because it
gets much worse.
They're going to be praying for fly Quest mistakes.
And that's it.
Yeah.
And what a different tale of the mid lane in this game, right?
as quad. We talked about him getting involved early with his team, with that to
live all as they're out. What to get on Fudge?
Yeah, Fudge has got to be careful here. Does manage to clear a little bit further
then sense does not hit the NAR.
Mosul has grab a tip, but he's got to be a big careful as contract shows up in the
way. He comes lightning doesn't find the right target.
Rip it is going to be left for dead.
Pop lost with foome sails. It's cryogen, but there's no additional damage.
Rip in the only casualties so far. The minion wave is crashed into the tier one.
to try to get away.
Monsters surely knows he's dead
year, but a beautiful dead sentence.
Means he doesn't die alone.
Critered in will fall.
And honestly, being punished,
coming out of Shopify there in a
three for one.
Yeah, and just as we were praising,
fly quest for being kind of aggressive
with in reason, they really over extended
on that topside play.
Where the rest of Shopify were able
to get in as we see Gaccos is
But yeah, this is a nice little calorie punch from Shopify.
The dust can don't really goes to your head, you know?
He's full built guys.
He was feeling himself.
I mean, it's a pretty big overchase.
The queue is going to expire.
He all's in, but the queue's done expires before even gets there.
Then the play comes out great sites that buy footage.
And now you are between two towers with everyone from Shopify coming in.
Mosu needs to kind of wait for them.
But if you kind to our back, he's getting hit by the tower.
So it's kind of just an impossible to play fight.
they almost burned down contracts. He flashes away from Mossy's
ulti board back by night. Yeah, we're already back to line. It was flash
from Griffin flash from Zany and there's a nook damage. We're up
to the ball. We better finish the kill on the rise. 30 second
death pymar. But what else can they get from it? There is still
turret standing at the tier one level top lane and mid lane. You
can see quite pushing out that top lane right now. No neutrals
to fight over. But a little bit of plate money on your already
fed Talia could help fly quest to accelerate this lead even more.
And we're talking about all the moves from Mossy last game. He's
a lot of this game too. Storm Racer rush.
He's playing fleet anyway with Swifties, right?
So he has a tremendous amount of moves.
Be, especially all of those prox for the fleet,
as well as that Storm Racer,
which is going to make it a lot more difficult to stick to him.
It's super valuable against champions like this in,
like the NAR, who are going to have trouble
actually getting through the trash, right?
You're trying to get in onto this guy through box,
through play, through lantern,
and that is going to make things really, really tough.
the game is nearly one and a half
thousand gold given the mid lane
four quats to the uh...
rilize serfs in chanted mercury treads
this tallya is feeling so strong and with sixty seconds on the clock
until the third drink of the game i have to feel like fly
quest as a whole is feeling confident in their ability to
say if it's a fight on even terms we went
i mean i just think it's so tough for for all these kind of
short-of-range shavings will define those
entrance into fights.
Okay.
Media all to come out from Griffin, give him the side mix, shove on contracts, not
him back into the team.
You want to take a free dragon, kill the enemy, John, who are contracts, he's going
to be spawned just in time for that timer, but he'll be trying.
Nice.
See these dead here, too, and things just aren't getting any better for Shopify, Rebellion.
A T.P.
Also coming in now from FlyQuest to reinforce the top lane, so Fudge doesn't get anything
on the other side of the map.
Yep.
and see if I want to go after.
Yes.
The flash of the stunt immediately locks him
and sails to the flash away from the lightning crash.
Means that he will not die there.
But man, flag, whether or not give it a room to breathe.
This is such a fun team to watch.
Yeah.
Like they're saying, we're stronger.
We're just going to fight you.
They're not going to any room to breathe, as you said.
Just constantly in their face,
nonstop forcing bites here.
You know, boys want to play like a slow game through
sidelines and rittle down towers.
You are not getting a chance.
catch you. You're right.
Lies slow to you are not in the way either.
All right.
Dragon is the target here for Shopify trying to get anything they can in a game that is getting
further and further away from their grasp.
The fly quest brought the whole party here too.
Fudge running low on the noir bar has quietens the target for B boy.
But he's not low enough health to try to burst and down.
Now the drake claimed by Shopify big move there from contracts hitting the smite.
The conflite was fine to anything afterwards.
It doesn't quite look like they're going to walk away.
So, chalked that one up as a win for the rebellion.
Yeah, I feel like Craging was really out of position there.
You're not playing Alistar, you're not a planking champion, right?
You need to kind of be with the team,
to step forward and half that threat of the hook,
to create space for your team.
So, being on the wrong side, I think,
be what place that, well, he realizes,
who cares, you can hook me and your biter, self, I'll kill you.
So, just pushes him out, makes it be,
that just that flip for the dragon,
and this time contracts gets the better of Griffin,
able to take that away,
which is really nice after we have him last year.
Yeah, and Bboy was previously down over one camera. He's completely back in the game
I believe after that top side fight
So if he does get isolated with someone like cryogen, it's gonna hurt like he will be easily be able to kill him off
And that was kind of the
This is this five-question is super fun to watch. I do think we will see
Some more tiny moments like that, right where someone's on
on the slightly wrong side of the fight.
But I am really loving just how they're establishing
pressure on the map kind of moving together
in choosing threes and just trying to pick off Shopify
where they can.
And I just think it's such an exciting start
two to year four LCS where we have these teams
that we're kind of not expected to have big performances
like DSG yesterday, you know,
flag-wester day teams that were having subs
or young players and you're kind of thinking,
all right, well, if you're gonna get there,
it's gonna take some time, right?
even talking to the teams, they thought it was going to take some time.
I did the draw show,
mostly when the guys grabbed it in,
literally was like, yeah, I don't think we're as good a shot
by the crowd.
But you know, he thought they could be later on,
but see this kind of a start, this kind of confidence,
it's just, it's just really, really nice.
It's what you want from a young team.
Impressive individual mechanics,
a lot of confidence just take fights
and try to outplay your opponents.
And you can kind of learn the rest of the nuances
of the game over time.
I feel like if there's any time to play fast and loose
and see how far your hands are going to take,
It's blocking tournament.
It's really here.
Figure out what your current limitations and your goals to break those should look like.
And right now, flight quest is putting on a solid early show and we have less than three
minutes until the next straight spots.
Baron obviously on the rip of the little bit of vision from both teams around that
topside area.
But it is more favoring flight quest.
Fudge wants to go for the mega-nar into the wall there.
Does force the flash out of quad in response?
We'll see if Shopify can turn that into an opportunity to target that Tulea in a future
teamfight.
So Griffin is just going to go more of a competitive style build,
dusk and dawn into tank, you know, has that unending despair.
So not doing anything too crazy, no quick blades, like you see,
and so look you a lot of the time.
And sometimes, you know, you're going to see even bad and then more AP,
but obviously like cosmic drive and things like that.
But this is more standard, and is still to give him some dueling power.
Okay, I caught again, going to be targeted by Fudge,
who flashes away from the seismic shove, wants to guarantee that killing
the flight quest mid-laner here nearly gets it.
the close isn't good enough quads for five to hundred
eight feet.
A's rush goes to realize it is a big
lose be difference. He just got a pop
ghost and ran right past them even
without being able to hit that
size and make show. So flush
forces the flash, but then loses
his flash on the next life. Yeah,
and while we have seen
Fudge be trying to go for these
kills as early as just the
super early 1v1 top lane, right?
It always seems like his opponent
has been able to escape this
fairly somehow. Yeah, and you
and I were talking about this
the
ground earlier. Yeah, which is so hard to do because you have a champion, a tank that has
three AOE abilities and an alternate as AOE damage and can get back to you lane faster
end of passive that also lets you get experience and clear up the way you've used
you die. So, but now maybe you get chased down. Yeah, the decimating smash knocks him up
into the air even though Griffin got knocked away there by the Megan R. Ulti, the
Vali Barrier is right back in business with the point and clicks done, decimating smash
on top of it makes it all too easy to land every other skill shot. Griffin's going to
take his third kill of the game.
Yeah, it always just feels like inside of me.
That's it to get to a point.
You're like, all right, you have five CS lead.
He is a thousand freeels.
Yeah, that doesn't feel great.
But fly quests are loving away things are right now.
Three and a half thousand gold lead.
Wave crashing into the tier two turret.
May it 25 seconds on the clock.
Until the next Drake spawns.
Gack goes going to collect more plate money from the tier two
in the bottom lane as well.
And with mid and bot lane, both shoved up.
The map is in the state.
You would want it to be for a dragon spawn.
Yeah, I mean, we've talked, as they had that slightly overaggressive leg on the top side, right?
But even with how they've been willing to hit the go button so frequently, they've actually been playing out this mid game pretty patiently, really trying to set up their sidelines, getting kicks when they can in them, and that's set up for this completely uncontested Drake, and now they're on so point.
Yeah, I'm just really concerned for Shopify, because even though Rise does scale well,
can be really powerful. You know, later on into the game, you're so short range
and there's so much CC over on the other team that is really hard to to think about a fight
where he can actually get into the back line, be hitting these carries without just getting
like flayed into unraveled earth and stunned and then ball of bare stunned and then sound
stunned and then, you know, like all of this stuff is really, really tough. So it feels like
you are depending now on sales and fun. Like you need flanking engages, you need that big
the back line needed to multi-man,
and made an R.
So, kind of create that chaos in that space
where as any in B-Boy and contracts can thrive.
Because otherwise, like, you try to walk at them,
there's just no chance it's ever going to work.
And you're looking at luxury items coming through
things like the McKails to try to keep them safe,
the lantern, all those kind of extra tools are there
that are going to make it so tough to knock down
some like Mossos on this super-ide BS build.
LDR is completely the already had as IE second.
So it's going to be really, really tough for Shopify.
to have deep vision great
teleports. I think to really have a chance.
All right. Well, in terms of teleports,
they do have it available for a
fudge over on the other side.
You can see also available for
Gapco's. Both midlaners are running
ghost. This game with no similar spell book.
It means that's really the only big macro
Summers we're looking at this game and
both the NAR and the Sion are now set up in
the bottom lane. Still three and a half minutes until
the next Drake spawns means that nobody
else really needs to hang out around here.
to have control over the top side river
and the barren pit here at the same time.
There is that one ward from Shopify.
That's immediately seen now by the control ward from
flight bust, so that's going to get cleared out too.
And now the pressure also starts to
mount for Shopify rebellion.
Could they be sneaking barren?
We've got to make sure that we've got vision on this.
Don't let him get away with it.
As it feels like the map and their influence of it
continues to shrink.
Yeah, it makes it super dangerous for Shopify to kind of go
of go in, as you see, cryogen still tracking, say, of fighting over vision in this parent pit
with how heavy and just how much this blacklist composition can lock you down. It just makes
it even scarier for Shopify to kind of go in and check these darker parts of the map.
There's just going to be hitting the bear and sales is going to get eyes on it, so
there are aware of it, but the question is can they do anything? But it is moving up,
we'll see how quickly we can get there. Yeah, blacklist wants to just get some kind of resource
This is out of shop.
A lot of food and contracts just loses a massive chunk of HP there about a quarter
of his health.
This is a lot of the atmosphere.
Griffins doing a lot of damage in the Baron.
Kriogen finds a dead sentence on to Zinney.
Shun's him down.
The Kriogen's also low now.
Gat goes into the middle of everybody.
Griffins coming around from the side and walks on to Zinney again.
Say, oh, it's on the approach.
But here comes the Weaver's wall.
Kriogen's alive into the fight.
A Shopify scatterer trying to escape.
Walk up onto only the clone there.
to everyone from Shopify gets out.
Zini and Fudge both Shopify and
SolarLators very low on HP.
Look at the flashes for missing
flashes from Shopify.
So they had to spend so many of those
tools and who are still available on the other side
that is going to right back to their and give them no
time at all.
And this is something I was talking about earlier
with the lack of teleports in this game.
It's much harder for Zini to get in here.
He has realm more criticals that distance
if he can.
Saio's still on the flank.
Fudge and people and looking for the opportunity.
But Fudge has no nor bar.
He has to fight as many North as they want to go in.
Contrast being chased back away by Griffin.
That's the bearinwell partially recent.
Griffin's a woo!
Nearly kills contracts.
Dancingly goes like killings.
Be right back over the grab.
Oh, there he is!
He's right there!
He's coming up on the fall and bear.
A double kill.
Had the knocks down be boy.
The bear is there and he just don't care.
Griffin will finally fall.
But it's a good death.
Oh my god!
I'm not going to start with one B2 with them there, man.
They pull off the bear and he just goes through the fight, knocks down contracts and then
takes you to the more of the team won't stop.
They are not done yet, a rampage for quad and sails cannot escape the fall out of the
fight.
So then he continues pushing up the mid lane here, but he's greeted by Moss who does have
purple gun.
Nobody else around the fly quest side means sitting is just fine.
Yeah, as we see this again, they do realm warp in immediately and
Griffin is just like I need to take
contracts out of this, right?
The curious thing to me is how long he survives
to be able to get that kill to contracts.
Goes right back in on to be going.
Well, the biggest thing there for me is the fact that
as he was going in, he ults in
and then flashes back into his sky splitter.
That's why he instant flashes back from the wall.
He was coming down.
So flashes back into the sky splitter gets the shield
is able to keep that fully stacked people
tempo up and just knocks down another one.
That room's sick from gripping and that is the power of the dusk and dawn. This item is ridiculously powerful in the right hands and
That's cool. That's cool. Good catch there from cryogen find sails and that is the real
Nico trying to get away not gonna happen. Quad is unstoppable and that sky's put it at your talk about a zel. That is the difference between getting the second kill. It is
It was such a small amount of HD sky split or more that accounts for that has now with the enemy support dead
One of those huge big engaged mechanisms. There's no way for Shopify to approach the barren and that's barren going the way of fly quest
That Shopify are gonna try to take the concession prize of the Drake. This will set them to sole point
But now they've got a whether the barren storm for the next dream. Oh, I just love how I'm very after after that duel that he had
He's like, you know what I want a little bit more
He's looking to fear some of what a great debut so far for Griffin at a slower start in game one but ended up being huge for them throughout the later stages and in the second game
He has been massive as any is trying to slip was trying to get something going but I just feel like they don't care at all
We've got everybody from FlyQuest minus GATGOS pushing up this mid lane, that inhibitor
gets claimed.
GATGOS is over in mid getting the second lane, Prime, and ready to go for the push
to rotate over right after.
But, is going to try to stop this one?
As FlyQuest decide, they are not going to continue fool pressing on this.
They're going to reset.
They're going to purchase, spend some of that money.
Still, GATGOS on quads, Talia, here in the mid lane.
on GAC goes to sign up there in the top side.
This five question is so fun.
I know we've said this so many times, but like it is amazing to just watch a team that just
believes in their own mechanics so much. The shocking thing for me is I just didn't think they'd
be this well coordinated, especially with how they wanted. Yeah, with how they played,
they've actually played out the map. Like team fights, yes, but just how they've played out
there's been so impressive for a team that's been
together for such a short amount of time.
It really is.
I feel like they're kind of just playing in this one
way where they're feeling like, okay, we are stronger.
We are going to force fight that is what we are going to do.
Quick place they're now done.
So River wants to fight anyone on the map and pretty much
don't lose one of you ones as long as you can hit.
Actualizer is done for Zini so that it's a pretty big spike.
You can find that perfect combo with that item active.
Yeah, actualizer is pretty nutty on rise.
you can get over 6,000
mana with this ridiculous thing.
You have two tier items alongside it,
but it's still a very, very uphill battle for the Shopify side.
Down over 5,000 gold, at least they do have
so point. I feel like it may be they can hold out and somehow secure the mountain.
So that's a much the only chance they've got here.
But flagplants have just been, get been playing
much more of a coordinated game.
Lossume staying safe there. Pull back to safety.
Shopify rebellion will defend the mid lane and
Texas. They didn't get the
McKails there off of cry.
Gensley did force that out
around the mossy with mossy.
Just kind of healing right
back up. The actualizer right
now went pop. It's 33% more
damage as well as 30% off of
his basic cooldowns. So if
rise combined, angle, there's
always a chance with this
item. Are they going to go?
