Top the hit in the regular season. With the all-cleaving the league and falling short
of winning another trophy, the former MVP became a sought-after prospect in the off
season. To that end, Quid fans himself on one of the most successful teams in LCS history
and the only teams that ever lift a trophy more times in a row than any other.
To say Team Liquid quit is a player to watch in the LCS would be a massive understatement.
I think Team Liquid, they have most experience I've ever been in my entire career.
So, I'm really excited to learn from KOR and I want to prove that
HHS team can compete against Asian teams in international tournaments.
So I try to focus on that and I'm a player who can be meaner.
Yeah, I mean, these first season as I said, I just seemed like a player that had the tools,
but wasn't able to put the tools together, especially in big moments.
And I think that these NBA season, especially going into last year,
what you saw as a person would play better in big games.
And I think that that's a sign of a great player.
And when I look at Quid, I see someone that has, you know,
gone through the hard part of the beginning of his career
to now be in a place where he's very comfortable
with his gameplay, comfortable with his style
and able to perform on that biggest stage.
We're so back.
But for Quid, he never left.
I think it's really good for me if Gangwookies are doing all
because this just shows up what you're missing out
potential like NACL players or Tier 2 players.
In almost every sense of the word,
LCS team disguised RN anomaly.
They're a guest team, not a franchise team.
They live and practice in an apartment together
rather than some fancy facility.
Instead of being owned by some business figurehead,
they're owned by a streamer who used to wear a bread
slice on his face.
We always refer to Toast as boss man,
because he is the boss man.
He's not shy about his opinions of what's going on.
I'm putting me the legends for that.
But disguise of the transgression is one that seems eternal.
Something that the community for better or worse is always latching on to.
They're not good.
Consistently being powering at or near the bottom of the league going into a given season,
disguised have been the floor of the league since they debuted.
I mean, I was a flip between TL and Cloud9,
but I'm doing Team Liquid, Cloud9, Shopify,
Then Lion, FlyQuest, Sentinels, Dignitas, and DSG.
So when the 2026 SCS season begins, DSG find themselves in a familiar place.
At the base of a mountain, staring up at seven other teams that are supposed to be better than them.
Starting the season with VZ issues, almost all new players and the shadow of doubt looming over them,
Disguise seems doomed to fail. But with two talented rookies hailing from opposite sides
of the development ecosystem, there's promise in this roster if not a lot of faith in the
untested side. So, can two rookies save the worst team in the LCS? Well, they might have already.
To understand Disguised in 2026, we need to look back at how DSG came to be at all. As it turns
out, one fateful tweet on October 30th, 2022 would trigger a chain of events that leads us to
current day League of Legends. As well known streamer Jeremy Disguised posts Wang tweets,
Yo, who's the best available unsigned Pro Valorant player at the moment, thinking of starting a team?
That shot into the void would lead to the first DSG equates team, and less than 8 months later,
a familiar looking message would hit the timeline on May 22nd, 2023, leading to disguised NACL roster
of fake-code, Tomeo, Young, Reach, and Zazel, signaling their entry into competitive League
of Legends. They rostered that would end up winning the 2023 NACL Summer playoffs and sending
two of their players to the then new Shopify rebellion. Unfortunately, the team would not
see continued success in Tier 2, but would get another break in 2025 when the LCS introduced
the guest slot. A qualified system which gave teams a chance to play in the big leagues,
something that the LCS hadn't had in more than a decade. Back in the old days, the bottom teams
would play the top qualified teams that came through the circuit in the promotion relegation
tournament, with the stakes being a ticket to the LCS. Once the league franchised,
the old tagline of five guys and a dream faded into obscurity. As the league became
a closed system for the teams that had bought in. The new guest slot gave that path back,
however narrow it might be, reigniting the idea that five players that looked good enough
could go from nothing to something. The SkyTool ever were invited to the league in 2025 to
fill that slot, as the qualified infrastructure wasn't in place yet, something that lent more
doubt to the teams that found themselves now among North America's biggest names.
After a string of last or near-last place finishes that included both mid-season roster
and coaching changes, DSG would end 2025 and went to actually play for their spot
backing to the LCS, just as the system intended. Which they successfully defended, taking out
Luminosity Gaming 3-1 in the final to prove that they were just a flash in the pen invite
but a team deserving of their final slot. That brings us back to 2026, where DSG finds that
they have to rebuild basically their entire roster thanks to the newest team in the LCS.
Sentinels. Once I knew that it wasn't going to be feasible to attain our 2025 roster anymore,
we kind of wanted to blow it all up. It turns out that what the guest slot provides a way for
fresh teams to play at the highest level, a callback to the Halcyon days of the
religions esports that saw teams like the original Cloud9 turn into household champions,
it also creates instability that can be unattracted to prospective players.
Even if disguise defied the odds and save became world champions,
they'd still have to play for the LCS slot at the end of the season.
This led Jungle XU to leave for his X-team Dignitas, while Darkwing's Rheal and Huudu
were all snatched up by Sentils, leaving Castle as the only remaining piece.
To make matters worse, Cryra, the rookie jungler that the Skies had picked as their first new player for the team were in a bit of a busy issue,
meaning that DSG came into weak one not only in Anonymous 8 for the Dive Power Rankings, but without the player they'd built their team around.
So, with veteran LLA support Lions, Elsage Challenge and BitKalmy, DSG's only veteran Castle, Rookie bot laner Sajed and substitute jungler Kisner,
they walk into their first series in the LCS with most of their players having never played on this stage before.
And who were they playing? Well, because the LCS script writers are really good at their job,
they're obviously playing the team that took all their players, Sentinels.
Against all odds, Disguise managed to upset Sentinels and win their first series on the LCS stage.
But DSG! They took down the Nexus turrets! DSG! They didn't need those three out of five members!
They just needed this one shot!
With four month most valuable prospects a-jed,
being more than his fair share of stand-up women,
which leads us to more formally introduce the two freshest players that DSTU have brought in,
N.A. Rookie's Sajed Pen-Kryra. Hitting from opposite ends of the competitive landscape,
and I don't just mean the USA and French Canada, come two players looking to prove themselves.
Sajed is a former Fly Challenger of AD, the same team that Marcel has owned before he won the
most valuable prospect award, joined the main team and won two championships. After his time
on Fly, Sajed joined collegiate giants Maryville, arguably the most robust tier two organization
of the country, where he experienced the daily routines of a competitive league player, a
system that honed him for his eventual LCS debut.
Cryra on the other hand is a long-term challenger player that has been a top-ranked ladder player
since he was 15, while Sajed is eerily like Maso in terms of his team-fighting mechanics,
consistently finding ways to dance around his opponents and maximise damage.
Cryra on the other hand?
I don't know what else to say, Cryra just sends it.
So two rookies, one from one of the most prestigious amateur programs and another from T2 and the
wilds of NA solo queue, convert on a team that is unlike any other.
Unfortunately, once week 2 rolls around, Cryra is still not on US soil, and so DSG go again,
This time against the LCS's other rookie-laden team, FlyQuest.
Even after a 2-1 loss, DSG with their substitute jungler are starting to instill some belief
into their collective consciousness, which is made even more impressive by the fact that
Kizno barely screamed with the team at all, as they still prefer to mostly practice with
Cryra ahead of his debut.
Mercifully, by week 3 of walking, Cryra does arrive.
The bad news is that his debut game is against the reigning MVP and clear best jungler
in the league, Inspire.
Surely, the team and everyone doubted before the season even started, and had to play with
a sub-jumble is going to follow up against one of the top-rated teams built to the brim with
talents of recent history and the best Western player of 2025.
Surely.
Their win against pre-season top 4 contenders sets them up for another date with rival organization
Sentinels and even in a close series loss, the potential of this team is showcased once
again.
Despite that, DSG find themselves in a spot where they can still win it all in their
first split with basically a new team.
But most importantly, DSG is just fun.
In an era where Esports has ballooned into something much bigger than when it began,
to me, this guys represents a modern take on the game we all fell in love with.
The team continuing to invest in rookies and establish competitive rosters for the fraction
of the resources makes them fun to cheer for.
Players like Cryra and Zjed getting a chance to shine, being given the time and energy
to bloom into the place they could be is a great thing for the region, which says nothing
of the moments that Castle, Cormie and Lions have already shown this split as well.
More than that though, I think we just need a team like Disguised in the League, a team
whose graphic design sense is more practical than the college, a team with only enough
resources for a single coach, a team that reminds us that what we have in North America
is worth getting excited about, a team that reminds me of the sport I can tell
I'm up with, a team that doesn't just make me remember the past fondly, but
one that also makes me excited for its future.
It's no secret that VSC is a little bit lower on resources than everyone else, but so like we've got a team house, we take our manager's car to the LCS studio.
We're kind of like humble livings, but I don't think it really matters too much.
I think it just matters like what the people in the room are doing.
And if you guys are being productive and you have goals, I don't think the resources really matter that much.
Wait so this is for content or what is this for?
League of Legends pros are all about preparation, planning and countless hours of practice.
So what if we threw them into a game mode that had nothing to do with any of those things?
I played a lot of mehams so...
Okay then you better carry.
Should I go just say 80 nazas this game?
I think so.
We're not sending them in without help though as they'll each have a right game
diff who worked on the mode on hand to ask questions.
My CDs are so short. Yeah, you have you. Yeah, your CDs are a little bit quicker. Go down now
We'll lie in all flight quests find themselves victorious in this most serious high stacks match of air and the LCS stage has ever seen
Yeah, me. Yeah me yummy. Let's find out. We are ready
Ready ready ready?
Okay guys, let's try our best
Come cryo, let's go
Okay, okay, okay, let's go
Okay
Dev, what's your name?
Hi, I'm Noor.
Noor?
Okay guys, we need a tank.
Okay, wait, I'm totally taking Soraka because I'm the worst player in the game.
No, don't worry.
There's still Berserk in the game.
Alright, so what's OP?
Okay, what's OP?
3C is OP, but I think we need a tank champion if we really want to win.
Yeah, we probably need a get-about-kai, don't bother.
Oh, Moomoo might be nice, I'll grab.
I'm not playing tank anymore guys. We need some CC. Do I just got wasted fight, but someone needs to go TF
Please please someone drop ego right now
Saints where you playing you're playing Jen. I mean Jen's nerfs on this mod. Vayne
Zerka I know you're on Vayne
You think so bro?
I'm gonna try to go healing nidalee. Alright, that's good
You can go Poe with the augments. Poe healing nidalee? Yeah, but that's not thinking like lude it's into the
Helia maybe?
Is it worth to reroll on the first or not?
On the first?
Yeah, you don't lose anything.
Yeah, you get three rerolls every...
Reroll good chance.
That one's decent.
You think?
Okay, I would take this if...
That's a...
So what's a good combo?
Because I play mayhem, but I haven't played this new mayhem.
So what's changing this one?
We have a lot more augments.
We also have augment sets,
which is like if you combo a bunch of augments together,
you get a bonus.
If you see like stacking set,
I want someone that's hard
Okay one person farming, who's farming?
Jeanne?
I'm farming, I'm farming
Please give me a cannon
Go go go go
You like?
Whoa
Okay don't go deep, don't go deep
Okay three, three
Oh guys, I'm good, I'm good
I'm all in with all my
What the fuck?
Let me last hit cannon okay?
Can my Jeanne just land spells?
Nope
Okay, then it's FF
Oh my god!
Twitch?
Who's Twitch?
That's Cryo
No, I'm just on him man
Double W, oh my god, noobs
Get him, get him, get him
My champ is off
I need 500 gold
Why don't you go poke Nazis?
I'm cooked
I
Decade it guys we go get in there
It's funny is throwing this guy. I mean not this time. What was that?
So, okay, so Nora where the odds for prismatic lobbies
Right now they're around
30% for happening in a game. We have some scalers make sure like you don't get four prismatics
or like, you know, robotics
Oh, we go, we go, ready?
I die, I die, I die, I die, I finish
Oh, what?
What are you cooking here?
What's this guy doing?
Oh, hell no!
Oh, nice
What is that, is that drawing?
Okay, QN3, QN3, QN3, QN3, QN3, QN3
So, all the stacks, like, three of the kind and stuff, right?
So, what's the bonus pack?
The stacking set is like, infinite recursion, hard engine
That one is like, basically, you pull down
Hold down if you get a bunch of T-dans
Alright, let's get in there
I go, I go!
Cristana just jumped in
Cristana is my fan, I'd probably quad
Quad and T-dans?
You can't know, huh?
Oh, he was fun
Okay, looks like the most frustrating champ to play against
After me, it's Bran
Like that, there's someone I'm Bran with
In front, I'll con to it
Just go next
like holy moly going at it.
We're going to monitor and see if we get to it.
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
Give me reset reset reset reset!
Just thought I just kind of believe it, like.
So is mayhem going to be permanent?
Can we get some hits there?
It's going to be around for a while.
I don't know.
It's going to be permanent.
I mean, hey, that's a step towards the right direction
there.
I will say that mayhem safe league. It's gonna save weeks single-handedly. I know it
You're so useless man. I'm so used to that
Hey, who's our move?
Okay, I can't get it this game guys no cap
There's Kinoaib!
It's Kinoaib, guys!
Okay, there you go, Claudio.
Yummy!
Okay, okay, okay, let's go!
I need to die, I need to die!
Get it, get it, get it, get it! Yeah!
Get that, there's no bad death in ARAM.
Okay, there's bad death, but...
This is Kinoaib!
Guys, go get the cannon!
Okay, I'm just gonna get cannon and die for the cannon!
Cannon, cannon! Okay, it's okay.
Die for cannon, die for cannon.
I can't kill you guys.
I'm full HP. I'm full HP, we can fight.
I'll jump for you.
Whoa, okay, okay, okay, not bad, not bad.
Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on.
I tried.
Get in there, get in there.
Oh go go go go go go go!
Ok nice let's go!
Go go go!
Let's f**king go!
Ok, are you in hard?
Dancing dancing dancing dancing
Yeah it's lowkey broken
Yeah we need heal cards, we need heal cards
For now they are unkillable and my van is a bit useless
Thanks bro
We can win, don't worry guys
You can go land, here you go
Oh! The kill!
I don't want to be in CC!
God, this Nazus hit me!
Where is he hitting me from?
How is this balanced?
What? How is this balanced?
It's not balanced, thank you for that.
Godu!
Hello.
Godu!
I'm fucking... I'm not playing this at all.
I'm so used to that, I'm okay, I'm so used to that.
Whispering, cricket.
Circlip, bro, not cricket.
Oh, circlip.
I got a good shot.
Get him. Get him.
Oh, okay. Oh, what?
Where?
I didn't hit him.
Where?
There you go.
Oh, nice.
There you go. Good.
Okay.
I think he's still Korean.
I'm down to go. I'm down to go. I'm down to go.
Okay.
Bane, Bane, Bane.
Are we looking for Bane?
Yeah.
Yeah, I go I go watch me go gakus go go go go
I'm you have you have to be what's really nice
I'm always stack yeah, oh yummy I feel for you. I'm over here. Oh
My god, oh my god
Oh my god, look at gakus gakus
oh my god this guy's only targeting me oh my god he's about to kill us all
guys don't give him my stuff
oh wow oh wow Kod is Kod is kind of strong guys give me count now but why
the tank is so broken I got both no tanks are not that will be on this
I don't think they're good.
They're currently giga broken.
And they could pull them down, that'll be.
No, no, no, but it's like if you can stack your oddness,
you will also be giga broken too.
God, kill him! Boom! Holy!
Yummy, yummy!
Hold on, I guess it sucks. How do you get somebody stuck?
Just say it out.
GG level. GG level. GG level.
That was fun.
Just want to say on behalf of everyone,
Thank you for mayhem.
Much appreciated.
It is actually the best game of the ever.
When I first joined SES, I was really bad.
Like one of the worst mid laner in SES.
Picture this.
You're the first new team of the franchise era
to ever win a North American championship.
After that success, you continue to build fandom,
create exciting rosters,
and generally accommodate yourselves into a sport
your organization wasn't formally known for. You hit a point in your history where you have
one of the most exciting star-studded rosters in North American League of Legends history,
and while the lustre of names like PXN and Doublelift don't quite bring out the same way
they used to, you also have Korean-turned domestic legends someday, your star-turkish
jungler that was the MVP of your championship season, all alongside some of the most exciting
young talent in the league. As exciting as it is, this iteration of Hundred Thieves does
not work out. Finishing third in the regular season during the spring of 2023,
but bounding that early in the playoffs and as expected, if still painful for everyone involved,
the greatest midlaner to ever grace professional North American League of Legends is retiring.
As Bjergsen finally puts an end to his incredible gaming career.
Imagine being the player that is forced to fill these shoes.
If that sounds like a big ask, it is.
But come the summer of 2023,
100T settles on a young Korean talent to fill the shoes of the most veteran player of the
position ever.
From Gen.G challenges comes Quid, a player who's no stranger to being compared to
the great players he's surrounded by past or present. Genji is of course home to Chovy,
arguably the greatest modern midlaner to ever play, who it turns out is having one hell of a 2022
season. So off to a new region to play at a level he mostly hasn't yet. Quid moves from South Korea
to the endless southern of Los Angeles to play with the same stacked roster that Björksson left,
and he is to put it nicely, absolutely horrible. Quid's rookie split is marred by mistakes,
errors, and a general downturn from a team that looks like it's worn out the shine it
had when they first slipped in a trophy. So when the year resets and the 2024 roster
is revealed for the AUG, fully 80% of it has been replaced. Every single player will
retire or move on to a different team, leaving just one thief standing for the previous season.
Their head coach even leaves for another team, as the AUG promotes their former academy
coach to lead the new squad, something he's never done before either.
Seemingly doomed to fail, with budgets presumably tightened and the team trying
to regain their footing almost from scratch, who do you think this single player left
on the roster is that same mid laner who season this historically bad, Quid.
And the best part, by the end of the split, he's going to be the league's MVP.
My first impression was just that he was like pretty good in lane if I'd ever interacted
with him solo queue because I try to interact with most players in solo queue just because
it's fun.
Like a funny guy and it was like nice to lane for some because he was always playing
solo queue.
My first impressions on Quid was probably a lot like everyone else.
