Um, I think we probably should have been, Bard, um, thank you.
Oh, I think it's just, um, like, it's a little hard to play that game.
I think if Bard is in the game, it's not like impossible.
Don't get me wrong.
But, um, yeah, it's just specifically that game would be like hard for us, like maneuver
some fights.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I was it from your perspective, because you were the Bard, and you're going up against your
your older organization that you were with for quite some time in the LCS.
To be honest, I thought in the first game I was taking the world.
I thought I was completely running the game.
Honestly, like, I was, you know, I'm pretty critical, but my first game, I don't think I
made almost any mistakes.
There would only be really small stuff, and I thought I played the fight fairly well.
Obviously, there was some team-wide misapps that we will talk about.
Yeah.
already been talked about to some, honestly, substantial length.
I was pretty happy with the Voskian, honestly.
The second one, I mean, that was much.
Yeah.
I reviewed the easy for you guys because I think everyone out there
when it comes to line as a team was, we'll talk about.
Even including myself will be like, you guys have the big three.
You guys got a bit of a zirker coming in, alongside inspired and saying.
But the biggest question was always going to be, I guess the word would be egos,
but like strong voices, right? So how was like the process being
because you haven't had much time to practice in the in North America,
but I'm sure with the in career you guys did? Yeah, we did swim for around like
maybe 15 days in career, which was really good. I think we would definitely play
worse if we hadn't had that previous time, especially, I mean, I would myself,
that's for sure. But I think this, this notion that like the personality's clash is
Notice, at least doesn't shine light on the fact
that the signals will help each other really well.
I think people that are really, really honest
and confrontational, sometimes they just,
it just seems to work.
I think, everyone obviously will talk about inspired
and whatnot, but I think Bizarre is from the player
that I played with in 2022 very briefly
and as observing him on his time, like on C9 at the time.
the time. He's like developed a lot and he's become more of that player who's willing
to bring up issues, you see it's the game as more of a whole thing. And he's always one of
the first people after a game to bring up something to someone to ask about something. And
it doesn't feel like there's a glass really. That's good to know because I would say that
you, Paul Fox, are I don't know if you would call yourself critical of yourself in other
teammates, but definitely an energy that was like a case.
Yeah. I mean, normally, I think I am pretty critical about like
certain aspects of the game, so like teamfighting or like just if I think
a large problem with a lot of things is just like if somebody is in the wrong
spot, like on the enemy team, you have to be not afraid to just like go.
Yeah, and I think honestly it's just a balance of that.
Honestly, I've tried to turn it back a little bit this year
because like, personally I'm not like a confidence player.
Like I'm not super, the confidence has affected me sometimes.
Usually I'm just like, if we lose like 10 scrims in a row,
I just, I won't feel it, you know, it is, it is what it is.
Next, next day will be better.
Yeah, so yeah, just trying to like try to be more consider
of others and how they feel about stuff
and just not push things too hard.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
You guys play against each other, of course,
I want to get into that game's muscle.
Did you watch the game between the both of them?
I want to hear from an outsider.
I watched most of the game too.
I didn't see much of the game.
Ooh, the talk about game too.
I don't want to see if the hot process
will actually get there.
I mean, it seemed like line was in pretty solid control
from most of it.
I think that early game, they had some mishoves
like diving and going to for one and stuff like that. And then they started throwing
towards the middle of the game, but I think they brought it back pretty well. So it wasn't like
a clean game, but it looked like they stayed composed. What was it from your perspective? How
composed? Where did you guys go through out of the maps? It was fine. I didn't think
The game was really a problem, I think, until like the second drake fight, I played really bad that
fine.
We didn't get punish as hard as we could, I think, for that fight, but I was completely
tunnel visioned on Pantheon, and I pretty much killed myself in our reason, and I didn't
block a hook.
What's the one where inspired flashed over the wall just to do it?
I mean, I was like, you were like, you need a little new tunnel vision.
I could play so much better that fight because Canada never fuzz an old and I had flash still
So if I just play a little slow, it could be so much better
I think there's like a ulcer kind of run it that fight
But then I could have saved him by killing myself, but I didn't see it in time
So I felt really bad about that, but
In terms of like the actual things that kind of
If I could the game it was pretty much just
Can running the show at times. Yeah, we had a lot of miscommunication in game
I especially that top-fired in top-reval, we didn't even realize he was there until it was kind of too late.
Yeah. Oh, like when you he was coming but we thought Renekton would come as well and it was
circle said he said but like we didn't hear or something like this so obviously these are things that you have to try and
iron out and review and try to fix for other times but it didn't seem like people made massive misplaced, you know,
Sometimes in competitive, you just have a miscommunication like this, it can be game losing,
but it didn't feel like a flow of the game was bad.
Whatever you're, what about your perspective, Balfox?
Well, the early game seemed, oh, mega-cooked.
You know, a little bit rough on the bot side and then in jungle, like,
pantheon stole crugs of the cube blind, and the wall. That's correct.
So I thought the game was going to be kind of cooked, both home brought it back, got, I think,
a solo killer too on top, and then like, I gained top, so that's like, you know, we
found the enter.
It was dope.
And then, I mean, the rest of the game was just like, you know, us grouping.
I think St. that was also a bit of an enter in that game, so it was like to be completely
honest, I killed myself on an important timer.
And then just team fights, you know, it happens sometimes people go too far.
I think like we got caught out and some like, like, invites it happens.
And yeah, I mean, it's just like, just like learning struggles.
I think it honestly, like the fact that we got into a winning position after that was,
was pretty good because it kind of was really cooked and really came back in the light.
I really felt that way at least.
I mean, you said you weren't, like, a confidence-based player, but speak to me about the
confidence of, like, because you guys won't, because Lion, we'll have a gig of visa problems
to, like, the end-the-giri, even your, like, your general matters is on stage as a coach.
Like, like, I would imagine outside looking in as, like, a player would feel demotivating to be, like,
should I put it in 110% even if we don't have everybody, right? But I felt like you, A, both games
had strong-lating phases. The one game you may have had a bard, a terrorizer of my
aim. But also, I felt like generally you had, in my view, a good game. What was your
view from that?
I mean, first game was just hard, maybe a little unplayable. Second game was, well, I'll
say something about draft, right? Like, take cuts. Yeah, I'll say secrets. You know, of course,
I think just in game two stylistically, Telia, Jinx cannot die if nobody does anything.
So Telia Jinx will run the game as long as like in the last fight, there's a
Renekton with no flash that gets a super blast cone on my head and it should never happen.
But like we will just run to back me and jinx will carry no matter what and it's mostly because like
line and gauge champions like they have a Lulu so that they're down one, right?
They're renectin that champion is like with flash up as the only gauge they have a rise.
He can like suicide bomb so often, but that's not like you know reliable and then Pantheon has to do the same thing
but like in to Tilea it's hard.
Right?
I like Tilea jinx because jinx can just trap as well, right?
And so I think like just in like Tlee arrives, that type of matchup, like if the Tlee is really good, they should so if you're the game.
Yeah. So like, I don't know, in that game, I think it was kind of like if I called the right things, I will always carry like regardless of like names.
Yeah.
I'm interested, obviously,
like we've always been asked
for example based off the amount of practices
that you have.
I'm also interested in your idea
of line in their expectation.
I ask you because of course,
your former teammate inspired
is playing on a team.
So there's always gonna be a genuine interest
of like, oh, how is my former teammate going to do?
What's your expectation of line?
This split, actually, or this year?
I don't know, I think it could really like, very,
yeah, depend on, I guess, how well they mesh together and how,
how much they can push each other to improve.
I mean, like, I also think it's overblown,
like the ego narrative where maybe they have three players with big voices.
So it's going to, like, already explode the team.
Yeah.
I feel like at least from playing with Inspired,
he's reasonable enough to know when to get feedback
and when not to, and then how to give it sometimes.
And of course, like Inspired is a very good player.
I feel like he elevates the level of any team he joins.
So starting off, I think for sure,
they're going to be good just because they have the direction
and their baseline is so high.
I think the question for me is just towards the middle,
or maybe like the end of the split,
how well connected would they be?
Yeah.
That's the same question to you, I'll just,
but at Adon, how does it feel being on a team
that has positive expectations?
Cause from a player being on a team,
that just feels like, oh my god,
I don't know how much I could put in.
It just feels like we lose every week kind of thing.
Now you're on a team that has that expectation
does it feel any different for you at all or not?
Well, obviously, like if you look at the skirm record,
instead of in 0, 6, I'm 6, 0, now, in that sense like, I wouldn't say I'm like a big
confidence guy either, but these going into the day and knowing that I'm on a
team that wins every time in scrims that has these players that are going to
give direction, they're going to make the game easy for me. I've never like, I don't
know, it was just really comfortable on stage a lot of the time, especially in
game one or I just felt like the game was going to be easy for me. It's a, it's a, it's a really
nice feeling to have knowing that the plays and a team are going to make very little mistakes sometimes.
And I'm just going to have that freedom to first on myself more. I think what I've already learned is that
the small things, small mistakes that I've made in previous, I'm pretty strange in previous years,
is they get picked up way more quickly on this team.
Yeah, because some of the more basic stuff,
or just the fundamentals of the game
are understood to a high baseline,
which is like, what Master is talking about.
Because of that, it's easier to refine these small things.
Every wave that we miss, every time someone doesn't move,
a little bit left, a little bit right,
you miss a few words, you do anything.
It gets picked up so much more quickly,
And it will, I think, just be refined over time.
Yeah.
Paul Fox, I'm interested in the expectation
that you have with your team only because, like,
A, yes.
These are situations I was going to be cooked.
But this is the first time I feel like
in a very long time you've been like,
disconjuring with your twin in contracts.
I've been with him for a while.
And it's like a bunch of new players.
And we'll see obviously because you've worked with it, you know,
Ignore and before in the past alongside FBI.
So what's your expectation with Digging Toss?
Honestly, like, I mean, these are my own personal
expectations, right?
Is that I think XU has a lot of potential as a player.
I think there's a lot of,
like everyone across the league is like pretty equal
honestly in skill and just like a lot of small edges
like went out.
And I think XU picks up on a lot of things
things pretty quickly.
So I was really surprised about that on scrims.
Yeah.
It was pretty accountable as well.
Like, he's really like hard on himself and accountable, so that's like a really
good combo.
And then playing with like Ignore and FBI, like these two have said, playing with players
that have a really high baseline is like really, really nice.
And they're, they're nice and relaxing to be around, so it's like, someone's like more
time to focus on myself.
Yeah.
If person is a player, if I have like that,
I mean, I have pretty high expectations for myself.
You know, I just need to actually deliver on them.
And I think my expectation for us is like at least we go worlds.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
Especially since you haven't even thought on community expectations,
because our power rankings you can find me too.
Everybody has like DSG and big in terms of like seventh and eighth.
Yeah.
That was like the consistent thought process.
I mean, again, I think people don't realize how close the league actually is.
I don't think anybody's really going to be running it down.
It's just going to be kind of like, I'll say like, small fundamental things.
Yeah. And then it's just like refining, right?
And like even, I'll say, even with like two subs and like a subcoach, like, we're in a winning
positioning in Slawn, which is, I mean, I don't know who the favorites are on the league,
but I would assume it's probably going to be Lawn, right?
You can kind of see like if we just clean some things up like we will win and this is, you know, it feels good.
Absolutely. I want to go to the next series.
I'm interested in your thoughts and I'm just going to go straight from how it is to be, you're saying you're the oldest or second oldest player on your team now.
I'm the second oldest.
Quarters older than me.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Let's forget that. You're not just a play on.
I'm getting what 21, 22.
Yeah, I'm on.
You're like 21.
Yeah.
How was it feeling being on this team
in comparison to the team last year?
In terms of just, like, I guess maturity level I suppose.
It's very level.
I mean, it actually feels like similar,
but also different in a way.
Yeah.
I think the Viber, like the atmosphere is very similar,
where everyone's like pretty open with each other,
and we make a lot of jokes,
and everyone's like comfortable around one another.
Yeah.
But it's different in the sense that,
like they just don't run out of energy.
Yeah.
Like after a scrim day, I'm like you usually pretty tired.
I'm a more quiet person.
So I just like the chill, I don't like to talk too much.
Yeah.
And then, you know, Griffin is like yapping about something
and then cryogens also doing that too.
So they have a lot of energy and it's like contagious honestly.
Yeah.
I feel also more energetic because of it.
So I'd say compared to the last two years,
the energy is a lot higher.
Yeah.
What we want on podcast, you said that those were your roommates too,
right. Yeah. So they just bring that back home in
Joe. Yeah. Never give you rest. I mean, Griffin's
playing arena like 10 PM and he's just screaming about
Max win. I don't know what you're talking about. And then
our other teammates, little bubbles like directly above us.
So then like Griffin is threatening Gaco. He's like,
bro, if you hit me, I'm going to hit a broom on the
roof. Like, way, you know, so it's pretty fun. I feel
I see the energy in game to like in your games. It is
perhaps the most psychopathic in comparison to the last year where I feel like a lot more
methodical, these games are literally just fist fights. Like definitely game one, I think
you guys were behind, right? You guys were still clawed back there. It was, oh yeah, it was because
of the scuttle fight in which it level six out of paying. Yeah, so talk to me about the games
in general from your perspective. I mean, like you said last year, I think we were pretty
methodical, but we did have like Bipo, we had me in Busio, which I think like pretty often we
did make something happen or like we were more so aggressive while Quentin inspired like Farmed
and looked for the one good opportunity to kind of like blow up in the game. This year,
I'd say the rookies are very excited, they're very like hyper all the time. So as soon as they see
an angle, they like to go for it, which is like a good thing and about thing. I think it's good that
you're able to execute on an angle that you see and have a confidence to do that.
At the same time, you need to learn, which I'm sure they will still learn, is like,
maybe a better opportunity will come or there is a better play to be had, so just be more patient.
Yeah. And set up that play. So I have for sure, like, you already saw on the Scotograph
fights, like, we lost off of a Scot-o-smite 50-50, which is like a pretty risky fight to take,
Because if you had one that he'd be low six and it would be completely different.
So yeah.
And you said about Foxy, you had some in the ask about the flag games.
Because you watched them, did you?
Yeah.
How was, well, what were the qualms on mid? Like how, how is quad feeling, you know?
I was a, a zero, a jarvan bar.
Yeah.
That does not look great.
Yeah, it was my fight, Bart.
Smuff up.
Yeah.
Smuff fight is your bar.
is just the enemy of the midlaners.
I think, especially that game, Bart got a lot more time to do what he wanted, because
of some mistakes we did bowling, I think we gave him like a lot more freedom, so Quad had
to suffer because of that.
And the comms were like, you know, Bart could come in, but we did say it quite often, so
I think, I thought had enough and had to show us sometimes.
Well, one of his deaths was Bart altered beyond him to push him forward and he was already
You're hooking, talking on the mouth, I,
and then while I walked up and confused.
Yeah, I mean, it's a pretty depressing game
for a mid-laner when the support came out.
So often.
Yeah.
And he, because like, the expectations thing,
especially for both of those teams,
you and Shopify, is always tough, especially.
I felt like in the draw show,
and very, really early, you guys sent expectations
of like, hey, I don't know if we're going to win or not,
a lot, it's like maybe split two, kind of like setting
expectations.
And then I hear a lot of confidence coming into today.
So where do you feel like your expectations are as a team?
What should we expect from this young flag quest?
I think the confidence shows just from like,
we had pretty decent practice, I'd say.
We did well on scrims, and I thought we picked up a lot.
It's not like we want our loss scrims, so it's good or bad,
but I feel like we actually improved throughout the two weeks
of scrims.
So honestly, I'm pretty confident in my team and myself, so I'd say, you can expect
top three this way.
Anywhere between one and three?
Yeah.
Anywhere there?
Top three, not two or three.
Yeah.
I was only thinking about, did you watch the series for both of them?
Because obviously you're...
I was watching a little bit of the five-less series, but I don't really...
Remember all the events. I remember the second game was a bang-up. Yeah, the first game. I thought not five was just completely steamrolling the game
Second crab is the whole game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'm the show how it's not lost
Yeah, they really must be ashamed
My defaulted nobody a couple times
There's like I think one of the last fights at this point. They were probably already behind. You're like behind the barren pit. My fight. I'll do no in there
Like Louie's on his own.
And Ori was already on a bottle.
Sorry.
Bart, old and Ori.
He was in Stasis.
And like, Mop, I'd also like one second early,
which is just like now he's just said,
and there he should have.
I must have been, yeah, I think I was running around backstage or something.
Yeah.
But it did look pretty unlovable.
Yeah.
From my perspective, so I'm not sure what went wrong.
I don't remember what you guys were playing bot,
but I thought something went wrong early too.
You're playing Jin Koeva.
Yeah, I thought maybe Bob was following every minion for some reason, but I don't remember
Then game two you guys terrorized by the way like yeah, I feel yeah, I was completely one, but then became a bang
Yes, yeah
Yeah, I feel like
I mean became a banger once we went between the tier one and tier two
That was that was a bit crazy
But I feel like you know that goes back to the
I think that's just the energy that the
rookie's like to bring in. They're very excited to make a plan.
It backfires pretty hard sometimes, but I think that's good because you learned
not pretty early on and you can learn what is too much.
What kind of impact do you have? Do you think Griffin Eck is Griffin? Obviously got double
player of the games and was a pretty major candidate of getting player of the week.
How has it been playing with him?
Honestly, before he joined the team, I haven't seen much of him.
I watched him a little bit on Lod, but not that much, so I didn't know what to expect.
And I was like pretty pleasantly surprised.
He's pretty vocal in the game about what he needs, what he needs from everyone, and kind of like,
when he's strong, what he wants to fight, how he wants to fight, just always good,
for a jungler or a player in general.
So he's very vocal, and he's also very confident,
Which I feel like backfire sometimes because if he sees an angle he'll go for it
And that's something we'll just have to work on because a lot of the times it does work. Yeah, I think that's just because
We play the fights maybe better than something to do or
We're able to like yeah, we're just out-hancing people. Yeah, but a lot of the angles are like maybe too hasty
So I feel like
He'll learn that throughout the split, but he's pretty good. Yeah
I a lot of the expectation because we haven't talked about Shopify at all was on Zini and a lot of it was because of the height that Zini has is a player
This is like a ridiculous height from coming in from KT
Yeah, like the MVP it was you here see your draft exactly the one I think so like the fact that you got a lot of accolades and a lot of people were really behind them
There was a lot of excitement there, but then I felt like at least from
a lot of the players or coaches is people who had seen him a little closer.
They're like tempering expectations. They're like, I don't know about that. So where do you
guys land on that? And I guess I could ask you about Fox and what your thoughts are on Zene as a player.
Honestly, I didn't keep up with the name of his games.
Yeah. Today is just like, feel like the way that's our place is like, he's long for the ride.
Yeah. Whether or not it goes good or bad. Like, um, yeah, I don't know. I don't have too much of a
depending on it. That makes sense. You guys as well. I mean today I didn't feel like the
the aura that was brought out to have. Yeah. But I didn't land against him so I'm not sure about that
and then the game he was like, he was okay but nothing like special from what I saw. So I think
Peterson is more to. Yeah. I mean, for me, I'm optimistic. I think that when I think back when I
I played against Quidd the first few times when he played on a hundred.
Oh right. I thought he was the most gainable player. I thought he would die if I just
breathed on you. You know, a hundred thieves in the the start of the run, especially when they
had sniper. Yeah. And before they became like, you know, a pretty good team in North America,
I really thought that Quidd was, you know, similar to where Zini is now. Yeah. So that's what I mean,
I'm optimistic to see because I think what is really good now. He's developed into someone who
created bandages in an open-self, plays a lot of champs. He has the aura as a person.
I can see as in, he's definitely a mechanical player. I saw the way he was moving on
Ryan's just, he's definitely a young guy. I'm optimistic.
sure, but I haven't seen it yet. People, including myself, can be really quick to judge,
because I remember his first split with, like, that was the, the double if lineup. When
he first came in, like, the second split, because Björks and, like, retired early, and
he looked really bad, like, quits specifically. And then that changed, I mean, they kept
him, people questioning it, you know, next split, like one, and we, like he actually is.
So the, you're right, people definitely can be too quick to the trigger. I'm interested
in the draw show a little bit. We'll talk about the draw show, because obviously the
formats different this time around. It's very similar to worlds where you just have the
this Swiss stage stuff. So interested in the next week, Matt matches for a lot of you guys.
Now this is fun. I was you're going up against cloud nine. That is amazing. What's your expectation
and we're like, what are you looking forward to on that matchup? I don't know. See,
now there's always been a team I wanted to be immersed. They were the team I was on at first.
and I'm a good friends and Sven, so I'm obviously always happy to play against them.
But it's also a lot of fun to scream them. So I'm kind of sad that we weren't have that opportunity this week.
But I was sorry to my teammates about the TLCN matchup and everyone has worked here,
I swear to all the people too, though the tail was going to win. Yes,
if they were going to win too or and it was not going to be close. That's what I had.
Oh, that's not what I saw. Yeah, so we've come see nine and they're definitely it definitely is obviously a day played
Some of these players play to get lost here. They definitely have a lot of this fundamental stuff down
especially I think even Balkan just my match of best him. I think he's definitely
Has the experience on me and he definitely sees angles a lot quicker than I do at times. So
But it's 45 game, not only one game, and I'm still confident in my team.
What I've seen survive from my team and Appropriation has been awesome and I'm really excited.
Awesome. You're going to be going up against DSG. You guys are in the upper bracket.
This is what is so funny about Swiss stage, by the way, is that it's just luck of the draw.
DSG and you guys have a chance to immediately just go like to.
What is your expectation going into these guys?
Because obviously we'll talk about it a little bit afterwards.
I don't think anyone expected DSG when persistent animals.
Maybe I don't know if you guys had a different thought process.
That would be of course.
Yeah.
Also, of course.
Okay, nice.
Then that's us outside looking in.
What are your thoughts going up?
Actually, where people underrating DSG, because you guys obviously had
different expectations on that. I think maybe people are overeating sent to it. Yeah, I think that's
more than underwriting do you? Yeah. I think the issue still has some ways to go. But I think
people have thought that centony's would just, I wouldn't say be a top team but be a, a very
competitive team right from the start. And I think this is not a group of players that are played
together before. So it's going to take some time. I imagine. Yeah. So what are your thoughts? Because
because you're gonna be going up specifically
against Ajad, if you guys are like,
flag� brothers in that way.
Any thoughts going up against him in particular,
or just going up against the SJ as a team?
I do think the SG is still like a very new team.
And I'm right, I think we could two of their playing
with their major and we're?
We, I'm not sure, actually.
I'm expecting it.
Yeah, but you never know.
So I don't know which younger they're gonna play.
So I haven't seen them play with their full main roster.
Yeah, but I think they have quite a bit to work on in terms of team play and I think they're
bought land. So, Judd, I think he's got a lot of potential. I think he's pretty good in team
votes, especially. In terms of landing or something like that, I think their 2v2 bought is not
that scary. But at the end of the day, it's not like it 2v2 game. So, the entire team is going to
I get involved and I think you will still have to play clean in order to leverage advantages.
Yeah. And so I guess the next one would be Shopify or Belling going up against
T.L. I'm interested in your actually your thoughts on that match up in particular.
I think it'll be a scrap. Honestly, I think from what I've seen today, like either team
I can win depending on the day.
Like personally, I don't think,
I think Tield got big individual leads in the C9 game,
or at least like quit as an example,
but it feels like what I saw
of a hundred thieves last split, right?
Like the teamfight magic is kind of what I felt from them.
Yeah, it was like, quit was just playing like a little bit off.
And that series, I think it was just like,
maybe like a little disconnected or just like,
yeah, just a little bit out of it.
But I think if quit is on and back to yourself,
I think till we'll take it, otherwise,
it can be really close.
And I guess I'll double down on you just because you
are also going up against Sentinels.
And you already said, everyone's kind of being on Sentinels
being kind of overvalued.
In the case, what's your thought going into that, too?
I mean, just going all over the dark rings,
because, yeah, right.
kind of feels like he's a bit unaware.
Like he just, he farms a lot.
He will be taking ways and he's pretty greedy.
Which means like, he's like pretty easily open
like exploitable to like yanks, right?
And it feels like, I don't have too much
of an opinion of like anyone else.
I think like the jungle is a little bit rough sometimes.
Like maybe he's like trying to do too much.
It's kind of what it feels like.
But like just strictly like team fighting,
I think, like, jungle is a little bit rough.
And I don't think who he's like a good and gager.
So it's like, I don't know if you go and watch those games,
like when he's paying Lish and Tommy,
they're just stomping ball in, but like little direction,
I feel.
Yeah.
And then in team fights, if you watch like the role game
of the who he played, he's like solo-ulting his in-zow as a role,
like using his flash and stuff,
it's just, it's something that I would expect from like a,
I don't know, just not, not an LCS player.
So yeah.
Actually, I guess we can go straight into it. I'll go into that one immediately. It was the DSG versus
Sentinel game. I
Definitely thought the Sentinel's would win. I think the power rankings overall was at least I'll say my power rankings that I had
Sentinels at six, but I thought that they would be a team that maybe scale over time
Because like you have
Who he an impact as veterans who probably have like a good vision of the game and you have golden glues
So maybe things go work out in the past, but this was obviously not a good week for them
going up against the DST and losing. So my thoughts actually a question, I'll ask you
I was, what do you think is wrong with sentinels at the moment? You can say the outside
looking inside and pin you because you don't know what I would say exactly. I will say
in fact, it's playing great. I think his performance relative to his
as a parent was amazing.
I think I would feel really, really demotivated, honestly.
If I had lost that series from his perspective,
it's definitely not a top-line problem,
serve from the, from the fully full game,
we have something to talk about.
And I remember the second game too,
or I don't remember the second game,
but the Lucien Dhanney game, it looked on lose pool.
It seemed like the issue bot lane didn't have a sense of direction
at all.
They didn't understand when they were winning, when they were losing, and I thought it would just be a clean game.
Especially considering that, I mean, this is playing with a sub, but obviously from the start of the year, if you think with the sub the whole time, it's not like he's going to be a sub.
Yeah.
But I don't know.
I think also to be optimistic, I think Doc Wayne has exceeded a lot of people's expectations from where he was last year.
Yeah, and I'm happy to get your shots and when I'm talking to St. St.
It's showing me things in lane that Doc Williams is definitely a reasonable player.
He's landing well in the games that I've seen him in the games of the RearScreen Vaston.
But as a five-man unit, I think that just sir,
not on the same page.
Yes, sir, far from each other and their expectations just during a line, almost at all.
So from the game, I scream them and think from the games I saw,
it's hard not to believe that they will crumble somewhere in the mid game.
Even if things go well, there's a chance that's something from your wrong.
You're not all not having a long with that.
There's such a team take.
Well, all right.
So let's say like, like, in game 2, right?
Like, bowling was 80 CS up, that was the decision on me.
Yeah, that was the decision on me.
It was like, 80 CS up.
That's the good.
It was a lot.
Would you care that game if you're Lucian on it?
Like if you're, what do you have been a part of like winning that game?
Giving them direction.
I'm a herpser.
I mean, I don't remember the exact game stage.
It was hard to say, but I remember the impact as long as memory shows the production
growth games.
Yeah.
Like something game is playing great and second game I forgot was playing.
More presence.
But he was totally feeling second on something.
He was definitely playing great.
Yeah, I would hope so.
It's really not hard to play, I think, when you have a champion, like,
like, Mordakaiser, who is just hard to kill inside.
If people guard at him, he can do you one.
Yeah. So one of your sidelines will just be on the control of the whole time.
And Lucian Army will have prior on every single midway.
So where does it go wrong?
Yeah.
It's not hard to believe.
No, that I'm actually thinking about it more.
Like, how did they lose?
It's tough.
I do think, actually crazy.
I do think that game later on was tacked was hard for the Mordakaiser,
because the mid-laner they're going up against,
the colleague, pretty difficult to alt.
Well, I'll, I'll, I can't, I can't you shout.
If you use a shroud and then you alter out,
you just want to kill her.
Also, if you, like, he was so strong in that game
that when he alt did a colleague, he didn't even
lose one of you on.
So when a colleague pops out, she would have no shroud.
That is true.
So it's like, you know, there's that.
Also, I would say, like, for you, right?
So like, you spawn in, you don't give it direction to your team.
Like, you would, for say, the thing about more
or I'm assuming, right?
Like, I want to cause you can TV one.
We have a problem every move away.
I don't know if I would say it, but I mean, I have teammates that feel a lot of the
blanks from the ACER.
There's a blessing in that sense, but I mean, genuinely, it's hard for me to understand
if you win Sir Hot on Mid and you win Sir Hot on Side, just what happened.
More guys who can easily make fun of Zinja and Team Facts.
If you just work as more guys that you're in front of Zinja all the time.
Yeah.
Yeah, before we full game, we'll be completely one.
And Zincha, our best Lucian, is like a bit of a phastro famine.
And Zincha was winning Lucian, complete.
If he tries to use Zincha, he will die, and he will deal zero damage.
But the universe can also be true.
When Lucian is telling your frontline and Zincha has a pop-alt,
he's currently useless.
So...
Kevin's like Zincha, a much better situated in the river,
hitting the Drake, creating chaos in the team finance,
and making space that way.
But when the game is just, we can't breathe on the land.
We can't kill Lucian.
It's impossible if I go to Silent to hit more guys like he's just going to kill me.
I don't remember what the land it was, but still, still I find it hard to believe that
they found a way to just throw it all away.
Yeah, yeah.
Five bucks.
I guess through the line of your questions you're basically saying, they
have said no direction.
Yeah.
I mean, that's kind of what I'm trying to get a little bit of it.
I mean, yeah.
I don't remember the game that well, sorry.
It's a great idea to hear that, I guess, but I want to go on to the C9 TL one.
But do you have any final thoughts on the last, is it the Sentinels DST series?
I honestly didn't watch most of the game.
Okay, so I'm not sure that's fair.
How they lost you?
We can go straight into the C9 TL one.
Because that one is a pretty big banger.
It feels like everyone's expectation is like top two teams.
Actually, I was even mentioned that everyone expected Team Liquid to win from the who you
talked to you. It was pretty divided from like broadcast
down. Like I had seen nine, but I didn't think it was going to be
too at all. What was your actual last few months, you? What was your
thoughts of that series if you had watched it?
I mean, from what I remember, I think I was just
second in mostly. Yeah. And the APA seemed to be playing quite
well. Yeah. I think he was already stomping Midland. He was
like up 20 CS on the on A, so yeah, which is not normal. I
I think and he was also moving around and like being in the jungle fights being in the
bot fights and the game seemed pretty hard.
Yeah.
Um, so I was also, I was thinking T.L. was the stronger team before watching the games.
Um, but not that much to just like buy a little bit just because I thought they're
balling is honestly very strong, especially in the end, I think.
Yeah.
And I think Sven Vulkin are good at neutralizing lane mostly.
they're not in my opinion, I haven't seen them play a winning lane and like
slump their opponent hard and create an advantage of it.
Yeah.
I think they're very good when Zven can farm either 1v2, 1v1, well,
Vulcan moves around with the blubber.
So, I was kind of surprised that TL lost two, but then again, I think,
either team could have won.
Yeah.
Especially since TL had a pretty consistent level advantage in game one.
Like that had invented the entire time, I think.
That was also the game in which APA solo killed
quit in lane.
It was like 40 versus a zero.
That solo kill was like,
he stood still as a zero and auto attacked
and shot because he kept trying to run back in.
Yeah.
Cause you didn't even click E.
You're like, bar anything.
He just spoke to me though.
Yeah.
I think quit us there except that one a lot.
Yeah.
That to happen.
That one, so you just think it's like an aberration.
That shouldn't happen.
Now I looked real weird.
Yeah.
I like a one-off, yeah, it was likely, yeah.
For the, for the,
I think, like you said, it's just, um,
I feel like Tio, looking at that game,
just didn't realize like,
their wincon is not or the game,
like just chill out, don't do anything,
and then like after the only
gets some, some pressure in the lane,
like you can do something,
but I don't know if you realize,
like Tio walked down to a crap-out level four,
Tio was hard losing it,
like it's Jarvinhurst by,
like they just, they just don't want to really,
So, they're already winning it,
to clear it comes down.
Each skill has blue buff,
and gets lost after from it.
Yeah.
Then he runs back to mid and just starts really quick.
But then he goes like, damn, that's a rough, you know?
If that happens in your mid, you're just like,
oh, I'll do my best, you know?
Just, yeah.
It's such like, Tleeya, Tleeya when she has like,
that type of elite early, especially like,
I'm an advantage too, it's hard for a little bit,
and then like, as long as you survive it, it's fine.
but it's kind of hard to surround that one.
Where's the confidence coming from?
Where everyone believes that Team Liquid is the better team?
It seemed like C9, obviously brought in a lot of the same
players from last year, added APA, seemed like they were,
well, like put into positions as exceeding that sense.
But I would ask you, I was, where do you see that confidence
in Team Liquid being the outright better team?
Obviously, before the series.
I'm not trying to shed the same experience,
but it's the same extent that some of the people I talked
to did, but what I will say is when we played against
Kale and Korea, we were, I think it was S-R-C9,
T-L-N-S, the Orange Korea,
has been all three of those teams.
Yeah.
And I just thought that Morgan seemed like he really
put all the pieces together.
They're all on his throne land.
Like, Master talked about everyone
who's known that Yon and Klojaj is been,
at least, I think historically,
the strongest ball-in in land in North America,
maybe not out of land, maybe.
Because you're a monster, we're guarded, I don't know.
I was too busy losing every game to learn.
Yeah, I don't know. When we played against Morgan, it seemed like he was great in the Avengers.
In order to himself, he had an idea of what he wanted to drop to each game.
It seemed like he could play champions that we thought would be terrible.
And even if he went down 60 CS, he would somehow find a way to be useful later in the game.
He had a good, free it on a went to click the Teleport button and just send it fully.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just thought they were playing well. I thought honestly. I thought her Z was going to be day a week point
But from watching the games and from what I heard from other people too
Her Z actually played a pretty good series and it seemed like he was kind of a victim in some ways. Yeah, and
It seemed like I mean, I was not a really big fan of the games you dropped. I think they were decimal lose potentially. Yeah, but
Still some of the the question marks of the I didn't think that Morgan was
or performing like I thought he would, I think that boy
and just on the performing, there's some expectations
about the drop was bad, I really do want to confront to APA
and he played a great series too.
Mm-hmm.
Pop-ups, I'm gonna ask you this question,
but it's gonna be an extendo reach cause you did play
with those idiota before?
Yeah, well, while ago,
so what's your aspect, I mean, he must have changed
obviously from everyone changes between that time,
but what's your feeling with Jose de Oda?
I mean, I actually had a lot of respect for him as a player when I started playing with him.
He grinded the most solace of ever seen any player ever grinded.
I don't even know it was possible to play like so many games in a week.
I think like, no joke, like while we were screaming, like he has like 130 or 140 solace of the week,
which I literally didn't know it was possible.
Is that even possible?
I played, I tried one week to like catch it.
like 70 or 80, right?
I was like, dude, I don't know what's going on, you know?
Yeah, it's a nice looking look.
It's a little bit.
I was cooking the books a little bit.
But I think you've put some in a lot of efforts.
I think you try as a lot.
And honestly, at the time, I think just like our coaching staff really wasn't good at all.
And he's like, I think he needed a lot of like experience or help in that sense.
And like, just direction, but we didn't really have that.
So I just, I'm glad you got another shot like he didn't really get like a fair,
a fair shot when he first did try, you know?
So then, how do you feel about,
or what was your expectation of team liquid at the team?
Could be a little bit of a flip, but, I mean,
I don't know anything about Morgan too much,
like, you know, I know like the Lord Morgan memes.
Yeah, it's kind of goes both ways.
You know, like, and then like with quid,
with quid, it was like a big question mark for me.
