to play or anything, but he had a lot of very good plays as well, even if some of the
Pantheon ultimates, maybe they were coordinated with the rest of the D-Broadever, and it's
really like an exciting story here, especially for like Sajad as well. This guy, you know,
so many people had really high hopes for him, and he's super delivering especially like
on Kaisa, he's had multiple, really mega good Kaisa games, but I can't help for a roof
for underdog teams, you know, and this guy's definitely is an underdog team. So congratulations
to them. Yeah, I mean, Kriar's debut was incredible. Last week, I was a little worried, you know,
because Kizno was doing so well with the team. It might put a little bit extra pressure on him.
He's going up against inspired, best jungler for quite a long time, and he played so well. Like,
Even for an experience player, that would have been a really good series for him, but just coming in first time playing with that level of confidence
That gives me something to look forward to because I think that is super rare for someone to show that level of play on its very first series
Especially up against you know when you play against someone you respect especially a pro player right like there's definitely a certain level of nerfs about right you know
You're gonna maybe over-respect them or
Yeah, like play scared, but he wasn't playing scared even
He had a funny play in the beginning, beginning of the first game on Pantheon, where they had this big fight bottom, and I think to me it felt kind of like he was trying to send a message by like flash Pantheon queuing to try to finish off inspired and a fight where like that definitely wasn't the best thing to be doing.
But it was like, I want to kill inspired, you know, I'm like, I get it.
Like, I see why you do that.
Like, probably wasn't what you should have done.
But I get it.
I get it.
Um, but he was able to bounce back.
I think it was like his only death that game, um, if I recall.
So yeah, I mean, just super cool stuff.
And I love the way this team plays, because they don't have, like,
they don't have a superstar roster, right?
They just have this team of cohesive players who share an idea of how to play the game, right?
It's like, we're gonna play around Kira.
We think jungles OP, we're gonna enable our jungler.
And then you see, like, game three,
he's playing Mundo into its in jail.
And I feel like a lot of the time,
if you don't have a team that's just this committed
to playing around your jungler, like that can be tough, right?
It's like, if Mundo has to play to support his lanes
and then jows, just like forcing skirmishes,
Mundo could just fall behind and be totally useless,
but instead he was up like, I think he was a little
15 to inspire his level 12.
like, dude, I couldn't tell you last time
I saw a gamer inspired us three levels down.
Like that is super rare.
And so, well, it's not such a head playing this,
like, really unique Lucien build with, like,
first strike storm racer, just like, no ability haste.
It was super weird, but they made it work.
And so, it's just super cool to see.
Did you see Kriera on when he was on Mundo,
inside enemy base taunting at the end?
Yeah.
He got it, like, speaking of confidence.
The first game he's in real life, you know, he's popping out of the sea, just like, oh my god,
yeah, we boys like super excited and then fast forward. Just by game three, he's already,
you know, talking to God, he's like, yeah, you know, doing whatever he wants inside the
enemy base, and they're just like celebrating early. It was, yeah, I had for that game,
I have to give honors to Castle. Castle won this like top side skirmish, so heavily he had perfect
time, and where he recalled on Aurora, but Lee Andrews, I think he was the only person
that, like, with a full item. And he told boys back in, he gets like a triple kill on
Aurora, and like, really got the momentum going. And yeah, this, this, this team does
feel like a very cohesive, you know, playing for each other, five, five person team.
On the other side here, four line is that it, that is going to be rough. Like that is definitely
disappointing. I know a lot of people pointing
fingers at St.
Berserker has had some questionable plays as well.
And this is the focus on the ingredients.
Yeah, it's already some of the question marks where people were a little bit hesitant to
be super confident in this team.
Like, okay, these are all really good players, but are there cracks going to start to show
you know, between between team members?
So I'm sure everyone's going to love to jump on these results already.
early, there's still, of course, it's time for them to iron out the synergies and
the three games play. So yeah. Yeah. So it is really, really early, right? For everyone,
but that's the nature of format of lock-in, is that it moves really fast, right? We're in the
knock-out stage with playoffs of lock-in, whatever you want to call it. And as a result,
it feels like, oh, we had like a whole regular season, but it's a quick tournament, just
start off the year right before first in that's kind of like how the the first split is going to work.
So I mean, I think it's I think it's totally fair to criticize saying I think he has been
if you look at the like total average level of this play it's like pretty high but he has so many
game losing horrible moments that it is impossible to overlook. Even in game one I think we were
casting that one and I wasn't sure it couldn't quite see on the spec to your client so I'm
and I was hard in the replay to tell with the lights and everything.
Like if Flash was up or not, but this one at 20 minutes,
right around mid lane where he was on to Lea,
and he kind of just didn't walk the same way as his team,
and the Galleries just like, doesn't flash on him or anything,
just slowly walks towards him and then taunts him.
And you had production check, I went back and watched.
He flashed the whole time.
He just didn't flash, like it's like that's crazy.
And then Inspired has to try to go in and bail him out
and he dies too, and it's like,
There's so many plays like this where it's just these disaster moments where you're like,
what is going on in some of these plays, definitely not a good look, I mean, that
paired especially with a lot of people talking about, he's having a really horrible attitude
and so looking, running it down, I've seen more and more, like, see some screenshots of that sort
of stuff and more people kind of talking about that.
know, hopefully he's able to kind of like bounce back and maybe he's just kind of struggling
with a bit because the things are going well for them and he's getting frustrated, that's
filling over a solo queue. I don't really know, but I do think St. is really struggling and
it's just having way too many game losing moments that are just like, that's just how
Lee works play game. If you're a carry and you just do just die for free or get picked for free,
your team's cooked. That's Mozi Algos. Yep, one thing I wanted to mention about this series that
was super impressive to me. I've never seen this before. It was actually game two inspired
strundle. It almost looked like they were going to lose this game, but inspired had two, I think,
consecutive plays that started off with him canceling a thrash lantern with pillar, and that is like
that's it. That is so hard to do. After that game, I went into practice with like Povell
and double-lift and we were just trying to say if we could do it in granted, 60
pitting, it's actually not possible on 60 thing, but even on low-ping, like
Trando's pillar has a cast time in Thresh Lantern is so fast. It's like
almost instant when you click it you go. It's like, I don't know if you
use predicting it or doing it in a reaction, but the fact that he did twice in a row
is actually insane. I don't think, it's hard to even blame disguise for
you know, when it happens, you, it's not like man, we shouldn't have
of the right and the left and right against Trundle is just like dude, this guy's
a freak.
Like what is this Trundle?
Yeah, so that was just one of those moments where I'm just like Dan, like only inspired
makes that happen.
So that was really cool to see.
And at least one of them, I think it was like prediction, at least somewhat, because the
Nivea walled first and you could tell the Nivea was trying to interrupt the lantern.
And so I think they were kind of like waiting for the Nivea wall and then as soon as
the Nivea wall went down, then the lantern went and then he pillar it and interrupted.
So I think that one was like, okay, like they got the first skill now, I already used it.
But yeah, I mean, he's insane. And they did play that game well overall, and I felt like they
kind of really controlled space well with the interview at Toronto Com. That looked pretty good.
That was definitely a bright spot for them in the series. But the final game was definitely tough,
because they were losing heavy topside and then that Aurora skirmish happened and basically
the following was cooked, but because of the type of rigour sitting in the having to play
in the last chance match, it was going to be if dingutas be, or excuse me, if Shopify
be dingutas, then Lyon would have had to go into the sixth, seventh match, they're like
final chance match, but because of dingutas one, they just automatically qualified in the
playoffs, so they're starting to lower bracket alongside TL, so they'll have a couple of
weeks now too, they'll have two weeks to try to fix up their stuff and try to get ready
for playoffs. We are going to take a quick break
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It's time to talk about Shopify versus a dig.
That was one of our other matchups that we had going.
This was the Zero Two match.
And dig, I feel like I'm more likely to give a bit of a pass for some of their struggles
that they were having because obviously they had the whole bot lane.
situation do last week. Well with that, then we two, you're kind of like, ah, well,
you're bot lane just got here. So like, maybe get a pass on that one too, right? You know,
fastest going out. There's some passes going out. There's one person who's not going to
get a pass though. Who? I've decided right now that we're going to do a segment on this because
Ganges been getting away with some crazy predictions for way too long. And I got a lot of requests
from fans and from some coaches of some of the LCS teams to Lee Hat to call back against.
And so you know what we're going to do right now because he predicted Shopify to be number one.
Number one is correct. So let's all just take a moment.
Literally could not be far. It didn't win one game.
Not a series didn't as a bald man. He does not stand for the rest of us.
You know, we don't claim that.
Yeah, you got a different thing.
I don't know that guy.
It's a murderer of them.
It's all a good foot,
but I know that he's actually like each progressive week.
He's like had a different like change of story.
It was like, oh yeah, you know,
I need some time to present and like explain why I had it.
That was like a week one.
Yeah.
I think last week he was like,
I think he had like almost given up.
They might not be any saving this, yeah, yeah, they didn't even want a game.
Yeah, zero, six, that is rough.
Ziny, you know, we talk about Saints' Rose,
Ziny is, I think, Ziny's the worst mid laner in the league for now,
for sure.
You know, again, he is, it's his first games into your one.
You know, I want to give him some time.
You know, could obviously had a really rough start.
People are going to reference that a lot, but then quit the next year was the MVP.
MVP, and that year people were kind of outraged
a hundred of these, you can kept it.
I remember there was a lot of backlash online about like,
what are you doing?
Like why would you even keep this guy as a bum?
And then he became the MVP.
So, didn't we got to give some time?
I do think he's very talented, but I will say,
I'm surprised the way in which he is looked at.
You know, sometimes someone will come over
and they're very talented prospect, and it's like,
all right, you can tell communication isn't quite working,
But like, oh, but look at those mechanics.
Like, there's some nice plays and like, look at that
landing phase.
That's pretty good.
Like, they can get the rest together.
Everything is kind of like bad for anything.
Like, I don't even feel like he's looked at the press
in mechanically.
His decision making has been bad.
He's not coordinating with the team.
I feel like I expected more from Zining, kind of like,
almost what we've seen from like,
Hombock where he sees himself where it's like,
oh, like he's not necessarily like perfectly coordinated
with with dark wings.
There's like, you know, clearly a communication barrier.
But like, oh, but like, look at these nice plays.
Like, there's some silly ones too.
But like, look at these good ones.
Ziddy has struggled, but clearly it's not, it's not just on him, like didn't win a game, it's not just on him,
but he was a prospect with like a ton of hype, and, unfortunately, for them, if what you need is experience,
when you get knocked out really early, when you miss playoffs, you got like two months off, so they're not going to get staged again for a while.
Yeah, I, I thought his ecology game was extremely rough to watch.
It started out good. I think he was three zero or something to pick it up with some kills early and
To me, I was thinking, okay, you know this is a situation where he can actually perform because
The wall dig did have a lot of CC in that game. They had like not a list, sign on
Jarvan. I feel like those are champs that a colleague can like kind of play around because he's got a volume
Best of a go-in with you've got your shroud
I thought he could still do stuff, right?
It's like a gin, a zero.
Like there seems to be that much damage to kill you.
But every single fight was just a complete disaster for him.
It was like the first one.
He tried keeping into the fight, like mid lane,
and on and as your turban is clean,
he just got shovel into his ears, turret did zero.
And then every single fight after that was the same thing.
He either was getting caught on the side,
keeping in a terrible spot and just genuinely did not contribute one time to a team fight.
And you know, I get sometimes it can be hard to get into the colleague, but I feel like when you have an
ambassador in a vibe, like, you could actually just do a tanker build. You could go like a rocket belt.
You can just walk in through the front, right? It's like obviously these are things that you want to be doing on a
on a colleague, but it's definitely better than what happened, where he was just genuinely
getting completely, actually useless, every single fight. It was super crazy to see. And what
I saw on him, he's like, wow, like the, what we're seeing is not matching up to the hype,
whatsoever for the spider, because I feel like Zinnie was like the most hyped import, I heard of
since like Dan and I said, there's something, right? So super shocking results, like as I also
maybe he'll be better with time, but so far, yeah, not seeing it.
Yeah, as FBI said in our comms, listen, then bye-bye Shopify.
They got blasted.
I thought the comms listeners were so far.
The FBI's like, bye-bye Shopify.
And then Ignore was like, this is for Christian,
when they're winning itself.
Yeah, but Christian is Paul Foxy, real name.
And so yeah, it was, I don't know, the dig vibes were definitely up, but at the cost of Shopify vibes.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's been tough, I feel like sales says, looks like bad, they're leaning,
as look bad, like contracts, I think it's starting to coordinate with the team, like everything
just seems off for Shopify.
So they got a lot of work to do.
I feel like in the off season, if they want to try to get things together, budget, I feel like,
I think I'm maybe I'm giving you a bit more of a pass
to feel like he was a really good last year,
but you don't see top lane as much.
You don't see top lane as much.
You don't see top lane as much, yeah.
Maybe his Shane gets hit.
As we'll all of the Shopify team now,
because you're not playing any more.
Yeah, not playing for a while.
Digged us, did beat them.
Their triumph was unfortunately a bit short lived.
I think it's got to feel so good for Palbox though.
You like being the team that they're a place to you, right?
It's like, you know, especially when only one person
gets booted, it's kind of clear like, oh, you know, we're getting rid of this one guy.
Like, yeah, this is why we sucked right?
This is why we didn't do it, it's not sure we wanted it, but now, now, you know, and then you beat them.
Like, that feels so nice.
And we had a lot of those vindication stories of it in touch on the impact one, but in fact,
beating his old team, APAB team liquid as well.
Both of the TL guys who kind of got the boop got to beat them down.
Palphax beating his team that replaced him.
We've had a lot of that this season, which is obviously that is like the best feeling, right?
especially if you do it from like what most of us
is a downgrade right going from Shopify,
which most people had in this hop path to dig,
which is dig, historically in the bottom half of the standings.
And so like that's got to feel good.
And you know, it's upside if you're Shopify,
that sucks, you know, you're coming in here,
feeling all good, like oh,
we're finding out of our problematic mid-laner
and then you lose to him.
It's like in solitude when you get like run down by some player,
and then the next game done, the enemy team,
and they have this insane, from your,
it's like, God, like, never happened to me
I don't know what you're talking about.
I think we're just flaming them, like, man, that sucks.
Whoa, whoa, no, me, how about I report you to Drew Levin?
Hey, buddy, your play has been sub-optimal this game.
Yeah, yeah.
Please focus up.
Yeah, please focus.
That's the kind of flame that we see mostly
in legal legends.
But yeah, Dignos, Dignos obviously got to be really happy.
I feel like, even in the losses,
Fotem has been someone that kind of stood out to me on Dig.
I feel like he's been doing really well.
FBI, since he's back, I feel like he had a good series
against Shopify.
And then we touched on a little bit,
we could talk a little bit more
I guess about the tiebreaker game that they then
didn't break after that.
Being in the sauce, obviously,
won this, then they had the match against TL
to try to get into playoffs.
And TL, we're in a position in that game
where it felt like, all right, this game is wraps,
pretty early. They were very, very far ahead. I felt like FBI was kind of the only one who had
much going. And then there was this play where I believe it was Quid just like realm warped into
basically all of Dignitas and died around mid lane. And then immediately they tried to take
he could go 4v5 right after.
And at that point, they were, I think this is the,
they were a 4,500 goal to head.
And then within like two minutes,
they went back to a 500 goal these.
Oh, that was on right after Baron, wasn't it?
We're quid just got caught mid by himself.
Yeah, did he run more bender to just walk up?
I'm turning around.
I don't think he altered, I think he just was there.
Like his whole team reset and I don't think he needed to.
Maybe he altered to get there early, but I have to say.
All I know is he was just standing there mid by himself
and just randomly got caught and killed.
And when I saw him just like, dude, what the hell?
That's such a bizarre way to throw a game.
Like, there's absolutely no reason
to do what you're doing.
Everyone killed themselves after it.
Like, they chose to fight.
Like, yeah, that sucks.
He died, he got caught.
But then they opted into the 45th and took it
and lost and all died and like gave up
all the like, the bear and both of the boundaries
and like all these things that it was like,
that was crazy to see.
And then you're like, oh my God.
TL's actually not even gonna make it into playoffs.
And like, I was watching this and I kind of had that feel
like that realization of like,
that's nuts.
This team was supposed to be the number one team.
They're not even gonna get top six.
If not for Core JJ.
If not for Core JJ, that would be the reality
we'd be living in.
Yeah, I mean, it was wild.
Like, and then, you know,
hit a certain point after that where FBI
I think was like, what, 4K up on a failure or something like that?
I think it was more than that.
It was blasting.
I've never seen like 4.8,
I might have got to even have 5K at some point.
But 12 kills in that game.
Yeah, he was going insane.
I do wonder if he wouldn't have been better off
like a storm razor, because to me,
that's something that has made a failure
to look a lot better this season.
A lot of people have had success with this like,
storm razor fleet build because, you know,
he's so fragile.
He's a champion who's got like no real mobility.
I guess it's like his red queue.
I don't think he can call mobility.
It's like a tiny little sprint.
But yeah, the storm has to move speed is crazy.
He goes so fast.
So I wonder if that would've made the game feel better
for him, because a lot of the fights it felt like,
he just wasn't able to get a lot done.
You know, when he added some, he could have good fights,
but outside of that, he just kind of like,
top-loaded up for what it's worth.
I just went back and figured he didn't run more.
He just ran mid when the rest of his team reset after the barren,
and then like, but they had seen that the other team
was just mid lane.
Like, they were just pushed in the way.
It was just super, they just walked down and...
Yeah.
It looks really funny on screen.
I mean, he's in the middle of five people by himself,
with no one else.
Yeah.
That's one of those where, like, it does the stop and it's like,
that you're wondering, how I got here.
Ha ha ha.
So is my team.
Ha ha.
Oh, I thought they were reset.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean literally saw them pushing in the way so that was crazy like when you got caught there, and then yeah, they tried to take the 45 they get wiped and
I mean they ended up winning, but it got really sketchy.
Yeah, and I mean they had that the Jarvan Ezreal combo the early game champions and if that if that didn't work out
You know, I think a lot of people would have been getting their pitchforks ready. You know, one thing that I don't get about Ezreal is I feel like it's in this hunger
or item is super overrated on him because it gives you pace, but I feel like as you
know, it's like he kind of has diminishing returns on pace. Once you get to a certain break point,
like your level 13 and like every QS or Trinity on it, going past that doesn't actually
help you that much more. So I think that's a little weird. I'm not too slow to that by
yeah. I mean people talk a lot about the OmniVamp, but it only gives you OmniVamp once you get
kill. It's 5% naturally and then another 15 after a kill. I think it's like you only get this
if you know if you want the chance to be. But he had clients. So I don't know. I think it's
all overrated, but obviously I'm not an SEO player, so people will probably disagree.
Yeah, I mean, it is interesting. Especially in situations where it's sometimes people are going
for it like pretty early, like before, shojons and Cyrilla and stuff like, which was really
He almost just didn't get his cereal to this game.
I think there was one point.
It was like 42 minutes into the game.
He didn't have a pen.
And you just watched the fights.
His SEO keys were tickling.
He could shoot next in for a solid minute.
It probably ran out of the man before he died.
And I'm just like, dang.
This is our 80 carry roll.
This is our DPS guy.
And that's what we got.
I don't know.
I mean, I think winning with that usually just means
you're the better team.
Because I'm not sold on the edge real whatsoever.
Do you guys think young?
This thing, John overall, has been underperforming this split because, John, John,
a CoreJJ, that was always, even when TL were doing bad previously.
Like, oh man, yeah, but like, John is still doing really well, CoreJJ, like, that
not bottom lane is this big weapon.
I feel like it's been underwhelming due to, like, compared to expectations, this, this
split for sure.
I feel like they've just been all right, yeah, just all right, like nothing, nothing like
not as crazy.
But the weird thing to me is that I feel like T.L. individually, like they still
a lot of them look really good individually, like in moments and stuff.
But the team just looks like they have zero coordination, and they're not on the same
page, just like when I think to a lot of the ways that they've lost, it's just like
disaster moments, where it's like you think about both the Screaming and State, they
one that game, but like the quit going mid, that's horrible.
But then instead of just saying, okay, cut your losses,
one person died, just wait 30 seconds and lose some of your time.
Everyone goes into a 45, the opt-in to you all die.
They don't even kill one person.
They went, you know, basically a zero for four.
And then you think about like the game we can see nine,
like the series that they started against C9.
And I remember there was like, okay, they have outskilled C9
in this comp, but then C9, like outplay them
and re-reverify and beat them.
But it's okay, because they still have really good scaling.
They just seem to like sit back.
And then they just like all in on this like
Quirgil J. Bard coming in over the wall
when Quid was top lane, remember?
Like he was even there.
And they was all in on this four because I play
all killed themselves in the game ends.
And it just feels like it's so many of these weird moments
like that where I'm just like,
I don't know, like I watch you play.
And it's almost like St. S.
gonna walk in a way where it's more in the St.
Cantham than as any camp where I'm like,
was any I'm not seeing like a much that looks good at all with TL I feel like I'm
seeing a lot of good moments they're creating good leads but then somehow you lost or
somehow you got yourself in a really bad position that made it a hard game so it's
it's definitely weird to me like it just feels like the team is you know not coordinated
not on the same page and maybe it is just like what they were talking about with
scrims where you know Jose saying like oh I'm going for a play on stage that we do
ten times in scrims but no one was expecting it because they don't want to go for that
stage. And so it's like, I guess that kind of explains it, but it's maybe not that easy of a
problem to fix it. People have like a very different view of the game. Like, if I'm seeing this
play, and I think this play is obvious and no one else is seeing it, like you're on a very different
page, right? Yeah, I like what you said about the parallel between liquid and sank is to me. I totally
agree, and I think it comes to our place of like overconfidence, it into desperation, right? Because
All right, it's like, okay, for quid's play of getting caught mid, it's just like that.
I don't know what that is.
It's just like disrespecting your opponents, I guess.
And then once you disrespect your opponents, something's going to go bad for you.
But then because you're overconfident, you don't want to accept the small loss, right?
You're like, okay, we can still win 435.
These guys are bad.
We're not losing these guys.
reality is just like, what are you doing? Like that is just a completely desperate play. It's like your, you are not expecting your opponent. So you make mistakes. And then once it starts getting bad, it just tasked, because you just, you know, can't accept that it's going bad. And you just do some horrible wonder afterwards.
So that's sort of the vibes that I'm getting. And I guess if you are winning every scrim, you're not playing from the losing spot very often.
Yeah, so it was weird and I think as far as y'all and he's still
in pretty good from what I've seen, he did have that really rough lane
against Sentinel, which was like, I think the first time we've really
seen him get blasted in lane 2, but he liked that, which, you know, it
happens, no, no, it's perfect, but his builds have been a little
sketchy for me, his unarbilled and game 3 against Sentinel's.
He did not build any armor pin once again.
He went for a shield bone, instead of Lord Dom when he's kind of like his
team's only way of killing tanks and he's up against, you know, Warren Gallio, Reconz,
and Joe. I thought that was super weird. I feel like the other like a hurricane
Lord Dahlmer something he would just have absolutely cleaned up first that like massive melee
tank party that set no sense. So I feel like he's built this probably a little better, but overall,
I don't think he's, you know, a liability or anything for TL. I think maybe just,
yeah, it's weird trying to diagnose what's going on with a team. I think just, yeah, not great
team work and then when stuff starts going bad, they kind of get panicked.
Yeah. Teams are obviously still going to be really scared of them though.
It's, you know, I talked when I talked on pros, I was asking, uh, is that like, if you
could have chosen to any team, that was in playoffs, like would you choose, you
can choose these teams in lower back and they're like, no, like, if I could choose
for any team in the league, like, there's no way I would choose to yellow line.
Like, he still thinks they're the best two teams besides themselves.
So teams are still scared of them and it's always funny because it's like again
It's been three weeks of games, right? And they have looked bad in some of those games for sure
narrowly you've got into playoffs, but they could just blast the teams and lower bracket and go away
Like you wouldn't be that surprised because they clearly have a really high
Quality of player on their on their team like they've really a lot of talent
So that's the question is kind of like can they can they fix their stuff?
That's gonna be the big question
Maybe best of five on the way we've got sentinels versus DSG gonna be a banger and cloud nine versus flagwess
Do you want to touch about oh yeah, we can talk about fly a scene. I don't know do you want to talk about them or just want to talk at
Well, I don't know fly a flag cloud nine or we're gonna play again. You know
We talk about the same time. Yeah, we do the backwards looking thing should we talk about
We talk about the things that we should.
Fycrust is obviously very unhappy about it.
Basically, the way it worked, Kobe just talked to a source ask guy, some of you have
more context than I do.
But essentially, the tiebreaker rules had it where it goes, like, amount of wins over losses,
like game score, basically, is the first tiebreaker, you know, it's a bit of a weird format
because we don't have 10 teams.
We can't do a full Swiss, right?
So it's a modified Swiss that we are doing,
which I'm actually really enjoying.
But I think fly quests soon, because they were in the 208 bracket
when they lost, and then they would get second seed.
Because of the typewriter rules, which takes like game score
in a consideration, then goes strength of schedule,
and then weighted strength of schedule after that.
They ended up being tied in game score, tied in strength
of schedule, then it went to weighted strength of schedule,
and then they lost that.
So then they were third seed.
So C9 as the first seed got to choose third or fourth,
and they didn't want to play a DSG,
they would rather play fly, so they chose fly.
Then said that we're planning on picking sentinals on pros,
so that it's part of that too.
And so fly quests staff are obviously pretty upset.
They're retreating about, think, carbon treaty about it
and populate the, and I think Andrew Barton as well,
like in the skin, they're kind of GMs and coaches
and so on, we're all pretty frustrated,
feeling like they kind of got screwed by the seeding.
Yeah, I mean, it makes sense.
And it's just a scenario where
with the limited amount of games that we're playing
and with the restrictions on the format.
Because we don't have more games to determine fully,
than they have to use these weighted strength of opponents.
And so it's like, all right, if you're the first place team,
then you're worth eight points,
basically, for your strength of schedule.
And the regular strength of schedule
was the same for both of them.
But then they waited by, was it a 2 0 or a 2 1 or was it a loss?
And so they got down to that.
And then that's the way that they're like, OK, you slightly
edge them out here.
So it's not going to be a good point.
But it's hard if you're not playing more games
to get a more definitive, all right.
This is how you get there.
Because if you look at the paths that the teams took to get there,
The flight quest was in the same game as Cloud9,
but the teams that they'd be obviously were very different.
Yeah, when I first saw it, it seemed really weird to me, right?
In my head, I'm thinking, okay,
if I just played against, you know, in for first place,
why would they not be second-seed?
But then when I heard the explanation of, you know,
it was like, fly got to the two-o match
by beating Shopify and DSG,
which aren't exactly the best teams here.
It would be a little bit weird if they just automatically
got a higher seed.
And so, yeah, I mean, I think with any limited amount
of game format, like nothing's gonna be perfect,
maybe if Cloud9 could have picked like any of the teams
that were tied at like two and one,
it would have made more sense, I don't know.
But I don't think it's like, you know, that agreed is,
I get why flies upset, but I don't think it was really unfair
I think the way they did it made sense and you know that they were very close and score.
So it is what it is.
It is going to be rough for them to play Cloud 9 again though.
And we can talk about the series that they did play because you know it went three games.
But game number one and game three the ones that Cloud 9 1 they like really won.
You could like those are some some stops you know super one.
They super one though.
I have been in Griffin spot playing against C9 where Blabber is just in your jungle everywhere and I got to say that is
Unplayable it it feels so bad
Both game one and game three Flabber just got to lead and then C9 is a live maintain that is so good
It playing off of him. It's like he does very smart and bades his team backs him up really well
And it just feels like there's absolutely nothing you can do. Yeah, so I think it's cool to see right it's like just a really well-played
game by a team that's coordinated around their jungle, going for aggressive
vids, very impressive stuff and it's just incredibly common from you know.
Yeah, especially the game three, I don't know if you're like, I have the
casters on or listening. Yeah, but after the first play, I was like, I don't
know if I'm an overreacting jungler, but if I'm blabber, I'm saying this game
is one doubt, like literally just after the first play. That's what, and then
the interview. Yeah, the post game interview that he said the same thing is
I still those baptists.
I do this game.
It was okay.
So it was the raptor steel and one thing
Bobber said is he was saying, you know,
and a scrim Griffin doesn't get off his red there.
He's just saying, you know what?
If he kills me, he kills me.
It's all good.
I'm smite fighting this.
But, you know, it's on stage.
The thoughts of us through your head
because it's like, you know, in scrims,
you don't have like a post-match thread.
You don't have hundreds, thousands of people watching it.
People are kind of reminding you forever
of like, hey, man, that time you got
outsmited it, you've read, and not just killed you.
People are going to bring up,
like, hey, you should have like,
pig-vide when nocturnal is open.
You know, all that stuff, so it's like,
obviously you're going to get off the red.
And Bob was saying, like, it's suit.
When you do that, rapture and fade,
and they get off the red, like, Griffin, it's so doomed.
He has to reset.
He has no camps.
He's just going to be completely behind,
starved the entire game.
And, you know, so much of that,
the line-flabbers had came down to that warn,
which is weird, because I don't know why you would ever
word that line brush could begin with.
Cause that's not even a new thing with this map.
That word has never seen that entrance forever.
So Griffin, I talked to him because he was on pros after.
So I don't know if we could if we'll be able to out a club of this.
But basically, Blabber said afterwards in the interview,
he was like, it's unclifed, like it's experienced it.
Cause they were kind of joking, right?
And Griffin before was didn't interview in Blabber,
was it any of you too?
And he's kind of trashed talking and saying like,
oh yeah, like he's all these wash,
you know, blah, blah, like on joking.
But he was all saying, I really respect him.
And he's a great young woman, Pobla.
Anyway, after, Bobber says, he thought that he won,
just purely after the experience that,
because he said, I guarantee that Griffin doesn't know
that that line brush doesn't see the entrance
if you hug wall, and that, because on the other side
of the map, the line brush around mid lane,
does show that entrance.
So he said that, that was what he was,
he was kind of viewing it as, Griffin told me
that he was told after that there is a way
for it to see the entrance, it just has to be very specific.
So he said he thought like he was told the review or whatever was not that you can't see the entrance that you have to place the award differently in you can see the entrance
Also though additionally Griffin told me that
Like that wasn't even like he thought that wasn't even what ruined the game
But because he didn't know at the time that like you wouldn't be spot going in there his read was that okay
Okay, he warded over the red, but we didn't see an enter.
So he flashed the barren pit, did my raptors, and then was coming to do here.
So he has no flash. So when he did the reinvade on the raptors,
he was saying, let's fight him. He's got no flash.
Okay. And so he was saying that that was his kind of like read of which makes all sense, right?
But then, of course he does have flash, they have this reinvade,
And they fight and it's really close.
I don't think you guys remember that fight that happened
over by Raptors where they get end up getting first blood.
But it was like actually really close.
Yeah, I mean, also he flashes, Griffin flashes to follow for the last auto.
He has two rings of denting blow on him.
Yeah. He just wants the last auto to actually kill him.
But blabber flashes kind of down and Griffin flashes kind of up.
And so he can't instantly get the auto.
And then he dies and blabber's like walking away.
Yeah.
Blubber has like no experience.
Yeah, and two rings of Denting Blows,
like that kills him.
Yeah.
If you can fly it, fall in.
Yeah, blah, blah.
Blubber did mention that he played the fight poorly.
Like he didn't spell shield anything,
which, you know, again, siless and vides.
It's pretty easier to spell shield something.
Turn it on.
It's a little press at some point.
But I mean, do not turn your own fighting at Raptor.
Like specifically Raptors, because it's passive,
pitch all the Raptors, and he gets a huge shield.
So I like how aggressive Blubber played the invades.
even the one afterwards, like level six at the grump,
he had no flash that one for sure.
And he just sent it, you know?
He's just accepting.
He's like, yeah, you could probably tell me
if you commit, but it's still gonna be good for us.
So I think that level of aggression
of just like no hesitation, absolutely killer instinct
is something that makes blabber so good.
Why I've always had a lot of spec forum
because I don't think a lot of people play that way, right?
It's like, he goes in with just absolutely no fear.
He could die if you outplay him, but he just doesn't think
The Gromp one was so funny to me and I was laughing so hard because it literally
But it looks like flabbers like put on some sunglasses or like lowers his head
He's like I'm going it like you guys better follow me. You know, they always talk about like if blabbers gonna do a play
You better just go fall this blabber play. It's like he's going in it
And that's what I felt like I was like he's got like ear muffs on he's got like five
He's like he ate calm. He's like no matter what. Yeah. He's like I'm walking into this brush into three people
I know there's three people here. I don't care. And then you see Vulcan like running and like he flashes and
Alt's to be able to get there at time just barely and just laughing so hard and blabbers just forces it and it works
It's cracking. Yeah, I mean even like game one game three were giga stomps even came to
I felt like cloud line could have easily won that that was a very competitive game was back and forth
That was the needley game for blabber which I saw. I saw a lot of people kind of like criticizing the needley
Actually, not nearly was looking pretty strong. I'm not gonna lie. When like the amount of healing he was doing was crazy.
Some of these yields that he was throwing on his van. Like 600 was was pretty pretty nuts.
I know you felt about this media. So I know this van basically said,
Sven, on post told me that he was calling for someone to always split push because he felt like,
because there's no engage. If Quad was in the fight, he thought he couldn't play.
because he was saying he basically felt like the way that he had to play the game was just like
egoing, like, you know, he has Lulu, he has Nidalee, he needs to walk up and try to dodge
skill shots and like auto them and like make them commit to a fight where he can then kill them,
right? Like that's like his thought process. And he says, if caught it's there, I can't do that because
we get shocked, we've done one shot. So I'm like, okay, that kind of makes sense. So I guess it was him
that was kind of calling for ABS. Well, push at that at that elder fight. I'm assuming, you know,
you know, based off of him saying that.
But it did look pretty weird,
watching it like the APA final moments
where he was publishing,
because like they had gotten to a point where
it's like final moments, that's so grim.
Okay.
I'm gonna like about the alder fight, the alder fight, right?
And I know they were also saying like,
oh, like a zero, so weak.
But like he had death gap, he had his,
he had his stuff going, like they were,
they were laid into the game.
And so I was like, okay, you have like a super stacked,
you know, you're, you're as, you're as deaf gap
and all that, I think, at this point in the game.
And so I thought that it would just like,
fight the elder and see what happened.
But they ended up kind of going for the split push.
Maybe it's not even remotely close to ending the game.
They lose this mic and the game just kind of ends like that.
So the ending felt weird to me where,
yeah, I thought that Cloud9 had more of a chance
in the fight than I guess they did,
but maybe I had that other wrong read.
Yeah, I agree.
So I actually thought going into this game,
but I wouldn't want to play either of these gamecums.
I'm generally not a fan of combs that have very little CC
And I, so, see, I played a very similar call
to this against CL, I think, the very first game
decision, where I don't think Middle East, a bad champion,
I see the value in this build, but I don't know if I love
it with Azure and these kind of team comps, because to me,
I felt like a lover just picked some kind of like,
dualist champion this game or, I don't know,
like anything with CC really, it would have been a lot easier
for San Juan play, but it just seemed like every single fight
it was just incredibly awkward for them.
And obviously giving up all the dragons made it really hard too
because a lot of the time as Bob decided in the post game
and it's like, it's super hard to approach.
If they have the zone, you have to walk in.
It's like, you don't have vision, you're getting
or EQW to Ezreal Q to make a huge shock blasted, whatever.
And you don't have any way of getting on them.
You have no engage.
So you're kind of just walking at them
and getting poke super hard and that's the end of it, right?
So, I do think there's a knocker game for you to play absolutely. The decision to give
soul and go for barren, also seem super weird. But like they said, they just felt like they
couldn't re-take at all. So, to me that's kind of where I feel like a team comp thing. If you
have an advantage in the game, but like you can't re-take, I feel like your team comp might
need some help. So, I didn't love the draft. I don't think it nearly serable, but I don't know if
I found a couple of this kind of stuff if I had to choice.
Yeah, if, okay, so it's clearly a book team with
Jace, Ezreal, Karma, Orianna, and Trundle just making pillars
to make it easier to poke like that is heavy poke.
And like the answer to heavy poke has always been like
heavier hard and gauge to actually get to them.
And so yeah, if your hard and gauge is like
what a Cassante trying to run over there and like flash
and get some weird angle on someone.
their hard and gates was basically zen getting spit up in auto attacking them.
And he was, I'm not surprised that he said that all because he was just going at
Masu every second in mid lane.
I have to get Masu with ton of credit for this game though, because playing against a
ghost, you know, with a Lulu on here on mid, that is obnoxious.
Like that sucks.
We see a lot of games where A to carry, it's just get killed because like, you
know, you're just taking ours, W to bad time.
She gets like one auto on you and also on your dad.
she's ghost, you can't run away, she like,
our ease after you, and you're just going,
but Mossu did such a good job of keeping pressure mid.
Like, he would walk that line so well
where Sven would try to go on him,
and then Mossu would just hit like every single cue
and end up with a positive damage trade against Sven
or like Sven, the Wases, Alt, and not Killem,
and then Mossu was like, still chillin'.
So, I thought that was super impressive.
I think like nine out of ten,
as Real's in that spot, play that way worse,
and like would just be dying or getting no damage,
you're having no pressure.
Moss has been great overall.
Yeah.
This split for sure.
I thought it was a good game too, especially with,
I mean, they played a horrible level on the scheme.
And I thought they were like, cooked up this,
because this was the game when you were talking about the first
karma.
This was the first pick karma,
where they were like, yep, we're going for the karma.
You already knew they're going to go karma as
or once they first pick karma.
And so it's like, a lot of it's off your level one.
And then they got some good poke at level one.
But then they just kind of like, stay there and kept fighting.
And then Zen just pops ghosts, that's lethal tempo.
gets his Q stacks and then it's like all right now you're cooked and they lost the
couple sums it was a trade-a-sums but they used all their potions and like
Sven Volk and I don't think I'd use any and they were at like half-elf so
they were getting full pushed in they're kind of getting bullied.
I think Griffin cheese gank them yeah level three gank.
Nice job and I'd like to get so mad because like we're doing such a full clear
meta it's like this jungler really just didn't farm his camps like I mean
bladder was punishing him pretty well early on but Griffin said he got double
It's got a lot for that too, so he said he didn't feel like he's behind the farm.
Yeah, I mean, it was it was a really good timing, but yeah, I think that's just one of those games where if
Trundles doing that and then he's up, I mean, Trundles is pretty strong. Why do you want to chant? There's
I don't necessarily know if I'm at like what the best pick could have been here for Lover,
but if he was picking something that's like, you know, had a little bit more CC could have got
if I started more, we're like fought jungle.
Maybe we'll look at different, yeah.
I mean, we'll get another look at it.
Maybe it will look different in a best of five.