I think that he joined a pretty underwhelming under thieves and it seemed like he suffered from pretty big stage nose
To be honest, I had also seen him scream because I watched the LCS team scream in my spare time as well
And I thought that he had like a lot of potential
So like to me he was just like a young Korean kid that like came in with like a ball of mechanics
I had a vibe as opposed to like the macro side of it
I thought that if he could just get over
what was holding him back on stage so it would be a really good play.
To get to Quidd's transformative spring split, we first have to go back to his debut split
just before it, summer 2023. Despite the weight of such a legend of the game retiring,
the only slightly changed hundredthies roster actually began this season with a W, a good
sign for a team looking to continue their regular season form from spring 2023 where
they finished third, before crashing out in back to back best of fives in the post
season. Given that the only change coming into summer then was mid lane, it's a good
Good thing the team starts off with a victory to swirl their confidence.
The problem is that the player in mid lane isn't a young South Korean talent but another
old Danish guy.
That's right, coach Nuke Duck actually had to feel in for Quid due to visa problems at
the start of the split and shockingly they won with the Ducks Ari holding up quite nicely.
Quid's actual debut game though, it's perhaps an omen for the rest of the season
as it's an absolute disaster.
anyone in this league and when I play against Jojo, I felt that this league isn't that easy.
I just try to practice more.
Scoring off against Peak form Jojo Pyun on Evil Geniuses who would later be crowned the
splits MVP, Quid ends the game getting literally outfoxed by Jojo's Ari and ends the game
a bleak 1 and 8, getting solo killed and just generally gapped in the process.
And the trajectory does not improve from here for Quid, as 100 thieves spend the
season treading water and trying to find any semblance of stability, even losing their
final week tiebreaker game to Dignitas to finish in 8th place, scraping themselves over the
finish line and into the last playoff spot.
Starting in the lower bracket against Team Liquid, Quid finds himself facing the other
even newer to the League North American Terra APA, who are fairly unceremonious through
everyone lost ends their season.
While the team had flashes of brilliance throughout the split, nothing added up in a way it promised
on paper, with veterans some day, closer and double lift not hitting the ceilings of their
former glory and rookie support Buccio trying to find his feet in the big leagues the same
as his mid laner.
While Quid's ego would never be bruised quite the same way as his first meeting
with Jojo Pune, for the most part 100 thieves beat the not so good teams and a massively
underperforming Prince-powered Flyquests and lost to everyone else.
Of course, this started the same old discourse it always does.
I tried to not care about what communities say.
I knew it's going to be something I didn't really try to watch there.
Yeah, I didn't try to watch there.
Criticisms directed at just about everything you could think of,
with Quid's play becoming a focal point for 100 tees downsizing
and as always people calling for a change.
And a change did come, but probably the one people didn't expect.
While some called as always for the ejection of any underperforming player,
others looked at a truncated split from a player that had barely any time to adjust to his new team,
let alone a new country, and wanted to see what Queer'd looked like after having a bit more time to marinate.
Instead of changing midlaners once more, 100thies changed literally everything else.
Even Coach Newtuck, left for GoldenGlu, who had formally been the team's academy head coach,
brought into the fold to lead the main team for the first time.
Apart from Grayson, the other notable acquisitions on a roster that looked like quite the downsides
from the previous veterans contained Rookie Top laner Sniper, brother of former NA Pro
Viper called up from the Orcs Junior Squad and previous finalist Jungle of River, a player
known for playing for his lanes and making solo laners shine. A revamped, youthful 100T roster
that had in some ways nothing to lose. The only veterans were River and Australian support
Ailer and all of a sudden, Kuiid is the longest tenured player on the Orcs main
League of Legends team after not even half a year with them. Clining up in his first
First game of spring against the same team and mid-limit that knocked him out of playoffs,
Quid faces APA in his zigs once more, but this time the story is very different.
Unfortunately when he meets his other North American nemesis, reigning MVP JoJoPin who's
now on Cloud9, it's yet another Gafferney.
Come week 4 though, against the same Akali that gave him trouble in the opening week
and Quidd finally gets some revenge.
Whoa, it gets JoJo stuck on the right side of it, now Seismic's shot.
Oh no!
He's on the unraveled earth!
A colleague ain't gettin' out of that one, baby!
Quidd, pick it up again!
As the curtain closes on the regular season, everyone starts to notice the same thing.
In the games that thieves are winning, Quidd is carrying out of his mind in most of them.
Winning players of the game more than any other player throughout the regular season,
the Quidd masterclasses are a treat to watch.
Whether it's his Yone or a control match like Taliyah,
Qid has somehow completely reversed his fortunes from spring and is playing like the prospect
he was promised to be.
He even pulls out Vega of all champions in the last week of the split against defending
champions NRG.
From a player that began his career in North America getting embarrassed by the region's
most prominent mids to finally shaking off his demons by taking them down and propelling
his team to a second place finish.
Playoffs however does not go to plan for the young, aggressive minded thieves as
they run into a rampaging lore bracket team liquid on their own historic run, but the
skill on display, particularly by Quid, has not gone unnoticed by the peers or the public.
After debuting against Jojo Poon to begin his career, merely a split later, he takes
the title away from that same player to be crowned the MVP.
I was really happy that I won MVP in the season. When they first joined NACIAS,
I was really bad, like one of the worst mid laner in NACIAS, and in next year
I proved that I'm a good player and on display I proved myself, so I'll do it again.
Turns out if you give a player the right environment, good support, and just a little more time to prove themselves to you,
that pressure turns calls into diamonds, and nobody into the player everybody else wants to be.
The Thieves' excellent run would continue in summer 2024,
despite a rocky regular season, with Quid continuing to show his prowess on a host of different champions,
but all with the same eventual outcome.
When he has a good game, he carries you from the start of the game straight into the enemy nexus.
A third place in playoffs at the end of the year was good enough for his first world's appearance
in 2024 and the opening split of 2025 saw the thieves finish atop the heap in the regular season.
With the org leaving the league and falling short of winning another trophy,
the former MVP became a sought-after prospect in the offseason. To that end,
Quid finds himself on one of the most successful teams in LCS history
and the only team to ever lift a trophy more times in a row than any other.
To say Team Liquid quit is a player to watch in the LCS would be a massive understatement.
and able to perform on that biggest stage.
We're so back.
But the grid?
Never left.
I think it's really good for any if Young Wookies are doing well,
because this just shows up what you're missing out on potential,
like NACL players or Tier 2 players.
In almost every sense of the word,
LCS team disguised RN anomaly.
They're a guest team, not a franchise team.
They live and practice in an apartment together rather than some fancy facility.
And instead of being owned by some business figurehead, they're owned by a streamer who
used to wear a bread slice on his face.
We always refer to Toast as boss man, because he is the boss man.
He's not shy about his opinions of what's going on.
I think he's...
I'm putting me in like this.
The disguise of the transgression is one that seems eternal, something that the
community for better or worse is always latching on to you. They're not good. Consistently being
powering at or near the bottom of the league going into a given season, disguise have been the floor
of the league since they debuted. I mean I was a flip between TL and Cloud9 but I'm doing
Team Liquid, Cloud9, Shopify, then Lion, FlyQuest, Sentinels, Dignitas and DSG.
So when the 2026 LCS season begins, DSG find themselves in a familiar place. At the base
of a mountain, staring up at 7 other teams that are supposed to be better than them.
Starting the season with busy issues, almost all new players and the shadow of doubt looming
over them, disguised seems huge to fail. But with two talented rookies hailing from opposite
sides of the development ecosystem, there's promise in this roster if not a lot of
faith in the untested side. So, can two rookies save the worst team in the LCS?
Well, they might have already.
To understand Disguised in 2026, we need to look back at how DSG came to be at all.
As it turns out, one fateful tweet on October 30th, 2022, would trigger a chain of events
that leads us to current day League of Legends.
As well-known streamer Jeremy Disguised post-Wang tweets,
Yo who's the best available unsigned Pro Valorant player at the moment, thinking
of starting a team.
That shot into the void would lead to the first DSG E-Flots team and less than
Eight months later, a familiar-looking message would hit the timeline on May 22nd, 2023,
leading to disguised NACL roster of fake-god, Tomeo, Young, Beach, and Zazel,
signaling their entry into competitive League of Legends.
They rostered that would end up winning the 2023 NACL Summer playoffs
and sending two of their players to the then-new Shopify rebellion.
Unfortunately, the team would not see continued success in Tier 2,
but would get another break in 2025 when the LCS introduced the guest slot,
A qualified system which gave teams a chance to play in the big leagues, something that the LCS hadn't had in more than a decade.
Back in the old days, the bottom teams would play the top qualified teams that came through the circuit in the promotion relegation tournament, with the stakes being a ticket to the LCS.
Once the league franchised, the old tagline of five guys and a dream faded into obscurity, as the league became a closed system for the teams that had bought in, and new guest slot gave that path back.
However narrow it might be, reigniting the idea that five players that looked good enough could go from nothing to something.
Despite however, we're invited to the league in 2025 to fill that slot as the qualified
infrastructure wasn't in place yet, something that lent more doubt to the team that found
themselves now among North America's biggest names.
After a string of last or near-last place finishes that included both mid-season roster
and coaching changes, DSG would end 2025 having to actually play for their spot back into
the LCS, just as the system intended, which they successfully defended, taking out
Luminosity Gaming 3-1 in the final to prove that they were just a flash and
and invite with a team deserving of the final slot. That brings us back to 2026, where JST finds that
they have to rebuild basically their entire roster thanks to the newest team in the LCS, Sentinels.
It turns out that what the guest slot provides a way for fresh teams to play at the highest level,
a callback to the house soon days of the Regalurgian Esports. It's all teams like the original
Cloud9 turned into household champions, it also creates instability that can be unattractive to
prospective players. Even if Disguise defied the odds and save a king or champions, they'd still
have to play for the LCS slot at the end of the season. This lit Jungle XU to leave for his X-team
digging tusks, while Darkwing's or Hell and Hoo-Hee were all snatched off by Sensibles,
leaving Castle as the only remaining piece. To make matters worse, Cryra, the rookie
jungler that Disguise had picked as their first new player for the team, ran into a
easy issue, meaning that DSG came into weak 1 not only a unanimous 8th in the die power rankings,
but without the player they'd built their team around. So with veteran LLA support Lions,
LCK challenger mid call me, DSG's only veteran Castle, Rookie Vault Linder Sajed, and substitute
jungler Kisno, they walk into their first series in the LCS with most of their players having
never played on this stage before. And who are they playing? Well because the LCS
script writers are really good at their job, they're obviously playing the team that took
call their players, Sentinels. Against all odds, Disguise managed to upset Sentinels and win their
first series on the LCS stage. With four month most valuable prospects aged, they more than his
fair share of standout moment, which leads us to more formally introduce the two freshest players
that DSG have brought in, N.A. Rookie's Sajed Pan Khaira, heading from opposite ends of the
competitive landscape and don't just mean the USA and French Canada come two players looking to prove
themselves. Sujet is a former Fly Challengers AD, the same team that Marcel is on before he won the
most valuable prospect award, joined the main team and won two championships. After his time on Fly,
Sujet joined collegiate giants Maryville, arguably the most robust tier two organization in the
country, where he experienced the daily routines of a competitive league player,
the system that honed him for his eventual LCS debut. Cryer on the other hand is a
a long-term challenger player that has been a top-break ladder player since he was 15.
What's a dead is eerily like Masu in terms of his team-fighting mechanics, insistently
finding ways to dance around his opponents and maximize damage.
Cryra on the other hand? I don't know what else to say. Cryra just sends it.
So two rookies, one from one of the most prestigious amateur programs, and another from T2 in the
wilds of any solo queue, conveyed on a team that is unlike any other.
Unfortunately, once week two rolls around, Cryer is still not on US soil, and so DSG go
Again, this time against the LCS's other rookie-laden team, FlyQuest.
Even after a 2-1 loss, DSG with a substitute jungler are starting to instill some belief
to the collective consciousness, which is made even more impressive by the fact that Kisner
barely screamed with the team at all, as they still prefer to mostly practice with Cryra
ahead of his debut.
Mercifully, by a week through a walk-in, Cryra does arrive.
The bad news is that his debut game is against the reigning MVP and clear best jungler
in the league, Inspired.
Surely the team that everyone doubted before the season even started,
now had to play with a sub-jungle is going to pull against one of the top-rated teams
filled to the boom with talents of recent history and the best Western player of 2025.
Surely.
Their win against pre-season top 4 contenders sets them up for another date with rival organization
Sentinels and even in a close series loss the potential of this team is showcased once again.
Despite that, DSG find themselves in a spot where they can still win it all in their first split
with basically a new team. But most importantly, DSG is just fun.
In an era where E-splits has ballooned into something much bigger than when it began,
to me disguise represents a modern take on the game we all fell in love with.
The team continuing to invest in rookies and establish competitive rosters with a fraction
of the resources makes them fun to cheer for.
Players like Pryor and Zjed getting a chance to shine, being given the time and energy
to balloon into the place they could be is a great thing for the region, which
Which says nothing of the moments that Castle, Colony and Lions have already shown a split
as well.
More than that though, I think we just beat a team like Disguised in the late.
A team whose graphic design sense is more practical than the polished.
A team with only enough resources for a single coach.
A team that reminds us that what we have in North America is worth getting excited
about.
A team that reminds me of the sport I fell in love with.
A team that doesn't just make me remember the past fondly.
A one that also makes me excited for its future.
It's no secret that DSG like it's a little bit lower on resources than everyone else
But so like we've got a team house we we take our manager's car to the
LCS studio we're kind of like humble
Humble livings, but I don't think it really matters too much
I think it just matters like what the people in the room are doing and if you guys are being productive and you have goals
I don't think the resources really matter that much
Wait, so this is for content or what is this for?
League of Legends Pro's are all about preparation, planning and countless hours of practice.
So what if we threw them into a game mode that had nothing to do with any of those things?
I played a lot of mayhem so...
Okay, then you better carry.
Should I go to say, APNATOS this game?
I think so.
We're not sending them in without help though, as they'll each have a right
game diff who work on the mode on hand to ask questions.
Yeah, your CDs are so short.
Yeah, your CDs are a little bit quicker pulled down now.
Will Lion or FlyQuest find themselves victorious in this most serious high-stacks match of
ARM the LCS stage has ever seen?
Yummy.
Yummy, yummy.
Let's find out.
We are ready.
Ready, ready, ready.
Ready, ready.
Okay, guys.
Let's try our best.
Sounds good.
Come Crayo, let's go.
Okay, okay, okay.
Let's go.
Okay.
Dev, what's your name?
Hi, I'm Noor.
Noor?
Okay guys, we need the tank.
Okay, wait, I'm totally taking Soraka because I'm the worst player in the game.
No, don't worry.
There is still Berserk here in the game.
Alright, so what's OP?
Oh, there is OP.
Okay, what's OP?
3C is OP, but I think also we need a tank champion if we really want to win.
Yeah, we probably need a get-about-kai-jump-father.
Oh, Moon Moon might be nice.
I'll grab Moon Moon.
I'm not playing tank anymore, guys.
We need some CC. Do I just go Twisted Fate? But someone needs to go TF, please, please.
Someone dropped Ego right now.
Saint, where are you playing? You're playing Jhin.
I mean, Jhin's nerf is on the smoke.
Vayne!
Zercher, I know you're on Vayne.
You think so, bro?
I'm gonna try to go Healing Middle-E.
Alright, that's good, that's good.
You can go Poe.
Well, the Augments is pretty OP.
Poe Healing Middle-E?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But that's what I'm thinking, like, Ludens into the Hellia?
Maybe?
Is it worth to reroll on the first or not? On the first?
Yeah, you don't lose anything. Yeah, you get three rules every real good chance balance decent you think okay. I would think of this if yeah
So what's what's a good combo because I played mayhem, but I'm playing this new mayhem
So what's changing this one? We have a lot more augments
We also have augment sets which is like if you combo a bunch of augments together
You get a bonus if you see like stacking set now. What's the most powerful?
Ok one person farming, who's farming?
Jin?
I'm farming, I'm farming, I'm farming
Please give me Kennel
Go go go go
Yikes
Woah
Get rid of him
Ok, don't go deep, don't go deep
Ok, three, point three
Not a luck, not a luck
I'm good, I'm good
I'm going to win all my
What the fuck
Eww
Let me last hit Kennel ok
Can my Jin just land spells?
Nope
Ok, then it's effect
Oh my god!
Who is Twitch?
That's Cryo.
No, no, I'm just on a map.
Double W. Oh my god, noobs.
Get him, get him, get him.
My tap is off!
I need 500 gold.
Why don't you go poke Nazis?
I'm cool.
I can kill you, okay?
Ah we go. Get in there.
NOOOO!
It's already shiny sterling.
This guy, I mean at least I'm fine.
What? What was that?
So, okay so Nora, what are the odds for prismatic lobbies?
Right now they're around 50% for happening in a game.
We have some scalers to make sure you don't get four prismatics or like, three prismatics.
Ah we go, we go, ready? I die, I die, I die for this.
Oh hell no!
What is this guy doing?
Oh hell no!
What is he doing?
Kill him 3, kill him 3!
So all the stacks like 3 of a kind stuff right?
So what's the bonus act?
The stocking set is like infinite recursion
It's a hard enter
That one is like basically
It's like roll down if you could have a bunch of take downs
Alright let's get in there
I go I go!
He's not gonna just jump in
I just jumped in
Okay, what's like the most frustrating champ to play against it ever made brand like that is so annoying brand with the info on conduit
Just like
Go go go go!
Give me reset reset reset!
Just thought I just couldn't believe it, but...
So is mayhem gonna be permanent?
Can we get some hits there?
It's gonna be around for a while, I don't know, it's gonna be permanent.
Okay, okay, I mean, hey, that's a step towards the right direction there.
I will say that mayhem saved league.
It's gonna save league single-handedly.
I know it's...
Bro, Quad, you're so useless, man!
I'm so useless. I'm so useless.
Please!
Hey, who's our move-o?
Don't hit cannon, please!
Okay, okay, okay!
I'm running away, I'm running away!
I got him.
Okay?
Yeah, that's perfect.
Okay, die here, die here.
I have you all.
Okay, come on!
I can't carry this game, guys.
No cap.
There's a cannon wave.
It's Kelo wave guys!
Okay, there you go Quad.
Ah!
Yummy.
Okay, okay, yeah, let's go!
I need die, I need die.