I don't know about you guys, but like I thought
river quits specifically was like the calm,
like river was like insane.
Yeah.
And then like quid team fighting was insane.
So if you get somebody who like starts team fights
well, and then like who performs in team fights?
Well, it's just like you're a great duo, right?
Yes.
So honestly, that was just a big question mark for me.
And for ball-in, like I do agree like
yon core, I think you're like best ball-inners,
but it does oftentimes feel like they're trying
Maybe a little too hard to like stomp-bought.
There's some like tempo things that I think they miss out on a little bit and like core I think is, um,
I don't know, I feel like core, I don't know how you guys feel like you guys play bots but if you're like core out of lane feels a little bit
shakeier than in the past like it's not just like he's trying to like crazy angles it just feels like pretty normal.
Yeah, so I mean, expectations like did be good but not like guaranteed best just picking up off of that one.
Just a support player.
Yeah.
On core.
How do you feel about, you know,
core is a player just playing against them,
where you're just watching and playing?
And who do you think is,
I guess, the best support slash bot lane in the league?
You say yourself, obviously,
but if you're going to say yourself,
and have you go, then say someone else?
Honestly, I think this is not going to be the best ADC in the league.
No, no.
Of course.
And I think playing with him, playing with him,
and creating a career, it didn't take me much time
to realize that he was not the same player I played with before.
Sir measured, sir understanding of not just the 22 elements,
but also the jungle elements, plays around jungle,
so much better than he did back then.
And it's just sir, like I said, measured.
Yes. So I really believe in bizarre ground
and I believe in our ability to become the best 22 lane.
I think I still have a way to go.
Yeah. But I think Yona and Paul have great synergy in line. They think really similarly,
and they just come to the right conclusions. I think a lot of the time. But I do think sometimes
they play worse on champs. They don't play a lot. They play really well on champions. They play
a ton. They play really well on Lucianami. They play, I mean, that's a lot of six out the
the most to be honest, but they're just, I think Cole plays really, really well in Alsta.
But sometimes when the lane matchup is not like really skewed one side and they're playing
a matchup that's an all super hard winning in of itself, it seems like there's something lacking.
And I watched that series bus, see nine in the second game too. I just didn't think like
we, they would pick this lane and then just go completely dead even and now you'll just
Tom Kench first for Colin and you're just Jim Busvara's. Yeah, varsity shooting is
discussing error. You're from obvious screen. He's like nothing happened, you know? And
I'm not sure if that's because score is washed out of land or something like that. I'm not trying to
imply that at all. Yeah, but something I think from previous years, I'm putting it's called that
much in the past. I did play Core 2020 in Worlds and I thought he was good. Yes. I couldn't breathe
at any stage of the game.
But League has changed a lot.
And one person's ability to, in fact, the game,
I think is a little low than it was in the past.
People are more solid now.
And sometimes people play against,
supports really well, sometimes they don't.
Sometimes they shine and sometimes they don't.
Yeah.
And some players of fashion, others, people say,
they're sure one of the best players in the West now,
like maybe of all time.
And he had a more fashion style.
Sometimes he was very measured, but sometimes really
So I think people remember these things more fondly. I think course had a wealth of experience. He's definitely a fantastic player
I think he's the toughest support for me to play against when he knows
What he's doing. Yeah, I think when he plays champs like Alston we play champs like Lucianani when they realize this strong
They're great at tricking you out. Yeah, I've had that reason there. I think the best ball line in terms of laying face
but out of line I think
It becomes, you know, closer. I think Vulcan is really, really great at understanding to
identify a game. From just the support perspective, there's the two that I find the
top of the play against. I think Vulcan is better at understanding the teamfight play,
and sometimes the temper play a little bit better. He's better at playing. What's sometimes
that type of thing? It sounds a bit cheesy. He's better at placing words. Yeah. But sometimes
I don't know, Vulcan is great with temper and that type of thing. Yeah, sorry. I think he's, he's
really great. I think Corey's really great in lane, but there's the only two to be
completely honest that really smells of me. Now I want to rebuttle from Masu before you're
going to the meta discussion, because obviously you're a part of that bot lane with Buccio
and then now you're moving in with Kraugen and I don't know if you had much time to really practice
and get an idea of how you guys stack up with the rest of the league. But where do you feel like?
because Game 2 is insane, but I'm obviously, you know, you're not going to expect that every time.
So what's your expectation, especially working with a crowd in the hasn't had that experience yet?
Time to fly them. Of course, a crowd in is like a very green player. He didn't even play
in tier 2. He went straight from tier 3 to tier 1. So he has to play a lot of couch up and
And for a support, which is a role that is,
like, every role is impactful in the game,
but this support has to hold a lot of information.
And that includes the landing plus the entire game overall.
It's not like the easiest thing to improve one,
everything all at once.
You have to take it like once at a time.
So I think in terms of when,
I'm very confident in myself,
I'm confident in him as well.
And I feel like that won't be like an issue
to improve one quickly.
And I feel like already from the like two weeks ago
when I played with him first,
to know, I feel like we've got a lot better already.
Yeah.
And like I was said, I don't think I'm the best lady
care and I'm just because I don't think my form is good,
but I think I easily can be.
And then for cryogen, I think he's improving a lot
every scrim, I think he's learning how to play it up,
he's learning how to play them up.
Yeah, I think he's getting better.
Sweet.
Um, so we're getting questions from Discord.
This is from topical armor 23 to Masu.
What is the most ridiculous thing that Griffin has done so far?
Um, I feel like when we go out, Griffin is a very,
outgoing person.
Yeah.
Even to strangers.
Oh, no.
Like we're just walking the streets and he's just random.
We're like talking to people.
Yeah.
He's just asking them the dumbest things ever.
Um, so like, one time we were at a restaurant and we were eating and then, uh, we were about to leave.
And the person at the front was like calling a table was name and see, and she said like,
generous something. And then he just like perks up and he's like screaming at her. He's like,
gin from legal buttons. And then she just like said,
she's got no clue what's going on. And he's like, you know,
I have a picture with them.
Yeah, he's very funny.
He's a good one.
He's on his.
Last question, it's from.
Friedman, it's all three.
What differentiates between a good debut and not so good debut?
Uh, what makes a debut ton, young or important to be seen as having a.
Okay, so just generally what makes a good and bad debut in general.
I'll actually start with you because you came in through the flight
through the flight quest team that shall not be named
and you felt like the question that you just talked about
that story actually.
Good day for you and I'm bad day for you.
Well, I'll use APA as an example, right?
He joined a team with, was an impact, PSIC,
Yon and Core, PSAC coming off winning worlds.
I think just having teammates with a high ceiling
or high, sorry, a high floor, just allows you
to focus on your own game.
And if you're joining a team with like a low floor,
and everybody's trying to put out fires
and like you don't really know where to focus your effort,
it becomes really hard.
Yeah.
I think though, if you play with teammates that are,
or if you're like a all really bad, sometimes it's not,
it's even if you play worse than you could.
Sometimes it doesn't look as bad.
So when you're talking about Dave,
you, a lot of it to me is like how people see you.
Yeah.
So when you play with really good plays and you lose,
you can also be, you know, it's like a double-edged sword, right?
If you play with really good plays and you lose,
everyone can view you as the problem.
Yeah.
In the same way.
But if you play on a really bad team and you do one thing
that's good, maybe it's a good debut.
So it does depend.
But it's true that when you play with really good team
and it's even if you play just average, then it's easy to look at.
Yeah. Same with you, Mossu. Yeah. I mean, I kind of read both of them.
Um, I do think for like the general public or most people, like a flashy debut, where
even if someone like might have not played well, but they did a really flashy play or in a team
play did something really well, that could stick out and like skew the opinion of the public
already about that player. But I feel like four players themselves, like I
said they've used them for a lot. I was lucky to be with a very good team.
Yeah. So I could focus a lot on myself. Yeah. I think when I debuted, I
was already like pretty solid for LCS. I'm actually interested in your guys
as a pinion your own debut because like obviously people will think about like
while turtles bent a kill like,
oh, you just, you just replaced someone at the end.
And so like, I'll start with you,
mostly only because you are like super critical
of yourself anytime anyone gives you props.
You're like, I think I played Blackshit.
How did you be your own debut on Flag Quest?
Did you think you had a great debut or not?
Oh, how did the community I was, of course, with positive?
Yeah, honestly it was a bit of a blur
because that like entire month leading up
to me playing my first match.
I had like a sinus infection.
Oh, and like one day I will cope and I couldn't hear out of my right year and then the other day like my entire face was hurting so like I I don't remember anything actually the plague yeah, but I was just I remember I was playing Sonna and I think I played like what
decently that game I'm doing anything too exceptional, but I didn't lose this game. Yeah, but I guess like one of the first games I remember I was playing it's tactical
I think it was playing TF-80 carry that was the debut. I remember that game the clisting that wasn't
Yeah, that wasn't like a debut game, but that was like in the first month or so. Okay, okay, okay, and
I think I remember I was pretty happy with how we played lane in that game. Yeah, at least very early on and I remember TF was like
Zero C S at four minutes or something. Yeah
Good feeling how do you feel about your debut
I guess my LCS debut was in 2020 too and I only played with CNF like two weeks.
But I remember honestly like the community at the time I thought kind of solving through
varsity classes. I remember the first game I played I played there and I,
even in a best of five, those golden guardians at the time I played there and I,
and I thought I played really badly. I remember LS made it to me about me saying like,
Australia is really real represented today because of how you played in the same team.
Oh, yeah, I'm impressed with Australia and he said I played well or something and I was thinking in my own head, I was like, did I play well this game?
I thought I'd really bad, but, you know, that's what I mean. Like the public perception can always
dip out depending on the teammates you play with, stuff like this that can randomly happen. Maybe someone
influential will say that you played well and now people like you. I think for that reason, I didn't,
I mean, I never really read Reddit's ever, but they really never, if any topic, not just
really, I don't read Reddit. But I remember reading Reddit for the first and early time when I
played in Sinan. I didn't get like almost any hate whatsoever, which would they usually believe
it's a good debut, right? Yes. And my teammates at the time, quote, surmuch heat, like surmuch,
so much. I feel that the other players very deeply for their reason, but
because narratives, because players play on roster for so long, it's so easy to point
thing is. Yeah. And that's just what the the public just don't see the nuance of the game
sometimes. I think for example, I think Craig and today had an awesome debut. Yes. His second game
in terms of just getting solar kills is like so great for your career. It's such an awesome
start. But for my lens being more critical, I can still see things he has to work on, but
the public doesn't see that. So, I mean, obviously I'm happy with him. I wish the best for
everyone individually. But from what could have been a mediocre debut, he said a great one,
but it's not necessarily, that doesn't mean he's suddenly the best one league because he
He gets all it doesn't lean.
Yeah.
On his first day.
Yeah.
Okay.
We got it.
I'll ask you, how you felt about your debut before we go to the next question.
I don't even remember it.
All right.
Yeah.
I think it was the LCS lock-in.
I either played a good or bad.
If it's a game of thinking of, I played well, but the macro wasn't there.
Yeah.
And then if it's not, then I have no idea what the debut did.
Yeah.
Honestly, we'll stick with the good memory.
But we're going to go back to you on this next question coming in from mass mischief.
This is the most weirdest question, but you got to have to work with it.
All right. If you were going to run it down a single game,
yeah, what is the champion that you choose and what champion you think would actually help you win
this player running it down? This is, this is like a puzzle piece. I actually have no idea.
It's, uh, well, there's actually a lot. Yeah. You don't know.
I mean, look, I'm not going to say I ran it down on purpose, which I didn't. On this
hour, there were some games where I was playing any where I would say like, if they go
on me, they'll lose the game. Yeah, all except, you know, like it is what it is. Yeah.
I think one of those games I can see not actually where I was just like, they're blowing
I'm low in Niko World, they're blowing like Niko Flasher,
everything to kill like a two and four Annie.
I was like, I hope you carry people, you know, like that's,
and as soon as I got my full combo off, I did my job.
Now there it is, that's the reasoning.
I love the fact, I think that was the perfect person
after the question.
And before we end the podcast, you know,
you guys have spent quite a bit of time on the patch.
I want to hear complaints, just like thought process,
what's the one thing that's your pet peepe currently on the,
like a new patch or new season, whatever it may be, you can think about it, but I'm going to go straight to you, Mossy.
Because like, there's so much that's changed.
I like all of the changes.
Okay.
It does feel pretty bad to hit Drake as a ball in or no, because I'm doing like 60 damage in auto.
Early on, so it's quite a lot of time that I have to invest into that.
Yeah, so it feels a lot harder and then top laners like we just finished their quest on their level 19
Not also feels pretty bad sometimes because I'm like two items. I'm like pretty
Good in the game and then their top laners just like level 16 also two items and I just can't look at them. Yeah, so yeah
You can't look at him best enough. You all see in front of your whole team and she appears behind you it makes a lot sense
Yeah, she's so cool that was on me and I have been nervous thanks on her game
I feel like that's already won, but I'm gonna ask you
Honestly, that one didn't come to mind the biggest thing for me that I thought felt weird
It didn't feel as much
Or it didn't feel as bad in competitive games that obviously today is the first day. I've played stage games
But Baron is so tanky. Yeah 18k HP before and on the on the previous year
when Adagana is alive and stuff.
At 30 minutes, Baron was not as tanky as it is now.
At 30 minutes, yeah.
Think about how much more gold teams can acquire during that
10 minute period.
Obviously, there's more gold in the game now with players
being on towers and whatnot, yeah.
And the roll quest and whatnot, it's easy to get more gold.
But not 10 minutes worth of gold.
Why is Nash changing?
When can we win?
Like, even in the game that we played most of the day,
like, you would think when we're up 10k gold with soul,
Maybe we can take Nash really fast or something if that losing like obviously we miss it really badly
Yeah, but
You would think like
We could kill Nash in like
10 seconds with a four item ADC yeah at 20 minutes you would harp sir, but you just called
I don't know if I asked you this while you were in the room before we started the podcast
Did you know that
There and didn't have shred all of last year
Not like my resistors shred like magic resistance and on resistance. It did not
Apparently it's because autocon did buried it not so not only is it so a lot of people didn't know that I
Think I did think that autocon was a lot harder to take the Nash oftentimes. Yeah last year
But
That was a shred just not as much. It wasn't as significant
Because I was in the patch notes. So I was I when I saw the patch notes. It's like oh
So thank you and that had that last one for you, pal. Fox. Yeah, um, it feels like
Honestly, this meta, there's not too much going on.
It feels like a lot of the game is just like a...
I'll give it an example of like, I don't know if you watch the T1 game,
whether it's down like,
yeah, it doesn't bother that much.
It feels like the game will become more like it wasn't like season 4 season 3.
Yeah.
It's like, make it and break us.
The Baron gives 500 gold.
It gives nothing.
Yeah.
You can honestly trade Baron for a dragon.
Any dragon, like, so-point, not even soul,
and it might be worth it. Honestly, it just doesn't feel like the game can be progressed
so fast if the enemy team doesn't give it to you. Yeah, I'm not going to lie like in the
game, the first game against you guys. It seems completely doomed, but you guys have like a
colleague, Rumble, which a colleague kind of gets out of skill by like crisis specific. Yeah,
right? And it feels like even at that point, mighty care hit three items, we can win. Yeah,
Right? So it really just does feel like, I don't know how to play it, but like the game doesn't progress so fast anymore.
If the enemy doesn't give it to you and comp, I feel like it's going to be a lot slower and so like you people just give it to you, you know.
Yeah, I mean, to be fair, Oticon was literally the objective that was made to kind of pull people to play.
Yeah, yeah, that's true. It definitely did. I like that.
I think the awesome thing is going on.
It definitely like.
I don't know how it comes in.
I was interested.
I was a fan.
I love that a car.
That's a lot of watching a game be lost by it.
But no, that's weird at time.
That was a great conversation.
I appreciate that.
I didn't expect it.
Now I'm interested to see how thoughts progress
with the patch as we continue moving on with that one
and how you guys do you go and get
in the next stage of Swiss.
Appreciate you guys coming in.
Thanks a ton.
Thanks for having us.
And thanks a lot for listening to this one.
Of course we're unlike iTunes, Spotify, all that good stuff YouTube.
Check out the next episode coming in next week.
So see you guys until then.
Peace.
Yeah, okay, hit you two guys
He's all we're killing
It's a cloud nine two nothing and they're gonna love the way this week two locks
three sentinels find the play.
Oh, so good.
Welcome to the LCS, sentinels win their first series.
Hello, and welcome to Way to Road.
We can do it here, LCS.
Rages, scream, and a duck is long.
I'm just singing to us, all right.
If you were to let the audience say that, just miss that.
No, no, no, it's completely fine.
At least you're sure it's the right way right now.
There was a moment.
Do you want to show up the back with the such?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're showing off the back of the show.
Let's show those of the back.
Yeah.
They're burning the birds.
They look fantastic.
You're the way.
We're gonna boom, boom, you get to see the bulls back.
Oh, you got flex too.
Yeah, that's good.
That's good.
I'm messing with the camera.
I'm just messing with the camera.
All of our faces are just like what we're doing now.
You know, this is probably what our best starts to show to begin.
It's amazing.
I'm really happy.
Don't tell me about that.
Yeah, they really did.
Let's talk about day one for the weekend, though,
There are a couple of really fun games.
Senals got the first one.
We saw him at Highlight Real there.
That was awesome to see you.
I didn't want to leave you out.
Yeah, yeah.
I definitely didn't predict that.
I thought, oh, yeah.
You're only one of the basic things, right?
Yeah, you were.
But you weren't on here.
So what was your prediction?
I predict it since.
Bam.
Yeah.
They're rounded.
I do think both sentinels and lion, even though they lost,
looked better than they had in week one.
They both looked a lot more well-court.
There's a lot more well-cornated.
I love how when we were watching Sentinel's out
and we're like, the thing they focused on this week
was jungle.
I'm like, sorry, I'm gonna hit you afterwards.
He was like, yeah, I don't know that.
I was like, I also like the way he said it though, right?
Where it's like, ever could have an opinion.
Yeah.
And it's not even that those opinions are bad,
but when you're trying to get a team all on the same page,
you just need to pick one thing to focus on.
So they look a lot better.
100% I mean, the Drake set ups were much,
I'm back with there.
He was there.
And the Notchernori on all of these,
like even though they were 100%.
Yep.
Still well-being.
I'm not a lasting grade, exactly.
It was a thumbs up for everyone involved.
There we go.
Yeah.
It's a hard day.
So last thing, the dignitaries,
the lights are not a lot.
I need to tell the dignitaries what ever that happened.
But I'll suggest props to send rules for pulling off a tough combo,
because Notchernori is not always the easiest one.
But there's a lot of a popular statement.
I'm going to go and on right now.
public statement. This is from Christian, I will dominate Rivera. I've been publicly accused
of one of my players. I want to state that I have not created jungle propaganda within the team.
Lies. It is not my fault. But jungle is simply the most important role in everything must
revolve around it. So that's up for you guys. I think this is done really side with blabber.
Really? At the end of the day. We know he's the one trying to throw for those six-minute
Scott O'Crab.
Look, Blavar already was a crab enthusiast.
Yep.
Now the game is encouraging all of us to be crab and king.
I mean, even in the, like, APA during his play of the week interview
was talking about how their entire reviews revolve around the crab,
how the most important objective for C9 right now is the crab.
So it's the crabs.
What's the most important thing right now this moment?
The bracket!
Let's show the bracket.
What's up, David?
I don't want the Swiss bracket looks like right now because a reminder we have Swiss
stage four split one we're currently in this second week and we already have a couple
of teams kind of seated so see now I'm still in the feed of two oh let's go yeah I
mean well if you're already two you're in place we that wasn't even a question
that wasn't even a question if it's seen on a what see nine we're gonna make it but
we have in front of us is the S. G. versus fly team liquid versus shop by something
no unexpected news of course shop by to be in this going up against team liquid
with that the fuck one.
Yeah, also seem like we would Alienware.
True.
Just to get with the time, we'll get it right.
T-law, which is an objectively cool nickname.
Well, they currently the law on the lower bracket.
Yeah.
In the, oh, in one right now.
Yeah.
But ahead of this weekend, we asked fans to submit
over reactions about the LCS so far.
So to kick up the show, let's take a look at some of those
over reactions that you at home submitted to us.
So over reaction number one, believe this one's from
a Jackson. Okay. We'll see it on the screen in a second here.
And my LCS over reaction is going to be that Lyon has the worst mid-Jungle duo
and that will be definitively proven by the end of the year. I think individually,
St. and inspired might be fine. But when you put them together,
St. being a gigatilter and inspired being the most likely jungler to inspire
tilt with how blunt it is. I think it is going to be a recipe for disaster and that will be
proven by the end of the year.
I think I didn't test by the way.
That was my face.
You'd be like, I don't think I can play.
He's a pregnant.
Uh, I will say I'm glad that he then,
because like initially you're like,
whoa, and then he qualifies it with.
They might be individually good players,
but as a mid-Jungled duo,
I still think I can't agree with this tape
simply because of the caliber of players.
They're so good.
But guys, but I'm at least glad that he did break it down
where he was like, they're still individually good,
but together collectively, he thinks they're gonna be worse.
I just don't think collectively they're gonna be,
though worse.
Yeah, I think they're such good players
that that's really tough.
Yeah.
I'm not happy that he broke it down at all.
Because at least if you believe in what you were saying.
Yeah.
But even if you didn't believe in what you were saying,
you don't put the literal reasoning
that would be against your point in your support
of statement.
If you're saying both of them individually really good,
then how does that make them all bad?
No, I mean, shit.
I didn't do that.
Or even tell the time where I'm like,
and I know you're gonna say this.
So I'm a hate of you.
Also, that's a big, but, you know,
you are like, you're doing this first of all.
Every time you pitch content,
you're like, this is gonna suck,
but here's my idea.
Well, well, well, well, well, well,
I got too much.
We have more of our actions.
Well, think I'll look at over there.
I tell him, take it away.
My name's Tom and can you even call it an overreaction? I think APA is just the
best native North American to ever do it.
I'm going to say the other North American midlands are the up there.
Hi.
Yeah.
Palo Fox.
I mean, there you want a championship?
True.
There's my card.
We love that brother.
Yeah.
Go on straight through the past on that one.
Dumonté, golden glue.
I mean, there's a chance.
It came off, you know, to start the year on a really high note.
He's one free player of the games.
Joe Joe, I'm the first two weeks.
I'm Joe Joe, I'm really happy to get Joe Joe.
I'm giving it to you.
I'm giving it to you, actually.
Yeah.
I'm not a disappointment.
It's really, yeah, we're all on this.
I think, which is going to be our kind of problem with asking.
Yes.
Yeah.
I don't think it's impossible that this could be the case in the future,
which is maybe also what he's saying,
right?
We're like projecting it.
He's like, yeah, I'm a client.
However, high had such a massive impact
on any League of Legends and he was so good.
And he really set the tone for like,
what a mid-laner was supposed to be.
In North America, but also at that time,
people were also kind of looking
at what he was doing internationally as well, right?
Even with obvious gap between the South Korean teams
Yeah, North America is sadly.
But that's what it's called in overreactions.
So I think I understood the assignment.
I'll take it overreaction number three.
You did understand it for sure.
I'm Hawk the Dog and my LCS overreaction is I believe
cloud nine is not going to drop a single game
until that upper bracket finals where they will drop a game,
crumble, and then eventually not win.
Go back to that.
All right, let's do it again.
You can do that on the table.
That's awesome.
That was a very like he had us in the field.
Take where I was like okay, and then he's like and they're gonna crumble
Yeah, you didn't even see you know
His score clevenance seen that we've done this in the past
Yeah, compared to their playoff
And I mean it's a worry in trend to bring back
Yeah, I like the first take. I don't like
That's a big thing.
Talk in the dog.
But his name is also incredible.
So we have to be scrapped a conspiracy board.
So that is good too.
Yeah.
I think are incredible.
I will say the caveat, because they didn't say the why they would crumble, right?
Yeah.
You mentioned the historical evidence.
I think also Team Liquid was a team.
Is a team and lying to be fair.
Our teams that are scaling.
Yeah.
That got in their roster pretty late, specifically Morgan came in, right at the end of, you
know, the end of the week.
So right on time, the same could be set for the circuit.
teams that will get better throughout the process.
So I'll give you that one.
If that's, yeah, that's the type of high-class
or high-class, exactly.
All right, cool.
Again, these are over-reactions.
So let's take a look at number four.
Abraham here with an LCS Open Action.
And I'm going to say that despite their loss,
Team Liquid is still the best team in the LCS.
Because two games is not enough data,
and I'd rather trust amongst with the Scrums.
So I didn't listen to any of that because that is not
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That was, idea, the, you know, bold style choices.
But he thinks Team Look would or still the best team in the league.
Probably unbiased, I would assume.
He seems like it's trustworthy guy.
In it.
Okay, let's just take the take and not.
That is Jack.
No, that is Jack.
No, it's just, it's just Abraham.
It says Abraham.
Yeah, and it says he's taking the team Look with tape.
I don't know what you're talking about.
He wasn't employed by them in post.
He didn't say Team Liquid with Alienware.
He did not say Team Liquid.
He agreed that it is actually a better one.
Yeah, we have confirmation.
I took a production.
Where is my wife?
My wife?
My wife's a typical kid.
Can I just break down, wow?
Not just break down the part where he says,
I'd rather trust a month of scrims than one.
True.
Because I feel like that was a very pointed dig at people discussing
Team Liquid.
Here's the thing.
I do still think that TL and C9 are the top two teams.
I personally put TL to, so I still think C9
are gonna be better by the end of this split,
and I'm sticking with that.
So I don't agree with his take,
but I agree with the sentiment
that TL shouldn't be judged by one game against the team
that we're ostensibly talking about as the best team right now.
Well, I have way more opinions about team
like what after today,
because we'll get the second one against shop.
I haven't seen that yet today.
But sure.
That's a good point. I did see him earlier.
Have you ever seen Jackson Abraham in the same room?
I've not. No, but I've never seen him.
I've never seen him. Guys, because we can talk.
So we have one more over reaction.
Thank you, everybody.
Yeah, thank you.
You said it over reactions.
Those were all incredible.
But I actually had an over reaction that I wanted to flow by the two of
you to get your thoughts.
Okay. And this is my over reaction.
Let me know if you agree, Chad.
I think that right now, this is the best ever debut.
And it's going to be the best year for
rookie performers in North America.
I think that this generation that's coming
with a cryogen, suggest.
Even kids know how to good day.
If you know, cry was going to replace.
We haven't even seen cryo.
This is going to be a remembered years.
Like, this was the year that N.A. was saved
and rookie talent came in and turned the ship around, baby.
My Lord, thank you very much.
I thought you were starting with the,
like, I have to ask you what saved me
in this for N.A. but we'll put that aside.
We're going to work on this, baby.
go back to my lawyer. So the best year of record for developing NA players is a tape
considering I have a lot of issues with the kind of shipping away at at how like amateur
and an ACL and like all those teams have been run. I think it's kind of sad to state that we're in
right now. This is not to take away from the individual players who are dealing with. Sure. Because I
I feel like the take on screen right now that I'm reading is not what just came out of your
mouth. Okay, so this is I may be reflective of the initial take I gave, but I'm looking
at this as from LCS level developing player because I agree that when you look at the tier
two system and how the next generation coming afterwards, that's a different take. Yeah.
What I'm focused on is the players that are in LCS right now. This is going to be remembered
as an incredible year for development. What were do you want to use developing any players
or rookie any players to developing any place because I'm a
different person.
Yeah, dark wings had a split.
You can't have a million or the end at the moment if you try and say that he's a rookie player.
How do you know to developing players is a strategic word choice?
Because I said, oh, you know what I'll probably say.
I think issue with the fact that we can't have players like Griffin and rookie of the year
content.
We can't have players like dark work, we can't have their content.
They played one split last year.
That's not a rookie year.
That's half a year that they played.
That's right. I mean, I knew it. Then you end up with, though, as Razz already knows, if you watch the LPL, I'm pretty sure, you know, it won't be your spotlight on your business. First, you're in the LPL, and that is just ridiculous.
Well, all this is to also like the tape. Talk about the developing players because we have apparently exciting matchups.
I will say just a point. How are we going to talk about successful rookie talent?
It's a little came to make it past the piece.
Okay, okay, you know what, put him for the movie right now we're talking about Masu and
Sadjad because this is gonna be a bot lane matchup that we have today. These are two of the players
that I'm really excited about. Masu is continuing his development. He's been around for a bit now
but Sadjad and his debut really impressed. And they shared an interesting timeline together because
Masu developed in the NACL on flight west challenges. He got called up within a year,
shout out to the Wi-Fi wizard. He went from like solo queue, Canadian Wi-Fi, the LCS within
a calendar year. But then suggestions of one that actually
black west out at next to be either a Academy Bot
Lainer and both of them won MVP of NACL. So it's cool to see
them have kind of similar trajectories, right?
Yeah, I'm interested in seeing it. I mean, we have both of them
right now here for an interview with Kobe.
That's okay.
They're just telling Griffin to be quiet because he is the
loudest band in any room. But I am here with two
to most valuable prospects, it's a Jed and Moxie here.
You guys played under the same organization
for like a year together.
Did you have a lot of like in-houses
and was there anything that you particularly learned
from Moxie, maybe?
Yeah, we scream the main team a couple times.
I remember right before finals, like both teams made finals,
so we didn't have any teams to scream,
so we screamed each other,
and it was like a really demoralizing week,
because we came to the conclusion
like no champ is blindable and yeah I mean I think we went like 3 and 20 and that
we could scream. Do you remember this? I'm sorry to say I don't. But I do remember
like towards finals we didn't have teams to scream and they didn't either so we used to
do in houses for sure and they were actually pretty decent practice especially
They're ballin' was pretty decent.
So it was a good practice, but I think it was like two years ago,
so I don't remember much.
Why would you say it was there, like scariest part
of about playing against their lane?
Um, I mean, first of all, specifically,
I think his lane is decent.
It's not like very oppressive.
It's not too passive.
But I do think his teamfighting is very good.
I think he knows how to position himself well,
relative to both columns and just like the positioning
in the fight and he knows how to deal damage, so he's pretty good in his role.
You got a new stuff you're going to show him in lane and take some lane advantages?
I don't know if he was time by like back then or now.
We started back then, in lane, you know.
He's not wrong, but I'm just going to do my job.
Well, how about this?
What is your support do better than his support?
You guys can talk talk some trash for your duos I think he probably does everything better, you know
Please
What about our crime? I mean, it's right right now
I think
Cracks and what do you wait? Oh, it's guys he's lying. They're both lying
Yeah, I mean, Crump he's very good at his jumps. I think he's listening
he knows
What he needs to do in the game with his champion relative to the other champs
So there's like playing board or playing Alstar and knowing how to use the spells and like went to use them
I think it's pretty good at that. I think his mechanics are pretty good
So I think we'll have a good upper hand all right. Let's have a good clean game. May the best bot lane win take it away launch
I feel like you get the sense of the fly quest vahaves between Griffin
I'm really screaming at getting cryo-jumped.
I'm gonna be like, no, no, no.
Like, you're in your life, you're life.
But cryo-jumped did have a really good debut last week,
as did Griffin and also the judges,
as they're going up against each other.
I wanted to look back at some LCS J views, right?
Like, I think, I do want to see your group.
Yeah, we have a whole bunch.
I do want to start with Turtle though,
because I just think, again, we all established
where Onks here, right?
So, um, while Churchill's debut was really kind of insane,
it's the Pentecostal, that everyone kind of remembers.
It was an LCS fan back at that time.
And this was just a, like, holy crap.
This guy is gonna be insane.
Yeah, because the whole idea of like,
your position is never, uh, Kobe's going crazy.
Yeah, I know what, but we know some more big shit.
I know more big shit, I knew it, I knew it.
I had to walk in the middle of the world.
You're about to wear a mask.
Oh, send that back.
Anyway, you're about to wear a mask.
All right, we're good.
But I've never been a chaos man.
I was like, well, surely you're going to come back after this run, right?
Mm-hmm.
And back to you.
You're just like, no.
No.
So that one, no one was tough.
That one was tough.
So I know you said, on status, I actually have seen that clip.
I've never seen that full game still to this day.
So I need to go back and check out Wild Turtle's debut game.
I want to talk about one of the other ones, though, in APA.
We have a couple that are kind of great examples.
A PS and other ones I want to remind everybody of,
because he's still in the lead right now.
He's Tristana was crazy on the day again.
Yes, but like there are a few that we want
to be able to set the standard for, because right,
like Wild Turtle was still the best, right?
And we'll go in the next three.
What did he do?
Exactly. We'll go into APA just because of how insane he was.
And then the interview immediately afterwards,
because they built this composition for him.
He was going crazy.
The confidence was there.
And I think that's key for players like him.
we're coming in for the team to build around him.
That's how you do that.
Oh, yeah, this way is crazy.
He just, yeah, he just really popped off
on the chance that he is super, super comfortable one.
But the reason why I want to set the standard
is because, yes, like APA and Walter,
little was great, Walter, it was the peak.
And then you go into the good category,
like the solid category, and the Ericsson is something
that is interesting one.
Because obviously, he came in from Copenhagen,
Wolves, and he was in the European side of Phnomes,
came over and he was playing Mr. Gradonia.
Yeah, I had Greg in person.
What, who?
Look at him!
Yeah, he's a little girl.
Draw a cranks back then.
We were all cranks back then.
24, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1.
I think I'm glad you brought this up as like a solid debut
because Bursin actually wins this lane, right?
And he and so does really well.
I remember his 20.
But, hi, it's playing Timo.
And C9 basically just stalled out.
and tell those team osures just kept hurting and more and more and more and they were just a little bit more well coordinated in
this but here's what had a really solid individual debut yes he did yes and that brings us to the last example so we have three categories great solid
and rough unfortunately we did have a rough debut in recent memory with Danny's debut and uh so we'll take a look at that one and then we're going to take a look at the
the debut from this past weekend.
It kind of put them in different brackets.
So this was Danny's initial debut.
We remember him for the highlights
and how much he popped off.
But in that opening game, it wasn't the most impressive.
And this is what Chad should come in and be like,
why don't we do it?
Like, because this is a good example of people
not remembering your debut
because of your debut's year.
Because of how the memory of was like the overarching aspect.
Because like, hey, you may have a bad game.
But then you go into the Tristan,
on official pentacillin.
And then you go in and have an amazing series
like next series overall with a team that you have.
Like, sure, no one's gonna remember that.
And that's a good thing.
Yes.
Because over-spall of your years
what over-shadowed the first series in first game.
I don't think you can see tiny bits
of what did end up making Danny a great 80 carry, right?
Like his willingness to go in, his repositioning.
This is all stuff he learned how to, you know,
hone over the years that he was in LCS,
became one of our best 80 carries in the league.
And so I think even in our debut,
we're like maybe individually didn't perform as well.
You can still see hallmarks of what would become his place later.
So if someone has a rough debut, that's not like a death sentence.
Yeah, by no means, by no means.
So now let's take a look.
Now that we have our three brackets and people
are kind of caught up with.
That's one of my look.
Let's write some of the player debuts from last weekend.
We have Griffin's debut kick things off.
So Griffin, I believe we have some B-roll here
to take a look at. Yes,
definitely impressed me the most out of any of the
debuts from last split. He did because like I felt like his
ball of air performance in his Luke comfortable
performance was up here.
Um, he didn't remember. Stayed to make. All right. I
don't know how to tell the crowd flip.
There are mistakes. Oh, hey. But this play, like moments
like this, I'm making me excited for a player's
debut. Yeah, and I think that was the biggest
compliment I can give Griffin is just if he makes an
to take, he shrugs it off.
And that's such an important thing to have as a pro player.
They're a better player, so you still have trouble with that.
That's a great thing to bring, Andy had a great debut.
I'm slapping right here.
Okay, no, we're gonna break out.
Okay, I don't like it.
Is that a pretty good one?
We got a good one.
