gets replaced replaced basically and then he's like probably the biggest factor in several of these game winning team fights for cloud nine and getting revenge on team liquid and so it was almost like a weekend of revenge or like
Redemption's memories for a lot of teams and players and did that?
It definitely made me more worried though for Shopify just because it's like the team
The only change one person, you know, versus like a bunch of like teenagers who are like
Fresh to tier one and a much bigger change on their roster. It's like that's that's when you would really expect to win
And even the final fight. It was like sales altered quad like he barred altered quad and then
It wasn't even like a same time thing contracts just like altered straight into the barredalt
And then like the game was over.
I don't know that they really kind of won from that spot,
but it was just like, they looked like they were struggling
with their communication on all of these plays,
which is not what you expect for the team
that has been playing together for a while.
Zining obviously excluded from that, you know,
he changed, but still is like the core of the roster was there.
So that was concerning, and then you're like,
well, all right, let's see how they bounce back and game two,
because they were winning early, like, you know,
maybe they can just get right back on the horse again.
And they gave to, they just got kind of smacked.
Like, did you guys do an crazy and we're slapping their bot lane?
That bot lane was unreal.
But when I saw that, you know, I feel like
there was some sad on broadcasting.
It was like, Thresh hadn't been played since like 2020.
Yeah, yeah, so first time in four years
that Thresh has been pulled out and it's brought out by a rookie.
And, you know, I'm not a bot lane expert,
But I would think of filiose thrash,
what I don't think they should be winning against
quirky maker, especially this is a matchup
where I feel like the only way the filiose thrash side wins
is if you were just way better than your opponents, right?
If it's like the, um,
massacre high with lion versus dig where it's berserker
against a last minute sub-bottling,
and yeah, they might look like this.
But, you know, these are rookie players going up against,
I think people always say, I was pretty solid liners, right?
like that aren't known for forgetting gapped like that.
But oh my god, that was just such an unreal bot gap.
So how quirky Nico couldn't get the push level one.
Just might be able to just throw your A-Wee spells
with the wave.
And I don't know how that happened.
Maybe they just got space super hard or something.
But then they were getting 2v2 killed under their turret.
If you're picking Nico and getting destroyed and lane by thrash,
like that is going to be a tough game.
Mossy was setting up something to these players like when they got when they double killed them it was like
He's sniper gun cues roots into the hook and I guess sales must use his clone earlier on a trade or something
Because he didn't have clone. He got hooked by the thrash out of the Gravitam route
Which I was kind of confused by because I was I like I had thought partially this the Niko is considered
If I'm good in the thrash because you can just walk it with your clone like every time they're going for a hook
Like a lot of time you can just clone it, right?
Anyway, so he set him up with that and then they get that kill and then he hits another
sniper going cue on a on a b-boy and like sneaks it through and Bruce him with
Graves him too and then he gets that really good double kill and he's like chasing
one of the tower and killing him and he's like oh my god, like that is not good.
Yeah, they when they were asking for like a player of the game, well,
time remember after this one they were like oh, so anyone you guys are going to pull
for Thresh, and I was like, this is one of those situations where usually, you know, people are like,
oh, the support's still good enough credit. They're setting up their 80 cares. I'm like,
the 80 carry is setting up their support here. Like, mossy was every hook was out of root.
mossy was insane. Like, it was actually, and the gym game, I thought was also really, really good
for him too. So I, I said, mossy was playing out of this mind.
and Black West, Black West definitely got a lot of fans, I feel.
The Moose Feet stuff, I was so funny in both games.
Like, in Game One with Jin when they got caught,
and he built some razor.
He would get a cray, he had like 700 Moose Feet.
And then Game Two, he rushed with these storm razor,
playing Fleet Ghost on a failure.
It was just like, he is just moving.
This guy is fast as hell.
It was, it looked really strong too,
because especially with a thrash,
just like Zinn or whoever goes in,
And you just get like, laid off him.
And then this guy just running 7,000 miles an hour,
dancing around you.
Yeah.
The storm rays are coming back.
It was definitely a fun thing for a fellow else.
If you're like, mobility is one of the few things
that a fellow else lacks.
He has a lot of other stuff.
And so it kind of like, shores up that week this.
He does infinite damage.
I think they even nerfed his withality scaling this season.
Coming into it.
But yeah, I don't know.
He's one of those champions.
So I think even in one of those late game fights,
I think it was the last fight of the game.
He had shockerums, and he flashed two shot rides.
Like actually two autos killed him from pull out.
I was like, wow, that.
He had to carry looking weak this season.
Yeah, my Lord.
But yeah, I think,
thing on that fight, it was a really weird one to watch.
It kind of showed the lack of coordination.
I think for shot fight,
because that kind of started by Fudge,
just sort of, or I think Shopify was hitting Barron,
they had, they proct and Megan are on Barron
and then turned off.
And then Fudge was just sort of like walking
through Miss Mininar and died.
He just like jumped late and got separate from his team
and died.
So who's a weird game from Shopify?
Not really what you'd expect from one of the teams
I had like, you know, been together long as,
because I was expecting them to be good.
But then again, last season, they were just
one of the least consistent teams of all time.
And right, it was like, on any given week,
they could look like the best for the worst team.
Just, you know, no rhyme or reason,
just how they were feeling on the day.
So, yeah.
Maybe this was just about on for them.
Yep, well, we'll see.
We had T-L-Vrc9 as well, which was our kick-off match was.
That was super, super exciting.
That was honestly a really fun series.
It was kind of honestly similar to the Flaco Shopify one
in that game one was really close and the game two kind of became a stomp.
I've got T.L. had game one wrapped up.
I thought it was completely wrapped up.
It felt like they kind of hit a point with their scaling, where they were going to win.
The, like, the nearly renecked in didn't really feel like it had gotten much done.
Bob was doing kind of this like, poke style build, you know, with with
actress of Helia and Lundes, you know, where you broke your heel, whatever,
but like Jose and and Quinn were looking really on point in these early
fights with like the shockwave engages were over and over so good flash
shockwave. The Q3 for Zane is prepped and then he just like flashed instant knockups into
shockwave at the same time and like blabbers you can kill over and over by
quit in the jungle and Jose and I'm go. Blabbers second death where he just got
solo killed by Oriana was so crazy. Yeah. I remember phase brush Jason down. Yeah
I mean because I think we were like coming off of a replay or something and then show
how he died initially, we just saw it.
We came back and he was like, how?
And then it showed the replay and it was just like,
they're like, what the fuck?
Yeah, or you want to just kill them.
And it's like, how, I don't know.
You've been watching it was weird.
It's just like, it looks so easy.
But I'm thinking like, it's niddley in the jungle, right?
It's like, she's not that easy to catch,
but sometimes you just don't.
That's like, almost exactly what I was
just said what it was happening.
And then we saw it.
It's like, pop with, like, because he times like the speed burst
for his phase rush and then goes over the speed burst
for his W and like, well,
nearly usually feels like she can do that type of stuff,
you know, because she can just hop away from most people.
But could, could definitely, was all in one minute.
But that everything just turns around.
That was, like you're saying, it was similar feeling.
Honestly, I feel like it was more one.
T.L. really had like everything, you know, objectives and kills and I've just felt like they were running it, but then the scaling for cloud nine, they still relied on that was the
that was a silver as your game, right?
Yeah.
They, I thought they did a really good job of playing
their like battle lines in the key team fights,
there's like multiple fights by Dragon
and one on the top side of the map.
And we actually have a visual for the final fight.
Boom.
We're doing a little test here.
Boom, one visual, come down.
One visual, you know, all the other plays,
not quite yet, but we got one for you.
if you want to take a look at your imaginations strong,
they can imagine the rest of you.
If you want to take a look at the cloud nine team liquid,
team fight, we're going to throw it up on screen as well.
If you are watching on YouTube or anything like that,
but I thought this one, they played the battle lines
really, really nicely because they had put so much effort
into scaling their Azure Siver, which is amazing
like game combos, like those are the carries that you want
if you're playing Versusion.
those are some of the carries that can actually kill
signs that get through them.
And they were able to farm up their Lord Dombs and everything.
And so, Thanos does this play where,
in the super lake game, after carries like that,
already have magic penetration and armor penetration.
So, you don't really tank things by actually taking the damage.
You need like CC the enemy carries.
And so, Thanos flashes in on top of Yon
to stun him with the long and powered stun and gets the barrier.
And then he like double dashes away with the next in slice and dices and like
creates a lot of time. Meanwhile, silver and his hero just auto attacking this
ion and it sounds like, oh, like I got to walk away. And so then it gives you like
another opportunity to re-engage and then APA, you know, after both front lines have had
like their separate engages, you know, Jose tries to go in while Morgan is running away.
So like there was less coordination on TL side,
because they did this like, you know,
he's got a flash in again,
and then he instantly holds the name,
he's like, oh no, like, I can't take for very long either.
And then Morgan was walking away,
so they were like, decent on that front line.
And APL was like, all right, well, that's the opening
that you guys have nothing left.
Right, I was gonna say watching this game,
it seems so awkward for both sides
to actually try to start a fight.
Because, you didn't, I mean,
there were some engaged tools, right?
You have like, barred all, you have sign on all, whatever,
But it was like, you know, you have this poke niddley build with
loot ins and I can feel you know, where the idea is, you want to just be
able to like throw Spears and poke them down, but these Spears weren't really
landing and they had not made to heal it up as well.
You know, it's just like a tank signar stuff that was missing every bar
at all, too.
Yeah, yeah, it was, uh, it was to it was not carry on, bar, and these games.
This weekend, yeah, the bar fire already versus you can a lot of the
English in this game. Yeah, it was a little weird seeing the
priority of artists so high, but like the actual game
impacted him was not quite lined up a priority. Um, but
a Vulcan normally is in this. Yeah, and he did kind of set up
that last fight, but I will say, I think from C9's perspective,
these fights are super awkward. Yeah. Because you don't really
want to overcome it or he'll just die. And it's sort of the same
for both sides. So in that clip, we have, I thought it was
really impressive that the way C9 actually played this fight,
it kind of reminds me of the Gen G style team fighting,
which is always cool to watch, where it doesn't feel like
it's really easy to predict how they're gonna do it,
or even coordinate, right?
It's not like before the fight, they're able to say,
okay, this is how we're gonna do it, it's kind of just,
everyone's doing their own thing and creating space
while not building into suicide, right?
So it was like, Vulcan started out the fight by,
I think he was just queuing Oriana
and then using it with the all-tim,
and it wasn't like they were gonna have some massive fell up
with that.
They're all kind of doing a little bit
and then like he mentioned,
Dan has flashed in,
and his intention wasn't,
I'm gonna flash in one shot somewhat.
It was like, he's just making space.
He's gonna flash in, he knows if he stays in,
he's gonna immediately die.
So he didn't say us to double-dash out,
but it was like they used enough stuff there,
and they drew enough attention to give AP
that opening to go for the flash all.
So I thought that kind of team fight was impressive to me
because that kind of thing is extremely hard to pull off.
You know, you don't have very much CC on your team.
You're your jungle mid 80, carry.
You have no CC at all.
You have a Renekton stun in a barred.
And this, and it was Lakein.
Rectam was looking useless this game.
I felt like with he got his like, I don't know what it was.
15 CS or, you know, plus or minus a bit.
I can't remember exactly advantage over the sign.
But he couldn't, they never, thanks sign.
They never killed sign.
And then he did, um,
Shojen's second.
He had a cleaver Shojen instead of going Sterex.
So then he would show up to the fights.
And he, like, all he could do was flash and stun him and run away.
Yeah, I remember they had that, this fight where he set up on a flank by Dragon.
And he was in the banana bush and both like the, the red buff.
And it's like he pops down and it's like, all right, here he goes.
And he just didn't, the bush were so long to the honest expired.
And he flashed and stun him and then, you know, flies and days out.
It's like, that was his fight.
Like, you just, like, you can do anything.
So I, I thought it was so impressive how they played out that fight.
Because to me, yes, there was mistakes on T.L.
But this fight was way more outplay than misplay.
I was really, really impressed by how C.9 was actually able to find a way to win in a fight like that.
I thought that was really, really sick.
Even with that teamfight win though, I thought T.L.
still had a really good chance in this game, and then they completely lost their minds.
The next one was complete outplay, nothing from C.9 forcing this.
is, you know, they, they, they,
barred.
Miss playing me for the second one.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Excuse me, yeah, complete miss play.
Like it wasn't like a forced error.
No, it's like, yeah, we're totally.
Steel, we're completely trolling.
Like they, they barred all into into their jungle,
or not barred all, barred tunnel into the jungle.
Courgette, Courgette, they see it, they see it.
They see it, they see it, and then he walks back up to it.
And then they fall and gate and quit is like,
on the other side of the map and you're playing,
you're playing like a full beefy front line team, right?
You don't have a ton of threats
you can just skirmish like you need your org and your cork, you do nothing. And they just
just felt like they were doing so well the whole game. One fight went bad where they got
kind of outplayed by C9 in the river and they just completely lost their minds took this fight
in the game instantly and he was like, what just happened? It felt yeah, I felt like the dragon
fight was like, oh man they just got like punched in the head and then they were like super dizzy
afterwards, and I was going to go, everyone was like, oh, well, we're still playing
this game.
We didn't even, and then for long, it was, because it was crazy, I'll give all these
free kills.
And he was like, well, I guess it was over, you know, I thought like the tension was building,
and it would have to be like this epic battle now, Cloud9 and it just like fought their
way back, you know.
It'd been this whole game of T.L. winning, and then now the Izzy are in the server, have
scaled and they're using their damage and their range really well to get these like little
leads. And then it's like, all right, I guess it's all dead and we're just kind of walked up into
there. One by one. Okay, guess we're over then. I hope that the next game's better.
Yeah, I mean, that just seems like a result of pressure, right? Like you always talk about pressure in
games. And it wasn't a tough game because it was what like 40 minutes or something
almost 35 minutes of these very drawn out standoffs where you're winning it for 90%.
Yeah, you're winning it. And one thing goes wrong and all of a sudden you start feeling like,
oh man, like we can't just do this standoff. We're going to lose it eventually. So now we just
got to go for something and then that's when those desperate plays come out and the stuff that
that when you watch it, it's like, oh, that wasn't very good.
That was a huge throw.
So I wasn't impressed by the visibility
to pilot this, you know, sometimes it's a meme
when you say there's a hard to play comp,
which to me usually in my head I'm like, okay,
so that's just a bad draft if there's that hard to play comp.
But I think this was actually just a difficult to play comp,
cause you're just not like any clear,
the windcon isn't super clear on how you wanna do it, right?
So like, okay, we group when we poke them,
or we split and we get picks
or we just team fight walk at them.
It's kind of like, you gotta finish it a little bit.
So I thought that was super cool
and then obviously came to C9 had a lot more
playmaking options, easy to go with.
Yeah, and so something that kinda stuck out to me with this one
is that team liquid replaced impact with Morgan
and they had these like hype videos for him being like,
yeah, he's the guy, he's dominating everyone in Scrim
he's just the best top laner ever and then they didn't enable him in any way
shape or form with drafting right it was like granted that it can happen sometimes
but it's like you do this new pick up you have with supposed to be this insane
laner you put him on a sign on into rectan Italy which is like good luck there
or and then the next game they blind picked rumble and he has to land it up against
Aurora you did really well in both lanes I thought I'm yeah I'm not even saying
he did badly, but I'm just saying, I think he's doing a close to them.
They're putting them in a situation where it's like, if he does well, he's not feeding.
Yeah.
Versus being in a situation where it's like, if he does well, he can hard carry the game.
No, I agree with that part completely, but I still walk away from this thinking, wow,
he's a really good later.
Because Thanos has been by far the best landing top laner in the league.
He counterpicked his rumble with the Aurora.
They went, he didn't lane.
Like, you know, I'm not saying Thanos maybe didn't have more pressure.
Well, like there's the S was like dead even in lane in that second game, and I was like
damn, that's actually really impressive because that match up is very hard and then it
toasts his a monster laner and game one, yeah, he did go down some CS bill. Like again, it was like
12-15. I came over exactly maybe it got a little bit higher than that, but it was in that benchmark
never died, you know, and then you hit that point where he's just a brick wall. So I was really
impressed by his lane, but I do fully agree. They never did actually play to him at all,
and you like, sometimes you get counterpicked, you know, like, yeah, I'm playing this so well,
I'm dead even. All right, how's everyone else doing it? I'm in the game with silver.
And that's not the stuff that I like. The mid lane situation was rough. I don't remember.
In Pro, it's very rare to see someone actually just getting blasted in lane, but that was mid.
It was um, to leave her Sionne, and quit was just bleeding far. It was like every single wave.
he was losing half of his health,
he was having a like home guard max,
his way back to lane, and he could not play the game.
I think I felt a lot of it came off of that room,
though, for me.
It was, he got the kill, he got the blue buff,
based had enough gold for a lost chapter,
and quit had like no buy.
Yeah, he took that, that was where it was like,
all right, now you actually can't breathe.
Yeah, and part of that too was because
quid did the team play, where as APA is moving to that bot play, you follow. Yeah, he followed.
And if, you know, it's a really hard decision to make because obviously, in hindsight,
if quid just stayed mid, pushed the next wave base earlier, he probably could have been okay,
but it was like he abandoned the wave followed quid and then got nothing. And I think he got
like chunked out or something and just ended up in a terrible spot. Like the wave was bad.
that APNIC got to kill and blue, and it was just really, really rough.
Yeah, I think one of the big things for me was spamming the new season, especially
with, I'm playing a lot of lanes instead of jungle, you have to be so discerning on what
plays you actually follow because you lose quest progress if you leave your lane,
like you lose the bonus, and a lot of your quest progress comes from just being in lane
in the passive getting boosted by being in lane.
And so there's a lot of times where if the enemy has a little lead and they're going
to make a play.
I think now in this season more than ever, it's more correct to stay your lane push
and you know, trying to get a quick, you know, turret play or turret hit even both
because you can get instantly rewards, you know, crystals and it's really easy to take the first
one.
But also because you're going to lose quest progress and the person who leaves first and goes
goes to a good play, actually we'll make up more quest progress because they get in kills,
take down, give a bunch, or they're like getting drag and something epic monsters, give a bunch
as well. But if you also follow them and you don't get those take downs or epic monsters,
then you are going to be super behind in your quest in addition to already losing out on the
play. And I feel like it's snowballs this season even more heavily than it previously did. So
So, yeah, I think this season is like,
there's so much more focus,
at least for me, on leaning phase
and like making those decisions where it's like,
junglers have always mean about,
and not even mean, but like,
since the very beginning of like season one,
it says like, never gain colluding lane.
It's like, okay, well, maybe like,
tiny times, like sometimes, but like,
you don't wanna go to losing plays basically,
a lot of the time, I think laners,
We'll just have to be more cognizant of when they leave or don't, yeah, yeah, I mean, it just created such an extreme advantage.
It's really like usually losing hard and pro play is like, hi, getting pushed in a lot here down a bit of C.S. right, but yeah, he was down early, like what 30 or 40 C.S.
Also credit to AP, he landed so many combos. Yeah, he was getting seismic shove after seismic shove, and then it's on a young A2, so he was just chunking him over.
And I felt blabber played really well this game on the jarvan.
Like he got ahead early and I felt like he was just making play after play after play.
You know, this was to me one of those games where you see kind of blabber out his best, right?
Where I feel like he is someone who can snow ball games in a way that a lot of junglers can
off where he gets that advantage and he's able to push it really, really effectively.
So this was definitely an impressive game from from from C9 for sure.
Yeah, I I really loved the we got to listen to some sounds of the game afterwards.
and there was that bot lane fight where AP had this calm that really stuck with me
which I thought was super good. We were basically just like, yeah, like I'm going in no matter what
basically because I think that is such a good confidence call from the team because it's not
telling other people what to do. There's no hesitation. It's basically just rallying your whole team
and this, that's a kind of calm that really reminds me of high in the early C9 days, which was
was something that I remember when I first sub for them,
he kind of calmed like that.
It wasn't necessarily like he was forcing everyone
like he wasn't commanding other people.
He was just like, yeah, like F-DIS, I'm going in.
And it was like follow him or lose the game basically.
And it was usually good situations.
And so APA kind of brought that same energy
where it was like, yeah, I'm going in no matter what.
So then you're not sitting there thinking,
is this a good play?
Or I'm being forced to do this thing.
You're just like, okay, that's our leader.
like he's going, we're gonna follow him.
And so that to me was a really good sign for them,
and I think that kind of confidence boosting call
is super, super important.
It switches the teammates thinking from,
now they don't have to consider,
oh, are we doing this player not to how am I going to fall up
on this player?
So you're already thinking about,
are what am I gonna do in this scenario
instead of wasting any mental energy on,
are we even going to do it?
I'm really glad we got that listening
because we got that highlighted,
And he's like, oh, I see an angle, I think I'll, I'm going.
I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, no matter what,
I need to say it, oh, Hell yeah, it's good.
Yeah, a really good contrast to that, I think,
was a different listen than we had from the DSG game,
which we'll talk about that in a little bit.
But it was the playware Dark Wings had that comeback play
on as a year, I think, Rahel had just gotten caught
in a really bizarre way.
and then Darklings had a super hero
as the airplane to get the back of the game
was like a four root five
and he got like a really good flash-hold.
And then we heard the comes from that play
and it was a mess.
It was like, I think Darklings comes while he was doing the play
was like, it was just complete into such,
into decision, other people,
I couldn't tell who was talking
but they were saying like, don't go for anything,
like, every, most people were talking
saying multiple things and it was just like,
actually a mess of comes.
So I think comparing the two,
Because like, Darker's obviously made a hero plan to save the game, but like, it didn't sound like that from the little hat.
Well, we can talk about that series.
Just guys was able to beat Sen.
Two to one.
This one was was so interesting.
You did go all three.
I think that was our only series that went all three yet was.
And Sen.
Sen.
One game one, but it was interesting.
Like even in that game, I felt like,
I don't know, at least mechanically,
and whatnot, DST was looking better.
And I came into this,
especially after having talked to Ido,
where he's like, yeah, like the whole roster is basically
built around Criro, like, that's the whole intention
of this thing, and then they don't have Criro,
I'm like, are you gonna get cooked, right?
Like, you're gonna get cooks for sure.
Homebuck came out, game one, got, like,
giga lead over Kizno, it was almost like flame rising
and it felt like at one point.
Massive Massive Goldie on the Kiana,
It felt like it should be a stompy game,
but even this one became pretty close.
And even in times where I felt like there was
bad choices on the fight that they took,
I was really impressed by how Sajad was playing
things out mechanically.
Like, even if they shouldn't have been there
or even if they shouldn't have done it,
like every single time, there's like a flashing gauge on him.
He has zonus, it.
Like, you know, instantaneously zonus,
or flashed it, or whatever, like his reactions
and his mechanics, I thought were really fast,
really good, which was fun to see and quite impressive.
And yeah, that game first game, they did end up winning.
It was that kind of hero we play,
you're talking about from Dark Wings,
these year as your shuffle that he finds in the jungle.
But it was a wild ride show, he said.
Oh, yeah, that was not a clean game, but it was a fun game.
That was sweet, that was just, you know,
they were playing on themes by the end there.
It was just, you couldn't predict what was gonna happen, right?
I think it was, yeah, disguise got the soul.
And I feel like usually when a team gets cloud-soled,
it's kind of GG, that thing is so insanely strong.
But I guess they didn't really have great champions for cloud-soled,
right?
It's like, to Leia Pantheon kind of gets Europe out of it,
because they're just in an animation for the whole moosey bonus.
But I think humbuck had a really good engage
on a Kiana, sorry, I forgot any.
Yeah, he had a good Kiana engage where,
even though a DSG had a good response,
there was like, I think two of them zoned you
to like flash get all in their base.
It was still was enough to kind of like get the fight going.
So it was a cool game overall.
I think a lot of people showed good moves,
even though we all saw some really sketchy stuff as well.
Like the play that I mentioned before,
where we got caught and died,
if Darwin didn't find that as a player,
I think the game just ends right there.
And it was so weird too.
This was, I don't know how late into the game,
like 30, 40 minutes at least,
and he just got caught as quirky by himself toppling.
Like so far out, not only did you not have vision,
but like the other team was in his jungle.
Like that is such a weird thing to do.
You almost never see that in pro play
where someone is that wildly out of position to,
Because usually if there's even a chance someone can be somewhere,
you won't go there, right?
But it's like not only was there a chance,
they could be there.
They are there.
So that was just a really rude one to see.
Yeah, it's almost like one of those like
brain-off farming recesses where you're talking to your team
and you just like naturally, you know,
like go back and go down the way.
Yeah, you just actually go out to the main,
and you're like, fire me while you're like,
paying attention to something else,
you know, you're like, coming or like,
it seemed like what, you know,
one of those kind of resets.
But I agree with you as far as
like the tension and how cool this game was,
because I thought Sauget was actually gonna carry
the whole game for a while there.
The case like his Kaiser was so fed.
He was full max items really early.
I think he was 34 minutes.
He had full build Kaiser.
Seven items.
And I'm like, I have so many nightmare games
of playing against, you know,
all these like void seekers is constantly going down.
And like, one of your teammates gets hit and you're like,
ah, you're giving the refund on,
he's gonna hit that boom.
Another one goes out of like,
people are just getting headshot left and right.
But then it did feel like he was like the only one
that was fed on the team, and that became a problem.
There was one moment I remember at the inhibitor tower
in mid lane, in mid lane.
And they were actually doing like decently in the fight.
But it was a moment where you could tell like,
they haven't played together at all.
Obviously, he's known as an emergency sub and sub.
But there was a small moment in the fight
where he's known how to name it to flash, stun,
is here. Kaisa was out of auto attack range, so he was like a little bit back. When he sees
that panty on go in and do that and stun the easier, he starts to walk up to follow up,
but there's no time then, because the easier then, like the stun war off in the easier,
it gets the kill him and he's all the damage. But like if they had done it at the exact same time,
that would have been like a super sick play, and maybe they could have popped the easier, like
full build Kaisa, like you get plasma from the stun and then he hits the next thinly pops him.
So that was like a, like, do our diamond, where it's like either the easier dies, or the
Kaiser dies, and, you know, because like you have never played together before, or like
didn't have the exact exact exact right timing.
There was only a few moments in game one where I thought DSG should have won, but they were
kind of like lacking patients, like skipping steps because they were getting big sighted.
Bot lane and he had, they like went forward and I remember they like got to kill under
the tower and then they were kind of all backing off and Kisner just like ults into the
tower as everyone was running away. And then he just like incidized basically everyone
tries to run back up and save him and they die. Top lane after they killed Grahel. They
kind of like, it was a great play from Dark Wings, but they also could have just checked the
bush with clone with Eagle clone. And they just like all walked together blind into the jungle
and then got engaged on and died. Like that if they had just played a little bit slowly they probably
could have closed out the game. So there were definitely some some oopsies there, but I did think
So I was looking really, really impressive.
The next couple games they did win.
They were able to actually take it.
And I just feel like there's like it was really, really fun
to watch, but you could see a couple of different moments
where they inexperience was kind of shining through.
I remember there was this fight.
I think it was game two for Sojad, where he was sitting
on like 2k or maybe even a bit more than 2k.
and he had an basic really long time,
sent me all the base to reset, come out,
and they kind of like forced this fight.
And so Ajad was trying to,
I think, greed for like a full item purchase or something.
And they had this fight where it was like,
a camera who was game two or a game three,
I think it was game two though,
where there's people with like all of like one or two
autos of health left, right?
And it's like, if he had just basically
at the same time and spent his gold,
like you just wiped them probably for sure, right?
And it's like, you're like, okay,
any year he probably doesn't make that mistake,
Maybe to come a month, he probably doesn't make that mistake.
Because mechanically, again, he's just playing these fights, so well.
That is one of the biggest things I think for pro play.
That you, it's very hard to tell us of your, and you'll never get to learn it.
And so, if you, but like, it's the whole idea of tempo in resetting and buying, when it makes
sense to do it, rather than like, when you have exactly the perfect gold, right?
Because I guarantee there was times where he could have re-called before that,
and be able to like come out in the map.
And those important part is just spinning all your gold
so your strongness can be like, obviously item spikes matter.
And there are some exceptions where you can
agree to a little bit to get the spike.
But for the most part, it's like you just
want to be recalling when it makes sense.
So you can be pressuring with your team.
And maybe he didn't quite do that.
And like you said, it was just missing the items
that he should have had from an earlier recall.
So I mean, absolutely understandable thing
to do when you're just starting out, because you only really
learn that through experience. And yeah, I thought he played great that for how young he is and
experience. Yeah, I feel like the whole weekend just made me really happy for the competitiveness
of our league. And this series was no different. I was really happy to see a lot of these like
positive takeaways even if there are, you know, some instances of, oh, there's no coordination
here or there's like, oh, obviously they can, you know, clean that up. I felt like there were
so many positives in some of these teams where I didn't expect there to be, you know, as many
impressive moments. So I think overall it was, it both really well, especially because so many of
of our teams didn't get a lot of time to play together.
You know, that's a young, young, young, young, young, young,
a talent.
Yeah, that's a lot of you.
And he's no playing well,
maybe he's still happy, because I was like,
oh, man, I like seen him on some counter streams before,
and he's always been really impressive.
And like, you know, like,
pulled out, they're shouting him out,
or you know, whatever random thing.
And I was like, that's, you know, that's cool.
I mean, it's emergency stuff, but like,
maybe it works out.
Said, you know, some positive stuff.
Well, we're going to go to a quick break and we'll be right back after this to talk about Lyon versus Dig and then quickly and next week's matchups.
We all knew how we were on a turbo hybrid.
Kia, movement that inspires.
Welcome back to the dive, driven by Kia.
At the time of talking, Lion versus Dig,
a lot of hype around Lion, a lot of angers on Lion from the fans
from then maybe not getting power ranked as high as some people were expecting.
But it was, this was one I thought was going to be a super soft.
This was like a series that I was really confident in for LCS fantasy.
I was picked up some lion players.
I was like this is going to be an easy point.
You know, it's dig who I thought was going to be a bottom team with a full bot lane.
Sub situation going on versus he said, obviously going to be really, really difficult.
Oh, it showed.
That definitely didn't game one rough.
I mean, even game two in the beginning, like that was not a playable lane whatsoever.
100% both games, it was like, oh my goodness,
berserker and Iles are literally
shackling Kobe out here.
The monster dunking on them from minute one.
Like, this was the game, right?
Where they like, they walked up into the side lane,
brush before minions are even there.
Yeah.
And they put the ward down and then berserker and Iles
like sweep the ward and they walk up.
And then they're still there in the brush,
like waiting as they're sweeping the ward.
Yeah. And then barreds able to get a skew on the both of them,
they get barrier out and like a 200 health lead before millions
are even there. And I was like, oh,
she we better hit that emergency button because
Missouri crowd hours are about to do some nasty things.
And they ended up doing that. I liked how I was the pros podcast
afterwards. He was like, yeah, I felt like I was God to
game, you know, I could do whatever I want. And I mean, he was like, yeah, this might sound
like a, you know, a lot of self-confidence, but I feel like I made like almost no mistakes in that game.
I mean, I can see how I'd feel that way. It kind of looked like that from the
bot lane perspective. And man, I just felt so bad for XU. I'm just imagining because I guess
for the whole team, like, what do you do? What if this was exactly everything, everything exactly
what it's like to be on a top team versus bottom team for inspired. Obviously, I think inspired
actually went really well this series and that's just what you expect from him, right? It's like
especially game series. Oh, yeah, I mean, just just MVP material just doing his job doesn't even
need to do anything super flashy, just like businesses you feel for him, but like then you're
actually in every time you press tab your bot lane is getting worse and worse. I think it was showing
both games, Berserker has like a 2K plus gold lead, real early, like super early to the
point where I don't even think you can gank the lane. It's like if you're up against
inspired the guy who's just this machine of efficiency. So as soon as you start skipping
camps going for random ganks, like you're getting countergain, you're getting counter-drunk
gold, something bad is happening elsewhere on the map. Yeah, that looked really
unplayable for XU.
Yeah, I will say to the, yeah, game number one, yeah, I definitely
feel that because everyone's like, all right, well,
this one's got to over start thinking about the next game
whatever, but then game two, game two actually
lions started doing like some big throws and ego plays like
Saint realm, okay, there's a, there's a winning play for
lion. They get the early like almost free kill on the breezy who's playing
and then St. Realm warps into the entire enemy team into Diggitas and just completely
gives up his life for free, like kind of inst there. And there were a lot of moments
where I was like St. was making some head scratching plays and he was down a lot. He
flashed on his arm. He did that one. He also did the one where he just went straight up
and tried to like 1v2 mobility and I forget whoever was, you know, buying him or whatever
and just trying to like, you know, a fairly old kid,
freedom and just trying to go for the full Z.
I thought Lion was going to throw this one.
It looked like, it's a kind of save them.
Yeah, their carry's worth rolling it.
They, yeah, apparently from what I was hearing from
double as info belt on this one,
Saint is a known grief or insult to you.
Like, if he's not having a good game,
just not mad with a game, say this guy will just try to lose
the game because he's unhappy.
And it felt like he was doing this on stage, actually.
He was just, it felt like he was mentally checked out as soon as his game wasn't going great.
And then also, um, yeah, Bizarre, he had that play he mentioned where, like obviously his lane face was insane.
They were just dominating lane.
And then, some of the place started going bad.
Mobility was picking up some kills with jinx salts and whatnot.
And it kind of looked like it was going gig's way.
It seemed like kind of the,
Some people are expecting Lyon to be this mental boom team because like they have all these big stars and
Strong personality and whatnot, but God inspired it's just too clean like this guy actually played situations so well
Right it was like he kind of smite see on the soul right after Buzzerker had to like
Kind of wild play where he had no flash and he just like walked up into four people and died
That was one of those players were like, oh, like there's no way he thought that was a good play
I don't know what that was, but then inspired just like kept finding good plays.
It was just insane.
I was just so impressed by how he was just finding photon.
Because photon was so strong this game and he was, he was definitely strong side.
They put dokewood down, photon was in this point where it felt like, okay, he's gigashrong,
like he said mobility, sir, getting kills, power foxes, is doing all right, like felt
like they kind of had them outraged in a lot of these fights where, all right, it's a
to realize, realize face rush ghosts onto the,
and you have all of these like melee champs
and like rises kind of to a range too.
It feels really hard if you don't nail your engagement
once you have them, then you're just kind of screwed.
You can hit Kite Dal and mobility just like max range
when you're rocket-form killing you.
And then inspired just kept finding photos on on flanks
and just like soloing in or forcing to alter flash
or whatever and just solo one the game.
I thought like, I thought they had lost this game.
and that is kind of crazy with this monster advantage
that they had, and you needed MVP level inspired coming out
here and just saying, nope, we're not gonna lose.
I'm just gonna like solo win it for us.
I'm gonna find photons over and over and over.