Yeah!
Good, good, good.
There's no, there's no bad death in ARAM.
Okay, there's bad death, but...
This is Kelo wave.
Okay, Quad get the cannon.
Oh, okay, okay, I'm gonna get the cannon and die.
Not for the cannon.
No, no, no, no, it's okay, it's okay.
Not for games, not for games.
I can't carry you, they're good.
Apollich, Apollich B we can fight.
I'll jump for you.
Whoa, okay, okay, okay, not bad, not bad.
Oh, I got it, not bad.
I tried.
Good, good, good.
Oh, go, go, go, go, go!
I can hear you.
Okay, nice, let's go!
Go, go, go!
Let's f***ing go!
Okay, are you in hurry?
Dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing
Yeah, it's low-key broken
Yo, we need heal cuts, we need heal cuts
For now they are unkillable and my van is a bit useless
Thanks, overall
But we can win, don't worry guys
You can go in
You go, you go
Oh! The Q!
Quad of me and CC!
Yo, this Nasus hit me
Where is he hitting me from?
How is this balanced?
What? How is this balanced?
It's not balanced, thank you for that.
Godu!
Hello.
Godu!
I fucking... I don't know how to play this 8-up.
I'm so used to it, I'm so used to it.
Whispering... cricket.
Circlip, bro, not cricket.
Oh, circlip.
I don't know what's up.
Get him, get him.
Oh, okay. Oh, what?
Where?
Oh, I didn't hear.
Where?
Hahaha
Wait, what?
Oh, there you are. Go.
Okay.
I just sent you to Korea.
I'm down to go. I'm down to go. I'm down to go.
Okay.
Pain, pain, pain. How are you looking?
Yeah, you have me too?
He's on HP, yeah. He's there.
I go, I go. Watch me.
Go Gakus, go, go, go, go!
I feel for you. I'm on my hill. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my
Oh, Gakus!
Oh!
I deal?
Oh!
Oh my God, I'm so...
Bro, this guy's only targeting me.
Oh!
Oh my God, he's gonna kill us all.
Aw, guys, don't give him my stuff.
Oh, oh wow.
Oh wow, Quad is kind of strong, guys.
Gimme a kill.
No!
But why are the tanks so broken?
I got told to...
No, tanks are not at OP on this mode.
No tanks are good.
They're currently...
...kekebroken.
And I got told they're not at OP.
No, no, no, babe.
It's like if you can stack your ordnance like you will also be gigabroke too
Just want to say on behalf of everyone, thank you for mayhem. It's actually the best game whatever
Where's the movie's kingdom?
What?
You can't just do that when you start the intro.
Yes, I can.
You're barely ever here.
You told me two seconds before.
You're like, Kobe, you can welcome us.
All right.
Well, welcome to Kobe's kingdom.
That is crazy.
We've got some really fun stuff for you.
This is awful.
On Super Friday.
Super duper, extra super mega week.
I feel like the opener that you had during the dive where you're just swiveling around
and now this, you're on something.
What's going on here?
There you go.
Is that a control?
It's pretty good.
Okay, Colby, what's next in your kingdom show?
Yeah, I feel like we should take a look at the bracket,
Jaff, because bracket is usually pretty important.
Don't do it to him.
Don't give it to him.
Let's take a look at it.
Don't give it to him.
They're listening.
As you know, Cloud9 are the best team in the LCS.
So, you know, they deserve to be up in the winners' series.
They do.
However, today we're gonna have some interesting
examinations.
Jaff, who are you feeling so far?
Which of these series is going to be the most interesting?
So I feel like this whole weekend is going to be a reminder
of what we thought of the teams before the year started.
I think the last three weeks happened.
But they didn't.
You can't just make full judgments of a team off
of a couple of best of threes.
Once you hit the best of fives,
is when you start making real judgments of the teams.
Yeah.
DSG, for instance, they lost.
It was very close.
Very, very close.
I actually had a pretty positive feeling about them for most of this series.
I did think they were going to win 3-2, but they narrowly lost at the very end.
What was your prediction, Kobe?
I remember because I predicted Sentinels on this one, but my faith was starting to shake,
especially when we were seeing pretty awesome drafts from DSG's side,
and some of their games looked really, really solid.
But no, Sentinels show up that day.
Yeah, I actually predicted DSG, because going into the series,
Call Me had been performing really well.
I have a lot of faith in him.
And I really like their team fighting around the Jed.
However, on the day, both called me, well, OK,
the first couple of games he was good.
The first great game won.
The first game was great.
But he really struggled and fell off.
The Yone game, definitely very hard.
The Harri game, he had like 10 deaths or something.
And then Lyons.
Lyons also crashed and burned.
So I think that they will be able to recover.
I think that was an underperformance in their previous series.
And they'll be much more competitive.
Yeah.
I think they're a bit fraudulent.
From DSG's side, I think the biggest concern
that we saw from DSG was like, the regular season got
them to this point.
They had pretty easy opponents in my mind.
So Shopify was a good one.
Like Fly, when they're in 2.0, you're like, wow,
really working within their
favor. Yes, I do agree.
They were a big surprise in how
they're performing.
So how they're performing was a
big surprise to me.
But a lot of it was a positive
surprise.
It was a positive surprise.
But there are a lot of
negative surprises about like
Team Liquid and Lion not getting
it together.
Digging thoughts of what I
thought the DSG was going to
be better than just didn't
have their roster together.
So I think it's just like a
lot of teams kind of getting
it together really late.
They did be a lion.
They did.
But I don't think that's
going to lie.
and I don't think that's gonna last for a very long time.
So, and you're right, call me.
Looks great during the early parts,
but I'm starting to see the concerns that I had
prior to the season start to really seep in once more.
So you're kind of on Jack's thing.
The beginning was a little fairy tale.
They played with a lot of confidence,
but I do want to say,
I need to pull up the right clips here.
Cryra to me in this series forced a little bit too hard.
So the one game one, he looked great.
This was the beginning of game two.
This is the Ash Seraphine game.
If you look right here, it's an Ash Seraphine bottom lane,
so he tries to take control,
but who he was absolutely all over this invade,
they just guessed that Cryra is gonna be here.
Wow.
And then who he spots him out right after he uses Q,
Cryra has to run away, level one, one minute of the game,
while Hanbok is on his red buff,
so he never really recovers from this in this game.
Go to game four on Mundo,
another win will actually get them the series,
and the beginning of this play
I remember makes sense right if we look at the mini map
Vigars and base they have retp first they think they can at least push them out of the river. Maybe get crap. So cryra
Tries to get crap doesn't get the smite. They see who he
Oh, yeah, hold on who he's who he's right here. Yeah, that's uh, he's right here right there passes it there bot lane
You know only two people down here. Yeah, Vigars back in lane
The play is over guys the play is over once he flashes out
the fire says you know what is it though he did push the top laner out this guy
probably left surely right no why would he leave cryra he saw you take wolves
humbuck had double buffs he was always gonna be able to fight this and the
midlaner had inside track so the idea of the original play was good but then
the follow-up ended up being a problem there was a third time the same play
run very similar play again look at the mini-map look at the mini-map I'm
I'm looking.
Bart Lane is empty.
This guy can be anywhere.
Even this guy could actually be anywhere.
But Cryra says, you know what?
I'm going to try and take the grump.
This one, I think, was probably the worst of the three, because who he sees him right
here.
Honorable mention to this bar tunnel, because it needs to be placed for Cryra to take,
and then he can take the tunnel and dash away.
Instead, he dashes over the wall, who he gets to take the tunnel, and they're
able to chase down lions.
It doesn't seem like an honorable mention.
That's like a report mention.
Yeah, there was a lot of, I'm sure.
You're avoiding him?
What are we reporting him for?
Reporting lives there.
An honorable opponent.
Yeah, okay.
That's an honorable opponent.
Okay, yeah.
Look at that, you're going to call them fraudulent there
if the Pantheon invade works.
Yeah.
If they don't go over aggressive in game four,
if they don't go over aggressive in game five,
game five ended up being close.
True.
Part of the reason.
Versus sentinels.
Part of the reason, you know,
I'm here right now, I'm sentinels.
Part of the reason why people
were so pleasantly surprised though,
is because there were no expectations for this DSG roster.
Remember, most of their team got stolen by Sentinels.
And so I think that's where a lot of this hype
started building for DSG.
Definitely agree, a lot of the inbates,
like they were not accounting for everything.
So obviously there's some more things, too, as well.
They need more time to play together
and iron out some of these issues.
I would honor Huyi already from your replays.
I mean every single one of those plays was like actually by the way who he blew is here
Hasn't been all sunshine for team liquid Jack. We thought they were gonna be I mean I pretty sure I put them number one
You did you did Kobe and you yeah
Still could but I would say they almost lost this
And this was a tiebreaker just to be six
Yeah. In the regular season, they could still run the lower bracket if they so choose.
Uh-huh.
But are you coping right now to still be right?
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
The thing is with Team Liquid, if you look at a lot of their stats, just like team stats
or just like individual player stats, mid lane, for instance, Quid is like still top of the charts
of mid laners, like the problem is they've been getting the early leads.
The throws, especially in this game, is what people remember them by.
Even in Kespa Cup, that is what started the entire question mark with the team
team is that they had a huge lead versus Nunchin and then through in that series like they will
be a little bit over eager. That has been my problem with the team thus far. Yeah. And we need to
call this out. I know some people probably are just here online. There was an interview with XU
after the series that he had with Cloud City that FBI knew that the final engage was coming
and he thought he'd outplay it. Yeah. He said in calm and we actually pulled the
calm to confirm this story so that we need to see this
they got our waves
it's okay
defend the waves
I'm gonna bait him
I mean
in fbi in their defense
that wasn't as far away from the engage as I would have thought
he was like he's on mid lane guys and then like
I don't know two seconds later the engage came
I thought it was gonna be like this this plan
like in 15 seconds man he's gonna be hiding as a minion
it's I mean it's just
everybody but FBI. If Thresh had the lantern on top of him, when the engage starts and the
insta-qss pulls it, it actually works, but Thresh is too close.
FBI is right now watching this screen nodding his head.
Yeah, I like that one. We're bringing that one to the review.
FBI lawyer right there. Honestly, though, I thought it was such a good interview from
And the answer was so funny because during the moment, I was casting that and I was like,
Korge is a God.
Yeah.
He just won the whole game.
Yeah.
We're not going to win that game.
And then I was like, oh my God, they needed heroics from Korge.
Yeah.
Win.
But they also needed the enemy team a little help.
A little help.
And that speaks to how TL have been pretty rocky.
pretty rocky, I mean definitely undershooting expectations significantly because they were
crushing scrims, players on all of the other LCS teams are fearful of Team Liquid and they
still are even with the stage performances that we've seen.
And that's the weird thing with Team Liquid for me because there is a huge disconnect
between what we hear that they are doing in scrims and what we see that they are doing
on stage.
And for what it's worth, I feel like most of the time, scrims do correlate to stage.
I know the take that a lot of people have is scrims don't matter, but it's because when
they don't match up, it's always so jarring.
And it's like a specific case of when they're not matching up, which is what this team is
doing because I imagine like the two best teams in scrims are C9 and TL.
It's translating for one of them and it's definitely not translating for the other.
It's crazy because like, I remember I think it was a dominant C9 piece that mentioned
team liquid is not a stage team, DSG is a stage team.
And the concept of them being a stage team is like, well,
we see DSG and scrims and they're not performing at all.
Even the idea of like, oh, why did we not pick DSG?
Like Vulcan making the jokes of like, oh, let's not pick
DSG because they're not performing well on scrims,
but they picked Sentinels because, oh, at least they
ended up repicking FlyQuest because they had scrims.
They already played them on stage.
They already had like previous experience with them.
So it's like these two teams, both DSG and Team Liquid,
have such polarizing different, I guess, viewpoints
of one team is able to do it on stage
and Team Liquid has not.
You know something else that has not been syncing up
for Team Liquid, kind of like the scrims to stage games,
has been Yon from last year to this year.
Yon and this TL bottom lane is basically
what TL rebuilt this whole roster around.
And to be fair, we also were all of last year.
Oh my God, Yana, Core JJ, this bottom lane,
everybody fears them.
They're so good in lane phase.
They carry a lot of the games.
Yana was a big centerpiece, a big carry for 14 liquid.
And his stats this year are like bottom two.
For most of the stats for AD carry roll,
they're making some mistakes in lane phase,
which had been very, very rare for them.
And then also something I found very interesting
when I went to go deep dive on these,
he actually is getting the,
well, second to least CS of his team,
this one at the bottom, between 15 and 30 minutes,
teams usually get to choose where they give CS,
the easiest CS, and they usually will funnel it
into AD carries, but Yon down there at seventh place,
between the 15 and 30 minute mark
is getting the least percentage of CS.
Which means, generally, Kwid and Morgan are just goblin' it up.
Well, it depends.
Who else, right?
It's not CoreJK.
But it's a combination of things where
Yano was this big, reliable carry for this team all of last year.
And that is certainly not working out.
And he's also not getting strong for the teamfights
that they're going to need him to carry.
Because we're seeing the desync plays where
quid is getting strong, but then maybe he gets caught out or he's not, you know,
synced up with the rest of the team.
And so there's something, there's something that has to come back for Tio.
Yeah. And we have a question for chat.
Reason we have these five players is everyone's chasing C9.
Yeah.
So I'd say before the season, if you were to pick an 80 carry,
who would you want on your team to be the best team in the league,
which is currently C9?
Who would you take?
And almost everyone would have said, Yon,
because he was the golden boy of this team.
Yes, he was.
but has that opinion changed based off
of the performance of the first three weeks?
I mean, Mossus had incredible landing performances.
Sajed has been a breakout star.
Brazurka's looking good, even if Lyon isn't looking good.
Razz, you already know what I'm going to say.
Like, Raquel has just been incredibly good.
My guy.
Even on DSG, he was carrying them last year.
He was doing so insanely well for that team,
and now he's doing it for Sentinels when they were just,
I feel like a husk.
Right now, the strategy is if your team cannot play
a solid game on sides.
Just try and protect Rahel.
So Sujetta did a lot of over.
OK, so what I'll say with Team Liquid is they're just not
synced.
They're trying to just win every lane rather
than playing a controlled stop.
Like, yes, Korda, Jey and Yon are playing like maniacs,
but it's well-quitted Morgan are also playing like maniacs.
Like, they just don't have that team balance.
I think the Canary in the coal mine
is the CS 15 to 30 minutes, where it is clear that they
just don't have a cohesive plan of how they play.
In fact, I think Team Liquid might work better
if Yon takes a bit of a step back, plays safe,
core roams more, and they play off Morgan and quit.
That could be a better strategy for them.
Yeah, it would just be so different
because last year, another one of the stats that was up there
was damage percentage of the team's damaged dealt.
Last year, Yon was a huge portion,
and now he was eighth place of damage dealt
percentage for AD carries.
I think Yon still, no, Masu actually won that poll.
Yeah, we'll see.
I will come back after that.
I was going to choose Mastu, he was for today for an interview.
Oh, hello, I'm here with Cordy J before your match against DSG.
I want to talk to you a little bit about how you're feeling about the season
overall, obviously you're going to be starting in the lower bracket.
Maybe things didn't go quite as expected for TL.
Yeah, but even though I didn't expect them, we're going to start from the
low bracket, the only thing I expected is like to win the, the
like in tournaments here and I didn't think we failed it yet so we tried to make it and I'm
glad we have a lot of games to win like more game is better makes a lot of sense we had to yawn on
on pros recently and he was talking about how you guys were trying to kind of get your stage play
closer to how you're playing in scrims and kind of bridge that gap since you didn't have to
play last week is that what you guys were focusing on in practice and kind of how
How has practice gone for you?
Yeah, our scrim was always good.
And at least this week, we were trying
to practice how to practice as a team.
So I think the more we play scrim,
I can feel like we're getting better as a team.
So I'm very satisfied with how much we improved this week.
And I'm excited to show.
What's your prediction for the series today?
It's gonna be the top guess that'll say 3-0 all right. Well, you heard it from him. Let's see if he finds out if he's ready or not
Tough guess 3-0
We never know what TL is gonna show up on stage because I feel like
I've actually seen good TL and bad TL in
Individual moments so you can vote in chat
Which one's going to show up today is it going to be good TL or bad TL and I'll show you some examples of both
So this was from their first game against C9 of the whole year if we can pull this up on screen
immediately please for the first clip that I'm going to be showing
Because you can see right here quid
eight minutes into the game just
Absolutely murders the flashless blabber who they killed in the previous fight. This was crazy
It's crazy that he just finds him here
Well, and if you look at the mini map, right? He had mid pushed in they totally took over bot lane
They have C9's bot lane scared. It's like wow this C9 is so great quids gonna run over the game, right?
That's good TL. Here's bad TL
My man my man. Yeah, just auto-attacked to death 1v2 by APA
okay, another example of
Good TL is in this this moment
right here again look at the mini-map
mid lane crushing bottom lane have pushed them in
so much so that they can solo drake and the support
can keep APA can keep Labr away top lane
up 400 gold from laning mid lane up 400 gold from laning
bot lane up 400 gold from laning but the bad TL comes out
didn't count the experience right impact is level six
Randomly just kills him I have to God. There goes your top advantage. Oops. Okay another good TL
Look at the scoreboard guys. This is hard to do this roller coaster of emotions. I was in gold up quid
Unbelievable player right five zero four can't hasn't done a wrong this game
Why is he here?
Why is five members of the opponent on screen with my one rise? Okay? At least you know
good TL will realize that they're still up in this game.
How did he get there, Jack?
Now I'm really wondering.
Yeah, it didn't occur to me.
What the hell?
If Team Liquid has two people up here,
two people down there, and five members of the opponent team
are here, good TL would run away.
What does bad TL do, though?
They say, let's kill this guy.
Chase.
Let's chase this man.
Okay, well, you know what?
We didn't get him.
It is still five before.
Maybe we should distinguish.
No.
Continue fighting.
I like that idea now I don't so good TL bad TL which one's going to show up after that disaster
there's a 4,000 cold bead for FBI but yeah right next to each other immediate good into
that they need to keep that good it's a new age dr.
Jekyll mr.
I'm still wondering how quick got there I think you rise all good interesting mystery
thumbs up guys.
Will we get good deal?
Good deal is winning barely.