So where do we think?
Where do we think?
I've got a one.
I'm putting it around here.
Oh, okay.
Okay, so maybe we're in the middle.
Yeah, right there with solid, only solid.
I'll put him here in the middle.
Okay, I'm in the middle.
Yeah, I'm in the middle.
I'm in the middle.
I like that.
Because I mean, if we look compared to the other junglers,
like, you know, 30 for contracts to start off on the least
in things like that, we're crazy.
Let's take a look at the next one, though.
Sejet.
Let's take a look at Sejet's debut.
So that's what performance is.
And then place him up on the board.
So Jeb was one that I feel like individually,
that he was performing the team was doing a lot of the setup for him.
It wasn't as much him like making the moments happen here on the
and then we're going to see one on the silver as well.
But still, as any of you carry, he's doing what you want to
work to you carry to new.
Actually, really like his kind of thing, even though they lost that.
I thought he, that's when I was like, oh, okay, such a job.
Like I didn't, I'd seen him in an ACL didn't know how well he was
going to perform on stage, but really did not seem nervous and
that's good. So we could get in like solid.
That's probably, probably.
I read my blood on this page covering the bar of my
Okay, no, I think I think great.
He won the series, right?
He played individually really well in the Kaisens.
I mean, I'm sure about it in the grip.
I would say he's like, oh, yeah, I would get it.
Okay, okay.
Like there, I said, I'm sorry, I'm feeling it.
In a series.
Okay, I'll get the series.
Put him on.
I mean, put him on.
Put him on.
Put them at least at the same.
We had one more to take a look at the swallifixness.
Well, take a look at Clio Gen, the last of the three.
His cryogen had some lethal hooks, man.
And spoilers, you're going to be seeing this later as a due tell trader to break down how they use this affiliate trash combo.
But I loved it. Like going into this game, I was fully expecting Samus and Bboy to be the lanes that ended up taking over these games, especially with their preexisting synergy.
But cryogen and mossy looks like they were completely in step with each other.
It was really great to see especially in that second game with the affiliate trash.
I don't know if I was doing it right now.
It's like reorganizing.
So when you're doing it right, you have to do it right there.
We're doing something right now.
You just do it right there.
This is an unbiased list.
And I'm changing the definition of this.
This is a solid debut year.
Okay.
You're doing it right here.
Okay.
I don't care.
Okay.
You know what fair enough?
This is the solidified.
We're just cutting it right here.
We're at the end of the year.
It was every one, we're great the whole time.
Okay.
That was a little more.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I'm down too.
Yeah, I think my LCS didn't go.
Tucker up, normally with my way.
Okay, this is the camera.
All right.
There we go.
Okay, we've got to move on.
I was going to talk about what we're excited for about both the team's.
And hey, guess what, that Bully tells her to talk about,
is right now.
because I'm super excited about the flight list.
Bot lane, the busio going over to Carmine Corps
and the LEC were like, okay, they're bringing in
cryogen, how well is it going to perform?
I want to break down some TV2 plays from the bot lane
that they had, they're going to be targeting
Sam's here, ignore the fact that he says SRB boy,
he is Nico just as a reminder.
And you're going to be watching for when they hit this
level two, right?
Because they're pressuring really, really hard.
they get the sums out, they push them up in the lane,
and then as soon as they hit those levels,
it's gonna be happening in a few seconds.
Cribogen is already zoning them off the way.
Immediately they hit level two,
it's gonna be a hook into play,
and say if is dead.
And this was just some great start.
It's exactly what you wanna see.
Out of your failures thresholding,
this is also just a great combination of the gravitum
and hook. We see it there. We're going to see it again. And we're going to pause the circle
again. The guns that Mossy has are very important. You want to be able to get that route.
Out of the gravity them to set up for a perfect threshold. It happens again. And they double kill
this spotlight right here as they're pressuring the turret. So as soon as they see any sort of window
to hit that blue hole. Perfect. I loved it seeing this and then Mothi is going to go up and
clean up this cool right here. This is what I'm most excited about coming out of this
likewise team. Again, when Boosey left, you're like, okay, how's this going to work out?
Mothi and Craig look great in week one. 100% of Matt's, what are you excited about?
I mean, I just feel like they're overall hands. I think they're overall mechanics, specifically,
we haven't mentioned Gakos as much because so much of the focus was on bot lane and clawing
when he brought San Francisco to the jungle.
The wall got goes from the top side.
I feel like he's a great McKinsey-Sill player.
And a lot of the time you look at his carry players
and be like, oh, are you playing like the really
games or your hard course in carry matchups?
No, in solitude, like a lot of his pink matchups are great.
I love just Cassante.
They're the play that we didn't get your replay
because they were fighting to get it to too much.
But he had a great link game Cassante play that was on top side,
like kind of around the barren area that really, really impressed me,
especially when compared to the few times we were able to see him or he looked a little bit more
disjointed from the team last year. I thought that was great to see for them.
And I guess also just for DSG, I think that their bot lane is exciting too, so Jeanne
having a great debut and call me. I think also really impressed me a lot.
True. In week one double pog double pog right there.
That's our first matchup for today. Let's take a look at predictions and see how
we're all feeling about the matchup.
I have a game for DSG.
I don't know.
DSG, they still have a sub.
Oh, I didn't use them again.
Yeah, I think the rock thing is DSG do have a sub.
Yeah. So I think if it ends up being as chaotic as last week,
why cost will to owe.
The reason why I gave them again though is because
I just see a world where happens.
I don't think any team is flawless, right?
We already talked about some of the mistakes that
that Flyquist did bake in their games last week where it was then on Shopify to kind of
have these, you know, contracts is going in like way ahead of even times they looked really
uncoordinated.
I can see a world where DSG does come out with more practice and does take a game.
I still think it's very Flyquist favorite.
But I just think no team is like incredibly dominant right now that they can't drop a game.
And a young roster like Flyquist, they might get over excited.
There's a lot of variables that can happen when a rush is getting together.
For me though, the reason I'm not getting the game to do is she is that I
heard from the team, they've only been screaming with Kriera.
That is their long and goal.
And still are practicing with the player.
It will be on next week.
His no, he performed well in week one and he's doing the best.
And he counts out there.
Keep your eyes on kids.
No, because maybe we'll see more of him.
But because they haven't been practicing as much with kids.
No, I think that they're focused on the long term.
But we'll see that.
What time is it?
Hey, hey, that's all you.
My watch doesn't have a battery in it.
I don't have a watch.
Start the game, start the show!
Why are you on the other side?
Nope!
Let's go.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the LCS, we're here for day two of week two in
20, 20, 26, and it's time, my friend, to figure out where our teams, who might be in
some very, very scary prospects that they lose today, are going to end up first up.
We got flight quests, going up against disguised, and I think that disguised are going
to have their work cut out from.
I'm got to fire this cover by the way.
I agree, by the way, and it's really fun because talking about prospects, we've got
some very good prospects on both of these teams.
It's exciting that these are teams that are in the upper bracket here that started
week one with wins and now going against each other have a lot of potential here
in the lock in tournament, which not a lot of people suspected at the very beginning,
you know, different reasons.
Disguise, they basically got their whole team pilfered in a way from them, so they're
So putting it, you know, new squad together, not a lot of people having faith in them
or ranking them super highly.
And for the fly quest team, even though people were really excited, everybody acknowledged,
all right, they're all super young.
It's going to take a while to see results.
But we already saw some action packed results and just being in there, in this video with
that squad, like that.
So loud and there's so much energy it is insane doing that interview is really really fun
So I'm excited to see you know their next game as well. I mean a lot of times at the start of a new year
The most you have to go off of is what happened last year and last year flag quest were the main characters of
The LCS for practically entire year and disguised
They were fighting for their lives
Down there in the battle pits just trying to claw out survive relegations
So now that in week 2 of 2026, they're going to head to head in the upper bracket.
I agree, man.
I think it's exciting.
And you're mentioned in the energy of FlyQuest being in there, doing the interview,
a big narrative point with this FlyQuest team has been how the veterans of Quad and
Masu are meshing with all the new blood on the squad with the rebuild.
So let's check out how this closer look shows that process going.
It's been a long time since I've been working on the team for a long time.
I've been working on the team for a long time, so I'm really sorry.
I've been thinking about the first time I've been working on the team for a long time.
I've been working on this for a long time.
Okay.
I think the Chinese people are the first to be in the world.
But the Chinese people are the first to be in the world.
What? What do you think?
Okay, I'm a bit nervous, but the Chinese people are the first to be in the world.
What? Is that part of the world?
Is that part of the world?
I don't know.
Born in 08 or 07.
That's about half as old as I am.
the zoomers are still in the
half of Captain Flowers right
there. Yeah, they're just
the captain or just the
blue. It's not. But
doing them together. You get
one scar never made. Yeah,
stand on one. That's one guy
stands on the other one's
shoulders. And somehow you
can manage to lucky in an
old purple scorpion.
But quad definitely seems
to have his work cut out for
him dealing with the young
whippersap or anything.
It is, it's really funny
too because you know, really
think about the these two
guys as being like the
the veterans or anything, right?
Both Masu and Quad are also kind of soft spoken,
so it is, it's going to be interesting
to see the development of this squad.
We more on the other side, you know, talking to Sejad.
The Masu was like, yeah, you know,
he's pretty good at team fighting,
but not to scare him as lame face at all.
Sejad was basically like, well, yes, not wrong.
He's not.
So we'll see this game,
because Masu was popping off in week one.
yet. Some extremely good games, him and Kraugen were kind of running bottom lane, and
they absolutely destroyed later in the game too. So that's one of the things that definitely
want to keep my eye on here for this series. How they can draft around bottom lane,
see if they can get two sujets, strength there with the team fighting, and if they're
going to get run over too early.
Okay, so in the selections for this first game,
Fly Quest chose last pick and disguise chose blue sides.
So very standard draft in terms of the order things in line with what we've seen.
For so many years up until this point,
as it will be Jason Varus band out by disguise,
Fly Quest targeting some junglers looking at Kizno over there,
banning away the jarvin, banning away the pantheon.
Disguise now also going to ban a jungler themselves, getting rid of nocturn.
So you know what that means, Flowers?
Let's take a look at all the picks up here.
We've got the Azir Oriana trade. We've got rumble for top lane and best of for top lane.
A lot of pre-mo picks up and available.
And whenever we have a team with Castle, this has always been true on all the iterations,
you know, previous DSG.
They multiple teams that were like losing teams.
Castle is always liked being on a champion, you know, like A trucks are in best. I one of these ones.
You know, where you can't carry for top lane, rumble here.
Huge for team fighting. One of the ones that we mentioned.
And so they think it's first pick worthy and they're fine trading Orianna Azir
Seemingly maybe they even have a little surprise cooked up
But I'm not predicting any sort of surprise call me did have a really good a cally game
So a cally is another option if you're feeling more spicy, and you don't not this game. It's not that was the third band there
That's what I question you expect for us really good a cally game
So they're not going to get that level of spice, but there you go. You get the Orianna.
Word swimming is your will be on the other side. And then what's your answer here?
I would probably proud of something for Griffin. I'm a Griffin talking right now.
Looks like they're going to get there. They're just rumble answer, not really any sort of counter anything,
but we've seen Cassante. Do some Cassante stuff quite recently?
Yeah, if you're talking about spice, I feel like Oriana Cassante
won't you have bread?
That's the amount of spice that we're talking about.
That's like the spices that they use in England or like the spicy
the spices.
It just brings on toast here for FlyQuarce, but hey, it works.
We'll see how well they can execute on it because disguise.
It's a classic combo with a rumble.
You have some powerful AP damage up there in the top lane.
who can't right next to it for some equally powerful physical damage alongside AOE on both of them and the lock in the easier mid here as well.
There you go. Okay, they shipped it through some of the other options, but at the end of the day, flowers, it is always already on a versus this year unless it's a fearless game, and they've already been played.
Then we can't use him.
Oh, hey, here we go.
We got Colby's win.
All my hopes this whole season were resting on Griffin,
because he had already previously played,
Volubar in the South.
And Volubar right now is in one of the peak forms of this champion,
with Dusk and Dawn in the current iteration,
and Volubar in the current iteration,
before we get the next patch.
You've got to put that last thing.
This game is one of the best users of this item.
Stubble stacking your lethal tempo and your passive for
Valibear is so, so effective.
And it just gives the perfect stats for him.
Loves HP, attack speed, AP, cool down reduction,
all types of stuff.
It is really, really good to rush item.
And so, I'm really happy to see that we do have
some players that are willing to use this.
Before, Valibear does get nerfs.
And it seems like the nerves of this champ on the next patch
are gonna be fairly substantial.
So I don't know for how long we're gonna see volleyball.
Are you all riding another letter to freak?
No, I'm good.
Because I already diversified last time
they turboed their volleyball.
I had fun being a one trick for a lot
for like a year and a half or so.
But last time they nerfed them I was like,
okay, I guess I think I'm done with that.
All right, let's talk a shout a little.
I can shout a little.
It's all good.
I'm not resting on my hopes
I know, freaky just headshot me at any moment.
Okay, you got to be aware.
Freaky is conditioning you to be a more well-rounded player.
As we do have our second half of the draft rolling in now,
with Lucian, Nico, Bard, and Nottless band out in the second phase.
It's a lot of focus on support.
Karma will be the lock here for Fly Quest as quirky.
Is the 80 carry force a jet on disguise,
and they will lock the nommie in next to it.
Okay, honestly, very standard stuff on the side of DSG.
of course, volleyball, jungle is not standard at all
fairly few teams doing it, but it is very successful in solo queue.
So it's so much of it, watching like high-challenge or ladder games.
It's like every matchup.
Yeah, it's not something that's super out of the ordinary.
I personally love when you have a karma on your team.
Yes, as you all karma, it's good lane, good poke down there,
but it also really, really emphasizes volleyball.
that speed up from karma is so effective because one of the ways they've been
nerfing volleyball over the past year or so, they took extra moose speed out of his
queue and last time around Griffin actually max W first. A lot of people is like
there's different levels of how many points you put into cue before you max W.
Some people are full five pointers and they're like, I need all this. I need my cue.
I need my cue full five pointer. Some people are like me. I go like three points and then
I believe in the last game, Griffin just max W first, which is one point, and then you're
extra slow.
But if you have a combo on your team, then you're not slow.
There you go.
Okay.
Now, the big thing that I'm looking at here for Fly Quest, compared to Skies, you
look at the Skies.
There is so much Wombo combo potential here, with Womkong, with Womkong, with Womkong,
a nami all coming through, a zero out on top of it.
Everything here feels like it can be layered together super effectively.
on the side of FlyQuest though, I'm kind of going to need to see the bare ball delivery
system, just volleyball, dunks, Orianna, Alley, I feel like they're going to have to
look for better set up for their fights.
Yeah.
What do we think in here?
I mean, volleyball is jump is not super fast.
So honestly, it might be better for like Cassante delivery or to do use flashes to deliver.
Okay.
We've been seeing in EU, you know, they're running Mundo as a delivery and then Mundo just flashes
you can like you can flash a shockwave in there pretty quickly or the gates.
But while they're always as the go-to, of course, of you precast your e-far and then you
queue and you're just running at them and then you flash your queue to get one person
with that in gates, but for the Oriana on the back of it, then you can get multiple people.
Alright, as we're waiting for our minions to collide here in the lanes, let's go ahead and
listen in on Griffin's pet talk to his teammates during Chancellor.
They're not that bad.
It's like a full-send.
It's a full-send, and even if you think they're bad,
play like they're bad as well.
Okay, I respect him from Griffin.
I love this guy's attitude.
He hasn't been in the league for very long at all,
but every time you see him, he's super high spirits.
He seems super confident.
I'm excited to see what he does on the ballad.
Yeah, I went into their interview, Masu.
And a grip is like yelling at me the whole time.
You go, he's definitely even doing his brings a lot.
Anyways, well, we'll track him.
We'll track the ballad, bear with both junglers
are heading down to the bottom lane, which is a very, very good strategy in the current
meta.
See if they can get any sort of extra pressure down around there, you know, Masu and
Sejad, like we talked about, they work kind of in agreements that it's probably going
to be Masu and Kraujan with some early pressure.
And of course, if you're running as real karma and you're hit, you're still gonna have
you're still shot. You're going to
have some early pressure. And the
idea, you can push them in and then
poke them while they're trying to see
us under tower. Yeah, as real karma very
deadly from range there. A question
to pose to all y'all B. S. G. FANS that might
be out there. Obviously, the season has
started better. The 2025 did with this
squad being able to grab a win in
week one, but can they fight their way
to the top half of the standings? Can
they generally defy expectations that
talk forward to see. That's pretty high
It's pretty high-flowers.
Yeah.
It's definitely above at least four, but right now, it's true because they're one and
no.
They're doing it.
They're making it happen.
So right now, it is true.
So how high will they finish though?
Okay.
Already we got some believers.
We got, we got some believers and they're actually growing.
The believers are growing.
Honestly, there's more believers than I was expecting.
Considering disguised placement in the standings for the majority of 2025.
Right?
the end of 2025 where the team finally got it together more. They were able to defend their
spot. They didn't fall in the relegation tournament. But throughout a lot of the year, especially
early on, there were so many struggles for the team. So seeing 40% of viewers believe in
disguised for top half is honestly pretty reassuring for them. Yeah, definitely is. We got Papa
Smithy in the chat. He, uh, he's all his very complimentary. He likes talking about both such
and Masu, of course, they are both under the Fly Quest organization.
One time, Matthew doesn't want them doing well at the cost of Fly Quest doing poorly.
Yeah, we know.
We want them both to do well, but one of them to do a little bit better.
If I have to pick up a big yard right now, I would love for everybody to be able to hold hands and be happy.
He's like, I hope, Sejad can lose gracefully, you know, it's still not going to be individually.
Maybe he'll give like a pen to kill, but then they still lose the pen.
I hope so, Jed gets to work on his losing gracefully, and Mossug gets to work on winning
humbly.
As far as what we did see from the CSC team, though that gave a lot of people confidence
was, honestly, call me here that is on screen at the moment in mid lane, he had some
very impressive games, I thought, and definitely bringing a lot more carry potential,
and play making potentials as we see Griffin go for the NBA on the Raptors here, followed
the bear definitely can't believe we'll call early on and so trying to use that pressure.
And I like how observers split the cam here because it shows the invade from Griffin
is at a time when Mosul and cryogen are also crashing the wave into the tier 1 turret bottom.
So, suggest and lions don't want to have to rotate over to a chicken pit to take some
like Colonel Sanders fight for this little tiny cam because they don't want to leave all
those minions and any deterretes were like the timing here from flight wise.
Yeah, and they got pushing mid lane too, Oriano crashing away in mid lane.
So you've got mid push, you got bot push, great time to try something.
I believe Gizno got plenty of plenty of value out of the Raptors still.
And he's going for the Oriano play.
Okay, Quatt could be in a little bit of danger.
Here, Kizno sees the Nimbus strike to try to chase an after-quatt.
It gets away there with the shock wave.
But Quatt still alive does not have to spend the flash worth noting he did already take his first recall.
He doesn't have a TP and he is at 300 HP and almost no man is so
Quot's not in great shape despite staying alive and not spending the
Summoner spell both New Lane is not going to take the chance to recall.
Okay, so Griffin over here on Volubar as well after finishing up his own
side taking the Raptors then going back to his blue side and easily take
Dragon.
Volubar can easily solo Dragon no problem.
So good objective control here for fly quest.
and level six now to on the volley bear. Griffin knows that there's that control
Lord in the tribe rush. The fly quest forward disabled by it. So he just runs in
immediately smashes that disguised control ward. Make it a little scarier down
here for suggest and lions who are just stuck underneath the tier one shirt.
Anyway, Kiznos going to go ahead and make his in-day toward that red buff.
Bubble misses from lions. Not going to interrupt the recall there for Mossu.
If that one was placed just slightly closer, it would have hit, but it was a blind
fire from the nami so it does not connect means Moss who's tempo isn't interrupted
and speaking of getting interrupted he is now wants to finish this red before Griffin
can show up and try to contest and for it and sure enough he will get that goal so
Griffin loses out on the second spot of his red just has to go to crux and step yeah
alright he's now doing a pretty good job I went back to check the smite too because
it was pretty close but kids are also landed the smite on his on raptor so his defense
of the raptors was pretty good there too and now with flash on who can when level
6 on flat on Luke Kong flowers. You've got your work cut out for you. Definitely have some
targets towards Mid lane. Bottom lane is pretty hard to gank. It is as real with a karma as
well down there. So very slippery, pretty hard to stick on and maybe they'll just focus towards
the Orion instead. Yeah man, there are 10 flashes up on Summoner's Rift right now. If you're
trying to look, you love having your flash off, but you don't love it when the enemy
later do as well harder to make those plays than they would like to see.
And honestly, with the state of phase rush, before it gets nerfed on the next match,
I mean, Orianna is actually quite slippery as well.
So with flash and with phase rush, even with an easier on your team, it can be hard to
pull off that play.
That's why it was unfortunate for DSG that they didn't get Quad to actually burn his flash
through the last time they went and visited and used the easier ultimate and Quad did a nice job.
just using his hopes to be able to face
rest, Brock and walk away exactly.
That was the perfect example of what
phase rush does just off the guy and
walk out of a calming trying to go for
the emphores to glide yet again but once
more, not going to find success lions now
in a little bit of danger.
Moss, who going very far forward and
it's first blood of the two be two.
Flag quest is blood thirsty.
Okay, so this year, at least they
did get the flash.
It midlayed this time, but then
Moss also flashes forward and
he's using his flash to get here.
And it is first blood with the extra gold Masuacraudin indeed using the Ezreal Karma here very effectively they had constant pressure.
Earn themselves C.S. leads earn themselves tower play gold earn themselves first blood.
So it is definitely looking like kind of both of them may be expected maybe not to disagree, but full pressure from fly question.
This is what you like to see them use the early pressure.
Very effectively getting a lot of value.
Take away the red buff as well after the first blood
and successful bottom lane plays.
Man, that bottom lane lane is excruciating now.
Nearly a thousand gold for Mosul when the teams go lead
is just about the same overall plus 25 in farm in the bottom lane
and even mid and jungle are also farm advantages for fly.
Back in draft, you mentioned how castle,
Other words on disguise or previous other teams that he's been the top laner for he likes to be able to play a carry and try to impact the game even if everything else is rough and right now
He is the only individual who's ahead of his counterpart on disguise
He's the only one who has that goal the plus 500 over the Cassante Cassante is still Cassante though, man
I'm feeling like disguised is not too happy with these first nine and a half minutes
Yeah, um, they definitely couldn't be fighting more success. I think they would have loved
the first visit had gotten the
Oriana flash then they could
have got the kill the second
time around. But they're going
to have to repeat now that
it is down if they want to
get anything done there.
Otherwise, Black West can just
keep pushing ahead. Keep
staffing, stacking objectives
next Dragon only a minute
away. And you can see their
castles rumble completing his
land. Restorment in case you
missed it. That power spike
moment means master car car
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Plus is going to need a lot
more than 50 gold to carry
this game when the whole team
and gold behind that 45 seconds till the next Drake means
that I'm expecting to see some attention paid towards the bottom half of the
riff right now as Masu and cryogen the pressure mounted on the tier one
turret. You can see he's no clearing through his camps clearing through this
bottom side jungle. He's around the bottom lane but there's not really a whole
lot for him to look at right now. Yeah I mean I mean yeah Masu did use his flash
offensively so he doesn't have to flash by me. He's still as real as real
They're on E exactly and cause it health advantage and karma they're right beside them
So not a lot you can really hope to accomplish when they don't have any sort of angle to go for so
These bottom line this bottom line pressure means so much too. It's gonna be an early quest here for mossy
Yeah, getting turret plates really progresses you very quickly plus the kill
Plus the lead that they have so flight quest
just going to continue to sack these dragons, Griffin will start it out here. We go DSG.
Oh, I'll sue our keen shift back away as his no jumps towards him. And everything that
I've been saying about castle being the 1.5 power for disguised, there is no teleport available
on this rumble. He can't try to make it down there to attend the dragon fight. That means
that disguised recognizes there's no real way for them to try to contest this. Griffin
used the storm bringer as soon as the dragon spawned to aggro the thing he knew that they
to be wasting no time securing this objective.
So that's another one there for Flaglands.
Yeah, it is just the best feeling in the world when you've got a bot lane winning that hard.
Because dragons, it's just so valuable to stack right now.
It is a primary line to winning in League of Legends at the moment.
Stack up on to dragons unless you have some crazy scaling for your team fights later.
So winning bottom lane is great to stack the dragons.
You give away the grubs.
Don't let care about that, whatever.
go for it, you know, we have more turret plate money anyway because we're already, you know, pushing so heavily and look at this flowers
three quests already completed for fly quests because these dragons are contributing nicely to the jungle one as well, Griffin, you know, just slightly ahead
there, getting his a little bit early, quite nice on that one, and Masu already rotated into the mid lane here with the karma,
is here also has weakness to poke. So this dual lane effectively, I know I'm
for adding, buddy, to deal with. I'll see if they're able to land much on
call me right now. Call me is doing fine with the just pushing the wave and
everything. He's got his Nashers. So at least he can deal with the minions very
quickly and Masu and Kraugin aren't able to like over extend or get too much
poke behind the minions to land on him. And call me's done a good job making sure
He doesn't fall behind as well.
He is now the second member of disguise to have an individual advantage over his counter
part here in the mid lane with that Nashor is like you're talking about.
How's the three cookies?
Just drank the last sip of the potion that he was using to deal with that poke in
the mid lane.
As Griffin wants to fight for vision here, tries to go in only lands the stun on the
Wu-Con clone.
So now a whole lot of effect there from flycrafts, but they will defend their control
work for now.
He's going to step back up here.
one out of the way and Griffin goes right back to his farming one and a half minutes on the clock and till the riptale spawns
I expect that to be our next point of contention and particularly for disguise.
This is the objective that it's very easy for Castle to be there for. He's got his quest completed.
He's got his Leandries. He's level 11. The rumble will be very strong. This might be the opportunity for
disguise to go for a fight. Yeah, let's see if they decide to pull the trigger. They do have
of Wukong ultimate ready to go.
He's got his flash, so lots of plays can be made.
You've got his, you've got Wukong and Nami here,
so lots of CC possibilities,
but can they actually force it to land.
Moss who's flash is back up,
and so it's really hard to get to him,
and he's got his Trinidad Force spike going for himself,
so plenty of damage there, and so then you're like,
well, it is quad gonna put himself in a position
makes it easy for us to engage on. Looks like they're just going to keep
calling me split pushing down here. That's nice for easier. It's some extra
money off a bottom lane before the objective spawns. Yeah, I'm not too
so scary on this as real man. He's an entire level ahead of suggest. The
Trinity force you already mentioned. The tier is most of the way stacked
two. So Muramana power spike is not going to be super far away. And last
time the camera panchu and he still had the double buffs to. So this as real
is just beyond scary. Okay, the red has worn off. Still has blue. Blue has really
such a pain. Just never ending mystic shots flying at you if you're trying the
posture for positioning around those objectives. Five seconds until the ripped
Harold's spawns. Griffin has his sweeper active. We'll move forward clear
out some of that vision. And fly quest has already made clear. All ready made
evident. They want this objective. Once more it'll be the bear in
day or starting it off with the stormbringer. As that makes it so much
easier for cryogen and monster to keep the pressure on. Making anybody from
this guy's scared to step up as such and wants to be aggressive in
monsters face, but monsters are just completely undeterred.
Yeah, let's see. It looks like he wants to go for it too.
Okay, kids, no tries to jump in.
Cryogen's got the 10th if they are going to a ton of damage in the
pool cog and kids knows dead before anything else can even happen.
Harold secured by Griffin has castle tries to get away.
Quad moving up there to reinforce his jungler.
Kids know just too far forward there and immediately gets punished.
The Croyo Jins Tether seals his fate.
Yeah, how many times have you said, like,
oh, the highlight of this play is the Karma Tether.
I mean, because Croyo Jins was never scared, right?
Woocon's jumping at his anti-carry and he's like,
oh, perfect.
He immediately started walking forward because he knows.
I can get the Tether on him.
It will reveal it will lock him in place.
See, immediately, walking forward any heels
for the extra movesp2.
And so the Tether lands, so that he's locked up
and then quad easily falls up with the shockwave.
really nicely done. They use the heel speed. They use the Ori on a speed right there.
There was no hesitation. I'd love that here from FlyQuest. It's one of the things that we
highlighted with this team with these young players. They are always ready to fight. They are
not scared at all. Even hurting the Thompson. They get into the game. Griffin was like trying to
calm them down before the game even starting. He's like, hold on. Everybody remain in control here.
don't go too crazy but very surgical honestly from the showing no fear as they showed in week
number one. So nice stuff again from FlyQuest control the objectives.
Karma Tether is part lie detector. Anytime a champion tries to go invisible or then
boozele you and long as the Tether is there and it's time you were going to be feeling
pretty good but quick and speed up and bad and immediately just exploded. He tried to call
the Uber with the rip there but he couldn't get home safely and now FlyQuest is
to get a little bit
careful here down to half
H. P. 3 to 1 game for
Fly Quest 2000 go to head
Harold walking forward.
Trying to grab the second
charge here will it hit?
Come on, yes it does.
So Jeff will finish it off
after it has already
accomplished its mission and
Fly Quest with their
jungler just now respawns.
He's going to be a
couple.
He's going to be a couple.
just now responding, making his way back out onto the rip.
We'll not start the dragon up just yet, but Kobe, I have to be thinking,
Griffin's eyes are on that next neutral.
Yeah.
His eyes were previously on a gray screen.
And so after reviving, now he can turn them straight to the dragon.
Good job there, Gakos.
They're able to get the counter kill.
So I'll go back to that dragon stacking.
Just a very slight delay in number three.
It's still going to be a fairly early one here.
He's always back though kids looking to try and go for a steal over the top looks like they're gonna walk around the outside
Instead, okay, the Drake is already secured. Yacco's here soaking most of the apple from this guy's early off
Castle has gone behind the belongs and he did not want to be there true shopper on hits call me a
Kiz no Gacco still looking for a little bit more grip and goes to the next gate. The folly bear jumps straight into the sky
That's Kiz no and call me both barely get away. It's like West really wants these kills
it's less than 100 HP on either one of them. Griffin is still chasing.
His nose got plenty of speed for now. Doesn't look like Griffin will be able to catch
but he is looking for it. No. As soon as he walks into the turret, he realizes that
Chase will go no further. This guy is very happy to not lose jungler and Midland there
as well after a castle just sends himself straight into the waiting mall of FlyQuest.
Now call me back down here trying to protect the tier one turret. Again, just trying to
absorb all the pressure from this FlyQuest bot lane duo that's been having such a good
game. Yeah, that was not a good
heck, skateflowers. No, that was
hassle. It's falling. That
hectic knowledge is dangerous
technology. They did warn us
about that in our cane. Yeah,
exactly. Very dangerous. It's
scorpion souls anymore. It's
still bad. Yeah, it's very
dangerous. So obviously after
that play is made, then it's a
tough spot for DSG because they're
going to be down there top
later. So I mean, Casal is going
over. It is. I mean, that's
always going to be really
dangerous play. But again,
you know, Griffin's like, okay, great. All flash over. And so he didn't really flash
just a lot of get to go. Cooper here is they use the shockwave on the Cassante. So they
give it a go. So then he can kind of do his quick little end gauge there with the double
dashes and get his little initiation into the shockwave. They're having fun. Like when it's
coaching staff over here, watching watching the kids have fun playing as well. I feel like
think our screen had to be with the
the heck's game. It had to be like
a. Yeah, that's nice. They should
it. Cool. Well, they get. Yeah,
you love that. If you're on the
fly Quest side, these guys are
now 3,000 go to head. They're on
Dragon Soul points. They're going to
pick up this tier one turret in
the top lane. That's going to bring
them up to three turrets total
to admit one in top. Still going to
deal with that one down there in
bottom lane. But Gat goes is on it
right now. And Kobe, we got less
than three minutes until it'll be
the dragon's soul spawns. This is
now. There's no more time for
There's no more time for fun and games.
Ha ha ha.
I'll just some five guys having a good time.
There's time for fun.
No time for fun and games.
Playing games.
I can sell his own the line.
Fun is gone.
Games is gone.
Disciple the pressure.
He's there.
If they do not have an answer for this dragon soul here on two and a half minutes.
Close the curtains.
Turn out the lights.
Go home.
This one's done.
Honestly, files.
Games are only fun when you win.
Most fun when you win.
For sure.
For competitors.
We're losing the fun and it gets a little just shrinks every year.
Yeah.
With every extra thousand gold and every dragon that you lose, you're fun diminishes a
little bit.
That last letter just starts to disappear and it's just an F.
It's not the best time on the rift and disguise our quickly running out of options
21 minutes on the clock less than two minutes until the soul and disguise what could
possibly find to give themselves an advantage here.
Wow.
They're hoping they find a pick.
Okay.
So Chad goes in.
Masu loses 20% HP.
Okay.
You never mind.
We don't have anything.
I got a corky vote for it.
I kind of get a little excited.
Exactly.
You got to count every little bit of damage here.
Trying to get some rockets.
Okay.
All right.
Some rockets are landing and he's dodging mystic shots.
Two rockets landed and then two mystic shots missed flowers.
Okay.
your gains and small increments.
That means they're up four because they got a plus two and we got a minus two.
That's math.
You're four.
Yeah. That's huge.
There you go.
It lasts in like a tiny difference in how a little bit.
Well, the plug is mostly, it's also got red buff.
So we just can't get any.
All right.
Well, Marin might be fun.
They only have one more minute to wait for Dragon Soul.
But if you want to have some fun, you know,
you can give away that Dragon and just go for Baron.
So flakwets have the options here, and DSG.
They got to keep their vision on Baron while also keeping the pressure on Dragon, and they
can start with mid lane pressure, and that's a nice two plates.
Yes, the jet knocks the crust off of the turret, grabs the first plate of the press.
Yeah, I don't remember what the actual name for it is called the cross.
So the turret's not crusty anymore, it's knocked over, but you're just cleaning it off, right?
Exactly.
You're going to win a little when you're autoing one of these turrets that has the crystals
built up.
basically like a window cleaner and they're getting paid for cleaning the turret.
Just keep it in nice and shiny. Exactly. Keep in summoners rift up to code as
get those takes down the tier one turret in the bottom line at the same time.
Still for a thousand gold be for fly quest. Kids knows got to be a little careful
here. That shockwave missing because of the flash committed from kids know
there 40 escape. So that's flash down for the movecock still has his ulti
quadno shockwave here on the Oriana. Fly quest moving back towards the mid lane now.
As disguised again, try to put in the work on the tier 1.
Trim it as kids know goes in.
Makes the engage on the mocks.
You put down he's in a little bit of danger.
Sees seed heavily, but not quite dead just yet.
Tidal way won't hit any targets.
Splits fly quest up.
But now it's with the Cyclone and the Tidal way
back to the big castle around bottom.
That's a lot of tools disguised on half-castle.
Trots to equalizer.
Moms who goes back to the walls, stays alive for now.
Call me dies, try to finish off with the kills.
Kids both down to 400-8 feet.
Try to retreat back towards Castle.
The true Shouper Watch of the top picks up well.
and take some down double kill back to the Molly Bear as castles on the run and
Griffin's on the hunt disguised as over the lost four men the bears got a triple
Kobe this animal is wild here in the bottom side river five and fly
quest are gonna get the soul for their reward so you ran a pole at the
beginning of the game flowers yes that pole was candy SG get top four yes and the
The numbers were pretty close.
The percentage was pretty close.
Yeah, like a 40C.
Well, do you say we run, not the same pole,
but a different take on it.
And we run the pole.
Do you think fly-quest will get top four?
Do you think that's a big goal for you?
Well, I'm going to be 100%.
Yes?
I don't think it's going to be 100.
Because you always get a trick.
You've got to try to do this.