So I thought it was a super impressive game for him,
but definitely was a little bit worrying for Lyon
from the position.
Even game one, even though they did close out and stuff,
Baron got stolen and Elder got stolen and like,
you started thinking for a second, wait a second,
could this start getting a little bit close,
get a little bit weird, but inspired
definitely like put his foot down and game too,
which is like, no poor not losing.
That's what I was like, all right,
we're already seeing Lion, you got all you paid for it.
That right there, that is why you buy the MVP of two regions
who was MVP of North and South,
since we were merged last year.
And you kind of get this feeling,
maybe it's even easier with hindsight,
but do you remember the very beginning of that game?
because inspired made a lot of the four before he had to carry this whole team and
solo in the game. He did this invade into cross back to his right side and he blinded
news over the road. So it's all and he gets the last hit on the big drug with a blind
you coming back to defend his own side.
So he, that means no sense.
This is, you talk about like jungle master class and stuff
like that.
It's like, you know, you know, like I drew up the play.
I timed it exactly.
The DPS of VIE, you know, the thought process and path
that X is going to take to saw my crooks at this time
and then I queue over this wall.
No, like he said everything up without a lot of,
you know, help from the laners even to counter jungle
on the red quadrant and then come back,
blind queue and defend his own crux as well. And it's just like,
again, I'm getting that feeling. It's part is going to do some crazy stuff this game.
Even even like, fire, if I recall it correctly. So he went for the invade and then
X, you see, so then he's he crossed over to try to do enemy red. But inspired, I think anticipates
that he's going to take his red. So he only does two camps instead of the full three. Because
you know, actually doesn't go for red. He goes immediately for for crux. Me and Mr. and
I was almost guaranteed he went into the red thing and then saw him cross it back and then went down.
And he said, if I had shows before like he, because they had them ordered on by Raptors, right?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
I just went around the ward.
Actually, he didn't go around the ward.
I got awarded coming back and I thought that's why he didn't start red.
Yeah.
So, I think he realized he wouldn't have time to do red.
And so he wanted to do Crux first or because.
from jungle. In that kind of situation, it is really awkward, but I think he had a good job of like, you know, he did his blue and then snuck around the vision and I think you probably
vike you over the dragon wall and then you kind of have like a decision tree to make because if you go for the red, you're doing it without smite and you don't
exactly know what's going to happen there because I think they, you know, you know,
bought prior. So it's going for drugs which are way less expected. I'm not, like, I don't
think you have seen in the minion wave. That's something that can happen when you go to
enemy crux, like when the minions are walking by. No, actually doesn't get seen. Inspired
is the one that seems actually in my opinion makes the correct play. You should go for enemy crux.
Crooks here because you're seeing inspired counter jungle. You're and so you know your red
And you can't move up there because you don't have, you know,
uh, laners that are going to help you. And so, yeah, it was just this point
right here where he was going in the red thing. So he keeps going down. Yeah,
once he sees him, yeah, yeah, I was just thinking that he was going to start
he was going to start red, but then saw him on the other side. Yeah, yeah,
because he, you get seen in the war at the same time. That's what I remember
thing you from the game. And I was like, well, that was just smart either way,
because he had it timed out well, that it's like, if he started on his own
side, I do these two camps. I will get there if he does do my red, like inspired's mind,
he's going to be there in time to contest the right. Yeah, that's playing the whole time.
Yeah, it's the counter jungle and then defend your course. Yeah, I'm just saying like even before
the like, you can say the the Crog Steel is was like lucky, right? Yeah. But like even without that,
he had a planed out really well. That's all that's all my point was. Yeah, yep, that kind of
And V is super rough.
It's one of those things where when you're playing
the really weak junglers, it like level one and two,
and then you're up against someone strong,
like Viver's Pantheon.
Why can't you anything to Pantheon, level one?
Like he can just walk into your afters
and start in your face and you can attempt
to steal it from him, but like good luck is
you it's for like 200 or something.
So you can get bullied very hard.
I think Inspired did a really good job of doing this.
And that crunch still was just,
That was just me.
That, if I'm actually so tilting,
if I'm actually, I'm just like,
what, why would he even look for that?
Like why would he queue that?
Yeah, he probably felt extremely robbed from that.
And like, you know, the league,
God just didn't want him winning this game
for that to happen.
That was just absolutely tragic.
It's definitely funny, like it's one of those things.
Like, do you think, obviously it's like kind of 2020
and you never expect these gonna fly
to give them a wall and steal that?
But do you think he should have been kind
the crugs down into like, in towards.
Yeah, because you know that inspired
and he's coming back to the fair.
Exactly.
So it's like, so I could, you could make the argument.
I was kind of thinking that too,
because he did see him cross through him.
He saw him on the, on the ward on their own wrappers.
So if you kind of the car goes down,
because he didn't do it, he did like a tap to cue.
So he only got it because he's literally touching the wall.
You know, I mean, you could,
there's, there's straight up for everything.
Yeah.
You could kind of down to avoid the blind pants cue.
If you do that, you're also closer to the bot lane
if they have a like come over and try to ask you some.
It's tough.
It's super tough.
It's not tough.
I'm not saying like, oh, what a dummy.
But you know what I mean,
he's right.
What if a blind cue still is to pull it down?
It's one of those things where sometimes in jungle,
it's like, well, they shouldn't be here, right?
So people early, smile or whatever,
and they get some mightstoo on and things like that, you know?
Yeah.
I mean, it's always best to kite where you're going to go next
anyway.
Yeah.
My only guess would be that he was deciding
where he was going to go next afterwards,
depending on how the bot lane like fight was going.
I don't remember who was winning Push-On Bot lane.
I have a story.
Lion had the fear of him.
Oh, yeah, it was, but it was a girl's game.
So they were definitely public.
So he was probably like, he was probably thinking,
how do I get out of here after words?
Yeah, because it's really hard,
because when you see Panther in your red,
It's like, you have to decide, Pantheon doesn't necessarily have to do what he did, right?
He could also just, this is like, take your whole red side jungle.
Yeah.
He's thinking, all right, how am I going to get a guy out of here?
I'm not thinking I'm going to have to go over this wall, then I have her that wall, and yeah.
Yeah, so, I mean, inspired his all the choices their XU has very few and none of them are really good.
So just, just a hard early game to play it, absolutely.
Something I was wondering in the series is, so I don't know if Mobility has a champion pull
But I always feel like they wouldn't better off bot lane just picking some kind of really
Hard to punish safe bot lane because they were picking
Like scaling 80 carries with melee support, which it's good if
You're not just losing the game from lane alone, right? It's like getting your entire turret taken and down
Infinite CS so I'm wondering like you know you can pull out some zigs bot pull out some kind of like
Maybe I don't like that's right now. I think I think he is no may change played competitively. Yeah, so maybe they don't play
He's up someone right on his real. Okay, so not not not to not to not to get a option. Not that many keys played to be fair
But yeah, but I was thinking you know in various areas most played. Yeah, if there was an option for maybe something
That's a little bit more lane neutral I think it could have been good because I think just putting them in these like
uh not necessarily strong-laning champs with a melee support up against one of the better bot lanes like the zirkers and sand laner
yeah uh we there's only even see you know them so we don't know how they compared to like
yon core or like the sand bot laner whatnot or mossy but obviously really strong bot lane so I was thinking
maybe if they had that in there are a soul that could have been a better option but obviously if you don't play
you don't play it yeah I thought it was cool that lion already are like showing what people kind of
I thought I hypothesized about this team with like, man,
they got some really good players.
But there could be some egos or maybe like,
how am I going to work together behind the scenes?
It's like, wow, we got some really big individual
stumps at different points.
And then we also got some like head scratcher,
like what are they doing type plays where, you know,
not everybody is working together.
It's not necessarily the most cohesive team.
But in the end, it had massive star power,
like berserkarales, turbo-stomps, lane, multiple times,
inspired solo carries a game for good measure on MVP,
type stuff, and it's just like,
this is going to be really fun to watch line games,
because they have star power, and everybody loves to watch and speculate,
and like, can give me some team calm listening,
and is there going to be any drama?
Is there going to, you know, what type of games are they going to deliver?
because I feel like they're gonna have some really big plays.
You can have some big stomps and stuff.
And everyone's gonna be waiting for it.
We're gonna get to find out how good they're gonna be
because they're going to have against the nine this week,
which is gonna be really exciting.
And if I was a lion fan, they did two-o,
you're happy about that,
but I still would feel pretty nervous
because this was Dignitas with a full sub-bought lane.
And I felt like they should have lost game two
if it wasn't for like this heroic performance
from inspired.
So I don't feel a little bit nervous,
but they haven't had a ton of time practice,
but they're kind of just arrived and stuff.
I was was saying I'm pros that he basically came
straight from the airport and started screaming,
and he's grindin' really hard.
But they are gonna be going, we can see nine,
we've got some banger draws last week and this week.
I think this is gonna be really exciting.
And it's gonna be one of those big ones.
I mean, if lying can win immediately,
I have to be like, okay, egg on my face,
like maybe they are gonna be a lot better a lot faster.
I think a lot of people were thinking
going to have slow starts could be kind of proven wrong.
And see, nine has a chance to move on.
That's the thing about being a little bit nervousness and excitement
come from the same chemical and your brain.
And so you can just be super excited that you have a chance to prove yourself
for this cloud nine.
And then you do get to say, I told you so.
And everything that you've ever said is correct after that,
if you're able to be cloud nine.
Yeah, I think, I think Lyon, I was really worried about them
having a slow start.
I think the concern is a crash in burn, right?
I think they're going to burn, right?
But it's not like how long can they keep that up?
I do think if it starts going bad, it might get really bad
really fast.
But I could totally be wrong.
Maybe they, you know, surpassed everyone's expectations
and they just jell together, super raw.
We're going to have to see, I think they are good right now.
I mean, it's going to be blabber vs. Spire.
That's always a really good match up in jungle.
I think they're both just super good junglers.
Blabber, known for being a little bit more aggressive,
unpredictable, sometimes like suicides for crabs
and those games and creative ways,
but also he'll just have some insane 1v9
just completely strangle the other team
and they couldn't do anything games.
And then in Spire, I feel like it's a lot more just state.
It's, you don't often see inspired do something that's like extremely surprising,
as far as like being really flashy, but he almost never has bad games.
Yeah, and it does things that are like very necessary at the time. Like, oh, you know,
I have make my guardian angel and I go mark this cannon and like he can only be this place or
this place or this place and like finds one of the sweeper, it's then stands on the glass
cone, so he can't get away and his time. He's also just so good. All these, all these things
are just impressive. Also, this match of the Superfund because it's berserkers versus
cloud 9 and Sven. And berserkers and Sven were extremely close when they were on cloud 9.
And there were even had interviews with berserkers where he was like, yeah, I'm not playing
with any other support, you know what? They were very, very close as a bottom lane. And now Sven
gets to be back in 80 carry position. And going head to head is going to be really, really
fun as far as, you know, resurfacing old arguments. I told you so, you know, yeah,
this is what you should do this if you're a decade or whatever. So, I'm super excited for
the bot lane matchup, especially. Who do you give the edge to in that bot lane matchup?
Ooh, that's it. Man, like just lane lane phase. Yeah, like what's
following do you think it's going to win? How can you not say line after how? I mean,
I guess it was against the big South Lane or C-Suff Lane, but damn they just
looked so good. They really did. And Berserker was on to like very Berserker
champions. You know, it's you know, there's a lot of really good scaling team
fighters. It's looking as looks pretty good, but Sven, when we were talking about
the bot lane play, when Sven was playing Varus and Yon was the gym, he starts
out that whole like winning sequence by dodging the, the JNW. And then he has a
confidence where he charges up Q flashes forward to go for the execute, it gets
the barrier out and then it allows the follow up. And so I thought Zvane, even though
we didn't mention him, as much as Blabber and APA, was playing really well.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, he was quietly having really good first game. I remember
getting to the point where I was like each Q that was hitting a, hitting the JN would
do like 30, 40% of their HP and it's like when it's that point of the game, it is tough.
But no, I think it's going to be really, really exciting, I mean, Thanos, you definitely
have to expect to have the advantage in top lane, I think for sure, I think it's
fired for sure you have to expect to have, which is something here when we want to
each of you have the advantage.
Midlain will be really interesting because I think seeing people look at it is like the
more talented individual but I feel like APA had a really good series, you know, coming
off of the the first week against quid. I thought he definitely
performed quid pretty heavily. So, you know, that's kind of like
maybe more up in the air. And then I think bot lane could be kind
of more an argument too. I do think that cloud nine should have
better team play. They don't what we've seen. But you could
obviously make the argument that, oh, like, I just weren't taking
this serious. They're playing down on their opponent, whatever. And
for this one, obviously you're going to be as locked in as you can
get. Yeah. And kind of an interesting thing in solo queue lately is
You know, a lot of these players have been playing the turn of solo queue and I've actually been seeing
Blabber and APA duo and APA is in spamming Sion mid. So I mean he's playing like Sion and Swain mid and stuff like that
So I wonder if like that's something they're preparing against Lyon, you know, because
Maybe they just want something new doing be action. Yeah, I'm not sure and then also in top lane
I feel like the top lane meta right now is super weird where there's been a lot of posts on like Reddit
and what not about range tops.
And last week,
Dokela actually had a super rough game against Foto
and they were in Ecton versus Kenan.
Like he was like,
Megan and combat songs are LP.
Exactly, right?
It's combat, some top laners,
especially the range ones, like Varus and whatnot.
And I've been seeing Dokela and, you know,
a lot of top laners playing stuff like
barrier of Varus top and vain and Kenan and whatnot.
So I think we might see some spicy top lane picks
since the Renekton slightly and probably have not been looking very good.
And Renekton's kind of like that guy you pick when you don't know,
like we just need a blind for top. Yeah. But if he's super punishable by these like
crazy range tops and maybe you don't want to do that. And we get see some like spicy counter
picks like range tops, maybe someone kind of picks the rally or something like that. So
who knows? That would be great. I'm favorite seen I'm, but I think it should be a really
really good series. We also have sent Null's
versus dig as one of the loser match ones, which I
know, just is it's a funny phrasing of the loser
match ones. Oh, it's zero one. It's a match is
between losers. It's Swiss. That's how it works.
And the winner's matches in the losers match.
Yes, that's definitely correct. That's the format.
It wasn't flame. I didn't say it was. Yeah, I
It's all happened.
Yeah, you're so good.
Yeah, all right, fair enough.
What do you think about this loser match?
The loser match for losers.
I mean, honestly, like I said,
I still saw a decent amount of positives,
even from the teams that did lose in week number one.
So I'm so excited for some of the few minute they lost.
Some of them, yes, some of the openings for these losers
because guess what?
One of them not going to be a loser anymore.
They can discard the shame.
I think I would have to expect these loser matches to be kind of
one-sided.
I would expect certain else to have a pretty big edge over digging
a toss, as well as like we're having an edge over shot by.
Based on just what we saw week one and kind of we'll be
specks from the themes.
What do you guys think?
Yeah, I mean, I don't think sendals look great to be honest.
I thought they would look better, but I definitely do still think
as long as they can cause, like,
I don't know what's the visa situation for this week.
I'm actually hurting anything about that.
I think if they do not have to play their bot lane,
like this full sub-bot lane,
I think it should be a lot closer
because I think that they're intended bot lane
is supposed to be like a point of a point of strength, right?
So to me, that is gonna make a pretty big difference,
but it does feel like an important one
for someone else to win.
Yeah, honestly, I feel like we're already getting
to important victories here because like if you go down O2 at the very beginning, it's
going to be really hard to dig your way back out in this lock-in tournament lock-in's not
that long.
No, it's quick.
So, yeah, it feels like this week of practice is going to be super important, especially
considering that not a lot of teams even, you know, they're not full weeks of practice
before the first.
There's only one more round of Swiss after this, because it is like a modified format,
right?
really have 18s, right? So there's round three and then there's the last chance or whatever
thing, like, which is, I think, six versus seven to get into playoffs would make sense.
So, you know, playoffs is, is top six. So, yeah, you, you really are kind of, like, in a lot of
trouble here if you go down O2 already. But I agree with me, as far as the, like, theoretical should win
or who I would predict right now would be sentinoles and team liquid to get their victories and try
I'm like, get there, you know, paths back up to the top to reach out for
rematch team liquid.
I feel like you kind of have to expect them to slam, right?
Like I think that they still should be a really, really good team.
They did lose against Cloud9, but like I still have faith that they are going to be one
of the best teams that's not the best team.
So I do think that is a really tough matchup for a first Shopify who, it's a really tough draw.
It's a really tough draw.
That's the gym draw.
That's always the scary thing in Swiss is when you have this like
bang around on matchup, nobody wants to play the loser.
Yeah.
Whether it was going to be caught nine or team liquid,
nobody wanted to draw that.
So yeah.
And Shopify is that kind of definitely looking like they
don't have the coordination in their mid and late game
like fixed up and where they want it to be.
And they're defense though.
They're working very inconsistent team.
So they could look way better next to it.
It doesn't mean they do.
Yeah.
Because I mean they showed promise, right?
to have some good early games and whatnot and sometimes it only takes like a little tweak to
figure out, you know, maybe there was one massive issue you were having in the team that was
throwing your mid late games and once you figured out, you look a lot better.
And also to be fair, TEL kind of had the same thing right where they kind of did have this
this flood-blake game, right? They were really in control of game one, lost that fight in the river,
and then had this like, you know, kind of chickens with their head cough, moment at the
the rapper pit where they engage on to the other team without quit there, they all die,
they all die, they all get the game, and they gave him two, they got blown out.
So, you know, definitely, you can make the argument that there are, we just said, we're
shown by TL as well, but I do think, you know, even just like a pound per pound, like
talent-wise, this team is going to be really hard for them to be.
And even in the last, like I said, I was very impressed by Morgan's landing, so I'm kind
of excited to see how he's going to do is we get to see more of him.
The other match that we obviously have to touch on is his fly quest versus DSG that's
the other one zero.
That's another winner's match and one of these teams is going to be too low, right?
Which is not something I think anyone would have predicted coming into it, that puts you
in a very good position.
So you're going to be guaranteed top six as far as I know so you're already going to
be into playoffs, which would be really, really cool for other these teams.
I'm sure they're happy to draw each other because they probably both think of they can
be each other, but it's cool.
It's like a lot of the young and a talent stories
that people were talking about.
Everyone's super hyped about Griffin,
and you know, an encouraging, and these young guys
on FlyQuest, and obviously on the other side,
we talked a lot about Sajad and how he was playing.
So I think it's going to be really cool
to see how they match up.
And if they can kind of like snowball some of the success
that they had from week one, or if it is going to be like,
oh, yeah, FlyQuest looks so good.
It ever has really high been to them,
then they're just going to like, you know,
full flat in the next week or whatever.
Yeah, I think I think it's going to be a good one.
I would definitely favor flag last year, just based on how the teams play it.
But I don't think it's going to be a total sum.
I was actually, we didn't touch too much on call me from DSG,
but I think he was extremely impressive, right?
Like in games two and three, he turbo-gapped dark wings.
And I also think his middling shampoo is pretty good for the better right now.
especially with the way that it matches up against what quad likes to play because
I think quad's play style is kind of similar to dark wings where they both prefer playing these
mages like the scaling up mage chimps and then people that arora and a colleague. I mean I think
a collier I know is just super gross. I think a collier is it kind of makes it so if you're a team
who can play a collier the other team has to ban it or you can't blind pick a mage because I think
like we saw Dark Wings blind pick Victor and then they got kind of with a
colleague and I think I think you almost just lose the game for that
magical one like Victor can't do anything to a colleague even if you
build a rod even if you go to upgrade and merge threads you still just
die in the side lane. I don't think there's anything you can do to not
die to her as a mage so maybe they'll just have to ban it or you know get
counterpicked. St. did it against Califox on Oregon I think as well or
was it till the end?
What was it?
Um, because in my, um, confused, that was game one blind, right?
They played the college?
Yeah, I believe, it was a worry.
Yeah.
Call it a worry.
Yeah.
And I mean, I think that's just like, I don't know how you play a nation to a
colleague.
I think that's just a good luck match.
So good luck in these sports.
Yeah, exactly.
So I think, obviously we haven't seen a ton of games in these guys.
They're chimneys.
I'm going to push too deep.
But I like the way I call them this plane.
It's very aggressive on these high kill ramp champs.
And I think that's great for Midlander, and now I think
with getting upgraded, torque boots, and just having this
all this flat pin available, you can just one shot everybody, and it is so hard to play against.
Yeah, this is the team that I would instantly move on my power rankings.
After a week one, because I had them eight, which one?
Fire DSU is the one you see.
We all had them eight.
We did put it there, but literally as soon as we talked about it,
talked about it. I was like actually I would move the one because this
big was my actual eight. Yeah, but I like this. I don't know how I would
Yeah, this team like they already have mobility so like up the
standings not the actual player. And so I think they they look competitive
actually. All right. You want a new ranking for them immediately? Yeah, well
who are you moving them about that's just a lot of them. I moved in them above
of centenoles and dig like I can move on.
You're giving them one up, yeah.
I can see that.
Let's do it.
It's true.
I thought we were all agreed that day was the actual eight.
I guess that was fake.
Yes, that was fake.
So I'm only giving you one.
You're moving them up one.
OK.
They have some mobility to move up both of those.
Which is, which is, I think, impressive.
Yes.
Where where DSG were for the majority of their time in the LTA or LTA.
The most eight is rock bottom.
Yeah.
They were them in eight.
They were like, I think this is just one weekend of sample size.
And for me, already feel confident being like,
yeah, next weekend, watch, watch yourself,
teams, Kobe could put DSG above someone else.
Next week,
go and put them back down.
Yeah, they just are going back to rock bottom.
Five last time when you were talking about,
I thought you were going to be talking about
black ones, just because five last time I was watching,
I was like, maybe they're like a top three team or something,
You know, because we talked about it, I came where I put them fifth, sixth, whatever.
But to me, like the high role of this team was always like there, like a top three team,
they could go to worlds, you know, because they have a lot of talent, but it's not proven,
and you just don't know if it's going to work.
But week one, I was like, damn, they actually look really good.
Right out the gate, I thought they were going to be one of the teams that needed them both
time, based on talking to their team.
And even Mossy said that in the draw show, he's like, yeah, you guys are better than this
right now, before they're week one matchup, when he was, um,
You think they're top three?
No, I think it's possible.
I think they could think, yeah.
I mean, I think them at their, at their high roll could be a top three team, yeah.
So they're only worse than cloud nine and team liquid.
Is that what you're having?
Yeah, on like a high roll.
I don't know if they're going to be able to like continue that level of form.
But yeah, I think that they have that level of talent, that level of potential.
I mean, they have really young players that are really good mechanically,
and their week one looks way better than I thought it was going to.
and it's super exciting. That's why it's like this competitiveness of the league. I think is
super exciting for a week number one because they're like, oh yeah, wow, like this
this team could rise way up. This team could rise way up. It feels like a lot of the teams could just
could win. Nobody's safe. When you change your power in any moment.
Jason, you're most recent before. Yeah, yeah, you know, only that. Be careful team,
like, watch yourself here and keep on falling down there.
Had you had number one?
Yeah, you got to watch out.
I already feel confident after a week number one.
I'm moving you down to number two.
It could be, it could be based off of something completely arbitrary as well.
I told sales, he was on my fantasy team and then I said he was going to pick Alstar.
He said he would keep that in mind and James like didn't keep that in mind.
He did keep it in mind and he decided, who is that?
Yeah, we just fair.
He's like, yeah, I'll think about it.
I'll give him a minute and much is like, wait a second.
Don't keep that in mind.
I was like, no, no, let him be, let him keep that out,
start in mind.
I can use the points multiplier.
Well, it's good to have all CS bags.
It's good to have that back.
It was definitely a really fun week one.
And we'll see where our overreactions
underreactions and everything get us coming into next weekend,
because that is going to wrap it up for us here
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Oh, welcome back to OTS.
We too.
I'm the lock-in for me.
I thought we'd win.
Yeah, it's really good for fun.
We got exactly what we needed.
Yes.
Draw them up in the fly-quest.
Shopify series.
We got a clanger, of course, between us.
Let's see what's going on.
I thought we'd win.
Yeah, it's really good for fun.
We got exactly what we needed.
Yes.
Draw them up in the fly-quest.
Shopify series.
We got a clanger, of course, between us.
of course it's being a...
What was it called?
No, no, what was it called?
So small and coin clangers
or two back to you going up against each other and is the mess.
Okay, I'd be like, send those to you.
That was a clanger.
Well that was a clanger.
I thought it was a ban.
I was stealing spawnisms right now.
Okay, clangers.
I actually think that's...
Clangers are good.
Yeah, pretty nice.
And once again, congratulations to the new suburb,
Razz, L-O-L.
I'm giving money back to my own company.
Why am I doing this?
Literally just from my own e-mote,
so I can just use it to shake.
How many channels do you subscribe to like Twitch?
I have an intervention with myself.
Yeah, you got $100 a month on Twitch.
I did.
And I had to cut it down to just like two people.
And so I started my friends,
because I wanted to support them.
But then when I started checking my bank account,
I'm like $5, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5.
I was like, no, my money is leaving me.
I spend $11 a month on games of legends premium,
But we're going to go to what we have so far in the Swiss bracket for those of you
who don't know because every region does a slightly different format.
Here's our format.
It's the lock-in Swiss stage.
Here's how it works.
Week one.
We played to get four winners and four losers.
Now we have the loser games and the winners games.
But next week that's going to give the winners-winners games, the winners-winners-lusers games
and losers-lusers games.
I like that.
That's true.
But essentially the way it works is if you're zero-three or out, if you're three
and then one, two, we'll play a tiebreaker to see which 16's got to play out.
The five of two are two lines. You're just dead.
Yeah. Which is crazy. So like basically, you're a two-o-team.
But seating, seating of change.
Cheating matters, true.
Yeah. But there's a cause for celebration if you went as a winning side.
Sure. Yeah. Also, fantasy LCS. I thought I was going to be screwed last week.
Yeah.
Mainly loaded up on the team that played against disguise.
Yeah.
lost the series, but they still actually got a good number of points.
Here's the top performers from last week's fantasy.
You really need to have Griffin.
Holy crap.
15 points in his debut.
In is popping up a berserker, obviously.
That was a little bit of a, because they were playing against a substitute
bot lane, but he popped up.
That's not sure how cryogen.
I really love this whycloth team.
We've talked about it.
I know, Brad, and you guys talked about it on froes, like how fun this team
is to watch, but, and I, the crudients, the rush was the thrash of fellas, Liam was actually
so fun to watch, how they're pinnosed there. It's very good, and it is definitely cheating if you
go black-west and maybe even Shopify if they have a good matchup just because they're fighting
all the time. Yeah, for fantasy. So like, I'm taking notes, I tripled different Shopify or
Dalymanly loss. That was the best. Well, last year was Shopify, too, because the games were just
go so long, and they fight all the time. Yes, but they don't win. They better win. Because last week
they didn't, and I dribbled different to them now.
Yeah, unlike last year, when the roster's locked, when Brazil started, this is just LCS
fantasy.
So you can still lock in your fix now.
Yeah.
If you missed last week, and you're worried about your overall score, it doesn't matter.
You can still make a lead with your friends.
Yeah.
You can start from whatever week you sign up and still compete.
So normally, that's when I call out to Raz, but you actually remembered last week.
I actually remembered.
So congratulations.
What place are you in our league?
Yes, I'm in your league.
I'm probably very low.
I'm like 36th in my own league.
I am losing to my own community.
It is not good.
Don't trust my picks.
This week, this week would be better.
This week will be better.
I will make a point, though, and the point that I'm going to make is
the reason why you should choose fly across the Shopify
or value if they're in winning weeks because they fight constantly.
If you give them an objective to fight over?
Yeah, they will go for it.
An autocon was at a very good objective last year to fight over
and we thought we lost that.
Did you buy a bunch of Shopify players this week?
This week, Cal, no.
Okay, hello, no.
Question for you, though, we were talking about the game earlier, and I was at least happy that we removed
out of con.
Yes.
As this objective that people kind of just turn off their brains and fight over, but last
week, it was replaced with something that's been in the game for a while.
Exactly.
People are willing to fight over the six minutes go to grab why?
Because a hits level six for you naturally.
So we saw it versus the the natural criminal in C9 versus team liquid. And in this case
Shoutout to Jamada of course you made a video and talking about how there's like a trick that C9 blabber did and being able to have the smite
I'll just to head but it didn't matter because he couldn't even get to the crab itself and he just died
You know, so it's because you wanted to get level six off crab
That's why everyone's fighting over. So that's one game. That's what I said in behind
I mean you think okay, C9 you expect this from this team as well, but if you look to the other and young is green
Yeah, I know he's six, man, like six, you get out of small fight contracts. It's the classic Malphine Oste.
That is another reason why you're going to have a game snowball to get to.
You know, of course, because Shopify or Valium cannot be trusted with the lead.
They ended up losing this game anyways.
I love that trick that contracts did the flash before you're all.
Yeah, that's it.
You know, we can kind of let you go.
Check that. This is the next game of the same series.
Literally the net damn game and it's the 444 team fight.
If they had to keep these talks like they're probably another one as well,
but the fact that the games are just being decided by us.
but a scuttle flip.
The hell with Oticon?
This one had more aura.
It does. This is sick.
It's something.
You know, I actually accuracying this.
I really prioritize this second scuttle and soul.
I think it helped me.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
It just goes like, sometimes though it's spawns top side
and the other chain gets dragged over to my pocket.
I got a little six baby.
You're my human.
It's kind of jungle, though.
It's pretty fun.
Sometimes there's literally not a lane
to be able to play through and fight for
when you hit level six,
but I am forcing it no matter what.
Like if I hit six on Luke Kong,
You better believe I'm forcing a game bot lane.
Yeah, I mean, I just like it because I feel like we're
changed to dragons, right?
Like the dragons are holding all of our games hostage.
You can kind of have to fight on them on like very specific
timers.
That's why I did like on the con because it's a very open
objective that really encouraged a lot of messy team fighting.
But crab also very open objective.
You can get at it.
Mirriad different ways.
That just shows human nature because it feels like without a
It made sense.
It's like his big scary montress that's
shred your resistances.
It was like a major objective.
This one, it's just a slow pass of moving
stuttle.
We will find out what we're anything.
That's perfect.
I will say, last thing I want to do on the
game before we move into the matches themselves.
Yeah.
The fact of the top fantasy performer for
Topplain had 20 points.
Nothing is happening up there.
Not exactly that.
I'm sorry this year.
No one's ganking top because they're all
concerned about the drinks.
They're also not picking anything that can get
countered because they're too afraid of counter picks. So there's just these safe blind
picks that can neutralize in most lanes. No one's going down more than like 10 or 15
Cs. I want that to change at some point. I don't know if it would be this week though.
It's also really different at least. I don't know about you guys. But from solo queue experiences
we're talking in can still be really really snowballly. As we see our teams are getting
out here. Give us something to go. Oh, it's forgotten when taking up the clock.
shoulder. He's not even look at the camera.
Some people might like that to be honest.
And that thumbs up.
There we go.
But there's one person that's going to make like
interesting for us.
It's going to be Thanos to have pluck that trend.
He's currently a Thanos.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, paparazzi.
Hey, you got a question for you.
Hey, don't look at me.
I'm just a Thanos sir.
No questions.
It's going to be rough.
Oh, my God.
It's honestly, it is nice to see.
Don't close back on the riff.
And it's going to be fun to see the matchup between both of them.
I know we'll talk about them a little later on to the idea of like a player that gets the resources in fan of those persons of player that is honestly, no, give me nothing.
I mean, I will be on a subsistence level only.
Yeah, I mean, we kind of saw a little bit of a joke on that week one. We'll talk about it later.
I think the thing that I was most excited about with the C19 specifically was how blabber and APA, we're going to potentially work together.
I did pull a clip from their second game here.
So we see APA is kind of taking control of this lane.
Blabber ended up doing kind of a standard path down from top side where he went, you know,
blue grump wolves crubs to red.
And now APA is just going to use his simple mid lane prior to kind of check.
They're going to see Jose de Odo there.
Another really important thing that's going on right now is bot lane is also going to be
in a really good position.
You already see APA, quit is chunked out, right?
Lever is going to be joining up here
trying to contest for this scuddle crab.
And you see all of the pains going down.
You see APA continuing to push out that midway.
And y'all get so low from bot lane
that he is going to be in huge trouble.
But again, this is more about APA and Lever.
This is just a basic use of mid-priority.
He easily gets that first rotation after shoving the wave in.
As we already talked about, quid was a bit chunked already going into this.
Yarn is really softened up from bot lane shenanigans.
So this allows blabbering, easy first law.
And then guess who's there first, APA to back up the team.
I just love, again, this is a very simple use of the Amid prior, right?
But I'd like to see these early plays out of blabbering APA,
especially since they did have kind of a, or APA, didn't.
But Blabber had a really rough game one initially ended up pivoting to the Echoes of Helionidly, which the healing, actually, was pretty, it was very, very peanut style, an Italy.
Yeah, but to your point, undeterred for what happened to game one, they completely recovered from having early deaths, Blabber had a stronger game two.
But today they're up against inspired.
Yep.
to me inspired, carried those games against Dinotos,
showed that he can still be player of the year.
And you have some clips of him as well.
Yeah, I mean, games you specifically, I think,
were really, really, really.
In fact, I don't know if you got this,
this might onto the infernal there.
And I mean, I think the big thing to me was,
I got in this game.
Photon kind of was ripping through them.
Yeah, there was another play that was kind of hoping they'd show where it was at
Baron, where he catches photon on the flank and it completely changes the fabric of the game.
Yeah, and I think that stuff like that, you call them in tangibles, but it's just
literally recognizing intelligence being able to within the game adapt to what is the biggest
threat on the map and being able to play through and put it in your own hands, the pantheon
be like, no, no, I'm going to track him down and find him in his flank, we're ordinarily
be a completely different role like I did the support or the enemy top laner to be able to mark that thing.
So I think inspired is going to be a clear boost for this team.
If you have a question of where they are and a lot of people do.
Some people have, I am this third, maybe they get larger throughout the split.
A lot of people question whether they're not, they're going to be in top four.
Like all of these in my opinion is going to be answered by the fact that this team has inspired in games like these.
Yeah, we missed my camera. That was confirmation that FBI and Ignar are here for you.
Yeah, that's it. We're here last week for Digger Tosspa there.
Here this week for their matchup.
I find it this is more of an overarching storyline between inspired and
blabber.
Blabber was the N.A. jungler since 2020.
He was, he started with the 2020 championship, we'll see now, when they couldn't go to MSI.
And then I feel like he held that title for probably three straight years.
But inspired's taken it.
Yeah.
I feel like inspired was player of the year.
