Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I will say not that I'm condoning or recommending all the hate watching,
but it's like when you're hate watching someone and they do really bad, it is really fun.
I was like, I've tasted the juices of the successful hate watch.
Of course. Who hasn't? You know? Sometimes it's irrational, but I don't think it's
got to do bad.
There's got to be like a specific, you know, like in German and stuff, they have
specific words for those types of for a successful hate watch because I know what they're like
shawding for it or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of close, but they've got a successful
hate watch successful hate watch. Such a unique. It is. It's great. It's not as it is. I mean,
I will say with league, when you have like a horrible session of league, you just want
like you just want, you know, misery wants company, right? When you turn on a streamer,
you're no longer cheering for your favorite streamer to have a good game. You're like,
I want them to suffer like me. You know, I, I, you know, a lot of times people are like,
man, I can't play anymore, but I could definitely watch. I could definitely watch someone else get
grief. That would be fun. Turn on your stream. Yeah. And our discord, like, you know, they're
always like, huh, all right. You got, you got to jump into solo queue. I'll just watch,
you know, turn on your stream. Sorry. You got the cool down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, they're great. Your friends are here watching you right there. They're cheering against you. It's kind of messed up. All right. Dignitas played against Sentinels. That match happened as well.
What was your guys kind of like, read on this one?
Dignitas for Sentinels. Well, you know, Sentinels did better. I thought, so Dignitas had their ball in this week. And I thought initially it was looking pretty promising, like
Angers program making plays but I don't know at some point it just sort of fell apart for them
They felt like you you're just watching dignitas the team we've seen
in last place for
I love these intros are like that's a series that happened. I bet you just find yourself watching dignitas
Yeah, I but I understand what you're saying. No, you know and everybody at home does too
And it is, it is kind of, it is kind of unfortunate because it's, you know, especially after like
the opening weekend and then they're going on the podcast and they're like, oh, there's
only a few things that we need to clean up.
But you also have to feel, you know, a bit for this team because they're the ones
that actually had to do the full emergency sub-bottom lane.
And as much as, yeah, everybody didn't have to deal with these issues and people getting
here late and practicing stuff, you know, that they actually had to, you know, fully
go through it.
So I think that's the angle to go for is a little bit of you're trying to keep the
hope, you know, light of life there for dignitas because they, I would say for me,
my biggest takeaway this year is that I do have a lot of respect that they are trying
to change because, you know, like you're saying, oh, and then you're just watching
and doing toss and everybody has all these bad memories
for the last many, many years of this organization.
They're making a real effort to change it all,
brought in Jonathan, new GM, changing up a lot of stuff
inside the organization.
And yeah, and they got some, probably the most rough end
of the visa situation, sick.
And now they've got everybody here
and hopefully they can find some value with these
You know, of course, they're not starting out great and nobody's thought that they would.
So I think if you're, if you're the dignitas fan out there, hello, you know, keep maybe
take a long-term approach.
Well, I feel like, I feel like they were in this series of the chance.
I didn't feel like it was just like a stomp or anything to my reflection was, was like
pretty back and forth and everything wasn't like they were just getting completely blasted.
So they've been blasted harder.
It was the first one.
Yeah, this one was this one was like relatively competitive.
I know it was two.
Yeah. Am I crazy?
Game one started pretty close, but then it sort of fell apart.
You know, Sentos had the Ori Nocturne combo, which is kind of terrorizing
the league so far.
It feels really hard to play against.
Um, and that there is one point where Daintos was kind of like walking
around mid and they just got a little bit careless with the formation and they had three
people stacked on top of each other and then, you know, Nocturne or just immediate punish.
And that was one of those ones where, uh, Doublelift and Pavelter were discussing and
they were like, Oh yeah, being misplayed a group so much. And then we were like, that
can happen to you at any point in time, right? It's like you, you can't just never be
grouped with people and that's part of what makes playing it's Ori Nocturne so hard is that it's not
like okay there's this small window where Nocturne can ult you it's like he can kind of do it anytime
and you will have no warning that it's coming it's like the screen goes dark and then you're immediately
Ori-Alted and there's not really anything you can do about it it's uh I don't like there's no
timing where you can flash it if you have Zonia you can do that but you don't necessarily know
notes going for you because you can't see anything.
So while it is bad for that to happen, I kind of understand how it can.
Right.
It's like, you know, at some points, you will be near your teammates.
And yeah, it just, it sucks.
That's when he goes on you.
Yeah.
I think to me, the thing that just felt bad was like, oh, even though
there's like, oh, the early game or for game number one is totally fine.
And it felt like, all right, they're in a capable spot.
Then maybe it was like kind of like a domino effect of like then they just like lost many several team fights in a row
And I was like, ah well
Yeah, if you if you just like if you just can't win the team fights then I actually did like how they adapted after game number one
When they can win the team fights and weren't having you know great coordination in them
Then in game number two
They did go into a lot more like globals and split pushing and and making attempts at you know making picks and stuff
But yeah, I mean games he was kind of a song
But that one but I like the at least the idea of like hey, we recognize
We weren't able to you know team fight and so let's try a different strategy. It's not like we're just gonna lose in the same way
Yeah, I will say
If the best thing you say about a team is at least they tried and they didn't lose in the same way that
I was looking good photon photon. I think it's actually really good. Yeah, I think photo photon is has impressed me quite a bit
I
Feel like he is he is looking looking pretty pretty damn good. I like that. He's actually doing comment sums as well
I feel like it totally makes sense especially like given the situation if your team is struggling a bit more and he's having really
Good success in in a lot of the lanes
The Ignite Gwyn I think was kind of cool that he brought it out against Renekton, he did Ignite Kenin before, he did Ignite Renekton as well, if I'm recalling correctly, but he's done it a few times. I think he's looked individually really good.
Obviously, yeah, the team is struggling. They have had the recent issues though too. That is also very true, but yeah, hopefully they can kind of get things going. As far as the Nocturne and Ori thing though, I will say I feel like it is strong, but I feel like it falls off pretty hard later.
like luxury items and stuff come through like it is really strong for a long time but I it feels
more mid-game focused so it's like yeah you can't just not go anywhere you like the range is crazy
right but if you can kind of keep the game more steady and slow and give up some stuff and farm
when it gets to the point in the game where it's like oh the mage has zonias the ad carry has
has a ga and it's like all right who do we ult you know like it does get a little bit weird
where it's not true of 100% of the compositions. Obviously it depends on what you built around it,
but some of the games I've felt that way where I'm watching it where I'm like,
okay, it's looking really good, really good, really good. And then they have these luxury items and
you're like, all right, how do you play the fight now? Like, you just try to like one shot the
GA and then hope you can win after, but like they have an Azir on their team too. So you're
kind of like ignoring the Azir and he's hitting you. Do you go on the Azir and try like
like four Sonya's, but then like the AD carry is killing you, you know, like I do think it
can get really tough late game.
Yeah, I think we saw, I remember exactly what game it was, but there was some inspired loss
of it.
Yeah.
So that was actually the game as well where it was in bot lane where there's a little
bit of mind games when it is your has Sonya's and alt between Nocturne and Azure
because it's like, it is yours probably get his own as soon as he sees Nocturne
flying in at a break because the Orialt is always going to happen at that timing.
But, you know, you can mind game and you can have Nocturne just go in and hold
the Orialt so you can get him after Sonia's.
And then there's also the like Spell Shield with the Zero Alt interaction
where Nocturne is going to try to react Spell Shield to the Zero Alt,
which I think you can do it on reaction, but, you know.
Inspired to like what, three times?
So yeah.
Yeah.
But at the same time, I think it is something you could like maybe flinch
on if it's your like, does his, uh, Altie to weird timing.
So, yeah, there's some gameplay there, but ultimately I think it is the way that I look at it is, you know, if I'm picking a zeer and I'm giving up Orianna, I would, she's way less threatening without a nocturne on her team.
I think it just enables her to be such a bigger presence because it's like that delivery with the nocturne is just basically unfair.
basically unfair. I don't know any other way to describe it because the ball doesn't snap
back even if Nocturne flies away at a range and it hits the exact same time and because
he flies in so quickly, it's just like you're guaranteed getting Orialted with Nocturne
on you. So I don't know. When I see ADK's playing against that, I'm just like, you
know, good luck, bro. Hope Ziya's in the meta or something because like, what else
can you do?
going to say that they actually deserve a matching skin line for Nocturne and Orianna.
It's one of those combos. Nocturne just becomes a ball. That's iconic. They definitely need to have
some matching skin, but we're like, you can do well with your friend as the mid-jungle and
you'll be looking good with Nocturne and Orianna. I actually in this series was focused a lot on
the sentinel side because sentinels also started zero one and this is a team that you know tried to
take a lot of like value picks and take a lot of picks directly from disguised which
which in the opener was not successful but specifically looking at dark wings and humbuck
humbuck I thought had a really good pantheon game in the in the second one especially
You could see some of the moments where the language difference was very apparent, like the first
game towards mid, where they've got like a basic like countergank set up and they're like, oh,
bait him over to this brush. We're Taliyah Pantheon. Like that, speaking of combos, like, yeah,
I knocked an Orianna scary later, but like early on, Taliyah Pantheon flash stun into seismic
shove unraveled earth like that is a that's a two to two win right there and like how
about goes in and he flash stuns but dark wings is running away and so he's not in range
for the seismic shove combo and I'm like that is just a pure you know language diff and
also maybe haven't played together enough.
Dude that combo is it does take some practice because pantheon stone is so short it's like
like a one-second stun and Taliyah is W.
It's like you have to already, you basically have to throw it as soon as
Pantheon starts jumping to actually get the connect.
Otherwise it's going to be late.
Yeah.
And that's why the big difference is he's running away.
He's running in.
You got to be able to either be like, we're still going for this kill, kill,
kill, because if you're not, then it doesn't work.
So, um, that's why it's such an apparent, like, uh, you know,
they're not on the same page.
Cause if they are, I think they do win that too, too.
I think it was a good call for Hanbok to go for the flash sun.
But, you know, if you're running out of the direction and you're not in the range
and who he was talking about it, he was saying now for Dark Wings is kind of
tough because like everyone else is just speaking Korean and he doesn't really
speak Korean, right?
So he's saying that they're they're going to try to do more like communication
English and stuff and move more towards it.
That's like you have four players who all speak Korean fluently on a team
with one guy who doesn't.
So it's it's going to be that shame on Dark Wings speaking English
in a North American league.
Oh, well, I mean, it's definitely, yeah, it's tough for him.
So, um, who he, you know, saying that they're going to try to change that.
So they are going to be doing more English, um, you know, and, um, and
humbuck is, I think he was saying was, was learning English and
doing a lot of classes and stuff.
So, um, I think that'll probably get better over time.
But yeah, they, they obviously can be pretty happy about their win.
Uh, we are going to go to a quick break and then we'll be right back after this.
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Welcome back to Dive Driven by Kia. We're going to finish talking about Lock-in a week
too. As DSG played Fly, that was a pretty fun series. I'm pretty vocal about it. I just
think FlyQuest is a really fun team to watch and DSG was like a nice surprise as well.
Something I don't know if you saw this interview but I thought was really interesting because
obviously DSG has been having to play with Kizno but they're going to have Cryra for next week
And I just assumed that because they were having to play with kids know that meant they were screaming with kids
No, I don't give an interview apparently they they haven't even screamed with kids know at all
So kids know had literally played like the amount of games with them that he's played on stage like that's it
So they were basically saying no, we know cry where he's gonna get his visa
So we just kept screaming with him and practicing with him and so kids know I'm like damn
You're actually doing pretty well like you're just getting popped in you only got a scrim with this team a single time
That's kind of crazy. So that kind of made me more impressed with with DSG. Honestly hearing that
Yeah, I think I think his has been really good. Honestly
You wouldn't expect he's a rookie from how he's been playing. I think he's been very active in their games
He he gives for a lot of plays because a lot of the time especially for
You know, I don't think anyone's considering to see a top team, but a new jungler on a bottom half team
is probably going to look pretty AFK, right?
It's like you're just, there's not going to be a lot of opportunities.
You're going to have to do a lot of like, uh, damage control,
like try to figure out how to get your losing lanes in a playable state.
But I think he did great, especially game two.
I thought his Vi gameplay, especially him and call me, like,
they had so many good Vi rise combos that game.
They just found so many plays.
Um, I was extremely impressed by that.
I mean, I've just been extremely impressed by DSG overall with what they have been able to do after having most of their team basically stolen by Sentinels this split coming in, I think this is one of the really promising stories and then, you know, winning a game versus fly quest and making this game, this series super exciting.
I honestly thought after game number one, because game number one was stomped by fly quest.
I was very worried that the whole series was going to be like that.
But DSG bounced back really nicely in game number two to push it to full three game series.
And I think props props to them all around even even if we're not weren't considering.
You've literally never played any scrims with this team and just throwing them in as a solo queue.
I thought, you know, DSG were looking, you know, better than expectations and doing quite well.
Call me especially.
I'm glad you mentioned him because I think individually, yeah, the Azir game wasn't great,
but the other games were quite good.
And then last weekend as well, or the week, the first weekend, I thought he had some,
some really big moments.
So I think overall, this team is really fun to watch their team fighting.
I think is going to be one of the biggest strengths for the squad.
because even though bottom lane did lose out on a decent amount of lane phases.
So Jed was quite good when it came to the team fights.
Um, and especially his Kaisa.
Yeah.
He's had multiple now, uh, very good Kaisa games that have been in big
carries positions.
So I'm, I'm actually quite excited for this DSG lineup.
I'm honestly going to be a little sad that kids know is, uh, we're,
is is going back on the bench here. Um, and, uh, of course it was just an emergency sub,
but I might get another spot in the van. So, uh, he's done well. He's, he definitely has
he's done well. And like hearing, hearing that he didn't even get scrimmage team.
I feel like that's so hard. Like you haven't even gotten to play with these people at
all. And you're just like popped on stage for your first tier one games with zero
practice. And you're looking pretty good on a team that's not expected to be a
top team, I'm like, damn, somebody give this guy a chance.
Right.
So I do think I wouldn't be surprised at all if some team is, is having
some jungle struggles, maybe they're going to try out kids now.
Right.
Um, so I think he's, he's definitely done a good job kind of proving himself.
My understanding is, um, that going forward, it's going to be Chyra, um,
because they, they released a video last week saying, Oh, we
just need one more week, you know, um, and Chyra was going to be here.
So Chyra should be coming in for this, uh, this coming week, which
is pretty exciting for them.
But, yeah, DSG has been, I think, a pleasant surprise, especially given the fact that they
lost all their roster, and then I was like, yeah, we're building this whole team around
Cryra, and then they don't have them.
So I'm excited to see what they can actually do with him arriving, how the team is actually
going to look, but they've been a lot of fun.
FlyQuest on the other side, I've just been so impressed by Masu and Cryogen.
They have looked like way better, way faster than I expected as a duo.
They are looking really, really strong.
They've had a lot of lanes where they're just completely blowing out their opponents.
Crygen is like the prospect coming in that, you know, talking to a lot of the guys in
tier two and even the coaches and stuff, people had the least faith in being good
out the gate.
And he's been really good.
So I feel like FlyQuest really is kind of like hitting that high roll point where you're
like, okay, this could actually just be a top team right from the get-go.
Griffin I think is like super impressive.
I knew from watching him some on loud, like he was obviously good, had potential, but
like I thought, I thought this team was going to look like even more rough around the
edges.
GatGos has been really solid.
And when I think back to, like he did have that one playoff series where he played and
you know, inspired just like chain gank for him and he looked pretty good.
But like the other games he played during the regular seasons for fly quest, he looked
rough and you know, he was, he was really struggling.
I had thought so like him as well.
I thought it was going to need more time to actually get, get to a good point.
I feel like the team looks good.
Honestly, I think quad looks like the weakest part of fly quest.
I don't know if that's a hot take at all, but I don't even mean it necessarily
this flame because I think the team looks good.
But like, yeah, I was expecting, you know, quad and Masu to have to do a ton of the heavy
carrying.
I think quad looks like the weak point on the team.
Oh, interesting.
I mean, it is a hot take, but I think it's pretty valid.
This team is very easy to root for.
I mentioned it last week, but I mean, who doesn't love the story of like a bunch,
like most of them are NA players, right?
actually, well, I guess Griffin, Masu, Cryogen.
Gakos is young. He didn't play in other leagues, so we kind of got them.
He can be an NA player, but yeah, it's really cool, especially Griffin, you know.
Griffin and Kizno, and then also Cryo once he gets in, they're all like, you know, homegrown NA junglers, which, you know...
NA has had a lot of good junglers, to be fair.
Since the very beginning.
Yeah, I agree.
I'm surprised that you guys would agree. But you know, yeah. Yeah. Uh, that's really cool.
It's always easy to root for them. And yeah, you know, it's, it's funny. He's playing the
Volibear. He played it again and I'm right there. I mean, it's cool that he's doing
well with it, but at the same time, like, don't do too well with it, man. Like, like
you've got to, you've got to not make it look too up here. It's just going to
get nerfed more because it is like already crazy and soul with you. Um, can you
Without Thresh this time though, I will say I will say I have to bring up disguise comp from game one
They're not the only ones who've done this
But I swear so many times we see rumble with no CC on the comp and it drives me crazy
Specifically it'll be rumble a zero together and this time it was wukong
But a lot of times it'll be like trundle or something and then I'm looking at that saying like how are you ever winning a fight?
like, if I'm a top player and my coach picks me gromble with zero CC, I'm just gonna like
start screaming and leave the game. Okay. Maybe.
Screaming nonsense. Screaming words.
Stop screaming. No, but it's like, how are you killing anybody when you have no lockdown
in your team? It's like, no one in their team is going to build a merc trade and you
You have no comms because maybe us is just screaming here.
Yeah, it's the worst part.
Um, but we see this so regularly with it, with this comp and I do not understand.
I don't know the last time maybe T one pulls off these kinds of
comps where you have like no frontline, no hard CC, but for 99% of players,
like please just draft some kind of way to kill people.
You, if you can't lock someone down, you're basically relying on them,
just like running into you and dying.
Did you see the rumble equalizer to end that game as well?
Um, it was really funny.
Remind me.
Okay.
So it was like bot lane and they're pushing in.
I mean, some, we didn't really matter.
The game was pretty good.
There's some funny things, but like, I don't know, they look for their desperation and
engage everyone.
I think it was kind of like making fun of, uh, of the easier because like he went
in for the shuffle and oh, right.
Yeah.
I was like, ha, look at the easier, but the rubble equalizer like went off the
screen like you had placed that like into like into the wall, like sideways
and down and it just like wasn't in the right direction wasn't even close enough it just
looked really really funny. I guess why didn't I think ever look at these there like ha what
maybe he misses the hole and all the rumbles like self equalizing. Yeah I mean that was
to teach his team a lesson it's like stop picking me this. But it was it was very
funny a funny like moment at the end. It's the meme of the like the soldier protecting
Yeah. Yeah. He's here protecting the rumble of bad rumble. That was a funny ass. Is he
all just go in, flash in and miss all four people? Yeah. Well, he had, yeah. He there.
That was definitely not a good as your game. He had some other had some other moments,
but I am on the, the flyquests hype trend and that's why their next matchup is versus
cloud nine. So, you know, talking about like, Oh, this team could totally be top
team. They're literally the second place team right now. Well, tied for first place. Um,
and so we get this epic matchup, uh, cloud nine versus flight quest coming this weekend.
Um, definitely looking forward to that one, but I'm super excited for this squad because,
uh, you know, they're just so quickly working together. You've got, you've got it pulled
up.
Got to show it to you. Watch the equalizer. So, so everyone's looking at this year,
right? And maybe we can't have this for me. It's too late. We didn't ask for it.
So it's our fault if it doesn't get added, but 2743 in the game, so there's easier now watch the e-closers
Like the craziest
It's all off the map, it's literally off the screen that was either a misclick or he had already been like
Okay, I'm going up to use your all like I'm gonna
It's still off the screen. It's not even by these. It was bad. It was bad. It's the funniest one I think I've ever seen. I like it. It totally didn't matter because it's just one of those moments that was really funny.
Yeah, that's good. That's a good one to bring up. I totally missed that. Oh yeah. We've got a new request by the way. One more play to show. We'll see if we can get it added. But yeah, that was a fun series.
a fun series, Black West looking really good. Like you said, they're gonna be playing C9.
We did have one more match where we had TL going up against Shopify. That was kind of the final
series that we haven't talked about. TL did get a win. They got, they were able to 2-0.
That was TL from Scrims right there, especially game two. My lord, that was a dominant performance.
And I don't know, I'm very much questioning the Zinni Stonks so far because this guy was like the most promising prospect.
He was, there was the most hype around Zinni that I've heard from like an important while, right?
It's a fanatose level of hype.
And I think it was more hype than that.
Probably. Yeah.
I mean, it was, it was real hyped and he has not looked good.
He has been struggling real bad.
bad. That's all. Yeah. Before the season, when I asked them after
they're like their little boot camp, Oh, you know, I asked
the actual other teammates, the players, you know, what, what,
how do you feel about this any hype? Because like chronic,
yeah, chronicler was saying he's going to come smurf your
league. And they were all answering like, Whoa, slow down,
you know, he's young. And that's code for like, yeah,
not we're not going to start out super strong. It's not
just the chronicler take this guy won like LC KCL like
finals MVP, like he was, uh, from what I've been told by multiple people, he had like up
to four LCK main team offers. Yeah. Like, you know, and this is a guy that was looked at as,
you know, like the next big thing coming out of challengers for mid lane. So, but I agree. I think,
I think it's, it's like he's, he's played now two series of tier one legal legends, right?
And he just moved across the world. And, you know, I don't want to like pass judgment
and say, you know, he's never going to be good or anything like that quit. Obviously,
his first split was horrible. People were up in arms that Hunter Thieves was even going to keep
Quid on their team after his first year and then he won MVP. So we don't know where Zinni is going to
be, but I will say Zinni is the worst mid laner in the league right now and I don't think it's
I don't think it's like particularly close. I think he has looked really bad. It is only two
series but he has really struggled and I mean Quid was kind of like Quid was dunking on him
Um, and I mean, it was kind of like, obviously it didn't matter, but the, the game too, with
Crit on Orianna, where he was like Omega fed, filthy, absolutely filthy game.
This dude's like, I remember looking at the items at one point, he had like Ludens,
Sork boots, Magi, Storm surge, and he has like an Asher's too.
There's he had, he had 48 flat pen.
He was doing true damage to their carries.
Both the Azir and the Ziya had 44 MLR.
He had 48 flat pen.
was like the kill at the end of that game was one of the fastest kills I've ever seen like he
he got like knock waved and insta died it was like a point one second from folded it is a crazy kill
but I was like well yeah that's kind of what the series has looked like and he he he was dying a lot
in the anivia game but I also kind of felt like in the anivia game he was the only one really
doing that much so I felt like the anivia game wasn't that bad even though he was dying a
I saw him getting blamed a lot for it, but I was like, yeah, but he was like he was doing some stuff and his team was getting kind of owned and like
So I don't think somebody's like good. I will defend him and in the sense that like his team is not doing him any favors whatsoever
Game two specifically fudge had nar internektin, which this is a
Like super super standard counter picket or an ecton. This has been going on for years
I don't know how long and and fudge has been a top laner for a long time
I guarantee he's done this match up a lot and he got gap like he got destroyed by the Renekton as nor like
Something went horribly wrong fat-top, and I think he's down 50 CS or something
Yeah, I don't think he got ganked like he just straight up one-by-one just got like absolutely
Handled by Morgan. I will say Morgan his Renekton. I think he's by far his best pick
Like this is a guy who has like a career like 40% win rate
Like he hasn't played on a lot of good teams his Renekton is like a like a 65 66% win rate most played champion all time
like that is his, that is his champion. So maybe mortgage is built diff on Renekton.
I don't know. This is the first time you got to play it like, which is, but yeah,
that was surprising for sure. It's cause fudge fudge is a really good top laner.
And normally plays it really well. And he, and he got slammed.
But I also felt like this series, Tio were had something to prove because losing to cloud nine
and opener after they were, they were speaking to hype. Every player from scrims was
was like, oh my God, we don't want to play TL.
TL's the best team.
We got Dodge TL, all this stuff.
And then they got to and then they got to it by cloud nine
in the opener by APA their old mid laner.
And so it's like, oh, you know, they're playing a little angry.
Like, you spawn and gave them a very strict lecture.
And they're like, all right, we got to show what how we've
been crushing teams and scrims to make everyone fear us on stage.
And it felt like they, you know, took took it out a little bit.
on some of the Shopify squad here.
Cause yeah, this looked like TL.
I was like, oh, good.
It's not just scrim bucks and all fluff or anything.
You know, this is actually a good team too.
So we have like a lot of good teams in the league.
I was like played really well, I thought.
Yeah, I thought I was like, well,
I was expecting an FF from Shopify knock knock on.
I think it's not, I'm playing so much soul.
He like, as soon as he had 15 minutes game,
I'm like, yeah, yeah, why have the FF yet?
The, the, the Azure play like was so funny
where, um, core got caught out and then core tries to like self-alt himself on
barred and Zinny has your ultimate over the wall and then they all lands on Zinny
and whoever else it was on top of him.
I can't remember maybe it was the blue Kong or whatever lands on them and then
TL just like arrive like Avengers and like everyone on job fight gets wiped and
just gets completely saved, scooped over the wall. It just looks so funny.
Yeah. It was like the four man Oriole. Yeah. Yeah.
They go in the format. I'll did all die.
Quinn was just so fed that game. Yeah.
Quid, I don't know if you saw the the pros, but Quinn was talking about
Corday J being a big reason why he joined the team in the very beginning
and him giving him feedback.
You could tell like he's he really appreciated it.
He's like, I've never received like, you know, macro feedback like that from someone and just talking about how, you know, happy he is to to play with core and beyond TL and feel like he's growing as a player all seem really good.
And this series also backed up the like Morgan is the has been our best performer, you know, type thing.
Um, from, uh, from some of these plays and Morgan playing really well too.
So I feel like the, the TL, TL needed, needed this one to get back in.
And they got it as some of the hype.
And, uh, so that I think that I think the hype has been reestablished.
I think the hype is going to continue because they're playing, uh, again,
Sentinels this week.
I think that is going to be really tough for Sentinels.
I do think they had, uh, a good, a good series, but yeah, I
impact first TL.
That, yeah, that's, that's going to be really, really exciting.
having him get to go up against his former team. Of course, impact has played on a lot
of different rosters, you know, at this point in an A.
Yeah, well, for a while though, that's-
He was on TL for quite a while.
And I feel like this is the first one where it was like, all right, old man, we're kicking
you. Yeah.
Usually when impact leaves a team, it's like, I got a better offer. See you guys.
Yeah.
The type of thing. So I think this one might be a little bit extra.
A little personal. No, I agree completely. I mean, he did feel like he really just
got let go, right? He got replaced. And, and rightfully so, he had a very bad year. He had
the worst year of his career, I think by far. And, you know, I think he's going to be really
hungry to prove something against TL. Morgan definitely I think is going to is a really
hard, hard laner to deal with. And I don't know, I mean, I guess I feel like it, it
feels hard to build the way in which I expect Sentinels to win this, because
I just think like individually TL looks so strong, but of course, you know, we did see
them kind of like have some collapses when they played against C9 like in week one, right?
Even when they were in a really commanding position in game one, they did still lose that.
So of course, you know, there are going to be opportunities for sentinels, but I think
it's going to be really, really tough.
Yeah.
I, I, I agree.
Um, it's also, this is another one where, um, it feels like sentinels, they're going
to have a little bit like they need the extra time. Maybe work on some synergy for the team.
This is one of the teams where I thought it was going to click quicker,
but it was kind of weird to see these players that have already been, you know, played together
not have as much synergy as some of the teams that just got slapped together. And then like,
you know, like DSG who you took all these players from and they're literally playing
with kids know who they never even scrimmed together. And I was like, wow, their synergy
looks better already, you know, and in like, you know, first couple of weeks.
I thought that was a worrying thing.
Um, a little bit, at least send them those are coming in on a, uh, higher note.
And I think we'll have some confidence.
So it will be a fun matchup.
I think probably most people are going to favor team liquid, especially with
how much hype a lot of the other players are saying from not only the
games that we saw on stage, but also, you know, just dumping on scrims.
I feel like one thing that maybe you can give a sentinels is that it's like on buck has had some really good early games
And it's like if they can work on their coordination and be really on point
I know he had like gianna game week one where he was like monstrously ahead his pantheon game was really good
Like there are these moments where it's like you're kind of questioning what he's going for like is it a communication issue or whatever
Whatever else is going on, but like he has had some really explosive early games
And if you can try to create like a really big lead. Hey, you never know what can actually happen
because they do have some talented individual players. I think Darkwings has kind of like
really surpassed a lot of people's expectations. Like I think he's been pretty solid, you know,
coming into a league where it's there's five LCK CL mid laners, LCK mid laners that you're going up
against. It's not easy. And he's playing on a team that we're all speaking Korean. Yeah.
It's like he's a North American prospect that's on a team that doesn't really have
of comms for him. Yeah. I think considering that he's doing great.
Yeah. I mean, he just needs to learn Korean, I guess, but it's,
that's a really rough situation to come into. It's like mid lane is one of
the most important roles. You know, you're in this insanely competitive role
where it's where most teams are importing players for, and then you
can't communicate with your team. So he's trying to catch up to all the
macro stuff because obviously he's new to pro. But, you know, I think he's
doing well. All things considered, not perfect obviously, has had some sus games for sure.
But, you know, I think the team could be really solid though once they get it together and
like figure out a way where they can communicate and work well together. But I think definitely
this match would like TL's heavy favorite would be a massive upset. But I think it
would be awesome to see impact just like roll. I don't know how likely that is,
But it would be so cool just for like the revenge arc, you know, um,
TL kicks impact and then he just, and they were always criticizing his lane
face and it just comes back and like dominates their new, and he picks like
Fiora.
And you're like, what in the hell is the impact champion ever?
Yeah.
And he just crushes.
That would be so, that would be super crazy.
Yeah.
Realistically though, um, you know, he'll be on, he'll be on, uh, you
a standard impact lane and then honestly, if you're trying to be like, oh yeah, you know,
maybe the mid jungle for Sentinel can like do something.
Even in the cloud nine series that TL lost the beginning of those games, they were crushing
and a lot of it was Jose and quid.
They were doing these, you know, flat.
Jose was making like W flash plays on Zen to grow and then quid was passing him the
ball and then getting shock waves and like they are multiple like flash engages with these
shock waves. And it's felt like, whoa, like their mid jungle synergy is going crazy right
now. And I think both Jose and quid really impressed even in the TL games that they
did lose. Yeah. Um, they're, they, they did fall apart later, uh, for sure. And, uh,
but yeah, I think it is TL is going to be very difficult.
Yep. Quid Diodo looking pretty good. We have DSG versus Lyon, which I'm actually
really excited for because we're going to get to see Cryera for the first time, so that
should be a lot of fun.
It's inspired.
Good luck.
And we'll get to see, you know, some more kind of info here on online and these matches
are really important because if you are in that like one, two, you can be in the
last chance, a last chance match or last chance bracket, whatever it's called.
But like there's a last chance qualifier.
Six will play seven.
So one team will get straight up eliminated in that the teams that are here to whoever
loses that it's going to get eliminated.
you know, whoever does end up 6th, 7th will have that final chance and that's
going to be played next week as well. So we'll have that one extra game to see who
our final playoff qualifier will be. So everyone's trying to dodge that and
wanting to get the two wins to guarantee that they're going to be in.
I think Lyon's going to win this game pretty handily.
There is the chance of like ego plays and stuff, especially because
because we did see they almost lost against dig we already saw them versus dig do a lot
of ego plays and it it looked like especially a lot of these Berserker ones it looked like
Berserker had zero respect he's like I'm so much better than you and he would just like
walk up and you know try and crit him and flash on people and at least that's purely
conjecture that's what it looked like to me it looks way more locked in yeah they
They look way more locked in versus C9.
So yeah, maybe this is a series where that might happen again,
the ego might happen again.
And they're like, ah, we're way better.
But honestly, I do think, yeah,
Lyon should be favored coming into this.
DSG though, like we said, after losing the first game
to fly and getting blasted, their mental was fine.
They were joking afterwards about how hard they got blasted.
and they're like, whoa, you got our one kill
on the whole team, kids, no, you're a beast.
But they were like, what was the score?
It was like one to 17 or something like that.
And they're like, hey, kids, no, 100% are the kills.
And then they go into game number two,
like they have strong mental,
they're able to like play it out
until they get to some mid game team fights
and then win the game team fights.
And they like kept focus.
So that's something I really admired
about this just that DSG roster.
And now that they have a cryra that you were talking in the opening episode,
how coach was telling you that we're supposed to be a cry routine and built for him to carry
and stuff. So maybe they'll look completely different. And like all the game plans,
they've been screaming and practicing will unfold before us. And maybe it's like,
Oh, he's spam ganking sink or something. They're like operation.
So like that, but, but at the end of the day, it's your first ever tier one
game, you get to play against inspired.
Yeah, you know, I'm wondering, is DSG going to feel more pressure specifically
Cryer because, like from Cryer's perspective, it would have looked better
if the team just crash and burn did awful and Kizno is just like the biggest
liability of all time, right?
Like, obviously, expectations.
Yeah, like that would have been what Cryer would probably not like outwardly
hoped for, like, I don't think anyone's actually doing it, but like it
would have helped him his perception, right?
But because Kizzo actually did well and DSG
did better than people were expecting.
Now for Cryer, it's like, if he does bad
and if the team does bad,
then you're gonna have these people being like,
how about Kizzo, right?
It's like, why does he have Kizzo?
That was going pretty good.
What if we even scrimmed with him?
Yeah.
Yeah, so I mean, there might be
a little bit more pressure on Cryer himself.
We just like, it's not what you want
when you're making your debut as a rookie.
And I mean, there's no guarantee that actually happens.
like they might just be pretty chill and still in a good headspace,
but it is something to think about.
If they lose and they go into the last chance thing and then you lose again,
that feels tough. It definitely, uh, it doesn't look great. It's a lot of pressure.
Yeah. Cause you get eliminated pretty early and you have a lot of time to
think about and everybody's, yeah, there's, there's no more, um,
no more stage games to go for. I will say though,
inspired is still in MVP form.
This guy is already able to solo carry games, take away enemy win
conditions, build towards his own, create hero plays.
So it's not like you're coming in and it's like, all right, you know,
maybe because inspired on a new team with all these, you know, players
and everyone's wondering about are the personalities going to work together.
Honestly, Sprite doesn't even matter.
Fired fards personality works with inspired
He's looking good. He's looking insane. I mean inspired still looks like best job in the in the league
You know what this team struggling? He's a he's a beast absolute beast
We have dig versus shop five so loser of this will be eliminated. We'll be first team out
It goes your three. You're done. The winner of this will have a chance
I think I guess there could be tiebreakers and stuff. So maybe it's not guaranteed
But I think the winner of this should probably be in the last chance to qualify very likely.
So this is obviously a really important matchup.
And I mean, again, it's like it is a very fast first split.
You know, you're eliminated very quick.
I mean, well, it's not really a splits like it's a mini tournament, right?
That that's kicking off the year.
I won't be that long till they play again, but it obviously feels really bad to be first team out and to miss playoffs and and to kind of like start off on that bad note.
that bad note. And you talk about pressure on people, there's going to be a lot of pressure,
I think. Zinni has a lot of pressure of expectations. Shopify was looked at, I think, by a lot of
people as a team that could be, you know, a top four team, right? Like a pretty strong
team. So if they go first out, that would be crazy. Dignitas as well. You mentioned
in Kobe, like Pal Fawkes said on pros, that he thinks they could go to Worlds.
He thinks they could be a top three team. Yeah, they got screwed with their bot lane
coming in late. But again, it's like, you don't want immediately to then just be
first out and everyone's like, well, it's just taking us as usual.
Yeah, if you're you're you're working so hard to change all of the perceptions of
dignitas, and you're, you know, like making internal changes and top down
changes. And if you, if the results are still going to be three zero insta
out, then it's really hard to change perception. And that's going to stick
with you. But, um, you know, as you said last weekend, so unclean, this is the losers match
losers.
Yeah, it's the zero two teams. And so one of the teams, one will be this team is better
at losing.
And I mean, I guess if the theme of this episode was like hate watching, like people
enjoy watching bottom of the barrel matches also because just because there's a lot of emotions
on the line. And like you're saying, there's a lot that goes with this. And so, you know,
there's going to be a lot of pressure right here for both these teams. We'll see if that does affect
play. Historically with Shopify, they have been able to win a lot of the games that mattered.
So even though and chat love bringing up this stat, they had negative win rate,
They were like 40 percent games one.
Yeah.
Um, they won the games that matter that progressed them in tournaments and progressed them in playoffs.
And so they were able to place top three and then we're literally the third place team even with a 40% win rate.
And both these teams haven't even won a game yet.
There you go.
A more goose egg stats.
Um, but, um, you have to think about some of the moments where they got there and, uh, man, I'm trying to remember
who actually was the one giving the interview that credited contracts.
I think it was fudge and he was talking about how yeah, uh, cause he was asked
about, oh, a lot of these comeback plays and like crazy plays that you guys
make in the late game.
Why is Shopify so hard to take down even when you're losing, even when
they're getting beat in a game?
And he was like, yeah, you know, uh, honestly, a lot of credit to contracts.
Uh, he just, there's like full send on some of these like pick attempts,
you know, or catch attempts.
then this is a team you can never underestimate, even when you are winning against them.
Cause they'll just like send five people to a brush, you know, on
sideline or something and just try and, you know, get your pick there or do
some crazy like attempt at a countering an objective or something.
So I, I do expect the series to be really fun to watch.
Yeah.
Because Diggintoss, um, this is, this is despite them still starting to zero
to and this is not like old style Dynatoss.
And so I think there, there should be some fun fireworks in this series.
Yeah.
I mean, we haven't mentioned that this is also kind of like a revenge
master Palo Fox, because he was booted off shop.
By true.
He's the only, yeah, like one of the only players and I could see
Palo Fox to me has always been a player who has the potential to play really
well when he has the proper motivation.
And I feel like this motivating, this should be a pretty motivating situation.
Right.
It's like, you're down O2, you're going to get eliminated if you lose and you're up against your former team that just booted you.
So I could totally see Palafax having a really good series this one.
And I also have my eye on the Shopify bot lane because they have gotten rolled every game so far.
Granted, they were up against Flyclist bot lane who's super good and then TL's bot lane also very good.
So maybe it was just hard mash up, but like they've had some rough lanes and so, you know,
Even if I counter pick at times, I think.
Oh yeah.
I mean, they've, they've really gotten blasted badly.
Um, which part of it is, is tough mashups, but again, you know, they're up against FBI, ignore who they, they had the visa issues last week, but I think.
Historically, they're a pretty solid lane.
So we'll see, you know, can, can they bounce back or Shopify's bot lane?
Just kind of like a weak point for them.
Yeah.
And it's, it is, uh, like that old energy team because, uh, the three of them that are on, uh, Diggitas plus Jonathan, the GM, who was, who was coach are playing burst contracts.
So I was thinking as I was talking about the contracts I come back plays and it was weird angles and stuff
These guys all played with him for so long, especially Palo Fox
Pop boxes played years and years with contracts
So if there's any team that is not gonna give him some of these angles or some of these like risky gank things or you know long extra
Stay over the time that people expect you to stay their type plays
I feel like Dintosh, you know, the players that are on the roster now will be have their eyes open for those types of plays.
Yep. The last matchup we're going to have for this coming week is going to be the Winners Match for Winners.
It's C9 versus Fly. This is the match for first place going into playoffs. Whoever wins obviously will be 3-0.
C9 and Fly. Last time I feel like that was like a headline matchup.
You know like I think I think when I guess I shouldn't say last time because obviously they were like recently
I think back to like the first times
Back in the day to when you guys remember was like the C9 Civil War thing when like hi went over to fly and they kind of had that weird
logo the original
Wasn't quite it was like an eyeball with some some wings and stuff on it. Oh, yeah
It's like yellow and yeah, I remember that one
But yeah, that's kind of what this brings me back to for some reason because I'm thinking back to like
Doesn't feel like this is the same Black West team, right?
Like obviously like last year was like such the expectations were just like yeah, of course you dominate the league
Of course, you're gonna go to international
But are you gonna be in LCK or an LPL team?
Like that's where people got to and so it's even though they are in a similar position the last year
It feels so different than before so I don't know it kind of brings me back to like the roots of this matchup
Which is I guess why I was thinking it's a it's a flight quest reboot
So yeah, you can have that like origins feel again. Yeah, I get it. I get it. Yeah
I'm this is gonna be a super exciting matchup because this is like fly quest best test so far
I think they've looked really solid in their first two matches, but maybe it wasn't up against the toughest opponents and C9, you know
One of the toughest opponents, maybe the toughest right now. So I'm really excited to see how they do
I still wouldn't I would expect C9 to win this one
though I'm gonna keep an eye on the bot lane since I think C9's bot lane like
they're very good players but Volkan and Sven haven't really been that great in
lane recently even in their game against Lyon like game one Sven's
Corky specifically it has had so many awful laning phases obviously you can
play the champion but for some reason just on stage his Corky has just not
done well at all he'll fall down like a ton of CS and lane they did get
some kills to even it out against Berserker. But up until that point, like they were down
so much farm and just permanent pressured. So I don't know. Masu and Cryogen have just
absolutely dominated every lane so far. So I actually think that's an area where like,
you know, C9 might struggle.
Yeah. I mean, Sven on average is down at 10 minutes, like a hundred gold and Masu's
up 500 at 10 minutes on average. He's the only one he's, he doesn't have as big
of Alidas is a berserker. And I think that's mostly because of the, the line
of his day series. I mean, he was up like 10 trillion gold.
Yeah, that was crazy. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's going to be awesome.
Mashup though. Griffin versus blabber as well. You know, it's like the now
blabber is like the onk in a joke. Right. It used to be like the, it was
like that. And now he's going on for like eight years or something.
The onk can still be the goat. You know, he's got to be a baker.
But it's just like, you know, old, old versus new.
And I don't think most people would want to be called that.
Oh, yeah, but it's going to be a really good test for Griffin, I think.
Right up against Blabber like that.
Cause Griffin's looks just solid.
Honestly, he does.
You just reminded me people should go watch the intro video for LCS because
the part they have with Griffin, he specifically says he has this memory of watching Cloud9
win. And it was the year where Blaber got MVP and he gets the award and everyone's
here. I was tearing up too watching and Blaber starts tearing up and the whole stadium
is chanting for him because you can see it means so much to Blaber. And there had
been, yeah, there was a lot of conversation around it. And Griffin specifically points
to this moment as being like, that's my dream.
Like that inspired Griffin to become a pro jungler.
So, um, we'll be reutilizing that footage and intro and video and stuff
for, for the intro of this series, because that's just the perfect story.
He's like, yeah, when I was 15, like Griffin is still so young.
He's like, yeah, I was 15 and I saw that.
And now I'm here playing versus bladder, you know, the MVP, the gunk.
You know, you know what else he said in that video was, yeah, I'm the next generation.
All these old guys are about to retire.
So the perfect spice.
Maybe if you can hurry that along, you know, and it also is if cloud nine
win this one, then they've beaten TL, they've beaten lion.
They beat flyquests.
Like these are the best teams in the league.
So cloud nine could, I don't think have a stronger start.
Take, take it.
This is basically like bounty hunting.
all the all the top teams, all the other top teams in the league.
And so DSG had a way easier path to get here for sure.
Yeah. Yeah. No, I agree.
I mean, C9 can fully look, I mean, they are the de facto best team right now.