Some people in twitch chat that are ready to play the game.
I'm saying to roll the bones.
I say we run it.
All right.
Twitch chat.
Do you think yes or no?
Do you think Flagless will get top four?
I want to see how close to 100% we can get.
It's going to be pretty.
90s, maybe you think?
I think 90s is believable.
I think 90s.
I feel like 80s for certain, 90s very believable.
Because they are crushing it.
Their week one was really, they were crushing as well.
Was really fun to watch.
And honestly, definitely in DC, some high peaks for this team,
some good potential.
I don't know, right, Flagquast.
Your 6,000 gold ahead.
You've got a hex sole.
It's only 25 minutes on the clock.
Score is 8 to 1 in kills.
The only death the entire game so far for a flag was.
It's been one death on Griffin.
David's down to the last team fight.
Masu's Ezreal has just been on point the whole game long.
Well, guess what, Flowers?
When you imagine the most scary Ezreal of all time,
does that Ezreal have a hex strike in sole?
Yes.
Yes, he does.
He also has two tiers.
Because that was like one of the Ezreal terror builds for hundreds of times, and now it's possible again.
So you can see he's got himself his snowball item with the endless hunger.
He's got his Trinity Force in Maramana, and the next year is already over 200 stacks.
Nice. Nice. All right. Well, and nothing going to slow Black West down, Baron.
Start that right up, Mark.
Our canship in. When Ezreal arcane shifts, two inches away from a walk-on towards the walk-on, you know you've got.
Call me he's got a problem to reduce the Emperor's divide and it's just a swing and a miss
He's uh, yeah, he's out of there call me 45 seconds on that timer
Call me an ambulance
That's gonna be coming in ambulance and do call for me now for the guy he's in the hospital right now
He is recovering as cryo gen who's trying to lock up kids those who come
got goes just beats and down 10 to 1 game now for
FlyQuest disguised. I don't really see any way
back into this one. That top lane
Turbo is looking crusty and catch it.
It's his broom ready.
Come on.
That's got to be a game of the catch.
I got a set.
I mean, it's like, it's like kind of a
electric to look at the power emanating from
emanating from these crystals.
That sounds like a funky, like, base band from the 70.
Electric crust, I listen to their album.
I don't know if it's just me, but I don't like the word crust.
I don't know.
I'm not going to keep saying this.
This is, I'm down with, like, pizza crust,
and, you know, like, cheese-filled crust.
Hmm.
But the way you're saying it, though,
it just, it sounds.
Duff the crust with damage.
Sounds dirty.
Yeah, that sounds dirty.
Oh, no, man.
Well, at the bottom of my name's Dirty Now,
with all of this crust and tower ruins knocked all over the lane as flyquest are just rampaging
through disguise house and disguise have nothing to say about it.
So, Jed and the rest of the team got to turn the back up defensive valves get quirky
away.
Mystic shots still packs it all on the wall, called me trying to go in, but the Emperor's
divide finds nothing once more, caught the rampage to Chet.
So, Jed is dead, Griffin just continuing to mow everybody else over and with only lying
to the live on disguise. The final fight
ends before it begins. And flag
West with a 12,000 gold lead will
just walk this one straight to
the next is turrets. It was
dominance from the leading phase
all the way to the next is
Mossu just jumps in there to
complete the A's grab the last
kill on lions. It's a 15 to
one game. It didn't even take 30
minutes to play all the way. And
in this upper bracket week to
make a fly quest is just looking
and unstoppable in game one.
So that is something that we classify
in the business as a speed run.
Oh yeah, you're putting that one on the records.
Yeah, that is a speed run right there.
All right, wow, what do you feel?
How good was that speed run?
Right, that speed run, yeah, what to say?
You know, I was already ready to say it was pretty good
like I thought it was a toss and then he said, I think 10, 10, 10, 10 speedruns, it's just an
absolute derrobbing. I thought there were windows in there where the size was like okay we're
preparing a counter punch we're going to have this set up. And then I think it was a really big
mix-up myth executions in those moments on their part. Yeah. Like what did they look
to capitalize on, in addition to just playing really well, right?
I feel like this guy's, like, I get
Barbara said it in one of those moments swing in a minute.
So, I felt like there were multiple times that they tried to do something
to fly closer to the whole line, and that's like that one time Griffin got picked out.
Yeah. It didn't feel like fly quest were playing sloppy.
Like they were playing measured enough.
And I understood the concept of what Griffin was trying to do when he was
flexing down Ripper, old, and he was trying to basically on spawn,
then go into it and then drive through the enemy team.
Yeah, but the spawning of Rick and I said long and you just
thought you were going to see a target.
Yeah.
But then I think their overall control around dragon was really
good.
Absolutely.
A big start to this one is bottling.
The bottling.
Yeah.
Domination from flight quest.
You had talked about it at the beginning of the day.
Was present in game one.
Yeah.
We see once again, Mossy and cryogen working super, super well
together in that bottling.
I think this is quickly becoming such a
dangerous bot lane.
Obviously some of that is the lane, but no,
all of it. Right?
They got a great 2v2 kill on to Lions when he stepped up
to far forward and that lane.
I think this is quickly becoming such a
dangerous bot lane to go up against because if you
are out of position, they're just picking for 2v2.
They're often picking for push.
And then if you miss position, they will go after you.
And we even heard in the pregame interview,
Sejad saying, you know, Masu,
given a props and he's better pretty much everything.
And Masu, he also mentioned that.
I've heard other 80 carries talk about this.
It's the judge's great and team fights as a mechanical player
when it comes to the 5v5.
But the Laning phase is still a weakness of the rookie 80
carry.
We definitely saw that.
I hate your mind, you.
That's what people say about Masu and it's true.
It's amazing to believe in looking at now.
So it takes time and a lot of drilling from not just their coaches
not just your coaches, your teammates, and you gain
drills in by the end of the year.
That's what I was receiving at that end of the year.
And that was the constant that kept happening there.
Yeah. But that's how that drives.
I know we all don't want it to kind of go through
some of that. Not only fly quest to Drake dominance,
but also the mispositioning from here.
Yeah. And of course this replay, this one's a pretty clear one.
It's just about them trying to get to and can test
dragon a little bit too late. And of course getting
getting stomped on by taking the portal.
So this one I'm not even going to get it like
tells you three because this one's straightforward
and it's on the set up.
And I think what Black West has been really drilling in
throughout this game and it shows was that they're
on the objective enough.
Closier, positive can.
Oh, because it's all my philosophy to talk
is already coming in from Kizno.
But from my angle, I want to just focus on the fact
that they're trying to contest through line bush.
Because right now Black West, as expected in the last
replay in this one, already I controlled line bush.
And so while Kiznoh is trying to engage on towards Masu and Griffin, you're not going to be in a position to really contest that.
So now you can play it through and we can see how the contest actually plays out.
Because then they disengage, they pour it on towards Kiznoh, they have to re-engage again and you're in a position that's really difficult.
Pause one more time because now, how do you even take this fight?
Kiznoh is 1, 3, 8, he's in a position where like, do I actually look to fight and engage on this one?
I like the control that Flyquist has here.
They have a control ward in this banana bush.
Just chilling here with Mossu, with Gactos,
a beefy tank that has allty that has full of what's
called resources.
So you're just seeing a flight was the really
to pull the trigger if they get walked in.
Now, play the rest of this clip out.
And you can see how difficult it is from DSG,
from this point onered, without allty, from Wukau,
one third HP that this fight is just not really tenable.
Yeah, and you saw a couple moments.
That one was called me.
That was kind of the first shuffle that was missed.
He feels pressured, maybe, to go in for that play.
The Wolkong set it up earlier,
but then the team doesn't completely commit.
Now later, call me goes in for the shuffle
and it doesn't angle it the right way.
And the player, the game for this one.
It's Balsie.
Ooh, Balsie.
Balsie.
Yeah.
We talked about how strong that bot lane has been.
50 and seven, that's some Ezreal damage coming out.
coming out, I feel like whenever we see Ezreal, it's one K or more, but honestly,
I do still want to point out when Mossy first came in, we were talking about him like we
talk about the judge. Now, now he's just such a complete 80 carry. This is the most
time though. Yeah, that's crazy. Look at that. I can see in of any that we've done run
thus far. Yeah, a straight domination ball lane in the carried on for the rest of the game.
Never seen it at 75% now 72% seemed like the fans at home agreed, but we're heading to break before game two. Let's take a look at the top moments from the last weekend's clash.
I'm looking for confusion, but actually sales and splash over the wall are going to get caught out here in coming this ever.
is ultimately moved massive ultimate across everyone.
It comes a shockwave and they just get white.
It's a pentacill for this ever.
Blue team looking to start up the bearing 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 risky place.
It's going to get spot is out.
Zareth popping the altis, softening up this lilya.
Down to about half hp, you know,
looking over the wall, trying to find this MF,
can't get too much done, but does chunk down to Zareth.
We're going to see if they're going to go for the engage.
Here, we're flashing over the wall.
Massive combo across everybody to get him
completely wiped by the MFLC.
It's a quadra as well as the Baron's view.
Gin all the opening up.
They're trying to chase in for the engage here.
First, never incredibly low.
The G.H. is going to get popped.
Trying to die for if a Lucian does take down the cane.
Lucian sidesteps the castle.
All three get another kill.
They're starting to get wiped.
It's a triple for the Lucian chasing after the gin.
Now, Jin on the run, gonna get knocked down.
That's for already for the Lucien.
He's hunting for the Penta A-Troth.
Gonna try to get out of the Dodd.
We'll see if he spotted here.
We'll be spotted as he goes across that.
Jin and Ward.
He's gonna try to run away now.
Lucien though, hunting for him.
And he win the 1v1.
Nice little sidestep on the chains.
Lucien dashing for it.
Try to take on the A-Troth.
Dashing in the out of the vision.
Trying to knock him down.
A-Troth incredibly low and is gonna get knocked down
for the feds of kills.
We can start up the bear in here.
We'll see how quickly they can knock it down.
Right? Team in the area is down about 10,000 gold
at this point, so we're gonna have to try
to make a place, Farner, going forward.
Steels in a way, massive y'all,
see, get it comboed up with the enemy.
The caverns comes down, they steal the bear
and they wipe the team, and just like that,
they're back in it.
full 8 blue team all haven't knocked down red team pushing for the next is 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. Ezreal all comes through acting knocks down the Caitlyn when just focusing on the tower
Here, use this route as a fire though Ezreal
Gonna try to go for a shift in order to go and knock down another kiddies stop them from knocking down the base
great size of a mhminsic shop and the next one does connect it to triple for the
Ezreal's a quadruper for the Ezreal as he defends the base in a 1v4.
He's trying to come free. Feels different.
This is different. I like different. I'm staying right here.
Are you guys serious? We're about to get into game. Emily, let us enjoy it!
You guys need to walk in. Maybe this will help.
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I'm gonna welcome back to the LCS.
We got a little upper bracket action for you here in week two with fly
guys both coming off of a week one win, but man, game number one was fly
quest start to finish. They won the landing phase. They won the fights. They
won all the objectives. Disgues look totally out of sorts and unprepared to
answer what in particular it seemed like Mossad and cryogen were bringing to
the table. Yeah. And what was the lane before the game that we said we're
going to look at? Probably the lane with Mossad and cryogen. Yeah. So that bottom
That was a problem.
Yeah.
That was definitely a problem.
We'll see if they can fix the problem.
This is one of them.
That's where you're going to have to start.
The problem area.
Mossman cryogen like they they draft as real karma, which is known for just constant, you know,
broad of stuff flying at you in the lane.
They hit all those skills shots.
Suggest and lions are stuck underneath their tier one to a fleet.
Entirely of landing phase.
They're down five waves of farm.
First blood was just Moss who's saying, Oh, yeah,
He goes forward two by the way,
go back to your base found,
instantly kills lions and from there it just never stopped.
There are team fights also.
There was a big discrepancy here.
So anyways, a lot of stuff here for DSG.
We will see is the hype for this year for this team.
This, I mean, after week one, stocks on DSG were on the rise
flowers, but the market is fickle.
Are they?
Yeah.
We shall see.
will they come crashing down at the hands of flight quest?
Okay.
Second game in this best of three disguised.
I've chosen to go for last pick flight
classes off to the play on the red side disguised.
Bating out the various the Jason and the Ambassador.
Various and Jason remember were their fans
from the first game as well.
Over on the other side,
flight quest gonna continue banning out the Pantheon
and the Jarvan and Renekton will also be banned
with it first pick goes to flight quest.
Even though they're on the red side
and that first pick will be Talia.
Okay, so since they banned the Pantheon, maybe they go with the Vi to go with that to Lea, we'll see about that.
But the rise trade for to Lea is very probable.
DSG, what kind of like split pushing could they build?
Maybe they can go for split pushing since their team fights.
They're team fights.
Honestly, they weren't looking great for ours, so maybe just everybody split.
Well, they take away the Vi from like West.
So you can't combo with it to Lea here.
That's a start. Okay, so you can split push and have
vial ultimate to maybe pick people off.
There, there, cooking up something here.
Ooh, so when Scarner was first reworked,
you were hugely on board. You got to go play test it,
you know, early in stuff and gave feedback and everything.
Griffin was one of the players that started playing it
and spamming it almost exclusively.
You know how to play it instantly after.
Play it a lot more than most people.
Yeah, instantly he was playing it afterwards.
And he really does like the kind of bruisery build.
You know, going stärks really early and stuff like that.
So I was hoping maybe we'll see him do it because he put a lot of hours into new
Scarner.
So we'll see if he still does go for it.
But Masu on that gym, extremely good performance from him on
gym in week number one.
Very fast to gym from him.
And it's looking like they've got a lot of
potential themselves here with Tulia and Jim point to you play making ability.
Kyle is too to walk in his Alistar this early.
Yeah.
On the bottom side this.
You've got like Poppy, Brom, a lot of stuff here, up in available for Lion.
And at least for disguise, this time around you know that they shouldn't be able to bully
you in lane as much as they did last time.
star is notoriously just not a
pulley laner at all compared to
something like as real or karma.
So disguise are going to go ahead
pick the bar up for themselves.
Up against gin, I feel like
Bard is one of those pretty common
counter picks because you just see
the curtain call lines open up.
You fire the temperate fate
right where he is.
He doesn't get any value out of his
old team.
Also it goes with the theme that we
started talking about was rise where
you want to like split push and
pressure on sidelines.
So you have Bard hopes to blow
people's flashes.
And you've got rise split pushing
hopefully.
And then Viking go kill the people
people that don't have flashes that barred his already
and all of it in burn their flashes off. So a lot of side lane
opportunities for DSG. I like this after a game one.
And you're not being able to, you know, when the team fights say,
all right, fine. We'll, we'll make some picks. Some side lane plays.
Yeah. Call it a day. All right. Second half of the draft coming in now
as you know, our band out by fly quest wanting to remove that option there for
such a jet. As Zinjell will be banned out by this guy. They know that their
are opponents still need to show their jungler.
They've already got the vibe so they want to get rid of that matchup.
What else does Fly want to do here?
Do we continue targeting the AD carry pools?
As the Mundo is banned out by disguise.
So they do not want to have that unkillable meatball up there in the top side, potentially
in the jungle as well.
What is our last ban?
The quann for Fly Quest.
Okay.
Quann interesting.
So they think I'm going to make me think like tank top lane for
gackos this game maybe. Still on Quinn this nipping you. Also it does mean
you know because Gwen could be annoying for Scarner as well since Scarner is a
health stacker. So maybe we actually end up we do end up getting it from
Griffin. Maybe the skies got a couple of plenty of options honestly for
AD carries here even if the pool is pretty heavily targeted by bands. That's
honestly not even that crazy targeted by the bands. Just the Yonara and
and that verus from the first round there.
So KISA will be locked in for the jet.
Yeah.
It fully fits this idea that we have with the splitting the map,
you know, or spreading them out the map for them.
So they can follow up on the pit plays with KISA instantly,
a killer instinct and not have to hopefully do too many five out of five
where, you know, they can get some, get some kills and turn those into objectives.
And so here's our tank that we're expecting from GAC goes because of the
like one band, just good old sign up there in the top lane,
and we get the Griffin reveal.
Jungle Laspick ain't no way we get a competitive briar.
I highly doubt it.
It's a champion that you can't control.
And that feels pretty counterintuitive.
You're pro play.
But I like, Kiana, this one, I'm much more convinced.
Kiana, we'll get that one here for Griffin.
I was already about to go into a spiel
about Endless Hunger and Breyer and still falling and it's pretty fun, but it's
hard to do and I think it would probably tend full more difficult to do in Pro.
I'm sure it's great fun and solo queue, right?
In this type of environment there's a lot more difficulty on that final figure that you're
at for disguise is RECSI in the jungle for kids.
Now how we feel?
I'll RECSI right now my friend.
It's a good RECSI top lane for RECSI top lane, right?
Yeah, this is me.
unless they want to do a last minute swap
and do some ballsy tech.
Oh, finally got a vibe.
I'll give you 0.02% flower.
0.02.
I'm not pulling close.
I'm not pulling close again yet,
but it's pretty far close.
If you're like, Castle Elite Audi Vy is, that's a no-go.
Probably not.
Especially in Desai on that.
I don't think that's happening,
but the RECS I into the Sai on though
is a lane where you can get that slow pressure.
Now, the thing is they did nerf Rex eyes Fury build on minions because they wanted to nerf
toppling Rex eye while keeping jungle Rex eye on nerf.
Thank you so much.
I love that.
By the way.
Bless bless.
So we'll keep track, you know, how hard did that actually make it to build Fury and region
on Rex eye?
I feel like it's still going to be fine and you should still have pressure and we'll see
if it does result in the turret plates that
it used to result in in this matchup.
If the castles are going to be able to push
them in, get pressure, have plenty of tunnels
for escapes so you're not really a good
gang target and just, you know,
regen up and try and get your lead out of
minion pushing and tower plates pressure instead.
Yeah, Castle, remember was the one point of
strength in the landing phase for disguise in
game number one when the rest of the team was
behind. It was Castle building an individual lead. We'll see if that
wreck side can evolve into the sort of raid boss that the skies is
going to need. If they want to fight back against a fly quest that
beat them was at 14 to 115 to one by the end of the first game that we
had here. It was certainly a a rough one. They're in game number one four
disguised and Sadja was trying to hype up kids now after that single
kill game.
Yeah, they only kill that I think it's a
One score also score. Oh, that's the score. I should know the one to 15. Wow
Stop it. They're here. Feast is that. Thanks, man
The carry we need
Lastly, that's good mental. That's PMA right there positive mental attitude absolute beast 100% of DSG kills in the last game
the game.
They're nerf jungle or what like jungle's a game.
That's no money else can even get one.
That is crazy.
It's a dead also flash the fly quest Emo at the beginning of this game though.
Do you see that?
I thought that was nice and wholesome.
Yeah.
I'll shout out to this time on fly quest.
And of course when Masu got promoted,
Sadjad is the one who came in and filled.
I want to say replaced because you know,
Masu was going up.
It was a promoted.
Yeah.
So he could choose.
It failed the spot and so yeah, they got a decent amount of time
You know playing versus and kind of on the same organization so we'll see definitely
Because some good respect there especially after game number one little bit of exchange here
Is going to mean that the barriers are even up crouching takes a decent amount of damage
Afterwards, but don't underestimate Alessar sustain either so it is currently plus one Summoner spell for DSG's bottom lane
and with the extra heel. It must just be so nice to be able to breathe again without
as real karma, constantly just pelleting you with these skill shots over and over and over again.
As cryogen, I'm going to go ahead and take his first recall here,
I'm also making sure the entirety of that stacked-up way of crashes into the tier 1 turret.
I thought you were going for pelted, but pelleted also kind of works.
I really wanted to view pelted, but my brain wouldn't summon it, so I just made some to go.
That works, too.
Yeah, I see.
Just a handful of pellets.
Yeah.
You're going to put your hand on it.
So I would like bird seat out of it.
I've got to work.
It's just make a cut up.
Cut it out.
When you talk for a living, sometimes you've got to make some cut up.
It's unbelievable.
As long as it sounds half decent, you're in the business.
Get a bucket of buckshot.
Yeah.
There you go.
Good bucket.
Show us.
with those pictures, the top side, Scott will grab up here with his vibe, ripping it
already secured.
The bottom lane, Crab, slightly earlier, so Griffin will be back out onto the rift,
just a little bit quicker, does have his pickaxe in inventory from that first recall.
You can see he picked up an extra health potion as well.
Gackos is down to 400 HP up here from the top lane.
We'll see if Griffin can do anything to affect this lane state.
He is going to move into a tribe rush that is already warded up.
Castle trying to get his distance here will go into his underground form.
see those little blips in the fog.
No, with the grip in his standing around nearby,
yes, Gakko's does manage to hit Castle
with the minion from roar of the Slayer,
but that's not gonna do a whole lot.
Yeah, and delays a little bit,
grip and move it over to Crogs,
which doesn't really matter
because your second clear is really quick,
and so he can just spike Crogs
and get over to Raptors as soon as they spot anyway.
So, not too big repercussions for any of the time spent
there, or just like, you know, looking, maybe he didn't have a water or something, there
would be an angle, but no such angle exists, so both junglers right back into their second
clears, and we'll just get back to business as usual.
Normal-laining flowers, doesn't feel nice.
Just these quests have been doing their jobs, everybody in normal lanes, and junglers,
Even with these fay lights, I still feel like, you know, I feel very good about the
wall overall, honestly.
And, by the way, they did have some stuff in the patch notes about walking back some
of the early yellow trinket timers.
That buff, I thought, immediately like that was, it makes it really easy to keep up plenty
of vision with the cooldowns on the yellow trinkets being reduced early.
But they are, they are walking that one back a little bit.
I might even be more room to play with before
Ganks early on for jungles in the future.
I do love Mason League of Legends of Outland,
Swaps My Friend.
It just feels, it just feels right.
It feels like this is what Mark Merrill,
a winner in vision, all the way back in a day in 2008 or whatever.
Like this is what it's all about, right here.
As FlyQuest, despite the fact that it's not as dominant
as it was in the first game,
they still have control over the bot lane here,
very slight lead in terms of farm after
siget picks up what I would assume is most of this way.
It will still be about a one way lead for Mossu.
Quad walks into the brush here called me immediately.
Finds a lot of damage under the fly quest mid lane out.
I was about to come off the flash away.
Stays alive with 10 HP.
Quad dancing on the edge of death with that one, but stays alive.
Woo, you almost fell off the edge there too.
That was just kidding.
We can get a health point count right there.
That was must have been single digits.
And then the flash just at the end.
If you wait a second, that's level six for Griffin.
You're awake.
The crap.
Thank you very much.
Because his mid-liter had almost zero HP,
it's not going to mean he gets to use that level six
advantage to instantly old to go for a dual,
but it is nice to grab the crap all the same.
And also it's nice for quad to be able to live.
Generally, you're like being able to live in League of Legends.
And it's called me going down bottom lane here
with a round more quiet and immediately ready with the
pulverizing to the head butt disengaging now flashes
out so suggest call me and lions cannot catch up any further.
So it does cause some of the spells here in the bottom lane.
The flash from the Alistar, the barrier from the gin, but
call me attempt does not result in any kills here for disguise.
Nearly seven minutes on the clock and still no first blood.
Yeah, props to the blow sides here. I think that's a good time to look for
play here from call me because they had chunked out in the lane.
He had a little couple of extra seconds.
I personally, by the way, think that the biggest change for the new season is home
guards.
You should be abusing permanent home guards, and so especially champions like rise, where
you can just run, go base, run immediately down one of the other lanes, realm warp in,
and you can make that place so quickly, and then get back to yours in time, no problem
as well.
You should be abusing that home guard speed, but also pretty well, wait, quad in some trouble
Again, and this time, he does not have the flash
to try to get away nice use of the Supreme Display of Town.
It was a Supreme Display of shove right there from Griffin.
You're not going to get to big explosions on the wall,
but you keep your mid lane of a lot.
That's the second time.
Griffin has saved Quad.
I did get an update from producers as well.
The first attempt on Quad where he did have the flash,
he lived with six.
So you were right, single digit HP.
That was a Supreme Display of Feeling.
Yes.
Right there nicely, nicely done.
against the uh... get the old piosale
yeah some good defense
from flight west so far this game
uh... and
uh... the first one was crouching i was gonna uh... you talk about his
appeal on the rise play with was a good rise uh... attempt
but then also good peel from crouching and only costing an out of
star flash
i think is a very good price to pay because the inside class anyways
possibly here does for a big four shot
yeah
just not happy about the chunk that he just took to the health bar 300 HP remaining on
him. Also, while the camera was paned up toward the mid lane, you saw Call me going
for a recall that was interrupted towards the end of the channel from Quad. So messing with
his tempo a little bit right there. Call me has been trying to get active in the map make
these plays like you were talking about with the realm warp in the bottom lane on that
good timing. But losing your recall can kind of slow down. Those aggressive tempo moves.
As Griffin started up the Drake, but he's going to be found by kids know Griffin gets
away but he has to use his flash to do so. Now quads coming in but he wrote the
weavers wall right in the danger fly quest. Coming up behind him trying to see
if they can go and after kids know the curtain call opens up. Second shot hits
kids know third goes wide fourth also missing. Lost we're gonna have to dial
those shots in more in the future as fly quest and disguise both look for
something both walk away and do you. Okay who's more empty handed because
to be. Well, that's going to, everybody's hands is empty. Yeah, let's go.
Summoner spell check. Honestly, they're the same amount of empty.
They both junglers had to blow their flashes. The ocean dragon is so dangerous to start up in situations
like that where lanes can collapse with, you know, ultimately it's like, yeah, to the other wall.
And so, like that, since this low, but they can look at the grubs follow-up. Round number two here
does look like Griffin says fine. You can happen. Yeah. Griffin, he took the blast coming over the wall.
a pond seeing kids know starts a charge that
Volk breaker at him. He says, all right. All right.
My bad hops back over just goes back to farming his
camps. So, kids know will acquire the grubs for his team.
And this kind of fits into what you were talking about in
champs elect. They want to make the map very wide. They want
to play sides. They want to play split. You've got rec
side and rise. Boyd grubs will feel great for that.
Exactly. Definitely agree in this scenario with this team
company, what they want to accomplish. Now, the other
thing that we mentioned they want to accomplish is get
barbed roaming around uses six to burn people's flashes, namely the Taliyah.
I mean, honestly, you can just do it in lane two and try to, if they can get pressure
on burn mossy slash, either the Taliyah or the Jin's flash are fly and they're somewhere
in their spells here for DSG to try and burn through and they can then bring Kizno
with the Vialty because, as you know, the dangerous part of Vialty is when your targets
have flash.
You know, it's somebody else. You under a turn or something like, well, okay, get somebody else to burn the flash and then you got some safe good targets to go after
Dragon still alive from earlier like you were talking about that slow spit from the ocean dragon makes it so
Just so hard to walk through if you're trying to deal with them the failites are down here
that the little fairies don't want anything to do with the spit either.
Nobody wants to deal with this slow deep up from the dragon.
But Griffin is green.
What's that?
Hock and Louie's at you.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Dragon boogers.
Nobody wants that.
FlyQuest, you're just trying to get him off the rift so he can go work on his hygiene or something.
Disguised?
Thinking about maybe challenging here for this yet again.
But no, FlyQuest is not going to overcommit to the drink.
I feel like we really have ourselves a standoff here, Kobe.
Nobody's willing to be the ones who make a move that's too aggressive that gets punished.
And we're still sitting at 0-0 on the scoreboard nearly 12 minutes in.
Yeah, honestly, props to DSG here after game number one.
I wouldn't blame you if you were worried that game number two would go similar direction
and would be another speedrun, but completely different scenario here for DSG.
Yeah, GACO's has his sunfire fully completed already considering he's up against an AD lane
opponent in the wreck side and also an AD jungler in the vai having that big armor item feels
really really good early on. It's going to make it very difficult for them to try to kill him
and that is your power spike moment. So master car card holders can click on a link pin in
chat for their chance to win $50 in RP probably don't have to buy yourself a real sunfire cape
but it's a down payment. How much do you think a real sunfire? I like probably a lot if it
actually catches on fire.
Yeah.
You can't 3D print that because it's not going to be fire proof.
So yeah, you can't 3D print fire.
That was really cool.
It's good.
I would do that in game.
It'll be expensive.
All right.
Flight Quest with their their top later feeling good.
Feeling comfortable up there.
Griffin's going to move through his own jungle.
But kids knows already waiting for him.
The real form of the mountain.
Come on.
Call me.
Right there.
He shows up as soon as the call is placed.
And D.S.
G.
on the board. Nice from kids know here. He immediately went into ultimate animation as soon as he
as the cube bump finished. And so even though there's a small window for Griffin and cast
his ultimate to try and self peel, Vi is already in her old animation. It means the knockback
gets the pick and the follow up from calm here already immediately coming over as well. Nice
little play from DSG. Flowers, those are the types of picks that they're going to have to be
be able to execute them. Exactly. That's what it's all about.
By makes the play rise gets a little bit fed off of it. He's already got his
rod of age is stacking and he's working on his tier. It's about three
quarters of the way charged up into that 360 max where he'll be able to
get the Sarah's embrace as soon as he has all the other components.
So call me set up in a good spot here. I think that he's his year in
game number one was very underwhelming. The ultimates weren't where they
needed to be in terms of the accuracy or the timing, they're the
team fights, so being able to have sort of a redemption game here on the rise if they can get him rolling would be great not just for, you know, obviously you need to have a good game to go to a game free.
But just for team morale for personal just like feeling in the zone feeling like you're locked in, call me set up for some good success here.
Yeah, make sure there's no tilt exactly.
He made positive mental at it.
That's our motto here.
Exactly.
all about the mental.
Gotta stay focused as we do have our next dragon
not spawning for another three minutes
because it took so long to kill that ocean dragon earlier.
It means that the drakes are going to stack very slowly
here this game 30 seconds on the clock though
until the ripped arrowed spawns.
If you're disguised, do you want to scrap for this?
I mean it depends on the lane assignments
because I really want to keep making picks.
I really feel like DSG,
you know, Bart Ultimate is ready to fire off.
So, may we go for a dive?
out on the pick on the quad right there
disguised just sends in the hit
squad takes out the enemy mid
laner two times this game they've
already tried this two times they
fell short but now the third
times the charm disguised get their
pick five seconds before the
Harold spawns and they knew
because they had a trail of pink
courts we got three pink words
pixel brush dry brush and the
brush brush right behind the
tower so they drop three pink
wards here to make sure nobody
can see them and that's a little
round here. Go for the quick dive.
A. The queue into Bardstun.
Get their kill. Then you can get an
objective. Good bounce back game
here for D. S. G. Response
though because Quad has revived.
Yeah, Black Quest is wanting to
answer here at the rim chair.
I just know it's very low.
The hero is gonna go over to the
buy. But now it's already one kill
for the fly quest side. I've all
is being protected despite the
fractured kids. No one's
able to claim the objective. They
can't get the reward. Call me
tries to get away. But the
the realm warpens up being his grave.
FlyQuest take two kills.
They guard the eyeball all the way
until its self destruction.
So disguise will only get the small monetary
and EXP reward of killing the hero.
So that was such an early smite from Griffin.
Maybe they had wanted to combo foreshot and smite.
But the foreshot had just been used.
So yeah, so much of that foreshot right here.
So he pops it and then they smite.
And it's like, oh, OK.
Well, I'll just, you know, cue back in to be able to get the Harold,
but flowers. Was that a five-hit beat?
Hmm. Was that a, oh no, I early smiled at it.
The Harold, oh no. It would be a shame if you came and then
smited this Harold away from me.
Bap, bap, bap, bap, bap.
And then it's one of the kill-a-lip.
Well, they definitely got this.
It's a, uh, got back up on the kill scale due to do now.
16 and a half minutes on the clock with an extra egg,
spotting an under 30 seconds disguised are looking to seize control over the bottom side
river because right now the sides that scum will grab vision they have it.
I really want to get a calm listening because if so I love that if that was actually
the bamboo.
I love dates like that you know you're trying to use like little towers or you know
objectives and stuff like that and especially if jetters like the rifter owned which I
mean there's good value in the rifter.
With the turret plates being able to give you guaranteed gold as long as you land it.
But let's take a look at this dragon fight instead the set up here, the SG on it, watch out for
Gakko's though.
Yep, the sign is very, very tanky at this point in time.
He's got the quest teleport for the massive shield here as well as the drake is claimed
by Chizno and his guys.
Ritz and trying to get himself away with a different fate, locks him up plenty of damage
back the other way up to Chizno, but he's not dead yet now he is going to fall.
Both junglers are in the picture and call me guys to quad off on the right here for the
same time.
Mossy, under pressure, Casal, looking for the kill, but he won't be able to fight it deadly.
to watch them up like West Beach and down.
Offs you with a kill as Quad is stuck.
But it's disguised.
You don't have to be careful.
The roar of the slayer flows them down
from Mosses bullet to find the mark.
Lions running straight towards the cross-determative.
Well, Mark is crusty grave and ace.
For Gak Ghost and Flyquas, Dragon B damn.
They got all five.
Are we gonna get a replay here?
I just couldn't just think his cues
gonna do more damage.
Cause he ults in and then tries to go for,
for the dragon again.
But it's going to be another secure on the objective four Kisnell four five.
What are those and updying?
Anyways, and I'm going down afterwards, but the dragon pickup there is decent form is nice.
Yeah, you know, then they're trapped in, he's going to be flashed over from mines.
We'll get the extra kill picked up on their way out, flight quests again.
They do get more kills, but as two dragons, sneaky stacking up here for for TSD.
And I think I can laugh at it some of these uh,
Anthony Smith some of these objectives.
The right side of that fight was a 1v1 early on between
Call me and Claude, Claude ends up winning by flashing
over the wall and then throwing out the unrivaled Earth,
meaning everybody on the FGF to overcome it to finish the kill.
Now Claude does get picked off here in the sideline.
Call me and Lions working together to grab that kill for themselves.
Brings the fly quest made later to three and three on kills and deaths.
Call me if wants to knock down this Tier 1 turret.
The first turn of the game, nine, two minutes in and it does go to the rise, which is good because their plan is split pushing flowers, you know, and making these picks. So they make another good pick. They do continue split pushing. They get more money on the rise.
I foresee the future dragons and teamfights still being something that they're going to have to overcome.
Alster is far chasing this guy.
Yeah, he's got a T.P. coming in trying to help him.
Meanwhile, the mid lanes here one is under pressure.
Weaver's wall from Quad.
The cut-out call needs escape.
He flashes away from the seismic shove.
He wants his realm war and the timing is perfect.
So that the Alster head but does it connect with the rise model before the realm warp triggers?
And that means the rise gets away.
Call me is safe, cryogen, and quads plan is foiled.
It is scape fair.
Well, rest of the map's fairly calm farming over here.
But that is going to make it a little bit more difficult
to split push, no flash for the rise.
I mean, rumble is super local outside.
It's really matter, but the flash investment
may be this is an area here now for fly quest
Cryogen is right back on the top side of the map.
the kill immediately here.
Lions is down.
Mossy.
We're going to use his ult to follow up and get the kill.
Money into gin as well.
This is dangerous territory.
Mossy now could be the one in danger.
As kids know his founders way on the enemy 80.
Carry.
So check finally joins in with the killer.
And staying up cry.
With the flash of the wall pulverized.
But the jet gets away with a nice flash of his own.
So disguised.
They'll find their pick to make it an even trade after their support gets found in the enemy jungle.
Yeah, Mossy down here. No barrier.
It didn't actually get the chance to use his flash there.
So, Jed meanwhile using both ultimate and flash for the investment on this kill.
Dragon is a minute away, a little bit over a minute, a minute, a 15 seconds here for it.
So we'll keep our eyes peeled for this. I'd say, guys, keep pushing on top side.