I mean, it's a wobbly.
It's a wobbly.
58% up.
It's a wobbly one.
I still think that scrims matter a bit.
And they are so good in scrims.
And I think the hard part of what I just showed,
winning every lane by 500 gold, five minutes into the game,
having 5,000 gold leads.
That's the hard part.
They've already done the hard part.
The easy part is to just keep your head.
It's crazy, because the scheduling
kind of tricks you a little bit.
The fact that, yes, they lost 0-2 to C9,
but they were probably the closest opponents
in first C9 for a while, like the toughest
opponents that C9 has had so far.
And then they dumbstered Shopify Rebellion,
but now that's maybe not as impressive.
And then, yeah, the next few days.
Yeah, I didn't even show the game against Shopify,
because that was only good to you.
Yeah, that was only good to you.
They beat them in like 22 minutes.
They just spaced it out because the next week was bad deal.
It was.
I've got another idea, too.
Which of these two teams do you think
is under more pressure?
Because Team Liquid, with the high expectations
and with the structure that they have at Team Liquid,
they spend a big and they have a lot of pressure to win.
Meanwhile, on the other side, DSG, they do not spend big.
It's the opposite of that.
Yeah, it's to spend the little as possible.
Coach talks about this.
Yeah, be as frugal as possible and still get the value.
And it seems like they always have really good vibes as well,
whereas you can't help but have a lot of pressure on you
when you're underperforming at TL.
I think TL is under more pressure,
but I'd say the amount of pressure that GSG is under
has increased from the start of the split by a lot.
You're gonna taste the success?
I think that's what happened a little bit
in the Sentinel series.
Like finally, when they were up to one,
they're like, oh, we're expected to win now.
We're expected to beat Sentinels.
We're expected, like they were a game away
from clinching their first international tournament.
They would have been guaranteed either first stand or battle the Americas and they kind
of choked it away.
And now I feel like there's additional pressure when you were that close and now you're against
like a really good team.
So it's, I still think TL is under more pressure, but DSG is no longer playing for free.
I think something that I've really enjoyed watching DSG is that they have full faith
in themselves and they trust each other as well and they're embracing their creativity.
So if DSG do want to actually win this series as well, I think they need to continue to embrace
that creativity.
We did see a little inkling of it last week.
Guys, it's time.
For what?
Nasus.
Okay.
Did you find out?
Alone?
It's actually good, no?
Yeah.
I think it's really good here.
Nasus?
I'm serious.
Yeah, I'm being serious.
I'm actually...
That is...
That is, that is, that is, that is, go Nassus.
So we've created a segment as well.
Are you going to trust Castle?
Yes, they won that game.
They did.
They won a game with Nassus and Hymerd.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
You've got a patch as well.
There's been a big patch.
Well, I think it's a small patch, trust me.
There's really, the patch has a lot of lines in it.
It's big in that sense.
We are also in best of five feelers now.
So as you get deeper and deeper into Fearless,
Trust in your teammates and them having trust in their own champions goes a long way.
So we have NASA's up here twice.
Why they were able to win with it?
What other champions would you would would you foresee them possibly using?
I think Malkai got a nice little buff to clear speed on the queue,
which already does a lot of damage.
So you can do like Yone compositions.
You go Malkai plus Yone.
I trust that you can even throw a brand jungle.
I is less likely to trust them, but they didn't trust that one.
Get that off the screen.
I don't want to see that.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't be saying trust me.
Mal, okay, I'm dead.
Okay, I'm trusting you.
I'm trusting you.
Mal, okay, I'm dead ass.
What else, what do you got, Raz?
Okay, okay, what?
Fizz got changed in the patch.
No, no, no, no.
Are you kidding me?
Maybe a little Fizz jungle in your life.
Why are you trusting that?
I saw a perfect game from Kenyon in solo queue
playing this.
He's trusting it a little bit.
How many kills?
He was like 12-0-6.
Okay, okay.
I don't trust that.
You don't trust it, no?
Kerry junglers are hot right now.
Kerry junglers are hot.
I'm going to get a little crazy.
Maybe top lane.
Maybe a top lane.
I trust it.
I'll trust top lane grace.
OK.
All right.
What about top lane Shen?
Shen is super underrated right now.
Helps you.
Game five.
You need to split push threats.
And it can build band of pipes
when you want an enchanter support, Jack.
Enchanter supports are on the rise.
You still need your band of pipes.
I like Shen.
OK.
Yeah.
We'll take it.
This got nerfed, but only because it was so good.
Kira Zach. Oh, it got banned last week. It is a special. I think it's there. It's a special.
The other one. You know what runs through solo queue? That's game three. Three. Yeah,
he'll pull it out early. Okay. Is that good? All right. How about ribbon? The top like five
players in solo queue spam ribbon and ribbon is not in this game. Yeah, we're not accepting
it. What are you doing? We're not accepting it. Castle ribbon. We're not accepting this.
A castle ribbon. Have you seen it? Yeah, he's okay for now. But any any got changed a
a little bit of a buff. I'm saying it's inspired in this game, he's not in this game, he's
not in this game, he's not in this game. I'm trusting a Kaisa no matter what, I'm trusting
a Kaisa no matter what. That one's proven, that's a good one, I'm proving it, there you
go. You don't even have to say the duh in the dead ass, you get it. Okay, well that's
GST's pitch, we also have some pre-match banter from Team Liquid, let's take a listen.
So Jan, if today we give both cards, you're not gonna be banned? No. Game winning
might be. If you have a reason, I don't care. You better have a good reason. As long as you
have a reason, it doesn't have to be, Jose, it doesn't have to be a good one. You better
have a reason as all. My reason is gonna be I'm bi, I don't want to fight. If we don't
fight this. Yeah, I want to fight. I mean, they're in good spirits right now. And
I think it comes down. We should probably just speak on our predictions because it
It seems like a lot of people are confused going to this series and I'll ease your confusion
just a little bit, just a bit.
And I will show you guys a little bit of history in the LCS here about slow starts, but strong
finishes.
Let's start early, 2018 summer with Cloud9.
I remember this.
10th place in week three, we remember week three, three weeks of play, it's gonna
be a little bit rough.
You're in 10th with one in five, you find yourself second.
Of course I think that was, there may have been some rough times there.
was a 10 man roster incident. Yeah, the 10 man roster incident. But still, they finished second.
That was good. That was a great finish. 2022 spring. This is evil geniuses. This was tied
for seventh. I remember this period. They were like struggling and fighting to get into playoffs.
They get into playoffs and make the lower bracket run. Bam. First place finish. The
same could be said about NRG, a team that was tied for seventh, three and six by week
three. People were already kind of looking at roster and saying, I don't really, I
I don't see it. I don't see it.
Make that lower bracket run.
Finishes first place in playoffs.
I'm just saying, you may have a slow start,
but you may have a strong finish.
That's why for me, Team Liquid, I have taken the series.
I understand that it's happened three times.
Yes.
We've had 13 years of LCS
and there's been far, like,
usually the seventh place team doesn't finish Welsh,
right?
How did they relate to those teams?
Like, I agree with you, they're bottom,
Why are they like those teams?
This took me a long time to research.
You didn't pick up those teams.
I feel like...
The big thing is that a lot of these teams, like, really struggle to get it together and
have the same vision of the game.
With Team Liquid, I feel like there's a little bit of that, but it's mostly just not coming
out on stage.
It's happened before, buddy!
It'll happen again!
So, something that has happened a lot with Team Liquid is that Steve has been able to
pay and there's a whole meme around paid by Steve.
It's an old meme.
For victories.
But it's true.
There's another meme that has to do with money and that is Scrim Bucks.
You already at the beginning of the show said that you trust Scrim results.
I mean, I love Scrim Bucks and I'm the only one that's been paid by Steve.
Oh, luckily for you, this is a real one.
Whoa, you got me real money.
I thought it was going to be fake money.
I'm not giving you that one.
I got scrim bucks and real bucks.
I'm giving real ones.
But Team Liquid Scrims, these Team Liquid Scrim results,
are you ready?
Do you think the Team Liquid Scrim results
are finally going to actually translate to stage?
Give me some of this.
I'm not going to go to jail for trying to pass this.
These look actually like we're trying to forge money.
This looks like a-
What's up, Jack?
What's up?
Actually-
Hey, buddy, Steve!
Are we allowed to do this?
Team Liquid have been crushing scrims all year long.
All the other teams are scared of that.
I think it is finally going to show up on stage.
CoreJJ, Azale just talked to CoreJJ.
He said, practice went great.
They're happy with what they improved on this week.
I think it's happening, Rhys.
Also, Spawn had like an update on Twitter.
We're talking about how like the team had a real first,
like friction, like basically conflict.
What?
Good one.
Conflict.
Yeah, Cord JJ stood up from the seat.
No, but like, he felt like they were coming
to great conclusions then.
So like, hey, I'm just saying, I'm just, wait a minute.
I said 3-0.
I said 2-0.
Wait a minute.
Yeah, you guys don't say three two you're not invested as you thought everyone I said 31
You guys don't have faith in in DSG winning some games. Yes, you have been good
All I'm saying guys screw scrim bucks start the games
I
Welcome back to the LCS it's super week here at the Riot Games Arena and it's do or die
for many of our remaining competitors.
First up, Disguised have had a much stronger start than last year but after a tough game
5 defeat last week there are only one series away from elimination.
Their opponents, Team Liquid, return to the stage after barely qualifying for brackets.
They haven't had the performances many fans were hoping for thus far and they've got to find their stride if they want to stay in the running
Can team liquid get it together or will DSG knock them out and pull off the upset?
Let's find out right now ladies and gentlemen
I'm captain flowers joined by a sale and Emily for this best of five where the loser is done till spring
Yeah
Now that you say it I also want to know if we're
like trying to pass off fake money is real money and in the
lounge doing that it is I am going to go ahead and say we are not
trying to do that for anybody watching at all. Yeah cover our bases.
I like I like how you think but in in looking at these two teams the big thing to me and the kind
of surprise in all of the analysts especially Razz's prediction is how confident they are in
They are in team liquid. I know so many of us put them at the top of our power rankings
I do still feel like there's so much more pressure on them in this game
Yeah, because of the names on the roster and because of preseason expectations
Coming as the lounge already pointed out from those scrims where everyone I talked to and I know you guys had the same
Had the same result is everyone was saying they were absolutely
dominating everyone. Yeah I mean the reality is if TL lose here though it's
kind of the same result as as summer last year right where it's like they fell
out you know you'd be fifth six and that would be a massive disappointment for
this team that rebuilt retooled got quit who was kind of the hottest off-season
prospect to just have the same results as this disappointing finish in summer
would be crazy so yeah they are still feeling pretty confident in team
Liquid, but I don't think they've shown us enough on stage yet to really kind of earn that confidence
So they have to be able to show us here today
How well they can play against the DSG who has been very competitive. They went five games against Sentinels
They've been good throughout the lock-in tournament
And now it's time to see if TL could really step up and become the team that we kind of all expected them to be
Yeah, exactly. And I think this is a really really nice pick up coming out a first pick for
DSG taking away the rise from quid. I feel like when TL have been using quids playmaking
or kind of going for set plays, a lot of it has been when he's on this rise pick, they
seem to have had a lot more success in terms of moving around the map with the rise.
He gives you such easy access to side lanes. So really nice pick up coming out of TL,
coming out of DSG rather.
They absolutely agree. I mean, it's also going to be comfort for call me. And
I think Colmy has a pretty rough games against the Sentinels.
A number of the DSG players did, to be frank,
have games that work on below their expected standard.
Lions had a really shocking series.
Carrara had some moments that really did not go well.
So I think there is also this question for DSG.
It's like, can you shake that off?
Can you kind of have that Goldfish memory?
Forget about the last series.
Just go back to playing how you had been playing prior
to that series because there were definitely
some tough moments in it for a number of these players.
But I will say Castle was a big standout.
He was playing really really well. I think Sujet has been fantastic and they're gonna walk in the Nami Corky
A really powerful bot lane duo here and of course Sujet and Lyon, so we'll see how they can form on that
Yeah, and as we see on the TL side them walking in Unora and Niko another really strong
Bot 2v2 coming out here for TL and I think TL bot lane has been the focus not just of the team
But of other teams right we saw even in that best of one
against Dignitas, they split the map, they made it a really huge point of pressure
to try to attack that TL bot lane. As we see the Mbessa coming in, most likely going
to Morgan, but could also be going to Jose Diogo. Yeah, there's always that
possibility of it being a flex. Castle's most played by a lot is the
Renekton, so they're gonna ban that away, which is also we believe is gonna be
Mbessa top. You're trying to deny some of these more difficult matchups
here. But DSG, obviously, gonna be pretty happy. You know, not only did they
first pick but they got full counter pick of what we're expecting the bot lane to be, you know,
yeah, quid could potentially take the eco but we're expecting that's the full bot lane so they
have the answer there, they have the priority mid pick and still respect though from DSG that it
could actually be a jungle and Vesla because they're banning out the Gwent. Yep and I mean
kind of covering all of your bases also could be something to set up for potentially whatever
Castle wants to pick, um, did that say my boss quit today, sorry, came to LCS? Sorry, I got distracted.
Uh, as the Jays fan coming out, uh, against DSG as well by TL.
The Castle is one of these guys that is very flexible. Obviously the Nassus pick got a lot of attention,
but he loves some of these kind of like solo queue answers and various picks, so he's more difficult,
I think to predict to which I do think is why we're having some more of these top lane protection bands coming out there
And if you're gonna be taken away has become kind of the de facto answer to rise these days and competitive is really risen in popularity
Around the world had been more Casio that people had been looking towards but I feel like people just got so used to that matchup
We're able to pretty easily respond to it just with phase rushing out of out of the Casio W
Whereas I think it was really difficult to deal with as you see it as if they're listening
the Casio Hover, but it will be the Taliyah locked in for Quid going up against that rise.
And we'll see what DSG will respond to it on the other side.
And it's going to be the first Taliyah for Quid so far this year.
Of course they haven't played that many games, so not a big deal.
It is one of his most played all time.
I was going to say, when I used to think of Quid and River working together on 100 thieves,
They ran the Taliyah in both positions actually, but they also ran that Taliyah by so, so much.
So we know how powerful Kui can be on this pick.
As we see the meatball machine as Clayton was calling him last week, the scion locked
in as that front liner for DSG.
Yes, exactly.
That's what it was.
All right.
All right, so we'll get the scion we'll get the wukong right next to it there in the jungle
So there's your front line on the side of DSG meanwhile for team liquid the last pick coming through here
What is it going to be to round out this roster?
Let's see
Rundle is
is going to be lost in as that final pick for Jose. Really interesting pickup. Not something we've seen him play yet thus far this year. Yeah, I mean, I think
Trundle is extremely strong. Anytime I sign on us in the game, you just get a ridiculous amount of value from this pick because you are leeching
resistances. You are taking a percentage of their health and just chunking them instantly with that. Yeah. And it can kind of turn
Trundle, you know, into a super take himself, right? Like you can become very difficult to knock down. So I love it
The pillar also has great interactions, you know with the sign of Altie you can block out that sign of ultimate
No problem with that. I do think it's a really really powerful pick for a lot of different reasons
Also love Trundle into squishy champions like Nami without a dash
You just throw down the pillar behind them that can make it incredibly difficult easiest setup for seismic shelves for public
for these types of skill shots come through.
And talking about the Scion as just being this premier tank,
Trundle being able to shut that down,
being able to create the opportunity to punch through that brick wall on the front line,
I think is so important.
I especially think it's really important when you're having to deal with the Wukong also right next to him,
who's going to be jumping in trying to create a lot of disruption himself.
So excited to see what we get here in this first one,
as we're loading onto the red for the first time in this best of five.
remember this is for the life of both teams. If you lose here, you are eliminated.
We will not see you again until spring. Do or die. Leave it all on the stage.
Thanks for high for both of these squats and yeah, I'm unfortunately has a pause immediately
when we got into games. So hopefully we'll be a quick pause and we can get things sorted out
here quickly. We'll let you know as soon as we do find out any details on that pause. But
Yeah, both teams, their life on the line here in the lock-in tournament, of course, you know, have some work to do if they want to make it all the way to the first stand.
Or told me that was his goal, and he's like, yeah, we've lost more games than we were hoping. We started in the lower bracket, but we're not out yet.
We can still make it to the first stand. That's our goal. So the path at which they take is less important.
Looks like we are on pause, so things should be good, and we should be able to get this one underway.
Gonna be an exciting one here yawn on that you Nara something that I think he can really excel on
Yeah, and something that he's gonna have to excel on to build a punch to the front line
Yeah, when we were talking about this pick first coming out. He was actually the first to win on it
I think of any major
region
competitor just because of
It had lost in every other region, so we kind of dubbed it the you yawn aura
You first started playing it last year.
Alright, runes showing up on your screen right here.
Everything seems pretty stock standard.
Not super surprised at pretty much any of this.
Core JJ and Yon, the double Yon Arras down here in the bottom lane.
We'll see how much control they can get early.
We know that Yon Arra is a very, very scary champion level one.
If she's allowed to stack up the Q,
can force pretty much anybody else back.
back, but the Chetan Lions should just be fine.
Yeah, and I think the big thing that we should be looking at again for TL is this bot lane
because I feel like they were such a stellar 0.4 TL last year.
We talked about how Yon was the best ADC in the entire LTA at the time.
And in the 2v2 meta, I was really, really expecting TL to kind of have a stranglehold
on a lot of these 2v2 matchups, and I feel like they've slightly underperformed compared
to my expectations, but I also do feel like a lot of teams have been targeting them as
we see them already getting the Flash out of Sajed.
Yeah, Sajed kind of just overstaying their TL got two first, and Sajed clearly wanted
to try to fight for it a little bit more, ends up losing his Flash right off the back
of that, so that already is a nice advantage, especially, you know, as we said, Trundle
can take advantage if you're missing that Flash, if you're overextended.
you have Valk, but he just really has to hold the pillar until you Valkyrie, and then
you're pretty cooked.
Both junglers are on the bottom half of the map now, so Jose Dioto with the control over
bottom lane that his duo has should be able to have control over that crab very easily
as well.
You would have to think, or maybe there's the opportunity to punish that flash like
we're talking about.
There's even more playmaking there.