I think everyone's going to be looking at it like that.
And they would have to be a big offset from from Blackless.
So DSG, oh, had an easier path to get here.
I was sorry, sorry, sorry.
I meant because they play, I was thinking because they played DSG.
And then like against DSG, yes, Blackless.
Like I said, an easier path to get here because they play DSG and then they play Shopify.
Those are their wins, right?
Compared to TL and Lion, it's obviously a lot easier.
Yeah, it is. It doesn't just remind me how like this isn't a full round Robin obviously because
it's a lock in tournament, but a lot of times people will overreact to like, you know,
week one, week two starts for teams where then you look at your strength of schedule,
they're like, hold up like that.
That's not the same kind of two.
Oh, right.
It's like beating DSG, Shopify, compared to beating TL lion.
So yeah, I mean, I would say Cloud nine hasn't looked completely untouchable.
Like a lot of their games, like they can become a little bit messy, but
they're beating really strong opponents.
So yeah, I mean, they're heavy favorites for sure.
And they're absolutely favorite for this one.
Yeah, but, but it's going to be really exciting.
I mean, it's, it's a great test for, for flag quest.
And you could argue that it's like their first, like really big test.
Cause it's the first time they're playing against team that is
I expected like championship contender, you know, I don't think they are going to be there
just yet, but it'll be cool to see like, okay, like, can you compete?
If you can upset them and win, that's crazy.
Like, oh my God, are you just like a championship caliber team?
Like randomly from the word go.
Our Lusratown story over here, the bad news bears, the underdogs, the kids, I mean,
that would be hype.
But if they're even competitive with C9, I think that it's such a promising start
for this team because this team did not even think they would be good at the start,
right?
said it from, from the draw show, um, you know, think card told me it's going to take
a while when I was interviewing before the season started. So I think they have already
kind of like surpassed their own expectations for their start. Um, so now it's just a question
of like, all right, like how high can you go?
Yeah.
So it should be really fun. Uh, it's going to be an exciting weekend. Our producers
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What's the answer to your
vote?
Boston sucks.
It's just an actual fact.
Boston is not sucks.
What is specifically about
Boston sucks, though?
Well, there is an inhabitant
that calls Boston a home.
And we love our alley.
Random fandom is thriving.
That's all I know.
Boston doesn't suck.
I agree.
We have fun.
we can have games ahead of us. Let's take a look at the schedule to kick things off here so we know
what is ahead of us today and then also oh hey that was my shot right. Okay my bad. I'm
right. All right today we got all the one and one matches. This is the last week of the Swiss
stage so winners will be qualified for playoffs. We'll talk more about that later. Losers will
be going on to kind of like a last shot here but Sentles versus T-Law baby. Yes it's actually
It's really fun to see just like both teams all of them in the same position fighting to get into playoffs
Yeah, one chance of them not making the playoffs. They don't want that to happen
Mm-hmm and for DSG line
I mean that that's a big one for them because it would be the first time either of them would actually make it into like an LCS
That's obviously why they've won a lot of championships throughout the years in the south
But this would be their first time you know qualifying for playoffs in the LCS
Which would be pretty cool for them
So and actually to kind of break it down because it is Swiss stage sometimes it can get a little confusing
We actually have a handy-dandy board that we're going to be updating the entire weekend so I'm going to say on this side
So you can see the board itself. This is how everything's played out so far throughout the Swiss stage
This is what we're at today
If we can get a zoom in right there boom and then tomorrow
We'll have the two oh and oh to loser here is out of playoff contention winner here
Will be undefeated and it's already both these teams have qualified
This is the really interesting one for me and actually I asked for a production to blow it up for everybody because
because the one-on-one teams, the losers will go into this one and two group,
along with the winner of the O&2 shop player, Bellion versus Magnitas.
So we're going to actually have three teams that go into this little bit here,
and this is what it looks like when it's big.
The top team will automatically go into the playoff bracket.
That's determined by things like how many game wins, strength of wins, things like that.
But then the two teams that are here have to play a best of one at the end of day on Sunday.
So we're going to try and fill this out a little bit with predictions,
because we actually have amazing magnets.
I'm just gonna go ahead and slap on the teams
that I think are going one and two,
and I wanna get both of your thoughts.
Boom, this is what I got.
What do you think, Raz?
You know what?
We're changing that up.
What?
Take it, man.
I think that's it.
Emily, defend me.
Do you agree?
Those three?
You have...
I said let's make it an end.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then actually,
I think it's gonna be Shopify, Raz.
I think it would be this,
because with number of game wins,
DSG's won more games in their losses.
I'm just putting it out into the ether there are some big maniacs out there are going to be behind their teams. I didn't really get much of it. Yeah, the official term. That's the official term. Yeah, I think it's that was the one that you attacked because sentinels and DSG are playing today.
official term. Yeah, I think it's
that was the one that you attacked
because Sentinels and DSG are
playing today. True. And so that
means that you automatically
think no question. Lion and TL
are going to win. No question.
That was a big warm up.
I actually agree with you on
that. So the big contentious
one then is Shopify. So Emily,
you can be the tiebreaker. So
we actually have like a little
I'm sorry, I just ran away from the camera.
We got the little magnets that we'll be updating
throughout the weekend.
So I still think it's going to be something like this.
Emily, are you the tiebreaker?
Do you agree?
Or do you think that Rads is going to take the toss for take down?
I tentatively agree, but it's tough.
It's tough.
It is tough.
Shopping by look, very, very uncoordinated.
I got to make an admission.
Okay.
We're all running up to the door right now.
It's like, you know, no one's health.
I just made an admission.
I just wanted to put it out there so there's not just a one side of the
wins out there one thing to be right properly you're actually making a
really solid point though because last week Emily already called it out that
Demonte put his hand on my shoulder and said you got to stop but so that means
rooting for them no these are good points good points being made but
obviously we're gonna be updating this throughout the weekend so everybody I'm
awesome shout out to the props department for making all these little
magnets yeah this thing's super cool but today it's just gonna be those one-and-ones
we all think Sentinels versus T-Law probably T-Law favored their Sentinels it
is a bit of a rematch though right wait do we have a microphone do we have a
microphone for Golden Gloom we have a code message for the fans what
will relay it. Here, boom,
microphone. We're going to win.
Okay, there it is. There it is.
Says they're going to win right
there for the man himself.
Real believer and maybe
somebody's cursing his own team.
We're going to get we're going
to have him accountable after
the fact. Could be.
But it's also time to check
in. This is something I'm
super invested in.
I don't know how invested
Raza is based on the current
points on the lead right
now. LCS fantasy is back,
everybody. If you haven't
yet made a team, you can
still hop in and join.
But I wanted to take some
time to show off the
the
We have an internal league this is production fantasy league standings right Emily yeah, and Liam is crushing everyone
Shout out Liam
He also said statistically best roster is the name I'm surprised I haven't been called out yet for this
to
Join the lead
Which also
That does mean that I need some sort of punishment that I don't know. We are gonna do a punishment
Yeah
Hours in the office playing yeah, we haven't fully
For me
By the way 23 minutes to get your yeah, I have not gotten my team in
I'm doing a reminder though that you can still get your set your LCS fantasy roster over LCS
epistle dot gg and you might want to walk in some of these players very fly quest favored for
I asked for this graphic I was like just show me the top scoring points I didn't actually
look into it myself I didn't expect it to be all fly quest you know what it is they're
They're currently the bloodiest team in the league.
Yeah.
They're literally the bloodiest team in the league, and they're winning, so it's like
a combination that you need to look into.
Maybe not this week because of the team they're facing.
Yeah, it also is like, I remember last year Shopify players gave me a ton of points because
they were bloody and their games were long.
So even if they were losing a lot of the times, even if they had like less than
optimal stat lines, their games would just go like close to 40 minutes and there
would be a lot of kills.
And if you got the champion correct, it was like, oh, okay, I'm getting a lot of points
out of it.
You can get a lot of points out of it if you get the multipliers, but Raz makes a good
point that that's fly quest against the strength of schedule they've had against C9.
So if you're still locking in your roster, how many fly quest players are you putting
on, Raz?
I just put on fly quest, none.
None.
I'm all off.
It's going to be a tough matchup for them this week, so thanks everybody for playing
a log.
Top five for me.
Hopefully I can maintain that position, push for a podium finish.
also the new patch is here this week so we're going to take a look at the biggest changes with a catch
we need to reveal which player we think each change will affect the most starting with a jungler champion
used to be a solo laner but jace we're going to talk about jace because there are a lot of jace
changes emily what were the big jace changes? so the big thing for me is that the monster the
the bonus monster damage is nerfed in both forms.
It went down from 25 to 10.
And I think that was to kind of attack jungle Jace,
which we had not seen in the LCS
because it was so strong it was just permanent.
Okay, interesting.
So the great breakdown of that,
now we got to put the player that we think
it's gonna affect the most.
I got one.
Okay, let me.
I'm not erasing the back.
What?
So we're gonna keep that there.
It's just, I hate you.
It's just gonna be the back job.
But I will say that it will positively benefit,
even though it is strictly a nerf.
Oh.
Griffin, because now it's going to be off the ban list.
While before, it was just banned constantly.
OK.
Now Griffin's going to be able to pick it.
He is a Carrie Jungler, and he's
going to be able to run all over it.
How do you spell Griffin?
I spelt it.
Maybe the Y should be it.
I think you are the eye king, Scott.
I think so.
Yeah, maybe the M.A.
OK, you know, we hire you for other things,
other than the M.A.
Exactly, you got it.
So I was also going to say
Griffin, but I'll cross it off.
So I also think contracts,
whenever I think of junglers
that are a little bit more unique,
I feel like he is always willing
to try them out at least.
I do think there's an asterisk
to this in that it would require
the way you play to be a little
different around your team,
just based on the way Jace plays.
It's not like this huge engageer,
like for example, the Malfight,
which we saw from him.
But yeah, I still think it's
something that he would play.
I mean, I think Jace is still strong enough
that we could see it from a lot of junglers.
I went the opposite way.
I went a mid laner.
I went quit because jungle Jace is nerfed.
So now when Mike show up in solo lanes more,
I think quit somebody that would pull this out,
especially as a potential blind pick for the team.
But that's for Jace.
Now let's talk about RISE.
There were also RISE changes.
Emily, you got me on that one too?
Yeah, I mean, it's just basically scaling nerf
on room prison.
Another thing, phase rush was dinged a little bit.
I think that's something that you also kind of want to take into consideration.
Like even though the nerf on Ryze's rune prison you think is like not really that much at all,
but then you think about the nerfs to actualize, you already met in phase rush, like it basically
they just attacked Ryze on all fronts, on all fronts. So I have an impact in quad. I know
quad was already answered prior to that, but I think quad worked in both situations. Hey,
he played Casio, a really strong Casio and counter picks into the Ryze when it was being
picked up frequently from the opposing mid, but also he is a great rise himself so I think
he was thriving in that he can still thrive in the meta, but like that's something that
hurts him a little bit.
Okay, I went for one that's a benefactor of it.
I went Zinni.
He doesn't have to try and play Anivia into it anymore.
That did not look great.
Yeah, that's fair.
It wasn't people are playing the rise, then now Zinni won't have to worry about
it anymore.
I like that.
There we go.
Emily, what's your guess?
So I'm cheating because I was also going to put Claude, so I would put something
different.
with rough side-leaning. I feel like Ryze is so strong right now that it was
something that people used. Ryze, I feel like Taliyah is another champion like
this where if you have really rough side-leaning you use Ryze as a crutch
to be able to be like I can get the side lanes quickly. I can get to team
fights quickly. And I feel like a lot of teams were doing that and quite
honestly a lot of teams in LCS have rough side-leaning.
He's one example.
Who is that hurtin'?
I don't want to call him.
That's the point.
You know what?
I think that just means that
no one's coming to mind.
Yeah.
We have one more, the Ari.
There were some buffs to Ari.
One kind of small one, but
still could be impactful, right?
I want to take this first.
Okay, you go first.
So, Brad, I just want to steal
mine because I feel like we
keep having the same answers
and I need to come up with
something different.
So, my big thing before talking
about the Ari buffs is like she
was already good.
like she already has a 57.6% win rate globally,
but in LCP 72.7%, LPL 68.8%,
LCK 66.7%.
This is not a champion that was bad in the first place.
Yeah.
I see Quid absolutely owning people on this.
I think he is really, really good.
I think she has so many options to pair
with junglers still to do that one two kind of CC combo.
And I can definitely see a game where we just he quit absolutely popping off on Ari
Three two one
I even got a nice little onion dignitas logo in there
He's a great assassin player. I mean so far. I think he's been doing well this split
I think yeah first week was a little tough because ball ain't getting ran through a little bit
but he was performing well within his long lane.
So, hey, Ari works well for him.
I do want to say quickly to you,
Mr. Yacomoto in the chat is very distraught
by the fact that you're cheating.
So like...
What? How am I cheating?
I am not cheating.
You go first.
I have the same answer.
I did something else.
That is the magic of being on live TV
if you go second.
But Rez, you had brought up that TL
did some kind of cool bottom views.
Let's check it out.
And then here, I actually, if this was scrim,
and I was revealing, I'd be very upset with you.
This guy?
On the wrong side of the map, no flash, no flash.
Exhausted now.
Run up, hit Baron, where are you going?
You have no TP.
I want you, so if this guy pushed this way,
we hit Baron.
And you just walk to him then if he teleports you go back thought if he doesn't fell apart
We fight if I am
If I am renecdent to item with flash
No flash we've got no flash now. I'm going to eat them all
I think this is something we can get a lot better at because then you don't even eat next wave
You know, you're very fit-renective.
You have a good step count.
You know what, I go, I walk on treadmill.
I do lots of steps.
Look, 8,000 steps today.
You're renective, it does the same amount of steps as me.
Walking around, something is ripped.
I thought this time, I get a red,
and you not just hit the burn.
Oh, you want red, yeah.
No time, you not just hit the burn this time.
Oh, do not want, you know this.
Oh, this is mine, man.
Why are you, why are you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is mine, but you just hit the bar this time.
I can prank them, you know?
Yeah.
Young men, young girls, come.
Ah, it's a shame.
That was incredible.
That was great.
That was just a super cut basically of like,
you know what's fun?
It's funny, last week's Pawn talked about how he was
going to be the nice guy, right?
at least Quinn specifically talked about, yeah,
I thought he was going to be like an angry coach or anything.
I was a little afraid that wasn't happening.
Yeah.
Vaughn was like, no, we're going back to being angry.
That game, by the way, 8K Gold ahead.
8K ahead.
And the brother was like, I would
be very upset in this situation
because we're not starting Baron immediately turning
like into an immediate event.
But he said it in a nice way.
You know, I think that's still nice, Vaughn.
That's, I mean, we'll have to see.
He said, if this was scrims, I'd be angry.
But he wasn't angry.
But it's on stage.
Sure, that's when the whip comes out during scrims.
Oh, yeah.
But no, I, like, it was a super cut
because it was like a good one back and forth.
It was fun to be able to see Morgan communicate,
like, his thought process.
Yeah.
He was looking for, obviously, challenging himself
to, like, speak in English purely.
Like, I love that entirely.
But, yeah, it's funny.
Because even during the game, the game that he is talking
about, well, he was walking back and forth between us.
Yeah.
He was frustrated as hell.
Yeah.
We'd be like, oh, your team is doing something good.
And then he'd be like, but burrrrr.
He knows how good TL can be
because that's what we've heard
from everybody else is how solid
they are in scrims and stuff.
Yes.
And I actually want to bring up
how good I think Quid and Jose
Deodo or Quid Deodo, I think
they call them together.
So these are a few Ori plays
that I kind of pulled.
As you can see, this is the
end all be all fight over that
bot scuttle crab.
You notice that Jose is not
level six, but Ori is, and
the ball is already on Jose
on Jose here and he is about to just go right in on to Blabber and get off this
shockwave. This actually really really sets TL ahead in this game despite the
fact that they do end up losing later on in mid to late. I also really liked
this again another combo of using the shockwave and Zinjale combination in a
little bit of a different way. Shockwave goes off first and you can
just kind of see how united mid-jungle are throughout this play which kind of
surprised me because I thought they might need more time to get on the same
page but they already looked really good here. This is from last week. We are
actually going to see Core. This is a basic set play around the knock turn
ult. You're going to see Core coming in here too as Bard. This is going to be
on to Zinni and immediately as they set up, knock ult goes through, kills
this is another plan.
It's gotten the ball out.
You see who the Ori Shockwave
is going to end up hitting here.
But again, Posey is in there as well.
And I just really, really liked how well coordinated they look.
All of these are obviously Orianna play.
It's something that Koi is really, really strong on.
But I love them playing together.
And I think they already have such good synergy.
And it's been on display,
on display, especially in these early to mid games
for Team Liquid.
You know, when you hear like a nasty guitar shred
and like a metal song or rock song,
you just kind of like, that's a feeling I get from that.
Yeah.
That was cool, I mean, yeah.
I would say that was also very satisfying in Shockwave
because it only hits three people,
but with the Wukong clone, it looks like it's four.
Well, it now is four.
Come on.
And of course, they're playing up against Sentinels
And they have been having, I would say, the opposite focus
where people are looking at their mid-jungle duo.
There's just not a lot of synergy or work together.
I think it makes sense to talk about Hanbok
being off the same page with the team.
I have two plays in particular that I
wanted to be able to talk on, so I have them in front of me
whenever we're ready to go.
First thing first, I want to be
able to point out the fact that we're
looking for a play on Poton.
Poton's under turret.
They are looking to basically go on him.
The biggest focus I want to say
As we start the play immediately,
is Nocturne Alti already gets called.
Darkwingz has a free move.
He is already gonna be aiming to join the team.
The wave is all the way over here.
Basically, you are starting immediately.
And if you wanna go for it,
then Huhe with Alti, with everything,
can just jump alongside him,
but they're just not on the same page here.
So Huhe basically only comes in now.
The dive has no minion wave.
Rahel awkwardly comes in,
and then Photon completely pushes it off.
So by the time Darkwingz is actually here,
well, play is dead.
Photon's piecing out.
And so he's gonna have a pretty easy way to get off this turret
because they were blaring alarms the entire way through.
Now this one is a little bit more simple.
Now, big ups and credit to Ignar,
who's just chilling in the tri-bush
because he's recognizing that Palafox alone
with a turret in danger.
He would be correct because Hanbok
is going to look for a Nocturne ulti play.
Now let's freeze frame the moment the ult hits right here.
First thing I'm gonna point out is
Darkwing's ball is all the way over here.
And Nocturne is all the way over here.
So he's already out of range to be able to put the ball on him.
You highlighted in your play, Emily,
basically the ball was already on top of his ends out
when it happened.
Now with Nocturne or Iana, it's going to be difficult.
It's even more difficult if the ball has to have the travel
time here.
So by the time the ulti comes through,
Azir is already well out of reach.
Alistar is here to defend the play.
The play is dead.
And if you have two ulti plays already
that have failed in a normal game, in a normal environment,
the Nocturne-Ori combination is dead.
You probably lost the game in a normal environment
in a more competitive field.
They had more chances and they ended up winning out,
but that was two examples where it felt like
Nocturne-Ori is now on cooldown, nothing came out of it.
Another Nocturne-Ori off cooldown,
you push the play top lane in a better situation,
they actually die for it.
Yeah, and I like comparing and contrasting the two,
especially with the focus on Nocturne and Orianna.
I do also think that Sentinels we had who he on last week where he talked about we have
a lot of things to work on the thing we united around this week was like Dragon and Drake plays.
I also had both contracts and Jose Deo on pros this past week and they both cited Hombok
as just someone who was like so overly aggressive and a lot of the plays you like never see
coming and you always have to be on the lookout for him.
So I think if Sentinels can find a way to challenge that and kind of make it so they
are on the same page instead of what you pointed out, Raz, then it'll be really, really good.
This is not a, this is something I also saw from Hombok when he was in Challengers, when
he was on Bro.
So this is not a new thing and it's about rating it in and getting on the same page
of the rest of the team.
I completely agree.
Even in that first play, like if who he recognizes he's going to go in early,
he can join in.
Yeah.
He'll probably be a lot easier of a play and then of course Thais can join in.
I remember who he on the desk talking about how on the last thing that he was on a lot of rookies a lot of younger players
He's only going for guaranteed play and this one he has people that just want to flip the switch
He needs to be able to align with that and we've seen other instances, but those were fantastic examples of that
That's kind of how we expect the mid jungle to go
But I also want to remind everybody that this is a big match for one specific top laner ahead of us also because
Impact is now on sentinels and he's up against his old team and team liquid and the impact and team look are kind of
synonymous with each other. So we actually put together a little montage of some of
impact's top plays from his time on Team Liquid.
To me, my best memory, of course, when I won first time. Because initially I cannot win when I won in tier.
I mean, of course, I had a team that is doing great. But I was to get our binary success.
And quickly, are your North American LCS strength play champions?
Back to back three, T.L. is the best team in North America.
It's three LCS titles in a row.
T.L. is the best team.
They are the only team to lift the trophy back, to back, to back, to back.
I mean, remember, like, you guys should know maybe I'm back.
At some point, we miss the impact and come back and all of you are on the game.
For the first time since 2019, Team Liquid is the best team in the LCS.
Now I've played 12 years, my full career, I didn't get anything about MVP or this kind of thing.
So thanks to guys to give this MVP, I'm appreciated.
It's crazy to me how much he still cares about the game.
He has a game of League of Legends. He cares about it so much after how long he's been playing.
And he's just always thinking about me, looking at me, playing League.
So I think just the passion that he has allows him to do something good.
Practice without me coming in.
That course, but you're not without me. And let's say, you guys came in without me or not.
That's all. But still, it's not like, hey, without me coming in next day, you know?
How are you guys going to? You know?
Yeah.
Impact goes godlike.
He's a turnover over his past mid-summer round.
From the raffle behind, a slice that nails through.
What's to make it happen?
Yes, sir.
He does.
Dean Whip would back into the fight even longer.
What a beautiful play splitter from Impact.
The man with the most games in the LCS just showed you why he's still doing it all these years.
Especially with a player that is at this level of I guess impact on the team
For out his entire career in North America to now face against your team
Yeah, he's insane and you can see it five titles an MVP that he got in 2024
Like she is somebody that has such a lasting legacy on this organization
And I love that he was even saying and you know some of those quotes
They're like wasn't able to do it on C9 if you remember he was a part of another legendary roster
then went to Team Liquid had the back to back to back to back run had a lot of
success and he's been kind of perennially their top laner so Emily that
brings up an interesting question that we wanted to get tWitchett's thoughts on
hmm yeah what's the question what's the question I believe the question is
according to the teleprompter can't you all win without impact?
Can't you all win without impact?
Oh it's famed yes or no I mean I do think they can and I don't think it
undermines how much impact is done. I do want to talk about because impact kind of had a really
rough split last year, right? Or last season. And that is the other thing is I feel like
not only is he now going against this org that he has been, has had several stints on now,
but also he's really looking to prove that he's still one of the best, right? After having
a really down split after having a complete career resurgence, phenomenal MVP year the
year before.
Yeah.
And I think that his performance so far, we've won even though the last game through, I felt
like he individually performed well.
You asked other players and they were like, especially in pros, they were like, my top
laner is performing like this and we lose.
We have some questions to answer for.
And so we do want to see impact get to that 2024 level because that was in my
my mind, his strongest play
individually in a league in his career.
Because like, yes, he won a world championship,
but like he was somebody that actually led
a lot of what was during the lane swap meta.
Like incredible lane swap play
that a lot of regions needed to catch up on.
So can they win right in front of us?
This is the thing is like, I think that is a reflection
of just how good we think TL are
and not necessarily a slight against impact.
But I mean, I guess it underlines the grud match
and sent in those managed to pull off this upset.
And 41% are saying no, they cannot,
that's a big number, that's a large percent
of people saying that Team Liquid cannot win without impact.
Another question we would have asked you guys
is impact the TL GOAT.
Brother, I'm telling you right now,
there should be a statue outside the Team Liquid Facility.
But people say no, that's a no.
I believe in a Team Liquid without impact.
And when you take a prayer.
We need a statue of impact
outside the Team Liquid Facility.
along to the with the
like, but when you take a
player like impact who has
such a legacy on the
organization, he wins MVP of
a split. The next year he
has his worst competitive
year statistically on record.
That's big shoes still for
Morgan to fill in. I know
that he's coming off of a
cool streak. If we want to
put it that way, he did not
look good last year. Still,
the shoes that Morgan is
trying to fill are big and
chat seems to agree that
like it's going to be harder for a team liquid to win without impact on the rock.
That's religious talking about Morgan like that. That's crazy.
I think the big, the big thing for me is impact just brings so much to a team that's beyond
his gameplay as well. Whenever you talk to him about the game, like he'll just stop
by and start talking to us about the game. Like he's so into League of Legends loves
it so much. He's very smart about it. I gotta ask, what is your predictions for
this. Tl2. Let's take a look at the bottom. I got two. I didn't realize you guys also have
the same. Surely someone in the chat. This is purely because I just think team liquid
are a lot more well coordinated as we pointed out with our illustrators. Right. I just
think they're much more on the same page. In addition to I just really love the
the way their mid-jungle have been working together.
I think there's so many mistakes
that we kind of pointed out from Sentinel's side.
What would make Sentinels a fighting team in the series
is straight up their bot lane.
Rahel and Rui must perform better.
I think they had a series in the first week
in which they were stomping, but then it didn't materialize.
And then in week two, materialized a stronger drake play
so they were starting to get their macro
a lot better off in order.
So like if we can combine the two,
stronger leading phase, great play around objectives,
then Sentinels can take this to three.
I agree with both of your statements and for me, it's not about the impact lane.
It's about the rest of the map, the mid jungle and the bot lane.
I actually also favor team look with bot lane.
I think beyond this plane, exceptionally so far to kick off the year.
And uh, we're held who we have not shown as much synergy in the 2v2 or in those
later game plays.
So while two hours across the board, I guess, uh, we disagree with chat.
They had 51% yes, yes.
I think we disagree with chat was also doing broader and they all agree on.
Why do we all agree on that?
We should shut up and start the damn show.
Let's do it.
Hey.
Throw things.
and we'll be back with more
of the Swiss stage here of our
pre first stand competition in
2026. One of our teams will be
That's not going to happen until tomorrow.
Today though, we've still got a lot of the rest of the standings
to shake out before we determine how that bracket stage is
going to play.
And first up, it's Team Liquid Alienware going up
against Sentinels.
And the quickest way to describe the stakes for this match
is win, and you're into the bracket stage, lose,
and you might have to play a last chance qualifier
at the end of tomorrow for best of one.
Because the Swiss stage will ultimately
eliminate two teams, whoever goes winless,
and then one of the one and two teams.
Well, I'm ready to see if we can find who was right
and who was wrong in that conversation
between our analysts and the Twitch chat impact
going up against his old org here,
I think will be a lot of fun.
Obviously, it's much easier breathing
going through the rest of the weekend
if you just win here and you know for a fact,
like you were saying, you're into that bracket stage,
you're ready to keep going with the competition.
Because the reality is, if you miss out on bracket stage,
you're not playing again till April, for sure.
it would be two full months off.
So there's a decent chance both of these teams
still make it to the bracket stage.
A lot of league has yet to be played,
but I love the long conversation
that the lounge had about impact
because he's had two very successful stints
on Team Liquid here.
And bit of a funny story
that I for some reason just thought of now.
Okay, what do you got?
So the last time Impact left Team Liquid,
I remember his first game back against Team Liquid
in the spring split.
It was, I was there on Team Liquid.
He went like zero four in Leaning phase
because everyone on Teal just wanted
to kill him over and over again.
But then he won the game.
So it was such classic impact because he just,
he scaled on NAR and managed to out team fight
and make enough good plays.
It was when he was on EG,
Alpharie was just destroying him on Camille.
But then everyone tunnel visioned really hard
on killing impact over and over again through the game.
So I wonder if we're gonna see a similar story.
How much, with how close at least Yon and Core
were with impact and how long they played together.
If there's going to be that like extra grudge
to try and really beat impact, and then impact
might have the last laugh.
We just absorb all of the pressure.
Sure, you can play the weak side.
Go for it.
Scale up.
We have the game anyway.
I'm excited to see where we get on this one.
Sentinels, of course, bring themselves up to one and one
after starting off with the loss here earlier
just a couple of weeks ago.
Team Liquid also, you know, they kicked off the split
in the TL versus C9 head to head.
That went a lot of us.
myself included were very excited for because these were the two teams that
played in Caspa Cup. They were the ones that had the extra stage practice.
C9 ultimately came out victorious in that, as we all know. But then Team Liquid
able to bounce back again this past weekend bringing themselves to one
and one. So just want to keep the momentum going. I think if you're on
either side, Team Liquid obviously has a lot to redeem themselves for. I
think after last year's performance where they kind of crashed out, missed
worlds didn't really have the performance that an org with all these
titles you would expect them to have and Sentinels, when you're the new guys in
town, you want to make a good first impression. They really do. Team Liquid
finished last split of last year in sixth of eight teams. That is not what
Team Liquid is shooting for. Technically, Sentinels was worse. They were
zero of zero. So you never really, I feel like that's worse than six of
eight, not sure, but they also ended up bringing over three of the players
from DSG who actually did weirdly enough finish better than Team Liquid
last year so a lot of unknowns coming into this matchup especially because the
teams changed so much from week to week so we had the C9 TL matchup at the start
where TL lost but then they really dominated against Shopify and then
Sentinels look completely out of sorts against DSG in week one but was way more
coordinated and getting Dragon Soul in both games one and two last week so
they clearly found a workaround for not being on the same page.
Alright so getting into draft here for the first game of our best of three
It's first pick selected by Team Liquid.
Sentinels then going to respond by choosing to go to the blue side.
It's Sentinels banning out the Rumble, the Azir and the Renekton.
Meanwhile, Team Liquid takes out the Orianna.
They get rid of the Cassante.
They get rid of the Jarvan.
That early Cassante ban, I feel like you don't see a lot of times,
but in a time where you're going up against a dude
who played over 300 games with your org
and won a lot of Cassante games,
I like the respect here from T.L.
I like it as well. Mid lane bans are traded.
There's an 80% band rate against Humbock of Jarvan.
So it is a relatively banned champion anyway,
but I'm looking forward to seeing
what Humbock does play Jarvan.
It's not a champion he's got like huge historic stats on,
but I do imagine it's something he's probably
a demon on in scrims.
So I'm gonna wanna track that as the series progresses
if they end up letting that through.
Nothing too surprising with the first pack,
Ambesa, because that's set up
by the Cassante Band for Team Liquid.
Yup, gonna go ahead, pick that one up there
for Morgan.
Meanwhile, back over to Sentinel,
still plenty of OP's left to go.
So the Varys is going to be the instant lock in here.
A lot of times throughout the history of League of Legends,
Varys goes one place in one place only.
He lanes bot as the marksman.
But there have been a couple of times,
including recent history, where
he can be flexed to the top lane here, too.
I feel like playing into Mbessa could be very dangerous.
Mbessa also could be in the jungle,
so there's flex potential for that here as well.
As the second pick for Sentinels is the Pantheon.
It would be so wild.
It impacts first game since leaving Team Liquid
second time is Varus top. Yeah I would be completely surprised. The team look would change her off.
I've been waiting to play range tops this entire time. I doubt it. I think it's the 80 carry Varus.
Most likely as well but I had to at least bring it up in case we do get the 1% chance.
In case we do but we're going to get Ryze locked in here on the side of team Liquid.
Most likely for Quid excited to see how that one works out. The champ is very powerful with
Man of stacking being as strong as it's ever been with the actualizer to the game. Now, what do we want here?
We're hovering it back and forth with a couple of different junglers. Obviously if we get one of those locked
It's a hundred percent tell that the ambassador is going into the top lane there for Morgan
What's hosediota want to pilot here? Okay, the wukong for the jungle for hosak
It was just having fun cycling champions. It was always going to be a sundered sky 80 jungler
He's picking between come on now
Do we want a little bit more teamfighter a little bit more early game?
Do we want the Zin or the Wukong and he's just going to end up going with Wukong
Which I like for him because him Jose and quid have just been
Extremely good at creating action together and I think the rise Wukong is another good combo where they can go to work
Meanwhile on the other side you want to talk about good combos paint the on to Leah just a staple combo
Simple point and click secure yourselves the kill set it up for the seismic shove and this also not just has that micro combo potential
with the macro combo potential, Grand Starfall,
plus the Weaver's Wall, working together,
targeting side lanes, making plays around objectives.
I need to see coordination between these ults.
Good globals.
We'll see if they can make plays happen,
not just at Drake.
Because actually if you have a team
with a lot of globals like this,
you do actually pay a power cost for that.
So if you just end up grouping around singular objectives
without utilizing the globals,
you're gonna be weaker.
So Sentinels is gonna have a bit of a challenge here
since they haven't actually shown
Good map coordination outside of just grouping for Drake so far this split.
Okay, second half of the bands and sentinels are going to take some shots at
the ad carries. They want to get rid of the Sivir. I feel like when the enemy
team is showing two divers and a rise, Sivir can be something that would
synergize very well with that. So they want to remove that additional move
speed to dog pile into a big fight. Gwen is going to be the band for team
liquid. They do want to try to prevent that from being picked top lane
into the Ambesa as Ezreal will be the next band for Sentinels.
I already mentioned that Taliyah and the Pantheon being able to combo out a carry and find that
pick.
As long as Ezreal is paying attention and you're playing on land ping, you can just arcane
shift out of the way of Pantheon's stun and you're not going to get hit by the
seismic shove follow up right next to it.
For sure.
I think Yance is going to play Jin.
I think that's what's left for him.
They've gotten rid of the Spell Shields, they've gotten rid of the Safe Ezreal.
They have a lot of damage in both Ryze, Wukong, and Ambesa so just getting more utility
from the 80 carry would make sense.
That's if Team Liquid is down to play like this
because we know they've been absolutely
dominating people in scrims.
Jin is one of those picks that 80 carries left playing,
but oftentimes their teams don't let them play.
Here's why I think it actually makes a lot of sense.
So, we'll see obviously they might have something cooking
and it's Sentinel's pick right now,
which is still something we're adjusting to.
They're on the left side, but they're second pick.
So, they're actually the ones picking after
the second van phase, but Impact's likely picking
his champion now since he's up against them.
Okay, he's going to go ahead and lock the atrox here.
This is one of those standard, just like it's a solid laner.
It can contribute to team fights.
It can have some threat on its own in a side lane later on in the game.
Kind of checks every box.
I feel like a little bit.
I do worry a little more for drain tank style champions
as we've moved into this new season.
More so for solo queue, but also sometimes if you have a top laner
who's really willing to put the pressure on you,
if they opt to take the ignite instead of the teleport.
Train Tank champions can seriously have a lot of their points of strength completely turned on against him
Yon doesn't want to play gym. No, he wants to play a Lucian Nami
Let's go for the lane kingdom. This would be interesting actually because every lane on team liquid
Wants to push which can work really well if you're really on point
But it can be dangerous oftentimes you want to have the lanes that you're specifically playing around the lanes that you're specifically playing weak
side with. But now the Lucianom is going to be going hard for trades. The Ryze Taliyah is a matchup we see a lot of. And then
Ambesa Atrox is another one where any type of jungle attention can swim the matchup. So a very aggressive pick there by Yanacord J.J.
The other thing I'm looking at, Jett, we've got a lot of limited range here on Team Liquid, right? You've got two Melee divers up there
in top and jungle. Ryze is a very limited mid lane mage in terms of his range. Lucian has shorter range than other marksmen. And you're fighting
into a rail. You're fighting into Varus with chains of corruption. You have the
unraveled earth from the Taliyah. Point and click CC from Pantheon. So when
everybody in this short-range team goes in, it's kind of what you're saying
with you want to see the lanes be coordinated and how they push and move
forward and back. Everybody's got to have that same cohesion on the team
fight level too because otherwise you're just going to be running into a
whole bunch of stuff that they are very happy to have you run into. Yeah, I
really wish I could go run and grab spooks or spawn and ask why they're
are doing Lushinami.
It's probably because they've just
been destroying people with it in scrims all week.
So if it's ever up, it's just a combo they should pick
because it's good in the game.
Because I want to ask, why not Jin Rakan?
Like that, to me, with all the damage
they have on the top side, just pack the bot lane
with utility and go for it.
But we'll see if they're super confident,
they're going to just try and run this game
and blow Sentinels out early.
I'm ready to see it.
Can Team Liquid bring the fire and look strong heading
into the bracket stage?
Or are we going to see a Sentinels
like you already touched on earlier continues to sharpen and refine themselves. I think the week
one loss to disguised certainly not what anybody would want to see as a new org entering the league,
but then at least being able to bring it back in that week too. Here's your real test now though,
right? Because you've already had to play against disguised, you've already had to play against
dig. I can tell you right now that at least out of us here on the LCS team, those were
the two that we had rated the lowest in terms of our tier list, our predictions, whatever
whatever you want to call it for this first tournament,
first quote unquote split leading up to first stand.
So now that you fought the two lowest rungs on the ladder,
let's see how you stack up against the higher rated teams.
And I think Team Liquid is certainly one of those spots.
They really are.
Based on the scrim power rankings, they're already champions,
but they need to be able to-
Little scrim bucks.
Yeah, they need to show it on stage.
A little bit of banter happening in all chat
between the two teams because impact has paused.
There is a claim that his runes changed at the conclusion of champ selects.
So they need to investigate this because if it's player error,
they don't let you remake champ select.
If it ends up being client bug,
which they're going to check with the shadow play,
then they'd end up doing the remake.
Right.
Impact is, if you've been following the LCS on, you know,
TikTok, YouTube shorts, Instagram impact is not having had a good go the last
two weeks. Have you been following?
No, I've not on TikTok or Instagram.
Yeah, well, YouTube Shorts, you just got to pick one.
I'm barely on social media.
That's true.
Anyway, 35.
So they had, we've won, they had impact through a math problem,
where he had to do in Canada, we called it bed mass.
But there's like a different name for it in American.
But it's essentially just like what order of operations
do you have to do.
Oh, the PIMDOS, yeah, Frenzy's Exponents
Multiplication Division, Additions Attachments.
Rackets, Exponents.
Yeah.
Anyway, Impact couldn't do it. He was the only pro. He just messed it up.
Oh no, okay.
And then last week they did a reaction time test with a couple players from his team and like six or so
and he also finished last. So he's just not, and then now he messed up his runes.
Like come on man.
Well let's see because I think if I remember right week number one we had a similar problem to
this and when they investigated the problem did actually come from the client trolled the player
and the runes weren't like the guy picked the right thing and then the client
Yeeted it back to what it was. So listen, it would be dishonest if I said the client never has bugs in fact the client in which I'm trying to use to spectate the game
Keeps failing the patch. So I am also not in spectator, but they're not going to remake for me
We're going to remake for impact. Let's see gassante runes support gassante. No, I changed a hundred percent impact
Tuff it out. WTHJ. Let's check. Show me Impact's actual roots if you can. The chat is amazing,
but I wanted to see the players lined up. How bad is it exactly? Is it like I wanted to take
Grasp and it gave me Conqueror? Because then it's like that's still good. You're just going to have
more scaling versus laning. Or is it like I wanted to take Grasp and now I have Airy? Exactly. Is
is it just completely GG here?
Oh no, they might be telling him that he just has the wrong runes if they check in the shadow play.
Oh, it has just been confirmed in our ear that this is player error for Impact.
So whatever these runes end up being, we will show you guys as soon as we have the graphic prepared.
That is what Impact will be playing this Aatrox with.
I almost want to have, like, Scout's Honor.
Hey Morgan, let me remake please.
And if like everyone in the game agrees,
we just like old school, like just let him do it sort of thing.
Just like back in the days
where the school yard or the ladder tournaments and stuff.
Yeah, it's just like, okay, so I brought the wrong thing.
I don't want to dishonorably beat you in the first game back
because you messed up your rooms.
Like I want to beat you because I'm better.
Beat the real you.
Yeah, but that's not how this works.
So I need to see what he has.
You can see there's the life drained out of him.
Guardian, okay. So I imagine everything is right except the Guardian. He probably was clicking his grab. No demolishes
Well, I never see people bring demolish. Yeah, he's at least he does have revitalize. He's got second wind
But and then he has free boots and he has cookies
So that's okay. So the demolish is a little weird. Maybe intentional second wind is real
The Guardian's gonna be rough
Yeah, that I mean that does nothing for him in the actual lane for the actual trades
Grasp also taken from Morgan Zambessa, so you have the actual good blaming green room.
Yeah, of all things, to have in his first game back against Team Liquid for the second time.
He has had such an incredible history.
He really has!
That's why he really wants to win this game.
Look at this, 374 games on Team Liquid, an unbelievable amount.
Five titles.
In fact, Team Liquid doesn't win titles without impact and one MVP which he got in 2020 for,
so such an incredible career, again, across two different stints on Team Liquid and now
up against them here.
And I will also say, compared to last year, he's looked really good at the start of this
year.
He's had good counter matchups.
His KDA's improved.
He's involved in a lot of fights.
So most top laners have a really hard time getting involved in the game this split
with the lane changes, with the roll quests. Impact not so, also up in solo kills, so the
early signs of this year in Impact, notwithstanding taking Guardian Atrox, have been really good.
You know what I'm going to be really impressed by? If that too in solo kills goes up to a
three while piloting Guardian Atrox. Bro, if you get solo killed by Guardian Atrox,
that's going to mental boom you more than Grass Atrox. Maybe that's what he's playing
for the entire time. Mental warfare from the veteran of over a decade of legal
legends play here. Is there a worse rune to have as your keystone on atrox
toppling than Guardian? Like it's the most support rune possible. Yeah it just
like legit just doesn't do. I'll take electric in this lane. I'll take electric Q of Dark Harvest,
Flee, I'll press the attack. All that stuff at least does something as bottom lane hold on
now. CoreJJ might be in a little bit of trouble and yes he is. He's out of there,
Hombok just jumps in auto attack first blood. They decide to give the money over to the pantheon instead of to the hell on the
Varus, so we'll see how much more Hombok can get accomplished now that he's further accelerating. I love it. Hombok skips,
Krugs goes for an early gank. Team Liquid was so heavily prioritizing the lane. They used their wards in the lane.
They didn't ward the river, so he gets an easy ramp around and gets first blood.
And I feel like this is exactly what you were talking to us about. Now hold on Jose Dioto jumping into the mid lane here
just find a lot of damage on the dark wings.
Quit ghosted dark wings.
Barely gets away on that one.
But yeah, what you mentioned back in draft,
talked about the Lucian and Nami.
I'd love to ask the coaches because all three lanes
always want to push and that could be dangerous.
Well, Humbach says, all right,
if you want to have this Lucian Nami pushing for some reason,
all happily pick up the free goal.
For sure. A lot of pros on pros.
It said Humbach's one of the more difficult
junglers to play against in scrims
because he goes for a lot of plays
that you wouldn't necessarily expect.
Makes it happen on stage here as well.
With that being said, not like it really gave his bottom lane that big of an advantage,
you can see the gold for both players is still even.
It will only give Hombok that slight gold lead over Jose.
Exactly. That's why I was a little bit surprised to see the fact that they wanted to give the kill over to Hombok.
You could have just let him get the stun for the assist and then have Rahel take the last hit.
But no, they wanted to give it to the Pantheon.
Hombok's going to be the one with the extra money in his pocket.
The 400 gold from First Blood just means for Pantheon most likely an extra longsword.
So what can TenA be accomplished?
Yeah, speaking of the rarity of Guardian Atrox, our statsman has done a pull.
So according to Lawlytics in Emerald Plus solo queue on this patch,
no one has taken Guardian, even accidentally.