They do at the very least have one ward in that red quadrant of the jungle, so he's trying to keep up some pressure up there
Of course, it's a little bit dangerous about your flash, but
They don't it isn't have too much to be worried about so trying to get the early shove up there first get your reset
All right back down to the other side and
Just actually swap the rec side top rec side with teleport available
So Rex I here has the top would available so you can split up there no problem and just wait for the arrival of this dragon at number three
Meanwhile Quad's gonna have to back off
From pushing that top side as he does not have his flash cool down actually
As his ult to work with so with to lead a passive speed surfing close to walls and having the
the ultimate.
All on now, Kizuna on call me fighting back against Gatskos and Griffin as a T.P.
arrives for T.S.G. T.Fensive all T from Gatskos gets himself away from danger, but
is not below half health.
We'll have his teleport with that enchanted mega shield from the quest to bring
him back into the fight if he needs it.
Kizuna is still looking around seeing if maybe there's an opportunity there to go after
quad.
This is sole point.
If disguise can guarantee that they get it, decimating smash from Gatskos not going to
find anything was hoping.
Disguise might have been a little bit too arrogant in their movement.
Try to just face check into the brush they won't do.
So here's just yet.
Crying goes in for the headblocks.
Only finds it onto the backside.
Now with the tempered fate, marking Griffin as goal.
They take the chance to go in.
Griffin and Quad now under a little bit of pressure.
His kids are in touch with diving in.
Trying to find the kill.
But Dacco's walking up his note.
Look at the take down the fire.
He can't quite kill him here.
Just yet and finally gets the smack.
You to do it.
Now's the jet behind the headlines.
The kysa cannot find the assassination here.
Just yet his castle kills off Griffin.
The crowd falls opened up and said,
Chad has superior artillery and he finds the boy's
seeker to kill off Masu.
Gak goes and cryogen still looking to see it.
There's anything else they can find.
Castle still in the enemy jungle.
Thinking about maybe he can get away.
Quad is not going to get got just yet unraveled Earth
plus cryogen work together to take down the enemy top
later.
It's a bloodbath here in the midgame team fight.
Oh, my goodness.
That was quite this crap flowers.
You're going to give your odd buff on like three separate areas of the map to keep track of this
diva game.
So bottom side, they don't think it's part or only hits the giana here on the top side.
You're going to see Kizno and Castle trying to go for the kill on the quad again.
They fall up with a knockup.
But Griffin got his ult off for a few.
Meanwhile, on the other side on the left side, Mossu had to flash away from side to side.
The tries to go for the kill on him here, but he's able to survive anyway for the side of
and then they blast going out.
It's kind of a wrap around Flows.
And you're getting the kill here.
Opens up the channel.
You're stuck in place and he knows where you are.
So it's an easy snake there.
So, Jed gets the W.
We get hex gates while the same time
as magical journey the other way
and people supporting all over the place
and you got the Chris Crock.
Oh, wait.
We're not done yet.
Quanna Crock can go in and look for such
Jed this time.
A temper fate's going to lie that
this guy's 80 carry only a moment longer
as Griffin and all of Black Quest
collapsed to guarantee the kill
why we were in the replay flag quest also secured that third Drake so disguised is not on soul point
their stack has been stopped. His no is currently in a very compromised position if he gets caught here
there's to be barely there. Oh, flag quest that is a massive blunder from no getting caught at his
point in the game. It's 20 seconds on such ed. It's 35 on his no and flag quest are going to start
up the barren quad just trying to keep call me away. Lions looking for any opportunity to slow
to hold his down and up to four
slack west off. Castle moving
around from the side here, but
not really finding a whole lot of
anything just yet. Like
what do you see a little bit
uncorordinated. Gactos now
arriving back into the fight.
Barrens down to half HP, but
fly quest are so low, particularly
Griffin that they don't want to
risk sticking around any longer
so disguise will successfully
prevent the bear. So I want to go
over that from a kid's no
because given this situation
there is some threat here. So he's probably thinking I need to get, you know, into a sneaky spot back here behind Baron.
Thank you observers actually for showing this work because this is what I want to highlight.
And that's the area he's known was walking into. You have to get used to though.
In the current patch with this new, you know, fay light spots.
That is a extremely common spot for opponents to have ordered.
that spot that was up by crux and you see there's a controller there and that's the
controller that did seek is now and let to the jungler getting picked off after the
kaisa and so it's just something you have to get you see where there's some really common
warding spots now that you kind of have to count on when you're going for these like oh you know
I got to play a little risky right now and I got to like threaten barren steals or something like that
It's a very important to note we also saw a temperate fly-out towards cryogen, a realm
warp that was going to arrive directly on top of it.
So cryogen had to flash away defensively on the Alistar.
We know how powerful Flash headbutt pulverized combos are for just snap starting a fight.
So that's an important tool that fly-quest will not have.
Even if there's not another fight until two and a half minutes from now for the next
Drake, cryogen's flash should still not be prepared for that fight or if anything just
then coming up off of the cooldown.
So I want to see if disguise can find any sort of a punish for this.
There is bandopipes plus the ZX for charging the house stars honestly feel pretty strong.
Yeah, and then if they're able to ward up the brush like a round dragon pit, then it makes
it hard for the house star to get in a good spot for a hex flash for anything.
So if you don't have your real flash, it definitely is going to take away a lot of threat
there.
And if DFC can split push effectively and then they can utilize that to try and get vision
set up in their favor.
So one thing that I'm also seeing here for the next fight,
Seekers Armguard Unbroken on Suget's Kaisa,
we've been seeing him absolutely on a freight
with his killer instincts,
and this is going to make him even more fearless
if that is possible.
He will be flying into the back line.
They will be trying to get those assassinations
onto Quad or On Tamasu,
and it's also that much harder for somebody like Griffin
to achieve his goal of bursting down the Kaisa
if he finds a label.
But now it's calling, who ends up getting caught
here in the side, just chain C, C, straight to death
And Griffin takes the kill. Yeah, Griffin on three items here punishes the split push right over the wall nicely set up.
It's Griffin punish right into an easy size. Make shoved follow up and they just delete the rise. They take away any of that sideline pressure and starting a fair and already here.
on his son is a giga tank. So you
sign on cam tank that thing, but
they're sacrificing their mid
tower. DSG not too shabby
the response there. They get the
mid tower and then come over
for the contest. Yeah, DSG
taking out the tier two. Now
trying to wrap around and find
their entry into this fight
mosque is alone away from the
rest of the team up here in
the top of the flash and
perfect. On the top,
wait and make jugular off fly
quests. Now they want to put
the first half movement in
the moment he killed him to
chat takes the kill. The
barons down to 3,000 HP. Oh,
the damage of the flight
As players, nobody is quantific in the way they're doing it.
Well, I could never get the found their flight castle takes one on the picture and disguise
kill two and take the bear and cry just about to die now for a third.
What a massive swing for DSG.
DSG are on top now flowers, they got bear and buff for the split push team.
They're going to destroy the map.
Oh my goodness, they dissect them.
Bear and his is burning them low right now, shredding everybody.
barred hold sets it up so you get instant knock up from the
wreck side into the five follow and even though they try and
feel there and sides make sure and you've got like
gin bullets are flying over the top.
That's not you know that's not real threat flower.
No and so they effectively are able to keep the
ground leads to wow winning the fight.
And it's move back over to Baron finish that thing off
because they immediately deleted enemy jungle really nicely
to be able to finish the
thing off. Really huge
moves coming out from
disguise. They are not
slowing down just yet.
They're really focused
here. They kill off the
Kiana and then buy all
right over to the Tolera. Now
we're looking again. Yeah,
Griffin wanted to go in there
for the Supreme display of
town. But he misses. This guy
is already and now they're
hitting back cryo. Which is
likely to die here. Then we
flourish flies out. Not really
going to find a whole lot to
protect the support. Tempered
are not slowing down just yet that Baron fight Moss who being isolated up there in the top lane
by himself where he couldn't approach meanwhile suchet is in the pit firing a kth in
rains and everything around them.
The difference in the way that the 80 carries were allowed to play with massive and now
disguised with their 5-B4 for the next 10 seconds are docking in the front door of the
fly pass base.
The tier 3 third and mid lane is down.
Restart that high train for DSG who wins!
The train is back on track!
after a slight detour from game number one.
And Blast it.
I'm going to talk about that.
Yeah, but it shows good mental flowers.
The good mental here, they were not
returned by game number one and immediately
back on track here in this game
that barren defense from them nicely focused.
You know, surgical removal there of the targets,
delete the jumbler, then immediately
vile over to the Talia and they got a lot off of it.
Huge gold swing off of that play
And it's dragon soul that will be arriving in just about three and a half minutes here for DSG.
Well, it's not just the dragon soul spotting in three and a half minutes.
My friend, it's the next bear in spawn as well.
And it's always creates very interesting situations.
You brought it up in game number one when the shoe is on the other foot for fly-quest being at
Soulpoint, where it's just like if you're in a Soulpoint team, you can say, all right,
you'll get the dragon I guess.
We'll just take bear.
Yeah.
Right.
And that's not an even trade when they're not getting a soul for that Drake.
We'll see how this guy's wants to play.
He's no forced to flash away from a seismic shove
that would have certainly been his death
as FlyQuest scrambled to defend their base now.
This guy's wants to make a multi-prong attack
with the remaining little bit of time they have
on their red bullbear and it's up to a plus 5,000 gold bear
and power play.
You're talking about the swing being huge,
and that is the evidence right there.
All right.
Let's see if they can finish the job then,
because swings are funflowers.
You're out there and there's not a lot of defense, but
FlyQuest, they still have the possibility of going for a big team fight at
Either the Dragon Soul or the Baron.
You basically want to get the vision on Baron and then have the pressure towards
the Dragon.
And Dragons, the last dragon, it's fairly tanky now.
They buffed up the tankiness of the Dragons by way of the
by way of the deep-up when every dragon that you take makes the consecutive ones that
much more reduced damage taken, yeah, beefier. And so it's not like going to be an instant
take for a month. I guess so pretty fast. It's a dragon that's not bearing, but it does
give the possibilities here for flight quests to, you know, use like, sign on an old
into, uh, Kiana, old and still have the capabilities of winning a team fight. So while
The high train has been restarted.
They are definitely not out of danger yet.
FlyQuest still definitely have the capabilities to win a team fight in order to win at the game.
The biggest two individual advantages in this game right now.
Classals, Rex Lai, up 2000 gold,
Suggest Kaisa, also up 2000 gold.
Fully completed Zongy's hour glasses on both the carries for disguise.
To be able to get them out of being the primary target for the flyquest burst.
Alongside the fact that this is now
that this is now mythic difficulty rise. Kobe has his actualizer alongside two GG tier
mana items. He's got the serfs, he's got a lot of ages, the actualizer turns this guy
into a monster if he's able to gattling off some spells during that short activity window.
It means that FlyQuest has got to all be on the same page when they make these engages,
they can't be having haphazard fights like the one around Baron where they just got bursted
down or Mosque wasn't able to contribute. Disguised is really challenging FlyQuest in this one
Yeah, game number one, it sucked 15 to one, whatever.
Game number two is a whole different game.
And Fly Quest is this close to losing it.
Yeah, I mean, we got the comms, listen in after that game number one,
DSH were able to literally laugh it off.
I think, and joking about the scoreline and the kids know
having the single kill and being a beast.
And honestly, kids don't have a lot of work this time around too.
His smites, getting a lot of these objectives,
with the, with the, with the Harold the Dragon.
And of course, the bear goes on the dice.
It's been a while since we're talking about him.
The temperate faked some of mine from a little bit
long for a fly quest.
Maybe they've tried to get this kill.
I'll teach them kids, no, they're trying to bump
through some of the CC, but he still dies
to supreme display of talent.
Castle Rappin' him out from behind.
Going after Griffin takes him out.
Now, Gactos absorb me some of the damage from the rise,
but the actualizer is actually crazy.
A double kill for the rise.
It's call me, and there ain't no, maybe this man
is definitely that rise that fly quest have to fear.
Quad tries to escape.
the side makes you up defensively. Flash away.
Colme gets the kill anyway. Crying to the monster, trying to escape,
but Castle is on the hunt.
Mosul first to run back outside of the walls of his own base.
It's all the flight quest bottom, Linn is alive.
disguise. Looking to push towards the nexus and take us to a game free.
disguise.
Forcing Mosul completely out of any sort of defensive position.
Crying and wants to try to do something here.
The castle's already killed Mosul.
It's crying to get to all of disguise.
and now not even he stands alone.
And A's goes up to call me and disguise.
Are going to answer FlyQuest in Game 2?
We're going to a game 3.
Ooh, D.S.
She's giving us a series and exciting fashion there.
At the end, call me really pumping any flashes in
to secure the extra kill that ensures
they can actually go for the win.
Beautiful stuff here.
Bland's now, how are we feeling?
You did say to one, you're not feeling good.
You're not going to buy because it's right in the play.
Go ahead and let's take you to the two games.
Another game.
I'm going to only watch game one.
You would have thought, yeah, it's going to be a quick show.
But DS2 props to them.
Yeah.
like that. Again, the sort of the bot lane continuing to jet, I'm going to really
solve it performance lions as well.
Yeah, I mean, this was really different off the gate from DSG. I actually really liked
some of the early plays. They were looking at specifically. I do want to revisit that first
blood because we talked to them. Okay, you know, this team, they still primarily been
practicing with cryo, what's going to happen?
Cause no, something in again.
This week how coordinated are they?
Yeah.
I think they're 55 fights still need some work.
I really like this quick play, right?
Like, his no is right there.
Calls for call me with a really good pick on to Griffin.
And then this followed up not too far in advance of that.
So they go and up setting up and going for that bot lane
dive as well.
That really liked these early, proactive plays from DSG.
I thought they understood how to get themselves online a lot more quickly.
Yes.
We know that if you get that rise into a good position,
they call it the actualizer purchase.
But like, weight game rises just can actually one B9.
So getting him into a good position early is great.
And I really liked to see that bounce back from DST immediately in the game.
And the beauty of a game three a lot of times, especially with these two teams,
is that it's always going to be a back and forth.
Yeah, you're going to see mistakes being made
and you're going to see them being able to come back
and drag it back in.
And for me, I thought we got to see a really good play
from Flagquest initially that kind of started the Baron
right?
Yeah, yeah.
And if we could just throw it up there,
I wanted to basically start it out pause.
And I wanted to blow up the mini-map
and just talk about, essentially,
look at the mini-map at the moment.
Look at the way being pushed in from DSG.
And essentially, like, DSG pushed out mid.
I wanted them to be able to then clear out top side
and support the rise.
The rise is like pushing for past river
and he's looking to basically continue this split.
That's what I wanted to see.
Especially since just before this play,
Blackquist had clear out all the junk and the words.
Yeah, they're all three ways pushing right now.
Exactly. So like play the play out
and you'll basically see what is flag quests recognizing,
even though the way this is pushing through
into their turret midline,
they realize call me as right there.
They completely take them out.
And this is something that should never happen
make competitive play. If you're the team that has waves pushed out and somehow
fly across the day, we'll be able to make the play on towards your mid-laner. So like now,
go ahead for it, Emily. All right. So I want to pause right here because the important
thing here to me, the ends up being pretty crucial in the way that they're going to
fight this 4v5 as we already called out. Call me is dead. That gives fly-twist the go button.
is that Mosu is actually going to be very separated from his team, right?
They're already hitting Baron. You can see on the mini map as we play this through.
And it's going to give him, it's going to cause him to be separated as we play this clip
out. From the rest of his team, I love that DSQ recognized, okay, we can push up mid.
We can get ourselves in kind of a strong soft contest position, and Mosu is still missing.
They don't have breaking in their own jobs.
They don't see it.
So, rest of us for teammates are already hitting this, right?
So, not so much.
Not there.
Paul is here.
Great.
That's right.
Now, I'll get this going to go through right after.
Yep.
It expires.
Once you call that out, play through.
This ended up being such a great contest for them.
They immediately end up taking Griffin out.
Then go right on to quad there.
This was where, and then they kept the thing leash.
This was where I just loved the response from D.S.G.
As Razz already called out, you know,
call me with Wachie Far out.
He gets caught out by the rest of the flight.
And this was such a great response.
Push mid, keep Mothu separated that old from lions was great.
And then the knock-up coming in from Castle from the Raxi.
And I really liked the way they set that up,
Well, especially compared to some of the 55 fights we saw from them at Drake, some of those
were still really rough.
And specifically on that parent play, like Rex I and by, they didn't know where they were.
And that was pretty important just because the fact that Bart Altie came through and cried
in, I think, was kind of in a poor position because he was like zoning out the barred instead
of just being on top of the barred Altie that was there and maybe looking to protect anyone
that was coming in to take out.
And so they were just able to 100 to 0, a griffin-off that play and take Baron.
Yeah, you never know what the comm sound like.
Moments like that, but if you just make a pick on the top side,
and then you run straight to Barron,
I mean, we saw that they didn't have the vision line
in their own side, like you highlighted the via,
the Rex, I were on the other side of the map.
You're on their own jungle side from flight-wise perspective.
So losing vision of that means that Masu had to go all the way around.
Typically, when I hear like a gin separate from the team,
I'm like, well, you can still alter,
and he still has a W, as ways to get in there.
But he was all the way up in tap lane when that parent was going on.
So shout out to DSG for making this series interesting.
Let's take a look at our player of the game
for the game number to the prizeingly.
It's a game.
Yeah.
I already called out when I was talking to him before our interview.
Last week, I was like, I loved your Kaifen.
He's like, I don't know.
I'm a lot of the case.
And we lost that game.
I still love his Kaifen.
We'll see you coming through.
Call him up.
So call me also getting some nods in there.
It's good.
His late game rise didn't end up making difference.
Again, I did like the small plays he had with his no early as well.
Yeah, getting picked in that one moment in a funny way did set up the game winning play
for G. G. Yeah, because even though they didn't have rise, it put likewise in a awkward
position around the Baron that he has to be able to capitalize on, but to Jed was doing
insane damage on the Kaiser shout out to G. Shout out for UN Schaffer Green with us again
right there. One of these teams will end up and the week rather with a guaranteed spot
in playoff. So we'll see who went after this break.
So guys, we're gonna win this.
Yeah, we're gonna win this.
Yeah.
Let's get him to walk us back to the LCS as we are about to head into Game 3 between
FlyQuast and Deskai.
If you're just now joining us, Game number 1 was an absolute storm.
Final score was 15 to 1.
FlyQuest won the Laning phase.
They won the mid game and they slammed it before we ever even really truly got to the late game.
Game number two, FlyQuest had a more moderate lead for a little while, but disguise was able to punch when FlyQuest got too cocky,
and then once disguise got to lead, they closed it out, they take FlyQuest down and they bring us to a third and final game.
And those vibes are good, flowers.
We get our deciding game now, best of three final game,
fearless mode on very excited now that we had the,
the clap back from DSG, they're sticking in it.
I still would say early, like pressure.
You're kind of so worried for,
um, black west, is there bottom lane going to be able to,
to get pressure again?
You know, are they going to be able to get like a strong duo here
and get an advantage to work off of,
because that game, like us, we're very good at snowballing.
The SD though, I like how they're able to fight their way back in.
Well, I was just so surprised, also, in game number two in the draft,
just the such early lock on Gin and Alistar.
Alistar is not a strong laner.
Alistar is not something that you play to win the early game
and put pressure on your opponents.
He moves, he'll heal you a little bit.
He's good later, but early on, he just kind of, he exists.
So it felt to me that that was just,
that was defined what we heard from Griffin in game number one we said okay guys okay
I know we think it bad but they're not actually that bad so play serious locking
Alistar blind support on three to me is saying they're that bad so I want to see
FlyQuest play with I think a little bit more respect now because disguise kind of
stepped up and said you guys broke your own rules now we're gonna break you
Yeah disguise look quite good there you know call me very big bounce back game from him you are
highlighting, big difference between this one and the
easier one rise, definitely had quite a substantial effect on
it and their possibilities of coming back, but honestly yeah,
see if they can do it. Game number three here as they're
discussing trying to get right back into champ select and we
will do so. Now it starts to get fun. Game number three of
fearless taking out a few more of those primary picks.
So, FlyQuest, it shows in first pick, and disguised selected red side.
So, just what you're used to from a decade and a half of watching League Esports here
in this one bands are underway, panty on a Nico band out by FlyQuest.
Remember, Jarvan is the other one.
They've been banding out in these first band phases, Jason Varus,
remained bandified disguised.
I personally, as Felix gets deeper, I get more and more excited for Midland.
Because Midland, I'm always like, okay, we're going to get the, you know,
You know, as you're already on a trade, now we're going to get the Tulea rise trade.
But after you get those two trades out with fearless, then you start to have some fun.
Okay, a colleague still banned, so they're not letting call me have that much fun, because
he did have a very good week one, a colleague, but you get to play a lot more and you're
in the tier of like, Ari and Gallio and Aurora, type champions for mid lane.
Yes, they're still victory if you want to play a control man, but like, yo, Nade Combs can come
And that's the here though when when rumble's already taken out and best with
Renekton up for the lane counter is a little bit dangerous and castle
Definitely very confident in that matchup, but it seems like that goes to his two because they know it's up in the life
Fire and yeah, you can you can have the Renekton into it.
We
I'm like that goes this is that confident. He's not going to lose lane very hard
you get to be and bests later on.
Well, we will have that renectin locked in alongside the
ephalios here for disguised.
I did point it out earlier when I mentioned the bands.
It has been Jarvan band alongside that pantheon in both the previous games in the
first half of the bands from FlyQuest.
But the Jarvan is conveniently absent from the band list here in game number three.
We'll see if that one gets locked by either side as Aurora.
One of those champions that you name about the mid lane pool is locked in, but it won't
be going mid lane this game.
It looks like we're going to get jungle ambassador with toppling Aurora from Black West.
Interesting. Griffin is a huge and best of players, so not all junglers can jungle
ambassador, but Griffin loves doing it. He likes that. You know, Riven, all these types of
high mobility carry junglers. So, honestly, people are going to get what they pay for with
their tickets here to watch Griffin, because these are the types of champs that you come in
And you really want to watch Griffin on is these big carry
champs like M. Bessas.
So we're actually not getting the M. Bessas
Renekton matchup.
That's why they did it first, it's a bank.
I go, this is a flexbreak for us.
Not all teams are.
A lot of teams are, but some, you know,
it's like more respectful than others.
Exactly.
And I'd say Griffin is one of the junglers
that has 100% like full confidence in these types of champs.
So very excited to see, anyways, you already mentioned
as well, it's combined with Aurora.
I think Aurora and Sinter are very good solo in here.
Two combined this carry champ with
because they both have very good setup.
The Aurora slow, it's not hard CC,
but it is very good CC, that and the Olti.
So there's definitely a lot of positions
where you can set up there,
and Sinter obviously has very, very good long stuns.
So I really like the opener here from Blacklist.
Plus, it's even that less specific synergy.
just okay I've got two powerful AP solo laners and I've got a high damage AD jungler even
without individual names on those champions that combo always feels pretty powerful together.
It's very hard to itemize against that and survive the ganks if they're set up properly.
Second half of the bands coming around though there is jarvan band out by flag
questions a little later on in this one. Meanwhile, the skies is going to focus on the
bottom lane since that's what flagwess have yet to draft. They'll remove the lution
for the early power and the mid game control and also get rid of that
lulu that can just make everything so damn hard to get.
Yeah, annoying the lulu for expected
hyper carry on the other side, I guess.
You know, lulu does also enable melee carry champs and some degree.
And best I can get far away from you sometimes when she ults and gets got a deep
and deep bites and it's moving around, but that will be from lulu as always
very helpful there and try to help out the melee carries too.
So let's take a look how they can around this one out with the mid lane on the side of DSG.
Currently, I'll hug her or some jungles though for kids now some options but
I'm expecting them to go mid since Ginger's already showing. Yeah there we go. Okay so they
do follow up with the Yone. That was one of the fun ones that we mentioned earlier. So we do get
some kill pressure, style lanes, where notalists, I think notalists might be one of the most important players in this whole game.
Okay, because notalists ultimate is extremely good versus what Black West are showing and it's going to have to be like,
can you get a timing window where notalists gets the wrong mid to go set up the Yone and then the canotalists go like,
you know, shut down the jungle invade where they're going with the ambassador and use the point and click on the ambassador.
So like the notalist ulps is a very, very high priority ability here either you know,
thanking for mid lane or trying to fight jungle and we'll see if Lions is up to the task
is going to have to play into that rail.
I like Lions' barred in the previous game.
I think you have some good tempered fates bought a lot of time.
The binding in the barren play that ultimately ended up being the throw setting up for that
tempered fate was great.
Flyquest locking in that rail that you mentioned in the support role.
I like this because it does give you a true engage.
you mentioned how Cintra and Aurora both have good set up for a lane gank early on in the game for their ambassador, but it's not like the true big AOE engage.
That's where well comes in, and Mossu will be on the center for that scaling and range potential. Final pick of the draft does have to be the jungler for disguise, and we will get Diane on four kids now.
Okay, so it's not quite Diana Yasuo, but it's Diana Yasuo's brother.
course and they still work really well together. They still have very big
combination oats. So we got not a list plus I end up plus your day
engaged flowers that they are they are cooking some some heavy
engaged to try and take down some of these slippery, more squishy
champions on the side of a flight quest. Same token note we mentioned like
you know Lulu helping out melee carries a little bit. Senna is an
the 80-carry that helps out melee carries substantially.
The healing and shielding coming from Senna to help out,
Griffin in the attempts at jungle carry here,
I think, will be really, really important.
And we can see what build Mossu goes with,
so people are really being cooking with,
with the Senate builds on the new season.
So we'll see how fun this is.
Honestly, I'm really liking this draft.
Game three of Fearless.
You always feel like it's going to deliver?
Yeah, and this one seems to be fun.
I mean, going further and further into the draft in fearless to me always just makes things more fun
because you get to see more. You get to see what the team is really made of. Of course, you're going to be able to play the best stuff in the meta at any given time.
Otherwise, what are you doing playing pro in the first place? I want to see how deep those champ pools go.
Is it an entire lake ready to be swam in by those who are victorious on the rift?
Or is it just allows you little puddle that only happens to champs in?
That's what we got approved to ourselves.
If disguised can get the win here.
If they can start off their split in 2026 going 2-0,
that would be such an incredible beginning
of the 2026 competition for this team.
FlyQuest also would love to start 2-0
with this rebuild here.
After all of the hype that they had in 2025
that ultimately fell short.
So I feel like both of them really got to be locked in.
Here for this third game.
Definitely agree.
All right, go in for the Raptor Award here.
Call me now, has to take some damage to get back to lane though.
Okay, nice squad lancy Q. So that's your payment for the Raptor Ward.
So they know that, you know, Griffin at the very least is not starting on Raptors.
And presumably that means he's starting up on the top side and he's going to path down towards bottom.
Okay, and they're going to have the extra info.
We asked this question back in game number one.
And in game number one, I think a lot of people have had answered yes, probably wanted to change their vote by the end of that game.
have a such a stop for fly quest. But then in game number two, DSG just showed us an entirely different look. They looked way more coordinated. They survived the lame phase way better. So we want to ask the question again now does disguise have what it takes to finish top four. Can they be a top half team in the LCS by the time we send somebody to first stay.
I don't see what y'all have to think.
I don't like it's keeping track.
We run a version of that poll each game.
Well, right now, it's people having less faith in before.
Well, then it's just starting now, okay?
They just start now.
The game one maybe, like, let some scar tissue.
Oh, true.
Okay. Well, the number it was going, the down direct.
Yeah. Okay.
Maybe let some scar tissue. Yeah.
No, we'll check back in later.
All right.
That does not forget. Yeah.
one. Don't want to watch the numbers,
flowers. Okay. All right. We just got
a lot of pride. Just let the numbers roll
as Quads are going to try to get as much
damage early on as he can. Just try to
use the range advantage on call me
keep this guy pressured. Once Yona gets
to full build with VAMP sector and
Bizarreca Grieves, the lane can become
significantly more difficult for
range. Champion, especially once he's
level six and close that gap easier.
So you really got to try to bully this
guy off the playground from the moment he
gets to school. Yeah. And you
You mentioned, yeah, young A-level 6,
also when Diana gets level 6, very, very scary,
because especially with Diana being one of the really strong
dusk and dawn users, that you could add them.
It is such a good item on the champions
that it is good on that have passives
that make it effective.
And Diana, certainly is one of those champions.
So we'll get to see that on full display,
kids know here.
Assuming he's rushing dusk and dawn.
And then we'll see once they get to their level sixes,
what type of stuff they get up to.
Meanwhile, Mossu down here on the bottom side, the center we were going over.
I'm kind of assuming he's still going to go like the 80 carry build of this static
ship, and then maybe he would do a black cleaver for Griffin, because that is an option
for any carry center, but there's been a lot of like, wait a second.
Okay, we've got a fight here for the disguised side raptors, as Quad is going to steal the
Big Raptor away, Griffin does end up smiting it
as they both make their exit.
Now Griffin did have to commit his flash
to make sure he didn't get caught there.
A flash for a chicken camp is generally not the ideal tree.
No.
I concur flowers from jungler to jungler, we agree on this.
At least you didn't lose the chicken.
And then have to flash out.
So that's disaster.
Yeah, and it's just the, okay, what is taking?
not aless ganking mid. That was another thing we were looking for in this game.
Not gonna result in anything, but I like the idea.
As we were saying, you know, if you can burn that
centred flash, unfortunately, centred also running ghost.
So ghost, very effective at dealing with noless ganks.
Yeah, as long as the Yone hasn't landed an old on you already,
a simple ghost is gonna go a long way there for him.
All right, kids knows, now returning the favor.
He walked on test, Griffin's chickens, he goes in, but now he's got to be a
big careful about the counterattack from FlyQuest, a little bit of damage there from
quad with the dark sphere, as his nose down to 200 HP, he just walks this one back away.
Doesn't have to use his fly. Okay, but also didn't get the chicken. Right, so we
come on, would you rather be? Well, I'm not sure he's still at my flash.
But we'll see. We'll see if it actually ends up, we don't think anything, but definitely a very fun
fun early moments here between mid jungles and chicken camps. And one thing that's
also different from the previous couple of games is because of the nature of the matchup
Aurora versus anything melee. Gat goes this off to a very early lead in the landing phase
over Castle just because he's Aurora interconnected in the previous couple of games. It's been
Castle usually that's feeling perfectly fine in these top side matchups. He's either even or
slightly ahead but against Aurora get practically half to go down early as lions. Not to take
a little bit of damage, but he's not afraid they're going to keep pushing forward now
I suggest get some damage on the cryogen 2 so both supports take a chunk and nobody's
really that pressured they do both pop their heels and that extended trade though.
Yeah and then cryogen knows that he's going to have sustain with the center on his side.
Took some splash damage there from the blue gun though, as Griffin was walking by for the crab.
All right, this is it, crab number three, all right, guys going after it, put a nice use of the
the judge line to grab cryogen from lions is the two be two in the bottom lane.
Frank's outfit is on a damage back in a call me he's taken low tries to use the Q3 to get away
in his no kills off Griffin for the first blood call me still alive.
He backs away once more.
He doesn't have to face you because he already used it, but disguise will happily take
the first blood.
Flars is moments going to go down in history.
The team that won the smite on the third grab for the level six lost the skirmish.
Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
It's crazy and it's week. I feel like we had multiple interviews
We're like blabbering dog. I'm talking a way to second. You three from call me it forces
Quad to take a sidestep. So kids no can show up and try to chase him down quad with the flash over the wall
Stays alive barely gets away from that one. Really gonna escape from quad there
Yeah, he does have to use his flash, but so there's some of the enemies both of them
All right, so he gets level six and then call me was able to juk the oldie from the embedded so
So it's, yeah, he got to the level six, but it didn't end up mattering because
it's called me juked it and then call me there had a beautiful cue through both of
them to gain distance and live.
So huge honors to call me in the outplay of this skirmish and yeah, that one
stings for Griffin because he got to his level six and he was able to level it up
but then it basically has very little value.
You still get the stats and everything for level six, which is nice.
But the juke there from Colmey and then the cue through both of them afterwards as well
super nicely played by him and Kizno
To get to be Diana auto attacking and just slapping them there. So now he got up to his level six and it resulted in a couple of flashes from them members
Two for one so quad was able to invade that Diana gank and
And Kizno, no flash for the Diana, the next day and
alt. And I really have to praise call me's response,
like you're talking about being able to dodge that perfect
execution because he was such low HP by the end of that 2v2.
If he's not ready for the flash on the alt, he'll
have 100% dies there. That's such a difference maker in just that
execution of a single ability and going back to the criticism that
was rightly, levied against him and gained number one with the
is your play is not working out.
He's definitely locked in as the series has gone forward.
But now it's fly quest,
making a play in the bottom lane.
It's lions, the victim of the gang from Griffin.
Fly Quest will even this game up at one to one.
There's still about a thousand gold ahead.
There's another bottom side scuttle crab spawning.
The Griffin.
So he'll be able to eat that one up.
And we'll see where Fly Quest wanna go with.
Yeah, that's a really good timing window for Fly Quest.
And nice little bait.
They say I've Griffin right by them in the jungle.
They've got positions.
So an ill-advise engaged timing for Lion.
He gets taken down and it results in another crap-taken.
It didn't result in the dragon getting taken, though.
And he's just going to slip around the Scuttle Crab Vision.
And if he's a little trick with any champions that can jump the wall, fall sense of security
with the Scuttle Crab Vision, and drag it, it should be Alliance.
All right, they're going over for that dragon.
Described has kids know working on it, call me, just trying to keep caught occupied during
in the mid lane doesn't want anybody from fly
quest. See what's going on down there.
Ocean Drake is claimed. Meanwhile Griffin will
say, all right, you take jogging. I'll take
the grub. Doesn't feel as good as it did in
2025. But hey, that's just the nature. The
game. Sometimes the patch is going to nerf
certain things. Buff some others. That goes
up here in the top side is still the largest
individual farm lead farm difference in the
game 92 to 69 of Castle over a 500 gold
lead for the Aurora with no kills feeling
pretty comfortable playing the lane the way
he wants to play. And that's the whole benefit of their ambassador flex
bait at the beginning. You know, slamming ambassador first pick, knowing
yeah, Renekton is up. That's one of the most common attempted counters for
Lane Counter and then you just swap it into jungle. And uh, all right, let's
get the counter yourself with the Aurora as you were going over. Call me
avoids the stun and can walk away. And it's so important he did too because
Griffin's ulti just came back off of cooldown. So between the flash and the ulti coming off of
cooldown, I think if that's scattered the weak hits, Griffin can actually flash R and catch him
before the CC ends and then you could have a really scary proposition. So call me again. He's
just finding here on the Yone is still working towards that first fully completed item. It's
quad. Just trying to farm up all the minions here lands a nice scattered the weak, dark sphere
for the trade. Call me is going to back away.
Flag West, only obtaining that 1,000 gold advantage.
It's pretty much entirely just Mossu and Gap Ghost that built that lead for them.
But you're happy to have your center off to a good start.
Gap Ghost doing the same on Aurora.
The static shift fully completed for Mossu on the center is going to help with some of that.
Let's call it underwhelming wave clear that the champion has in its base kit.
And that's just going to keep things farming very smoothly for the Flag West, ADK.
Yeah, that's almost always the rush item for the 80 carry center looking to deal with those minion waves as you're saying and
The pressure is is is standing up so they're actually gonna be able to
Tap that for turret plate as well down on the bottom side
in a couple of those knocked off
Some extra money further funds for this fly quest team increasing that gold leap fairly quickly after
just taking stock. Meanwhile, look at Griffin, the minima. He's hovering again. He wants to play
Sinjaston into and best to ultimate and bottom side. Crijin, as we say, the swing in a flash.