Blabber not making it to an international event since this roster really were
They've won this title than what after that, when they had
berserkers, they're 80 carry, Jensen MNs,
and they're midliners, and he's kind of had these last two
years where he's really falling off so much so that some
C9 fans, not all C9 fans, but some C9 fans were like,
it's time to move off with Labyrinth.
I think if he wants to have a comeback this split, this would
be the roster to do it with the Kevin O'Connor
community for last year.
Inspired, you know, Infinity Stone's a broken up.
He's got to try and build up new players.
He came to mold his vision of the game.
So I'm just really interested to see that match up
between inspired and blabber as it's clear,
it's clear to me that inspired is the best jungler
in an A right now and blabber was the best jungler in an A.
So I'm sure blabber wants to get it back.
And it's funny, cause I do think that gets blown up a lot
by the community because of, yes,
clutch moments whenever you see, for instance,
split to last year, you're in the finals,
and you see those like flubs from blabber,
that stuff does happen and it leaves an imprint
in a lot of people's minds.
But like leading up to that point,
Blabber was stellar, right?
And a reason why they want a lot of their games.
But it's always those big impactful moments
that people remember.
And if you can unseat those,
that it is just an easy conversation
of like, oh, these guys are some of the best
and it's an MVP race.
So I wonder what it will look like by the end of the year
and if that gets resolved.
Yeah, and that's where I'd revisit it.
Like I am really curious to see how each of these
junglers work with their mid-liners,
and it heard that conversation of inspired
kind of hyping, obviously, I guess.
Oh, lecturing, lecturing, but then I, I do think with the way the APC is the map with
a lot of the champions he seems to favor, it could actually end up being really good for
blabber because whenever I think of blabber strength, it's always his farming efficiency.
Like sometimes I'll just look down and I'll be like, how did you come back from where
you were even when you set behind?
And I think having a mid-laner like APA could end up working out really well for him.
Yes.
And I think if you were to look to the other side of the mashup, for me, it's going to be about
berserker and I was looking, in my opinion, very good.
Yes.
You can make the caveat for anyone that they're going up against.
Brzeemobility.
I'm going to make that.
You want to make it, you can't, you're going to make it?
Finish your point, then I'll make it.
Like, berserker for a long time when he was in
Cloud9 in North America was given first team all
pro first team all pro first team all pro.
When you hear from Isle, he is very much someone who
stop all about how he plays his own lanes.
And how he works with other people.
And in this case, they stumped the matchup.
And then Isle was able to find the push within that lane,
impacted mid lane immediately.
And was able to help out, saying, when I thought
how it box is doing quite well within that leading phase.
And so, what I like to see is like, okay,
you got a lady in advantage, what are you going to do with it?
Now, they limit deficit in this case.
So, yeah, look at that.
Oh, yeah, come on, come to the video.
Come through here.
They limit deficit in this case,
and they tried to go for a 2v2 dive,
and in a better situation, yes, they come out clean out of it.
But I like the fact that they're able to just, like,
yeah, we're going up against the sub-dual lane.
Let's try and push for a little bit more.
Yeah, let's try and limit test because,
why, you know, it's week one, day one, let's test it out.
I think by the end of the year, we will look at this as one of the best
bot lanes in the LCS easily.
Well, I say the number one, y'all in the court, J.J. I'll give them number one.
Number two, then we're having a conversation.
And in Vulcan, yeah, we're having a conversation.
Because immediately, I would look at Sven and Vulcan,
but Pazerker and and and and I'lls, I think at their peak,
we'll look very much a contested bot lane to them.
Yeah, I'lls in pros afterwards as I'm sure you know, because you did it.
Yeah, I was just saying how he thought he ran the game on barred.
Yeah.
It started by winning the lane.
I can you to win the lane, so you can leave in the best situation.
But what I'm really interested in is the fact that
Preserker and Sven are going up against each other again after winning
title together.
And we have a zale to set it up between those two players.
Everyone here was Sven and Preserker ahead of their big matchup.
You went off the career, but it's been a while now you're back in an
You're playing against not only your old team, but your old bot lane partner. So how is it going up against that in C9?
I'm in Pio honestly. I didn't really care about though like
Fest of C9 like
That's it both like from yesterday. I don't know. I just like don't really want to like lose
Poors like these guys, you know. Yeah, so I'll just throw it my best
So when you went to Korea, did you watch, did you watch him on the freaks?
Yeah, I was hey, watching every game.
Successful, you watching?
Oh, yeah, it was very successful.
Did you watch then when he left him went to a dignitas?
Yeah, I watched it.
Yeah, of course, of course.
Yeah, yeah, we need to use on C9.
So who would have won between the freaks and the big dig summer team?
The freaks.
What do you say?
Who would have won between Dignitas freaks and the dignitas roster?
roster. That's him was on. I'm not sure if we'll be honest with you.
You know, I'm not sure. Yeah. It was tough times in the
in the UK. All right. All right. Well, you guys are
reuniting. Do you feel like having played against
berserker gives you an advantage playing against him? Like,
do you think there's some tendencies that you can prey on or
anything like that? Yeah. I have none of those. Do you have anything
that you can take advantage of with Sven? You know, now that you've
played with him, now you're playing against him. Maybe something he messes up a lot, you can
grab punishment for. I'm not sure, like, I mean, just, not sure. I'm just writing
stage, I guess. I mean, but she's really smart, you know? So, yeah. See, you say, you,
you talk trash and he said something nice. So now you're a jerk. It's a brutal cut. Look
how bad actually. I can't take it back now. All right. I didn't understand what he's
So who's the better 80 carry?
But did you hear the jet sets?
This week Jat messaged me.
He said, you're in root without me.
He's much lower than with me.
I mean, I'm this true.
Yeah, that's true, but I'm this true.
All right.
Well, best of luck to you both.
It's going to be a vanger.
Back to you all to desk.
What was that, Jat?
What?
We have to have the set full screens, but we gotta talk about the timeline.
As we'll say, uh, I love this event as like yeah, it's Kate watching every game.
It was very rough times.
I think this out last week, that freaks team had a lot of problems.
I would say none of them were berserker, especially to be getting the season.
The Zucker was popping off, actually.
Yeah, well, here's the intertwined history of these two players over the last several years.
So when berserker came to Tier 1 in the LCS, he was originally paired
paired with Zven, and they had a lot of success.
You can see on the left there's Summer 2022 trophy,
2023 trophy as well, true.
But then once Zven left the team to go play 80 carry
for Digitots eventually, and then now on Cloud 9,
the resultors been on what was supposed to be
Cloud 9's super team wasn't so super,
and then went back to Korea had a big disappointment
as Zven's walking by, getting a few of them,
but very interesting path both these players have had rest.
Yeah, and I feel like Brzwick has changed a little bit.
Move forward on the chat talking about he's usually mean to,
but he's humble now.
Yes.
He's humble.
He's changed after the D.M.
Prext in a situation.
Look, he has a rough time with his eyes.
It's a rough time with his eyes.
So, so rough, we need to pull up these stats that is
vandaluted to the jazz stats that I had our stats team pull.
This is Brzwicker with Zvend.
Yeah.
Versus without Zvend.
So, let's pull these up with Zvend.
Brzwicker had almost to 75% winery.
in 91 games without any 9.6 percent.
Oh, I don't know.
I think less damage for it.
But more importantly, no MVP's no titles and no all pro nods.
And for those of you who are saying, you're looking at the 39.6 percent when you're on the top right.
Okay, that's most of it is the freaks.
Yeah.
I have to go with the creative time.
So we remove those just LCS.
Let's get to the next graphic where it's just LCS or LCS.
So all the stats on the left are going to stay the same.
Still not that good.
Still 58 percent.
We're slaining.
Okay.
damage, a more AA.
So that brings the question for chat that Ress is leading.
Didn't berserker get carried by his vent.
He's been actually the key to unlocking berserker.
You even heard berserker say, he's actually really smart.
It's the prupis of stats, actually.
I see your smile, Emily.
I feel like you're starting to align with this as well.
No, I'm not.
I think Sven is a really smart player.
I actually love talking to Sven about the game any time.
I don't think you fully made for a circuit. We could ask him.
Can you make for a circuit?
Yeah.
He said, yes.
There you go.
I want to see if Chad agrees with Sven.
Yeah.
Did he secretly carried for a circuit?
I think both of you and the staff in the show.
Was this even a secret?
Yeah.
I feel like it is.
It's like, okay, so you're saying even if you carried it,
the question isn't it if it is a secret?
Yeah.
Yeah, don't get fooled by the linguistics of all.
Yeah.
I love the human linguistics of this.
Yeah.
But as you're going to talk about titles,
how many more titles they want to title together?
You think they would have won more titles if they stuck together?
After the stats, why don't you think that?
I feel like you have to believe it.
Now, the thing is, because you think about how the steam was,
oh my god, there's this.
I love how.
Well, at least half the people believe this is good.
But the question, of course, is that they were together
as still going into the last year, would they have one more titles?
My answer is yes, obviously that would change the entire roster based off the
import rules. You can maybe dispel a little bit of your belief on that one.
But the reason why is because C9 had a singular focus in a larger game for
the researcher. And yes, the search for before, he actually left towards the
LCK, may have not had the best split. But like in B, where to go back and be able to
bounce back, I think very easily as being one of the best bot lanes, if not,
the best bot lane in the league, with an incredible support who can play, range
support consistently. Yeah. Then it gives them another focus and a lot of the times that I feel like what they need it. I think that's a good point is
the things to me that work best was been with Brzirker is that at the time
then had so much 80 carry experience. Yes, he could really point Brzirker in the right direction and Brzirker had the best hands in the lead
in terms of leaning and team fighting and
then on top of that because he played so many enchanters, it allowed Brzirker to hard carry games. And
to aisles this point,
Resurker has improved in those other aspects
since then, which is gonna make this
a really interesting matchup.
That's the thing I'm most curious about,
because I feel like the meta now is still 2v2 focused, right?
You're pretty much, you're trapped in lean a little bit more.
We are seeing a lot more in-chanters,
paired with stuff like the ephelios,
which is like an old berserker favorite, right?
So I'm curious to see how the stats
continue to reflect your point towards the end of the split.
I mean, you saw the boats first of all.
even saw Papa Smithy vote in the chat saying no.
Okay.
But the EEP, like, some people are cheating and saying maybe.
That is not.
Wait, how did those guys sign it?
Yeah.
Even the old Seattle voted maybe.
They don't know how they think it's wrong.
They're throwing it away.
Pretty seriously, you are throwing away your vote.
That's not a name, though.
Exactly.
It's a name, though, that doesn't work here.
That's not what I mean.
So you gotta change that out.
But honestly, it seems like the voting has done from that one.
So we go into the games themselves.
Yeah, I think it's time to sort of
down some predictions here, between C9 and Lyme.
And I think something we haven't talked about that much, which
was weirdly not like, that opposed is such a good
later, and he's such a powerful thing for C9 to play around.
That I think his matchup with Dokelet
is something that Cloud9 should be able to take advantage of.
And I was thinking back that we said the same thing
the last time that it was played Dokelet.
And then Dokelet eliminated C9 from the year.
But I will say the game has changed enough.
Like the way that Doku would handle Thanos previously is they dodge the link, right?
They swap through, they play a week side to get advantage in other sides.
And even though Doku had an okay week last week, game one, he absorbed pressure
the team took advantage of it.
Game two, he just felt behind it and wasn't absorbing pressure and dying.
Well, everyone, these are pretty low stats in terms of damage, gold, CSD.
That's all last place in terms of all top players that played last week against DIG and
and photon. So, don't what does actually need to hold his own against
Thanos, and he's a standard of any phases we know how.
Yeah, we'll see if, because to your point, I think the big thing is if you do have a
top laner, and they are trying to lose as very fully as possible if they're in a bad
matchup, the rest of the team needs to take advantage of that. And the reason why, one of
the reasons why I'm favoring C9 in this matchup is just because I think even with another
week to practice. We already know, Lions didn't get a lot of practice together going
until last week, because one of the reasons why they looked so disjointed. I still think
C9 looked more cohesive. And I think they're great players on both sides of this matchup
from giving the cohesion edge to C9. And for me, you're already talking about the top lane.
You make my life easier. I'm talking about Santa Fe's political alleges right into the
mid lane, aka literally one player the week for the first week looking credible. Even on
he was able to have a high-light
place within that on top of the two
player of the game awards that he was able to get.
So I feel like he's having an incredible start to
display whereas versus Palafox.
With saying, I thought he didn't have a great
performance overall.
The things that Palafox had better lane than
in specifically the first game I think it was with a
bar Kman interactive lane and then screwed over a
Um, first game I think it was with a bar came in, interactive the lane, and then screwed
over a palpaux and that's the situation like you could lift it up that game and say
I want to see more from Saint. And I look in this series and I say I need to see more from
Saint if they are to be able to take this victory because APA and my thought process tier list
coming into this flip, I thought was going to be worse than Saint. All right, flipping that
expectation. And I think between these two teams, both in having one last week, at least the
the talent power rankings, mostly had C9 TL12.
Yeah.
But there's also a lot of line fans.
I know sheepy sports put line number one or number two on their power
angles as well.
So depending on who you talk to, these could be two of the top teams in the LCS.
And I think of line is able to pull off an upset today.
That would speak to their long-term strength.
We're all predicting to one of us to flip.
Where's your guy doing it really now?
Don't do that.
I don't do narrative play.
She's not a little bit too much.
She's a little bit too much.
She's trying to be a little bit more for the chat.
Does Emily lie?
I'm sure.
She had a little bit of a smile.
Yeah.
Everybody lies sometimes.
Sometimes.
Yeah.
Just like.
Preserca saying that he's the better
Ate carry.
Like it's just not.
What's going after the game?
us in chat when we're like, oh, we're not the problems in our games. We're not
why we're lost our games. Sure. Something that I think is going to be different
from last week. Resurker had already mentioned in his interview that he literally flew
in for three days of screens and then played on stage. Yeah. Now line is how to longer
time together. So even though that second game that lying played against
genitalists was incredibly sloppy, not that a week of screens is some massive amount
of time to have everyone get on the same page, but they should be more impressive and
We're seeing a lot of yeses in chat.
Yes, we have a lot if I lie.
Emily, why is that?
That's a good make-up mark.
Darryl's written no.
People are saying no and trying to defend Emily here.
I mean, I wouldn't defend me.
Oh, my God.
Stop who we need a self-taught for her.
Okay, guys, you can't let go of that.
You can't let go of that.
I'm voting no in the chat.
Back to your point, Jess.
And back to where you came from.
Thank you, I mean, Scott's a real-enous friend.
Hi, my name.
I do think, uh, a week.
Like, it's not a long time, but we've seen teens be able to just come out and look much more
well coordinated. And I do think regardless of the score line, like even if it does go as we've
all predicted to one, I do think Lion will come out looking a lot better this week having
had that week to practice together. Yeah, I mean, it's very true. It's actually crazy. It's so
unpredictable. It's part of the time. Yeah, he is. He actually is a wonderful thing. I wonder
to understand. There has to be some SmackDown fact in the actual lobby, but it's like,
you never really expect what's going to happen in games like these. I think it was split two,
for Lion, Shidav gotten 20, over cloud nine, like, yeah, that really situations like that can happen,
and it completely changes your expectation. And then you're overreacting and then you go right back
to the same, you know, initial expectation the next week, right? And so I think Lion as a team
was a team that will play better against better teams and probably play a lot
sloppier versus the worst team that happened to lock for a lot of teams.
Like I remember I G in 2018 you think they're the best team in the world and
eventually they do become that and then they go up against beachy gaming and they just
have the sloppiest performances all the time to happen.
Yeah.
When they face beachy gaming that year they also subbed in their own air.
And Jackie and Rob was playing Tom Kent's support.
That did happen.
Just throwing that out there.
Yeah, that did happen.
He either way, you LPL fanatic.
He has the player of the year from last year
and inspired, we got Berserker going up against then.
We have APA trying to make big things happen up against St.
and we're going to see if Thanathos and Dokela
can get it done in the top lane.
What time is it?
It's time to start the game.
Starting.
We're going to kick off this second one, cloud nine going head to head against Lion.
I'm Captain Flowers, joined by a zale for this one.
What's up?
Buddy, I'm excited.
Me too.
We've been treated to some of some banger matchup
for the draws.
We've been eating good.
We've got a cloud number says TL last week.
And now we get cloud nine, having beaten TL
and an immediately drawing.
Another really hyped-up top team in line.
So this is going to be super exciting.
We have berserkers versus his old squad.
It's just so funny,
bantering back and forth.
Let's spend in berserkers.
Yeah, I was sitting out there
And before the cameras even came to us,
they both had me laughing so hard.
So it is just really fun seeing these guys
who clearly are good friends, clearly continue
to follow each other's careers.
Now back in the same league and battling it in the broccoli.
Not just back in the same league, back in the same roll.
His pen is no longer the uni e-kit
and riding along for the victory in the bottom lane.
He's right there with his gun or his bow
or whatever it might be in hand.
ready to answer for Zerker, Mono a Mono.
Yes, Zerker, they're gonna go right out of it.
It's so funny too, because in the interview,
you know, it's like, oh, so, you know,
is there anything you can use to take him down
and learn about his weaknesses?
Then it's like, yeah, I got him down loaded.
The research is like, no, he's pretty smart
and it's been like, crap, wait, I feel bad now.
I'm gonna throw a bit of a, oh, he's actually
just going to come, but I'm gonna throw a bit of a crap.
All right, we're in the trap.
Let's see what we've got here.
And six, Chase and rumble,
banned out by Lion, respect towards the 18.
to not wave. We've got the
mouth fight, a colleague and
bearers band out by C9 with
a zero for C9 being answered by
you said it bad that not wave
combo, or a knock turn here for
line. Yeah, that is such a
powerful combo is being brought
right back out. You know, if you
timed it perfectly, it is
unavoidable. The question is,
will they be able to time in
perfectly? You know, are they
going to be on the same page?
How's the comms going to be
in those situations? A lot of
power picks on the other side,
though, just going through this
super quickly here. Obviously, really powerful and gauge tools from both of the junglers here,
the nocturnal, the jarvanalt, Labyrinth had a monster jarvan game in the second game versus TL last week.
The one that they super snowballed, he got ahead early thanks to some, you know,
roamed from APA some good skirmishing with his team and really was able to slam that home.
And now it's going to be dokelet taking their neck in. Obviously a powerful blind,
but it is also a really good takeaway from phantos because phantos is known as the Lanking
him guy and he is also going to be really difficult to take down if he gets that pick.
Okay, so let's see where we go now with our first.
These pictures rearrange.
Yeah, they did because it was Orianna Nocturn first.
Yeah, now the perfecting is first.
Some of the things like this are tripping me out last week in the, there's some weird clients
that's going on.
Last week I thought there was all kinds of crazy roll swaps because in the client it showed
that everyone had swapped their champions,
and then we got to the game
and no one had swapped their champions.
I want to know how to actually be comfortable with this.
Just acknowledge to yourself deeply and personally
that you're going and saying,
and then you can just chill the entire time.
Right, like, yeah, another blip, all right.
All right, cool.
We're back there.
There is a problem in this room.
Yeah, that's a really normal.
You know what?
This is just another day at the office.
We got ourselves some marksmen there.
It's going out from C9.
Since they already have the core key down there for his fan,
they'll take you know off the table.
Meanwhile, Lion, with that blind, Renekton that you talked about, they want to get rid of a
couple of good responses there for Thanos.
They will remove the NAR.
They will remove the Glam and it's loose, and also band out here by seeing on continuing
to target the marksman role.
Yeah, it's herbal 80 carry band and they did take that quirky away.
Of course, there are a lot of options still.
Ezreal really popular as far as the poke, Brow is concerned and that is going to be what
they're going for here.
The question is, are they going to have just like a go button, like a not a list or something
like that as their like pick or they're going to look to pick for lane dominance right
because you see the support pick here for last you can go in chainers which have been
really really popular things like karma as real or super popular karma is up and available
blocking is going to be having to blind his support and we're just waiting for that counter pick
from fanitose to see what he's going to get because yes there are a lot of pretty strong tools
so this would be a pretty sharply encountered something that's pretty difficult for an
I think that actually lane into.
We did see Santos bring it out last week.
When he was playing against Morgan on TL,
he thought it was against the rumble,
but Morgan actually played that lane really, really well
and ended up being just about that even.
So we'll see how Doku can actually withstand this pressure
because that could be super tough
as far as that one be one of his concerns.
The thing that I usually worry about
if I see Aurora as the top laners does the team have enough
of a front line, do they have enough real,
traditional engage. Jarvan is really going to be that loan front line of this time
with the Nami locked in next to the court. He on support. They don't have a lot of front
line. So I think more what you're going to see in a lot of these fights from blabber
is he's just going to alternate and then flag and drag backwards. And you're going to have like
the Nami all coming over the top. We're going to have the Aurora all there. All this damage
is going to get piled in. He's not necessarily going to be trying to stay in the front line.
Because he's the sole melee champion on this team. Right? And if he just stays up there,
I think he's going to get knocked down pretty quickly. What is that karma?
as it was mentioned earlier, so they're going more for the Pope style, more for that
laying down, and it's, um, there's not necessarily like the traditional goblins of, you
know, not less in the support style, but of course you have not played, as a potential hard
engage on one side, the threat of that reneptium flank is obviously that much higher when you
have not turned all to turn off the words, turn off the lights, and then on the other side
it's really just going to be about potentially playing it from APA or blabber, altering it,
and just kind of to set up the team. I think, you know, less just staying in and committing,
And more, I'm just expecting him just ult in, or war all comes of the top.
Nami all comes of the top, like all of these AOE tools are just going to get fired in and
try to create chaos in this line squad.
And I feel like I've talked about this all the time when I see Jarben locked in.
I love seeing early active jargon gaming, and especially in a matchup like this where what you're
talking about is a front line that's not really there to stick around and see the outcome of
everything, but rather just start it off.
I want to see early active plays from blabber that much more because if he's not at least even with the curve of the game hopefully slightly ahead
I feel like maybe when you go in for that cataclysm you don't get to use your flag to get back to him
Yeah, absolutely true. I mean it is one of those champions that can be very snowballing one way or the other
Jarvin can look really oppressive from ahead and from behind you are just kind of a golden young service
You know, not doing a lot as we can see inspired going up towards this top side just trying to see if you can get a little bit of poke down and I think that was his word that he dropped as well
So gonna drop his word in that side lane brush that is really important in these range versus melee matchups that you have that word because otherwise what happens is
Thanos will actually just sit in that side brush and jump in and out dropping aggro from the minions over and over and over
So inspired goes up top hits a Q on Thanos drops award for his top laner
just a little thing, but it is going to help you a lot in that one.
Be one.
Exactly.
It does a lot of little lifting there, especially if you're not super worried
about a crazy level one and you kind of invade here, then you don't really feel too bad
about throwing the ward up there in the Alcove anyway.
APA versus Saint here in the mid lane APA winning player of the week last week.
I think he had a really strong performance and I think a lot of people were really hoping
to see that with him switching environments over to Seattle and from T.L.
especially with 2025 feeling like more of a regressive
year for APA compared to what we saw in 24.
Yeah, no, I completely agree.
I think it was a huge performance from him.
You know, really well deserved play of the week.
And to do it against the person who replaced you,
the team that replaced you, I think is really, really cool.
The antidote has that early lane control that we are expecting
from the Aurora.
So, Douglas job, just going to be make sure you can survive.
Make sure you're relevant here once it gets to the bigger team fights,
both of our top laners.
do have the non combat summoner spell option here. They are both going with the normal style of
teleport versus waiting on the quest to complete. So for Dokela, he just needs to stick around
and lane as long as he can. So at least there's something of value on that first ball.
Yeah, exactly. You're just really trying to withstand the onslaught. In these matchups,
you have to be careful about what made me use your fighting for and what made me
deserve giving out these. You can not afford to lose too much HP. Oh, my gosh.
Does miss the cannon that sucks? Miss the range range is well. But you know, we touched on
Last year, Zvend versus Brzirker, these guys have a lot of history to get there, played
together for quite a while on Cloud 9.
He first came here in 2022, Zvend swapped to support for him, and he was obviously an
AD carry man, his entire career previous to that.
But these guys did really, really well at average finish, 1.33, so almost always up in that
first place range.
They won two titles.
They got top all propositions, and then Zvend did move on, left in a toss.
return to the AD carry position.
Berserker then stayed with Cloud 9 for a little bit before that moving on the LCK during the DN freaks.
Obviously doing a lot worse post-breakup, but let's be honest, he was on a much worse team in the LCK and the LCK is a very hard league.
So it's a pretty challenging place to compete in professional League of Legends.
Yes, I would say.
I would say one a couple titles here in the...
So I would say they might have more than everybody else put together by the multiple degrees.
Turns out their best team might have more than everybody else in the world.
But, you know, berserker, I think still showed some pretty impressive games individually
in the LCK and I decided to have him back here in the league and I know Lyon, their fans
are really excited to have him here as well, definitely part of what people are kind of
calling this super team that Lyon has put together. Obviously, you got inspired, he was the LTA player
of the year last year. Too many, he is not only the best Western jungler, he is the best Western
player period and you were able to grab him, you were able to bring him berserker, you were able
to bring in saying it's a lot of fire power here for Lion.
And the question to a lot of people was kind of like,
how is the team going to mesh
are they going to work really well together quickly?
The Intangibles.
Exactly.
And there's been so much excitement
from the Latin community talking about this team.
And you're just kind of like, hey, we have a team
as a Latin that is representing us here in the LCS
that has a chance to win a title
that has a chance to really do some damage.
So a lot of their fans are just super excited about that.
Yeah, and why wouldn't you be like you're saying these caliber of players super high, the opportunity to ceiling there the high pathetic old achievements this team could make their way to very, very powerful stuff as Doku up here in that top lane is still down a couple of waves worth a farm in phantos
It's just continuing to make the landing phase miserable form here with the Aurora just zones them all the way away and honestly nothing super wild and any of our lanes happening just yet although you can see the ex P bars on your screen
So the laners are getting very close to those ultimate points.
A lot of times, particularly against these immobile mages, a zero will go in with the
shuffle as soon as he hits level six, force out the flash and then the jungler knows,
okay, as soon as that shuffle's ready to go again, that's when we make the real move.
People mean about these kind of rooms, you know, like Vulcan on the non-event rooms mid.
You know, the non-negank is kind of a meme, but at the same time, he had nothing else to do,
but he just walks mid, throws out one heel that's like plus one potion for free.
you know that just creates a little bit of an advantage there.
Dokela is getting cooked in this matchup though.
He's now down 20 CSE has no T.P.
The wave was really bad for a nice bubble lance.
Yeah, it's a good bubble, but inspired being here means
that there is nothing else for C9 to do.
So they're not going to pursue this any further.
Just a quick snappy trade.
You can see the board in the dragon pit that has been placed from C9.
We'll make them aware now.
But inspired as fired, the dust bringer towards the objective.
And honestly, 545 pretty early first Drake start.
Can we all start that up pretty early?
This first plate might actually get lost by Thanos to see base.
No, I think just barely, it's going to stay up.
Has like legit one-auto.
Oh, man, it takes a lot of damage there down to about 300 HP.
Now, how many heal is going to keep him around half as blabber shows up.
Now, critically, blabber is level six on the jarvan inspired three quarters of the way
to that ultimate himself with his nocturn.
So distinctive advantage here, 4c9, blabber still hanging around.
He's a little bit
bad.
He's a little bit
bad.
I was in the zirker.
Still far enough forward.
There might be an opportunity
here for blabber.
Meanwhile, APA going for that
shovel that I was talking
about down here on the bottom
side.
It's aisles.
The target is blabber goes in for the
first blood.
The Marshall cadence going to
claim it.
As back in the mid lane, they're
both very low on HP and inspired
still look at the grab in his level.
still only level five. So no play to make here. C9 up one.
Yeah, that was actually really close. I think if he was going to get six there he might have been able to actually look for an instant alternate and just try to get him.
But couldn't leash enough experience from mid lane there. So unfortunately, not able to make it happen and blabber had in the time to get back and defend his red right now.
It's kind of just a tale of two lanes, right? It's kind of top versus bot right now. It feels like his thinning.
has a really big landing advantage on top side.
Blabber, pretty big gold advantage with that kill that he's
grabbed and then berserk on the other side is
way ahead.
J-A-P-A looking for St. here yet again.
And the other thing that I wanted to mention is the play
down in the bottom lane.
Blabber, it cost his flash to get that kill for C9,
but his ultimate is still available.
That's still a ton of playmaking to try to force something else
right after.
So I want to see if Blabber can really keep the tempo high here.
Gokele back and lane now.
No magic and Tier 1, Boots does not feel particularly
powerful in lane, you've got the faded ashes alongside the boots and the dark seal
they're picked up.
But Thanos is Aurora.
You already pointed out the big CS discrepancy.
It translates into a meaningful gold gap here as well.
Just under about 500, the only other gap in the game that is around that same level
is blabber who got the first blood.
And he has a nice little experience lead as well.
There's still some more minions from the farm.
He's already a 30% ahead as far as that one level is concerned of that XB bar.
So looking pretty good, then and Vulcan do seem to be stabilizing a bit, but still
down quite a bit as far as the farm concerned.
And inspired versus bliver, pretty big match up here in the LCS.
You know, bliver had been big dog on KVC, it'd been like the de facto number one jungler
for a long time in an A, but that in K-river, in K-min inspired, and it kind of stopped
being true, right?
You know, it started, it was for, exactly, you know, it started to be bliver kind of falling
down and in people's perspective power rankings a little bit.
This time though, Blabbert does have a good start and we have to see, can he actually
turn this into something?
He's been last five times, these players have actually matched that as far as the series
play was concerned.
Inspired did win three of them, but I know all time, the head-to-head is pretty heavily
favored towards inspired, and Blabbert is looking to change that.
Blabbert definitely wants to get back on top and try to reclaim his spot as the best
jungler in the LCS and there is a clear number one. If you can't beat inspired, it doesn't really matter how you do against the other junglers. No one's going to say you're better than inspired and no one's going to say you're number one until you take him down because he is just the best player in the league.
If you can't beat him, you're a really, you've got a really shiny silver medal that you're making sure is certainly yours. But you're not going for the gold unless he's going to be in the rear view mirror.
This is the guy you've got to pass on to you from the champ. Yeah, if you want to be the best you got to beat the best cloud 9 up 1000 gold first
Neutral objectives have been traded one for the other as Lyon acquires the hex tech Drake first
But all three grubs go over to C9 if fanitros can keep building powerful leads in the sideline
The grubs of course will be able to have add a lot of extra value to the potential split push there of the Aurora 95 versus 64 in the far means that the
The bunny girl's causing problems still up there in the top lane head to head.
It doesn't really look like we're seeing a whole lot of relief for Dokela.
Inspired does have his ultimate available.
He is on that side of the map, but he's just clearing top to bottom through his
games.
Yeah, and the real problem against Aurora is not only that it's so abusive in the
one of you on.
It's really hard to gank like you can go in and full send your ult as an
doctor.
And obviously you do have the stun from Reckton, like you have good ganks
that up. But a work and going this jump away,
alt bounce across the map like it's really hard to walk down
a river. Oh, hold on, blabber goes in here.
Watch the try to scrap with and spired over the chickens.
But now blabber is down to 4% AP and spired goes in.
Cataclysm light back on top of a blabber is low.
So the lava is down. Inspired still fighting for now is APA.
It's likely to drop here too and lie in shows their fangs.
Inspired barely dies.
the end to bring the trade to
two for one. Yeah,
inspired didn't even have to go down. He could
just walked out, but he's hitting the
ward a little bit greedy there. But that spells
shield. He spells shielded APA's all
feet. And I think that was 100%
intentional. 100% reacted to that was
beautiful. And it's plays like that. That
make him the best jungler in the league.
Blacker decides to go in, you know,
does find this flag and drag in on to him.
But APA of course is going to be slower to
alive because St. has that quicker path.
to have blood or chip and jump down a little bit.
They said, you know what, we're just actually going to go for it.
We're going to re-engage.
Now, watch the spells shields here.
He tries to go in and turn it around.
Beautiful play there from inspired blocks that gets the heal.
And should have been able to get out.
Go to all more not done.
The violence continues here from the bottom lane.
I was one more out of attack.
He's going to take him down slowly.
The fade away rocket.
Now, once he get back on Berserker, pops his barrier.
Both they carry to the edge of death.
Berserker staying alive for now.
But no.
Double kill for Sven.
And the support, the prodigal son has returned to Haiti, carry and he shows Buzzerker
had a play.
Yeah, beautifully played there by Sven, just constantly dipping in out of the means, making
so that Buzzerker can't actually hit the missed shots in that 1v2 to try to take them
down.
I think it was the minions even that finished off Buzzerker.
As he was actually running away, had many nagro there, does go down.
Sven and Vulcan, they're now up and go, but watch this one more time.
to not be all to you to start it off and I was just trying to side
set this bubble that never even comes in.
So then nails the last rocket flashes away and then this is what I'm talking about
Sven just kind of goes behind those minions trying to block as many of those
mistakes not as he can.
Beautiful blade.
And it was the cast remaining to got the last shot, but if you're a
girlfriend, attention to the picture in picture in the replay, it was
and as real true shot, barrage from the fountain, as you just
besirker respond, that shots then straight through the five playing
there took him out of the picture, got her revenge kill.
to get a more overall on the board. As we did see the flash force over in mid lane, again
so much pressure being kept in the area on these immobile mages. You want to keep that
flash down. You want to make them scared to play aggressively. We'll see if that ends up
factoring into this dragon. Spawning here in about one minute, ripped Harold. Just about two
minutes away. The anatos maintains control over the top side, but it's not like that Goldie
has bled further and further since we checked on it earlier. It's kind of stabilized around
this negative 30 negative 35 spot for Dokela.
But with the Henry's tournament now completed
for Santa Tows, Dokela's only got upgraded
shoes plus a face line TMAT.
There's a pretty big power difference between these
top laners if they both decide to show up for a
dragon or a hero.
Yeah, it is absolutely massive right now.
Dokela, he's weak sided and he's just gonna
kind of have to hang on and you know, and we did show
some stats from from earlier on the lounge.
They were talking about you know, a day,
they, you know, was kind of struggling as far as
the landing was concerned.
But that was kind of the, the card he was
DL both last week and so far this week, you know,
we're last week against votes on,
votes on was playing the Ignite Cannon into his
Renekton and he's also getting
Kimped by the Vi, like it's a pretty tough
situation to be in, then you're blind picking
the Renekton, obviously you do have some
protection bands, right?
But still, the Nintendo's has been the best
landing top laner in the league and you're
playing against this counter picker roar.
So you are gonna have a tough time
water down towards bot looking to see
you can find something as this is quirky
not me does start getting pretty impressive.
and the try force is done now and this duo once the mandate is there really does become
quite powerful. You just throw that title as blessing up, then just kind of moves forward
and puts that pressure on them. And we talked about kind of the lack of like the true
and gates. There's that knock wave, but besides that there's not really a lot of things
he has to be scared of. So he's going to get just get eed by Nami and kind of walk forward.