Yeah, I'm super excited.
I mean, you can look at it in different ways, right?
You can say, oh, like, glad.
And I should have three ode them in this,
because they just had a bad comping game too.
And they stomped in the other games.
I know a fly Quest from talking to them.
It was really funny.
I was playing a Aeron Bloss night, night four, I came over.
Anyway, I played against Mossu.
and I was talking to him, but after and he was saying he felt like they learned a lot from this
and as long as they can input their learnings, they're feeling good, and Griffin was saying
he's still felt confident and stuff, because I can see both sides. When you're the team that
stomps the team, you're like, yeah, we're just like way better. It's just that easy.
And we're the team that like, the wheels fall off at like three minutes and you know the game's
cooked, you're like, she's got to look at you. And it's like, well, it's there's like,
all the ward and then we need to see the end of it. Yeah, since it's something that is so clearly
like a unique circumstance, then it is easier to...
We just, they should have lucky.
It's nice to know.
We reasoned that out or whatever.
And at the very least, you're not going to make the exact same mistake
and the next time around, right?
They're like, that brush, that word.
Not going to happen.
So I've never died to a level 3 game twice in a row.
I was, I was previously ex-really excited for this best of three matchup of these two teams.
of these two teams and I'm really excited for the best of five matchup for these two
teams, especially now that there is more behind it. Yeah, I think it's really super exciting.
I'm just hyped for Best of Five in general, just to think Best of Five with Fierle is so fun.
That's where I think that the format really shines. It's fine in Best of Three. It's kind of
interesting game three, but in game four game five that's where it gets really really exciting.
So I'm hoping we have really competitive series. I think Cloud9 is absolutely still favorite. I
that I think you have to just look at them as best
seen in the league right now.
I think that's pretty hard to debate
until someone else can kind of step up and challenge them.
But I think Flacos has shown that they can be competitive
and that they have these really talented young players
that aren't afraid.
So I think at the very least, they're not going to be
going down with that of flight.
And I think they have, you know, this full week,
they're preparing only for this.
So it's going to be really interesting
to see what kind of reads people come out with
and like how the meta is adjusting going into a tip of the spot.
Definitely. I mean, if I'm Griffin, I'm going to try to get a better general situation
because it's like, Blabber, he's just not the guy you can afford to have a bad match,
I've been fall behind against. It's just too rough. He's too good. It's team placed them too
well. You just don't want to have another game like game three again.
I mean, I want to see Griffin jungle riven. You know, jumping on best again will be fun.
And if you're going five games in fearless, that's why I want to get to the fifth game,
because then we actually have a chance of something like that popping up. Griffin, both
Blabber and Griffin play a lot of jungle champs. Blabber streams actually pretty frequently,
and he's always trying anything that gets changed in any jungle on any new patch, and so I'm sure
he's got more stuff that he's been cooking as well, and Griffin plays all kinds of, you know,
carey stuff for jungle too. So I think this matchup should be really fun once again.
Yep, the other matchup we have this week is going to be Sentinel versus DSG, which it's funny because I think both teams were really happy to get the other team, they're both like, we can get you know, go straight through you know, it's kind of funny when you have this kind of those draws, because really I think everyone in the upper bracket was kind of just like I just don't want to play cloud and I right, that's who they were kind of looking at dodging because remember it's not just qualification for first and, but it's also qualification for the Americas Cup.
So second and third seed from CB Laws,
well, it's the elastic and playoff in the America's Cup.
So the thing that's really cool about that,
I mean, I think that will be fun
and that will be interesting, like,
it's like a mini-international whatever.
But I think the thing that is really cool additionally
is that it means you're going to be in Brazil during first-end,
and you're going to get scrims as long
as you can get access to these teams in those scrims.
You're going to be there well, the best teams in the world are there,
right?
So you have an opportunity to get really, really good scrims.
Scrim against the top European and Chinese
and Korean teams, which is really, really cool.
And teams from the LCP as well, right?
So if you win this upper bracket match,
you're already guaranteed top three.
So it is a really, really big match.
So even if they then palm out after that,
they're at least going to the America's Cup
if you win this first round.
So for both sendals and DSG, that would be really
high-fem, right?
That would be a big deal.
Obviously sendals was P1 before, but as sendals would be
the first time going to a mini-international DSG
is they've been able to qualify for something like that.
So I think both these teams really, really want it.
And I think it should be a pretty competitive series.
Yeah, I'm both these teams have over-performed.
I don't think it really anybody was predicting them
to be in the upper bracket.
So I don't even know who I'd predict here.
I guess I would go with DSG
because I like the cohesiveness.
And I feel like cryo just was incredibly good against
line, so yeah, but it's it's still really hard to say. I just like their teamwork. I'm always a fan of teams that even if
They're not perfect and like maybe they lose some mashups or do some sketchy stuff if they play together
I think that's a huge plus. So I'll go with the issue and I just like that this is the
Brand that
Sentinels basically stole all their place
You know, and we get the best of five measurements out, right?
We get a full best of five of it.
And so toast, I feel like I hope toast is going to
coach through this, because I feel like he'll have a lot to say,
you know, cheering against, I could already, you know,
imagine the jokes he's going to make of that sentence,
if they're able to beat them after they took so many of their
players.
And they already lost them in the best of three series, right?
They already played.
That was the opening series where DSG won.
like they already kind of got the best of them once if they beat them the best of five as well like that's that's pretty hype
I feel like I'm kind of on the DSG side also
But I don't know maybe it maybe I am kind of like underestimating sent rules. I feel like they're kind of going under the radar
bit. There hasn't been I feel like they're like the least talked about team league almost
There hasn't been as much discussion around them. Homebalk. I think has had like really good moments with bad moments
Either way, I think like as far as it's early game because it really game is really explosive and
And he does seem to be able to kind of create some pretty good early game leads consistently.
Rehello's been pretty impressive.
In fact, I think he's been kind of like a bit more maybe up and down,
but who he has been really good for them, I think so far this split.
So it's going to be interesting.
But yes, so Jed is really been impressing me as like a young and a talent
and Kriera had like the best debut you can basically have.
So I think they are going to be really cool to watch.
to watch. And especially if you can be not all the esteem that has all these people that
we're kind of taking from your roster, but also like a ton of experience, you know,
within back and who you know, all these people on there. I think that's pretty cool.
And it is a team that I think like name wise, almost ever, and would have
favorite pretty heavily coming in. Definitely. And the feel is it going to be a big thing
too since best to five. I think in best to three fearless is like you, you show some stuff,
But there's a lot of similarities in the drafts here.
You got like your, your Azure or you game,
you got your rise game, whatever.
But in Bestified, like you can get some weird stuff
towards like game four game five.
So, yeah, you know, we're gonna see that's,
I feel like that's a huge test for a lot of these
newer players as well, because, you know,
there's a really good chance you're playing some champion
or comp that you've never skimmed with before.
Yeah, this one is so close for me.
I mean, I guess I still also favor DSG, say beat him last time, but I thought it sent
him was like a lot better, more recently, even with the impact Guardian game.
So I think I think this one will, I think this has a good chance of getting to the fifth game
for for Furious.
Yeah, I'm pretty excited.
It should be a, should be a phone we get to kick off the best of five's last week.
We asked you for the game that I produced to paste the literal
work for. We got a good phrase. The most voted one was
that I just gave my youngest life. I got that in their
Insta. And I think it was just youngest life. But
okay, yeah, as they all got it in there instantly, I was
prepping to like fall a lot because I was like, all right, he's going to do it.
But like you did this intro where you started out, I forget
did you say like welcome to my youngest life. I was like,
one of them back to LCS is another great game my youngest
Yeah, it was like the first sentence and then I just
just let me in there.
Then he goes on.
He goes, he like, steam rolls ahead.
He says like a two pair of graphs after that.
He's like, welcome, blah, blah, my chunk of life.
And then he goes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And the mid lane notice and the bottom of that.
And then I was like, well, now I can't get my name either.
Yeah, yeah.
He says that like way later.
I'm just looking out for my chunk of life.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't care about your chunk of life.
And then it was like, yeah.
Yeah.
There's funny because we saw our manager
before I was like, so I put it into the dive,
like, what is this game?
Like, so, I say this and she's like,
I don't know, like, I'm like,
should we check if there's something bad with this?
Yeah, like, is this like, is there something like,
sitting in secret meetings of Chunga's life
that's gonna offend people?
I was like, I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
I don't think so, I think it's all good, it's kosher.
So, it's got it in there.
But we won't be doing it every week
because it turns out the producer's family
don't want us to on the LCS.
Well, I mean, I think that that was a good suggestion though.
So I also, I don't know how many like more like,
I feel like it gets old to be just keep doing word,
word and word and word.
But that was a good comment.
That was a good comment.
Yeah.
So shout out, wait, I can even just find two guys.
You don't find them.
Yeah.
The rest of you that are listening,
we did say you should leave questions as well
in the comments, but because everyone was focused on the,
the first time I tried to, yeah,
focus on my drug is like,
we're gonna, we're gonna ask for questions again.
We might tweet it out as well.
We should tweet it out and remember to ask for a Q&A.
So we can add a Q&A segment to the end of one of our episodes
for the dive, or maybe even the beginning.
Depending on how we feel,
depending on those questions,
who was the lucky winner?
Stone is Trooper, 169, 169.
I'm the trooper, great suggestion.
Thank you very much, Stone.
Best suggestion I've heard in my trunk of slide.
Yeah, that was the, that one just shot to the top.
As far as the, the votes on it.
So that was a funny one.
Hopefully, hopefully some of you guys caught that life
and enjoyed it.
I got some messages about it people like,
I can't believe you actually said it.
Wow, you did it at the intro of the very big egg
of the first time.
Oh, and count it, done, nailed it.
Well, that was definitely fun. Yeah, we're going to do some QA, QA stuff coming up. So if you guys have questions, definitely leave them in the comments. You can put them on on YouTube.
It's probably pretty easy for to grab them from there. You can tweet at us or maybe we'll put out a question thread this weekend on Twitter.
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It'll be good to see back on stage.
That's really a lot of fun.
We'll see you all there.
I can't touch their toes.
Oh, my Jesus.
Oh, I got my damn toes.
I don't want to hear it.
All right. Look at this.
We were just stretching.
He worked.
Oh, my knees are definitely not bad as you can see.
Oh, wow.
I'm good, God, go.
Yeah.
The ladder!
Good. Good.
Good thing you framed off.
A limbic style judging.
Chat, what are we given to Racy.
What are we given to Racy?
I didn't tell you.
He's value of touching your toes.
And then adjust the grade of execution and your performance.
Your performance is always great, as anyway.
What is this?
Let's recap going into today and get away from talking about...
I see you.
How do we look at what happened during this stage?
And I think we've had some surprises.
The biggest one is Team Liquid at one in two.
That was the least I said.
But is that go to glue walk by and also?
Yeah.
He's not ready to do it.
He's not.
Oh, we're second place.
Oh, I do.
Who put Team Liquid down there?
Oh, it was me.
That's what Bracen said.
That's what he said.
But as you can see, this is what the actual standing
of the lockings look like currently
C9 Bracen's Black West that is tomorrow.
Sentinel's Bracen's DST.
That's today.
And whoever loses goes up against Team Liquid
line of lower bracket. And whoever wins, all gets the good, right there.
Yes, sir.
At the very least, if you win today, you get to go to the America's Cup.
Yeah.
And if you get first, hey, welcome to first stand.
Amazing.
Yeah.
So I want to talk about one of our teams.
I think it's a surprise.
It's a surprise to me.
Disguise, chose, had a little reaction to his,
his literally actually a little, I'm underselling it. But let's check that out as our kick
off to these match.
I'm going to watch your my league of lead this team. One one though, and honestly they were so close
to winning the first game they kind of just sold. I do think it's an experience this. I'm praying
for the downfall of Sentinels. I've been praying for it since the beginning. They do treat the
players very well. Hey, look, I don't even blame the players for going through Sentinels. Oh,
Oh god, we're hell on the failures.
Hide for a carry?
Go!
Wait, a colleague?
What is an a colleague simply assassinated their failures?
Okay.
We've got lion's on the bar.
Let's go.
Coach, I don't.
That's my coach.
That's my ex coach right there.
Come on.
I'll first LCS win in the history.
Let's get it.
The skittip boys and also by the way by the way, we're playing with us some
We'll play with a jungle sub that I don't think was even in a single screen and they lost
They lost it
That Rob Moore showed up and said you guys can meet Ben Affleck and you guys on the list for a hell
It's a huge fan
I couldn't compute that
The thing is
So Jed is three and no.
Oh no, sent it on my, I know what's happening, sent it on.
Someone check on Rob Moore.
I bet he's sending a text to Sage at right now.
200K, 200K to leave your team right now.
There's the same with sentinels as sentinels.
You can buy it, you can buy the team.
Why are you spending a million dollars to lose?
Let's cry out better though.
Kids look really good, but cry out might even be better.
This is us at 40% stretch and check in for the session.
If they can stall this drag, maybe they try to take well.
Oh, oh, they're trying to fight.
Wait, let me sit, Jed.
He's choking this man.
He's choking, boy.
I have to fly off.
Buddy, that back.
We're back at all, man.
But it's not the back at all.
We're so lucky.
Guys, we are so lucky that Sage Ed was
and picked up. And with DS here, pro teams like yo, you want McDonald's salary and he's like, well,
shit. You're the only team that's looked in. So, well, I did it between you guys and
taking a toss. So, this is actually crazy. You know what? The reason we were able to get
to get to jet is probably because we beat big in past last year. And when the jet had to pick
between taking a toss and DSG, is that kicking a rock and like a rock without as hard as
another rock. That's my key. Shut up, shut up, shut up manager Chris. Shut up, I'll close
guide those. This is a big day for DSK and a big day for NA fans everywhere.
But they're first now happy. It's still not happy they are.
Cool. That sent notes. Welcome to the LCS. No refunds.
I like how the price for that sentinel spent kept increasing is like, this, you know, how
you're going to spend a million dollars to lose the two million and then four million
dollars.
And five million dollar officers.
Yeah, it's definitely fun.
And he was like, thank you for the suggestion for taking the McDonald's.
Yeah, that was ridiculous.
ridiculous. And the fact that that was the series when the DSG had that made people really
start to think about how good this team can be. Now they're in playoffs for the first time.
Well, I think both teams have evolved a ton since then, right? Because you had sent in those who
looked not at all on the same page in week one, we then decided, okay, we're going to focus
Drake above all. Yeah. Combat will be there at the timer. And I think they have grown a lot.
Obviously, DSG is growing a lot.
Cry work comes with massive.
I thought he had an amazing debut.
And I think it's always risky for a team to be like,
you we have these issues.
You're not going to be here, but you know what we're going to do.
You're still going to screw them with us anyways.
And the guy who's coming in as a sub is not.
Usually you're like, I don't know because what if there's a delay,
what if you get died, you never got a chance to really screw them with your sub player.
But no, that made it so much easier for Cry to come in and just fit like a glove.
Yeah, and like he had so much confidence on stage also. And so having been inspired already,
that's going to do a lot more moving forward. I also like how you know,
toast is always going to make fun of sentinels for like stealing his players. Yeah. And then
still losing the no refunds. But sentinels, yeah, they did steal a lot of players from the DSG
roster. But DSG found such good replacements. That's one of the reasons why so many fans are
are really rattling behind this new DSG roster,
especially because of Cryera and Sejad,
you know, the young North American talent
tells us also leaning into that
and a really building up some of the North American talent.
And those specific players are performing super well.
You talked about it Emily, but Cryera,
since he finally was able to play in his series,
had a really good opener versus inspired
the MVP previous MVP of the league.
Yeah.
And for a suggest, especially on KISA,
he's been going crazy, but even not on KISA.
I said a lot of good carry games.
He has, and it's put, I feel like me and all of us
to share.
Oh, yeah.
Because when we were talking about surprises,
I'll team liquid and Lion, like we said.
The SG and Sentinels being here was never an expectation.
Not for me.
I had the SG as seven, it's sentinels as six.
I have them last.
Yeah, a lot of us.
What the, let's call it out, uh, because, yeah.
Yeah, look at that.
There is me.
Look at that.
With the zail.
What about Kobe?
I never looked at Kobe.
Well, for opera at nine in his nails on the dive,
we actually put DSG seven and dig eight because we're like,
oh, well, things that Austin have their whole bottom lane here.
So these are only slightly different.
Yeah.
So if I'm them up only, you have a spot for eight this time.
But still, everybody has them last two.
Yeah, and just recognizing how good they are and how well they've played together.
I think this energy is very much there, so really props to the players and the management
to be able to get it together.
No, I just have to energy.
I feel like we underestimated the players in the field.
True.
I know Kriera, who was absolutely buzzing after his win over inspired and lion, kind of
called all of us out, right?
We are in the contingent in what their team in the bottom.
And I think he was right to be like, look, we have,
like, it's not just synergy overcoming all, right?
We just have good players.
And like, even having watched him kind of come onto
Lou Otter and really make a difference with that team,
I did not believe in this disguised roster,
and I've been proven absolutely wrong.
That's the thing, because like, I'm in the same boat as you.
Like, even after seeing what he did for Blue Otter,
water and seeing what the judge did on our zero, you're like, well, it's a new level,
you're in cheer 1 now, you're a different competition, you're not going to be able to do
what you did and cheer 2. No, incorrect. And sure, there's going to be a learning period.
But the learning period was week 1 and 2 and here they are. So it was very quick,
a very surprised and it's honestly really amazing to be able to see them come today and have this
level of performance. I think special shout out to players like Call Me, that came in
and castles who they reference as being like veterans on a team that they can look towards.
Yeah, I like that a lot because I think another one of the reasons is that people were skeptical
of Call Me and people bringing in some more imports as well as trying to build up some
some of the North American rookies and so a lot of people, yeah, including all of us, we're very
skeptical plate, it has been really nice to see how they've been able to pull out
the success because it's been 18. It hasn't been individual stars taking over.
The team play of this roster has really shown through and they haven't had a bunch of
time together either, so that's one of the really impressive things and it bows well for the
future. And usually when we see like a player debut in LPL or LCK or even like when we
We see them debut.
There's an expectation of that they'll perform immediately in day one, right?
Like the 1x stands out in the world, right?
But in LCS, like at times, we will see a player come in and you're never sure.
Like we've seen incredible debut as like Danny and some of them.
But we never are sure how they'll perform immediately.
And this is perhaps I know we'll talk about it later, but like such an immediate positive
debut for a lot of players on DSG, even dark wings from last split.
It's just we've been having a new era of players come through and perform immediately.
Yeah, and let's pull out some such ed stacks because he has actually been performing really well
of spoiler alert both 80 carries in this. Yeah.
In this series, I've been performing quite well and has some of that stats.
But, so, Jed here, you know, like Papa Smithy, very early on, was talking a lot about him
and very proud that they had both him and Masu under the flag-wise spanner,
But a lot of people are looking at such ed, you know, as one of the best North American rookies in a very long time, you know, since Mosul, very like Mosul is kind of style here.
Especially on Kaisat, he has had some humongous games, but his team fighting has really, really shown through.
Yeah, he impressed, even in their first loss, right, which worked on the Kaisat where you were like, oh, like, he is.
He is cooking. He is doing really, really well.
There are his staff across the walk-in tournament that's far, and I think the big thing
for me is to rise this point, you kind of never know how someone's going to do once
they step up to LCS level, so I think all of the things that we focused on with him in
NACL, where he is an excellent team fighter, he's very aggressive, but he makes some really
smart decisions and team fights specifically.
I think that has been present on the LCS age with such a since gay one since that
title loss where yeah I remember I was walking back with him to do the interview after
they won the series and I was like your case is cracked and he's like well let me
say second we lost that was like dude you're insane yeah and I think you need that
mentality to be able to grow to a greater level I think when he came up I mean hearing
from Masu when I think you got the end of doing that interview with him just the last
week I believe, like the credit being given to his teamfighting is there. The growth that
he could have within the laning, sure. But it's nice to be able to see that that's the
only thing that we're really pushing on at the beginning of his tier one kind of career.
So I'm happy to see the level of confidence. Because usually it's the confidence that
hamper is done from being able to perform immediately. And usually you have to take some time
from to get that. That took a while for quid. That's going to be able to find that. But if the fact
you're able to find it immediately.
I think speaks well to the environment
they have in them team.
Yeah, definitely agree.
So let's, in this discussion of, you know,
Masu and other like great 80 carries that we have had
they do.
Where do you, where do you, where do you have a whole board?
Where do you, where do you, where do you, where do you,
where do you, where does get up there?
Make it up there, I got you, I got you.
So I got, I got feeling walking over this.
Do I have like a marker on where what I place is they do?
The marker is in the LCS Cup right there.
You're right, you're right.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know if we have to rank the Davies.
These are just in order of year, right?
So like all the way back in 2011.
We've had some good at my periods.
Yeah, yeah, I will say, like we've produced
a good at your carries.
Just the last day of the year, this is tough.
This is the best 80 carry Davies that I'll be at.
Same.
You know what?
I'll be the damn marker.
I'll see you.
What?
What is this hatch?
I'll say his debut reminds me of...
I'll put him right here in between.
We'll play Danny and John.
Yes, he's the dawn.
The dawn.
Is there a barren steel pentacill in our future?
I believe it.
I feel it.
I remember this is about Dave Beauty.
We're just talking about careers.
We're talking about careers that I'm giving
Moss through that respect immediately.
But if we're just talking about general day views,
I'd say it's in between the two, John and Danny.
What do you, your thoughts?
You can disagree if you want.
I mean, I'm going to be pretty conservative still at the moment because of what a lot of those 80
carries were able to accomplish that. You want to put them right there?
No, I think you have a pretty good spot. You know what, but I'm putting them next to Stixie.
Oh, that's a good debut. Yeah, that's a good debut. It was good too. I like that. Yeah, I mean, I think it's also like the
the hype to
performance because like we were
expecting to expect
a very conservative and obviously
too conservative in terms of our expectations for
us again right because I feel like
by contrast,
Mosul and Yon had a lot more like
strong established
especially since they were coming at the time
from actual academy teams of
TLA and
life-lustic academy right where it was like a
a little bit more structured than when ACL is now.
And I would say more tastes on them
and also just more people hyping them.
Whereas suggested didn't have the same kind of hype
going in, I feel.
And I think that's something you always have to say.
Yeah, Tier II was just more, was more robust
that as well, so that made it easier.
Another thing is mostly just the structure
that you are on on the team that really determines your career.
Because, for instance, all of these players
have had amazing structure.
Maybe on W if you can talk about the difference between like curse and like CLG,
but on CLG, he had an incredible structure around him, like coming up with like,
everyone is barking what to do.
They're like, no, go over here, go over here, go over here,
shout some telling you what to do.
But then like a stick's a great structure when you use on CLG.
You can say the same with Danny, great structure on evil geniuses.
For a young, of course, and most of all of them had veterans on the team that gave them a good idea
of what is expected of them, and if they were making mistakes, where to go.
So Jed probably has the hardest timeline of all of them because the expectation was very, very low being on DSG,
but he's able to perform so well, and it's not the same thing about his teammates.
It's the surprise that his teammates performing well too.
So like all of them having the veterans, and then maybe call me and Castle can be those type of veterans for him.
Yeah, I was gonna say I think that was really cool to talk to you, Cryo last week,
and have him talk about, in particular he said, call me has been a really, really good voice on the team,
to help them like find direction in as a unit.
So I do think they are looking at those two players
as the veteran presence is on the team to kind of help that.
No, it's funny, it's the line of impact.
You got impact and Cord J. J for Yon.
Impact, it inspired for Danny, it's a long time.
Yeah, I mean, double it was already well done when it kind of the impact.
But yeah, you got to have to move for a double lift in and that's
the extra.
Sure, there you go.
That's good.
I have a debut.
Really.
Yeah, not a debut.
I mean, I got a fucking day to go.
All right, well, there it is.
We're talking some double of Flitzcrank air.
Yeah.
Nice.
Good.
Definitely some super fun ones though.
And he's going against Reheld though.
And you saw on the toast video that we showed at the very
beginning, a healthy amount of respect for Reheld as a huge
Gary player.
And he's been playing very well indeed.
So there's a lot going on there, but Emily, I know you have something to say about the
jungle specifically.
I'm on the wild way.
And these two junglers are super interesting.
Where you going?
A basic thing called.
She's not this thing to the building.
The height is actually cannot.
That's so great.
You just hiding behind the bridge.
So we have this lovely.
This is the top nine picks because once you get down to 10, in their career.
And I think it's super interesting, just to compare their jungle styles, everyone who
Talks about Humbuck and again, having watched him on Katie Challenger and Bro just talks about how aggressive he can be and how playmaking he can be.
You see the least in the the signature.
If you are a Korean jungler, least in is probably in your top 10 most snake career.
But you do see like the niddley and the Viego.
these two, whereas this is their shared of the top 10.
And then, I was going to talk about cryo, because I feel like we haven't talked
a lot about the kinds of things he can pull out in the jungle, which we did see a lot more
of during his NACL experience, right?
Yeah.
The Zach is lingering there, the Ivern, the skarner.
His window has been jammed down.
Yeah, he's got an enemy base.
A lot of stuff where I think it's interesting that DSG have made
such a clear identity of like we got this guy because of jungle. It's so jungle focus,
but it's not jungle focus in like, oh my gosh, he can carry. He can do that too.
But it's also like a lot of, when I look at Kriera, I think he has such potential for like
creativity in his tapping. We've already seen that. What are you laughing at, Raj?
It's like soccer team versus Arnold Schwarzenegger. One is a thinking man's jungler. The other one
is just all hands.
I was like, where are you going?
I was looking at the champion.
I was like, what is this purely mechanics?
The other one was like, scarier.
I've earned Zack.
In general, like, it's funny because you get to see a little bit of the difference between both
styles.
I know I will dominate talks about a cryo, a little bit, and likeness him to the style of which inspired
plays the game.
And that's ridiculous amount of praise.
And I think it makes a lot of sense.
People have talked about, oh, the comms coming out for DSG and how cryo is a big part of
is a big part of it. So if that is the case, that is a really, really big positive for DSG
in their future. Yeah, I have to say for a home box side, I think he's actually had some huge,
huge moments. Yeah. Like you're saying, really big playmaker. They've been some that haven't
worked out. Yeah. Like, it's a pan beyond game was amazing. He had a really good place with his
key on a game as well. I think he's been such a critical part for the success for centenals. Yes,
You can also say the language barrier is also evident though because there's several plays
especially around mid-lane with dark wings where you can tell they clearly do not speak
same language and they address that as well. They were doing a lot of Korean before they're
trying to speak more in English now trying to be able to involve everybody in the plays but
sometimes there's just not a lot of time you know when his pantheon flash done and then dark wings
to lead it is like out of rain you have to be right there to be able to eight-year seismic
up afterwards. So once they can hire those things out and you actually play more with the players
and you don't have to speak quite as much and you just kind of feel for what types of plays
each person is going to go for that I think it's going to shine even more. Yeah a thousand
percent and I think on top of that even as who he's talking about how the snap judgment
that humbuck makes, he was not really like he's like oh I actually should just be following you
immediately. Yeah I was like oh that didn't tell me why that is a good play. Let's just go for it.
That being said, with how Sentinels has grown,
throughout the league, there's an understanding
that like, C9 is at the top.
The Sentinels, as much as we hyped up the SG,
they are the second seed.
And a lot of that came off of their win over the team
with wood.
And so for me, looking at how they play versus team
with wood, it's a lot of what Emily said coming into this
is like, we are focusing on our Drake setups.
Yep.
And we are having a straightforward composition front to back,
a z-erous smile, a little bit of scaling.
We have good types of play, and a lot of it is protecting and playing around Rahel.
Yes, I think Rahel, we kind of highlighted it when we started talking about the JED,
Tose highlighted it during the first time these two teams met this year, but Rahel has been
performing so so well, and it seems like the evolution of this Sentinel team has finally been
okay.
How are we playing around this kind of super powered ADC that we can have and also how are
We're really showing up to our point previously
when we were talking about Hanbok and the Earth's team,
potential communication initiative.
Yes, and as you can see right now,
Span in the chat, who's the second best team in the league
in your mind because there's really a feels like
a clump of teams that can beat each other.
But if you look at the top, see nice.
See nice, not even on there because right now,
there's three in all of their at the top.
Yeah, they're the top, they're the top.
They're number one, so they can't be second.
There's no conversation when it comes to see nine,
but if we want to hear your guys and stuff,
because that's the real talk for me.
What do you think?
Yeah, I mean it's, I mean it is up for discussion.
I would say life-lust look really, really good and of course yeah they lost the cloud
nine but then we're like well cloud nine is clearly number one team at the moment.
So there's a lot of directions that you can go oh we're getting a lot of total of my
dreams.
We're getting a lot of questions here right now.
We have zero percent for TL they have zero percent for the pointy but I mean this
But it doesn't look good for a Sentinel, it's right there.
If they're direct opponent right now,
DSG is getting so many votes.
Yeah, for me, that's why I didn't know my opinion
was going to be a popular as it is.
I would go in the direction of seeing liquid.
You cry zero percent.
I am the zero percent.
Can you get a one percent rate of the game?
That's what I mean.
Let me rest.
If you guys can check and represent my vote,
or maybe I can get in chat myself.
But like, the reason why I say it,
Everyone just talks about dominant team look at his in-springs.
And Spawn has come out and said that there's definitely signs of stage fright.
That's the case. At some point, it's going to shed itself.
At some point, we're going to see the true team liquid.
So, I'm wondering what that's going to look like on the lower bracket,
but our focus, of course, is on today's teams.
Now, I'm getting the chat right now. We're in my phone.
Yeah, we're in my phone.
I kind of think it's funny. I think it's funny to stay there, but now I'm seeing a lot of TL.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
the poll. I agree based on her performance that it ducked are, is by
West I agree with Kobe. However, the really interesting thing because we saw a lot
of DSG spam from DSG employers is for these two teams in this match,
incentives, and disguise how much they have evolved even in such a short amount
of time from their first match against each other and now, right, in terms of
their actual game play, so that's why it's going to be really interesting to compare
whatever happens today to previous, because I feel like both of these teams have improved
a significant amount even in a very short amount.
Yeah, I would say everybody's going to have the correct rooms in this series as well.
I'm just calling it right now. I'm predicting 100% correct rooms for every place right now for
for the whole series as well.
All right, I finally saw a little straight leg
because someone's arms in the photo behind us.
Never mind, I just, I saw an optical illusion.
I'm sorry.
I was lost.
I did.
I swear I saw an optical illusion.
Did you guys thought that was going to happen?
We're just seeing a bike.
I was going to see a bike.
I see a bike.
I don't know where you're going with it.
On the LED behind the coach, I showed someone's arm.
I just thought that was straight leg, never mind.
My bad.
Razzies and you're not as skinny as I did.
Yeah, I'm skinny.
We just thought, I was like,
something's coming up in the store.
It's not on time, do you?
Um, okay.
Oh, God.
Hey.
Any thought for a show?
You know, the inner workings of Razz's mind are always enjoyable.
Thank you.
So, like, so you said DSG, I said,
And the boy, I have five.
Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
That makes sense.
I think it's time to talk predictions.
Okay, let's do it.
Where are you feeling, guys?
Where are you?
For me, I'm sitting right next to Cuber.
I have to go in the direction of sentinels.
I'm going sentinels, three one.
The room is pretty cute.
Yeah.
It's very cute and it rests nicely on my legs, my legs.
And I'll talk about them, basically because I think we talk about the three
Wren from DSG to Reheal.
Yeah, I said Reheal.
Sentinels picked up the biggest piece right now.
I think Reheal is the best current performing
ADI carry in the league.
And he's performing on a team that recognizing that
when they have internal problems, they're saying
we're going to play towards it completely.
And I think that's going to be a winning strategy.
When DSG succeeded last year and when they went through
that five game series versus C9,
who was the centerpiece of that entire team.
It was Reheal.
And so, if for hell was on a C9, a fly quest with views on those type of teams, people
would be singing his praise a lot louder.
But he is doing his job and then some and there's so much confidence you can see.
The last time they played versus DSG, he was stomping in lane and people were having
question marks of what was happening next, right?
So, go, Rael, have this massive of a lead?
How do we not close the deal?
That's not going to be a question today.
Yeah, I big one up there too on your graphic, the Kaiser.
So maybe they get the Kaiser early and a best of five
fearless. Yeah, that matters a lot, you know,
poke, poaching a champion pool here. So coaching a player,
poking a champion.
A player or several characters,
oh, you're like a five show. We'll take a punch. Okay,
so the agency, you're going to have to go and
game score. Yeah, three one is for
I have a tweet prepared for you for your prediction here, Razz, and I'm going to say about it this time around.
You mentioned a lane phase of course that is going to be an area of focus, and that's something admitted from the judge.
Yeah, we had like our pre-game interview with him across from Masu before they played.
And Masu was like, yeah, he's pretty good teamfighting, but his length is not very scary at all.
And then, so Jay was like, yeah, well, it's not wrong, but yeah, I'm sorry, I'm here to win.
I mean, I'm here to win. But when we're still going to win, Emily, do you have a better defense than that?
Wow, I, I, I did a say because I also went DSG. I think this is going to be kind of a messy series.
I think both have strength yet, strength and weaknesses. I want to call out an unsung here,
that we haven't talked about, who is actually lines.
I think he's performing really, really well in DSG's team fights.
And I think overall, especially from what I saw from cry rejoining the team last week,
I give this light edge to DSG.
Yeah, that's the thing. I think it is so slight.
I think this series should be a banner.
Should be very close, right?
Yeah. And I think we should start the show.
Oh, God!
He likes it.
No, he's cool with it.
I'm going to be joined for this best of five by Jet.
We've got some valentines coloring in here right now.
Now it's changed, they turned it off, but that was a nice intro.
What's the Sentinel versus DSG for the first round of the lock-in playoffs in the upper bracket?
I would say going into the year, you wouldn't really expect these two teams to be playing each other in this slot,
but that's what we have.
And it's been a lot of fun, I think, because we have had some of these teams that weren't expected to be up at the top performing so well.
you think about fly class. You think about DSG teams that weren't really expected to be at the top even sentibles. They ended up finishing second with the track recorders.
I mean see some some disagreements. Some feelings about that from some of the teams about how those type of rules didn't work.
But these teams have over-pformed expectations. And as a result we have some really surprising upper bracket matches.
Absolutely. The first time these two teams played against each other was their first game in LCS Walken.
walk in, but I'd say both of these teams did look very different at the time.
GST didn't have their full 5-man roster.
They were playing with Kizno instead of Kriera, who we later learned, they had never
scrimmed with Kizno.
They've always been scrimming with Kriera to reach what their final form would eventually
be.
And on the side of Sentinels, even though they did have their 5-man roster, they were very
low on practice.
Homboc had just gotten there.
And as I learned by listening to the Sentinels podcast, Homboc had scrimmed in a
year because he was the sixth man in the LCK and wasn't screaming for that long period
of time. So he's getting some of the rust off and I'd see both these teams
right there strong as level right now.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's going to be exciting to see how Homba can work with
Dark Wings. I think individually, Homba is at some really great moments. Usually when things
fall flat is where you can see, okay, there's some communication barriers here. Dark
Wings and Homba aren't always on the same page and who he had told us in an interview
that it was kind of four people speaking Korean and the Dark Wings in a speaking English
so that they were trying to move the team more towards communicating an English so that
the Dark Wings could be more involved. So I think as that continues and as that improves,
Dark Wings will be more involved and I think we'll see that mid-Jungal duo look more coordinated.
I think so but that's a long process. That's not something that's going to get fixed week
over week. Interesting. Ooh, pick it up and pick bands here. So with the Azir band,
It's not possible to have the Orianna as your trade, but at least it's possible to disrupt the Orianna
and not turn combo, and it would set up calmly to play something like a roar or a cally to match into the Orianna, which I think will see on the third pit.
Yeah, exactly. You know, a cally was the one that I was kind of thinking of when you go and not turn, you do want to have those dive buddies, obviously to fly in with them and
And Bessa is going to be locked in, so in Bessa we're expecting to be up there for Castle.
On-box could go for the Pantheon, you know, point and click, obviously decent ball delivery
system, but not the way it is kind of that prime one, and that is the big reason why
we saw that taken away.
Nico support also really rises, I think in priority, when you do have that knockdown,
and it's also really strong in the 2v2, but when you could try out the lights, it's so hard
to mark these flanks.
So, I do think sentinals may want to take away the Nico, it's a good pick for hoody, and
You just can't really give that over to Lions otherwise you're probably having losing
2v2 but and you're going to have to deal with it in the 5v5.
Absolutely agreed but we do see the Equality as we expected there.
It's likely that the Equality Trucks isn't a jungle.
A Trucks although it could be but I would imagine that Impact is taking that to match
into the Am Best so which is what Castle can we take in the Trucks later.
So just waiting now for these next set of bands.
Yeah, nothing to surprising in the first three picks we definitely have from a personality
perspective, we had a dive comp for DSG, all three of the champions go in, which makes
me think they're going to want to try and put real on something that's not very safe.
So, sometimes you see like a ziron, as a real band, but another thing we need to point out
is that kysa is just really good for both of these 80 carries, so I'm expecting a pretty
high priority on that as well.
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if such edges grabs it here if it's not going to be banned
out because they obviously are having such a high priority and that real hell also does really
like that pick. And it can be quite safe, you know, the bear is going to be banned away,
the chi-sickety taken away. I do think Ezreal makes sense as a band, Nico Ezreal pretty strong
lame here, could kind of disrupt that. So obviously, he's one of those premiere safety
carries as you had mentioned, but I think it is a worse pairing with the Nico. So I would
expect DSG to try to fan the Ezreal or maybe take it away unless they're really just not
concerned, but I just think Ezreal is so good at disrupting some of this dive and making their
double a harder.
Completely agree.
The price of ban made a lot of sense.
They instead ban you Nara, which I agree with you about the value of Ezreal into something
like a colleague and best in Octurn, Sentinels would want to take that, but it makes
me think that either DSG doesn't care, there is going to be a pick it on for you.
Yeah, exactly.
If you're going to pick yourself then, hey, maybe that's not an issue.
You Nara obviously has some safety, you know, with the RE is a relatively large dash, but still
Well, it can be pretty vulnerable, and we know that there's not going to be like an
enchanger pairing alongside it.
So, personally, I'm a little bit surprised that they are worried about unar when they
do have such an incredible comfort killing unar.
But we will see, traditionally, with these kind of comps, you would expect it to be
a hard engage before you know, to be paired with this, things like the nonless things
like the Alistar and the Rale and the Rapunzel and so on.
But we're going to have to see what they want to draft for Ezreal would make a lot of sense.
If you weren't going to ban it away, I think picking it away makes a lot of sense to deny
that because that just feels like the obvious choice alongside the Niko.
For sure.
And it does seem like these teams are already very familiar with each other from the
Kaisaban to even the Nami band there by sentinels to try and block the Irving Luchin
Nami.