They want the angle right
now. They're putting sails on
the flag to try to go in for
the pot loss of the fly
quest. Sniffs it out as
sails has to try to run away
from Griffin. Skies blitter
tags in for a little chunk of
damage. But he does escape the
see and that was that's
realm war that's your chance of catching somebody off guard and it just completely flounder. Yeah, it was kind of interesting because they clearly weren't confident to like fully send it in the fly quest. They were kind of trying to do it almost as like a pseudo flank. But that's always going to be marked and found out by one of these strong
flight West members. So it just didn't feel like they were willing to fully commit to it. And if you're not, you know how to chance. And Griffin will make sure that he auto attacks down. There's a plane inhibitor nearly gets it.
the way to stay alive, Sydney does not get hooked by the dead sentence, Wade crashing into the
tier 3 turret in the bottom lane here at the same time, but that one still about plenty of
plates left.
Fly Quest, putting attention between this mid lane inhibitor that only needs a quick tap to knock
it over and the bottom lane inhibitor turret where Moss is trying to keep the waves crashing
in, honestly, a little bit of a tragedy here for Fly Quest as that mid lane in his
standing and Shopify will take everything they can get.
And I mean, it could matter here in a minute because you talked about the potential
when the addition for Shopify is still probably getting mountain salt.
You're praying and you get a mountain salt somehow.
They can stabilize the game and meaning that they have that extra in
hip-up, but Galax still lost the top one, but at least it will be those two
hips down for when you're having to deal with that on the other side of
the map.
There could be a catch here.
Quadnaut, pepper to the air, but it's three pounds strike, flash
over the side of the shot from contracts.
A stasis from Quadnaut by an extra moment, but he is struck down.
to 1000 gold in the Zincel's pocket when he comes
lighting equipment is the next target time
with the Megan D'Aure in the wall and now they're going to take
equipment out as well but city dies in trade.
Black quest brings in the reinforcements, but Shopify still
get a two for one.
And sales should be burned here.
If they over chase, they can actually walk right into the
sneaker.
There's lots of ways caught in being really the first
to stay out and there's going to be any caring for
Black quest.
Massive mistakes at a massive moment and with 20
seconds on the clock for the mountain soul.
Shopify has found their hope and there are going to be
sprinting towards that Drake pit in that initial fight.
The knee survives for so long when Griffin kind of makes the
choice. Okay, Quad, you're going to die anyway. I'm going to
jump on to the rise. He survives just long enough for the
rest of Shopify. Here's where they think they get the catcher on
the clock. I mean, I just said, Quad was was playing with fire here.
Like what was he doing? He saw them in his face and he just
It's kind of stayed around for so long.
He's over that one day.
Everyone gets pulled in.
Griffin is an insanely powerful duo.
So it's one of the game.
But only if you can hit, he's just getting chained,
C, C, this fudge arrives.
And then they just lost track of where sales and B boy could be.
They had no vision in the jungle.
Walk straight in, B boy and sales,
didn't leap, Mossy that if they're only carry.
And this was all precipitated by this over extension from Quad.
He's just way too far up.
He's playing with fire, dies for free.
And now, soul is on the other team and you're in danger,
potentially losing this game.
The FinKard Head Scratch is the most appropriate
emotive at that sequence.
I feel like for a lot of fly quest fans,
because it does just seem like a silly blunder compared
to the coordination they have for the rest of the game.
But now, it does give Shopify a fighting chance here in game two.
They are still down three and a half thousand gold,
but with the mountain soul in their possession,
it pretty much makes up for that.
So let's see who's gonna have the better team five here.
has flag quest again seek to control the top side river around the barren pit.
Yeah, and that Drake that contract secured earlier in the game, becoming absolutely crucial,
allowing Shopify to catch, you know, really make the most out of that mistake from
Claude on the top side. Now they're right back into this. Okay. Okay. There it is.
Cat goes coming around from the side, wants to look at only a clone, not really anything valuable
there. Four fly quest to claim they will at least secure the scuttle crab as they
reward. But Shopify disengaged there very cleanly. Another clone going to be used for
scouting purposes. Finds the control ward in the brush. Death sentence attempted there
in case Shopify got a little bit too antsy with their vision clearing. And now Zany, you know,
since we last checked in, has a full voids that. So he is really going to be serving
a herk the frontline. As the actualizer, you know, obviously is on those four fully completed
terrible as now Shopify have begun to bear and they've got it down to one third
eight year.
They got to try to burst this or are they going to risk a flip say it's coming
around for the flag contracts in the middle of everybody but where's the
follow-up pop-loss of Shopify got to be careful now as flag was
continued to defend people if firing off some rockets.
Quack goes over the wall the weavers wall trying to create some chaos
bunches blocked up the making our transform just in time.
He should still die here another rock is thrown and fudge is gone.
and shopify rebellion on that
call on the wrong side of the
map. It's contracts. Sayos
in B boy at a 3v5. They're going to
need some kind of miracle years.
This is going to be the end of the
challenge. Moss is going to go mid
because these death timers will be
delayed. The rest of the
flight quads is confident in their
ability to 4v3. There's still
40 seconds on both that players
for the rebellion. And now
we're waiting three more try to
engage on to Griffin. Plenty of damage here as B-boys first to die. Resurrection comes through
on contracts and sales is going to drop next. Contract can't get away and monsters position
in the enemy base. Since fly quest off for the win, most people do plenty of work.
Cactos is going to show up with the T.P. to help them. And fly quest recognizing their chance
We'll stop any Shopify home and the new flyquest rebuild starts 2026 with a tune up and
we're talking about retail. They're already on one. They're already here.
This was so much fun to watch, so much aggression, handsome mistakes, but just gonna
plot through it. They just kept going, so much aggression from these youngsters on flyclist
really just made it a super exciting series. And the most important thing isn't that you've
never make mistakes right because you're always going to make mistakes in any game of League of Legends
but the most important part is just how this team bounced back. After being set behind in game one,
after that kind of if he was getting caught out on the top side in game two, they still stuck together,
unable to follow up. Congratulations, guys. Good day, dude. Good job, man. Good stuff from a new roster.
The youngest roster like we already talked about clearly the lights aren't too bright.
The nerves aren't too intense.
They're seeming to have a great time out here and for Shopify.
I think you can look at that first 15 minutes of game one and be happy with how it played out.
Even though you obviously need to be critical of the team fighting and the team decision making later on in that one.
Game number two and they were presented with the opportunities to get back into the game when Black Quest did give them the angle.
They fought back, but obviously still plenty more practice, plenty more
vodka in the future here for Shopify.
Yeah, I think Shopify's bot lane is not going to be happy with how the series went
today.
They got absolutely clap.
They felt like in both of the games really got blown out.
Here is that final fight.
You know, Shopify decided they're going to try to look for a turn here.
But to me, so much of this fight was about Mossu and what he is able to get done.
He's so strong at this point that he can kind of just go forward and look for a duel later
on with any Griffin and Quater able to section off.
But the top of the screen wasn't as so many truckers next that he just kind of goes in flashes on zinny's face knocks down the rise
Everyone else is then isolated and they recognize
All right, we need to kill them at this point. Mossu just goes towards mid
The rest of you didn't even make sure they can't face to the game zone
Yeah, I feel like the play with Mossu here was just perfect because all the time that Shopify is now wasting a flight quest
The shoes on the other foot. It's Shopify is ways to time
but they really wish they were home right now.
But it didn't work out for a flight quest took the win
and we're joining Jack at the fan zone for an interview.
Thanks, flowers, I'm here with Kraujin
after that win here in the fan zone.
Karma and Tresh were more importantly at 2-0.
How are you feeling after the debut?
Honestly, it feels really good to come into my first match
and kind of like, I mean, I think we kind of dominated them.
I think we played really well.
It's really showed off how much we've been pricing the scrims
and I'm glad that we came up with the doctor.
watching it. It seemed like you guys were fearless and very aggressive. How have you
adopted this mindset as such a young team to have so much confidence in this kind of
it seems like you're just fool sending it at every moment? Um, I think a lot of the calls
come from the confidence of Griffin Griffin gives us a lot of like adrenaline when it comes
these fights. Sometimes we, you know, we can hold back a bit, but um, usually with the fights we take,
you know, we make sure that we are playing accordingly and still playing to our plan and their team
calm. And in that last game got a little bit interesting. You guys gave away the soul. It looked
little rough, but then you were able to clutch it up at the end. How was the, how were the nerves
late in that game, too, as it seemed like the lead might have been going away? I mean, I think
we were still all really confident in the game. We had Massey was really fed and he was playing
a field list and it's like six items. So although like we did kind of had a mess up,
other bad buff where it was, I think we were so confident in winning it. Awesome. And I know a lot of
expectations, people didn't know what to expect at this flight list team because you guys are too
But you behind the scenes playing screens being with this team.
What are your expectations now for this year?
I think we're going to do great this year,
especially this first play. Everyone was kind of,
you know, doubting us and having like lower expectations
and obviously the old roster, which is pretty fair.
But I think what people forget is that we're all really still really talented
and really young and we're here to fight.
So I'm really confident about this year.
I'm amazing. Welcome to the LCS great scene.
You guys play that first game.
We're going to head to break now on the other side.
We're going to have a line versus your guitar's making their debut.
I'm gonna come and check for it.
Red Bull gives you wings.
I'm going to talk about that last game, I'm in front of the
teller's trainer blocking some crucial stats.
I feel you have to spend, right?
Big point of the game.
Yeah, like I'm back side of the show.
Yeah, most damage goes to ball of air.
So the 25K of the failures, he was actually so strong,
Griffin. This game, it was, it was wild to see.
They did a little bit of a throw ski, but they were fine in the end, too well.
I think that's going to happen, right? I mean, it's the best situation to be in when you're a young team who makes the mistakes, but then doesn't get punished for it.
Yeah, right? Griffin flipped, crab and game one, lost the flip, lost your level set,
The first Malphite died, came back one, this game, they throw away the giveaway soul
because of some bad decisions, win again, player of the game for both games in that series.
Was actually the young gun Griffin.
So what did debut in the LCS for the entire flight quest team, I chopped a crowd
in afterwards, he's also super confident, but Griffin I think is the stand-up.
Look at that, hit 800 DPM on the WCong and 700 DPM on the Wallabair, which is insane.
I do want to give cried in a little shout out though, not a Phelous thrashling was going so
well for them. And his coordination with Mossy looked really, really good.
That is the expectation changer immediately. The fact that what was I felt like he
strong last year from sales and B-boy. Yeah, they're going to game two. Get completely
stumped by the affiliates and thrush. Like cryogen, I think came into this split looking
amazing just off of right off the get go alongside Mossy. So any expectation of how this
ball lane would go. I think immediately is kind of cast aside, but also this team being as
scrappy as they are, they have a crazy chance of being able to claw back in the game.
Yeah. I'm feeling good about at least some of my predictions.
Yeah. I had sent me those at the four in the power rankings. They lost it. Yes, you
had eight. But I put flight quest third. Miles, I'm like people are sleeping on
massive and quad. Those guys are actually still good. Yeah. We gave them first team in
second team all pro all year for our reason. It wasn't just because they won games,
just because they were good. And the young guys seem good. But we should move on to our next game.
and butt fantasies.
Yeah, this is a meat rat, it's not doing so well.
I triple that the top five.
Excellent.
Power Fox as well is on Dignitas, but they're playing with mobility and breezy.
That is not their intended starting roster, most of the FBI and Ignar.
But here we have the player of the year on his new team inspired entering with Dokela in
the top lane.
Also former LCS ND People's Zerker returning to this job, so line is throwing down.
they completely shift things, they only bring back one player from last year, they're
going big this year.
They are.
I mean, you're going for your big three in Berserker, St. in Inspired, like, with how
well, St. performed last year, the biggest question was going to be, if they were going
to basically pick up a championship, championship team around him and if line could do that,
is it how, yes, we can do that.
And then some.
So I felt like this roster immediately created a lot of excitement, not in from the Latin American
community, but from the community, it's like, well,
line just came into the league.
Yeah, and immediately is making that big play.
Yeah, and then obviously,
Dokela coming in for us in video.
I was shocked when Dokela didn't find a team going into this split.
Yeah. I thought not only would he such a huge difference
maker for a hundred of these domestically,
but he performed really well at worlds.
So I'm super excited to see him on this line lineup.
A couple of things that I need to see from this team,
who pull up predictions.
I'm been predicting line,
make up because of the former MVP's on the roster.
on the roster and because they can toss,
not only do they don't have their intended bot lane,
they don't even have their coach here, as well.
Oh, it's pretty good for you.
It's pretty good for you.
So we're too close across the board,
but the big thing that I'm going to be watching
for lying in this game is who are they playing through?
Yeah.
Because the biggest change for inspired is Bipo,
was a massive amount of pressure.
He created so much space in the top lane.
And Doppler was amazing on 100thease,
because if he's a billionaire, play weekside.
Yeah.
And absorb pressure rather than create pressure.
So I want to see, is there a bottom lane going to be able to
advantage is state going to be able to be very aggressive. And what is this new look going to be for inspired with completely different
laners because we know how smart he's about the game. That's a great question because for me I think they should be playing
through the ball lane. I think Brzirker and I was I was as a great mind for the game and even though he was on like pretty rough
teams in the past. I think this is a great opportunity to be with a four mbp in Brzirker. Like that's a crazy
ball lane to be able to have to be able to play through that being said inspiring all points of his careers had like a
a middle and that he's always played alongside, true.
So it's tough to see.
Yeah, for me, I'm most curious about jungle mid, right?
Because we already identified St. as this really massive
linear. He was such a high point of lion last year
his individual plays. And I am curious to see, again,
these are two people who definitely want resources,
whether they able to coordinate if they are.
Yeah. That's going to be really difficult for other LCS
teams to deal with.
Yeah, we believe we have a little bit more time.
I thought we were going to be heading straight to the game,
But I think there's a slight delay.
So, Dignitas is a fascinating team for me
because of California.
Yeah.
Like the Paliphoc story last year was so fascinating
to me because this is a former LCS champion.
But statistically last year, there were only eight.
Yeah.
Well, there's nine, because I think someone played as a sub.
Somehow he's ninth and gold, if it's a 14.
So, he was just not doing well statistically,
but he has confidence in himself.
He believes he brings a lot of intangibles to the team.
And at the same time, everyone was talking about this big upgrade the shop
that I was going to make getting rid of Halifox bringing in, they just started
though two. So, yeah, the trajectory of the team he left versus the trajectory
of the team he joined is going to be a hot top of conversation because fans
love to talk about Halifox when he does badly, but he has one lot again in the past.
So, he's just, he's just a fascinating character for him.
I felt another hot topic of conversation is ex-you returning to the big news house.
Right, because we all kind of heard him publicly slim, dig, the org.
I know things have changed kind of around the management of the team,
so XU kind of returning to that initial org.
I'm also curious to see how he does with Cal Fox.
I guess I'm always looking at Jim Lomid.
Mid being just such an important part on that.
But I think you're very valid to do so, because both of these players have had moments,
like the silence plays from XU and also like the
little blunt into the like the zigs.
Yeah, yeah.
So like they have moments if they can put it together,
we gotta see it.
I want to see it.
So we're going straight to the games.
Oh, and welcome back to the Riot Games arena for our second matchup
of the day.
Lion versus Dignitana.
So let's go ahead and meet the team starting with our
Latam or representatives Lyon in the top lane, Docla, jungle, and Spire.
Midlane, Saints.
But the Zerker and in support, Ios.
The opposite them on the rift today are dignitas in the top lane photon jungle XU midlay
Pelophox at bot mobility and support breezy
You're not one more time for Dignitas, take it out of the line!
And welcome to the right games of Rida, I'm Kangas, he's Kobe and we get the last series
of week one of the return of LCS.
We do and they can also try to return as a very different looking team.
You see, you have to climb it like about that.
They call this an opportunity.
They change the font to cursive to be more classy as well.
They got the colors.
Yeah.
And it's all looking good.
This organization is, you know, it gets a lot of criticism.
But they have basically tried to rebuild everything.
And it feels like this year they're trying to change the whole story around
taking a time.
So it has been very negative for a while.
You know, put bringing in Jonathan as a new GM as well as, you know, trying to rebuild this roster.
Yeah.
With some former energy.
See, I've brought a couple of things.
I have two ESubs in the bot lane, but we are expecting FBI and Ignar later on, but I'll
give you a moment to rebuild from the top down because I was looking back at the tapes.
This is Dignitas' sixth major rebuild in six years since rejoining the franchise league.
They've had three or more roster changes every off season.
yet again now with only foe contactly returning who is kind of a sub for them in the summer
coming in late but it's a top-down rebuild Jonathan new GM coming in which is something to be
excited about but it's also a rebuild for the opposition in a lion as well. A rich rich rebuild
yeah it feels like for a lion because they came in and they just dropped cash.