Fire goes in for the trade because it's already been secured by blabber. APA with a three
He made an ulti one.
Spiron has to flash up the wall to escape the C9 fire power.
Lion thought that they'd be able to win a smite fight.
They want to send for it.
But as soon as Blabber claims the victory over the objective, there's nothing left to fight
so Lion leave it behind.
Yeah, and that's even better for them because they don't stay top and just farm plates.
So he's up there on the top side.
Don't go back to base.
Look, it's nearly 50 CS in the top lane.
Now 1.3K Golden Vantage has then those caches in on some plates.
And that's the same drops the shockwave there on this van, but because the nami is still nearby,
Vulcan just heals him right back up, not really worried about it.
Sven hits him at the trademark for take a frog e-mote just to say that didn't really matter.
And C9's perfectly comfortable with things right now.
The Rift Terald is live on the map, and you can see both junglers are around the area.
I mean, that Orianna is really strong, but not strong enough to just solo him out instantly.
And we each someone else there, but I mean, he has the Ludens, his extra items on top has two kills.
So, have the shock but not the knock.
You need a ball.
Okay.
Yeah.
Unlocking, yeah.
But, Cloud9, looking pretty good, but that being said, still gold advantages for the
carries online.
So, it's really going to be a question of Ken Fantos, you know, leverage this lane advantage
that he's created to turn that into something in the teamfight or any continued to snowball
in that 1B1.
He was farmed a lot of place on the top side.
What is he going to be able to get done with that advantage?
And I think the question is they're going to try to use his pressure to start up this
arrow.
Exactly.
That's what I was about to say is you love having a Fed top laner as the
jungler when you see 15 minutes on the clock and it's time to go to rip
the arrow because you've got such a good chance of being able to control that fight and
control that objective.
TPs are coming in though.
So you're not going to start it up the objective but now they've got to try to get
away.
The lion is bringing in the crock.
Immediately hit by the ball.
But can not find a valuable target through shop for Raj only hits APA's as he is a
to the top of the
team.
And he said partially losing
some of that patience.
The antitose of the ball looking
for the opportunity to go in
Blabber wants to arrive here
to eat you.
But the heroes give me slain
by inspired.
Now finds a kill and
blabber is dead.
See nine thought they wanted to
fight for this.
But lion was better prepared.
They'll take the objective.
They'll take blabber and they'll
take a win.
Given the sprigs couple.
that's smite. So they do walk away with the objective. A lot of TPs were committed to this play.
And we saw both the T.P. from the Racken as well as from the Azir to get over here. Where Stentos
was able to just walk over and Doku just trying to do his best. Just pushing this wave,
try to get the reset, stay relevant. He picked up the kill there as well off of Labyrin. So that allows
him to get to his stride breaker. He's still down goal, but not as bad as it was. See,
to see.
I know.
Really a lot of focus on just chipping away on these
powers.
You know, there's two plates top.
There's one plate mid, one plate
spots.
They're getting very close to grabbing that first
turret and all their towers of the other side are
quite healthy.
Four hundred gold separates the team 17 and a half
minutes into the game.
And this is exactly the type of game that I was hoping to see
between these teams because it's not like they both just been sitting
there handshaking.
Okay.
All we're going to do is scale.
We've had some attempted plays back and forth.
say no, I'm willing to go in for the 50 50 on this dragon and miss it. And then we've had
C9 say no we're willing to try to contend to you with this Harold. And then they lose the
fight. Both teams are willing to take those risks. And they're also both capable of answering
when the other team is just a little bit too confident. Now we have about 90 seconds until
the next Drake spawns. Drake's only one to one right now. So no serious stacking threat
from either team. But I still don't think that's enough to dissuade them because I feel like
either team should have the confidence right now to win that fight a drink.
Yeah, no, I completely agree.
It's going to be down to execution.
You can see it's going in towards the Shadowflame.
Try to actually stop that recall with his ulti,
but it was empowered by the Harold.
So got back the base faster, perhaps.
Then Vulcan was expecting.
What the Shadowflame is completed?
It is going to be so much worse,
because this is not one of these defensive slow builds.
This is Ludon's in the Shadowflame.
This is the one shot you type of build.
And if at a time well with inspired,
it is going to be so deadly.
You can see the APA is respecting that already
has the seekers, knowing that he has to be careful in these situations.
Then obviously has the barrier, has the velcroy, has an
Vulcan potentially behind in and try to help him live through that.
But if you do get comboed, it's going to be really tough.
Because you're expecting then berserkers all to be coming over the top.
You're expecting the renecked into becoming in all of the same time,
which is really what line is going to be looking for.
And C9 has got to be able to absorb that first punch and then try to win the fight in the extended play.
with the dragon on the approach blabbers going to go ahead and take the blue buff there.
They'll pass that off as it's been. We'll pick it up the guaranteed rocket spam as they
volley back and forth for positioning over the objective. It's C9 with Valt River control first
as Lyon are going to bring in a T.P. Inspired Tags APA with the dustbringer, which means C9
feels compelled to back away. Fanatoes does have his teleporter to join up with this fight, but he is
still top laner. You can see things coming out from the C9 side onto the top laner to your one.
They're having fanatose commit to taking this as the harrow to some of the mid lane by
Dokela. They're going to crash the harrow to in big chunk of damage. They're almost all
plates removed. It's a race for the first turret.
Fanatose versus Lion. And the first turret is going to go over to Lion by just a single
lot of attack. Inspired claims that one. Yeah, and they get the dragon too. So that is really
good for Lion. Also very interesting techier from inspired. He's building towards a
So you're going to have that damage and magic damage and as he's going in for the Orionacombo right so they're putting even more eggs in the basket here
Oh, there's not wave there it is. They want to jump in after the emperor the seekers aren't going to buy him a moment
The sun is trying to protect APA who stays alive for now.
Well, she's going to get to the shuffle, but the second time inspired plays so patiently he waits on the spell shield
He blocks the emperor's divide and he secures the kill.
That is actually insane because APA didn't even do the obvious panic ultimate where as soon as you get to the fear, a lot of people will just mash all teeth because they know they're going down,
he didn't even spell shield then. APA EQ'd out of the fear, and then all to it, expecting that his spell shield surely during all these animations you have to use it.
Now, Saints got to try to get away here flashes.
The title wave had to do so otherwise the short knock-up from that
nominee all would have guaranteed the follow-up from the rest of C9.
So Lions mid-laner again, they're always putting pressure on this
Orianna's flash, but they need to be able to follow it up with some
kill pressure afterwards, because despite the fact that I feel like
this is three times now, we've seen this flash purposefully blown by C9
putting resources into it, Saints still do two zero and two.
They have not punished.
Yeah, I mean, St. is playing really well, defensively when he has no flash and look at this.
They go in here and now watch this. So right over the fear, this is when you're expecting
back to its match. EQ doesn't spell shield. Then spell shield after like that is insane.
That you got to tell us your own read and your own reactions are on anticipation.
Whatever you want to call it, do you want to actually hold it in that situation?
10 times out of 10, I'm pressing spell shield as soon as he comes out of fear and I'm
And I'm wasting it on the the Q or whatever right like that that is really really
impressive from inspired being able to block it like that in multiple fights.
I don't know if it really mattered in that one, but damn that's still it's pretty
good to see the legends and he's got his abyssal mask now as well like you were talking
about to just amp up that Oriana damage even further.
Thanos using the ulti down here with the bottom lane trying to defend against the
push of lion but his go click shows up he has enough HP to just force down this tier one
even though he has to absorb a couple of
turret shots in the process.
And now Lions got to himself that very
slight gold lead that C9 has
commanded for most of the game.
Those leads are uninspired and on
St. but hey, considering they're
lacking that initial gold button,
like you've talked about multiple
times already because Orianna
Nocturn is what has to start the
fight. I can think of better champions
to have your two gold leads on.
Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, we
have seen inspired. I have a lot
of success on this picks
specifically, you know, he has been really good on the
doctor and eight into his career, you know, 6.4 KDA has been
very successful. You could probably say that a lot of
champions, though, this guy just tends to win League of
Legends games is pretty good. Yep. And it's it's really,
really fun, you know, we've talked about this the past,
but when you were talking league with him, like he is so
opinionated, but he also is so well informed on not just
jungle, but on every role. He will sit there when he's on
the analyst, that's going to talk about how this guy is
really throwing the mid lane match, but you need to play it differently like this.
You need to be more aggressive at this level or he did the wrong seal or the.
Okay, inspired coming in now has that knock wave would say it again with true
shopper Roger, but the top it's that easy for a lion to knock it down the two and a
half man play seals the deal.
They get the first kill of the game on fan of toast.
Yeah, it's going to be able to knock down fan of toast there.
It's on two items, but this is just smart, you know, and inspired and saying he's playing towards
This real strength that he has in the Orianna who is very far ahead and he's just kind of saying, you know what?
Doppler. I'm sure the matchup wasn't fun, but just hang on buddy and don't lie down that you know at one point
Doppler was down 50 cs. He's still down 30 plus cs, but really it doesn't matter at all now, right? Like 400 gold at 20
Car minutes is just nothing. It's just nothing. It's a long-sort in the war. Yeah, whatever, right?
It doesn't really matter that much. He is working on hex drinker towards the mall of Malmortia's considering
The enemy team is double AP solo lanes and the most fed person on the enemy team in terms
of their farm is one of those two solo laners.
I feel like Maul can bring you a ton of value.
Even the Nami with Nandy and like the EDM engine and all this sort of stuff is going to
even more magic damage.
So even with quirky setting you, you're putting in some magic damage because of those buffs
from the Nami.
Right?
So definitely think it is a high value pick there.
A lot of them are being purchased up.
Obviously the abyssal has its defensive capabilities as well.
But, you know, a whistle is one of those items
that I think is just criminally underrated.
Like 12% damage in for a fed AP carry is a lot.
Like that is just a lot of increased damage.
And it is a cheap and effective item
that has CDR on it.
So it's all just gonna be a more often as well.
I think it's really smart tech in this situation
from inspired.
Like he knows he is not the damage.
He is just getting CDR and he's the delivery service
for the damage, which is the Oriana.
All right, everybody's squaring off around this next Drake
that has spawned.
So point is flying claims it and Lyon does have inspired in this bottom side river first does bring your tax only blabbers jargon
And skill shots fly back and forth tracking blue buffs here. It's inspired and sane with that infinite manna
As blabber goes into the cataclysm onto inspired flag and drag right back out like you were talking about earlier
The others there's your engaged come out with the knock wave
See nine statters. They're trying to be group in time. Don't go with the pressure on his fan here
in the back line, Ben dies, but so there's
go to the APA going goal, but he is
likely to fall here to know.
He survived.
Thanks to the shielding, true shopper
on his lives.
So with his barely misses, the emperor
of Sharima, APA does have his teleport
to come back to this fight of C9.
Why keep going back for it?
That's you're going to see St.
Do a very similar play here.
He still has his seekers on guard
ready to go.
APA had to use his stasis to the hourglass
in the earlier fight.
T.P. is bringing both mid laners back
into the action.
Now as APA arrives first,
see 9 control of the track. It's down to about 3000. It's going to get lower.
APA trying to keep everybody away.
Fanatosis of the weirding of the wall and inspired has to retreat the dragon claimed by
C9.
Yeah, nice to done. You know, even though the initial fight went the way of lying and you're
thinking, oh, surely the dragon now, the problem with the champions, the leaf part of
these champions is that without the authorities, they really are not very strong, right?
You know, not to worry on it with, with all the so threatening without all the, it's a very
different story.
I really got to credit both Satan and Dokela.
They created so much space for his fire when he was
ulting in by blabber that no one was really able to hit him
from the C9 side.
So even though he was stuck in the cataclysm
the full time, no one was hitting him.
And then this knock wave, Reengage, was great.
St. is able to survive.
They're able to get some pressure down,
preserve her, essentially in trouble, we'll walk away.
And it sees little things in fights that aren't always obvious,
but as soon as this fire got altered,
you saw both Dokela moving up and St. placing the ball
aggressively, so A.B. it could just never hit the guy
in the cataclysm.
And these are these small things in team fights that completely change.
How they go.
Okay, let's see where we go from here.
With the gold, they'd still not even cresting 1,000 either way.
You can see inventory is becoming more and more complete.
LBR, 4's then.
While Berserker is going for the much riskier item, right?
One of those new additions to the game in 2020, 6 with the endless hunger, the omnivamp
that you really get the biggest amount of it once you get at least one takedown.
Now in mid lane, there should not be a getting inspired.
The delivery system finds its way to the court.
He and Span is down, blabber has to go full retreat now.
Let's keep caught in the same trap.
And with the enemy marksman out of the picture for more than 30 seconds,
I'd say I think the call is bearer.
Yeah, absolutely is bearer, though, is very scary to take,
because everyone in the bearer around the bear and hitting it.
It's not just the person that tanks it,
you know, get that magic debuff.
So, you know, when you are going up against the Aurora,
And this is here. It is super frightening and they do have to pay respect to that.
Don't click on around for a flank. APA over the wall as the Zerker tries to follow.
It takes about half his HP and damage.
Title wave flows through but doesn't hit a whole lot.
C9 scrambling as APA again with a status tries to get up the wall flashes to
safety with not have had the time to try to use the E to get over the wall.
Don't clue what would have been able to stun him.
So he has to go for the instant action there in the flash.
see nine wheel stop lion from securing that barren for themselves, but it does call some resources.
Yeah, definitely does. There is just no joke now. You really do take a lot of damage.
Especially against these AP teams. If you get in that pit, everyone gets a debuff by barren.
You can just get A we down pretty easily. But at the end of the day,
you know, they get that kill. They put on some pressure. They force a flash. Those are all great.
But if this is just the 800 gold lead, it is 2 to 2 as far as the dragons are concerned.
And we are just having an incredible game one.
I think, you know, some people did have some questions about, you know, how
line was going to look against C9 because their digging thoughts series wasn't as convincing.
I think as people hoped, you know, there's some moments where you're like, oh, I think
not actually going to win this, a team that had a full bot lane sub, you know, in the
bot lane.
And, you know, especially that game, too, it really felt like, hey, maybe Dig is actually
going to win this before inspired, just took over on the Pantheon, you know, kept finding
and his bike.
By running or taking a
attack, he won't be able to
take a car into his life.
And a total of four times
the HV-5, he's
showing down how he's
because he's there.
So now that he knows what
they're all trying to use
this car.
But slowly I don't think
the design is going to
be perfect.
He's a little bit nervous.
Giving me a good plan.
You're gonna play with the
same season.
And meanwhile, over on the other side, it was team liquid.
It was ahead of C9 for pretty much a full half an hour,
all of a sudden there's rift, but then once that throw happened,
C9 never let them have the game back.
We remember the follow up mistakes in the jungle from TL with the
magical journey.
It was a little bit silly, but still C9 was ready to punish.
So for Lion, I want to see them not make those types of early late
game mistakes that resulted in a 10,000 gold barren surrender towards
because I think that if they make that kind of mistakes,
99 is much more likely to be able to punish.
I agree.
And I feel like Lion looks a lot more locked in, though.
You know, whether it's something like,
yeah, sometimes you're playing a team, you expect to beat the,
maybe you're not as locked in,
maybe you're underestimating a team toss a little bit,
get a little bit fast and loose, try to make some big plays.
You know, people were talking about a berserker,
you know, that flash in in the 1v2 and mid lane,
and trying to make a big play.
It's like, well, what do you do that against top team?
So far, they have been very patient,
measured in their play and inspired just continuing for with this tanky build has the
canic rucker and he's going to be really tough for these magic damage dealers to actually
knock down and it's going to be a lot up to then to be able to do that. But the real plan here
is send the knock wave on Sven every single time and if Sven dies or is out of the fight
there's no physical damage to kill inspired and no clue who have a lot of them are. So
you know that's kind of how I look oftentimes at these like one physical damage threat teams is
If you can put the pressure on that guy and push him out of the fight, well, all the magic
damage is going to struggle to deal with you after that.
Yeah, it's pretty tough for Aurora to burst somebody through a bison mask and canic
rooks.
It's never been a spell shield, right?
Like that knock turn is going to be rather evasive.
Two dragons to two so far, 31 minutes into the game.
Next Drake is live on the map and both of our teams are squirming up for position.
Inspired will be the first to start this off.
Does have the level 16 knock turn, Labor also with the final level of his all here on the
Jarvan has Lyon are going to try to drag the Drake towards the upper half of this river.
Doku still on the backside of the Drake pit, Vanatoes, having him mark chasing after him
trying to make Doku a second guess about entering into this fight.
Whoever has GA as well, which could be really good.
Okay, Doku, flashing with the dominance, they're trying to engage on the Sanatoes
the Aroray's birth and nobody gets away between worlds for now.
The Mystic shots not going to kill him off, Vanatoes stay alive.
Doku is dominant still isolated from the rest of the team.
see nine. Look at the push back forward towards the
strike. Lion looking for their opportunities here, but
all of the altis are spent. There's still paddock was a
mistill. Emperors divide for C9. They know they've got
these tools. They know they have more resources to work
with and it allows them to claim the objective. I mean,
that was ridiculously close. The almost burst down
Thanos. He barely got through on that altis to hop out
the other side. Then he went between worlds. He went into
that W. You know, hopped out. I think he got tagged by
miss it shot but the nami heal kept them alive through it so it was very very close in that moment to be
a little knocking down. But when you commit that much and you don't kill them, well that's kind of the end
of the fight for you. So made it a little bit of a risky play. They decided to try to isolate
the antidote because the antidote was winning this one. We want to get into the dokelet. Dokelet was
just kind of getting bullied on the side. And I think that pressured lie and into going for it. But
now that is back to back 55 fights at these dragons where C9 comes out on top and C9 walks away
with another dragon. If you give C9 clouds, so the extra moves me just makes it so much harder
to finish off these kills. You'll lock people down. There's that potential just getting
kite it out, which is going to make things a lot more difficult. Because again, I just feel like
mine is all about that first punch and C9 if you don't lose the fight in that first punch
are going to win out mostly time in the extended fights. Well, our goal being is still the same
place it's been in for about 20 straight minutes now, as they'll just a thousand separating the
team's parent is live no dragon for the next four minutes or there about you do have fully completed
Sony's hourglass for both mid laners the guardian angel you already mentioned for blabber has not been popped yet top
laners don't really have any big get out of jail free cards like that but you do still have the
mall shield for do close renectin over on the other side bloodletters curse completed for
fanatos for even more of that damage not just for himself but also for apas is here
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ABA C9 trying to set up here around that mid lane and the poke not really mattering too much.
Welcome to a good job just kind of constantly healing them up through any poke that
berserker can land and they do not be pretty careful about C9 getting access to that
Baron.
So berserker also almost has his second tier fully stacked.
Fulkin and some danger now that the person will not quite enough to kill him off.
Once berserker fully completes this second tier, I have to assume it's going to be archangel
staff as that second item. I don't really think he's going to go.
Not going support the diet. I don't think I don't. I don't really think that matches the
Israel. But who knows, maybe I'm wrong. But yeah, second tier will be to sure nearly fully
stuck. Yeah, maybe it's the news. So I remember double blue as real from back in the day
that caused tier items to have to be changed. I mean, he used to build every blue item. He
built like blue jungle item. He built the ice storm. I mean, he built all the tier items. He
built everything. Anything that was blue. He was buying it. Here that the elder lizard
for ever ruined by Ezreal.
I'm going to have a Vendetta against Ezreal until the end of my day because of Spirit of the Elder Lizard.
But Lion is blood-fued.
Yeah, exactly, man, it runs deep.
But Lion right now, they know they've got two minutes left on the clock and they have to be able to stop
C9 from getting that cloud soul for the reasons you talked about earlier.
What's the game plan for Lion knowing that?
I mean, I really think it's maybe a bit oversimplified, but it's just about finding the right setup at these objectives.
I do think it's making a big difference that C9 is getting their first.
They seem to often be the ones that are kind of taking control.
I want to see Lion get their early enough.
That C9 has to walk in through the mystic shots,
through the Orionoball, through the car McEuse,
through all this harassment to make it a lot more difficult.
And then if they're grouping up in these corridors
as they are trying to enter,
you can send the knock wave and maybe kind of turn around that fight.
Because Lion, these last couple ones just
has not been able to really get the perfect engage
and zero out of kill.
They just have to get that kill with the first go of these altis sub one minute.
Oh flash from fanatose.
That's actually a pretty big summer stuff for Joe for the force out there as
blabber goes in.
Inspire tries to find the counterman gauge here going for the back line of C9.
But inspired is now low.
The knocked on try to escape.
The blabber looks to maybe follow it.
Fanatose and APA.
They have plenty of damage but nobody's in range.
As you do at the cataclysm spent the nami title wave.
that time we did not see the
knock wave combo go off.
It was just the knock turn
flying in a lone state
was not there for the follow-up.
Exactly. Because they were
putting pressure on them.
So he went into his
zonias. And I think the
fall may be tethered.
Or maybe it was just that
was right during that zonias
moment. But the pressure that
bliver put on to say
made it to be couldn't actually
follow-up. And then when you
arguing this tank style bill,
that is the downside. If you
do not climb that combo,
you do nothing. You alt in
at this point of the game.
You are a zero threat as that
the doctor and you are just a delivery service.
That is it.
All right. We're back to fighting for this. You've almost got that.
Alti ready again. Okay. Paranoil wants more ready to cast.
Then I'm going to go ahead and start up the Drake.
C9 has control over the pit.
Doku pop at the top and tries to go in five.
Sanato's knocked up at the air.
Wave.
Fulking somebody down.
Lyon continues pressing forward.
Doku has got the kill on Sanato's.
The quack about the trust.
The platter doesn't have the damage to take him out.
Inspirers run on top of the Drake and APA is dead.
Lyon.
Rule don't river.
and see all of the pieces
that's going to get brought by the
fear and he's down.
Everybody on C9 except for blabber
hits the dirt and lie it holds the
line.
They play their fort lying.
Look at Doku here goes in.
Perfect bubble though from Vulcan
saves up at the same time.
It's the flashbacks then actually
kind of I think it was on him.
He kind of betrayed the team.
Someone flashed there as an
alternative is coming in but it
wasn't time perfectly.
So try to flash the combo.
Didn't time it well.
to come into the rest of their team and end up making this A-way engaged.
This was Keto from Sven turns around knockstown berserker because without that,
they weren't lost bearing off of that as well and it could have been a game losing play.
But damn, still a huge play for Lion 4K Goldlead.
We're a three dragons a piece.
We're going the maximum amount of dragons here before soul.
I was a cute to be a favor and check the cooldown on the ultimate for inspired here real quick
because I think that's one thing, 47 seconds, because they did have the fail knock wave in that fight that didn't turn into any kills back and forth.
And then the ulti was ready to go again by the time everyone was repositioned to fight over the drake.
These knock-turn cooldowns are so short, it's very easy for inspired to try to make these plays and go fishing for these opportunities.
Yeah, as a good amount of ability, he has 30 ability haste, plus obviously he has the ulti ability haste on top with the experimental hex plate.
So, effectively, 60 ability hasty before that
ALT is about to hit Hunter as well.
Let's check on that for you.
Yes, he is.
Okay, so he has five stacks.
So, 91, who wants to 91, the ability is on his
ALT, specifically is a lot.
47 seconds is not a great downtime for an ability
as impactful as level three paranoia.
So inspired and the rest of line now
gonna look to maintain control over the top side
river and his parent pit.
We do have now, GA done for Sven.
So he had the IE resommage versus he's able to put out now.
He has the GA, so the targets are becoming, you know, few and far between.
That is, you know, we might have to see them try to change his one shot and not me as
that's out of the fight or something like that, because it's zonious on APA, it's GA
on Sven, it's GA on blabber.
Like, there's not a lot of good targets now for this one shot, so we'll see, you know, sometimes
it still is best to just try to one shot this person in the GA and then everyone's
back on top of them, and you kill them again, but if you're hitting no one else during
that, well, you're ignoring this year who's going to be doing a lot of damage.
So, I do think as these luxury items come through, it can get difficult for Lyon.
Let's see how they can navigate in this lake-y situation.
Really feels like it might all come down to this next right, and here in two minutes,
I doubt anyone's going to be brave enough to start the bear in the face of the other team.
It feels like a death sentence, so I think we are probably barring on mistake, waiting
that two minutes for this cloud zone.
All right, just a little bit of an A-RAM here at the dead middle of the map as everyone clears the minuaves back and forth tries to trade Pope
But man, the Pope trading even matter again. You mentioned earlier. Both of his mom. He just kind of
Everything, oh look at the damage sense at the end. You got to pat the stats which have screenshot the graph at the end
If you lose then be like how did I lose this one right after making please and if you win you look at the end of the the graph at the end
He points your teammates to see how much damage it is like look at that bar
That's crazy. That's your bar. Yeah, you're bars nowhere
We still got to get to the end of the game first 41 minutes in in the first month we go top two ones
You know, well, there's some good. He goes on handsome emotes
I'm posting those in every chat. I can't be in chat right now because I'm not my job
But we do have lion looking at the job in front of them here in less than 90 seconds and it's trying to secure that cloud
So not turn with a cloud soul is so scared you talked about if see nine got it
It makes it that much harder for lying to accomplish their mission and chase down these targets.
You are never getting away from not to ask for you.
Alti, if he has cloud soul.
It's Serpent's fan coming in from inspired for a little bit of tech.
There are some shields, you know, potential airy shield, the barrier shield.
There's the E from, from a Z-R as well as the W from blabber.
So, not like the most value, but it's also, I think, probably more likely just what you can afford going into this next fight, knowing you have to get as strong as you possibly can.
It's the largest offensive contribution you can make at this point is halving those shields.
Because like you said earlier, it's not like you built this entire time to have a tax
speed and true DPS or whatever.
This is just okay.
The most impact I can make for bringing their health farce to zero is this.
This is my bike.
And, Purserker, you know, does that that tearfully stack the second one?
But has not elected to just spend the money on that just yet.
So, he is sitting on, you know, five items plus boots not at that true seven item build right
Now, just about that even with where's then is on the other side?
Yeah, he did have last whisper alongside the fact here.
So he wanted to evolve the whisper in us around his grudge first,
Vulcan throws a bubble into the brush, as Thanos is going to walk in.
Their to-play is on the ward.
They know where the crock is, as soon as he's tagged with the weirding,
he goes into the dominant, true shop garage, fly through the building, hits fan.
Now, St. could be in a little bit of the danger here.
Inspired trying to find Spend.
Don't close.
Now on top of the 80 carry from C9,
and go back for line of already lost saves.
And Douglas Gordian Angel will not keep it
from the gates of hell.
A shutdown goes to Span as line of already lost two men
and C9 are looking for a dragon soul.
Yeah, that may be the straw that breaks the line's back here.
This is gonna be the soul.
It's gonna be probably the bear and right after it as well.
As Lion, trying to look for these clever angles
on the engage, but they get spotted out.
Presidents don't have a lot of work though.
Yep, the Zarker's trying to make something happen here.
Blabber goes forward, forces the flash out of the 80 carry for Lion.
And yet, Dokela, it's one of those cardinal sins about wrapping deep through the enemy
jungle looking for the flank.
You've got to have a sweeper.
It's cold beer.
There's something.
Because as soon as they saw Dokela, they jumped on them.
They punished them.
And Lion wasn't able to answer.
Now, it's C9 going after the Baron.
St. is still dead for 10 seconds.
Dokela is still dead for 15.
Nobody on Lion is going to stop anything about this.
And the pendulum swings again as the gold re-equalizes
that's taking up a look at the fight.
There we go, watch it one more time.
Doug would have spotted, but then St. was kind of over here.
They were trying to set up four a knock-away combo.
But St. got spotted, I think, by the sweeper,
they just immediately went back in.
His shot, we put it came out was very late and hit nothing.
He's zoning his deflash out.
And then the flagging drag got up away from that shot wave.
So, Blabber doesn't get hit.
We are back to live.
And yet, it is dead even as far as the gold is concerned.
But that is not showing the stats from the Baron,
that is not showing the stats from the soul.
Just even the flat move speed is so powerful on that cloud soul.
To me, that is where most of the power is.
There's not amazing synergies as far as the
on a move speed on their ults.
Besides, maybe like a roar or something,
but we'll see if Lion can navigate and come back here
because this is gonna be really, really tough.
See, this is what pushing top.
Don't just try to push in mid.
So Clad might just play through one lane.
They're just gonna try to barrel down this bot lane.
And if St. doesn't recall, really soon,
that inhibitor is just absolutely gone.
Exactly. Lion's saying we think that the best thing we can do is try to create distractions
and sidelines and see-now I'm going to answer with a death ball to try to end the
spot of lane as Fuzdarker is now the target.
They want a full set of his bed and blabber as inspired is now super low on HP. They're
almost ready to kill the doctor but they can't quite get the seat down.
See-now Lion is demanding a response from the solo leaders of Lion.
St. finally completes his recall. But the first next is Jordan is over to down Lion.
Can't find their opportunity to stand their proud.
APA goes into the shop, please not gonna find a target on his fire, but I will not find out
the next is gone.
And C9 takes Game 1.
C9, able to pull a rabbit on the hat there, they take the game, but and I feel like
playing way over.
That's the mean that their ability to actually get back into thin that.
When Narkter and Ulf is spent when the Orianna is still swippling, or he comes back, there's
no ball delivery system, there's no threat.
They get their soul in, there's on the map, so long.
It was a long battle in Game number one.
Let us know who you think your play over the game was.
We're going to hear from the analysts and see if they have the same opinion.
This is so close actually.
I think it's so close and they kind of won that one on a dime at the very end.
Yeah.
It was basically these two team compositions who engages first and how does it happen.
Right?
You have the one with the ultimate Wombo combo, the North Turn Orianna.
However, that's going to go.
and they go, we saw that work out.
And then if it gets just jointed, like, save blabber,
it's a really good, it's a really good J4 all in.
It's the base to the back.
We're gonna take that.
That's John.
Don't go, go, go.
Turn around time, so, okay, let's break down some of these fights.
Let's break down this week's Pagoda moment featuring
the first big fight we saw at CloudRake.
And this was the Knock Wave combo.
With the tank of this Omask North Turn, working out,
they find a big show, all these very flashes away,
which is crucial.
They probably lose the game if he doesn't,
and they're able to win the first fight off of this.
Yeah, the fact that you're pushing
blabber outside of the pit entirely makes it
though you get a free dragon, the double kill
those there for as early as push out.
But now it doesn't get a kill on
to where the person here is.
I think the end of the match through
bought if Zendez and Kilpers are for that.
Yeah, that's possible.
Actually, that makes sense.
Yeah, so the fact that we're getting so many clothes
back and forth by which is why I go to
Zendez for playing with the game.
We'll see if you can see that.
Okay, see that thought back.
So Emily talks through why this fight was
different.
How soon I was able to do this?
By it's different because it's really
to destroy it. You'll see dokela is going to be looking for a flame. He gets spotted
out, the antidote has gone hand. But watch, wear, blabber, ends up right. He ends up
going right on to see this breaks up that kind of old combination that you want. It's
separate the fight out. So see nine are able to clean this up. And this gives them
final soul and crucially the game. Yeah, I, with how well the knock wave fight went. When
they just, you're a really good guy to push the knock wave. What's this, Captain Flowers was
saying, Razz, if you listen to our broadcast. True. I'm working man. I'm a
workman. I don't got to hear the PR. Why were they so spread out like that?
Did they think that maybe he's then six out of build and he is here. We're too
strong that they didn't feel confident diving through and they thought they had
to flag. I think I mean, I didn't just try to straight up write them against that. I
think trying to eliminate Sven was really important for Lion as well. And they
kept looking for these Joker flanks like it worked out before, right? Where he just
Yeah.
Yes.
Front line, C9 with end up scattering, and then they'd be able to target who they wanted,
speaking of our first player, the game.
See that?
That's it.
I think it might have been berserker, but they didn't win.
Yeah.
So, he's on his way to reset between the next game.
But no.
We also know, Doklet, he talked to us previously that he thought our war was a fake counter.
Yeah, he did.
So, I'm not sure if that was a real graphic.
I think, yeah.
For what it's worth.
Yeah.
He's a professional.
Yeah.
just like the world's a fake counter-chernetic,
but player the game, congratulations.
Choose Ben, Jack, thank you for saying, Ben,
you're a little bit more than that.
Hey, did they actually say this?
We'll see, we'll get a half of that.
Oh, we're unbelievable.
They had a little bit of Ben.
They were the best.
Whether or not we were able to get this as part of the...
So, what player of the game works is all of us,
and all the cash was vote on player the game?
Yeah.
We might push to make a cash,
especially if there is accurate as they are now.
Honestly, I know that's the Vulcan voters,
as well, I almost vote the Vulcan myself.
I actually thought his name is like really, really good.
He was learning a lot of very crucial bubbles.
Yeah, I think the Laking fights definitely helps for his men.
For me, I went towards APA because I felt like he was consistent
throughout the entirety of the game.
I felt like the Laking fights were actually working out for him as well.
The early lane was very, very painful for his men in Vulcan.
There's like 30 C.S. deficit early.
Obviously, you go to the end of the game and it doesn't matter at all.
But I feel like the consistency is one thing.
So I'm aligning the blabbering APA's.
Well, I will say it's a hard game for APA to play.
because not turn with an abyssal mask on the side wave
anytime you're trying to match the Oriana,
you're just gonna have to concede push the whole time.
He ended up dying once, show it.
He did.
What do we got?
We got a bad guy.
Darkness.
And also for this year in the early game,
in the early games, I like my kids.
Can't see that.
That's good, that's good, that's good.
Yeah, try it for one.
Yeah.
OK.
I like that.
But each one.
Game two is next.
Why would good?
Not good enough.
The position on the grip here today, Emily.
Is the tell you ride just not be a spin?
Well, flowers.
We're looking at the turbo hybrid power train.
That's already a problem for the rest of the ride.
And a 30-inch panoramic display, too,
that is unfair control.
Guys, all wheel drivers to rain mode?
No shot anyone's catching this.
This seems completely leopy.
Don't debate.
This is first pick we have to lock it in.
Now, he'll tell your ride turbo hives.
Pick it before your opponents do.
Red Bull gives you wings.
Rich of the ground before Doug, can you be good there?
It's on the side of the mountain out!
Let me back its first!
Don't be!
It's not something!
Guess that!
Stand to cure our code for Eos' home on Ooreads.
What's up everyone and congratulations, APP.
on winning the first player of the week of the season and I guess overall this is your first
player the week. Yeah first player the week overall. Since this is your first player the week,
you're going to give you a little rundown. We have 90 seconds. Quick questions that I'm going to
be sending your way. If you don't want to answer them, you can pass and we can continue to move on,
but I feel like you have answers to all of these. Okay. You're ready? All right, three, two, one,
best nickname given to you.
You have to remember.
That's a good one.
Cleanest C9 member.
You can also include yourself.