Yeah, as we see them all the way pushed up to turret doing a really, really good
job of completely taking over the push on this bot side and really, really nice looking
for this TL bot lane thus far.
Castles having a great time up here in the top side.
Getting that one shoved in on the scion has a lead of a few minions, but really nothing
crazy in any one lane here just yet.
Jose Diodo is going to make his way towards that bottom side crab exactly as I was expecting.
And you can see the passing from private just heading towards the top side river knowing
There's not really a way to contest down here for this bottom one.
This isn't a C9 game.
We're not going to see the first crab battle.
I mean, especially when you have full push from TLS5,
there's just not really any way for Kyra to contest that.
And you have that strong set on top right now,
as Castle has been laning well.
I talked about it a little bit during champ select,
but I think he has been fantastic for the team.
Really was a good performer in their five game series,
got a lot of attention from the Nazis, but was great.
I think pretty much across the board in that series,
and is going to have to also show up here today.
Morgan was a guy who received so much hype,
I think, coming into the season.
A lot of players were even telling you
they thought Morgan might actually
be the best player on their team,
even though he hadn't really been getting talked about a lot.
Whereas everyone really was focusing more on Quid
and Yon and this sort of thing.
So it's going to be a pretty heavy expectation on Morgan.
And we haven't really seen that player show up
that I've been hearing about from scrims yet on stage.
All right.
You can see mid laners right now, Quid going back,
making that first purchase, just buying a lot more mana for the inventory is just now
level 5.
So once we get to level 6, I want to see Team Liquid also succeed in utilizing these Weaver's
walls, setup plays.
We're talking about Yon on the Unara needing to stand up and be that big performer and I
think Quid being able to facilitate that with his Taliyah is going to be very important.
We're talking about the guy who was seen as like the big piece during the offseason
that so many teams were trying to fight for and it hasn't looked as good as I think
pretty much anybody was hoping so far.
Yeah, no, I completely agree.
I mean, I think he's had some really good moments,
but as they covered on the lounge, you know, before the day,
the reality is he's had some really bad moments too
that have cost them pretty heavily.
And that is kind of the weird thing about TLS.
You watch them individually, they all look really good.
For the vast majority of the game,
the team play is good.
They're creating big advantages
and then the wheels just fall off, right?
And they're kind of having these moments
where you're like, all right,
you're clearly on different pages.
Jose Dioto after one of their games
he was getting interviewed and he was on the lounge
and just talking about the fact that he felt like they were not going for plays that he would expect him to inscrime.
Ooh, nice. They get the flash out of call me because Jose Dioto shows up after the phase rush had already propped.
Call me had already got that burst of speed and so didn't have it to try to get away from the pillar.
That meant that Jose could close the distance and as soon as the threat of the chomp for the further slow is there,
the flash is forth. Nice quick move there from Jose.
Yeah, really nice and kind of a really easy demonstration of what this trundle can do.
playing off of his lanes and kind of playing around this push that quids to lia's already being able to create and we'll see because
As you were pointing out Isaac already, it hasn't been a lot of like
Individual mistakes as much as it's been. Okay. What is the team play looking like whether these?
Especially like in midgame skirmishes
What is that kind of looking like and that's where I really do want to see
We quit making plays with this to Leah easy access to sidelines right like kind of moving around the math like
Hold on now. There's your weavers wall also realm warp gonna bring DSG to the mix here to
Team liquid back in a way trying to secure control over the crap
It's a jet off the side wants to get a little bit of damage here some burst out of the hose
Idioto, but he dropped the subject eight to keep himself alive for now
Both junglers gonna be taken out of the equation and now a flash of the wall from the Nami as team liquid look for even more
Call me remember no flash available on the rise from the earlier play
Core JJ goes in for the flash root and there's the extra kill 2 to 1
Yeah, nice it played there by core at the end to grab that extra kill
But honestly not that bad for DSG considering they didn't get the crab
So Jose had six generally that means the fight is gonna be disaster
But so Jen had some really nice positioning kind of wrapped around the backside was getting a ton of damage down
and that's what prompted cryra to fly in getting to get that first blood car had been kind of just harassing Jose in the brush here
Yeah, as we see the crab fight begin. I really like how both mid laners actually end up trying to go
Only the clone gets trapped by that pillar
So then we see sujean kind of wrapping around on the quirky and he's able to get so much damage in
and then along with the Nami bubble to kind of stun up Jose and then this is just a really
nice play off the back recognizing call me does not have flash core JJ immediately goes
in lands the route and that kill goes over to play well play good CC chain is well though
from the DSG side to be able to take down the shuttle it's room prison in the Nami
bubble so Jed is behind him I thought they played that quite well it definitely could
have gone a lot worse given the scenario but at the end of the day you know yawn
and both get a kill, so Jed though showing off that level 6, the power of the Yanni and
the Corky, extremely high burst and then you look at his inventory you're like, well
surely he has some big damage, he's got a key over the crystal and he's here in some
boots.
I also want to talk a little bit about Lyons, right, because I thought he had his absolute
worst series he's had in their series against Sentinels as we see potential
scuffle over this red buff. Big Invade coming out from DSG here as they want to
fight Jose for the Team Liquid Red Buff and it looks like Team Liquid is
just going to decide okay we don't want to fight for this it's too big of a
risk. DSG brought a whole lot of bodies here and they're gonna get the
red buff for it. Morgan goes for the public execution there onto Castle,
finds some quick snappy trades but honestly not a whole ton of damage.
Yeah, and I like how they played immediately, DSG rather, how they played immediately off
of that bot side pressure, right?
They recognized, okay, we can go in for this invade.
Some of DSGs invades have been, let's just say, highly optimistic in some of their
previous series.
But I like that one because of how much damage to Jett was able to get down in that
bot lane and then recognizing that they could go in immediately for that I'll go
back to what I was saying about Lions really quickly in that we're looking
for kind of a redemption series from him and that really skirmish is already a
really nice sign with the Nami bubble doing a lot of work there right there
you can see Team Liquid looking to see or something maybe they can catch the fish out of water
I'm such a curse it's very unlucky well he does survive so curse averted for now
But it's pretty hard to go deathless on Nami, so you know, maybe it's just lingering, you know
We'll come back to get him later
Well, let's see as we continue to have junglers
Maintaining their presence in this bottom side of the map cry was gonna go ahead and start up that first Drake not a particularly fast
First Drake in this first game nine and a half minutes on the clock
Call me is going to walk over and assist cry over a little bit more damage lions and suggest also
Considering they have the push in the bottom lane. This should be an easy objective secure for DsG
Yeah, he was able to grab that, no problem.
One of the things I talked to Idol about before the year started was,
he's like, hey, we have all these players who don't have a tournament to spend experience,
you know, actually going into the series last week,
four out of the five other players have never played a playoff.
Okay, we've got ourselves a realm warp, and they want to make the 4v2 dive
as the wave is about to crash into the tier one turret.
There's your target, Pop Lossom from CoreJJ tries to defend,
But there's just too many enemies disguised brought everybody they needed they get both kills and they get everybody out
And I love that from DSG we're talking about how we wanted to see quid make some plays in the sideline
Great use of the realm warp coming out of call me who again?
We're talking about him potentially having a redemption series right?
teleporting both him and
Friara just as the wave comes up and even though core does get that pop awesome on the back half of that
It's kind of already over. I love how they synced that up with as the wave was crashing into turret, right?
Really really nicely done out of disguise.
Was it Yodo? Just going to go ahead and pick up the Void Grubbs.
Unfortunately, not nearly the fun objective that it was to take in the previous season.
Not nearly as powerful as it used to be, but still gonna set them up.
Maybe they can get some dividends from this if Morgan's able to maintain side lane control.
Or Quid can make some moves with the Weaver's Wall.
So this is the the preseason power rankings to the end of Swiss standing so we can see you know
TL was kind of the fact they'll first place team is suggestive flash in yeah
Yon is taking a whole lot of damage here and now more follow-up on the core JJ who's got to try to get away
He's already used the clone the rocket forces the flash there, too as team liquid bottom lane duo is continuing to feel the pressure
From suggestin lines. Yeah, what a great showing thus far from this disguised bot lane
really recognizing when they can apply pressure and now they have complete
control over this box side and so Jen is up almost 1k over his lane opponent in
Jan. He's doing great, did cost him his flash but we'll see if that gets punished or not
he's now also done the try for so on a pretty big spike here but again on
those power innings, the preseason power rankings had TL in first that was
our aggregated power rankings in the LCS and DSG was aggregate last right so
So DSG ended up way overperforming, I think, people's expectations, especially because fucking
Ido, the whole team was supposed to be basically built around Cryora, who they didn't have
at the start.
They were playing with Kizno, who they had played three total scrims with, three games.
That's the totality of his experience in LCS scrims, and they did great.
So DSG just kind of has been this Cinderella story, and the question is, you know,
has the clock struck 10?
Like, is it over or will you have that kind of continuation?
Okay, Lyons takes a quick bit of burst down here, but Jose Diodo can't really find any
opportunities to make any big plays, and now, with Jose being in the bot lane, Cryra's going
to take the opportunity, invade the team liquid jungle, steal away the blue buff.
Yeah, nice perfect nation of Cryra that he can steal some jungle camps on this top
side.
I love what you're saying about disguised as ill just because, like, they were screaming
with Cryra on a higher ping for most of it,
and they still managed to take a series with Kizno up.
Whoa, nice seismic shove there from Quid.
Going to force Callme down way lower on the health bar
than he expected to be.
He just catches him right there
at the very edge of the turret range.
Yeah, I think Callme just really wanted to stop that base
and got a bit greedy for it.
Was hoping he could step in,
maybe he can cancel the base,
avoid the seismic shove.
But at the end of the day,
doesn't matter too much.
That last part tripped him up a little bit.
Yeah, the best of intentions, the worst of execution,
Miley question's story.
No!
But that title actually goes pretty hard, Dr. Olai.
Both junglers up here in the top side of the map now.
Hosidioto seeing if there's anything he can find,
as Cryra is still ahead in the jungle.
First items fully complete for both of these guys.
Sundered Sky versus the Trinity Force.
Wukong, so much burst once that Triforce is completed.
This guy is very, very scary,
Team Liquid is going to have to give him plenty of respect considering disguised as up one and a half thousand gold as a team
And the biggest leads are in the jungle at 80 carry positions
Yeah, and the the two try forces hand in hand
They should be in a really good spot for any skirmishes that happen
And I just love how honestly
Disguised have been playing with this bot lane thus far like now they're moving them over
towards that top side trying to get some damage there.
Oh, public execution, call me, there's a lot of danger.
Morgan goes after him though, but the realm warp
defensively keeps the mid laner for DSG alive.
Gonna be able to stay alive there.
And honestly, I'm a bit surprised to see
Sunder's guy as the first item coming through here
for the trundle in pro play.
All right, Sandy checked myself, but 96% of the time
that is the item purchased.
So, you know, we'll see if he is gonna go
into like later try force or something,
a bit more weird, but obviously Sunder's guy
does have some sustain on it like that's a main kind of advantage is that if you
are able to get autos out on a bunch of different people you have some more
healing but Trundle just works so well with Triforce like it's just so ingrained
in the kit because the attacks can be really useful moves before so we're
gonna miss tries to get a bit tricky but yeah I completely agree with you
Triforce just feels like it's such a good Trundle item so we'll see how
much value Jose is able to get out of this sundered sky top lane scuttle
Crab secured here by Team Liquid.
They have control over the area.
They're still looking over at Colmy.
They know the rise.
No longer has the Realm Warp to try to maneuver
out of a bad position that he might find himself in.
So Gett just has to be a little respectful here
of Quidd on the Taliyah.
He does have the Seraph's Embrace fully completed,
fully stacked and evolved.
As now, Jose Diodo has the opportunity
to just take down this Rift Herald
all on his lonesome.
Lyons gonna make his way towards the top lane.
Tier one, reinforce Colmy there.
Make sure there's no danger,
team like they're just gonna turn their attention back over to the Herald where do we want to see them use this I
Mean, I would have said it's trying to set up for Greek, but that's not gonna happen
Is they're trying to make a plan to call me yeah on this top side, but that's not really gonna go anywhere
I mean, I still like if the default is to always use it mid right just because mid turret is the most
Important like early tier one turret. I think that's pretty inarguable and my like ideal setup is always
right before Drake, if you time it, right?
And then you get mid-Pri-O, you move in,
you immediately continue Drake stacking,
but we did see the trade of objectives with DSG
being able to get that Drake already,
and then TL picking up the Herald.
But that's always just default to mid,
because I just think it opens up the map so much for you.
And we talk about this, again, to Lea,
easy access to side lanes, you want to be roaming around,
you want to be able to apply map pressure
wherever you are, taking down the mid tier one,
Well, we felt so bad.
It hasn't been a bit of a slow burn game,
but I mean, this G has a slightly golden advantage.
Yeah.
Sajed in a lot of trouble, though.
The arc of ruin lines it up, and they knock it down.
Kill credit goes over to Yan as well,
with a nice seismic shove of the Cryo right after.
They're looking for more, but they don't have enough
damage to kill the Wukong here, too.
Team Liquid getting Yan paid, catching back up.
Now, overtaking Sajed in terms of individual gold,
and they'll be able to summon the Rift Carrier
up mid, and Cryo's about to drop the Hoga Diodo.
The thundered sky is plenty, and Trinity Force not required.
And there goes the enemy jungler as well.
This has been such a massive swing for TL.
I mean, it's huge.
They just went from down 800 gold to up 2.3K
in the blink of an eye.
And it feels like kind of just some unforced errors.
Almost, I mean, so Jett had no, had no Valq, right?
Cause he used it aggressively,
but he did have his flash, didn't use it.
Then Cryra tries to clone over the wall,
clones into the wall, doesn't use his flash either.
He dies too.
And it does feel like they just kind of gave some freebies over to TL.
And that was your two most fed guys.
Those were the guys that we were praising earlier as those big individual gold leads.
Nearly 1,000 gold ahead each.
And then, yeah, the aggressive Valks.
You love to see them when they result in those big bursty trades in lane
when the Corki is able to have that priority, that control.
But then he gets a little too aggressive.
He gets a little overconfident.
And Team Liquid are fast to punish.
House of Jet, Endanger once again.
Flash, Pop, Lonson for Core JJ.
Not going to find a target.
Beautiful bubble follow up from Lions.
But now DSG, where are they going to go from here?
Oh, Diodo has to flash away.
Castle and Morgan both going to arrive.
Meanwhile, the bottom lane turret falls with the tier one.
Team Liquid is just going to lose Core on that one.
Yeah, they do lose Core and it's
kind of a trade of flashes at the end today,
because Jose flashed, Core flashed.
They got both the flashes off the bottom lane there
from DSG.
But as you called out, great bubble from Lions.
To be able to set that up as Core was trying to get out
to safety after the field engage.
Yeah, it's nice to see again a little bit more redemption from lions coming out here and land the pillar onto to Jed to Jed is able to get away. But then really, really nice. It looks like a double bubble because of the Niko clothes. Yeah, Jose having to flash out of the back half of that one. Um, but it's really nice to see lions having a little bit of a redemption game because I actually
agree with some things you said on the dive,
is ill with him actually performing.
It does, occasionally.
Occasionally agree.
I say a lot of stuff.
But I actually thought up until last week,
he'd been performing pretty well.
Like, he'd been really, really solid, especially
in team fights.
And he had a really, really, really rough series.
So it's nice to see a little bit of a redemption game coming
out of him thus far.
I mean, I think, you know, not even just this year,
I think it's his worst series in the NA period that he's ever had and it was definitely a bit of a shock because he had been performing really well for the team.
Hadn't looked like he was on point, so Jett, pretty far up.
Yeah, the court, he's in trouble again. The damage flows through but there's not quite enough to kill him through the barrier here just yet, so Jett stayed alive for now, still fighting.
But does finally fall, treated for Hoseki Oto. Cryra gets over the wall there with his clone, has to use that side clone as well.
Morgan's going to grab the tier one turret up there in the top lane at the same time and team liquid continues to play aggressively
Around this Fed you know, I yawn 3 1 and 2 has to fully completed items working on the third very very scary
Yeah, it's really nice to see again the pillar usage coming out of Jose
I think has been really good with TL trying to chain all of this CC
And yawn again. We've talked about how strong he can be on this you know
I was put down early by disguised bot lane
But it's really coming back and now every time DSG try to make
Especially suggest some sort of aggressive move TL has been on it
I just love the emphasis on move speed here for Jose he went three points Q into five points
So here's so additional movespeed then he has a dead man. She's just so fast
Okay castle trying to frontline here as Morgan flies into the back line, but he's gonna take a ton of damage from DSG
both top laners get chunked down very very low here. The scion obviously the
tankier one has Morgan trying to wrap around see if he can get some pressure
onto this guy. Remember this is sole point. If DSG can secure the drake, Slam not
gonna do a whole lot of nice follow-up sides. McShulk coming out from quid
forces Castle to flash away dragging down to about 40% HP. DSG still gonna take
the objective as Kriva has to force Morgan back away. Team Liquid carries
under a little bit of pressure. Castle about to die. Hosebioto gonna
I grabbed the kill on that one.
His Lions is burning so very low,
but he's not quite dead here yet.
Castle's still trying to make a little bit more space,
but Team Liquid will take the fight.
They will take the Drake,
and they will stop DSG stacking.
And also, out that Teamfight,
you could see even with a few TL players
getting a little low,
they were able to blow so many flashes off of DSG.
DSG, as soon as it seemed like one member saw an angle,
they ended up having to back off
because all of the damage coming out of TL.
And we kind of all came down to Castle
getting caught on that top side.
New feature to go in, gets fillered, gets
side boosted up then, he's incredibly low.
And then you look on the other side of the map
and it's a completely different story.
Morgan is threatening here.
The battle lines completely break for DSG.
Lions is kind of caught awkwardly,
just trying to run away in the middle of the fight
to jettest by himself while Carlos trying to duel Morgan.
Everyone kind of seemed like they had a bit of a different idea
whereas TL, they had this early trade of health
and you think, okay, well surely Morgan's
gonna be less useful.
But he threatens on the flank
after pushing out the bot wave.
The other core four of TL stayed together
where DSG got kind of disjointed and a little bit split up and that cost them that third dragon.
Yeah, and going into this the question was going to be for TL like how well coordinated are they thus far.