Big bags of cash they're like you know what inspired is the MPP of your whole league?
We're gonna buy inspired. Oh, is that correct her? He was an MPP of your league?
We'll bring it back. We'll get back. We'll never have that Nazi-esque, but technically, always been here.
They tried to get some moody in. Unfortunately, it's a moody with some more visa issues, and so they decided we're going to buy Dokelet.
Dokelet is trying to, okay? You got a lot of you!
Big ol' social media clicks, so we get big Doke's back here as well, and it just is like, you know,
Lion have come into this season and said, hey, this is our time.
We are going to make a bid to win the LCS.
That's a very helpful.
St. was an extremely good carry for this team.
So they kept him in mid lane and they want to build so much
around it here.
Get some more threats on the team and spending
bit to buy inspired.
Let's see if it works out on the rift because a lot of people
are a little bit worried if the personalities will mesh
on this team.
It's spite everyone recognizing that the skill level
of individual players over there is very high.
If you just look it on paper, it's a great roster.
I also who we haven't mentioned yet has played with a
Pizzaker way back in our cloud nine when he was switching time with
Winsom. So reuniting in the bot lane. We've seen how good they've
looked, but how good will the team mesh together? We're going to
get our first glimpse of that now. And I'm definitely looking at
top lane. As you mentioned, folks on stage on the team, rumble here.
rumble is a primary pit for top lane right now. It is worth
investing in. They're going to go for the Orianna side of the
Azir trade because Azir is banned. And so then your force
into something like are we going to do a riser to Leah angle here for Lion?
Personally, I like when St. is on some real hard carry champions with mobility as
well.
St. loves to play high resources. He's like, give me the money.
Yep.
I'm also going to win you the game.
I'm going to make some big plays and so we'll see.
So it ends up being that straight.
I was talking about they do go for Dokela having the rumble and there's a lot of
option to go for with Rumble. You can build like a
Yone for Saints and try and do one of these
dive comps. That would definitely fit the build
without talking about we're saying, you know,
some of these big carries that have lots of
mobility there as well. Classic combination of
the spicy hot pot with Jonathan Catholicism.
Yeah, we've seen this one before.
It would not be surprised to see that locked in.
And there we have a top and jungle for lie in,
which means dignitas. They already have that
oriented. They won't have the J4 combination with it.
But whenever I see this midliner, I always think how
can you pair with it?
XU and Halifox is gone.
Way, look for the denog way, man.
True.
We can bring that one back.
Or the woo, way, woo, way.
The woo, way, yeah.
It doesn't have to do a shotgun.
The shotgun, oh, OK, these are all good.
I got a shotgun.
I kind of like that.
It's like a skin that they would make for Luke home.
Yeah, yeah.
That's that Luke home, the ball.
And get some big, big engages.
Anyways, full time goes for the Cassante matchup
in the rumble.
Not one of the exciting ones can guess,
but it does get the job done.
You see that safe tank up there.
Interesting to know, because I look at a photon shampoo
last year.
We only saw him for one summer.
He only played a tank once out of all of his games.
It's usually bruiseers.
He played even like clad things that were a little more unique.
So I would say not be normal or average to look
from what we saw last year's photo time.
But of course, different build of big Cosmore practice
with him.
This is right in line.
What we want from St.
Big damage carry with lots of mobility.
He's got the play making.
He has the mobility and a colleague has side lanes
from a C over Oriada. Yes, like you can gank with
jargon and you can try and get kill windows,
blow Oriada flash early on for the
acolyte and see if you can get a kill
angle there, but especially later into
the game, you can definitely have a lot
of threat for sidelines and get a little
bit dangerous for the Oriada. So I'd like
lying here with the attack focus. They've got
lots of dive angles, a colleague Rumble and
jargon all very good at diving low
mobility carries like the Oriada. It is
two AP solo laner, so I mean, the easy itemization for
photon, but Falifox is going to be the one with the target on his head.
And now, line get a fan away.
Some of these more high mobility, 80 carries.
Cause like you mentioned, if you have low mobility as a team,
this team from line can get on top of you.
As you're taking off the table already,
it won't be surprised we see more in line with that.
Yeah, definitely agree there.
Meanwhile for the supports here, bending up the Lulu.
So they're expecting some hyper carry on the side of line.
that is the style that everyone knows and loves from
berserker how is area how he earned earned is MVP over here so
you know digotoss very wary of that and they're not targeting
berserker's actual 80 carries it's the supports that are going to go along
with that and taking away that little loop okay yeah this is another
kind of defensive tool not necessarily in the 80 carries hands but it
can help protect an 80 carry does mean some of the more defensive
options are so available if we want to play something like
hypercarry of the patch also has their own
uh... man it actually does suck that we have a player name mobility now
because we do use that to her
we do use that to her
and you did lock in a champion that has mobility in the game as well
so
there are no they've got dive on both sides now
we get to the wukong oriana
uh... shockwave initiation and the kaisa follow up here
they don't think out stars of no brain are here for breezy
yeah and i love the uh... idea that we kept saying oh i'm mobility
to try and kite back, dodge, whiffening,
it's now just follow up on your own engage
because there's so many tools on Dignitas
aside now that if they can find these
text themselves, suddenly the Mootlo mobility
rumbled a Yenara have the target on their back.
But again, expectation definitely skewing more
lines I just based on the names on screen
with the barred at the final pick here for Isles.
So many things that Lion have where they can burn
Oriana flash.
Barred ultimates at Jarvan Gakes.
Jarvan and barred are so good at attacking Oriana.
So I think line here. They've got a very clear game plan. You know, you know, that Saint likes to win the game
We're being very rich and being the focus on the team and so they are gonna put a lot of pressure on
Palafox's I would say F key, but maybe he put it every time on the day. Yeah, I'm an F key gamer
First lay up for flash, but I love that that was first picker dignity to us for Palafox
the player that we just heard the lounge talking about those were stats he was
9th place in one of those stats and it leaked with 18s because of the multiple
mid laners that we saw throughout the year he did not have a great 20 25 he's
hoping to turn it around now but some clear focus from Lyon to say isolate the
Orianna lock him down it's going to be a tough game for Palphax take it back to
the stage year 26 and people really anticipating that it might be a full
tough series for getting a toss but Jonathan he has to be the coach on stage
because they couldn't chip their coach in either.
He mentioned the video last week.
He's like, yeah, I'm going to be doing my best with draft,
but it'll be mostly the players.
So I'm expecting a lot of comfort picks today.
Yeah, definitely accomplishing that.
Also Dave Toss, again, with the new look, you know,
they got the new jerseys, Johnston, where the shades on stage
try to be intimidating, uh, uh,
there's something like that.
That's something like that.
Hey, at least they win with the jerseys, though.
That is the biggest thing for Dave Toss right now.
is the drip on stage and now I'll hope in the dream against a thraster
Bill to challenge the championship.
Okay, guess lie in versus Dington tock game one.
They got the war down, but it's an early-game
Allister and already I'll land the stun mobility using the barrier.
So that's something to spell down to start off landing phase.
Why didn't they go back up?
They put a ward in there and it got swept.
Yeah.
You know you lose your level one Alistair.
It's about sending a message.
We don't care about barrier that's our message. We don't need someone to get it.
Ooh, breezy also taking a rough trade there. And we're going to be watching some bot lane early on here.
I'm reminded for everybody still that this is an emergency sub bot lane situation for dignity toss.
I got a child with breezy ahead of the game. He did have a decent enough practice with them, but
It looks like an emergency.
It's an emergency.
You're hitting the button already.
Oh boy.
He's in his post city.
I still pair here already.
Holy moly.
Okay, back to your story though.
I like that story, okay.
So I'll mail me with some info.
Because we see Breezy trying his best to keep
mobility safe down here.
There's just a, well, welcome to LCS.
Mobility and Breezy both of us.
Actually it's Breezy second time.
He did play for Seal G Academy back in the day
and got one stage game.
And LCS, I like to call Breezy kind of the,
the best support you've never heard of,
because he's played for so many years into your two at the Academy Challenger level.
And it's now getting another shot here to show what he can do at the LCS stage.
Hopefully the rest of Lanyfans goes better for them.
Alistair early on notoriously weak and they're already down a lot.
Yeah, that's all good.
Oh good. No heal, no barrier.
But they got their flashes, no potions either for them.
Meanwhile in the mid lane, it's also good.
Trading very heavily here.
So let's see if, you know, first angle for Jarvan is going to be
towards men, oftentimes when men let us ward your raptors like this, if you look at the
mini map, and just dropping the ward inside raptors, it still leaves a lot of angles,
especially for champs like Jarvan. Yeah. In the early game here, there's going to be some
decent options for inspired, of course inspired. As you know, always wants to keep up his farm
and be very efficient. So you get a little bit of time after your full clear and your first
crap. And we'll see at the moment, because bottom lane pushing up four line, plenty of defensive
towards here for taking a toss through that side.
But the wards are just going to give them info that yes inspired is taking the
bombside crab. So XU can just trade on top top top top top.
Fox people are catching some trouble right now.
But has actually behind him and she was already going up towards that top
scuttle. His bot lane's already shoved in. So it does not want to
contest for that one. And Halifox very low.
I want to see some flash plays here mid lane. Oh, I've watched.
You can tell he is eyeballing that kill angle. Okay, we'll go for the
recall, wave is pushing towards the Saints, so he's feeling good on the
Akole just recall back, both of them, and both junglers here getting their
respective crabs, so no extra damage done there.
Well he didn't go over the Flash play, but I'm hearing that we actually have a quote from
inspired ahead of the game, giving St. A little pep talks, so let's listen in on that.
5-check, look at the vibe, 5-check, they're you particular?
You think I'm nervous?
I don't know, bro.
I just ask.
Just think about what do you want to do?
When wave come, just think, okay, should I push?
Should I not push? Should I trade?
And it will be easy.
I'm Jack from tired.
Same thing, like, you think I'm nervous?
I mean it's fun to see inspired in a new environment because obviously we've seen them on two different teams. I was saying, oh, actually, this is two of the minions right there.
and I'm not going to
get a little bit of a
little window, but
playing into the way.
I'm not going to commit
to it.
Same takes a rough trade.
That's to go for a back
there.
But I love inspired to
already take a very
vocal personality role on
the team.
We saw him go from EG to
fly west.
Great success in the
transition.
This is now another time.
We can see him move to a new
org and see can he maintain
that kind of argument for
go to the west.
It's basically him and
caps right now in terms of
current form of like we
of the game and is such a leader.
That's one of the reasons why people were curious
as to how this lion roster is going to play out internally.
I do like the interaction where we say what's going to look at him
and he's like, yes, you know, it's part of telling me
to think about what I'm doing.
Yeah, okay.
I got you.
I'm going on a screen.
I have that.
But let's catch up on what's happened to elsewhere on the map.
So far, top lane is top lane.
It's going to be an island for a while.
Bot lane, no deaths have come through it.
It is a sizable lead for his or her.
But no building breezy, have at least been able to survive
the early landing phase.
Now inspired is down there, though.
It's not a big one-be-one top lane.
Doppler, losing out so far on the trade,
both on Big Damage and X used them in an level five on the WooCon.
Doppler sites have to turn to up a strike.
Flash is a way out to the wall!
Not enough damage.
Doppler lit.
The critical side step here on the Doppler strike.
Doppler with the microjuke strike.
there. He's able to live flashes away and he didn't even just flash away. He
trade flashes away to from. So that's a scenario where you just got
games, not only did you live, but you went positive on Summoner Spel.
Mm-hmm. If I am inspired, I'm honoring Dokela. That is my, that is my, that's the
thing I love to see the most. As a jungler, your top winner gets games and
and he's not only does he not die, but he goes up Summoner spells and he's calm.
This champion that really relies on level six for kill angles is not going to have flash for his ultimate use.
This is, you know, that's a big ghost play right there.
Yes.
We'll have flash for the grubs, because that's if they want to go for it.
And else it just gives so much time for inspired to get that dragon.
So early objective lead now for Lion plus a small gold lead.
that's just being in the bottom side here
as Bizzerkra and Hiles yet again,
shoving another way.
And Doklet is definitely a story
that we should take a while,
because I honestly thought that with how well
he played at worlds, I know people said,
oh, he played for the team,
and it was more about him like leading
with objectives and stuff.
Honestly, I thought he just actually played
really good individually,
and someone would be once scenarios as well,
and thought it was crazy that he actually did
not at the beginning of this season have a team.
So it is very unfortunate for Zamuto, by the way,
again, more visa issues.
And he is not going to be here indefinitely, basically.
But the bright side of it is that at least
the Dokelet does get in here to the LCS,
does get to return and already shown some fancy footwork
on top side.
They weren't able to get one most valuable prospect
from tier two in.
So they got the different most valuable prospect
from tier two in as a docle. I mean, if you're going to have a substitute top
laner, what a great one to pick up. I echo your sentiment of how good he looked at
worlds. And I think that he's the type of personality that can also work with the
team like Lyon, whether it's going to have a lot of hop personalities. When we hear
player side by dope, let's usually like, he's a fun guy to have on your team. So
cool to see him up there in the top lane as I also breeze your hovering mid lane
right now. The grubs are on their rifts, but need a jungler there right now. Look,
like sports might be roaming up towards it,
but they will head back to bot lane instead.
As Boachongaers are now passing up towards the top.
Yeah, I'm inspired already.
You got the objectives under control here.
He's got top side, scuttle crab, as well as the grubs.
And his top winner, Rumble over here, has ultimate.
Rumble can have a very big impact from very far away.
Saints got to get away from the damage.
Yeah, he has the perfect execution.
He's like one's available for XU and inspired there
in the back pocket.
It's the same.
It doesn't have to burn anything big.
We'll just back away, but that doesn't mean it's fired.
We'll not get all three grubs on contest if he gets the first one.
Now, XU, contesting for another.
It's might's coming up soon, and now it's fired.
Has it, but one taking away, XU fixed that up,
and Gage comes in from same.
Cycle and offensively, XU has to jump over the wall with the warrior trickster.
And that means lie in now.
You can go for the other grubs.
Yeah, there you go.
Easy, P, Z, for them.
They also rotate over barred ultimate.
use some extra flashes. No Orianna Flash. Remember, Gengas, when we're drawing up these
teamcamps, that was one of the points where it does seem like lying our well-equipped
to attack. So the Orianna now with no flash has to worry about, you know, jargon ganks,
as well as barred roams constantly because, Saint, next time that ultimate comes back up,
Orianna is still not going to have flash and you look for kill angles.
bar and ultimate so easy to land on a low mobility midlaner like Orianna.
Wow.
Little movement speed boost.
But that's pretty much it.
As another back for St now using the home guard,
it's a great effect.
The change of home guard means that you get your left punish for
back as a midlaner and you get back to lane so much faster,
but he actually does stick around here for one and more,
actually gets them down to the power boxes well,
all of the box might get ranged to find something here.
Not going to commit, I didn't have the ultimate available.
Actually so both midlaners will just back off.
think it's almost all the way right there and it's going to get a better recall this time around going gunblade
a colleague getting gunblade back in it's basically like cannon and a colleague the you know the hybrid ninjas
out really have enjoyed the the return of the gunblade they are both ninjas I do I never think of cannon as an
ninja I guess yeah yeah uh as well as those two the ninjas squad I think we're going to get another one soon
We have to expand the ninja.
And then you have four hits.
Yeah, give me support ninja.
Yeah.
We need one.
We need more ninjas.
It's been a while, I feel like.
Let's see about inspired though,
because all of his camps have been cleared.
That's when you know, he's looking for some action.
Yep.
Sharven here, get back out to it.
And we do still have no flash on PowerFox.
He should safely close with the hour and be safe.
But it's probably just kind of hovering
because he has the extra time to look.
Yeah.
All of them has actually played this lane pretty good, even without the flash.
He's positioning defensively.
He's in an awkward spot if inspired was looking for it.
He's now spotted not playing here, so there's more information for Palo boxes, both on
uses the all out right there, and Dokla not really in danger.
Exes coming back though, so the danger increases exponentially when the jungler gets
here.
The wave is already cleared though.
Yeah.
And he's got the equalizer for the next wave, sorry, nice.
Dokla's been the target twice now.
They're still going to commit to this ain't going to have the way flash an X to your
cycle and go time trying to take up as long as he can and that it's first blood egg
Oh, it is!
The turn name is barely not enough, but perfect execution mid, St. Picks up a kill and
train.