Too much, I don't know.
But, because I share a bathroom with Antos,
but mean that as they're both very clean.
Okay, this is the dirtiest.
Call them out.
Bob is best with me when they're pretty dirty.
Most of them were rated player this split.
I was in the future.
Oh.
Most love done.
Uh, it's fun.
Biggest personal pet pee.
That's like a lack of effort.
What is a domism or an eneroism?
Something that they harp on constantly.
Well, like, we'll always infer one of the crops.
So that's always like a viewpoint from Dom.
Yeah, it's a mile we're using over the scrap.
And that's probably going to happen today on stage sometime.
We're going to infer a crop and we'll review it.
And then the next game we're going to infer the same crop.
Yeah, you're going to love the next crop.
You're going to love the next crop.
What's the bigger flip?
I've caught it in a six-minute scuttle crab.
a six minute subtle cap for us.
It's a little, like the most important objective on our team.
Yeah.
You can play in any period of the LCS,
which player are you wanting to play alongside the most?
Can it be against?
Yeah, I've never done a thing here, sir.
Okay, that's a good one.
One more time, so if I could, for example.
And I guess the last one is, it's going to be line-related.
What is a weakness you guys feel like you can exploit
versus line-up?
Um, just a very new team.
It's like, yeah, you can see it for series and take the toss there, we're not extremely clean, almost losing game too, to do.
Pretty pathetic. You want to give me a prediction there for today series?
I think we should win.
I think we might drop a game because I do think line is good, but I think we should win.
So two hour to one.
Thank you again, and congratulations on winning your first player the week.
That's it.
We'll see you next time.
Welcome back to the LCS.
It's the first, faster free of our second week here in 2026.
We got C9 going up against Lion and the first game went a long while.
45 minutes on the clock.
Seven elemental drakes claimed.
And honestly, the ending felt a little anticlimactic.
It did, I think, buy and thought, okay, we're gonna be pushing two lanes, they're pushing one lane,
they're gonna take our inhibitor and then they're gonna have to pace and defend, you know,
we're gonna get clever with it and see now it's like, what if we just end the game?
That's ball, bottom. And as soon as they, they've posture to try to end the game,
saying needed to recall instantly, and he didn't, and don't clue it did, but he didn't have
him power to recall. So by the time they arrived, not turning all that hard already been used,
because Zerker had had to like flash out and run away, and it was just kind of cooked,
You have no more threats at that point, so yeah, but it's like the magic.
All right, heading into draft for game number two, lion has elected to claim last pick for themselves.
Remember we do have this different system now where we don't have selection.
First pick tied to the side. So lion has the losers of game number one selected last pick and see nine then selected blue sides.
So this one's going to look very similar to what you've seen for years and years and years and this point,
point C9 going to go ahead and band out mouth like Nico and Lulu.
Meanwhile, Lion is going to band out the chase, the Varus and the Zix.
It's really interesting because historically, you know,
blue side has always been really, really OP with first pick and everything.
So all the coaches I talked to in the preseason were telling me, oh, yeah,
it's just going to everyone's just going to choose first pick and no one's
going to care about blue side red side, right?
But statistically, last pick has actually been doing a lot better.
And even red side has been doing better than blue side.
So, pretty interesting.
It's actually pretty counter to expectation for most people.
It can sometimes just be a meta thing where, you know, if there's a lot of counters available
in less OPs that are just blindable, then generally first pick is kind of just weaker than
last pick.
But it is interesting to see that it's just a little bit of a surprise to me.
Well, whenever I see a team select last pick as their choice, I am then in judgment mode.
I'm putting on my powdered wig.
I'm grabbing my gavl.
If you are not picking a good, meaningful counter for your last pick, they can't just
in the court when he bang your
gable. They had to
be my bailiff. Yeah. And
then that means we were
are going to judge this
last pick. I don't want
to see some BS that could
have been picked on first
or second rotation. We
don't want any five. Yeah
Orn five. I'm not
with this head. I'm not
looking for Orn five. But
we have a pantheon first
pick here for C9. They're
going to go ahead and lock
in Cassante and Tolia with
it. Pantheon Tolia. We
know how that combo is so
deadly over on the other
side. They locked the
five so Talia, not only working well with Pantheon, but being denied, but working with the
block.
And it looks like Lion are basically just going for the same style of composition that
they did last time.
If they'd lock in the RE by RE, it's a similar kind of dive style that you would see.
But considering some other options, so we won't get into it too much unless they do lock
it down.
But I mean, it would make sense alongside the rumble and the five.
And it is locked.
So yeah, I feel like they're basically doing the same thing that they did last game, right?
And they had the knock wave combo last time, you know, with his aggressive top laner, they're
going for, you know, a similar style.
It's full dive, it's centered on the back line.
And that is what Lion has opted into.
I always feel like from this point,
you want to ban out some of the picks
that are really strong defensive picks to mitigate that.
So I immediately think of like,
we're not a brawman and champions like this,
or if you want to talk to the AD Carry,
I think of safety AD Carry's.
Ezreal was already played last game, but like Sia
and things along those lines
that are going to be really, really safe and difficult to dive.
Those would be the kind of picks that I would want to deny.
Well, it's a really good bar, so this can make sense.
You can also do, you know, bar ultimate defensively as they are
vialting in and kind of use that as like a asonus.
But I'm going to be curious to see, you know, if they
ran out some more of those kind of safety picks and if cloud
9 ops into them, if they're available.
All right, see, nine.
What's it going to be?
Are we going to look at the supports?
Are we going to look at the 80 carries?
They did a lasking.
That's my assumption that they're just going to be an
upers occur.
OK.
Well, you know, right is the first step in that plan.
and they will remove it.
They could, you know,
failure is that they want to take
way another crit marksman.
Obviously, you're in these
some sort of consistent damage.
You're able to deal with, you know,
rumble and kind of a,
it's even the Xante and that sort
of front line.
So you know, wouldn't be surprised
to see more kind of crit marksman
getting abandoned out?
Yeah, both teams have a true
bruiser style jungler,
but C9 has a very tough front
liner, whereas that just does
not exist on Lions composition
in these first three picks.
So I'm curious to also see
if Lion really wants to go
for the ALE engage on the sport roll.
Otherwise, it's just fine.
Now we do have the Ziya Bandout.
Like you were talking about,
one of those state marksmen
that really just vahates her life playing against Ziya,
because it's so easy to just hold her all.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, Ezreal, Ziya, to me,
are always the premier defense of AD carries, right?
They are some of the safest.
When Shastana is meta,
I feel like Shastana is actually kind of in there too,
Shastana is really good defensively,
because you have the Buster shot, as well as the rocket jump.
So you can kind of self-peel quite effectively.
And it's not going to be a second AD carry band
instead is going to be the
Nautilus which just
pair really well with the
draft that they were going for.
You know, you just kind of
point and click.
R comes down and rumble over
the top.
A failure was the band that I was
expecting though and a
failure might be a lock as a
result.
So that might have been what
seen I was discussing like,
hey, what do we care
more about stopping
Nautilus with the engaged
or stopping, you know,
berserker from getting
a failure because I do
feel like you need that sort
of consistency.
And this is the best Chris
Markman that's really going to
up in available right now.
Yeah.
He's a crit marksman who has
system damage that you're talking about, but at the same time with Calibrum and Moonlight
vigil, he also has the range to contribute to the fights if Viand already have to full send
a mile away. He can still contribute more easily than, you know, something else might be.
For the fall, it can be pretty juicy too. Yeah, you can have a lot of really good contribution
from range before you full commit on the things. And for the multis just dope a me as well.
That's always one of the best. It looks cool. It feels good. The blue explosions.
It was, I mean, it birthed the meme back when he first released.
It was the Ha Ha Funny, whole team dies, but.
Right.
Like that was the, the origin of 200 years.
And, um, Lucian Brab, okay, a tried and true staple.
Yeah.
Here for C9 Brab, one of those defensive champions that we're talking about,
that's great at impeding what a dive comp wants to do.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, it's interesting because I feel like the draft in the second phase,
kind of went to shock of everything.
I was kind of expecting, right?
You're targeting some of these defensive tools that they could have.
It's really stretched you down and on the other side you know they're deciding how to
want to shut down berserkers. We want to take away the double crit marksman. They only
take one. So he takes away the other. And this is interesting. So it's going to be
written not a here for aisles. I mean there is obviously some dive from the C9 side. You can
deal with blapper and whatnot. But generally I feel like we're on a works of way better
into in the comp centers like full hard and gauge. And I feel like C9 is going to be more
in the in the in the camp of Citing back because Lions
Comp just naturally has to hard engage right and I don't think
C9 wants to like opt into that. I'm not saying they're never going to go for a pick
but it can be difficult. Obviously the other perspective is
we've all said it. Vial, Ariel, Rumble, everything goes in and then
everyone is clumping up and kind of like trying to defend this and whatever
and you just trying to create a lot of the guard zone. Exactly. You just throw
the the run out over the top but it can get you know blocked by a
by Braumwall and just generally speaking if they are
cutting back, it's really hard to get value out of
run on us. So that that Nick does surprised me as the fifth.
Okay. But the other three, I think we're all kind of like
according to plan and the bands and stuff are all kind of
according to plan. So it'll just be interesting to see if
the bets they made work are acting. You know, was it better
to take away that notalus and limit their heart
engagement or should they have dealt with this
failures and will the people from. I also really want to see
how much they can get, not just the micro combo of the
to work together, setting up the
stun for the shove, but the
macro combo of Telia and
Pantheon for the C9 side,
using Revers Wall and
Grand Starfall together to
create those numbers of
damages. Whether it's at,
you know, this set up for
a neutral objective or just
play on a sideline, I feel
like those two champs have
such huge synergy on
multiple levels. It needs to
go right to your told me
Doke was not going to have
fun again. I feel like this
should be not just on fun.
It should be the antipysis of
fun for Dokela. We're
If you ever go too close to the tower, you get
a balanced combo 300 meters backwards into a
turnl cc. And then if you push up at all,
it's just going to be to Lee a pantheon.
That's the top lane experience, baby.
Good old top lane, nothing beats that.
But it doesn't first like so we'll see if you can
farm some goal off the kessante before you die
50 times in the sideline.
Maybe it's part will be in the brush when they
come up there and they can turn it around.
And then you are having a lot of fun, right?
Then you're having a great time.
Gank me again.
Fire is rumble pineapple.
All that I think it's pineapple that he shoots in this skin.
Is it coconut or pineapple?
I'm pretty sure it's pineapple.
Something tropical.
Yeah, it looks like pineapples.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cause they've got the little green thing on the top.
Coconut, don't have a green thing.
That's true.
Yeah.
And pineapple's taste a lot better than coconut.
I don't know if that's a hot dick.
No, I agree with that.
Pineapples.
Pineapples are delicious.
Coconut tastes like guilty water.
Water.
Water did something wrong.
It's just not.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's not a big coconut.
and we've got a lot of
time.
But we do have a, I have a
big fan of fun competitive
League of Legends games.
I think we're in the first
transition.
Yeah.
We got a first game that
honestly spent what like 35
almost 40 minutes not even
being a thousand gold apart.
Like both teams were really
just like that blow for blow in
game number one.
I hope we get a whole series of
Yeah.
Me too.
we'll see if they'll be able to do so. As APA and Zate were really
scrapping it up in the mid lane APA already out of my answer. He's just going to
head right back to base. He's playing phase rush as well as go so he's
not playing TP, which is obviously pretty a typical, but it is going to be
really tough. If you don't want shot him, he's going to be tough to not
walk down, right? He's going to park phase rush. He's going to have go so he's
going to zoom away and likewise on the chase down. When you play some of these
kind of comps and when to get it's in towards
wireless, if a fight starts going bad,
there is no disengaging because you're just getting
promised load by Ralli's and chase down by this ghost
into the air.
Okay, let's see what our junglers are up to now that the
lanes are.
Currently underway, we do have both of them clearing out
their second buffs going for that top side into
bottom side clear.
We'll see if they end up wanting to move towards that
bottom lane at all.
It is a pretty serious push from the lion duo, which means that
inspired feels empowered to take this bottom side
to take this bottom side scuttle crab knowing that his bottom lane do was going to have
priority. Blabber can see that his guys are stuck underneath the turret, so he heads towards
the top crab. Yeah, there's pretty much no way you would expect them to get dominated in that
two-be-two, and we do have that ranged support advantage. Brawman is going to have some difficulty
for sure, but then and Vulcan just farming it up and not really a difficult lane in the same way
that the last one was. You may have to see push, you may not be able to look for aggressive
But last time against Karma as real they were kind of getting
smacked around, you know, they've done a lot of CS early.
And it was kind of this tale of Thanos bullying top lane.
And the record and line, we're bullying that bot lane.
This time it's just kind of an even farming situation.
But then did have to recall and run straight out.
And it's also working, mentioning that APA did use his ghost on his first recall,
just to get right back to lane.
So the skiers' bloom that was used did see inspired as he was moving towards the top side.
you wanted to make sure that GoCla didn't get ganked by Blabber as he was trying to crash
the wave into the turret. Now, Inspired does just hang around this area a little bit longer,
did not want to go for another recall instead just waiting on the Crogs to respond so he can
do another full clear. So both junglers still just kind of mirroring one another's actions
as Dokela maintains the push up here in the top lane, but honestly fanato still is the one with
the higher farms so the Cassantes perfectly comfortable here. Yeah, Cassantes got to be really
happy with that. I mean, that is one of the difficulties of rumble. If you were not playing
the champion really well. It's so easy to mess up your own CS, you know, with the
flames, but it's a blast on accident. Exactly. You're just kind of cooking him and then
they get to weird health, health, and then they get killed off by the enemy minions. So
that can happen. And being down 9 CS is not the situation you want to be in this early.
And we're going to see the Anthos already has that cloak. So he's already building up a
lot of MR here at this point. Okay, junglers, where are we going? What are we doing here?
We're both farmed up to level five, looks like we are going to get recalls out of book
blabber and APA before either one of them hits level six.
This is a good sign.
This is a good sign for what I wanted to see for Weaver's wall, Grand Starfall combos.
If they're both making a purchase right before they're getting to level six, they should
be equipped and confident to use those altis in tandem once they have the opportunity.
But St. will get the chance to take that first plate here mid lane as APA recall.
Now, we can take the chance to talk a bit about these mid laners and their week one
performance is APA one player the week we saw the interview with Razz first
I mean it's career which is pretty cool you need to join a new team immediately
win play the week but he was really big for this wild going up against his
own team going up against quid who had been the person who replaced it right
he had this really big stand up performance not even just statistically but
made some really big plays and was so happy with how that turned out.
I thought of Lane Vulcan's then stepping up here trying to square up against
the eyes and the Zerker and the two B2.
The Zerker does have the white gun very good for scrapping,
but grab it them there with the purple not quite as useful.
APA goes in, unraveled Earth into the seismic shaft.
No blabber wanted to get the stunt.
The shop had already missed.
Now, C9 try to get themselves away as blabber would be
the sacrificial lamb saint shows off blabber goes down first
blood over to Lion.
The char misses trying to make it a tool for nothing,
but Lion will happily walk away with that kill.
Yeah, really well played by Lion.
And that's a pretty big punish.
You don't even get the flash off of Reserker.
You're going to lose the dragon.
First blood goes over to Saint.
And this is that role,
when they try to make happen.
And the kind of just did the combo in the inverse way,
where it was like APA through the seismic shove.
And then, Blabber tried to flash stun him
in the seismic shove, but the flash had already come out.
And you know, it's a little bit of a year.
Yeah, it just kind of seemed like APA just sent it a little bit too early.
Blabber needed to be closer to be able to flash stun
and then guarantee the size of a shot out of it.
He sees, oh crap, the size of a shot is coming.
Glovers like, I'm going to get there,
tries to go for it, but it wasn't perfectly synced up.
I also had a great flash as he sees that flash coming in there
from Glover.
And then once that was used, he's just going to get slow down
and knock down.
I think they were actually trying to give that the berserker
but it looked like St.
kind of accidentally got it, and he was with some W charges
or Spira charges or something like that.
Kind of went over and got that kill.
And I feel like sometimes these champion combinations
that we'd lawn and applaud so often.
Can turn into a double edge sword like that?
Because you know, okay, if we work together
and we do our combo, it's just free money.
But you get a little bit too high,
but you get a little bit too anxious
trying to make that play and force that play.
And then you bungalow it.
Now, if you end up being the ones
who give your opponent something three?
Lion, again, happy with that first drink,
no contest thanks to that first blood
already on the board.
And it doesn't come at any cost,
because it's not like C9 could have taken the grubs
the same time, those still 15 seconds away from
spawning. So Lion are happy down here in the
bottom lane. The Zorker is going to get to
continue to scale. The kill did go over to
the same on the Ari. So accelerating that
mid laner, who's traditionally very good at
these like mid game skirmish type of fights.
If Saints in really good shape heading towards
those Lion will be happy to use that aggressively.
Yeah, they absolutely will. And he was in the
great spot last time on the Oriana. You know, he was
really kind of like a pivotal part of a lot of their
success when they had it in those team fights. So
We'll see you know obviously we talk about the mistake from the side of the cloud nine, but also Is deserving of credit like his flash was super fast
As soon as butter flashed, we'd he already had flash and it's kind of one of those things where it's the same time things you just end up stunned
But out of that size make sure of so credit to him. I think Isles is one of the pieces that was kind of overlooked when people were talking about
Super team for lie. I'm they're looking at inspired and saying in preserker and not so much talking about
Isles or talking about
Dokeler, who obviously came in as a replacement for his Muto, they wanted to play with him,
couldn't get the visa, that really sucked for his Muto. But Dokeler had a great world last year,
and really impressed a lot of people, so he's going to be a good feeling for them. And we'll see
if Isle can kind of change some minds about him, because Isle has had some teams that were
kind of expected to be a bit better from most part. He's played on kind of like lower ranked teams,
lower ranked browsers. This is an opportunity that he has to really prove himself, right? And
And it's going to be exciting to see if you can kind of change some some hearts and minds about how good the score he is.
Well, we've got blabber taking those crops right now.
He will go ahead and secure the first two.
Inspired is nearby, but it should just be blabber getting all three grubs.
So there's that. Again, it's the same story as game number one where first straight goes one side all three grubs go the other.
So pretty even split on our first objectives.
But again, grubs are a down payment objective.
You do need to have the ability to have some pressure on these turrets for those to really pay dividends and we'll see if C9 can get that for themselves because there's still five plates standing there in the top lane still four in mid lane and I believe four down here in the bottom lane on the lion side so C9 haven't had a lot of push they haven't had a lot of chance to really put the work out of those structures yet.
I mean, look at look at the benefits of this build.
You went double and naked trot.
So that's how you build them out there.
It's 24 AMR.
It is going to give them a lot of AMR early.
So it is going to delay his first item power spike.
But that's not a lot of flat resist here.
You know, we're assuming one of them will be a canybroker.
And then we'll see what we want to do with the other.
But you know, definitely going to be not getting bullied by
Dokele any time soon.
Do not elect to go into kind of some of those more aggressive builds.
But it's just trying to withstand that onslaught.
I'm doing a great job with it, and he's up 20 C.S. right now, which is incredible in this matchup.
And yeah, the goal is pretty close because first strike goal is going over and whatnot, but he's got to be really happy with how things go.
Yeah, I feel like if you're playing a tank into rumble and you're winning in CS, you don't even care if it's close.
Like you're already doing what you need to be doing, you're perfectly confident going into the fight as well.
You talk about the double Megatron cloak, but he also has a chain vest in inventory too, so it's not like he's just going to melt.
might be here. Okay, immediately, Saint and
Inspire going in after Spend a
Charmable for the K-Quite first of
Down. Beautiful protection coming in from
See that his APA and Vulcan come to the rescue.
Inspire's going to be knocked out to the
Bayloaded line of overplayed their hand.
Saint tries to get away. That's Vulcan
goes for the Winters Pike and APA picks
up another grand starfall coming in from
Blabber. But I also is able to escape
for now. He was a flashfall from Blabber.
It's not going to allow him to get all the way home.
Send the news of their demise.
line and go behind the new lines and they are coming back.
Hey, Bart is not a bad dance, but a brawn looking pretty strong.
It's a nice fight, man.
And a lot of this went wrong before the replay even started because the Q flash missed
from inspired, then was ready for a new dash back.
And he had the bear to absorb so much of this damage and bulk in was just a break wall there.
He uses the summoner heel, blocks so much damage.
And then he states, winners, bite after winters bite.
even after this great handshake from
miles, it doesn't matter because
they connect to so many of those
cues.
That's so bad.
That inspires acknowledging the
play was not the execution they
were looking for and certainly not
the result that they wanted.
Their one zero game now turns to a
one to three game favoring C9.
Gold still very close overall.
And this bottom line to your one
chart for C9 is still very low on
HP, which is why APA is still down
here protecting it, making sure the minions get nowhere close.
I'm credit to APA very fast on the roam to match that play.
He gets down there.
It's been in bulk who were super aware of that this could be happening and reacted so
well to it.
It's a cute flash in.
Something he just incited and it's a completely different story.
But the fact that he doesn't incidize and he gets a channel of full cooling into
inspired who's spent his flash like that was game changing and now APA, they just fought
to the death.
He just takes him down.
Yeah, it was not expecting this to go all the way to the zeroed out health bar and APA even hitting him in the all chat right after what are you doing?
Freak
That is
crazy
I mean, that's honestly kind of similar to the death that quit had to APA last week if you remember that
Where Quigetake and mid and the quit was playing Orianna and he's kind of like walked into these air soldiers
and just kept getting auto by a PA until he tied.
Wow. It has got the mind control.
Thank you very much observers producers for putting that on the screen.
I also love the fact that it's spelled wrong.
That shows you he's going for just speed over accuracy with the typing.
He's in the moment. He's feeling it.
This is what I love to see.
Yappa is back.
He's here and he's winning these 1v1s.
Yeah, I mean, the size of each other can the X-ray to the same time as the charm.
I thought he was just going to back it up.
I thought I was there.
I saw those happen.
And I was like, oh, that's that.
But he just went straight back in.
Does it the charm?
But it was too little too late.
APA just kind of takes them down.
See, not fit into it.
Thought he could outplay, not able to make it happen.
And APA is one of our few NA midlaners here.
We have a lot of Korean imports in the mid lane.
Some of the strongest players.
A lot of people talking about how guys like APA and Pelopox
the match up to these
these top level players.
So far so good for ABA.
I think he was solid in
game number one. I think
you stellar last week
against quid. And he is
showing that he is he's
not to be missed with.
Yeah, this guy is scary
down there man. Now 500
go up to zero and two on
the Telia Blackfire Torch
has the fully evolved
year three boot. You can
see a very similar build
for St. But his quest is
not yet complete St.
right now, who still does not have his quest done.
And Nerf did not handle pipes, they are still really, really strong.
And I feel like Brahm is an insanely good user for them.
Obviously, the altislow, the Q slow, the passive stun, like there's so many ways for
him to be able to apply it.
And it kind of turns him into a mini-in-genre.
Okay, nice size, which up to the APA here on St. follow up coming in from Blaver.
He ends up taking the kill on it.
But that was all AAPA setting it up and getting it done.
2000 gold laid for C9, another kill on to the R.
Now you're going to have that ripped-trial targeted.
And what you should about the bandel pipes, I feel like
if in a tax speed or so obviously some chance
you're going to like it more than others.
But with brawn, everybody likes it because you're stacking
can cost a blow.
Yeah.
Look at the nithos is billed by the way.
Yeah.
This is just, okay, Isaac, what do tanks like in League of Legends?
They like to resist damage.
So you just build a shield, a tank needs a shield,
And then four items there is this. I mean, it's just a cold winter days.
Got two best, two cloaks, one best for your front, one best for your back.
Yeah. One quote for your front.
One quote for your back. One bad 80 carry in the mid lane as
Buzzerker gets bulldozed. The harrow gets summoned up.
The deer want to it falls.
Terals towards about to die in the top lane at the same time from APA split
push those three boycrubs I mentioned earlier, that down payment.
given ends are coming in and see nine is up to almost a three and a half thousand gold
lead sixty and a half minutes of the game. Yeah, feels like the wheels are kind of falling off
a little bit here for a thing. Oh, and roll game too. This is tough. And it's fire just
going to keep chasing and see if you can find anyone but APA was recalling in that back
rush and he's going to be staying safe here. This is going to be really, really tough now.
You have to think for lying to be able to come back from this position.
When you are playing a full send dive comp,
like there's no fallback for Viari Rumble.
You send all your buttons, you want shot them or you don't.
And when you were behind, it is pretty tough to one shot them.
We already have a secret coming through.
There for APA, you can already see a cloth armor for his vence,
and he's at least getting, you know,
tabbies are something kind of defensive
to be able to keep himself a little bit more safe.
Obviously, Cassante is tough.
There's the E for a broken thing that can kind of
absorb all the damage.
Brawms could be blocking all the follow-up.
it's just like this is hard so I'm just sees Thanos' inventory he wants to have
some of that kind of fun you know he just wants to build some resistance
sometimes that's all a man needs a nice weekend afternoon this is gonna be like a
record for latest item completion you know we used to do the tracking the
fastest fastness he's going for the slowest hey man a world record is a world record
it doesn't matter how he would she's kind of inventory spot so the real problem is he
has to build something now you know he has to make sure he wants to sell his boots to
to buy another cloak, which I would respect.
Honestly, you've got to sell boots to buy another belt.
Then you have to be each and every single one.
Oh, no!
In the near-full build, Inspire tries to go in after APA,
who immediately drops the stasis flashing back out to register by.
Vulcan will be your sacrificial lab and a nice stun.
On to Inspire, look at a trade, one back, calling flies through.
Inspired as low.
bail out his honor, but then going to save a make it a one for one.
Lions hit the whole damn kitchen sink.
But now it's fan of toast, looking to make some renovations.
He's not going to find his way to the kitchen just yet, but C9, a happily trade one for one on that one.
I mean, that was a 4v2 for what felt like 20 seconds and they could barely get through the bra.
So, things are looking tough and I got in the update from production that after APH racetrack
succinct and all that, Briserker had to mute him. So he's at, he's forgot the preview.
He was reminded he's like crap. It's a lesson you've got to learn real quick.
Yeah, you got to block him in the in the in the chat.
You got to do it fast.
Now he's not back coming out there on that third
and toe foe strike from fanatose.
St. has to use the R. E.
Altie. That means he's going to feel way weaker until
that cool down is up again.
Luckily for the side of lion, there's no dragon for three
and a half minutes to play for.
Barron is going to be live here in about 60 seconds.
Even though C9 has a 4,000 gold leap though,
you talked about it a bit.
Last game, Barron is so deadly.
And it's still pretty risky to try to rush in at 20 minutes.
Yeah, and you know for line. Well, Danithos has less things in his inventory now. Oh, true. That's a plus. Oh, man. He combined three of his things in the one thing. Yeah, so that is just a point.
I really like this inventory. Yeah, I was loving it. All right. Jack show to be fair. Jack show is kind of the spiritual successor to the inventory that he had because that's a little bit of everything. Right. Yeah. So I'm on.
Bill five jack-os if he has to complete an item I'm fine with it being this one if he gets another
bell for you get another bell
building this non-setting building jack-os
there's nothing but jack-os
how do you even put on five news walk around helmet on each hand like a boxing go
hungry yeah exactly strap them up so I got it then he duct tape yeah he's ready to go
he's out tape some ingenuity Cassante in his jack-show a match made in
Yeah, all right, 4,000 gold for C9.
Lion just seems completely out of sorts.
You mentioned earlier that wheels falling off
and it just does feel like that they don't really
know where to go with this composition
in this current game state.
Yeah, I mean, they're front flints down.
You know, they're just a little feet under the car
trying to keep it.
Yeah, they're running.
All right, boys, left foot right, right, right, right, right.
Make sure you say come on.
We're gonna have to part of the body of you this week.
We'll be doing like the army drills you're left.
You left the left, right, left, left, right, left.
Everybody's gotta make sure they can keep the car
going with all of this fall off. You're ready. All right, see, nine. They're trying to take control
over the enemy jungle now, placing down some vision, trying to make this map very, very scary
for anybody from Lyon. Just trying to go out and farm their camps. I'm just going to get his
crux here. He's confident enough with the control ward in the tri brush that nobody's going to
be waiting to try to jump out and gank him. Who grew back up with St. Vulcan Flabber just hanging
around nearby. In case anybody goes after APA, but everybody on Lyon is just shadowing St.
right now is pushes for the tier one to a top.
See nine say now I'm sure tier one take it.
We're going tier two.
Yeah, exactly.
They're just going tier two mid as well as that
Bop pushing.
Don't blow on top.
Maybe.
That is just immediately.
Don't close stepped one inch too far forward and
see nine sat him down and showed him why you can't do it.
Yeah, that is tough.
I mean, both these 80 carries do have their I.
So like, oh, that's not so bad.
And they realize Ben has another item on top of that.
So is a full item ahead.
a head 2K lead for his then 1.6 K for APA 1.3 for fire.
Hold on now, there's going to be some trouble for APA.
He has to go golden, try to get away from this one.
There's no escape, nice shut down, and the kill going over to St.
is big, making sure he stops falling behind in this game.
So nice punish there from line APA.
A little bit of an error.
Yeah, but a little bit of an error.
It does get hit by the charm.
So St. getting a bit of revenge.
Then to us, though, pushing up on that top side line will respond.
So he will have to back it up.
to back it up, the number four grabbing two plates, and Cloud9, fully in control for now.
It is going to be Cloud Soul once again, and they'll be looking for this third dragon
for sure.
I mean, Cloud9 is just going to be so confident about really taking any fight whatsoever
at this point of the game.
It's not a second jack.
That's a worrying trend on ending despair.
I was so sad, because I saw that is what I feel when I found out that it wasn't another
jack show.
I think it was on ending despair.
We still have a chance, because the Negratron Club built into a jack show.
Maybe he's making a show.
I'm getting anything sandwich where the jack shows all the bread and the unending
despair goes in the middle.
That's the new item, Perkis Sante, it's a secret unlocked.
I'll be forgiven.
I hope you can hear us right now.
It's Bezarker.
Just wants to hear the sounds of that turret crashing down up there in the top lane.
Nice equalizer from Dokelet in mid to protect the tier 2.
Try to give Bezarker the opportunity to take this without a trade back from C9.
And Bezarker will do just that.
So Lion, bringing that gold to the back down to just under 3000.
But the Drake is live, not for long, though, as it's claimed by C9,
who now ride at sole point and yet again, it is a cloud sole rift.
Very scary stuff.
Yeah, it's going to be really tough for them to deal with.
And Lucien, not only is Mooseview good, but it is one of these champions
where just like the actual burst of Mooseview,
but the calling is really annoying.
You get tagged by winners by, and now all of a sudden,
you're getting chased down by someone with rockets on their feet.
it's problematic man. It is such a big deal.
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We've got our Lucian with Essence Reaver Infinity Edge.
Navori, this dude is so scary right now.
I feel like if you're lying and you start a fight where it's been is not just dead right
out of the gate. That fight, you're not going to win.
Yep, it is going to be so tough.
you have to kill him through Cassante and Pantheon and Braum and the Thalia throwing down the
animal rattle there if they're just being so annoying at this point.
So it's going to be really difficult to try to pull off this dive.
And honestly, Renata is kind of doing what we're not expecting from Renata against this kind
of composition.
I just feel like it's so hard to play Renata into a composition that is cutting back.
And I feel like that's always going to be what C9 is wanting to do.
Only time they're going to be going forward is when they have an uneven fight that is going
It's just tough.
I mean, we're not as altie walk slower than some champions do, right?
So if you're going the same direction that the altie is, you're probably going to beat it in a foot range.
And Brahm has already blocked it, you know, once you're twice this game.
Like that's another thing that makes it really difficult.
All right, Barron's been started up by C9.
They've got it very, very low, but lion is all the approach.
They're in town, smite it, buy blabber.
C9, number three, right now.
Saints and the rest of lion trying to catch up.
See if there's anything they can find here.
But no, they're too late to the play.
They were caught on a wares and C9 takes a free 25 minute bearer.
Yeah, it's going to be able to rush that one down and that's going to set themselves up really well.
Yeah, part of that set up.
I'm looking at these timers man, three minutes until they're sold spawns.
They've got bearer in for the next two and a half.
It means they'll run the entire rip.
Even if you don't break the base, which I feel like is also unlikely,
you still have total control for the set up over that next big power spike.
Yeah, and I think there's a good chance they can pressure these two or two's.
line is just going to have to get to the point where they fool
send it inside lane right and that's why they're covering
people.
Yeah, he's immediately ready with a stasis.
The charm can't hit him and now the TPs went to the back
them off.
See, not trying to punish lion.
Volkens moving around from the flank.
Here's the Weavers wall, winters by already dropped out.
Where's the glacial finisher?
Wall again defending from Volkens, defense and equalizer
from Dokela.
See, not continues pushing forward as lion has to get
everybody out.
That's flash from Dokela.
Flash from Isles, flash from Inspire.
The third and top of the strike is not going to find it.
It's back away with the pass.
Megaman out, Vulcan is in danger Vulcan and APA both low.
Lion fighting for their lives, trying to cover their own retreat here and
see nine now backs away as well.
Remember the Baron empowered recall is going to allow them to get back more
swiftly as Thanos does have to stop that recall early to make sure he's
not interrupted by Saints somehow as they know.
Nobody's dead on either side there despite multiple flashes being spent every
flash except for St.
On Lion is now down over on the other side, it's the same tail for everybody except
for APA and his man, but that's the two big carries.
Those are the ones that really matter, an APA just bought a death cab off of that recall.
Another really big spike there for cloud nine.
So things going to be even more difficult from this point.
It wasn't good to attend from Lion though.
You have to be willing to send it on these plays.
You know, if there wasn't blabber there kind of trailing APA, if APA didn't actually use
the zone is that fast and immune the
charm. That could be a completely
different flight. So it's a good
swing there and it does waste some
of that bear above. But now
see nine back to the scene of the
crime. You have to think this
tower is going to go down back to
the scene of the crime for even
more crime. The sequel is even
better than the original for
the majority can't charge them twice.
Oh, yeah. I've got this when
taken care of no problem. Dear
two to a fall. See nine of
5000 gold. And between all the
praises that we were given him
last that we were giving inspired
last game for his timing on being
to spell shield APAs of deer
shuffles. APA now has the chance
to pay it back with the timing on
these stasis plays and honestly
he's doing a good job with it.
Weaver's wall to buy the opportunity
to fire into the turrets here.
The tier 3 line under pressure
as that bottom lane tier 3 turret
is about to collapse double cannon
minions in power with Bayron.
Nearly enough to bring it down.
The zirker does clear out that last
cannon in time but C9 is not done yet
and until the soul spawns, the Baron just now expires as they forced down to tier 3.
So C9 takes this opportunity. They got exactly what they needed to. They broke the base
defenses with the last wave of Baron. Now they control the drape.