So exactly. That's what it is. It's kind of this. It got something good. It gets the
siget flash. And critically, you're not really worried about spending the magnet storm right
there because look at the timers in the top left. It's three minutes until the hero. It's still
two minutes until the dragon, you're going to have the
RELOLTI in time for what should be the next big fight, unless
you just want to go low fight without old for no reason, but
that's a U-problem. I don't really think that there's any
reason not to go for a play like that. They'll take the
flash and the Eiffelios. And now if Ambassador does get
bored looking for Yone and mid lane, she can go bottom lane for
a flashless Eiffelios and try to find the payday there.
Exactly. So maybe maybe no more hovering around towards
mid. But honestly, I think they might still because they
because they still want to get that first combo
and kill you on your man.
That's all there's to it, yeah.
And I feel like flowers all 100% of the time.
Just maybe sometimes, you know?
Just some percentage of time.
You just want to do that.
It's not a long time.
Quite good though.
Juking a lot of spells, very piloting this Yona
quite effectively so far in this game.
It's going to have to take the recall though.
And flight quests will get vision coverage leading up
to this dragon area of the river.
mid-minute and 20 seconds ahead of time.
They've got plenty of vision already prepped.
As you said, they also have the Summer Spells prepped
with a failure of having no mobility.
Basically, whatsoever now with no flash
and nothing inherent.
Storm Razor does give you move speed
and they're gonna go for a Bob Play themselves.
Yep, they draw the depth charge onto Masu,
call me immediately arrive at the FH field.
It lives up to its name.
The shutdown even goes over to Saget,
a failure skits paid, Moss who gets buried.
That's the execution disguise wanted.
And nice old there from such it.
And then he's got his grab at some locker.
Oh no, call me though.
It has now way over a state.
We've driven a cryoogen down here to look at the ground
to punish under the donate.
But a nice magnet storm is coming out.
Try to lock everybody up.
Call me does die.
Oh, stop crying.
He gets a double.
We're just about to make it a triple.
If kids know didn't show up, cryoogen now gets away.
Meanwhile, up here on the top side,
castle into the dominance.
look at the one that goes on everybody over I tried to go fast again but there's
just nothing to go fast for everybody's going on and they back off and the
clear and some words oh there's no more crock in the bush there's no
crock in the bush all right he's out there and that goes just gonna get this
wave shove bottom side though suggested at least didn't get that first kill it
looked like that was about to be highlight real quick he's no didn't show up
castle on the Gakko stand up. Yeah, I want to go around that. He'll take that kill.
Not respecting the teleport timing and the minion wave. If you are close to a minion wave,
you're close to a slice and dice. So real nice. You know, guys, put this from castle. We're going to
track and find immediately. Yes, why? That's a 20-way quad going forward. I'm trying to get the
execution here with the old people. They doesn't have enough damage to kill up the knowledge. Now
not call me in the middle of everybody, it immediately snapped back with a soul unbound.
This guy's there up to Drake's flag quest is up about a thousand gold and they've got
the three grubs. Honestly after 15 minutes Mr. Kobe it's a pretty even game.
Yeah, dragons one side, gold on the other side. I will say stacking setup feels pretty good,
but a failure. This is a hell of a late game carry and they've got crazy burst combo with some
massive AOE potential, as we said with the Diana, the Yone, and not all us being able to start out fights in.
You basically just want to create offensive space here for a suggestion, so he doesn't have to worry about
defense. If your offense is that good and you're locking people up in some of the big AOEs in the CC.
Oh yeah. And then you can take take the early initiative. Griffin Elf. He'll take the effective.
A pair of picked up guaranteed money here for cyclists.
OK, so that Harold, they should be able to use to knock down one of these turrets
still no turrets claim so far in this game.
Pretty much everybody is at their first item power spikes right now.
So master car card holders, you can click on the link pinned in the chat for that chance to win $50 in RP by your very own VAMP sector.
So you can be just like Yone and when you're laying after that big power spike has called me going for the dive underneath the Tier 1 turret.
to get a lot of quads help barbed
not the entire thing over the
wall comes lying and set it up
with a drag line shield from the
dawning shadow helps try to keep
quite alive but it's not quite
enough call me and lions get their
mark and get away. It comes a
reinforcements as well Griffin
and cryogen around the wake and they
trap. Oh, Mossu is very low. Moonlight
vigil doesn't hit him very
fortunately because that would have been
some scary stuff. Bottom side here you
to take the kill on to call me.
They would have rather had Griffin pick up that kill,
but hey, kills a kill one wire the other,
so they'll send that one over to the realm.
Meanwhile, back up here in the top side,
you can see GACCO still with the health advantage
in the 1v1 while the harrow is summoned up in the bottom lane.
Look at it, it falls down into your one turret,
Griffin stayed alive for now, he goes hop into the harrow,
but immediately the car crashes, and his nose found
at the scene of the crime, he holds the smoking,
it's not a guns and moon sort thing.
He gets his kill and Kiznos Diana's 2-0-1.
You know, critically, something also he's not holding, is a desk and dog.
He went with the old bill.
Yeah.
The old standard of Diana, but with the proto belt to get the distance for the
intern for the nerves.
For the old, yeah.
And honestly, the nerves, this is thinking down the sheen damage and then you get 50 health
added to the item, so maybe not that big, but is just going into the, the, the older
bill with the proto belt and to the landry, so don't for that big team fight and not even
like playing into sheen proctouble passive stuff. So you can tell the ideas from from this
scene. They're thinking all about the combos in the big AOE because this photo belt into
oh that was a that's how you was able to create some space and then they still go for it at
the edge of the tower still are able to get the kill and the ignite there. Tick yeah unavoidable
sometimes you just get those as a sport.
Okay. Well, it still have the same goal difference. We've had for so long. So despite the moves back and forth from either side, the state of the game has remained
a relatively the same. You do have second full item power spikes for both junglers now. As it's
Sundered Sky plus Profane Hydro for Griffin, the pro to about the injuries that you were talking about for kids
know the old school style Diana. It's it's junglers first of their second item spikes, which is pretty
you can see rapid fire completed from us.
So now the infinity edge just now put together for suggest.
So if this a failure does get that free firing time,
like you were talking about earlier,
the rest of the team can prove beyond a shadow of it
out that the best defense is indeed a good offense.
So, Chad, is that offense?
Yeah, big crits from a failure, imminent.
We'll see if they can actually pull it off.
And, uh, Kizno, honestly, I have confidence in his setup.
You know, his flashes coming up soon.
went for the protocol build, went for the big AoE.
We'll see if you can get the engage
onto some of the slippery champions.
It's a lot of opportunity to outplay.
When you've got Aurora and Bessa Mobility,
and especially the Senta here putting people in shadow.
So a couple of options there for flight quests as well.
I think Dijon will go a long way,
especially if they're able to get relevant
into a good spot here.
But regardless, the dragon set up commences 20 seconds and counting down right now.
All right.
Let's see if disguise can hit soul point on this one or a fly quest will be able to
spoil it.
So jet gets turned there by the center root, but no additional champions nearby for
fly quest.
Everybody else stepping into this bottom side river that got the control ward in the mid lane
brush disguising out in banana brush now has a free man unit.
So jet making is way over to the rest of the team.
you can see the T.P. coming in early for disguise top laner castle has arrived into the
mid lane.
Gackos is still back up there in the top side, like West group of us four, but they got
a beautiful of the renectin flag dragon down to 2008, like West stepping in and could be stolen
by Griffin, but into the back line goes call me now he's intercepted by Chris.
Oh, we won't get close to the line.
So much space for the building shadow over the top floor, going to kill him to call me
a beautiful scale of the week here again.
disguise or trying to fight back, sergeant with the kill on to Griffin, squad and Gackos
looking for a little bit more.
They'll slow down the renectin cryogen continues his chase.
So, Jed is in danger.
There's the scatter the week, the cleanse will not matter.
He's struck down.
That's quad, once more.
He's doing a castle trying to get out.
But cryogen's ready on the flank.
He stuns up the renectin.
He may just die himself.
They want to pull him back over cryogen, stay in the line.
He goes down.
Double kill him to get those ace.
For flyquest.
This guys are not.
Flyquest will chase them all down.
and then he's going to go to the
back line with the Griffin
Oaks the young age that had
this eat and all the over there to
get back to that side of the fight
and then they snipe them through
they finish off the kill but look at
this big damage to Jed is able to
steal pomp. He's got red
white guns. The truckrooms
he's able to get kill back on
his side chopped them down. Then of
course even with the cleanse
not going to be able to get away
going to get away from this one.
I think this was a cooler chase down though, because they go around the little
raptor pit here, back on the bar and no flowers.
Flock was burning it through.
It doesn't look like there's any steel opportunity, Diana very far away, but yeah, like
West though, look at the health bars.
Quadan, cryogen are both at about half.
The barons down to 3000.
Here's no, not here.
Just yet.
The baron is going to be secured by Griffon, but what about the fight after Lions and the
middle of everybody.
Cryogen trying to keep everyone away, Griffon, putting the pressure on just in jetting
he's over to kill them.
This guy's baby carry down Lions goes right back into his own frame and double come back
the M.S.S. Kismof goes golden only to stay alive an extra half second.
Call me, can't do anything, you're the only only.
As Mazda was under pressure from Castle at the triple kill back over to Griffin,
the M.S.S. is running wild, castles the only man standing.
Fly fast, run to Baron, they're gonna get an ace on the side,
it's a quadric kill over to Griffin.
Griffin, the carry jungle, you, one, flowers, quadric kill for the M.S.S.S.
He has the biggest gold difference on their team.
They get the Baron look at the engage.
All right, he's able to get the Baron himself
and then they turn right around.
Old men's on to such a, even was it that flash in a way
that means literally zero to impress an infinite test
is there, takes him out.
One a snide, grip in year.
I mean, the carry jungle experiment flowers.
People in pro play, it is.
I mean, it could be more common.
and sometimes in the past, but
Common cool. I'm going to
Common cool. Honestly, that was almost
a pent-up because it was
quad and Griffin
dealing the damage to
Kizuna with the same
time and quad ended up getting
that one. It was just a
hair away from an
ambassador jungle
pentacill for grip and on
that play and fly
quest now command a
7,000 gold lead with the
Red Bull bear and power play
acted from another 90 seconds.
second. Gakko's going to step up. Try to be a little bit of the
damage to call me here with the weirding does tag him call me
force to snap back there through the soul on bound as fly
quest. Want to mount the pressure here with this bear and the
tier 2 turrets going to get the cross knock down of it. Call me
Griffin everybody just showing up around here in this mid lane
disguised. They need to try to defend. But call me with the
Yona has got to be so careful. Every time he steps up even with
soul on bound. If you get CC, you might just get completely destroyed
before you can snap back.
Yeah, there's plenty of damage here to back it up
on the side of Likewise Griffin holding down mid lane,
buffing up those minions, meanwhile the rest of the squad
takes the second tier two.
Bottom side, I mean, top side of the map,
of course, Renekton is trying to,
you get a little something back for the side of DSG,
but it's just a mountain of goal tier four of Likewise.
And Gakko's when I had an recalled
and Griffin was wrapping around the side.
So it's Castle did stage just a little bit longer.
You could have had Gatko's hold in there and lane just a little bit.
Griffin comes around on the flight.
They get the pick, Castle wisely recognizes him.
They're back in a way.
I need the back away because they're going to send someone to go for the pick.
So Fly Quest won't get anything further there.
There's 10 seconds left on their bear on power play.
Likely not going to achieve anything more.
So if you're disguised you're at least happy to still have your tier three turrets intact
after the fair and has washed away.
But we have 30 seconds until the next Drake is live on the map.
It's like this is just free Drake for fly.
Yeah, I mean, what disguise need to do is try and fight them away from the
Ambassador.
Wherever Griffin is not, maybe you can try and pick a fight there.
Because since M best as ultimate makes her unstoppable and you can gain a large amount of distance,
it's really hard for a Wombo combo AoE team.
It's like the first time I've ever seen him.
It's like the first time I've seen him.
for a Wombo combo AOE team to fight a flight quest guard that is set up with the
carry jungle and best of lightness but also has other damage dealing champions because
you still need to get a big AOE you know Wombo combo with this setup here for DSG but
it's really hard to then pin down and best with all the mobility and with the ultimate
afterwards and so yeah it's just it's definitely very difficult especially for the
a failure, who doesn't get to move very much, but at least a lot of splash back by their
next fight, and maybe you can flash the ultimate or something.
Okay, disguised.
How you can stabilize and get back into this game, I'm not entirely certain, because that
4,000 Goldie for Griffin is absolutely frightening, plus 1,000 Goldie for Quads, Cindra,
which now does have the Rabbit Ons Deathcap completed alongside the cosmic drive and
Black fire towards. There's so much explosive
potential with this champion level 16 for the final level in his
oldie alongside the 120 splinters already collected means that the damage
is through the roof on this guy. Over on the other side, Castle Lee's
does have his spear of Shogen and striker combos with a connecting
can be kind of a threat. That goes between worlds, tries to go right back
in after Call me Moss who's showing up here to try to help his top
laner. What will he do if I just went and he's got the first kill. Call me
And it does die and Gakko's gets back away.
Make it a 1 for 1 and a 2v2 down here in the bottom lane.
But most of it was that 1v2 from Call Me getting something that honestly
flight quests shouldn't have given over to him.
But now Griffin wants to get something back here in the mid lane.
But the execution forces are flash out of the jet.
Yeah, good flash there.
Have to use it on that ultimate this time around.
Casal will be able to finish up the tower fires.
You almost got to do another Call Me ambulance play over the most.
Yeah.
Maybe call the ambulance very quickly for Castle.
You know, Gakos is going to stop him here with a two-fold hex.
That prevents the recall.
Castle wants to try to get away and he's going to go very far away to another plane of existence.
Actually, you will see you in heaven, Mr. Crocodile, 50 seconds.
So he's back on Summoner's Rift and FlyQuast will be happy with it.
Because it's only 15 seconds until the Baron spawns again with Castle dead with his teleport on cooldown.
And it will remain on cooldown even once he resurrects.
I feel like flyquest have to be looking towards this barren pin.
Exactly, flowers, timing sinks up so nicely.
Delay the death timer in the alco.
Now, barren does take a while to burn, but they have so much damage.
Honestly, how quickly they can burn through this.
All right.
They're getting some vision over the back.
DSG being very, very cautious.
It's still 13, 12 seconds left on castle.
So even with the barren not going down super quickly or anything,
Seems like Flakwess really easily have this one in hand and the best that the issue could do is just split push we're gonna
Okay, call me is gonna get whatever he can in the bottom lane because second baron of the game goes over to fly quest over 8,000 gold ahead now
Call me just utilizing that soul on bound takes the first plate
Unfortunately, doesn't get the baby deathmark on turrets, so just gonna snap back
Not trigger the second one and looks like he's ready to take his recall does have the enchanted one prime
time, thanks to the mid lane quest. So he'll get out of danger before Gakko's can really try
to stop him. But fly quest, I feel like Kobe, they've got all the tools they need to try
to just go for their game and then push with this bearer.
They certainly do. All right. They've got the Aurora going to go push mid while the rest
of them for one. The top side. We're going to have a little face check here. Support vs. Top
later. Oh, follow up, stun. I don't know what that's going to get enough distance.
It is. It means the crock castles really got to get all the way out of there. Now nicely
done with cryogen and quad working together to force castle back. That means the disguise has no
chance to try to defend this tier 2 turret here in the top lane. Remember that all tier
3's are still standing. But that is the final structure collapsing outside of the disguised
base. So now it is the siege ready to begin. As a likewise, I have the two bearer
chance of cannon minions up here in the top lane.
Shuffed about ready to knock off that second play, but barely miss out on the damage they
need.
Instead, life like a youth or a chance go after the Red Bull fight.
Now, pride is in danger.
Catch the lot there with a donning shadow.
Kids, no buying time.
Give the states a stay to life.
Born now, Griffin making so much space going in after call me.
Kids, those already down.
Lions, good to be your second kill.
Five weeks will pass.
It's about to get even worse.
I don't know for Griffin.
Sit shed his gun and castles behind all of flight quests with his dominance, but it won't
matter.
to go in. That's Flyquest. We'll just kick their way through the front door.
Dear Breed Turret in mid lane drops in Hittner is the next target.
And it's called me in Castle Tast with holding the line in an impossible situation.
Flyquest the five-man push going after the first next is Turret.
They've got the Baron and changing minions. They've got the cannon for the extra DPS on the structures.
Castle Cam on approach. He has no ultimate here on the redactors.
He's got half a fury bar. He goes into the ruthless predator.
He buys only a home and that's he's shut down shut down. He's out of their flood quest
They're gonna kill off the solo laners. They'll make their way one of the next is to now take the series to the one
Griffin is the blender and he was making a failure smoothies all game long flowers
Oh, yeah with all the angst in the hair and putting your eyeballs and the talk into your sister on the moon
It's all
I learned that the other day too.
It didn't make no sense to me,
but you know what's that?
What happened?
And Griffin just ran that game start to finish.
I'm telling you right now,
if you're voting anybody other than Griffin on that one,
I want to have a swig of whatever you're drinking
because it must be strong.
Let's toss it back over to the lounge now
and break it all down.
I appreciate that flowers trying to cook the food.
Yeah, you've always realized that.
Yeah, and so you just did a war drop on a champion. I don't think he's ever read the Lord, but it was pretty accurate
That is true. He's chat with tell him every bit of war that is true
You're looking at him this chat. Yeah, from this chat. I really like you was running the like who wants to be a millionaire
Like yeah
But God and I was like you can't ask me about Lord. I'm doing there's some more questions in there clear the whole way
all the way.
He is going to join us on deck as soon as you get light up with the game.
I feel like, yes, Griffin at the Santa Performance, I think Shadow Decribes in Deathless
in the game, also had a lot of really solid engages and again, it sees Dave you performances.
We talked about the true day news last weekend, but even going into this weekend now, there's
still maintaining that momentum.
FlyQuest, showing that they are maybe a little underrated of a team.
They were a young roster coming in.
It was tough to really power ranked them.
But here we are.
The big four years, I don't even know what they're doing.
Well done, well done.
That's all I got.
We're on in here.
So, Kang is just as you're walking in and talking
about you guys being underrated.
Yeah, to me, they're not disagree.
I think I agree.
I agree.
I'm going to be the guy that says underrated.
I don't think he's rated DC.
Oh, I don't think he's rated DC.
Three guys.
Yes, gee.
I'm going to be chill.
You're team boo.
You know how I will take it.
Do you feel compared to going into this split though?
Do you feel like at that point you were rated correctly
but now you're underrated or do you think like the story's changed?
I mean, I always had Dingo underrated the whole one-sari time.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think I was talking to Jala's with you about this too.
But, you know, obviously it looked like what's wrong?
It's really good.
Yeah, but I think we can be just as good or even good in the future.
And we're already starting off for each time.
I was going to say, I feel like you have to talk to your own coaches about that because I know it was
sales actually interviewed. I'm pretty sure a thing card at least and was talking about how like we have such
young talent we drafted for like hands and mechanical prowess, right, and you guys all have that.
And it was a question of not whether you were going to be good, but when do you feel like you guys are
proving yourselves a lot earlier than expected? Yeah, I think so. I think initially we were
we all kind of expected like growing pains will also like try to merge together as a
team and then also like we're all really young so it's gonna hard to be disciplined really
on but without practices going and obviously stage matches I think we are actually getting
a lot better hurts than today. Nice. And so now that you mentioned that how do you feel like
you have been in because coming in from tier 3, 2 tier 1 is always going to be a big leap
and there's always going to be that personal growing pain. I haven't seen that growing
pain, that's just in this game, of course, and then we remember the affiliates and thrash
game last week.
Like, it felt like you guys have been really finding your own place and you've been
finding your own place very, very quickly and you've had a very, obviously you
got a lot, so I've been finding your place on the team very easily.
I mean, honestly, I think a good example of the growing penalty, the second
game he had.
Yeah, I mean, personally for me, I had a pretty disgusting game, yeah, but it was pretty, I
I think that sometimes we can get pretty emotional
and also like we are uncomfortable on some drafts too.
So I guess with more practice
comes with more comfortability.
And honestly for me,
I think I've been finding my place here.
Obviously it's a pretty big jump from chair three to LCS,
but I don't know, it's a great support.
I'm enjoying it.
I wanna talk more about that
because yes, it's awesome to hear about the team and everything,
but I wanna hear your story
because not many players in the history of the league have jumped
basically pass the NACL level.
You're on pulse last year a little bit
or like sobbing in for some teams.
But you essentially went straight from tier three
to LCS, skipping that like NACL starter positions.
So what's that, Jury Ben?
Like I think it's what you and it was a JoJo.
I think JoJo Pien made the similar jump.
Was it Danny?
Danny Dany.
It was Danny Dany.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I think with the pulse or situation,
I should have definitely had more experience in an ACL for sure, but I mean, the level
play is obviously really, really drastic and different, and also like the practice is really
like a lot more intense when you go from LCS.
So I first I was kind of having trouble accumulating to the culture, and I mean, to be honest,
I'm really like glad that flight took a chance on me, and it's not really common for many
NA players, even like support players, because I think the support point I know is pretty
week, actually. So I think it's pretty uncommon for like someone who jumped from
to the other Galaxy. Yeah, well, props for doing it. It's been amazing. It's incredible.
Who do you think should have been player in this game?
Sure. I think you have an answer. I will do this for the first game. I should
go off the early game. Okay. I had a hundred you say KP. I think I was doing my
jump pretty well that game. I'm not sure what else I could really do for a
like you know, you know,
you know, Grapin' takes it.
You stole it for me again.
He stole it for me again.
You were actually getting the third game, right?
Let's see.
The audience agrees with you.
I want to look at the audience's folks.
I want to say it's like super heavily in your favor.
Yeah, I'm trying to really rock that.
I think you've got to say that.
I have to grab like the crew.
That could be one percent.
First of the third game, I'd only shake it.
Be as your does, so I just...
I'll come around.
I want you to know, I'm the one that voted for you.
I'm gonna shake that.
I feel like, you know, I feel a bit wrong right now,
but that's okay.
That's a classic support.
Yeah, always over once.
Yeah, I'm like sure.
All right, we'll congratulate on another victory.
You're up there with C9 now.
If your next opponent, so we'll be even rise on that,
going to the next week.
Any thoughts actually will cook before you throw the break?
That's the line.
I think there's always a bit of C9.
So I'm excited for you guys.
I think there are ballings really good.
And obviously there are parts, but I see it.
So I'm excited.
Okay. Cool.
We'll be cheering you on.
All right.
Thank you so much for having me.
Once again, congrats on the win.
Thanks for your time.
Thank you.
Chop by running.
And T.L. next.
Red Bull gives you wings.
And the carry jungle you want!
What's the back to the LCS lounge as we see after ranking?
I know they're weird.
This is totally the answer for ranking Shopify number one.
Don't slide me.
I'm going to slide him like with Alienware.
I'm going to slap you.
You're getting beat by myself.
Let me defend myself with stats.
Jesus.
And facts. This is my argument, everybody, for Shopify rebellion, but I was able to
condense it into a single page because I don't have to share all of that. There are three
main points. That's the why you should believe in Shopify rebellion. Point number one. Top three
finishing team back to back spring and summer with an upgrade in the mid lane. That means that
they should finish higher than they finished last year. Are you in number two? The rest of the
got worse. We don't have them a
fly quest that was pushing Gen G to five games.
We don't have the team liquid that is
the same roster and really pushing fly
quest or the C9 that was pushing them.
Shopify's competition,
got worse. They got better.
Competition, you got worse.
Also, Razz already been number three.
They got stronger.
Maybe you listen to contract.
You listen to the punch.
They believe they can win.
They think that they can go all the way.
and on the other hand, I believe the players know.
No.
How's that?
I've worked on that.
I'm originally home on that, don't-
OK, if you take this back, you can't come.
As you see our predictions on screen, I'm seeing the truth.
Two on Shopify.
Well, I'm going to one team liquid for the same reasons I talked about earlier.
You actually got it in the top of the top of the top.
The team liquid, let's see you back.
I actually got it for shopping.
Yeah, I can't tell.
I can't tell.
It's a mess over there.
There's nothing in that paper.
There is nothing in that paper.
Yeah, those are fake notes.
They've been exposed.
Kangus has been exposed.
She's the one.
He only had the top sheet.
And then he just had, I guess he didn't want to be wasteful.
He didn't want to put this performative.
400 pages of printer text on the useless paper,
but I appreciate the attempted deceit.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see if these two teams, you know,
if he's going to be redeemed,
Maybe Shopify is going to beat T.L.
And then Kangus doesn't look so silly, you know?
It's definitely possible.
So I, as they showed in the Power rankings,
had team liquid first in my previous Empower Enquings
and Shopify, sixth in my previous Empower Enquings.
But I also know that anything happens
and Shopify is a team that has performed
when they needed to perform.
And I would say that this game after being down 0-1,
when 0-3 will eliminate you from LCS Lawkin,
It's time to perform.
So the pressure is on and Team Liquid from what we've heard
has been scream demons.
They beat everyone if it was a scream LCS,
they would be first place.
The Scrum World Champions.
Of North America.
I heard there are also stomping on the LCS.
It's actually here.
Is that true?
We're all champions.
It's, yeah.
Demangi 2 would go neck and neck.
Exactly.
But they didn't look good on stage last week.
Morgan got in about 50 hours before their stage game and we'll see if that extra week
of reduction of jet lag and hopefully just being able to have comoners on stage
will prevail for Team Liquid Alien.
Yeah, I mean, that is going to be the big question. Obviously, it does feel a little
bit silly to be like, well, it's week two time to put up or show up, but that is the kickoff
tournament. Like, that is a very, very fast. You're going to advance very quickly.
You're going to get eliminated very quickly. So you have to perform right off the rip.
and this is a team that they are expected to be.
But Shopify isn't a team that I think a lot of people
were pretty excited about, maybe mostly not in the conversation
for a fertile, where people have TL,
but it is still a team that at the end of the day
had a relatively high finish,
broad and zinny who was a lot of excitement around him.
So people were saying, hey,
this is a team that could be competing at the top of the table
if things do go right.
For sure, because also the continuity is there.
Two coaches and four players.
So six of the seven, not counting Zini who replaced
Palafox, are coming back and they were a third place finishing team.
So that should give you confidence.
It's definitely raised their own internal expectations.
When I talk to Fudge on pros before the season started,
he said that if they don't win as in win the split,
he was going to be disappointed.
So they have set their bar very high.
And to talk a little bit about the draft right now,
We're seeing a number of counters in the rise, previously it had been Cassiopia, but now we're seeing yet another
Anivia Inderized, which is becoming one of the pop of the counterpics as well.
Yeah, I mean, it's extremely strong. I think against, you know, lower range comps in general.
You know, it can be really difficult. It's very easy as you're walking forward on rise.
That actually just get walled in to pick off as a result.
It's tough to actually engage into and fight past the wall as well as the kind of that that ultimate that anivia does have.
But, you know, paired with that, it feels like a little bit disjointed because you have this kind of dive comp of the Vi rumble.
Correct, pairing with the Enivia, who kind of generally wants to like kite back and peel back.
So, obviously how they actually bring this together in the next couple of picks,
because on the other side, TL, to me, looks like you're playing 1-3-1, and everything wants to be more cohesive and going forward.
Not to mention, Ambassador with R and Driving with EQ and R, can just hop the walk.
So, currently they don't have things that will get completely destroyed by Nivia, but if
they didn't engage and then the wall flies up for other people fall through, then they would
be in trouble that will depend on what they're able to round out the rest of this
team composition with.
We'll see some support vans coming through, we already had not as vans out, and now we
have barred as the response on the other side.
So, it's targeting some of these really popular engaged supports, but in shaders have gotten
very popular these days as well.
we're seeing a lot of comment as real, a lot of nami quirky as popular pairings, you
know are still up, quirky still up to the most popular 80 carries after various, which
has been banned away.
These lock lanes from the roll quests. If you leave your lane, your quest is too slow.
So what do you do?
Don't leave lanes, and lane, I'm playing in China or win the two of me too. Yeah, I'm wondering
if we're going to see you and I were talking about the soft camera, if we're going
to see that more in top lane going forward, we're pretty sure this is just to
best versus rumble toppling, which is at least a little spiced year than Sion vs. Cassante
for 30 minutes, but it's not necessarily the superhyper scaling toppling pick.
Since honestly, toppling has been an island for almost all the LCS games that I've
launched.
Yeah, it has.
It absolutely has.
Lusium being considered here.
We could see potentially Lusium Brawm or Lusian Nami, whichever one got taken away, or
maybe going to do a pairing with the other.
B-Boy has been one of the best Lusians in our league when I think back the last year.
I feel like he did perform very, very well on it.
he was such a good lootian, but you could also just
corking on me right now.
There's another good pair and then
denies it.
And this will probably push them into brawn because brawn
is going to get snobby and also good with an
Ivia. So we'll see what they end up locking for
sales.
Yeah, I mean, it's interesting because, you know,
again, brawn obviously really good duo, really good
pairing, but maybe it doesn't work as well with
some of the dive that they have actually grab everything
works except five if they're talking brawn.
They'll be like, all right, everyone's good, except
contracts good luck.
Instead, they go milio sales is a very good
is a very good mealio from what I remember last year and it will. I mean, there's not necessarily
a big CC that they'll be cleansing. I mean, room prison, room prison is pretty much itch
to try and get you clear. Meal you want to stuff like a mumu as a mumu enjoyer is just
miserable. But nothing like that here.
Yeah, I do think the altar of Megat Firekick, I believe it's called the Q. It's still very
nice into both jargon as well as ambassador to me. I think it's a lot about the disengaged
there. You know, that can be quite nice. This is one of the parings that I don't think
as much anymore, you know,
Amelia Lucien was popular for a
brief period in time as one of
those kind of premier duo's.
But their cup does feel like
a little bit, a little bit
destroyed. So, eventually,
see how they do bring it together.
You know, generally, buy wants a
lot of dive paired with her to
be able to go forward. So,
eventually, see how is it any
can actually work into this
composition if he can, you know,
be able to follow up on some
of these engages that they're
going for or for it. It's just
going to be more. Hey, everyone
on this team is pretty squishy.
You just hit someone with the
then you have the flash breeze, all these stuns
that everything coming from the top,
and you just start to like 100 or zero
burst someone down like that,
and wall it, everyone else out.
I think that would be how it has to work.
Otherwise, it's just setting contracts up for a very hard game.
And I think it's a difficult spot
considering last week, if we think about how he played
his first game, he was on Malfight.
You had a good start to the game,
about end to the game,
and shop fire billion talked about on their podcast as well,
contracts on the podcast,
one of his big goals this year
that the coaches have given him and he has for himself is to engage when the team is ready to fall
up rather than just finding a good engage. But I don't necessarily know if they're putting
him in a situation to succeed here, because as you say, like a slow moving and maybe a queue
as the follow-up to your via engage, it's not that much. No, I mean it can be tough. Like I said,
I think the one thing that is kind of beneficial is that everyone on the TL side is relatively
you know, maybe any target can work pretty well here.
You know, this is relatively short range overall.
Kind of maybe the quirky is the exception there.
But good to be, is just how this 2v2 goes,
because Yon and Core definitely known as 2v2 pieces.
Yeah, and people are going to have to play well.
Actually, Bboy, we have some sound of him
playing himself up before the game.
I did the over my routine to him.
So, oh, okay, stop, Bboy.
up in the background. I have heard legends of
Bboy sleep. Apparently on off days after
else, yes, sometimes she will sleep 12 to 16 hours.
Wow, which is insane is crazy. He's one
yes, by the way. So maybe you didn't get his full 12 hours.
And either two much or two little. It's a very
big year brother. Seconds, yes, we're going to
have the hand warmer. He's a smart
Not a form.
We must get a form or a microwave on stage or something.
Go on for some change back in Portland.
Of course there is a lot of millions here for them to pick up.
So we'll see how well he does.
He's probably dropped a lot.
He's dropped away if already.
That's five C.S. down.
Yeah, he has dropped quite a bit.
So that is unfortunate.
That's a rough timing on that spot.
By the way, he's got eight.
But he on in Quargete J.
definitely a tough leading duo and I have to say you're thinking back to last week against Shopify.
I do remember, you know, them have a Shopify rather playing against FlyQuest, and I know
they're having some real struggles, especially in that second game, Moss doing cryogen, just
with them up with the Thresh of Fellows. So sales to be aware have not had a good time in
the two. We choose whatsoever as Morgan in some trouble here. Fudge overheating there in Zinney,
you're going to have his egg popped, quit. We won't have the damage to you all to finish them off.
So it doesn't get that passive out, which always
leaves that possibility of a gang open.
But Jose is down towards Botside, looking for
potential dive, Morgan getting so enough on the top side as well.
He's going to go forward, dashes over, flashes back.
Very good.
Up, gets the first blood and he's still alive.
As nothing's able to happen on the top side for a Shopify,
but on the Botside, they get the outplay in the 2v3.
And we dare to question his routine.
Don't look at the CS.
Look at the kills.
I'll need to see again.
And then how he managed to live through that with heel already being burned just having
the flash barrier.
It's super interesting playing as Team Liquid as well because having Jose on vision allowed
fudge to play even more aggressively knowing that if T.L. hasn't advantage bottom lane,
even without seeing vision, you can often decide that their jungler is going to be there
to try and die.
But this dive goes a ride for Team Liquid still double CS in the bottom lane, but people
actually up and goal.
It looks like he flashed over the flag and drag.
I think in the play so we can see it all the time.
So they see Jose clearly on the work right now.
Give them a lot of time to anticipate what their next move is going to be.
It's going to have dash flash.
Let's watch right here.
Dash is perfect flash on the flag and drag.
So it doesn't take the damage or get knocked up.
Core takes a bit too much damage from the turret.
And then also just the neolio shield coming in clutch enough.
The people it doesn't pack.
Yeah, as the shield, the great ultromanica fire kick there as well.
as the FI could write it was coming forward and that is a look of frustration as the dive
goes awry. I mean, if you execute on that dive, the Biling 2B2 is just completely over,
be void out of it because he had no farm. He would have been so far down on where the quirky is,
but he gets a kill that completely builds him out and that we are into a pause. We'll update
you as soon as we find any information out about that. But yeah, I mean, he's down more than two
waves with more than a full wave still for you on to farm. So he's down effectively three
full waves at four minutes. Yeah, but he's basically even in gold. I mean, he got a double
long sword by. So he's chilling. He actually is 1600 to 1500. Surprisingly, Fudge. I know
it's rumble who's strong early, but we heard so much about Morgan's landing phase. You
want me to expect them to walk in and just outclass people. That's just not how it works.
We've seen a lot of the domestic players in North America really stand up to the importance.
I don't fudge as technically from Australia,
but he's been here for like six years at this point.
We claim him.
I claim him.
Yeah, we claim him for North America.
What he's doing well.
So that's, you know, crucial.
But he's good start to the game in this one.
And Morgan needs to have a bigger performance on stage.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, Jose obviously spent his time doing that.
What contracts was just kind of power farming.
He got his base off.
You touched on it earlier, but the fact
Jose shows bot means a flood to push Morgan
in between two towers, knowing he's not being gang.
So there are some knock-on effects there for sure.
Still waiting on any sort of updates about this,
and hopefully it'll be a quick pause.
Yeah, so if production isn't too busy figuring out
what the pause is, I really like the camera view
that was a little more zoomed out
where I could see the player's screens,
because it felt like Fudge was just hitting tab
over and over again,
and I'm a little curious how long he can keep that up.
So I really like that view.
Rather than just seeing the faces,
seeing the actions that they're taking during this pause,
that actually looks at the moment in early stages of pause,
you're not allowed to talk while they're doing their investigation.
Oh, here's the view.
He's still tabbing.
He has to keep the APM up.
Yep.
I mean, I'm sure you've seen FBI, right?
Yeah, how FBI plays.
FBI is the extreme version of this.
I'm sure you've seen his first person POV, but FBI
presses, I think it's like Z as well to bring up his chat
over and over.
Yes, suit as chat and tab.