Oh man, this, that had actually failed pretty good off on top lane again.
Yeah.
That would be a mental breaker, but thankfully for that, it actually succeeds this
time.
The only drop-back in this is that they lost so much more on the other side of the
and not only might just die here as well,
the exhaust for the slow-to-life of the cosmic bind name
and miles with the kill credit,
rolled on the bar to another kill to lion.
So you got donkla, but the cost was,
you basically gotta lose the game now.
Yeah.
But they got donkla.
They did get big donkla.
It's okay, so I'm wondering if,
so donkla, if you walk away from the move on the little earlier
because float on was taking tower,
maybe he avoids that last little bit of damage,
But basically what's going to hit that last, uh,
a toe post strike, that's the trigger here
and actually then flashes in.
Yeah.
Um, so close to out playing it.
If you'd maybe maybe do very little flash that,
but regardless, it was really worse.
The place on the other side of the map
were so big for a line with them getting that kill on the Orianna
who did not have flash and then also getting so much
on Bob's side of the map.
And if you think about it, it's like,
gold on the blue cog, you're playing towards your Cassante
top lane.
Yeah, you're putting the rumble a little behind.
But now the two dragon stack for Lion and they are getting gold.
Else for on the bottom half of the map, which has been winning out so far.
No kill on Berserker yet, so.
But he's actually still to point 3K ahead of mobility, just based on Laney.
Because towers also, true as kills.
They added the first blood and first tower bonuses back into the game.
Yep.
And I for one, a huge fan of that because it really feels meaningful once again,
rather than those little, those little quests.
and no plates take in from Dignitas aside.
They haven't shoved in the entire Laney in phase.
So that's all the plates, plus the first turret gold.
Good cat, Pizzurker is a rich in a gary.
That is the emergency button that we were spamming early on.
And now you're in that territory where
everyone remembers Pizzurker as the MVP of the league.
It was in positions like this.
You know, you know, you know,
wasn't actually in the game yet.
So it was more like Xary or something like that.
But resistance similar to this. Oh, as he almost just soloes a mobility right there
Resurker have any fantastic starts today's return to the LCS
You weren't keeping track of the berserkers journey last year. He was planning the LCK
Kill the day
It's gonna be sitting at digs hitting it berserkers laughing at it as he's gonna get more plates in the mid lane
We actually do need a giant red emergency button up here just for instances like this
Yeah, oh, XU went past the war. So he was thinking all right for circles gonna greet on this tower
Maybe I can then you know get in there with my ultimate, but
Definitely not gonna be the case. So lion with the game well in hand and can guess this this lion super team and this was
the expectation. I'll say Kobe because
dignitas of two subs. I power ranked
them last even without the two
subs. There's kind of like this guy
versus dig a lot of people arguing
which ones which in the eighth place.
I still have them last and I haven't
lined in my fourth place spot. I
think that they can challenge four
championship if everything clicks
together. So I mean this is kind of
what you want to see from a team that's
going to contest four championship
versus a two-y subs that would be
power ranked at the bottom. 100
Percent, let's see if out this herald fight, and I didn't toss started up, but line our approach.
In the life of that, not as so many members already chunks them out pretty heavily.
I also had the temperate faith, Arnold Smith.
And it's a common binding, it's said, temperate faith, follow up.
Botan will dodge that one, and his top will come in for a lie and briefly tries to buy a space.
And he will be sacrificed, mobility and trouble has to flash away from the cataclysm.
you guys, photoclashes away, lion are slaughtering dignitas in their own jungle.
Yeah, they feel a little mean now, especially when you're saying, oh, you had the power
oriented last, even before the sun's in.
Oh, that was a nice time.
I just wanted to send expectations.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and in the expectations are being met on the rift to your lion, they came into
this season.
They spent big getting a lot of superstar power.
even if people think, oh, maybe the personalities won't work out later, and game number one.
Not an issue. Do you think you're on the same token?
Inspires, you know, motivational Spanish.
Yeah. Are the vibes good? Yeah, vibes good. vibes are looking good.
Whenever you're winning like this, vibes are always really good. It's very easy.
Meanwhile, Saints up there, having some fun on a call, he always feels very, very fun
to get a lot of extra kills and your gun blade is finished.
So you have a lot of this extra, you know, CC options here with the, with the slow active
from it and plenty of damage.
Meanwhile, Palfax, I'm going for a very defensive build.
He's got the magicers and boots.
He's got a round of ages stacking up.
He's just trying to survive right now.
The sort of landing phase was going pretty well for him again to, you know, to his credit,
but the rest of this game falling slightly behind.
But is often C.S. and Pelophox actually being more solid for the side of the D.C.
That's the long-time Botan who is the returning member and definitely impressed me last year.
Happy to see Botan having a good start to the day.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, you could say what you want about the bottom lane, but it's emergency sub-situation, you know?
So it's, it's definitely, we knew it was going to be difficult.
I might have cast a curse in a little bit right there.
Has St. will find his third kill of the game.
Now he doesn't need C.S.
Pelophox and get as much C.S as he wants, and we're St.
saying it's going to pick up the kills instead.
Yeah.
Anyways, do you want more stories on Kobe?
I have more stories about that.
That's good.
We want to talk about this.
So remember that story?
They're happy stories.
Here's a fun one.
So is there a career?
If anybody was wondering what he was up to last year?
Because you remember from club nine,
he mentioned he was MVP before.
Didn't have the best end to it like his last year in LCS.
But still, we're happy to have him back.
What he was doing last year, who's on the team called DN Freaks?
He's going to leave that one there.
the best show in on it as a k well that he's having a show now obviously popping off
but coming back to an a the question is going to be which format is there cover we're gonna get
is it the MVP version almost got like impact talk about that with him yesterday which version
do we get the MVP version or the most recent form but so far so good 302 plus a over 60 CS advantage
Yeah, and you know as we said everyone kind of expects this type of you know hypercarry style from for Zerker
He also played stuff, you know like Ash and was decent on
Subtility options as well. So we've got a one-be-one up here. Thanks a lot in it right now. Inspires near by again
No fair. Yeah, Pelifox is pretty tanky with a lot of ages and the matter goes as boots does not have to flash way
And follow up from inspired
We'll get the kill credit for that one.
And they're gonna finish the assassination and get back to their job as usual.
Finish the mission with the rest of the towers on the map.
I hope this is what you want him.
Keep night and that's just rude.
He's his ignited breezy spell book baby.
Gotta get to the next spell in the rotation.
Somebody in the audience just shouted something.
I have no idea what it was, but maybe they're cheering on breezy.
Great job, Kenka.
Thank you.
Thank you audience appreciate it.
Yeah, there we go.
As a turn, that is all for, I think I had a boo afterwards.
I didn't really have to get flickered responses.
I always just try to protect her.
I got to message her.
I heard you hear the Ailes loud, really.
You call me out of a Shopify prediction,
which to be fair, they didn't lose this lifeless day.
Back to Brasarker, though.
The Fiendish was called the Fiend Hunter Bolts.
that hypercary item which feels like it was made for him because he loves all of those
jams also got buffed on the patch. So I think we can actually pull it up here to take a look at it.
We got this. There's a lot of new items that show everybody in case they haven't been
playing a lot or checking out any of the new item builds. Is it going to pop up?
Well, is it going to work? The button is clear. I saw it. I think the button could be clicked
the button and it's okay. All right. All right. We have a bit of a scrap right now as X2 finds it.
Oh, there it is. Hey, looks good to me.
Everything you want more. Oh, it's a belt.
So I've never seen it in the belt.
That's good. I like that.
I thought you were to cross your chest.
Like a band, uh, let's go.
Oh, yeah. Bandelier. Bandelier.
Bandelier. That's what that's called?
Yeah.
Could be could be that.
That's true.
How would you wear a comb?
Would you go belt or Bandelier?
I think the Bandelier is cooler.
Yeah.
I think I think preserve her however he's wearing it's working right now,
So again, mobility has to get pushed back.
Lion are 10,000 gold in the lead here at 21 minutes,
and absolute tracking so far.
So I want to start to reframe things here, Kobe,
because if Lion are going to be a top contenting team.
This is their goal, they said that.
They spent a lot of money.
You said that.
Yeah, I mean, they bought the literal MVP of the Americas last year.
He won all the awards.
So I think there's a lot of expectations that come along with that.
Let's start to rank them on how they moved around the map. How they're looking so far. I know it's against a week into Dignitas to start off the season
But we can still start to get first impressions from them. Yeah, we can. I don't know if it's super fair
It's a sub bottom win that they're playing against and Dignitas as you had them did last race as well
So I mean you can get your first impressions. Yeah, so go ahead my first impressions. They're the best team of the league right now
Okay, holy crap. Okay, this is crazy. See if they keep up with that you just have high expectation shot
Firebellion out line in
They still won't see it so far. Yes, yeah quick swap. I pull on a jack. He did that with CLM's C9 although
It's been a lot was only one spot difference for him. Mine's gonna be a big bigger there
Harold will land if we'll not take the turret we have four seconds for the next dragon
this is already Dragon Soul and Dignitas. Really no shot of
contesting it here. So Lion will be able to pick this one up and
this is looking like one of those brutal games where you're just kind of
waiting for a light to find the big avenue in and find the clothes to
this game because they're so little avenues for Dignitas to find anything.
Alright, I've got some for you there. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
trying to like sex expectations and stuff for this team and we can we can
can draw some parallels here from inspired on lion over to inspired last year on
a fly quest. Okay, as you know, fly quest had one of the most dominant splits as
far as win rate is concerned. So do you want to judge this lion team by that
fly quest bar? This is the type of thing you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that does like these type of things. So if we're going to say, we'll go win rate
because lock-in tournament is going to have different amount of games.
But do you think that this lion team can beat the win rate of last year's
fly question?
I think that was insane.
They definitely want to.
If you hear them talk about it, they have that expectation.
I don't believe it.
I do think that a lion is a top half team in the league right now, not seeing that chance.
But I think the better comparison is, can we pull up game 1 up 20, 25 inspired stats,
compare it to game 1 up 20, 26 inspired stats?
is then that looks really good for a lion right now.
I don't know if I was probably, did they win their first game?
I'm trying to remember. I don't remember a year ago, isn't it?
I'll see if it didn't happen.
Well, this game, as well, have not happened for Dina Toss.
They're just going to delete it from the memory.
That's what you have to do. I mean, it's hard to say,
but in a competitive environment when this type of situation's happening,
you kind of have to find a way to miracle reset mental,
Go in into another game because this one is so far gone. You better competitive yourself go. I know it was a long time ago, but
Do you ever remember how I do like this?
No, I don't I we actually never lost like this. I've never went like this. We actually want to go to Minnesota
No, you remember the stress though, you know, I'm like like shaking under the desk
But yeah, this is, this is looking like line,
are taking their time, you know,
they've gotten the luxury of the entire mat
being under their control.
Howfox, I mean, we could cook up some,
you know, hail, Mary, stuff here, can't guess,
but it's a 10,000 gold lead with Dragon Soul,
and it's on 25 minutes into the cave.
Yeah, this is just a brutal show in right now.
on the way to the
top spot.
On the way to the top spot.
Honestly, for both teams,
again, it was a rebuild of a year,
but very different looks to the
rebuild.
Because why in the rebuild,
they had a lot of excitement
themselves around it.
They've been talking a lot of
hype saying we can't contest
for a top spot.
Dignitas is rebuilt.
It was around Jonathan a GM coming
in here.
Notably from Golden Guardians from
NRG.
If you remember the incredible
CLG, which was Jonathan's initial roster, then has our going for a little scrap right now trying to defend their own jungle.
Not gonna have anything there.
So I'm just gonna continue to story then.
Think it does.
This is rebuild with all about let's start.
All over let's start fresh with a new environment.
Jonathan's been very forward.
The new GM saying hey, I want our players to be at all the content.
I want people to ask his questions.
I want people to learn about our team.
And one of the things we have learned is that they're just trying their best to make sure that the environment is good for the team.
as Baron started up for Lion.
As far as he goes over the wall,
we're easy in some trouble as to flash and use ultimate,
so he is out of there, and Lion,
their Baron was delayed, but not to turn.
They will jump right back in.
Yeah, actually, full least shit,
but for Zirker, there's so much damage,
they can just burn it down with two people again anyway.
No blast going down, for Dating Toss Dream.
They're looking for this miracle here.
Basically, XU wants to just full-send,
jump in the pit, see if you can steal, but actually,
they're going to go for a side-play.
I mean, it's up here.
Can you get him alone?
The temperate is in the water.
He's up in the bearers pit.
That's a good one.
There we go.
I got it.
Action!
I got the bearers steal with the game.
It was all the law.
There's a saloon.
I didn't lose their jungler, but hey, what a play.
Yeah.
Wow.
I love it.
Well, you got a full set.
This is the only player building.
I've got full set.
You got to get him there.
You've got to flip it, baby.
He's able to double you the barred old and then flashes into the pit goes after
Inspired, Docs of Up burns the bear and down well knocking him up and then it's a good old fashion flip here, baby
He got even got a bar and has the 99 HP you've even got exhausted, so you can't queue
Smite level. Yes. Well
Oh my goodness that was a crazy
I think they're laughing at me.
I'm not going to get a kick.
They're laughing at me.
That's our wake-up.
That's still a bunch of stuff.
I think they even said Elder whencon.
Because that is a minute.
They're not barren.
It's got to keep stealing stuff, guys.
You've got to do it again.
You're stealing stuff.
Yeah, stealing game away.
If they're going to win this game,
XU is going to be on a one-ed list somewhere
for how much stuff she's going to have to pull off right now.
Um, that's right.
Well, hey, Shada, XU,
that's fired does not happen often, but XU can now add his name to the list of junglers
that have pulled that off.
Okay.
Well, that's fun.
Baron makes it hard to push, too.
Because Baron is going to blow your defensive minion waves here.
So, Degatoss, they got a little time to work with, trying to get some more money on their
carries here, get a little more damage behind.
There's Orianna Woo-Kong, combo.
We were trying to hype up.
Yeah.
I think it's the more damage behind it, you know, they can actually make picks.
You've got, who called?
Oh, sorry.
Another one on the Dokela.
He has flash of animal.
Yeah.
Coolizer.
He has to flash away from photon.
He has to move in speed to jump away.
He flies away to go south.
But there comes mobility.
Dokela's actually going to get picked.
But never fail with the land.
He's taking a lot of damage himself.
But he is trying to keep Dokela alive.
He goes into his own state.
His mobility is trying to get the damage down.
They got him.
He'd be enough from safe.
And he's immediately in state.
But it ain't that dogs are winning a teamfight.
The whole team can't go behind.
It is happening, Elder Witt, Conquingus.
It is happening.
All right, it's fired at your turn now.
Can it spy or steal what back?
It's got to be a reverse steal.
Lion had control of the entire game.
And in two minutes, didn't the tats have ripped it away from them?
Lion and the Galby hit their jungle and run there and spy
and has to find an angle right now.
I think a lot of damage is part of us going to go and kill them!
Oh!
I doubt the carry!
That's our current least!
That's our territory!
I hate anybody!
Double kill!
With the bear it's a Kaird!
Why in all, winning the team, dire!
I've done like that, the dream comes to a dance, Gagas.
Aww!
We all wake up.
It was fun while I lasted though.
It was a really fun two minutes right there.
Digmetas gave us a reason to believe.
both on will fight for his life, but an eight thrall I in did get the elder dragon
but they all lost their lives. Yeah, that is that is tough right there. Why in
when the team fight they needed to win with a 10k goal lead 3v5
berserker popping off with the wave coming in they can march this forward 30 minutes
to close it out. Not the cleanest with the bear and lots, but a win regardless
This is a crazy will try and push them away.
They saw one more turn.
A lot of available mobility has respawn.
They're getting roasted by Doppler.
Breezy will fall.
A lie and focus up on the turrets.
But things are as our respawn aims.
Couple members in.
There's one last miracle defense attempt.
They could look for a third miracle up the game.
Not looking likely as mobility pushback wants again
from the darker.
GG.
A lie and we'll take a game number one.
Little fountain dive at the end.
Or some extra fun as well.
Oh man.
That was a fun two minutes coming.
Yeah.
You get your blood pumping at the end there.
Yeah.
That's one of those moments.
I mean, we can mean about it.
But maybe you can serve in for life.
But I can't wait to hear what the loud one just to say about that one.
I like to mean about it.
I don't know that.
We're talking about it.
Maybe it's the X-Eason.
Maybe it's out there.
So you need to be saying maybe it's the X-Eason.