And look at the vision. There's no vision deep on the map for line.
This is what makes it so difficult is to have this soul spawning right after the Baron expires.
Because Baron is up. You were just locked into your base. You can't get out on the map.
And then all of a sudden you have to try to get over the dragon. They're not even in a bother
testing. Look where inspired is. He's in the top lane side
brush hoping maybe I can find a pick on someone. Look for
something because they know no shot. Can you walk in
blind and actually try to take that away from C9. If you
walk in blind there, you're going to die and they will
just walk down bot lane with that open in the hip and
probably in the. Bottom lane is Australia inspired is
having a nice Canadian vacation right now not going anywhere
near where all of the crocodiles live. That crocodile is
is claimed now APA stepping up towards the brush not going to hit him fired with it in
immediate spaces yet again and he tries to flash away.
Panato is coming in looking to defend his mid.
Saints likely going to be first to die here. The bailout is going to bring him back
but he does dies right again. Lion looking to make their play with the numbers
advantage. Flavor is taking low gritty of angel going to bring him back.
His fighting for his life. Train tank and everybody from Zerker knocks him down.
See now his scramblings are going to get something back.
Fans the only game is they got to try to protect him.
fliring in the dope of it is being blocked by minions then he's still looking to salvage this
but a huge play from lion kick 3 for one and how much more can they get you know that just
took about 2 3 K off of the goal lead and there's Bounties up. Resurger is going to farm these
plates farm this tower and they seize then it Vulcan over here they can maybe get more.
The circus also got Christian to remember White Gunna Fellows. This is one of the very unique
champions in the game. Is it Pax beat his faster when he's right next to the turret he can
and bulldoze these structures.
Let's see this again as inspired,
beautiful positioning here in the brush.
I mean, inspired was up here for so long,
ABA with the early stages, but this time,
it is not going to save them because they all feel it there.
Even with Denisos coming in,
he blocks the charm, it just doesn't matter
because the equalizer is there.
All of the damage dealers for Lion,
were here faster, he was then a bulk in arriving.
They just can't really get in.
So then trying to find an angle, looks the dash,
and as he goes in, it's just right into the overgated
So really he just kind of had to retreat immediately and lie and find what feels like a miracle
fight it went from almost to 6K lead to just the 1K. Yes, there's still the clouds only. Yes,
it's still going to be difficult. But lie and showing they're not out of it just yet. It looked
like this game was wrapped up just completely done for except the semantics of just knocking
down the turrets and taking the nexus and lie in for the first time I feel like in more than
20 minutes looks like they've got a real on a shot at this game. That was huge.
That was absolutely huge. And I think it's such an important series for Lyon because
people Lyon feel and a lot of Lyon fans feel are underrating them. Right? This was the
average power rankings amongst the broadcast have them averaged out at fourth.
A lot of people, a lot of Lyon's fans were expecting them to be up at the very top and to be,
you know, look at as a real title contender. And, you know, this is an opportunity for them to
to kind of prove everyone wrong.
Say, hey, you guys have a two-low,
we're taking down C9, C9, BTL.
That means we should be up at the top of the table,
but if you do get two-owed, people are going to be kind
of having those feelings reinforce
that they're not yet on that same level as the C9s
and TLs potentially.
So we'll be huge if they can come back in this game.
Labyrin APA, waiting, seeing if there's maybe a plate
of try to bake here, Vulcan Glacial Fisher
doesn't find a whole lot just to knock up there
to go back in there as Lyon
have already claimed the tier
one turret in the mid lane.
Gold lead now less than a
thousand.
It's a fair fight here in the
mid lane.
Less than three minutes until the
elder spawns inspired
charging up a volt breaker.
But no chance to go in with
that when Blabber knew he was
there marked him with the
ready to lock him up.
If the Vi tried to engage Lyon
still looking for any chances.
They might get the Zerker
tagging APA there with the
Gravitum means he's able to get
that extra little bit of damage
he's able to get that extra little bit of the image with the root as Lyon continue
posturing aggressively they're not afraid they don't have to be as afraid as they
were for what felt like the last 20 minutes a game play.
You do have the guardian angel up on Sven he tries to drop the calling forces the
spirit rush out of Saints Ari who's still looking to maybe try to get some value out
of those second charges.
So looking close up on breakable Saints still looking for a little bit more last
spirit rush is expanded so the Ari much less threatening now.
Yeah, it's 52 second cooldown. So not that long. But C9 are going to try to force. They know
Ari is pretty worthless without all. So they're going to say, you know what? You have to
fight us now. But there's still a lot of risk here going into that barren pit.
This could define the entire game right now as Lion tries to step up C9 not putting
a ton of DPS in the barren here just yet. Grouped up as five equalizer down at the top
not a ton of damage here. As folk is blocking a lot with the upgrade. But he has to flash away
or else he's going to die Lion looking for their chances. We've heard of block any further
to see nine. They lose most of the
HP on the support. Half the HP
on their jungler. Blaver has
no guardian angel and Lions got
full health bars. Volk and
recalling right now trying to
go back to base and heal up.
The image onto the Baron about
halfway dead already. See nine
and other ones tasked with stopping
the objective. Lion called the
bluff and see nine and out force
to scramble. Bear and down to
3000. And Lion are going to take
the Baron and take the lead.
Nicely done. Lions pushed
them out and see nine kind of
disrespecting the power of
that Lions still have the equalizer there, really making all the difference was perfectly
placed by Dokela, even with the Guardian, even with the Locket, these tools to try to negate
it somewhat.
He was a roasting cloud nine, and now, not only did it lose the Baron, they lose it right
before the Elder.
So it's just one more time, the size makes you up and missed, and it's fire just to go
for this Q flash over the wall, not able to find the Q flash, unfortunately, for him.
And that's twice this game where he is with rare mechanical errors from inspired, but that
to the one thing.
And, look at the
defender going to shut down
by the circuit.
He's really strong now.
He's on those five items
and he's up.
0.7K out of nowhere.
The Panato's gets
trauma as he tries to go
forward towards St.
Guardian Angels up and
ready to proc for both
junglers and both 80
carries.
So seven lives for each team
to get through here as
the elder is about to
spot five seconds.
Flashes.
on the seismic shot right after the
stun from Blabber.
No, T.P.
He's saying his low.
He has to go back to the base.
He can't teleport back into the fight.
They forced him out for now,
but Vulcan is also at Death's door.
Lion are going to start up the objective.
Yeah, Vulcan's going to go back and he
he week old way later and didn't have
the empowered recall, of course.
Now he's just canceling.
He's realizing, you know what?
I actually can't leave.
So Vulcan's going to have to take the fight at
20% HP.
Vulcan's got a send Glacial Fisher and die.
That's pretty much the lot that you are
dealt if you're going to fight with this much
to see nine. Still posturing around the area. Keep an eye on Lion who are starting the objective
up. Get again. Buzzerker will shred this thing if you give him the chance.
Dokelet is back at the base. Year for Lion trying to clear up.
Welcome back. This wave of minions APA trying to fire a couple of skill shots here into the
tribe rush. Elder alive. But he's quickly running out of patience. He'll return to his home
as Dokelet clears out the wave. He's going to go try to answer top. Dokelet does have his
to join the fight if they need him.
Elders still at about 13 K.
The Zerker very slow damage onto the objective.
C9 on the approach once more.
Vulkan back to full HP.
Thanos tanking the Elders.
Stank coming around all the plank.
Looking for the Pence of attack.
T.P. coming in.
Lion has all five players here.
C9 has all five players here.
Elder Drake down to 7,000.
We was walking to cut off Lion.
Inspired charge.
He got the ball breaker.
And Thanos and Blam are going to the back.
to the back.
Login looking at force with circle away.
The dragon's still at 5,000 HP.
They have to put the pressure on, but he's already down.
But the reaction coming in here is with the Guardian Angel.
The circle wants to turn them all people.
I wish you were in the front line.
He's about to be dropped into Guardian Angel.
That was well.
Lion running.
See now it's day in the live.
Somehow for now, only Thanos is truly dead.
Yeah, Thanos is down.
He loved T.P.
But he's not up for 45 seconds.
See now he needs to try to delay.
They only knock down and inspired.
And he just lost the GA.
Preserve was so low, but didn't even die.
Bivers going back to base has no also.
He's rushing out and lion are right on the elder.
Lion's starting this off.
They've burned it down to about half HP.
See nine half to force them back.
There's no jungler here for the C9 side.
But life's time for shock.
If that is the A and he's found state.
They'll don't let's get a try to find some damage.
Like back in the play has been neat.
I'll look at that.
He lands a couple.
He's trying to kite about these five.
The second kill.
The start for looking for his way to the C9 lines.
But no.
The start for it.
It's not the other guardian angel.
Plumber Joe's back forward.
Let's triple kill over his red, but Joker's alive,
but the spirit would have fine his heart,
double kill over the blabber, ace, C9!
That's gonna be the game!
There's gonna be an end in APA stepsup
when they need a most fight in the size of the shove
to win the game.
The weak one player of the weak,
the mid laner on a brand-new team,
right when it looks like C9 might have fumble game to APA.
finds the size make sure it's a faster one than game number one.
It's a cloud nine to nothing and they're gonna love the way this week too
looks.
What a finish of that one explosive game too.
It looked like Lyon was just gonna get blown out in the second game,
but they made some great plays.
It will pull themselves back in and keep it really close.
But when it mattered most your APA finds that size
make sure that all of the
line had to pull off and
that created the chaos that
allowed Sven to just crush
this fight. We look back to
the first Blood and Bottom
Lane where it's Lavor and
APA aren't on the same page.
It feels a little rough.
But the an HDA getting the
solo kill on saying the
bottom lane talking a little
trash after finding the game
winning play on to Saint
later on. He's got to be my
player of the game this time
around. Let's talk things back
to the lounge and hear what
they've got to say. Thank
you Captain Flores. What
We're going to have Sven as soon as he packs up his stuff,
he's got to run over here.
Someone's got to grab him and bring him over here for this interview,
because we want to talk about this series.
It did actually look like it was going to turn back
in the favor of lying after that.
There's nothing about so much gold,
but see that I really clutched it in that final fight.
That was ridiculous, APA's catch was a big one,
but he's been online the entire game for me.
It's like the constant place that you were able to find,
catchers that he was able to find versus saying I was looking at saying specifically
for the series to see if you'd be able to perform because I feel like they're going up
again seeing nine which my mind the best team right now in the LCS you've had to be
able to be the one to perform I thought 8k got his numbers the entire time.
Yeah and it felt like one thing I did like from both AT and Blabber is like oh they must
have to have the combo on BOSSIDE initially great lying to not have that they keep trying
getting it that kind of looked more coordinated as the game's gone, and then, like,
inside the garage, finding that A.K. finding that catch that led to that final fight.
But the two stars of that final fight, I mean, the big star was obviously today.
Yeah.
Popping off on the weekend, and then blabber, evil to come in at the very end.
But I mean, the very beginning of that fight, which you're going to replace, soon
has been gets here, so we cannot block us through it, was the Vulcan Blancue on to
and it allowed the flick to the sky.
And you're over here.
You're over here.
You're going to be running.
Your chair is too free.
We're going to immediately run this final fight.
Because that was a bang.
The final fight was just to serve.
We're just to serve.
Yeah.
There's a thing about so fed in that game,
like such a problem, and then you're also
able to have potatoes.
I don't know if I thought it was lost,
but I kind of like feel like shit.
Yeah.
You can see it.
It's just like, what are you guys thinking?
I thought the thing, God.
I was like, I'm like, I'm just kind of out of the record.
Just you're, you're just flagged on American.
I'm kind of cranking me this way, yeah.
I mean, Rouge and Brown is really good in like a...
I don't know, like...
Non-fiby-five.
Like, you know, like, a split, like, two-be-two here, three-feet there, like, kind of vibe,
like, you can just keep things on one.
But I think we have such a big leave.
And then they have a big leave in the last situation there.
Yeah, and we're like, we don't want man, and they've got a good speed,
and they had other, like, on 4KHB.
Yeah, it's hard to stand still, and maintain the flank,
not, you know, getting flip by Taliye is over.
Yeah, I mean we have stats from the series. I think the most important stat is you won both games
Yeah, I'm not sure what do you think? How do you feel about your match-up with preserve for you to trash
Talk beforehand. I think in game one I played land really bad. Okay match-up is losing your game
Congress was wrongly obviously, but I'm just like I haven't been like giving serious to you can't find it
Like just missing it. I just missed them
so
That's like not so sick great, but I think we got a double kill in the lane and then that's after all afterwards
But if I didn't doubt an effort of oldie on a, by basically on a ward, which my close will come before later, you might have sound like past.
Yeah, I thought it was a pretty good, but the second game I think played then really well.
That's a hard matchup early game.
We were even farming the whole game and I think we had a mistake somewhere in the middle of the straight.
But I always think it was a big game from us overall.
But we were kind of nervous about lime because we were kind of like,
Like, something scrubs like last week against them, they stopped doing the scrubs.
Yeah, okay.
Two four windows.
You know, but we're going to see nine is like two fours.
Like,
I'd like to thank you, you know.
I was a little bit nervous coming into it.
I think they're pretty good in line.
So, yeah.
So we've been like, little bit of a mecha on against them.
We're like, just take that up.
Yeah, you know, the cringe champs.
Speaking of stuff, your coaches will kill you for.
APA brought up the six minutes scuddle.
Is that that now a dedicated C9 thing?
Yeah, so.
So Dominic joined the team and he's only added on to the jungle propaganda.
So they thought, now, if you don't know, if you're full clear twice, and click
Crab, you know, the first crab total of six.
Yeah.
And then the third crab is all six.
If it spawns both side, and they get all six and like, sends out something, you
can't find Drake.
Yeah.
So the third crab equals, you lose all six, and you lose the drink.
So in Biles' mind, that's my little beauty whole game.
Why wouldn't we go there and kill ourselves?
the club and the break-off the word because you're going to
get in any way.
Yeah, exactly.
So yeah, it's loose.
It's loose and Travis broke and as you know,
and that thought, Donald would like, you know, real
library in a bit, like, pull back his, you know, suicidal
tendencies in the game.
But he's like only adding on to the propaganda that
chaps, okay.
So now we have like a thing like all hands on deck.
We, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we.
I'm gonna talk to you, all hands.
You can stop.
What do you want to do?
You're good.
Yeah, it's making sure that's checking.
It doesn't matter how many plates how many
Minutes you lose the crab gives a little six and drink
Okay, then
Okay, I will say it was kind of performing in the whole second game until he wasn't okay. I think there's a whole time where
We're like guys there only play is the English on sideline ganking either
Santa was I'm killable was always gonna be inside
It's like, yeah, sounds good.
What did you say?
Okay, so what's this?
I voted for this game.
I personally voted for Jan.
That's just messed up.
These two voted for, yeah, I messed up.
I don't think I played that amazing
because I said last team fight in the game too.
Yeah.
What's my defense playing like a losing lane in game one?
And then playing is knocking on the winner,
really on the school combo.
That's what I say.
Well, it's game again.
So I'm going to game one.
True, so you still get one.
Yeah, that's the game game.
I'm not bad actually.
That's the game.
Okay, it's been figured we're gonna have congratulations for all you're yet to drop a game
Yeah, it's too hard to top of the list after the break we're gonna have some interesting thoughts see you there
Red Bull gives you wings.
A human body was built and roamed.
Not drafted at NASA in one singular posture for twelve hours a day.
It's time you're chair, you vault.
This is secret lab, type U-Vo.
Uh, the momentally injured you, forgive you.
Gang, hybrid workers, honest.
Not in your every move.
For a second series of day,
Sentinels versus Dicotos,
we spent two long talking to his men,
so we had to get into this really quickly.
I was going to talk about how Sentinels
was not on the same page last week,
and I have a dragon fight that is a perfect example.
Look at this.
Hombock is at 25% health,
and he pulls the dragon well,
how is going bottom lane,
and the mortar Kaiser's leaving.
So we're going to see him.
We're a hell wanting to hit minions.
Impact one of the good top,
who he wanted to fight,
Hombock wanted to do the dragon.
That's four different things.
when you need to be playing together.
So this was the story of the CS for Sentinels,
is everyone had a completely different idea
on how to play the game,
which is something they need to work on
in order to have a chance.
And I thought that was the perfect example
of them not being on the same side.
We've got about that play.
I can't believe it.
Yeah, I mean, there were many,
I feel like there were many players.
You could have pulled from that,
because for teams that were so many veterans,
etc., I thought they'd be a lot closer.
Obviously, we also have FBI and Ignarge and as we have to put out Ignar is returning after
a split off and then also we have FBI and Buhi who I think still are up there in terms of like the
pacing on of LCS ball. Yeah, what the hell? We need to ask FBI who he's actually choosing.
Obviously, he's gonna say Ignar. Yeah, but I mean he has to now. Fun fact for you FBI,
guy who he have the most LCS games played of any duo.
Second place that was acquired in this last series is that it's been
Balkan.
But the championship, most recently, came with F.
Yeah.
Who we're now doing.
And the question for you, Ras, as we get into predictions,
I'm going to predict sendals because I feel like they're
going to be able to pull it together after this week.
And this dinner toss team was power ranked very poorly.
Yes.
FBI in our lane is going to work.
Everybody looked at it for me positively looking towards that
ball lane and expecting FBI after the world's run to be
incredible.
Yeah, let me look at Ignoran who's like, well, if this was going to be
energy kind of reforming in a weird way, Ignoran somebody
that from the players standpoint, with somebody that was like,
this secret sauce for the team.
Somebody that can place words aggressively, confines,
snap, judgments, and picks what is the main thing.
Yeah, what is it saying on the left?
It's Ignoran salt.
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
There's something on the back of that, right?
Oh, it's the expiration date.
So expiration date is from last year in November.
Don't wonder it looks pottery.
Because he's been out for a year.
I mean, so I'm going to try some of that.
I feel like it's still good.
Oh.
The after taste hits, but it's not bad.
It's actually not bad.
I'm going to give it to Dignitas.
I have to stick it on.
OK.
It's the substance is the texture and maybe not great,
but I think it's still weird.
I saw your face when you drank that.
That's expired, Ress.
You have to give it more time.
OK.
You have to let it marinate.
Like fine wine.
We're going to have to toss the casters after this game
at Nagesp, Emily and I, because we have to tie it.
But casters take it away.
You know, it's always dangerous when an analyst describes
beverages having texture to it.
I don't know about that when I'm a trucker.
never trust the words that Razz says.
You have to look at the facial expressions.
True.
Because he was said it's not that, but his face said he's going to spin it out.
Like he could barely handle it.
Spired sauce right there.
We'll see if he's able to turn it back on though.
We'll be stopping the thing that we're able to do in the past.
He has one in the LCS with the core of that energy team.
Now back together, I digmit to us, but it's been a while, since you've seen him.
I will say a lot of expiration dates.
people like freak out about. And you don't really need to freak out. A lot of things
are not dangerous when they're expired. They may like lose a little bit of their potency,
or it will stale. It's so fine. But it's not like everything is going to make you sick or
something. If it's one day past the expiration date that they put on the label. So,
the fact of worry is how long are you giving it past the expiration that you would say to
I never going to do anything bad and that to you.
Yeah, probably going to be the perfect food.
I'm sure they're at the top of the pyramid.
They're perfect.
I have to be right.
They just read the pyramid.
Yeah, I'm sure.
I think it's just Oreo.
They just say it's Oreo.
Do you even change the shape?
It's going to be a train.
I don't know.
Yeah.
There you go.
That's all the food.
Well, I guess there's milk.
I'm signed up.
Let's get it up.
I'm game one here for Dignitas versus Sentinels in draft.
have to already oryana first picked here from San Jose find themselves on red side but with first pick and
uh... dig mitos now on blue side let's see what they decide to answer it with your
code we i don't think there's any oryana champs i try to think of like a way to tie that back
in
um...
there's no i don't currently no oryana
we have to look at the development team the partner but oryans
sponsored yeah well what are gonna get is the most common trade in all of legal
which is Oriana 4 is here.
They were hovering the doctor in there,
they didn't ask me, I don't know if they were actually
considering taking away the doctor
and to deny the Oriana doctor and combination
for the knock wave, but they, at the very least,
everybody's thinking about it, and especially after the first
series of the day where we saw very effective use
of the Oriana doctor, they're definitely, you know,
expecting this one coming through.
So they offered a better synergy themselves.
You're currently in a zero, much better themselves and so both teams do get their mid-Jungle
combinations.
And they denied the shop-com as you called it last week as well, so, you know, in a way it's
taken to the web.
Now we have the hopper, which it sounds more bad.
That's out of way cooler.
So I think for that reason alone, and so the knock wave will be locked in for setinals,
as it is, again, like you have highlighted the mid- and jungle combination.
So if you want to go for an 80-carry support, and I just maybe hold that top-lane counterpick
for impact. I mean, yeah, there is a lot available. You, if you want to get impact, the, you
know, early tank matchup or something and then just rely on, well, we're going to have
for a hell be the hypercarry, you know, like you know, is still up and, you know, those
types of things are available. So just get your blind pick here for impact, Renekton, the
universal blind pick. So not, not definitely a surprise, but it's also not like a pure
tank for him in the top side so we'll see I mean the enemy team is already showing
a z-ers so they already have a lot of tank killing possibilities so I like the
Renekton we did see okay it's gonna be the Gwen we saw last week
for example the cannon into the Renekton as the counter pick but he loves the
Gwen and it was banned against him all of last weekend so now we get to see
photon on the champion that coming into last year when he joined the team was
like the marquee pick for him going into the team yeah he said it himself he's
Like this is my best champ. This is my favorite champ and everyone's like,
okay, and he picked it like as many games as he possibly could.
And the Gwen vs. Renekton is always very exciting to see how far down,
you know, the arms race like tunnel that they go, everyone taking, you know, exhaust
and ignite and starting, you know, all the crazy starting items and stuff. So, we'll see,
What's the house spicy they do get with it fortunately for top lane as well both junglers are level six junglers
You know they're looking for full clears usually
So top leaders get to have their actual one-view one time with say all love and I love that it's two champions that can get a lot of kills
If we're looking at the fantasy score and points from last weekend average for top was like 20 points
I remember hearing Jack talk about that so
Hopefully they somebody locked in an impact or a photon for the top lane fix
I'm going to expect more action on the top side of this post, just the farm fest that we usually get.
But also the victory on Dintos is the bottom half of the map with FBI and Ignar now being out of the visa jail and being here on stage with us today.
We finally go to see what they're going to pull out for their first weekend at LCS and it's Yonara.
Yeah, that's the Yonara is talking about being available.
Works so well here so much carry damage on the side of Dintos there.
their lake and team fight is looking pretty beastly. We'll see about getting there much more of a dive theme on
Sentinels, especially if they followed up with a kaisa, you know, Orianna, nocturn, kaisa combinations, lots of
pick potential here, lots of opportunities to try and put pressure on sidelines with both of the kaisa
and a nocturn ult slater on into the game when tower start to go down as well. So it just
that's part further emphasis on who can win that
top lane battle and get some side lane pushing
power towards the mid game.
You know, if you're a top laner gets their quest
first, you can start snowballing your experience
pretty quickly.
If you get the advantage in a run active versus
Gwen, and then you can start getting side lane
pressure and you can start getting advantages and towers
going down to get more territory and the map for
for the mid game, then you can really snowball a lot
with those picks.
So it'll be on vote down on this pocket pick
and just stop that from happening.
I've been very impressed.
Is it on a pocket pick?
If the champ is also meta?
This pocket pick is just a pocket pick.
Is that just mean your specialty?
Yes.
Usually it's like, oh, something that you have in your pocket
that other people don't have in their pocket.
Okay.
Is that like the exclusivity clause to this?
That's what it's supposed to be like.
Okay.
I remember way back when LCS was doing
the pocket pick series of videos.
And they did like frog in anivia,
which is like great, that's a pocket pick because not many people play in England.
And so that was a pocket pick, but then they did like double if Lucian.
And Lucian was really popular.
And so I was like, wow, I mean, yeah, he plays Lucian, but like everywhere plays Lucian,
and he plays a lot of other stuff too.
Is that really?
So your man is a special place in.
You're just echoing the sentiment that the people have.
I'm just saying pockets are pretty exclusive.
I mean, yeah, I don't get a put my hand in your pocket.
We're not called to any of that.
They're waiting for my pockets as you in further away from me on the dust currently, but we have the draft block
Damn it's
Last big year for dignity. The composition was lacking a little bit in primary hard and gauge
Wook on yes as year sometimes can't find angles, but I usually see Wook on more as that fall-up and gauge
Alicer is that kind of big engaged tool that the cangers throw in there start the fights and also
Compiled a little bit depending on how aggressive settinals decide to engage in the day
All right, looks like we have a little bit of a pause here as we get on into it.
I hope we don't have to fully remake anything, but we could be upditted.
Okay, I'm always prepared for the pauses.
We even have it the long one.
I got fun facts about the players just as always.
So I actually got to sit in on some of the Dignitas scrims this past week.
It was awesome to open the doors.
The first day of FBI and Ignar were in Los Angeles and actually playing with the team.
So great to catch up with the team.
See how things would go in.
So far, vibes are good despite starting off on a rough note.
They didn't have the roster together,
so they're chalking it up to a little bit of unlucky.
And now their season really begins.
And Sentinel's on the other side, similar story,
that they didn't have a lot of time to scrim with the team.
And now they actually have more than a full week of practice
under their belt.
So I think we're going to get a much better look
at what both these teams are.
But maybe Lee needs sent those ways still,
just because how much time they've had together
at the end of the night.
I mean, they got in a couple of days ago.
They're still probably experiencing jet lag right now.
Yeah, I had a power fox went on the pro's podcast and he had seen very confident even after their loss in opening weekend.
And so, very excited to see what they can do because he was talking about, yeah, there's just a couple of small things, you know, to clean up, but it would look completely different.
So with with that kind of reunion of the energy boys with FBI, Nick and our ant power fox, you know, even maybe they don't have a lot of recent time together.
But maybe it just clicks right together.
Oh, quickly once again, and they pick up where they left off.
GM Jonathan did have a note on that quick before that story, though.
We had an update that its impacts monitor having some
flicker issues so they were replacing the cable.
Hopefully that's what it's about.
Wow.
They'd be able to see.
I know.
I'll imagine imagine I should be able to play the game correctly.
But the GM Jonathan, over at Dickens House, did have similar
sentiment.
He said that he's already seen echoes of that past
energy from the energy roster, even with them only being in the
the house for, you know, like a day and a half, um, and just being there again, it was
vibe central man. They were laughing. They were joking around. I heard multiple times during
scrims. Somebody shout out at the top of their long splash predicts followed by a course of
laughter afterwards. So like, things are working all right in terms of the vibe department for
the toss. The question is going to be can they translate that to wins on stage next?
I mean, that in itself is just such a positive thing to here because of the baggage that the
dignitarious organization carries for a lot of fans up and you know watching for
well a very long time you think all the way back to the super good vibes of you know
cutie pie and she's got a scar on all them but that's why long period yeah exactly
there's a lot of that like your your generation here the the newer immigrants
you see them in eighth to ten that's exactly it's a lot of negative values that they're
gained and honestly a lot of negative vibes too with what the players were saying last year
especially in all of the interviews and stuff.
It was definitely a roughie.
So yeah, they just cleaned house from, you know,
topped the bottom and we'll see.
So if the vibes are good,
then that is definitely a good place to start.
We were kind of highlighting there.
They're new fancy jerseys now as well.
They went cursive on the, so they're getting so right.
Class of the day, they're classin' it up a little.
Do you remember honestly?
I'm gonna say yes with a confident,
Yes, even though I haven't tried, you know, so I'm trying to think of the tough ones. Like F it's like
There's an S in my name, and it's a cat the capital S. I'm it was kind of hard to do
It was me weird. It's fun to want to do them. Fun to do it. It's qualifies is really standing
I'll be taking power stance. I like that getting ready for I learned some fun information about some of the players
You know, we'll talk about sendals a little bit here as well, but I have all this fresh dignity to us on scale 1 to 10
And how fun is this information you're about to deliver?
Are you a fan of Diet Coke?
No.
No. Well, then you might not be as into it.
Oh, dang it.
I've never targeted audience.
I heard a couple of bits.
I hopefully this isn't competitive integrity issues.
I'm about to unleash here.
I've never heard that.
But I heard that Palafox is a mid-laner.
His performance in the Rift directly correlates to how many Diet Coke's he had beforehand.
And there isn't upper limit.
Like, if you have too many, it is a detriment.
But there's like a sweet spot on how much caffeine he needs and his preferred is of course pop
How many Westwoods the number what's the sweet?
I mean it was four that that's where I was to leash
Throughout the day like he's maintaining. It's not like he's drugged for taking the stage
But I did
I'm back through breaks up pauses all the tires for that four you know that's a good point actually
He's a velvet. I got it. I didn't catch up with him before the game to ask how many he had ahead of today
Okay, so I can't tell you what level he's gonna be
currently. Well, we got time now, so. Oh, true. Okay. Let's send somebody. Yeah, good.
We can get a lower third up there. Enough at some point in the game. You know,
oh, well, we're asking for stuff. Let's get a custom made graphic a pop up for
Palafox current diet coax. Consumes on the car and he's blind off. He's up to four. All right,
chat. We're going to need guesses as well. Chat spam and chat. The number of diet coax
that you think Palafox had today. He's standing there. We're going to see any there. No,
see a red bull. Oh, no red bull's own count. I don't think they count. No, those don't count. That was not at least it wasn't
factored into the easy trigger four-diet cokes and a red bull and a water and a coffee. I would hope not,
but you know, we we did also go to the gym afterwards. So he's working it off. We're good. We're good. You know,
you need that pre-workout could be. Do you take pre-workout? No, you don't. I don't need it, bro.
That's too much caffeine right there.
Meanwhile on the Sentinel side here, you know what I'm talking about, dig a lot.
So let's talk about some Sentinel side.
New team to the organization.
How is that right, exciting?
What is that stare?
The open mouth stairs are the funniest of me.
Bombog just confused.
Well, whatever's going on with the fact screen is, looks confusing.
Yeah, clip that tweet down without. That's for our social state to be like, yeah, when you're when you're pause going into game number one
And now we're taking laps as well. So I'm gonna get that man at night. I think that's like I get in the zone meditation style
Okay, go ahead with your fun fun info. What you got? What was it for the story? Actually, there's another update that they're changing some settings in the client. Now that we're not correct for impact
So that is what's causing the follow-up delay, but it appears that the first issue is
It's on five man. Yeah, now that point out you can't get you can't stop looking
I can't get you
True, he's there. It's a I want to be looking I want to see we get a visual of impact screen
It's some crazy stuff. What's become our message a lot of stuff in production right now
They're they still we got us the day. Okay, I grab because they're all look at that. It's better to
Ask for forgiveness
and permission.
Oh, I'm hearing Toby that a chat has actually coming on the conversation for the
Diet Cokes.
They think it's either six or seven.
Ahhh, yes, yeah.
Okay.
We're really gonna turn it out.
It was eight.
Oh no, that's an Elper level.
Upper echelon of what's acceptable here.
Too many.
That's starting to chat in there too.
Is that allowed?
I guess it is allowed.
Another three hour pause.
Next time I'm following for a three hour pause.
Oh, Jesus.
It's a talk. We say we're back in Toronto.
FBI says I still have jet lag.
Why did he touch down?
He touched down. I believe it was Wednesday.
Maybe Tuesday, Ignore and FBI, it became an idea apart from each other.
I remember which was which.
But basically what I was there Thursday,
that was their first full day together as a team where they could start screaming.
And it was funny. Let me tell you.
Shout out FBI by the way.
He did go to the gym afterwards also.
While jet lag, because he's saying he's trying to fix it.
That's a double stay awake longer.
It helps with your jetlight.
Exactly, yeah, but it was a struggle.
And the team was talking about it.
They're like, look, we're just going to try our best.
I even asked some of them, I like to do this with players.
And I did this with DSG last year.
I'm like, hey, when people hear your name,
what do you want them to associate with it?
What do you want your brand to be as a player?
And a lot of them did just say, Fives, XU, Palfox, and Bives.
That guy said, oh, what vibes to be my brand?
Fives to be the brand.
Yeah, I'm not leaning into it.
Why not?
But every I said old and he's only 20 steps.
I don't want to be fighting.
I don't want to be what's in brand to be.
Hey, buddy.
You close to the oldest player in the league.
All right, we're just going to call a monk from now on.
A monk of the eye.
The self-title.
It's like the meme where Obama's putting the, you know, the metal.
But just put old on the metal.
There it is.
I'm going to talk about send also because this is the newest organization
in the LCS and up first off, welcome.
They got one game win under their belt last weekend,
but they were not able to close out a series.
And I would have had them favorite against DSG.
I still have them favorite here today.
And it feels like this roster is just waiting
to hit their stride and show us what they're capable of.
We saw glimpses of brilliance in the early game
from Hombock, but then a couple rough plays
come mid game, late game.
We saw dark wings have to pop off on this year.
Then the champion pool started
become a bit of an issue later on in the series, but I still have a lot of faith in this team.
I think that they could be one of those middle of the fact fighting for an upper playoff
birth.
That's a champion pool to come on and finish.
You want to best of three?
That is not good.
That is best of three.
That is the case.
That is not good.
Honestly, I like to, I like to, you know, talk with me and put on the onions, I've
lost the last year.
Yeah.
I think for a new prospect, not too bad.
Oh, we're getting back in the game. We are getting back in the game.
We are here in the hang box mouth has closed and he's not looking at his own monitor and that means that we are ready to hop into game number one here.
Dig Natas taking on set and all's both of them looking for their first win of the split.
I wanted them. We'll be walking away and so that one and one bracket here into Swiss stage. The loser is back.
We'll be against the wall because another loss means that they're out of playoff contention.
So this is a very important matchup here today.
I'm still thinking about how many Diet Coke's pilafoxes had.
Yeah, we never got confirmation.
We have a lot of time there to ask him.
We needed an investigative reporter here.
You know what, I'm going to even guess.
I don't think production told anybody.
I think they did your signature words.
Yeah, they did.
I heard one of the producers here, they were.
I don't think they did that.
I think they might have had other things on their mind.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they were just sleeping.
leaping.
All right.
So early game here, Ward dropped down from sendals to try and track XU's jungle pathing.
It will be cleared out with the sweeper that Ignar will start with, and that means sendals
will have this forward position in the bot lane brush.
Okay, honestly, do you kind of want to see how that early lane goes down there?
Yeah, let's stay down there because they're trying to harass the Alistar early on while
there's level one at the weakest point, but it's also weird because you know, if she has
access to the waves stacking up cue. Then she's quite strong. So stack up the cue here
and FBI can take care of business for Helen who he have both brush-warded and are going
to be able to get the early jump on this wave. I'm sure I'm utilizing this to get their
level two advantage, and that's a little bit of damage here on Ignorans. Well, that's the
class of Galaster though. Okay, it's impossible to get that level two first, but actually right now
I think that they will be able to match that.