And now as real to try and make the safety carries, the sentinels could pick part of the
access.
So, Jen would be the natural choice.
Zia, maybe, but since you're already pairing it with the Niko rather than Rakan, I think
Jen is going to be what they're going to find.
I mean, Jin is a strong laner.
You can obviously team fight for pretty far away just by using the ultimate, but not great at
staying safe from this dive.
But I think the top process is kind of like you can kind of start off the fights with
your ultimate, try to be the ones proactively engaging.
And if the Jin dies, he's still a lot of power.
He can the rest of the team.
They do have some pretty consistent damage.
If thision comes through, it would make a jungle atrocks here from a homoboc, which would
be fun to see.
I'd love to see that.
I do really feel like awesome.
We're going to see jungle aatrox or humbuck.
The players that have played the jungle aatrox and ambessa,
I feel like it's been very successful.
Early on in the year it's the more rookie junglers across the world,
but I feel like it picked these champions the most
because it's a little bit more of a solo queue style
where you do need to prioritize your own income more.
But I think it's very powerful.
So rounds out the composition very nicely there,
with the sign-on, the karma comes through on the side of Ezreal,
karma trying to make sure they have that bot lane lane
trial to play around Drake, which has been the M-O for both of these teams when they
found success. So I like to switch a rear there to get the A-Trock Stronger because I think
it's strong pick, but I really like what DSG is put together in this class.
That is interesting. I mean, A-Trock's obviously is quite popular in solo queue and people
do think pretty highly of it, but it hasn't done too well and get better than just yet in
top four regions. When has it 33% win rate? So hasn't been super successful, but is one of
these picks that really can snowball? And I do think it's a good pick into what we have seen
and then you want champions with a lot of power and the counter engage, you have
the ballerina throwing out the shock wave, you're trying to fight through this
atroxes of the line, the atroxes that get so much damage down.
So I think from that kind of point of view, it makes a lot of sense as a pick, right?
Even if the gym dies, if you have high-consistent damage, from your mid lane, from
your jungle, things did so be okay.
to the Valentine's Lighting, let's check it out.
So, got a time.
Oh, they've eaten hearts in the background.
I love that.
They're throwing hearts over across the way to each other.
I just like how surprised the impact of that.
But I have a funny story because I played an era
I'm yesterday with the impact and some other people.
And obviously, everyone is kind of meaming about the impact
Guardian, right? The Guardian Aatrox. And so I actually cute for a regular A-RAM instead of
Mayram. So no one set their rooms. So he's playing you, Nara. And he's owns it. Not with
Guardian, but with grass. So immediately like everyone on TV is just spimping the grass.
Grass, you, Nara that impacts his playing. So bye, bad, bye, bad. Okay. I'll see. Yeah,
I'll let that one. But it was really, really funny. I should price you guys even got a game.
I feel like everyone plays mayhem instead of classic airing.
I know, yeah.
It was an Instacute too, which was surprising, but it wasn't really funny.
Man, that's amazing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In fact, it's been getting me a bit on that, but they won the series.
So, obviously, he's kind of having fun with it.
Yeah, absolutely.
They talked about it on their podcast as well.
He's pretty sure it was his bad.
He blamed them out, though.
He said it's a double-click issue with certain logic techniques.
and see what's clicking it and scroll the second click
happen and that's why he feels like it hit Guardian.
I feel like at that point you should switch mice.
Yeah, probably.
Yeah, I think it's time.
You know what's interesting though is for a lot of the old
school pros, they have the same mouse that they've used
for like their whole career and some of these guys
never want to switch mice.
It's really funny because I know a number of pros
from different games over the years where they get so hooked
on a specific mouse and then the mouse gets discontinued.
So I knew some pros who were spending upwards of like
thousands of dollars basically on going online because the
mouse gets his opinion to you. So they go to eBay and they
try to buy every copy of this mouth that exists. Yep. So
they can have a stockpile and one of the guys I knew who is a
a former pro in sarcasm ended up buying like he you know
closet full of like 80 of this mouse. That's true. I know. That's
my no. But it was just so funny because this whole closet just
full of this specific mouse that's been discontinued because he
It's so worried about, well, I don't think I'll break my goodness.
I honestly, I wish I would have done that the mouse that I was, the mouse and mouse pad
that I was playing with when I was pro have both of them just continue to then I don't
have backups.
So maybe that's why I want to go.
I think it's probably just, it's a mouse issue.
It has nothing to do with it.
Not playing as much as I used to.
No, you know, you're not old and bad.
You just have the wrong mouse.
Right.
RIP, the MX Revolution, why are those?
that's the
answer. There you go.
It's just can't fight anymore.
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We are pause briefly. Hopefully not
going to be any issues as the players are
loading into game. Hopefully we can get this
one kicked off here pretty quickly.
If you are just joining us, this is week one of
the LCS lock in playoffs. We are only best
at five from here on out for the rest of
lock in. The teams that win here,
there's actually some pretty big stakes. If you're
in the upper back and you win, it means you
for the Americas Cup, you know, because you are going to be top three and then America's
Cup is going to be the second and third seed from the LCS versus the second and
third seed from the CBLall. Of course, the first place seed will go on to first
then competing against the LPL, the LCK, the LEC and so on and so forth. But, you know,
even just a win here is actually pretty important, especially for a lot of these players that
have never had that opportunity for that international experience. And you're also going to
be forward to the opportunity to have potential scrims against some of the very best teams
the world because you're going to be there during first
times. For sure. And I was talking to Mark about this
since we haven't talked that much about what the America's
tournament is going to entail. So since it is before
first end, I think mostly for that tournament, it's about the
competition with the CB law teams. But the winner of that
tournament for the end of split two gets a 14 day boot camp
in Korea before MSI. During MSI. So the prize is actually
future practice if that makes sense. So if they qualify for MSI, obviously they get to go anyway,
but let's say that DSG wins the America's Cup. That means while MSI's happening,
Riot has an all expensive paid boot camp for them to be able to swim in the best teams.
There you go. Or just eat some really good KBBQ.
I don't think that would be the best use of the boot camp time for some way.
That's fair.
To pens how much you like the vibes?
So one of the players had to run into the washrooms, so they are back and out with that
that secondary delay. So we are ready to go. We are finally going to be getting underway here.
I can see that they have unpaused and everyone kind of just chatting back and forth,
call me saying, and calling again, are you scared? Dark wings is like, we'll see.
So a little bit better back and forth between the teams as we finally get things underway here.
Sentinels versus DSG kicking it off. I like the banter between Dark wings and call me.
If we remember that last series, Dark Wings, when they lost, did have several deaths in
the sidelines.
So he's got to make sure to improve upon that if they want to have a chance in the
series.
Absolutely.
I think that is kind of the question, you know, even talking before the season started,
some of the opposing teams coaches were saying, you know, we're not so sure how sendals
will do, because a lot of people feel like illegal legends and get better to have an
incredible mid laner to really have success. And people weren't sure how quickly
Dark Wings would be able to develop. You know, would he be able to really hit the ground
running and establish himself as a top level mid laner because if he can, then people feel
like sentinals could end up being one of those very top level teams.
Yeah, I'd say he's had some really inconsistent performances. I'd say even last week
his Gallio game was really strong and that wouldn't even be something you'd think he'd be
able to excel on. But Orianna would be absolutely in his wheelhouse for something you'd
would expect him to be proficient at.
Yep.
And these two teams did meet up a couple of weeks ago
you touched on it.
It was a week one of the lock in tournament.
What was a very close series?
The goal difference, as you can see,
only plus 39 across the entire series,
the close percentage, which is with,
you're within a certain amount of goal,
the certain percentage of the goal was very high,
meaning that this remaining
to very competitive series overall throughout those three games.
Of course, the GST did end up winning,
and that was with kids now,
as they are training really heavily,
is Dark Wings wants to get this wave in and call me was getting some good damage down
but it's costing a ton of CS as a result. He was so focused on that trading.
He missed an entire wave out of the two waves that've come.
Yeah, and Dark Wings had perfect vision on Kriera seeing him clear.
Their Raptors, knowing nocturnus, and trying to cheese gank.
I think that's part of why Dark Wings is willing to play so aggressive as it's against an
octurn. So usually it's just a full clear, but he's going for a flash in.
Does good act on the E, but he can't even take it.
Dark wings is too far back. I guess he's just hoping to like freeze the wave now, but I don't think he's going to be able to really hold it.
There's not a lot of health on that cannon, so at the end of the day, he spends his flash for the he and I thought he was going to fall send it, but just didn't end up doing that.
And now Dark wings should be able to keep you back and it's just going to be kind of like you're down a flash for not really much right.
Dark wings can only buy the one monochristol, but obviously TP's back.
So CS is kind of equalized because he did deny a couple with where he got the way, but I'm going to take the flash over the 3CS pretty much at a day of the week.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's also just kind of a fun matchup because of what happened in the offseason, right?
You know, DSG last year, you know, really struggled through the first couple splits in split three.
They started getting things going. They got real. They got dark wings. They started to win.
And people started to get a little bit more excited about them.
But then in the offseason, well, low behold,
that knows come in.
They end up taking away a lot of their players.
You know what's yours?
I made this.
It's mine.
Dark wings are a hell who he, and it did seem like it was
going to be really difficult for DSG to rebuild off of that.
But they've done a very good job with the replacements
that they found call me, suggest, and lions.
But it creates, seemingly no hard feelings, right?
The Valentine's Day, they're given hearts
to each other, they're bantering all chat.
As long as both teams actually found success, you know?
Yeah, absolutely, Jason.
I mean, it's it's interesting, right?
Because, you know, it's talking to Ido in the OX season.
You know, he was just saying, he can't blame any players
for wanting to join Sentels because the relegation
tournament was so stressful for them, you know,
they found it really, really intense,
really, really stressful.
It's a lot of extra, you know, practice during the OX season.
And then it can feel like, okay, if we lose this series,
if we get relegated because DSE is in the guess law,
they don't have a guaranteed spot.
If they lose that, well, guess what?
You might not have a job next year, right?
So a lot of the players found that incredibly stressful.
And so as a result, you know, he was saying,
hey, we can't really blame these guys if they want to be on a team
that knows they're going to be the league.
And I'd also say, as a fan, this is the way that I wanted
to turn out, like if the guest slot team or DSG ends up
just being the team that's really good at finding young rookie talent.
And then they get you to display their skills.
They're going to become fan favorites pretty much right away.
because it's been so long since we've been very excited about having like a surprise team
in the LCS because the way this ended up working is just you kind of about last pick
of the talent and they're performing towards the top of league which has got a few
very good for the Oregon for the players involved.
It really does.
It puts a huge on us on their starting right.
You've got to be able to find the diamonds in the rough the best players into your two
to be able to bring up and really try to get them going immediately.
It's also just kind of funny because just you now looks really good.
There's a world in which like,
CSG wins the split and then they go have that to go play the
relegation, dirty.
Yeah, I mean, you and me were talking about this.
I forgot what your prediction on the dive was.
Was it the SG-3-2?
Yeah.
That ended up being my prediction as well,
but it just doesn't feel right yet.
And part of it is just because we saw DSG losing so much last year,
but based on the games that they've played,
they've been very successful so far.
And it does seem like a sound prediction.
So we'll see what they can deliver today
as we are nearing the six minute crab.
And we have a mid lane slash jungle fight.
Yeah, as a on-box, going to be face checking cryer,
we'll get feared up and not going to be ran down
or taken out, but it means he gets chunk pretty heavily.
So should give cryer the edge on this scuddle.
I think on-box just going to have to give that up,
especially with castle moving over.
I'm like just has to base.
And who we think has quite a bit of damage.
There's a shift in there from such a dead.
Who is getting some damage down, who he will survive.
But again, a winning trade there for DSG, they win the
surface around mid, they win that surface around
bought as well. And they can access to the plans.
Is there's an alternate from Castle, if that's
going to get interrupted on his all-tating incredibly
low flashes out, Castle will not be able to finish
him off. But that is great for Castle, because
in back now has no all-noty Pete. So he can try to
potentially crash this wave, deny some minions there
from the side. Yeah, very nice,
leaning there by DSG. I feel like they were just
very aware of the way the map was working.
There's been so many battles around that second scuttle crab spawn, and I do believe
it's very important.
You see teens in the LCK doing this so much, but fly-question C9 has been very
vocal about how important that was.
And cryer was just set up their first, ready to have control, record in the line bush,
pushes home back back, gets level 6, but then concurrently, since you have the level 6
nocturn, Castles able to go all in because he'll win the 2B2 with an nocturn all.
And since all the drummers were top lane,
their Ezreal Carmer goes super aggressive in wins a trade.
So just all collectively, they're very aware of the state of the overall map.
I mean, it was fantastic. And there was even one more knock on a fact when
it impact has to go back to base.
So then Carlos says, all right, I can invade and he takes away his blue because he is level six,
the little five over humbuck. So they get the blue. They win surmishes in all three lanes.
Across the map and DSG utilizing that pressure.
It is just a slight gold lead though.
Of course, he did not result in a kill or anything like that.
But still, it's nice to see DSG playing aggressive, realizing where they have that power,
where they have those advantages and trying to get the most out of it.
And that's a lot of the stuff that top teams are able to do, is they can get these small
advantages, which will then ladder up when we end up seeing teamfight.
So the first teamfight of this game is probably going to be around the first Drake,
since that has been the primary win condition for both of these teams.
Week 1, Sentryl's wasn't very organized.
Week 2, they took eight Drake's and two games, got two souls and one and two zero.
Last week against Lion, DSG got the first seven drinks of that series against Lion.
When these teams are winning, it's because of their ability to control what has become
the primary objective of League of Legends this season, which is the drinks.
So, it's also pretty interesting.
Darkling is going to be going back to a very old school style build, which is the Roa.
Almost exclusively we have been seeing the really versatile builds with loot and shadow
flame death cap.
You know, all of these upfront burst items, but because there's the ambassador, the
the nocturn all of this they're playing it pretty defensively and so I'm about trying
to get it GST do have first move on this dragon I don't think there's going to be a
contest.
So you know Darkwing is going to be playing this much slower build the Roa a lot less
first a lot longer to come online but does give you that additional health and survivability.
So good call out and a really well taken dragon by GST right there having the bot lane push
having the nocturnal threat I think most importantly having the inside track on mid lane as
well so if there's a fight they'd be able to win and also because Darkwing is going with
this slower build. It also does make sense. He doesn't want to get one shot in the sideways,
which was one of the dangers of clicking control major into a cally. So, Sentinel is definitely
slow play in this little bit. Yeah, and when every time we look top lane, it's like, oh yeah,
you know, castles really bullying him back. But then you look at it and see, that's, you know,
like, it doesn't really, it doesn't really matter. You know, it's kind of just a house lion
in place. Sentinel's though, first here on the grove. The if I cast a whistle, you know, over DSG
to go for it. It comes to all to get
into the Nico with the ball.
Awesome. Pretty good. The fear
does land. Nico's going to get knocked
down. But is that going to be enough
flash away there from Lions on the
side? It's off. Try to get something
done. Big shock with across three,
but not a lot of damage behind it.
Send those just have no consistent
DPS in this fight. It's dark
wings on, you know, really just a
catalyst. It's Nico getting focused
down. Jin is still on the bot lane,
so the more high damage come from
DSG really wins out despite the
the great chocolate. I'm really liking what I'm seeing out of this DSG team because they did all the
small trades and then when the fight happened they also had just a slight numbers advantage.
They were there a little bit sooner and they attacked the weakest target. So Criter goes all in
onto the support. Once the fear lands, that's when the MPS goes for the ultimate so it's
undogsible there from the Nico. Even though two people get hit by the shockwave,
like what else is there actually in the fight? No one ends up falling below a quarter
health and it completely wipes
sentinels off the floor in that
fight. Yeah, because you go and
look in pretty stressed by the
results of that one, you know, it's
a much slower build, but this was
DST last year. So this was DST
last year with Owler Hell without
Dark Wings, you know, in this blitz
one and two, they really really struggle
to an 18. And so the reason this is
important is because once they then
lost those players coming into this
year, people are thinking, oh, are they
just going to go back to that sort of
level of performance, but even losing
in Dark Wings, they're able to bring in, call me, bring in to Jed, bring in Krira,
and have a lot of success.
You know, they're starting off pretty hot.
They're looking really good this game.
I think they just have a much stronger skirmishing comp, especially when Dark Wings is going
this slow scaling build.
They don't have a lot of DPS in the early game, and if this, you can zero out one of
their threats.
Well, you have no consistent damage, and they're playing just a very, I want to say,
control game. Two full item
completions now in top jungle.
We're going to have ultimate up
again for Kriera and about eight
seconds. So if this river tries
to be contested, he's just going to
are again and go in for another
kill. He didn't incredibly strong
doctrine right now. Not to mention
he's going to have fully upgraded
smite after the scottle. You can see
Castle here looking for a bit
of a proxy play trying to be
annoying to impact and is going
to be able to clear that up.
It's he hits level 10. Call me
just continuing to push in the
gold. They now almost up to two
to get a new K here for DSG who wants to continue pushing the pace.
They already did grab that first dragon.
So expecting them to try to continue for that is Hombock has just been waiting in this
side.
It's going to look for Lions can't connect on the EQ unfortunately.
Lions just backs it up, had no flash.
So if that connected, then the infirmal chains could be there and could have potentially
been a look.
It could have been a look, but for thinking about how these compositions need to work,
I'd say Sentinels is in a pretty difficult spot because the A trucks is good when the
and best a nocturnal call you're trying to dive through them.
The eight trucks is not good when he's trying to move into a car
as well. Like that, that gank has such a low chance of success.
Let's call me just get some nice boat under the roof.
I'm the oldie, Danny flashes out, but doesn't get the distance.
And now hompox and trouble is well here.
Good spell shield there from Kriera.
As call me Threatening hompox.
He is going to go back in.
There's the R2 forward.
Hompox now pops the oldie.
Who is coming over for Castle?
Is it right first?
The pop-box has come down, but it is too late.
to join the fight.
Oh, he's gone.
Impact in.
Can impact get a kill back.
Looks like he might be able to finish off.
Call me.
Watch the way.
Impact flashes the follow.
Real.
Getting some damage down.
Castle could be in trouble.
Cryer waiting around the edge.
Nice.
Follow up there with the root.
They get the shut down.
Now try to flash out of the safety.
But he can't quite do it.
Real in a lot of trouble.
Cryer knocks him down.
Lions has arrived.
Impact doesn't have the damage to finish them off.
the end of the day, DSC went out on the fight again.
And that was with Sejad, not being involved.
The Ezreal's collecting plates on the bottom lane that entire time.
This is becoming an incredibly one side of game.
That was a extended 45, all five members of Sentinels participated, but it begins with
just a nice little trade from Call Me, the knock-turn is close and once enough poke lands,
just off in the flash doesn't clear the fear to the range, so it's a pretty easy kill
for cryer and then why not? Just keep hitting back since the MBC has the first move,
Lansy are on the hombock, finishes him up, and it just because Sentinels isn't
quite synced up. Three people are dead by the time impact arrives, so they salvage it
a little bit, but it still becomes a disaster in the end.
Damn, that's a power of having the push. Do you see it's been so quick on these moves?
As long as they knocked down one of the carries early, which they've been able to do
every time, settles just doesn't seem to have the damage.
And that fear not breaking the Teather hurts, Golden Glue, definitely seeing the writing
on the wall for this game is it's getting more and more out of hand.
It was also worth noting, we'll see how many roll quests are completed now, so finally
Humbau complete his.
But it was five to two roll quest completions after that fight, so they did have that advantage.
It's so funny, the roll quests seem like the completion time doesn't matter in nine
games out of 10, but in moments like that, it can actually have such a big impact.
They're here on Drake number two.
Nocturn has level 11 and ultimate once again.
So the river is, you just can't pass into the river.
I feel like, because Criber will kill you.
So, should be a pretty easy drink.
He's going first.
He'll go a desperation.
Yeah.
I can't quite get it away.
You can see that Rahel was heading up towards Toplayne to maybe try to think about a play
towards Castle.
Castle though.
just constantly pushing that in. He is now four and one on the
Mvesa has been very quick to move towards these plays constantly having the
push on. In fact, we touched on it earlier where it's like the
gold was basically even even though Castle was winning the fight, but
because DST created action that Castle could use his tempo to fight
at, he exploded that lead to something that actually feels like a
matters now. It really does. And then also when the Mvesa gets a
clip, the matchup definitely changes with every champion. So he's
I'm a Purchased right now.
Really there just keeping pressure on all the lanes and as long as
Cryros around when his Kermish happens, he is going to be all
thinkin so he's just kind of walking around the map collecting
objectives right now.
We need to see some miracle who he engaged.
I feel like to bring this game back into normalcy or just kind of
baiting Cryros into diving two deep since he does have that extra
bounty right now.
But this has been a I mean a very impressive game to me from
and DSG, they've done all the little things right,
and they've found good fights.
Completely agree, and there's finally
the world quest completed there for Darkling's Justice
and Videos.
He's been signalling for a long time,
and wasn't getting as much old quest completion
as a result.
DSG looked like they're going to be
able to grab this girl uncontested.
Shut up.
It is going to leash, unfortunately,
but doesn't fully leash anymore.
So just pull it back into the pit,
and the argument will eventually finish that off as,
they're set up really well in the sidelines.
You know, a cally and Ambassador both really
out in the sidelines and we'll see what they can get done.
You can see that little second gin on the mini map down toward bot lane is who he's
so he's trying to see is there any sort of a trailing play I can make?
Can I at least create some safety for dark wings?
Because you do not want the a cally in a long lane against that Orianna feeling safe to
look for all ends.
Definitely not, but this is the perfect situation when you have a team comp that wants
to flank into the back of fights with dive buddies galore for the nocturnal cally or
and that's a flying in, these types of compositions don't work very well from behind, but they work exceptionally well from a head.
It's looking like first turret is just a matter of time for castles.
He's going to get a couple of shots on every single cannon wave that arrives, and impact is, I mean, yes he has teleport, but he doesn't have many other options in this lane.
You mean, he's on cool to have the ulti though, I wish I assumed he's going to be able to ult back to lane.
There's a question actually to hold me down.
to check you sometimes but we'll see as he's going to go for an
ulti but got a minion to hassle got out of the agro the tower but in comes the
nickel ultimate trying to actually turn around with Castle just flashes out
using that public execution plus the flash wasn't even a flash to me
just the public execution and a dash you've got to save these so hold
down to the flash of Castle now having you get really really well even with
who he on the roam stay safe doesn't have to spend his summer just trade
the altis, and it's hoody that actually uses this flash.
Yeah, and Darkwing's teleports up to try and match.
I mean, they're sending the farm a castle, and he's still able to clear the way pretty easily
at half-out this also means that Colme is going to be able to get solo turtles himself,
so both solo lanes and the jungle now with over 1,000 gold advantages.
So I'm just trying to get a little bit back on this play.
They do have a 3v2, but they're just, they don't have good eyes on the knob turn and
and cryo-dean-alt range, any type of dive would likely
just lead to a bigger deficit.
I mean, send those, they're just really struggling.
I think what Lane is on this, right?
Because once the a calling and the abescent,
both get ahead, there's not really anywhere
safe for the Orionagoes.
So Niko is going to just walk around the map,
trying to stay around Darkwing.
So he can actually be able to farm.
They know they need to get him strong.
But well, that ends up being cryo-ageous power farming,
DSG being able to move around the map and kind of winning
both sides.
And even though they got in back out of this match,
that was pretty tough. Castle just faces goes right back down towards him. We'll see if
sendals are going to try to swap again because they would rather have the colleague
leaning against impact here. He shouldn't be able to burst down impact. But Dark Wings
is going to struggle in either match. I mean, they burned their T.P. to get him top in the
first lane and D.S.T. was just able to match it with the tempo they have maintaining the
teleport on the call. So I mean, I say, well, this is a skull. Yeah, like, but it's it's happened
from the little things snowballing into the big things, even from the first level six
spawn that we saw that Criro is in position to capitalize on to the way they found all
the skirmishes, they've controlled all the important objectives, they got the Rift Taryl
as well as the two drakes. They still haven't even expanded that Rift Taryl. They're probably
waiting to see if the third drake is going to be contested whatsoever, but with this gold
deficit, like you're really going to be contesting this Ken Drake in 22 seconds probably not.
I think there's no shot and I mean, I just think that they're caught.
They need multiple items on the area and they trucks to really have much of a threat.
And Kriera is just power on a wedge.
He's up two levels and we'll see if he can win this smite.
No Hompock does get that so Hompock does go to 12.
That's something going right for them.
But this is one of those games where sometimes you'll watch a game and people talk a lot about tempo and you're like,
yeah, but they didn't get anything.
Well, this is a game where they got everything, right?
They had pushing lanes across the map, Kriera used those really well.
They force skirmishes that they've then moved quickly to and we're able to create a very big lead as an advantage.
It is now all of the outers gone.
It's a 5K goal lead at 20 minutes here.
And sendals are trying to slow down the bleeding, but
soul is up in a couple of minutes here and sendals are just going to have to settle for a skuddle on the top side and trade for that dragon.
Yeah.
Jin all opens up for fun.
Opens up closes down.
He-he-he.
And game two.
That's where it's.
That's where it's going.
The game is just equipment for me and DSG.
This game is the fact that I have to set jet on my fantasy team and just have to have
a color assist.
Everyone else is doing too much positive work that he's not cleaning up fights like he
hasn't passed.
What's happening here?
Castle has actually been.
What is this?
Nor was the top way to the CS00.
Sure you're stomping the game.
But what about Jats fantasy team?
So, Jed, please.
Start creating some action.
Castle into a little bit.
to check and get to some team fights before this is done.
Please, I don't know, fantasy points for turret plates.
That's true.
Yeah, gold leads don't give you a really much of anything.
But call me.
He has two items, completed castles.
Got two items, completed cryers.
Got two items, completed across the board.
They are really online.
And when you look at the inventory of Castle Cryer on call me,
and then you look at their counterparts, it's really sad.
It is very, very hard to get anything done here
as real will, ghost plate and flash the wall
to survive for now, but a nice bit of pressure there from DSG
and they're going to continue moving forward.
As real does chunk where hell low, but much to jacks
is made no more fantasy points earned by that.
Still is zero zero zero man.
It doesn't matter.
Stuff out here.
It doesn't matter three and a half minutes until
sentinels can also concede the soul.
That just seems like we're just waiting
until DSG secure the most like the
Lotus sided victory we've seen from DST.
This is technically game 3 against Lion was more
lopsided of a win for DST but that's because Lion was
trying to desperation to get back in it.
but
this is kind of what Big of Legends as they might get
Castle. Nice little CC, they're the use of Point
Blink Ulsy and the deadly flerster lock up Castle,
Castle flashing back and he get out.
The cues come back up, but he's flashed rooted
by letting he get to turn around and get a kill.
At Of course he is in the 1, B3 takes one with them and
And now it comes to Jedis, as well as Kriera,
the T.P. going to arrive here from call me,
but sendals have them back it up.
It cost them the flat from who he cost them a lot,
and it was just the one for one,
but at least they got Castle.
I mean, they got Castle, and they didn't lose a ton of tempo,
because G.S.G. was slowly moving to support him,
rather than trading up for turrets or tempo on the rest of the map.
Like, that could have been a play where G.S.G.
could have just started Baron and potentially taking it.
But the point I was making is,
this type of slow methodical victory at 22 minutes,
where you're waiting for the soul is one of the most reliable ways to win League of Legends games now.
With Baron only giving you half the gold reward that it used to as well as being harder to kill,
the reliable way of winning is going for Dragon Soul.
So in this weird period where Oticon used to accelerate the game,
I think we're going to see a lot of teams just kind of keeping the game in a holding pattern.
They're going to get a slightly more far from the new during this period.
We're going to try not to give you bounties and then they're going to take the soul before eventually going for Baron in the end.
Yeah, we can see this play one more time, it's just honestly really nice CC chain.
The point blank ultimate into the deadly flourish buys time for that full Q smash from
impact.
Then the flash forward for the root, even with all that CC chain happening, he still gets
a 1v3 and he wasn't even trying to kill him until the Niko flashed on him.
He was just trying to run, but that is how Fed Castle is.
Yeah.
And it's 1.30 until Soul here.
Prior also, these are the dream nocturn games.
When you were just power farming the whole time, and the only time you ever have to fight
is with your ulti. It feels so nice. I mean, he has kept up basically with the soul laners.
It's actually a head of call me unexperienced on the doctor in jungle. And I think sendals
probably will contest the soul because I know they're thinking it's pretty cooked.
I mean, maybe they say, you know what, we just stay in our base and we wait for elder and hope
we get a flip. That's kind of the other option. But often, you know, in these kind of games,
you see teams just kind of walk out, fight the soul, get ace, and then the barren goes and the
gates can over. I think the soul is the correct time to do it. You see the actualizer on Orionage,
which maybe give them a little bit more burst.
Also, it's an infinity edge on her house,
so that's another change to this season
with the fact that 80 carries have such increased gold
and come the game starts sooner,
but dragon still spawns at the same time.
Plus the 80 carry quest, plus the cashback.
I'd say last year,
if a team is going for a 25 minute soul,
the team with low income would never have
a three out of 80 carry here,
but now that can actually fight, right?
80 carries are equivalent in gold.
If you land a good actualizer,
on the Oriana and if your sign is taking the right space, it's absolutely their best
chance they have to salvage this game.
Yep, and they are kind of first to the objective now, Kira, just coming out of base,
doesn't have the full money for the GA, but it gets BF.
Castle Low has three completed items here. He's monstrously strong. He is on the side,
has been spotted in, goes Kira flat.
There's looking for the gym. The only though this is the pump on the countering,
he's not too bad. We're help trying to survive, but he's not going to be able to do it.
Dark wings had to flash out. He has no help. Castle Falls call me as low,
But it didn't back home about trying to make a stand here trying to get something done.
They just don't have the time to come about foshes in.
Does got one, Garquing still there behind him back at the end of the day, though it is
plus one for DSG as well as a big health advantage and the jungler staying alive.
And that should mean it's so for DSG.
It'll likely be so, but this was a well played fight from Senchinals.
You can see the openings of landing on side and the fact that everyone grouped up this
this much really benefits.
Hombox aatrox.
He's not that fed.
But he ends up almost at full health from all of the aatrox
here he gets in this very close fight ends up finishing
call me at the very end of this nicely done before falling.
Hamstold does go over though ends up being a little bit too
little too late.
But you could see all of them who thought, hey,
maybe this is the time we clutch the game.
They got a couple bounties out of it.
Not to mention this turret.
So they're still barely involved in the game.
So Dark Wings did stay up to grab that tower, Castle though hunting for him, it looks like
he's actually going to walk out.
I mean, that was a really good fight from Sentinel.
If the gold is closer, they look really good in that fight.
I think team comp get, right?
Totally.
I feel like we're a hell actually played quite well.
The back step to actually avoid the old from Castle, otherwise he incidized, forced them
to spend a lot more to actually finish off that.
Jin, allow them get a little bit of damage out without IE before he goes down and send
those, fought valiantly there, but the gold lead remains 5k and now Jin going to get
the flash has to use it. As soon as that came back up, it is just gone again. And that
is car a level 16 has the GA completed and a much shorter ultimate cooldown now with
the right three. Yeah, really good ward there at Raptor Pit where how was just trying
to play safe, keep up farm. I was going to say the only advantage they have now is that
the house flashes back up. And Kriera says, not anymore, getting rid of that and immediately
starts up the bear. Yep, starting up the bear and you're trying to force a fight car.
won't have his ulti but we'll see if they can even get over to
contest to jet and lie and try to keep them
way as dsd will have to pull off it would take them a long
time to tune in that parent uh that is not in a zero or
kice or anything like that but meanwhile call me is just pushing
bot side and no one was answering so does get some more
plates off that before impact can get down and collect that
way really curious how dsd will play out the rest of this game
currently they're sitting in a one three one another
The fight is here on Buckebiansom Shruble.
The fear tether is their castle also with a wall shot.
Wait, does not get much done.
Lions comes in and they're going to lock down Hobbac who has no flash.
Hobbac fighting valiantly will fall to castle.
It's another kill from DSG.
They have no hesitation on this as almost call me falls on the bot side to impact to how
narrowly does not take him down.
The Seekers was not used and call me survived and they're going to right back to the
there's no jungler here.
Sentinels will spot it out.
They have no choice but to
contest.
Yeah, a call is going to be able to
teleport in.
They might look for a flanking
gate from the call.
But they have no ultimates other than
Ezreal.
So I think it's a little dangerous.
I think they should look for an
ultimates.
They're getting a low.
Will they be able to fish off.
Pops across multiple members.
The jab goes out.
They secure the bear and impact
and who he in the middle of the pit.
They're going to start falling.
Dark wings in the house trying to get
damage down.
But they're being threatened on the side.
And now impact is just getting focused
down by everyone flashes over the wall.
of the wall tried to get out.
Criber going to alt into the backlight.
Easy and all the way to the hall.
Rale is here now.
Criber can't quite finish them off.
Now, if it's shockwave, the way Rale still alive.
Finally falls.
Criber doesn't even lose his G.A. as he yields back up
with the passive auto.
DSG, crushing through this game.
Looking to be completely informed here
for the lock in playoffs.
Looking really good.
I'd say Kim's soul did a lot of work
in that fight as they were sitting at low health, but just a very strong sequence
of play.
They killed the eight trucks and they said, you know what?
We're just going to take whatever damage you throw at us, make sure you secure the
bearing, and then we'll fight in the later five before knowing that we have GAs and
stopwatches and the chems sole.
And there is very confident that taking the extended fight, the same ultimate that
they used to get the eight trucks dead, immediately comes off cooldown, probably for a tenth
of a second before Cribert uses it again, as you mentioned, doesn't even lose his G.A.
Absolutely, the crazy Triumph Rocks coming in at just the right time, likely making this game
out of reach.
Yep.
You can see the look on impact facing those at this one is definitely cooked.
It is a 10,000 gold lead here, we may see sentinels just try to come out and contest
at that elder dragon, but 10k, so bear in D.S.G. full control start to finish it feels
like on this one, really playing a great game in Castle just monstrously ahead now.
4K in the gold lead, in fact, trying to just kind of create a little bit of space to not
down that wage.
They can then run mid and try to clear out that way that Criber is buffing up.
I mean, Zenitals really is trying to walk forward because they knew it was 5-3, but
since they're more of a counter-engage team composition, unless who he finds some miracle
play with no stopwatch to not instantly get one shot, they're not going to be able to withstand
this.
playing one through one, which is generally speaking a pretty risky strategy, but with
nocturn, able to pick their sides.
Yep, going to be going in on to Dark Wings, and he is just dead in a hurry.
That is the difficulty of playing against that nocturn in that mid lane, joined the
sidelines very easily.
Down on the bot side, you can see no one there today, so that way, and send those
words trying to clear out mid, we're trying to respond to the dive top.
DSG though, make the dive cleanly happen.
Carlos stays top now.
They're going to lose all three towers in a hurry.
I mean, this is the best game I've seen DSG play.
They're doing so much right as we might just see him die.
Yeah, I can have so well.
That's full.
But they triple in it, but I'm at the same time very likely.
A little bit of help on that mid lane one that Genolty could be opening up.
Sendals tried it into force of fire here.
They are going to get a nice roof.
Good catch on us, a jet.
He gets first down.
Lions falls as well.
There's actually a timing window to maybe try to force elder.
The top part is, it could still get stolen.
maybe someone could backdoor as
Karra still on the map, but 30
seconds until Elder spawns.
There's 40 seconds here on
to suggest. And Castle won't
have T.P when he responds.
If that's not a cast for
curse, I don't know what is.
They played so well. I'm like
best game they've seen. It was
looking like one of the best
games I've seen in LCS this
split. It's not obviously not
the fastest game, but just like
the decisions they were
making the macro, they were
using. I know I will dominate
compared cryo to inspired
last week. I was really buying
into that with the way they
they were moving around the map and his all usage and just his timing all around the map.
And then the team does that and it's kind of like, okay, they're still they're still
working on things.
There's still a lot of cleaners.
They could be not inspired, he's inspired junior.
So give them a give them a couple of years.
His fault, he just wasn't controlling the team well enough.
But as you mentioned, this could be sent in was trying to pull the game back.
They're just going to flip this elder if they know it's good for him.
It's just, I don't know if they can kill it fast enough.
So Jed is respawn.
He's running out on the map.
Gonna try to just burst this down.
We'll see if they can make it happen.
in the back line on a
hell.
Carcany incredibly low.
The dragon getting pretty low
here as well as Darrym's
getting knocked out by Tommy.
Call me as well as Castle
just filing into the back line.
Who he is down.
Darkwins is down.
Sentinels are looking like they
are toast.
As insult to injury.
Cryera even grabs the elder.
They're going to finish them off.
They're going to clean up the game.
DSG.
Looking like they are marching on the
next season.
Going to be able to take a lead
in this best-of-five series, they will strike first, and they will strike really
dominantly here as they knock him down 32 minutes in, soul, elder, barren, 20 to 8
in the kill squad. They did it all, and they made it look good. They were really
just finished the point match. I think at the end of the day, that's a perfect way
to pick up five extra kills at the elder Drake, but game one of this best-of-five
goes soundly in the favor of DSG,
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What do you think?
I think it's quite a bit pretty good.
Yeah, me and Toby are looking good.
Right up.
Yeah, we're awesome.
We're looking good.
You're looking good.
There's just one game that's still a part of the plan,
right?
Right?
Right, it's not looking as good as it is.
Look at some data.
Give me a game.
My game and my game dies through.
Probably.
I'm concerned.
Yeah, the reality is, this is scary.
The SK look like a well-loiled machine.
And again, that's something we said in the opener
was the biggest coolest thing about DSG.
It's not superstars.
It's how they're playing as a team.
Really nicely put together a team comp.
They've got this dive angle,
and they pull off their dive from super early on.
I'll go actually grab that.
Grab them, grab them, grab them,
grab them, a couple of clips.
I dragged that with us.
We need the tech as well, for now.
Okay, so I actually want to start with
with something that they had a question about.
They cast a question about at the very beginning of the game,
which was pretty funny to watch,
because call me this flashes on Dark Wings.
So the best explanation I can come up with.
I did the tech Toby.
Is right here.
Everybody loves Canon Minions.
So my best explanation is he's like, you know what?
I'm probably not going to need my flash.
I'm a colleague, you know, I have shroud
at so much mobility.
So I'm going to use it early before my next kill angle,
you know, level six or something.
I'm a try and deny the cannon.
But look, he does the even deny the cannon.
The cannon is darkly still got the cannon.
So, what?
Yeah!
So even if that was, the goal wasn't able to net.
Anyway, that's just a punishment for a nod.
That's just a matter of all of us.
Yeah, no matter, no matter, no matter, no matter.
For something that really jumps down to the Oriana.
Take a look here.
We just had, this is before the game is kind of lopsided.