We've seen some really really nice like little marks of play from them that I think make them look a little bit more unified going in than some of their previous outings.
Liquid is lurking and call me is finding himself in a very compromised position.
Weaver's wall gonna chase after him, Sy's makes shove, knocks him out of the realm warp and
there is no way home for the rise.
Now, Yon on a killing spree, team Liquid picks the enemy mid laner.
He'll be dead for the next 45 seconds, but what's the follow up move from there?
Yon goes forward, still has the ulti with the arc of Ruin to try to force the SG away
from the tier one turret.
Now, Castle's gonna be the target.
Sion is not as tanky as they'd want him to be Morgan just cuts him down
Pose the auto makes it so easy with the subjugate
Yeah, I thought they were gonna straight to Baron
But it said they just make a collapse on mid lane and they do look for a hard engage
And we saw Morgan fully committing that he didn't look for a flash ult on the Nami which did get flash
So that was kind of wasted but again castle goes down now
They will return at least threaten the Baron, but of course we know it is going to be a bait
with that seismic shuffle to hit Cryra, that could have been the play, or maybe they'll get it anyway.
Cryra down to 20% HP, tries to use the Cyclone to get away from it, but CoreJJ with a beautiful pop blossom
stops any chance of DSG recovering there. Now with the jungler dead for the next 40 seconds,
Team Liquid seriously looking at that Baron.
Yeah, absolutely. You see, again, the chain CC coming out of this TL pump.
They're gonna knock down at least the scuttle there get full vision over the entire top side of the map here
And I really love the interaction that they actually used to catch Kyra
So this is one of these things that you don't always think about so the size of the chub missed
But what Jose did is he placed his pillar directly on to the wukong to bump him into the unravel dirt
So he gets stunned by the Taliyah II even though the size we chub missed just use that little boop
Knocks him into the rocks. He gets stunned up. They chase him down. They knock him down
So it's very well played by TL, utilizing that trundle and getting a big advantage.
And now the map is completely dark for disguised on this top side.
So we see TL kind of cleaning up camps, potentially looking for more picks, pushing out this top wave.
Good side step.
Yep, that was really, really close there for Cryra, as Morgan now could find himself in a bit of a tough spot.
Suggested that the damage of the wall valks forward chasing after the team liquid top laner,
but they don't go any further they're afraid of the team liquid counterattack well and castle is afraid of that wall because he
Uped straight into it, so
Who decided it was gonna be mountain rift?
That's some crazy TL bias from the game design
Terrain is rooting for team liquid
There also could have potentially if TL wanted to go for it been a really dangerous wraparound there, too
But no, they're kind of content to keep baiting out with Fog of War on this top side.
And this just feels like classic TL with a lead. Make the map very dark for your opponents.
Lurk around in the jungle. Try to find a couple of picks to then continue making your big plays after that.
Castle is going to be the one who has to face check things here, but man, this map is so scary.
Fog of War everywhere. Lions is just going to drop. Yon gets the last auto. That's a free kill for the Unara.
And now Port J.J. hits a three man pop, awesome.
Private tries to save himself, but Morgan takes him out.
Castle's in the middle of everybody, as Morgan can fall back before he ends up
happy to give his own life.
Now Castle gets knocked down, enemy jungler, enemy support, enemy top laner
all out of the picture, and Team Liquid's heading to Baron.
Just like you said, the way they play with Fog of War, I love whenever you
see Kor waiting in the bush because you know he sees the play.
He's looking for the angle, really, really nice stuff coming out of his Niko once again.
Yeah, fine, it's a great engage, I mean, it's a hassle walking forward, but he's just not really that threatening, he's not really that tanky.
No one is there with him, so he steps up and posee just starts slapping him.
And again, Lyons is kind of on the wrong spot, he was separated from the team.
The team seems to be a bit disjointed on how they want to approach these fights, so he just gets chased down by Yon for free.
core finds this big pop awesome and that that feels like now the wheels have fully fallen off at this point
Yeah, as we see them looking for castle here
And the big thing that I want to call out again is just core waiting here
You know, he wants that engage to go in immediately. You are auto so he pop blossoms in the air
So it actually was perfectly timed. I thought that's what he might have done
But I didn't know that even though like the animation goes off early it actually stuns where you land and look like so
That was super well timed by core. Well played
Deep breaths guys. Use your eyes
Deep breaths, gotta stay calm. Gotta get all the way to the nexus
Like you were talking about as they'll core JJ earlier mentioning
Yeah, it's not the start to the season that we wanted but our goal is still achievable
We've just got to get there even this game started off a little bit rough.
This guy had a one and a half thousand gold lead after the early game, right?
You had big advantages for Priya and Sajed.
But then Team Liquid were able to maintain their composure.
They found windows where they could punish their opponent's mistakes.
And then as soon as they got those punishes, they've been snowballing it ever since.
Yes, they've had complete great control ever since as well, which has been really huge for them.
And now Yon is up 2K over his lead.
And I think they're playing around his aggression so, so well, with the insane amount of CC as quick as in.
Yeah, they're going into the Weavers, wall and immediately Lyons is caught.
Yon finds the arc of ruin there under Cryra. They want to get a second kill here if they can, but Cryra gets away for now.
Call me, gonna reinforce him. Meanwhile, back in the mid lane, Yon looking at Sajed, Cryra wants to go in after the team liquid.
the team liquid AD carry the core JJ is there with the defense John stand alive
for now castle doesn't have the damage call me trying to get something as at
least quid will fall John right next to him but call me loses his life in the
process Morgan gets the killing speed there on to
the jet and it's only castle still standing on TSG beautiful use of the
public execution of offers through the decimating smash Morgan guarantees the
ace and team liquid looking for the end of the game and Bessa does not
care about the towers at all as core is even to be able to survive
objective bounties are available soon. That's the cope. We're going for some bounties here.
Just get some of these shut down, pick up some towers, easy kill, more for 1k, you know?
Well the game's not over at least. It's still going. DSG's still in there but man, 10,000
gold difference. Team Liquid still with the Baron for another 10 seconds. The power play
up to almost 3500. This is looking grim. And I always just feel like when you have the
the luxury items coming through like Zonia's, Seekers, GA each one of those is one nail in
the coffin, right? And that gets so difficult because when you're behind, you're always hoping
for a catch out. You're always hoping for a one shot. That can maybe, exactly, it can
maybe even out the game. But when everyone has their tools available to keep themselves
alive, it gets so hard. Yon is really your only reasonable target by trying to fight
through a trundle through the pop loss and through the Ambesa to get in on them
is just almost impossible.
They were already having issues with that going in.
Like the fight that led to the base break was exactly that, right?
Like Cryer goes in on the Wukong, tries to get a pick onto someone,
and then is immediately seceded by the Niko.
So they were already having issues with that,
and now everyone has a lot more survivability.
They put it in the enemy blue side jungle,
looking to push through bottom lane now.
Remember, the mid lane inhibitor is already destroyed,
So TL is going to try to find opportunities to pressure here in the sidelines
You can see the wave pushing out top but nobody's on split push duty just yet. Cryra is deep behind enemy lines
We're going for the long con here DSG knows
They have to get a pretty insane engage to have any sort of a chance at all in a competitive fight
And Cryra is the one looking to set up
I mean the real problem is even if he finds like a five-man cyclone the damage dealers have to be there too
He's only on two items. He's not going to be able to do it at this point
Quick pops his ghost not gonna find a whole lot of efficacy for that here.
Just yet was the Odo getting jungle around a little bit couple of knockups
there as the subject gate is used.
Jose wants to make sure he doesn't just get randomly picked off here.
So Trundle ulty off the table for a little while,
but DL is not in any real danger.
They continue to move around as a five man unit.
Nobody's going to be a straggler.
Nobody's going to be left on their own and they'll just get out of the danger zone.
Yes, I mean it does stop a little bit of pressure.
They were flying as no, they're going in for another play.
There it is, pop blossom seals call me spate quids.
Going to be the one taking the kill on that as TL after picking off the rise.
Look for a little bit more.
Morgan does not land the public execution that time.
It's a 5v4 castles in the bottom lane trying to clear out the minions.
But that top wave that I mentioned earlier is just about pushed up
exactly where Team Liquid wants it.
They can try to force their way through the top lane tier three turret next.
Morgan is pushing that way, but the supers are going to be on the Nexus towers here pretty quickly
so GSG has to respond to that and that is going to mean that the top laner is going to be completely exposed
TL though decide you know what? We don't need to push any further. Dragon is in 25. Let's reset. Let's just continue stacking towards soul
They clearly based on those comms from Yon don't want to take any risks
I think this is you know something that they realize hey, we've thrown from these kind of situations
Let's stay composed. Let's take the 100% win rate. Strip strategy
Let's just make it safe.
Yeah, I mean, you're talking about a team liquid squad,
a team that throughout their history,
this has never been a team that's like,
yeah, okay, let's just try our best guys, right?
Like TL has always been an org that is very locked in.
They want to win trophies.
They want to be competitive.
They want to go international.
And now that you're on your last light,
now that you've barely qualified to the bracket stage,
having to play in that tiebreaker match against Dig,
did it look like that one was even dicey
for a little while?
They're really trying to minimize those mistakes
as the third Drake for them is about to fall.
Should just be able to pick that one up easy, easy.
Now, Baron's alive here too,
and DSG are trying to position in a way
that they might be able to contest.
Yeah, and we'll see if it's not looking great
as that pillar lands on the castle.
And we have the TP coming in from Morgan.
He might be looking for a wraparound flank here.
The JED.
Lies on the JED.
The Corky, they managed to get the pincer attack
on the AD carry.
It's over before it even begins.
Cryra takes a little bit of poke there from CoreJJ.
Suggests him out to die.
One more auto attack when he finished him off.
It's gone, has to flash back away now.
And Morgan has found that pincer attack.
The Corky and the Wukong are both already out of the picture.
CoreJJ staying alive there with the Seekers on guard.
It's called me.
Just barely has enough damage to finish him off.
Meanwhile, Yon gets the kill on Castle
and now has to get away from the dead Psyon.
The arc of judgment is enough to slow down the dead body.
So the only one they lose is CoreJJ.
And it's an ace for TL.
I love how y'all would say it, the one telling them to chill out in combs.
We saw from FBI's calls what happens when the ADC is abating out stuff.
They're really beautiful coordination with the Morgan flank coming around on the Inveza.
And that's going to be all it takes.
Team Liquid, it was a bit of a rocky start, but then they turned it around in the mid
game.
They played it safe.
They didn't take excessive risks.
They make their way to the Nexus and they're going to go up 1-2-0.
The ennibri spawns.
Zero. Yeah, I think the ennibri spawns.
It's not over.
I think that it still should be over.
Okay, there we go.
One to zero here in the series.
Wait a second, we just tagged down.
I saw that next.
I disappeared.
I've been in that game before.
They do get the win at the end of the day.
Great performance here from TL to kick things off.
23 to eight.
They started down a little bit, but they were very composed.
They punished DSG in that third dragon fight in particular.
really navigated that well and it was a swing of nearly 3,000 gold within what a
minute a minute and a half and it felt like after that in the TLS.
All right, lounge let us know what you're thinking.
TL back Kobe?
TL back baby!
Good TL!
I'm glad you got your screenbuffs early dad.
I did I've been investing in screenbuffs since the start of the split.
I lost mine.
You didn't sell them right?
here. Nope. So for our Pagoda
moments at the beginning of
this game, if you remember
back to the beginning of the
game, DSG was actually in a
good spot. Raz, they were
winning. Yes. And let's take
a look at how they started
winning. Let me get some fog
of war going here for you.
Call me pushes the mid wave.
So getting mid tempo really
quickly when you have rise
versus Lila is huge. They
then use mid tempo to grab
Dragon then he's going to go back get it again during this reset timer for quid is where the game really blows open
Look at this right now
They're behind in gold but they go for the play they got dragon with the realm warp
Call me is doing so much for them as far as the tempo goes it earned them a dragon
It earns them the bottom lane dive here and this is where they get a huge benefit for DSG
They've got the good gold lead so Jed down here. You see this corky super fed
is in a very very good spot and we'll see what happens to the corki after that
so dead so they're gonna you want to play around your fed corki right Trinity
force plus he's got us mana moon a so corki's looking good nom is gonna go for
a reset nom is gonna come join in mid lane as is Cryra let's pause and this
was a big moment because with fog of war from you know from from suggest
point of view here. Why does he valk in right now? He has his Nami coming down, he wants to play,
he's super fed, so he wants to go for this chunk. He valks in is the key moment that T.L. recognize
and they're going to turn the whole game around. He vouched in, so you know what? Yon, he goes in
with the ult, dash forward, hits him with the slow, into the trundle pillar, and they get the
big shutdown. Not only is that shutdown on the Korki, it is also going into the hands of
John who we highlighted at the beginning of the day this core that team liquid really rebuilt their roster around
Got a bunch of money there and then team liquid are able to win a whole bunch of fights afterwards and get a bunch of picks
Yeah, we got a double whammy with the pagoda moments. So guys if you see a pagoda
Moment or a pod moment where they play then just span that chat and also in terms of player the game
We have a tie. We have a tie. So in the instance of a tie the chat vote actually wins
the ties between
I need to know who the ties
before that.
Well, I voted quid.
So that's a quid.
Quid is one of them.
Core and quid.
My vote was a Ralph Nader vote.
It doesn't matter.
Get the right vote into the
list.
I threw that out.
Yes, I threw that out.
I'll be abyss.
But please spam chat to see who
the actual player of the game
is.
I had one more clip while
chat votes on this that I
wanted to show.
And this is why I actually
think it's not necessarily
Scrimbuck's paying off for
Team Liquid.
They made some nice plays
around the map that
that allowed them to get an advantage in this game.
So like this is an instance where they pushed mid
and they start attacking top lane
but they use it to get a sequence of picks.
So they pick off call me
and rather than just doing a five before Baron flip
they then use the fog, collapse on castle, get another kill.
Then again, they just use the fog,
wait for them to show up, get another kill.
So they just really organically extended their gold lead
past just the early game.
That was just one quick sequence that they had that makes me more confident for this team
because it's not like they just win every lane by 3000 gold and therefore win the game.
These are the moves that they were failing on last week.
We do have the player of the game.
What is it?
Who is it?
Oh shoot, I jumped a gun.
Okay, well I'm going to make a critique then.
I'm going to make a one critique towards DSG because like the one concern for me
was that scion pick, on four pick that we got to see from DSG side.
I was like, well they already saw the embessa.
The Embessa was already picked, Trundle was open,
Trundle was like Jungle was last picked,
so you knew that you were gonna get countered
with both the Trundle, Jungle,
and the Embessa that was already picked.
I just did not like the scion in that moment,
and I think you could probably just like pick
the Renekton or Jace or whoever you really wanted,
Castle to play on third picks.
I felt like from the drafting perspective,
especially with how impressed we were of DSD's draft,
like up until this point, that was a concern.
Okay, keep voting between Core to J, quick.
Yeah, please.
I do want to focus on the thing
that you were talking about though,
and from the team liquid perspective,
what they did improve on, their team fighting,
their coordination was much, much better.
And they recognize and punish mistakes
that their opponents showed, you know,
like we just saw in multiple of those replays.
So I think it bodes very well for this team.
As far as the results for the poll though,
and you've been-
It's not voting well.
Being quite antsy, it's not voting well.
We can just pull up chat.
Yeah, start chatting.
Yeah, you know what, let's do it.
Pull up chat.
Who is your player of the game?
We've got Cor and Quid.
We'll make some arguments for it, because I said Morgan,
because I thought his sideline pressure was incredible.
Cor did his Niko engages to catch the jet out multiple times.
Or do you think it was Quid and his ability to roam around
the map?
Yeah, I mean, Quid, I'm seeing a lot of Cor JJ in the chat.
One of the big things was the plays that I showed
were some positive call me plays at the very beginning,
where he actually had pressure, and he
was getting a lot of the positive plays to get
DSG in the lead.
So I think I would tie break for Core.
Yeah.
I mean, a lot of people are also just voting Hosea to go,
even though it's just a tie between the two players.
That's a count, guys.
Yeah, you're also just.
OK, Core JJ smashed it.
Yeah, Core JJ just completely took it.
OK, congratulations to Core JJ for a player of the game.
Very well done, Mr. Hosea.
Well done, Chat.
We're going to see if Team Liquid can continue
beating VSG in two of the next four games,
because that's the need to move on to the next round.
True.
Game two's up after the break.
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Hey guys, I'm the AD character Team Liquid, Cial Yon, and I'm going to give you guys some
good tips for Ezreal.
The thing about Ezreal is, I think it's very good to take lethal tempo on Ezreal these days,
especially in solo queue, where you can just stat check the enemy opponent.
As soon as the minions spawn, and you get to lane, so let's say the enemy champions are
here and here, you really just want to be stacking your Q, so your Q is on a 5 second
cooldown, but if you land it, it'll be like on a 4.5 second, like so, and then
your attack speed goes up, so right now it's already 0.90, and then around this
timing and you have four stacks you really want to be fighting here and then
let's say you land the last Q as well right? At this point you're gonna have
at least like 1.20 like a tax feed and it's gonna be completely OP if you decide.
Not many people will know and those qualify you and will probably just end
the bling because of the tax feed story you have.
I actually love hearing from the pros and we get to see these little tips and
tricks things for stuff you would never think about because I would
never think about lethal tempo on Ezreal. I barely know how to play Ezreal at all, so
that's very helpful. But now if you have to. Now if I have to, I'm locked in. Thanks y'all.
You'll stack lethal tempo and then lose. Yeah, probably still will lose because the
problem is you still gotta hit the Qs. That's why it's my first big hurdle. But Team Liquid
have cleared their first big hurdle in this series. They won the first game and I think
that if you're disguised heading into the second one, you look back and say, okay,
Did it go wrong? The answer is the mid lane play so Jed balks forward
He ends up getting punished team liquid are immediately there for the consequences of that and then cry red eyes right after
I feel like that was the point where after that they never really had a real shot. Yeah, I completely agree
I mean the early game was fantastic for them, right? They had this almost 1k gold lead
They had the first two dragons felt like everything was going well for them
But games swing very very quickly these days especially with bounties and all the play goal
You can pick up off of key kills.
So it is tough.
You've got to be staying locked in.