So you're watching your replay,
and he's literally teamfining,
and he's like bringing up chat and tab,
over and over and stuff. It's it's pretty wild, but it's just one of those things where you build that habit over a
long time.
He's in. He's staying warm. Is this his pause ritual?
I think it's just he's got the hand warmers here. Just use to it.
Butch has the tap space, tap space, tap space, tap space, tap space, tap space, tap space,
press tap, you know, press buttons. It's like if you're playing an MMO, you must be jumping at all times.
People who has extra hand warmers if he needs them.
But does he have time for 12 hours sleep? That's the real question. Not currently. No. It's a good thing he slept for 12 hours. Seeing as we had a three game first series
So it's already a little later than he thought he was going to be starting with the SG plane. DSG's looking good so far this year. Yeah, I'm really excited for them to be a stronger team
But is it yon is it yon's fault that we're paused? I don't know. I'm not sure trying to do a visual investigation to see where the
He's obviously, because you can see where the referee is right behind them and talking to them.
He is hanging out behind you on, but he could just be posted up and looks like we are
getting back into game though.
So thankfully we'll get this back underway here as you can see on screen.
No more tab from Fudge.
Tab was just a positive thing.
It's fixed.
Whatever was the issue is fixed.
That's all that's important.
Morgan going forward.
It takes a decent trade there, but scrap shield, helping Fudge to get the best of it.
to get it pushed out. So, what was a great start to the lane by Yon and Cordjay J is not actually
manifesting in a current advantage. So, feel like Shopify kind of got away with one, even
though they did outplay the dive.
absolutely going to be really happy about how things went after that start the
lane which was pretty brutal and it is a quick base for B-boy who was able to
get nice little trade they crash away if he gets call fields and he is just home
guarding back out here as any T-P's back in towards mid lane gets a trade on
to quit but quit it's just heading back to base regardless so not too
concerned about the state of things and as you can see B-boy not going to have
missed many minions really just the melee is for that recall so now we can see
if shot by can actually keep them stuck in lane here. Now they have the buy advantage.
I mean 20 C.S. at 5 minutes 30 is still crazy though on a Lucian lane. So, you're on
according to a trying to keep the pressure up as much as possible, but they can't. I don't think
they could realistically threaten another dive because they haven't gotten any poke off. So,
for the the only thing they'd be able to do is kind of move towards bot crab, which by the way,
we've heard from cloud nine when this six minute crab spawns bot. You got to fight over because
because you're getting a level six most likely as the jungler and then can also give you
Drake control. So team liquid in position for being big crap. It should be there for
sure though. You can see that rise was already cheating down. He had push and mid. They
have push and bot. So level six not much of a chance really for contracting to be able to
try to affect that Jose though threatening here once again is walking around behind of
the contracts is going to be in the area trying to get level six himself right now and
we'll be able to do so off of this blue buff.
But Jose is in the area does have the upgraded smite. So this is going to be almost impossible.
On the next day.
So rather than going for Drakey, he's just trying to take complete control to
the bot side. And there's no kind of play to this actually with the advantage
in the fight and the stronger smite.
As in, he now getting chased down. I don't know if he has this passive back yet.
Quit threatening with the realm more flashing out there from Zashni to the close.
So it's just making the difference. He's just chasing him down.
Flash is past the stun, knocks him down.
Jose gets the kill, but let's be honest, that was a solo.
That's the big play quid that you're hoping for when you sign a former LCS MVP
in the offseason.
He's been pushing the limits this entirely in phase.
You kind of have to do a twice against the Olivia.
You have so much money on your first landing phase to get the egg out,
but you have to do it again, taking trade after trade that is advantageous to eventually
get that kill.
could have maybe even done it without the flash with Jose on the way, but still a great display
there by quid drives.
Yeah, quid's going to be happy about that one.
Had a much rougher week last week and then expected against APA, you know, got solo killed
and kind of an embarrassing way, you know, versus the person that he had replaced in that
Ori on a game where he kind of just walked into these year.
A lot of people were talking about that in this step from him, but, you know, quid off to a
really good start.
And this one, a force is the pass it out early.
gets what is effectively a solo kill there as it was guaranteed to be his kill.
Now, Team Liquid using this mid-priot to take control of the river,
still waiting on that first cloud-drink to fall, but at the moment, Team Liquid is trying to
stack small advantages. Yeah, and you can see, Fudge's just rushed towards the early
steel caps there. Obviously, it is going to be double physical damage up on the top side of
Morgan and Jose going to be dealing physical damage and rise, you know, it's going to be
a long ways away from really being a threat in that side lane.
So I'm going to be pretty happy about that and Fudge has been able to continue this bullying
that is happening up on the top side.
More of these minions will get tonight, they'll move down to help contracts secure the
grubs.
And he's up a good 20 C.S.
And then he's going to be in trouble.
No flash to be a cataclysm, he rumbled.
He glas it just come down.
And then he survived.
Flash forward from contract.
He'll take them through.
Quick.
They will to finish them off, but the passive came back just in time.
the ball is going to go
on the ball.
So I think that's going to be
the game.
Quick goes down.
Be away.
Funny on the boss.
I think that's the ball.
That does come through.
Now the call is just
chunking the TL.
Balling down.
Big plays from Shopify.
They're trying to
friend to dive there even.
But the barrier from
beyond will keep him safe.
I mean, Olivia had egg for about
30 or 40 seconds.
and they didn't have instant fatal damage, especially with
Shopify kind of clearly being on grub.
So it looks like tunnel vision there.
That is punished by Shopify, and it'll allow Shopify
to take the lead in this game.
Yeah, that's big.
I mean, it was quick moves from contracts and floods,
build a move down, equal to drop quick,
and then contracts flashes forward as people
should be able to walk this one out,
no more rock available for you on.
In terms of contracts, his goals engage when the team
is ready for it.
One for one.
Everyone is ready for that.
He's ready.
So contract score.
When you're getting ganged, it turns out you're usually ready for your job.
And people, people like to communicate that.
I find it's so cute as well.
After the fact, I could have used him out there.
So five days in different ways.
Flood's overheating takes the bat end of a trade there.
From Morgan is Morgan level nine now getting stronger.
Does have a pickaxe.
And when you do go for those early two to go,
early to YouTube.
It's that can be very effective, but of course, the Flash can be forced there as
public execution came through from Morgan.
Might have had enough damage for Buds, and he's not going to risk it, also not knowing
where Jose is.
He wasn't going to get dropped, but Morgan just walked into it as it wasn't initially
on him, but Morgan kind of stepped into it, and now it is a trade of flashes for all
these at the end of the day.
Buds really not backing down in this lane against Morgan.
He won the early trade.
He had move on to grub.
he got the kill from mid lane and then immediately after having his flash burn goes right back
for Morgan. So keeping the pressure on in that top lane is now finally almost 11 minutes into
the game with almost perma bought prior team liquid decide to start their first drink.
Yep, good to be able to start that one up. Morgan just TPs up towards top side. He did just
complete his eclipse. So could be really strong at this moment in time, but just also you think
to be. So no one's going to join it won't be contested.
Quidd had some nice trade there on to Zineen.
Cordyaj is kind of walked through mid, healed him twice, and that just made it a really
health positive trade. Jose, back towards Bot again, he's just been camping out down here.
hasn't been able to find too much effectiveness though.
Let's be honest.
This has been the trend of T.O. junglers, I'd say the last year and a half, spend a lot
of time around, y'all and Cordyaj. And oftentimes they're able to play very well around it.
when they're at their best with umpty, they'd use the bot
trial and often times umpty would use that to invade the jungle.
We saw a little bit of that this game when they went after the
level of subscribe to take blue buff, but I feel like they've had
a couple missteps that has made it less effective and then
Jose also spending all those resources made have not allowed them
to make the big advantage and he really is, for what it's
worth, he still doesn't have any camps up. So this is not necessarily
wasted time, but the ground is about to respawn. So now he
starting to lose efficiency. Yeah, absolutely. And I think of this
going to stay bought for Skuddle and they're going to try to
contest that again, utilizing all of this pressure that they do
have on this bot side. Jose is just been here for the last.
Honestly, at least a minute or so, you know, just kind of sitting around
as contracts is moving down. Yon, getting traded on pretty
effectively, sales and the avoid getting aggressive and
incomes contracts are calling it a use to chunk them down.
They see Jose and will just accept that little win and back off.
Zinny though is moving down to try to help contracts to
So, now at the end of the day,
who's a spends all of this time down here,
is not rewarded with a skull.
It's not rewarded with any pressure.
And we'll just have to head up towards top side of the licks.
So, went back and check.
He started Drake at 10.40.
So, he was at Drake, or...
Well, during Drake, it's probably...
For almost two minutes.
That's... that's a lot of attention, Bollywood.
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I do think it's one of the biggest power spikes.
Isn't the eclipse in Besset?
It just completely changes the champion.
It's already annoying because of how many dashes that she has, but once she has the eclipse
and she's just repeatedly shielding.
I mean, you can even see this. Yes, Fudge hasn't hit his item power spike either, which would be the
boundaries, but he's had a perm a file even though he was down in CS and he's down in gold because he has that eclipse.
to get the proper phase rush and run right out of the glacial storm as contracts will be spotted just instead flashed as a way from Jose
was very nervous about the additional assistance coming and you can see Morgan was roaming down from the top side.
So that would have been very threatening.
If you hit by the flag and drag, you're going to get rooted and then maybe Morgan gets in range for an ulti and you kind of just get 100 to zero.
So contracts are just going to spend it. You can see some roll quests.
Now getting completed only one that has yet to be completed is quids.
So, yeah, pretty much everyone else is done on the map right now.
I mean, Ziny, despite kind of getting solo killed early,
has kept his CS up, because they're able to get the return kill
with the grub assist from contracts and fudge.
He's just an incredibly comfortable spot.
Roa, what completed, tier stacking, and is going to be a really strong
inibia as quid tries to affect the game and the mid game on rise.
But so far so good for this inibia counter.
Morgan dashing backwards, not going to fall for it, but just trying to get into gold a little bit aggressive as contract was in that brush.
But Morgan very respectful stuff.
Lex to play it safe, not knowing where the jungler is, and lucky for him, that means he gets to stay alive.
Yeah, because for once, the jungler was actually toppling, shocking.
It's amazing that he actually respected that, because I've been watching a lot of LCS, and I'm telling you, these junglers are in hot going top.
I had our stats guy actually look up the kill participation of top laners early on in the season.
And it's the lowest it's ever been, like the overall kill participation globally is about 52% for top laners.
And last year it was 56 way back and like 2013-2014 was like 65% so it's kind of progressed.
We've gone down but specifically this year with the roll quests and the early prior all these teams are putting on Drake.
You really are just not involved in the game early on.
Yeah, absolutely true. What is this giant spell, man?
Is he like fimble winter or something with a tier? Is he going to tank tier item?
That's the only thing that immediately comes to mind for me as a B-boy trading heavily
here with Yon.
You know, maybe he's just going Fimble Winter.
I can't say I've seen this much obviously you know, it is much more standard as good
towards arching angles as well as that roa, but sometimes people do like to stack multiple
tier items.
So kind of interesting, you know, maybe he's going to go for that Fimble Winter and then
you know, try to go double tier or something like that.
Maybe he feels easy with more tanky.
He is Morgan going to go in with that public execution on his denies.
getting knocked down very low. Nice.
Thunder does peel people with a
glint aggressive. Cone comes out on
Ion. Yons gonna have to try to get
out there. Core taking a lot of
damage there as Fudge arrives with
the teleport. Eclosor's gonna get
dropped Morgan gets walled on.
Well, the extra anchor isn't gonna
help them to say alive. Just barely
does not as budgetable to it off.
And now Jose. Five and drags sides
up. Can't sense the cat. It's a
kill baby. He's going to get the
dunk does get the kill on the
fight. So they get one back. What
It looked like that place started in favor of Shopify.
But Quizz has actually been bottom line this entire time.
Probably going to be picking up a couple of extra plates.
So the goal is temporarily in favor of team liquid.
But there's numbers in the mid lane, but it allows Shopify
to get some plates.
OK.
So from production, apparently Quizz is to accidentally click
Giants Bill.
So the only thing I could think of was he was going
some weird fimmel winter thing.
But apparently he had a big reaction when he did buy it.
So yeah, I haven't seen the fimmel winter build.
I don't know if he's just going to sell the Giants belt now,
or if it is going to be a fimble winter because he bought it,
or what went on, but maybe we'll get some,
they will get the interview from him later,
or something he gets to see.
Super interesting, watching this trade top lane
from Morgan and Zinney.
Kind of the only way out is in for Morgan,
once he gets that wall,
able to get a good chunk on to Zinney.
But that's when Fights just broke out all over.
So the teleport comes in top lane to eventually come Morgan.
But at the same time, that teleport would have been in the river,
Maybe the river fight ends up going a bit different.
So still converting a kill on just any with Morgan.
Pretty important there.
And I've actually done Morgan looking a little frustrated.
After that kill does go down.
Y'all need to be loyal just to be testing this mid lane.
Constantly here.
Y'all still have a good 30 C.S.
And is doing really well as far as the pharmacist
or you can see the reaction.
Oh, you can see the reaction.
OK, that looks like that was an oopsie.
Slaps of the 12 in the head.
It's a little bit literal, face-planned.
So, is he going to sell it and just going to take the L or is he going to try to do something different and go
Vimbo Enter or is it just got a random giant spell and is inventory for a long time?
I'm just trying to ignore that he did that and he will go lost after next and kind of standard arcane deals.
So, for what it's worth, I was just pulling up some item win rates on all letics as they're going for
Bboy.
And people will be able to dash back away from the false bombs.
They say, a lot of action going on right now.
I have a good win rate point about Vimbo Enter.
It's a 50-1.8-fork, so it's exactly the same winner as the 280-thousand games of
Arkenjul staff. So obviously it's conditional when you would build it, but it's not as bad as you would think.
Yeah, yeah, it seems fine. People used to do all the mana stacking with rise, obviously
rise skills well with mana people used to do like the frozen heart, like all the mana item build.
So yeah, it doesn't seem like grieges, but it doesn't mean that the Arkenjul shield, which is very
very valuable. We'd come super late in the game. Obviously, we're going to get
Femble Winter Shields when you root them. You don't get it from slow. If you're
range, you only get that if you're a melee. But be boy, big chunk there is a
phosphomlands. He has to flash away from the bubble from core. As Yon and Core JJ
just constantly trading 33 CS up now for this quirky, but still a very slight goal
lead for them in that boss. I really just Jose, who's been able to open up a pretty
nice lead. They all think it's considered though the game is very, very even. It's
really just the dragons separating these two teams.
That's it I was just going to bring up
this out competitive Shopify has been in the server
of the game and it's going to come down to team
and also team composition cohesion.
So I still have concerns about how contracts
is going to contribute to this game later,
especially if it's trying to alt this thimble winter rise.
What's the chance is that he gets a kill?
I actually do think he's going to finish arc angles
and maybe he'd do it thimble winter, third of this chance kill?
They're like a rylizer or something.
It's going to get interesting.
as he has to add lip as item build.
But at this stage now,
yawning court today, still getting the trial.
Looks like Ryze is still winning the side
and best is still winning side.
So, shop, I have to kind of make some funny plays happen,
because they're gonna have to stop this trick
stacking eventually.
And this is kind of like where you need to do
this weird situation with an idea,
and it is really good at holding ground,
but not really good at taking ground and moving forward,
your race is definitely getting gang.
So, as soon as there's not a tower in your lane,
you kind of have to just back off
and except when those many way to do come to you,
TL though, going to use the Harold here,
Jose threatening on the side.
And this should be a tower going down.
Gonna be able to knock down that mid lane to your one.
Corning on, just happy to take any trade with the Nami
sustain.
It's going to be beneficial for them as long as they don't get
100 or 0, but Incum's contract's Flash is for the
calling there.
Not enough to kill off for JJ and have contracts in a world
of trouble trying to survive is going to go down.
It's more going to rise.
Incum, he glies her as well.
Say, let's do trouble.
Flash is over the wall.
If I'm trying to get something happening here on the Morgan,
The important deal with Dashback though is quit is in the mix, trying to get the damage down
on the Zinny, Zinny, cutting back.
Y'all are going to be stunned up.
He's just firing rockets over the top.
No one going down, but contracts in Zinny is finishing them.
He's going to be on the finish off.
Y'all and Y'all in does fall, quit still trying to make Zinny happen on the side against
B-Boy.
K-Boy, do it.
Zinny in the extended play is able to get the kill and equalize the fight.
It's just the one for one at the end of the day, actually really cool what we saw in that
fight.
we saw how when contracts engages, there's not really many ways to follow up.
So he ended up dying, but then, as team Liquid tried the Riemgage, you see a
nivya meal-eolution really turned on because they couldn't actually get on to them.
And that's how he's got a kill on the back end.
So temporarily, contracts saw a numbers of them.
So we think maybe we want to talk for your day with the gun.
But once that doesn't happen, he's able to get punished.
Now on this reengate, just watch even though the ambassador
off connects, very hard to get through that big and
maybe off in the middle of the lane.
That goes down.
Locueen are pops of again.
Walls yon off and then lands the long distance
done on him over.
So this is two cues that I think is any managed to land
on to yon in the course of this fight beautifully played
in India to get that kill on the quirky.
Yeah, that was really well done.
Yon had his flash though.
Definitely could have flashed that second one.
You know, maybe felt like, hey, I could survive this
or you know, it's not worth it or something, but does end up getting punished doesn't
am going down.
Zany now opening up a nice little gold before himself.
He's working on this top tower.
It will eventually go down to the Enivia.
So Zany going to be getting stronger and stronger.
His arching feels is ready.
His row is already at eight stacks and it is going to be lost after picked up here.
So the arching just comes through for quid.
Now we'll find out what he wants to do with that.
Giant's belt.
If he is going to buy a second tier if he's just going to see if that's a later and then
just kind of sell it off.
kind of crazy. I mean, Quidd was getting a lot of spell rotations off in that fight.
I feel like you would have had our candles done. If you hadn't bit the giant spell.
Yeah. So kind of a costly misclick. It is. It really is. Jose though.
Go on a bit aggressive here on a flash. We'll overheat. He's going to get thrown into the
catapult. Nice side step and the flag is wrecked back through to income. The olfion to Quidd
though, they're going to try to turn around. Y'all and try to get in, but he's held out by
Zinny. Zinny gets hit by a pink choke from that boss bomb though. Morgan getting so dead on the
the side. People ain't have to be in the
flag and drag. As he comes in the
room prison, he comes out more.
Will they go for it. People are
saying, no, help it. All he's not
down by Jose and they want more.
And they're going to get it sales
fall as well. Did he still on the
side, fighting with Morgan? Morgan's
just going to flashing on top of
income's a belt from beyond into
the egg. It's scramble the Nivia
for dinner. They get another kill.
They still see contracts as well
in the ward. Are they just going to
go straight for bearing here? I
think that they should. I think
This is the game break right now as long as they're able to secure this bear and remember
though 18,000 health on the bear and a treads.
They can't kill it very quickly, but it is a five versus two and cordia jay is chasing
the by way.
Yeah, I contract.
It's just going to have to leave the scene.
It's a little bit spotted walking between the waves.
So now they know it is completely unprotected.
And now they're going to push out waves at the same time.
Walking goes top beyond goes mid.
But at the same time, it possibly delays their soul since they're deciding to maximize their
gold from the Baron and the turret, they lost the pole position on the Drake, so
Empower recalls coming in from Ryze and Jarvan, no teleport, no realm warp, so no
way of actually stopping this in Furnal, if Shopify can withstand this Baron, it's
potentially okay, since there's still at least 10 minutes away now from a potential
teamwork with Silver, let's watch this fight one more time.
Yeah, it's quite started off here by Jose with the nice double fine gun.
and contracts, tries to all thin as a way out of the cataclysm.
I'd say because Zini got caught on the outside,
they don't have that disengaging presence,
and it allows quit Jose to kind of freely move
throughout this fight.
Good coach, Cam.
As fun as a little bit stressed on the way this fight goes.
At least, stressed coach.
Okay, now it's happy, now it's happy, now it's happy, yeah.
I wonder if they did a time jump.
Was that the start of the fight?
Or was that, oh my god, he built a giant spell.
double tier. Double tier rise. He's got 21 stacks.
So we need 340 more and then he's going to power spike.
It's the correct. I don't think I think it's better than
Rely's and it's a Giants belt item that will eventually
pay off and work with work with the.
Okay. And it's just some taking this seems totally fine.
It'll give you a lot of extra shields when it does actually fully
complete, but that's going to be who knows. Maybe the game we
over for that takes a long time to stack those double tiers as
contracts. Look to try to smite that away and Jose just
just poking on the side here with
yon. So yeah, pushing in. But
they're waiting for quit in the
bot lane who's trying to get things.
Yeah, really important moment in the game right now
though. We've seen a lot of games globally
slingshot back in gold. The teams aren't
careful enough with their first Baron
and with their bounty. So just a bit of a
recap on what some of the season changes were
Baron gives half as much gold on kill
and is harder to take. So you don't get as big of
an advantage from it. Not to mention, kill
big and objected boundaries also turn on at certain stages.
So right here, you see like a 1700 gold barren power place so far, that would be like 3,000
in the past season based off just the barren gold.
And then you could hose 80, oh, if he dies, that's a thousand gold given over to Shopify.
And you can see that gold that gain getting very close if teamwork would make actually
one saw small mistake.
So they feel like they're controlling now.
They're actually, honestly,
contract the one making mistakes because he goes for a try to take down Joseos,
they're going to walk into the car, get the shut down,
contract survives thanks to the heel and the breath of life
coming up from the meleo.
And now let's see, can't Shopify get something more.
They have the man and Ben is,
but I think they're going to be happy with that
to just back off.
And I underestimate that meleo, he loves.
Barely able to keep contracts alive.
Yeah, contracts getting his shield from his passive
and the meleo healing.
And it's exactly what we just talked about though.
Team Liquid, get the Baron.
They take two turts with it.
But because Jose, the biggest bounce you hold
there on the team dies, it's a plus 500 gold barren,
and they traded the barren for an infernal drink.
So that's actually when you add everything up,
a small advantage for Shopify.
Yeah, and I mean, it gets contracts back in the game,
because he was down, like 2.2K gold,
he just picked up one day.
So he was able to get a BF sword off of that,
which is gonna be feeling pretty nice about.
Another watch after their grab by quit,
just Shopify trying to be first in the area.
So control vision, a couple minutes ahead
of this next drag in here,
has quid downwards at that boss side,
but notice he has no coverage.
So he has to be pretty careful,
and I don't think he's gonna push past this wave.
Yeah, quid would normally have actualizer
right about now,
but he's gonna have to wait on that power spike.
So if they end up losing this game,
it's gonna be a pretty tragic one.
Cause I think with how close a lot of these fights have been,
a little bit more rise power would have actually pushed them
over the top, but I think,
The name of the game here for Team Liquid is simplified.
I think they've been trying to make a bunch of different plays, but they've had
a lot of part of the whole game, quits been able to get advantages on Zany.
If they were just playing around objectives, they potentially have sold by now.
They waited to take that first strike until 11 minutes, they took Baron instead of the
third strike, and they've really just made, I think this game has gone on longer and longer.
If I think about the way Sentinels played yesterday, they were on top of that
a great cool down every single time
they got eight Drake's to zero in that
entire series.
And now a couple mistakes could
cost them but they're trying to push
mid with this moment.
Yeah, contracts is just going to go
down.
Jose is going forward here.
People are trying to get some
damage done as a nice equalizer
close to the boss.
He just goes forward flashing to the
side of his people.
When he's gone already,
he's going to fall as well.
And just like that, I pick it to
end of the game.
Morgan goes forward, not sound one.
It is going to be all five
from the shop.
But by going down his Morgan
grabs a triple TL grab a clean ace in the base and they are going to wipe up game one.
So as I was saying as hell, name of the game is give Gold to Yon because he's really good.
And as we see, because he had the lead, he flies into the base, eliminates Shopify and
just like that.
It's over.
It ends the way it started.
Yon and Core, crushing it in that two-beauty.
To start things off and crushing it in the team fights to finish this one off.
Bam Chat now, let us know who your player of the game is.
And we'll see if the analysts are going to be agreeing with that as they get ready to break down this game because that was a very fast end.
And they're ready, so let's hear from them.
Yon, Yon, it's got to be on for you.
I don't think it's like that.
Just always spoiling our hard moves.
Rads, you can't see much camera now.
He's piecing together.
Are you looking at my argument?
defense of Shopify on pop 3 last year is
Vinny.
Okay.
So if I didn't have enough time to truly break down the argument before going into the game number one other.
They're a little abbreviated.
Almost all of the expectation was on Zany being an upgrade for the team.
And I will say this game on the end of you.
We finally got hints of what he's capable of.
the unique Pixie play 22 champions last year, in 2024 he was back to back MVP of
Challengers in Korea. I think he's the type of mid-liner that can really step up and improve a team.
But he was still shown that he can struggle a little bit in getting into the team fights. There's a
couple moments where they can look at in this next game or from this last game that kind of highlight that.
On the other hand, it's a cool pick. It's awesome. We've seen it find success, but it was not
I'm just realizing, I got some some pit argument.
I get to hear.
I know you wanted to take a look at a specific TL team fight that happens.
Right above Dragon here.
Yeah, I think it pause right about now.
And you could see something drastic.
Basically, Zemi is like, how the hell do I get in this fight?
Because you can either take the long route, and by that time, if the fights are over,
You can already see them being grouped up in CoreJJ in stance.
You see that stance?
You know what that stance looks like?
I'm all things stance, right?
And so he's going to take the shorter route.
And so I just want to play it from here.
And you can see how difficult it is for him to actually access the fight.
Yes, he always tries to pick out your own.
But who has more damage?
Two altis.
He's already below HP and Morgan is chilling there too.
So he actually cannot play this fight out at all.
And so they have to run and guess what?
Levi, one HP.
He's the one that takes the blast cone.
and sends it to you.
Yeah, I do, though, to take out his order, boy.
He says, look right next to you.
And that's perfect.
Your own demise.
I'm just glad you called out, because obviously,
if you have this team composition and what you really want,
it's to be wearing that damage, especially the Olivia Damage.
Yeah.
She can set up, she can wall people off, she can block people in.
She draws damage just on top of you, constantly snowing.
And that combined with rumble could have been absolutely disastrous for TL at several points.
It just seemed like they weren't able to set up the kind of teamfight they wanted to.
And we were talking about player of the game.
We'll take a look at who actually won the player of the game from game number one.
It's y'all.
That last sequence was insane.
I was like, there's no way he outplays B-boy.
There's a he doesn't die of a lootion damage to me.
He'll be behind him.
And he finds a way.
It's every rocket, every boss for his bomb.
What are the fans think what are the fans think what the whole thing
In that play was they did get the old two on two people he has it
Actually consistent so I was wondering if the fans would believe that so they're going up against us
Hey, you won't play it from the fan vote the fans the band believe you
Chosen on you. Yeah, you are
We need to be held accountable for our connections. Oh, you do I'm glad we players can hold this down, but actually it's very fun. Yeah, the fans as well
I think also showing that he is very comfortable in a back in N.A.
Happy that back in the LCS.
I would break that. Let's take a look at our comms replay connected by AT&T and
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My first person was just like pretty good in lane.
if I'd ever interacted with them and so I'd try to interact with the most person.
So if you're just fun, I'm a funny guy and there's a nice girl laying for some,
because you're always playing so well with you.
My best impressions on Kuwait was probably a lot like everyone else.
I think that he joined a pretty underwhelming under it.
And it seemed like he suffered from pretty big stage nerves to be honest.
I had also seen him swim because I watched LCS games swim for my spare time as well.
And I thought that he had like a lot of potential.
So like, so maybe he was just like a young Korean kid
that came in with like a ball of mechanics.
And it's five, as opposed to like the macro side of it.
I thought that if he could just get over
what was holding him back on stage,
they'd be a really good one.
To get to Quitt's transformative springs split,
we first have to go back to his debut split
just before it, summer 2023.
Despite the weight of such a legend of the game retiring,
the only slightly changed hundred days
roster actually began as season with a W.
A good sign for a team looking to continue their regular season form from Spring 2023, but
they finished third.
Before crashing out in back to back best of 5s in the post season, given that the only change
coming into some of them was Midland, it's a good thing the team starts off with a
victory to swirl their confidence.
The problem is that the player in Midland isn't a young South Korean talent, but another
old Danish guy.
That's right, Coach New Duck actually had to feel in for Quidd to do the visa problems at
the start of the split, and shockingly they won with the duck's Ari holding up quite nicely.
It's actual debut game though, it's perhaps an omen for the rest of the season as it's
an absolute disaster.
Pretty some more.
Scoring off against peak form judgypun on evil geniuses who would later be crowned
these splits MVP, quit ends the game, getting literally outfox by Jojo's R.E. and
ends the game a bleak one and eight, getting solo killed and just generally gapped in
the process.
And the trajectory does not improve from here for quit, as 100d spin, the season trading
water, and trying to find any semblance of stability, even losing their final week-type
breaky game to dig into us to finish in 8th place, scraping themselves over to finish line
and into the last playoff spot.
in the lower bracket against Team Liquid, could find himself facing the other even new
with the League North American Terra APA, where fairly uncertain areas through on lost
and stay a season.
With that instantly, the double-ploss both is sung as well, and now they're going for a fight,
APA could eat something that's not where it goes down, but he wants to down, y'all
come and have magic on for these players to pause the game.
The ready for the fight, the bearer's down, all about seven or eight speeds, could be secure,
but he also got the situation, he has to look at James Cicano, the grip's up, down, there's
Right through, who's the earth's gonna drop back?
Quint goes to the party, they'll reach the limit,
they'll be a time to watch the season end.
Team Liquid will give a clean outage.
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they will win this series!
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TL took a game number one pretty explosively I would say it felt like that. Yeah, you know, it was kind of like a surprising and how quick it happened a delayed explosion
Yes, when you're unexploded into the base and then somehow managed to kill everyone on Shopify. Yeah, but we'll see you know can't Shopify
Drag it back a little bit. We had a lot of two of those last week. We just have a three game series. I mean we can make it a six game day
Well, this is our night game of the week last week. We played nine games
Interesting, can we want to up it? I would hope so guys
that we're thinking is about our games.
We've had a lot of really close games,
but then a lot of series that end to zero.
So here we have Shopify actually choosing
second pick, and then also being put on red side.
So this is a, it's called a lead classic draft right here.
What is really interesting because initially everyone was
saying, okay, first pick is going to be a part of the best.
Blue side is going to be a part of the best.
People were kind of really just defaulting to.
One team takes first pick, the other team takes blue side, and that's how it goes,
but statistically, last pick has actually been doing better around the world.
So teams are starting to change now, where they're prioritizing taking last pick,
which gives you the counter-bix, and more clearly, student-back, instead of going first pick.
So it is interesting, you know, generally last pick is more powerful in a meta,
whether it's not a ton of OPEs that you just have like a permanent band.
But sure. So maybe people are feeling like that, is partially why?
The tricky thing here, though, is most at the time,
If you're picking last pick, the other team will pick blue side.
Maybe it's just the blue side.
I've heard from some coaches as well that you can
contest Drake a bit better from red side.
Yeah, but blue side is better.
Blue side is better.
Yeah, it's just, there's a lot of pros and cons from this.
I saw at LEC game where one team picked last pick
and the other team to red side.
So I've seen every combination.
There's a really no consensus on what's better.
Something that we're going to have to track as the year goes on.
your goes on. So the Wilcoan got taken away as kind of like a denial with the
Oriana, but instead now we're going to have the knock wave combo. We'll see how
Jose and quid can pile this is becoming quite popular. If you time the
shock wave properly with the nocturnal ultimate, it is essentially unavoidable.
You can't even flash it. So you have to have a timing perfect if you do not
it just falls on its face. It looks really, really silly. Because the ball doesn't
leash during the nocturnal team. You see, he's traveling. So it's really just
all about getting that timing right. We are going to have
fudge going with the NAR as Morgan goes for his signature pick.
First time we've seen him play it in that.
Yeah, with the United States.
Yeah, NAR has a bit of an old school counter pick, but
definitely not an easy lane to outplay. So definitely have
players who were comfortable on both sides of it. And the
knock turn, Oriana is almost like specifically into his
year as well, because it's just such a good way of
threatening him in sidelines. Not to mention as we saw on
Spire do at least three times in his game. You can
time you're special for the as you're all
just really be sticky toward the easier
once you're all thought so it's a pretty
ganger's combo. So it's always the
interesting to me too because nocturn
when it's in a game really changes the
and look of how top laners want to play
you know when I think of noir I think of noir
you know not just like slamming the Renekton
generally but getting advantage and being able to
get push-insides and sometimes thread and towers
and things like that but that is very hard to do
with nocturn on the map. If you're pushing
to try to get onto your toes and try to
form plates you are really exposed. Once
Renekton has striker dash in slow
the most done. Nocturn shows up your probably
cook so I can get a lot more difficult to play those
sidelines and that's something that's just going to be really
where. Yeah, kind of also have to save your hop in so many
situations. I doubt that those days going to
want to alt up their early but definitely in the mid game.
Plus we'll see if Jose is still a slave to Yon and
Core J. J. As he was he was borderline, uh,
tethered to bottom lane for the majority of that last game.
You can't say it wasn't the right decision though
with how Fed yon ended up getting.
I mean, even last year with TL when they were super struggling, everyone's like, yeah, but you
on though.
Yon is still playing really well, right?
And TL very clearly, we're going to rebuild the roster.
It was going to be around yon.
And so, you know, Jose spent some time down there, but I think rightfully so, a lot of support
bands coming through from Shopify, as Niko as well as Lulu are going to be taken away here,
as we're going to be banned.
I wouldn't have been surprised to see Zaya get banned away, because Ezreal Zaya, to me, are
like two of the the hardest to dive on and so now I think we're just going to get
Zyra Khan which yeah I feel like TL made you drop the ball a little bit
banning the Nautilus instead because the Nautilus combo is way less effective in
science it's actually one of the only 80 carries in the game that can effectively
dodge it like I agree actually the Ezreal makes sense because people
Ezreal is insanely good but I think they're getting pretty little value out of
that Nautilus fan especially with for Khan Leona all these other engaged supports
today, but it will also then pair really well with SIF.
I don't expect Yon to want to take away the Ziya generally people like playing with the
economy.
I mean, there you can pick away Yonara, it makes a lot of sense, you know, they could go
and then chain their style and really just try to like slam lane because Rakan is not
a strong early leader.
So maybe that is their thought processes.
Yeah, they'll go Ziya, but like this to me, too, is really good.
So who cares?
Yep.
And we'll see if that does work out.
But my concern is always just when you give a really safe AD carry, like Ziya,
That is removed as a big target for the knock wave,
and eventually a zero will have zonias.
Yes.
And then who do you all?
Like who is your target, right?
And that is kind of the problem here.
I always have with leaving up Ziya,
against this kind of knop,
and maybe it'll be egg on my face
and they didn't even pick Ziya,
maybe it doesn't even matter,
but that is kind of like what my expectation was.
I mean, he could pick like Caitlin
if he really wanted to have a stronger lane,
but, come on.
With the chronogen, it doesn't fit.
Come on, pick Ziya.
I feel like you just have to, when you're going up against this, this, this, this
an doctrine, or you're on it, like there's so much dive, there's so much power.
Maybe with the bar coming in, you could do some, some kind of, like, shenanigans, like
through the bar at all first and you try to force out the all since certain ways, but
still, it's going to be a bottom lane, the team liquid is trying to play aggressively
round.
You know, in our bar, they're going to try and get a lot of push, maybe instead of just
trying to dive over and over again, they will then use the bar to take over the rest of
the map as bar does, but it's not a big surprise that team liquid has picked for the lane,
rather than necessarily the perfect late game team composition here.
Yeah, and I mean, I think they have some really good scaling obviously.
Ori scales really well, I think barred in Unara, both scale really, really well.