So, yeah, zero games with Guardian currently reported on the new patch.
So that's something.
That's pretty impressive stuff, okay.
Making new ground here.
Yeah, he's a trendsetter.
He's continually forging new opportunities up here in the top lane
with the Guardian 8 trucks, 20 seconds on the clock,
until the first dragon spawns in this game.
We'll see who has the bot lane control
to be able to lead the charge on that one.
More than enough, about 300 gold up here in the top lane
is the largest individual gold lead
besides that first blood for Hombok,
so far on the scoreboard,
as Hombok does to invade the jungle now,
as opposed to Diodo.
Yeah, trying to make something happen,
get some early control over the streak,
and I wonder if they're gonna have
the same type of drake power they had last week.
So really interestingly, I mentioned how sentinels didn't know what they're doing week one, but was really coordinated week two.
It's about this play around Drake, specifically look in game one.
After they took that first Drake, Drake was only live for 19 seconds, 18 seconds, and then 14 seconds on their way to Seoul.
And then in game two, even though they're slightly slower, Drake's, they still got a free 26 minutes.
So that was with Bear in between third and fourth Drake.
So they were so focused around securing that objective, which I think worked last week when they were better than
their opponents in lane or at least even.
It's hard to do against Team Liquid when Team Liquid
is constantly trying to push both of these lanes,
but you can see Hanbok still trying to set things up.
Just not really able to get it
because Rahel and Hohi are getting pushed in.
Rahel and Hohi are getting pushed in,
and this time around, Jose Dioto is shadowing
as Jaune and Core complete that push.
They know that Hanbok is likely wanting to look
at this bottom lane here yet again.
If nothing else, just for the dragon control
that you're talking about
that Sentinels was able to express
in their previous series,
but as long as Jose was ready to be here,
In case there was a 3v2 that would need to be turned into a 3v3,
Yon and Korv will crash the wave.
Yeah, and last thing on the drake control,
I think bot lane is really important in that as well.
And last week against Dignitas, you
can see the CSD for hell was positive in both game 1 and 2,
compared to last week or the week before against CSD
where it was really variable.
And Impact's still going for some of these all-ins.
Imagine if the man had grasped what he'd
be able to accomplish.
He popped World Ender.
He stabbed Morgan once and then hit him with Q1 once.
That was the most value that he got out of World Ender there.
So I can wave in.
OK, he's got control over the way we'll actually know.
The cannon minion is still alive for Morgan.
So World Ender, I don't think accomplished everything
you would have hoped for it to accomplish there.
As Morgan can now just back away,
does have 13 CS leads or just about two waves that
is going to shrink a little bit as impact
farms up these extra minions that are still left alive.
Morgan is going to take his recall, teleport back into lane now with Caulfield's Warhammer,
pickaxe and refillable, so a nice strong buy for the first recall.
Yeah, Morgan is likely going to be a problem.
Immediately ultimates as well as impact is trying to hold the wave.
Mike has solo kill.
Yeah, this one's looking rough.
Morgan comes back to lane and no mercy for the misplaced Keystone.
Just hundred of zeros impact right there with the fresh purchase of all the new
damage.
Solo kill Morgan.
I'd love to see how he got the angle for that ultimate there
I feel like impact was trying to hold the wave in front of his turret to actually play safe, but ended up getting
Surprised by Morgan all thing Morgan has so much tempo now on on impact and can look to make a play on the rest of the map
So he just straight up teleports right on to a minion
Impact was just trying to get one more CS before probably resetting
And it's got to be tilting to take Guardian in the first place, but I felt like he was
holding on pretty well.
That moment might push it over the top because that's going to accelerate Morgan towards Eclipse,
and then that lane's going to be unplayable.
Towards Eclipse, he's got the EXP advantage now.
800 gold individual lead from Morgan over Impact because of that kill that he achieved.
I guess it wasn't a true 100, a zero impact.
He's only had about 80% health, but still just going from the vast majority of your
your health bar down to zero because you overstayed for one second.
That's the kind of punishment that for Team Liquid fans,
you want to see Morgan recognize the opportunity to achieve.
And for impact, like you said, it's just so frustrating to have to deal with that.
Morgan knows how strong he is.
However, also knows public execution is still down for the last one quarter of the cooldown.
Impact does now have World Ender back up.
So it's not like Morgan can put a ton of pressure onto Guardian A trucks
until that ulti is ready to cast again.
Looks like Team Liquid might be going for that first drake right now as Morgan was looking to reset to give them even more pressure
But it seems like we're just gonna have a trade here of the grubbies for that drake
So here's my problem with taking grubs from the sentinels perspective in a game like this
Guardian atrox because grubs require
Something else to give you any sort of reward and if you can't get pressure in the side lanes
It's much harder to get the payoff from the additional damage to the turrets
Yeah, I mean, take a look at those plates, man, 5 5 5 all across the lanes.
They've been holding pressure in these lanes, warding River aggressively on the bottom side
since that first blood gank by Hombok, and they're going to continue to do that.
So I understand I think Hombok did what he could.
You're not contesting Drake when mid and bot are pushed in and your top laner is down
teleport and also pressure and lanes.
So take what you can get and get to all that play was.
It's just sometimes get what you can get doesn't feel great considering this state of the game.
It is however a very low turret plate game between both teams.
Yes, there's zero taken by Sentinel so far,
but on the other side, Team Liquid has taken two in the top lane
and one in the bottom lane.
The two from top side also occurring because Morgan got the solo kill.
So just really low damage to turrets in the first 10 minutes overall.
Yeah, I am secretly hoping for some montage moment
where impact like flashes next to Rahel to proc Guardian
and save his life in a crucial late-game teamfight so we have a payoff for this tragic moment
in Impact's game against Team Liquid when he brings the worst possible Keystone onto Atrox.
I want to hear if Chat can think of a worse rune for Atrox to have, because I currently...
He means Keystone, by the way. Don't think of something random like some junk little minor rune.
Like, what is the worst possible Atroc's rune?
It is...
Like, Unsealed Spellbook is better.
Yeah, Unsealed Spellbook is way better because you can do like Exhaust and Ignite from that, yeah.
Yeah.
Everything has a use.
Guardian is the worst rune for a soul, you know, surely.
Yeah, it just doesn't seem like it's like a truth.
They're saying Aery, Aery is better.
Dude, Aery is way better.
I don't want damage.
Yeah.
Lethal Tempo is better, guys.
You can poke the guy with Q1, Q2.
You can get value out of Aery.
Yeah.
Yeah, so the the chat is saying airy phase rush lethal tempo they're all better
Yeah, this all seems better
But right now things could not be worse for quid here in the mid lane the gang squad shows up
Hombok who he and dark wings working together to grab the second kill of the game for sentinels the gold still equal despite the
One kill lead for the sentinel side and we'll see what they can try to build
After this is Korjay Jay just takes a ton of damage to the wall comes who he goes to the wambo combo
But Korjay Jay with a nice tidal wave remember the tidal wave comes out right behind mommy
So it was able to interrupt the crash down animation of who he prevent that extra bit of CC that could have spelled Korjay Jay's demise
The entire time though as core and yawn are distracted with this jungle invade
Ra'Hel has been able to get the wave crashed into the tier one turret bottom lane
and hey the Grubbs are paying some dividends as Rahel barely manages enough
damage to take the second plate. I mean a beautifully done sequence starting with
killing quid and then using that pressure to also win bottom lane so they
managed to take temporary control of both mid and bot and that actually gives
them a gold lead in this game thanks to the kill they got mid as well as
completely denying yon a wave as well as really farming some of those plates
so sentinels definitely staying in this game that was a really nice
sequence and honestly the only gold advantage for TL now is the top lane you can see here your
master card power spike for Hombok as he secures the sundered sky on that jungle pantheon sundered
sky also secured in the top lane for impact on that atrox give him a little bit extra snappy
trading power and healing and we are hitting them hitting those first spikes excuse me pretty much
across the board for both sides Hombok gonna go ahead continue clearing through the jungle here
And, Jack, I am yet to see either the Weaver's Wall or the Grand Starfall come in to make
a big play for the side of Sentinels.
But considering we've got the next drake here in about 90 seconds, maybe some playmaking,
some setup before that, like you mentioned back in Champ Select, right, make the fight
unfair before it's time for the objective, that could be the angle to try to build
a bigger lead.
And if they burn flashes anywhere, you can look to punish that.
So CoreJJ losing his flash and heal in that skirmish would give Hanbok a bit
of a window if you want to core try and push off at all.
So they're actually gonna lose a lot of the aggression
that they have in this bottom lane with the Lucian Nami
because Core has no flash and Hombok
is a little bit unleashed on the map right here.
Nice job impact.
Yep.
So you can get out of there.
Just hang on impact.
Just hang on until the laning phase is over.
Whether the storm.
Yeah.
Hey, it's what you were talking about previously, right?
Where the last time he comes back against Team Liquid,
they all just focus him furiously.
He's not being focused by the players this time.
It's the rune that's really got it out for him.
But as long as he can hold on, he's still a guy who's been playing the game for 15 years.
He's still a guy who won a world championship back in 2013.
There's players in the league who were like three years old when Impact was a world champion.
Yeah, he won a world championship before Keystone Roofs.
So now that he doesn't really have one, that's normal for him.
There has been years without Keystone Roofs.
Yeah, everything was so different back in 2013.
This man has seen every version of League of Legends that has ever existed.
He's seen the ones that have only ever
feared themselves in Mark Merrill's mind's eye.
This man is a League of Legends force of nature,
so we'll see what he can accomplish with that rune.
As now we do have everybody kind of squaring up,
a bit of a stare down around the second trick.
Corda J's gotta be really careful with no flash.
That's why we had Quid right behind him
in case they jumped on top of Corda,
trying to turn the damage.
Nice little quick, cheeky bot lane push by the Lucian.
Okay, now we go to the join.
Hanbok, trading a little bit.
Cyclone pops off right with the CoreJJ ulti behind it.
A lot of David with the Hanbok.
Staying alive an extra second.
Thanks to the shield, but he does fall down.
Impact sweeping around on the side here with the World Ender.
A lot of David's over to Hell, and Sentinels have lost.
They're ready to carry.
Darkwing's trying to get away from Quid.
And Impact has no one left to guard.
He flashes over the wall, just barely stays alive.
But Sentinels have lost their jungler.
They've lost their ADC.
They've lost their midlaner behind them.
lines and team liquid is going to take those three kills they're going to take
this Drake and they are going to take control of the game here in the bot side
river oh man I'd say Jose plays this game incredibly well
I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming, anyone?
No flash, no flash, I'm coming.
I'll go bot.
No flash guys, 2TP.
Always very hectic comms for team liquid, I will say.
There's always cord jay's incredibly loud in team fights,
but sometimes that can be very beneficial.
In that fight, to me, Jose, both with the engage,
but then later on, managing to reach for hell,
as Morgan had the flanked TP,
really gave sentinels no way to regroup.
I'm going to go bot.
really gave Sentinels no way to play that fight and the game's kind of been blown open here unless Team Liquid
lose something quick.
Yeah, two Drake's, 3,000 gold ahead.
As Sentinels try to defend the entryway into their jungle, it's Team Liquid looking to make this map smaller
for their opponents, placing down control wards past the midline here of the river,
wanting to control this topside river area to be prepared to take the rift herald.
going to give you more fuel for the fire to snowball the game even further away
from Sentinels. You can see gold leads in every single role except support now for
Team Liquid, which really doesn't matter that much anyway. The biggest of which is
the nearly 2,000 gold individual lead for Morgan Zambeza here in the top lane.
Weaver's wall coming in, trying to make the play. Yawn gets caught out.
Wombo combo shut down on the Team Liquid 80 carries. Sentinels finds a
critical piece as now Hombox gonna head over to the riptero and all
that preparation Team Liquid was doing might have just been for not.
Yeah really nicely done there by Sentinels it looked to me like Dark Wings managed to
sneak through a hole in Team Liquid's vision since Team Liquid was really aggressively holding
the river with three but then they realized there were four and everyone just had to
back away.
Now they're looking to make a plan impact though, goodbye.
Yeah impact, at least heals.
Oh yeah he gets himself the passive auto attack which gives you a massive spike
of healing especially when it procs in the same auto as Sundered Sky so quick surge
to the health bar but as soon as the next wave arrives there's still more than
enough firepower to knock him down wave crashes into the tier one team liquid's
going to take this turret now that will be their second turret take of the game
so even though the Herald exists on the other side of the rift you know still
pretty happy about the state of turrets yeah another it goes from bad to worse
for impact they need to stop killing him though because he's not gonna be worth
that much gold don't overindex on it I mean weirdly enough I think this is
one of the reasons the game feels a bit weird in some cases once you've
died once or twice you're worth very little gold that decelerates quickly
the patch notes made it so your bounty decreases not quite as much as last patch
but I believe you still be value very quickly so the next feeling impacts
gonna be like a hundred and seventy gold had a thought okay I wonder if guardian
wukong is better because it probably procs off your own clone it probably
does because the clone like clones can eat ash arrows and stuff like that so
they generally count as champions for every other interaction something to
think about. Yeah, some. Okay. When I when I go to sleep tonight,
I'm just wondering whatever is going to lull me into dreamland. I
will contemplate the meta applications of Guardian. Like
Nico, maybe Shaco and Wukong might be able to self proc Guardian.
Okay. Well, if we if I see Guardian Wukong in the future,
I'll know that somebody found out that this has legs. I might
try it. But if it back and not get banned for taking it in a
pro match and I'm definitely not getting bad for playing
Guardian Wukong.
All right, fair enough.
He didn't take it intentionally, obviously.
Somewhere out there, Drew Levin's ears
just perked up a little bit as we talk about bringing
Guardian Wukong into ranks.
All right, all right.
Back into the game, we've got just about 20 minutes
on the clock, which means Barron's
going to be spawning here in 45 seconds.
I don't really think either squad
is at a point where they would
want to try to rush that objective down,
But the next Drake is spawning in less than 60 seconds here, too,
as who he walks up goes for the shattering strike on Taquid,
who's not really concerned about what Sentinels
has to bring to bear against him.
He's going to go ahead and take his recall.
This will be sole point if Team Liquid grabs it.
And going back to what you were talking about earlier,
Sentinels looking good in week two with dragging control.
Obviously, they have not been able to execute on that here
in game one.
For sure.
And then also a little bit larger, bigger picture,
how these teams have been playing.
I've been looking at a lot of kill participation lately,
and specifically look at Team Liquid on the left here.
Jose and quid have really high kill
participation which is true in this
game as well. They're both at 8% as
Jose is looking for some damage, but
specifically, Yon and Morgan haven't
been able to be as involved in the
game. I imagine it's something they
want to improve on, but again this
game is kind of that story. Yon with
one kill participation of five so far
and Jose and quid will fortify. And
up there top lane critically you can
see Morgan forcing out the world
ender from impact. As soon as he
sees the wings come out on the
atrox he immediately backs away
because that's all he needed to get because now they're going to be able to force this team fight around the Drake
Yes, even if you have teleports on both Morgan and impact eight rocks without world
Ender does not have nearly the amount of threat and presence that eight rocks with that ultimate does so Harold's gonna be
Summoned up in mid lane by Rahel it gets the charge into the tier one
But they critically won't even get the full structure by the time team liquid is able to rotate over to defend after securing the Drake
Yeah, nice TP there by Morgan to hold the turret and I think that was correct by sentinels to not contest that Drake
You're pretty much in last ditch effort to salvage the game here where on third Drake
You just try and trade team liquids map investment for as much gold as possible
Really cheeky play there by Morgan
But impact is able to sidestep the ultimate and get some of that crystalline overgrowth off of the turret
But yeah, Sentinels just needs to get as close in gold as possible before the eventual soul fight to have a
Puncher's chance in this game. All right
So top left is a doomsday clock for Sentinels right now counting down from four and a half minutes or so
They've got to be ready
they've got to be able to answer this and
Despite the fact that we did get to see the one really good play out of the Weaver's wall that got the kill on
Yawn back in the mid lane a few minutes ago
I still feel like I haven't been seeing enough of the Pantheon to Leah
macro play make sure to really want these pics on your team for this to be
what you go with in the game one it's really unfortunate I do feel like one
of the reason you could see the life weave impacts eyes when they told them
he didn't get to remake for this guardian is because like this comp kind of
needs to play through a trucks yeah to me mid laners like twisted fate
Galeo to Leah just thrive when you have volatile top sides because they're
already going to be trading and it's the mid lane that actually gets to decide
that matchup but against an eclipse grasp and Bessa and a guardian atrox even if
you send it to Leah or Pantheon up there you might still be losing so they
don't have the way to play the game and now Jose immediately has his way to
play the game jumping in after Hanbock on the counter a game coming out from
who he and Mahel looking to target Yon Hanbock is low just about to die
still yawn down to half HP, impact makes his way into the fight and yawn is gone.
The hell's also under the picture and Team Liquid continues pressing forward.
They've got themselves a 4v2, the fight is already won, it's just how much are they gonna win?
And it's a whole lot chat, the only man left standing in the Red Jersey is Who He.
And here's our replay of how this started, it's Hambach trying to face-check into the drive rush.
Yeah, Team Liquid's gonna be getting barren during this replay, there's no way they can stop it.
And again, it's Jose who actually pulls off the nice engage.
I'd say Yod does keep getting focused in these fights.
He's probably not super thrilled,
but everyone else on the team is able to capitalize on the team fight.
This is one of those team comps where every lane,
every player can carry,
and Team Liquid easily clean this one up 4 for 1.
Got a feel for impact.
Yeah, it's tough, man, having the runes show up like that.
Does the Guardian observers, can we check how much damage
the Guardian has actually managed to block this game?
because I'm going to assume it's procged twice.
I do want to change.
Once in each teamfight and that's it.
Oh, we got to get rid of the Baron power plate.
240 damage.
OK.
Decent.
All right, sure.
That tells me it's actually procged more than twice.
Yeah, probably three, maybe four.
Not 100% sure, but obviously not the same efficacy
as something like a Conqueror or a Grasp of the Undying.
It's now a 6,500 gold lead with the Dragon
control for the side of Team Liquid.
Like we mentioned earlier, the clock is ticking down.
You've got to have the map for the best possible state before they go after the dragon soul
Oh, it's not a good map state Morgan's diving into all three players here on Sentinels to follow from Jose Corvina
On as they all pile in home box the first to die in yaman reaches the calling who he's dead second and
There's the pincer play coming out from quid to cut off the remaining members of Sentinels as they try to run
We might not get a dragon soul the game might end before we ever get there
there. Hose of the auto looking for impact here who does manage to get enough distance
to stay alive. But everybody else on Sentinels is down.
I don't think that's going to be the end of the game yet just because the minion waves
haven't arrived. But Team Liquid did a great job there playing fast. They kind of jumped
ahead of the waves. So Sentinels was almost waiting to defend the turrets when the
waves arrived. But Team Liquid was so fast in setting up that play they killed everyone
and only now are the waves actually getting to the turret. So it makes her a very successful
Bear in power play really makes this game pretty unwinnable for sentinels, but we're going to have to wait until at least the next big team fight
All right tier two in that bottom lane crashing to the ground as we speak the tier two over in mid lane
Oh, it does survive look at that just barely hanging on the one in mid lane also about to die to the minions
So plenty of pressure in two different spots from those minions for team liquid ten and a half thousand gold leads huge Drake
spawning at 25 seconds as
As long as all five players on team liquid play the next fight with their eyes open
I don't think that it's loseable. I probably not I will say a
Really successful Baron power play this year with Baron only giving half as many gold rewards as previous years
You do hear a lot of teams talking about how one Baron isn't often enough to end the game because you just don't get the same
lead that you would get
but I
I mean probably gonna be two Barrens in this game as well. It's only three minutes until the next one, but team is in total control
Yep, and there's your chem tech soul utterly uncontested by sentinels
They know that they don't have a chance of fighting a 10,000 gold lead TL at a neutral objective
So instead they're just going to take and this is another one of those handshakes
But you feel really bad about it there with the top lane your handshaking dragon soul for a tier one turret with an objective
Bounty slapped onto it up in top lane
So it doesn't feel great gets a goal lead back down to foot. Nope, never mind back up to five digits here
Or team liquid as quids gonna make sure it builds even further
Secures the last hit on that bottom lane tier two and TL is keeping the pressure on
They really are Jose has had a great game on the Wukong a percent notwithstanding the top lane
The top lane has a bit to do with this game
And it did stop the way that sentinels could really create action
But team liquid still did a great job themselves creating action through mid bot in controlling these drinks
If you want it to really ego on them. Yeah
Morgan takes guardian in game two oh
If you really want to go on him by a ball I highly doubt it'll happen
But depending like if your impact right now
I think your best chance is trying to bait them into it say the only reason they want is because of the room
That you would have won the matchup anyway that he's you know
Not a big enough edge consider you didn't have a keystone make Morgan do it, too
I see even the field I feel like if we are considering
Baiting the enemies into taking a rune that literally does nothing as part of our win con our win cons have been severely
Conn I think you might be able to get him to do it
It's not a completely unrealistic task. Oh quit. I think getting caught. Yeah
Do you want it's the sweet spot?
What eats the full atrox combo, but he's still alive with 60% HP. Yeah, the nomi wave
Roars in over the top, this might be GG.
Just stopped to follow up, organized into everybody.
Hombox into the focus here with the Mary start.
He's down, Jose. Just into the back line.
Yet again going after Rahel.
Jose Diodo very low, but he does get another Sundered Sky proc to keep him alive.
Jose walks away from him, but Impact finally gets the kill.
The Atrox awarded with a thousand gold shut down,
but it's only Darkwing's and Impact still alive
as Yon continues to get all those blessings from CoreJJ.
the bullets slow you down as he shoots you in the knees with him on the run as
Team Liquid continues to push towards the Nexus turrets it is a 2v4 right now as
Sentinel's off-scramble but it ain't gonna matter. Darklings is already down,
Impact will be the next to die as Yon and Morgan go forward double kill for
the Lucian and now as the minions arrive towards the Nexus turrets that'll
be all she wrote 18 to 5 Team Liquid commanding their leads particularly
through Morgan, particularly through the plays on Hosidioto throughout this game.
Hombox gonna die again. Team Liquid just wants to pad this. That's a little bit who he retreats back
into the fountain and TL takes game one. A little bit of KDA maxing at the end of that game. 19 kills
to five. Dragon's soul secured and the lounge did predict nothing but two O's. But did they
factor in the Guardian is the real question. And I think I agree with what you were saying.
all game long Jose Yodos playmaking.
That was the big moment for me in so many of these fights.
He's my player for the game.
Chat, who is yours?
Loud!
Who is yours?
It may be impact.
And by the way,
that was actually the question.
Did I factor in Guardian?
You might be surprised I did.
You did!
Maybe I picked Guardian for him.
I don't think you should have missed that live
on broadcast, Brandon.
I think that comes to do.
game. My plan succeeded. Okay.
We can talk about the case.
They did not lose the game
because they impacted Guardian
H.
I do think it's a tilt.
But I also thought we saw
exactly what you and I broke
down going into this game,
right? Where especially when
it comes to mid-jungle, I
would have loved even though
Sentinels did get a few
punches in, right? Like they
They had that mid lane gank onto quid that was around 11 minutes, I thought was good.
We didn't see a lot of playmaking from this Taliyah Pantheon combo that they kind of picked
and is kind of the supposed to be the driving force of a composition like this.
And by contrast, Jose was everywhere.
And we've seen this with Sentos in the past, specifically with the Pantheon Taliyah,
not quite working.
They're referencing it on the cast as well.
So Sentos still trying to fine tune what that mid jungle is accomplishing together.
But it also wasn't just the mid jungler, it was the teamfights as well.
Let's take a look at a Pagoda moment, because this was a big teamfight win for TL.
They are playing very well as five.
A very decisive one, even though Jose Diota was a little bit late for this one.
Actually, this is the 14 minute one in particular.
I liked this one a lot, because it was Team Liquid specifically taking out Hanbok right
at the beginning.
Immediately my glance went towards Darkwinds and Rahel that was not combined with the
team.
They were not following up with what Hanbok was pushing for.
They were trying to zone out Ryze.
Problem is Ryze has an ultimate that teleports him to his team.
So he cannot be zoned.
He was not zoned.
He actually joined in on helping and reprisioning a humbox.
So that was immediately picked at the beginning of the fight.
Something I didn't notice there, too, was Morgan having
to flash over the dragon wall because it was dodged.
That was a funny way to start that playoff.
But overall, still, the tools for Team Liquid Alienware
are coming together when it comes down to these team fights.
And I mean, I don't remember who had mentioned it.
But yeah, the Guardian wasn't the sole reason this game was lost.
It may topple in tough though.
Yes, I do want to remind the audience if you guys see a Pagoda moment play,
yes, play to spam the Pagoda emo in the chat because there's going to be a lot
of them throughout this weekend.
It's an important one for playoffs coming through in the future.
But yeah, to that point, it happened a lot.
I think for Sentinels perspective last week was we're focusing on Drake's
heavily. Yes, it was going to be our focus, but both these games,
it felt like Drake was really the decider.
It was not guardians as you mentioned.
It was basically a well-coordinated squad.
Now I was wondering who was going to be
the player of the game for this one.
Oh, who do we got?
I think we voting blocked it.
Yeah, I believe so.
This might have been a sweep also.
Also, based on flowers,
I think he might have also voted for Jose Deyoto.
In fact, he might have influenced the fan vote as well,
as well, we'll get our votes up there.
It is Jose Deyoto.
Yeah, it is Jose Deyoto, there's no surprise there.
That's actually, I will say,
surprisingly low pill participation for Jose compared to like sure what we're
used to seeing from him but as you see that KDA he did I thought he did a
really good job in so many of these fights. Zero percent for quid. Hey, game
it happens guys. That's crazy. Alright. He was a runner up for me. Although I like the
Morgan love. Although I will say Morgan has a really good argument for
player of the game. If in game two he accepts Jets challenge and locks
in Guardian Top.
A handshake.
Did you imagine?
Yeah, just handshake it.
I think we should ask Twitch.
Can we get a Twitch poll?
I don't know if I'm allowed to
call this live.
No, you're not.
Can we get a Twitch poll of
should Morgan take Guardian for
game number two?
I think the fans would vote
yes.
I mean, the fans always want
to see chaos.
They do.
I like chaos too.
I think if I was at home.
But I don't think you have
that power.
You don't think you have
that power?
I would be going yes as
well.
I'm sure Twitch is
spamming it in honor of
you.
just so we know. Sentinels have selected first pick.
Yeah. T.L. will be on blue side. All right.
So Sentinels do differently because for me,
I still think I did see a few plays where I was like,
okay, you're trying it.
Like I really liked the super early gank around like 245
from Hombuk skipping a camp to go gank his bot lane.
I thought that was really good.
But what do you think they have to do
to be able to come back?
because from where I see it,
I see what we exactly set up,
which is that TL are just a much more well coordinated team.
They're just gonna look at,
and there's not a lot of time in between games who do it.
So they're probably gonna focus at the two points
in dragon fights, the 13 minute dragon fight,
the 20, 50 minute dragon fight,
both of which where they got control
and then just weren't really coordinated
or on the same page.
That's gonna be a constant.
So they need to be able to focus on that
because you're going up against
a really objective focused team in Team Liquid.
And impact don't tilt.
Please don't tilt impact
because that's a tough one when you're on the Guardian.
As long as he hasn't been able to bounce back, I think that can also be Hasan's win.
But that's for game number two to decide if they're going to flip their short break
before they're back for the rest of the series.
See you there.
They're in the wall, Mare.
Yeah, slow by here.
I'm trying to get him from here.
Just by this rolling up, Mare.
Yeah, slow by this one, slowly.
But they're not going to be there.
Watch.
Watch it, watch it, watch it.
Slowly, Lepid.
They want to tunnel them, just here.
No flash, no flash, Rell.
They're fighting on the left side.
They're not flashing, they're not flashing.
Yeah, they're not flashing.
They're not flashing.
Well, I'll tell you in the flesh.
Let's keep going.
Yeah.
Anything?
Just go about it, I said.
Yeah.
Play and play.
Whoop.
I don't go.
Looks like we've got a new addition on the Rift here today.
Emily, is the Telluride just the obvious thing?
Well, flowers, working in a turbo hybrid powertrain,
that's already a problem for the rest of the Rift.
And a 30-inch Panoramic display, too.
That is unfair control.
Guys, all-wheel drive with the rain mode?
No shot anyone sketching this.
This seems completely OK.
Don't debate this first step, we have to lock it in.
Now, Kia tell your eye turbo arms.
Pick it before your opponents do.
Red Bull gives you wings.
Witch on the ground before Doug can even get there.
It's time to find a knockout.
Let it pack at first.
Don't feed.
It's not something.
Get fed.
Stand to cure our code for Neil's Poland on Uber Eats.
Don't wait on me, I'm already gone, don't pray for me,
Because I'm already strong.
There's a chemistry.
I see it in your eyes.
Don't follow me tonight.
That weak madness lies
See it in your eyes
Hello guys, I'm Jose Dedo, jungler for Team Liquid and I'm going to show you some tips
for the jungler of this new season.
Since there are some new champions in the jungle, so I think Malfi is a very interesting
one because he's a jungler now.
You can do a fast ulti if you're near the wall, so you can do like a super fast
ulti if you're in a small wall, even if it looks funny.
It's so easy to learn people when they're not watching because it's so fast.
But not many people know this, that you can hold the big walls,
but if it's a small wall, you can do like a super fast tool.
And the more range you like cutting, the faster it will be.
So like this one, it's faster because you can do like on the edges of the walls.
So it's a fun way to learn people when they're not paying attention
and you just like a fast rock in their face.
So it's a good way to kill noobs too.
Kassim here with Jaffa this first series. Sentinels versus TL, dominant in game for TL in game number one.
But of course, some tragedy for Sentinels. Impact picking the wrong rune, getting Guardian, which is the most worthless
sack of junk you could possibly have for a top laner, it feels like. So, Impact's gonna just have to write that one off.
Reset mental. Sentinels go next here in game two.
Hopefully they can reset their mental. There were a few positive takeaways in the early game.
game for Sentinels. I thought
Hombok had a good early game,
but I thought they did get a
little hands check in that big
dragon fight that blew the game open.
But that was also when both top
laners teleported in. One and Bessa had
Eclipse and Grasp. The other Atrox didn't
have good items and a Guardian. So a
lot of things that could mentally tilt you
in that one. Just reset. You need to
win two games anyway to win a series
and Sentinels is almost starting
fresh here. Exactly. Reminder to
everybody watching Pomoma as well, or
it at the start of game number one if you win here you are automatically guaranteed to play in bracket
stage brackets start next week this week is the end of our swiss stage leading into first stand so
obviously most teams will be able to qualify for the bracket out of our eight teams only two will
be eliminated in swiss one of them will be determined tomorrow because only one team will end up going
zero three in this format that team of course will not be able to move forward but then one
One of the many teams who kind of end up in the soup, as we've called it in the past at
one and two, will also have to be eliminated.
That's not to say that if you lose here, you're going to be in a really bad spot, but it's
obviously way better to just take the win, be one of the two one teams, know you're
playing in brackets next week.
Yeah, so when you play three rounds of Swiss with eight teams, you're going to
have one three and no team, they're going to be our number one seed.
I blanked a little bit because I should know all of it.
You're then going to have three two and one teams.
They're going to be in Bracket stage as well.
We're going to have three one and two teams.
The best team of those three based on the tiebreaker rules
will also go through automatically.
The other one and two teams will be playing a best of one tiebreaker
at the end of show tomorrow.
Exactly.
To decide who goes and who goes home.
And then obviously the zero three team is up.
Yeah, tomorrow we actually, tomorrow we've got a really exciting schedule
because it's the zero two teams playing in the elimination match for zero three.
It's the two zero teams playing in the three and oh match
for who gets to be the first C.
like who's the best team in swiss and then it's the bo1 to determine the secondary elimination so a lot of stuff on the line tomorrow
But we've got to finish our festivities here today to see how that's going to shake out
So getting into the second game here
Sentinels have elected for first pick and team liquid has chosen the blue side TL banning out Cassante
Nocturne and Rumble so two out of three other bands being spent on their former teammate there in the top lane
Meanwhile sentinels will ban away Akali Aurora and Gwen a lot of AP solo lane threat
here taken out as let's see what Sentinels wants to go with for the first
pick the Azir being up. I just feel like this champion is mid lane. He kind of
fits into the same bucket for me as like Orianna where he can just get to any
comp and it'll have presence and pressure. Speaking of Orianna, I think
it's going to be one of Team Liquid's picks in the next three. Depends how
much they want to style though. This could also be a quit Yone angle. So
I'm not sure what they're going to do in one two, but when you leave
Azir Orianna up, you're probably picking one of the two. It's a
little bit interesting because Team Liquid banned the knock turn so the knock
wave combo is going to be nerfed but Morgan when Renekton is up picks Renekton
a lot of the time it's his best champion he's got it again. Yeah the Renekton
is locked in here with the Cassante already banned away during this first
phase as well because I feel like that's another one of those things where
it's just very easy to see Cassante Renekton be the top lane matchup once
one of them is chosen so without that response available we'll see what
impact wants to have here as Jarvan is selected here for the jungle for team
liquid. I really like it. I mentioned how most teams have been banning Jarvan
against Honbok with the first pick priority on his ear even if team Liquid
wants to answer with Orianna they don't have to do it immediately so instead
they just power pick their top laner for Morgan with Renekton and then give
Jose Jarvan which could also be a good combo with Orianna if that's what
could watch you next. Okay and we're gonna see Sentinels lock in the
Sion for top lane there for impact as well. I know that this is a champ that
impact has plenty of experience on. I love seeing impact be on champions not
just that can have a big presence in the teamfight but can also move around the
map more easily because impact is not a selfish player. You hear Azale talk
about this all the time. He's not the guy who wants to sit in his side lane
and take plates and be the split pusher hero. He's the guy who wants to
join up with fights, translate his advantage elsewhere and having an
Ultimate like Scion lets you do that more frequently and more effectively third pick of the draft here for sentinels is the Nico
And if impact does well in lane he can also start not having threat on him from the Renekton
But it'll be a really interesting early game with Morgan playing. I imagine a very aggressive Renekton to try and get push and first move
The entire game. I think that's what we're gonna see if team look can pull off Morgan
Just constantly having lane prior because I've heard that he's an incredibly good laner in scrims and I
I'm also going to say I doubt we're seeing Guardian Renekton in this game like as fun as it would be to beat him with
Guardian in the second game. I think it would actually be unplayable to have Guardian Renekton against the scion
You just never have any chance to kill him ever for any reason right like it's just not going to work out
We also get exactly what you were predicting here for team liquid on pick number three with the Orianna
It's just exactly as you said you know
It's not going to get stolen away because it's not like sentinels can do anything useful with it after they already have a
Azir so TL will be happy to just take that one before the second half of the
band start coming in and with those band surfacing you know I was gonna be the
first one banned out by TL remember the 80 carry bands in the second half of this
one are a bit of a double-edged sword because you still have the 80 carry left
to be selected for both teams sentinels gonna ban supports instead look at a
core JJ's barred I like it with sentinels at least trying to pick a lane
that they're going to play through it's hard to guarantee any prior in his
here versus Orianna, they're not going to have Pryo in top lane with Sion versus Renekton.
But if they pick Niko early and then ban out the other supports that often match Niko like
Bard and potentially even Alistar, then they would put Team Liquid in hopefully a disadvantage
spot with support.
And like you said at the end of last game, right point for Sentinels in a game number
one that didn't have a lot of them.
Hombox pressure for the first blood in the bottom lane.
Clearly they want to try to play through bot.
They want to try to help these guys.
Xin Zhao banned out here by Team Liquid.
That was one that we saw Humbach hovering draft,
both last game and in this game, I believe.
So with that one taken off the table,
that is going to reduce some of your early pressure.
And there's the Nautilus ban from sentence.
So CoreJJ down one, engage support.
But so Alistar doesn't necessarily beat Niko,
but I see a lot of people play Alistar into Niko
because it won't get burst later.
And it can also face check a lot of pushes.
We'll see what Team Liquid decided to go with though,
because they don't necessarily need
to draft for team composition.
It seems like Core and Yon are just really confident
with any laning combo they go for.
Yon loves to do a lot of different hovers.
I feel like there's so many different directions
they can go here.
Potentially, Ezreal is a little dangerous
because they are against a Sion and Orianna.
Ezreal doesn't have a huge amount of sustain damage,
but it does give them really good range,
and it's good in Tunico.
Let's see how Sentinels wants to respond here.
I need not just the AD carry,
but the jungler right next to it.
You know you're going up against Jose Dioto on the Jarvan.
You know he's going to be looking for some playmaking on that one.
You know he's going to be already kind of locked in from the performance lasting with
all those great engages on the Wukong Jarvan going to have a similar threat in this one.
So I want to see what Hombok can respond with.
We are going to get the Kaisa here for the Sentinel side.
So you've got Niko, Kaisa, Azir, like even your carries are happy to jump into the
fights for things like the F-Mers Divide, use the Killer Instinct.
This feels very aggressive from Sentinels.
Yeah, I feel like the last game, they didn't feel like they could do much.
So they're stacking engaged tools here and a late pick Vi as well.
So this is a Kaiser comp.
If the Kaiser can get going, then Rahel would be in for a very strong game.
But that's what Team Liquid is going to try and stop from happening.
Just picking really strong lanes.
Right? I feel like that's been the name of the game for a lot of these
Team Liquid drafts early in the season.
They pick for matchup and they try and blow the other team out.
And karma Ezreal, this is a classic bullet hell bottom lane to have to match up into as long as they're landing mystic shots and inner flames.
Your health bar is constantly going to be taxed, constantly under pressure for a shorter range marksman like Kaisa who wants to get in, fire the Akathian range, scrap up close.
Once you're low on health, that becomes seriously dangerous, seriously quick, so we'll see how well Yann and Korp can dial in that accuracy.
And this is really interesting. Early season draft trends I'm seeing from Team Liquid with
Korjaj this series so far playing Nami and Karma.
And he's played a lot of Nami and a lot of range supports because historically,
Team Liquid has struggled when Korjaj isn't on a hard-engaged champion
because a lot of times they become reliant on his ability to find fights.
But this speaks to the trust that they have in Jose Diota,
who played great last game on Wukong,
is primary engaged once again on the Jarvan.
And if they can continue to make this work with Jose
actually being the one to primarily engage,
it changes the dynamic of playing against Team Liquid.
And I do want to bring up because I feel like we always
have to add this asterisk onto these conversations
because we've had this combo about CoreJJ a lot of times
in the past.
It's not the core is bad, add enchanters.
Not by any means.
Remember that when CoreJJ became a world champion 2017,
that was art at SensorMeta, which
is like the strongest that enchanters have ever
been in the history of God, like that was the Enchanter meta, right?
And so, CoreJJ is not bad at Enchanters, it just feels like traditionally he's the one,
like you mentioned last game when we heard the comms from TL, even if things are getting
hectic, he's a very loud voice, he's a powerful voice, he's not afraid to speak up.
So when you have your big Engager on someone who's also a shotcaller and a communicator,
it feels more likely that you'll have success as a team in those moments, but having
a backup like you're saying with Jose Diodo having somebody else you can trust to do that
that's just nothing but an extra tool in your kit.
For sure and especially with the way that it looks like Yon and Kor want to play where
they're just trying to dominate every single laning phase that's going to be ranged supports
just almost every single time.
So as long as this works for Team Liquid it makes them an exciting team to watch
as well.
We do have a slight delay.
John is saying he has an audio issue, no sounds again.
Oh, maybe joking about having first-track Jarvan?
Because if I had a rune question mark when I got paused.
I know.
Maybe he does have first-track Jarvan.
When they told me about it delay,
I was really hoping it's another rune bug,
like Morgan has Guardian.
It would have been my dream.
But it's not happening that way.
I mean, first-track Jarvan wouldn't be bad.
I see a lot of people in junglers.
It would be better than Guardian Atrox.
Yeah, everything is better than Guardian Trucks.
Guardian Jarvan is better than Guardian Trucks.
Guardian Jarvan, because he's at least
going to be playing jungle or even on his off role.
Sometimes people play Jarvan's support.
Like you're at least next to other champions.
Absolutely.
I'm actually, Jose is making me wonder
if this is some hidden tech in solo queue.
I'm pretty sure he's going to be Conqueror Jarvan.
But his first strike Jarvan, even a thing,
I'm just double checking.
It is, actually.
It's got about 500 games, and it's got a sneaky high win
rate.
Maybe, you know, if you wanted to go Profane, Hydra, Guardian, Jarvan, that's another thing.
I think that's going to beat out Guardian Wukong in terms of the joke builds that we've had
so far today.
I feel like First Strike Jarvan could actually be good.
I still wonder if we will actually get it.
Hopefully we can resolve whatever audio issues or first strike Jarvan issues these
are as quickly as possible.
Get ourselves into game here.
I do want to see if Sentinels can be better about enabling their bottom lane this game.
For sure.
I want to see more activity.
I loved what we got with the first blood from Homba last game, but again, I criticized this a couple of times.
I'm going to love you that criticism again because I think it's important.
Pantheon and Taliyah, I just didn't see enough one punch, two punch follow-up alties making plays with these guys.
For sure, especially with how quickly people redeploy on the map and how many plays can happen outside of big objective fights.
You wanted to see more from the Taliyah Pantheon.
As we're going through this pause,
I have a bit of a bigger picture topic.
Okay, what do you want to talk about?
I feel like this season,
pro play is closer to solo queue.
And this isn't necessarily a good or a bad thing.
Okay.
It's closer to solo queue than in past years.
Like how similar the game looks,
But more specifically, like, which skills transfer from solo queue to pro?
I think it's more true this year than in pastures.
Well, I think a lot of that probably has to do around the quest system, right?
Because lane swaps are now just completely out the window.
Yeah.
Because that was one of the big disruptors I always felt about the differentiation
between solo queue and pro is you're not getting lane swaps, right?
So that changes the picks because now you can pick these I do nothing
except sit there on the ground and cry until 10 minutes, 80 carries
that normally can't play bottom lane in pro.
Okay, well now they're leaning against the Sion 2v1, they're fine.
Right?
Now you're gonna have to fit the stuff that can still deal with being pressured in lane
just like you would in solo queue.
Exactly.
Right now the biggest difference to me from pro to solo queue is just
the incredible teamwork around Drake's
and how infrequently we see top laners just absolutely take over the game.
I think that could change, but like another thing I'm noticing is
a lot of these rookie junglers across the league.
So Griffin here, I'm going to mess up his name,
like Rylic or something in the LEC,
that are able to play the more damaged, heavy carry junglers.
Maybe Cryru will be like this as well.
Like the junglers that are playing Ambessa,
Atrox, Wallabair, these like high farm solo queue carry
junglers, that's just more workable in pro now,
because they're not having to like completely sacrifice
their jungle pathing to deal with lane swaps.
And I just feel like that might end up being rewarded more
as we progress into this year.
As we're getting into game,
I feel like the rest of this topic
will be reserved for a podcast.
But he's trolling us, he's conqueror Jarvan.
Yeah, he's just messing, man.
First strike Jarvan actually seems legit, by the way.
It doesn't seem as legit as conqueror Jarvan.
I'm just going to go on record saying that.
Yeah, I'm gonna try it.
Is, okay, are they playing it in Jungle
or are they playing it as a support?
Oh, Jungle!
Jungle, 54% winrate, 800 games, compared to 52% winrate
and 350,000 games to sample size,
not with standing with scenes.
You ignore the word thousand and only compare the hundreds
of games part.
It's only the 350 times more likely to be brought.