Listen for Zerfer.
Just started to work in the X-Eason every line.
They lost the fight between me.
I was believing, bro.
That was on their side.
I mean, bloodshed.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm glad that XU got the moral victory of smiting the Baron and the elder.
And now it's going to be like some trivia question.
It was like, name the game when a team got Baron and elder, but was never a head.
Hey, don't spoil me.
That's all we do.
Hey, what? You should have saved that.
That's your own statement.
three out of a couple. I don't know the
that one. It started early. Yeah. I do
want to call out already. We identified
Docla as someone who was super impressive.
We just. Yeah. He was playing
weekside top throughout this. The
sidestep year. The turning around
some attempted dives. This is what we
saw him do 400 thieves when he came
on to the scene. And specifically the
second one is the one that I wanted to
call out because this is actually the
ideal way to lie in place. So Docla
So, Dokelet absorbs two ganks here.
Wukong is completely shown on the map that he's not going to be a factor.
About 15 seconds later, I always goes mid lane,
generates the kill for St.
While this is happening, because all the pressure is used top lane,
inspired finishing Drake, and immediately goes bot lane to get a kill.
So, Dokelet absorbing those two ganks, ended up getting them mid-drick and a bot lane kill.
And that bot lane was also, we didn't show it because there weren't any super early kills.
But for Zergard, Ios took control of that lane from the Gecko.
Obviously, breathing mobility are substituting in, right?
So it's a tough time for them.
But that Bob's side pressure was another key factor in what line we're able to do in the
early game.
And that was going to be something that we wanted to focus on.
Poor line coming in was basically what lane are you going to play through?
And also with Zergard coming in, so late was that going to be a factor?
of course, this week he came in and you can already see them discussing about next game.
Wow, that is a ridiculous that line that he was able to have right out the gut go.
Yeah, still managed almost eight hundred ninety damage per minute.
Let's look at the overall game as well here on the screen.
So not a super high action game, but for Zerker still managed to pump out a bunch of damage.
I have you never see a difference in the roll quests very much.
But a two minute difference in him completing roll quest versus the 80 carry,
which I haven't track in this a little bit all week.
that's the biggest differential that we've seen.
So it comes with a little bit of an asterisk
because these are not just one,
but two last-minute substitutions from Digotost
because they're intended bot lane is going to be F-B-I-N-R,
but the overall champ damage as well as how quickly he acquired that role quest
and how individually he was just extremely ahead in gold.
I have messed this up, but just looking at the gold he had just by himself
four thousand four and a half thousand gold over the other 80 carry at 20 minutes into the game
The bot lane just completely dominated this game for life. Yeah, and one thing I do want to shout out for a berserker is that I know
He was kind of on a bit of a downturn when we laughed saw him in LCS comparison for a zirker
We knew
However on what he was on in the LCK his team was a little rough
But firm.
Oh, yeah.
Putting it later.
Thank you.
Still an absolute standout.
Whenever I was watching their games, I'd be like, oh my gosh, for a zirker, it's still
doing really, really well, especially in the beginning of the season.
It got a little bit dicey towards the end, but to come out and have this debut back
in the LCS is a really great sign for Lion.
Yeah, 100%.
And you know, it's hilarious both of these bot laners, specifically him and I'll have that
experience of being on like this last year,
but on a team was like,
oh, this is acts.
This is really bad.
You're like, I don't have a chance winning.
I was an entire career on interior one was like,
I don't know.
I'm not an environment in which we are winning.
This must be a completely different experience for him.
We're like, we're hard-stopping bot lane,
and this is a clear path to victory.
He spent two straight years on Digitoss.
He was dig season and all the famous players leave.
He's there for an even worse dig season.
Yes.
It's going to have a good, it's a good, it's a good, it's a good.
XU leads DSG who has an amazing glow up in week one.
True.
So then have the biggest few issues on it.
It's only week one.
I'm not expecting to do much.
They select second pick lines going to select
loose side for next game.
They also don't have the coach.
They have their GM on stage as the stand-in head coach.
But they're, this is not taking a toss as final form.
Definitely not.
The question is like, especially has to build bad for the players.
if you're in that mindset of like our coach is not here.
Our bot lane is not here.
Like can I play seriously as a worth practicing all of these questions pile up, especially
when there's not a clear pathway and it's Swiss stage.
Again, knocked out two series in a row.
It feels really good.
You just have to be in the right mental space.
Hopefully it starts in game two.
That's why I think it's interesting if they selected second pick,
which tells me maybe they have some sort of pocket counter pick that they want to bring out.
We will see if Lion are able to close it out or if dig are going to be able to punch back right after the break.
Holy smokes! You don't look so great, boss.
Tell me about it. It's a real inferno down here.
And I'm turning it out.
Here. Try your red book. It's devilishly good.
Red book?
Oh, that's a 7-lead minute. Watch there.
Yeah, I forgot about that.
Wings? Wings? I can't have wings, that in my position.
Red Bull gives you wings.
What are you talking about?
Yeah, what are you talking about?
Yeah, let's go.
Yeah, look, let's go.
Yeah, look.
I can't find that one, I can't find that one.
Yeah.
We should kill him, though, though.
Yeah, I can't.
He gets to order them all, no?
I don't know if he has to order them.
Yeah, yeah, he has to.
Yeah.
I'm gonna catch that, I guess?
Oh, we can try.
What do you need to try?
Only at least.
GG!
Lion will take game number one!
I mean, I think I'm not sealing up.
It's confident that people think that we didn't have much practice as a team.
So even playing against team like Dignitas, I know that FBI and Ignor are some players,
and you can't really underestimate them.
I think Palafox and X, you are probably there.
The weakest part, like they were not doing that year, that was last year, and overall probably
come the most like the worst mid-Jangle in the league, but they know how to play the game.
And I think photon, all the changes benefited him a lot.
He always been a player that plays for Lion, and then it's just like a split pusher type
player, so all the turns are just perfect. So for sure we can't underestimate the team,
I feel like even us, like we don't really know exactly what we should be doing.
They can feel so much different than how it was last year, at least to me.
So I still need a bit of time to adjust everything, see how all the teams in the world are playing
this patch and see how our opponents in the league are also going to be playing.
Because at this point I don't really know what's exactly level of the skill of all the teams in the league.
I need to play against them and get some information in order to build my confidence
because they're now kind of like a question mark. I don't know how strong the teams are.
Working on the confidence there for inspired.
Also, the only like, well, I guess it's a two positive things about DigToss.
He said, Photon, you know, benefit of the changes, which is definitely true.
And then he mentioned the bottom lane of FBI DigToss, who are obviously the ones that are not here,
to get emergency subs for. So unfortunate there for Dignitas, that yeah, for their kind of one of their strong areas.
Yeah, it was trying to recognize is actually not there. And it ended up being the biggest we point on the entire map.
Because straight from level one, Berserker and Isles had no problems. I mean, they just walked up, swept the ward.
And then still, or able to get the barred stun on both of them as they're walking on.
Yeah, I didn't get this huge health trade plus getting a free barrier out really early on and they just kept the pressure up the entire time on bottom lane
They're able to play off it. They get the whole tower bottom lane before you know it. Berserker is a rich out of his mind
See a rework cinch. Hey, we got a breezy jersey. Let's go
Shut up from his time on how did the U.C. actually did take to a academy stage here. That's his first time playing. I believe on stage here
with my name is on underneath the academy in the finals back in the day twenty nineteen
very historic player when it comes to tier two he was never really able to make that push into
tier one but still stepping in as an emergency so for Ignar not a bad one to pick up
don't put a big a shadow yeah
there's got millions of you it was crazy he was just pumping out content video after video millions
and millions of views my feet all worlds was just him sure this I like show up by the way they
I have these, uh, lion are handing out these crowns.
Yeah, so, I get somebody made that on Dignitas.
Well, he just flipped it around, Kagan.
Oh, that's what he did.
It's all the size.
It's like size.
I like that.
He's using Lions own merch against them.
Is this the chief or crown?
I'm trying to see on the lion one.
OK, that's cool.
I like that.
The manic.
We do have a lot of love here for a lot of the younger players
coming in.
XU, some fans are at there.
I like that.
Did XU hovercat.
That you may or may not be his group.
I was going to say, did he hovercat?
I didn't notice a category in a hover.
And usually that happened.
We better see it, Katerina, hover up there real quick.
Yeah.
Well, he's going to be up next here.
It's rise locked in first for Lion.
A lot of midline bands with the Assyria and the Ziggs and the Malphite taking off the table.
Meanwhile, it's Varus, Nico and Jace.
I'm digging a toss this up.
So we assume the usual answer is to Leah for to Leah rise match up here.
And it looks like that's instantly going to be the direction that they go for.
And when you have to lay, you want to build with that some heart CC to set up size
mixture.
So, you know, vibe pantheon are two of the best like junglers that pair with it.
There we go.
It's almost like this formula has been very similar for a long time.
Okay, I'm going to call like so after this later, but yes, the formula has been used
time and time again, and pretty easy to see.
It's probably saved.
What happened to your fantasy LCS points?
I made it.
They did pretty well in the first game.
They did.
I was wondering, they must have had a lot of sentinoles and T.L.A.L.A.
But they're going fairly us returns.
Yeah, we've seen this one before.
Known for his Zary, known for the Feliots, known for his Hyper Team Fight Carries.
Oh, we got the G4 guy with the G4 crown. That was awesome.
Just realized.
And then we got a pair of actually decidedly.
We consulted him on what merch we should make for our first match.
That'd be true.
They'd want to go.
Oh, this cursed thing again.
I remember that from last year.
The doll.
We actually need to see some more in the fury honestly, but in the fury it's still good
All the box working multiple jobs can guess okay, we're still on the busy
I have this level also seen the general manager for dignitas up there happen to be coaches and we're also in these issues with the coaching
Sam coming in. We're easy on the
Alas to earlier. It's a rough early
landing face supported play.
Novel is not going to have that same
weakness necessarily.
Zad a fan in the audience as well.
Zed jungle just got nerfed with
the monster damage, which I'm
happy about and was deserves.
Very rarely do we see it in the
actual LCS. Maybe got a little
bit better chance at the
internationals. I think dig misses
those. Also. I'm just mists on
I mean, I just missed Oticon in general.
I thought you were a fan.
I was fan.
I like having a different sort of fight, you know?
Different area.
There's some mechanics that teams took a little bit
to get used to.
Back to this game, though, because yeah,
Oticon is gone forever.
This Gwen Man is respect to Foticon.
Remember that was his favorite champion.
He mentioned himself, and he also spanned him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Support him.
See, I'm sorry, I just had to shut that up.
Yeah, it's Foticon loves Gwen.
Hold the guard.
From the hard side there.
That's where I'm from, baby.
This is one of those means that this is where I grew up,
means that I grew up on these streets.
I grew up on the NACL streets.
This academy is challenged as league for that shout out,
you know, compete league, big league.
It goes back.
It goes way back.
And I mean players like greasy players, like D'Ocla has played
throughout all of those tier 3 tier 2 league as well.
The tier 2 is ecosystem very important for the health of the league.
So thank you, fan, for that sign.
I get bad news for this fan.
Oh, I mean, obviously, do you still believe in Santa Claus?
Because they played a barrel.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So they're playing a barrel.
Oh, God, that's the same.
I think it's a bunch of thieves bangers.
Meanwhile, in this game, we got the jinx locked in here for a mobility, alongside the
notalists, and then pantheon hovered right now for a lion.
Interesting to see right there as it is, locks.
So that's going to be the jungler now.
Personally, I think Jinx is actually busted right now.
I think Jinx in solo queue definitely is having a lot of success.
I think should be utilized more in pro play.
I actually think it's a really, really powerful at the moment if you can keep your safe.
And they do have good like pick with the rest of their team,
you know, to Lea Vi and Nautilus is like really offensive CC.
So we'll see can they create the space?
If you can get the pick then you get Jinx excited off the one kill.
And that could be a recipe for teamfight scangots.
You just need that one reset that one kill.
For somebody down with the buy-out, the noddle is all at the flick back.
And now, maybe more front line here if they lock in a tank.
Again, for Fochon, he was mostly playing carry.
The ninjas we are talking about.
We saw this over at LEC week one, the counter pick into Renekton.
Let's see if it's locked in here for Fochon.
And it is, so the range of AP matchup to abuse the Renekton.
Also, look at that champ.
And then, how do you forget that's a ninja?
It's just a little guy.
Look at these, it's a costume.
Yeah.
Yes.
Anyways, breaks a big, big AOE threat for flanking.
So I actually, I kind of, I like this thing,
to us, you know, set up that they constructed for themselves.
A failure, the thing that always kind of
plagues the failures is if you have point-clicks,
you see, and you've got flanks.
So can it invite and to leave, like, there's a lot of threats
for Preserca to deal with.
And so Isle is going to have to do some work
to give him safe. Lots of shields, the big ultimate wild growth, the given that extra health.
But is it going to be enough with all this died coming in? And you can even pivot to the
help, you know, wild growth, the jungler, the middle end of whoever's getting targeted down.
Because again, everyone's going to be focused on that one kill for the jinx reset.
Luba's really good, and even one personal live, especially with the polymorph on
something like the Vi-Going in. So coaches giving the best pop-on stage. Everybody at the right
games arena makes a noise again for the lion vs. Dignitas. Game number two and
shout out the crowd by the way they have been incredible so far so many
signs they brought an incredible energy to opening weekend of LCS or shout out
to you guys. You're also not gonna die that boot-kank is that was fun.
You made me laugh. Shout out to you. Shout out to you as well. There you go.
I'll give you some credit all the stuff. But here we go around too. I'll see you
to make quick work of day day did have a longer than expected game Kobe game number one
day gold lead with the 30 minutes who who believes a deer toss after that last
bear in an elder oh yeah okay that's a lot noise look at this look on your
screen level one that's a better start to lay the face for mobility and
breezy aisles are chunked out there's a good though gets three more
autos with his ghost pops here chasing them back down but it is a
some in our spill trade in advantage now for
Dignitas last time around the S.U.s. Barrier this time it's a trade up
heels and ghost from Bizzerker.
C can we keep it spicy? Looks like we can both wards here in the
side. Brushed are going to have some vision meanwhile the
ward speaking of wards by Raptor Pit did see inspired steal the
Raptors. So yes it is a split map but you're splitting it and
your bottom lane, there's a
not a list there. So they actually
could go for some like cheesy
ganks on bottom lane. You definitely
at least want to get level 3 for
John junglers at the moment.
But wait, inspired is going to
cross back and see him crossing
back. I do. He's only one camp. He's
still level 2. He's trying to get
the crugs in time to get his level 3.
And inspired with the red buff
actually only having the blue. So I've
to keep my eyes there and bottom lane
actually not going bad for dignity
going to toss here. So it's only going to
ex you on the crux right now.
Inspired can totally choose to take
away some, but the ballings are
roaming for Lions, so they're not
going to actually pinches immediately.
And you can jump over the wall.
Yeah, and it was only going to be
a second kit, so it wouldn't even be
level three. It was always going to stay
here. Regardless though, inspired crosses
back, so inspired going to have some
extra timing nice. And as you
say, and you play out with that cue
over the wall, I mean, this passes by
crux and it just happens to be. Yeah,
perfect there from inspired.
Grab's that one is able to clear out the rest of his regular quadrants now.
So he can just clear straight full clear up to the top side and try and put some more pressure
back on the cannon.
One of the reasons Kenan has come back into the meta is because of these top lane changes
that really value, leaning prowess with top lane quests isolating them a little bit more
up there and the failites as well. Kenan, who can bully a lot of matchups with range
advantage has become popular once again.
And we've seen him do just that. So yes, the jungle is a rough start for
dignitas. X, you're going to be very behind inspired. But top side, photon gets a big
shove. That's T. P. At a dokela and photon is about a wave up in CS overall.
After the crab.
You sure?
We're not going to go for this.
Yeah.
I'll start taking turret first, and first blood of a zirker is answered, but it's a double
for a dignity toss.
The bot's to be too die from lion.
Those dignity toss believers, stock is going up here.
Yeah.
Make some noise.
The dick fates.
Yeah.
Get a couple of kills back there, Kangus, and berserker flashed at the end.
Throw.
It's still died.
going for mobility, they get him with the
quality more but mobility has cleansed.
So he gets back up and he shoots the
Lulu down to get credit for that one.
The Berserker also waste his flash at the end.
That tower is already heated up.
He didn't think that tower was going to do
enough damage with that last shot.
Yeah, but fully heated up.