Sion here, in fact, actually just teleported.
This thing with spectator client is actually on cooldown.
He just teleported up there.
And so look at this setup.
It's so good here from DSG.
Because they've got already ambassador looking here,
going to line up an ultimate,
nocturn can also go assassinate Nico.
And because of the nocturn ultimate,
turning out the lights,
you'll see that impact has a really hard time joining.
The fight is gonna have to drive blind
during the nocturn ultimate down here.
And so look at the coordination.
they target who he looking up at their impact.
He knows he has to get there with the lights are already up
and who he's already 50% health
and then feared into chain CC, absolutely deleted
and they win this skirmish
with building the comfort diving
and then getting good set up being there ahead of time
and executing on that dive on their target so quickly
that they win that little fight up by the grubs
and then Emily, they have to put them more players in there.
We're gonna do it but talk about that.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
They get some more gold out of winning like some 4v5 fights at the Ronald Olympic sport it's true that's in the
World Olympics it's fine
We're gonna take a look at this play here which is really to me where they ended up breaking open the game
I'm sorry, I'm short and I can't do anything. Yeah, you should have pulled it out by your eyes
You won't you don't need to see me any of it's fine
So they pushed in this midway, right and the thing that you're really gonna want to pay attention to as we start playing this through
is down here, we're going to have a back and it's going to end up that
line since up backing as well. So Ezreal is going to be by himself to
jed down there. Now right here they decide, okay, you know what? Dark
wings, he's in a good position, we can make a play on to him. So they make a
meat and a meaty at play on to him. We end up playing this out where
They kind of humbuck those in, he's going to get dot here.
Are you coming down to join the other thing that you really want to see?
Again, we're going to take a look at the mini map because as you're over there,
we're going to just down there, getting plates, right?
So as we speak through this, you, the big thing here,
Lions is able to end up joining, but here,
suggest ends up getting a ton of money off this plus they win the 4v5.
This was at the point in the game.
They'd already done a good job of contesting objectives, getting really objectives.
That was the point in the game where I was like, okay, it's going to be really tough for some people.
I really, I really, the whole game.
I like how they use the, the, the, the three core of the divers.
The nocturn with the two diving solo lane for most of that fight.
It was three of you before lines was even there.
And it's the fact that we saw all of that and it was all DSG favored and the fact that DSG in the early game was winning in all of those lanes and in the jungle matching
You're gonna flip-flop
As not yet
I'm gonna one more game
78% of the fans going towards crowd everyone felt that crowd deserve it
Honestly, we all all of these members all of these members. I felt like had an exceptional game
So it's looking tough if you're a sentinel spanned Cuba lighting up
All right, look at the screen.
We all have to see this.
All right, we all have to recognize that the SG took game one,
but I'm not sure about game two, Kobe.
Not sure about game two, Rasm.
Well, me and Emily gave them some games.
Yes.
Well, we definitely weigh it.
Thank you.
Cryo though, is looking exceptional.
So I think deserved player of that game.
Yep.
Congrats to him, congrats to DSG.
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Time.
We have no soldiers at the ice.
Yeah, you're being my courtees or spy-caring go cap.
Red Bull gives you wings.
This lobby is trying to come.
The feels different.
If this is different, I like different.
I'm staying right here.
Are you guys serious? We're about to get into game Emily. Let us enjoy it. You guys need to lock in. Maybe this at home
and
Just keep going.
Wait, wait.
I can't keep going.
I need to look.
Yeah.
Can I go in?
Yeah.
Okay, I think it's so good.
I can go in.
DSG, crashing through this game.
Looking to be completely informed here for the locking playoffs.
I'm going to start wings mid-lanet for essentials, and I just recently found out this trick
on Zary.
That's when you have Q and E.
You can actually just cancel your E animation
if you zap them first and then you Q, EQ.
So they're like that.
I'm just gonna zap and then Q, EQ.
And it cancels the E animation.
So let's get it on like four trids.
That was my prototype that I just learned.
I just learned it too.
Thank you Dark Wings.
Love it.
If you haven't actually been watching those videos,
you should definitely check them out there on LCS
socials.
A lot of really, really good tips, like little manood things,
where sometimes you're watching a one trick
or watching a player, you're like,
it just feels like he does more damage.
And what they actually do, because they know these tricks,
especially because so many of them end up being these little
like animation cancel things that you can't even really tell
watching until you have explained to you.
the Gakos one on Ant-Bessa was when you alt, if you ask he is your alt thing you
can get an auto in, before you catch your spells, which not that many people do, but
that's there's another example, there's like a quick little extra auto used, you can
did you see him back?
He did one on Renetion, where basically double empowered WQ, if you WRQ basically
like allowing you to have 50 fury, then WGP power, then it's the RQ, and you get double
power abilities back to back instantly. So really cool little tricks from the loving
that segment. Been a lot of fun to watch. Send Nulls. We'll see if they can use some of
those tricks here to tie up the series as they got thoroughly trounced by DSD in game
number one. And on some of their kind of iconic picks, you know, it's impact on a great
thing. It's darklings on a control match. It could be a little scary. But DSG just played
to their win conditions wonderfully. You can see what is banned from fearless in the
middle, they had the triple divers, and they used the dive just right.
I would say for the people asking like, what was Sentinels plan in that game?
Well, the plan was to not fall 5,000 gold behind, and then be better in 5 befives because
they were almost better in 5 befives prior to the soul.
But now we'll see what happens in the rest of the series because we were just talking about
how Rahel has been the main win condition for Sentinels oftentimes on hypercarries.
because yesterday had so many divers that pushed them off of hypercarries like
in, but now that those divers are no longer accessible, maybe this draft will
open up more for a real carry. Remember, both these 80 carries are insane on
kaisa, which is going to be a priority pick as soon as one of them lock in as
well.
Yep, we'll be very interested to see who grabs that first, and it's a rise, obviously
first picked here for Dark Wings, really high-prior pick, as here was been now in
both of the games so far and Oriol has been taken away.
to rise kind of king of the mid lane from this position. We have seen people responding
with both the innavia as well as the Casio. Those are kind of becoming the two really
popular ones. A lot of early mid game power here though with the Renekton as well as the
Pantheon point and click CC a lot of lockdown which can be something that rise those
struggle against the rise is relatively short range obviously you can get tanky but it's
hard to pump out the damage when you're just constantly getting sun.
for sure. And another mini global for Krira. He had a pantheon game against Lion where
he was very effective as well. So another WD top jungle last game they had the
ambassador, and this time they have the renecked and pat the on. They had a very strong
top jungle in game one. I think they're going to look to run that back.
Yeah.
Starting to be coming through. So now we see will impact go for a counterfeit here or are
they're going to be trying to not necessarily match those roles, you know, maybe grab
something for how like we had talked about. But I kind of am assuming it makes sense, you
know, just go for impact. Pick right now, you see the Renekton, and just kind of go
forward from there. And it prevents them from going for any sort of protection
dance. Nor has become the really popular answer. I mean, it was for many, many years.
Has been just losing in the LCS, but it has very heavily associated with the
in our, maybe not as much in the more recent years,
but I feel like it's one of the iconic picks.
And we got the Kaiser locked in this time,
and ended up getting banned in the four, five,
both for a hell and suggest have looked incredible on this pick.
Whenever they've had it, and there's already two,
I'd say Kaiser enablers that press their stun
to apply the Kaiser passive so she can fly in at the end of fights.
So I'd say DSG's gonna be very happy
about their first few picks in the draft.
And it's also great.
They're not only for the application of the plasma
to be able to alternate,
but something that I think sometimes people overlook
is it really increases your DPS, right?
Especially when you are these full AP builds,
you know, we're talking about this on the dive,
media was saying how, you know,
one of the games last week of one of the full AP prices,
their passive got up to doing 48% missing health damage.
So when you have a lot of stunts, and you're constantly applying
plasma, you are crocking that like non-stop.
When you're AP and you hit a W, that's three stacks of plasma,
two stunts, a root, whatever, and that's an insta proc,
and you are dealing 48% missing health damage.
That is a seven item, AP, KISA, to be fair,
But it is quite a BPS increase at times. We're seeing the expected bands here mid-Lang
gonna be targeted by Sentinels as they have their mid-Lang or bot lane gonna be targeted by DSG as they of course do have their bot
Linger and it is a couple of those hypercarries that you had talked about, you know, for real
They've been away the effelios the bandwaves you know, are they already double-band in the first phase as well
You know, you can go towards some of the less common
Harry picks and things like jinx do sometimes come out there and so on quirky is up in available if you want to go for a quirky
But corgi's the only thing that he has played that has not been so I'm kind of expecting you might just go there
Probably has to they don't ban out the NVIDIA despite bending out the tallya, so wouldn't be shocked if they go
Anivia into the rise here. That's becoming a more popular pick. I mean RAD said during waiting room that Rehaus been the best performing
Aikikari in the LCS
It seems like DSG doesn't completely disagree with that as all of their bans
have just been slammed into the hell.
They definitely agree these the best performing 80 carry-on
sendables at the very least, you know, so I'm the very least.
So we know that much.
So, hash.
Oh, this is actually a hype.
This is a really cool combo because of the passive slow
from ash, it empowers the group.
So if you are slow, when you get one hit of the Serpent E,
it roots you.
If you are rooted, you get stunned, right?
So when you do an auto or a W from ash,
and then you have an empowered E actually stuns you from seraphine, but the response of Blitzgray
is really high. DSG doesn't care. Like they do not care what you pick. They will immediately
slam whatever, you know, the old school counter is going to be. They're looking to be exceptionally
flexible in these drafts. I don't necessarily think this is like a winning lane always,
but it's a skill check that they're going to be able to land the hooks and play aggressive.
I feel like jungle basically has to go back in this game. Like you have to play towards
because I actually think DSG in the 2-E2.
As long as you don't get hooked by sendals and you just play in the minions,
I think they're going to stomp them.
I think it's going to be really hard in the 2-E2 against Ash Seraphine.
It is a really tough lane to fight into.
But if Prira is there and you get flash knocked up and hooked,
you're just dead.
Because you're going to get CC-800-00.
It is going to be really, really difficult.
So that is the challenge you're for how and who he a very cool combo.
Also worth noting that the blitz crank are pop shields.
You have Sarah Shield from the rise.
You have Jarvan W.
Eventually even could be a steric son.
No, you have the Seraphine heels and Shield as well.
So like, there's some values there, too.
This is honestly a really cool slam there from my aunt.
And they didn't have anything at all.
They saw that come through and they just instantly slammed it down.
So exciting draft for Game 2.
That's the more exciting part for me.
Because it wasn't like they see the Ash Seraphine,
which it's a combo that other teams have picked historically.
but we haven't seen the LCS and they immediately knew exactly what they wanted to do.
It was a risky thing and they did it right away. It was just makes you think that this team is
brimming with confidence and it's such a stark contrast to what DSG was like last year. This is just
a completely new team. They're completely trying to change their brand. And as you mentioned,
jungler's going bottom, cryers are ready there. He's hoping I'm going to check the bush and they
They might be pulling off some shenanigans in the early game.
Well, this is interesting.
Yeah, cryora is looking like he wants to even,
but there's actually just start down here.
But who he is moving to the court?
They know this is happening.
I mean, Pantheon level one is very strong.
And now they spot him.
So now, cryora's going to have to just leave.
He's not going to like die or anything.
But you can't really repeat.
That really hurts cryora right there.
He was hoping to take over bot side.
Well, he's way behind.
But who he and Hombok really scouted out
like starting the sweeper as well as checking right after he starts it is kind of disastrous
for DS2, but it makes me think the sendals were expecting this from the start of the game.
Yeah, they very clearly were. It's a great read from them. Maybe it's something that they've seen
out of Kara in scrims. You touched on an earlier, but even when DS2 is playing with Kizno,
they were still scrimming with Kara. I believe they said they had like three total scrims
with Kizno ever. So clearly they have been scrimming against him. There is the cost, though,
of suggest getting the push.
So we have a rise now standing on the sideline with Golden Glue.
What do you think about that early game?
That's right.
I've got Golden Glue with me right now if you can look at the screen.
That's me, hello.
I didn't like what are you because of right now you're basically not too happy
about how the level one has been going.
Well, that one.
I mean, I don't know.
Oh gosh, we just got hooked.
I mean, I feel like I was a little spooked out watching that.
Especially with the camera vision.
You know, I couldn't tell if we're about to get hooked or not.
We push them off the red, but I still think right now
where it's looking very spicy in the early game.
It's a very spicy game and I'll see if I can ask this question
before I send it to the cast or just the thoughts on game one
because game one it felt like a pretty slow burning loss.
What do you think that's coming from and maybe something
that you want to see from your team?
Yeah, I mean, I think in game one we had a little bit too much
scaling and not in the priority.
So as you can see we kind of flipped it around.
We have much more prior lanes this game.
So we can have a stronger early game and protect our camps more.
So that's kind of like the change we're making game one to game two.
And there's a lot to be afraid of because of how spicy this game is but anything
that you're noting from this composition because an ash serfane is cool but then seeing
the bloodscrank from lions anything you want to you're concerned about from the B.S.E. side of the
come up.
Yeah, I mean I think I think the Pantheon and Blitz are a bit scary.
They've got like a the global to go and rise on side but I do think so those things
is before grouped up we can kind of I think we'll win the fight.
We just make sure we don't get picked off
by random hooks or like, but oh shit.
Oh, oh shit.
That is what it is.
We'll send to the casters
because the action is going on.
He's so stressed.
Oh, poor gold and glue.
He's like he's extremely stressed.
Is there double craving him?
I mean, Hamburg has done a good job
capitalizing off of that late invade.
So he's going to be two full crabs up.
There was nothing really cryer could have done
to avoid that.
And now might be, and you know, also get the deep vision.
I think resetting is the correct call as well, but despite the hooks,
that lane still working out fairly well for them.
We burned his flash, but I'd say it's worth it so far.
Yeah, I mean, the two of you two is pretty unplayable.
I think first, first is Jen and Lyon, unless you can kill them.
They have fourth flash, so they have their own flash and the jungle flash,
and maybe they can call in down.
But one of the such on cry rise, we may see him getting involved in other flash force
there by Lyons.
As Krider was so good for DSG in his debut,
really showed up huge playing against one of his heroes in Inspired.
Darklings does know they're down towards that bottom side,
so should be able to sniff this out and avoid it.
And we'll be able to be so.
And he's on that ward.
Yeah, we'll be able to see it now, but we'll also just,
I mean, he's lit up like a Christmas tree in here.
He's walked through vision time and time again.
They'll even see him doing the grom.
So the rest of the lanes can play with a lot of safety,
but it's just a matter of what can they actually pressure?
Because Darklings has no flash ghost.
And impact is going C.S. for C.S. and trading very aggressively with Castle up top.
I mean, it's just so fun for me to see, you know, cry out coming in, going up against
inspired to like, well, that's the hardest person you could debut against. It's a more
jungler. And having so much confidence, you're not going to be play well, but he was kind of
styling like he was, you know, popping off on the player camp, then it came through on the
Mundo. He's in the base. He's spam taunting, you know, showing some personality, showing that
confidence, which is just great to see. Because this was a DFC roster that, you know,
according to the title, was meant to be kind of built around Kharara, the idea that I don't
really feel strongly you play through jungle. That is the way to play the game right now.
And Castle, he's trying to push for six, but in fact, at six first, Castle levels up,
it's the ulti has to flash back to do it. Castle blood, he was going to get their first rise,
does have no flash, but it comes around work. And that is going to be a freebie. You have to think
for Dark Wings, Castle trying to buy time for the ability to come back, but Kenny's
license dice out to safety. They are waiting a long time on this. Impact is scared.
He doesn't want to get involved because he knows he could get taken out.
Room Prison will grab first blood for Dark Wings.
Nicely done. Castle overplayed his hand. He thought he was going to get
6 first, but it back beat him to it.
Yeah, something must have happened with the way the minions went because with
where the wave was, I would think Renekton would get level 6 in that one
want to be one as well, but impact, out plays them, and then also, I'd say the
rise is the great equalizer there.
Whenever you have a really aggressive top lane trading pattern, which ever mid laner
can move first, often, swayes the match up, and that's what ends up happening there.
Yeah, really nicely done.
I mean, Darkwing's had no flash, but he just moves up towards top, you know, realm warps
in.
So we can see one more time.
Yeah, watching this, trying to count the minions.
Yeah, impact just hits level six first, must have had the experience advantage beforehand.
He also getting level six does to lathe to prevent the actual one shot and aggression coming
ball-in.
Look.
He's hooked, missed, and that's how the lane looks.
When you have no hook, is they just walk at you.
You were outranged on the Kaisa.
Who he knows I know Flash, gonna get flashed on here, and the follow-up and knock up is there
such a good coming in.
They knock him down.
Good game from Criro.
Um-obok, his level six, Criro flashes forward all since the jet is locked into this
cataclysm but we're helping not really join.
just hitting cry. And now homebuck on the side, it's losing the fights and dead
boxes away. That's crazy. And everything goes pear shaped for a hell was just hitting
cry where he needs to stay with homebuck or homebuck, you need to stay with him. But
they were not on the same page. That is crazy that they ended up coming out of that
one ahead. Homebuck was level six. Cry was level five. Why ends was out of health?
And they end up getting two kills out of nothing that negates a lot of the advantage that
had been built from the early leaning from our hell and who he, what a massive, just finger
check there from DSG to come out on top against sentials.
Yeah, cryo, right place, right time.
And even though Humbuck had six, you have the advantage, Ash was not hitting who he was
hitting.
They were just not on the same target, so everyone was low, but no one died.
And that is one of those disaster scenarios where you kind of wonder, what were the
comms like, you know, where they just calling for different things, they did not realize
what their teammates wanted to do.
because I'm not even committed as flash to go in on Suget there, but Rell was not at range
and he still had flash ghost.
So you have to feel like there's a way they could have played that to hit the same target
and probably coming on top.
I absolutely think so, but now Suget, despite being down 15 to 20 CS, is even in gold
and also is 30 CS through his call.
So he's going to be well on his way to being powerful.
the Kysad power for both of these guys has been very high as you can see three
games in every series. So Jed is played it in two of the series where
Hell is played it and both of them have absolutely dominated on it. So we
thought this was going to be a game one pick and ended up being a game two
pick that DSG picked early. So look out for Shajad later on in this game.
I call me good and nice little trade there now on the dark wings. So of course
is playing phase rush. It has been nerfed a little bit for range users but it's
He's also on the Swifties, he has Ghost,
he's got a ton of movespeed
to deal with some of the difficulties in this matchup.
But, and if he has skills really, really well,
and the walk can be so effective,
they're just kind of splitting up fights
and making it annoying, you know,
even if you're not just wanting someone in first turn,
sometimes you can just wall out the ash
or the seraphine or whatever,
or kind of split up the fight
and try to turn things around that way.
But it is a bit of a tricky champion
because it has such low mobility,
you've really got to be careful about your positioning.
This is not phase rush, Orianna.
This is not a zero where you're zipping around a fight.
You gotta be in the right place of the start of the fight.
Yeah, definitely an old school pick.
It is found new prevalence into this rise.
And I think overall, it's not like it's just against your eyes.
I'd say it's good against the Ash Seraphine 2
since it's three people that don't have a good way of navigating that wall.
So it should allow them for some nice team fighting later.
And not turn.
It's in this game very briefly, but I think Drake is going to be
you're very happy about against the
Ash Seraphine being able to get
the first strike on your side.
It's huge.
It really is.
You know, we saw a golden
glue in that interview talking
about how they picked for
winning lanes, but things
weren't really going that
great in the early landing.
You know, Castle was kind of
outlaning and back in the
first couple of levels.
He had pressure on him.
You know, who he got hooked
twice.
They kind of lost the pressure
there.
Darkwing City able to stop
the recall from call me is
he's getting quite low on
man and Darkwing's did just
get back to lane.
So happy to do that.
delay that base, but call me should have enough managed to clear out this wave and then
reset.
Krabba completely recovered from that early game as well, basically because of that
skirmish down bottom lane that if you look back on this game if this ends up being
a DSG win, it's going to be about that fight that happened a couple minutes ago where
the CS advantage was removed essentially between Sejet and Reheal in terms of overall gold
and then it also allowed Krira to gain back the advantage from his failed level 1 in
invade. Now it's kind of all on where lions can go. It's still a difficult lane for him
to play, but they're in a situation now where they might have the damage that one hook
can actually do. Yeah, Blitz is just one of these champions where if you are controlling
vision, it is terrifying. And if you see the Blitz everywhere, he feels worthless. He is just
doing nothing at all. So it is going to be a big vision game here. Of course, it is scary for
who he to be checking things, but he's walking with dark wings at this point. Not going to be too
worried about it and it's just a really tough match up in the 2v2 if you are not landing
those hooks.
So we'll see Seraphine scales incredibly well and I just kind of have this feeling that
the game is going to move more and more and more towards in Channers with the rule
quest giving additional goal to supports.
In Channers just outpace melee supports so heavily when they're on multiple items and
it's much easier to get towards multiple items and competitive games now that it ever
really has been because control wards cost less.
get passive gold as in back taking a big trade here against Castle who will be forced
to pop at all.
Has his flash may have to use it as incomes of realm more can even survive.
Flash forward there from off.
With the flash queue, darkening is going to turn to finish them off, drops the turret
aggro, barely survives, wasn't the cleanest, but they do get a done on the second roam
from Dark Wings.
Is it worth that I think it's going to be a question though, is there pushed off, bot lane
entirely, and a couple of plates go over to call me.
So Durkwin's did get that assist, but he had a 600 gold lead before that
room has a 300 gold lead now is really relieved the pressure on the
Navy and given a pressure on the bottom lane.
So that might have been an over investment.
We'll see if impact can take over the side lane from here, but the immediate
reaction to that play is that it monetarily wasn't worth it in the short
turn.
Yeah, completely agree.
Homebuck going to get spotted on the ward.
They're still waiting around.
I don't think he's going to expect this.
It's going to get stunned.
Income the killer and think from so jet, homebuck, wherever he spends his
last in the previous place. The
Jaggan had to cleanse flash out. Nice
sidestep on the altie coming through there
from who he but Darkwing's is coming on the
row. He's going to be able to reinforce
them pretty quickly. Call me trying to get
there and time to help out. Maybe
control it on the wall and keep
progress. It looks like he will be able to
Lions has the back up, but it's going to be a
whiff. As Darkwing's is going to push
forward through this interview. Allty gets
walled out. No one does die, but a lot
of someone who's spent. If it wasn't
first to judge sidesteping the seraphine
I think he would have went down.
I completely agree flash, all, and cleanse all down from Sajid.
You can see flashes still up for the mid lane as well as both 80 carry and support
four centrenals.
So they went out overall on that little four before I want to credit Dark Wings for
a lot of this early game.
He has been first to move in so many situations.
I think he's been crucial to their ability to play with prior but with all that being said,
But all this even and it's one drink to zero for DSG so a lot of league left to be played.
Absolutely, yes, and double tiers stacking up, of course, for who he and Dark Wings,
and if he has tier of his own.
But though it feels really nice on these Enchanger supports, you're able to afford the tier
and not get punished because you're spending a lot of your early game gold for no combat
power whatsoever, but the whispering circulate upgrades into like die to them or whatever.
That item is very, very strong for Enchanger's and helps with a lot of the many issues
that you do have. So being able to actually have on a
Chander's a board item that is some of the changes that I think
really did help out in Chander's coming into the season. I
completely agree. I think if you want to gain a little when you don't
mind playing in Chander's like just doing tier seraphine and
Sona all day and solo queue and playing a lot of games, you're just
going to gain a little man like you're just the shoving and healing
becomes so overpowering later in the game and pro it can definitely be a
little different with all the different angles and coordination
that the SD can engage on with. So it's the complete opposite
really playing Nico where he's constantly looking for these
and JJ angles needs to be constantly on the lookout of getting
engaged on. But if they set up in the 55, once he has that fully
upgraded, uh, deetem of songs, we'll be very powerful.
Yeah, I mean, the baseline of seraphine, it's just
comically higher than that of Blitzburg, right? Blitzburg must hit a
hook on a, on a primary carry to have equal or better value than
the seraphine who just has to press basically press W on a
team. Right? Like, if you hit a tank, if you hit no one,
you're doing nothing on Blitzkrank. So a lot of pressure on lines. We'll see if you can make something happen.
He's going to get connected onto by that ashero. As this flash available didn't flash anything.
Just CC down 100 to zero. It comes, Skryra and call me.
They arrived flashing for there on the home. Up.
I'm going to try to knock him down. So Jen gets a kill there as Dark Wings arrives.
So Jen incredibly low. We're helping him forward.
He's going to fall. Call me in trouble.
Kryra and trouble. He's going to go back in with this.
I'm trying to take one with him.
But he's rooted. I'll be stunned.
But Rahel gets a double and the fight from DSG goes terribly as Rahel gets paid and
gets the double buff.
That's the fight that could swing the game for sentinals double buffs all across
the board.
The rise-off comes in at just the right time.
I mean, call me's going to try and move in right here, but this seems rather ambitious
by calling in lines.
Yeah, I mean, with what damage are you going to do something here?
He's hoping for some sort of a misplay and miracle steal, but they're going to be able
the grab it. No problem at all. Why didn't have the hook, but didn't think he had to flash.
The ulti coming through from the ash. But once he got attacked by that, the CC chain was brutal
because income, Tom Buck, income to the CC from who he, and I don't know if he got a spell off.
He just got a died for free. No, he got absolutely nothing off. I feel like if he even
just gets an ult off, it might be enough to equalize that fight. And I think that's kind of what
DSG was hoping for because once the engage happened, DSG kind of fully committed to the fight.
So kind of watch this as the arrow comes in.
Cryera and Anivia are already in river.
So Pantheon starts challenging the salt and the teleport now.
Thinking that maybe lines would be able to fight back.
Now they're committed.
They're trying to sell which the play.
Cryera gets into by the seraphine opponents.
So tries to go all in.
And they do kill Hombock.
But all of this is just a result of how clean that initial kill was
and how DSG immediately took the fight once the ash arrow engaged.
So it ends up becoming a very big win for sentiments.
But for these, that's how some of the sums with Castle does not have the damage to be able to finish them off there.
And it's going to end up equalizing that trade as Dark Wings pop the ghost and trades it back at the end of it.
And yeah, I mean, it was just great CC chain in on the Lions Crystal Arrow into the knock-up into a stun from the e coming through from who he because there was all that CC already on him.
And that just meant he went down in the hurry and who he timed the on-core, the ulti really really well.
So not only did he hit cryer, but he forced the flash from call me.
Yeah, it was really well done.
And once you lose some of those engaged tools,
we're hell stepping forward, and he is going to be slowing you down
and really punishing you heavily.
So this game now feels like it is definitely going in the
favor of Sentinels.
We'll see if they can turn this around.
It's on buck.
Can I take the bat end of a trade there?
Cry, get some chunk down a little bit low.
But Humbuk does get some damage.
Back to try to even things out.
And you can see, Cryer just feels like,
hey, I need to protect an idiot in the side lane,
because an idiot, very low mobility,
can be super vulnerable, especially with no flash.
I mean, said, Jed is going to be in a position where he's the one who needs to carry.
He's got a decent amount of gold on the Kaisa, but it's just a really hard game to play right now.
If he's always flying into the Ash Seraphine, you can see Diaz,
you really want to be able to contest this, but probably realize that it's a losing fight.
So, more indecision for sure in this game out of Diaz G,
because they're not even aggressively trading elsewhere.
Whenever you're kind of just eye contacting someone, add an objective and you decide not to engage,
you end up not trading back for much on the rest of the map.
Yeah, they were trying to push as fast as they could with Castle, but maybe denied a miniatur
too.
I'm not even sure if you've got to play, but not much of anything, as you're saying.
Impact had his T.P. available, so a T.P. is down as soon as that objective does fall.
And Impact was just ready for it.
He had the Megan R ready to go, had the T.P. to respond to the side lane, so well prepared
by Sentinel, so they play the map well.
So Jed though, is that one with the gold lead here up about 900 gold, even though he's
down farming has the same amount of kills as for Hell.
So has been able to cash in on some of those plates.
In fact, could be in some trouble.
There's this done into the hook.
Do they have the damage here from Kira?
Way ahead.
Yeah.
How.
Woo he flashes in.
Has the shield to try to protect him?
And now, in fact, he's going to be able to go mega.
Castle gets knocked up.
He's going to be thrown into the wall.
Surely ain't done the ulti there from who he didn't have the damage of finishing.
Anyone off just yet?
We're hell now arriving.
Homebox.
This is up.
Oh, no.
Okay.
This is a guess that was.
Yeah.
Spectacular.
Kind of went weird on the flag and drag.
But doesn't have knocking him down.
the world can't enjoy anything around
Kri-Rasa flashouts.
So Jed is intruple.
This is a disaster.
Lions is incredibly low.
They're curraled under the turret.
Colmy comes in.
Can they defend the dot?
Lions is so held and they have the
Harold.
This is going to go down in the hurry.
I'm not going to get interrupted.
The wife and if you will.
Nicely played by Colmy.
They still don't have a way here.
As the Olivia may have just bailed them out of
this situation.
Well done.
But on the other side of the map.
The rise is caching in on the top lane.
I mean it's bad.
I mean it's bad for DSG, but it could have been a lot worse as you can see Dark Wings getting free plates. I feel like Combach
actually jumped out of the harrow there, not entirely sure if it was the wall that canceled they're not. But I thought the harrow would have allowed them to dive.
If it just stayed in turtries, I think everyone there under the turret would have died. But regardless, they lose the members. They lose multiple waves. And now there's 3000 gold down in the game.
was that a that a nibia wall he just threw down when he hopped in that got
the roof maybe he could have just not got it and he just don't get
in exactly just just let the hero go for the charge he can still
wall it but then you're spending the wall on just on that
hero did not really get anything done and who he able to come in they
just don't have enough damage to kill off all the
events are connected who's behind at a noir who's ahead which we talk
about as the scaling of those early games and then the prices just
behind on the play I'd say who he with the ultimate even though
only hits one delays the play long enough. And yeah, the flag drag, all doesn't matter,
got the kill. Before eventually, DST managing to live under the turret, but still,
two and a half thousand gold twenty minutes in.
Yep, looking good, Darkwing scaling well. This game, going about the ghost early here.
Correct. Maybe all the catch up to them does have that smile, but on the other side,
it's going to be lines again, getting caught out. They're behind and we're behind on blitz.
You are looking useless and why is definitely is looking that this game thus far as Kuhi
Hombok and Rahel take him out.
So a lot of crystals built up there call me trying to get some damage down and comes
the on-cork getting a flash by call me nicely done by him.
So right.
Incomes everyone from DSG and back on the side though is crushing them.
What's the NVIDIA in the egg and there's a shutdown under Rahel.
So Jed is just free firing now so Jed is starting to pick up a lot of kills but Ken
Impact and Darkwinds make it happen.
It's a solo interseer on the side trying to get it done.
back goes into mini. They're going to try to back it up.
Can Castle get in over on to Dark Wings, Slice, Dice. The slow does not connect.
It's a phase where it's still prop with the sun does come through and now said,
Jed is going forward. They're trying to knock him down. They have the damage just barely
get the shutdown castle gets paid. That was a great fight for D.F.G. They're absolute
psychopaths. I mean, call me seemed like he started that in a 1v4, but this is the sneaky
power of both the Jett and Rahel on Kaiser, they just seem to clean up these messy fights.
And now he's really fed on the Kaiser afternoon that that's without the eight-hurt
goals shut down going down at the end.
So how about wanting to get that engaged?
But the Jett bales on the Asher, he's lying to die, great bodyguard.
And then it's like, you feel like the play is completely over, but as Cami's in this
bush, they coordinate with the teleport from the next him and the Pantheon ultimate,
with for helping position a top, they actually kill him at the start of the fight.
And then when it's 180 carry to zero, there's not enough damage to kill the level 14
Renekton.
So, a really psycho fight that Central is just wasn't expecting to happen, but DSG was
all in the same pit.
Now, it's going to go for Drake.
You know, in fact, alive over here by the Dragon Ken DSG knock this down.
Humpup is in the area.
It's getting focused down quick.
Ash Arrow will knock the neck on the hall and call me.
But this is the last time I said that, in fact, has Megan already, he's going to go in.
to be secured. They'll buy
car on the side. We can see
impact that CC that Lions who
goes down to the hurry. The sun
comes across multiple members.
They're locked in the cataclysm.
Criter kick it. Anything that
just a jet is going to alternate.
The side knocked down home, but
call me trying to duel against
dark wings here. Who's going to be
able to win out on that one. A bit of
scrappy fight. But at the end of the day
DSG do get the dragon. And it is just a
the smite steel going in the favor of Kriera is what makes this a winning play.
But then when Castle picks up this turret, that's a bounty that he picked up on rise
at the end of the last fight.
That's two turret that he's picked up as well.
So despite dying three times, he's actually up 800 gold on the Renekton, watching this
one more time.
These fights are really about whether or not suggest you to make a strong entrance and at
the beginning of the fight, the Seraphim and the Ash kind of keep him back.
So big slide here, 1500 to 0 times it with the cue.
Suggest is waited until someone was spread out in this fight and it's actually
home.
Once you took that EQ through the team, she says, hey, wait a second, you're completely
walled off from the team.
The Olivia Alt and the wall was holding the middle of the river and they end up
training at one for one which they are very happy about.
I feel like call me a smurfing in a lot of these fights too.
You know that previous fight was playing really well.
This was a quote from Zven on pros about picking, you know,
Sentels or Dishy.
He said that they originally wanted to pick
Sentels but then they couldn't because they got
second seed and a lot of people thought,
okay, well, you're going to pick Dishy.
But instead, they actually picked fly quest, you know,
so showing that their power rankings kind of had Dishy
as the best of those three teams.
And Castle, gonna be annoying,
steals that red buff away.
Should be able to walk this one out.
But, yeah, I mean, call me as just played so confidently
with all the movespied that he has.
He has the upgraded 20 boots and you know, flying in
in a lot of these fights, utilizing his passive well, forcing people to go in on him
and creating space for us, Steve.
I mean, his rear river flank in that mid late fight is what actually turned it.
And he's crazy as well.
And he goes in very nicely timed, all from where hell.
He just stuns it instantly when he arrives.
No one from DST was really in the air to follow up on not sure what cry was saw there.
Maybe he didn't realize so many members were rabbi dies for free and now their parents start
to barren.
Okay, so it's just a nivea blitz Kai said, this might be one where they try and trade
the goal rather than fight since
it might want to protect his goal.
Let's see what the being teleport in.
No, there's no TP.
So it is a temporary form before.
No jungler though.
They're going to force Castle Popsy.
They're going forward.
They're looking for a hell.
We're going to get actually going.
But he just dies anyway.
Darkwinds on the side is getting so tough.
Homebuck is in some trouble.
So jet all forward.
Darkwinds is going to fall.
In fact, as now right, he almost has mega.
Can he make something happen?
Does land that's done?
The wall comes through jumps in.
Stons up to jet knocks down.
So jet who he on the side trying to run from call me.
run from Call Me Good After Flash of the Wall, homebuck and impact battling against Castle,
but Castle pushes them back.
D.N.S.G. Hold on to Fendabaron aren't able to get at themselves though, the next
other reinforcements from Impact knocking down, Sajad.
Still, your call out on Call Me is true once again this fight.
He is just landing these incredibly slow moving skill shots on priority targets every single
time.
beginning of this. They thought where Hell was catchable. Look at his seat. He sees
where Hell in mid lane and he's going to stun him into a blitz hook. But then when all
of sentinel see him shanning, they can see where he's going and collapsed very quickly.
From here though, where Hell just gets caught between a rock and heart place. The Renekton
is pushing him. The wall pushes him into the Renekton as well. And Sajad can just walk him
down. The continuation is fight also ends up being a little messy since who he's pushed
out the back.
Anivia stuns Darkwings and it's just become a scrappy game where I'd say the Kaiser
keeps getting more and more gold and Reheals actually the one that keeps getting picked
off by the Pantheon or the Renekton or random Kaiser flying in.
And even with that that perfect McCales there from who he on the Renekton son, it just
didn't matter because so much damage was piling in on Reheals.
And I think what actually happened with that car, all there was a pink ward in the side
brush from San.
And also I think he didn't see the rise.
I don't think he realized that Darkwings is there.
So I think he thought, oh, it's just the ice, I send it.
And then all of a sudden you get visioned and is
your all thinking, oh, rises there too.
That's problematic.
So able to turn it around and now dishy up one K goal,
even what symbols do they like to have
a much better start than last game?
G-S-G has been able to find a lot of success.
It feels like that what's hasn't done really anything
to be honest, but it just hasn't mattered
because the rest of the team is playing so well.
That's really done nothing.
You asked Ben, you landed that hook early in the way and that got a flash.
And like two minutes, he takes damage and team fights that isn't damaged dealt to someone who matters.
So he's done, he bought Bambal pipes.
He knows his role, he's going to apply, he's going to give an attack speed buff to the Kaiser.
He needs to apply CC to proc the pipes.
So you never know, just actually E plush to.
I agree with you, the pipes are important.
It looks like we might see it like a baron for Drake trade with the current value of baron.
And I'm actually taking Drake most of the time, but if they can get a fight with
Sentinel's being low, it would be worth it.
So they're going to slowly move up here as Hombock is now at a core health.
Well, there's the Azure in on the castle.
They're locking them up into CC.
It's just not ending.
Castle even through the stairs even through the altar just goes down that CC was never ending
really beautiful chain between the Ash, the NAR, the Seraphine and now they are over
are on to this baron. This
seraphine already on two
complete items. Plus the upgraded
boots plus the tier. DSG
realized we can't contest this who
he's going to keep them to healthy.
They're not to trade for the dragon.
Yep. 45. They have to trade for the
drink as well. That's kind of the
worst case scenario though when you're
slow checking if your ineption ends up
getting one shot. Not enough to
nasty to break the CC chain. But
centrals really have to do something
with this baron power point out because they're
in the game. That's one tier 2 turret, makes the Baron power play plus 1,600.
Honestly, big 1500 gold for Mountain Drake is seeming pretty even to me, so the rest of
this Baron will still be very important for Sentinels.
Exactly, that's a real question. How much can you get with it? The disparity in power
between Blitz and Seraphine now can not be overstated. I think it's the biggest differential
in power between anyone in this game. Like he's up multiple levels. He's onto an
He's going to have three items on the enchanter pretty soon.
Lions is on the bottom of the half.
He is useless unless he can actually hook the ash or the rise or something or maybe the
seraphine.
But not really being given the opportunity.
And the timing on the CC came from sendals is so well done.
Like it's easy to see them say, oh, look at that CC.
It's so easy to do.
But they're not overlapping anything.
It's just perfect.
And they're just walking castle.
Like his build is pretty tanky.
He's got a deathdance in a steric style through that with the ulti already popped.
Yeah.
Yeah, you might want to go for some mercury trends.