So I mean, Helen, who he will miss that little window where they're stronger.
And I think it looks pretty good for them now, for Helen, who he handling it nicely.
Both junglers, by the way, are patting away from bottom.
So that's why we're watching this so closely.
Is going to be quite meaningful down here, both junglers patting towards this
Renekton Glen matchup that we are hyping up, bowtorn on his signature champion.
That's what I'm going to go with instead of pausing.
Signature champion.
That's a good one.
That's a good one. He doesn't get the shove in. Another reason we're looking at the bot lane so much is because first off it engaged right now from eggnob
As for how it takes a huge chunk has to walk away
FBI and ignore we're not full commits in that one. They'll just win the trade, but it's the reunion of dignitas
Uh, our bringing back FBI and ignore alongside power foxes was the core of that energy roster. We've talked about this a lot before
But a reminder that they've played under Jonathan GM previously for, you know golden guardians, but then on the CLG energy run here
And now only a couple of pieces have kind of moved from that winning formula.
Yes, they have moved and they just arrived.
So honestly, this is like a brand new team here, but give it to us.
You see that zero one at the top of the screen as different guys.
Inauthentic. Inauthentic, you know, reflect it.
They did definitely like it was super duper a loss though.
Yeah.
It's super duper.
Yeah, that's super.
That's super. We throw the duper in there as well as actually right now find themselves in some super duper trouble.
At least the lane phase was.
And you could tell, lane phase already this time around,
looking quite, quite easy.
We're just throwing all the answers to the die cooks.
That's why I'm hearing this once.
Why, what, you started it.
Why are you disappointed?
I think it's got a cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's now people are going to speculate.
If he makes a bad play, they're going to be like,
ah, that's a fun die cook play.
From.
And he pops off to like, whole, that's like 20 die cooks right there.
Come a rating ski.
He's cracked.
Yeah.
All right, well, right now, X-U only has to
spot on to play with him as Hombock and Darkwing
is a roaming down fighting for the Skunnel crab.
Can be feared up by Hombock right now.
We're hell still.
No, no, no, no, no.
There's a flash away.
X-U flashed the wall as well.
Dignitas pushed away from the Skull of Crab.
Yeah, mid lane roam means everything.
Rumb down there for Darkwing's now.
Darkwing's actually did not get any take downs, obviously.
No kills here, anything.
So he ends up losing out.
When you leave your lane, it does greatly reduce your
are passive stacking for your quest and not only that, but also as year gets the free
shove in the whole wave and gets go for a nice recall there for Palafox.
So Dark Queen's will keep track of the quest and see if that ends up being meaningful
if you know, Palafox hits a little early and then there's some kind of power spike
with the boots and is able to actually utilize that because usually in as year versus
or you're going to look for a lot of these all in.
It's going to look the burn or we're on a flashes.
And if you have a Zer plus plus blue car here,
then maybe they'll be able to look for some kills.
And even with an Alstar roaming around,
Ignar, he was always one of the supports
that were most of any.
So if he gets over to Midland,
oftentimes you're really looking to burn through
or you're on a flashes over and over,
so that Zer can put that threat up the shuffle.
Perhaps the dark wings are not missing out
not missing out on too much C. S. though he was able to catch a lot of that way both
middle interst. T. B. back so still even there. Top lane also despite foe
time getting the push on back early is kind of equalized. So we really use
these sendals in a pretty solid position currently with bottom lane being
the one area that has a bit of a lead over their opponents. It's both on a
little six goes for the all in on the impact. But one actually full from it on to
that one just goes up the neo work. We'll trade for the dominance.
Hmm. Photon. Feel pretty good here on his champ.
Oh, you have a knife. Stop the mag. Pretty good. Keep him back in the lane.
He doesn't have jungle coming or anything, but it is going to make impact second guess that.
And is under a bit of pressure here. Keep in the wave towards the middle of the lane.
And maybe this can get him the head of sendals.
We see Homboc heading towards this bottom side level five on the notcherns.
We're not ready for the paranoia yet.
It's actually is also down here FBI and Ignar gonna press about the real response flash as who he also has to burn the summoner spell
So it's both flashes down and something was bot lane is actually not spotted by humbuck in the river
3v3 and if you guys will just start hitting the wave and push this out and you know are with Q charged up
It just feels so fun to it. You didn't you feel so powerful with it. They got a lot of pressure here
Two flashes for one as you say
today.
If they're going to be getting sort of repeat once that Luke
Kong is level six because both jungler's closing in on this
critical break point.
Nocturn of course is going to hit a little bit earlier because
XU was walking over there and the lane is there but the
Kaiser recalled so maybe there won't be such a big deal about
that timing window.
I'm like just hit it right there off of the buff and he's
heading back towards the stragg and he had started it when
the scrap happened outside then he peeled off of it.
Now with level six and mid lane even back in him up it seems like sent knows will be able to secure the first Drake of the game XU hit six, but won't be nearby
He's actually not even walking towards a dragon to spot it out and said just gonna go for his raptor
So how about ahead in the clear and faster to the objective on the nocturn not too shatty
All right, we'll see which level six jungler gets the bigger impact the bigger gang bottom line
course the both 80 carries are flashless. They saw their barriers to try and work with if they
do get against but having no flash definitely very vulnerable down there right now though raptors
first on the menu.
Exit's gonna walk up and spot Hombox secure in his own as we also had ignore hovering around
there so multiple members of Dignitas were hovering that mid lane they were not able to find a
the window that capitalized and how much is back to safely clearing his own camps.
Okay, that was on top side here.
Focusing night almost back up, by the way, and they can repeat kind of look here.
He's got his ultimate ready.
Voidgribbs are spawning, so the winner of that fight will get some pretty decent rewards.
Just because there's no dragon corresponding to the Voidgribbs, I think if you ever have
the choice between the two. You go for dragons, but if there's no choice, if they're
the only thing up on the map, then you get the extra bonus there and impacts constantly
under pressure.
I'm back right now, hovering the mid lane is, excuse clear, not that last camp before heading
towards that top. However, Halbox will walk into the brush to get a ward down, has to flash
from Homboc, who is lying in, waits, so sendals get a free summoner spell, and a chunk
on digs mid lane.
The only king, at least one of the grubs right now though, so during that time, XU, I believe
is burning one down.
He has a smite ready, so he should just smite at least one of them.
Yeah.
So he gets the one gets out, but with Dark Wings and the Hombax threatening the kill on two
Paliphax that will still be two in favor of them, plus that earlier Drake.
So it's the early game, feeling comfortable for centenels right now.
It's basically dead even in gold.
It's just those objectives that are in one side's favor.
Okay, and folks on an impact traded oats on top side again,
Primitively for that grub fight, but yeah, walking in just the chunk of damage from nocturn,
plus blowing the flash off of the zeer as enough for sentinels.
They've got the dragon, they've got the two grubs versus one grubs sentinels,
feeling pretty decent about the opener here.
Check in the boxes and looking to good doing it.
I'll say something's that I have kind of noted from week number one.
Again, you would even said it's tough to have shameful issues in best of three's fearless dark wings looking pretty good on the Orionic you're just in leaning phase
He already started roaming with Hombog before level six now that they both have their olds now is when I'm gonna start actually putting them
Magnifying glass on them to say how did they start utilizing now?
We haven't seen the big play yet, but I feel like we're just kind of waiting for them to find that window to find that Avenue in
There are things to go for another reset teleport back into lane
the knock wave is a very very powerful tool as they've already started the early dragon stack in two minutes for that next one.
Especially versus you in the flash.
Yeah, they don't even have the way for the dragon.
You can put that pressure on him through to pretty heavily.
Looks like we have the jungle invade though.
So I like this early warning before the dragon even gets there.
You see on the bottom side of the map,
XU as well as Ignar working together.
Depends of words are going to see him though.
and so who he and Rael are able to get back in time here for the minion wave. Still the turret plate money to FBI and the second turret plate is so close to going down one more hit.
Really smart move there from photon. It was a subtle moment, but because actually was spotted by that ward, I was worried thinking,
okay, nocturnal, stop side. It's photon giving me a danger. He walked all the way back. He said my junglers in the bottom half of the map.
map. I'm not going to read for this forward wave. And he actually avoids a potential
game fit from home. But I can vote on in general. That's just really impressed me as a
top laner man. Like last week on the Cassante on the Kenan, both of those looked like he
was kind of the rock on the team. And even last summer when he came in, it was like a
breath of fresh air for a dignity toss having to stop laner go. Now he's got his jungler
behind him. In fact, slicing dice, thers up the dominance, has flash available. And
And actually we'll go with a cyclone, impact, and trouble big heel vote with the Q.
First, blood, the photon, traded back one for one.
So it's first blood, actually our is going to give you the bonus gold again and
assist money on that kill.
So a lot of extra gold to the side of it, even though it's one for one, you get the extra
bonus for assist as well as the first blood.
Meanwhile though, the extra pressure on the other side of the map, another turret player,
this one goes over the dark wings, they still have control, so pretty, I mean, okay, answer
here from centrals on the other side, still definitely worth four ding-tossed, that is
Trinity Force on the Wukong as well as a photon here, finishing his first item and take
a look, I mean, not much to rego over, they hit the slow off the ultimate, that's enough
for actually to go in goes
old. He is taking tower though.
And then it's good. He gets his
heel off his shoe and he gets his
stun in tower range. And so he
does get his trade kill. Yeah,
and as Dragon started here by
sendals. I also want to highlight
that that was a one for one for
impact and they won B2. This is what he
was known for back in the day. And last
year, not the best showing from
impact. We kind of mean about it. You know,
worst year ever for him as a player.
before. So we actually made this graph of like, where is he right now currently based on last week and already here?
I wanted to lean like six, maybe seven. I landed on six out of the final score in terms of like of course you ever
have to get like two six sevens per per day. Okay. The first one was not mine. That's
fast. That's chats. That's me. Okay. Going to for them. As the dive comes in from Ignar right now here on
under the turn as Ignore will take up all the shots FVI with the kill
credit.
Okay.
Well, Bob's other map is just going to get destroyed.
Now, they're going to push very heavily on this one extra money off this turret
plate.
This the thing that ties here with the intended roster, Kangus.
Yep.
Making some gold leads for themselves.
Even though they're losing out significantly on the objectives, they are getting
some gold in the areas that they want. And Namely, you know right here. FBI on you
know our crack and slayer is done. Has a decent little lead at for himself. And that
champ definitely has the capabilities here to carry as long as you don't get hit by the
Orianna, not turn combination. And on top of that he had gone for the cold, a match
for hell. So even though they were kind of accepting the average and he's far me getting our
gold that way, he's able to pick up that kill as well. And now starts to accelerate himself.
Now that he's hit the power spike, MasterCard is rewarding card holders with their
chance at $50 in RP, had to priceless.com slash power spike or click the pineling
a chat for your chance to win.
Shout out FBI.
Forgive everybody that little reward there.
Yeah, thanks buddy.
Yeah.
By the way, for those who didn't watch the pregame, FBI wants his brand to be the old player.
Yeah, he wants to be old.
It's just the one word response, old.
Okay.
He did laugh afterwards.
It's red, you know, so yeah, well, you say then you're stuck with it.
Huh?
I wrote it in my notebooks, now it's recorded as well.
So I want everybody's dis spamming old emoats.
So as soon as he makes a misplay, here we go.
I don't have everyone looking down at this dive here.
Photon and a 1B3 and he don't work.
He fancies himself an outplay.
Almost deletes who he right there, but will survive.
Meanwhile, impact facing his own dive in the top lane.
extra in Palafox this time around he does survive as well so two dime
of times but they need to go for round two actually he has the damage
actually taken down he does
getting a toss execute the die yeah repeat play here with the all star
ultimate is going to be enough to tank the turret
easy peaking's there for dinner toss tower though
first hour bonus gankess goes over the sentinels back in the game
uh... first hour bonus pretty nice herald on top of it for dinner toss
including getting the kill, though.
Yeah, I will say that that top turret will also most likely fall here soon.
It seems like Halifax is sticking around for a while.
Right.
It's a pretty tough man.
They actually already talked about the next patch.
They're going to walk back a little bit of the durability of taking consecutive plates.
As of right now, the last couple of plates do get pretty hard to take since they do get
is stacking buff and rifter
although for them they should be able to use it towards mid lane knock that sucker down bot lane
photon working on that one pretty nicely so doing the toss also progressing the turret taking
alfax is actually not going to the wave spotted up at dark wings though yet agnarch coming around so
pelfax might have actually found an afternoon yeah low danger is for him up there though he was
messing around on nocturn side of the map and this is where we're looking at for champ select the
The nocturnal hovering on the side lanes is going to be a very big issue. In fact,
it's going to have to give this tower up since his jump where he is on top of.
I'm making it on. Do I right now? The shuffle back. The arc wings were
taking up turret. They looked for the nocturnal wave combo, but not going to find the
kill. Homebox flashes away. Send nobles. I can't maybe they just didn't see
it. Ignore there. I mean, that's a tough dive onto an alster.
That is horrible for them. Not only did they use their first nocturnal wave
combination, but they have to both end up flashing out there. Yeah, the power fox is good is a
2A pay now chatting away. Oh, yeah, he's like that man. It's okay, you know, you're not able to spell
shield as your old snake inspired. It's all good. That was a four day co-chuffle right there. That's not
all. I mean, nocturnal Orianna both have been to flash out after after going for that play is so huge because
as Oriana's weakness is in the part of the game right now.
Where towers are going down on the sidelines.
So she can't really sideline.
A zero has a lot of authority to go to sidelines.
Has so much mobility.
Also has flash advantage.
Also gonna get the rifts here.
Where's he going with that sucker though?
That's not your side of the map.
Okay.
I was worried for a moment.
FBI.
Maybe it just put the timer right now and it just popped out.
He doesn't miss.
Yeah, you know what, we'll ask him later.
Either way, the hero will not charge down
to the mid turret, dragging his up,
and Sentinel's getting even more as FBI will fall.
The Dragon plus a clean-up team point.
Oh, that's just crushing.
Yeah.
The Toss King is, oh, my, they're gonna want that one back for sure.
That is a roughies, Sentinel is now commanding this game.
Third Dragon already, we're only 18 minutes in
and getting all these kills afterwards.
Let's take another look, because they even have to flash this too.
And so who he on the recall on here, creating the space for them to get the dragon first, and then you're like, okay, well, dragons gone, all right,
photons using his own, whatever we're backing off. But no, actually goes in for it. They get the little bit of peel there, and it's just like he gets melted.
They have nothing to back it up. I'm about to go through the ring gauge, and Palpac gets stunned up by impact, which allows
to this old in on him.
They take up the easier.
Oh, when we're back to live,
it was even more carnage kill,
be it's for hell.
Find another kill, two one and two.
Didn't see how he never got to the position,
but sendals are off to the races now.
Honestly, the race is half over two.
There's one dragon coming up in three and a half minutes.
And I think it's got so much.
The last, but it's like two minutes of play here,
for centenoles. They just absolutely cleaned up because they've got this whole wide map now
to make picks repeat picks with nocturn oreana and they were down a couple of flashes but
in the last play they burned both the key ones. Powerboxes and FBIs. No unarflash, no azir flash
for dinotos to work with either. So centenoles they have full authority to descend to nocturn
and Orianna combination on these Dictos carries.
And now another doctor.
The next way.
You're not going to lay his onto the trees.
That no spark.
Double kill the Rahel who he will take with as well.
And Baron is on the rim.
I mean, I hate to say it, but like you've got to go.
You deserve their walking around midlay when they'll flash buddies.
And it's perfect timing.
I mean, I was 20 minutes on the clock.
is now even impact is winning the one-be-one on a photon flash over the wall
impact continues the chase. Need a word for the slow but incomes you
he underneath the turret on a lock and down. But photon will survive.
Doesn't matter. Send those stages wanted the big purple worm and they got it.
Sent a no! Okay, they're cooking air again number one. Now let's not go too early
here. They still got a finish it. The most important part of the race is to
to the race.
It is the end.
And he heard the story of the rabbit in the hair, Kobe.
Ooh.
Or should the rabbit kept him distracted?
Or so I actually don't.
You know, I bring it up because I don't know.
Do you know how it ends?
I think the rabbit's like running all over the place.
And like, remember slow and steady wins the race.
But that's not really true.
It's like really usually like the fastest
person in the race.
Yeah.
But here we go.
Dr. Oriana, as we said, they both have that bolts.
And no flashes.
So carries, continues.
carries, gets sent off.
Oh, so good.
Okay, now they're telling us how the counter-buncher thing to toss is to look at Dark Wings flashes away the shockwave to keep him alive
Oh, Dark Wings doesn't go down. They're scared of the dark. Yeah, they turned off the knock turn off the lights. Oh, they've tossed us scared. It's
I mean, I actually love defensive
Nocturnal ultimates.
You know, it's a little bit of bluffing.
It's also like, okay, so Dark Wings,
you know, he was able, he flashed away
and then he shocked with pretty nicely
to pull the WooCarn a little bit off him.
And that's all you need to get that distance.
Then with Nocturn vision cut off,
they can't see you anymore.
Yes, now they're thinking, well,
maybe we overextended.
We just a bit of a wee sentuma.
Maybe we sent too much.
Is there a connection behind them?
are renectin behind them as they were a con behind them
while these different variables
when you don't have that information sentinels though.
Keeping them mid laner alive Darkwing
sentinel regrouped with a team
they're seeing mid with their Red Bull Baron power plate
and we'll take down a tier two turret there
and immediately rotate down towards the bottom side
they're sticking the crew together.
Whew, all right, I will say no Flash and Darkwing's now
means at the next time
if Dignitas find a play like that.
Boom, they probably get that kill.
you got to keep going with it even if the lights go out. Yeah, I know it's scary like dark.
This is really scary.
Night lamp. Night light. Night light. There we go.
We've got to get a buddy. We've got to get a buddy system.
Got to get a buddy to go explore the darkness. This is Dragon Soul Kingdoms, by the way.
This is Dragon Soul uncontested. Dignitas cannot find an avenue in.
At least do not have confidence to walk up and push their way in.
Sentinels, they pick it up, four dragons in a row at 23 minutes into the game, and they
still have Baron for a little longer.
So, Tignitas, I mean there, at this point, kind of looking for a miracle, as the goal
he does well in Sentinels favor, plus all the stats he get from the dragons.
Hmm.
Well, what are we going to cook up here, Tignitas?
Maybe a counter-engage, who he did go in with the quickness?
Let's see. I mean, is there is two items with flash and zonia? So, maybe how fox sees a sees a line. I mean, right there. He goes for it. Right is the call of Kobe shut down on the dark wings. No flash out on the run. Let's go out again.
and not get the kill on the X-U FBI's unleashed flashes
over the hell of holes his ground.
Halifox couldn't quite get in range.
No, in fact, on a big flank.
Oh my God.
I got to have to make a pack of work on the right side
because their pants coming in and flashed
for the kill on the FBI.
Halifox feared up by Halifox.
In fact, now I've done this.
Halifox knocked down.
He didn't practice with the double kill.
Dignitas trying to get their top leg
and his support out of there.
with the dragon soul are just too strong in these fights. It was a nice look from dig. They found the pick of the Dark Wings and maybe they actually have more of the take.
Low health bars were held in the top. It comes at you. The Wukong on the flank now.
Fight on Box fell. She'll can't get the kill.
And impact now trying to play bodyguard teleport in from Dark Wings.
She was the first to fall. Stand up on the boat.
boat on, oh, I'll get that's night for the shutdown.
Go time now has to flash to safety and dark wings can follow it up.
Not quite going to land the command attack.
All right.
King is bump your impact meter up a couple of miles.
Yes.
Yeah.
bump that thing up a couple notches because in fact, he was playing the bodyguard.
He was also playing the executioner there at the at the end.
Nicely, nicely done.
And I respect the move from digging a toss.
you know, we're we're looking at it or like how many things are not looking great.
Where's the angle?
Maybe Pelopox could do something flash with his ear and they actually started, you
know, cook something up and you have to take a shot to try and get back into the game.
But once impact arrived, he cut off the exit for them and sent to those are able.
Let's, you know, turn it right back around for themselves.
We're held getting the men into just fire off one more at the very end.
Just a, also pretty painful for digging a sauce.
you know, there's a saying that I like to live by when it comes to League of Legends, and that's sometimes the only way out is in.
Digitas were trying that method out, but much like to my experience did not quite work for them there, as Sentinels with even bigger gold lead now.
42nd still bear in, they're doing their homework, setting up the vision line back into the spend their gold.
And yeah, it seems like they're just waiting to put the final, you know, touches on this game.
Although I will say reminder, not that maybe, you know, cast or curse anybody.
But remember last week when Lion was in a very similar position versus didn't actually did steal a baron?
Did you say, too?
Do you have video evidence to back that up?
Yes, we streams of the game.
We watched it.
It was, well, let's watch it again.
No, pull, pull up real quick.
We do have it actually.
reminder every week we have not
noticed there and as it started
up right now send those are
immediately on it and didn't
tossing at the fight. Okay, so
we got auto controls last year.
Can we can we get some some
barren throws to replace the
auto controls that we're missing
now right now send those are
holding the line here as
impact again always threaten
him but this time Ignore is
their dimension actually was
spotted. He's separate from the
rest of the team Darkings will
see him the paranoia to turn the lights off and that is just
very secure. It's going to come down to fight afterwards.
That was not way more than a few.
80 carry out before the fight even kicks off proper.
Who he knocking up the follow up a photon.
As in fact, yet again holding the line nice interrupt from
actually over a hell oldie in there, but it is not going to stop
him domination from the bot laner of settinoles and
domination from settinoles as a team. They have played this one
And now with their second bear and are looking to close it out okay, knock wave with infernal soul that
That damage wow that
Epi I just got instantly deleted there. Yeah, I think it's very year was up. It's up now at least while he's dead
So I don't know maybe it's a couple more seconds on it, but
Don't even know that would have made a difference because you got instant deleted. It's one of those games. I think yeah, I mean
You're not killed Sony is ever on the 80 care, but you're really wish you could
because guys again.
He's a true.
So actually, there's one thing to care that is done.
That's right there.
Yeah, not the one you were hoping that needs it.
Yes, it's not the fortunately.
Let's get on the one and get that.
All right, so they turn off the lights.
So it's just to secure the barren.
And then they also could just use the end of Dr.
Naltman to go to the lead at the end.
Man, once that you know is done,
of course, they could just run through the jungle here.
But yeah, the following is so BG, it back moves up.
And how was it with his chase them on down?
Nicely done here.
You could go to Golden Glue right there.
It looks like he wanted a little more in there.
Yeah.
We're out of debt.
Now that I got to see it again in the replay,
he altered into the Wolfon who was already
using the Cyclone.
So maybe if he hadn't self-cc to himself,
he could have gotten a little more done.
But who's to say either way still in favor of sendals
right now, 10K goal-bladed.
They're pushing Dignitas back to their face.
and who he now go back in on the Ignar.
They get the Alster ult and he's still almost dies.
If he's gonna have to walk all the way back.
Hit by one point, seeker.
And he gets hit by another one.
Oh, no.
Here it comes.
The 10,000 gold lead baron team.
All right, dignity tots.
You're gonna need some magic now.
What do you got?
Towers deleted.
They go forth.
The other gauge comes in from moving.
That's the doctor and the pair of no one yet again.
Hellbox does find a shuffle.
but it's zonus by Rahel the 80 carry.
Still healthy outset knelt his impact.
His fighting under next this turret double killed
of the arc wings and a team by ace to set knelt's.
They close out week one with a lot but they start
and week two with a game win.
Set knelt's go up one zero versus dignity to us.
Ori on a turn.
Very successful.
Very successful year four set to those nice opener
to the series, but we've got another one here, at least one more, and this is for this
time.
It started also.
They did pick up game one win.
Don't be a game one, Andy, as they say.
All of you with the best guys to say about that victory for sendals.
I think sendals has fixed all their issues, coach.
Oh, yeah.
They're ready to go home.
Everything that happened last year, respects its proof because they pressed
to knock turn R and Oriana R in sequence.
And they go a lot of people.
But not the first time.
So I will say this was actually a much closer game than it became.
Because the early game, it didn't look like Dinotos was going to be well.
They didn't have drinks, but they didn't have a bit of a goal via them.
Yeah, and I like a lot of small things that's off from Dinotos, right?
Like we talked about, Ignore coming back, Rathas covered them with the secret sauce.
I actually really liked his plays.
Expires.
Yeah, we have an unexpired.
11.
I really liked his plays.
Bought side.
And then the room talk, where he got,
he helped out with another diet, on a kill there.
It was actually really close until around 18 minutes.
And one thing I want to go about the on-box
that you kind of already pointed out,
if there's a drink, he's going to be on it.
Yeah.
But this to me was just better coordination
than we've seen from singles in the past.
He was actually FBI and actually
who are on different pages.
Yes.
But he was hitting the turret.
when actually goes for this engage.
So they can't fall it up.
And that allows sentials to then re-engage
on the back end of this fight.
And this was kind of game deciding,
sure they lost the drape,
but they were still up and gold before this moment.
And even if you know,
it was there with the team,
I think that's a little bit too far
with an Alistair that sure does have alti,
but it's below 50% HP,
it was just a tough fight to see.
So they're gonna have to resolve those problems.
Now, I took a sip out of this, I liked it.
I think it's probably going to game three.
I want to know if you like, you believe it.
I want to know if you believe it.
If I believe Razz liked this black liquid,
but it's just a taste buds thing.
We got to this.
We were going to show coordination from,
we're getting off of this,
to see what's going on.
Yeah, but now it's about to be on the phone.
Yeah, it's not a year calling.
It's a global combo.
Yeah, it's been awkward.
I think we've agreed.
The knockable.
Oh, don't discount who he in this either, right?
because he also goes in, keeps everyone charmed up there.
So this is the North Turn Orianna Rekong combo.
It is.
Kind of the games were hell.
Okay.
Yep, congratulations to her health.
I'm considering this now, whereas you want to try to keep it.
I actually see, so this was our player of the game.
I'm curious to see what chat selected.
Yeah.
I did think, so here's the thing,
with the secret sauce.
Okay.
I thought Ignar did.
It was interesting.
Why did it still be smooth?
Yes, it was.
This is interesting.
I want to know what the cash was going to.
Because we kind of voting walked for help.
A little bit.
So if production can tell me what the cash was said.
Because I'm super interested with how well impact play.
They did one humbuck one impact.
So even a child's full count.
It still wouldn't overpower them.
The line of analysts.
They're too strong.
And in your opinion, chat, maybe too stupid.
This was tricky.
We're how I thought played a lot of late team fights very well
and laying to a lot better than he did in the previous game.
Real quick before I drink this, I don't know why I'm doing this.
Because of the slide pattern, I can go to the game.
So for tomorrow, you need to submit your takes to get on the show tomorrow.
What are your overreactions from the first week and a half of the LCS lock
internment?
Send us your hot team.
Yeah, waiting room is going to be touching on this tomorrow.
So please send the hot takes.
Join the discards to finish our video.
Why am I from running someone with it?
Because you're going to tell them how hot their take is.
Yes.
And if it's very hot and it's very hot,
you know, you're talking about why I need to drink
Ignar's spoiled sauce.
Because if you don't like it, then we've lost faith
in this series and you think it's going to go to the show.
I see.
Because we need to not, you have to rush.
I'm just still going.
And I like it, but I need a second.
Okay.
I need someone else to throw.
I'm not that good next to arrest.
I need someone who else is a believer.
Emily, you could try two if you want.
I would prefer not to.
Yeah.
That looks like you had a kick.
Yeah.
You can order something way better than what rounds they catch you right now. Don't miss any LCS action when you get your favorite food
No
It's a little bit on Uber Eats.
It's a little less gold.
And now we are headed to break.
Grab my doll.
Let's see if we can get one of the other side of the break.
Yeah, let me try it.
It still is bad.
It's a big grind, so it's a bit.
I'm looking for some vision, but actually fails
and flash out of the wall, going to get caught out here
Incoming the Zebra's ulti-moo move, massive ultimate across everyone.
It comes the shockwave and they just get white!
It's a pentacill for the Zebra.
Blue team, looking to start up the bear in here.
We'll see if they are going to be able to be successful.
Jarvan is in the area though, so it's a different way.
He plays, it's going to get spotted out.
Zebra's popping the ulti, softening up this lilya,
down to about half-hp.
You know, Nate, looking over the wall, trying to find this MF,
can't get too much done, but does chunk down the Zebra.
We're going to see if they're going to go for the engage.
There are a bunch of them all massive combo across everybody.
They get them completely wiped by the MFLC.
It's a quadra as well as the Baron's deal.
Jin all feet opening up.
They're trying to chase in for the engage here.
First number incredibly low to Jay is going to get popped.
Trying to dive forward.
The Lucien does take down the cave.
Lucien sidestep the castle.
They'll see get another kill.
They're starting to get wiped.
It's a triple for the Lucien chasing after the Jin now.
Jin on the run, gonna get knocked down.
That's for already for the Lucien.
He's hunting for the Penta atros.
Gonna try to get out of the dodge.
We'll see if he spotted here.
We'll be spotted as he goes across that Junior Ward.
He's gonna try to run away now.
Lucien, they're hunting for him.
Can he win the 1B1?
Nice little sidestep on the chains.
Lucien, dashing for trying to take on the atros.
Dashing in the out of the vision.
Trying to knock him down.
Atros, the incredibly low in his,
getting knocked down for the physical.
We've seen starting up the bear in here.
We'll see how quickly they can knock his down.
But in the area, he's down about 10,000 gold at this point.
So, we're going to have to try to make a play.
It's going to go for it.
Steels it away.
Mass it, you'll know.
You're going to come up with the 80s.
The timbers come down.
They steal the bear and they wipe the team.
And just like that, they're back in it.
The full A-s, the blue team, all have been knocked down,
red team pushing for the Nexus.
We'll see if they can actually finish off the game.
Right here right now, Ezreal about to respond,
but he's in a 1v4.
Let's see what he can do.
The Ezreal all comes directly knocked down the Caitlyn Gwent,
just focusing on the towers here.
Use his israps, not to expire, though.
Ezreal, you're just trying to go forward,
shitting on the Gwent, knocks down another.
Can he stop them from knocking down the base,
great sight to the domestic truck,
and the next one does connect, it's a trickful
for the Ezreal's a quadruper for the Ezreal,
maybe defend the base in a one-ve-four.
Holy smokes, you don't look so great, boss.
Tell me about it. It's real in front of down here.
And I'm burnt out.
Here, try your red book. It's devilish, we great.
Red book?
Ooh, that's a heavenly plate of minute.
Looks good.
Yeah, I forgot about that wings wings. I can't have wings that in my position.
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One of the best games in the world that I've ever seen.
Hello, and welcome back everybody to the game, two of Sentinel vs. Dignitas.
We got thrown up on screen, I was expecting that.
Will this be the last game of Sentinel vs. Dignitas?
Or will there be a game three?
Last week, Sentinels, they came out big, you know, get that win in the first first game versus DSG?
And then Kangus, all fell apart. Can they keep it together?
All off. Yeah, and they keep it together.
And we did consider that an upset me and Jat when we were casting last week.
I still would consider it and upset here is considered the fact the dignity to us.
Wherever you put them on the power rankings, FBI and Ignar Jessica in this week.
They have the excuse and also the legitimate debuff of Jat Lang.
Spoiler as well. I'd say 100% of people ag day toss very low on the power right here
Everybody has to know the very least there so and sendals again
They were a harder team for me to place coming into the year just because I was like
Just on paper if we look at the peak of these players. Yes, I could see the finishing very high, but it's a very
Full rebuild was really only kind of like dark wings for hell who having that experience together for summer of last year and
And for hell, did not look like the stand-up performer from last week.
I really thought that it was more impact on bot and dark wings in their game wins.
So shout-out to the top half of the map, but this time around, they did look better.
And honestly, I didn't think I was starting out, I think strong with this draft, first-picked
veris.
This, this champ is very strong right now in multiple roles, and I wouldn't expect
to go into FBI's hands.
It's one of FBI's favorite champions, one of his best champions, so, you know, maybe they
do you have an opportunity to come back here?
Pope Various is very good.
On here, Various also is in a decent spot.
It just gets played way less.
So you've almost always expected to be Pope Various
at the moment.
But couple of global's here, four centenoles,
the Tlaia Pantheon, it's a matchman in heaven,
canggas, because pre-level six,
you have one of the most go-to combos,
you know, pantheon flash, stun, into a Tlaia seismic
shove combination, and then post-level six,
you have another go-to combo
with your global ultimates to play the map here.
So very, very strong one-two from centenals.
I think the response is the most expected response.
And here four Dintos though, rise into Dilea,
is basically the secondary Azir vs. Oriana.
Yeah, yeah, it's always the next trade.
And then the Vi similar, similar kind of setup there.
But with all of the top lanes,
taking out already of Renekton and Gwen,
so you can't Gwen into the sign on.
And you even get two more protection bands here for us on if you really want it.
They sound is a really giga pick for impact at the moment.
There's no, there's so much taken out from top lane here for that folks aren't
able to utilize into it.
And you can even, like we say, further ban to more top lane champions here.
Is that head?
Is it?
We have five for five because I'm still considering a best at top.
I know I can probably jungle too, but like yes, is it top laner right now?
That's crazy too because you're like, well, you see, Jayce, and you're like, you're
I think it's out playing, but I'm thinking jungle.
Jungle J is right now is out of control,
and it's actually getting nerfed on the next patch.
So quite happy about that.
One, let's see about the rest of it though.
Meanwhile, Dave Concierge taking out some of the carries
that Reheals is going to want to play
into various the Silver Spell Shield and Farm
isn't there?
Five for five, top of my pants.
You know, they still have,
foe time played play last year and summer.
I've been on CloudWatch.
When is somebody gonna pull it out?
I will always take a sign on my team over a clay.
It'll be over a clay.
See it?
See it and clay.
Ah, nah, nah, nah.
I'm not buying that.
Give me the size, they race each other.
Give me the sign 100% of the time.
He takes way better and I feel like there are not a lot
of scenarios where the clay can get ahead enough
to really snowball, to make it worthwhile.
Meanwhile, we got poke for poke.
down there. That's real the answer.
And this opens up who he to pick a champion.
They can roam a lot.
We saw the vercon last game now.
Let's see what he wants to pilot this time around here.
Anytime you see Ezreal though,
I immediately think like this.
A jungler's love having Ezreal in their games
because that means that they're going to have a support
in their back pocket.
And I'm really any time that they call for it
because Ezreal can just lane so safely here
as doing costs or hovering their other options.
Looking like tank for tank matchup,
and it will be the Cassante.
Yep, no brainer here for a bowton.
Now, what we need, I mean, I guess we need more engages.
Is he going to go on hit veris because they pick the sign?
Because especially if you're so in rail or something like you need the damage.