It has enough damage to finish him even with
the flash over.
So not let's get to kill for himself as well.
Mm-hmm.
As, you know, that's going to be a good start for
the bot lane.
in CS, but answering the kill and then also a kill on too
grazing into using the little tank here. So they can
toss not too shabby. I had to say, there's
Erker with no flash, like a fellow host with no flash
should be a by target here. You've got not a list
with flash, you have jinx, you can also follow up with
flash. You know, it has plenty of CC herself. So I would
say, put some more pressure down there. If you are
digotoss, just isolate the top side, let Ken and B
one be one with the renectin up there and focus as much
pressure as you can to lead a
robes five gigs towards his
bottom side get jinx really fed
and hope you can win team fights
that way. I got to say inspired
might have the same read as you
because he's hovering on the
bottom half right now went for
the Crogs is Raptors are now
spotting some people go back
up towards those as X U is in the
neighborhood inspired going to be
ahead in the clear based on how
that level one went the invade
didn't basically two and a half
camp advantage over X U. So maybe
X U can instead put some time
and he's going to get to a very early level 6 on the Pantheon so then you can answer any sort of offensive play.
hook right there they have a big wave and they actually nearby so I guess the call
was going for the engage but that was very early from breezy so they have to back
off instead. Yeah and then the competency are from Buzerkra and Iels they've got
the wards here through the failice. Oh I like the attempt for breezy. Iels walked up to
the body block the jinx W from the cannon. That's a terrible thing now picked up. breezy's
not able to punish Iels for that attempt is now an invade again from Lyon here.
They have seen and inspired hanging around on the top side here, those raptors.
Okay, lion with the constant pressure.
Here, still squeezing out a little bit more,
Berserker with the gold lead again, got the turret plate.
And guess what, he's going to get another one here.
The first two are so easy to take.
Just unrelenting pressure.
With a fellios lulu, you could put down so much harassment
as well as getting the constant shove.
So, rewarded again, there's turret plate number two.
to play number two for the bottom.
Inspired goes for another invade right now has level advantage over XU and income
St. as well. XU will just break away flash follow from St. Alachin down inspired
with the second kill. The game rather for Lion.
This mid jungle synergy where people are worried that these are going to be the two players.
Oh mobility. Unfortunately all alone in the bottom lane. His supports roaming.
and he gets picked up and the number one thing
for him in the audience is okay.
They can come in.
Why they choose the now to show him.
Yeah, that was messed up.
That was a wild time.
That was a tough time.
They're like picture and picture
while mobility's dying.
Number one, dude, man.
Oh, hey, here we go.
It comes in right now.
Could be a big play for Dicatoss.
Don't claw.
Bring it back to the button, V2.
Bring the fan.
Bring it back to the screen.
We're taking touches.
Just found the big play.
Get back back up on the screen.
Yeah.
There we go.
There we go. We saved it. You saved it. Good job, Kobe.
Uh, don't go against picked off right there.
Photon gets a bigger lead now about two waves advantage for the cannon counter pick.
Who took the ignite and this early landing face has gone great for him.
So this cannon, uh, I love this counter pick into things like the renectin again.
We saw it in even week one of LEC. That's where I first got my look at it.
We'll be able to take a half a to help our chunk right there.
Ouch.
But it can win lane and can have huge impact in later team fights.
Speaking of, we can still get later team fights.
There's been no dragon takin' already at close to 8 minutes in the game,
so it's gonna be a relatively slower pace dragon stack in the games
and spiders and set and baiting on the blue buff
has Isle's back pocket preserve was walking up.
Exuse thinking about it is not able to smite it away.
Inspired picks that one up.
So inspired just, he's got no chill right now.
right now called he's just constantly invading and when you've got all these
winning lanes I think you should have no chill you know people say you have no
chill like the bad thing but this is a good note she's at some time it's a good
thing yeah he's not giving any breathing room for XU but actually decides to
back off of the dragon for right now there was a small window there where
breezy and mobility were faster on the room so again a slow dragon stacking game
to be in the game.
Yeah, honestly though,
I think we're going to be in luck
and there will be a lot of kills.
So it tells me that I can.
The ability might just be too far forward.
Has to flash over the wall.
And that's not an ideal position for the
Jinx to be in.
Is they're looking towards the dragon?
Same though.
It's a trouble flash.
The problem of support goes down for mid laner one for one trade.
Okay, now it's going to be bottom crab and I guess they're getting mid lane push
here.
Can't to Leah also get a turret plate.
Power Fox.
There's crystals on that thing.
Easy, easy.
Only a couple of autos there with the crystal build up for the first turret plate.
Maybe just trade these grubs.
Yeah.
Honestly though, grubs up.
I'm a master.
You're aator.
I hate grubs so much.
Oh, it's not good when the jungle main on the broadcast says that the hate.
because I wasn't going to say now the bad window here for taking a
toss. Yes, they're behind and gold across the map, but they're
better than top side and let's get another look at this though. Yeah,
I mean, a good shot. So I've made stuff from CalFox into the queue
here from X. So they get the kill, but can't the aren't ultimate
inspired here with the lead with his extra level on Pantheon and his
bottom lane has I'd say for 100% of both games had bot lane
push. Yep. They, this bottom lane as, yeah, that's just been like across the halfway line,
the entirety of the entire series. And so, Buzzerker and Isles always the first to move,
and they're able to get a counter kill into Dragon. Still no turret plays picked up by Diggs
Bot lane. And again, I just want to give another shout out. E-subst coming in, immobility,
immobility and breezy. We're not the intended starters. Mobility was a great collegiate player.
He played for Winther University, got two times a top three finish in the seed-wolf championships
for Winthrop, joining them after they had a championship run earlier in 2021.
But he was never really able to like make a huge standout at the tier 2 level was always
just kind of the top at the collegiate level.
So props to them for stopping in here and a rough spot for taking toss overall.
But they are leaving against Bizzerker, who was a BPO Quint Point in the league and has already
experienced with Isles, too.
Yeah, and Isles was on Dignitas as well.
So he knows the other side of this and he is very happy to be on line now
Constantly pushing this look very fun to play with Briserker even when they're tower diving and they're just dying
Still look fun. They still want that heading gold overall in this landing phase though despite that happening
Just shows the power of a player like Bizarre curve. I knew I'm always for the team fights
That's where like I always saw oh Briserker's one of the best team fighters in the league, but
but it now also been able to kind of do this in Laney Phase.
Yeah, the team might be going to look even better.
You know what, I know him for most of my favorite piece
of Reserker content as we get a possible action here.
My favorite piece of content was I believe he did this interview
with Travis Caffard and they did the game where it was like,
oh, I can give you like $2.
Oh, yep.
As we had a game.
Yeah, pre-season is getting caught out right here.
Actually, he's able to take the blast home to St. Dean,
our Dredge line to the wall.
Reserker does not have to grab some yet.
the same though trying to get in their photon in a one-to-one versus
Dokela, Dokela has the ultimate foot now.
Oh, the orange can't close the gap, photon with the solo kill.
Yeah, basically what it was is, you know, you get the, oh,
you want $5 or I can pass it on to the next person.
And I'll double it for them as mobility's dead again.
Yeah, he said I like money, right? Just like I always probably did.
Like a jump to jump to the gun a little bit.
I'm not on the delivery, but, oh, good.
It's basically what he said.
I wanted I wanted to the credit of the punch line right there's a little bit more to the story and the lead up before the punch line
But here's the punch line for Dota is he probably I wish you could see the cooldowns
Because he just used Q there. I think it's Q is really close to coming up. It's a he would have empowered
Yeah, I'd like to try and get the heal and then it would be closer
Good job top. I mean they're to their credit
I know we're still being a little loose with this game to cast, but this is a much closer game than game one by this point in game one
There was already like a 5k gold lead for Ryan this time around. I mean we're still hearing in that voice-coms that
Dignitas they're communicating to try and they're best to keep in this game. Photon has a massive lead in the top lane
Now with 1.5k advantage individually
That's still just offset by how a bot lane is going here with berserker kind of sharing that
Even double that lead himself. So you would say they're currently doing their new personal best
to the ball again and might not even make it out there, because they're almost fine.
The flesh and docle, though, this is a story of two lanes.
Bot lane, constantly shoved in for dig.
But their top lane is winning this matchup.
And now we got a T.P.
From set top lane, that's a cannon flank look and straight up a zirker.
He has the ghost, plus a lunatic up and the teleport is a little slow.
So, Halifax, meanwhile, caught out here in the mid lane.
I like the attempt from digging a toss, not going to find it though.
Yeah, they're not like anything about this aftermath, because they teleported away from
Toplands.
So, Douglas gets back into the game.
Kevin gets literal zero down on bottom side, because Lulu, Kiel, and Speed up, and
Shirelias.
It's like Speed is so underrated.
But I love Shirley's rush because just like that, you don't even have to take the damage.
The speed just allows you to avoid the entire play and then don't really even benefit.
So look at that crocodile very happy on the top side.
Yeah.
Who's there could be happy on the bottom side still.
And you know, one of the only weaknesses of the failures is being low mobility and not having
movement speed.
So, oh, but we're just going to force a play mid lane.
No flash on Samarim that we're going to do there with a follow-up and that is kill
credit to mobility, the jinx rocket snipes it.
There you go, using their combo effectively,
do your toss with the assassination play with will result
and presumably an objective for them as well.
That is three ultimate use, however.
No-vile, no-can, an ultimate.
Worf, how confident is inspired here?
You stinkin' about it?
I'm not gonna do it! I'm not gonna do it!
I'm not gonna do it!
Now we're still doing our best!
Here's gotta eye on behind him, but I don't think the focus can make you
the way it's fired a lot with the wild
growth of Zerker. He was in all of the
ultimate. Where's the damage? Follow
Blacks were Blacks response. As the
Panned out on behind everybody shut
down to Bowton. Take the toss. They
did find a couple of kills but inspired
steal the dragon. That's some payback
for Baron. Give me that guy. We're
seat. All right. So that's going to be
two four line. They retain the goal
lead as well. But I mean the
the fight's a good crazy really spread out here.
I like actually that there is less coordination
in this game.
Yeah, you're normally used to.
There we go.
Right over the top.
Pantheon, Smite and Q is a really, really,
really effective combo for sealing objectives.
And somebody on their phone, they're like,
oh, what's happening?
You can tell there, you know, holding the PowerPox sign.
Which team she was rooting for?
With the result of that play,
And it is going to be another objective for Lion.
Who, all right. Well, they're showing that they are willing to scrap and again a closer game to to their credits only one and a half thousand gold lead for Lion right now plus those two dragons.
But later dragons is where now on the Harold inspired starting it up again has Isles in his back pocket.
But now what does Breezy know jungle smite steal from actually that time around? It is inspired that secures the objective.
all right, they've got bio back up now, Ken and old is available so try and go for another
assassination play, digotoss, they've got bio, they've got, I mean, to lead it doesn't
need old, use need size mixture, so ready to go for a combo here, still no flash for
the rise, although that timer is coming back up very quickly, Berserker might be your target
then because he's got no summoner spells for the time being as well, I mean, there's
a lot of options here and you've got to make use of these kill buttons on the side of
Dinkton. I just want to claw your way back into this game. Full send and then try and get the ideal
scenario like you did last time where mobility is the one to get the final hit with like Jinx
Rocketer or something. So you can try and get some money under this jinx that had such a terrible
lane phase is really behind the power curve here versus Preserker. So you know full send on some
some of these abilities get that golden to jinx and pray as well.
That's usually my solo queue strategy as well as smart get my 80 carry gold and then pray.
Because you know how I'm not carrying those games.
Mobility is able to catch a couple of safer weights here though as the game is slow down slightly.
He's been the focus of so much action whether the jungles nearby or it's just a 2v2.
So that's easy to get some breathing room as saying gets a push again top.
a lot of plates picked up.
I want to track Foto too, because Toplan Quest is no joke here, you know, he's got one
level lead over Doku at the moment, and he's looking to make a flank play, Kenan, well
it's looking to make a crap play.
Ah, yes, you want to say that one.
I was also just noting that Kizzy brought up the quest, Saints just finished his, so it was
a little behind on that one.
It was roaming around over the map a lot, so I think we'll put him behind his breezy now in
the line brush.
Lion Palton on top of him, D. Polymorp is used and out of his circle, my being some trouble palpons gives a flick on him, but he's still got the team behind him.
His zirker, wild growth and shields will keep him alive as them ability to run on least with Botanical and in their opinion game.
Oh, Rizaker!
Amy can't read out!
Digitots.com!
They win a teamfight with the double-kill of Palopox.
They're making use of those kill buttons, the ultimate's come through for Dignitas,
And by the time Kenan gets here, then they can actually win.
So the initiation on the Berserker, first is it where we get out the Lulu Wild Growth.
They use up the Polymorph as well.
And then when Kenan arrives, that's where the real damage is.
So here's the initiation.
They're going to go for Berserker.
I also suggest you to drop us keeping Berserker up here.
And if it was a three, then we'd have been fine.
But powfox joins with the ultimate auto lead.
They get the size of each of them and then Kenan comes through as well.
And they're able to close the rest of the distance.
It's fired all the way.
It gets melted.
XU goes back in on the Preserker.
They flash for.
They get the killed of the Preserker.
XU never even ends up dropping there.
And it's nicely played from Big Boss on the other side.
And I got to say props to XU.
Really well played and great target selection from him.
Committing to the engage on the Preserker.
Then finding that ball breaker on to him afterwards.
St.
Was trying to kind of buffer it it looked like or getting the way.
But actually found the angle that was able to shut down
a berserker at the beginning,
carrying with a lot of that goal.
So more gold than Dintoss' pockets,
and they actually have a lead now, Kobe 1.1K
advantage to dig.
The believers are eating good right now,
protected jinx cup,
flash and cleanse are both available for set jinx.
See if they can actually set up this dragon though.
Looking down the line,
berserker flashes a couple more seconds
against everyone from the line or approach from the same angle. We have the
Pantheon old coming and is going straight to the dragon. It is secured by
Dignitas. Now everybody out of it's five wild grotes is used on the Pantheon
breezy first to fall. As the records can't get into the fight because of the
weavers wall red and white but not ready to fight. And since fire at the
flash away from the side of McSheug, Dignitas keep the dragon trade their
support and they get out. Interesting. I mean dragon number three for one
kill under the support. I like it for dig, honestly. We'll see if this
more damage is done. Yeah, but like, yeah, with the Harold too, actually,
might be your whole tower. Alright, well, now you're definitely going to be losing
out overall. The play, a lot of extra gold picked up. They finished the tower with
the couple extra turquoise left on it there. Give some more room for this
pantheon rise to be able to play the map. And this lion team has very good
possibility is a picky people off and sideways plays when you have round
more than you have pantheon ultimate so line up to be very careful and try and
again use the synergy of their team comp group up and focus down that kill
the get mobility excited so they can run through the team fight as long as
they are kind of moving cautiously then they can try and work around these
semi-globals that line up and we're talking about mobility on the jinx
to the top of the game, but
it's not quite ready to follow
up.
Exie said I guess I'll go
in the same as a flank.
It's fired in his put the wild
bro trying to get in on to the
backlight.
Saved in some trouble right now
is actually blocking them down
with both on mobility on a
killings free now.
Four three and three on the
jinx.
That's one reset.
If they can find more plays
like that, they can trust
and keep themselves in the game
because as I was going to say,
going to say the golden bandages are on the solo laners with photon and halifox, and
now mobility is getting even more golden to his pocket, Dignitas are clawing their way back
into the series. Yeah, and okay, so I'm conflicted on this. Okay, because I can tell,
what is a bad look? Because Breezy just went in and he was going to get first to
and die anyway, but then because he did that and died, St. Realm warped into the
hold the game and then he died. So it ended up actually being good and it's
props to breezy mind control it. He got insane. It was actually a five-bed play
because he trades his support level nine life for a level 14 rise.
Yep. That's trading up. The vibes were too good.
That's pretty good for them. Yeah. So if Dign2 has confined more ways to mind control
to the entire team. They're going to feel very good about the prospects here.
Meanwhile again, it is about the bot lane differential for a lion.
Bizarre does have a golden as pocket. And we've seen in the past, but
Presergar is able to do on hyperlake in carries with a gold lead.
But Kobe, I we'd have this question a lot in the first game because it wasn't as much
happening of like how will we rate lions performance against a team like
against a team like Dignitas, given the
sub-situation, given the power rankings.
Well, now it's looking a little less
kind of, Dignitas have gotten themselves back in
this game.