We heard John saying that even when they were up massive amount
of gold, still had to lock in.
All right.
Disguise have selected last pick
for the second champ select.
That means Team Liquid got to choose the blue side
for themselves.
They'll ban out the Azir, the Akali, and the Pantheon.
Meanwhile, DSG taking Jarvan, Varys, and Orianna off the table.
This means that we have a standard draft,
as in my brain isn't going to be trying
to warp its way around like you don't have the bugs in there trying to figure
out like what's going on. That's what it feels like. There's bugs in your brain
when it doesn't have the same structure it's had for the last decade.
Well as you see the buy coming out for Jose. I've liked Jose on these kind of
playmakers where he can link up to his lanes. We'll see what they want to
partner with it. I think her most eager kind of mid lane duo partner
There has already been taken off the board in the Taliyah as we see the Aurora locked in on the side of DSG
I really think the Aurora here officially for DSG because both Castle and Coleman can play it right so being able to keep that flexible is quite nice
You know sometimes on a team. It's like yeah, it's a flex, but this guy's not
Zinjiao locked in right next to that Aurora to so to scrappy junglers here in this one
could also gank very effectively early.
Ari picked in next to the buy.
Yeah, and this isn't necessarily something
we've seen a ton in LCS,
but the buy-Auri combo has been seen in other leagues,
specifically I'm thinking mostly of LPL and LCK.
They're really like this,
and I kind of targeted Quid when I saw
the Ari buffs coming through and being like,
I'd really like to see him bring this out and play this.
So we're gonna be able to see that buy-Auri combo
coming out of Coyd and Jose Diodo.
Yeah, and we got to see Call Me Play Ari last week.
It did not work well for them at all in that series.
That was a look out.
I was trying to avoid mentioning that specific Ari outing
in the LCS.
Oh, it's going to be mid lane Aurora
because I think they're doing the galeo as the Rumble
answer, but both are great matchups.
Yeah, and I don't know if you guys
noticed the stat that popped up when Rumble was locked in.
Rumble is 1 and 9 in the LCS.
This champion has been a total stinker so far this split.
And I think a big reason is because you have stuff like Galio that you can pick into it that's just so effective.
Yeah, I kind of feel like people are looking at it and it's been nerfed a number of times over the last couple of months.
And it keeps you nerfed and nerfed and nerfed, but people are still playing because it's comfort.
And it kind of feels like one of these picks, kind of similar to Renekton. Happy birthday.
Where you get this slight CS advantage in lane, but then your counterpart is just more useful.
And we're also seeing too many teams where they're drafting Rumble with little to no setup.
And I think that is to me like just such a cardinal sin is very difficult to get consistent equalizers if you don't have any a we cc
You have the file right now like that's something at least but to me
It's like it's just a different pick when you have a rail on your team or not us on your team versus when you're playing with like a karma
But it's just not the same as you
Exactly the car about will not be available. Unfortunately. You can see it DSG
I'm going to have to do a lot, but I like the ash being taken off the table as well. I think ash seraphine still in the right situation is just an insane, pretty much, pretty strong.
They can run rampant. I'm like still kind of enjoying the return of enchanters to be honest. I'll get sick of it eventually, but like right now.
right now also likes it.
Check out. Yeah, very much.
The world's was the art and
sentiment. No, it's not because I have
W E trauma from that. As I see the
Kaiser locked in for suggest we talked
about how much he enjoys playing that
pick. I think even in their loss,
their first game we ever saw with
him on the LTS stage, he still
performed super, super well with
that. They're just slamming it close
to Renata. As soon as the coast
So think about TL's bot lane.
You think about lane dominance.
And to me, as soon as you're hovering the Calista,
that is the prime pairing.
Again, they are kind of lacking some CC here.
You do have the Vi for a lockdown.
You do have the hostile takeover,
which can be really, really good against some
of the short range champions over on this side.
So it can be really powerful,
but really it's just the Vi kind of as that go button.
And on the other side, you are gonna be throwing
in this in.
We'll see what the last pick is gonna be.
Lions Bard is gonna be a bit of a jump scare
for some people after last week.
All right.
He's got a lot to redeem.
Yeah. And I mean, I do think his Nami game and game one, there were some mistakes, but
it was, you know, better than definitely his last outing. The Bard, I think, was the game
that everyone was kind of looking at being like, okay, he's having a really, really
rough series. So we'll see if this can be kind of a similar redemption for him.
I will say, you know, Bard is a pretty solid laner. So like that is maybe why they're
going for it. Like, hey, let's just try to protect Kaisa, you know, keep, keep
us stable in this lane. But when I think about Bard in really winning situations,
I think about carries with low mobility that are easy to ult.
I don't really see that as being Kalista and Ari, right?
You know, Kalista's hopping nonstop,
and Ari has dashes on the ult and the movespeed on the W.
So to me, I'm a little bit concerned
about the efficacy of the Bart ults.
So we'll see if he can prove me wrong.
Yeah, and I do one other pick that I do want to point out,
because they did slam it so quickly,
is I do like the Renata against a lot of what DSG
are going to be trying to do, right?
Like kind of stymying any sort of engage or reengage
they're going to be making in teamfights.
If you can sync that up with like a really fat rumble equalizer
across the team, that could end up looking really, really good
for TL.
All right, let's do it.
Game number two.
DSG showed promise in the early game of game number one.
We'll see if they can repeat that and get it all the way
across the finish line here in this one.
I think in particular, talking about the bottom lanes,
talking about Yon and Core wanting
to play for lane dominance.
Remember, it was to Jeden Lions
that we're constantly getting very good trades on them
in the previous game.
The Corky aggro was very strong.
It ultimately ended up being their Achilles heel
at the same time, but this bottom lane 2v2
should be pretty fun to watch.
It's going to be a lot of fun as we see these two trading
pretty heavily.
Once one starts trading, you kind of
have to keep trading the autos back and forth.
You don't want to give up any sort of disadvantage.
The minions spawned so early that these level and trades
are way more impactful, right?
Because you can't just take a quick base.
They're both just going to be starting down a potion.
and about a half HP.
Yeah, and both of their junglers are starting on the top side.
We'll see if I keep hoping for this.
It's even less likely now in the current meta
to see someone go for any sort of cheeky level two gank.
I don't think the health missing for either mid laner
is going to be the difference maker here.
But it is always a possibility that I like to call out
when stuff like this happens.
Absolutely is.
Also want to talk a little bit about playoff experience
between the two teams.
core, no surprise there is going to be absolutely dominating the field as far as the experience.
But 55555 all down the way until Lions, that was their first playoff series for four out
of the five members for DSG.
They had never played a playoff game before last week.
So for so many of these guys, they now at least have one under their belts.
They have a little bit of that stability.
Even the people that are like, oh yeah, Morgan doesn't have that much experience.
Well, he still has more than the four of the five combined.
So TL, definitely expected to win, definitely have that big experience advantage.
Yeah, especially coming out of, I love talking about kind of what Core has meant for this
team.
We saw him have an absolutely stellar game one, but listening to players like Quid and
Jose Diodo kind of coming onto the team and talking about how much Core means has been
really great to listen to.
I'm glad you bring up Quid and Jose Diodo because Quid was giving Jose a hard time
about the start of last game I'm not panicking I'm just telling the fact I
charge my mouth like once a week but this one was a zero yeah you panic you
charged you charge to charge to 51% and use randomly panic my mouth is 20% my
mouth is 20% no no wait wait I was saying the champion select went up and I
one second 20 times like ah shit you're nervous man I wasn't
I love it man Jose Dio D'Ode not charging the mouse up enough we'll see how much
charge he's got on this one because hey his team at least has total control over
the bottom lane Kalista Renata if you're a jungler and you see that as
you're bot lane you should know that you will have control over bottom side
grabs yeah absolutely and it's a little bit of a different look this time
coming out of TL bot lane.
We've talked about how they want to play through having powerful 2v2s.
We've talked already about how strong Yon was last year and having a little bit
comparatively of a down split to start this split one, but again,
going to be able to get that bot side crab back and we see him headed up
towards his camps again on the top side.
Yeah, I mean, so Jen obviously had to take a pretty early base here.
It does get back.
gets the call but at least now he's back to full health he has a potion he is in
base we'll see if they can kind of stabilize and and keep this lane in
this current state for a while because John hasn't been able to get back to base
has been any gold so right now things are about as good as they're gonna get
for a while for that bot lane 2v2 on the side of CSG.
All of our junglers are back on the top side of the map now we did kind of
just have to handshake for the crabs obviously if you're in cryors
position you know that you're not going to be able to contest against
the Kalista Renata that are hard slamming the lane for that crab.
So you just walk up to the top side, checking in on Morgan versus Castle.
Again, the rumble with a 10% win rate so far in this early play in LCS 2026.
Morgan looking to double Rumble's wins after this one.
Yeah, we'll see if you can do it.
Initially, the early push in that lane was going over to the Galeo as expected,
but he should be able to at least push this wave in on the top side.
We did see flash for flash here in mid lane as quid wants to go for the charm
Tried to catch call me off guard, but call me has the fast reaction to stay safe
Yeah, and that was set up by the earlier charm
He landed being able to get so much health off of call me earlier on
I really like him being able to go for that and now we'll see if either jungler wants to take advantage of the fact that
We have two flashless mid laners now in this lane in this game
I mean especially I think you know when you get little six for by you know that is kind of that that easy combo
They're gonna be able to look towards that being said Aurora is pretty tough to knock down
You have the invisibility you have your all ring kind of bounce back and forth and sometimes put you know
Vi who is alting in into a pretty bad spot
But I would expect quit and Jose to want to group up as soon as Jose is six
And we'll see if there's gonna be a fight over this bottom side scuttle as Jose goes back to base
But assuming he gets right out and grabs that he's gonna be the ones first six
Yeah, remember that the bottom side scuttle fight the the third scuttle crap was our first big scrap in game number one
It was damaged to both sides
We didn't end up seeing a Drake take right after it or anything similar as Hosea de Odo and Cryra
Both gonna show up close to the mid lane here both mid laners have their ultimates available
By with the wind becomes lightning jumps in after Jose but a lot of damage coming out from quid cryra in danger
Remember there is no ultimate here from this inch out to use defensively to try to escape
He does however have a lot of honey fruits there.
Lions walking up through the ribbon now to
Importantly both mid laners using their altis quit only has the single charge left wants to get a little bit more damage
On to call me who has to hop away as core JJ goes forward wants to land a handshake pulls them back
Weirding does keep them alive though, and that's first blood over to DSG cry
We're getting done, but TL wants to get one back. How's it be Otto nice revenge kill one for one trade
Pretty good though
Honestly for DSG the fact that they not only get first blood
but also their AD carry did not move so Sujet ran straight back towards bot lane
He's gonna be able to get some farm here to try to even things out a little bit
Which he desperately needs to do because yon is already 20 plus CS ahead
Call me unlikely to go down as yon takes a couple of tower shots
Yeah, double turret shot there really doing some serious damage to yon's health bar
But yeah, Sujet needed that time to try to catch up the massive gap in CS is going to start causing some serious issues
if DSG does not find a way to staunch that bleeding a little.
Yeah, it's good for Sujad, but then we see Jose.
Has no smite.
Yeah.
There we go.
Great.
Came back up just in time.
He's going to be able to get that Drake,
and he was able to get the crab prior to this fight.
But things get started pretty early with them trying to jump
onto Call-Me, core landing the handshake here,
but then and the charm follow up,
but Cryra being able to go in and then Safnac already in the back line and then being able to clean up the kill onto this in-job
I mean honestly it could have been worse, but Lyons missed the binding
Yeah, it's a bad one. They used Fresh and Fresh
It's one of these things where Bard gets those fights so quickly because he has a magical journey
He gets in really all he needed to do is land that heal and he gets in range for the heals
He'll be able to help keep Callme alive, but if CORE got found under the tower
He could have potentially been going down as well
So it could have been even worse there for CL, but at the end of the day, they do still have this slight lead.
And Jan is really most of that as he is a couple hundred gold head.
That gold lead is going to feel even better since they got the early first drake and it's an early ocean drake.
Since we're still in the laning phase when that first drake is claimed,
it means you're just going to have all of the extra sustain making those trades that much more annoying for DSG to try to contest.
They are down about 20 farm in the 80 carry matchup specifically.
But you have a lead for call me in mid lane.
I'm curious how well they'll be able to play around that here with the Aurora.
We know this champion can be very dangerous,
since she has to go in very close range to get her damage in the larger fights.
We know that that close range is especially dangerous against Winata,
as the top laners scrap back and forth a little bit here.
And it looks like both of our junglers will just be passing through mid.
We're really going to have to see how TLXQ on these dives,
because when you have R.E. Vi, you have Kalista.
like it's so obvious when you are going for those plays, which can make defensive Bartolt's
really high value as Jose caught on Ward.
Yeah, Jose Dioto could be in some danger here, tries to use the ball breaker to get away,
has to use the ulti to try to bluff her through it, but it won't matter, call me, gets the
kill, Jose goes down.
That's a punish for not checking those brushes, right?
He's just recalling on that ward that is in that side brush, didn't know it was
there, loses the ult and dies, so losing that burst ult definitely hurts.
This is a comp that wants a snowball, that wants to play from ahead.
You have the defensive Bartolt, you have the potential counter-engage from the Aurora, you have the Galio ult, like there's so many tools there,
where if you don't watch on someone at the start of the fight for a TL, the GSG really could take over.
Yeah, and that's where our TL are really, really going to be looking at the power of this bot lane as we see Yon and Core continuing to play so, so aggressive.
And another thing, oh, it goes in.
Yeah, quit. Trying to use the spear rush there to grab. The solo kill does land the charm on to call me.
the heroic entrance from the Gallio reinforces the DSG mid laner means quid
does not actually have the chance to go for the kill here but you can see he's
constantly looking for these aggressive moves on call. And that's what you got to
do if you're gonna play Auri you need to play with confidence otherwise there's
no point in playing champs so he goes aggressive there as soon as you see the
Gallio all come down it gives that Gallio passive magic damage shield and
he knew if he was gonna kill him it was gonna be by a slimmest margin so as
soon as that shield pops up there's no way you're killing him you just
kind of have to back off and Castle I think has been very good for DSG I
I think he's performed really well throughout the entire lock-in tournament
and he is going to be key even though he's got a tank for the team in this game.
Yeah, and we've seen the power of Galio especially being able to come in and save a teammate like we saw there
or being able to engage or re-engage a lot of these fights.
And I think yeah, Castle's kind of been, I don't know if it's unsung anymore because
we've now talked about it. He's a sung hero. He's a sung hero.
Yeah, and kind of the confidence we talked about the confidence that this DSG lineup just has in each other
And and being able to pull out that massive stick
It's also going to be on the flip side up to morgan to see how he can contribute
Especially in a lot of these early skirmishes and teamfights that tl is really going to want to use to snowball with this composition
I'm talking about early skirmishes and teamfights the next one might just happen about a minute from now
That will be when the next drake spawns right now hosioto
So hanging around the top lane, it would be risky to try to dive Castle.
We'll see if they want to go for it anyway.
Jose going to drop the control ward here in the brush and it looks like they'll just start
this one off.
There's your five Wombo combo into the equalizer.
No risk at all.
Team Liquid are totally fine with that one.
They'll pick up the freebie here in top.
Easy to execute on that dive, Jose just locks him down in the equalizer.
Castle is already too low, so there's nothing to outplay.
You can't flash the vial.
There's nothing you can really do in that situation.
He just did not have the health to be able to actually survive through it.
And as a result now, Morgan is going to be up quite a bit of experience because Tassel
moved mid, so he's actually denying briefly, well, Morgan hits 11, Morgan is going to be
able to deny more farm, and all of a sudden this couple hundred gold lead and a little
bit of experience that didn't feel like it matters, now matters a lot.
And that's where we're really looking to see what TL is going to do on the map specifically
with setting up for this second drink.
Because if the rumble is there in that fight, he's going to be incredibly powerful.
with that Lee Andrews Torment completed that big first item power spike for Rumble that makes him such a terror in the mid game.
Cryra going to go ahead and start up this second Drake. Call me hanging around behind the pit, just keeping an eye out for Team Liquid.
Lions and Sujet also both going to rotate over here, but Core and Yawn are not willing to just let them try and do that.
Lions goes for the ulti and he finds Yawn. Now for the Team Liquid AD carry, get himself away to safety.
It seems he will also going to drag Core JJ back and guarantee that they both escape.
So DSG try to get the pick there.
They know they had the numbers,
but they can't get the kills.
They don't get the kills.
And now they're losing farm mid lane
because actually quid just hitting the tower.
So quid is taking plates.
He's denying the farm.
Cryra pulled off the dragon.
So the dragon is nowhere close to dead now.
And Jose Guiodo has made his way into the bottom lane.
Core JJ just trying to keep the pressure.
Volunteers to Jett and Lyons as Cryra is forced back.
As soon as Jose shows up, Cryra knows,
yeah, my bottom lane's not going
to be able to rotate over to this faster.
Quid still has that control over the mid lane here as well.
So now TL will be the ones starting up the drink.
Yep, they're going to be able to muscle in.
And again, that's where this bot lane prior and mid prior
matters so, so much.
And really nice from TL to be able to play around that
after kind of that initial skirmish there.
It also, if we had had a big team fight,
delayed the time enough for Morgan's ult
to come back up too.
So he could have potentially been a threat in that as well.
It's a bit scary, I think, for DSG at this moment now.
You've given up two dragons, you're down in gold,
and plays like that are pretty costly.
So it feels like this is going to be one of these games
where it's going to come down to that third dragon fight.
We have to see can they do what TL did last game,
where TL was basically in the inverse situation,
down around 1,000 gold, gave up the first few dragons,
they were able to outfight at one team fight,
and then the game kind of flipped.
And that's kind of the vision we're in,
champions on TL side are really strong on one item.
And I do think that's going to be one of the big difficulties here for DSG.
And I think our next fight is looking like it might just be around this rift herald pit.
That objective spawning here in less than a minute now.
You can see the top side's Scuttle Crab control does go over to DSG,
but they're finding it difficult to move forward and set up anything else.
The little Callista ghosts so useful for sniffing around before these fights,
seeing if they can find anybody at a position.
do you think that's what they do they're not looking around they're sniffing
they're sniffing. They're sniffing. They're not gonna ghost puppies. Are they blind?