Yeah, it's only a multiple of a thousand times as many games.
I don't see the issue here.
That's good.
OK.
It's the same as first strike, Jace, right?
You're just trying to farm gold, and you burst hard.
Accelerated Shock Blast is the same thing as Flag.
That's true.
Andrag, don't forget the second part of the combo.
All right, well, since I was a Diodo,
we'll not be enlightening us with any of these new age
Jarvan builds today.
He will be on the standard stuff, starting on the top side
of the map.
And you'll see in the mirror there,
Hombok doing the same thing.
As right now, Yann and Korra are doing exactly what I
kind of expected them to do on this Ezreal karma duo.
You use your range, you use your pressure early and you just make these guys constantly
sweat versus the projectile volley.
I want to see if they do exactly what they did last game though because last game they
pushed up really hard, they used their wards and lane to control the bush and then they
got almost cheese ganked by Hombok which gave Hombok a kill and didn't really hurt their
lane so I feel like they're not, they're saying that was actually completely fine.
We don't care if you gank us and get a kill because they're not warding currently.
Or does have a trinket, he may go and use it soon because this would be the timing that
Hanbok would do again if he goes early.
But for the most part, this is what we saw from Graf, Team Liquid said they're just
going to try and push every wave and you just have to pick the lane that you decide
to gank.
Okay, let's see what they've got.
I mean, Yon is Ezreal, you've got Flash built into the kit, KorjayJ on Karma also
has his tether and his shield for the extra evasiveness.
Tether here and who he absorbs a lot of the damage there for Reheal, but absorbing it means it's still landing on somebody and this
Kaisa and Niko are struggling to find legs to stand on. Here in the bottom lane 2v2
You could see the clone walked into the brush there and it did see the Jarvan moving through the bottom side river of Hose
Idiotus, so as long as they were paying attention they got that brief flash of vision there.
Hombak is going to take the top side crab because he knows bottom side crab is not
Contestable when your bottom lane is trapped underneath this turn, but look at what they're doing now Jose
Instead of recalling is just helping to zone Rahel and who he off that wave really good ward though
That is going to be able to interrupt this recall if they want core blocks it for him perfect
See I love it when the support gives back to the jungler because that could have completely ruined his tempo as
He was helping the bot lane with that move
But Core managed to save it with the nice block on the crisis W.
Now he's right back for his ground pre-spawn.
Great first three and a half minutes by Team Liquid.
You love to see it.
We mentioned how last game the plate count was very low overall for both teams.
But we've already got the first plate taken now by Team Liquid in the bottom lane,
forcing their opponents back away from that massive wave like you mentioned.
As now, Yon does have to wait for Core to get back into the lane,
so will not be able to exert the same amount of pressure that he had earlier.
Pumbak still not able to really find a lot of anything just yet. Obviously, Hosebiodo hasn't ganked,
but I still feel like, you know, that's one of the differences that I still feel you're going to see a lot more of in pro
compared to solo queue is the junglers
successfully being able to have a large impact on lanes that they don't truly gank, as Rahel and Hohi again just
constantly on the receiving end of these trades.
Yeah, Core and Yon are landing all their skill shots. The way Core weaved that
that karmic you around the clone directly into who he making them reset again as the wave was actually temporarily frozen. So they're going to deny a lot of golden experience is who core almost gets a recall as well.
Jose is likely going to look for a gromp and date here. They've already pre-warded it. They have the way they're going to slow push it and try and crash it at the turret as the kites is running back to base. So maybe they're going to pull off of it.
So one thing worth noting here, you can see the cooldown on CoreJJ's mantra for the R.
It was still on cooldown when Rahel was recalling on the Kaisa.
I believe if you have the mantra ready, you can shoot the Q early enough to interrupt the Kaisa recall there.
Dark wings at 50 HP, quid, putting the pressure on in the mid lane,
making sure that it's not just Yon and CoreJJ running their lane matchup in this early game.
And now, five minutes on the clock, Jose Diodo feels empowered to just go for a solo dragon
Up in the top lane, Morgan is proxy farming against Impact, who goes for the ulti to stun him up here near the wall.
Morgan about to die.
First blood Impact gets a solo kill when he has the right runes.
Morgan might have overplayed his hand just a little bit here.
Turned to keep up with his mid and bot lane lane dominance.
But that dominance does continue as Jose secures the first drake of the game, 4TL.
Who he's got to be careful about getting any closer right here.
He's already down to half HP.
Hombok hanging around here five, but it does not matter because team liquid still maintains control over the neutrals
They will still secure the Drake and the crap flowers team liquid is playing so unbelievably aggressive right now. Yeah, they are
Kind of pseudo turret diving all three lanes at once
I imagine Morgan probably took a turret shot or two, but the crazy thing is after getting solo killed with first blood bonus gold
he's still ahead he's still ahead that's how much he was pushing the tempo in that
lane I knew the jungler's bottom tried to proxy messed it up potentially that
could really hurt because now like what are you really gonna do against a
bramble vest chain vest scion I think he's really gonna have a hard time
getting an advantage now but yeah let's watch this I mean impact just Morgan
what are you doing bro yeah he doesn't even take a church up but I think
getting hit by that Q. It was a full decimating smash. 10 to second Q. It doesn't matter if
you get the empowered Q on the minions. Yeah, getting hit by two full charge Q is not ideal.
Eternal swagger printed. He's back where he belongs. He's got his runes. He's ready
to go. So low kills. I said last game I was going to be really impressed if it
went from a two to a three with the Guardian activated.
That didn't happen, but here in game two,
he does solo kill Morgan's Renekton with the Scion,
so he goes up to three.
And they won split one last year,
so they played a lot of games.
This is only game number six for,
or seven for impact,
because they played three games in the first week,
so hey, still got it.
He's gonna be really hard for Renekton
to do anything against him.
Now that he's built those brick items.
And that's also something that I think
If your team liquid, remember that last year felt like for so much of the year the story was FlyQuest are the protagonist of the LCS, right?
But on the path to first stand, it was TL like you said who represented us there.
They went over and they placed fifth of five, right?
It was again, not the performance that Team Liquid, an organization that builds to win trophies that wants to be a competitor, would be happy with.
So I think you've got all the more motivation to try to get back to first stand and say no, no, no
That's not what team liquid is made of we can put up a better performance than that
We got humbok snuck through vision is behind corn yawn
I just wonder who he and reheal have enough health to follow up. So we're hell will have alt
Humback will look to see who he engage is on all summoners there for team liquid
This has got to be clean who he has a minion
They got to count the minions on the team liquid side flash away from core JJ who he already tried to use the
the tango barbs, and there they're going to send their attention over to Yon, nice use of the vault breaker to cut off the escape, combined with the flash, they knock Yon down, sentinels get to kill bottom side.
And great job getting the kill onto the carry as well, because now they get to deny him this entire wave, it lowers the threat, it allows Rahel to get that plate, actually gives him an advantage in gold in this game, which is crazy considering it feels like he's just been fighting for his life this entire time.
to mention he's gone call.
John hasn't so he's going to
have that cash in in 43 more CS.
So Sentinels despite.
Getting really blitzed by team
liquids early lane pressure is set up
completely fine as we approach the mid game.
And you know we've talked about the
top lane because there was a kill there.
We just talked about the bottom lane
because of the pressure and the kill down there.
But back over in mid that's quietly
the biggest individual gold lead.
So far in this game quid,
nearly getting the solo on dark wings earlier.
Not quite having enough damage to make it happen.
Now CoreJJ tries to go in to put the pressure onto Darkwingz, but the Emperor's divide is ready.
Darkwingz sees the opportunity to instantly turn the play around with his bot lane roaming up,
and for Sentinels, that's an easy alley-oop into a third kill, and they'll tie this gold lead up.
CoreJJJ not respecting when he's a flashless karma, and also generally not respecting how decisive Darkwingz could be.
Having Huhi there and having the Vi around gave Darkwingz the confidence, but I still do have to credit him.
like when you're in this situation as he has been in this game where he's been
fighting for his life against the Orianna the entire time under his turret
to immediately to shift in all back as soon as you see the moment just speaks
to you know him not tilting and having a really good presence of mind.
All right, Jan back in the bottom lane now as they want to try to keep this
wave this lane pressure on there's only 25 seconds left until the next Drake
is live since Team Liquid have controlled the bottom lane the
entire time has been very easy for Hositi Odo to control the dragon pit
One kind of just leads into the other and you can see Jose already down around this part of the map does believe he has enough time to
Go ahead and grab the Krugs
So not worried about just being in the pit as soon as the thing spawns but you can see humbuck also passing
Excuse me towards the area
so
Team liquid is really not that far ahead considering how much they've
Drafted and played around their lanes. You can see big cs advantages all throughout
you know, 116 to 88 in top lane, 111 to 98 in mid, 103 to 90 in bot lane, but because
Sentinels have been able to fight back and get three kills, we're within 500 gold.
So I think the Drake fights are going to be really explosive here if Sentinels can continue
to punish this flashless karma as Jose wants to move into the river, knows there's no
vision, but you can see, you know, everyone reset on Sentinels to be in position pretty
soon.
Okay, Jose is going to go ahead and start up the Drake here.
Both have their sundered skies completed top laners both have their teleports ready to join the fight if they need to
Stridebreaker is done for Morgan, but because Sion has to build a garage sale of defense. He does not have a first-item power spike
Team liquid DPS slow onto the dragon got it down below 3,000 Morgan
Wrapping around from behind going into the fence from attack who he wants the pop loss and he finds it on the two
Homebop ready to follow up for hell needs more damage if they wanted for to kill hosin the Oda
But who he's already gone cordier J under pressure, but team liquid is finding so many kills
Quid knocks down Hombok. Morgan is ready and waiting with an open maw for impact here in the bottom lane.
The mystic shot can barely not catch up to the scion, but it's CoreJJ traded for three players on the sentinel side.
Team Liquid, just like last game, Jath, once you have both teams handshaked for a duel, for a fight,
here at the Dragon, it's Team Liquid who have the faster hands.
Wow wow from yawn and Jose. I also said wow so I'm wondering what our wowing here
For me it was that I couldn't follow the fight very well because it was too fast
But I wonder I wonder what happened there because they kind of just blew the game open once again
You can see they're very relaxed in this game also hitting their first mythics across the board
So let's watch this so they get the Drake as well as when the fight
But let's see where where Jarvan Oriano went you can see Morgan's here early
who he goes in, Yannick would completely avoid it, and then, I mean, Jose gets the smite steal,
Morgan just jumps in in one shot, the karma, just a really well played fight here.
Yeah, I feel like if I'm on the Team Liquid side, that's about how I feel about that
team fight too. Also just worked out so well that Jan's true shot barrage firing
through the middle of everybody. Yeah. Also enough to kill off Kuhi's Niko for
the last hit. So you even get more money on your AD carry. Trinity 4 is done for
him now. Tier stacking up even further. Rahel is about to get that cash in on
the call that you mentioned earlier that's going to equalize most of that
gold lead for Jan. But that's the gold lead of one of the five roles.
And honestly, everybody that's not support has a meaningful gold lead. 13
minutes into the game. Team Liquid's looking pretty strong these last
weeks they're set against Shopify as well as the two games here and this isn't even a game
that's gone well for Team Liquid. This is always a debate you'll have in Scrims. So to me this is
a little bit like a Scrim draft for me with the way they're playing where they have three winning
lanes. Funny thing about League teams is actually there's going to be a fight in Riverside.
Save this point for later. Now hold on we also might just have them look like they're
they're gonna fight. This is frequent. Humbuck is looking though. He's in a crouching stance.
I think that dragon might want to stay hidden, my friend. I believe so, unless...
No, go home. Go home. Okay, we're good. What were you gonna bring up? So, if you're a
team that has three losing lanes, you always say afterwards if you lose the game, Morgan
Yeah, okay. Impact goes in, stops him from being able to get away.
Morgan does pop the Dominus, slices out of the way of the decimating smash.
She wanted to try to heal up with the Call of Mika Minions,
but nope, not gonna happen. We're helping her.
Her health burst him down in time.
Now, game's too fast. They want to keep diving.
Okay. Shushabaraj.
Gonna make some space.
Hombok gets all the way back.
He knows if they're...
If you want a positioning like this,
they've probably got the squat nearby
to try to make something even worse happen.
Worst happen he yeah who he's gonna walk right through the hex gate immediately eats a dragon strike plus mantra interflame combo to lose
30 40% of his HP something around there Darkwing's ready to join up though
This is a really weird game with how fast it is and how close the gold still is despite it looking like team liquid
Has just been running the whole server
I mean Rahel is gonna get fed off this bot turret has call cached in he got the kill
He's also gonna be not first Turt gold, but still solo Turt gold so he's pulling ahead of yawn
I granted the Spooks before the game talking about tempo and he said any scrim
where hex gates are up end up being this like 80 kill game because not only do
you have home guards you also have the hex gates so people are just on the map
that you are unable to trap and you just end up skirmishing a lot which is
kind of what this game might devolve into as they're gonna fight over this
rift herald as well yeah the herald's down to 5000 HP it's team liquid
with control over the river but seven those are ready to challenge that
impact wants to be the frontline here for the team does not have the
Ult, ready to go.
Hombok goes into the play-off to Quidd,
and flashes away from the pop.
Mr. Hale, Hale, no backline.
Here with the killer instinct, finishes the job.
And the team liquid mid-laner is down.
However, they do accomplish what they came for.
They get themselves the Herald.
They should be able to pick up that eyehose,
and the Odo does secure it.
So Quidd traded for the Herald here on the top side.
This is a Rahel carry angle.
One and a half thousand gold on the Kaisa,
and everyone in the team comp sets up the Kaisa.
Not to mention, not really tanky backliners,
are good ways of peeling the kaisa in teamfights. So Senna is absolutely in this game incredible ways
of just being scrappy to get gold onto hell and now actually have a decent chance to win this game
in my opinion as dark wings with impact just poking decides not to do more did have the azir
ultimate didn't flip him back because drake is up so team look at probably going to get soul point
here you would imagine. Yeah considering okay azir is just now making his recall but he
He does have teleport to try to join up with the rest of sentinels quid putting the pressure onto the tier one here in the
Bottom lane has a big wave crashing into that one dark wings is already arrived
Who's a diodo going in?
Hombok gonna be the target, but there's no damage to follow it up just yet quids not gonna be in massive danger goes golden
But it'll die as soon as he gets out of that statue form they kill the hell in trade though
There's that kaisa. There's that wind condition you were talking about out of the picture now as Hombok is down to 50 HP
Team liquid trying to get out of the enemy jungle now as both top laners have arrived for the fight
Morgan trying to make sure that his team can get control over this scuttle crap
now as you're going to see Jose Diablo summon up the Rift Herald over in mid lane
then go ahead and take his recall look for the reset Harold secures the tier
one turret and ultimately we just have a couple of kills traded here but
critically one of those is Rahel that very powerful Kaisa on the Sentinel side
also power spike there from Darkwing with his Nashor's tooth making play
after play 2-0-2 now does a nice little tempo gank in the top lane to
and then teleporting bot lane to get the scoop on a quid now
turning towards this drake, which isn't necessarily free.
Team Liquid decide to give it away.
And soul point denied by Sentinels
as they look to make a play bottom now.
I feel like that is huge for Sentinels denying that soul
point.
There is Morgan flashes away from the pop blossom,
but the Tangle Barb still lock him up.
And Sentinels should have enough damage,
and you've got to be kidding me.
You've got to be kidding me.
Morgan gets away with 100 HP on the Renekton.
Lord Morgan.
But yes, absolutely anyone's game,
and Senwell's got to be so happy with how this goes.
I think I have a quick winner to get my point across.
In games, when you have three losing lanes,
the team is gonna say it feels like it's unplayable,
which it does if you lose.
But I'll also say on the other side,
when you have three winning lanes,
it's kind of hard to win
because you end up being too exposed.
If you're pushing all three lanes at once,
you can never really protect all three lanes at once,
so you're always vulnerable to things like ViGanks.
And I feel like that's what's happened here.
Tima put tried to crush all three lanes and they made these little mistakes along the way where four dies and then Morgan dies while approaching and then
Quid dies to a gank and suddenly you're in this mid-game state where it's even again one HP
It was unironically one HP at the lowest. He lived with one
That is crazy work that he gets away
Like that and you can see the whole roller coaster of emotions are on golden glues faces. He fought. Yeah
We have the pick here. This is great. Good job guys and then the prenec to just barely walks away from it
Sentinels now looking to put on some pressure of their own. They've got Darkwings back up here in this top lane looking for the Tier 1 turret
that he was seeking after earlier. This time should be able to find it considering he has teammates in the neighborhood as
Morgan will take the chance to now trade for the Tier 2 in the bottom lane. Team Liquid do have more turrets over all this game.
They have had more control over more of the map for more of the game.
Darkwings wants to try to let this turret eat as many minions as it can before it falls down.
And it looks like right as we're about at the end here. There we go
Tag it take it away team liquid still about a 1000 gold lead
Yeah, but since the game is this close
I think stopping that soul stack matters that much more because now one bad fight doesn't mean they get the soul
And all of a sudden the gold he doesn't matter because the soul is such an impactful buff, right?
It gives so much time for the azir and the kaisa to keep scaling as well
Right now is Morgan's time though. He completed the second full item on his renektin
this was one of the points that spawn was actually bringing up with Morgan in
their Vaub review when he's this strong of a Renekton like stop doing cardio
running back and forth between lanes and like go find fights so right now it's
really hard to do much to this Scion so I imagine after he pushes this lane
Morgan might go click on Baron and try and make something happen in River
here. Speaking of Baron we do have that topside Scuttlecrab secure just
now for Sentinel thanks to Hambach and Darkwing so they'll have some
vision control over the area.
Team Liquid going to step up and try to fight back.
For some of that themselves, three turrets to two turrets,
considering it was not a full tier one for tier two trade
across the map when Dark Wings took that tier one
and you were seeing Morgan try to respond
in the bottom lane against the Sentinels tier two.
CoreJJ placing some control wards
in the Baron pit right now.
Team Liquid gold leads staying exactly where it has been.
Dark Wings now with an individual gold lead
alongside Rahel.
If I'm playing this composition with Scion and Vi in top lane and jungler as my Azir and Kaisa that have the gold leads
I could not be happy. Yeah, they're very very they're chilling at this point impact
completely neutralizing Morgan Morgan on a ward as well with a potential
Niko gank which wouldn't have done much
Now recalling on a control ward interesting choice. Okay. Is this very interesting? No, okay
was he he was just outside the bush he didn't see it oh that is actually a big
problem potentially as impact storms in right over top of his bottom lane combo
and they take Morgan out ah he wasn't inside the bush when he was recalling
I thought it was super strange that he'd be on our control ward it's also weird
that he didn't step in the bush just a misclick I'd imagine on that recall but
with that big of a lead not being able to make anything happen actually being
the one that gets picked really hurts Team Liquid's momentum.
It's not a Guardian atrox, but it's a very impactful mistake
that could have some serious ramifications.
Impact now has all the pressure in the world
here in the bottom lane.
He's made his way onto the Tier 2 turret.
The wave is crashing into that one.
Sentinels is looking to secure even more gold
for their side.
Yeah, you've got that cannon minion alive.
But look at this massive minion wave that's now
going to be eaten up by Quid, who
does need to use his TP to go answer impact down here.
Sentinels might win this game,
Rahel just keeps getting gold five kills now looks like dusk and dawn is on the way
Kaisa has a new build every single patch you do so much
Those types of champs you have so much damage with dusk and dawn like pseudo AP attack speed Kaisa
No way to build resists against it you proc your passive constantly have great poke
So he's gonna be very strong and there's not great ways for team liquid to actually get on top of Kaisa
With the next rate coming up in a fight
Surely gonna happen around it
Yeah, big time about who hold on now impact going into the middle of everybody as Morgan tries to do the same and immediately
Rethinks that decision. Yeah, so yeah, all right both top laners throw themselves into a 1v4
Scions pretty much always going to outperform in that situation getting value out of the TP shield
They just really wanted there to make sure they were maxing it
All right, Sentinel starting up the Drake keep your eyes on Rahel on that kaisa
Impact still full HP here with the Scion as well.
Who he goes in to the pop, lost him.
Finds it, but it's only up to Hoson Yodo as the shockwave counterattacks.
Seals the fate of who he, one dead on either side.
But considering it's the jungler for TL, it means Sentinel secures the drake easy.
PZ Morgan dies now too, and Sentinel's are not done yet.
Quinn tries to get away from the Scion, but Impact is cutting off the escape route for CoreJJ and Quinn.
He has to back away now.
He's gone.
Find some DPS opportunity to open up here a little bit, but Sentinel's chat.
Now commanding a 1,000 gold lead and a tied Drake game.
Perfect fight for them.
Both kills went to the Kaisa.
They killed enemy jungler.
Hombok secured the smite.
This is their style of game.
Double Hextech Drake now, watching it one more time.
Who he sacrifices his life.
They get Yawn out of the fight.
They burst a bunch of damage onto Jose
so that when Jose tries to go back in,
they can kill him.
And then just nice discipline here.
Everyone turning for Morgan, who was already in the pit
And no one on Team Liquid could get through this scion.
Good mid game from Sentinels here so far, defending,
fighting their way back into this game.
There's that dusk and dawn that you were talking about.
And what I was going to say before we got the last fight
is you feel like Kaisa with the AP evolution,
you always think of the value of the poke.
You think of like the ARAM style of Kaisa with Voidseeker.
It's also just a super low cooldown,
so you're always getting those dusk and dawn pox
off of the sheen like you're talking about.
So let's see, Team Liquid, how do you stabilize now
Sentinels are the ones putting on the pressure. I think it's hard. They don't have great disengaged
They're trying to take space with karma, but Corda J is incredibly squishy. I
Mean look at that impact not really taking damage and Morgan not yet level 16
Only 500 gold ahead of impact
Waiting for who he to try and find another engage. He's really been the one that starts things
Yeah, Morgan's, Renekton, 1-4 and 0 in this game.
Honestly, just not a very good look from him on this champion.
We're going to need to see a lot more out of the crocodile.
Yep.
If Team Liquid wants to be able to turn things back in their favor,
three minutes until the next.
Drake spawns, so everybody's eyes are here in the top side of the rift,
focusing around the bear and focusing on the vision war.
As right now, it's Team Liquid with control over the river itself.
But because there's the Scuttlecrab vision for Sentinels,
It's not like Team Liquid can fully force them out.
Yeah, I feel like it's just a matter of a little bit of farming
until the next drake.
It's still a little bit early to really hard force the Baron
unless they do get a nice pick.
Oh, that is huge.
Tombock!
That is a potentially game-losing mistake
for the jungler to be caught in a position like that
as Darkwing's retreats back up here to the topside.
But now, jungler dead.
No emperors divide.
4v5 for Sentinels.
I think Sentinels look for a fight here.
I mean, Darkwing's had to burn Ultimate already as a disengager.
But Impact can still ult in to create space.
Okay, there's no ulti on Morgan.
There's no ulti on Quid.
Sentinel's stepping up.
Keep hitting Baron so they can smite it.
Yup, Impact's your frontline here.
Team Liquid's still DPSing the Baron.
No smite on the enemy team to try to steal it away.
Baron secured.
Hombox greedy recall is the deadliest of sins.
And for all the work that Sentinels have done fighting
their way back into this game,
Team Liquid has once again taken control.
I mean, I'm impressed with Team Liquid's gambit there
to invade like that, thinking that Sentinels
was all going to be resetting because with how squishy they
are, I'm trying to figure out how they took this space.
So Jan has the control ward already.
It's just really good vision overall by Team Liquid
to have that control ward there.
And Hombok would have needed to recall X to impact,
should have done it in fog, since they just
been pushed out of that space. I do think that's just a mistake by Hombok.
Especially since you know we didn't clear the control ward they had in the
bush. You know the control ward is there. You know it only dropped to 2 HP.
So Hombok, a mistake on that one. A bit of a blunder. Does get punished and now
Team Liquid are back in control. But again, getting those past two drakes, this
is so much less frightening for Sentinels and it otherwise could have been.
Because Team Liquid now has to be in some trouble. Y'all want to flash over the wall but
He's going to follow killer instinct killer indeed who he ends up taking to kill credit as now you've got quid and hose of the
Oro trying to do something back into Sentinels
They found a couple of kills darkwings wants to go in after quit as Jose and Morgan are trying to scrap with
Rahel and impact core JJ makes his way into the fight but quit has her foot all the way away
Impact stunned up with the enchanted ruthless predator loses his shield on that one hose of the Oro looking for Rahel
He knows that's the target dead bodies on the floor in both jerseys chat
it's one dead for TL, two dead for Sentinels.
And we're going again in 30 seconds.
That was a really cool play.
So that's the type of threat that Kaisa can have on Ezreal
at any stage in the game.
Someone just lands the CC to apply the first Kaisa mark,
and then Ra'Hel's going to be able to fly in
and finish off the execution.
But what I was really impressed with
was Team Liquid's confidence to reengage.
Because usually if your AD carry gets one shot,
you think maybe the game's over,
but they burned so much just to get Yon.
They said Morgan at level 16 with Renekton
And me, with my Conqueror, not first strike Jarvan,
are still gonna be able to win this fight later.
And they're gonna get the Drake out of the two
with the redeploy by Sentinels just being towards Waze.
Yeah, Team Liquid secure this one for themselves.
There's no Baron on the other side of the map,
to worry about Sentinels taking.
So finally, 28, nearly 29 minutes into the game,
it is Soulpoint status, 4 TL,
Darkwing's and Sundisk is decaying down here
in the bottom lane, Hose of the Odo going to jump in,
try to put some pressure onto the Emperor.
Korin Yon moving in to try to help Jose here.
The tether will lock up Darkwing,
but they need to have the extra damage on top
and holds the Yodo guarantees it.
Another individual mistake on the Sentinel side.
Being in a position that could be punished
is going to open up yet another Team Liquid Avenue
to find more afterwards.
This is a 45 second death timer on your late game Azir.
This is pressure under the tier three turret
coming out from Team Liquid as impact moves in
to try to stop the push.
Morgan is maintaining a split push threat over in the mid lane,
but now he's going to get jumped on.
Hombok and Rahel immediately pull both triggers on the ultimate
and take out the enemy top laner.
Problem is, now those tools are no longer available
and Team Liquid is already in your base.
Sentinels are thinking about how are we going to make this play?
How do we try to wrap around and punish?
But it's still 4v4 because you've still got Darkwing's dead.
Now once Darkwing's response, he has TP.
We'll see if they can use that.
I'll give you a second to take a breath
because this game's not slowing down.
Hombok is on the flank and they will have a numbers advantage before Team Liquid can get out.
Who he's popped, keep your eyes on it!
Quid's gonna be tagged but nobody else is caught who he goes for some first.
Impact wants to lock up the rest of the team.
Hombok trying to put the ball breaker into Quid and they've got the kill in the mid laner.
Nicely picked up there on the side of Sentinels to get Quid and Core JJ together.
Yon and Hose of Yodo trying to make sure they can both escape, it's the buddy system.
Don't go nowhere without your buddy.
Sentinels wanting to get something back on this one.
Tier one turret. Now the focus of their aggression.
They will take the gold lead back with this, but critically,
Baron is still two minutes away,
so there won't be a major reward for the picks.
Absolutely insane game we have here.
This is the stage equivalent of that 80 kill scrim game.
The hex gates are open, the tempo is out of control.
It looks like Team Liquid just never wants to stop,
like they're just going forward at every single moment,
and it's leading to some big plays and some misplays.
On one hand, they got the pick onto Darkwings
at the beginning.
On the other hand, once Renekton died in mid lane,
they probably shouldn't have pushed all the way through
for that inhibitor because there was going to be no way out
after the fact that you can see there who he gets.
The original engage, he does end up falling,
but the overall counter punch was still there
in a big way for Sentinels.
Alright, we find ourselves once more at the Baron pit part of the map.
60 seconds until it spawns means now is the time to fight for vision and positioning around that objective.
Team Liquid moving into the enemy jungle and if your Sentinels, particularly if you're Hombok,
you've got to be aware of what happened last time.
Team Liquid vision in the Sentinels jungle is what led to the previous Baron,
so Sentinels must be very mindful as they move back into what should be their territory.
Retake these brushes, sweep out these wards, and be prepared to fight for a Baron.
Because the Gold Lead Jet really isn't that big.
It's three dragons to two.
This can very easily go either way, based on positioning and execution.
Yeah, where does the Shockwave land?
Deathcap on the Orianna.
Big one-shot potential.
There are two stopwatches available.
Soon to be three of who he gets a little bit more gold,
which is just a huge number of like ways to dodge the shockwave for sentinels.
So I'd like their chances here as long as they don't get picked off,
especially with Reheal's gold lead being 3,000 gold up against his counterpart,
Yon, not to mention impact with his ever increasing health bar.
Looks like about 6,000 health at this point.
1,336 HP from Soul Furnace.
That's a lot of health.
And it's not like Ezreal, Ori, Jarvan, Renekton is good at shredding it, right?
There's no one who said it back in draft. Yeah, man. Would we have Orianna Ezreal?
It could be a little bit hard to shoot through a late game scion,
but now Barron's health bar down to below 10,000.
Team Liquid doing very slow DPS though, as who he is.
A riverside minion to find his way around from behind the fight.
Hombok wants to lead the charge shot way back onto the enemy jungler
as both will be knocked down into the Guardian Angels.
Now Morgan not putting an entry point into the fight as Yon dies.
Hombox ready there to take the kill, Jose Odo re-enters and Darkwing's is dealt with. Jose over the wall, but Rahel's ready to follow him as Team Liquid continue fighting here at a 3v4.
Morgan goes back to the wall, Rahel under pressure. They need to try to kill the Kaisa, but they can't find the damage course.
They're taking the beat of your target here, next double kill into a Keithian Ray, and then Quinn is down. Triple kill Rahel, and Sentinels, when it matters most, out team fight.
Team Liquid.
Absolutely insane play there by Rahel,
but it all started with a suicidal looking buy engage.
He knew what he needed to do.
His job was to set up the Kaiser.
He cues in over the wall and just sends it onto Yon.
The rest of the team flies in and watch Rahel in this fight
after getting altered by Jarvan.
Alts over the wall, enraged to hit Yon,
but range of safety.
Plus he has the stopwatch in this fight,
which he holds for the perfect moment.
So he flashes over for Jose.
The last ditch effort here by Quinn and Morgan
is to try and one shot him.
No, the Oriana ball is not gonna do it
because of that stopwatch.
He can finish off even more kills.
They get the Baron.
They also get another Drake to deny soul
and this is an absolute banger.
Somebody get my man Golden Glooze some water.
His face is looking red.
He has to be just losing his mind right now
at his team, pulling off that play.
They get the Drake right after,
so no soul for TL yet again.
Sentinels equalizing that at three and three.
The next one has to be a soul one way or the other,
but Sentinels is now 4,000 gold ahead.
Hambach with the hero moment, man.
I criticized him very heavily earlier for getting caught
in what gave away the first Baron,
but he is absolutely the reason
that they got this second one here.
So redemption for the Sentinels jungler
around the Baron pit.
The gold is essentially dead even all over the place,
not even 1,000 in any individual role,
except with one very big exception, the bottom lane.
5,000 individual gold lead, four Rahel on the kaisa,
nearly full build.
You can see the itemization here in his inventory.
Nashors, ginsous, dust dawn, critically,
the zonias as well for the aggro drop
alongside the kraken slayer.
And now with the needlessly large rod in inventory,
once that evolves into a fully completed item,
He's done seven out of 80 C. What are the absurd power spike you have on every stage of this kaisa build?
Every single item seems to give him a new awesome power and it's just it's a kaisa comp
When he's this fed it's really really nice to play
It's the funny thing with her. Hell. This was true even last year on DSG like when he gets a lead
He's very good at carrying
It's just really hard to get him gold because their laning is not that dominant
So the fact that they're able to win so many skirmishes
is really setting him up for a lot of success.
I mean, it's kind of what you said
back at the beginning of the game, right?
Like Team Liquid, they were playing super aggro.
They were setting the tempo to the game to high.
However, that led to some good things and some bad,
even though they had those massive CS
leads in top lane, mid lane, bottom lane, everywhere.
The kills that Sentinels got kept the game close enough
for Rahel to start hitting back,
for Dark Wings to start hitting back.
We have three minutes until what finally after thirty six minutes of game thirty nine once we get there must be a dragon soul.
Yes, it will be a dragon soul assuming someone hits the Drake and also what a vintage impact game twenty nine kills.
None of the deaths have been impact one zero eleven an absolute brick wall level twenty scion in this game.
This guy is crazy.
You give him the right room and look what he can do.
Impact is one of the most veteran players in Pro League of Legends worldwide for a reason.
The guy is an absolute beast, man.
All right, Sentinels with control over the map.
They're trying to make sure that now Team Liquid are the ones who feel the pressure.
They're the ones who feel suffocated inside their own base.
Morgan is trying to defend the top lane.
Everybody else defending the mid lane.
It looks like Sentinels will just be happy taking control with vision for now.
It doesn't look like they'll be able to push much further as the Baron has expired.
So that just means it's a two-minute countdown, my friend.
It's time for a soul.
Deathcap on the Kaise as well, so he is one and a half full items ahead of Yon's Ezreal.
It's just a full seven item Kaise, lethal tempo, AP hybrid super Kaise.
Will just one shot the world, assuming he doesn't get one shot himself.
Observers, if we can, could you pull up the tooltip for Kaise's passive?
I just specifically one AP right now so the viewers can see how much damage the passive will do
Okay, so this is good plasma dealing 48% missing health magic damage on a single plasma
Proc I knew it was gonna be high. I didn't know it was gonna be 48 percent percent of your missing health
And he does that in like half a second once he's auto-wing you to yeah
So if you're at half health the bonus damage from the plasma proc without even considering anything else of his on-hits or any of that
We'll take away one of the two remaining quarters of your health
That doesn't seem very fair. Well, it is a seven out of marksmen
So at this point if he's not doing damage something is broken, but that damage seems like it might be a little bit high
I'll screw. Thank you very much. I love you guys and now we want to see if sentinels can close this one out
This I feel like for many situations if you play this next situation
Ten times. Yeah, a lot of those times. This is the game and I agree
And this could also be the series ender like we're talking them up in a big way
But if
Reheal miss positions or team liquid win this in a weird way the games late enough with no turrets on the bottom side
That they could run and end the series
It's likely we see a game three but sentinels need to close the deal here. They've done such a good job
Fighting their way back in this game. They've hit the seven item power spike
It's time to get this soul and convert the advantage whenever we get into these late game moments
I always want to count who has the one fight one game items guardian angel on both junglers
Zonius on both mid laners, but then critically you've got zonius on both bottom laners for the side of sentinels as well
The only person without a no, you can't kill me item on sentinels is the 7000 HP side
I think he's a no he doesn't need the item
It's also the protoplasm harness kind of like when you have a thousand health degree, but it gets it's really it is still good
It's insane they just they just get the soul for free. So we could still be in this for a little while longer with Baron up
They're just gonna collect the buffs that are available on the map and you can see right now Jose is
He's trying to make a funny play happen while they were doing Drake. He snuck his way in and
He's really just hoping that they do something silly and make something happen
But again when it's three zonis hour glasses and a guardian angel and a guy that has 8,000 health
Who actually cares about walking into a lone Jarvan at 40 minutes into the game?
There's nobody that's instantly burstable unless they are like not looking at their screen and they get hit by a shockwave because they can always
Press this the stopwatch on the Orianna ultimate. They have better poke. They have better DPS
They just need to make sure they're playing as a unit and they found them actually jungle battle
Oh, there's not a jungle battle. It's an EQ to get away
Okay, CoreJJ just took a massive Thunderbolt of damage because also all the Void Seekers
from Rahel now have the Hex Soul Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning Slow attached to them.
So yeah, those Void Seekers, I feel like the Void Seeker with the Hex Soul proc'ing on
it and everything probably does more damage than everyone else he does.
Yeah, I want to see Rahel's damage at the end of this game if the loud is listening.
I really want one of those to hit just so I can see the chunk of damage as, alright
Let's go ahead and begin the Baron.
It's Humbok and Rahel.
That's DPS from just the three of them.
Like this thing is shredding.
Team Liquid, if they wanna try to challenge this,
they're gonna have to go yesterday.
Nope, Humbok's already got it.
He's got it.
Who he?
Everybody, who he?
With the pop loss, I'm on the back line already.
Ready to take you on in the picture.
CoreJJ's, you're talking to someone
who has to retreat.
Rahel's going legendary.
Now he's going golden.
He's putting the pressure on everybody.
Team Liquid and Yaw's gonna be killed off next.
True shot, Barrage won't matter.
worth a damn quids running towards the wrong side of the jungle holds the de
otos trying to cut waves and sentinels fought it exactly how they needed to they
are farming team liquid right now they might not have the minions in the right
spot to be able to end one way that's all you need I think it's far enough
along cozy tried to cut the wave couldn't completely do it they probably
end on this push yeah they've got a cannon minion they've got baron quids
gonna try to stop these and as soon as he steps up you just instantly kill
The damage on the turrets from Azir and Kaisa at this part of the game is so massive
Yeah, they're just going to crumble in an instant impact makes his way forward as well
I can barely count the notches on the health bar anymore on this guy as
Sentinels continues their push towards the Nexus turrets 15 seconds on Yon and Morgan for the team liquid side
Dark wings and Rahel
Looking for the killer instinct but nobody's dead here. Just get the one shot him
Rahel gets the one shot at a core, JJ Homback following up towards Quidd.
And Zendall is honestly taking a little bit too long to do this.
Darkwing's getting targeted by Morgan.
Shrewshot Barrage up the top, Darkwing's just slowed.
Morgan with a 1,000 gold shut down, there's no way.
There's no way, right? There's no way, right?
Homback and Impact are alive, but a TP's coming to the bottom lane now.
Rahel got one shot by Quidd trying to style with a late game ultimate.
I think the baron buff and the sign is enough to stop it, but this wave is pretty deep and there are super minions for team liquid
It would be a 3v2, but this is the last ditch effort. It's just a sign and a vibe
Yeah, they're full soon to get all ready for the team liquid side. They already committed both teleports
They've already got yon here. I'm not gonna impact trying to hold the line
Yon's gonna make sure he hits every single bit of his DPS
But Morgan's about to die he dies before we can get away quit and yon trying to keep the pressure going
impact at half HP and Team Liquid recognizes despite their teleports
despite Rahel going in too deep this will not be the end of the game the elder
spawns in less than two minutes. Morgan is having a rough go. Just about three
seconds ahead of the play there get CC chained under the turret I do think it
was overly ambitious for them to try for that and anyway again like Sion
does actually do a little bit of damage this late into the game but my god it's
it as you said there's no way right that doesn't end but when Rahel flies in
without his stopwatch doesn't get a clean one shot on to quit it did give that
small glimmer 14 liquid on their way back and it mainly just confirms that
we're gonna be going to an elder which now like so the fact that our house
been on seven items for like six minutes. He's getting weaker the later this game goes
and John is now close to the seven items as well. He's got the endless hunger on the
Ezreal. We're very close to getting a max item Orianna as well. So it's likely not
to cost them the game but it may have cost him the game there to not cleanly just
hit the turrets and end. This is wild. Forty-four minutes on the clock. Seven
Elemental Drake's claimed the largest number that can possibly spawn now. We're finally getting our elder 45 seconds from now
Hombox steals away the enemy red buff as the rest of his team steps forward to keep team liquid guessing only
Inhibitors down in the game bottom inhibitor gone for sentinels mid inhibitor gone for team liquid
So it's not like either side is also completely confined into their base either and both of these inhibitors are in lanes
adjacent to the elder dragon pit, so it's not like either side is even getting
dragged far away towards the other side of the map to deal with the supers. I
still think it's gonna be really difficult for Team Liquid to make this
approach. The poke from the Kaisa is so enormous, someone's gonna get chunked
trying to retake this space not to mention. Impact just stands there and
you can't really poke him with how big his W shield is, so Team Liquid just
trying to go through mid and elder is up, so the instrument health starts
hitting it. It's gonna die in like five seconds. Okay, let's see how much damage they do to it.
Kati and Reign. Yeah, it honestly looks like Kyrie has one foot. Kyce is dancing with how fast she
shoots. This has got to be a new feature for the KDA. Scan is now immediately trying to go in.
No, please, it's gonna be your target. Yours already killed him, but the outer drake has been
claimed by the side of Sentinels. Hombok going into the back line. We're gonna try to find
himself a stronger run. Healthline's gonna kill him. And there's your executions. Sentinels
Finally finds it the triple the quadra kill for Rahel
They might have lost dark wings there at the very beginning, but the elder buff ends games for a reason
It was a long bloody battle my friend
But Sentinels are not gonna go quietly here in this best of three. They bounce back in game number two
They do it with the massive kaisa performance from Rahel
This dude is my player of the game, no question.
Captain Flowers, 17 kill Kaisa game.
My player of the game as well.
Chat, let me know what you think in lounge.
Let's hear your vote as we're going to a game three.
We got game three.
That was an incredible carry from Rahel.
The Kaisa by combo, beautiful watch.
I feel like they're always trying to game,
not that we also didn't vote Rahel back up.
They're always trying to game the system as we look through this final play out really nice for a hell of a moment, but also a good exercise.
And even though dark wings go down pretty immediately, impact is such a beefy front line of steam.
And then this play from a house just sick, literally just the idea of having to walk past the wall of Niko just stopping you at all points.
So what you get something added a little bit of extra, but no, I got a brick wall. That's supposed to be him
Initial engagement usually who here humbuck dies until they don't
They weren't dying but then send wins because there were so many fights where it felt like they were making space
And then impact was just such a beefy wall as Razor you pointed out and we saw echoes of the previous
where they go for these aggressive early game plays
and they don't have that same synergy, that same execution,
but they cleaned it up later on.
Like, the first, like, two who he engages, I was like,
ooh, that's not great, but then it started to come online.
And a lot of it, I mean, it just, you think about the draft
and what it's trying to encapsulate for the team.
The one thing we were first saying was like,
ooh, there's going to get pushed in on every lane.
And that's true. But if you get to this kind of game play,
where you're getting pretty late,
you have Sion, Kaisa Niko within his ear,
scaling is absolutely in your favor.
And with how Renekton was playing out the mid game, getting picked out constantly,
it was looking tough from Team Liquid from that point on.
Yeah, but I also thought it started early, right?
And we will start with Impact, because as they were joking on Cast,
he has the right route. Morgan absolutely oversteps here, and Impact gets his third solo kill
of the split already, which eclipses all of his solo kills for last split, right?
and this is not the first overreach Morgan is going to have in this game. Yeah, but it does set
impact into an even better spot than he was earlier. This was followed up by a play on the
box side with Honbok. It was followed up by a play in the mid lane right after this. And I did
think Sentinels were just constantly looking for these plays early on similar to what we,
a few things we saw from them in the last game, but they ended up working out a lot better this time around.
Yeah, I don't know what's about to happen here.
Jett has a microphone.
Yeah, what?
Do you have the damage?
I asked the production that they just usually ignore that or pass.
Yeah, I don't know.
We asked for it.
That was insane.
That was a lot of damage, yeah.
For us, it would be between Impact and Rahel, but Rahel was just too strong that day.
Yeah.
If you get 17 kills, did you vote for Rahel?
Yeah, we voted for Rahel.
Exactly.
We voted for Rahel.
I'll do his signature.
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you, Jeff.
Side line review.
He's just checking it out.
He's checking just to make sure.
And you know what?
Since we already talked about the early game, I'm going to make sure on one additional impact
in the mid game.
Okay.
Yes, the game got wacky.
And yes, Team Liquid would have won pretty much anyways.