Your rank one prediction is certain to
feel a wobbly there.
I never, I never locked it in.
So, I think we'll really tell once the
jinx gets infinity edge.
And Dignitas is very close.
And when you get IE on jinx, then we're going to have the real moment of truth of this game.
That means the crits will do so much more damage.
You don't even need to get the Luridom's at early because no one's really building armor on the other team.
No tanker.
I almost like that.
Yeah.
But I do like a Isis built.
There's work kind of covering some of the builds.
The mecales is huge for Pazercar.
This is basically the Isles saying, it is my job to make sure my AD carry does not die.
And if I was able to do that, then Berserker can unleash him picking up the shield, both third item.
It feels like lying under stand.
There's a target on Berserker's back right now.
Yes, there is.
All right, can this football's actually work here, though?
Redempted bot side, rise was up on top.
Rise was out flash though after the last play to a very detrimental.
It's a long cooldown there, so not only did St. Die, but also having no flash for a sideline plays.
Look at the map, I mean they don't even really have any sort of sidelines pushing early,
so it allows their talks to easily group up and play as five like they want,
so as they get Ken and here,
they're gonna talk to a few very, very good.
They've got multiple avenues for engage,
photon, has flash on the Ken and level 16 with Armguard with the old gun blade as well.
So keep track of that little rat.
Five stacks on Dark Seal, watch for the little ninja guy.
So time would be spotted if he looked for the full flank around the head, but he has the blast cone as well on top of all the other mobility
Doke will go to check see your control ward there and
Photons actually left the area. Oh, thank you. Observe
Photon on a big flank if actually goes in on it was quiet and up there could be some trouble
Flash the way well for them already, but it's I'll sit down and go down on a rampage
He binds the long flank and digging a toss. Get up pick before the dragon. You're okay. We get a standing
Ovation for the observers there. Yeah, that game of hide and see
There was incredible that was incredible playing with us with the cannon. We said keep our eyes on the cannon
And then they turn off the lights so we can and they increase the you the anticipation and that was just beautiful
Because that was a story of two blast codes. Don't click used in one to go over and clear the tribe rush control ward
But sneaky photon goes all the way around the back and he felt deep, super blast cone.
To not only burn for Circus Flash, forced the affiliates out of the fight, but then he also flash follows and gets the other kill.
It's just really expert cannonplay there.
Hide and seek from photon and the observers.
Deathless on the flanking cannon.
405 photon is the one returning member from Dignitas.
the last year he's the one that impressed me the most from last year's
Dignitas roster coming in and a rough position and I was excited that we
actually were able to keep him in the region, you know, you've played in the
TCL, he played a little bit in you and now we have photon here in the LCS.
The breezy walks up into a brush trying to get some vision down.
Dreds lines of trying to get the safety and will do so would have been a bad
spot to get picked right there.
But yeah overall, I mean even in the first game, that was a rough loss, but
the Foto on on the Cassante was buying a lot of space for the team.
I'm very impressed with how the stop line is performing.
Now let's see if Dinkantos can actually keep it together here because they've got their marginal gold lead
and the two dragons do their name.
But the real thing is they have such a good teamfight here if they can set it up naturally
and get all five together.
And seems like they currently have not had a problem with any side-lane minion waves.
So it allows them to move in, get the early vision here
here and get the set up they want and I don't know if it's exactly just the crowd being
clearly behind Dignitas right now but this is not looking like a lion like championship
contending start to the year they are struggling here in game number two and not living
up to what they were able to do in game one. I think. Oh, Zerker's taking a huge
It's so good damage! He's trying to outplay, but breezy is there to punish, mobility gets the kill.
Pure, unadulterated ego.
Yes, that's...
AD Carry, ego, and it's by this, baby. I hear something too.
They're shaps in the crowd right now. They are behind this team who find a pick on AD Carry.
They get the Baron uncontested, dignity to us, are here in the Elzads, dignity to us.
are making Lions wed. I also think there's a lot of people that just enjoy underdog stories
and Diktok's clearly, you know, with the underdogs of the league and are the ones that do
need to win if you want three games. So Diktok's now with Baron trying to push out through
bottom side because there's so much gold here. All tower still remain on bottom as evidence of
of the way that Lane Phase has gone in both games,
where Lions do a lane and have been constantly pushing,
but now with Baron,
the team toss gets to go collect all the standing turret plate money
that is on the map for them.
Currently finally, now the rise is getting
some split push done for Lion though.
Okay, they're clearing out these last cones,
still plays there to watch it.
I actually walked into the brush and that is it.
Oh, that's a nice email from from Photon,
swinging a mess right there.
I'll cause they'll get out and they get the turret
I have a look at top, Saint is pushing another one himself, but racing bare and usually not going to be a winning battle.
Instead, they're just going for the top of the camp's plus the turret and we'll be training overall.
That keeps putting, open up the map and they're going to trade just fine.
I mean, take away jungle, take away, even though thanks longer to take the turret, they still do get it.
You don't need to win the race. You just need to equalize the gold trade right there. And you know what this game reminds me of Kobe.
This is the type of game that you clip it and you send it to that 180 carry friend that you have that always wants to FF at 10 minutes
If they're behind in gold, they're laying upon you like, no, it's okay. We can come back look at mobility's mental here
Strong mobility strong mental. You'll get fed later. You know, they're all the place still
14 to 10 kills two to two dragons 45 seconds. I can fill the next one as dignity starts setting up the vision control around the area
And I mean, they won the last couple of flights.
So at this point, it precious on Lyon
to find a creative way to get into this dragon pad.
And also, I do think Lyon are living up to what people thought.
People thought they're going to be this really individually
talented ego team.
Yeah.
And so we're seeing some ego plays.
Yeah.
I mean, what Berserker just tried to do in the Midland was
that ego play right there stepping up to mobility
who had the flash available.
So an angel picked up for Berserker now.
Oh.
So he can full send for again.
Yeah, I mean, that's Shieldbow plus GA and he has the flashback from the earlier play where Botan
tried to get on top of him. So important to try that. He'll probably use forward.
He's like, hey, get ready to wild growth me. I'm going to go in there and engage for us.
But the team is not ready to contest the dragon. That is a third dragon.
In a row, picked up by Dignitas. Three Camtack dragons, buffing their synastical shield power.
And to get that soul, that's going to make their non-true frontline a little tank here,
but speaking of frontline, they want straight into a brush blind bowton,
jump down, shut down to inspired.
You've got the wild growth from the lube behind him, and XU's got no assistance.
Are we diving under the turret?
Yeah, we got the rise all day, and we got the Pantheon over top, but we got mobility.
The damage on the stage, lie in, build up more than they can chew,
at no abilities that are looking at inspire.
It's here to turn was still standing.
It's fire's under turn.
It uses the GA cooldown.
We've resolved the block him off.
He can't get out of there.
Minions though.
The five.
All the minions are in range and Spiderman is fine.
Lian, find a two for one.
Woo!
Going super aggro here.
I like it.
And it's straight from the brush on the side.
They get an early lead in this fight and try and push it so hard.
They know there's no big objectives.
So we're just going to full send on the actual fight.
Pick up another kill, grab the tower afterwards.
And then you can see at the end inspired was just trying to zone off mobility because mobility that jigs had gone
excited you use the threat of your stun on Pantheon and he's playing the distance game and he's just trying to push him off to make sure
the jigs come through with the extra damage button. This is the advantage of vision.
Can you guess right out of the brush? They get the early jump onto the cannon. Can it has no zonias or flashed out? That is so huge for lion
Then you get their kills and then they want to go for more. It's fire. It's got GA, the Zerker has GA, so they've got extra lives to spend
On the top side, yeah, I earned the bottom side. They do kill off St. That was good good from Palpatine's ability
It gets picked. It's okay to just let them
Yeah, okay, I'm coming to play where I say hello. I'll go straight to you. Yeah, I like that. Some cost fallacy is one of the way to
See can we throw the vote on can he burst down the rise?
Oh, it's a set-up for mobility with a super million other target from downtown. That was beautiful
All right, they got an ultimate all the way from mid lane here and vote on this time around does get the full stun
Get the full combo and
This pick of course, you know, Baren's a full minute away
So we are going to get
to say reviving in time, but it does put line behind as far as the vision game. And you can see
the air and vision is going to be really easy now for Digg to set up in game control.
And Kobe, I want to point something out for the first time now, the gold has gone in favor
of mobility. He came back, baby, 73 and 4.
Yeah, who's got the brush now?
Yeah.
Well, that's the big toss.
It is, yes, but we can see that.
Why I can't see that is now they watch multiple members
and they walk out to hit this wave.
They'll catch their own.
They also have the Guardian Angel now.
So, XU has his Guardian Angel.
Inspires is on timer.
Oh, watch for photon.
He's looking for another flank this time.
He would be spotted.
If he commits to it, inspired.
We've been a mountain.
We'll see the cannon.
Now the cannon is all alone.
Inspired.
Jumped on it.
He did not realize the situation.
was in, Botan picked off right at the barren.
So good. Also more.
Yeah, it's don't put try to block him off and it's the Pantheon
ultimate over top.
Grandstar, full plus mobility now taking Joe,
chunk damage from the Affelios.
There does do get out of there, but line will secure a firm
position at the barren.
So now it's also really hard because you don't actually want to go
send for a smite seal because you have Guardian Angel on XU.
Yeah. So if you're like, oh, let's just risk it again and off
go for a barren seal. It's too costly because you lose your guard in angel and you're
going to lose your life. It's totally not worth it. So don't even try and go for the
miracle seal this time around. That is just a very good play by inspired here for Lion.
Notice that when he caught the cannon, he also stood on top of the center of the
blast cone. So, Cannon could not use the blast cone. He was starting to like, oh, I'm
going to say it because I have a super blast cone here. If someone pops out, then I can
You know, pop it in a good way, but he couldn't click it.
Because it's fired with dead center on that thing.
And so again, Ken and Scott jumped on, nose-onias.
And that has been the recipe for lion victory series.
Inspired, seeking out, finding the Ken and getting the initiation
onto the Ken and stoned him early.
Blow the zoneas early.
Here we go though, round four.
It is another dragon.
This time it's dragon's soul point for dignity toss.
It's about to spawn.
No zoneas on foe, nobody has the flash available.
It's going to be tough for a line to try and get in here and Spire will take the
Blasco in into the pit.
It has a guarding angel available even if he gets bursted down.
Dokelus.
Tain is dominant early.
Now it's all inspired and in 1B2 with the teams not quite behind him.
It will back in my breezy.
Spire goes through and try and steal from the Spire.
Now like it will put the rest of the fight.
Both on goes with the slice of nails or not by getting anything for it and the line for
the first time in a while will win a dragon team fight.
That's the steel on the objective.
Breeze is going to be de-sing with the rest of the team.
So will mobility as the crowd goes silent.
They were cheering for DIG.
But this time around, it's a lie and give the team flight.
Inspired.
I gotta say, everyone's like, oh my god.
Oh, my god.
Okay, it's breezy coming out of this.
Let's go.
Yeah, the other blast goes.
Same's got to keep chasing him down
to stop the back from coming off.
your long cooldowns of the death timers mean that this is probably the end of the game.
Yeah, he's gonna go for the back, but Lion have the Kman minion.
They push it on the next is they push it on, doing that does Lion will win the series
2-0.
Lion paid handsomely to get inspired on their team and it was well worth it.
Yeah, this game you're talking about or they live any of the expectations are you getting
what you're expected for them?
That is some MVP stuff there.
He lines cannon over and over in multiple team fights.
He's able to steal away objectives.
Yeah.
I feel like that was that was some real MVP stuff show and up on stage there.
Great from inspired.
You know, I thought it was able to find the really long cannon flanger earlier in the game.
But this time it's fired to know we need to track the cannon.
Pull me once again.
But me won't get pulled again.
He catches in that time.
He even a moment to get to the Baron.
GG20 for Lion.
That was a fun one, for sure.
Yeah, I mean, they were a guard for it.
I will say, they gave us two minutes of fun and game number one.
And then that game number two was pretty close.
Definitely was.
In the end, line with the two is zero.
There are making some, uh, some Eagle players,
having some fun, testing some limits out there.
Let me get the job done as well.
Yeah, again, I have some some really big plays back to back to back from inspired.
fired, make it so big, and we are going to have a fun walk in turn of it.
Because this is just the opening weekend, Kengas.
Weekend number one, we have winners, we have losers, we have Razz on stage for an interview.
Yes, sir, and we have a Zerker back in North America.
I'll present it for the lion fans and from line, welcome back to the King.
We got your driving crown ready for you.
I got a quick question right from the guy, go, how does it feel to come back?
It was kind of, half-hazard, very quick.
You came in this week, right?
Yeah.
I mean, it's good to see you guys okay, in Asia.
And yeah, I mean, last year, it was kind of tough.
But I mean, I'm trying to program it like last year,
it happens, so, you know, I'm fine.
So I'm trying to my best, DC,
and like trying to put from best, yeah.
You talked to me a little bit about that,
because when you were in North America,
one of the MVP people remember the iconic image
If you run it around with the trophy when you're with C9 and you want to be able to get
that back to that level, what's something that you want to be able to prove to yourself
and to the fans out there?
I mean, you mean, to reason why I going to the end of the game, you're like, oh, why not?
Like coming back to North America, what's like a goal that you have for yourself?
I mean, I just want to perform at the international, internationally, internationally.
Yeah, that's why I mean, that's not really...
not all that why reason to I came, I guess.
I mean, Kesspar, keep asking me like, you want to just play with me?
So, I mean, Kesspar is stronger in the SES, so why not?
So, I'll just play with him now.
And tell me about kind of the practice and just working with this team
because the roster looks incredible.
Like being able to work with Sainte and Inspired, as you mentioned,
wasn't maybe the plan that happened with Doku,
but he's somebody that came in off in world's performance,
talks to me about the team and some of the performance,
like the practices that you've had with them.
I mean, to be honest, I just came to NA three days ago,
so I didn't just look at it really well,
but I mean, we need fixed a little bit about
like fighting, I think.
I mean, it's like kind of so many random core,
when I feel like filming.
So I mean, if we fix it and there's something
about macro and then if we know the like,
What should we do like our side of Dan?
We should be better.
But we should, yeah, getting better.
I message for the fans out here that have been sticking
around the entire day just for you guys.
I mean, I already said it,
but good to see you again guys.
And I mean, always, thank you guys.
And it seems like you have a present
a gift for a lucky fan out there.
It seems like it's a lion shirt.
Just chuck that right out there.
Just for a lucky fan.
Hey, we got a lucky brother out there with a lion shirt, thank you Lyon, appreciate you
come welcome back again, and I'm going to send this one straight back to the lounge.
Thank you, Razz, Amber, Zerker.
We got a little bit of time as they set up the draw show because we're going to be drawing
the matchups for next week, but we wanted to talk about the game that we just saw.
really was for a lot of it, a battle between a Fed 80 carry and a Fed top later. So
you can go back and forth on exactly how that played out. Starting with Emily. Yeah, so
we're going to go through some bot lane plays, just pay attention to the goal difference down
here, right? There's a reason why I have that selected, just to show how far a head berserker
will be able to be get through some of these plays. This is the first one. There's a very
ambitious, let's just say that where he's definitely feeling himself does get the kill on
mobility actually ends up being two for one in the favor of dig, however, again, he is slowly
accruing a gold lead as we go to six, six, six, once again. They're going to shove this wave in,
get the plate off. And then, oh, they're backing, no weight. Mobility is going to be coming back to
to Lane as a bunch of stuff happens on the top side as well.
But he is immediately dead.
Now we see that gold lead ballooning a bit.
And I'm going to throw it over.
John, to see what's going on with the photon.
Yeah, I mean at this point, you're thinking it might be another stomp.
So I got a credit stick and trust for finding a way back into this game.
And if the thought line is disaster, what do you do?
You go top line.
So that's what photon and dokela had set up here.
They send the format with power fox and notalists get the kill on to dokela.
And I would say, as well, he then pays it forward.
I think dokela gets over aggressive onto the ignite.
can in later, which would be, I imagine a mistake in review for them because they didn't
have to make this play, but Photoshop still gets the L play. Just Alt's, Ignite's,
Space's Road Auto is gets the kill now, a two-level advantage and a 1,400 gold from the top side,
but preserve for wasn't quite done. Yeah, so this is a setup for a play where Dig actually
get on to St. But then inspired flies in and immediately breezy is dead. That is another kill
to Berserker again. We see that gold lead ever increasing and then the final play that I'm going
to pull from this side is down here just for mobility. He's just not having a great time, right?