So I think it is just going to go on hit veris since we're looking at a sign,
because ain't no way Lee Thouty veris and Ryze are going to kill a sign later.
you've got.
Why actually does decents against the BV tanks?
It's kind of underrated with the passive and with the denting blows and so.
And also, it's decent, but.
Yeah.
So they kind of have two tools now to help take out this car on.
But I still think the on-standard is a strong argument for it.
Poppy and Wildy answered for who here.
Yeah.
Yeah. So you have a decent amount of targets there for him to work with.
and rel-cosontate and buy massive engage here on the side of David Tosh to answer a bag up.
Now to mention, that makes it really easy for bears to win the ultimate there.
We can see on stage, assistant coach Emmy here coming join us in North America from EU,
over on GX, that he was assistant coaching last year.
Now I got to talk with him a little bit during their scrims as well.
The team was so confident to have you to have a coach live with them.
It's still the assistant coach, we're waiting on Swiffer,
but still having somebody there, they can help walk them through drafts.
What's a little more kind of of that draft prep that they have coming in,
when they reference it, giving them more confidence on stage two.
So, shout out, Emmy. Still not the ideal position way down that head coach,
but I think overall we can see that the drafts are coming together for Gignotas.
All right. See if sentinels can back this one up.
Can follow their first win up and get their first series win.
There's you need a game win with with this like shortened twists because we only have eight teams
You really really do not want to go zero to because you just get knocked out next week
So very important series here for both teams to not get themselves to the breaking point where next week
Next week being elimination king. That's also early. We just started three weeks
It is not shorter split. Oh, but we did just start. Yeah
So if you get to win now, it'll feel so much better, way more comfortable.
You got a lot more time to work with.
You know, we're talking about so many of the teams.
Do not players here, and guys much practice time.
So you got to earn that practice time.
Got to earn it.
Got to earn it so far.
So I don't have looked good.
Who he in particular has been a stand out for me here.
I actually wanted to ask our stats guy Leo to take a look at some stats here for who he in particular.
Win right for kind of the core.
Dark wings were hell who he were on the issue last year.
And I said, hey, can we check the stats from that three core?
What their win rate was when who he was on in gauge supports versus non-engage supports.
And actually, we did have that stat here, as we're looking at actually here, to quote from
PowerFox.
Oh, so actually, PowerFox didn't believe in this stat, but first of all, because I had
a hunch that who he's win rate would be higher, and it is slightly higher, but not that
much.
And PowerFox did highlight on Pro's that he wasn't a big believer in that, but I think just
given who he tools to make action happen has allowed for this
three core to find more success as now Darkwing's pushing in on midline
here yeah I mean it it was a very interesting listen cuz because
Boutbox was not impressed with who he's engaged is at all and yet
you know like you a look everyone's always looking at him as being on
every team that he has been on such a big playmaker and kind of a
critical part you know for those engages and now he is going to be on
poppy which is an interesting champ where you don't say oh it's not like a main
engage but you have so much utility that you can use it's more counter engage like
you're blocking a lot of stuff with W and your ultimate knocking people out for
objectives and stuff and so like yeah you can go for like charge plays on single
targets but you aren't starting to T5 for your team like that is impacts and
and Hombock really and then you're there to interrupt a lot of dashes, interrupt the rail, counter engage, interrupt the facade, interrupt the ride, type stuff, and a lot of early aggression with that champion as well.
And I would echo that you have popping up primary and game but still can't offer some of those tools now who he has a chance to show what he can do on this game as well.
Well, right now the bot lane has the backup of humbuck or more so humbuck has the backup of his bot lane as they got that bot way of shoved in
Pantheon's gonna go for the bottom scuttle crab and it looks like Xus just pathing topside not gonna try and contests that one
Trade of scuttle crab. It's a three-minute scuttle crab. So we we throw for the six minutes
Third crab everybody get I love that interview so much too cuz oh, hey, here we go
We're gonna get even more right now
Whoie with the W blocking ignars crash down that will get the flash out as well as the heel
To sum it or spells down and topple now go for their own plate your photon
Not gonna find the path maker stun on the impact as he gets knocks back up the way helping impact out your ex
You're not sure if he's gonna actually fall off commit. Oh, that's slow. I mean, in fact, he's walking forward
Oh, photon barely gets the shielding. It's out. You get a gank and then in fact, just gonna run some down gives him
Okay, it was a necessary flash though from impact because the vibe was coming in with cue charged and so
Flasks were flash while getting ganked is something you were looking at last game
You know, we're impact got ganked in the two of you one and went for the counter kill and so
This time around he handles the gank pretty nicely
I mean he's gonna say hey photon flashed as well, so you know, it's not really a detriment for me and
And he, in fact, is also winning the CS pretty early on.
And it's important for Sion to get the extra health as well from the soul furnace there too.
So, yes, does matter in these tank matchups.
Okay, yes.
More all the story.
Maybe don't get in fact.
He's really good at absorbing ganks.
As we, as it kind of talked about it, joked a little bit last game of which version of it
packed over going to get.
And so far, I think it back to this little much better in his opening weekend.
Yeah, I mean, especially if he's on sign and it takes first take matchup,
because, of course, the champ most notorious for still getting value, you know, gets back up
with zombie form and stuff like that. So,
definitely, let's take a...
Okay, actually, actually, it gets on the dark wing splash away towards Homboc, who actually flashes forward on the Paliphoc.
Oh, yeah, it's a split focus from Dark Wings and Homboc and Homboc and Homboc and some trouble, no flash to get away.
Lockdown has the shield, and his fighting is way back.
XU has to flash defensively.
So send those two action went out there.
FBI meanwhile having to walk back to turret.
We'll save the flash.
Lot of aggression flash or bell.
Look, everybody wants to use their summoner spells.
But first blood, Ted Diggs mid-laner.
Okay, I know everybody watching that has a lot of questions.
But we're gonna have to get like a listening on the comms.
Yeah, because clearly,
The humbuck is thinking, it's fine, like you come to me, we're bidding, I will flash
done, and you, Tullya, seismic shove.
But we also need to like look at the cooldown on the seismic shove when was it last
used before the camera, like went back over to it.
His range as well.
I don't know if we can get a click in on Dark with this.
It has to still be up, and so it's got to be just the range issue because yeah, he's not,
he wasn't in the range to follow it up, so that's a split.
The public is clearly thinking we still go for this combo on supile fox, but dark wings
were already backing off.
The next to good flashway, but then palfox knows I've got flash advantage on the
earlier play in dark wings.
Stays around anyway.
He does a respect it.
And so nice.
It's nice here from palfox to capitalized after the active skirmish.
He's over the wall.
How about walks out and just steals it with the smite Q on Bantian.
The Tories for being able to outsmite a jungle opponents as weaver's wall will come in.
We're rooting it up, can't fall it up, but actually he's got three on him or guardless.
So he will fall, dig the toss, it lose the dragon and they lose their jungler in the
aftermath.
It's now one to be one photon onto impact, gets your turn out, turn it up, go strike back
and he's winning this one to be one currently.
Dark wings mean well, all the junk down.
Again, some sugar happy players on both sides.
We came here to scrap in game number two, photon will win his one to be one.
that sendals now look at power fox can't lock them down long enough
and he will walk away
yeah they're
pro here for him is just gonna be fine but sentemals
they got a lot of money here on right off the back of it at her play goes down as well
who he pops that one
and we got our photon solo kill in the top side so
nicely done from him using the kusante all out to finish that up
uh... thing toss their up in kills but down in gold and as you said
down in dragons because Pantheon Q's might, it's just, it's too much of a combo there. So,
he, you know, actually didn't get to see any health below 800 and like 30 there. So,
nicely done from Homboc, and then the Tuleo Wall cuts them off so nicely. So, even though Tuleo,
you know, gets room prisoned off the wall, that doesn't matter at all. All they wanted to do
was create the wall in the first place. They didn't really care about surfing it. So, the wall,
the wall did his job there. It earned them the extra kill. So stealing dragon plus the kill,
even though the scoreboard says two to one on kill, Sentinel's quite happy there with that last run of play.
You're like, yeah, it picked out on the top side, whatever, a siren. I don't think that's going to matter
in all of the other ones. And I just just catch up on some of the questions we had in pick and ban,
it is most likely going to be the reality of errors there at the comet build. So even if impact dies
like two more times to vote on solo. I don't think that changes how tanky he's gonna be and how impossible he's gonna be to kill later on in the game
Yeah, it should be pretty hard to kill them. Um, you know, if I was gonna do our best
Rise, I'm gonna do our best. That's Duke. Okay, a corruption
Because a little wide or else they would get out of that one is FBI actually doesn't get knocked up there
And it's safe. Maybe there's not have a little six
We have some hovers from junglers right now.
Yeah, Hombock was hovering around the blue buff, but it's at some angle.
Okay. Well, they deleted the barrier instantly at least.
So it has real down a little bit of safety there.
Meanwhile, did cost them the various ultimate.
Kind of fish around for that.
Regardless, we're going to be looking at these dragon timers.
to the Sentinels last game, they stacked really quickly.
They got to a very early soul for themselves
and turn that one into a win quite nicely.
Very well, could be the case this time around again
because they do have to lead a plus pantheon
with their global attack ability.
And you could even mention Sion Kina
in the same breath there, because Sion Ultimate
is so useful for the mid-game objectives
being able to try and push the lane
and then sion all down and you can just teleport right back or vice versa.
Regardless though, starting up the grubs next objective on the map here, and should be able
to collect the remaining two of them for themselves.
So again, very similar.
They start out with two to one grubs.
They start out with the first dragon.
Yep, digging the toss and not able to secure all of those.
They'll just take their one and then back off.
Homboc will clean up the last two and still a slight gold date for a set in those.
It's going to be hard for dignitaries this composition to really get in on these objectives.
I've been highlighting all that for photon once again.
But this time cannot body block the impacts ultimate, so it does get away from that third and toe focused strike.
Who he meanwhile hovering top with humbuck, because low health bar maybe a dive potential?
Both on does not call XU all the way up though, low mana side smack off.
Oh, okay, maybe sticking around for a little longer.
Yeah, just a little defense there.
make sure in fact as to get dough for anything finishes up the wave. Poppy recall reset
back off to the other side. Pantheon bolts. Where we going with that pantheon all because
really the people that you want to kill all have splashes still okay. Like you know the
rise in the vera sear. Yeah I would probably stay yeah maybe we still go after the vera
It's like you're gonna get his flash for sure.
You have the poppy down on that side of the map to interrupt the rail, counter, engage
or anything, so you don't have to be too scared about your engage.
So if I'm sent to Nulls, I want to put more pressure down towards this bottom lane.
Burn through FBI's flash, maybe you can also kill him afterwards.
We have the Weaver's wall on top of all, and that's suddenly a 4v2 bot side because of the semi-global.
So even XU is currently hovering around down there.
Drops that control word to clear at some of that vision.
Digging at us are prepping for this next drag and it's on the table.
And usually when I look at a various leaseality,
I think, okay, you kind of want the opponent to start the objective,
so you can poke them out or just poke them out before the objective.
But when you factor in pop y'all, you factor in the weavers ball.
It can actually be really hard to approach these dragons.
Because suddenly, if XU gets knocked out of the pit, it's no longer an even fight.
And now even if you land at a little poke with the leaseality,
is just hard to approach for the rest of the team, but no one's going to start the dragon
quite yet. We actually have a reset coming in from dignity. So, humbuck actually says,
all right. So, let's start it up. Yeah, there's a self-portal. So, if you guys get a
self-portal right back on down and we're going to get the rest of the team converging. So, plenty
of time for Dignitas to contest this if they want to, and they're going to try to walk their way in
who he here very far forward right now. Holding that W nicely time to stop Ignore and not
the fall breaker from XU advantage is keepers verdict knocks them away. So hard to walk
up on these objectives, pilafox in the one wheel and horses dark wings using the phase
rush to try and get on to him, but dark wings will survive. His team will get their
second dragon. Nobody will fall on either side.
Yeah, well done. And who he double ejection now, who he goes back in. Yeah, it was looking
for the sun on the wall there. It's quite fine. But convoc now follows up on the
stun onto XU. Keepers verdict does not lock down the ball breaker. And now turn back in
a lot of damage here from
power fox, but even with the
shattering strike,
Botanau joins in.
On buckets to kill on the
power fox, who he will be
traded, one for two
trade in favor of
sendals.
David's not even committing
their top laner to the
plane.
Yes, so they teleport in.
In fact, also comes, but
he just had to use his
ulti.
He didn't use his teleport.
So he can just clean up
the bottom wave immediately,
not only do sentitals win
and get their extra kill here
in the team fight, but they
also get the push on the lanes afterwards. Impact going to push the minion wave on bottom side and I believe he's getting turf played money as we speak during this replay
So flash were fast going in on the engage here. You see impacts
Gonna walk his way over and he actually is not able to get the ultimate onto the arrival of both on, but hop-hop
Go in hand in there. They get the extra kill and as you know more money earn for the team in the aftermath
I keep other than this.
Yep, T.P. Advantage for the next player.
Yeah, hundreds, guys, a great item.
I'm panicked down here.
Ready, buddy?
How are you still?
Yeah, our fit is still good.
Doesn't matter.
He's able to get the huge chunk of health back
and survive that fight.
Now, Palafox, okay?
Spots at Dark Wings.
Not going to be too punish right there.
Yeah, it's three to three in the kill department,
but the dragon stacking still in favor of Sentinel.
That was game one story.
It's game two story as well.
They've been very, very clinical about how they
I want to approach these and it came down to exactly what we are highlighting from the draft.
It's just who he on the poppy, knocking everyone away, they're getting the dragon.
And you know, they'll pick up some kills in the aftermath too, but the big objective is just that second drake, starting to snack you early as three minutes for the next one.
30 seconds until that ripped herald.
So far, Dickens has to have yet to really find themselves with a neutral objective advantage.
We haven't even one group to find her right now.
Yeah, honestly, King is...
I don't really see it with this comp for Dickens House either.
So I think their job is kind of difficult,
and we'll see if they can maybe make some picks or something.
They've got a vibe, plus of various possibilities.
You know, some of them, some weird realm warps, maybe from Power Box,
but honestly, even inside Lane,
at Dark Wings is getting the push early,
and he's got his team kind of hovering to protect him as well.
Yeah, again, I can't even get that push.
You can always be with us while two to rest of the team.
Suddenly, that side Lane pushes in the problem.
It's the fact that there's a number.
advantage, a sentable full start up this
Harold now, Dignitas, they have a couple of
members around here, but photons not there.
Remember, their STP advantage for impact, so
sentables need the fight, they will have a
top laner, in fact, actually backs off.
So the TP threat is real, Dignitas, they don't
even get a chance to walk up.
Folks not landing from FBI, and that is a
Harold secured for sentables.
Yeah, pretty good here for impact as well.
He didn't have to leave that tower or that would feel
a lot of loss of value, and they definitely
would have had to get some kills.
So just waiting to see if there was any full commitment
up there.
And since they don't free-herald,
Home Buck has been quite good.
I have to say, Pat, you know,
fully controlling objectives, keeping the team on face.
Here we go for the Power Fox attempt on Darkwing's life,
but both teams have some extra members.
Oh, we're committing to this right now.
Always the seismic shrub lands from Darkwing's big damage
on the Power Fox, so if you can't follow up on XUs
engage. Ultimate use from the buy, no effect. Yeah, nice. They've done there kind of
screening for each other. Ooh, now we have the waivers welcoming down.
Homebox, trying to block the escape half of XU and Ignore even real joining in.
And another size make shove from Dark Wings to find a kill right hell with a
credit Dark Wings with the setup. Yeah, sentinels looking pretty good here.
Honestly, it's quite clean. They've got lots of mobility to work with. Lots of
synergy as well. Poppy and Natalia both working quite nicely together there on top of it and
Reheal with some double bus now on Ezreal. Trinity 4, double bus Ezreal. That's feeling pretty
good. I mean, yeah, his more amount is not like fully transformed yet, but it's going to be pretty
soon as well. And then you get your double item power spike for the Ezreal and your pox just
hidden like a truck. So yeah, sentinels are in a very good spot here with their comp.
And I will say I'll be the first to admit when it comes to Dark Wings as a player.
I even mentioned this last week I said it coming into this series of like maybe a bit of a
shampoo issue.
The easier looks great.
Some of the control majors look good, but when he's not on a zero, I think there is a
different level of performance that we get from Dark Wings.
He's playing incredibly well right now.
And that's really fine.
I did up a pretty big hero is zero play.
Exactly.
That's a week is right now.
Dignitas are scrapping here.
The roll more comes in.
Malibu has immediately stunned and knocked up, but the team is still there to keep him safe.
Meanwhile, who cannot remember his way.
Another seismic shot on to XU, Sentinel's mid-laner is just clinical with these.
Always finding the pace of the kill, and now another one, double kill the dark wings
as one picked up from impact as well.
Sentinel's just came out lose these fights.
I think the dark was a real good, and a prospect that I didn't look in real good.
Oh yeah, this dirt definitely got to be deleted. Dragon be deleted. That's number three for sentinels. Another really early Dragon Soul Plank for them.
And this game more in hand than the previous one. Dark Wings here, even going to cruise up towards the top side of the map get their quicker.
So he can get in time for the minion wave. Thank you Harold for the little drive.
And they get to do basically control the entire map, push the top wave, get the dragon at the same time.
For Sentinel, the feels like things are starting to come together, despite the fact that they didn't have the roster for many days ahead of last weekend's matches.
They still picked up a game when versus disguise. This time around, it's lucky like they don't want to drop a single game versus dignity-toss.
The area impressed with dark wing solo lane performance here in the mid lane and even the rest of the teams
definitely stepping off impact showing what he is truly capable of who he roaming everywhere on the map this time
to dark wings in the top lane.
It's not going to have enough lockdown to kill Palafax but still sending a message.
Any questions coming together?
Messages to receive!
You've got a home block here as well and just in time to defend the control ward.
Very important here, nice, nice little movement.
And honestly, objective boundaries, maybe you can like dream big if you're digotoss and
make a side lane play to get an objective bounty.
Let's take a look at this.
Even photon, the one member that has some golden dyspocket, he's getting teleported on
by dark wings.
You know, one B2 here is in fact on a lock-in down with the Tullia in tow, photon, trying
his absolute goal.
That's what we got the one.
She's over the knock-up.
That doesn't have the damage to get the kills.
The dark wings will get the kill credit for himself.
The Sunday was about to kiss out there all over them, but did not.
Yeah, I mean, the vote on hard goes back to him.
He's been trying his best to hardest and all of these games that
Dignitas has played so far.
And when I talked to all the players on Dignitas and hey,
what do you want the audience to think about you?
He had a simple answer.
He said, I just want to be consistently good.
Whether the teams winning or losing,
I individually want to be consistently good as a top laner.
And I got to say, I mean, he's drawing pressure.
He's getting these kills for himself.
I mean, even last week was looking great on the cannon.
So, shout out, Botan, I think that he is a fantastic pick up for the region in the top
leader overall.
All right.
Meanwhile, back to business as usual for centenels, they get the bottom-side kill,
impacting immediately up to the top side of the map, get that top tower, taking care of
as well.
And then, with all the outer towers down, they can bait around Baron, and they're
well equipped to do so.
Your pick potential is crazy there with Pantheon to Leah Poppy here creating so much
threats.
And due to toss their number one goal now is, all right, let's try and keep enough defensive
vision that we can just go for one of those barren steals.
Gank is what's talking about.
EXCITED TO DO TO GET!
He did get A barren steal.
It didn't mean that they won the game, but it was cool.
And it was cool.
It does, you know, it's better than not stealing barren.
I think yeah, if you asked any jungler, as a jungler, you can probably test this.
Stealing feels better than not stealing.
Although actually, what feels best is can you just get it?
You're not having to steal into a situation at all.
Winning feels the best, but especially if you stole the Baron to act, and then you
win the game because of it, yeah, then everyone's scompal-mensing you, and yeah, that's
the best.
How close is it though, the feeling between stealing a Baron versus winning the steal
attempts?
If you're like, nope, I got it, team, though.
like a close-up.
Winning, terrible.
Like, you're winning the steal attempt?
Yeah, yeah, like, you can handle me jungle,
trying to steal a steal.
Oh.
I imagine the steal has to feel better,
because that's like the more problem.
Yeah, I guess that is the same.
Both of them are getting the Baron when the other
turns into the best thing it.
I think more of the story, Baron's good,
and currently sending the...
The feeling is probably better,
just because the amount of your happiness
was probably very low.
Oh, that's why you weren't losing.
Yeah.
How you dealt with that?
It dealt this larger because you were probably just getting pounded for a while.
And then you steal in the up.
We're probably still gonna lose.
Yeah, that was the story from last week.
But that was a 10k gold deficit.
This time around it's only 5k gold deficit.
But Sentinel still have the dragon soul a minute away from now.
They don't have to go for the Baron immediately.
They naturally leave that up and just go for the dragon soul instead.
No, then said they're gonna make it play here on the power box pops the ghost.
Tom Buckets in with the stun and the rest of the Dintos are fear teleport in as well.
Tom Buck, now needs the backup of the team who will teleport in themselves.
Flash is away from the crash down.
Boatong gets in with FBI.
Right as the who he ejects X-U.
Boatong act right out of there.
FBI could be in some trouble right now.
As the flash available, we've was woely stunned of each engine out of there.
FBI goes down on just like Deepa Toss' chances.
is double kill to humbox a Pantheon coming online.
7k gold lead with three kills donated over and a triple to the jungle are.
Sentinels won't even need this bear to start the tier 2 turret siege.
No, they are making quick work of Degna toss this time.
Yeah, this game is, this game is far out of Degna toss.
We've suddenly as a bear, but the dragon's soul is much come up in two seconds as well.
So you can take the Baron Baron about recall,
at least Matt said, all of the money that you just got
from killing Digitas and taking the Baron,
then you go to Dragon Soulfight
and hopefully they can get there in time.
We'll see what the Baron of Power recalls.
I don't think that Team Dost could
rush the Dragon Soul over in this replay,
but maybe they're just, okay, well yeah, nice.
We got a little picture in picture here.
We can check, yeah.
They're not gonna force that day.
Maybe they could get the crap, vision or something.
So catch in what happened here on the side FBI teleports in and then gets headbudded back by hooking towards the team he had flash available
But that was just you know who he again having targeted selection now back to live though dragon is on the table
It is the sole for sentinels
Don't try to create some pressure here on the side with the help of Ignar
Poked various is going to have to land some big poke here because then the all in team fight
definitely with that least value bears to have already crept some of that damage one
error will land actually on the flank here as well who he spots him out
and actually back up the wall into the pit ignore hex flashes that wall
and now everyone's just front to back for dignity to us look at the
leader's not going to be a lead is not going to back she's taking mid lane right now
so think that's fuel a pressure they have the numbers abandoned but FBI actually
gets shunged out from her hell over the wall there now the weaver's wall if
he's on the right side this time around again to the dark wing signal can't quite
And he goes down, Rahel, still in the same field, the side FBI will die, and another
flipback for Dark Wings on a rampage, as he will claim Alphax yet again, Rahel, still surviving
the fight, and Sentinel don't even need that drag, and they just walk up with their
fair and empowered cannon wave here in the mid-Lay, looking for even more kills, they'll
fight, Vota, Dark Wings, unstoppable, 5-1 and 7 for the young mid-laner of
Sentinels.
They built a new roster around this kid and having a fantastic game to hear of
week do.
I gotta say, humbuck was lapped in this game.
Yeah, Pantheon was nasty.
So many plays started up.
So many plays also finished by him.
impressed as well with on-block sentinels
with everything that they could possibly want
with their luxury of the entire map under their control.
We're running these state during for an interview
who he if sentinels wins.
I was just about to ask for another who he listening
because the comms listening we got before he was so hyped.
Yeah.
Does Izzy as hyped now and they're winning fights
and they're through Team K gold up or is it like,
we should win these because the but there's the fun looking fights they are they are I think that's the best way to describe
Kobe what was fun for the sentinel sentinel's fans I imagine because they've a very patient for their first
went here week one did not go their way but it's looking very solid here in week number two
for an organization they were Phoenix one originally when they were in the LCS yeah sentinals takes over the brand and now they're
back in the LCS, but this is technically
sendals first time playing here and this will
be their first series when if they can close
it out. Dignitas are going to have to try and
defend up on the top side while Fodont's pushing
in this bottom wave.
Very push. Yeah, look, Fodont's recalling
too, so he can't even get the tower going.
They don't even get the dopamine of an
objective bounty exploding and hearing the noise
and the Soul Caches. Yeah, he did it for the
dopamine right there, but now he's on the
other side of the Weaver's wall. The soul
member here, very tanky on the Cassante, so sendals can not quite all in on the hand,
said they're just starting to hit this turret, just taking the toss, throw out the chain
of corruption FBI not gonna land it, in fact side steps, and now no engage tool there for the
AD carry, sendals just continue to siege.
Yeah, all right, who needs Poppy's that had been really good too.
He said quite a good game on this Poppy, a lot of good old teas, like a W.
And if I could get some trouble right now, it's a knock-up lay-outs from it, he's
Just click back from Dark Wings, the set up the knock down 80 carry out of there.
Sentinels, again, executing onto the one target everybody communicated that time around.
And now with a four-man defense gear on to Sentinel's bush, it's looking dire.
Under the turret, they're just getting slaughtered.
Actually, he goes back in, but the carries are falling around him.
Sentinels, holding strong in week two, as it was to pack this ass a little bit here at the end.
the tosses cannot hold the line, Sentinel stands strong as they will be dived about it.
That's the question on the mind.
Sentinel's looking for one more here onto the mid laner, can they take down Palo Fox?
They can.
One more stand.
One more not fall.
Take him down for the ace, claim in the life of Botan, welcome to the LCS, Sentinel's
win their first series.
Two is zero over Dignitas.
to know and the second game very very very one sided for them 23. Yeah, that they had
two deathless members on the team. My player of the game is Hombock, but spam chat with who
your player of the game is, you know, you listen a lot of good options there. I got a I got a double
of a Hombock. I game number one, I gave it an impact this time around I think Hombock does deserve it.
Not the Dark Wings as well for following up with Hombock said it up a lot. That's our thought
not so it's all over to the lounge for theirs.
Right.
Well we already know who's one player to call it.
He's really a green out.
We know our most.
We're tabulating the votes right now, actually.
I don't know anything about the result.
We're gonna have the chance to write a question.
And then I are on a one team.
And just that.
What would happen if you could keep it secret?
Yeah.
And then we get a rat voting who he?
Five or four in a time mark.
I think they both play block.
Kobe and Ken gives four to a time mark.
And now who he's gonna…
Oh my god.
We've got a fan in there.
Someone was a fan came through.
I don't know the glue, someone is saying a leging part.
The head coach, the other glue.
I want to ask who he bought this,
because last week, it didn't look like
San Luis on the same table, it was on the same page.
This week, it's not like the page was great for objectives.
Yeah.
Typically dragon.
And that's where all of their positive plays happen
across both games.
Zin, tired of your game was based around dragon.
Like it straight goes up, on both was already there.
He was ready, yeah.
He was ready.
So.
In which case an arm that was on the pocket of making me,
like a positive number five.
Yeah, that's all great.
I'm fine.
Welcome.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Welcome, welcome.
Thank you.
Congratulations on the win.
Thank you, grads.
Is this life run?
Yeah, that's a lot.
That's a lot.
That was ended at the broadcast.
Nice.
So that was a stark difference in general from last week.
Tell me the major differences,
because you have your thoughts on that being dragon-focused.
My guess for every review is like here's how we fight dragon. Yeah, for sure
I think in the beginning we didn't have that much time to practice and we have like you know four
Korean speakers and one I exactly doesn't really understand Korean in-game and it was kind of
natural that we kind of spoken Korean in-game so I think it was just kind of confusing for everyone
because we were never on the same page. Yeah, so like that is saying like we just have to focus on the basics
where like, okay, guys, we're gonna focus on dragonfight every game and you know,
kind of improve our team synergy take one step by step and I think that's what we did.
Yeah, that kind of bouncing off that because a lot of people when they saw the roster would be like,
oh, is this similar to the TLC case, all kind of thing where, you know, the dark wings is the only
one that's kind of out of comes. Is that going to be kind of the necessary situation with
outcomes for your team?
Oh, no, I think we for sure
feel bad for Isaac, but I think in the beginning,
like even for me and Hamburg, even though we speak,
we both speak Korean, like right now, we don't,
we understand each other's play,
but like a lot of time we're in a different page and
give us. So I think we're still on the
state that we're trying to get to know each other,
trying to like kind of synchronize together,
and kind of see the same way, because there's just so many
different ways of to play and to win
legal legends. So I think that's what we're focusing on,
and then we'll try to speak more English, try to learn that way.
Yeah, for instance, overall, what do you think of Falmouth?
Because I was joking earlier that if you and Falmouth
get on the same page, you both have a tendency to just like go in.
So if you know that follow-up is there, I feel like this team can be
have the potential to be like incredibly aggressive.
So what's it been like playing with him?
Senator, watching him challengeers, he was absolutely insane.
Watching him on bro last year, he had a lot of really insane engages.
So, just what's that been like?
I mean, first of all, I just love him.
I love him.
He's just like a funny guy.
And I think he has why he takes the succeed.
And even a broad region, like from a way from Korea,
like he knows how he's really outgoing.
He doesn't like gets shut down.
He always picks his mind.
Nice.
And like you're saying, Emily, like his gameplay,
in my opinion, is really aggressive.
So I think for now, we're kind of on the stage of like,
you know, kind of like see what's the limit, you know,
kind of learning each other's limit.
And I have to be able to see his plays because I came from VHG last year.
And I will say like I was trying to go for more of a safe place,
try to like make sure that we can win the game in the end.
But he's a really aggressive guy and I love that from him.
So from me to it just takes a bit from me to kind of learn,
we learn those aggressiveness, if that makes sense.
Yeah, humbuck is the player of the game.
I will say, Razz, and Emily both voted for you.
Yeah, that's very cool.
But the casters and we broke the time.
But he was so much about Dragon set up this whole time.
So hard to differentiate who was the most successful in that.
But it did seem like he was really disciplined all game
about always being there on time,
had really strong engages.
And it's great to hear you have those positive things to say
about humbuck as well.
Do you agree?
Do the fans agree with this?
We had a fan pass you were the best.
And then I'm about, okay, well that's Kobe was saying on cast, so he was accepting it into their minds.
So I like the Dark Rings call out as well.
You guys definitely look like a completely different unit, and it makes sense because you guys had a lot of late, especially on Bach showings from week one, right?
I didn't really get to the American on time.
Yeah, I mean, I think I agree with how emboc-deserving the MVP, but I definitely want to give a lot of props to Dark Rings as well.
I think he had an amazing, like, Oriana game, like with his shockwave combo.
combo and even this game on Taliyah I thought like he was playing really
productive and playing really well so yeah I think our mid jungle deserves it
yeah we have a quick question for you we have apparently a B-roll we're asking
what happened here this is I think post game pretty good to tell you I haven't
haven't seen what this is yeah what is this an accidental miss on
palafox you're the lucky guys on palafox okay there we go oh it was super fast
I mean, you know, like, I was gonna fist bump him,
but I feel like he didn't want to.
So, I just, you know, it's just awkward
to just stand there for a while.
Yeah.
I just passed that in.
What the heck?
I mean, it's to be fair.
It was like, he did a slow-mo and stuff.
That was really smooth.
By the way, like the one into the next,
it never missed to be.
Yeah.
I mean, just going by the flow, you know.
Like, I was cool with fist bumping,
but I got the vibe that he didn't want to.
So, okay.
That's fine.
All right.
games for today. So just so you know, as well, who we
currently done away, but series, every again gets an individual player
of the game. So here's what it is for today.
It's been APA for the first series and then we're hell,
Hombock, a couple of two owes today as you guys move to one and
one in Swiss, the nine move to two oh, and also that means
line is going to be one of the possible opponents for an
extra and few and one and one.
Yeah, APA with three player, the game so far.
It's a lot.
It's back to you.
Back to you at this point.
Help to win three.
that I was to say I was to win.
Yeah, that's true.
And then I noticed some personal news from you.
Yeah.
So I'm going to call that out.
Oh, my wedding pictures.
Yeah.
It goes with sweet pictures, yeah.
Yeah, the way it's really, really, thank you.
Thank you so much.
I'm glad you're like, I came out of nowhere.
Yeah, I mean, it's just always for me all
worked to kind of include my personal life with my career.
But I'm just so grateful of my partner, Angela.
Now I call her wife.
It's always like, you know,
It kind of takes time, that's really true.
You know, good, but yeah, I mean, without her,
I wouldn't be where I am.
So I am just so grateful.
And she's been so patient with me, you know,
because of my schedule.
We don't know how to plan, especially with wedding stuff.
You do have to do like early bookings and everything.
Yeah.
But she's dealing with me.
So I'm so sorry for her.
I'm just so glad how well the picture turned out,
you know, they did some magic to me.
And it's literally not really that pretty.
Yeah, but you're like a different person.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Looking for congratulations.
Congratulations.
That's a double way for me today, and of course, the life win.
But honestly, let's take a, and they look at Swiss.
I mean, the Swiss bracket was something that was very concerning, of course, you guys
were from zero one.
So we're seeing if it was going to be a zero two star for you guys, not at all.
So you guys, Jador, already mentioned, looking at line, any team that you're expecting
to join you guys as well.
Because now we got fly versus DSG tomorrow and shot by our belly and versus team liquid.
So, wait, sorry, why was the one I knew I didn't jump in the tomorrow?
Because DSG versus likewise, I expect flag was to take the win,
maybe DSG is a possible opponent for you in the next round.
I do think DSG, yeah, DSG can win when I opinion.
I think I thought they were pretty good, honestly.
I was actually really impressed by them.
I thought their rookies even like, such heat.
I don't know how exactly.
I was, I was, I was in the whole time too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I thought their volume was actually really good.
Castle is always like, he was my old teammate, you know,
like, he was really good too.
And they're new adding like Columbia as well.
And yeah, I think, yes, she can definitely take fly out.
But I do also think fly their jungle at Griffin
is I think pretty up there as well
in the jungle tier list right now.
So I think that match will be actually pretty high
for me to watch too.
Nice.
quick, you don't even need to give us reasons.
Stropfight TL, who wins?
I think fly too on.
I actually want to let him seem liquid shoppified
for the next week.
I'll be fine.
Team liquid.
Yeah, two on those while I think my opinion.
I think that's the one.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree with those.
That's it for us, who do you think you're joining us?
Congratulations once again on the win.
And the engagement photos.
There may be a maximum of four PME,
and one Pacific, four five versus DSG.
See you then.
Thank you so much.
Shout out to Andrew Liches, awesome.
Welcome back to the LCS.
It's time for week number two.
It's a cloud nine to nothing and they're going to love the way this week too
I'm already gone, don't pray for me