And you see impact in the performance that he's had overall, just like, you know,
blazing him a little bit.
But let's talk about this gameplay here because I want to talk about 22 minutes
into the game, where Sentinels basically have a good position on Drake and objective.
Now the biggest concern is who's porting in at this brick.
He just loses his shield by the way.
He just loses his shield.
That ain't a sign, that's a wall.
Yeah and he just walks around.
So I wanted to follow one thing and it was going to be the flank from Morgan.
Morgan wraps around here just to see if he can basically find a good angle.
Now that being said, who he chunks him just a little bit.
You can pause just a little bit here, and you can see what I think is a great angle from
impact.
Impact is zoning three, four people.
If they were to walk past, he's going to make it as hard as possible for Quinn and
Yon to basically enter this fight.
So as we play it through, what we end up seeing is Impact saying, now, buddy, I'm right
here alongside Hoohi.
Morgan starts walking up to see if he can impact this fight.
But if we just do a quick freeze frame here, Morgan, you're alone.
You're completely alone here while impact is zoning three people so you see a pretty
strong fight in which impact recognizes his role.
Renekton really can't do much here and so I think this is a significantly better dragon
focus and play from Sentinels in the mid game.
Messi going forward but in that moment in time it was great.
It did get a little messy but I did like these windows of improvement right because we were
talking about how Sentinels it's not the roster it's can they bring all of their
engages together. I thought impact front-lining was great in this. I did it as a joke about
the initial engager of who he or Hamba dying, but I did think they were doing their part
in those roles really setting up, always looking for these gigantic pop blossoms or these
viangages that this time, as you already pointed out, the rest of the team was understanding
their roles a little bit more. Yeah. On the other side, I do want to give credit
Who do you think is Pog?
Who's playing the game?
You!
Oh, what?
You can't be on the Pog.
Let's see.
What do we think about this?
You're right.
Well, okay.
He finally switched around.
Let's take a look at our player of the game because he did vote and it is Raleh.
17, 3, and 9.
And look at the damage per minute.
Insane.
1,900.
Yes.
That's crazy.
Him and Impact had a ridiculous game.
So now we're going to game three.
Impact could definitely make a case.
Oh look, 44%!
44%!
Yeah, they're all there also, so it's actually very close.
And these were the two names.
I know that like the two of you initially were thinking impact.
I was like, Ra-Hel, and then later on,
as you were able to join me on the Ra-Hel train.
But you can definitely make a case for both.
That's why I was still kind of looking back on impact,
because he definitely created as much space as possible.
I felt you, if you think about who had the biggest impact
in winning in this game, I think it was probably impact.
It was hard to say between the two players.
Well, Tiel selects first pick.
sendals select the blue side and a reminder that winner here locks in a bracket stage for the lcs lock in tournament
We're gonna start their short break before we're back with game number three
EZ EZ EZ
J4
EZ RULE EZ RULE
I'm J4 first
EZ RULE NOPE JDA
Okay
Ani Mark
Rengdor is dead
EZ NINE
Rengdor slow slow
Wait wait
I'm taking
J4 flash
I'm not gonna take it
Slow, let's go Rengdor
Rengdor flash
More or no flash
Orio orio orio orio
Okay nice
Rengdor did well
Triple kill Rahel and Sentinels when it matters most out team fight team liquid
I'm impact, I'm playing the Sentinel right now, Thumbnail.
My pro tip is like, I think this meta should be Thumbnail have to be strong.
So I will give tip about basic champion, Nagekhan.
Nice combo, like so normally when Nagekhan have 50 range with R,
you can use only one range skill, but you can cancel motion with WRQ at the same time.
You can cancel your W motion.
Also, you can use LazyQ.
With 50 Lazy, you can use W power,
power W and power Q.
Like W QQ, like this.
Yeah, that's my pro tip.
Snappy moves there.
From impact, maybe.
Maybe Morgan needs to watch the video.
Last game, the Renekton,
not quite where they wanted that one to be.
But the last game was a bloody one.
Man, we went for over 45 minutes of gameplay.
Rahel alone on the hyper carry Kaisa,
having like 17 kills by the end of it.
Seven elemental drakes claimed between the teams.
Three barons, maybe four.
I'm kind of losing track of all of the different
super buffs at this point.
The elder dragon obviously being the game-ender
it was supposed to be.
And Sentinels striking back in a game two
after game one was lost from draft
because of the Guardian-Atroc situation.
So now, we've had the game one that was extremely Team Liquid one-sided.
We had the absolute bloodbath game two that Sentinels was disadvantaged at the start for and fought their way back.
Game number three for automatic progression forward into the bracket stage starts now.
Team Liquid with first pick choice.
Sentinels opting in to go onto the blue side.
Aurora banned out by Sen as the Syndra and Cassante are banned out by Team Liquid.
The Cassante staying away from impact for all three games in a series.
Yep, Team Liquid does not want to let him have a chance on that.
Also, Sion is banned because we are in Fearless, so we're still down 20 champions from Fearless
going into this next game.
I feel like Team Liquid also will feel like they let Game 2 slip through their fingertips.
There were moments in the early game where it looked like they were going for like a 20 minute speedrun
because they were winning every lane by 10 to 30 CS.
They were attempting turret dives jungle invades, but they just made too many slip-ups and then sentinels just got a lot of gold and
The game became that fiesta. So sentinels gonna try and build off of that
I do wonder if team liquid stays as aggressive as they have been in draft with picking
Kind of three winning lanes and just hoping to steamroll you or did they say get guys?
Take a deep breath. Let's just make sure we have scaling in case this game goes late
I'm I don't know how much of a hot take this is but I honestly kind of love the just full YOLO
Gameplay at the very start of a season like pre first stand era
Yeah, I want to see teams do the I wonder if I run hard enough at this wall
The wall will break before my head does that's kind of what I want to see you test with your coordination
Your aggro like you're saying obviously the
What is the takeaway that I want team liquid to have from the last game is last game was too much of it
Because you end up giving away some free kills, you end up having a lot of errors.
But I do want to see them stay aggressive, stay creative.
As the Trundle, Silas, Nocturne all banned away here too.
Team Liquid is going to grab themselves the Rumble first up.
And the response from Sentinels, they will get the Zinja for Hamburg.
And Ornn is the answer into Rumble.
Yeah, and they set that up big with the Silas and the Trundle Bands.
So the Ornn is in a safe spot in this game.
Definitely wanting impact to be able to just play good tank.
good tank engage. Well the other thing there is still a couple champions of the
control on wind wall and unbreakable from Yasuo and Braum respectively are also
both very good against Ornn. Yasuo I feel like you've got to see more of the draft
to be able to pick it up. Yasuo though, comfortably loves it. Braum is one though
that sometimes you will see teams go for after some of the Enchanters are
out of the pool. It's Unara locked in for Team Liquid. Do they want to go
ahead and draft the support for that already or maybe not. Maybe we get
something else maybe we're looking at the jungle you can see quid jumping through a
lot of these some of them in particular seem very exciting but not very likely
and we're gonna get hose adioto on one of his iconic picks the Lee sin okay
that's definitely confidence in outplaying I do not think Lee sin is
strong in the current scaling meta but if you pull it off perfectly you can
still run over a game you can dodge around the orn ultimates but in a
straight up dual and a lot of skirmishes that's in is going to be stronger so big
confidence play it could also set up a yasuo in the 4-5 because Lee Sin kicking
a yasuo ultimate is still a spicy kill combo and Yon is laughing something's
going on here in the draft for Team Liquid they're cooking something up I
hope it's something wild I really sincerely do we've got Korky picked up
for Sandals for a hell there in the bottom lane obviously it will be hard
for him to have as monster of a performance in any game as he did in
game number two with that hyper carry Kai said but we know that Corky can do
plenty of damage if he's not kept behind early I do want to see how aggressive
Jan and Core JJ will keep playing here in game three. I'm just so locked in on
what quit is gonna play it's probably you know could be something completely
boring but he loves Yasuo he plays so much of it in solo queue probably one
of his most played champions of all time.
They've got Rumble in top lane for AP Threat.
And it's, I don't think it's good either, but it just,
it might work.
But it's cool.
It's cool.
And that's kind of Team Liquid style.
It's a weird thing though,
to bring back your earlier point of,
you do want to have the team that just goes all out,
early game, flips things, plays aggressive.
But what happens in League of Legends so much
with these formats and how quickly
you can react to performance.
Like, if they drop this game,
then they couldn't be put in a situation
that they're in the best of one to make top six
versus being eliminated and have two months off.
So the two months is crazy.
I agree.
I actually do fully buy into let's play the early game stuff
because that's also a good way to beat teams internationally.
And you need to practice that in your own domestic region.
But if you just make that few mistakes early
because you are playing a coin flip style,
you can really, really get punished.
It's the difference between running it down full fiesta
every game, but then in the opposite end of the spectrum,
old school TSM fans just cover your ears
for the next 10 seconds.
The old TSM where they would run the league domestically
all year long, go to internationals,
do nothing and lose, right?
You've got to be able to play your lanes in a way
where you're going to dominate
from the early stages of the game,
but lots of support bands here
in our second half of the draft,
it's the bar, the poppy, the Lulu,
and the Nautilus all banned away
as we're seeing the Recon hovered here for sentinels.
That is a traditionally weaker laner with some very powerful scaling in his presence in the teamfights.
Now you've got Ornn alongside Rakan for massaging the H on set.
And a lot of Enchanters are gone.
Remember Nami and Karma are both already dropped from the first two games of Fearless.
Nautilus ban, Leona, Alistar would be the engage supports, and they just go for engage.
So they take Alistar.
We still don't know what Kuwait is going to be.
I know who Alistair also loves having on his team.
Oh!
Yeah, I know.
That is the opposite of Yasuo.
It is.
OK.
That's a pretty good victor.
Yeah, I know.
But after I saw the Alistair 2, which
is another great wind, buddy.
Well, I think actually if it didn't have to be blindpicked,
there's a higher chance.
But the fact that it's a full blind pick,
I don't think you just slam Yasuo like that.
I mean, that's the confidence play.
That's the aggressive play.
But yeah, we won't be getting that one here this time around.
We'll be the victor.
So we've got two very powerful, high damage AP solo laners
on the team liquid side, which I think
makes you feel a little bit better about having the least
in in the jungle, because now you always
have the differentiated damage types
if he's going to gank for either one of those.
You've got you, Nara and Alistar in the bottom lane.
Alistar's also another one of those supports.
You've got a lot of playmaking and engage potential,
but your lane is kind of crap compared
to a lot of other supports.
But if both supports are bad at laning, nobody's actually bad in the lane.
Yeah, because it's all equalized.
Yeah, Alistair, Rakan is a flip.
You don't really want to play braum into Rakan, because Rakan just flies all around you.
So it makes sense how Sentinels comboed out the rest of team composition.
I'm a little surprised that they didn't actually go with the way and instead go for the Galio.
Darkwing's will need to survive in this lane.
If he does get a little bit ahead, he can itemize really well for the solo lanes
because you can stack a bit of MR against the Rumble Victor.
But late game against the Unar, where I feel like most
win conditions for Sentos are going to be late game,
I don't necessarily think they outscale in the situation.
So the thing that I'm also thinking about
is from what you said all the way back in like game one,
when we had the Taliyah and we had the Pantheon
and you were talking about, yeah,
these champions with these globals
are swimming globals like those,
or like a Galio was another one you mentioned,
they want something like the Atrocs
that unfortunately have the wrong rune
to play through in the sideline, right?
If the mid laner is Robin, you need to have a Batman champion somewhere in the side lanes
for Robin to show up and help because the comics aren't about him.
And when you look at the rest of the composition around the Galio, you're looking at an Ornn
in the top lane.
Ornn is not going to be your hyper carry.
You're looking at Xin Zhao in the jungle, unless Xin Zhao starts off 8 and 0, which
I don't think is very likely to happen in pro play, he's not going to be your
hyper carry either.
for sure. I would say that the only team I've ever seen consistently win with solo lanes
like Gallio Ornn is like 2018 RNG with Uzi. Because they would just give him a hundred
more CS than everyone else and he would just power farm. And they were the only team.
If you go back and look at some of those team compositions, man, they are so not modern
League of Legends. They would run like this with Skarner in the jungle. It was literally
like triple AP topside garbage that you can never get away with in today's game.
No man, you're not allowed to pick triple AP or triple AD in your topside in
Modern League of Legends because teams will just run you, but RNG 1 MSI doing it.
Sorry for the old tangent. Team Liquid trying to get aggressive in lane,
burning barrier for an early trade. Yeah and now there's the heel burned in
response for that trade just to try to keep the health bars nice and high.
Yon and Kor have been playing both of the previous games
lanes as if the enemy jungler does not exist.
You just shut up, you don't care,
you keep trading aggressively.
It doesn't matter if we have Alistar, you have Rakan,
and we are going to shoot you for it.
Yon and Kor now packing off a little bit further.
They don't have barrier or heal, so they don't have potions.
So I think they actually went a little bit too hard here.
He's got to reset.
OK.
All right, so Yon is going to go ahead and step back now.
Rihel and who he hey this is a better lane state than they've had at two minutes in either of the previous games
It is they fought back and the wave is also pushing against them
So yawn he did actually have to reset there because the lane was in a bad state
So they took a bad trade Rihel who he with a nice early advantage. That's gonna pay itself forward
But I will also say like to look with jungles passing away from them even more reason yawn had to reset
They're gonna have to expose themselves to break this freeze
Jose Diados, Lee Sin, another point that we talked about in the draft that you brought up,
like you've got to be confident if you're picking this into the Xin Zhao from Han Bak,
see if he can manage to find pressure, find opportunities and avenues for
ganks up against this champion that will likely outdual him as Dark Wings is,
you know, you're a melee champion versus a ranged champion in the first couple of levels,
you're going to get traded on pretty heavily, so he'll just go ahead back away right now.
Generally, when I look at these early like ranged versus melee matchups,
I always track, can you hold it together well enough
to have your first buy be what you want it to be
versus getting chunked out in a bad spot
and you go back and you buy some junk
like a ruby crystal, right?
Yeah, where's the Spectre's cow
is what Gallio is going to be trying to rush towards?
Taking a decent chunk.
I'm really surprised that Humbox didn't go for bought crab.
So Jose's going to double crab him.
Blaber would be, he'd be typing GG to his team at this moment. Just a free double crab angle, despite
Yon being level two for most of this. I'm very confused about that, but he'll be back on the map
to clean up Grubbs, or to get his Gromp.
Lee Sin pick, stays winning, double crab, only game so far, we got the double crab early on,
Humbok, thinking about maybe this top lane. Ganking for a champion like Ornn, even though Ornn
doesn't have a ton of damage himself he does have a deceptive amount of damage
for a tank champion but the setup that this guy can provide is so nice
especially with a great early ganker like Xin Zhao I do want to see if they
can punish Morgan if he gets too aggressive on this rumble we have seen
Morgan play aggressively so far in this series last game particular had a
bunch of aggressive moments some of which were far too aggressive yes so I
feel like this is a guy who you can say from what you saw in the first
two games. Yes, here's an opportunity where we have this guy is going to push
too far off. He's going to play too aggressively, and that's where we can
get early leads. Potentially once impact hits level six, they could definitely
send something up to the top lane, assuming the rest of the game is in a
good state, which it does. I mean, this is not a explosive early game by
team liquid by any means. Oftentimes the explosive early game comes through
the bottom lane and for the first game of the three, Rehellen, who he
won the early duel and took their own advantage in the bottom lane. So
impact already building up to a lot of MR on the orange.
So he's gotten through a lot of the early lane phase down
about 10 CS, which is not bad in the early lane
from rumble versus one.
Exactly, we're going up against rumble.
Most champions just kind of know
that they're going to lose in terms of the early farm.
Morgan, yeah, he walks up, he takes the torch.
Host of the auto is shadowing him, though,
because they know that they don't want Morgan
to end up getting punished right here.
So the way of crashes in, Morgan's
going to take his recall, should have whatever
wants right now as impact does purchase the
Bejuvenation Beads and considering Jose Di Ota was up on that top side of the map.
Hombok is down here near bottom lane.
They've got the push.
They've got the control through Rehellen who he like you already mentioned.
So Hombok will take a very early first Drake.
Early right.
Nice.
Yes.
Start the clock.
That's five minutes 36 seconds.
I talked earlier in the series about how Sentinels fixed their game last week by
just playing Drake.
So they got Dragon Soul in both of their wins last week.
Today they also got their win from Dragon Soul even though it was a seven Drake Soul in that game
Yeah, this team does need to have the stacking objectives to win so far
They don't necessarily play on the same page a lot of the time
So a way to bring everyone on the same page is just start Drake stacking early and fight around objectives
And I feel like this kind of ties in with something you brought up in the previous game
Hold on we'll talk about that in just a moment because Sentinels may find themselves objective on the receiving end of a pincer attack
Hombok eats the resonating strike there from Hose of the Yodo. Now he's got to be a little bit careful does get knocked back
But the entrance from Darkwing's his heroic indeed its first blood over the Sentinels. Hombok might just die here
But Core JJ should get picked up Reheal chasing after him in the flash for the auto attack who he's staying alive for now
But the death ray picks him up
It's a two for two trade in the Botside River and not only that both kills go to both carries on both teams
So a really even fight there as normally it's crabbing to Drake this time
It's Drake in the crab and the crab is the one that ends up seeing the fight
So both junglers level five at the start of this one
Jose does win the smite and get a kick on a humbuck
But it's at the expense of getting eaten by the Galio ultimate. So it continues
Right Helen Yacht also continue both down to a hundred HP
Rebellion barrier chicken as well. So both of them aren't in immediate risk of death
Oh, nice knockup.
Still playing barrier chicken, insane.
There's a quick heal from the gleaming quill, who he keeping Rahel healthy.
As soon as Sonic Wave from Jose does not hit,
they know that there's no more chance to try to go for a cheeky move there.
Jose Diodo without the dragon's rage won't just be able to immediately take the Q into the R for the instant kill on the Corky.
And so you're going to see Rahel go for his recall.
He will achieve that slightly before Jan does, but the Arbo's going back around the center.
Yeah, I feel like you almost sitting on that triple tronic elixir the whole time
I wonder if you pop that if you could have actually won or at least gotten the barrier
We'll still have that for a later fight
Whenever he wants it, but I love the spice. I mean, I do really think this game is gonna come down to some
Combination of which ad can carry harder. Okay, it's not necessarily like a kaisa comp like we had last time
But just looking at the top side for sentinels orn gallios in you really need to help to do damage
But then likewise with the rumble Victor into the two tanks that are all going to be itemizing mr
Because that's in side lanes. You need a really fed you now to cut through that
So we're gonna wait until three or four items on these 80 carries to really start seeing fights have big consequence
A tale of two carries here in game number three two minutes left on the clock until the next Drake spawns
The boy grubs have made their way into the top side river. Nobody moving there just yet
It is Morgan with control over top lane, nearly claiming the second plate there as he crashes another wave into the turrets.
As CoreJJ is forced to use the unbreakable will, finds Hoohi and Rahel both waiting inside the tri-brush,
considering that means that there's no ultimate on the Alistar.
It's far harder for him to get involved in anything much bigger than a 2v2.
Yeah, Yon does have ultimate, though. Big power spike if he decides to press that one.
So Sentinel's pushing bot lane, getting pushed in the top lane, but it's a lot of just minion trading
when we consider what's actually happening in the lanes, unless Hombok can make a dive half.
They're going to get the notification of the Grubbs soon.
Yep, okay, so Void Grubbs secured, Jose Diodos got that one, Hombok knows.
There's no ultimate here on the Alistar.
Darkwings is also following up behind to guarantee they're able to take this.
Core JJ drops, and now the target might just be on here for the follow-up.
Humbox going forward arcane storm is used, but it won't matter. It looks like team liquid
We're ready for humbox to show up because they send yawn back core JJ's the sacrificial lamb
But yawn hanging around there just a little bit too long right as dark wings walks up and says sub dude
That is not what they were expecting clearly because they end up losing to yeah
Jose thought he was getting some cheeky grubs
But not being around to cover could have big implications on the rest of this game
and look at that CS gap in the bot lane now, 92 to 66.
When's the last time you saw Yon on that low CS, 10 minutes
into the game?
So beautifully done by Sentinels,
getting the alt out early, rotating around.
I think Timoca knew the Galio was around
because you can see Quid trying to shadow on the way back.
But it's just too big of a numbers advantage.
Yon needed to just retreat through his turret,
but knows how bad it is for his game to lose that wave,
ends up losing his life as well, which makes it worse.
Yeah, it sucks to lose a wave.
Don't get me wrong.
But then to give up the kill right after,
even if you know that the Galeo is going to be close
and you're sending Victor to follow,
Galeo is going to have so much more impact
with his two forms of hard CC versus Victor
dropping some damage or some delayed CC.
Just feels like that was some greediness
from Team Liquid trying to stop Yon
from falling further behind.
Sentinels now with a 400 gold lead
as a team, biggest individual gold lead.
So far in this game though is Morgan up there in the top lane, but I feel like if you're sentinels
You're pretty okay with that again. You pick yeah, orn
You know that he's not going to slam his lane
He does almost have the canik Rooker and completed and I feel like that's the point where rumble really stops being able to
bully this guy effectively because you just allow the shield to absorb all the barbecue
Sentinels team comp becomes extremely hard to play against if they keep you on in the dirt
because there will not be damage to kill Galio Orin and they will be able to go
wherever they want and the Drake stacking it's online they play around
bottom lane they're trying to burn this bottom lane down and Drake's up so
Hombok's in river that's the game plan. Sonic right from Hosidioto finds
Hombok no reason to follow that one up here just yet both junglers do have
Sundered Sky completed so that power spike is locked and loaded hallowed
radiance done for Darklings in the mid lane as well alongside the
Blackfire torch for quids Victor neither one of our bottom laners that we are
talking about being so important in this game have their first items so far
thus far yeah as Darkwings wants to make sure quid doesn't try to rotate over
to this bottom side river at all you could see the Zinjow portrait just
quickly jump forward a little bit towards the dragon pit in the mini map
and that means that Hombok and the rest of Sentinels have decided they
have enough control they will be able to secure the second Drake of the
game and once again my friend hi she's a hex rift chaos is on the horizon I hope
so because this game is a little bit slow but in a favor of sentinels which was
not expected all three people on the lounge predicted a two zero fourteen
liquid today but again look at this yawn can't get back to his turret
sentinels is just camping them I love to see this aggressive play from sentinels
But now it might have gotten a little bit too aggressive who he he does manage to dash back over the wall
Escape before another turret shot flies in the arcane storm is ticking though. Here comes your heroic entrance dark wings arise
But now he's got to try to get away lands the taunt phase rush giving him that extra distance
That means that rehelling who he both get to keep their flashes
But they had to spend both other defensive senators alongside the ulti from dark wings
Hose of the otos seeing if you can find a greedy recall here
But there is no such thing just yet. Rahel does almost stay around a little bit too long.
Okay, he trusted his sidestep there. The trust pays off.
Well, however, Heckshrift is creating chaos already.
I told him, I told him.
He's already back in the map. They're still fighting.
He wants to knock up on the Jose, but the grand entrance falls a little bit short.
Quit stepping forward here. Remember no ulti on either one of the midlaners.
Core JJ does have unbreakable will here on the Alistar as the TP is coming in.
Core jumps in. Nice two-man knock-up.
Humbock returning with the countering gauge as there goes Morgan's equalizer trying to
fight enough damage here who he and Humbock both about to die.
CoreJJ won't be traded, the double kill back from Morgan on the rumble.
He's looking to carry from the top lane.
Where the hell did the Ornhorn go?
Impact is not able to send the thing back in where they wanted it
and Team Liquid gets everybody away on blinking health bars.
I gotta see if Impact got CC'd because I thought that Ornall2 was about to turn things
But as we mentioned total chaos and the biggest winner of this is actually on he got a full-push bottom lane takes two plates
And then can walk up for this while where hell is completely denied of farm
But how about actually just all in on top of a rumble TP when impact is way behind and a level down
So yes impact has his ultimate here and just doesn't click it right
No CC to stop them
I do think that could have been the fight turner that you're talking about.
If that Ornhorn redirects, because you slam that onto all of those low health bars, they
should be able to pick up this kill onto Qid without a whole lot of to-do about it.
That Phasrush is getting in somewhat away, but no, Humbock will finish the kill.
Yeah, the Ornhorn in that previous fight, if you could have found the knock-ups and
the follow-ups.
We'll never know. It's only hypotheticals from here.
CoreJJ and Jose DiOto coming up, two versus three as a nice quickness
to charm them both from who he is. There's no follow-up damage.
Yon and Reheal, encountering one another.
The Foss Bomb connects onto Yon and Reheal goes in!
The AD carry battle results in a win for Sentinels
and now with two dead on the enemy team, both of those two being carries' jet,
it looks like Sentinels is ready to start up the Rift Herald.
Hose of the Odo is here following, and Dark Wings is coming around from the other side.
Korra and Hose wanting to challenge for the objective.
Resonating strike comes in from Hose of the Odo, and he steals away the Herald!
Now the equalizer's down at the top from Morgan, but it's still a 4v3 favoring send-off.
Hose wants to get out, but the heroic entrance goes in.
Morgan's still overheated, but he's got another flamethrower ready to go!
Morgan finds a kill, Ra'Hel's gonna die to Kor'J.
J? Morgan finally falls to the winds of war, as Korra's knocked up into the air by the Grand Entrance once more.
Quinn's trying to show up mop and bucket.
He's got some cleanup beauty to do,
as Impact wants to cover for the escape
of Dark Wings and Who-He.
This is a game, my friend.
This is North American League of Legends.
It's non-stop action.
Jose Diodo's insane.
It's a 3v4, and he goes in for the return of Steel,
and they just all commit to the fight.
They nearly get the execution under a hell.
He lives just a second longer that allows impact to walk all the way from base.
I still think Sentinels come out ahead at the end of it, but this is insanity.
The Hex Gates have ruined the minds of everyone in this game,
and they're just giving them this insane bloodlust because with the Gates,
they're always five seconds from a fight, and they always want to fight.
Hex Gates is the new Otacon.
They're just all over the map instead of at one spot.
Mastercard Power Spike right there on your screen.
Yon has acquired his first fully completed item
with the Kraken Slayer for the Unara.
So maybe that is gonna get him paid 1,000 gold lead
for Ra'Hel's Corky specifically.
Which is important.
I feel like the first AD carry to hit,
you know, seven items wins this game,
seemingly with the direction that we're going.
But this is kind of part of how League of Legends works now with home guards being better and with the hex riff getting you there
Okay, the match shrinks right the game speeds up
So it's all about how you outplay the opponent in the constant skirmishing, which is definitely the direction that this game is moving
You remember next to splits you remember the ring of fire
It's kind of just like that but a little bit more indirect of a version
It's core JJ steps in headbutt pull only on the humbuck not gonna see that gravity
Well accomplish a whole lot here just yet
But Morgan has arrived that is the largest individual gold lead in the game
This rumble is a huge factor in the teamfights Morgan has been doing a lot of work here for team liquid in the past couple encounters
His equalizer the placement the timing on that absolutely critical
If they want to triumph and stop the soul stack here for sentinels who he on the recon
Just trying to get as much value as he can out of those gleaming quills those extra heels
Keep everybody topped up against the poke impact gonna be your frontline here over the wall goes who he quick
The hero of the game is coming down over the top and Jose Diodo is over the down.
Equalizer, not a lot of value.
Two beats down as Morgan has to try to flash away, but Hombok is in hot pursuit.
Team Liquid, they only lose one man, but that man is the jungler and Sentinel's are going with a sole point.
And they crucially burn Flash off of both Team Liquid carries for future fights.
Clean engage there by who he's recon and they actually execute the jungler rather than the carry.
Morgan was trying to hold the flank so he's almost preventing the re-engage here but who he flies in you can see no other carries other than Morgan can really do any damages yawn and quit both just push completely out of the fight and sentinels win the Drake River contest yet again.
Sentinels man you can look at Jose Dioto's eyebrows jump up the damage just exploding this guy before he gets the chance to respond.
Okay, so last game it took us to like post 40 minutes to get a dragon soul or just about 39 or so right this time around we have the chance at a dragon soul.
24 minutes or so on the clock we'll see if sentinels can maintain that control.
The goal lead itself is still very modest, but three to zero dragon state means the team liquid cannot afford any more mistakes when those are about to spawn.
to spawn. Definitely not.
And remember the way this format works.
Winner is in playoffs.
Loser might have to play a last chance qualifier tomorrow.
And based on the preseason expectations of Team Liquid,
that would be absolute insanity
that they'd be playing the game
to decide six and seven in the standings.
They could still be fifth.
It depends on the way strength,
the victory and head to heads play out.
We've got a great foldy sheet from our stats guy
that we're gonna be folding all of tomorrow
to decide that.
Yeah, Loser at this game could still be eliminated at some point tomorrow.
And with how game 1 happened and game 2 started, it's crazy that we're here, right?
With Sentinels almost being back to their weak 2 selves, right?
Sentinels loses to DSG, then they demolish Jignotos, and maybe they beat Team Liquid.
They're on Morgan now.
Yeah, they immediately sum up the Ornhorn.
Impact has it all ready to go here this time.
Yes, he doesn't quite slam himself into the volcanic fissure how he wanted,
but it means it only cost them an extra second to get that kill.
And Jatt, that was the plus 2,000 gold rumble.
That was what has been trying to get Team Liquid
through some of these mid-game fights,
and that was a free kill on the very same dude.
How much swagger does Impact have right now?
He might be Team Liquid in a series
where he played Guardian Atrox.
Like, Game 1 was a throwaway,
and they're winning Games 2 and 3 right now.
That's the ultimate mind game.
You lock Guardian, you lose Game 1 in the most goofball way.
Make them overconfident and then you win.
They goofball a little bit in Game 2 because they feel like it's just a little free win, quick 2-0, go home, make playoffs, blah, blah, blah.
Nope, actually, Impact's gonna just play his classic try hard champions.
He's gonna scion lock in to go deathless.
They're gonna set up bans, they're gonna draft for Impact's orange.
That's what they did. They banned Trundle, they banned.
Yeah, what was he, Silas.
They're trying to Silas and then he gets blinded.
Slam, Ornn.
Well, sorry, they put it into the rumble, but still.
By the way, he has Canik Rookern now.
He has Jack Show.
Canik Rookern is evolved into Canik Rookern, or whatever
we named it, these days.
This thing is absolutely massive against both Quid
and Morgan, and Morgan's gold lead has now shrunk.
This man who had twice as much of an individual advantage
compared to anybody else on the rift
now has less of an individual advantage than oh what's this the mid laner from the enemy team the bot laner from the enemy team
These champions that are going to be causing a lot of issues team liquid is now three and a half thousand gold behind
Jeff the thing that I said a couple of minutes ago about how yeah
They're three zero on drinks, but the goal lead itself is at least very modest not so modest anymore
No, and we're how with the goal lead is also going to get accelerated whenever or in upgrades his items
So it's looking very dire and again who he's hunting in the side. I don't even know if they have the damage to kill
But he's flashless, so they're hoping to burn ultimate which they do and now they can just engage
Yeah, he's walking off. Hombok is coming to show up that if Morgan over stays for this
Corte J is at least ready to shadow him a little bit
Meanwhile, they will at least be able to secure the top lane tier one turret for the team liquid side
That is the first turret they've got all game long mid and bottom are still at only a single plate and quick
get some extra money from that, which they are going to need 55 seconds until the next
Drake spawns. The Rumble ulti will be ready to go again for that fight, which is very, very
important for the Team Liquid side.
Yeah, that could have been absolute disaster. That was totally a play just to get the
Rumble ultimate. Morgan probably didn't even need to burn it. He would just imagine
that there would have been more people on the way, so he was trying to shoot back
some damage. At the very least, though, it's going to prevent Team Liquid's ability
to contest early vision, which will allow Sentinels to have first start and really set
up everything they want around this soul. I feel like if they get Hex soul, 90% chance
they win this series, so they're ready to go and who he is going to be looking for
an engagement. They have great river control right now. Muramana completed for Rahel.
You've also got the extra serrated Dirk on top. Jungler's already fighting here
in the river, here in the jungle of Team Liquid. It's all right. Checking in on our
Orn upgrades. We do have that Trinity Force upgraded now for the Hell's Corky.
Sentinel spot to fight.
Grouped up as five. Rumble ulti still five seconds away.
Gorge J.J. tries to jump in the middle of everybody. He's going to take a lot of damage
from the very start as Homoc. Wants to put pressure on DeMorgan, but Homoc is already killed.
Now Yon's about to be bursted down. Darkwing doesn't have any cooldowns left.
The Ark of Ruin going to force the Gallio back.
Sonic Wave into the Resonating Strike. Close to Diodo. Wants to go in, but he has to get right.
back out remember there's no jungler on the side of sentinels so trying to take
this drake doesn't feel right and hex gates re-engaged look rumble already
teleporting cordu-day on the way I think they denied the soul so stopped it
stopped team liquid it's a one for zero but again last time they were on the
receiving end of the one for zero but it's jungler this time they achieve what
they're looking for I can't believe this works cordu-jay at 50% out flashes
in for the CC on the jungler and then I think the fact that homebock went
onto Morgan, allowed him to get executed.
If he just stays in river, I feel like they probably just
get the trick if they played that fight slow.
But instead, Humbuck really tried to go fast.
He's the one who falls.
And Team Liquid stay in the game.
Huge, huge halting of momentum there.
I'm not going to call it a swing for Team Liquid,
because I believe that Sentinel is still definitely
in the lead.
However, that gold lead has fallen by half.
Team Liquid has bought themselves at least five
more minutes before a soul would arrive.
Darkwing should be able to pick up just some free gold here.
Punch the turret one time.
Easy peasy brings the gold lead back up to 2K.
But man, these fights get crazy, man.
They're fast.
They are so fast, man.
This Hex soul team liquid modern 2026 version, they're
exciting.
I don't know if they definitely don't love the way
that they're playing right now because they might be
losing the series, but they go for plays.
Sentinels I feel like is generally playing the more controlled styled which is crazy. They're just trying to set up around these drakes
Burn crucial cooldowns. They're still gonna be scaling with this orn
Where hell really just needs to get more more items because I'd say yawn based on items is right there with them at the moment
But it will
It'll scale in the favor of corki as he completes more marines
You still do have yawn's unar though with those fiend bolts the I'm the new 80 carry item that is very it's another thing kind of like
experimental hex plate where it's really good on the champs that really like it
even if it's kind of useless on the majority of champs overall. Any marksman
that really wants to turn on their ult for the teamfight, Twitch, Unara, Zerri,
all these types of things, loves this thing. And I will actually say even though
the frontline is really good against Victor Rumble, the frontline is pretty
low on armor. Finally, Seeker's Armguard is built by Darkwings that gives him a
bit you get a little bit of armor from the jack show on orange but yawn will
also be able to completely shred the front line if he's able to scale so
team look was just playing this slow game here where they're just hoping that
they can deny this soul as long as possible third item completed though for
Rahel collector on the corky so he'll also be able to shred low armor
targets there is no armor built on Morgan there is no armor built on
There is I mean yeah, you've got Zeke's on core JJ, but it's not a lot obviously yon won't be building armor
So this is going to give you some good value some good burst here for that corky and like we saw earlier when Raquel jumped in on yon
When they ran into each other in the river Raquel can go aggro if they need him to he really can
They're just gonna start the Baron accelerate the game a little bit more quit was trying to push the side wave
They're just looking for an engage here impact level 16 on this orange
You're seeing on my way pings coming out from the team liquid side towards the Baron though
This Baron DPS is not particularly fast playing but is gonna make their way over Morgan gets taught it up though
A lot of combo damage under the ruffle and hot box minute to create some space for everybody else
Cord jj down to half HP here comes the horn horn and impact with the sideline kill on Morgan starts it off now
Yawns in danger. He might get focused where hell flies in hot buck is down
But so is yawn team liquid has lost to everybody except for quid and hose of the auto and sentinels still has four men health bars are compromised though
Darkwing's gonna go ahead go back to base for now the blood bath ends with nobody claiming the Baron
But it is cited victory for sentinels man. Yon tried so hard in that fight
He just doesn't have the gold to be effective
He managed to space the impact CC at the very end to stay alive
But Rahel even bigger after that fight two and a half thousand gold lead
he's getting the last hits from these fights because impact and dark wings if they fight away from yon
are untouchable look at what they're able to do to morgan right here and then yon is distracted
can't hit the zin has to deal with hui so morgan just gets kind of soloed by impact on the top
side there and at the end here look at what yon does he goes in doesn't get cc'd by that
but at the end of the day those are two 4,000 health tanks that he really can't touch and the victor is not able to shred through the MR stacking soul laners of sentinels.
Sentinels now have 30 seconds on the clock until dragon soul time is once again at their fingertips.
You can see they've already got their support units in position around the area.
area. This might be a long one. Flowers take a drink. Make sure
you're hydrated because even if this fight starts and someone
dies, they could keep fighting until the hex gates come back. So
right now, insane vision control from sentinels who he
doesn't have ultimate, but it's up in five seconds. I think
that's what they're waiting for. You can see him on the
flank. Yeah, team look would try and move in who he's going
to go for an engage and we're going to see a fight. And
Jose the Yodo has always been around this area for these
dragonfights always ready to jump in over the wall with the
Lee Sin, that seems to be what who he is marking with his recon.
Hombok and Rahel, DPSing the dragon slowly but surely to float down to about 2,500 and
impact is going in here with the Oornote, knocks him up into the air and I've already
claimed the solo and Morgan's solo as well.
Darkwing throwing the ire of Yon off to the side but it's only a distraction as now
Team Liquid's going to lose their second man.
A double kill for Rahel and Hombok wants even more.
Win becomes lightning and lightning strikes Quid as he's again forced to retreat.
They lose two men. They lose the Dragon Soul. They lose control over the top side of the map.
And now the Baron should go the way of Sentinels.
Jose still hoping to pull off a miracle. Has the control ward inside. Has another control ward and a trinket to check.
But I mean, this is a rather big ask to try and steal the Baron away from this Hextech sold Sentinels team.
team. Team Liquid fans, spam your two keys.
Jose Diodos got to go for the miracle here because Sentinels
really wants this Baron. Jose Diodo throwing the key over the wall. He jumps into the pit.
The Baron still has a 25-1 HP. Meanwhile, Darkwing's
is ready to follow up over the wall. He finds the taunt onto two.
Nobody else wants to over commit to chasing Lee Sin and Alistar.
The Baron goes over to the Sentinels side
And what a massive swing for this team now.
If they weren't in the lead convincingly enough before,
this one's real tough for TL.
And they played this fight really well.
Look at the flanks they're holding,
who he on the right, Darkwing's on the left,
impact up the middle.
Team Liquid had to go in for the Drake,
but it was too low by the time they did,
so Sentinels get it anyway,
and then there's no retreat.
I'd say Darkwings is having a great game.
I mean, if you consider going up against
a former LCS MVP,
A lot of people wondering how Darkwing is going to coordinate with his team who often
plays in full Korean and he just has to follow along.
He's been right there, his alts have been great, he's been on good roam timings, he's
kept up and laying against Gwit, he hasn't been picked once, he has been doing exceptional
and stay tuned for this post-series interview with Impact.
He's going to have so much swagger if he beats Team Liquid in this series.
This is going to be like a storybook, what you get in the interview for this game.
the game won all the way up through now if they can manage to turn it around and win
the series.
CoreJJ is already almost dead.
As soon as Hombok goes in for the prime three-pound strike, knocks him up into the air, that's
going to force out your unbreakable will, which means CoreJJ now has to wait for that
cool down to do anything other than go in and die after one combo in a team fight.
Not completely over yet though, so one minute thirty seconds on this Baron power
play, they have to make it count.
They are a short-range team, so they have big-time tanks, but it's really
just Corky who can safely hit these turrets.
They might have to full commit for a dive, which can get messy.
And they're ready to step up and start putting that pressure on.
Yeah, the first turret, there's no defense here from TL.
Humbox steps forward, audacious charge on the minion
for the better positioning for when becomes lightning
means that Team Liquid feels that presence.
They have to back away.
And now the top lane, tier three,
gets knocked out by dark wings right there after.
That means that this will be a two in hit game immediately
without much of a fight being put off by Team Liquid, who
Now this close to losing this series young it's jumped on
Ornhorn coming through we roll against right next to a yon's about to die and
in fact they're gonna kill all four himself. Hose of the Oro can't get to the back line
who he might die. The turret shots in the air. Quinn takes the credit for it
but the first Nexus turret is already about to fall. Morgan wants to hold
with the Flamespitter but it's just not hot enough. Rahel and the rest of
Sentinels push forward towards the Nexus itself and Quinn and Morgan can't
Can't stop him! Two to one!
Sentinels takes the dog!
And Sentinels move on to lock in playoffs,
an insane progression from this team.
They lose to DSG week one,
they sweep to Toss week two,
and then they win the back half of this series impact.
He's wiped when the sweat off his bra.
He loses the series because he takes Garde
and Atrox in game one against his former team.
That's gonna be a tough one to live down,
But now beating them with that actually even sweetens the victory.
And I said at the start of the day here,
this is setting those chance to prove themselves against a team
right higher on the tier list against one of the bigger
competitors here that they'll have to go up against.
They turn the sweep, or they sweep the series
with the reverse sweep of the series.
I'm losing my mind here.
It's two to one.
Even though they lost the first one.
Impact is going to be on his way for the interview.
You guys can see it.
They're going to have him on the lounge.
What the heck do we just see?
We just saw, I would say, a big upset.
Sennel's taking the win against Team Liquid.
I don't know. Even with my glasses, I can't see.
What about your big old glasses, Emily?
That's just a comment on my glasses.
I think we saw a team that, from week one to week two,
we talked about minor improvements,
because they'd need to, again,
focus down all of their opportunity areas
to one thing, which was focusing around Drake.
I think you still saw that today and going into it. We were saying like my big thing of why I was going TL was that
Sentinels just didn't look as coordinated. It felt like every single game in this series
They got more and more in step with each other. Yeah, that was such a huge difference. They're calm
I think very much simplified it. Yeah forward front the back
Yeah, easy understanding your role with your humbug and and the hell for who he as well like and you have the
Well done, you got the win.
I play bad.
The mid-ritchie one, I like, oh my god.
That's trauma.
You know, after the eight rocks, I took the one win.
And then on second trauma, I like, oh my god.
I want to start with that.
Yeah.
Your perspective, do you think it was a bug, the rune?
Yeah.
Well, I realize, I double click.
When I score, I double click it.
And like, fuck, why not?
Even after better.
Even better than Guardians.
I was reading, I was in the lane,
but I kind of inting after he TP'd back.
If I was good, but...
Oh, but I was pretty bad, but it's fine.
How hard was it to recover from that?
Because mentally I can imagine that being tough,
going into the game too, to be like,
okay, we gotta keep playing the series,
even though that happened.
too old, you know, I have to accept, you know. Yeah. I said, okay, just next game play better.
And I see the lag and die in the second, the proxy and die. I'm like,
he had problems too.
With this team, you're kind of surrounded by a lot of younger teammates, especially Hanbok.
Everyone was saying, oh my gosh, Hanbok is so crazy. He always goes in for the play.
What's it been like playing with him? Because he is, he does seem so willing to just like
immediately dive in?
I thought he could like this is a making to fight but one thing I think first game he tried
to hurry to doesn't understand top condition situation because they can already keep it
first.
So next game I said I give feedback and when I said wait just wait a little bit more.
I think that's what happened all the number game.
We waited a little bit more.
We said we can buy I said no, no, no just wait.
I make the call more louder so they can understand, they can hear but they try
more understand by side too.