This happens around the time that we see that. He is dead. Look at this gold lead already. Again,
it's just getting worse. It does not fun. But the game did start turning around. Essentially when
Dignitas was successfully able to target the really fed
berserker in these fights. We're going to touch on that
smite still later because that was the first one by
inspired. But you can see they pretty much just
noddles all berserker. Everyone flies on top of them.
Fulton ends up getting the shutdown and then at this
point you can see Fulton's 6,100 gold to 4500 gold,
which is still not the same as the advantage that berserker
has, but in future fights they do a very good job of just
shutting down berserker. So 18 minutes in this is where
you can see the focus is really strong and probably if there's work we're talking about in those interviews where the fights just seemed random
because they're not really in position for this fight. They don't have enough peel for him. They're able to just kill him once again
and that's where they really start snowballing the game. And I actually kind of glad we have time in this segment while they're setting up the draw show to go over this
because one of the coolest flanks happened here at 25 minutes when Fochon waited in fog of war
George Dokela in the first place gets around another ward and then jumps in behind
to turn everything on berserkers or take them out of the fight kill aisles and
really give Dignitas a chance to win this game.
And I believe we have come to this play which we're going to toss you now if
they're still ready.
Okay, just please listen to me.
I'm hanging where Kenan is.
Okay. Okay. He's still has TP, he's gonna walk by here.
I think Kenan is flanking, I want to look for Kenan. Kenan might be here or here.
Okay, Kenan is there. I'm walking there and I want to fight Kenan when he goes back
but the next time he can maybe go agresive way.
Yeah. No, no no, it's okay.
Okay. Let's do it again.
Okay. Okay. Let's catch Kenan. Just watch Kenan.
I think this is not a part.
Oh, look at this, I took the opportunity to bring in the dragon in the dragon.
I guess he is.
Okay. Okay.
I'm in the pit there, it will go on me? Maybe soon.
Okay.
Yeah, yep.
Why just do this?
I'm Martin Kennan.
Kennan is in the track.
What's the vocal kick?
All right.
Little, little.
Put it in, Kennan.
Celia, Celia after.
A cheeks has no flash.
Wait a minute.
I was just a good other game.
Whoo!
That was a lot.
That was close.
Oh, I shouldn't have been.
I love the second thing you guys highlighted,
especially from the, like, photons perspective,
because, like, in between games,
we got to hear from inspired
and the respect that he gave to Poton.
Yeah, talking about how like the meta
having elongated landing phase really helps him
because he likes to be able to play
like landing phase specific champions.
Ken and his that champion.
And yeah, it's such a great game here.
When we talked about, okay, what is the value
of going second pick, right?
They must have something that they really want to pull out.
It ends up being this top-ling Ken and it almost
turned the entire game in their favor.
Yeah, but we were reminded by the end of that.
The player of the year last year.
Yeah, it was inspired.
Steel's the early Drake catches
cannon on the flank around Baron.
Steel's the chem check Drake at the end
as well.
True.
And to be player of the year,
you must start in the fight.
Start in the first step,
which is player of the game.
So I'm going to couple it with you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
get a few.
So the fact that he's able to get this one
much, much, much deserved.
The consistency I think was key
because Bizarre, of course,
and I was really able to get the
lightning lead bot lane.
But then they're gotten to such a big
disarray.
And they were getting picked off.
Yeah.
someone need to be able to carry it and even hearing from the comms, like trying to find
an isolate Kenan was so important for them to claw back this game.
Yeah, I mean, you heard them like every single player was prioritizing it, inspired bringing
them together. I also loved hearing from, I was not hearing from Brzirker, they're hearing from him being like,
we need to work on backer noise. But again, when we talked about this roster, it's like,
okay, we know the names on this team are very, very talented. It's just going to be whether they
they can work, can coordinate together.
So hopefully, another week of scrims,
like as a team, they'll come out next week
and look a lot more in sync with each other.
Yeah, as Briser mentioned, he's been here three days.
Exactly.
None of these teams are going to be in their final form
as if we're still going to see hopefully next week,
taking the tosses full roster.
We don't know, though.
It might be mobility, breezy, and GM Jonathan
is their coach once again, true.
But we'll see.
We know who today's player of the games were.
The new thing we're doing here during LCS Law
and has rather than waiting until the end of the series,
We're going to play every game in every individual game we'll see.
We had a couple of two, oh, so two,
black-less players that are the same guy.
Griffin, amazing game here for him.
That was such a fun game series, rather, to cast.
Like seeing Griffin just, he kind of is a microcosm for what this team is, right?
Where they believe in their hands, they go in.
If they make a mistake, they seem to be really good at settling themselves,
just going for the next play.
This, based on this series, they're going to be such a fun team to watch.
And Griffin is going to be such a fun player to watch.
Yeah, absolutely.
Also, we have player-beginings, obviously, Griffin
would have been player-beginings here.
But we'll also have player-beginings, which
they're tabling to vote for as we speak.
I know personally, I voted for Griffin, but I don't wish I'd be like this.
Bo-hoo!
Congratulations!
I don't know which is a great play.
I must.
Because the quality of the opponent was much tougher.
The question from me, at least, was how he was going to perform versus
quit in particular.
Yeah, performed incredibly well, even solo killed them,
Especially on the Azir, which was a big question mark on terms of like a consistency he has.
So the question mark was whether he's not going to like how he was going to be on the team.
He was incredible. Beast in laying. Beast in team fights.
Like the two all over a team look, which was not expected.
So I mean, I had it at a two one per scene.
But you know, they made it cleaner than it should have.
So I think it was the top one between him and Griffin, but it was much reserved.
I didn't realize how much he was involved in everything that C9 was doing.
You have almost 91.
That's crazy.
That's super super impressive.
And like you mentioned, his is your specifically those few
shuffles in the mid to late game fights really turned things around for
C9 and that game one, which I thought Team Liquid was just going to take pretty easily.
Yeah, they're just finishing up preparation for the draw show.
So just a quick reminder to people how this is going to work.
The teams that won will draw against the other teams that won.
Yep.
And the teams that lost will draw against the other teams that lost.
Any more notes?
So the notes are the teams that won, which are C9,
the live quest, lion, and the ST.
One of these teams is not like the other.
So I'm doing this thing.
People are going to want to draw against the ST in the next round,
but you never know that it surprised in the first week,
and then the four losing teams are RAS.
Oh, we have to have a good time.
What do you ask to me?
Oh, I got to ask that point.
That's that point, can you guys rush out?
Well, thankfully, I don't have to answer any of them
because the balls will answer for me,
XU and inspired our on stage with me right now to represent each group.
We have the O-1s and the 1-0, so thank you both for being on stage today.
Let's see what teams are competing against each other for next week in the Swiss stage.
Up first though, I do want to ask since I have a chance XU.
You just got to play against inspired and you smite stole a barren.
And you got an elder dragon from him. How do you feel about that?
I mean, those games were a bit unplayable, but it was fun to steal it. So I guess it was nice.
Any defense for yourself inspired? I'm lucky.
All right. Well, there we got to hear from them.
XU, I'm going to have you pull the first matchup for the O1 teams for week two of the LCS Lackens with stage.
Oh, it's okay. You saved it.
Up first.
Shopify rebellion.
And they're opponent for week two of the switch stage, team liquid.
This is a gruntable honestly, that means we got sentinel, so well, spoilers, let's
draw the next to as well.
And then we'll get your thoughts out of it as well.
Shout out to the crowd again, they were cheering dignitas on.
We have sendals versus digging a toss for the next opponent.
So actually, you were excited about that.
Tell me why you would rather play against sendals than the other two.
Well, I think TL being in a lower bracket is pretty scary.
So no one wants to see them.
And I think S.S.
has like a lot of my former teammates who I want to beat.
So yeah, it'll be fun.
All right, cool.
Well, there we have it.
The O1 draw for week two.
Inspired, you're going to be up next.
But before that, I want to ask, as you did just win
and you're on a new organization,
who are you hoping to draw?
Who are you hoping to avoid?
I don't know, it would be fun to play this fight, but I guess maybe we'll get a fight with it.
A little rematch for the old org, let's see if you can do it.
If you want mine drawing the first matchup for the one-o-teens of LCS Alachin, Swiss
Stage Week 2, and it is going to be clouded nine as the first team drawn with their opponent.
I am!
Alright, before we draw the next one, how do you feel about it?
Pretty good, probably the best thing that we could say, so we'll see how it goes at the beginning of the season.
I think they play a lot together already, and we play that maybe 3 days of stream so far, so it's got an interesting.
Alright, it's going to be tough matchup. Let's see what the next matchup is from the 1-0 teams to round out the rest of the week 2 bracket.
to the
flag quest
will be taken on the last remaining one
o team which is
disguised a lot of young players on that one so flag
first is something no problem
cyclist no problem flag
west is what do you think I see no problem
cyclist no I got a Rift for DSG you know hopefully the
win
no problem for the draw no problem I don't know
but again no problem for the draw no
for the draw. All right, that's it. We got our matchups for next weekend. Thank you again,
XU, and inspired. I believe we're throwing it back over to the lounge. You close up today.
I believe you're correct. I believe you're correct. I have a tweak for Mark Zimmerman. Yeah.
I think he should have executive power to set matchups. Oh, I like that. I'm the size to you. So when
inspired says, you know, it would be cool to play flight quest. Mark's like, done. Boom, it comes on.
He grabs the ball, he runs away, and we just, that's it.
That's it.
Yes, you would play C9, because that would have been, that's the draw on a one.
That's the only thing I want.
That is the day of like, run C9.
Yeah, that's the only thing.
The same way that is, they'll somehow rig C9 TL week one.
We should have just rigged Shopify.
Literally rigged.
We should have literally rigged.
And Fogger can rigged is good, no, apparently.
Because, you know, it's like triple limits.
It's Swiss anyway.
Yeah.
But overall,
God, flag was versus DSG is the craziest thing.
Yeah, they're they're making the bracket right now. We're going to have the exact schedule fairly soon. They need to set the days. Yes. So stick around for that if you want to go right away. So you can set your count is for what's happening. But we know the matchup. So I'm putting flag West. Over DST.
Say.
Okay.
That's the other winning matchup. That's going to be a really interesting game to berserkers point because see nine does still seem like a best team. That's true.
I mean, I am going C9, I am really curious to see, again, since they didn't have much time to practice together, where C9 has had probably the most time in addition to the TL to practice together.
A different, more well coordinated lion next week. We've seen what a week of scrims can do, right?
But I'm still favoring C9 that much.
And I am on the team Liquid Alienware Watch. I need to see what they're doing down in the lower bracket and in the lower side of things,
I'm going to shop fire a bellion.
That one is a good match up.
Like, here's the problem with Shopify.
They can never shake off the allegations of losing to the worst teams and beating the better teams.
It's true. Oh, interesting.
That's why we're considering team liquid a better team.
So you're actually saying that they're in the shop.
Yeah, it's true.
The allegations for Shopify is that they can't win more than half of their games.
Yeah, and that's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool.
I mean, it's interesting, because you will keep
for a lot of allegations.
This is the allegation that they just lose them.
Yeah.
Enjoy it.
Okay.
It's just fast-eating.
It's just a little confusing.
Or there's spotlight merchants.
They do all when the spotlight's there.
It will have.
I mean, teamwork would have Morgan then for more than a week.
Yeah.
Right.
Shopify will have Zini for more than a week.
But it seems to have come in with their limited practice.
So I think it should be a slightly more realistic representation
of their strength when they play next week.
I also think there's more pressure on T.L.
Like, for what little pressure there is here,
I do think there's more pressure on T.O.
Because they would be favored.
Yeah.
And then last year, Digotoss first essentials.
I'd say way more pressure on essentials.
They're the one already lost T.O.O.T.O.T.
They're then playing Digotoss, who might still have subs.
Yes.
If they started the season, losing to the two teams
that didn't have full rosters, that is in place.
As a full rosters.
I don't even want to hear it.
The pressure is crazy for them.
And the upside is like not even there,
because they did what they were supposed to.
So it's a tricky little, it's crazy.
Especially with like the concept of you know bringing in the three better players from DSG
Impact we will always have a lot of expectations throughout in the career of himself and
Humbock who is like hey man your first time traveling abroad for a team and you immediately fall to these expectations
So I need to see them do well of course, but then I look at this gene
Not bad. Yeah, I just want it now I'm on cryo watch. I'm gonna watch for a lot of things
But especially if if they even if they continue to work with Kiznong
Kisno scaled so well throughout that series. Yeah. Um, so I'm open with it. Well, it's a
judge even called it out where they'd played together for a while, right? Previously. Yeah.
And so the, like, kind of improvement over the course of the series, where I thought Kisno
had a really, really rough first game. Mm-hmm. And then kind of steadily, like, got more,
more well coordinated with the team as that series went on. That's what was pretty impressive.
Kanks and I are on the same page. I saw him.
Yeah. I need to hear him about Shopify. He's getting a microphone.
He's getting a microphone.
You're coming here.
Oh, yeah.
You're doing this.
I don't want to get over here.
I was only saying this up so I could come in the last second until RAS.
He's got to go to the gym with me afterwards.
Oh, I'm just going to do it.
Can't do it.
What?
I got to be proud of who's got to be.
I got a business today.
Sure.
Sure. Yes.
You put Shopify number one in the morning.
Number one.
You seem proud of that.
OK.
I'm so sorry about it.
I'm sorry about it.
41% win rate is out of the work.
Because you like to, I don't like your jet stat.
You like to bring out the numbers.
Yeah, for me, below 50.
Your number is guy, I'm a vibes guy.
OK, 41% win rate is today.
They still got top three in the region.
I still think they had the best individual upgrade of the offseason with any coming in.
He didn't look stellar today though.
I was expecting much more from Zany from the Gico.
But they can scale, you know, I can't wait.
There's still the watches, isn't the new prediction.
Oh.
45% at one rate, they'll still win.
They'll end number one.
Oh, wow.
What about?
I needed to, I needed to ask you this.
No.
We also need the schedule.
But I didn't peg you as a guy who watches a lot of LCKCL.
So, I watched, I was just putting a lot of stock in Zinnig.
That is true.
I don't even mean our sum of my own tape.
But most of my argument and most of my vibes and my confidence
are coming from people I know.
the watch you'll see each other. So if I'm wrong, I can grill them for it.
Oh, no. Shadow Badger, the league run down. I get a lot of insight from him as well as a
pickle. And then also some of the the LPO guys, I know the cover LPO official,
Shadow, follow them if you haven't already, you can go on a face show. It's bad as both
and the big, big old pickle. Yes, both you guys as false for his take. The big, big
pickle. Yep, you, you, you, you've rasp knows them well. And fortunately, because I've
Well, it's also not your prediction so here's that here it is we did it
We're stalling for perfect. Yes, see my line up first. That's awesome
Sentinels dig flat quest DSG is I can't wait to watch gripping and the Shopify TL is going to close out the week on
Yeah, shop five versus the law
Alienware
Academy, so this is always my head seem liquid a canopy
Yeah, what's actually what's your favorite match up looking at this?
So okay, I'll tell you and said the one that I was really hoping for, I was hoping Shopify
Rebellion would dodge Team Liquid because this is going to be bad for my kind of power.
I think your Shopify rebels are in a little bit of a pickle.
I'm going to hold on to prediction.
I was joking about with Kobe that now Lion was number one after game one versus dignitas,
but I still think Shopify absolutely can't do it,
but it's gonna be a tough path to get.
Can you guess?
Yeah.
The best team in the league
does not complain about hard draws.
True.
I don't think they're the best.
That's all I've got.
We'll be back next Saturday at 4 Eastern.
One Pacific for C9 versus Lion.
We'll see you there.
Not going to the gym today.
We'll see you there.
Come back to the opening weekend of LCS-2026,
presented by MasterCard.
And there's new fly square 3-Bail, start 2026 with a 2-0 in the way.
Okay, we got a 2-0 on the team on it.
And you want to scare us?
I'm in the pit there, we'll throw a me, maybe, sir.
Okay, so...
Why just you do?
I'm Martin Cannon.
Can I have a try?
Let's go, go, go, go, go, go.
Oh, sorry.
No, no, no.
Can I have a try?
Can I?
I'm going up to the after.
But GX has no flash.
I'm chasing GX-4.
They push it on the nexus.
They push it on dignity.
Lion will win the series two on.
Lion paid immensely to get inspired on their team,
and it was well worth it.