But Renekton and the nocturn, it's a lot harder to get value in a team bite later on than it is for the NARS,
as well as the Lukeong, Rakan scales and Critley Wells team play.
Like, they have two really good carries, lots of great engaged over on the Shopify side.
I do favor their five B5 later on for sure.
Once you have those luxury items come through, we have seen it.
It can be very difficult to get value out of that knock wave.
Inspire, some people were really hot in those builds.
Some people thought it was absolute trash, but it was kind of going for just this full
CBR build, more tanky style.
And he was basically saying, really the only damage that matters is the
Orianna.
So I'm just going to have a lot of CBR.
I'm going to have you, Bisselmass, the Ampere Damage.
But that means you're doing a lot less later too.
Yeah.
On the inspired build, I was talking to some people about that as well.
The consensus I got was, so what inspired it is he built,
that external packs plate, which is all that
not turns to you for the all the
little.
Then a bissal and then came it a lot
of you wanted to stop at the abyss
right and then strikebreaker afterwards
to still have threat because the
abyssals not only going to give you
some taking is it's also going to
am theory on his damage and I
believe they were double AP that a lot
of.
Yeah, extra magic damage and a top
lot as well, which is yeah,
give more magic damage.
So that's I agree with that take
that I liked the mask and not the
canic.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how they are going to be able to make it work.
Both these teams, you know, in kind of interesting ways, had some like similar games
I feel like when you're looking at last week and how the things went.
These were their gold drafts all kind of like overlaid, you know, where there was some
throws or some things that didn't kind of go to its expectation.
For sure, but these are multiple games where they were actually winning past 25 minutes
and then lost the game.
So neither of these teams are going to walk away feeling super happy, but they're also
not going to walk away feeling hopeless because you can always say, well, we were in a
position to win end then.
So it's a better mindset to go into the off week with.
But speaking of that, like this last game, Shoppa was kind of in until they weren't.
So they're the ones that have had that happen multiple times now and seem like we're trying
to pull them stuff back.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, they were very competitive.
And I mean, this is then going up against pretty much with the aggregate number one was,
This was we combined everyone's power rankings the average power in you for TL was 1.42 which was first over on first overall and then the average power ranking for Shopify was 3.43
Which was that third or fourth overall I can't actually remember. I think it's third. Yeah, stop top half. Yeah, but
Either way, you know, obviously had them both powering pretty highly. I think the Shopify ones were kind of like more controversial
Some people have a very highly can get to have them up as far as one you have what six or seven. So I think you had them lowest
So people were kind of of different opinions
I know your take is kind of overall their win percentage was a very low last year and they're bringing in like a rookie look
It's not really gonna fix it and then the glass half full was hey, they finished pretty highly in summer
And they added a mid-laner who's supposed to be really really good. So it's really that fix is everything
this so it's gonna be really interesting
in a sadistic sense
If Shopify loses here and then they play digger toss in the double-o-to match for elimination
Because so much was made about shot five last year and how
Palafox was the big week point and replacing him with Zini is going to fix things.
But like actually though, there's both worse. Like is that?
Because you're one of them who want to game now that they've been by the way.
We're winning. It's a lose lose. Exactly. Like was Palafox actually the perfect
mid laner for shot five but just the net net was there just slightly below 50%
win rate. I don't know. That was their peak. That's how I think it go.
to be looking for a
vodka here sales. It's going to be in some trouble.
Louis flashy does flash, but the fear
tether does still connect. You asked is
Jose going to be tied to bought the interest.
Yes, even on the nocturn. He ganks your at level four
does force a flash. We'll have his recall delayed
which is pretty annoying, but at least be
boy keeps his sums. It is basically the ghost of
Yon for the double sums here of sales as
well some time from Jose. According to
Jonathan, I like that. Can't look. I don't think he's losing
hardly any time. I mean, I'm looking at the respawn of his gromp and it looks like he's going to get there pretty much on respawn no counter-drungling
possible. So
It is I think it's going to become a meme if this happened to every single game though like every single time
There's a crab that Jose is down there ganking. You know, it's funny because people are about it with young, which is rightfully so
But I feel like all of the iterations of T.L. that did really well. This is kind of how they played like think about when they were winning the four straight titles
It was go-bop for double it, right?
And it was always like there was always this discussion about like,
ah, we're really trying to evolve past that.
We want to play all these different play styles.
And then playoffs would come, guess what they were doing.
They were drafting scaling and going to pop for double it.
It's just not worth it to be diverse, you know?
It's just, do your thing and just do it really well.
But that's funny.
It was the double it all a, originally, then double it core the next year.
That's how long cordia day has actually been on team liquid since that 2018 year.
But it has been the best version of Team Liquid time and time again.
And I mean, the reality is, 80 carries as the end of the game.
Team fights are very heavily based on how good you're 80 carries, right?
And doubles was, you know, the best 80 carry we'd ever had in an A.
Y'all on is absolutely stellar.
So it makes sense when you have players that are worth playing to,
you're going to play towards them, right?
You're going to try to focus on those styles.
And obviously you would love to play every style,
focus on every lane, play every champion,
but it's usually just not realistic.
But we also don't even know what the best style is this year with.
I mean, the current patch with the 80 carry question, the way cashback is balanced.
Maybe it actually is just get your carry to five or six items as fast as possible and win.
But a lot of happening here in the mid lane.
And also the top lane is Morgan has got the best of fun.
And no one cares other than those two currently.
Yeah, I mean, floods for us back to base.
He's down almost 20 CS lost the plate.
And Morgan's even going to be proxying here, because you see sales.
I think he kind of knows that we're going to be on the other side.
Shockwave does land on his zinny, but sales should be able to keep them safe.
people see if they want to try to go for any sort of flash play is still in the area,
but I think it will dissipate.
But with that proxy play here from Morgan, he's going to be able to recall, run right
back.
He doesn't even have to TP if he doesn't want to, and he's going to want to it.
And this is also a block crab disaster.
If the game is just side of the block crab, I'm pretty sure this is going to seem look
because they have T point T advantage from the connection if they need it.
They have mid push if they need it as well.
But contracts is still here looking to contest.
Y'all just hit minions though, contracts might get six off this.
Yeah, we'll see if he's going to be able to get it, Jose.
Looking, they want the back off.
I mean, brief it's nocturn.
It can be pretty dicey.
So they're just going to give this away.
Y'all are going to be pushing in that bot wave.
Should know that they're in the area and we'll
be backing off here pretty shortly.
But to touch on this on this top lane advantage,
it is really interesting, because Morgan career, career long,
it's a 40% win rate player.
In a 40.8% win rate.
Yeah, for a renector, we should not find it.
Renector, this is, true.
Maybe you should have been on top and find it.
But Redden is his most played champion and he has a nearly, you know, it's 58.6% win rate, like almost 100 games.
It is his best champion by a lot throughout his career in pro play.
And this is the first time he's gotten it in the LCS.
He always got a lot of respect for how well he was able to pile this champ.
So it's going to be exciting to see how he does.
You don't expect to see this massive CS advantage opening up when you were the one blinding your opponent had counter pick.
Absolutely.
Another bad joke. It's when he's on an economics like if Shopify is in the game the matters
So that's the level of improvement you see from just normal.
And we'll be in the finals. Yeah, and when he's offering that then it's shop five versus ding-tong. Here we go
There you go. It's just the way it works at the moment back to the game
I'd say people say it was actually they can pretty well despite all the attention
And seeing that the crab ended up not really doing much
This is no seen eye in game where they're just gonna totally flip the game over going for that level six crab
but Jose Quid now have the knock-weight combo,
but no one other than Seo says burn flash.
So not a great target to really go for right now.
But it is very hard to actually flash that, you know,
the timing is almost impossible.
If they do it perfectly, to me, that's one of those plays,
where it's like, you're talking about misplay versus outplay.
It's way more on the side of it, it has to be a misplay rather than an outplay, you know?
So sometimes when they press shock wave, you can like dash flash
flash and then the shockwave kind of like expires. So to speak before it gets to you. So there are sometimes they're timing, but it's very hard to actually flash it. And you know, we have seen games even
displayed in the LCS where people try to flash it and it's still connects and they just kind of like flash it on their team. So it's really a tough one to
destroy. So I feel like it's very much on Jose and quit and how well they're they're timing it and how well they're coordinating.
And I say Jose has pleasantly surprised a lot of TL fans.
I know he's only played three games and they've only won one of the actual games, but
he's good and he's had good synergy with the team.
Interesting here though, that looks like contract is going to be able to get this
Drake as Jose is instead just getting some grub.
So, going to be a little bit of gold and maybe some extra plate acceleration, but in
terms of the actual win condition of soul, would greatly delay it with him with him.
It would, but I'm going to be used to see, will they go top with an often all, right?
And then it feels more worth it, like if Fudge is making ours out and then it expires
and then you go top with nocturnal, and renectinal, but it's recalling sort of a mind.
I was going to say sometimes people really wanted to try to prioritize snowballing the
lane and then you know, hey, we're going to have a drag in or two, go proff more to
focus on gold, take away some camps, get some kills, and then show up to that third one
with a big gold event where we fight.
And it is a 700 gold event, it's already in pure isolation for Morgan in this 1v1.
Just doing great. Fudge does go for the standard tier 2 booths rush, nor obviously needs a lot of moves feet
But again similar to the rumble game means that his first item spike is gonna be quite delayed so I'm gonna hit that. He's gonna be a great spot
Almost 25 CS here 700 gold. I
Wouldn't mind it if there's a window to gain, but with with how much he's kind of pushing fudge in this lane
I also think fudge is gonna be in a very defensive mindset so the even a nocturn gain might be unlikely to work and
Yeah, it's speaking of having you know,
and core in your team,
Jose, patting back down.
So unlikely we see that.
But contracts might be going for play up top, actually.
All right, core is here in mid lanes.
And he could be in a little bit of trouble.
Gonna look for the ship. He's just dead.
He's just out, but in his way to late.
Nicely done. They don't even need to use the shock wave.
I wanted to just be able to finish him off there with the dissidents.
I feel like Zini was big John tunnel vision there.
Because, I mean,
Gordon do anything super sneaky. He's gonna walk in auto him. Yeah. And then it allows an easy kill from Jose.
It was just bald w basically. It ends up getting the kill. So that kind of blows this early game open a bit.
Because not only has top end winning hard, that gives quit quite the advantage on as any.
Yeah, no kidding. I mean, quit is going to get a very fast lootin as a result. So it's actually already complete, right?
right. So now you really have no fun in these kind of lanes where it's like they barely
hit you with anything but the Luden's proc, you know, makes some of these trades very,
very difficult for Ziny. So he's going to have to be really careful. He's got a new age
Orianna build. I do really like that people are going to wave back into first and his Morgan
takes a nice trade here. For a while, we've been seeing these really defensive builds. Roe was
getting really popular again. And now we're back into Luden's shadow playing death gap, like more
offense. And I think it's especially with this combo, the correct decision. You need to kill someone
with your knockaway combo, or generally you just don't win team fights, but
contrapes him.
Thinking about it that, but I don't know if they can get the wave in on your
Encore JG right now, not to mention, he owns going to be up in about five
seconds. There's both flashes or spots him or shots him and does have the
alt defensively on the bar. If you want to use it, but they have the very
sort of push them off. So they're going to deny away if they're going to take
a plate, Jose, up towards top side, floods will flash to break the
tether, but contracts be very annoying. And it's kind of just a trait of
of top getting star for
blocking guard, but I think
Trump are pretty happy
with that considering
how much focus is generally
given to you on. Yeah,
if you boys in a great spot,
he's going to be tough to
kill again this game on
the diet quit bashing forward
going to be a trade of
flashes core looking for
the temperate fade does
connect. And they got a
time. The binding. He can
of course he can. It's another
easy kill here for but you
onto the bottom. Maybe
going to get taken down.
Be boy does commit the
flash in the feathers to
get to the kill. Complete
the roll quest. You
It's on a block like three waves here, but now quit is coming in from behind.
Still has to talk with available.
Can you get there for a B-boy next on the shockwave?
But I think this, I tried it in a lot of trouble here from contracts will survive,
though, because contracts have already used the cycle earlier.
This is crazy.
Yeah, the heels are vibes and budgets on the other side of the map is Morgan,
who is there able to knock him down with the altis.
This is just a scrappy game across the map.
What ends up happening is both team-look with solar lanes open up big leads.
But John is now far behind.
So Bboy dying at the end really hurts the overall trade
for Shopify because his experience isn't gonna be there,
but if someone's gonna carry this game for Shopify,
it wouldn't be the Ziya because she's the one
that can immune that knockaway combo later on in the game.
And John is just eloiling them in all chapters
because they set the farm for him.
Meanwhile, they lose a turret top,
two plates, the NAR, the Ziya, and plates mid.
So like net net, it's a big advantage for Team Liquid.
Yeah, and this is just going to be really
problematic dealing with quit.
Quit is so fed right now.
And he isn't even grabbing the sword boots.
So I'm going to have a lot of spell pen.
It is all burst.
Lucidity is so popular these days for that moose beat
on those tier three upgraded boots.
But at this point, I mean, already a six stacks on the dark
seal already has the tier two boots.
He's got a lot of a people behind him.
And he is going to be a menace.
Yeah, I mean, he's no real quest yet.
and he swapped to mid, but I feel like he's so close
to the real question, it's probably not going to matter.
Sometimes you can get in these awkward situations
where you're going to get a real question,
wants to leave, but it's going to delay your real question.
But he's definitely scaling now.
If he's playing correctly and not egoing too hard
about needing to be ahead of the other AD carry,
he knows his soul enters her in a great spot right now.
So he just needs to be late game insurance
for the soul enters who are like he's decoding.
Four of the ins and trouble here tries
to go for the defensive.
All of all.
They need to save the shot wave across everybody.
There's the knock wave, Y'all, Jose, and Quid to lead them as Zini is playing for the wrong team.
He scooped Core across the wall, saved him and his whole team dies.
There ain't no way.
That is just insult to injury right there.
Core JJ, the most dead a bar should be.
And it felt like, as he got scooped, everyone else got altered.
like how insane was that timing into a four man shock wave from
Quinn who has the most damage on the team just in insane
sequence and now mortars try to die be boy Morgan has the flash out
but in case you missed it the power spike moment be that master
card card holders can click on the link in chat for their chance to win
$50 in our p so thanks Jose try to go get that now the soul
lanes so far ahead for T.L. I want to see the replay because
We need to find the self-alt to delay.
He's trying to keep himself alive.
Yeah, even if it's a late replay,
like we need to show this play,
we need to see that play again.
Fudge, he's toast.
He's dead too.
That is unfortunate for Fudge there,
and that is going to be an ISO depth here.
And our stats guy was digging up some interesting stuff
about this to us to stay the least here.
What do you think?
Not a good book.
For either player.
So the good news is, Bows is on a four game win streak.
after starting with forced trade losses.
So does this mean, does this mean,
fudge is going to lose four games in a row?
And then win four games in a row.
Let's find out, you know, they are actually the same player.
The real question is not how many ISODs it is.
It's how many good deaths you have, you know?
How good are those ISODs?
How much damage per death are you going to pull off as well?
Yeah, unfortunately, this one, the fudge is not getting the lot.
There is nearly a 6,000 gold lead at 15 minutes,
which, uh, quick math is not looking good.
So this will be an interesting game.
If we see it come back because I do think finally finally the replay. Okay, it's trying to sell fall
It's good that's crazy
Boy, how does it that's one of the biggest like from edge to edge he hit everybody that is a four man
That is all the action core drives the cell fault just to delay get scooped over the wall
Oh, that's what we got, put it in the game and it's that is going to be a force
Alt out from B-boy.
Shadowflames almost done.
He's got 14 stack majors.
Alludans tier three boots and a 3000 individual gold lead at 16 minutes.
What do you think?
I think he's fed.
But as we're saying, I do feel like our feel for what a throw used to be.
you have to be is no longer what a throw is and it's because the magnitude of your
mistake is multiplied more in this season than in past seasons. So objective
boundaries are even on right now. Quit is worth a thousand gold. Those days worth
like 700 close to 800 gold if you count a Cisco. So if somehow they just like
those two try and make a hero play doesn't work they go with the eye and objective
in the game.
We've been in like a 2,000 gold game.
Before it has no ult, so we'll see if they are going to send it here.
They do have that Oriana Shockwave up in available as well as the nocturnal team.
Shut up like rallying the troops to try to defend.
But I do agree.
Yeah, we have seen a lot of throws.
There's so much gold in the game.
And players are worth a lot less gold very quickly when you die multiple times in a row.
The bounties are worth so much objective bounties.
There can be massive swings.
But this will have to be a truly huge swing as it is.
is just about 8,000 now it did
crest 8,000 briefly before going
back under it. They're losing control
of their jungle. They're losing every
lane on the map. It feels like at this
point. And T.L. going to get engaged on
quit immediately flashes back here.
Come to the doctor. What are they going to
send it? Shockwave is up at the
available. They're going to land it on the
contract. Trying to run away. But
Jose is flashing there to follow. The
tempered fate does not connect me on
doing here with B-boy on the side. We'll just
to come and try. And there's nothing else to do because
bears not up yet. We're only 18 minutes into the game. So nice
little sequence there by team liquid. Very close to being more
if that part open was just a hair deeper to be able to catch
uh, with con and an R, but still they're able to kill
contracts once again. Keep him down. Keep him from
farming his own jungle. And now they can just all reset
and catch these waves and their games.
Thanks back to them. Hey, guys, we're getting closer.
It's a soul war and he's going to win it.
going up and up, you know, on two completed items,
B-Boy very soon will have his second as he's working towards those quickly.
It's likely, but, I mean, Zini is just so far behind that it's really hard to imagine
Zini being able to have a good flight.
And when he's that far behind, you just kind of know everything is going to be thrown at B-Boy.
And even if he survives, like there's not really a lot of threat besides him on the team.
So it's just so hard, right?
When there's only one person who's strong,
You just got from everything at them.
They have to run the whole fight.
It's hard to get much game done.
I mean, just look at it.
Not only is it a big goal, but it's a big inventory.
It's like two and a half items on everyone.
They go, though, Morgan, in some trouble, up on the top side.
His B-boys just runs up there with flash.
They're going to try to look to chase him down.
The feathers from it's actually going to get committed.
Even though B-boys was full health, the Morgan wasn't even popping the
alt.
What?
They do get the kill.
It goes to fudge.
It's a nice shot down.
It should help fudge inside there.
That's a pretty smart there by B-boys to just shadow fudge.
often times you're thinking that it's only a jungler, or even a mid lane, it's going to be off there.
But there's no realistic way to Shopify would ever take a fight anywhere else on the map.
So they kept Morgan just being a little bit cheeky with an overgrace of trade.
These are going to stop him from getting a plate after taking the straight, because Quid teleports off to catch the wave.
Yeah, Quid will be able to take this, you know, a little problem.
And yeah, I mean, first up, they know it.
They're massively behind somebody to create it, right?
You just have to look for a trailing plays, try to punch people on the side lanes.
to look for these kind of more risky moves,
because those are the only things
that are really gonna have a chance of working for you.
Yeah.
Wait for the 20 minute mark and set up around there.
So, Corridor Jays are already on the way.
He's gonna try and get some deep vision.
I think ideally you find a pick
because they have a lot of engage.
And there's no flash on NAR, no flash on Wukong.
So I believe that is where Team Liquid is.
They're just gonna try and keep mid-top pushed as much
as possible, but it's gonna be kind of tricky
to get all the vision clears here in the jungle.
Yeah, I mean, if I'm T.L.I, I'm just still like you never want to start the barren.
You only want to try to use it as a basic effect because legit the only way I could see them losing this game is if they start barren it gets stolen and then they all get wiped.
You know, it's like that's pretty much it.
So if you just keep deleting waves, you know, pushing it in controlling vision, force them to come into and then just try to take a fight.
You know, that really, I think is going to be the rest of you for success.
Quit.
You're going to be able to spot Zini already saw contracts in the area as well as core again just moving forward.
is the entire TL squad now in the area, so confident to move forward as Jose is here.
Nice little engage coming through and they find the combo is ever fat potentially on the
core.
Good scoop back from Zany trying to blast away from Morgan Fashley and on top of them
the grid goes god by fudges on the run sales is already gone.
Bevoi can't even get involved contracts is still alive, but he's kind of in the wrong spot
and he's going to get caught in the contract as no chance it's looking that shot wave.
Just the lead settlement up there and it's gonna go down the past people are getting in their buddy
25 stacks. Yeah, we're home. We're open for a feather storm steel or something at this point. I mean give it up. It's looking good. Give it up like raise the flag
You're not ice in a try. You've got it cute. You're down a million goals. Just pray
It's a Fortune 100 damage smite. No way anyone steal anything nowadays. The only hope is you got to be companion, right?
True, it's like a 14-0-1. Exactly. Exactly. You're praying for a miracle. So storm surge now for the 25-stack
quid. Let's see how much AP he has with Darren. No elixir
500 AP
Not bad. Still got another item slot. If this game continues 22 minutes in, he's already at four full items in upgrade of boots. I mean, yeah, a lot of flat pen here as well
Which do make things kind of nasty. He's got 48 flat pens. So let's see. How much MR does B-Boy have you guys got 44 so he's doing two damage to Ziya
Well
The as year's probably pretty similar. Yeah 44 so true to him who damage
So we can just read the tooltip and that's how much damage it does
876 damage alt
631 on the w so even if he doesn't queue
That's like like 1500 damage from RW.
Yeah.
People at has 1900 health.
Yep.
And then guess what, not your health those damage too.
So uh.
Uh-oh.
It's probably full save.
Oh god.
We missed it.
We didn't miss it.
That's just happened.
Sidney is just deleted.
That is a true damage.
Orianna knocks him down in our hurry.
T.L.
Marching on the base.
There's no reacting to that.
Is this the scrim chielle that was promised?
is this why we had the number one in the power ranking.
Everything so I mean this is looking tough.
Welcome to the LCS.
Did he?
These 0.50 contracts are going to look at the gauge,
but when even the basic ability still so much damage
Morgan is zoning around on the other side,
wins or vibes, and people I cannot say the same.
T-L, looking to finish this one off in a hurry.
It's 23 minutes in.
And they are just hitting the Nexus.
T-Ls are going to be able to close out the series.
to get something scoops of
bad. Um, Sam goes in. They
get a shutdown. Zini is back.
And they hold the line.
Fudge balls down here.
T. Y. On sales trying to run
away. Zini, you know, wrecked
the tower. See if he can hold on
for a little bit longer. You
can see Morgan's going back to
base. They may have just barely
survived. What's the base
T. P. Cause he's going to
help. And they want to end. I'm
pretty sure. Yeah. They're just
going to continue pushing forward
here comes a teleport. Sam's
going to make his move right
now. Zini's just going to get
ran down. Can't connect on
the yon is yon goes on a killings free contract is back up so as V-boy eyes on the next
is O-T-L to get one more kill. They do pick it up. They knock down the next is they sweep
shop a buy and what a monster game from quit.
Quit performed at an MVP level but I also think we had perfect timing for the quit feature
because we talked about the first game the quit played on state against Jojo where he had
and absolutely a bismal performance.
There were a bunch of hundred these fans saying he was a but
saying they shouldn't brought him in.
And then he turned into an MVP what we saw this game.
That's that's the video we need to send to Ziti right now.
Because he just had that exact experience the quit had
against quit zero six zero on this is here.
And a bismal performance here in game two by Ziti Shopify.
But it can get better as quit's proven as seem liquid dominance.
Definitely can get better analysts.
Is it going to get better soon?
Uh, Jerry's out on that one.
And did not look convincing from Shopify.
And I feel like I'm wearing clown makeup
because team like we're just washed up.
I feel like tonight's tonight's right you out.
Go for it.
OK, so dimonting.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
I'm so curious to stop rooting for the team.
Yeah.
I'd be surprised.
With the team as I give you the soft support.
Yeah.
It's unlucky.
Yeah.
Here for me, it's not as bad a major spillage.
Yeah.
I'm saying, I'm gonna get away with the noise.
I'm gonna get away with the noise.
What did you do, Charlie?
I do think those words sort of kind of pressure-bearing,
after having such a rough debut.
It's something we could have put them on the debut
and actually case would have been one of the roughest to see, right?
So there's always something to say.
I'm gonna have you monster for four minutes, man.
Nice, nice.
Incredible, right there.
We were asking a question of when you have Orianna Nocturne,
who takes credit for the play, when you're both pressing
all for the same time.
Do you feel like you take more credit for that last game?
Then who's in the auto?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's more credit.
The Nocturne of the Orianna.
Uh, I think whoever calls for the play.
Whoever calls for the play?
the play.
Okay, let's go.
Let's go.
In late game, what's Jose?
Okay.
In old game, what's me?
So.
All right.
We won the game, because we won the old game.
So.
There we go.
Perfect.
Let's do it.
That's good.
We got the details.
We got the inside information.
So one of the things that we were talking about heading into the game.
In these weeks and was your journey as a player, obviously, starting off, we had this
little documentary.
out on YouTube if you haven't yet, but sorry of how you kind of started 100 thieves
and then coming in and now popping off now on Team Liquid. So I just want to hear
you kind of reflect on what this transition has been like to this team and how
Team Liquid has welcomed you into the ecosystem.
Like moving to, moving to the team. Yeah. Yeah. I want to improve my macro thing.
I joined Team Decade.
Like, the biggest reason I moved to tier was core.
Yep.
Yeah, here's a good experience about Lee,
and I wanted to learn from him.
And after we lost to C9,
I felt like I still keep playing like when I was in under the team.
Not using my brain well.
And I'm really thankful.
I really want to say thank you to Core that, like, even that's not even Core, he's
job.
Like he's looking my macro and need to get this game to talk, just to suggest our
project to, like, if you do this, it's going to be better, how about what do you think
about that, something like that?
So, it was my first time getting that kind of feedback.
Yeah.
If you, it's feeling really nice and thanks for.
Yeah, I would have a student core feel like that.
What's the best piece of advice core has given you for your macro play?
I still think it's a small detail.
In game when I play a good play, good mid-laner.
I think core is best example for doing that kind of stuff.
He's slow pushing the wave until he can actually pressure enemy.
But I used to like just fast push every wave,
and we can not pressure or nothing.
We need to go top side again, something like that.
I think it's just more detail, but it makes enemy feel really
hard to play against him.
Nice.
How is it feel working with honestly spawn?
Because you were able to bring in spirits from the other environment on 100Ds,
but working with spawn has to build different, right?
Because if you're a lot more angry, I don't think you're a lot more側.
To be honest, I was expecting him to be more angry,
than my...
Like, I was an actually intimidating, right?
Yeah.
I expect he thought angry guy, like, when I make mistakes, he said,
Yeah, and me or something like that.
and first took with Jake, he said, I decide to be happy guy from D.C. here.
I thought it gets fun here. I don't get the chance to be angry.
Let's see, it's just the first month, okay?
It's like more opportunities.
You know, we've got a player the game for this one.
Who would you give it to?
It's got to be me.
There.
And now that it will win the player of the game,
it is, of course, seem like an alien with 9-1-5.
That's crazy.
That is insane.
I didn't pick you up for fantasy this week.
I feel foolish.
That would have been a lot of points.
Yeah, you should feel foolish.
Yeah.
I think my points are also pretty low.
Let's see what the fan voted for the one.
It's definitely you.
They're really great.
Yeah.
Well, 0.7 per young.
Oh, wow.
What is this?
It's probably one person out there.
But no, it's great to be able to see this team come together.
Obviously a question that I asked you is coming from last week you guys
basically nine, that's the expectation of like the top two teams
within the league.
But what is your expectation with Team Liquid as a team?
I know Morgan just came in before week one,
but now that you've had some practice,
how has it been feeling for you?
I still have constant that you're going to be best team in SES.
And I think we kind of threw it in this week.
Obviously, I think it's the 90's stronger opponent than Shopify.
But I still feel like we showed how we practiced in screen.
Yeah.
So I think if we keep going forward, then we're going to be the best in this year.
A lot of other teams are echoing that sentiment as well.
The team like with R, you know, the best in scrims, behind the scenes, all kinds of stuff.
But player the game went for you for that last game.
Let's take a look at the other side.
Yeah.
I'll give you your coach's fall and happy spot over there.
Swan, you're going to be happy this year.
He says, no, he won't.
Okay, we're looking back and fair.
It's a completely nice place.
We're here at the player of the games.
Yons are getting game number one.
They're going to, of course, here in game number two.
Then we have three aims, which we're going to fly quest and a suggest.
But now, let's take a look at the updated bracket.
Next week is going to be the conclusion of the Swiss day.
Oh my gosh.
6T.
Let's go.
It's going to be the back at stage.
First we need to determine the matchups in our one-in-one pool, so it's time for the draw.
We're going to slide adjustment to the order.
First draw will now have a right-up selection and match one.
Second draw will have right-up selection and match.
And then third draw will match up against the first draw.
And the final team draw will compete in the second matchup.
That must be a chance that it will be drawn together, in which case matchups will be automatically determined
because we can't have that re-match there.
So with that being said, we actually have quid.
You're going to try it now.
So, let's take a look here.
You have the bowl in front of you
for all the teams that are in the one-and-one bracket.
We will have to draw those.
So, please.
So, we're a little bit, let's get some mix things.
Here we get it.
And the first team drawn.
Okay.
Here we go.
My palms are sweaty.
Okay.
Yes, he.
He, you can take that one down.
This guy is the first team.
Yeah, him on the Emily.
Emily, hold the first match up.
It has a little to second.
So now this next one.
Who's in here?
These are other one and one teams.
So you go in here, both sides and line.
Yep.
OK.
OK, yeah, a little orange.
Yeah, a little orange.
What do you look at?
OK, what do you start with?
It's starting like, wait, it's all.
We cannot see.
If you want the SG first of all, it feels like
maybe you're trying to draw them.
OK, that's the energy that the energy comes in from.
Team look at the team look at the card.
That.
That means Team Liquid is not going to play against this guys, because they're filling out the black and here.
I'm going to have you hold this one.
I thought I would leave.
Now we're going to draw the next one, and I believe we actually haven't already because of the tiebreaker.
So we can have you pull it up and now I hand it to the right person.
Let's see the next one.
You're right.
Just for the five.
Yeah.
Here we go.
And there is a lion.
Yeah.
So because signals cannot play against the issue, you do to the rematch.
Lion will automatically go up against the issue.
And now if you can open the last one for us.
Let's go ahead.
Give it to me.
That's going to be sentinels versus team.
Like, where did you go?
Okay.
So, I got sentinels on the draw.
I'm going to eat the baby.
I'm playing with my fourth coach.
Oh, it's pretty cool.
It's going to be fun.
Fun, fun to play.
You got to prove the last thing.
You got to prove the last thing the golden glue.
Yeah.
And then also DSC versus Light, that's how you fun match up as well.
So that's the one in one draw.
The rest, it's two two out teams and two out teams.
So we already know those match ups.
Now it's time to talk about player of the week.
We had all the player of the game.
Yes, we can.
Let's have a look, it is.
Sven.
That's what I guess there's Vendington III.
How do you feel about him?
Because I think you're the one that ended up voting for
Sven, what my vote went towards all day.
Yeah, I think Sven is kind of,
I feel like he's weirdly underrated on his own team.
A lot of the times, this is the team that fight
that I feel like definitely it was a standout play for him. I remember talking to him
after words and he was like yeah I was just like really really popping off to first
saw the angle so I mean he did particularly well this week I think in their series
against Lion in the two of 10-4 and 6 so yeah.
The second C9 player to be able to win player the lead so far this player.
Oh yeah, that's a play team. Yeah and it's a team fight for extremely solid and that
was perhaps the the series to watch. Yes,
you know, I went up against team liquid. I felt like the top two teams. I mean, we'll see how lion shakes up as well. But that was also a team that people perceived to be top three within that upper echelon. And so that was the match up.
People were looking at so present the show up and that series makes a lot of sense. And remember we had the over reaction at the beginning of the two that see nine would go undefeated.
Yeah up until upper bracket finals. And then they would lose and then fall off there.
This was an over, this was a fan that sent us in and over actions saying that C9's got a fall off and playoffs.
What do you think about C9? And his team liquid going to be the team that begins their fall off.
Oh, he's just gonna say that.
I'm setting it up. So I'm when we can clip it and then then go.
Oh, I'm just gonna go and do that again.
Look, look, look at the camera there.
We'll see. We'll see.
Oh, man. I'm fair enough. I think I'm going to be updated with Bracket,
Because we do have the E2NO teams and the O and two teams,
C9 versus fly, the one-on-one draw already happened,
and then the O and two teams dig into us versus Shopify rebellion.
Yeah, and the one thing that I do want to make a point of, of,
is of course, is there it?
At least the one and two teams.
There are three teams, two teams will move on from the one and two's.
One major point to talk about in the fact that one of these one and two teams
will move on toward the playoffs,
and that's going to be based off of the tiebreakers.
One example of being, of course,
The game scores as well.
Meanwhile, there's going to be an extra game, a bonus game, next Sunday, between the one and two teams against each other.
So that's one thing that I want to be able to point out that will make things easier.
Exactly.
So, set your calendar everybody next Sunday.
We get bonus League of Legends.
What do we call it, Emily?
I just said bonus League of Legends.
Bonus Game of Legends.
So thank you for that breakdown, Raza.
We'll keep our attention onto that next week.
next week bracket, but congratulations on your win once again, Qued. Any message you want
to give to the fans out there, and you seem liquid alienware fans? Thank you for
supporting. We do also still have this schedule coming up here that we're going to talk
about for which days games are happening, which match are you most excited for? Razz, out
of all of the matchups. You're holding the TLCNals, are you just going to say I can
Yeah, that's because I just want to see that match up A, because I'm sure you got
some words to say to go and glue, spot, as food specifically, probably has some words
to say to go and glue, I think that'll be fun for me to watch. What about you, Emily?
I want to see you see nine, five. Are they super fun? I think, fly of themselves, we were
chatting with Griffin as he came through and he was talking about how he felt like they
It could have played more clearly, but I think that is kind of the hallmark of a young
team that just kind of really believes in their hands, right?
They're still learning.
I'd say they're ahead of schedule compared to where I thought they would be in terms of
rebuilding.
I figured they'd improve, but not as quickly as they have together.
So yeah, I'm super excited to see them take on C9.
Yeah.
So at the end of the next weekend, three teams will be tied one, two, but only two
again can make the bracket stage.
When we'll automatically advance based on the
side of the rules at RADs was discussing in the
rainy two will compete in an elimination game
bonus game next Sunday.
We have our schedule ready to go.
So let's take a look at that for our final week of
the Swiss stage.
It's going to start Saturday.
To you.
Sit your alarm early.
When you're the first match.
You're the first match.
We're excited.
Yeah, I'm excited.
I'm excited.
Do you players want to play earlier later?
Oh, personally I prefer bacon-match.
Oh, okay.
So is it a nerf for you then?
Really?
Oh, see.
Let's see.
They aren't two years into it,
it will be on Sunday.
We'll be saying goodbye to one of the teams
for their playoff run already, either dig or Shopify,
rebellion.
We'll be a...
That happens, we will have some words for you
or else you'll have to say, apologies.
What can you say?
I had faith, all right.
Okay.
Well, with that being said, that's our show for this week.
Thank you everybody for tuning in to LCS kick up for week two. We'll be like mixed Saturday at 4 p.m.
Eastern. What do you have to sit there for a team-looking versus satinoles? Thanks for watching. We'll see you there.
Thanks, good.
So he's done so
Renekton is done so
I can choose
Yes he is too easy
Do you want to choose this?
Nice
Griffin the carry jungle
You want flowers
Quadra kill for the ambassador
Okay, I'm coming
I'm coming
Look at that
I'm coming
Look at him, look at him, look at him.
Ah, I think I got it.
And the shockwave across everybody,
there's the knockwave, y'all, and Jose and Quinn
to lead them and what a monster came from Quinn.