I know the steel caps are very good against ash,
but if he's going to be getting CC chain like that,
he needs a little bit more freedom.
Trying to get some mid-plates here
so jet is clearing the turret.
Everyone's doing a really good job hiding behind minions
as well making sure lions stay as useless.
And a little 11 on the blue screen.
Very far down in the experience now at this point.
Who's closing in on a 14 about by the time
that lion's does hit 12.
So the scaling really powerful now.
Of course you are hoping you can kind of just
lay this bear in buff as much as possible. And that's a
jet can just crush it in the team fights. He's on four
items has the zonias and has shown his prowess on
this guy's number of times. Yeah, just seven same
team fight outplay potential. But if the, you know, the
more fed the seraphine gets the beefier the, the team
fight ball can become four sentinels. And these
team fights have become really, really spread out, which
I feel like if they stay a little bit closer together can
be better for sentinels hard to push against an
the
top.
He's going to be looking
flash in score, where
tries to knock him down.
The crime is in the fall.
Send notes get another kill.
There is Hompock goes forward.
Castle was survived.
The hook gets an Indian.
That's about the best.
He's done a little while.
As Castle trying to threaten,
but he just can't.
So Jen is out.
In comes the magnar.
He's going to get stunned up
against the wall.
Wallet does connect.
And now call me in a lot of
trouble.
the net is focusing down in
back. Kenny gets the kill.
Ken, but his mid-linear is
trading back on the side.
Dark Wings chasing after
Castle. Tried the slice of
the wall. But fails it went to
early. Can't get through gets
knocked down. Now, dark Wings
with the rise. I'll try to get
in on the suggest flash or
flash. There's the hook. But
Kenny even win the fight. The
tower shot. Not enough to knock
him down because incomes the
Sarah feed a keep them say.
What a fight there by
centony's narrowly. If they
get one more kill, they might
be able to end the game off
that's so in terms of what they can do at the barren, they cash in towards the end, but
you do have to eventually kill the kysad. That's the ticking time bomb for DSG in this game.
I see, Kriar has gone a little too deep a couple times in this game. Him getting one shot
really emboldened, sentinels to fly through right here. Nice use of the egg, though. And
the wall right beforehand to make it difficult for them to pile through, allow us to get
to kill impacts in our during the fight.
And then a castle panicking a little.
I'd say if you wait another quarter second
to eat over the wall, it's probably just a three for three,
but that's not being a big wing for sentinals.
And a very emotional golden glue
I'd say throughout this whole series.
So yeah, he's looking stressed, feeling the pressure for sure.
wants to be able to have a successful playoff run here.
Of course, coming over from that under deep squad last year,
where they surprised a lot of people.
You know, how to a lot of success really was,
felt like a heartwarming story.
to see this team going to perform a lot of expectations. Then of course, the team exits
the league, sendals comes in, goal and glue moves over. So that organization and really
hoping to have some big success here with that squad. But to your earlier point, I agree
it feels like Kharra is over sending it. It did happen a couple of times when he was playing
Pantheon last week against Lions, or two big against Lions. But wasn't really punished for
that much. This time a couple of times it has been a bit over anxious. I feel like they
could have just waited out the barren and then fought after, but instead he saw an angle
winning. And the season time from Sentels has been so good. He's getting in the CC as he
arrives on the cave and all every time.
Might see a fight here, but probably just giving up the turret hoping for a mountain
soul fight. Also have shield reduction purchased by Kriarret. It's not going to help you
taking this at all, but the surface Fang, if they're just trying to kill whoever's in front
with how powerful Sarah Fiend is now. I mean, I keep touching on it, but blitz is on one item.
And the two case of Hort Golded actually means so much because it's a sailing
in China.
He's three items to one complete item for lions.
I'm going to fully complete it here as well.
The item of songs is completely completed.
Echoes, I also think is just a broken item when you're able to get rolling in these
team fights.
So they just paid it half to give the straight no matter what.
It's going to be the dragon going over.
Do you see, of course, you're what sitting at Soul Point from that earlier trade of Dragon
for Baron, but their attempt at Soul will be delayed.
Ash Arrow comes out.
Rale has been wide on most of these and good side steps by DST to avoid them, and Lions
Gonna have to see if you can find a way to get an impactful flight.
Try to get a water-free flight.
And DST all-possering Kira moving forward here.
So, Jett on the side with him but they are split up and Colman's gonna be flashed on
their 5-Hombock and he comes the awkward of the CC is punishing and in the backline
impact is something of the entire team.
They're locked out, they are knocked down.
It's a triple already for Dark Wigs.
As he is just destroying them in this fight.
Impact picks up another was nearly a quadra.
Call me T.P.s out the safety,
but there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from this end.
We'll see.
Dark Wings just overpowers DSG in this last fight.
Who he also empowering everyone with the massive support gap
in this game too.
It's looking like said knows it's equalizing the series.
Yeah, they are marching on the next.
This call me going to get rooted up.
Gonna get locked down to C.C.Chains, just never and hurry with a fantastic
surfing game showing off the power of the pick and send those
coordinates so well on their timing with the CC across multiple
fights.
They tie up the series a great bounce back after a really tough
game one and a really scrappy game to as well.
They had to clutch up.
They didn't tilt.
They trusted their late game scaling.
Spam the jetting out for your player the game lounge.
What was the key?
Well, Grayson said, by already.
The Golden Goose 10, we need pushing lanes.
For me to have a real fighting chance
this game was a competition that had.
Yeah, I mean, Sarah Bean and Rise later,
we're pulling a lot of work.
And they started getting some tricks with actors as well.
This was so back and forth, though, Emily.
OK, let's start by going back to the beginning of this game.
And we could kind of walk through some of the ups and downs,
because there were so many moments in this game.
So if we go all the way back to the beginning,
I want to point out something that DSG
actually did really well early on,
because they're able to pull off a fight
where sent to those paints, they have full control of dragon.
So if you watch it at the very beginning,
the cry was going to go for the scoda-crab and then run down.
Hawkshot, that Hawkshot just saw a cry right there.
So they saw a cry right here.
So they knew he's in this area,
But because on box level 6, they have pushing bottom lane here.
They think they have full priorities.
So they're trying to do multiple things at once.
They're doing the dragon.
Wow, they're bottom lane.
Just gets jumped on.
And it was the flash from Kriera because he knows who he had no flash.
They're able to kill that seropine so quickly.
And then they can focus fire and they turn and they kill the enemy jungler as well.
And so, Jed barely gets out.
One last auto here is the difference.
and he's able to skirt the range on dark ones as well.
And so that was just a moment where
Sentinel's felt really secure like, all right,
you know, I've got my extra level here,
we'll start the dragon, we're bot lane push,
but they didn't leave the opening, and they didn't respect
the flash from Kyra, so good like jumping on the moment.
Yeah. They are from DSG.
The next one is going to be another bottom lane play,
and this is where Sentinel starts to use Ash Arrow.
I actually wanted to pause it right there,
because the reason that Blitzkrank does not flash this arrow
his business to Jed would get hit and so Jed has no summoner spells.
So if he had flashed the arrow, then you'd be like,
this troll support is getting my 80 carry killed.
So he goes down and then you're going to see a lot of kind of lack of value of
Blitzgrink as the game goes on, you know, and Seraphine is able to scale.
And that becomes definitely a very powerful asset.
They're four centros as the game does go on, but they really
I really started to use some of these angles using terrain to line up the arrow and make
sure that regardless somebody was going to get hit and somebody is going to get value.
And then we got some crazy barren fights which luckily for you we have comms listed in
replay.
So we're going to throw it to a replay with the audio from the call.
Okay, that's it.
We should go back.
Hashtag systems?
Yeah.
Okay.
Hashtag.
Is that on here?
Hashtag system.
We can back too.
I mean, you should back here.
That's it.
Let me.
Play with it.
Look at that.
Play with it.
I'm...
I'm really that is demonstrative as well in addition to what you feel Kobe of how back and forth
so many parts of this game work.
Yeah, because like even the mistake that happened mid, they suddenly have a man down
and you look at from the Sentinel side.
The TPE comes in behind them.
They have to make a split-second decision.
Do you actually group on the TPE or do you like sit where you are?
The TPE comes through and you heard it from them.
They're like, Ash does not have sums.
So, at least, from the send itals perspective,
they should probably just back away
from the barren turns towards the TPU
or do something there,
but it was tough for a health from that point on.
Yeah, you can hear from the comms.
That was the origin of the original play, too.
Yeah.
Where they're like, all right, can't the on Altan,
you know, no sums, let's get this guy.
And then they've got the action defense there,
but then it's still the same thing.
They're saying at the very beginning,
all the way through the whole replay.
Yeah.
No subs at, no flash out ash.
Yeah.
And they finally are able to, you know,
to kill him and defend the barren,
but then it goes back the other way
and then the Seraphine power really comes through later too.
Yeah, I'm a waiting for a team in the LCF
to actually run as Seraphine, something we've seen a lot
in LPL and just last night in LCK,
as well as a few times previously in the LCK.
But I wanna quickly before we have to go to the great talk
about these junglers, again,
a lot is our player of the game for game two,
which means we're gonna bring back the shampoo board
a little bit just to talk about these two.
It feels like whenever, wow, that is an interesting spread of us against the...
Sarah being having a lot of votes.
That's a very, very sad thing.
Sarah being was very important.
But I feel like whenever there's a fight happening, whenever there's a pick happening,
one of these two junglers is always at the scene of the crime, who be...
Yeah, and I'll just start by saying, this job was super impactful.
and I felt like a reason why they ended up taking the dub as yes, you already mentioned
the scaling power that they had. But it's like, yo, I'm off in this pool, double hop on
him. And it worked. That's why for me, Hombock had great ultis throughout the game, the
found picks that were able to generate win. So it was a dub on that one and done from the draft.
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We are heading into game three between Sentinels and DSG here as we are guaranteed at least four we're getting into the fun parts of fuel is that it took months to get to our fourth field of the game last year
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That's true. We only had one best of five to be fair
It isn't credible. We're getting the game four before LEC gets to game two
That's impressive.
That's just, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's right there,
hitting hard.
LEC has no response.
Yeah.
They cannot deny.
All right.
We're going to be going into a chance to like to hear excited to see how things evolve.
As, you know, we kind of were talking before the game as thinking maybe GSG could be the
team that's more flexible.
Well, you think traditionally about Dark Wings in Impact, you think about guy who likes
the play tanks, guy who likes the Blake control mages.
And yeah, a lot of the control mages already kind of gone as yours been getting banned
out, both of the first two games, or he's gone, rises gone, you know, some of these
picks that aren't quite popular, are being taken off the table, of course, you know,
he saw his victor to Leah, Casio, things like that, so there are still a lot of picks
left.
Azir is still not banned as well, looking at Sentinels appears to have first pick here.
They do, yes.
So that means DSG, DSG had selection, they decided to have last pick and then Sentinels
selected blue side and they're going to then banister.
So to me, it's either you ban a zero or you were going to play yo
and air something, right?
Yeah, it's going to be one of the other.
So in this case, they will just ban it out and you know,
is up in available.
That did get banned against for hell last time, but it was phased
too.
So not convinced that this would be their first pick.
Wouldn't be surprised by something, even like a rumble,
something kind of along those lines of safe blind pick.
That is kind of pretty high prior for impact.
But they could just go towards the unarmed.
People do really like it and especially we're seeing a lot more
and Chandra pairings again, like Lulu alongside it can be really, really strong.
I mean, I think to me, he was the player of the game because not necessarily because
like crazy mechanics or anything, but I felt like the power differential between him and the opposing
support was the biggest out of anyone. Yeah, that was the most contested player of the game
vote we've had this year. Yeah. You voted who he? Yeah. I voted Dark Wings. Kobe voted Dark Wings.
Yeah, Emily and Razz voted Hombock.
It must be tried for their crimes in Twitch Chat.
Well, Twitch only gave Hombock 1% of the vote.
And who really knows who's the player of the game more than Twitch Chat Chat?
Was it Razz in Twitch Chat, typing Hombock just to do that, right?
He was sent. He brought it to 1%.
Yeah, it was Razz.
Okay.
Ooh, send it on the list.
Send him on the list, so going to be sent a carry on the support.
Or is it going to be farming on the list?
No way, man. You can't do that now.
With all the gold injection and stuff, that would be crazy.
Some people really like the kind of like AP supportive style build for a set of these days.
So I was talking to you to the shock. Yeah, exactly. I wouldn't be shocked, but we will see.
There's ever seen in Pro the roll switch. So you'd still have suggest playing
Senna as the support. So they do the roll plate.
I think you can totally do that, especially depending on level of comfort.
It's like, if you, you have to be able to pilot the ADC well.
I think if you're going to play, if you're going to do that though, it will be an 80
set.
It wouldn't be a support salsa because I think how you position is kind of different
in the fight, but it is going to be you know, well, so they are going to have some pretty
good engage over on this side and Darkway is going to go to one of his trusted picks
the victor.
So another control may be going to be grabbed up by him 0 and 2 so far in the LCS though
is the victor pick.
Of course, Rale can break shields, so really nice against both the Senate and all of
he as well as the none of the W. So that can be impactful at times.
Yeah, also, Kuhi mentioned he loves ralkuhing top laners T.P. and just bulk 2000 shield break right away.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, exactly the roll, the roll cost.
Kuhi's that kind of super steric.
It's funny because they talked about, oh, maybe you would leave the is your up if you want to play on it into it.
Call me is just going to do a into Victor, which is probably just an even easier match out.
I'll leave you better.
Because his ear doesn't really have, you know, it's harder to get into his ear to use me than it is yet on the Victor.
Victor has a lot less mobility.
So you can look to try to put some dive in on to them.
And we'll see whether they're going to draft alongside it.
Obviously, divers can be great with Senna because you have that support from the Senna
flying in the back line if you're a.g. you have the additional damage as well, not just that
showing.
Yeah, I love Senna when there's more people that can be in front of you to just get
max efficiency out of our queue.
So so far, I've been a big fan of DSG's drafts.
I was a big fan of the confidence of the Blitzkrieg.
It ended up literally any other champion probably would have been better than the Blitzkrieg.
That's how specific game, but I still love the company.
It's an easy game.
It didn't change.
It did.
It really did change.
Oh, it's OK.
OK.
Yeah, and the 35 minutes of, oh, which we had a...
Seraphim right now.
But they're going to be going back in on the notalus.
And when we find definitely, I like
the DRAPTO before from DSG, but there's
a lot more consistent DPS over on the other side.
So you are going to have to be really on point with your
you know, when you are thinking about the ability for
Ascena and a Yone to put out DPS compared to that of a
Victor and you know, it's not really too comparable. It's kind of
all about that one shot. A couple of bands going into
words, Homboc, is they're targeting a lot of these AD
junglers that have already been taken out already for AD
junglers to be played. Now they're going to be double
banning. So those AD junglers as well as the buy on the other
sides. So seven AD junglers now taken to the pool.
Of course, still are things like Lee Sin and some of the kind of
less popular options, but everything the
homebuck has played so far, the split is
bit. Yeah, and some big time target
bands flying out at Criera as well,
with his Zach pick, which he's played
into your two, but the iron hasn't
been done. So he's already dipping
into his pool. This is one of the
things he does when you're talking
about him kind of looking up to
inspired like part of that is also
the other picks that inspired to
be able to pilot. Criera's been
able to pilot as well. I've been
personally playing a good bit of
Ivan and solo queue as well. He's
in a very strong state. I don't know if this is the best spot for him just because
they don't necessarily have high damage. He carry an happens relatively low damage
younger, but it's very good with the only for sure. That's what I was going to say.
A lot of the people really love melee parings of the strong melee, so the liners
paring with it. Woo-Kong, one of those junglers that was kind of can spikyously absent
from the pick band is going to be grabbed up. First time the Hanbok will have played it this
time around and now impact is going to have to blind his top laner and it's going to just
be kind of so we're just going to throw down the cannon blind.
Is a really powerful laner.
The question is, does Castle has something cooked up as an answer into it?
You have to kind of get a bit more spicy if you want to go for it.
Oh, we're getting that says coming out.
This is actually pretty high.
So I'm excited to see what the option is going to be from Castle.
So sometimes again, these ranged top laners, people are like, oh, are you going to get
bullied super hard as anassus?
You can actually do a number of points in E and you kind of just wouldn't out in the
you actually just poke them down with the E.
There are sometimes people who go like pseudo AP or sometimes they just go AD,
like they're just going try force, but they're going like three or four points E with
comment. There's a lot of different options you can go.
And then we'll also say, I play a lot of an asses, I think it's really fun.
If you do not get slammed in the early levels, by Canon, Canon stops hurting you.
Yeah. You get to like mercreds, you get enough sustain in your asses.
And you have to have so much with the simplest passive in the game.
I mean, you need more passive like this. You read it.
I read it, like steel. Oh my god. I've read so many passive paragraphs, man, but he's new champions and the second part of the pass.
You know, globally, group also applies with your past 15 minutes. You enter the third stage of the passive.
Yeah, which has a 17 hit passive that is activated when you're opponent has an infinity edge.
But NASA is so straightforward. I love it. Like steel.
It's also a good pair with ivory for what it's worth.
Because if ivory never lands a cue, NASA can fly in a melee range,
and the driver and helps to bridge that gap and he is playing
Aries. So it's not going to be common.
Aries can't miss. When your points physically against Kenan,
Aries can be better because if Kenan is, when you
comment, the comment misses. So Aries can't miss.
So I am expecting at least a three points E. He is starting
D-Ring. This is a pretty standard start. It's really good
into a lot of range matchups. People think about NASA's
as a weekly inter, but I think they kind of fundamentally
missed understanding the champion and some matchups.
in some matchups.
I don't expect him to be full AP.
I think I personally think it's garbage,
unless the other team is like super squishy.
But I do expect him to have a strong landing phase
and from there, just go into standard tri-force stuff.
I really like DSG this year, man.
Like, just the fact that there are already
way better than we were last year,
but that they're already pulling out these pocket picks
so early in a best of five.
So we've got NASA's top and I've earned jungle,
which is just perfect. You've been playing a lot of nests. I've been playing a lot of
Ivern. This could be us. Maybe we learn from the best. This could be us if we wanted to
lose horribly in this game on the LCS. And at least any buy with DSG's coach I though.
Let's talk about the picks. I do want to talk about the picks because Razz and I were
spitballing. We were like, okay, what are they going to pick to counter this cannon and the answer
was NASA. So talk to us a little bit about the confidence you have in castle and just own
for all your team to be able to play at this count.
Yeah, I think we got a lot of scaling.
So it's pretty easy to scale anyone can do that.
But when he said, you guys know what I have to pick here.
When Kenning got locked in, and I said, no, I really don't.
And then he said, NASA, I look at him.
We don't say anything.
He says, dead ass.
So then I say, all right, that's the city.
That's fine.
All right, dead ass.
We got NASA's, oh, see how castle does.
It should be actually a pretty good counter.
The other thing I did want to ask is how the team was feeling.
Obviously, you guys took a few risks in draft,
specifically with the Blitzcrank in game two,
did end up taking the law.
So, what did you tell them before going into this game?
Yeah, we just had a lot of unfortunate things happen.
We're not really too caught up on last game.
I think we should still keep looking for the fight
so that we want to take, even with this conflict.
We aren't really that great at fighting early,
but that doesn't mean we should roll over and give everything over.
So just making sure that we're still confident in what we think is a good fight.
What looks like a good fight, give what we have to give and not really thinking too much about last game.
All right, cool.
Well, thank you so much for taking the time.
Let's throw it back to you guys at the cast.
That's called me looking straight ahead of aggressive here on a dark wings with Kriber.
He happened to get a boy pretty hard in this one be one.
So Kriber, you've got super fast clear on the Iver and these drive-by-guings are great.
Yeah, absolutely.
only using one smite, still full clears his
jungler, six camps in the time that it takes
Hombock to kill five, so that allows him
time to have one free turn, since there
was such insane bot prior from Sentinels.
He knows he's going to end up taking
top crap, gets a gank in the meantime.
Really helps call me a lot in that lane,
and then still manages to get it all.
Who he is baiting them up up with behind him,
and who he was walking for pretending he did not
know that he could get engaged on.
Lines hooks in so he doesn't lose his flash for the exchange.
It doesn't mean Hombock has a pretty delayed base, so now who's going to flash in?
Lines has no flash.
So, yet, trying to keep my lie, but he's not going to be able to do it.
You have to think Hombock gets the kill.
That's right.
For a has arrived.
Can they chase them down and get something back?
He doesn't look like they can.
And Lines falls for first blood.
Hombock picks it up.
Who he playing very well these last two games.
Context switching as well between the seraphine and the rail right there.
the flashless not-less for the re-engaged in what was the 23. I think yesterday wanted to kind of keep it interesting since
Criro was deploying out the bot lane and they thought maybe they'd be able to bait it but he ends up getting that turn around
earlier so the beginning of this play has the flash being burned and yes, he actually this is great right
Homebox recall is going to be greatly delayed but then with Ivern in the bush they're thinking that they should stick around and
Who he just does a really fast play to end up getting the kill font lines. I mean, I think it would have been huge for DSG
I think Lions just way overplayed his hand, right?
You know, I've heard it's not very it.
When you're moving forward into that brush,
I've heard still halfway down the lane.
If you ate five seconds and then you walk up
and you get flash on, and I've heard and she'll do,
yeah, you win, you stop that.
So, not a great game one from Lions
and I think a pretty big misstep there in game two.
And we'll see how he's gonna be able to do
going forward, Castle.
So far, does have three points E as expected
and is gonna be working towards the Merk Treads.
That's also very expected.
And I think he's gonna be sitting pretty.
I mean, you outscale the cannon hilariously hard in the side lane and he's almost level six.
And generally, I'm asking if you get to level six without dying, you are feeling really comfortable.
Yeah. I love I love the story from Idaho as well. That's how draft works for a lot of
teams as well. You just you do a trustball with your players a lot of the time is some big damage
goes down under a hell. Well, incredibly low. So, Jed, let's not the flash for it because there was
still the bearer available on the hell. So, didn't want to over commit and die on anything silly
to get them to go for an aggressive play
again, but this time DST not going for it just yet.
Lions does drop that vision ward in the river.
And we'll be able to keep themselves safe as Kriera is clearing down.
We'll see if Kriera wants to come give a little bit of reinforcements down here on this boss.
As you can see, Hombox didn't go back to base.
No, he cannot contest the skull.
Yeah, I mean, as long as they keep for a hell low like this,
it could be a good timing to start Drake as the Ivory team.
They have nid primes.
start Drake as the Iver and team. They have a mid prior. They have a parma
bot prior and they'd want to get that Drake stacked starting. Ibern definitely
a slow Drake take her, but he can still take it solo. So it looks like he's just
going to be able to pick this up. Like we haven't contested.
Yep, should be able to grab that. And all this scrapping on the bot side, something
that someone is going to go a little bit ignored is that it's really nice for
Senate because you're grabbing a lot of souls. So already 20 souls here, six minutes
in. It's going to be a pretty nice pace for such a jet, especially when you're playing
80 carry on, it's a lot harder to get the souls than it is on support where you're kind of just doing nothing but harassing.
So instead of doing a very good job with that, and they're off to a great start.
Also always nice when you come and reinforce the jungler on some of these dragon takes and various camps because you get a nice injection of souls there too.
picks up two.
Yeah, first, NASA's top since 2017 summer by Sunday.
And as Castle said, you know, to him, he had to do it in this situation once the cannon was locked in.
But to pick it with the I burn actually does make a lot of sense. I do completely agree if he's able to lane this well
I don't think he's gonna have that to get trouble problem with team fight access based off of having this I burn
He might even look for an all in here
We'll see if he's gonna go for a dead of the ghost so in fact that's me very careful if you ever waste your e
Especially because impacting on playing Facebook. She took areas. We try to actually contest a lane
If you waste your e you can easily get withered ghost pop-alti and just run him down
It was a surprise that Castle actually just playing a very defensively.
I think he was nervous.
The home buck was in the bush.
Otherwise, I think he walks forward and just stacks the cannon, right?
Because the cannons were so many stacks.
But in that case, just used to see one of the play at safe.
And as a Lions trading here with New Heans,
so Jed able to help him out there.
So Trade goes pretty DSG favorite now to 26 stacks.
And Home Buck will have been revealed by that ward over on his Raptors.
And so DSG should be well aware of where he is.
This call me's just been kind of getting harassed constantly in this one
to be one, but is up CS, so going to be pretty happy about how things are going.
They're looking to make a play and on cryers blew up here with the bot
cryo.
If you're going to get cryers all out, just to push him out of blue.
Surprise and teleport actually, but it is just who he with spell book.
Cryers want to have a little bit of time to channel on this blue, but we might see
it brawl first.
Why does has a little six?
So does who he will be actually send it?
He's getting focused down.
It's going to go back in.
It's a jet.
to get over here and help them out, but he's
zoned off there by Darkwigs. Lion hooks the wall, flashes out.
Sentinel's win the fight. Now, beautifully done right there by
Homba Knowsy has level six. Getting the Daisy out early
rather than mid-fight was the signal they needed to actually
engage. So they slow play it with who he getting the reset
and then as soon as they get out of the fight, they
with who he getting the reset and then as soon as days he's down, it's just full
set because they're actually going to be able to win that 3v3 so Hombok with the
fortune to kill early to get the first one and now with this second kill is starting to
take control of the game.
Yeah, that would be fun those showing off some of their experience here, you know, utilizing
the pressure well, they have some of the most experienced players as far as playoff games
are concerned in the league. You look at how many impact has played, how many who he has
played. Then they're over on the other side. The only one who previously
series had any playoff experience with lines. The other four, it was all their very first
playoff games, of course. Same to true for Homboc and Dark Wings, and you know, we're held
in have a ton, but Sentinels has some really veteran players over on that side, and that
can be something that can really help you when you come into some of these higher pressure matches.
Yeah, who he especially coming up clutch with these engages so far in this game?
I want to talk quickly about the I burn as well, though, just I think correct rooms right here,
glacial augment as well as resolve secondary for the extra heel and shielding he's got
the cash back as well since your items you build so many of them you end up getting to
like your three and four item power spikes very quickly since you're kind of building all
support items and he's probably starting with the redemption as well which I think is pretty
strong when you can affect the map from kind of like pseudo global cries been playing the pantheon
doctrine just throwing a redemption down from the jungle can have a similar effect on all those
for the first time, but it's not the easiest to lean as NASA's in the early levels,
and of course, there's getting more points in the queue and pick up more CDR. It gets faster and faster,
and you can really start to accelerate. So we'll see how we can actually perform.
If NASA is always, can you actually connect on your targets later on in the game?
We know NASA is always a beast in the sideline, but there is a lot of disruption.
There is a lot of CC, there's the W from Victor, there's the stuns that are getting
coming out in the knockouts, from the WooCom, from the cannon, from the rail.
There's a lot of kind of annoying things, but that being said, even if you just kind
of get down your Wither on rail, that is such a significant DPS loss for you, Nara, who
is pretty much purely out of attack based.
Yeah, I think a lot of this game is going to come down to whether or not
sent in those lands, clean and gauges because they have really powerful
tools with the well, Rukong Cannon, not to mention the ever-expanding
victor ultimate if they can get the one shot because the the
I burn and the center are never going to beat that tank. So those are the
targets that they're really going to be wanting to try and one shot. I do
think the scaling is in favor of the SG, especially if those players
can stay safe, but at the moment it's a pretty good start of the game
percent.
No, it's sure.
It's a really good question.
Right?
And that makes the engages so important because if you can get back onto those guys and knock
them down, that's fantastic.
But if you full-send it and you are going through the ONA through the NASA's and you
don't inch the kiln them, well, that's going to be tough and that is going to be what they're
having to deal with here.
As you can see, the roll quest complete there for Castle who pretty much doesn't care
about anything in back does any more at this point, really the only limiting factor and
This is kind of one of the weak points of these kind of e-max builds.
You spend a lot of mana.
So Castle sometimes is just going to run out of mana.
If he's going to have to base and push that out,
and that can be one of the difficulties.
Although surprising though, the castle immediately
teleports back to top lane.
So Impact now has TP advantage.
And that means that DSG has to concede this second rick.
It is a cloud.
It is going to be traded for some camps on the other side of the map.
So I think overall DSG is okay with that.
But when you have the redemption completed on Iber,
and that's one of your bigger power spikes,
But I think it's just the fact that we're calling us on Triforce.
And that's a big way to lose the game as well.
Absolutely.
And I mean, Castle also really getting impact quite low.
And back to the MLTP back towards that top side because now they have already secured
that dragon.
But it is always scary.
You know, if they decided to keep me down the cannon and you don't get an incredible
fight, Nassas puffs old and kills your tower, right?
And that is something that you always have to worry about.
The amount of damage Nassas can get done in the sideline.
So Castle now, feeling really good up 400 gold on the champion that pretty heavily outscales,
going to close to his try force and has that supporting cast that will help them not
just the either, but also the Senate heels and shields. So it's going to be pretty
powerful. You have to think this game. Darklings have been doing good job just harassing
call me, but it's never really turned into anything more than just kind of a bit of annoyance.
Yeah, I mean, if we're seeing NASA's Ivern and game three of fearless, I really hope
this goes five. I don't know what DSD would have left in terms of the end of the
So let's take a more game five.
So let's go, let's go.
Oh, we decided to unban his ear.
You could get that too.
And we can stand.
Bring out the court key.
No, I agree.
I mean, it's fun.
And Castle's always been one of those players.
I've talked in a little bit about picks in the past.
And he loves solo queue data.
Some players think win rates mean nothing.
And solo queue, some players just saying ignore it.
It doesn't matter at all.
I play what feels good.
Castle loves going and looking at the data and seeing what the niche items and
counterpicks are and he loves grabbing that stuff. I think he's really into it. So
he believes a lot in that. And so you know, it would not surprise me to know
statistically this is one of the better kind of matchups. And it's cool to have
players that have a confidence to bring this stuff out because I do think it's
under explored. And I think combat thermometers as well are pretty under explored
as far as toppling this season. We got to see photon doing it a little bit, you know,
bringing out the night cannon. The night, uh, renextonably wasn't the game. And so
He's done a couple of different things, which is kind of fun to watch.
Very cool.
273 on the NASA stacks so far.
We got only 42 on the Senate.
It's become a little bit less spicy of a lane since they start losing and who he's up here.
Who's going to be a bit annoying, but not enough damage obviously to take it down.
I mean, if you fully commit there, he is just going to heal up.
You can also see, in fact, he's going in towards gunblade because he knows if you don't
have some sustain, he's just going to slowly lose the sideline very heavily to the NASA.
So his option is, all right, I go down, blade, that is a trade off though.
There's not like there's no cost of that because you're not as powerful in team fights.
I feel as we're going to see how I'm buckling it on call me.
That's a nice little shit of damage, but Dark Wings hadn't quite arrived with the T.P.
So, just going to take that chunk of damage and be happy with it.
Some Iber and side effects as well, just the easy double buffs on the mid laner this early
on into the game from the buff sharing passive, also going to be annoying for Dark Wings
to deal with.
Since he was winning that lane against call me a little bit, doesn't seem like he is anymore.
But I'd say that Kriera is definitely in a defensive jungling pattern right now,
especially after losing that blue buff fight about seven minutes ago to Hombok.
So staying out of the river really is trying to keep his camps on cooldown and waiting until they hit a few more power spikes.
They know they have the scaling here.
For as exciting as NASA's Ivern are to us for the novelty.
I think they're equally as boring in terms of their play pattern.
Yeah, they definitely can be.
And I mean, you're playing NASA Senate.
Two-james with infinite skill, right?
So if the game goes slow, you're fine with that.
The question is always, do you have target access?
Because in theory, you can get 10,000 stacks on NASA's
and then never hit anyone done.
Right?
You know, it's unlikely, of course.
But there's still a lot of feeling power on the other side, too.
You know, a Victor really powerful carries in those late games, stages, lots of CC
and disruption here for the Yone as well as for the NASA's.
And, send those slowly building up this goal, bleed, and yeah, it's great.
you can scale, you can stack, but if you fall too far behind, it's not really going to matter.
And it is closing in on that 2000 gold lead, is calling you getting a pretty nice trade
here that barrier is going to get popped, he hasn't committed to it, the Redemption
almost finished them off.
And now the Senate all just knocks him down, where hell did not react, did not flash out.
And what I thought was going to be a quick little trade ends up being a kill, and now Castle
is going to pop the altar here, where he goes for it, not just yet, humbuck coming in.
Now I'm going to pop the hell this year, but he isn't the one to do, can he make it happen?
I don't know that he's going to have a damage, but he is getting it back way.
Loading him down.
One more cue might do it, but he doesn't get there to finish the job.
In fact, barely survives.
Hompock fails them out and they get it to all the Nazis.
Oh, man.
That was almost such a positive play for DSG, but Hombock is there for when Castle
gets bored.
He could have just continued to kill the minions, but he thought that was a time ago in nothing
I could do.
No eyes on the Wukong whatsoever.
So Hombock in a position to carry this game right now.
three zero zero on the Rookon watching this one more time though. You can see where
hell was feeling very confident that they kind of had call me in this one.
They too, but then when who he gets pushed out, he goes for a powerful train.
Here's the pseudo-global's right. The redemption at first. I think he thought he was
far enough. Oh, he tried to Ari. He died on the artist. He tried to Ari. That's what
happened. So his arms on full down now. Yeah. So he tried to act the Ari there. So
that's why he didn't flash. He thought he had the time to do it. But now they're actually
catching homebuck if he goes down that would be punishing as he has a big bounty who
he's going to flash over the wall with homebuck but can they continue to chase I think
they can now the T.P. coming in there from behind.
And this is going to be behind them we're going to try to use the rift year old
maybe to get out of dodge but there's the route over in a homebuck homebuck and he
focused down castle almost knocks down who he but he's going to get CCed up.
We'll call on gets into the herald can all of them get out and looks like they just might
be able to do it.
They're trying to put himself in the swipe but they couldn't.
and send those get on lane with no help.
I can't believe DSG killed no one.
And that's up being a really good trade
because they got plates on the mid lane
as well, sure it cost the hero
than they get some counter-truck, right?
Oh, good side, step on.
Oh, has redemption.
Oh, he has redemption.
He has short cast the redemption.
And Humbock gets out.
Yeah.
Tough skills shots hit there.
That redemption didn't actually land it.
If he missed place, they pretty fast.
He just needed to put it behind him
and try to force him in Zoom, call me,
and some trouble on the side.
We'll be forced to use this all defensively as the double solo in it's here from
sendals going to be pushing up but at the same time castle farming some plates on top
sides so call me push back to base.
That's feel like they probably could have killed him maybe with that redemption but not
going to be able to do it unfortunately and probably a frustrating moment there for
GST.
It looked like they were going to get one or two kills for sure instead they get none.
And they're also not set up at this Drake again so it's probably in front of Drake going
over to Sentinel.
There's no redemption.
They burned a lot of their summoners in that extended fight
top lane, call me thinking about going for Dark Wings.
There'll be very late on this fight if they decide
to engage on it.
Yeah, call me missing most of his abilities there,
unfortunately.
So is going to have to just kind of take the L on that trade?
Once you get Blender Ranking, as well as these upgraded
Presenter Grease, it can be quite powerful.
It's watched this fight one more time.
It looks like they had send those corner.
Yeah, so Caso is cutting off who he Dark Wings.
But then Lions and Cri are kind of connected
to trying to finish off Hombock before he gets in the Herald.
So once it's in the harrow, you're kind of not doing anything.
I'd say I've said, Jed, and Kriera had all
in on the Vipterrell earlier.
Maybe they get one of those kills.
And if they do a little bit more damage to the harrow,
they could get this kill as well.
The extra chase is the one that cost them,
because I feel like if they deploy down for Drake now,
maybe they can control it.
But Kriera takes the plant over.
Nice sized step by Hanbok.
And then Kriera just doesn't place redemption deeply enough.
He could have cornered him most likely to get that kill.
and deep breaths for Hombock protecting that bounty on Wukong.
Yeah, I feel like if you just put the redemption fully below.
It's like the top lip is just barely touching him.
He can't walk down or probably die to the redemption.
I mean, you basically have to flip it and say,
I hope I don't die to the end.
Because if you stop, you just get auto to death,
because you have no health.
So, yeah, do you think that was a misplay from Cribra?
Hombock opening up a pretty big lead here now,
and it's gonna be happy about his position in the game.
Call me.
Has been relatively quiet on the on-a.
Has been getting involved here and there.
a jet though up to 55 stacks or 132 for Castle. So this has really started to accelerate.
He is getting to that frightening point where if he connects onto his targets, he's going
to get it to the 100 damage. He's not going, oh, he's back on for a health splash. That
was a miss click. That was a miss click for sure. Unfortunately, as we're held now,
going to be minus flash and they saw it. So they could full-send it on him. But yeah,
Castle, not going sender to Skyrim, anything crazy. He is going to be going in towards
the spirit visit second, taking the more kind of moderate approach.
But also, he's up against two AP soul in, or so, makes sense to just have a little bit of
MR and really delay this game through split pushing.
The definitely feels like DSG has been making a few misplays, and Sentinel has been
capitalizing, especially when Hamburg has been in the right position.
But even with all that, 1000 Golden One Drake, I'm still feeling like the Santa Iber
Nassus probably has it?
It's just hard to say though, because we see these combinations of champions so infrequently
in pro play. So if the coordination of
Sentinels hard and gate is can just one shot
the iberna in the center before the fight
extends. It's not going to matter. But it
just feels like with the lock it from the
notalists and just a little bit of
burst protection. If you can get through to
the first redemption and the iberna shields
in the center he'll start kicking. It feels
like they're just going to be this unstoppable
machine later in the game. There's one of
these other things that if you go obviously
think about the weather a lot but there's a lot
of armor shred on the Nassus E and then there's
black cleaver armor shred and your triple
physical damage carries. Why you have center
of Yona U of NASA. So there's going to be, you know, a lot of reduced armor, which actually
is quite impactful here. They are going to be pummeling some of these carries if everything
is on them and they're looking for it. And back right side step there, on the hooks from
my insense, he was laying in way plus all of the sendals are here. All five members coming
and trying to all of them in comes. The redemption as well, that's semashale, trying to keep
them up, lions flashing. We need a lot of it. He's getting knocked down. And there's another
kick going their way, the T. P. Rives. But Kato is getting focus down. He's in the middle of
the entire TV gig. Andy King and he's done trying to take on Buck with them. But won't
be able to do it three for zero for sandals there. How much more can they get off of this?
They're getting a lot. That was a beautiful play there by Sen. first sign that something
was a miss, was both soul in her just walking up the bottom lane together, then who
he and Buck get the perfect plan and DSG I think tries to salvage a play that was
in salvageable. Sena so far away, Colmy burns everything. And then by the time Castle gets
here, he has won the five. Sure, the Sena Ivern want to help. But if they step too close,
they end up getting engaged on. So all the tempo has been in the favor of Sena's this game.