I want to, she asked about specifically Hanbok, but like what about the team because you guys
started the split losing to DSG, the top series versus dig, like it felt like you guys had
just gotten better and better over time.
Where do you think that came from?
I think everyone understand, I think everyone try improve, I think everyone really try
hard.
Also, I think we try learning more like detail, team fight stuff.
So we try focus more team fight because even you're losing or winning, doesn't
matter.
Team fight most matter.
you can come back from team fight.
So we focus more spacing and team fight.
I think Grace GoldenGuru doing very well about that.
Oh, let's go!
He is right there!
We have the mic.
Yeah, I mean I told you guys we win.
I'm going to be careless.
I told you guys we would fucking help.
I'm going to win.
And my impact goes Guardian on Aatrox.
We won that game too.
We can meet that game.
You guys played well.
We had played well.
Thank you very much, there you go, well done, well done.
I want to ask about the team also against Team Liquid.
Because this is your first time going up against them.
You were on Team Liquid for such a long time.
We talked about it before the game.
How many championships you've won with this team?
What was it like playing against Team Liquid?
When I watch it easy, I play against them too, you know?
Yeah.
Actually, not different than much.
But like, they're safe.
I remember your quote that you said
when you were leaving Team Liquid,
was like, will you guys win without me kind of thing?
Uh, they was joking.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I'm triple them, you know, I don't hate them, you know, I'm not
hated.
Yeah.
I like your, you lost your mic.
Oh, you used the stick mic.
Thank you.
Right.
I like young and spawn and core and dodo, you know, there.
So I don't have bad feeling from them, but kind of nervous a little bit.
But after one game, my nervous gone because I choose Guardian, you know,
and my nervous gone straight. I like, oh, what I'm doing, you know.
What do you do at that point?
Oh, I'm hearing that we have an APHT. I thought impact to me were the pros.
Oh, no!
Oh!
You co-signing next week? You co-signing it?
I mean, he can do, but like, no comment.
I don't say anything because just one's legless season, you know.
Okay.
I think most matter is playoff.
and you know just MSI world play and person right so up to leaders I don't
mind that much about it I mean I'm happy because I didn't play where you know yeah
now you may not like this who do you think is player the game yeah I will
come back this to other player I like the answer this one this is the fans
voting right now they vote you know back you guys doesn't see what happened
in the mid. Yeah. I don't know. I want to jump in those past, you know, I voted you.
I voted you. A lot of it is like they just could not get past you as a tank. Yeah. The
composition was really tough to deal with that being said, of course. Thank you a lot
for coming through. One more time in the wind. We're going to head to a break when
we come back. It's going to be DSG versus Lyon next.
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guys I'm 20 and I'm from Canada and I'm Romanian. I think against the other
Elsie Youngers I'm doing good like I think it's no problem I'm much not
to be honest when I think about it it feels like unreal
I've been playing this game since I'm like 10 years old
and I was first challenger at like 15 and
I never would have thought I think I started in LCS
but I guess a dream came true for sure
I've been looking up to Inspired for like three years
ever since he was in EG in LCS
I was already watching all these games and
and then on flagrists all year I was watching at Worlds and
the other bonus are trying to inspire my gameplay around him.
So it's pretty crazy now that I debut my first game against him.
Cryer is here. That's the big story. We finally got him.
That's a big one.
Oh, like for Canada, the ping story is done, Raz.
He can no longer claim ping issues.
True, true, true.
Now you can say the ping is too low.
He's not used to it.
situations where like pre-cleansing ash arrows and stuff that's true do you
want to make any additions or adjustments to the board that after the last
series you know what I think we have to do it around we're gonna be up there in
this as we go obviously sentinels actually team liquid loss and that brings
up a lot of questions around lyanna plus DSG is what's gonna happen here
because we already had one upset I'll win for either of these teams put some
in the playoffs for the first time but that they might not find glass but
the big horse. The big horse.
You're right. You're right.
We need to invest.
We did not think was going to be there.
But I think for this series,
again, you said how important it is for
lion or DSG.
The winner of this does qualify
and advance to play off.
And Cryo being here,
we've talked about how he's been
screaming with the team pretty much
the entire time and a lot of
the impetus for bringing him onto
the team was to have him be a
Kerry jungler, right?
Yeah. I'm really looking forward to
see if their compositions reflect that.
What do you think, casters?
It's another wonderful day in my chunkest life here.
I'm a sail alongside Kobe.
We got Lyon versus CSG.
One of them is going to playoffs, baby.
One of them is going to playoffs.
It's going to be a tight battle.
I'm super excited for this one.
After being very pleasantly surprised by the success
of this disguised roster and what
they've been able to accomplish with this team,
you know, last year, apparently on the bottom of the LCS,
but, you know, really making a big push here
with a lot of young players themselves.
So let's see what we can cook up here.
And I think the big question is,
how will they look with Cry-Ra?
Because he is finally here.
When I talked to Coach Aido before the split,
he told me they were building the whole idea
of the roster around having Cry-Ra.
And then he's not there!
He wasn't there!
They had to play with Kizno,
who, by the way, only had three total scrims ever with the team.
And Smurfed on stage pretty good.
Yeah, did pretty damn well.
The team looked solid even without their intended certain jungler,
even without the guy they were scrimming with.
So now Cryora is here, really excited to see how he can perform.
He has the opportunity to play against one of his jungle idols
and inspired.
So I will put forward a question here then.
Since, you know, they're all about Cryora, you know,
they're talking about, ah, we're going to build around him.
It's gonna be Jungle Kerry.
We're gonna funnel him.
You, Azaleh, what would you want your Kerry jungler to be on?
Because we got a really good taste.
We got Griffin on Ambesa.
What does that taste like?
That tasted delicious.
That was fun.
That was perfectly cooked steak right there.
Griffin on Ambesa, FlyQuest made that Kerry jungle
look really nice.
So do you think that's a good angle to go versus inspired?
Seems pretty difficult of an opponent to try.
that would be really, really hard.
I mean, when I think of Kerry Jungler,
I always am hoping as a best is going to be banned out.
He actually gets triple banned in the jungle.
There you go.
So they're looking at him as a real threat, too.
I always hope that we're going to get things like Kindred back.
Kindred is one of my favorite champions ever.
I still think it's my most played champion ever,
and I do really enjoy that.
So I'm always hoping it's going to come back in the meta.
Of course, it is not in there right now.
I'd also be interested in seeing some things like Diana,
which has been really popular in solo queue,
but hasn't really come out in pro.
Some of the AP junglers feel very popular in solo queue these days, so I mean I'm down for it all.
You know, whatever Cryer wants to show us, I'm going to kind of just buy in and see how he does.
Yeah, let's go. On stage here. Let's see what happens. He had a lot of respect for Inspire.
He talked about in the, you know, little video that we just saw. So we'll see on on stage in-game how it pans out.
Regardless though, we're going primary picks right now.
We are on the new patch, but not a lot has changed as far as a year or rumble, so that trade should be fine, except that with Orianna banned out, you know, they can still go like Taliyah or rise or something on the side of lion, but you already have the rumble.
So whenever you have rumble, I'm already thinking, ooh, don't I want something like a Yone as a other solo laner instead? Maybe like a Jarvan on our team?
team, little cataclysm synergy there.
We'll see what AD options they can cook up.
I would bet almost anything you do not lock in Italy in.
Yeah, yeah, very unlikely.
It's always the classic inspired hover,
and Kriver does end up going with the Pantheon.
So obviously a strong AD jungler,
but also if you are anticipating Taliyah,
you want to break up that duo, right?
Be able to have that as a takeaway.
So it's going to feel pretty nice.
Buy Taliyah would be a pretty common combo as well.
That or Wukong are generally the things that people do look at and that is going to be Vi.
Akali would be an exciting counter.
It is one of those answers we see sometimes in pro, but I think he's just kind of taking
us on a wild ride with the Hover's.
I mean, I always like it because it's more kill pressure or oriented, especially if you
do have a Vi, but the classic here, lock it in, easy to hit those seismic shoves
off of the Vi ganks and what's going to be our response here into the rumble
on top side or do we just drop it and then Castle's like all right you know what fine
okay so we're gonna go with the I mean this this one saw a lot of mileage at world last year for sure
Galeo into rumble and I am liking that new Galeo skin yeah that thing was looking clean last
last game it looks nice it's kind of interesting though because Galeo in pro play as a toppling
counter to rumble has really fallen off people are not playing it pretty much at all there's
There's only two pro play picks of Galeo so far in this season.
And Rumble has 61 game played.
It's the second most played top laner behind only Cassante.
So it is interesting that did kind of fall off.
We'll see how Castle does do it.
I know having spoken to him before,
I got to watch some of their scrims one time.
And he was really into a lot of these counter fixing
kind of more niche things.
So I think he's going to be happy to bring it out.
Yeah, he always has looked good with it.
And it pairs well with the Pantheon here.
So Pantheon and Galeo, pretty good synergies
all the way there as well.
They don't want any more globals though, they're like, alright fine, two is enough, no bar for you on top of it.
We can't have Bard coming through and blowing Taliyah's flash as well, because anytime you have Azir mid, it always feels really good to have a Bard as your support.
You just come and gank and blow the enemy mid laner's flash, and Azir is constantly looking for shuffles, so I want to keep your summoner spells here on the side of line.
Yeah, also really nice. Anytime you can create terrain with a champion like that, it's going to be really beneficial as well.
A couple of Enchanters getting banned out here, so trying to defend against potential Nami Lucian, Nami Korki, Azreal Karma, those are kind of really popular pairings we're seeing.
Enchanters in general I think are just a lot stronger this season because you have so much gold generation.
If you're stuck on one item in pro play, tanks are just kind of king.
But when you keep getting that gold generation like they do from the support quest, it allows you to play a lot more Enchanters, which I think scale a lot better than those tanks, especially in multiple items.
And talking about lane power. All right. We get the Niko lock in lane power right there afforded to you
What are we gonna get from berserker and aisles? They have been ferocious in the bottom lane
Let's see what they go for here
In with this comp. What do you think? I mean it's it's so much extra CC and lots of range
You know to go with super long by rumble combos, you know lots of die there
So it definitely does have the possibilities of fitting
RL here to keep people on a rumble ultimate, you know Vi is great, but you know Vi plus some nice AOE
for the engage really helps out. And it feels like they just wanted a little bit more time, talk through
the AD carry pick, decide exactly what they're going to go for, but against you know relatively squishy
team we'll see if Rumble is you know excuse me if the guy who's going to be full tank or not,
but Jhin can be really really effective, seems like it's just a debate between Corky or that.
Yeah, I mean since they have double AP solo laners gonna want a big ad threat here
And Corky is very popular at the moment locked in again here for berserker
And we get the matchup. All right the kaiser answer
So I just look good on the kaiser, you know, that's enough honestly
Yeah, I mean he's been playing it really really well
I think mechanically this guy is super impressive even in the loss on kaiser
He was kind of popping off and this guy has some fast fingers for sure
He's able to really react to these engages super super fast flashes zonias
Killer instincts to actually dodge some of these engages so it'll be exciting to see how he can perform and a lot of CC a lot of ways to apply
Plasma there for the kai say you talk about this galliopantheon entrance
Well kai second follow up on that very easily with killer instinct. Yeah, just has to be very cognizant of inspired the vi ulti
Very problematic for that champion, especially because there is a lot of follow-up for Inspires by Ultimate on the side of Lyon.
Alright, high pressure on this series. Whoever wins, gets into playoffs already of the lock-in tournaments.
Moves on up to a nice and comfortable position.
Yep, well, a lot of pressure on Cryra as well.
Your tier one debut and it is being made against Inspired over on the other side.
side. It'd be a tough jungle matchup for him, but also a great opportunity to really impress
people to kind of make a name for yourself here right off the rip. 100%. If you can start
off your tier one career with a win versus inspired in the West like you're basically
starting at the top, he is the peak and inspired to be in very good form as well
already. People were questioning, wow, this, you know, this lion roster that's
so much star power, but if you throw them all together, you know, is, uh, are they going
to be able to perform? Is inspired going to be okay on a new team separated from fly
quest and he has had some very big games. I mean, he has and you know, people, some
people talk about line and super team. Some people maintain they're not a super team
pretty much as soon as they got inspired, the word super team starts getting thrown
around. I mean, cry. This is his experience through scrims. Not too bad. Let's see what
his opponent has as far as the back of the blades. Well, it's looking pretty
Every damn good eight international experiences four times in a champion.
He won LTA player of the year.
He's won the NA and LEC MVP three times.
He's a finals MVP.
He has been just crushing it.
And he has a ward on your Raptors.
So you got he's got your Raptor respawn timer to there too.
Oh my goodness.
Sorry.
We'll see if he does anything with it on the Vi not necessarily going to start
stuff too early.
But Vi got some nice buffs on this patch, you know, some little, you know, scaling
AD and HP. Very simple, but straightforward, but quite powerful as well as the game goes on.
Yep, Sajed just narrowly avoids that Foss bomb coming through from Berserker. And as you said,
Ilesen Berserker have been very strong in the 2v2. You know, Lyons and Sajed, not as strong in
the laning phase, but have had some good moments in the teamfights for sure. But here with the
Niko early on, you're expecting them to have the advantage, and we'll see how much they can
actually make of that. Yeah, and especially as you're highlighting on the Kaisa,
So Jed has just like quite comfortable on this champion
He's gotten so many kills in both of his games as has gotten a very healthy gold lead in both of them
Even though they weren't able to win one of them see if they're able to do it again
Get this little chip on the tower
proc the small little bit of crystals that's there and
Soften that thing up is step number one
I mean the gold off ease is good the progress for towards your quest is really good
So early pressure really nice because both junglers are pathing down to the bottom side and you see the red ward in that
Faleight brush already for DSG. So they're pushing bottom. They've got the Faleight warded both junglers pathing down here and feels pretty comfortable
Yep, I'm so dead 14 kills across those two kinds of games that he has played thus far
Castle will be playing a phase rush
So two different kind of approaches sometimes people will go aftershock and it's more about that kind of big trade
You know the upfront damage to tankiness
Aftershock gives you that phase rush allows you to disengage from these trades. You go in you pop those spells
proc phase rush and then you can kite out away from those electro harpoons because you don't want those extended trades
But castle and docla trading very aggressively here. Docla does have the push, but he's getting pretty low on health
We know that cryra is on the other side of the map and he has the buy covering him
So I don't think docla's too worried about jungle interference at this point, but does have to be careful
Yep, split grabs here and the Inspire is going to use a couple of seconds to wait around mid lane.
I mean it is in his ear, but I'm going to spend a couple of seconds here while Pantheon goes back for the early buy.
So, Cryra back with his Ruby Crystal and Long Sword ready for the second clear.
Meanwhile, Inspire with his earlier one will just go on over and as soon as the Gromp responds,
get into his second clear as well with the exact same clearing potential.
same early fighting tools, and we just continue to farm.
Yep, and Karra is now up on that top side,
but of course there was a ward in that tri-brush from Doku.
He's gonna be completely safe.
Castle does elect to just stay around.
He's gonna collect this last wave before he goes home.
And top lane, looking pretty even,
all things considered, assuming Castle gets all the CS.
It's gonna be pretty close up there.
Well, Sujed does have a slight lead on the bot side,
but again, that's gonna be just a couple CS,
assuming Berserker gets all this.
Nice, workin' on it.
Gets two of the three there.
Meanwhile, teleports right back out to mid lane as well,
so no surprises there.
The farm fest continues.
I guess once we get towards the craft that gives level six,
the all-important third pop-up of the craft
and that will determine jungler level sixes,
then maybe we get a little spicy.
That's when you start heavily scrutinizing
mid lane push who's going to be able to collapse on this crab earlier and the bottom lane push if
it spawns on bottom lane is the real key because if it spawns on top side I mean far away from dragon
so it's still so good crab but it's definitely not the same as that bottom side of the map
in the dragon area as well. Yeah and you feel like the two junglers are maybe wanting it to spawn
on opposite sides you know inspired feel like they have push up on the top side you know
rumble is level six that could be pretty strong but of course on the bot side it has been
in Lines and Suged pushing in the Peserker facing.
So we are seeing that is that botside settle spawn
that is going to be in the area.
And DSG should have the advantage.
And if everything stays the same,
you'll be able to grab that.
All right, Pantheon on the way.
Side brushes warded up too.
I mean, let's see what inspired moves from here.
Because the entrance there, the ramp by mid, is also
warded.
So he doesn't actually have too many avenues.
I think they just pop the
scryers bloom as well.
Yeah, they do also have that
option to potentially go for
call me if call me trying to
move down the river.
You know, maybe Taliyah Vi can
try to make a play there.
But Lyons going to push Isles
back who did get vision there
of Chyra and inspired just
going topside realizes, you
know what, they have the bush.
We can't contest.
So he's just going to go back
towards that topside.
See if he can steal away
some camps or maybe look for
a gank angle here.
Yeah.
Pantheon early on quite good
at dueling as well.
And they'll get the early
level six.
right Cryera with a level lead over inspired.
Okay, we get the flat.
Oh, actually not even.
Yeah, could be able to get the flash there at a saint,
but Cryera has to defend here,
call me getting quite low.
Saint of course has no flash to follow,
so call me will be able to just walk it out,
holds on to the flash.
So next time call me has his ult.
Saint could be in a lot of trouble,
especially if you call that Pantheon,
you could look for a flash ult to you on the same,
try to punish.
Yeah, that's the first step, get your flash,
even without the support room, just do it yourself.
Pantheon jungle could come on over. We'll see about inspired if they want to like counter gank that and try and turn it around
Meanwhile
Top side still has like been fresher for Dill Club
Hasn't actually turned into too much quite yet and the galley ultimate is the extra little bit yet to think about as well for them
Yeah mountain dragon though as the first dragon takes a little bit longer
To take a little bit more durable, so might have to go for the kill first on somebody
Or just raw starting it up. Yeah, it's also going to be a little bit more difficult for line
You know when they want to full send it on these engages Vi goes in rel goes in you have to be aware of that potential turn around
You know from the Gallio especially later on into the game
Both the zero and kaisa are tough carries to die because they can itemize in towards don't yes, right?
So if this game does go late your targets can get few and far between, you know as the Vi
It's like who do you all when those guys are all building stasis?
I mean, we're also likely to see lines build the stasis of course is very far in the future
But is always one of those things that can make a big difference with so much gold income in the game
We're seeing these items come through a lot faster
Yeah stasis and then pantheon has directional immunity that you can put up when the vise coming, you know the ultimate
With the travel time definitely telegraphed there so you can a lot of responses love tricky tricky targets here
So I have to be quite sure when you do go for it
Honestly
Maybe inspired just trades again on the top side now that grubs are up. Okay
Maybe we'll just transfer over to the grub side of the map take those
We still don't want to fight around bottom and just give over that first mountain dragon anyways
Yeah, and you could see that castle was walking down trying to see if inspired was already on the grubs
He checked the pit didn't have a ward for it. So doesn't catch inspired inspired will be here
As soon as that scuttle does spawn and you can see that lions is clearing out that dragon
and they are going to be starting this up.
So DSG will be trading for the grubs on the top side,
very likely as you predicted.
All right.
No spice quite yet.
He's farming pretty easily.
We do have the support Rome timers too.
I don't think it's going to turn into anything.
Maybe try and clear out the vision around mid lane
while DSG are taking the dragon.
My IELTS here is doing his best.
Scrap the control ward.
Because you know that Taliyah still is very antsy with no flash to two grubs and inspires
Just gonna leave the last one as the collapse is coming through from the rest of DSG nice defense here castle
Got the re pushed back out on top side and mid lane just kind of hovers over as well
So calm trading early on this honestly we're talking about inspired back when he was on fly quest is fairly reminiscent where
says everybody calmly farming everyone you know they have confidence line of
confidence in their mid game play and nobody rushing into any unnecessary
fights quite yet yeah no I absolutely agree and I mean inspired has so much
confidence in his own play right and we've seen that you know throughout
last year as well as this year this guy is just such an incredible team fighter
is very rare to see him make mechanical errors he's really adept at
Choosing the right fights and when he knows this is the way you have to win the game
He's gonna fully commit to that right he's gonna full send it whether it is risky whether it is not an execute really really well
So we can pull back games at times where you think it's doomed. Yeah, I
Think he's just looking for like Trinity Force fight here for berserker, maybe
And then they'll start to really make some plays
Make sure burst damage down there because they have quite a few options available that last grub still just sitting there
inside the pit as well.
Criber just got his first item completed though,
so full Thunder Sky is done for him,
and he does have ult.
That Taliyah Flash looks like it's fully recovered though,
so the window is gone.
Yeah, and while Lyon hasn't really had, you know,
they've been really successful in teamfights,
and I think in the midgame they've been good,
late game they have had some problems, right?
And St. has been kind of under fire as far as
the criticism is concerned
because of some of the issues that have happened to him.
I do want to point out, you know, in this,
Not this one. It was the one from last week where he got caught in Game 2
where it was actually a vision bug where he got spotted on Ward
that he shouldn't have because of a vision bug, which is being fixed.
Sweeping the Ward that was already disabled by a control ward.
That's a crazy bug, by the way. That is...
So when you're sweeping a Ward that was already disabled by a pink,
it re-enables the Ward. So that allowed him to see him.
So we're going to give him a bit of a pass on the second one they're showing.
But the first one, you know, they were in a pretty good spot.
He kind of overstated on the map didn't base for a really long time unclear whose call that was but
Didn't end up basing until the game was basically over
Yeah, it was that one right there where you know hits it with the braum cue the slows enough for the seismic shove
Looks like we might have a fight I'll just gonna flash in their full sending it's fired goes in on the line
But he doesn't connect with the cue flash suggest getting a bunch of damage down killer instincts back in on a berserker
Looks like he's gonna win out that fight cry right though trying to take down state
St. On the run call me looking flash forward there from cry rough DSG went out in the fight. It is two for one
Explosive engage there from the rail
But it looked like the Q flash with from inspired that didn't allow them to get the kill as fast as they thought
And that one's gonna have huge
Remifications because it is a kill for so dead and a kill for the azir. Yeah didn't quite get there with the distance
They get the kill on the Lions berserker valks and then flashes into the pit here though
And so it's like great. I will just follow you here killer instinct from so Jed
The kaisa that has run so many of the games for DSG getting in there getting the kill and that crisis also
Gonna have double sums advantage if Richard Zercher just used everything in that fight and trapped inside the pit
So this one this these bottom lane skirmishes can have huge huge ramifications for the rest of the game
especially considered these compositions and how many ways, as you say, they have for DSG to apply that plasma.
I mean, Sejed on Kaisa is becoming quite the story.
Boy, it's nice on the Kaisa for sure.
I really have to wonder if Inspired hits the Q flash, does Lion's not die before his pop awesome goes off?
And I do think the answer is probably yes, because it went off right as he died, right?
It would have been close, it's hard to know, but those things can make a very big difference,
and you know as a result the DSG do win out in that fight. They're now 1.6k gold up, they are a dragon ahead.
Yes, there was two groves on the other side, but grubs really aren't that impactful, especially if you don't get all three.
So I think DSG is gonna be super happy with how this game has started. Yeah, I mean, yeah, they have to be.
I mean, it's we talk about oh the overall gold lead for the team, but it's
1,000 gold concentrated onto this kaise that we're trying to hype up and I don't know
what kind of gold value you're going to sign to having flash and barrier advantage to because you have infinite just like the possibilities
So you have all shield you have barrier shield. Yeah, you got flash ready. You're like almost cashing out the call
Yeah, it's gonna be rich. She's like I am ready to outplay somebody
Let's see if they actually go for it though couple of globals remember on that team
You have to keep be cognizant of not only is it the pantheon as inspired here is planning
You know, maybe some sort of counter something he's just hiding in the fog of war for now to see if any anything presents itself by this dragon start up
Yeah, the mid lane quest just completed for call me. So he has two or three boots right now for this fight
They are ahead as far as those rule quests are completed
Lion still needs their mid and support role quest and decide, you know what?
We're not going to try to contest they were looking for a pick on call me
But cryra is right here behind them. They're gonna go right now inspire such that off sides each other there
The full combo comes in, but now the counter engage.
Colmy sweeps the melee and survives and Crybra is chasing.
He's hungry for some kills, and I think he'll be able to get at least one,
but St. trying to throw down the covering fire here.
Kyra is the one that goes down, and Colmy comes back, and he gets flicked forward.
St. gets another kill. Sajid finally arrives with the killer instinct.
Does knock him down.
Great counter engage from DSG.
Got a little bit over ambitious on the chase though.
Yeah, that was totally disrespecting St.'s damage.
They're just trying to all walk past this to Leia and St. Louis is throwing rock after rock after rock
St. Ends up getting two kills after the SG had initially
Disengaged then Saadzett comes in it kind of like saves the day a little bit there
You know clean it up
I want to make a lane with Taliyah
Yeah, I can use the Hux
Okay, Hux, flash
He's right here
Try to watch out for him
Okay
He has flash, he has flash
No flash, no flash, no flash, I'll stay, I'll stay here
Nice, no flash coming too, okay?
No flash is there
I mean it's a good size McShub as well, on to call me there too
So it's like, yeah he's pelting the Pantheon and then size McShubbing over here
And he grabs both kills
So out of the play that because multiple DHG members were hovering the play in river
They were there for the counter
Lion actually still ended up getting those two kills,
but right now they're under pressure again,
a little bit of an invade from Cryo and Lion's
onto the top side of the map.
Yeah, that is great though for Saint.
You know, gonna be able to pick up some kills there,
get some much needed gold,
and it keeps it from so pulling out of control,
because when you're already behind
and you go for a play like that,
and you get like two for zero, three for zero,
and then they're hitting the tower,
you kinda know how those games generally
are gonna go after that.
But they're able to get a couple kills back.
Yes, Sajed does continue to get paid.
He's now 1.5k up individually
because he had that first roam.
that means he's on two items completed already.
So that is a problem, but at the very least,
we do have one item done.
And as Pantheon ult could have come in,
not gonna amount to really anything
as we have the Mastercard Power Spike of the game
being completed, Sundersky there for Chyra.
Yeah, I guess it's in Sajed, we trust, for DSG.
Yet again, he's got his Rageblade done.
So two item feeling quite good.
As you mentioned, the on hit for Chyra,
really can just rip through people and they have so much cc on this team.
But uh, saint trying to cook something on the top side and look at the
mini math because inspired is going for possibly another lane gang.
I mean, it is the classic, the buy into Leah and you, we've got to
listen in on the comms there.
We're ahead of time.
All right, I'm going to do Leah, you know, we're going to do a
little brush play, alter the seismic shove and try and burst somebody.
Uh, unfortunate for lion that they, there were reinforcements for
and so they kind of countered the play initially,
but doesn't mean you should stop playing around your Taliyah if you're by it's so inspired looking once again.
You know, go up to his side of the map, see if anything presents itself.
It's really interesting because like that is obviously a powerful combo.
But also, well, Saints are pretty appetizing target here.
You know, as he has no flash and Pantheon has flash of his own so he can even be looking for plays.
So both junglers really have to be aware of, you know, where they are susceptible and also where they can look for those aggressive plays of their own.
their own. So call me, you know,
just continuing to take these waves
and just back off after every single one,
respecting the fact that Vi could be in the area.
So nothing happens, even though they both do look for it.
Gold lead has closed quite a bit though.
It was a 1.5 K last time we checked in.
Now DSG only ahead a couple hundred gold.
So now really it's just the lead for Sajed
versus what they have on the top side for Lyon.
See if they can combo anyone with this to Leah.
Um, I mean we got fully completed serifs for Saint too, so that helps with your you know dying concerns
Yeah, so I go right we get the big shield as well and I'm dying concerns
Healthy fear of death is yeah, especially if you don't have flash
There you go, you should always be working
always on cooldown bro, here's his butt.
Yeah, it's messed up.
We can see Colmy can rest asleep a little bit more soundly
as he's got a Seekers Armguard already done.
You know, we touched on the Zonias
and he got a very quick one.
It is just so powerful against the Vi
because the ult is so telegraphed
it's really easy to respond to
and immune that ulti coming in.
All right, Black Cleaver also,
a lot of these second line of power spikes
coming in for basically everybody
and it's gonna be just in time for the dragon.
So timing windows working out pretty nicely here
for a lot of them. Inspired as a fully completed Black Leaver though, while Chyra does not.
And he's going to head on over. Let's see, Gallio would have to start moving pretty
early. Go, sink, trying to find him, but does force the flash there off of line. So that
is their award for it. Call me getting a little bit of poke damage down onto Inspire.
TP coming in now from Gallio, and it's going to be about the Herald. Can DSG stop
this mid? Looks like they will likely be able to defend the turret, but of course
not the crash.
Okay, they got a turret plate out of its can they get the mid push again berserker here taking priority over the mid wave
Trying to burst these minions down
Foss bomb doklah helping out as well so they get their mid trial first and then they can
Sweep right into the dragon pit and the dragon actually there
See if they have any sort of wrap around
That's the jet moving in castle going for it. He does catch the top there on the same insane
It's gonna die in a hurry can't they say they're cryra pushing forward as does castle and lines nice sweet back onto
They're gonna knock him down so Jen gets another he's not a killer spray and he's into the back with docla here killer instinct in on top of docla
He overheats gets another kill there DSG wiping lion off the map as
Saint was just caught in an awful spot even the Saras not keeping him
Still needs to have that healthy fear of death and you're gonna have fear of the Galileo too
That is a critical fight win for DSG not only do they get to kill Saint, but they immediately follow it up
I actually love how call me goes directly for enemy jungles like all right
We did get the Taliyah. We need to kill inspired as well
There will be no chance of a smite stealer anything and they get the objective secured for themselves
So let's take a look at castle walking down towards Saint starts channeling his taunt and just on the edge
Nails him and he gets 100% it so then with the jumping over here. Prada is the ulti they
actually have call me go all the way back
Scoops up the enemy jungle and said Jed has his red buff. So thank you very much even with your flash big dokes
You're going down buddy two more kills for suggest Kaisa
It was tough to see but I think there was a split second left on Saints flash when he got taunted
So maybe you know didn't think they were in a game at that moment
I would be able to kind of play a bit risky flashback
But it looked like it was really really close
So it's hard to see on the on the spectator client there, but that is a costly one and so dead now three fully completed items
He is so ridiculously strong at this point DSG already on soul point as well
They had soul point at like 20 minutes. So that is a problem
And that is something the line are gonna have to try to solve for they have to get to this next dragon
And win a fight and they have just not been able to do that thus far
Yeah, it gets so difficult because well all our eyes are pointed towards this this kaisa
And the auto attacks that this kind says going to be throwing out not necessarily the the AP variant
Kind of like this person, you know get in there real decent work with your hands instead of the long distance
Whereas the azear a little bit more soft spoken here for a poor call me not not as rich
He's getting interested saving up, but he made the big put you know makes big plays with the zeer ultimate
You know you have a lot of other capabilities that aren't just pure DPS
with that champ 2 and survivability with the tier 3 boots plus the arm guard
that you mentioned. He hasn't had to break that thing yet.
Nope, he's holding on to it for a rainy day. Staying safe, unlike Saints, unfortunately.
But, Sajed is definitely going to be the main concern. We'll see if Lyon can
try to problem solve for that. They have to get to him, try to one-shot him.
But again, counter-gauge is so strong on DSG. If you full-sent everything
on to Sajed, you're going to get pop blossom, you're going to get a
zeir sweep, you're going to get galley ulted. Everything is going to come in
on top and that it's going to make it a very difficult fight.
So inspired to been trying to problem solve by getting to sidelines
looking for picks before these fights.
But just you're playing a smart game.
They're not exposing themselves.
They're not over pushing.
So he's never finding a window and now call me has the fully
completed zone years.
So had been saving and does cash in on that pretty much has to
be either inspired or aisles doing some good vision work and
doing when they sneaky routes to get in position to have a
bursty engage, you know, vi or rel.
If you can lock someone up for
to Leah and rumble follow up here,
then that's that's kind of your hopes
for for actually getting away back into this game,
getting a some leverage before the next objective.
Yeah, we'll see.
Still just kind of hanging around that top side,
saying you're going to be able to go up there
and just defend.
Call me not pushing forward to try to cash it
on some of those plates.
He just knows they're winning.
They just have to keep doing what they're doing.
Keep showing up the dragons.
They're not the ones that need to do anything
different that need to look for any sort of aggressive plays.
They are chilling just how they are right now.
And Berserker obviously trying to work quickly
towards his collector.
But really, Corky, at this point, the next big spike
is your fourth item, not your third.
You need to get towards the IE, and that is just
such a long way off.
See if they can't get there.
It's going to be a difficult path.
They do still have the remnants of their tower
in mid lane and top lane.
So some defenses still to work with.
and shouldn't be too difficult to keep vision of the top side of the map.
Problem is, one minute on this very early Dragon Soul that's about to arrive with the Kemsil
and Azir's gonna go back, Azir's gonna get another purchase before this one.
So, gotta be in place early, try and take advantage of positioning.
Are you surprised that we are seeing the Fiend Hunter bolted build as opposed to AP?
Given that we talked about how effective Zonius is versus Vi and Twleia this combo?
I've learned to never be surprised by any Kaisa builds because Kaisa can go whatever she feels like on hit, full AD, AP, lethality, you know, whatever you feel like.
That's true. Uh oh, taunted over the wall, they could be in some trouble. It's going to lose half his health even more as well as that Seraph shield.
That sucks 15 seconds before the sus spawn. He does have TP though.
It's all confidence in your teammates for feeling you know, he's got a galeo on his team
He's got an ego on his team. He's got pantheon with point clicks done
So, you know, he's he's looking for some very strong
Autos and when he alts in that will be a bunch of burst berserker has to be careful does spend the valve
Backwards so could be a bit vulnerable now is lion trying to retake some space
St. Has rejoined the team with the teleport and you can see inspired us over behind the pit
All right wrapping around
Lions as well though he's got the benefit of a clone and they do spot him out into the pit though
Oh, he comes galley of the blast going to the back line flash back though from castle in comes the ultimate from cryra now
Little bit destroyed you know the play line is going forward. There's one at a time going in the dragon getting incredibly low
Though it's gonna be a smite fight here and it is taken there by cryra
And it's up to the jet now to try to win the fight
But he's getting burst down the barrier gets punched through don't let try to knock him down
Nobody just can't do it.
Finally he does fall, but Pryor getting a lot of work done
on one side.
Castle going forward on the other.
He's going to get knocked down by Berserker,
a disjointed fight, but kills wise pretty damn even,
and the soul goes to DSG.
That was an exciting one.
You can tell their blood started pumping here
after the initial surprise of this blast cone.
Castle here with this super blast cone.
He had eyeballs on St. once again,
and so he goes in.
He does get the justice punch.
He immediately flashes out, avoids the seismic shove,
but it seemed like as soon as he had gone in,
then Cryon had already hit his ult,
then Cryon was like, well, I gotta get out of here
since you flashed out, then Lion's had to get out of there,
and then the dragon's low, and everyone's panicking,
and then it's fine, it's fine, it's fine!
Cryon is able to combo it with Pantheon,
and does get it, and then in the aftermath,
you're very scrambled.
As you point out, they do take down the kaisa,
that is just shut down for Rumble.
However, the dragon's soul, much bigger reward,
does still go over to DSG.
Yeah, and I don't not looking too happy
about how that engage went.
Yeah, it was so hectic.
I was feeling panic for it.
Yeah, yeah.
And I think once Castle flashed out here,
you know, like, do I galley all back in now
that, you know, cry was going in?
Like, what are we doing here?
And Lance was like, all right, me too.
I'm coming in.
And they did get flashes as well.
So a lot of summoner spells were
burning that team fight, which also makes it
look a lot funnier because there are so many re-engages.
Well, Iles could be in some trouble.
Does get caught out.
Tijet is there.
Equalizer going to be dropped defensively.
Cryra actually early flashes out of that.
Was quite scared about the damage he was dealing.
Castle arrives.
Justice punch forward with the foul.
Will Keepers are safe.
Now Tijet is going to be separated out.
Tijet tries to rejoin his team.
St. jumps off on the wrong side of the wall there.
Unfortunately, has to flash back.
See?
Definitely having some struggles in this one.
And they're going to look for him now.
going in with the pantheon.
All he throws down the E.
Saint is getting ran down.
Inspired trying to go back in,
but he is by himself and he is gone in the hurry.
They're looking for Berserker.
Call me can't quite find him.
The Valk just barely keeps Berserker safe,
but it is not going to defend the bear.
And you have a zero.
You have Kaiser.
That thing is dead.
They got what they wanted here.
DSG they take out Saint.
They take out inspired.
No jungle smite available for land,
even hoped for a steel.
It would have to be a miracle rocket from Berserker.
And guess what? He's not leaving those minions to go through the Hail Mary.
So DSG, they get their Baron on top of it and they make the initial play here.
Going for Iles as he's trying to clear outwards, immediately going for the point click stun,
rumble ultimate, getting a lot of value there, you know, grab the little floor as lava.
He's like, I got out of here. I don't know about this damage.
And then looking for the follow up here, because St. riding in on the wall
and the Gallio taunt again, Castle just grabbing him off.
and I see done Castle wants him off the wall.
I thought it was just a mis-lick to the wrong side,
but it was Castle making a good play.
Now, Sejet is going to be able to kill off
Dokla in the side lane there.
As he has the infinity edge completed as well
as a quick look on top, he's ridiculously
fed on this guy, he's at 8-1-1.
It is sold, it is a 4,000 gold in his pry rod
who's going to easily claim that red buff
that insult to injury here.
Big experience advantages as well.
I mean, it's level 17 for Call Me,
level 16 for Sejet.
I mean, so Jett is ahead of safety experience at this point.
This guy is so strong.
Well, I think Lyon will be happy that there
is fearless mode as well.
Because this is about the time where
you start thinking about the series as a whole.
As Castle goes in for a nice little combo under Berserker.
Castle, by the way, been doing such a hero's job
on this galley of so many set up positions from Castle for DSG,
making those carries look good.
Bottom side is just wide open. Call me already finished up the turret working away on the inhibitor
You get a little bit of like split push for lion
They're like trying to scrape together anything because they know we can't really defend against this
Baron buff dragon soul onslaught and so they try and scrape together at least something
Yeah, they're gonna be able to get a little bit of gold there at the very least
But now even more of those luxury items are coming through zone is on lions
We have zonias on call me. We have GA on castle
We have seekers on our search to GA and cry run seekers on on castle
And then we also have the immortal shield bow on suggest so every single one of them has a defensive item up and ready to go now
Which that in addition to the fact that they are tank here with the chem tech soul is gonna make it almost impossible
You have to feel to just one shot someone and that's really the only way you have a chance to win a fight
Yeah, so the line probably still gonna go for that, you know group up control ward on a brush
It's the tail of all this time and DSG grouped up though not gonna give him any stragglers
Nobody out of position just that castle for one split push Galio on the top side of the map
Castle does have his Galio ultimate ready and
Looks like no road in for lion to crack through this siege
DSG with a very good opening game look up for that pick on the doklah here
But even without a turret, just kind of walk away.
Warning shot.
Mm-hmm.
Smiling now, buddy, stay out.
We've been warned that we're coming for your nexus shortly.
Mm-hmm.
That's the message.
I guess they're going to go by first, though.
They're feeling kind of rich.
And if that was real life, even though you lived,
you did get hit in the butt with a spear.
That would hurt.
Even if you're inside of a mech.
Yeah.
That could have some lasting consequences.
OK, well, we'll see if he's walking funny in the next fight.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I mean, that's tough.
We're just rubbing this off just because he didn't die.
It doesn't mean it's not a big deal.
You're going to have to get surgery for that.
So we have afterwards physical therapy.
Butchers.
Could be months before you're the same.
That's tough.
You could get your cast signed, though.
That'd be kind of fun.
That'd be kind of safe.
But maybe not if it's a butt cast.
Maybe people don't want to sign that.
We'll see if they're going to go in.
They're probably going to look for a fight here.
Gally ulti coming over the top.
And there is Sojett.
And there is Dokla dying infinitely.
Inspired, fleshing board.
They're going to try to take down Sojett.
But do they have the damage to do it for Zercher going forward?
So, Jed flashing out barrier as well,
and he kites it aside from Inspire.
Now they're going to go back in on to Zercher
who's trying to survive, trying to get something done,
but he just can't do it.
DSG too far ahead.
Oh, look at the player cams.
Cryo popping off.
He's about to be 100% win rate in the LCS.
That's got to feel good.
And 100% win rate versus Inspire.
DSG marching on the nexus here.
Cryo with a very successful first game here for DSG,
so Jed popping off the whole team looking good
as they secure game number one.
You can tell they are feeling good after that one.
Really nicely done all around.
Bottom lane, they're working well themselves,
getting their own leads.
But then they also had the good dragon fight
and Castle making a lot of plays throughout the game.
So who will your player of the game end up?
It's actually pretty tough in this one spam chat.
And we'll check in on the analysts
and see about their picks as well.
I think it's pretty tough
because that was a full team effort.
There we go.
Honestly, this team looks so much more well-coordinated
than I thought they would.
I mean, we've talked so much about the Jed Kaisa.
It was the thing that he impressed me
on the most in their first series win.
Even when that was the game they lost
in that series, super impressive in this game as well.
Just really great debut from Cryra.
And also, Drake is above all.
Yeah, and how do you play games?
They got really high-end game.
They were hard committed to those.
And I gotta say, this is, I think,
a benefit of why a team that is in a situation
that she was in.
You have an E-sub kid who's no playing
for the first two weeks.
Keep screaming with Cryra.
Keep screaming with the intended jungler
because this is a very well-coordinated team.
for a debut of a rookie first game in the LCS.
They, he did not play with nerves.
It didn't at least feel like he had any nerves.
It didn't look like it at all.
And I'm going to go straight to Telestration one more time.
I think the biggest wins that we have been seeing
from this team is that they just have amazing mechanics
within the fights.
And also they are able to see things that,
well, I would say the last DSG was not able to.
So let's play out the fight here.
This is really early on in the game.
This is 11 minutes in
and this is just basically trying to find an angle.
And if I speed it up just to see,
because they're hunting for anybody.
Isles is presenting himself.
He's just basically trying to look for a fight himself.
Now I'm gonna pause here because I see two things.
A, I see Berserker and Eddie Kerry looking for a flank.
I think kind of risky, a little dangerous.
Not sure if I agree with it, but all is well.
Because you see basically the three man core
from Lion looking and hunting for the fight,
so they go for it immediately.
And let me tell you right now,
but I like this brother, he's cooked.
And it is the player that you were talking about, Saajid, that was able to zero in on him
and Cryer, who was using his Empower E, to basically nullify any damage coming forward.
And so that was the first replay.
I want to continue to move on to the next few.
It is basically the same thing.
And to the point that you are making, I think, yes, Jesus is playing really well
around objectives.
And so who is the player that makes the call here?
Cryer!
Yes, sir!
I can't even see him taking off.
Straight man fall in the land.
I just want to say they make a quick kill on towards sink that's separated and they full on dive to look for any extras call me also gets a fine pick here.
From this point forward, you just see it.
Doka saying I need to get out of here, but Sergeant immediately clocks him and says no, you're not going anywhere.
That's two fights in a row where I feel like DSP have great eyesight on how to take the fight.
And this is the third one.