And they're the ones making the plays to turn the game in their favor.
And I see done. You could also see that rail interaction, shattering strike on the
the Ivern Shield instantly on Colme broke that very quickly as a alliance.
You have to hook back to the tower, so you can use some damage there from her help.
They do have a lot of sustain.
I mean, you saw it.
Look at Colme was going to get one shot, but then redemption landed.
Lock and came out, sent a shield.
You know, all of these heels came through.
But it was not enough.
They were not putting any damage back on the other side.
And then it's like NASA's arrived.
500 stacks.
Great.
But CC, CC, CC, not going to be able to actually get enough cues out to really do anything.
to do anything in now centinals feels like they're running away with it.
Close to grab this next record.
Just and the fact that the Yone and the Nautilus were gone pretty much before the fight
started and all the centinals cool down are going to be cycling back.
So for as much as we've talked about the potential scaling of the FST, if they're not
finding any 55 windows and sent those as always the one striking person always has a
number bench.
They're going to win the game.
So this is the most organized I've actually seen it three seconds before in
for no name getting five.
Oh, big hook on to Rahel.
He pops the R dashes back and they get in on him.
They're happy to just let the ulti expire.
So forced out of Rahel and they know he has no flash for a while.
So I think he is just going to try to contest potentially,
but it looks like he might just be too slow.
There we go.
In on who he who he's going to get.
One shot, the shutdown comes through.
But we'll look by the one impact is getting so much there.
Now, cancel, try to surprise.
Get in on Rahel.
But he's the emphasis.
Mark, call me trying to make something happening.
Misses on the Q3.
Homebox flashes out and now it's just cry right.
and that is Victor from Arcane, not Arcane's almost massive, as sendals are five and
wind up, even without the flash or the LTMRL. That might have been the last chance for
DSG. They finally got their 5B5, but they were probably just a little bit too far behind,
and the executes and the empowered Victor ultimate just continued. So, yes, they killed
who here on the back side, but let's think, like,
the jet doesn't do that with Damage.
Look at his dick to the game.
You can see Clara and Call Me have to kind of both flash out of this.
So it's like a set out who's zoned by impact
and Castle who's in the middle of four people.
Isn't enough to get it done as Victor
and even in Altus, you know, are free-hitting.
It's just too much damage.
Yep, just too much damage.
When you follow this far behind,
it's these concepts that are aligned on kills and shields.
Often you don't get enough rounds of them out
actually make anything happen. You just kind of end up having these situations where they're just getting burst
or you can see the hex-pock-bix C44 is done now for the Senate. So does that the additional damage based on
rain? There's obviously great for Senate because you get all the stacks which increases your range.
You're almost always getting the maximum bonus from that. And so Jen was hurting him back to be sure,
but it's just been tough. I mean, Castle has been kind of like very slowly winning in the
side lane. He took them on top to our check down on the bottom tower, but he's never been actually
He's never been able to make anything happen in the 50-5's.
Impact is just kind of going in throwing down all,
he's seeing them up.
And it kind of focuses down the mass as before he can do much.
Yeah, not to mention the surface thing is clutch for a home block.
He's had such a good game from the original.
Kill that he found bottom lane to the invade.
He did it on the blue buff.
And now because he has some gold to burn,
normally a surface thing on we call this late
and the build would make you too squishy.
But because he's so accelerated,
accelerated, I think it just allows him to continue to snowball.
And in terms of like, we have heel cut items and shield cut items.
To me, Serpent's Fang is just the most broken of them all.
Like, not only does it reduce the shields by 50%
it will then reduce other shields that get applied by 50%.
So it's the best of all worlds in terms of cutting down the shield
and it's going to be coming from notalists, from Ivern, from Senna Alt.
It really empowers their teamfighting.
And how much on three items, you look over at call me?
He's on two, right?
And he's not even close as TPs are going to be coming in here
to reinforce.
And that's this Will arrive as Will call me.
So that's double TPs spent now.
Feels like GST is going to have to get something.
Otherwise, impact are soon to go set up in the sideline.
I mean, they did get the Alt out of her health.
They got to keep you at a dark wings.
But now it is TP advantage for sendals.
So in back and go, and look to set up a push in the sideline if he wants.
But right now, he's considering, can I find an angle for an altar here?
That's who he thinking about going has his flash to be a little
homo.
Me have been caught out on the side.
There's no flash to be able to come back.
He gets rooted up.
Can they actually finish them off?
Castle is in there.
He's going to try to turn his rounds.
Trying to finish off Karra.
Pirates incredibly low.
Can he actually survive?
It comes to the center.
All of you.
They do get the kill.
Call me though.
Can he focus down on the side?
So Jed is not even involved in the fight.
Now he's going to arrive.
That's Castle's going forward with the O.T.
Does throw the weather down on the darkways.
Call me tries to go back in.
So Jed goes forward.
They're the flash hook.
And it's a massive shutdown.
Now, Castle gets it. Finally, DSG. Come up with a huge pick. And they're going to get
Baron very likely off the back of this as well. I think this is the soul of Kusling
shot. They're going to be even in gold after this Baron. It all starts with Homboc
no flash. So they see one window. They just all commit to him. Burn everything to try and get
this move on because if they don't get first, that's when the heels and shields can really
start turning on, getting that shot time to start the fight, means there's not enough
damage to one shot, the big NASA's who then sits in the middle of the team.
And watch this flash of from lines. They know they need to catch and flash barely
to happen with the wall. We pop on the hook. Get the shutdown for NASA's. They get those
kills. That is critical. And Gold glue knows this game. They slowly built up the lead.
More and more and more and more. They're in a position where they're like, okay, you're finally
in control. That is given such an injection of Gold with DSG. I don't know where they're
They're the IE done for Sugget. He's now ahead.
There's a third one completed for Castle.
And even the day is going to be coming soon for call me.
Frozen Heart on Castle, who now has a gold lead on impact.
And a four item, Senna, with soon to be 80 souls, is turned on.
This infernal soul fight at 50 more seconds is suddenly
game deciding.
It had seemed over that kick on Hamak who played so well,
this entire game might end up costing them.
And the series might even swing on this next team fight one one winner goes to one up.
It felt like all the momentum was in the side of Sentinels, but DSC might have just pulled it back.
In fact, does get the tier two top though, and he has the TP advantage and call me.
Doesn't see anyone coming.
He's going to push.
Call me is just going to die for free.
It feels like are they even going to try to get out?
Use the ulti flashes back, goes into the slow I'm bound.
But who cares?
You wasted your flash.
You're always going to die there by a little bit of time for them to get some damage down
on this tier two.
Sendals play that well.
Impact and need uses GP.
Took it to your two top.
You're against the Baron of team.
Now you're down a member and you're probably just
lost solo off that.
Down, Yone.
Only down WooCon Flash Alt.
Does G SG have enough strength to win a four versus
five impact pushing mid to get a flank angle.
But if G SG goes fast, it might work.
I mean, the impact will be behind them.
He's going to see PIN.
Are they going to try to turn on the CP?
Can they time their roof?
They're going for it.
They time it well.
Can they burst them down?
But it comes really flushing up the walls.
to get some damage down.
But everyone gives you just getting melt in who he incredibly low with the dragon
soul has been secured, suggesting packing and castle cannot survive the damage from
real.
Just like that, the pick on the call me may have thrown away the advantage that they got
back.
The Yone is down.
DST tried to find a turn on the impact, but they can't burst them down.
Thanks to a great countergames for moving.
Absolutely crazy game.
We're back.
over. We're so back. It's so over right here. You think maybe they find the pick on
the impact. But who he really delays any first would fall through onto impact and
Hanbok smartly just finishes the soul says you know, however chaotic it gets the
soul is forever. Make sure to have that in front of the soul and all this was just
set up by a macro misplay by Call me over pushing the bot wave before the
in Fernal Soulfight.
I think the SD might have been strong enough to turn the game.
It's still, it is still winnable, but the threshold, the burst thresholds now, with
the infernal soul and the items that were held and Dark Wings are building up, really
puts sentinals in the driver's seat.
Yeah, I mean, it's going to get tough now.
That infernal soul is a lot of extra damage.
Again, we talk about thresholds a lot when you are playing these healing and shielding
to sustain style cons. If you can
hister and threshold the damage,
they can't get out to the second
third rotation of shields and heals.
With those cons, really starts to become problematic.
Now it just feels like with the infernal
soul with the gold in again.
They probably are just far beyond that.
Call me, going to take a trade here with impact
and get smoked in that trade.
It's your name is not really magnifying much
of anything going on in this game.
Has the empowered recall and complete the IE.
So now we will have a lot of damage threat
for help getting chunked out pretty heavily there.
pretty heavily there has to be carefully so need to respect the range from
the jet. Yeah, who is closing in on 100 stacks and is still on four and a half
items plus the boots. Still a very strong set. That's going to be a problem
the whole game unless sentibles can get the one shot on it. So a very strange
game as we mentioned, we don't get to see much kind of late game, NASA's
Ivern. I'd say that Yone has been a disappointment in this team composition. It
hasn't created that much pressure. It ends up getting kicked off. We could be
one fight away from the game is on the has a flank.
Oh my god, it's a great flank in on the lines.
The TPs are going to come in to try to reinforce the jet
trying to get as much damage down as he can over on a hoohie.
Lines are by his and all come through.
He comes call me, trying to get dark ring down.
Has a snap back.
We've seen a lot of trouble to get the first kill.
It's on the home up and castle.
And that's king.
He's king in the castle.
He's going forward here.
Trying to knock down my health.
For help, watch his back.
And the lot's queue gets us just down.
That's big man on campus.
Castle gets the stacks to pay off.
That's as hard.
It's a game of inches.
He lands the final auto as Rekel kills him as well.
If they lose that fight, they could lose the game.
And we're seeing an absolute bar and burner right here.
The Lions live through the initial engage.
But then it hooks back in to kill a fight.
Bob Bonpos Flash.
But then you could see suggest on the side completely
on touches entire time.
Impact tries to get the assassination.
And this is the real story.
dog versus Victor and Unara and he takes down
Rahel absolutely crazy game.
Yeah, that is over 700 stacks now for Castle.
That second key that looked like it didn't.
Nothing was through the barrier.
The barrier just got deleted by it.
He is so strong.
And even Zara Hal had canceled auto or two.
It's very hard to not mess up in these linking fights
when you are withered and you lose so much attack speed.
Plus the frozen heart.
So all of a sudden you were just hitting this.
it is a tax speed or we're losing 20% from bat and then he has max with her now so that's
an additional 75% tax speed slow and so all of a sudden that just changes the math on these fights
completely and when so many tools were used before castle arrived those are the fights where
NASA's can really excel I mean we're in a one fight game now even with the soul we can see
it's possible for GST to win fights they killed Baron relatively fast as well an impact
is on bot lane, so they might just try and force them in.
Yeah.
They're going to try to get his TP at the very least.
They see him all on that ward, so they see him moving up now.
And they're trying to hunt out for any sort of flank location.
He's going to be TPing into join the team, the Baron down about half HP.
Call me looking.
Dutland and knock him on to just who he.
They're in shred.
They have to snap back.
But they're looking to try to just finish this.
Send outcomes of a top with a hump.
He's pushed out.
Homp out.
Can't join the fight.
So they lose the Baron.
There's the room.
Go.
going darkened in a lot of trouble the first tail goes the way of the L.G.
Here comes Castle.
He's done that but not for long.
The C.C. is going to expire.
Also are sent notes.
It's a triple there for the or the send up and it's Castle crushing through the fight.
The ace for DSG and they just won the game.
When we talk about infinite scaling, apparently it's actually infinite scaling through
in Burl's soul, they just fight the fight, start the barren, and then annihilate.
Setunals to go up to one in the series, said, yet in the end ends with seven kills on
the center, and they're going to go up to one of the series as hell.
So, Jed and Castle, the scaling, well and truly online, nearly 800 stacks on the
ass.
This nearly 120 on the center, a deathless game for the jet and Castle, even with all that
see in the late game they couldn't burst them down and once he
accessed the back line he just crushed them. What a turn around and
what a series we're having. In Fernal Soul doesn't matter. Early game
Goldbees don't matter. Lounge. What actually matters here?
Wow. Can't believe baby. Massive.
We like stacks. Who likes stacks? Seven and that's this. Oh my God.
I just love the story of them in drafts here, right?
Yeah, it does get, it's right, it does come down to law
down to like, players like, look, I haven't.
That was like, you did it, but.
That's what you listen to your top laner saying,
dead ass here, listen to it, you're here and out.
You give him the test.
If he's right, you go again, you know what I have to pick here.
Now, you know what I have to pick?
He's like, don't, now you tell me now we're going for it.
That's why we have to pick that.
the the bunk at the end on the unarther yeah he had six hundred and seventy
eight HP then plus the barrier so just to leave the all day we have a
comms listen and listen into the end of that fight
Whoo!
That was a good one.
Hey, this is everyone.
This is everyone.
Can't go slow.
I feel like I feel like I feel like I feel like
I feel like everyone that game had a lot of fun, except maybe call me.
Yeah, he had fun.
Call me, it was having a lot of fun.
He didn't have his best game.
I'm about to let's get it.
Okay, you're gonna be good.
I got you on this one, right?
We're gonna call you.
Okay, no, we got a new guess.
I got a new guess.
Okay, my bad.
I do want to bring up some more of these special G-Champs, though,
because, oh, hi, ladies and gentlemen, I heard as kind of a
cryo special, it is one of the things inside the
tongue of success on, and then they both had a lot of
success on the Wukong, which I thought until there were
a few fights where you wanted a little deep on that was
actually having a pretty good game on the scoochon.
And let me just say I'm having the same amount of success
because the champion I tied to cryo on my team in
fantasy was the Ivern.
I was like, he's gotta be thinking Ivern going into a
the best of five situations.
That showcases how deep the champion pool kind of goes.
Maybe we might see a Zach.
But in my not going to go to five, I asked him to pull it out.
I was like, are you going to do it?
Yeah.
It's like collusion crazy crazy crazy.
I forgot to lock in my face.
I'm on the bad.
We're got to pay off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What inside of trading is not what you're talking about last week.
But like honestly, let's just go to elements of the game.
Because I want to break down certain aspects of this game to see how my god is actually just playing the fight itself.
But let's see if we can showcase like some fun parts from DSG's perspective because there was at least a few.
This one was interesting. So this is where you can already see the goal leap that did not look good at all for DSG.
So that one sucks, but at this point, as you can see,
this year started to push through mid,
and their goal is once they get control of this area,
to be able to take back some control in the river.
Like, at least spike for something.
That's why you're seeing them heavily push for mid
and have all five members in the area.
One point to problem is, we've got a little green person here in Hanbok.
Hanbok, what are you doing out here?
The rest of the team from Sentinels are right back mid length,
to be able to hold the lane at least.
The humbuck is trying to squeeze in a scummel crab.
And the members are like, wait a minute!
They're not illegal!
They got the crab, though, Rams!
He got the crab, but that what cost?
So there's two things happening here,
because Sentinel's recognized.
They need to get something out of it.
So they do try and go for a tray here.
But nothing happens here.
It ends up being a pick-on towards humbuck.
And suddenly, the fight off of one pick similar to last game
turns into a lot more, and Castle starts to push forward.
Now, it's just being run down, they could walk forward.
It would full confidence, yes, you could slow them,
you can snarrow them, all of that being said,
the NASA's cannot be stopped.
And I wish I could just showcase that last fight,
because you can try hard.
Once the NASA's skilled up and it's got us four to five items,
like he is a tanky, SLB, and he cannot be stopped.
Having an iron and a center on your team,
when you are a melee champ like that,
and you're just, your biggest frustrations are getting guided.
and find a play out of teen fights.
But then you have an iron shielding you,
and you have a sense of healing over the top,
and then also shielding you,
and then also doing damage from super long range,
because to have been stacking souls
the whole time that you've been stacking
Q stacks on the NASA's,
then you start to feel powerful,
because you're like,
oh, this giant, the liar,
I think you're just struggling off all these like bullets,
just waiting through with the all the support of your team,
and then you, you know,
is able to get off so many big,
big Qs, big bongs at critical times.
The fight that's after the one that you showed, the next one with the Nassus by the way,
he had 15 HP when he got his kind of Q off in the end.
I want to hear, because apparently we have footage of them walking in the Nassus.
They beat Cassandra on the guys this time for what, that's us.
Did you find it up alone?
It's actually good though. I think it's really good to hear it.
I'm serious, y'all. I'm serious. I'm anxious. I'm anxious. I'm serious, I'm anxious.
That is, that is, that is. Cool glasses.
Yeah.
That's it for a moment. I'll just wait for the dead ass as we knew it was coming back.
I was just like, really?
No, no, no, no, no. I'm never going to fucking get it.
I love that vibe. Guess who it is? Play the game.
Boom.
Game story. It is that message.
I do think it says a lot again. We've been talking about
through lines for this DSG team and how much they do trust each other to
just walking in the pig. We had in game 2, the glitz crank didn't work out despite the fact that they were
confident in that going into the ash therapy. Now we see the confidence in castle pulled
us in NASA's massive difference maker, especially with the center and the Iverns.
Uh, he's just proving that cannon is not a safe blight.
He approved that one thing. And it does suck. It's like even, it feels like the last two games were
decided by strong scaling. Like you're seeing mistakes happen from back and forth, but it felt
like the stronger scaling squad ended up winning.
So mine on the next game's draft, I'm interested in it,
but we got a short break till then,
game four is up next.
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If you talk to him, I'll be back at first.
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I'll be back next to him.
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We're going to be back to the LCS.
It is play outside here in Lacken, and we are in for a treat.
This has been a really fun series thus far.
DSG though now at match point after a very back and forth game three.
And remember, even though this is just the beginning of walking playoffs, since we're in
the upper bracket, the winner of this series will be guaranteed at least top three,
which means either they'd be first and go to first hand, or they'd be second or third
and represent the LCS in the America's Cup down in Brazil.
So it will be very cool for either of these teams to clinch that especially to be
especially DST with what they came from last year.
And now the spicy picks that they pulled out like that's a way to win fans.
They got multiple different rookies popping off.
They're playing iron nassus,
suggest ending the game with just this one shot.
1000 ring Senate.
It felt like very cool series so far.
Absolutely. And you can't overstate how confident they are looking to bring up these crazy
only Lions out of their entire team has a single playoff game like none of them the other four players had never played a single playoff game before the series
So it is really cool to see Castle Criva call me so yet all come in here
They're very first playoff series ever and they have the confidence to bring out these sort of picks
Sentinels going to be locking in the vibe which is gonna really raise the priority of
To Leah you're already kind of assuming it might be that bi-culea combo
It's something that would fit for dark wings.
Question to me is would call me be willing to just pick it that away and try to deny it?
I think to me it's still a very strong pick.
Interesting as well that Sentinel's picks first pick and then GST doesn't take blue they take red.
So I think we're just trapped here for the rest of the series no matter what.
Because they have completely opposite first selection and side selection choices, which is really interesting.
Yeah, that is interesting, right?
You know completely different preferences.
Corky has been conspicuously absent throughout this series and Corky and Tommy is such a popular duo, a lot of
leaning power, but also especially if they have low engage on the other side, you can kind of just walk forward aggressively with
the Tommy E. We know there's buy those, so there's definitely not low engage.
But the scary part always is you are in order to this Corky that's just kind of flexing on you and all of a sudden he
valves back and then there's all the follow-up CC. You can get very, very scary. So we'll see where they want to go here
as they could match bot lane, they have the ability to just double counter pick bot, and they are going to go with MF, which almost always is then going to be paired with some sort of hard CC people having that lock down, so you know, with
with with the notals out like maybe like a raccoon or something like that could work
you have a con notals the owner all going to be options for who he don't necessarily have to
pick it now since they would have uh are they only have two they have to be raccoon and the
alster
happily on it they have three they have three they have three they'll be able to do so they don't have
to pick it right now to let it makes a lot of sense just in terms of having that combo but
they actually end up going with the mf we own it will be nice seeing mf in the lcs there's been a
lot of MF already in the LPL specifically, but no surprises as we get deep into fearless
now in game four that these are the picks that start coming out.
Yeah, I mean with this kind of combo, I mean, not me is so squishy.
If you get tagged by any part of the Leonardo combo, and there's an MF also to top
your probably just down.
Right.
You're going to get locked up by the Zenit Blade, into the Sun, into the LT.
The Mundo comes out.
I think this is going to be the Chiroprac here for sure, and it's a Chiroprac to great
on this last week against Lion was able to win in game three with that, you know,
got to the leg game against inspired playing that Zenzau. As long as you don't kind of just
give outpaste in the early game is such a monster in the leg game and has the ability to
absorb a lot of the CC as well with the bass that would just great against the on in the
five. Yeah, DSG definitely seeming to have a preference towards scaling. I also think
with the acceleration of gold that we see in the game and how big objective
to Bounties and Chrisley and Overgrowth works.
I think scaling might be better than it's been in like 10 years.
So anytime you're picking something like Mundo,
I like there's so much gold in the game, right?
But the mini waves later in the game come
at every 20 seconds instead of every 30,
you talk about Chrisley and Overgrowth.
The roll quests are giving me gold.
There's shut down gold.
There's so much gold and experience that
can just kind of slingshot you forward.
So yeah, of course, gonna be taking away
that was the obvious pairing.
We touched on right after the fly was grabbed.
I wonder if Darklings would go to something like the Gallio
and they just try to play like kind of five.
maybe. You know, that's something that he has looked towards in the past, but the only two
picks remaining that he has played so far this year that are still up are the Casio
and the Gallio, Cinder going to be band away. And on the other side, we have this focus
up towards Castle. We're paying the Gwen to me that's saying I want to play a tech.
And we'll be interesting to see if impact is just going to say, all right, it's like
Cassandra time, it's orn time, it's something like that. That would make a lot of sense
to me because Sanjay seems like a logical choice. This late in the series, based on what
we've already seen.
Silas Bam means that they're thinking about maybe
like a mouth fight somewhere if the angle is there,
or they just could also open up a Gallio pick,
because Silas would be really good in the Gallio.
A lot of surprise by that though.
Yep.
Also a great steal on the Lionel.
You know, there's a really high radiation on that.
That can be quite strong, but yeah,
I know it does feel like, oh, that could be a nod towards
potentially considering something along the lines of the mouth
light. We'll see where call me wants to go. He's going to go aggressive. Going to be
grabbing the R A, which is another pairing that we used to see a lot of with the
vibe. So another denial pick here, something that has gotten a lot less popular
these days, but it's also something that you can stay pretty safe. Again, if you
alternate on the quirky, he felt speck you could be too far. You alternate on the
R A, she all speck you could be going a little bit too far. So I'm going to have to
be careful about that. We'll see where Dark Rings wants to go. This would be a
cool scaling pick. Not sure if we're going to get baited or if it is going to be
lock in, but yeah, big argument coming out.
I think it's actually a really cool pick.
You have to be very careful about the cage, and of course,
it's not the same like follow-up CC,
but while it comes in, you can place the cage
right on the edge of that bio and have that proh,
while they're in that CC,
and then you have the follow-up damage,
and if you get caught by that as a quirky as an army,
you're gonna get one shot by a QR coming
through from the big, our later on is again.
It combos really well to Leona, as well.
They were hovering the Zahen,
So that's going to be impacts picked as well.
We haven't seen much of it, but I've seen a lot of this
picking solo queue and it can get real goofy if you get a head
on the pick.
It's not necessarily the type of champ you normally think
impact would excel on and he has to blind pick it into
castle, which makes it a little more difficult.
But overall, I love the new picks I've ever seen here in
Game 4 3 list.
Yep, is a hand will be coming through, as you said.
I feel like it kind of plays somewhat similar to
Aatrox, which obviously impact has played a lot of.
And he has someone who can bring out a lot of these different
for the jacks to slam down my castle castle.
Didn't really well I think on the Nassus last game.
I know the fan both heavily favored him
for player to begin.
He was invincible later on into the game.
And handled the early lane quite well.
So again, he's going to be the one who gets the answer.
And you look over at the team.
And you think topside is scaling kind of to infinity
with the jacks as well as the moondow.
My question is, what build will we get from castle?
Will we get kind of these AP variants that we're starting to get
really popular?
You know, with the Emacs AP, you know, and dusk and dawn,
on or are we going to get more the old school, a D style build. So I'll be excited to see where
Castle takes us.
Yeah, I mean, as you're saying, he's always checking the win rates on the stats website. So
we could just, you're going to pull that up potentially yourself and then we'll be able
to predict what he does in one of these games. But I do want to see if DST can close out
the series here. Winner will guarantee themselves top three would be an absolute crazy turn
around for them. What also means sentinels if they're able to win the next two in their first
The only tournament in the LCS, not even a split, just LCS lock in being able to go international.
So both these teams look at it and make an early splash at the start of 20-26 in LCS.
Going to be exciting. A lot of pressure on them.
And yeah, you know, you look at the data.
It's a 54% plus winning matchup of four jacks into the hand.
Okay.
And at least in solo queue, it is mostly AD that we're getting in this specific matchup.
So we'll see where he wants to go.
And it is grass, so I think it's going to be AD.
And not play phase or something like that.
but should be exciting to see this one coming out.
Call me, I don't think had a great game last game on the Yone, you know,
wasn't able to find some effect later on,
but I also feel like Lions has had a kind of uncharacteristically
a week series. I feel like he's been having a good split,
but hasn't really been able to find a lot of success.
I mean, obviously notably in the Blitz game, but also on the
not-alist, I don't think he was having his best performance.
And Castle is just going to be in here on Amok, or Rassing Image.
I actually love this. We'll see what the cost is top in.
really want to see the minions top see if he actually misses any experience. Because
Homba very quickly just moved down. Impact is going to try to get between him and try to
zone him off some of this expi, but it feels like Castle has this time to around well. Yeah,
he's not going to get the gold likely. So he misses three well, this is two minions of gold,
but he does get the expi. Yeah. So seemingly no cost for him so far will change the recall,
which changed the timing of Homba's chance, but also kind of eliminates any funny business
he'd be able to do. Also since he's going back to his blue buff and it's completely on
a ward, it allows to mid lane in the bot lane. To play as aggressively as they want early
on in the game, not worry about any cheese. And Castle just, you know, doing a solid for
his jump, but early on in the game, but they hit little too.
Yes, the jet didn't want to flash it, but then if you just come in then flash, you know,
they were losing the level two rush. That is pretty punishing. So,
said, could have maybe just retreat a little bit earlier. They are clearly thought making
and test for level two, but then who he just knows is limit
pushes forward, castle, having a nice trade there.
And now, Sajette, in some trouble again,
but who's gonna come to the trade?
I'm sure he might just die.
Blinds gonna start a flash forward and there's him off.
Well, we're all in won't do it because
the early potion pop, he can't finish him off.
That was close though.
And now the sustain is gonna start really
mattering here for DSG.
We'll see if they can stabilize and get ahead.
And the way is pushing away from where hell,
so Sajette might be able to push in on who he,
That's, biscuits are insane.
It's healing faster than the auto attacks from Nami.
Otherwise that would have been first blood over to DSG.
So still, four summators down on the side of the SGA.
For how can keep the wave here and why could eventually
path over, it could be huge.
But considering that delay that happened to Humbock early,
he's probably unable to pull that off.
So, full, you know, taking in the big picture.
DSG almost prevented a possible bad play bot with the early
invasion castle.
is to do on this area over more time.
Yeah, so who he just takes so much damage by going in there,
but pops the early biscuit and health potion has them both running.
We got to go back to live, as Colmy looking like he is probably dead to, right?
It's nice flash though, and now the charm connects.
Cryer arrives, you can get something more.
Dark wings being put low, but who he there to body block,
incomes, homebuck, and now it's cryer's turn to try to body block.
It's here at the pass of ready, so much to do about nothing.
and we'll go down, but sendals trying to continue their push forward.
They want to be able to fight for this scuttle as Karra quickly clears out the war.
And Karra really wants to double crab.
He still has smite, but the inside track is there from...
It's your service.
I mean, this is really risky, but they do have the R.E. coming in.
They're going to fight for this.
It's grabbed there by Homba Castle.
If you're going to go over the wall, land the stun on the impact.
And impact flash a wall.
He does.
Homba will get pushed out.
Karra, not going to be able to get anything more.
At least they get the summoner off of impact.
I mean, Kriaris still hasn't based neither his homebuck, who he stuck around.
They can potentially punish this with the Leona.
Gonna be able to land this done, and now comes Darkwings and Kriaris has no passive.
Kriaris might just be dead, even if you flash, I don't think you're getting out of this one.
That's first blood going to homebuck again, even with that great start that they had.
Kriaris feels like kind of got a bit too aggressive, gets punished pretty heavily.
It was a little bit like that pantheon game really tried to push the early game power on
Mundo, which normally doesn't happen, but because they delayed early, he thought he could double
crap, misses the smite there, and all credit actually to who he sticking around, waiting in the
bush, getting the surprise re-engage onto CRIRWIS Mundo and HOMBOC again with first split.
I mean, I think it again, like I said,
who he I feel like has been fantastic.
Has been up performing.
Again, he makes a room, makes a difference, right?
Goes through mid lane, gets a good chunk.
They can't go to a calming, but he says,
you know what, I'm still full HP.
I'm just gonna stay.
Yeah. And makes the difference in the fight as well.
Down on the bot side, he's still actually
even ahead of the experience over lines.
So who he, Mr. Warwide, has been making a happen.
And has been, I think a really big reason
that send those has been as good as they are.
I just feel like this guy is consistently
finding really strong engages, feels like he's really happy with
this team and performing well. He's always spoken really
highly of the team whenever we've had him on interviews as
well as on the Sentinels podcast. He loves playing with
Hombock, thinks he's got a lot of potential. Doing him a
solid and a lot of these early games as well, Hombock playing
with who he that support jungle synergy already getting
pretty strong between the two of them. Looking good, I mean,
who he and we touched on it, but he's had a lot of great
engages even fantastic on these engaged champs. When I
I think back the last week he was finding an engage after
an engage in this big win that they actually had against TL.
I think he was a huge reason for it.
Constantly it felt like he was the one finding
young on these flanks in the Nico game.
Then also in this recalling game, he came out of the side
brush out of beautiful engage across multiple members,
you know, from TL, that was a big upset win.
You know, when we looked at the preceding rankings,
we had TL as the aggregate number one.
And they fell to the lower bracket in playoffs.
Thanks in part two, send me.
So put him there.
It's really been a crazy LCS lock internment.
When you think about it, line and team liquid.
Both sitting down in the lower bracket,
meaning only one of them can actually make top three.
They're going to have to even if they win their first
lower bracket match.
They both have to win in order to face each other
just to make it in top three.
So a lot of fun League of Legends coming up in the LCS.
We got Saturday Sunday this week.
and then the last two weeks are Friday started
to send it to conclude these playoffs.
Well, he's going to get a case down.
The homebuck is here.
There's the QCenigat out.
It doesn't look like a grunt CC chain from homebuck
and Dark Wings.
The cage sets it all up and homebuck knocks him down
who he now on the outside.
Seniflade follows him, which drags him along the valve
Griewish.
Does it look surprisingly one of the image, actually?
Credit to Dark Wings, though.
Just landing the cage's done with no assistance
making it very easy for homebuck to come in.
He's built like that and get this too.
Oh, he, you play in my big car.
Walks up, presses E.
I mean, let's see.
Call me was just, oh, he thought with the extra boost
he'd get from his W. And then Hobbock just immediately
punishes, which is very smart.
It's weird, Hobbock's 2-0.
But I feel like this is all been set up.
The first one, who he, the second one from Dark Wings.
Golden Globes, so stressed.
My poor man.
It's so stressed, man.
Your team is already exceeding expectations.
he wants more. He's greedy. What's that success that he knows they can have? I mean it's
always tough as the Ari right because it's like you feel like oh you should have flashed
they should have altered that but when he walked up the cage he didn't have vision of the
bike. So you can't just you know react to heavily any time he does press it and his castle
goes for a nice little trade there and his impact just retreating back playing all right in this
one-to-one but is down 20 CS already and a castle. Castle Beth and good seems to have an edge in
in this matchup. He's been early in vating, getting tempo going for blue buff.
Hasn't really gotten anything over the top, but he's maybe going to have
silently and pressure on impact the whole time. Trying to think about why
Golden Blue would be so stressed. I do feel a little bit like there's still
that feeling as castles just burning as alt to get the wave in. That DSG is
this last place team from last year. And Kriger mentioned this in the
interview as well, just like, oh, the people who put us last, well, they don't
watch us their new and their DSG so they must be bad. But I do feel like even when we were making predictions like this week.
We both said DSG is probably going to win the series. It still didn't quite feel right because they lost so much last year.
I would also say, you know, I can understand Golden Gloof doing like, hey, we have to really win. This is called me. My pins and trouble, but
Oh, we could just not just, okay, yeah, flashes,
all didn't want to use the flash of the old early ends
of having used both, but think about it from this perspective.
Golden's a little bit too gut to have his pick of the litter.
He took the players from DSG.
DSG then took the quote unquote backup players,
you know, from tier two.
And if you lose that team, doesn't it just mean the DSG did a better job
kind of building their team?
So maybe they're feeling stressed from that angle, right?
Of like, we have to pick over their team.
Take all the players we wanted for their team.
And now we might lose to the team.
we stole the players from. Good point. Twice because they lost to them in week one. Yes,
well, as a third, grab going to be going over the way of humbuck, but that doesn't mean he
uses smite. So, Kriar doesn't know if he has another charge or not, and humbuck will be sent
packing pushed back. So, yeah, I think that has a lot of stress there, but we're halting a ton
of damage on the box. I does not have to bear and who he has this public heal. So, not an easy
dive or anything crazy like that. Dark wings though is going to be happy scaling up with
It's like 97 stacks on that pass over ready to.
He is scaling quite well on the big RR and is going for that row.
So kind of a full scaling style build.
So he's interesting when people get into the death cap on this because you know,
death cap obviously so much value on big R because it is amplifying your passive
stacks as well.
But sometimes when it comes out on pro play people take so long to get the
death cap because they're going for more utility items and defensive items and stuff.
And I know a lot of the big R players can be very critical of that.
going to see what Dark Wings ends up going with.
I'd also think Hombock was in such a good position last game on the Wukong, but I would
say him getting picked off was one of the things that led to the DSG comeback.
So again now having this early gold bead.
It's going to have to try not having any nerves.
I was watching his player camera after that loss.
He's really seemed almost the most ejected on sentiment.
So he isn't a position to have a good game here on the back.
Yeah, he's had some great start.
So even in series and games that they have lost, I feel like Hombock's early game is undeniably
great. He has really been
exciting. I feel like in a lot of
early games. And remember LCS Playoffs
are going to be live at the Riot Games
Arena. Starting next week, we are
back on stage. So if you want to
come watch some LCS actions,
see some fun games like this. It's
going to be really fun next week.
So definitely buy your tickets now
when we will see you there. It's
also worth noting something we
touched on in the previous games.
Which was kind of the discussion
of like, oh, you know, do you want
Tabby's? Do you want perks? Well,
Tabby's are great for Castle of
both against Impact and Humbock,
but then you're looking to see how
see there is between Leona and Big R and all this later. And it could be hard to move later
in the game if you get hit by any of the CC. So we'll have to get a point with the counter strikes
to be able to avoid the Leona Q and things like that. Definitely Lane Boots. We know the
Renekton game as well. He was getting chained CC with steel caps, not mercred as well. So he is
prepping for Lane. Second drink being up and with how strong Dark Wings is, Roa, to just a
lost chapter. But Crivers looking and river like he wants to make something happen. And Dark Wings
He's got to go very early.
So once a threaten with the cage, you're calling me is behind him.
Castle fighting on the top side against him.
That call me goes in to charm to fucking back.
And now this is crazy.
And he gets burst down in the hurry.
Double bubble comes out from Lions and said, Jen is pushing forward to Jen to the balcony
and we'll get that kill.
Homebuckins, I'm troubled with a hell of the ride.
Can they make it happen?
They're trying to focus down on homebuck.
But they don't have the damage.
It looks like homebuck still alive.
It's a double for a hell.
The driver ults flashes out the safety, but set those are up five to one.
And I kind of feel like that was always how that fight was going to go.
Call me, try to be sacrificial for his team, but the burst is so high.
With finally Yona Vega, call me, doesn't realize he's on top of the war, but it's just
alt into Vega.
He's always going to be one shot there.
to be DSG thinks now that that's happened.
We're ahead of the MF.
We can problem with the five.
But they lose a trussle about the game.
So low kill that is a night taking not a solo kill.
It's used me as who he was there does craft the kill.
As we jump out of that replay,
it's going to get taken down.
Castle happened to increase in the one V1,
but who he gets up there and makes it happen.
I have to give credit to the world that who he in that previous bike.
Call me goes in with the ulti charm.
I think their call is, hey, maybe who can just one shot,
who he before anything happens,
who he flashed the charm.
And then all of the CC comes out true.
You're already dies for free.
Come back to live, who he's up on the top side?
Five out of six KP, he has been everywhere.
And we're going to watch this now one more time
as we didn't really get to catch the full play.
Yeah, it looks like Castle was going in for the trade,
but who he arrives with the ignite.
I kind of feel like impact.
That was a solo clip.
Yep.
I agree.
You know, when we came out of the replay,
at first, it was like, oh, it's a solo clip.
Then it saw the Leon and I'm like, oh, it's not a solo clip.
And then we saw the replay and you're like,
That was actually kind of a solo kill.
He just ignited for an assist, but actually got the kill.
Yep, good job, Lili.
I mean, who he's put in the work?
This game.
He deserves to kill everyone's in a while.
He's put in the work this series.
He's playing great.
Though Impact probably disagrees.
You know, Impact wants that kill.
Yep.
He's been losing lane the whole time.
Really needs that go hold.
Yeah, it's incredibly crucial.
Got counterpicked.
I'm getting smacked around.
I'm about to solo kill this guy, and you're coming.
You steal my kill.
But team gets more gold.
That's what they always tell me.
I mean, those kind of plays, you know?
You can see it's this gold.
Yep, who he is back up here and castle.
Not gonna have a workshop, of course,
you know, does need the tabbies for this one you won,
but it could be in some punishment.
There's the Grimmerturn and the knockup and call me
is gonna get the Fad news.
The humpback is here, but nicely time
you're gonna be able to spirit rush out to safety.
But it is, again, Ari with no Alt,
call me struggling last game and I feel like the Ari
not off to the start that you want this game either.
Yeah.
Definitely getting heavily targeted.
ESG opted to counterpick top lane instead of mid lane.
What they're going to be able to get much done to impact.
They chunk of the low, and not me isn't the area, but that's, you know, not
a lot of DPS to actually be able to knock him down.
His feet just all gets a bit of a heal.
He was stacking up that passive, but I'm not because he's in the area now too.
Remember, Colmey has no ult, so they will just back it off, but they were able to
trock that crystalline bowlwork, get a bit of plate gold.
Still, the gold nearly, 2,000, exceedingly, 3,000, as it is now, 2800 in there.
2800 in their lead.
All team going to get let rip their honest
a jet and if he stays around,
there is potential a humbuck could knock
and down.
This game definitely looking a lot harder
for DSG than even game four where they're
sorry, even game three where they fell
far behind.
Just because I don't feel like they have the same
level of scaling that they would have had.
The big R as well is just looking exceptional
for dark wings.
Humbuck off to another very good start and then
impact as well who might have been counterpicked
might have fallen pretty far behind has hit his Trinity Force and is looking very strong.
So, you know, can we really take to call it, but we are definitely more likely to have game five than not.
It is looking that way for sure. I mean Dark Wings, he said it's getting really well, 182 stacks of
the passives, that's a lot of free AP has a swift march which I really really like. Moose speed is
so valuable on Vega because it's all about being able to get in range, actually get down
that cage on the people.
And is, of course, playing the Summoner Spellbook,
which could be extremely valuable, as well,
right now, was sitting on the cleanse.
So that's gonna make things a lot harder for DSG,
is even if he's kind of flexing on you,
he just one shot on with a charm.
And we're hell.
When you hit that BT on MF, all of a sudden,
you just kind of own the mid lane.
You can just kind of heal up after all of these trades.
So we'll see where DSG wants to take us
to try to claw their way back.
Yeah, this is the pretty crucial part of the game,
when you're sitting with this 3000 gold lead and everyone has bounties.
Yes, you can snowball the game, but if you make that one mistake and give away bounties,
it can very quickly fall out of your control.
So, sentinels definitely in the driver's seat, but I'd say compared to previous seasons,
the game's a lot more volatile in this stage than it has been in the past.
It really is. I mean, we had a couple times last game where I feel like, oh, there's the
throw. This seems going to win or oh, they made a great play. They're going to be able to come
back and it kind of bounced back and forth back and forth. So we'll see who he was of course
spotted on vision up on that top side. But he does lockdown call me call me he could be in a lot
of trouble. He is playing the Merck Treads him himself. So has he upgraded your three Merck Treads
going to give him a little bit of shielding to help survive against that CC. But it's just always
so tough. You know, when you get behind on the RA and you're going defensive style build,
as you are with these Merck Treads, you just don't really have a lot of own behind your damage.
It's like we're supposed to be going for me.
Yes, he playing really aggressively around these Drake's.
I do feel like this might be one where they would just try and
can see they almost got that jerk down bot lane.
But with Harold being put in mid lane by centonyls.
Seems like it's probably two top two to the hand.
That's timing on the bubble there does catch really what it means.
He doesn't bounce back and he's going to walk down Krira Krira.
Great timing on the W though.
to keep him alive.
Moono with the ulti is kind of useless.
And back.
Trying to stack up the cultivation of
Ward does use his ult.
Castle still has his.
Maybe that's the edge and let them fight.
I think it's actually the edge of let's
already get some plates.
So overall that would be good.
They're going to give up the drink.
But at least they're trading it for
something on the other side.
Call me getting some plates castle.
Actually is spotted by Darkwings.
Might end up falling here.
Oh, good counters right blocked the flash queue
flash cue from Moohi, the stun does not land, and Dark Wakes can't finish him off.
So yeah, they do lose the dragon, they get some plates on the top side.
Argon actually finish off that turret, so that is really nice for them, and we're able
to push in that mid wave, so tonight a couple of minions, but still, it's a 3.4K
goal lead, it's in fact going bot to grab a couple more plates nearly 4,000, and as it
does kind of sling chop back and forth based on the camps of minions getting picked up.
And in fact, also looking to be able to clean out this bot lane turret, thanks in part to
with a really delayed recall from Castle.
So nice plate sequenced by Sentinels dropping the Harold Mid, clear out space, clear mid turret, clear
bot turret, also clear Drake, and they only end up trading back their own top tier ones.
So Golden Blues, hopefully not as stressed as he's been in the previous games.
Now they're sitting in our 4,000 gold and one Drake lead.
You can see the actualizer has been picked up now, there, or the VegaR.
And we know VegaR's burst is terrifying.
So can be quite powerful, and it's also one of these champions that actually gets a lot of benefit
out of the secondary part of the actualizer, which is the basic spell cooldown reduction,
which is really, really nice, because you can get multiple rotations out there.
But if you catch them with the cage, you pop the equal of the actualizer with the QWR,
that's a ton of extra damage all at once.
Definitely for the old school players, you know, death fire grasp, pretty much, and doesn't
have an oppressed EFT on the player.
You just get depressed and have DST, DFT on everyone.
DST is a potion of forward, you're trying to come back.
right does tag for hell who is put quite low doesn't want to commit anything more
and we're hell we'll put low but at the BT we'll just go heal up off the wolves
as Darkwing takes down that tower up on the top side again who he just utilizing
the pressure that he has you know really moving around the map so well
Lions on the Nami obviously don't have that same ability to judge it a Q-flow
beautiful combo coming through can they finish them off not just yet cry rise there as
the game is going to be
going to be a little bit
too well. The cage comes
out defensively. Does keep on
box safe. And now probably
locked down. Garra doesn't the
oldie, but it's going to be too
late. Can't even get it off.
Sentinels grabbing another kill
there on the turnaround. And it's
20 minutes where they can just turn
immediately on to Barren. So they
might make quick work of this game
already up 5,000 will turn to
about 6.6 if they get this. That
They know they have to try something.
Cole needs to go and does land the charm.
But it's just on impact.
I mean, ask a flash right back out.
Castle going in for me and counter strike.
Can he make something happen?
The bubble comes through.
How is it going to be just down there by the are calling on the run here.
Trying to get away.
Charm going to decide that palm buck is coming in behind me.
He's going to go for the TPL.
Can he get there?
That was so close.
Looks like he survived and let's eat birds down the red buff.
But he's going to get out nicely.
Played there by call me as DSG solo laders.
Making a game saving playing.
That one from 5K to it's still a big lead, but they're racing with a gold lead.
They defend the Baron and they get out and they got the bounty off of them.
That must be so frustrating if you're sentivals right now because you feel like you've
done everything right there.
You try and land to Hamaker at the end completely overexposed yourself.
Get counterpunched back because the beginning of this play absolutely beautiful.
They one shot effectively one shot the core key once the double-up comes through from
hell and then just a sniper that Kugi has become here on the Leona dead center on the ultimate.
I just wonder if they overestimated their damage. They're very very so tanky right now.
Really nice in-out the start from Call Me and then a three-man stone growl the bear in his free
hitting just allows them to get some damage. It's crazy that Call Me gets out without dying at the
very end of it though. Hombok uses Q so Call Me immediately starts teleporting and
And I guess I can't get the cue back up.
But that was really smart, great call from him.
And just so well played there by Call Me and Kathleen.
Call Me goes in, get some spells out,
gets to get a chunk of damage down.
And then as soon as the cage came out
from Vagar from Dark Wings,
Castle just flashed it,
and gets the counter strike on everyone,
gets in in the midst of that whole team.
And gets them some much needed gold back,
Castle the only one with an individual gold lead on his team.
And a lot of pressure on him as a result.
He had counter pick.
He's the only one with a gold lead.
You really want to see him having a big effect if you are a fan of DSG and looking for them to try to close this one out.
We had the moon don't need to continue to scale.
Hasn't really been able to get many hard steel prox this game since they've always been on the back foot.
Still, Sentinel is completely in the driver seat 30 seconds until this next Drake.
DSG last Drake, they were able to trade something back, but all the tier ones have been taken away.
So less likely they'd be able to take one now.
Now, if they're counting the items, this might be a time where they're kind of close.
It's two items on Vi and Zahan and only one and a half on Castle and Krira.
So maybe not the time to fight, but they're positioning.
They have two items on Jack now.
The TPN Castle has that TP shield.
We'll try to force a fight with it.
The Grim Return is there from Impact.
It's some good poke coming out from DSG.
The cork he's been landing some damage on the dark wings as well as who he has been
shipped down a little bit.
Castle can be forced to use that counter strike defensively.
that T. P. Sheel from the roll quest will be
expiring here pretty darn soon.
Criera as well as the dead just trying to chip away
trying to get them low before the fight would break out.
Pretty good poke just for Mundo Clevers.
They have the sustain advantage with the Nami.
So castles hoping that Senators trying push a little too far
through and then he can get a flanking gauge, but impact doing a good
job, holding that bush and they've lost control of the midway.
So DSG has to wait on wait. They've got to be careful there too
to get a ball, but he's
going to run for it.
Catsle's going to get knocked down as
Homba goes on a rampage.
Send no crush to fight.
CSG were way over extended.
Your corkies on the mid wave and they didn't
back up.
Absolutely.
Senals very coordinated, but that is
basic stuff where call me struggles
and up continuing here.
Once the corkies show, the
struggles end up continuing here. Once the
quirky shows, it's clear as day the
schedules just needs to go in. So they
try and still fight a little bit on the
backhand, but with calming being one
shot, they're never going to have a chance
in this fight. Castle ends up following
as well. They lose the Drake and that's
just they lost the standoff once they
lost control the midway and they didn't
back up soon enough as hell. Yeah, I mean,
it gets really, really tough. And I didn't
actually catch you. Auto that Blasco
that knocked the Ari back into the cage, but that goes the other way as well.
And now it is going to impact knocking down a tower here.
5.7K, the gold league, yes she does have some scaling, but they have been
stalled quite a lot here.
In fact, actually I run down, trying to turn around, maybe look to stack this up.
He's going to go for a TPP play himself, but this one is not going to work, tries to make
us best call me in fresh end, but this one is not going to succeed, unfortunately for him.
So dies and loses his TP, is a little bit of an insult injury.
Yeah, little things like that can be game losing if they accumulate over time, but
they're still in a pretty strong position as a team.
The bounty going over to Mundo, a little bit dangerous.
You know, when Mundo hits level 16, he can get really raid bossy, but there's still
a lot of damage and he'll cut already completed on the side of Sentinels.
I mean, it is really interesting, Mundo ultimate because it has just such a change at
rank 3.
You know, at rank three, both the healing effects are increased by an additional 5% but you start getting bonus HP from everyone that's around you when you activate it.
So normally, all of them, it's just go up, but it's like it does more of the same thing. This has an additional effect at the at the max rank, which is why level 16 is so powerful for the moond out.
And he does have two and a half items, you know, is mostly focused on that armor for now. And I think rightfully so as big are obviously not the highest FPS champion, but does have avoid staff already completed.
He's going to be pretty delayed on
Bacca.
There is call me.
Now you see him.
Now you don't he is knocked out of
the very castle though.
Try to come in on the flank.
Try to get in on the home.
Bacca interrupts the leaf strike.
Castle is from the low.
It's still alive for now.
So Jen can apply for him.
He can't find the rocket under a hell.
In fact, fight the grim return on to
the dead and it is everyone from
DSG falling.
They are going down.
My fish in a barrel.
Dark wings get the double.
Cryer is running away.
DSD try to look for a play.
look for a plate after their mid-laner gets picked, but they just can't make it happen.
And Senchano is just a absolute tunnel vision, on to call me every time he's on their
screen, they're finding a new way to kill him.
They just one shot him at the start, and you can see, yes, he thought, you know, maybe
this is the time we can return to put their trying to retake space where they have absolutely
no vision, the spacing between the moor and the area is just too small, so it allows
to go for this squishy target. Yes, some nice damage gets landed by some dead
crypto hell a couple of times. Can't get the XQ on that flash rocket. Even if
he gets it, that's a one kill fight instead of a you know zero kill fight. So
four of them end up going down at the end and Sentinel get the Baron and take full
control again. It's a great side to that baira hell. Radish as the dead flashes
war. Hell just kind of side steps to the side. You utilize is that passive with the
strut, the additional loose feed, hugs the wall, gets out and
hump lock now.
Really a 2000 gold lead, both his carries on the
block, I'd have an over 2000 gold lead and he has the GA.
So we can kind of just fall, send it on suggest, who feels
like really the only kind of consistent damage threat that
they have whatsoever at this point.
In fact, there's kind of running things in the side lane
at this point is level 16 and DSG are really falling out of
this one now, down about 9,000 gold.
Feels like it's about time to start thinking about game five.
Absolutely, that's likely what I was thinking about in the back how he's going to prep game five draft in this fearless because call me is
half dead again. All right, one big Rw
Yep, he got put down about 20 30 percent before the heel from the nominee came through and I wasn't even a bigger or or anything like that was the
Activation of the actualizer
But is looking for that death cap now now that he didn't come out here from Castle Kenny find an angle
He spotted all ready lines going to try to look for the game with the nominee. It doesn't really find anything
he's going to get in under a
hell. And they knock him down
great McHale. But it doesn't
matter as Colmy is going to be
able to get the first kill on
the other side. Those a jet
balls Colmy's trying to run
here from impact Darkwing's
impact as well as Hombock
looking for the fight. Hombock
is low. Let's still have the
GA and now the cultivation of
wars stacked up. Impact is
going to be fearless. Has that
revive ready? Well, need
it though. Could be able to
push in grab another inhibitor
here. It was a good attempt
from T. S. G. They did kill
up a lot and no flash. But
he didn't today. Doesn't
really change much. Yeah. Love
to see the effort. They're
not just going to slow
lowly bleed out, but at this point, it's a two for one.
Mountain Soul is gonna be up in 20 seconds.
Dark wing still, still scaling, 374 from that passive.
Deathcap, not completely yet.
If it does complete, it's just gonna get even more
of SIRD for this Vagar.
How much did he get?
He's sitting on pre-deathcap, 878.
With the bear above and the lecture.
So he knows these are crucial fights,
but I don't even think this soul is contestable.
Yeah, probably not, but, hey, you know, me as well.
You know, just pop everything you can for this fight because realistically, if you get the soul.
Well, how does out of these, you come back?
They are looking for one shot and then you have mountains all on top of that with the 10,000 gold,
but you get almost impossible, you have to think,
you have to find a way back into this game.
Sentinels, you know, have had their, they're kind of share of ups and downs throughout the series,
but this is their best game, I think, it's fair to say so far.
I think so as well.
Well, humbuck has played excellent these last two games,
aside from one mistake on the Wukong last game.
Otherwise, you know, if they don't throw that lead in game three,
they could be thinking, oh man, this would be a three one for us,
but it's going to be going to that game five.
So they're going to have a lot of momentum going into this game five.
I think on the side of DSG, call me,
he's got to shake it off.
The Yone game was shaky.
This game has been pretty disastrous for him on the RE,
because Hobok Darkwing have just been so good in the 2B2,
despite the language barrier that we know exists between the two of them.
So right now, Mountain Soul, two whenever it's down,
sendals not taking any unnecessary risks.
If DSG extend or try and clear some vision,
I can see sendals going for a fight.
But otherwise, we might be waiting these two minutes
for the next parent.
Yeah, I think they're just going to try to sit back.
And I mean, if you're DSG, only way when this game is,
is maybe you get a random barren seal,
an elders seal or something, right?
So try to equalize, but it could be incredibly difficult.
I'm going to give credit where credit is due.
I thought, Sentinels might be the team that would struggle more in a
lake-eam fearless situation, but they have been looking good.
Castle tries to side step to Zendifle, but it has to pop with Stasis as that
Ulti comes through.
Lions can let the Ulti rip here as he is a bit nervous from the engage coming
through.
He doesn't want the Leona to be able to get in range too often with two waves
of super-smoving in.
They're trying to play on this bottom cannon.
I think you're strong enough to try and do this without Baron.
Oh yeah, Darkwing's just deep-need back with the death cap.
The actualizer is ready, so we'll see if you can get a one shot,
if you can set that up, definitely be able to burst someone down in the hurry.
Yeah, 1,044 AP and an actualizer, so come on Darkwing's, let's see it.
That's like a QR one shot from full pretty much, but we're going to have that mootopasset,
keeping Kriver a sink of thus far, but now you have been tripling in, and the walls are closing in.
will see if he has she can find a
fight to delay the game a little
bit there. The cage can be
drew calmly. Get a look.
That's fun to chop her to
this just on the hooye.
Bubbles there to follow.
But really who cares?
That's just the Leon of
you've landed your damage on
a castle now getting jumped
down there by impact.
The beginning something
in there to go for it.
Here is the bullet time across
multiple members castles in the
back line.
But we're allies the barrier is
that double kill already for
the Vega how much more can
they get.
Well, let's get a flashing back.
It's a triple for the Vega.
The bot lane's in the base.
Dark wins is not going to get
to get a pizza, but he is going to help the send us to Game 5 with an 808 FHR game.
This series is absolutely delivering the teams are neck and neck in week one.
It was a 2-1 series and now we are again going to this since my player the game has got to be that dark wind's big arc.
But we'll see what's allowed to say.
He's been surfing.
It's the first silver scrapes of the year from the first FF5 of the LCS Lockhead.
They tuned to see a sendals or DSG take the series and guarantee their spot in the America's Cup.
We'll be right back.
Let's go.
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How do we get a game five in our first series of The Plows?
We're just not good, Ryan.
Yes, first of all, we're just going to be ready for the new year.
When we didn't have any.
I was CK's been having too much fun with GameFast.
We have to have to be able to take that.
Now we should start with the player to game.
We should start with it.
It will be round.
It's going to be round.
Because it's going to be round.
Some would say, shouldn't be contested.
A, 0 and A, dark wins.
Hey, I think there's a lot of possible people, though.
Yeah.
I'm, I'm, I'm about was really good.
Who he was really good too.
So, a lot of, you know, stensionals, you know,
performing quite well.
The Vega pic was so good though.
And the early cage that just barely still got the stun
after call me and Homba came through on the vibe.
I mean, that was the,
such a downfall for call me.
This game was really rough around.
For me, it was between Darklings and Homba.
The reason why I went Darklings is,
88, I really love the ViGar account.
I'm a member.
A drilling kills at 88%.
I couldn't remember him playing it in like NACL at all or like previously.
He's only played it once as far as I know if he did win.
So he still has a hundred percent win rate on the by-guar.
But the big thing for me with not only was dark rings performing well individually,
but the difference maker for sentinels, we had set up how, okay, because of the language barrier,
dark wings and humbuck might be having some issues, communicating,
This game, they were completely on the same page
and I thought it made a massive difference.
Yes, Call Me also, I think, would say
he had an individually like, chloroporeformance,
but the way those two combined to kind of keep him down
in this land was really good.
Call Me barely played this game.
He did, I get to talk about that all this game.
And a lot of these hard engages on to him.
And the snapping gauges from Hombok and who he boasts.
I feel like we're really, really good.
We have some who he be roll here as well.
Hombock on the Vy is like,
who he and Hombock worked well together.
And these three, this was the early one where, oh yeah,
he's sticking around and then who he by the way is the one.
He made the decision, he stayed around,
he defended the jungle, he helped Hombock into the spot,
and then him and Hombock as well as this big arcade.
Like these engages were insane.
We own ultimate big arcade.
Vy was always in there with a snap,
you know, cue flashes and the other stuff.
It was like, not at one, two punches, or one, two, three punches.
Yeah, it was a bunch of things.
It was incredible.
And I think that was always going to be the question we already talked about, like,
you mentioned Dark Wins and Hanbok, but who here in Hanbok,
were super on point together.
The fact that this goes to Game 5, I don't know how many of you guys.
All right, you guys.
Yeah.
How many people expected to Game 5?
OK, calm down, but we'll see how the result ends up picking up.
But that was very interesting.
And I wanted to talk about certain aspects of this game
and showcase the examples of how back and forth it truly was.
Like, I'll start with this play first.
This is where you may not see it.
The context here is, as you can see,
we got a real hell that's incredibly low.
He got completely blasted in mid lane.
So he was trying to revamp an HP,
based off of his bloodthirsty, so he was like,
OK, I'm going to try and defend this turret.
We will see, but I need some help.
And guess who comes in for the help?
Humbuck, he channels.
Q gets a flash on towards and locked down on quirky.
This is something that we love from Humbuck,
is that snap decision making recognizing
that he can maybe find an angle.
He finds that angle on to Jed, gets a kill,
Q's out immediately, and then immediately like,
I'm that replay that you just saw.
Yes, then we grow for Kriera.
Kriera is dead.
Guess what the call is?
Baron.
But this is such a back and forth series,
and it happens within this game,
where yes, even though the call is towards Baron,
and call me has been having a pretty tough
series, he himself finds an incredible flying
gear to be able to give themselves the chance.
Hey, make the difficult for Rahel.
The three man E from Jacks makes it super easy to then
take off Rahel.
They get over there.
Call me, he's like, all right, I'm keeping peace.
I'm like, come on, I'm doing it.
Good bye.
That was really cool to be able to see that back and forth.
There may go to work this play.
And this one just kind of, this one made me sad for DSG.
because yet eyes on Reheals sitting here,
or a humbox sitting here.
And maybe that gave them that false confidence
because they want to check that bush and walk straight in.
I'm going to pause it here.
Because two things happen.
First of all, while they're walking in,
Cairo with the magic shields is supposed to tank everything.
And you can also see a little critter here on the side,
dark wish, telling you from a flag.
Let's play it through.
Cairo backs away by gets a Q on-floor, it's the RE.
gets caged, gets caught immediately,
and it starts with a really good fight
from the Sentinels, and I feel like this one
just took the game in Sentinels hands.
So A, very back and forth,
I feel like that's the story of the series,
and then B, some mistakes, some angles.
You see them, you go for them.
Those were two in a row where Hombock finds them,
and then you're able to get them to win.
That's why I voted Hombock,
but you can see those angles for Hombock and Dark Wings.
Yeah, I sent an order looking very good in that last game.
So if we think that DSG can come back and win game number five, Emily,
we've looked at predict that for a five game series,
I think maybe play more to Castle earlier into the game.
Might be a way for them to have some success,
cause I think Castle has been very good.
And he has a confidence that we're talking about when he's like,
give me the Nexus.
I walked the counterpair and in this game,
he was playing very aggressively and doing quite well
in lane phase as the Jackson was the only one on the team.
with an early game lead in the lane matchup.
But then after bottom lane loss and then who he
roamed up to the top side and they got the kill
on to him, it all kind of came crashing down.
So we'll see maybe they can get him another counter pick
or something, maybe they can play a little bit more,
you know, towards that side of the map.
Because I mean, it says choice between that or like
bailing out call me because call me started out
the series performing well.
But since then, you know, the young game was pretty
This game was very, very rough, so he's going to have to bounce back.
I'm going to have to ask you guys for your change in your boat.
You know, I replayed just like did anything change for you guys to go for sentibles.
Even this, perhaps this.
I think I'm going to stick with mine.
Now, Razz, are you going to stay with your partner?
I'm sticking with sentibles.
That one here from the cast, who's taking away.
I think pretty much everyone thought this is going to be a five-games series.
I'm sticking with DSG, that was my initial prediction.
I'm not a flip-flopper.
I just I stick with my gut, you know who does flip flop DSG with their preference of first selection
They've decided for first pick instead of second pick here. You've been so soon because I just want his brass
He's staying with sendals. He's not flipping but he isn't known for flopper. Yes
That's his that's his brand identity. He's twenty twenty six
He's not gonna flip flop ever again never again. That's a well a bold statement
Yeah, very likely. All right. Well, we'll see who can actually take this one a lot of stakes on the line here
Both the Americas Cup berth that you are guaranteed with that top three finish that is guaranteed if you win this series
But also you don't drop to the lower bracket where yes, I know Lion as well as TL had nothing for me
So, but every pro still tells me
They're two of the best three teams in scrims, right?
So people are still scared of running into this team and all of a sudden they wake up and you get slammed in the lower bracket
And then you're playoff run is done. Yeah, the difference between top three and just out is pretty narrow
potentially depending on how much those teams are able to improve during their off-week.
No big surprises in the fans so far. A lot of mid lane targeting though. So as
he has been banned the whole series, a Roar has been banned the whole series.
So he has been through a few times but unpicked but has banned in this game.
So we're really going deep on Dark Wings and Colby's pools.
That is really interesting as well. You hear Roar obviously has been played a lot
as a counter pick to Rumble and Rumble has not even played it.
So could also be potentially a protection ban for Rumble and then DSG has this like,
Well, do we just want to take the rumble?
Because traditionally in this series,
Castle has been wanting to counter pick, right?
You know, he has been waiting and delaying.
I apologize.
I said that DSE selected first pick,
because that's what it said in our prompter,
but it is centenals that is on the big side.
You're excited.
But DSE does have first pick.
You got to say that by the time,
you got to say that.
I got to say that by myself,
and by 15 years of watching League of Legends
with a standard of franchise for being correct,
because DSE does have, yes, pick.
Yeah, I thought it was my prompter was giving me the right information despite my instinct saying the other way and that does actually set up
It's a lot because the Aurora band I was thinking would set up a first pick
But why would you bet it if you don't have control of first pick because now cast on his gets it?
Yeah, I guess maybe they can go gallium as the answer. That's more in that each anyway
Yeah, so maybe they were saying oh, I don't think you either we go gallium as an answer or you know
You don't first pick the rumble and then we take it away and you can't do the Aurora which would be more of the castle style
So this is going to be interesting. Zins Outgrabbed up early as the AD junglers. We worked through a lot of them
So that does become you know really kind of prime real estate. Yeah, I mean the fact that sign is up this late and then DSG just says
Okay, we're dropping our cryer jungle pick for later. There's the gallium. That's God. I would think for sure
We'll see I mean barred into various always really really strong. Why is I don't think it's had a good series
and Bart is a high execution champion.
I'm expecting the Gallio, I think when they bend their roar,
and you give over the rumbly, you have to go Gallio.
But overall this TSD side, there's no true setup yet for Castle.
I think equalizer without really good setup can be tough.
Obviously, you can like Bartol, then equalizer over the top,
but it's not the same as a rail, not a list or whatever.
Currently, it's just lane push, but there could be some funny business.
We could have some funny business.
You could jungle rumble, and you now have a Gallio.
a galeo sitting there that could also flex mid or top. So I think there's still some funny business left to be
to be seen. Silas Band once again, they're really targeting call me. I think quite successfully in these last few games and draft
as well as in game. Yeah, I mean, I have to credit the turquoise. I mentioned the last game, but I thought dark wings and
impacts were only the ones that were more easily targeted, but the bigger was great last game. We'll see how he performs here in game five.
I've called me definitely has been out performed by Darkwing so for sure I think both
Darkwing and who he really playing well this series has made a difference to bring us all
the way to game five.
More midland bands coming through a syndrome is going to now be targeted and the question
is where will Darkwing's go?
He already brought us something new.
That's far, Jayce who has been getting through a lot of the series but is now really
to advance by sentinels there.
The Jace is such would be such a good pick
for calming right there.
It's denied.
It's also interesting too,
because I think Darklings is too pinched.
He can just play Gallio, right?
Like, it's, you know, in a worst case scenario,
we're like, I don't know what to play.
You can play Gallio.
Sinter is going to be banned out.
Cassie is going to be banned out.
So we have to show us another new pick
because every champion that he has played
in Let's see is going to swap that Gallio to mid lane.
He's going to be gone already.
And we'll find out where he wants to take us.
Various obviously a really high priority pick
in general, but way makes a lot of sense.
I do think control mages are the bread and butter for dark wings.
So he can be a lock-in and now call me.
He has counter-picked, but what do you have left here
to try to really turn things on their head?
LeBlock would be super risky,
and I just don't know if he's performing at a level
that I kind of really want to see it from.
Diana would be interesting, it's a jungle pick.
It's something that hasn't been played a lot of,
but that would be giving yourselves quite a lot of AP.
So curious the way this draft plays out.
the way is something that we've seen from Darkling's last year.
Tristan a mid to balance out the damage.
Yeah. I don't know if that's great and the way though with the range difference.
Yeah. The range difference and also one of the interactions that it makes it really, really tough.
Today's play a lot of Tristan a mid is anytime you actually go for a rocket jump.
He can just hear you. Like because there's no dodging the rocket. There's no dodging while you're in the rocket jump, right?
Yeah. So I think that can be a difficulty.
It's sometimes you can't get pushed in and generally speaking like trust has been nerf mid quite a few times.
So you kind of have to have pushed and went out early or you can sometimes just get wittled down.
So I'm a little bit worried for call me on this but it is going to give them some really good scaling.
You have super consistent DPS here between the zipper as well as the Tristana.
It gives you double 80 thread against the galle who wants to be kind of anti-MR.
And it's going to be such wanting to give them their hard engage.
So it's wanting, we are assuming, going to be in the jungle and that rumble top.
who he could be able to grab another engaged champ.
I feel like Sen just has an easier draft to play.
You send him Recon and Zinn, Gally, all over the top,
and you have two really solid carries.
They definitely do a one game for,
so they're the ones that are sitting with them.
But the rumble that has been banned all series
did fall into the hands of Castle,
we'll see if you can get anything going early on.
Not to mention, just the big game five picks,
like this is Wani, something cry was always been successful with.
in lower tier leagues, but he's going up against his end, who's like a, that's a game
one fearless jump.
Yeah.
So a few power picks definitely making their way into game five, which we kind of
joked about when we had that crazy, I burn Nassus game three, the game five will
that actually feel more involved.
Well, we get it.
Oh, versus good son.
Rebel versus Gallio, unbelievable.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, since our bar, Rakan, one of the things I do think kind of quietly is cool about
fearless.
Is it shows you actually how many viable champions there are, right?
When you can go to a game five,
how old the band's come through,
and you're still like,
hey, kind of just looks like Lee Legends.
It's actually, there's actually a lot of really good chance.
Yeah, none of these champions would you be completely shocked
to see even in game one, except maybe Tristana this year?
Yeah.
As we're strategically building suspense
with the pause early on in the game,
we'll have to see who called for this one in game five.
So one of the players is not yet back from the restrooms,
so just waiting for the players to return it.
I don't know, maybe they picked and then tried to run and try to get back in time.
Maybe I do that and so look you, they just like us, you know.
You lucky your first pick, you lucky your pick, you run to the bathroom.
I mean, that's pan out. Who was it?
Supports aren't chair.
Oh, it's a jet. My man.
For what it's worth, this is fair. Game one, Reheal was gone.
So each team's 80 carry gets one.
You're utilizing the bathroom breaks.
Yeah, that is fair.
All of us added to the rulebook.
Yeah, exactly.
Every time they take one, you get one, too.
You know, I actually hate that because I hate delays.
It's a never mind, take it out of the roadbook.
The roadbook should say no bathroom breaks to a 200 chance
elect. Capital punishment for bathroom breaks.
And the LCS, that's what we support here.
There's some reality that I think we need for these pauses.
But I'm still a little, we'll pose this to Mark.
You know, it's not, it's above our pay grade.
He's the one that has to decide if capital plus the bathroom breaks
is appropriate in this case.
Depending on his ruling, we'll take it to Gavin Newson.
You know, we'll see if he affers.
That's a good tune.
I used to mark to give a news of that.
That generally, how we decided to roll things here at the LCS.
But we got to game five, but it's been such a fun series.
I'm excited to see how it actually finishes.
Right? Both these two teams, so much on the line.
America's couple of vacation, as well as maintaining their spot
in the upper bracket to try to make it all the way to first hand.
These teams would really love to do that.
But I feel like DSG has already just had such a better split
than people have expected.
Even if they were to lose here, they have had a great showing.
with a team that has a lot of young players for them, this is their first ever playoff series
over on the DSG side, and they are going five games, of course, over on the other team,
we do have people that are having their first series as well, a humbuck and dark wings had never
played any playoff games either, so yeah, that is really cool for a lot of these guys to
be getting experience, and I feel like a lot of them are showing up. And humbuck has improved
incredibly since week one when they lost to DSG, and I don't think we necessarily knew the whole
story of Hombok when he arrived on week one because the week one game between the two teams
was kids know something in for Kriera and we think Ocentos has their their whole team
so they're going to be more coordinated. But Hombok had just joined the team and I
learned that he hadn't scrimmed in a year because he got subbed out of his tier one
team in LCK. Was the sixth man so wasn't scrimming with the academy team wasn't scrimming
with the main team so it made sense that he was having issues with coordination but him and
who he had been so connected and the latter part of these series he seems to have a good
early game every single time and he's going to have one more to win this game five.
I'm very impressed by dark things. I mean, yeah, he did come in a little bit at the end of last
year, but like, you know, he's subbed in to a DFC team that was like the most dead last,
you know, in at the end of last split. And we were hell came in, you know, really did make
pretty big changes on that roster when they subbed in. They were really able to step things up.
And, you know, I had questions about how he was going to perform in this team.
a lot of coaches that I talk to have the same questions as well. And I think he's been very,
very good here against Call Me. And Darkwing's, you know, earning his spot definitely. He's looking
good. Yeah, he definitely holds his own, I think has been the better mid lane or so far in this
series, but game five can always change that story. So I'm really, I'm excited about the performance
of both of these teams because especially when you have these teams who for a lot of people
or either middle or bottom of the pack,
both being such strong performers.
It just creates for a very exciting league.
And when they play against each other,
they always seem to go with the distance.
It makes it really unpredictable.
A lot of our power rankings have been pretty off.
You never know what's going to happen by the end of this split.
But it's been a lot of fun to watch the thus far.
As impact, looking for a trade here on the castle
and we'll proc that phase rush and just walk out.
And I was actually really love this new Galileo
scheme of things actually freesick.
I love it, except.
I mean, I love it because I'm going to play it.
just don't actually think it's that readable compared to other
gallowskins. The the ultimate is harder for me to see not to mention
to like the spikes on the wings look a little bit like a rally
ultimate going off to me. Imagine pro players now are completely used to
it because it's such a cool skin and I see it picked every single time
but man it looks it looks super cool. I'll give you that.
We'll be a little bit of a win there, you know.
That's not your words. I'm just saying I'm just trying to live it for that.
in a one-capital punishment and dumb-like Beethoven skins.
There you go.
But, no, it's definitely a cool skin.
I remember that when you were,
what does an Ashkin call that was like one of those legendary Ashkins
I remember a lot of pro players told me that the Hawkshot
they thought was like ultimate when a first came out,
but people get used to those pretty quick, so.
Yeah, no, I definitely think pro players are going to be seeing a lot
and I'm looking to be thrown off of the animations whatsoever.
So, not too big of a deal there as top-land looking pretty even
really across the board, things are quite even.
full clears for both junglers. And then really just kind of trading of
farm around here. The only thing we haven't touched on yet is we're
hell, of course, is going to be playing on hit Ferris. It makes a lot of
sense. He is going to be that high DPS build and you have to be able to
get through. That's what you want to have that consistent game and
just galio isn't really going to bring that. Yeah, I could definitely
see it going both ways because if you had gone withality, he'd
have the range of energy on both the Trist and the Siver. But
Definitely, it's better against the shishwani to have the attack speed.
I think this one was game-free. Could have gone either way.
Yeah, there are enough. I've both of them are quite strong. And that's the interaction I was talking about.
When you rock and jump in on the trist, you are going to get feared and generally that means you're in a bite.
Two spells, which is going to be a proc of that passive.
As Kryra is over in the area, the castle that has to flash out because Hombok was there first.
Lions now here on the invade. Should have been spotted by the ward, though, as he walks in the brush.
So Hombok is waiting for him back and saying, can I get over there for a smite steal?
who he has now arrived as well as a nice side step there from lines will be able to
go over the wall the cryer in some trouble they're going to just continue the
chase here will impact flash forward he uses the taunt can't really get too much
but does get the bar in lines now flashing out not going to be able to get away
first blood grabbed by dark wins is these Indians are just not working up for
DST whatsoever. Yeah total disaster they're losing so much off of this I mean
rumble is able to push him top lane but Midlane has to sit raptors will go
over. What could have to stay
to standard.
Uh, full clear game for
this is 20 versus the Zin
Kraura. Two games in a row
and pretty much the same spot.
Ends up leading to a team
death. So good start for
sendals, but it's pretty much
just who he being on top of
things matching the rooms
and playing defense. Yeah,
exactly. I mean, this time
obviously they had lions
and making the wrongs. They
did have their support up there
as well, but yet it's the
same. It's the same
play. They went for the same
kind of the day. Last time
Kraura goes down this time.
He does not go down himself
But unfortunately, it is the first what going there over to Dark Wings.
And again, these kind of matchups can sometimes snowball pretty heavily.
And it's only getting chunked low.
Does have the bar of trying to heal himself back up.
And Lions, you know, flashlight, he didn't flash the taunt from impact.
And it ended up taking that gotten fairly low, then flashed and died anyway.
And that is a pretty punishing death.
That's one that he should have had to use his flash, but I don't think he should have died.
Yeah, they likely would have lost a lot of pressure regardless, but the death adds insult to injury.
But you can see they've also now gone double-call, something that I think is fine, especially
for just holding the game even, like with double-80 carry and a front line, oftentimes
you're kind of waiting for the game to come to you, but now they're going to try and
make something happen under a hell or who he, hard to get a recall.
Yeah, I'm not going to be able to get much lines playing like shoes, so just get that
at least that prox.
I'm going to be a potion used by who he put it's just refillable, so honestly, who cares?
We're held going to be rushing towards that blade with room king, and it's a jed, taking
little bit of damage there, but it is just kind of a farm fest down on that bottom side.
I mean, this killing obviously none had whatsoever for DSC. Do you know these double
lady carries looks like call me is potentially going in towards the merc threads here early
on just to try to answer all of the CC as well as the match papers is going to make a lot
of sense. I think they need to be any defensive pattern though. I'm trying to get in the head
of cryer and wise going for these these engages. It's almost like they're very flippy
I don't feel like they necessarily had a very strong lane to play through because even if you have the rumble push-top,
y'all who can always just move through the rush and get to you first.
I'm not, I'm not so old on it. He doesn't have stronger drooling than the Zinn.
It's backfire two games, and I feel like they have better scaling as well.
So it's like a home run play where he's almost just trying to ego on him a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, I guess if any of you talked to him, he would say if we execute on the play,
on the play. Well, we should win. You know, because they had the first base from Lyon,
so I think they feel like, oh, Bart's going to get there first. We are quick on the play.
You hit all your skills. And then you push the back or you just kind of win out in the fight.
But of course, you miss this time. You don't actually make that happen. Then who he shows up and things
go pretty bad. So maybe just feels like, hey, it's an execution thing. And he's the right play.
But we're not executing on it. But has happened a couple of times in a row. And it is one of those
risky moves that can be punished quite heavily. And as in fact, gets back to lane now. It's down
them almost 20 C.S., you know, a little bit of that is obviously from the
room, but the same thing happened last game and ended up not
mattering whatsoever. Castle got out to a pretty early 20-ish C.S.
lead in the Zaheim Jacks matchup. But then in fact was not getting
punished more heavily than that, but eventually caught up.
Yeah, impact has been incredibly solid. Also based off of the
shenanigans that happened to Crom. Seems like a pretty easy
Drake by Hombock. This might be the first first Drake the
the Sentinel has gotten his series,
but the pressure is really on for Sentinels now
invading Bluebuff as well.