This one I feel like if I remember correctly was just call me playing this one perfectly
Yeah, just jump scares the entire team. This was crazy
And then gets a good knockout flashes away cues back forward in those Pantheon, and I'm just seeing a team that now
Follow straight up the line engage. They're just so many waves of engages here. You have gallium going in
Yeah, jumping out Pantheon going in jumping out. Yeah, I was like, what is it gonna stop and you see everyone flashing away?
like it was all one at a time and during the cast it was so chaotic but like
the doclas flashing like we're getting everyone flashing away from that so then
when it comes down to get into the dragon pit cry was able to out execute in
the smite fight with the pantheon huge smite over inspired again you know a
rookie jungler outsmite and inspired yeah and I mean I think the other big
thing that happens in a lot of these fights that you pointed out Razz is
that sujean on the kytha already has so many repositioning tools so when
when these fights get separated,
when an assassination target gets split out,
he is immediately Kaiser ulting on top of them
to clean it up.
And I think because Berserker has been
such a huge part of Lion's success that they have had,
where it's like, okay, they're stomping too, right?
Like they are coming into these fights with a huge lead.
This is his going into today, all of his stats, right?
was in this game one against DSG and this isn't on Berserker I'm not like
calling him out individually it's more that he's been such a huge focus and
great point of pressure for this lion team when they've done well and DSG
really erased that in this early game today. I'm gonna ask you guys a few
questions. Okay is this interview with Rhett? A little bit. What would you imagine
lion's best champion to be? So what, repeat the question? Lion's best champion.
Lions is best. Oh, yeah.
We're just laughing.
It's Niko. Support Lions Niko.
Correct. Saja's best champion.
Kaisa. I feel like a lot of the
times they're getting their best champions
frequently and also extremely
comfortable. And I was wondering if we're
going to be seeing a comfortable,
you know, jungle cryra in
game one. He's been playing with them in
scrims throughout the entire year. So he's just coming in like it's a glove.
They all look comfortable. Let's see who wins
game of the player of the game, our
game of the year on the Kaisa
nine one and three eighty percent KP as well. He was flying in there man. I mean we saw Zercher and
just not being able to get into the fight the same way that said Ed was. Yeah. And I think that
is partially Cryer Cryer taking the fan vote. He had a fantastic debut game on the Pantheon.
Like we said I do feel like though this was a game where I'm like wow everyone did their role
like it seems like everyone knew on this DSG team what they wanted to do and
then they were able to execute it in these really crucial Drake fights. Yeah
and I echo the sentiment of the fans just because when a rookie jungler comes
in like Cryra he's throwing himself in his paint and he's
outspite inspired incredible debut from a very young player so we'll see if
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Hello, I'm Sajed, I'm the ADC for GSG,
for GST, and this is a quick little pro tip that works for any champion, so basically the
idea is that you can flash on the blast gun in the middle of your auto, so if you're a
range champion you can try to do something like this, and you can do it as a melee,
but it's a little bit harder, and yeah, it can get you out of some sticky situations.
Welcome back to the LCS.
Thank you, Sajed, for that cool tip.
Maybe we'll see him pull it off in the game, but they are now on the precipice of knocking down line to that 1-2 bracket, securing their advancement into the playoffs up 1-0 against Lyon.
DSG's looking good.
They look very capable. They look up to the task as far as game number one is concerned.
And that's got to give them some more confidence too, because this team coming in, as we've been talking about all day long, Krava's here, Krava's here going against Inspired.
It's gonna be like battling a dark souls boss. Well, he just beat him on his first try didn't you have to see any of the moves?
No problem. Easy. Just dodge bruh. Just dodge, just roll. What's the problem? Just dodge, just roll, just smite.
How do you beat that boss? Just don't get hit bruh. Yeah, that's pretty simple. I don't know why you're taking damage. I'm not taking damage.
Let's go to the champion select here though. Round number two.
Sejed will not get to pilot Kaisa and that definitely has been a real standout for him.
I wouldn't say it's like, oh no, he's like, that's his only thing that he can use.
Deadpool is exhausted.
But it definitely has been, by a large margin, the best performances that he has shown so far.
So now we get a little bit more interesting of a test.
Berserker, what will he have to say this time around?
Because I don't know, some choices, like the, you know, using Valk and Flash and then still
still trapped in the kids like they seem to be a bit
uncoordinated in some of these early skirmishes and those
those things it's like a domino effect that you lose control
of a lot of the game. Anyways, up into the live timing now
because Orianna is still banned and to liana zero both
used in the previous match guess what rise is king the
actualizer is here and we'll see I mean one of the one of
the answers that is up and available is the Casio. I feel
it used to always be called a counter. In the phase rush era, I don't really feel like
it's that much of a counter anymore. It feels like more of an answer. But maybe some of the
phase rush nerfs do affect the matchup a bit. Hard to say. Frye's also, you know, got the
little baby W nerf and everything, but hasn't really felt like it's very noticeable, you
know? Slap on the wrist. But then his items, you know, his turbo is strong, so, you
know, I think it could probably be alright. Maybe a wrist and slip a 15 in his pocket.
I think Anivia is the more real counter nowadays and that one has been getting, you know, ever since Worlds has been quite popular.
So I do like the Anivia version into it.
We'll see though, because this this teamfighting is a little bit different and you do have a lot of wave clear.
But Anivia Unara is a very strong like AoE teamfighting combo of carries.
And so that I kind of like this core double carries for Lyon that they're starting with.
I was gonna say is I feel like an idiot is insanely difficult to play into when you're a really short-range team
But can struggle against Pope right so yes
You're always gonna have that isolated matchup
But DSG gets to draft for their five picks knowing there's an Indian on the other team right so if they draft themselves into a corner with
The really short-range team. Well, that's your own fault
So yeah, we'll see how the interview is gonna succeed and especially like it's a similar thing as far as the strengths with you
No, I haven't a lot of strengths versus a lot of melee clumped up champions to if you drag yourself into a clump
You're not in a very good spot because you know I was gonna be splashed damage bouncing back and forth on everybody
I'm ugly clump. Oh, yeah, I have yet to see a very good-looking clump. Actually
by definition
No, can't be a handsome clump. There's no artistic clump unless you know, if they're trying they're trying to like sell you on
Some extremely overpriced
What a handsome clump of casters that are casting today.
Oh, it's us.
Yeah.
There's exceptions to every rule.
True.
That's us.
Oh, Trundle.
Okay.
So Trundle also got a little bit of a buff on the patch.
So coming right back here, Trundle, the pillar, pillar, and anivia wall, and anivia
ultimate is there's so much.
Give me some poppy.
Give me a poppy support or something.
man there's just so much stuff that lion can put to annoy you so many slows they
can create so much terrain for themselves as well this this lion comp that
they're building right now is gonna be able to do a lot of terrain building
themselves and I like that they're bending out some of these long-range
ADCs right the various are already banned out phase one Kaisa was gone from
last game she can't play polkaisa Ezreal now gonna get banned out so
we talked about how poke can be really effective against this style of
composition. Well, they're taking those options away. So we'll see where they want to throw
this final ban. It's going to be Lucian, so we're going to deny any possibilities of Lucian
Nami and that sort of thing. Corki was gone, which is another one who can kind of poke
and prod. So it will be more difficult for Sejed to actually look for something that
is a bit more able to get involved without really exposing yourself. There's still things
like Jhin if you want to be able to follow up. You know, that can be pretty effective.
Obviously, Zayas stay safe from dive, but you can't R over the Anivia wall. So it's
It's actually not really a good pick in that way,
especially because Lyon don't want to harm it.
They're not looking to die.
They're looking to control the fight,
have it go slow, you know,
create these kind of sections of control
with the Trundle and the Univia
and allow Berserker to do his work.
Like this feels like a comp that is built
to keep Berserker safe and have these extended fights.
Yeah, Berserker on Unara, hyper carry champ,
and they've got a brick wall in front.
They've got an ice wall.
They've got a pillar of filth,
and they've got Sion himself, so.
Trash wall trash wall. Yeah, it's a different color built anymore. I think they change them to be more ice team
So could be what the color is until we look and find out
You know in our minds. Oh a fellio's can be long range with green gun. That's true
And he's got a green support to keep him safe here. You are on it today
Hey, look at this. It's got the lantern is connecting all the dots
Just ones and zero some
We're going to go in now. They're gonna have a wall another wall and a door. It's just a wall comp
It's just a wall you just wall at them. It's crazy
They just need one more and they can have a house right cuz they got three walls. Yeah
I mean, it's also a crazy Freljord synergy here. It just
You just can't really walk around any of this team fight like this team fight is crazy from lion all the
CC and slows and
Set up here like they're coming way more. They're gonna force you to be a club whether you identify as a clump or not
I'm clumped. They're gonna make they're gonna make you be a club. Yeah. Well, that's rough
DSG, you know pretty short range and they are pretty hard engaged trying to engage through brawl
Brock is like actually a killer last pick here to bring the comp together when you have
Renekton Wukong like they kind of have to send it
I do think it's gonna be really difficult for a DSG
Unless they get way ahead and then kind of all bets are off
You know, maybe they could try split pushing trying to punish the enemy in a side lane or something like that
But I love what lion is drafted. Yeah, no
I guess like the only way it fails is if bot lane gets targeted and burgers are just gets blown out of water
And you just have no money on your you know, or if you like subbed us in I failed then too. Yeah, we could do that
Yes, I could make that go bad. I got a zero six in me. I got a zero ten
Let's light work. Well, we'll see if lion can pull it back force us to a what would be our think our first six game day
We haven't had a double three game day just yet
We're looking for it be us
Or we just get clumped in with all the other four and five game days
Not that anything but that it could happen. All right, so Jed so Jed
So Jed he had a very good Kaiser game here choosing the aphelios into this comp
Let's see how they operate.
I think if they have a way to win,
maybe bottom lane is it.
We will see, but we have a rass standing by with DSG's head coach, Ido.
That's right. Got Ido right next to me.
First of all, taking the dub versus Lyon in game one.
Was that something you expected, especially with Cryo's debut?
Yeah, I hope I never expect to lose.
That would suck.
Cryo's debut going pretty good.
He had obviously some misses with the Pantheon ults,
He's he's working it out in real time a little bit of stage nerves
But I think he'll be fine
When the team was built and of course you guys have been screaming with them
What did you envision Criber's role necessarily?
Yeah, I think the way that I view jungle is jungle can be just as much of a carry as 80 carry or mid lane
So you should let them eat as much as they want. You should play off of their timers
I think that's the best way to play the game
So helping him embody that helping him learn it's okay to eat camps slow it down the game
make sure that he's strong and last game that worked out pretty well too aside from like some team fight oopsies, but
Yeah, I think you did a good job doing that before we send it to the gaster starts on the composition here
It's a little weird honestly for game two. They don't really have too much engages
They're kind of expecting us to like run into them
So I had a word with them before that you know that they don't really have engaged
The only way that we lose is like we go way too deep way too fast
Just hit front play on a failure is the screen and it should be should be pretty good
Sweet thanks a lot for the interview and it's in his right back to the casters
Okay, I mean if they if they walk up and they start stacking dragons like if they get the dragons early
And they've got you know brahman trundle and a sound in front
We'll we'll see how how those ones do go. I like the confidence
here then the the last final word you know calming words for your team always
nice send them in there relax you know they can't win they can't clump us we
can only clump ourselves just don't clump ourselves and it's all good yeah it's
also interesting hearing um you know is kind of take on how jungle should be
played at pro level I got to talk to Ido before the season started and kind of
reiterate a similar thing where he was saying he thinks that a lot of pro
junglers are going about the wrong way he thinks that the team should play
for jungle and really inject gold into the jungler. The jungler shouldn't just be sacrificing
and making themselves weak because of the reason he was saying he thinks they can be
just as strong carry.
I tell my flex cute team there every single night. Here we go though. Looks like bottom
scuttle crab. Easy peasy for inspired and it will be split to the top side for cryra
as well. Nice delay on the back. It cost Lyon 18. Oh it cost him a little more.
The Flash has to be used because of the pillar and the Collapsier, so he gets an interrupt
onto Trundle, which, I mean, look at Wukong right now.
You know that Gromp is respawning, and so you're going to have a ward watching it, but
because your first clears are done so quickly and the second clears, you know, like instantly
start, junglers have a couple extra seconds anyway, so that interrupt is not really going
to deter Inspired at all.
Basically, Gromp is spot now, so I lost 1-1,000, 2-1,000, it was alive, like that Gromp could
be thinking, and maybe, hey, thanks for my extra 2 seconds of life.
Yeah, I mean, it's hard to end up basing before Kaira anyway, because Kaira spent that
time walking across the map to get the ward, so regardless, you know, it's not going
to be delayed too much, but we have an update, a critical update in this all-important
matchup, you know, because accolades were looking a little bit uneven last time
around, but Kaira has been able to add to it.
He now has beat the Raining MVP inspired in his LCS debut.
That's a pretty good accolade.
Also, you got a thumbs up for production right there.
That's the biggest one.
You don't even get a thumbs up for being a four-time champion for being a three-time
MVP.
That's kind of crazy.
Look at the producer bias on this one.
Yeah, actually.
I mean, trophies and blah, blah, blah.
Don't care.
But you beat the guy with the trophies.
Thumbs up.
There we go.
All right.
Well, game number two here in this series, though, Lyon.
It would be very big if they lose here and they go down to 1-2 in this lock-in tournament,
bringing in such star power as we keep on going over the story here with Inspired as well
as Berserker, some pretty high-powered pickups for this squad.
And if they were to go, especially if it's a 0-2 versus DSG here, I think very few
people would have predicted that coming into this season.
We know it's not determined yet because of tiebreakers and so on and so forth.
But I mean, TL is one and two as well, right?
Like that is super surprising.
TL was kind of the de facto number one team as far as the power rankings.
People had line and scrim rumors and scrim rumors.
People had line in various places, but a lot of people did feel like, hey,
Lyon could be competing for a championship.
Lyon should be a top three team.
So they have both of those squads here off to a tougher start.
Of course, Lyon could still come back in this series and win.
And then that changes the story a little bit.
But yeah, not, not having the start, I think it's, it's fair to say
that they were hoping for.
Alright, well, let's see about this bottom fight.
They did have vision over the entry from Inspired.
That ward is going to die in Trybrush as of now.
Skodal Crab being pushed up to the top side.
They're going to Realm Warp.
They're going to try to look for this fight here.
Cryra has 6, can't quite get in range.
Nice attempt though with the Realm Warp, right as Wukong gets 6.
Honestly, I love the whole talk of like every single game where I was like, alright,
Level six crab is coming up. Where is everybody and
No longer has it like determined the whole game
We haven't had people dying over it, but bottom side for the level six crab
Means you also get priority into the dragon and so the rewards are like quadruples for
For winning that little push and shove around the bomb side of the map and you're talking about where is everybody?
I think lion was wondering where is saying because he was the one that wasn't there
He was you know late to actually arrive to play he was trying to run over there
But I think had taken a base and call me was that difference maker
He shows up lion does have no flash
But is gonna be able to back up nice hooked forces out the cleanse on a berserker as he had been rooted up by
So Jed so just a trait of summoners there and lion's able to use the spellbook cleanse to stay safe on the bomb passive
okay
kind of a
little bit scary, but topside topside is actually more scary for
four line, you know, docl here is is losing in CS castle has been able to get
one turret plate. I don't know what your metric is for how far you're you feel okay
with a sign getting behind versus Renekton but I think castle is doing
quite a good job here earning a decent amount you know 400 gold lead for
himself and seven and a half minutes feels like a pretty pretty good pace
for the extra advantage here. I agree I think he's doing really really well.
I kind of think if you can like this is is really good for castle now but
But if Doe cook and keep it dead even I feel like if you stay within two waves and you can
kind of defend your tower, then you're usually doing okay, right?
You know that at this point in the game is significant that in 15 minutes means nothing.
So that's kind of generally how I look at it is science should bleed some CS early.
But as long as you can stabilize and kind of keep within a couple of ways of CS, then
you're going to be really happy later on.
Want to see to how much side lane pressure DSG can get out of that because that's
One of the big things here is that they do have Ryze and Renekton for side lane pressure for later
And Castle's gonna use his ultimate pretty early here on Dokla to get a very very nice
Trade here getting a lot of his HP down and Dokla of course neither of them have their teleport cooldowns
So that's why he's going for the extra pressure
You know he had some distance there from the mid lane you can walk him down the damage over time
It's one of the biggest things about the Renekton ultimate
That was the area that they kept buffing when they were trying to get this champion back in.
And so it is critical when you're using, especially your early ultimates, get some good walk down value,
get some good time while they're actually, you know, burning down there.
So he's trying to soften them up, trying to keep Doku a little bit concerned.
And if you can keep your pressure as they're in the end, get access to popping more tower plates by the crystal pop mechanism.
Yeah, I like that from from castle, especially because not only doclab no TP, but he altered back to lane, you know last time he actually based
I should have that TP back up pretty soon as well as the ulti though
So as long as don't clear doesn't get dove or anything weird, he will be okay
And like that I pretty sure he got the second turret plate Renekton was up at the tower
I can see on the mini map so bottom side they're getting turret plates top side castle just got his second turret plate
so both sides for DSG early on grabbing some
turret plates here still gold lead for berserker though as as he returns and you
could see that line was very worried about cryra coming in down for a
potential dive they didn't have any eyes on them they saw that he'd walk down to
their bot side jungle and so they respected the fact that he could be
there cry rough of course just just based and he's forming topside but
that does earn DSG's bot lane a little bit of reprieve it's allowed
them to catch up a bit here all right replacing some vision on inspired to
to look at the clear down towards bottom once again.
Oh, nice hook comes in.
This is not going to be cleansed away.
Well, Ayn is just trying to back it up here
as Isle's blocking some damage.
Berserker though, does get hit by the Inferno Malty.
Will they chase in further?
Doesn't look like it.
So it's a trade of ultimates.
The heal used from Isle as well
as Berserker did not have his cleanse back.
I mean, you heard I don't play around Efeleos.
If Efeleos, you know, has some space to work with
and you got some good Thresh Lanterns for mobility here,
and get some extra money.
Maybe they can work away on that other
turrets plate as well.
Then that would be the biggest area
for them to start cry.
Although exiting.
Pass the mid lane where they have their
control word no real option here.
We continue to farm and berserker now
does get back.
He will catch some of this wave,
but the lead is gone and bought.
So suggest you get some help from that
implied threat that cry or had and
then they went astrayed.
They push him back.
It's also a little bit ahead of the call,
about how things go despite the fact that you know they are into a bit of a
tougher matchup can be difficult for Thresh playing into Braum but for me
even like this I think you're gonna be really happy. Nice little bit of pressure
and the return here a fellas will get there just in time.
Lyon's gonna pull the wave a little bit. How many does he get? Every single one.
Nice. He should be able to clean up all these pretty effortlessly. Meanwhile
the trundle and the wukong same trinity force timers here both these 20 to force junglers
I mean wukong especially has the opportunity to try and you know look for some flash plays with ultimate with trinity force spike
I mean yeah, the lion team is very good defensively
But you can still pull off some really good flash engages onto a unara wukong is one of these jungle champs
They can put a lot of pressure onto unara
Let's see it might even occur here at this dragon fight approaching from two angles.
Yeah, call me does get walled off, but the stun does not connect there from St. Isles and Berserker down below and the TPs are going to be coming in here.
Sion going to arrive with the rest of the team. Castle had already TP'd in early, forces the Flash there from St.
But they are split up. Who are they going to engage on Lyon? Does get that big hook on a Berserker.
He fends away on a Cryra trying to get it. He does slay the dragon, flashes back in, knocks up Berserker.
Now, Dashing is out of the brawl, well-played by Cryra.
Dancing around the team fight.
Dolklins locked up.
He's going to be knocked down and call me once more.
Trying to chase in onto St. Won't be able to find him.
But it's two kills and the dragon.
And how about Cryra dancing around that fight?
That was beautiful.
I also love the DSG prep so well.
They approach.
They get to the dragon first.
So that was going to be the big difference maker.
OK, if we have to approach this line team,
they're good defensively.
That could pose some problems.
But they have pressure.
They go early to the dragon.
They are on the same side.
So when line approach from two different angles here,
bottom lane coming up the river and top side,
Saint and Inspired, that's not real threatening
because DSG have five members top side of the fight.
So Saint has to flash.
You have to respect that.
And then he goes back in and we're gonna get,
you know, the dragon picked up for him
because Inspired's been rooted all the way over there.
So it's an easy dragon smite.
But the cool thing is he escaped.
Flash over under the Unoa, then dash over,
Kill off the braum as well because they're gonna have to flash out because your team has priority has the pressure
You're all grouped up. You're able to chase them out and lion. They're just split, you know
You this comp like I said you can't engage and so if you're approaching from two different sides
It makes it very tricky for you to have real pressure on any one target
You can't really focus target like DSG could and DSG just calmly
I think played out that fight quite nicely you focus one side of the fight
force away their resources go back on the objective no chance of a smite steal
inspired too far away and they get more than they came for even with the
extra kill. I love you know that that flash from cryra because not only does
it get him backing on berserker he flashed over adokas all you know so
he's able to dodge the sign all too it's just really really well played but
I gotta say Lyon and a lot of moments in this game just don't look like
they're on the same page right you know like you're saying they're so
split up how is anivia really supposed to enter that fight how is
was trying to walk into that fight
and even have a chance at stealing it.
You know, inspired never even got on the same screen
as the dragon.
He was never going to have a chance to actually 50-50 that.
So definitely looking tough for a line.
And though, you know, I liked their draft a lot.
You know, when we were actually coming out of champion select,
they are now way behind.
And again, going to be in a pretty tough spot.
All right.
Big Dokes finishes his Sunfire.
So that scion with the ultimate
is the, you know, primary engage.
You're hoping maybe like, all right, there's gonna be
trundle pillars and anivia walls and stuff
to make it hard for enemies to move.
But I think the biggest thing is,
if they get behind too early with this,
and you're not able to have a very big effect
while you're grouped, it's also gonna be hard
to attend to your side lanes.
Rise and renect in side lanes here
are gonna constantly have pressure.
And so, theoretically, DSG can keep on gaining
resource advantages on the map here,
putting pressure, moving in, getting jungle vision super deep in, and then you get to see
the next moves that Lion are going to make, and immediately they're going to rotate over
to that Rift Herald after placing some fairly deep vision, but Kyra is going to reset it.
I really like the point you made about, you know, being first to the dragon, because
to me it's like, that's clearly how you want to function as both teams, right?
You know, if Lion are there first, and all of a sudden DSG was the one having to
walk through, you know, a Nivea wall, and all this zone control, and then
you're getting funneled in, and someone steps forward, and now they're walled
off and they're getting focused down. That's incredibly hard but because they
should have played they're now way behind and when you're playing a team that is
great at counter-engage but has no engage your comeback mechanics are a lot
there's a lot fewer right because generally when you get down you're
like all right let's make a pick right but that's not really gonna be an
option and Saint may just be going down has no flash good wall though
keeps himself safe for now but Castle could look for a re-dive Saint trying
to keep him away trying to stay safe here but he is overtake is welcome
He needs to leave. He's back into the egg.
Will Castle go back in and try to finish him off?
I don't think so. I think he's going to be happy with popping that pass.
If it's inspired, he's going to come down here now
and try to look for the play on the Castle.
Does he have the slice in dice? Can he get over the wall?
Flash followed there from inspired.
And Castle, I don't think, is going to have anywhere to go now.
Looking like he's out of luck. They want to give it to Berserker.
And they're going to be able to. That is nice.
Lyon not only get the kill,
but they're able to give it to their most important carry now, Berserker.
Yeah, 100%. They need Berserker to have enough money
to carry these teamfights.
That Unara definitely has the capabilities
of putting out the damage if they can fund her.
So very nice luxury there that they're able to actually give it.
So the Slice and Dyson, you saw no hesitation from Inspired.
He flashed over that wall.
He said, you are definitely going into Berserker's pockets here.
I'm going to make sure of it.
This little pop up there from him as well.
And Berserker gets a little bit more money.
money. It's still not gonna make up fully the gap that they had. And so Jett is well gonna be able
to tap a turret plate. Yep, and it's looking strong. Moving toward that IE. No flash on Inspire.
Remember they're trying to focus him down and he gets bursted to start the fight here. Castle on
the side. Good threat. Just got deleted. Red, white, good knight inspired. He gets deleted
off the map. Hit a death sentence and now Lyon are thinking, well, the rest of us are here.
What do we do now?
I guess we're trying to watch because we know they're taking dragon, but we just lost our
jungler right before the objective even came up and you're sitting there, hands empty.
I guess we all leave now.
Yeah, I mean there's the punish on the flash that was used to kill Castle.
They catch inspired, has no flash, they get that kill on him.
And pretty early on, like you said, realized nothing we can do here.
So he just runs up towards that top side.
Again, we are faced with a really quick soul from DSG.
In DSG last game it was about 20 minutes when they got their third dragon, this time
it's not even 18 and they're on sole points and that is going to be really difficult to
deal with.
Call me going forward here onto Sane as Lyon's going to flash in, finds the follow-up hook
and remember he has no passive so there may be a punish back the other way.
Good flash out though from Sane and now the stun coming down on Lyon.
He's got no flash because he used it aggressively.
Inspire arrives and they're going to get the kill onto Lyon.
Just barely Sane survives, comes up with a pretty important play but then he
Oh my God.
I wonder if Lines kept on.
I don't think he just kills him there.
That was close.
Alright, call me now.
They are going for the recall, but will they go for the play?
Isles now in the area.
Call me. Flashing forward does get one back.
Nicely done. A saint does fall.
You can see Renekton down towards that bot lane
working on the tier two tower.
So he is farming up some plates.
So Jed could be in a bit of trouble as Dokla trying to threaten him.
He'll just back it right off
and respect the threat there.
So a lot of scrapping, but at the end of the day,
the gold swing stays pretty even
and inspired is hit his Mastercard Power Spike there
with the Trinity Force of course had that for some time
and is looking pretty powerful with it.
Yeah, interesting stuff up there.
I mean, it got a little dicey, a little spicy at the end.
In the end though, Flash invested from call me
to make sure that he gets a counterkill on the play.
We'll see if that Flash ends up getting punished,
He just didn't want to go down without taking somebody with him. So, you know, I respect that. I feel that I got mine
What else is the team doing? You're gonna kill me
Somebody down with me. I'm good for what yeah dying a team fight, but you get one kill. I got mine
Why would lose the fight? Well, we'll see if anything happens with him not having flash later, but
We'll see honestly. He still should be able to have some pressure split pushing
I mean room warp is very very useful
in those endeavors and bottom side already is a long lane for them having taken that tower so
castle is able to push the long lane on bottom side and get some extra time to roam. Yep and I do
like that he's playing upgraded Swifties makes a lot of sense you're playing gets a Nivea,
Trundle, Braum, U-Nara slow, even Zion has the slow there's so many slows on this team so
Swifties definitely smart tech here it'd be interesting to see you know we have Swifties
as well. I was gonna say I kind of expect him to go for it also and he has.
Alright, this Harold here going to finish up the mid tower. Now we've got bot and mid
taken care of from DSG, the thought of cold gameplay. Bottom side of minion wave does need
to be attended to as at least Dukla was able to push that one out but I have to say DSG
have been very good at progressing the game. They have not wasted a lot of time. They
They have been very calculated in all of their objectives,
you know, arriving early, arriving on time,
and everybody kind of doing their part.
So next step on the checklist is gonna be
getting your vision for the Dragon Soul.
Just make that approach to the fight
so insanely hard for this line team
that the only thing you possibly have to worry about
is a scion ultimate.
And that's not even that hard to deal with.
You can wukong clone that even.
Yeah, you can wukong clone it.
You got plenty of options here so as long as they can go get some extra control words there like they can make it so difficult for lion to approach.
And lion themselves trying to carve out an area of the map to work with at least.
Yeah, and it's gonna be tough for lion, but have to be there first have to find some way to get pushed, but they just can't really respond to this rise in the sideline and maybe just so much more at risk moving around the map.
or trying to see is the jet moving too far forward.
Can we punish him?
The answer is no for now.
But as long as DSG don't see anyone,
your sidelines are pushing.
You don't need to do anything.
You're just chilling, waiting for them to show up
because otherwise you're gonna get a free tier two bot
and that looks like that's gonna be your result
of this play or at least some damage on it.
Yeah, and call me.
His ghost is almost back up.
Even without your flash,
your ghost is so much mobility here for the rise.
Sideline pressure, very easy, as you say,
competent as well to be able to push these out.
And so they get them both pushed.
They get the full rewards now.
You can collapse first.
And Spire was trying to move forward there.
What's spotted by Castle was camping out in the blast guns.
Considering and engaged, GSG definitely in the area.
If Inspire goes too far.
20 seconds on the mountain soul.
Pretty big durability boost.
And call me.
Nice little exchange with St. Ahead of Time, knowing.
Oh!
He went in and put the pillar there on the lantern.
Colm is going to get flash on by Isles.
In comes Dokla, can he find him?
Knocks him up and knocks him down.
MVP play with a pillar from Inspired.
Castle is behind them though.
Crye-Rug going to disengage.
Will that be enough to grab them the dragon?
That was clean timing right there from Inspired.
And right before the dragon saw, this guy is clutch.
They purchased themselves an MVP.
Maybe it was just in time here
as far as the play for Lyon.
Now they've got the inside route on the dragon.
DSG are still trying to approach a little bit here though.
I think that is very ill advised
that Lion will be able to secure
the Mountain Dragon themselves and a little bit more.
Yeah, Castle has the slicing dice out.
Cryra forced the flashes.
They were really overstaying.
The Dragon I think was pretty gone once Call Me Died,
but they said, ah, you know, maybe we can fight for it,
do something, you know, catch someone out.
But Cryra does end up losing that Wukong Flash,
which is extremely valuable.
Yeah, it really kind of throws off your timing.
This Baron is dark though,
and there's a white gun of Felios inside that Barren pit.
Yeah, Colmy's going to run more right over into the pit,
so they are on this.
Dokela's going to be able to scout this out,
inspired in the area.
Do they just stick it?
It's down to 5k.
It's getting low now, still getting hit.
They're going to stop the damage for now.
In goes Inspired and Dokela.
They're trying to take this up.
Inspired's been pushed out of the pit though,
so they just focused it down and secured there by Priora.
Castle on his side, trying to slice him nice to safety.
He's alive for now.
Colmy's going to get landed out.
He's still alive.
DSG on the run, but how long can they stay up?
the hook of the wall. Castle still somehow surviving as
doklah against the lots in the first one to fall, but a
great wall is going to section off to Jed and to Jed goes
down. Isles and doklah try to chase inspired here as well.
They want to push the wave. They're going to try to cancel
the base here. Surely Isles does go forward. Cancels it
onto Cryra. Call me now. Going out into a weird spot
here. He's going to interrupt on the lantern play
inspired, cutting back lines, not able to connect on
the hook. Pushes up, but they can't get more. Yeah,
or swiping up against the wall.
Savin' out of manner, though.
All the Indian, you know,
and Berserker pushed the wave into the top tower,
so line will be able to get the tower
at the very least for themselves.
Still three remaining members
with the Baron buff for DSG.
And this is a tough one.
They go, all right, we're gonna push inspired out.
He flashes away as the bellios was on him
that secures the Baron,
but it cost them almost all of Castle's HP,
so their front line's gonna be gone.
They have to run.
Here, Syjet used to flash right there.
So then afterwards,
when they turn around to burst Oakley here
and they move back up a little bit,
now he's got no flash to get out of this wall
and the scion gets a little revenge there
with big dokes in the zombie form collecting.
At the end, I mean, the terrain creation
that we kind of were highlighting for this team
early in champ select with the pillars and the walls,
these clutch kind of interrupts timings on lanterns.
They did another little one up on the top side,
but you can see why Ido said it's okay,
we just play on a failure screen.
Everybody gonna play around one good screen one screen length from a suggest. Yep
Just trust in your boy, and we'll see if he can take him to promise land
He's been on three items for a while. It does have that LDR completed
Berserker has his IE completed and he's had those fiend hundred volts for a long time
So the IE very big spike now for Berserker who is gonna be a threat
But of course the problem is call me snuck out of that fight with almost no health
That means he keeps the Baron buff and it's gonna make that split push that much more threatening. Yeah
Yeah, let's see about the return towards mid.
Nobody gets hooked as of now.
They actually find a pillar here.
Lions going to have to flash out immediately.
It's calling me trying to get some damage down,
but did the overstay.
Are they going to look for the realm warp to re-engage?
Here's the jet.
Take that lantern back.
Nice hook there on it.
Dokla does interrupt him.
It's calling me as the flash over the wall
as he was being pressured on the other side.
No one going to go down.
Just a trade of summoners there,
as it was Dokla's flash, as well as the flashes
of the rise and the thresh.
Pretty interesting stuff here, because we had, like,
two kind of sides of it with a couple flashes traded here yet again. Call me losing some more
mobility resources. I don't know if this is going to be a problem for them, but it could
be an area that lion trying to attack when they attempt to push the sidelines. Stop the
recall on big dokes. Nice smite there does interrupt the recall. Suggest trying to get
the damage down over the wall. Incomes Isles is trying to defend and Pirates put off
on the side and Pirates is going to get first down by berserker. Stake goes into
The egg he's alive for now castle arrives with the TP as lion surely one more the ghost was pop there by call me now expires berserker
Threatening forward. They won't get any more aisles comes in just at the right moment keeps his top laner alive
Allows them to get a kill back. Yeah, sounds pretty beefy and they they kind of went in for the attempt here
I thought they caught him on there the stop on the recall and up losing a little extra themselves
but this dragon still 50 seconds so there's plenty of time for Wukong and
Wukong's flash will also be back up so Crower will be back he will also have
flash I don't know how much money he has look at his GA is really wants to
complete the GA for the dragon soul fight he has the components at the
moments if they could squeeze that out it would be so so big yeah that would
be massive you can see Saint now completed his actualizer off the back
of that so he's on three items same items there on the other side for call me
suggest just to pick X on top of his three items whereas berserker has
completed his fourth so berserker actually way ahead in gold now of 2k so
it's kind of the inverse situation of last game berserker it definitely has
an opportunity to carry this one yeah for sure and especially if their team
does get here first like they are now because trying to cut through front to
back or through a braum and scion frontline here that are backed up
But by a very fed Yunara, it could be difficult, so you might need like Wukong and a Renekton
flank which Castle is trying now.
Castle just now got spotted.
He walked over that ward, but no one pinged him out.
Did they not notice?
They're not reacting to it whatsoever.
They're going to go forward and instead, Lyon's going to be caught on the wrong side
of the wall.
He's going to get knocked up there by the estimating stack.
Now Castle being marked.
Call me being pushed back.
Berserker dashes in.
He's trying to team down to the death plunge over the wall.
Trying to get one back.
So, Jett kills him.
But not before he goes down from Berserker, Lyon's over the wall, lay at the hook,
the left alone and it's Lyon running over the fight here this time they get the
best of DSG. Berserker went huge so much confidence in that fight. Yeah you can see it.
DSG no alright we can't get through all this you know scion and look at this wall
over here on the side Lyons is getting burned down then the prom all it's
like too hard to get there so they're trying to all flash on Berserker.
So Jed even flashes over onto Berserker. Berserker flashes up and it
It costs everybody to expend so much in their endeavors to take down the unara that they do in the end, but it costs them everything.
And it's just so hard to get through all of these Freljord champions. They're so durable. Someone CC.
Look at the relief there. Feeling some stress, say to say, on the lie inside.
You can say that.
Yep. Expectations are high for this team. They built a very expensive roster.
And, you know, with that comes the expectations that you are going to be a top-level team,
so right now we're definitely knowing, hey, if things are going bad, that's going to be
some pressure on me.
So very happy to see them win that teamfight.
They were pretty down early, but have been able to claw it back.
Three straight dragons for DSG.
Now Lyon have won back-to-back fights, and Berzerker is ridiculously strong.
Already had four fully completed items.
Now it's the QSS and a Vance Scepter on top.
And this is the stage of the game, which is why we were getting worried when we
saw the champ select.
Oh man, that 5-on-5, woo, a lion are looking very beefy,
and they're going for a dive even.
Yeah, for Zerker though, gonna be potentially in some trouble,
gets exhausted, QSS is it.
There is the GA Poth, lion's looking like he's gonna fall
as well, is safe going forward,
trying to finish him off, can't quite do it,
so Jed though, focusing on a doklah,
doklah getting low, but he is still alive.
Call me on the side, just gets deleted there.
Fiber, Zerker, and same as he tried to come in,
DSG note from this spot,
they kinda have to try to find clever angles,
but they're just getting picked off as they move forward.
Yeah, cannot get in.
Winsorker knows he's the target
and he's not too scared
with all of his bodyguards around him.
They're going straight into the base.
Middle and even our tower immediately down.
And look at the timing windows here.
It's going to be a desperate defense.
Can Sejed and Castle and Lyons pull out a miracle?
Castle popping the alti knows he can't waste too much time.
They're trying to trim out that way,
but a new wave is coming in.
Sejed on the side looking for some damage
onto inspired gets chunks of it himself.
Castle on the run from Berserker.
The towers are being focused down.
The last tower is gone.
So Jed tried to make a big play.
Knocks down the Anivia, but only into the passive.
Kriber comes back up for the respawn,
but inspired eyes on the next.
He is not messing around with kills.
Inspired wants to tie up this series,
and he will do so.
We are going to the first six game day of this split
so far.
Record setting day at the LCS.
Banger here, too, as we go to a deciding game coming
up right after this. All right, lounge. How you feeling now?
I'm feeling like we're in for the long haul here.
Six games, the max we could have, and they have been bangers in this series in particular.
One to one, Lyon tie up the series.
They do not want to go into that one and two kind of like best of one scenario.
We'll have to wait and see kind of based on games, one strength of wins, things like that,
if they would get that auto qualification in or not.
but Winner here automatically qualifies for the knockout stage and I think that that is a big buster for them.
Yeah and I mean it was kind of surprising right to see Lyon be taken down in game one and now early in this game it looked like oh okay
you know we had Ido interview with Raz and be like all they have to do is just you know not go too far forward not over extend them down.
I think it's what he said.
I do feel like there were enough moments of slight overextension where, like, when you
look at this comp from Lyon, the trundle, the Anivia wall, right, like, there's a specific
fight where I think everyone kind of funnels into it.
Yeah.
And then it just ends up very, very poorly for DSG.
So I think we did see those kind of strengths and weaknesses in both competitions.
Yeah.
of the day, I think that the fact that we saw Lyon,
the servers used to compensate, try and keep him safe.
And he had a pop-up performance on the Inara,
being able to, in the late game,
carry on a lot of those team fights.
But it was inspired with the pillars,
stopping people from calling me,
like getting away with the Lanterns, stuff like that.
Raz, you're back over here.
What were you doing back there?
I was dangling with that machine there.
I was getting it ready for Emily.
You wanted to talk about something within the game,
right?
Yeah, so I wanted to go over one of those fights
I just mentioned.
This is after there have been a few catches, right?
So we do have the big thing you do not want to do
with this composition is end up funneling
into a choke point where what's going to happen
is the Nivea Wall is going to come down here,
and then there's just going to be so much damage cycling
onto DSG in this, right?
because as we play this out,
especially since the carries don't have flash from the side.
So then they have, Castle has headed up here.
He's going to be looking for a potential flank,
but so Jed is already over here.
When Isle gets caught, kind of a little bit caught there.
This is what I'm talking about.
This is all of that damage, just kind of cycling through.
Castle's too late.
They're already on to call me.
And again, this is after a few other picks
had been made previously, but this composition from Lion
just gives them such easy setup.
So then it's up to DSG to try to potentially find
some answers.
And in here, it was just, again, so easy to set up,
so easy to funnel them in, even with the flanks
that Castle was looking for on that Renekton.
And it felt like every single fight that even was like,
OK, it looks kind of even lose two to one, something like that.
Ryan was just clawing their way back in.
And for a team as young as DSG, I think it's
important to remind people that they don't have as much experience
to lean back on players like Sejed, players like Cryra.
Like this is Cryra's first weekend here in the LCS.
And I saw some hints of that, Raz, in terms of like just
them not being able to find the right approaches.
Once the games are getting out of control,
there are a lot of efforts and attempts,
but they just weren't able to find the right ones.
a good point from IDO within the interview that we had prior to the game talking about
how they don't have engaged specifically line don't have clear engage. I guess you can talk
about the sign, but a lot of it is like difficult for them to start a fight and forciify it.
But if you're walking into them, it's hell walking into a team comp like brahm and a
scion who's just channeling Q and an Anivia. And the biggest point within that replay
that you kind of highlighted is the fact that you're walking into that comp. Yep.
you don't have flashes on
being cooked up the entire
that is like that. That is
from the back and being li
nightmare that we did not
to walk into. We were not
had another one top side
didn't have flash gets ca
after they go back in to
to do the same thing, r
get trapped, get absolutely
I'm curious to see who
the game while we're doing
a look at the tool as well
right there. What is the f
I'm curious to see what t
those stats where I was
I actually I'll myself he
for inspired for this one
for inspired for this one.
vote. Um Berserker also pla
when we talked about when
in their games, he was do
a lot of time it was by
the rest of the game. Here
when things didn't necess
way early, he's able to
you know our damage in s
Yeah, they had a lot of
this company. I think yo
if you're playing something like this.
And I was concerned because they're losing
Drake's, they're really falling behind.
Yeah.
What did you have down there, Stengas?
I'm playing around with the tool right now.
So we had the Sentinels 2-1 win earlier over Team Liquid.
So right now, we have three teams locked for playoffs,
100% between Cloud9, FlyQuest Sentinels.
Well, we're just used first seed between Cloud9
and FlyQuest later.
But then this is what's happening with this year
is because we're 1-1, we either get this world,
where it's DSG21, and they qualify,
or this world where it's Lyon.
So then there's gonna be a lot on the line here.
So let's imagine, what do we think happens
to Shopify rebellion versus dig for tomorrow?
Do we assume 2-0 Shopify?
What do we think?
I'd say 2-1 Shopify, yeah.
2-1, okay, so if we're thinking like this,
if DSG when they're in Team Liquid
would be in as that, you know,
fifth seed that auto-qualifies,
Lyon and Shopify would have to play
the next kind of, best of one.
But if we switch it around, huge difference.
the game. So we're going to
see what we're going to see.
Lion are obviously in disguise
make it in and then team he
had one shop. I would have to
play. Let's see what happens
if it's like dig win it
instead yet still TL over here.
Yeah, so if lion win TL looks
like they're going to be in
that tiebreaker best of one
crazy world to think about.
But with that being said,
that's all that we have for
this post game. We're going
to throw it to a short break
before we're back with game
three to see how all this
I ulted Renekton, I fire him.
Just flash him, 80%?
Renekton, no E's.
I'm gonna go flash.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chase, chase, chase, chase.
The latter might be absent.
Can you get one more kill or not?
And it's Lyon running over the fight here this time.
They get the best of DSG.
Hey guys, this is Delklat, top laner for Lyon, and today I'm going to show you a tip on
how to play against Fiora.
As Fiora, level one, your vitals are predetermined on where they're going to spawn.
So if you're blue side, it's always going to face towards you.
And if you're red side, it's going to face away from you.
So what you want to do is spot your enemy so that you can reset the vitals based on which
side you're on.
So if you're on blue side, you don't want to see them.
And if you're on red side, you do want to see your enemies so you can reset the vitals.
There you go.
That's just a tip on Fiora.
All right, now that we've mastered Fiora with that tip from Dohkla.
Yeah, I'm good to go carry an LCS game now.
Yeah.
Seems pretty straightforward.
make it out to be so complicated.
Why don't they lock that champ in more, huh?
Come on.
Yeah, come on.
Don't we got the tips?
Maybe saving for game three.
See the champ?
Don't see the champ.
There you go.
You get to pick side now, too.
Oh, easy.
Yeah, there you go.
You can choose whether you want to see him or not.
That's crazy.
All right, well, we got some playoff implications now.