I actually really like this,
so who he, it's kind of a subtle play,
but he goes behind the interrupts of Barbecue
and he stacks the wave behind the tower.
So what this does is, it means that the wave
is pushing away from DSG.
So Sergeant now has no support
and he can't walk up to the wave.
So his wave is getting denied,
Krira, it's also getting pushed out.
Lines is back now, but they are just bleeding minions
on the bottom side of that lane,
and it should be pushing away.
as you see it is because of this little thing
that who he did where he stacked away.
That's like plus four or five minions that
who he made from stacking away behind their tower.
And then knowing Sergeant Kent woke up and back up.
And they just cleaned the entire jungle from prior.
Like he is fuming at the moment.
They lose gromp.
They lose the minions bot lane.
And they can't even defend the jungle.
So, Sen.
Osomba, who he jungle support synergy
has been completely on point.
They match the first invade, repellent.
And then they execute their own evade expert.
Yeah, they're calling me jumps in.
Immediately gets feared and the ulti is going to be thrown down.
And of course, we'll survive, but it is tough when you take that damage.
And trist, it's like, yeah, technically you can go in first and
early life's deal.
But then your first item is so delayed.
You do not want to go like BT or Bork on trist is your first time.
You want to go just crit scaling items.
So these matches were getting hooked and become very, very difficult.
Because trist only trades by going aggressive.
And when you jump in and you get feared and you just get hit by ulti,
It is really, really tough and in my experience,
these matchups just kind of get worse as it goes on.
Of course, you always have that ability
to maybe outplay in the teamfight.
But it's not easy for me and he has had a really tough series.
He's got to try and survive off the life on hit from call,
the almy van from Dorans, and the lifestyle from legend bloodline,
which is little tiny bits of lifestyle throughout the lane.
Yeah, they do get the flash, so off dark wings.
That is very nice.
This car makes a visit into words, mid.
And he is playing Zik, so it is going to be that
lower CDR on the ALT said one is often loving the support item builds now and it is quite
efficient right you know you get the armor them are the health the CDR as well 15 ultimate
ability hasten and you have a we slow from it so it's quite nice coming though getting
chip down and pushed in is down about half HP and we'll have to go back to base as Dark
Wings continuing to slowly build that goal lead after grabbing the first blood and even we'll be
able to cancel that recall again yeah I mean DSG's really on the back foot right now sentinals
seems to be able to do whatever they want. Yes, castle completion impact, but we know in the first
14 minutes of the game, that doesn't really matter. Almost ever for the top laners. All the
players are happening through mid-bought at the moment, and that's where Dark wings is pushing and
call me in. Another engagement on Alliance. Alliance is going to be trying to get out of there.
Flash is away, but a bomb just flashes over the tempered faith finishes them off.
Alliance picked again, fell safe to walk up because he had the magical journey, but it just doesn't
matter they commit to them when they get that kill.
But like, Kriera is just without plays at the moment.
It's another deep invade, and he's losing his grub for the second rotation in a row.
Last time, it was blue grub.
Now it's wolves grub.
It's going to become a massive experience in Vanage for Zen versus his one in this game.
He's down over 30 C.S. in the jungle.
That is brutal.
Yeah, Kriera is dealing like he's kind of out of it.
And a lot of it, I feel like, yeah, you know, it's, it's
one of these things were just kind of snowballing off of the earlier play right but great
engage here can they actually knock down Hobok let's see so I'm going to be turned around
on is in some trouble to knock out pops the healthy subject that's easy to heal and does
have the spell shield come back up the oldie from homebuck will expire but he dashes back
in gets the flash force on box almost gets him with the wind becomes lightning and cryer
it takes the kill so such an us to use has to use his flash to use the heal from lions they
barely take him down in a preview one and now he buys under its guy. I mean,
that God, they killed him. Otherwise, wrap it up. That would have been GG right there.
Because they did, that's pretty huge. You've got a lot of slingshot experience when you have a
big level of advantage like that. The kill going over to cry right, even though it's not ideal
if you're like him, carry, helps him a little bit, stay somewhat adequate against Tom
I'm talking about in items, but who he's just going to continue to keep an oying
sever right here and cryra, he still can't really for.
No, I mean, how fearless is, who this game?
It feels like it's like the fourth time he's been behind the tower.
He's just standing in between the two towers and saying, you know what?
You can't do anything about it.
Like we know you have no such one.
He'll good luck locking me down.
You're not going to be able to do anything to me.
So he's just harassing them constantly.
I love this kind of play from who he,
where you really know the limits of your champions.
But also almost more importantly, you know, the women's of their shipings and they're missing
this gentleman. They have nothing really to lock you down. So who is just kind of dancing on them?
And being as annoying as he possibly can, humbuck can come back in for the invade.
The windy comes letting will miss the big crug there for excuse me, the big raptor there.
So won't be able to grab that, but they just go right back down the horse with the pothide.
Dark wings is up 900 gold at this point. Call me is just getting, I'm going to gap
in the mid lane, it's been really, really tough and it should be a freebie at the dragon.
You have to feel like because, look where he is again, he's getting everything out.
They're not worried at all.
Yeah, still really impressed with Hanbok and just the overall synergy from Sentinels in this
game five.
It's been such a hard fought series to this point.
Definitely a few mistakes being made in previous games, but in this one, the overplay
early by DSG into the jungle of Sentinels.
And since then has just been Sentinels living in this bot side.
all these cryar gets his wolves, but blue is gone again and the wave isn't accessible
for such a sever and the crop is once again being pressured by Hombok.
This is a crazy game from blue. I feel like he's displayed this so well, constantly in their
face. He can have to take the half-derease.
Yeah, yeah, he got the crop again. The other one, the wave is just pushing away from once more,
so Jim can never move up. He's now 40 plus yes. This is ridiculous. And it's like,
it felt like he's missing C. S. He just can't water up to the wave. Every time,
who is going behind. He's stacking the wave against him. So it's pushing out away from him.
And Lions is like recalling and not there to help him push it out. They're constantly
re-enbating so it isn't feel comfortable to move up. It's just one right six-gate gold lead
in the bot lane without a kill. Like this is just crazy. And sure you have
every of Trisk. Great. You're going to scale. But I don't even know if they outscale. And
they're just getting pummeled in the early game. He's still got 40 Colstax left. Like he's just been
sitting there slowly trying to complete his support quest, but he can't do anything.
How is the goal of only 1,400?
That's the puzzle here.
Now, what are you talking about?
It's 900 for the rumble.
Yeah.
Sure.
That's the answer, really.
I guess that's it.
Yeah, it's that.
And it's the Colme coal cashed out.
So, you know, you get an injection of gold from that.
You have 900 gold in the shop lane.
So that is kind of like making it appear a little bit closer.
Of course, you know, Castle is strong.
So that is something that they have going for them.
But again, like I touched on in chips like there's not really that much
to lock down for Castle.
So, you could drop a good equalizer.
You hit a bar at all, it's onto the various,
you drop E was on his head after that.
You're hoping that such one can hit an alter something,
but there's not that many tools that have been placed.
And who he's just first out of McKayles,
because why not?
Because that's the one engaged that DSG has.
I love it.
So, sentinels, definitely making this draft look
very effortless in its execution.
Knowing that there's just that one bit of hard and gauge,
who he's recon is kind of check me
to the game, it feels like so far.
I mean, who he went for early McKayles,
even in the on the game as well.
Like he's just grabbing it, it's making sense
in pretty much every position he's taking in.
And especially in this game where you have basically
one button to engage in the Kales says,
nope, can't do that.
So that gets really, really tough.
For health, is scaling.
So Jed has had a bit of time to farm these ways.
Now they're moving over towards mid lane.
So finally, he's getting access to some minions here.
And they just have to hope, you know what,
scale, scale, scale, scale.
And maybe you can have a big team
but when later on, the car, we're going to have to flash out
and he was the old defensively.
He's trying to evade to get something back.
But Humbuck is there and he's up to level.
So there's no way you're ever going to win a duel against that.
And Darkway just moves over.
And now all your playmaking tools are gone.
Priorityals like maybe falling victim to a little frustration.
When you're going to evade it.
He got the red.
I actually think that's fine.
He got the red and he was flashing your alls.
Yep, because I could think about what's
been happening to his life in this game in the last 10 minutes.
He just think they are in his house.
And he can't get rid of them.
So now even with no ult,
oh, Darpy's just flash.
Dark wings, oh no, we did fill his flash,
going over the wall,
tried to get over, but doesn't get hug in the wall
before he uses the flash.
And he's gonna get taken down as a result.
So they're able to grab that kill and castle,
continuing to extend that lead.
And it's called me,
gonna be able to jump out to safety,
nicely buffered on the top,
but send those pushing in mid lane,
looking to try to knock him down.
I think this is going to be mid turret, which will open up the map even more.
The goal is very close, especially after that shutdown went for dark wings, but I feel
like there's a lot of standing goal that sent us is going to want to collect.
He is back at his home in between the two categories.
Now a using castle, but he's thinking a lot of damage this time, as he does get hit by a
binding.
Castle is going to overheat trying to move forward here, going to be thrown into the exhaust.
Nice side step on the bare saw, throw her hell, trying to turn things around, Krire, is here.
and they won't be able to get a kill, but no one falls on either side, and it's just the 1k gold lead now.
Castle's strength does have to be respected.
It really does. Once they can play around the rumble,
now they've gotten him out of that lane. The game is looking a little bit, I mean, a lot more playable,
because it was really feeling unplayable.
For...
Pretty much, you know, five minutes through 15 minutes.
It felt like there was nothing to do with it.
They felt 50 CS behind in jungle and in bot lane.
But now, you know, call me has kept his CS up, has cash in his call might even be able to get this turret in and he is playing against an MR stacking Gallio right now.
This is a first full item of match of resist.
They do throw them down the bar at all.
He can't even look for a play, but all sentals are coming.
This is looking not good.
Call me should be able to knock down the tower.
But can he actually get out of dodge?
So that's another rocket jump.
But that is not going to keep him safe.
Knocked down the tower, but it'll cost him his life.
Unfortunately, for sentinels, who he grabs the kill?
We'll see if I can get anything else off the back of him.
He should not have done that, but it's a good kill nonetheless.
Questionable bar at all, right there.
So not sure what the plan was, but they get the cold on to call me at least before he falls.
And now, Lions and Criber are at least stopping dark wind from pushing through.
So they're keeping this game actually very playable.
Like if they get to a teamfight where Call me in suggest or sitting on three or four items
and it hasn't been so yet, they still actually have a chance to spite how much who he and
and Homba could dominate it in the early game.
I think it's definitely possible,
but when I think about compositionally,
I think it's very difficult,
because how do your 80 carries get past the Zins out
with the ultimate being active,
and how do you find a good engage to burn someone down
when there's McKayles on the other side
and counter engage from who he,
I feel like there's probably a very high chance
that the Sentinel's carries will have a lot easier time
in the fight,
where I don't know if Giz, you can get past the Zins,
so I think that's really the question here
is can they set up such ed as well as call me
to have a successful fight.
They're going to go for the engage.
Eclvisor, we'll get thrown down.
But I mean, it's super late.
It's after the dragon has already taken.
I thought they were running when he tried to fight for the Lord.
Well, all five are here.
I guess we'll try.
So they drop Eclvisor as well as the glacial prison.
Doesn't really get them anything, though.
And it's his now.
So point.
Poor Sentinel, then.
That is going to be a potential mountain soul here.
And just over four and a half.
Yeah.
Sentinels playing with a huge amount of confidence as
Rahel has paused the game.
game, so I'll have to check on what is going on there.
But as you mentioned, very difficult game for them to play.
The gold might just, it feels like a garage, the fact that it's like 35K to 34K, because
it's being completely dictated by essentials.
Yep, it has been completely dictated by them.
Start to finish, they're stacking up with the objectives, which obviously when you're on
sole point, you're on the precipice of a massive amount of stats being injected into your
team, which is going to make things a lot harder and just compositionally, I feel like they
have a lot of the answers. So we will have to see Ken
Coleman and Suget find ways to really get involved or Ken
Castle who has this massive individual gold advantage
really turn things around and maybe you know get a good play
burst down one of these carries because that's the kind of stuff
that's really going to take a feel like for DSG to not just kind of
slowly bleed out of this one. I mean you have four and a half
minutes until the next dragon that is a must win I feel like
our research is probably cooked. Yeah in game five still been a very
entertaining series to this point. I'd say throughout this series, it has felt like
Sentinels has scaled a little bit. Dark Wings has looked more and more confident in each
game. Hombok and who he had been very well connected to the game. On the DSG side, Castles
had a great series. He's had individual advantages and almost every game. So, Jed has been
able to keep his farm up and teamfight very effectively in most games. This game is a little
a tragic because the bot side got so dominated and who he kept pulling the wave to prevent
him from being able to farm but still a lot of the letters to be played.
So update on the pause, send those audio did briefly cut out for a second so they pause
and now they're making sure that that is not going to happen again so they're investigating
making sure that there's not going to be any more audio issues going forward obviously
going to be doing those audio checks once more because you definitely do not want that
to happen in the middle of the team fight or anything like that.
especially in a series that has been this close going down the stretch.
Look like DSG doing some audio checks as well.
Just to see that there's no issues on their end.
A lot of stress on this team is they've when you're getting
choked out like this, it's very difficult game to play.
I feel like that's why we see fights like the last one,
which wasn't a fight.
It was just cryo throwing us all in and
casso throwing us all in because when you have no agency,
you kind of want to be around to hope that someone else
has some level of agency, and then you're there in case something good happens, but
currently there is just nothing good to be done for DSG. So another update, so I actually did
also happen at DSG, so I have for both teams, so they are now continuing to investigate,
they believe they have figured out what the issue was, so we should be able to hopefully get that
fixed and get back to game very quickly here, but despite the close gold lead, there's a three
dragon lead for Sentinel's has been a pretty back and forth series, we're here all the way in game five.
for our first series of lock-in playoffs,
the winner will go to America's couple guarantee themselves
at least top three.
And of course, we'll still be in the hunt for that first-end birth
that everyone is really fighting for.
Yeah, and loser will get sent down to play either Lion or Team Liquid.
So with all the parody we're seeing,
it was surprising that Lion and Team Liquid are even in the lower bracket.
So not necessarily that you go down there and play a team that is weaker or worse.
They have performed worse in the Swiss stage,
but based off of reputation and screams and preseason predictions are actually quite strong.
So a lot riding on the last bit of this game five because it's either America's Cup or a very
hard roadback. Yeah, and I mean a lot of people I know have been talking to are feeling like
it's even scary going against T.L. in line because they basically have two weeks from their last
game to their next game, right? So they have a lot of time to kind of try to work through things,
potentially fix some of those issues because obviously they played last weekend, they're in
and more brackets I don't play this weekend,
and then they will be playing next weekend.
So, can look forward to that.
Dark wings, I think, has had a really good series,
and we talked a bit about Topland,
and the castle has done great
and they've visually dark wings, I think, has as well.
And this is a guy who, I think,
people that are next,
expected that much from him, but he's been really solid,
and he's been able to find a way to make some of these
less popular control mages look really, really good.
The Vega always great last game,
the way has been fantastic, this game,
and it feels like Call Me didn't have a good answer
into it.
Yeah, I hope Darkwing has a similar trajectory to what we've seen from APA into your
one because Darkwing's feels like this super young new player, but he's 25.
He played like seven years into your two before actually getting his chance and then as soon
as he does, he performs at a very high level.
So hopefully stories like his are like, even if you didn't think this is some incredible
standout to your two player that must be thrown in LCS.
you get a few reps, even without the same champion pool as others, he's been very effective.
And I feel like we've seen that from a lot of the players that have come up, right?
You know, we're seeing a lot of young players on FlyQuest.
We're seeing guys like Carl, like his no likes to jet all looking really strong as we playing
this very aggressively, he comes in back from behind and lions could be in some trouble,
but he's able to use the magical journey to get back to safety.
But call me is now cut off from the rest of his eye.
And in fact, he's just going to be able to tank this one up, call me flashes back.
Good board all to buy up in a couple.
And now, Dorquille did caught out of the tower by a cryer.
All of it, nice turn around there.
The reset can be coming through.
Do they want to jump in on this suggestive rise?
They're going to try to chase down it back to has no flash.
We're hell in position.
Gonna try to look for a turn.
He was coming through and Castle Busch is over.
He has the overheat there.
Trying to knock down Rahel doesn't quite have the damage.
But they do get a couple kills.
Do they have the confidence to go back there?
So they're going to make the call to try to do it.
Call me is facing.
It's keep me still in cool down though unless the specular client is wrong.
You've castled me up just going to do far castle now is owned off by himself.
He wanted to chase the rest of his team, wanted Baron and now that miscommunication
may really cost him.
Homey is back, but how man, castle chase way too far, the rest of the team wanted
to go for the Baron.
I feel like they could have tried.
I think they could have tried, but it's also an 18,000 health Baron, W80 carry takes
it very quick.
That would have been their window back in the game, so I agree with the call, just go for it.
It felt like a small miracle the way this started.
a call me goes to defend the turret 1v3 and the best part of the game catches two of the
divers, not the turret, which allows the turret to just one shot dark wings and then
they have impact no flash.
Potentially the best play would have been for Castle to not teleport in because he gets
the turret bot lane and he has to probably still win the fight.
But once Castle is in, he's thinking we need to hit a home run right now.
They get the turret on an impact and could probably have turned for Baron but that is going
to be something for their review.
We don't have time to go over that now.
No, we don't in the all-for-back to live.
And if that could be in some trouble,
we'll never have no flash.
They're not going to fully commit to it, though.
Karara did use the Alphi, but clearly,
they can not just punch through this guy.
He's very tanky.
He has had the random ones for a while.
Really love that random one to pick up for him.
Doesn't over prioritize the magic for this.
Needed a little bit for the early leaning against Castle.
Now with two quick damage to you,
there's that's the best tank item he can build in the game so far.
and sendals they want to keep accelerating this game or just he kind of want to slow it down in the bit because
you really want to get to the i.e. on both of your stana as well as the silver and if they can get this next
dragon get towards i.e. for both of their carries that would be huge and call me and we will
rock and jump to safety will be pushed back and it means that tower top should fall of course they're not
going to have the i.e. for this next fight and that is going to be the soul fight. so this is the one that
just you really have to problem solve for can they find a way to make it work here there will be no flash on
on Castle, there's strongest member, no flash, I'm call me either.
Going to be extremely difficult, I think step one is get all lane pushing.
I really think Castle needs to be on bot lane, get that push, and his deepest possible,
because you need to have at least one angle to approach the Drake from.
They're overgrouping a little bit mid to not get more pushed in, but at the very least,
being able to take a little bit of vision and river is a positive play.
Another thing that's really big is, as sendals have TV events, but in fact, didn't
over step here, the reset on that rocket jump is going to allow them to jump again.
the buster shot interrupted the
ulti call me can't go for more.
But he does push impact back and
gets his ult. That's actually huge
because impact was the CPA
advantage where there was no
CPA for call me or castle.
So that is a really big win in
the side lane there for DSG
and it gives them a much better
shot now with no Gallio ult at this
next fight. No Trist of as well.
Probably got a little greedy at
the very end of it, but Castle
and Cryer are doing their best
to this whole vision in the
river. They know a lot of this
game does hinge on their ability
to secure the strike. But
if they do have first set up.
So, Sentinel does have to move into them,
which can be pretty difficult.
Yeah, they're going to have to wait for call me, though.
So they can't start a fight just yet.
They need to be very, very careful.
They are in a 5v4 right now until call me arrives
and call me, might be spotted soon.
Sentinel's trying to foster aggressively with that extra man.
Now, call me, show his castle on the side.
Is in a lot of trouble.
He has no flash from the previous fight.
Drops the equalizer.
But he could be in trouble car over the wall catches
the ulti under a hell.
But it's castle that's down.
The ulti comes through from lines,
but against him, nothing's a jet is going to try to
the match in the magical journey, but it expires. So Jen is going to fall.
Sentals win the fight. They want more and they're going to get it. And now
cryra running for the hills. Call me pushes mid, but it's a 2k goal lead. It
is a one fight and it is going to be so first and no total disaster for DSG. But
so much confidence from Hamburg is going straight on to rumble. Who is
flashlist and separated from the team, bar alt is just too late. And the portal probably
too early. It's a total disaster there as DSG lose three and the soul.
That's not an assault. It's going to make things a lot more difficult.
Back being said, they do have a lot of DPS. They do with that high DPS comp. So, you know, it's not
doomed. It's not like you have full assassins and you have no follow-up damage, but it's going to
make things a lot more difficult as well as the flat armor and mr increase that is
going to really benefit champions like the galleo who is stacking that. So now you
definitely need your last whispers. You can see they're going to be building
towards that next for call me in suggest which means iE is going to be fourth or
later. And it's a little bit of desperation time for dsg. They're going to overload
a sideline and see hey can we actually find something here does someone step too far forward?
Hoping to get one or two kills and then maybe be able to sneak barren maybe similar to
the way they won the Ibernassus game don't have quite the same scaling but this is
this is the state that they're in right now at least they're trying for creative plays
but sent us this needs to make sure their waves are pushed up make sure they're approaching
with vision
keep canceling the recalls they could get spotted in that brush and that would be a disaster
here because now there's a lot more sentinel numbers on that top side can call me and
car or even get a kill no I don't think so not with not with how close the
the rest of the sendals team is. I mean, it's clearly just like I said to me when
you can, but they are moving out now. And I think they're going to be spotted here pretty
soon on that ward if they do walk that way. I love that homebuck is also grabbing a
random in his up his own, double lady carry, obviously you're having all the which
is going to be super effective against them. But also he is 2k goal the head, another game
where he's monstrously ahead. And he has like a 70 C S lead to boot and they are starting
up the bear and now who he's just trying to keep them away. It's going to be a slow burn.
But once the virus arrives, it'll be going down a lot more quickly.
And it feels like DSG, they're aware, but can they approach that?
It's so hard for them to approach.
Reheal, hitting it now, shreds it almost.
He misses one.
Okay.
Well, he's going to spot it now.
So now they know for sure if they're going to see me that you're
sort of back out.
I mean, Criro would just have to blind flash in and if they can get any
vision over top, they're going to delay with the bar.
It all can Criro get in and try to steal his weight.
Call me on the side, find against Darkwing's as well as who he Criro does.
He go nice, binding comes through the eat.
There's no one at all from Castle, all buck goes for him.
The hombox is going to get burst down.
He's shut down by Castle, he comes to Galli all through,
but it's not time correctly.
Castle flashes and magical journeys back out the safety.
Feels like a bit of a comedy of air is there.
As the equalizer hit, no one,
on buck goes in and dies, and at the end of the day,
it's dishy, staving off the bearing here,
but not getting more themselves.
So from the looks of it, DSU is thinking
if they equalize through the Nash,
and Criro goes in maybe it's flippable, but then Hombock flies out as the equalizer goes in,
which I think makes it so because the bear resets exactly right there.
But then he takes so much damage from Castle's rumble, just sitting on pretty much his
flamethrower right there.
Oh, Gummy is going to be caught out.
Candy actually survived.
He's trying to reason that the rocket jump he does so on to who he and now the teleport's
going to be.
Criro is going to be in the behind him.
Can they look for more Criro wants to find someone who he has to flash, so they have to go
very defensive there in retreat and yeah, that was some risky business around the
Baron. I mean, I think the turn could have been okay, but there was two members from
central that were up on the top side dealing with Colmy, you know, they're not with you.
So if you're trying to turn like that, it's just unlikely to work out. I mean,
humpback goes over the wall, thinking, hey, I have Gallo, but yeah, you know, you're
a com the were in here, your verus can't hit. So it's not going to work out in that
situation. That's a pretty big shutdown being given over. Colmy now has this LDR. You
you can see that the executioner is going
at the mortal reminder has been finished first
of Jed.
So surely you think the eyes are coming next.
Yeah, they both have their armor pen items,
partially because the mountain soul needs to be cut through.
I kind of weird feeling now.
Just with the way that Baron went,
with the way the pit happened
before the maybe possible 20 minute Baron
from DSG.
It feels much more winnable now than it did
at say 10 minutes, but Sentinels could still be one team
fight away.
to get to IE. So they're back at the
Baron. This is scary though. If you're
in the pit against the equalizer here,
Castle is very very strong. So Jed
gonna get spotted over the wall, but
does have a spell shield. Call me is
pushing mid lane here, so he's
good at trying to continue that.
We're now coming to respond now and
call me. It's got to be careful because
he's separated from the team. I don't
think coming can get true and how much
are doesn't really take damage from the
Baron. So they're really just hoping
G. S. G commits in and then they
can get their fight. Castle is moving
over to try to regroup with Call me
but now potentially send those
the other side.
Some folk coming through on the
Chiro, the barricade will be a
fiend.
Wether across multiple members and the
Alphi from Chiro, it's going to be
Clem.
Doppel by Nuri, as Chiro is
incredibly low.
Lying splashes back as well as the
Flash from Sajab.
It's a jet ball through a health.
It's up to Castle and call me.
They're going to try to get something
done here on the side.
But they get no kills at all.
They lose their bot lane and it
feels like they're about to lose so
much more.
Can Jisco right back onto the barren?
It is a 3v5.
Chiro.
He's got a flash and over on the other side, call me going in, they're going to try to win the fight on the side and they're going to get rid of him.
He burns down. That is a massive shutdown. As Hombock was trying to go for a kill on one side, call me getting a spot without
can he make a great escape. He cannot. He falls. But without the Ferris, this is so much harder to do.
Castle's going to try to stay alive though. He gets caught on the recall briefly there. Overheat, trying to go in on the
that who he but Shirley has no damage to finish them off.
And then back is not going to go down.
They're delaying the death.
They're just delaying the death.
Yeah, because Alter is going to be up in 34 seconds.
And now he's dead for 22nds after Elder and five will likely be alive for this
Baron.
So, Sessionals really on top of the death timers, even if the game is crazy to start
that fight who he did incredible to peel the backs out of the fight.
Kriar is sticking around for some miracle steel, but it's looking top.
This will be Baron and probably elder as well.
It depends how long it takes sent most to reset and go down for the elder.
Yeah, it's still 30 seconds into a castle response here.
They're going to be how to have the bear but on all five, of course, that also instant
reset here.
And are going to be rushing out of base, spending all their gold.
There's random one's done for Hombock.
You can see he's got an elixir in his inventory.
He is ready to go and help working towards that jack show.
So it could be very tanky once that is completed.
about the length for Castle, they are going to have time to get him back here.
The TPS can be a very shortly after the respawn.
If not right as he respawned up, Hombock is going to get stunned, but just no damage there
to follow it up.
It's still so hard to kill him.
Hombock is super tanky.
That TPP.
Impact is super tanky.
They're TP and deep, but they'd have to get onto the carry.
So where how is no flash?
He might be a target if they can find him.
They are split once more.
Do they have eyes on Castle, Fryra getting chunked down once again.
He's down two levels.
Remember here.
And it's not very tanky.
Call me and suggest it's really all about them in Castle Castle on the side of you're going to try to go for it here
Incom deep was there, but it's the same time
You know the portal decantels everything so Jen is going to be charmed up. He's going to be talking about castles
Interest. He's gone
They do get dark wings. Cole is going to jump in but he just gets knocked up and he gets knocked down
That bar null was planned for the other team sent no crush the fight
will see how much more they can get.
But the anti-timing there from Lions as it
emunes the equalizer damage.
Amunes the Sets 20 Ulti and
send those are marching on the
Nexus.
That's probably the game just a
series of unfortunate events for
Lions is barred this game.
He hit one nice one in the top
lane but had several go in the
wrong direction for a live.
Castle the only defender.
This is probably the series of
This is definitely looking like the series impact tanking up the towers castle can do nothing sent in those were push
But they did not break they take down D.S.G. They qualify for the Americas cup and they continue their march towards first end
Oh, signals got to be feeling some relief after that one they had control of this game five
for pretty much 32 of the 33 minutes and even at the end they had the
mound solo. It just always felt a little bit a little bit strange because
DST would be pulling off these random plays getting kills here or there but at
the very end of it they win the big team fight they push mid and they move on
even the game they lost. Game 3 was in their hands so overall if you look at
it holistically a pretty strong series for Sentels. Definitely the case.
the game.
Mine has got to be hoohie.
All I can think about when I think about this game is who he played between the two towers,
constantly freezing the wave on such a harassing cry run,
non-sauce up after that failed in the team.
Really good in the team, but it's early in the kill, shut down everything that said
what he wanted to do.
I feel like hoohie has just been stellar throughout this season,
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What do you think?
I agree.
That's what I did.
Yeah.
That's what I did.
Tom, Tom, I'm talking to who he had both really good in the series.
And it was really great to go back and think about that first interview.
We had this interview after their first one where he was like, yeah,
Tom, Tom, he's kind of this crazy guy.
And we're all adjusting to some of his calls, trying to coordinate together.
I feel like, again, we saw that today from two p.m.
I'm talking about from Homebox and Dark Wings.
Who I believe is going to be joining us
at the moment fairly, so we can talk to him.
There he is.
I'm lugged it.
There we go.
He's a drop in the stuff off for long time.
I'm lugged it.
OK, he's back.
He could hear you yelling.
I hear from him.
The staffer didn't even notice.
He was like, I feel like he's right behind me.
He's so number one.
I have a terrible razours crazy.
I thought you took it wrong.
I'm carrying their daughter in.
We're yelling at you from here.
Mike, you're right close right here.
Yeah, right here.
First of all, let's see.
I think you've got Cuba with you, that's it.
Maybe even two.
We'll get you back here.
Yeah.
First of all, a full five game series.
All right.
How are you?
You still got energy?
You tired at all?
How are you feeling?
I mean, I feel a little tired.
But I think, yeah, I should David, who's our performance coach.
Like, has helped us stay hydrated and keep the energy up.
So I think I'm actually feeling, OK, up to getting five.
Nice.
That's good though.
One thing that we've talked about and kind of set up at the beginning of the day is how much you guys have evolved as a team from like series to series to series and even games a game
I know communication has kind of been a focus talking to your teammates
So talk to me about specifically your communication with Tombot today
Because it felt like this is the first time where I was like, oh my gosh, these two are like really looking. Yeah
In practice we did have some problems like communicating and stuff
kind of like not being on the same page about what we want to do for like
crabs, dragons, stuff like that. So yeah, just like through practice.
We've just been working on it and he's been talking to me like more
like directly and like I'm responding. So that's kind of what helps
the communication. For more of a curiosity, just kind of talk about being in a situation
where was the team speaking in like full Korean and you were just in the middle of
I'm not doing it, but just in general on practice.
Oh, yeah, that's the like 60% of the cons are Korean.
I've been learning some Korean words though, you know.
Okay.
Chancho-ni means slowly.
So, I know what to do.
I know what to do.
What's the answer?
You're saying that a lot to homo.
Well, what were you saying?
And the Vega, Vega and Vi game.
When you were killing Ari over and over and over and over,
you could say, Bolly, Bolly.
Yeah, fast, good.
Okay, nice. This has been a ridiculous series in general and you're
she's right, just like the the road that you guys have had to get better and better.
Who would you kind of say is the largest contributor to that?
You guys are growing.
I think combination of like our coaching staff like Golden Glue or
assistant coach and just like I think my all the teammates were just like the
willingness to learn things together or even if I'm a bit behind, sometimes they
still trust me to try to keep up and so just work towards the team goals.
Does it help having a guy like impact on the team where a lot of people after last year were like wow I'd be cool if in fact became a coach.
They see a lot of comes in-game and has he helped you at all?
Yeah, I mean, especially out of game, like in-game too for sure.
I just think he does, like, talk to me a lot, and everyone on the team too, he just, like, brings up, like, points, like, just during, like, every game, he has, like, a point, like, like, it's just, like, good.
Yeah, I do appreciate that. Yeah.
I feel like when it comes to bets of five, I don't know what to expect at you.
This reminds me of last split when you're playing like a nithia poppy with XU, right?
Yeah. Like, if feels like you thrive in bestifies because of your champion pool, does
that, is that how it comes across when it comes to big ban or even scrims, like, you always
can have something that you can pull out of the bag?
Um, I think, yeah, I do, I do like pacifies because I do, like, I don't just have to play
the meta champs over and over again. I do, I do like these, like, we're kind of pick style champions.
So yeah, I do think like in practice now that we're practicing
specifies like it is, I do feel like more comfortable.
Were you a little bit surprised by the Tristan of Pick?
Cause like the way when that way came through, I was like,
oh, that's hard, I would imagine I was going to be a little bit more
of a difficult lane for the Tristan because you can just always
fear her if you're jumping in on you.
Yeah, um, it's like an okay matchup.
And I think just on it does, this one V1, um, and does need like
jungle attention.
But I think it's like kind of makes sense of the, I mean,
there's like not many mid champions left.
So yeah, it's like slightly losing in lane,
but still scales pretty well,
just like you kind of need to get to like three or four items
as just so on.
I'm interested, because we'll talk about who gets part,
but I want to know the feeling of being now
solidified that top three as a team.
I don't know if you expect that at the beginning of the split,
because I remember hearing some content from you guys,
how you feel like you weren't there,
but you guys are gonna have to have like just
you guys are scaling.
Now that you know that you guys,
at the very least, can be in America's cup,
but of course, they'll fight and be in first stand.
How do you feel about that?
I definitely feel like a bit surprised.
I did think that it would take more time
for us to connect together as a team.
I think I just feel like our growth is faster than we expected.
faster than we expected. So, and I still feel like we have a lot more room to
group. We think it's a player of the game.
It's a tough one. I go with Tom Buck. Okay, that was actually a battle between the two.
But it was who he who he ends up picking it up two zero and ten. Talk about the impact
I who he had in this game and how you felt about him throughout the series.
who he is like really good at like shot calling and finding like engages.
Although he did like, that's a,
I don't know if there's a cause.
I'm gonna get out of here.
But I don't blame how I think we're all like a little,
we also a little bit of focus.
But yeah, I do think his, his engages like just like,
just like the voice he brings to the team is really nice.
What about the, a fairfewing game?
Has he been a very positive on that, on that type of bottom line?
Yeah, I mean, normally his range is worse than his male is, but I do think his surfing is pretty good.
I think it's a player of the game from the fans.
This is what the fans devoted for this game, even though like who he did when, yes, 43% there,
but a lot of people giving you credit.
How do you feel just looking at that and seeing that like the credit and love going your direction in the series?
I feel happy. I think this series I did, but I guess both average job that I should be doing.
be doing. I don't know if I could have played a bit better in like the series like
the games we lost and in the winning games but I think I could sure we do like a decent
amount. Okay okay I hope you need to be able to get to self-work. I don't want to have
like any kind of series. It's like you think about the negative aspect. I guess that helps
you be in a growth mindset as opposed. Yeah for sure. This is always room to improve.
What do you think it's player of the series?
We're doing players of the game and series overall.
Yeah, yeah.
I think about the whole series.
This isn't it's tough just coming out of it.
Yeah.
There is a little like hack that you can use.
It does say it in like three.
No.
I shouldn't see it.
You actually don't see it.
I'm actually here.
I don't see it.
Where does it show?
Right above the screen right there.
Oh, I actually didn't see that, actually.
Okay, that's good, and thank goodness.
And that was about to corrupt you on that one, though.
No, no, I was like, wow, Kobe is leaking the stress.
I don't think that's a monetary stress.
Yeah, you already talked about it.
I do want to know, in a lot of these calls,
like, is it just, okay, the rest of the team is going in
and the engageer be that who he or be that
humbalk for the most part, is immediately going in,
because especially in that ViGar game,
and you were following up super super well.
Yeah, I think.
I mean, it's kind of like a group thing,
like everyone needs to be in position
for the engages to go in.
But it's kind of just like the whole team is like,
this is like a good timing to fight,
like we wanna fight here,
and so everyone's like ready for the engage.
But I do like the fact that you mentioned
Homboc earlier.
I want to sit.
Can you talk about Homboc just a little bit more
and just like what he brought to this series
and how you guys have kind of grown together so far?
Yeah, I think Homboc is like a very aggressive jungler.
I think this week our goal is to like, take everything but everything is a bit too much, you know.
We have to reel him in a little bit.
Yeah, I think just like she brings aggressive like he knows what he wants to do.
And it's just like we're kind of trying to surround him and make sure that we're playing for him too.
That is Golden Glue act as stress as he looks on his foot.
Oh, scams, reactions, we always get.
He's pulling his arrow out.
Yeah, he's getting the ball in the between game.
The brother is as red as Cuber at some time.
Yeah, I think.
I think out of game, he is definitely very,
like he, at least shows like a very calm state.
I guess maybe like in the camps, he's not so bad.
He let's it out when you got in the game.
That's fine, that's fine.
Let's pull up the bracket.
Let's see what we have to look forward to
and also what you guys have to look forward to.
If you have a series coming up at the end of this week just tomorrow cloud nine versus
fly Quest, any thoughts on that series who you think is going to take it up?
Everyone's looking at cloud nine, are you doing the same thing?
Yeah, do you think cloud nine is just really good right now?
They're really giving us so much room.
If you have to play fly Quest then, they kind of expected next opponent.
How do you feel like you're, I mean, they match up, it's going to go.
I think cloud is still like one of the best myths, I think.
He's just very good.
You can't say much about how I do because it kind of depends on the day, honestly.
I mean, Stink is these had towards APA.
How do you feel about, because he won two player the week?
Yeah, any thoughts about him?
Do you still regard him to be the best man?
Like, do you regard him to be the best man living in a league?
I think overall is a mid-laner right now.
Yeah, I think right now he is.
Just like overall though, like this, I think each mid-laner has their own strengths
or like things that are better, better than others.
Okay. What's Claude's main strength?
I think Claude's main strength is his
leaning. I think APA is also strong leaning, but
he just covers all the bases that I think a good mid-laner should be
like playing for jungle, like map rotations, teamfighting.
I think Claude is also strong at teamfighting, but right now they're like
map movements aren't as good. Okay. I mean, you're going to be going up against both.
We're probably going to be clipping out this next part, which is, what is your specialty?
What do you get me on?
We need you to start guessing yourself up for this.
I think.
I'm kind of like best at, I want to work on team fighting, but I think my team
fighting is as strong as my landing is like decent.
Yeah, yeah, save them.
I think those are my two bigger strengths.
Okay, perfect.
We're running team fights.
But thanks a lot, congratulations again on picking up the dub that must have been a stressful series.
Yep.
And...
Yeah, I do.
True.
Yeah, the relief can start lifting after holders.
True.
But that's going to be it for us guys.
We'll be back tomorrow, 4pm Eastern 1pm Pacific Cloud.
We're going to give him some time to rest.
Maybe this is the next pillow as well.
Take it easy, guys. Have a nice one.
I'm going back to the LCS, it is Greek one of the lock-in playoffs kicking off, we are finally into Best of Five.
I think that's a good.
I'll tell you.
Sentinel's were pushed, but they did not break.
They take down DSG.
They qualify for the America's Cup,
and they continue their march towards first-hand.