So DSG is locked as a result of game one
because of a strength of schedule tiebreaker
that could occur, even if they lost.
For Lyon, if they win, they're
going to be locked playoffs.
If they lose, it depends on the result of Dignitas vs Shopify, so that is the TLDR there.
And DSG is going to select last pick, while Lion selects blue side.
Okay, well, the only thing that is still going to remain true, and Bess and Orianna are going to remain perma-ban, so those definitely will not be available as we get into the draft here for fearless best of three game decider, series decider.
possibly both teams can still make playoffs so it's not the last decided of
that but playoff implication or uh-huh all right well it just get a little bit
more interesting as mouth I also remains banned here so we're just do not
turning in because that was their first three on the blue side game one I
believe keep that one I mean yeah not doing does lose some value in Oriana's
from a band, but they were
important to us though.
Yeah, and Varys is going to remain on the band list, so
a lot of the same ones kind of staying up here
wouldn't be surprised as Nocturne, because again, it was
what was shown as that third band earlier, but
hey, maybe they're saying, oh, we don't care about the
just the Ori Nocturne pairing, maybe there's another
pairing that's now been played, so they could
drop that band, and we'll see if they want to go
for that, as it will in fact be Nautilus
going to get banned out here.
Some people just hate playing against that ultimate, man.
It is annoying.
but maybe we will see it this time around.
We'll see since it does get through.
DSG, what are we feeling now?
Actually when we get to game threes,
I usually get most excited for Mid lane
because Mid lane gets a little bit more spicy,
a little bit more diverse here.
So I wanna see, you know, same as everything other stuff
like Akali, you know, previously.
And now you get some time to actually
use those types of champions.
Friendly enough, CallMe to me had one of the best Akali performances that we have had all year of an LCS mid laner.
So I think a lot of good combinations are available here.
I think CallMe has been quietly very good. I think he is a big part of DSG's success thus far, already locked playoffs.
That's awesome for them. That is a big win for them.
And I was going to mention, we've gotten through a lot of these meta AD junglers.
Zin Zhao obviously got a little bit of a buff in the patch, so that one is rising in priority.
But there's still things like Jarvan is still up and available.
We've seen Kiana, we've seen some Lee Sin,
so there are obviously other AD junglers that you can go to.
Yeah, and we get the presumably Castle Aurora,
because he does like it, but it's a flex pick here.
And put some pressure on those solo lanes.
Meanwhile, some Aleutian, possibly Nami.
Yeah, we'll see if they're going to go Nami on 3 here
if they want to respond to a potential pick.
Also, we touched on jungle.
You know, that could get pinched pretty heavily
if they do not go for an AD jungle here and you want to have an AD jungler in the mix,
could be a couple of bands thrown their way by the lion. Worth noting though that even though
DSG is locked for playoffs, winning would start them in the upper bracket, which is very important,
so of course still really hunting for that series win here on the side of DSG.
And we are getting the Preserver Classic. This is the champion I associate most with
him by far. When he first came into the league, it was like peak Zery gaming. He was getting
pentakills he was racking up wins left him right on cloud nine and it is lulu
zerry absolute throwback to when he first joined glee and honestly I loved
lulu was in also so yeah there's a this line opening set for their draft here
is very comfortable very very comfortable picks I feel like if I'm
lying I really would like to ban out Jarvan because not only is Jarvan in
the 80s jungler but it's also a form of engage right and you are a bit light
right on engagement. You go this enchanted route to be able to take that away. Could be quite nice. There's also obviously tank engage options up in the top side like you can go towards or something like that if you want. But we haven't seen
Sante played yet so I'm pretty sure someone's going to play Kassante.
The only thing with Jarvan is he doesn't put a ton of pressure on Zerry.
So maybe they're more, they're like Berserker.
You're going to carry this game for us. Anything you want, man buddy?
It looks like the first man probably wasn't Berserker saying,
Gik went out of my face. That was probably Dockler.
Maybe it was. You know, this shroud's pretty annoying.
Yeah, maybe. I'm trying to get a pentakill buddy.
What's up with this shroud?
Yeah, immune? Hell no.
No. Not in my book.
Get that thing out of here.
So a couple of mid lane bands getting thrown down towards state.
So going to be taking away some of these control mages.
Of course Aurora could be top, could be mid.
You know, really could go either way for Call Me or Castle.
But the mid lane options are going to be narrowed down quite a bit.
I like it.
And the bands are pushing them more
towards some exciting assassin.
Get your hands dirty types of picks.
Band a couple of these control mages.
All right.
Raise that priority.
All right.
still does get banned. Yeah, I mean, even if you kick over his area, I wish to like it
when you're playing as an enchanter against it. It's pretty terrifying. I'm not
going to lie. Just get all to the flight and drags out. You know, flash you are just
cooked as uh, so Jed is uh, we're finding out his hover. His hover is Renata. So we
got to find out the lore on the Renata hover. But usually it's a shout out to
a to a girlfriend or something like that. So we'll see what they are going to
considered locking. Mundo could be kind of fun as as both a potential flex again it
could be jungle or top but of course in pro play it's mostly just been jungle.
I do think Mundo top can work quite well though so there are some potential
flexes here the Aurora could be moved around potentially the Mundo could be
moved around potentially but we are kind of assuming that they're gonna go
more standard spots. Okay so gonna have to get the reveal on both solo
laners here regardless of who will go against Aurora gotta pick something
that could take either of the matchups and they feel fine with Casio. Wow this
team I mean Casio pumps, Zerry pumps, I mean Lulu pumps shields. I was gonna say
Zin even kind of pumps when you got a Lulu backing you up too so. Surprise
surprise, Cassante probably gonna be the option here as I said yeah it just
kind of fits in everything and there is very little engagement honestly on both
teams thus far. Like, yeah, you can have Aurora throwdown and all see to kind of
start a flight, Nami Wave and whatnot and calling, sure. Zing can jump in, kind of
start a flight out, but there's not like pick tools really per se, right? So, we'll
see where they are going to go and if this is going to be Mundo top or not.
I think Mundo in the tank matchups is super strong because you generally
outscale them all and they usually can't punish you enough in the early
lane. So, if there were a game to go Mundo top, I think this could be a
pretty good one. We'll see though. Oh, Jayce, so it's still Flex. This could
could be J's top, could be all kinds of stuff.
We're going to find out where they are going to end up going.
There are only like four Mundo games top in pro so far this year
and there's been a lot of jungle ones, so jungle is the expected
and it looks like that is going to be what it is.
Crye we're going to be piloting the Mundo.
Jace receiving some nerfs on the shock blasts and buffs
on the melee form if I recall correctly
and that's going to be going mid.
Okie dokie, yeah, thinking on some monster damage
but also thinking some of the regular damage too
So we'll see how much that does it does affect him and if cryra can do some some belly of some lesser tones
Cosplay here with this moondo. Mm-hmm walk them down
See if you can get your farming going scale up nicely become nice and beefy
Mm-hmm. I mean a lot of poke too because Lucian Nami provides you poke on your team
Jace provides you huge poke on your team coming from mid lane here. And so
So there is a lot of potential on even some early power spikes for this team to poke you
out.
I mean mid control seems really good there when you can have Shock Blast coming from downtown.
That's 30% of your HP.
Lucian Nami, as soon as Nami's got the mandate and Lucian has whatever he has at that point
is totally fine too.
It'll be enough to...
We've got some swords, he slaps them together.
It'll be enough to choke you.
It'll get her done.
Throw her out of culling there.
So you do have to be worried about getting poked out, I think, in the mid-game by this
DSG lineup, because if you do sustain a lot of damage, guess what?
Invisible rabbit comes hopping down and they go for the engage with the Aurora there.
Aurora may be the slow and ult is enough to get a Nami wave going for them.
So we'll see.
Interesting tech here for Doko on the top side going to be playing aftershock instead
of playing grass, so still wants to be in that defensive tree, but feeling like
you're not going to be able to really trade with grass autos and stuff on the Aurora,
I think is totally true. So if you're saying I'm not going to get grass procs throughout the lane after talk is going to do
More in and all in right, you know, you go all out your pocket you hit a pathmaker you pocket
So I think that actually does make some sense
Given that a good Aurora player will just not allow you to be on. Yeah, keep that distance play at the distance
Honestly looking at the distance here to both first early queues from st. Hit
two for two on the noxious blasts
harassing the Jace while cssing
And that really is kind of what Cassiolanes come down to.
If you don't have the Qs, you don't deal any damage.
Every blast counts.
Yeah, every, yeah, exactly.
Don't minimize any of these blasts.
They're each important.
And you'll see how he's going to be able to perform.
He's calling me.
He does backstep.
That one is going to be playing phase rush, of course.
Helps a lot to be able to get out of miasma.
And when you're not playing against anything that has like true hard CC, hard engage,
phase rush is just insane value all the time.
Yeah, people are wondering, all right, are the nerfs, you know,
People still going to use this things and have value on range champs every game turns out. Yeah pretty good still going fast and being immune to
To this lows pretty damn good as call me goes in for a little bit of trade
But st. Is dictating the laning phase thus far
Conqueror stacking up speaking of which for st. And st.
aggressively popping the ghost as he had stacked up some conqueror stacks here one of the
Push castle away. Oh call me getting way too greedy there
I mean he walked in that was a freebie that he gave him state
He's already standing on the minion that you're trying to walk up and hit for that lasted and allows you to just kind of pre-q it
And now he couldn't look for a potential and if he hits one more Q
He will go forward. I like that stand in front of the cannon
He knows you can't see us the cannon walking up
So if we try and shock blast it and fate a saint has enough HP just face tanks it denies a cannon
And this feels horrible for call me right now the minions are kind of getting is that weird spot
He's missing all of the melee is because they were kind of weird health amounts there and
And this matchup going to be pretty important has been pretty important throughout the series so far
Saints obviously someone who's been getting a lot of criticism to be clear and call me someone who has been kind of a
I think a big standout for his team
Definitely has has been true previously this game starting out pretty Saint favorite though
Yep, that's what you get when you eat too much poison as hell
Keep it keep your poison intake low. He's
Cry part of the food pyramid
Mundo, you should just get back into your next clear.
Yeah, there you go.
It was fishing for an easy recall interrupt, but if he doesn't see Casio immediately, it's
like, ah, I tried, buddy, no interrupt on the recall for you.
I'm probably going to find Inspired here.
Inspired does have a shot last time, so he's going to try to get it last second,
doesn't quite get it.
There's Inspired reaction with this might, and also, I think he had it body-blocked
enough.
I don't think a splash would have reached that, but nice little attempt from Calmy,
and Inspired could go around behind him.
Even if you just get a bit of damage down, it would be pretty annoying, but going to be able to spot the Mundo over on his Krugs.
The corporate, uh, wait a second.
That was their side, I'll just walk it up and might end up dying.
That was really close as the heal had to come through from Iles.
We didn't see what kind of prompted that, but I guess they were low on mana.
Maybe he wanted to walk up and try to stop some bases and try to get an advantage that way.
Berserker did go back to base, so I think that's exactly what happened.
What happened is I was just trying to go forward trying to harass them make them get locked in lane
Because the jet now is um and has no buy so now we can put no pressure on berserker berserker can walk up
No problem and farm a play here
honestly
Since an aisles didn't die just spending your heel for that and the Lucian is out of mana here
Honestly good
He just gets to go for his base anyway and berserker alone at the tower able to work off first third place
It was a risky bet, but it paid off, you know, it's like when you close your eyes and buy some Bitcoin back in 2005, you know
Back then it was looking pretty risky. PSA. We don't give financial advice here
I give financial advice to people in 2005
Bicoint I give time travel financial advice. Yeah, for sure. I do give that quite confident
But maybe the timeline changes and then Bitcoin's not worth anything and then they travel back in time and kill us as you know
little people or something. Who caused that wrinkle? Yeah, the branch in the
timeline. Who knows? Unfortunate for us. Never mind, don't buy it.
Well, Lucian's not getting any sort of money because walking back right now,
Minions are dying to the old tower there, so right right, just gonna spend
some more face time here in Midland. Yeah, he's got nothing to farm right now,
so just kind of waiting for that bot side scuttle to come up and say you
gotta be able to chase him out. Call me getting pressured pretty heavily.
There is more minions for him to farm there, but he will of course still be down in some CS and
Will he quite a little bit?
But not a big deal as long as things don't go from bad to worse, you know
If he doesn't die without this flash being up, he's probably fine
I do think this has been quite good for Saint though
Like talking about some of you know some of the some of the errors that I've been
Seeing this one has been very good the pressure early. I love denying the cannon
You know getting some some good chunks out of him and the brawl
The big crab is on fire, just gonna go right in on to Cryra.
Cryra's kind of sectioned off from the rest of the team.
He's gonna have to flash, you have to think.
Instead, just trying to walk it out, but St. is coming in, has the ghost pot.
Cryra very low, the ulti not gonna connect onto anyone.
Nice slow though on to Cryra.
See flashes, I don't think inspired wants to take that back in.
Call me, maybe just gonna get chased down, missing that flash.
Isle's flashes in.
Can they get a kill back?
Yes, they can.
First blood though, goes to Berserker.
And that season, from last season, didn't give you any bonus gold this time.
bonus gold. This time it is quite a nice chunk of change there for berserker.
That was such a worthwhile flash and sacrifice from Isles to get the last
hit for berserker on the kill. And yeah, so cryo is sucking a lot of damage.
Look at St. Ghost now. So St. Wrapping around here on the Castile, flash my
asthma into the ultimate to slow and they force the flash out of cryo and
call me gets kind of stuck here. But then as the bubble lands the peel is
there and I was says I'm gonna send for it. Call me goes back in and it actually ends up
perfectly for Lyon allowing for Zercher to get that last hit and that influx of gold and
it is terrifying. You know you said you had memories of the Zercher on Zerry when this
champ was first released and it was mega busted going for bento kills all over the place.
It's always his comfort zone here. It's Zerry plus Lulu. He's got early money. We have
seen this recipe result in lots of team five victories later on in games for
berserker. It was when he was wearing cloud nine blue, but still could be true
here. Absolutely could. And call me as a result of that lane pressure. You can
kind of thank saint for that kill, honestly, because he forced the flash
and the flash was not back up when he went down. So that lane pressure in the
1v1, you know, I thought, Hey, maybe it's not going to matter too much ends
up getting in a fight right around that scuttle wasn't up. And thanks to
The Saints won the 1 prowess early on,
but Zercher is able to cash in on that first blood.
All right, thanks all around then.
Good effort, good hustle everybody.
Good hustle on our team.
I'll flash over, sacrifice.
Throw up there and get your fist bump, you know?
Are you a fist bumper?
I am, I always answer.
Yeah.
I instantly answer.
Anybody fist bumps for any reason, I'm in there.
I don't usually start them though.
Oh, you're just, you're just, okay, yeah.
You're like, eh, it's maybe you're doing a little too much
but you're gonna go on.
The only one I spam, I only spam one
It's a gromp KW regardless of good or bad place. Yeah, it does fit. It's it's an all-rounder for sure
I will say my success rate in games where I press the fist bump and all my random teammates respond to the fist bump at the
Very certainly if you get a pen to bump to start off the game feeling confident
You're feeling confident. It's gonna be a doubt. They're coming. They're coming to help you on dragon
You know they're going to objectives and got you and to bump is definitely where it's at
But when you go in and you get like no responses, and you it just turns the thumbs up. You definite
No fist bumps are out of here get a movie going and you already know other schemes gonna turn out
All right
Well, don't we're back up to the grubs here side and to cry out the businessman is on the way as well
See who can get the phailites first. Oh, they both get it's parents technically first
But it doesn't matter because they both saw them go down
Call me does have first move but see is behind him and they could try to collapse on to call me
They do forces the flash there inspired fighting against Cryra nice little use of the passive gonna be able to stay alive for now
But inspired with the ulti is just sustaining through cryra's damage prior trying to heal up as fast as he can with this ulti
But he is going down in a hurry barely staying alive for now as doklah arrives
In comes the rest of the team castle is here as well
Sagan's incredibly low call me trying to finish him off castle gets a kill the resets coming through now for the Aurora
As everyone's getting taken out
Don't look Lashes 4, Cryra survives.
It's a triple for Castle and Cryra,
who looked like he was gonna go down
at the very start of the fight, stays alive,
and Castle gets paid.
That is to say, okay, look at Minimap right now.
Aurora is basing for a purchase.
Castle right now is looking,
and then he's gonna teleport in straight from base
with a fresh purchase.
So even though Cryra's getting so low here,
and so he goes, one more, it's not enough.
Look at that healing, Mundo, barely keeping it up.
And he's able to walk out too because the Aurora creates so much space on arriving here castle press purchase Aurora ultimate off of his teleport
That one hurts
I mean and st. Even spent the all done the Jason said the Mundo because I think he thought he was guaranteed
Yeah, so he didn't use the damage Jason's jumping in and cryra has pumped up. I mean he got to live feels like oh
He's on life
He thought he was cooked. He's not gonna
Yeah, honestly, I take back my earlier advice.
If you're Mundo, then you can eat as much poison as you want, I guess.
Turns out, just bait, well, Mundo, it does kind of make sense.
Yeah, he like does that for fun.
Yeah, exactly.
He went down to 1 HP apparently, literal number one.
Oh my god, that was crazy.
That's tough.
That is a tough one to take for sure, because when he was taking the poison, he threw
clear, which cost health, right?
And he went down, I think, right there, probably to 1.
You know what's more tough though?
with Castles Aurora that is post three kills.
Yes.
You're going to get a triple kill here for Castles Aurora off of a really good buy already.
A fun dope one.
Holy!
Lee Andrews is already done.
Big Dokes is like, please give me every little bit of magic resist I can possibly get my
hands on.
Yeah.
This is tough.
It's like, you saw the Thanatos Kassante build from last week?
All the chains and cloaks?
Yeah, that one.
This is just going to be cloaks.
He's just filling it up.
Filling it up with cloaks.
There's a Jace and Lucian on the other side.
I don't care, I don't care, buddy.
You're not in this lane.
You're not living with me on this one.
The Mundo passive going to be able to eat the Petrifying Gaze,
but nice side step with the ghost.
Will keep safe, safe, inspired.
Connects that when becomes lightning on to.
Call me, but not going to be able to kill him.
Another round.
Oh, minions.
Oh, got him.
End the bullet.
In the blood again.
Yep.
And has the Mastercard power spike to boot
as he does have that heart seal now completed.
So gets a stack on the gank,
which really is a dub when you think about it.
You love that.
Okay, coming out here, Cryer up, moving down as well.
Just keeping it moving.
Call me is behind him.
Will they go for the dive?
Mundo does have the ult to tank it up
if they want to push this in,
but the minions are very far away.
This is gonna take too long, I think.
So call me just gonna go back to base.
They looked for the angle, couldn't find it,
but do relieve a little bit of pressure.
Interesting as well.
So Jed gonna be going for the storm razor
here on that rush.
Okay, so only a minute till Dragon, Grae was gonna grab a Scuttle Crab ahead of time no problem. His top side camps are up
So you've got 50 seconds to work with here
You definitely want to get the Raptors and Red Buff and then we'll see DSG
If they if they want to get down there because a lot of the DSG lead is actually isolated up here with Castle
And without the top laners having teleports to join. Yeah, it's great for Castle up there in the 1v1
But it does mean Berserker, remember the Zerri also got early money and has finished the Stormraiser himself.
So Berserker's Zerri down here at the Dragon fight. Let's see if Lion feel confident in this one.
He's got his barrier, he's got his flash. Same thing for the other side but if they get early vision, if they get some priority here, maybe they cook.
Mundo's going back to base and there's 10 seconds left on this dragon.
Both junglers actually just resetting, so it won't be any sort of an early timer on this one.
Previously in this series, we've been on strict timers for our dragons.
Yeah, it has been really fast stacks.
Yeah, this one will be delayed a bit.
Yeah, it will be delayed quite a bit.
I mean, we were at three dragons last game for DSG at 17 minutes, right?
So we're very far away from that.
I do wonder if Sajed is going to have mana problems without the Essence River rush.
I saw Dogo do this build the other day and you get the movespeed so it's like you can throw down an auto
Get the bonus movespeed use that with your calling. I'm trying to reposition it
But we will see as they are on the dragon here prior trying to step forward trying to create some space castle still not here
So I think they're just gonna back it up. Yeah for sure. I don't let said I'm not going in that lane again
I had enough of the roar up there. I'll come play for team. I'm I'll play for you guys
I'm gonna come down to the bottom side
Tower by the way you can blame your team to if you lose you like didn't you see I'm wrong for that dragon
Crazy the tower is gone up there, and it you know first tower of the game, but Saints going there so you can blame him I
Like that there always look for someone else to blame never take responsibility
You got a lot of like very good advice so far today. Thank you. I think I've learned a lot
strive for you know the first
Turret bonus gold back in effect again by the way, so this this Aurora
Castle is actually a monster castle is a truly frightening bunny
the flash forced as Isles does get away but that hurts and it is tough to check
brushes and play for vision when you are a little easier like Ro Shambo loser has
to go to that lane or what's the deal now I think that's one of those things
where you just show up to another lane the pink assist that lane yo somebody do
with that knows learn your macro I can't see that guy castles level 12 you
You know, he's got his second mask working on it here.
We got Rift Herald, and Rift Herald's getting cooked up,
and it's on his side of the map, so.
Castle's just getting greedy at this point.
I mean, how many masks do you really need, right?
I guess the style of layering masks
is truly unappreciated.
One for the front of your head, one for the back of your head.
I was thinking stack just on top of each other.
I was thinking, like, you know, never
catch them slipping kind of thing, you know?
They might.
They're going to fight this.
Look, they're walking in.
Yeah.
I am going to be looking for the fight.
Inspire goes in, but it's going to be secured there.
Cryra, Lyons flashing out.
Inspire taking some damage, but the Altea's buying him a lot of time.
Cryra going to pop his Altea now.
Clalmy coming in from the side looking for safe.
Safe, it's a three-man petrifying gaze,
but he's going to get knocked down for his troubles.
And the Herald going to get summoned up.
I mean, they tried to go into this fight,
but there's no Tp on Dokla, and he's bot,
so it didn't really make any sense to me.
Once the response is coming through from Callme,
you're just cooked.
And since the Aurora is so fed, it's not even like a five on four.
That's like a five and a half on four, with the extra money bags being half of a person.
Rift trailer, gonna get a lot of money down mid too.
They took out first tower, half of the second tower.
That's almost a 5k Goldie.
And that is problematic to say the least here.
I wasn't getting too excited about this because I thought there's no way they're
gonna engage with Doku Bob, but maybe they thought Doku could mark the TP.
They went straight for it.
here so he ults and actually creates a lot of time. I think that was a call as
they go goes like I can get to CPU before before. Yeah I'm pretty close not close
enough though. Calvin got there in time and Calvin's flank meant a lot. Easy on
St. and you know St. gets flanked there so yeah maybe with some
comms listening that must have been in the intent at least. Nice side step from
Castley even with the slow from the miasma. Could be a little side step when
becomes lightning there from inspired in Chara. We know how well Mundo scales.
He's 1k up as well. So very far ahead. Call me up 1k now is the the full
thornmail as the second item, which is kind of interesting here. But you know, I
guess maybe he's thinking that Saint isn't going to be that big of a threat.
So he doesn't feel like he needs to kind of go a different direction.
Yeah, well, a lot of healing from from Zen, you know, therefore Berserker as
well. Decent amounts since they've got a Lulu over here. Maybe he has to worry. Wait,
it's, I mean they've got the power to walk wherever they want. Yeah, they're just pushing
straight on in and Castle always has his TV available. And as a doklit, gonna get his
heart stolen. There's another product that's come down for Zercher is in the area. Castle
pushing forward there on the sink. Inspired, gonna dash in on the cry rock. But he
takes a shot glass to the base. He's low already. The Nami bubble gonna get flashed
away from by inspired survive
for now. But again, lie in
retreat here as Castle maybe
just going to burn down Saint
and he does. I thought he
would have been able to walk
away, but the dock image there
finishes him off and they lose
it on both sides of the map.
It's now nearly I mean it's
five and a half thousand gold
only 18 minutes in stacking
up your mask items provide so
much here and the Rift maker
was also completed there for
Castle. So feeling the power
And that is just going to be DSG ballooning their gold across the map.
They have full control.
Here's another look at the beginning of it.
So same when it took a tower to tower.
No.
That is not what you want to see two tower shots.
And then he pulls back or pulls back to Q and it's still enough.
Yeah, I mean, it's tough when someone's that fed,
but like you can't be going aggressive on the super fed guy
under his tower.
That's just a really bad death.
You know dying like that when you're already that far behind is really really tough
Call me gonna be able to farm plates on the bot side
And I think Lions hopes in this game are very quickly slipping away. Yeah people people already back
It was in the bed lane, but
Castle gonna get dove here don't try to start it off berserker focusing him down as toke like does tank up the tower
And they got the shut down goes on a berserker. Hey a little bit of hope they get a bounty
Maybe they can form some plates. There you go, and they want to leave them for berserker
Especially because it just gets tankier and tankier with multiple people around everybody just vacate the area
Let Berserker farm. This is the plan for Lion funnel as much as you can into the Zerry
It's got a Lulu to supercharge him
Great for late. He needs a lot of items though
He needs at the very least die in the LDR, but they're gonna try to lay a trap here for call me
They were walking around into that alcove of call me pushes forward could be in trouble doesn't look like he will
So by time Berserker needs probably four items and then maybe you can make something happen at that point
But of course it is very difficult to get there when you're already this far behind
DSG at least thankfully for them didn't stack early dragons so that does buy them more time
Right, you know, you can afford to give up the next one in four minutes try to play for the one after that
So you have like, you know nine ten minutes before maybe you absolutely have to fight and I think the idea is just try to
Get Berserker as rich as possible before then see what happens
Yeah, and then you also are gonna have to remember the poke we are talking about like it's right now when you've got
Jace as well as Lucian looking for lots of exchanges
Think it is gonna be a hard for lion to just like stay healthy on the map
You know one problem at a time here, buddy. We're getting that we're getting out of ourselves. You know fair enough fair enough
All right, I'm trying to work on this sprained ankle. You don't have to remind me that my arm is broken
Okay, true focus on small problems here only what is immediately bleeding right now
That's everything it is. It is gonna mean, you know,
Sejed should have a lot of early pushes on mid lane
Is gonna do that side links here for Castle similar kind of stories
Though actually doing quite well for himself able to get that push in can it crooked quite nice to be able to use that large
No extra shield to go in and push a minion wave during the timer back off and get the reset for it
Funny enough, Doko was ever so slightly ahead in XP as well of Castle, which is actually pretty surprising to me.
You know, just a little bit, like he's like a wave ahead in experience, but I would have thought he'd be pretty behind in this situation.
DSG is going to be starting off with Baron. Definitely don't want to mess with that once you get spotted, as they are just going to back it up.
That would be one of the ways they could potentially throw.
Call me up a couple of levels here onto St. Doke Castle. Nice chunk onto Isles.
We'll send him packing, and that's some of the poke that you were talking about.
Yeah, so many angles. You gotta keep your eyes on here because all of your outer towers
dropping really early on in the game just gives so many options to DSGs. They need to move
their ward line up a little bit. Everybody online trying to retake vision. There still
is a nice little regular trinket ward there through the blue buff that does not get
spotted so they'll remain with some bottom side as well castle has a
teleport so pushing away get your bottom leverage going early cryra
to be slapping up tank slap but that one goes in the favorite Mudo can get a
heart seal exactly I'm gonna say you hear that noise mmm that sound is just
crazy dope me know I'm not gonna lie right cooked with that one that that's
a good sound for sure lion boy their way in though we'll see how many kills
they can get here, if any. The CC gonna be stacked over on the Mundo, but he is way too
tanky for that. Castle gonna arrive. Doku going in aggressively. Iles can be in some
trouble on the other side. It's Fire getting incredibly low. Flash is back over on a Cryo,
but he's just not going down fast enough. And now Liner caught between the Tower and
the really hard place. The Jed wants to chase from War. Cryo trying to get the
slow down. Sink trying to turn here. Are they gonna even knock him down? Great
turn from Zayna Berserker. Does get them to kill, but can Berserker make the
magic happen he has got to run castles coming call me he's coming he slides over
the wall but falls to the burn from castle and now that is going to give them
the Baron they are good they're like chasing the moon dough all the way in
there and that plate took so long that by the time they go for the flash
engage on the call me on to the Jace like the rest of DSG have arrived and
so after that when you know free Baron wrapped up the gold lead was
already seven and a half K before Baron after Baron gets taken as they're waiting for the revive here
they give it over to suggest as well so they can all be matching when they go and they march
on the lion base but yeah lion they're feeling pretty desperate you know going for for this chase
here the teleport you see channels from Aurora and then they're kind of backing out they go for
the flash play over here they do not you know even get like a good angle on uh on call me there
call me had a good flash on Jace and so they're just you know they're cooked
here so jet on the bomb side with the calling just flanking them as well
Mundo shrugs all of this off this is a little I like the health bar bouncing
back and forth you know you see the little nami healing they're trying to
keep up pouring everything into them and you know at least they get the kill of
the jet which caused berserker to go for the fist bump emo mid-fight do you
see that no one bumped them back yeah they were all they were all dead to
that plenty of time they had plenty of time they considered it and they
decided no. It's not funny. Yeah, we got one kill. All right. Same with at least a good
attempt on the turn. You know, it does give him the kill on the jet. That's saying gonna
be sent packing here as local comes in to try to keep him alive. Isles in a lot of trouble.
Isles might just burn down. We'll see if he can survive. Looks like he just barely
will be able to. But the pressure is unrelenting. It's nearly a 10,000 gold lead for DSG.
Now as it looks like they are just running away with this one. I think Lyon have
Very few hopes if any at this point
Yeah, the base is crumbling around then so maybe you know try and make a play
Towards the up like the like call me or something when no flash
But I guess they're just getting pressured too heavily on both sides
This is this four pack just looks like there's nothing you do here. Mundo is just infinitely spamming frontline
He's level 16 now so you get giga tankiness out of your ultimate
But they can't do much mid either the Jace and the Aurora finish up that
inhibitor and they're coming for number 2. The shock blast is going to connect
there on to inspire. Castle threatening just hopping forward and
St. trying to do his best to defend. Lion clearly has as one plan and that is
you know what it's still the same thing stall try to get berserkers many
add-ins as possible hope you can get to an IE hope they can make some
mistakes and maybe you can make something happen as a result but it
is going to be incredibly hard. I like the serpent's fang picked up
there for call me I'm gonna help a lot against all the shields that Isles
is pouring out, and DSG are going to be able to move themselves to sole point here.
So, Lyon, if they weren't already on the clock, they definitely are now, and they have
to be ready to fight here in just about five minutes, but they are so far behind.
Alright, five minutes are on the clock, but honestly, see, even Baron's a little earlier
than that, so maybe it's only three minutes on the clock, and DSG just goes straight
to the next one, because the next Baron probably gives you enough.
Honestly, maybe this is going to end the game before that.
You've got two lines of super minions.
So the question really is, can Lyon hold out until DSG
and force them to attempt Baron and then go for an ace
when they're in the Baron pit or something?
Yeah, we'll find out.
Mr. Zucker, they sink from that bot side and a little update.
So if Lyon do, in fact, lose this,
they are hoping for a dig win,
which will put them in fifth and get them into playoffs.
If Shopify win, then Lyon has to play a tiebreaker
against them to even get into playoffs.
So they become fans of Dignitas if they do in fact lose this game as we are expecting and
the Super Minions pushing in through Bob, but a couple waves that they do have until those
arrive and that's going to be where they do look as Castle trying to go aggressive on
the same can't quite find it.
Cryra level 16 now massive spike for Mundo and he is not threatened at all by a two
item saying he's just moving on in and looking to try to put the finishing touches
on this one.
He's going where he pleases and taunting inside their base.
He knows they can't do it.
Oh man, and we're going to get to hear from him after this game.
Assuming they win is a big shot place lands again.
Dope left getting knocked low.
Pryor was just running straight past the tower.
Throws a cleaver and tags Berserker.
He is feeling himself right now.
We'll see if they can punish anything.
Berserker getting incredibly low.
Wild growth has to come out as there is the calling use.
They're trying to knock down the Aurora.
Can Castle get out?
He jumps back to the other side.
He does get shut down.
FDSG overstates.
with the Ghostbomb trying to chase after Cryra.
Does still have his ulti in, Suget.
Did a dash back in and now Cryra pops the ulti.
He goes aggressive, St. Flash is out.
Trying to survive, his Inspire is in the backline
looking for Suget.
He can't quite get him.
Suget barely survives.
Cryra's under the tower.
He's looking to do it all himself,
but he gets thrown into the polymorph.
Rizzaker has to find an angle to try to kill off Suget.
Bukami has arrived and he's going aggressive.
He knocks down one Flash and is in.
That's the exclamation point
onto the incredible series from DSG.
They're going to playoffs. They're knocking down Lyon and Cryra is taking out inspired in his LCS debut
Whoo, call me an LCS lock-ins playoff team right here
DSG have qualified. Who is your player of the game from that game?
Huge stuff coming up here from DSG taking down Lyon. That was incredible lounge. Who's the plug?
Congratulations, DSG, for the first time in history.
The guest team will qualify for the final DSG.
Welcome to the Lock-In Rates.
And I have to say, I have to call all of us out including myself.
I don't think anyone has DSG out of bottom two on the entire broadcast.
We didn't show the predictions, but I'm pretty sure we had it like a clean 2-0 for a line.
I had 2-1 lines.
You had 2-1 lines?
walking over. Guess who's coming on over? It's Cryra. I don't give him a few words of advice or
something. Just saying something. But no, that's incredible. By the way, this was the team that
we had questions about coordination because A, they didn't have Cryra based off Visa. B, they
had to completely change their lineup because three of the players went to Sentinels and none
of these players had prior experience with each other. So like there was a big question mark
coming towards this team with two players that were extremely green flying into your tube coming on up like these
Snapoo and they beat lion
Yeah, I mean I what a debut for
Welcome welcome so cry a debut performance
I want to get your first feelings after your first stage win. How you doing?
I mean just unbelievable feeling like I want to leave this every time you know just win every time and
I mean I feel like I had a lot of pressure coming in today because
inspired is like my I've watched him for two years and it's really like my big model. I feel like role model and
I feel like I did pretty good against him. So I'm really happy
What's something about inspired that you've watched and you got the feel now of course having the experience about playing against him today
He's just really efficient. I feel like he does
really the smart player every time compared to other people who are more flip or will try something. I think
he's just really efficient and he knows how to win game and
just clean like just clean. It's a crazy opponent to go up against. Have you had a chance to interact
with Inspire before this? I mean I defeated vampire. That was my first time. I'm just doing a big fun this time.
Yeah, no you're going to go to the front. In terms of coming on to the team obviously you've been
been screaming with them for a while. The synergy absolutely seemed to be there. You
guys are incredibly aggressive. So who is making the majority of these calls or is it just
kind of a team effort?
I feel like it's kind of a team effort, but I would show up really call me like, call
me especially I think he knows when we should play aggressive and in the general like
and Lyons also he stepped up really huge today. I mean everyone just everyone respect
But in that aspect, they call me Smagot.
What do you feel like, where do you think the improvement as a team has come from?
Because a lot of expectations had you guys bottom two because, of course,
two players, you and Sojed coming in from tier two.
Of course, none of these players that you guys have had prior synergies
with work together from different teams.
So there's a lot of question marks coming in,
but you guys have proven a lot of people wrong so far.
I mean, I think we're just proving the ones who don't know wrong.
because I feel like who pulled us like in the bottom?
People who like never watch us.
Oh, they're new, so they must be bad.
And it's Diezzy.
You know, it's like kind of,
I mean, that's how people go with it.
I feel like they don't actually watch and,
but I mean, hopefully we can show you right now that,
you know, we're pretty okay, I feel like.
Pretty okay.
Pretty okay!
You just qualified for playout.
So the first time in DSG history, by the way.
Oh, he?
Yeah.
Yeah, first time.
First time a guest team has made a dent.
So, Kisno, it's not Kisno, but.
He gave the team one win, he gave the team one run right there.
I want to ask you a question because I remember, Kromber, the first time I ever heard your
name or saw you play League was running the Rift Combine back in like 2023.
Do you remember the scouting Combine back there?
Yeah, I was in every Combine.
Yeah, you were in every Combine.
You were always trying out.
You were hungry.
And I got to say, now that you've made it all the way to LCS, I want to hear
you reflect on the journey because it took you a long time to get here and not
every player is able to make that jump.
I mean, I said it before, I mean, I'm saying again, I feel like it's really an unbelievable feeling.
I mean, if you told me, I mean, I've been playing this game since I'm like nine years old, eight years old.
And if you told me back then that you would be a professional in the future, like I didn't even know this exists.
And I was just playing for fun.
Even when I first reached Challenger at like 15, I didn't even know pro existed in this game.
I was just playing like that.
And it's unbelievable feeling.
I think when you like actually sit down and think about it, well, I mean, that's, yes, you know, like,
Yeah, I mean, that's just where it feels good.
That being said, being able to take the win,
you just saw it up there.
Player of the game goes towards Castle.
I wonder what the banboats are.
Talk to me a little about playing with Castle coming in,
because he was, of course, the sole member that stuck with DSG.
I think Castle is a really important veteran presence.
I think now he's always in the game telling us,
even after it's 1-0, he's like, guys,
We're gonna have plenty of time to be excited after, like, take it slow, like...
He just always gives a reminder, I feel like, and...
Just even, like, after the first game, just beat, you know, it's okay.
And then, um...
He's also just always positive, I feel like.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, that's really helped with the team environment, I think.
You see that right there?
Fans of mine for you!
Awesome.
I'm Moon Do-King, right?
Yeah.
Also, can I just say, are we gonna get a ponytail?
Uh, at any point here in LCS?
I'm noticing that the photo is a little different.
I mean, I should come here.
I think it's too long.
Yeah.
OK.
Kengis is a living biker, honestly.
Yeah.
I agree.
You're making me tips.
I can talk to my hair and give it to you.
We're going to custom right here.
There you go.
Yeah.
Well, let's take a look at all about today's player
of the games, because we had six games.
That's so many games.
Yeah, we did.
We hit the max out of both best of three
is that we had.
Did we even want to cry out?
I'm trying to remember now.
I believe we did for game one, right?
I believe we did for game one.
I think we got respect.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, no, no, no.
You're lying.
It's Zajed.
Yeah.
Oh, Zajed.
Zajed.
He's spoken into existence.
I am lying.
The chat knows.
Yeah, yeah.
The chat does.
So here was from the first series, Jose De Oro, Rahel, and Impact.
Were you surprised about this, by the way?
Sentinels also taking down Team Liquid.
We were watching right in the backstage, and we kind of couldn't believe it.
Like...
Yeah.
I guess it speaks to how Team Liquid are always doing, but yeah.
Yeah, you called us out obviously, like Syjad takes it, Castle in Game 3, the fact that he even happened versus Lyon.
Like what is your thought as Lyon as a team? Because that is a team that of course, I would have, I put it as a 2-0 for Lyon.
A lot of people expected them, super team, or something like there's a lot of MVP power coming from them, especially with Berserker coming through.
Especially after facing them, what's your thoughts on the team?
I mean, me personally, right, before the season,
I also had like a personal, I thought it would be best.
Like, I thought it would be the best.
I guess so far they're not looking good,
but they have really good players, right?
So, and they have inspired.
They're like MVP, how many times, right?
So I think it should click eventually.
But right now, I guess they're not playing that good.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll take it.
Well, Kroy, I want to give you the honors
because we have this big Swiss stage born behind us.
There's some magnets.
Can you do us a favor and grab the lion magnet?
You may not see it, but the DSG logo is a magnet.
Yeah, move the lion logo down the CL,
down by TL at the one and two.
Here.
Yep, right there.
And then move the DSG up to the two and one.
Congratulations.
Well, here we are.
And then if you want to stand right next to it
for the camera here, turn there.
You see the camera?
And then take a step to your left.
Take a step to your left.
You're left, you're left.
There we go.
Perfect.
Excellent, excellent.
Let's take another seat. I actually want to show you something here. You just made things very interesting for the entire league
First off, congratulations again, and I'm going to the computer because there were actually some big
Implications for that one and two bracket now and because DSG just won tomorrow's match is very important
So send those to one DSG to one and I'm going to show you what happens if dig wind tomorrow
To oh or to one a lion our fifth seed at the one and two and auto qualify in
And then liquid would be playing and then if the rebellion when it's team liquid and lion swap
By when it's lion Shopify team liquid make it and then if dignitas win
Lion make it into the brackets ages the best of one tiebreaker tomorrow between team liquid and dignitas
So team liquid is cheering on Shopify lion is cheering on
Dignitas, okay, okay interesting interesting. What do you think prior about the match tomorrow between?
I feel like they're both not that great, to be honest, but I think Shopify would end up winning.
Maybe 2-1.
Okay, okay.
What's your thoughts on the DIG team?
Because they were also the other team that was facing the same type of visa difficulties
as you guys, but they got their bot lane together late.
Do you think that will make much of a difference now from then to now?
It's a brewing team.
Other players, we've seen them forever.
Nothing interesting about them.
There is?
forever. Nothing interesting about them. There it is. That's him crying himself. Fair enough.
Let's take a look at the schedule because that's gonna be a big match tomorrow, but then we also
have a reminder. The undefeated teams C9 versus Flycos. Holy, I haven't hear a cry. What do you
think about that one? Because I think, I think it's like that, the big matchup. I feel like
if I'm not gonna die, I'm not gonna die. But I start off C9 winning in a 3-0 each one.
No faith in the fellow debut performers Griffin and Cryogen.
Okay, I mean that's why I'm giving them one game.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
For them.
Well there we go.
The LCS Lock-In continues tomorrow with a dig shop by as well as FlyQuest C9.
LEC vs. though also wraps up the regular season tomorrow and the race is really
tight.
Los Ratones is taking the world by storm after feuding SK today.
So that stays in their hands when tomorrow would make history advancing them into playoffs
ahead of the current ERL champions and three LEC teams.
The LEC establishment are still in the fight as well though
because Europe's L-classico between G2 and Fanatic
will likely decide who advances
and who goes home between those two dynasties.
So make sure to tune into LEC tomorrow as well.
That's it for us.
If you're interested in those LEC matches,
their show starts at 10.45 a.m. Eastern,
7.45 a.m. Pacific.
The LCS will be hot on their heels back tomorrow
on Super Bowl Sunday.
Ready for anything to be here
instead of at the Super Bowl.
Yeah, I'm not going to be here.
You're here better than I am.
Where are you going?
I'm going to the Super Bowl.
What do you mean?
Crazy.
I'm just lying.
I don't know any of this.
I don't know any football.
See you much today.
Both of you tomorrow.
There's off-road revenge.
What about the Canadian football league, yeah?
I don't know.
Is that what's playing tomorrow?
I don't think so.
The Olympics are on.
Olympics?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the LCS.
It is time for the final week of the Swiss stage
Here of our pre first stand competition in 2026
Rahel and the rest of Sentinels push forward towards the Nexus itself and Quid and Morgan can't stop them.
2-1, Sentinels takes the doll!
Come, come, come, come.
There, come, come.
There, come, come, come.
There, there.
There, this is good.
We can keep line.
I think it's really good for us.
This, this, this, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm looking there.
This is very good.
Yeah.
There, there.
There, there, there.
There you are HP.
Yeah.
I'm with you, I'm with you.
Yeah.
Cassia down.
Cassia down, Cassia down, Cassia down, Cassia down.
Cassia down.
The next one is the next one.
You can't play.
Go, go, go, go.
That's the exclamation point on an incredible series from DSG.
They're going to play off, they're knocking down life!