Now I don't like that they can be killed. Oh yeah those feel kind of bad now.
Well no they can't revive that statement. They're already ghosts. Time to wreck on.
They're already... I don't care. They're killing dogs.
Alright they're not ghost puppies but they do sniff around for enemies.
So now we'll see if they can discover, disguise here in their own jungle
jungle. Alright, goodbye, little ghost. Adios. Kyra's gonna take that one out of
commission as Yon just continues farming up here in the mid lane. Does have his
blade of the ruined king completed. Bandle pipes is done on both supports
here too. Let's call me trying to make sure they stay safe here. Quit just
playing so aggressive. All came along so far. Now, Jose Diodo wants to set it
up. Go in here with the five does hit the smite on the call me, but does
not want to overextend risk. Alting call me underneath the turret getting
hit by that powerful Aurora burst and giving away a free kill.
Easily handled there, recall me, he was not overextended.
He gets the alt off of Quid, which is nice, who had popped that.
So not a major, major cool down, but only cost him a basic ability.
So still going to be happy with that, you know, today.
And it means that the Ori will not be able to be nearly as effective
if Team Liquid wants to try to fight for this Rift, Carol.
And so DSG is going to take their opportunity to start the objective up.
You can see both top laners also posturing to get involved in this.
Castle goes for the taunt, but he will not find Morgan as the Herald is down to about half health.
Morgan looking for the opportunity to maybe equalize here, is overheated right now,
as Pryor's going to be the target and Hosebioto jumps in, wants to make the dive happen, flashes back up the wall to safety as the jet is already down.
Team Liquid looking for a little bit more, he's gone, is very low, will the bailout be able to save him? No.
Lyons takes the kill on that one, but Team Liquid's still firing, Castle's next to Ty, but Morgan gets smited down.
It's a bloodbath keeping the topside river as Lyons falls through the Hose of the Odo.
Pryba goes into match with the journey through the wall.
TL wants to finish the last couple of kills.
Colby flashes for nothing and Team Liquid will take the fight.
Team Liquid take the fight.
I mean, Colby was late to join and I kind of expected Lyons to use a defensive ulti onto
Sejed to buy some time as they see everything is getting sent on him.
But instead, they look for the more aggressive option, try to catch some other members.
No one blocked the charm.
The follow up has to be stopped from the Ari.
And that is what sealed the fate of so jet. Yeah, and it's going to allow to yell more importantly to pick up this riff carol
That they kind of had
All right, all right, I can't hit here
No flash.
No flash here.
Double 10.
Go jump, go jump, go jump.
I think we win.
No flash.
We got it.
Go fight.
Yeah, go fight.
Nice comps, honestly.
TL, pretty clean calls there throughout the fight,
tracking the summoners on the same page throughout
of exactly what they wanted to do,
and they just, they just executed super well on it.
It was a really snappy engage from Jose,
even though Ari didn't have all,
so Jett gets one shot,
so it doesn't really matter.
Just so key with the Viari combo, you cannot stop the Vialt, so you must stop the follow-up.
That is the part of the combo that you can break up. You cannot allow Charm to come through there.
Someone's got to try to get in the way and body block that, or you have to use the really fast defensive part all.
You've got to be able to shut that down because now TL with the Dragon in 30 seconds are up 2.5k, and that lead is getting a lot bigger.
App Lions has to be careful in the enemy jungle here. Tries to go on a magical journey to get away, but Morgan is still roasting him.
Call me coming in now to guarantee that his support stays alive, but it got bigger problems.
Gryra's now going to be focused up here in the river. Gally a waltry to try to create enough space
to keep him alive. Fossil takeover flies out as Team Liquid continues looking for more and
Quidd's already found the kill on the Gryra. Morgan backs him up, it's a double kill for
Quidd as the Aurora falls. Castles out to it's three for nothing for TL and the dragon's
going to be the immediate trophy. And they mow down disguise before being able to now get
soul point on the Drake stacking, which is absolutely huge for this composition.
They're also going to be able to get this Tier 1 bot.
And Quid on this Ari is now a massive problem.
I also really like how they're using Morgan's power in these fights as well.
We wondered how much is this Rumble going to be able to contribute, looking to double
up that Rumble win rate as he just gets so much damage onto Lyons, follows him
through the magical journey because he knows that the rest of his team is
collapsing. Just look how split up they are. Two over here you have you have called
me alting to get over the wall even joining the fight. Cryer is basically
already dead. Lions ran out the bottom like they're all on a completely
different page and then we have this kind of this barbell going into the
background where Castle's been hostile tick over it's just like no one is
doing the same thing it feels like in this fight for DSG. Yeah and it
especially matters when Castle comes in initially right because TL is already
there surrounding him while the Ori is attacking on the front lines of the fight so really really
nicely done from TL and now they're on sole point and they've kind of cracked open the
game for themselves with a 5k gold lead.
Yeah it kind of feels like we're already past the point of no return and it's not even 20 minutes
on the clock TL has total control over the map they have total vision control over this
baron pit area Hose of the Odo once again looking around setting a trap the TL classic
Supporting jungle, move into the enemy jungle and start looking for pick opportunities.
Castle knows it's too dangerous to go anywhere near here.
Jose's Vi is very strong right now, 3-1 and 5, nearly 100% kill participation as Yon.
And call me, trade back and forth a little bit.
Call me of course is going to win those very snappy, very fast trades on the Aurora,
but it's still not enough to buy VSG the ability to push back out.
It's still so scary to check into any of these brushes because if Team Liquid's waiting, they're going to win.
Yeah, and whatever this happens you also see for example rumble pushing on the bot side as we look potentially for another
Trap play through fog of war
They know they need to check and so at least they see now
They could be able to check that out make sure that no one is on the bear
And of course the scary thing is always when you get vision
They could just instantly start after the vision expires and yawn has pushed up mid now
He's gonna go back over there
He'll just completely turn the lights out on DSG and call me getting pushing out bot
But he's got two levels right now to Morgan
And one thing I really like thus far from TL not only in this game
But in game one that I felt like they were struggling with up until this point is some of their sideways control
I feel like that's something that they were known for super super well when you had APA and impact to players who are just so
map oriented and minded about those side lanes
Call me in some danger though.
Yon looking to put the spears all the way through his heart,
and that'll be the easy kill for Team Liquid.
They want even more since Jed tries to escape,
but Quinn and Jose are right there waiting.
Disguised has just completely fallen apart in game two,
and TL now have a free ticket to the Baron.
I mean, that's really tough.
You know, Call me wanted to just try to use the rocket belt
to get a safety, but then that went into the wall.
Then he tried to use the alti, but it wasn't really placed very well,
so he couldn't actually quite get to it,
to it and then there was a really nice time close all and core flies in and
knocks him up as he's trying to exit out with that all team and the other day
dies without flashing is taking down so Jed is gone TL's gonna get a free Baron
game two is cooked like this game is completely cooked you're basically
you're hoping now for a massive series of mistakes like TL has to have their
carries pretty much going on in one of the time for DSG to have a chance it's
just completely gotten out of control DSG is hoping and praying that Jose did
not charged the mouse enough here in this game and something happens to the Vi in the middle of a team fight.
Because any straight up 5v5 is just not winnable from here.
Yan and Jose going to push towards the tier 2 turret here in the top lane.
Disguise trying to defend what they can.
Meanwhile, Quid is prepping the push over in mid for the multi-frogged attack from Team Liquid.
CoreJJ maintaining control over the enemy jungle.
prior forced to all defensively on the zinjau but still Jose and quid are
looking for more plays galeo ulti also forced out of disguise now as castle
tries to land a justice punch see if there's anything they can get back but
disguise just don't have the firepower and while that's all happening you
have Calista already attacking the top turret once again they should be able
to easily take this with the Baron buff and this is what makes this TL
team now so dangerous is because they can split you up play with fog they're in
such a strong position up. Okay Lyons hits the bar ulti there on the gong but
it's not really gonna get him a whole lot. Castle's now taking a ton of damage.
DSG's only play ends up being serving their own dudes in a silver platter.
Quinn is unstoppable. Lyons is gonna drop double kill back over to the RE
as nobody would call me is left standing and team Liquid is just gonna
to walk this one straight to the nexus 23 minutes on the clock it's even more
ones I think the last game quit is gonna look won't find call me but does it
even matter 15 to 4 they're just getting stomp they don't even have time to
get the dragon soul call me yeah he's trying to ping pong back and forth the
ace comes through TL pushing on to nexus turrets first one about to collapse
nobody's gonna respawn on disguise in time to truly make a difference here
Morgan almost dies to the turret. Another ghost puppy is summoned up here at the very end.
The Nexus will fall and Team Liquid looks dominant.
It was great to see this coming out of TL specifically with this composition, right?
We talked about how deadly the By-Auri combo can be.
We talked about the Rumble win rate, which Morgan has now doubled in the LCS.
So congrats to him. Spam chat. We want to know who your player of the game is.
I want to know who lounges player of the game is.
I want to say it's the fact that Team Liquid has been
screaming together for three to four weeks
and they're closer to their final form.
So your player is in fact...
Time itself.
Time. Interesting.
Father Time is just player of the game.
But a real answer is I said gone.
That's meta.
I want to see what Chad thinks.
That is very meta.
Yeah, yeah, chat. Please, please get it in chat and spam.
So I have a couple of clips.
The first one is going to be basically a PSA
because I feel like something if we can bring this up on the new patch,
you can reliably assume that phalites
are more often warded than they are not.
Let's pull up the screen now and you can see because phalites
are so new to the game and they provide so much extra vision.
You just almost always assume these are warded and I have seen multiple junglers get punished by doing plays around where
Failite things are without checking them without sweeping them. This is not even a play by Jose
This is oh, you know, it is the one where he passed through mid and then you can see it
From his vision. It was like oh, I cleared the control ward on the side
But he's so close you just often assume that that is warded and it was control warded in this case
So if he had checked it, you know, you can see that and it's just I feel like in the current game with fair lights added
It is very lazy to recall
Okay, buy a buy a fair light place without checking. So Kobe play player of the game
We have another tie. That's gonna be broken by check. Oh my god
It's between Jose Dioto and quid so you just showed us negative Jose. That is one lazy moment
Let me show you a positive. Yeah
So I'm gonna show you a positive Jose moment. This is positive teen fighting
from Team Liquid. So let's take a look at Sejed here. He is obviously the target. This
Kaisa is the target. So Jose is over here and you're going to see him wait for Quidd's positioning
as we show all here. Quidd finally gets here so then Jose immediately charges. He's going
straight for Sejed. He gets the Q bump here on the Zin. Bumps in even further away.
Then immediately, let's show it one more time. It was a charm flash follow from Quidd.
So whenever you're playing R E plus Vi, you need to assassinate this target.
And so, you know, nobody's going to be able to do it.
Lyon tries, I guess, you know, he actually is autoing the Vi instead of like defensively
ulting.
And then he offensively ults.
But quit already.
Chon flashes into Q and they assassinate Sojad.
Even then, though, Jack, they don't instantly win the team fight because there's a big
response here and they're able to burst down frontline.
And so TL, they also lose Morgan and it has to be another reset.
Look at Jose, he goes back in, able to get the bounce here on due lions and then the charm over the wall from quid to also get call me then earn steal the fight.
So Jose and quid, you know, did a lot there with Viari and you have to be able to pull off some of that precision.
I feel like you're changing chat line while we're waiting for the chat.
But let's look at the post game breakdown as well from this game.
I'm going to see how stompy it ended up being.
It's interesting that it started off so close there.
Kobe because the the goalie didn't actually start picking up until about this stage in the game where then exploded
But again, it's like the 15 minute team liquid
But after 15 minutes is when team liquid actually turned on so I'm actually way more bought in by the way
They're winning these games because I know they're capable of blowing people out in the early game
They're actually not blowing up DSM to your other game. It's the mid game where they're blowing them out
Yeah, I love the I feel like consistency here now because the biggest concern as you can see for the votes
I like all these good votes that
As well with the Ari, you know because it's it's two people working on it
But Jose did so many especially like the last term there. Yeah, the challenge for me with Team Liquid is if they can maintain their leads
They're absolutely doing that and I think even earlier on I was wondering like okay
How tied are players to the quest lines because like you don't want to basically move from your lane if you are still
Trying to complete your quest. That was not a concern here
You just saw a Callista that was roaming towards mid lane helping out the play staying in the lane chipping plates
Like I think so far team liquid looks so good and a lot of that is that
Benefit that we're seeing in scrims really starting to show yeah, okay
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to the LCS where Disguise are one game away from elimination until spring split if they can't lock it in here.
Game number one, they had control for a while, but then after TL took control, they never really got it back.
Game number two felt like Disguise just was not able to keep up with TL at all.
Final time on the clock was what, like 24 minutes when the Nexus exploded? It was TL dominance.
It is hard to end a game that fast these days. It's just very, very rare for games to be that quick.
So definitely a couple stomps by TL.
They are looking really, really good.
Now the question is, can these rookies over on the DSG side,
like can they stabilize, calm down,
be able to reset yourself mentally,
and try to have what it takes to come back?
Because you need to reverse sweep the team
has tremendous amounts of experience in these situations
when you have very little of yourselves.
Yeah, and the big difference maker to me
has been every time DSG kind of makes a mistake,
it just seems like the TL punish
is that much for sure as opposed to when we did see DSG get a lead trying to play with it.
We then had suggest kind of moving a little bit too far up in the mid lane and that first
game and we'll see how they can stabilize.
I think the thing I'm looking from them is we talked about how potentially creative
this team can be, especially with I think Kyra in the jungle.
He has a few pocket picks that we've talked about that he could potentially bring out.
And then we know Castle is very willing to play a wide variety of champions.
But honestly, the big thing for me has just been, even when they did get that bot 2v2,
since in the LTS we have been so 2v2 bot lane focused, it's really been Yon winning out
as the better AD carry in both of these games.
I mean TL has been looking good and I feel like it hasn't as much to me but about individual differences as it has been about team coordination though
You know when I think about a lot of these teamfights where it's like okay. The wheels just fell off. It is DSG
Split up completely. It is DSG with like three different plans and it is TL with one plan
Right and it is you know four or five TL members walking together
Well one guy from DSG is over here some guys clear and vision someone's looking to run someone's looking to engage
someone wants to go balling and it just feels like they're struggling to get on the same page and
If you go up a team against team that is very decisive with a lot of engage tools
And you're having that kind of game you're just not gonna have a chance. All right. We're into draft for game number three
Let's see what
Are eating good so far this split I think as once more we've got the same draft set up that we did in game number two
Where disguise have elected for last pick team liquid has elected to the blue side
That means the draft makes sense based on how we normally imagine it to be there's no shenanigans going on
We will have the Varus the Jarvan and the Akali banned out by Team Liquid
Meanwhile Victor Renekton and Nocturne banned out by DSG and two big champions
Immediately noticing are both in the mid lane with Azir and Orianna both up to be able to trade for either team
Definitely, I think why we see that Nocturne ban coming out
So if TL do want to first pick that Orianna for quid, they won't then have to deal with the
Nocturne-Orianna combination, but we see the Pantheon is actually going to be coming out for Jose Daniels
I mean it's kind of funny because these days basically like mid-jungle
I was talking about this on the dive, but there's either one or zero for each role depending on the role
AP or AD champions in those roles
So essentially there's Yone is the only champion in the top 20 pro picks in mid lane.
Yeah.
And if you want to count like Sejuani or whatever for jungle, there's like champions like that.
But basically you have to go down to Diana for someone who's like actually stacking AP.
So really every game essentially becomes you're just tierless drafting the AD junglers and the AP control midges.
And like that is kind of where we are at right now in Pro League of Legends.
And as you can see, Zin is gone, Vi is gone, Trundle is gone, Wukong is gone, Jarvan is banned, Nocturne is banned.
All right, well, now it's time to go down to Pantheon.
And maybe if you want to splash in like us a hen or like
or whatever, you know, like this, it's really what League
of Legends is right now.
And this is probably going to be an E-Trox jungle.
Could also be top, of course.
But that is another one of those, if you're just
kind of tier listing down, all the ones that haven't
already been banned out.
All right, team liquid, what are we going to cook up?
I also am just going to put a tiny little asterisk.
I know that Enchant is back and everything,
but CoreJJ has historically been one of our supports
who will play a Pantheon support.
So I'm going to say there's always a possibility it's a flex.
I think Kankis plays some pank dance forward now.
I'm going to be judging off of that.
It's looking pretty weak right now.
We need some bumps.
There might be a slight difference between KJ and J.
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As expected though, we see the Azir coming out of Kuwait.
Azir is a monster to me just because he fits in so many compositions.
If you're ever wondering, is this year ever going to fall out of pro play?
The answer is pretty much no, unless they absolutely gut him and make him unavailable for solo queue as well.
And we see the Naur hover.
Locked it straight away, okay.
Now this is where I would love if you can actually swap that H-Ox to Jungle of Karra as comfortable playing it,
then cast the Luth try to go for something a little bit more spicy in the top lane, try to look for some counterpicks.
Like Ignite, Kennen is what immediately came to mind for me, Jace is another good one.
There are some different matchups you can go, but I feel like, hey, you just got stomped in two games.
Counter pick for your lane, play a combat summoner, see if you can blow the game open.
It's going to be jacked, but I think it's fine. I don't really see this as a lane counter, but it's something that outscales
and it definitely has potential to put pressure on NARF.
Also, something that we just know Castle is super comfortable with, right?
So in these situations, a lot of times they're probably just asking him what he's comfortable with.
and they end up with the Jacks so we'll see how he'll be able to pilot that.
I do think, as the song hero of DSG thus far, exactly, some tales.
The big thing, Difference Baker that he's been has been in Teamfights when he is able to find kind of these really interesting flanks.
We've seen him do well on the Jacks. I still remember that Aurora triple kill he had in Topside River.
River during their last outing.
So we'll see how he can contribute here.
Once again, Ash taken off the table.
DSG do not want to go up against that.
Ash, Sarah Fiemlein and Ezreal removed 4TL.
I think we're kind of now into the territory of you're
either going Jin and Plank Sephortov,
or you're going hypercarry and doing like a fellios lulu,
jinx, those kind of things.
So that's kind of, I think, where we're at in the 80
carry tier list right now.
You can also go Siver as far as those hypercarries
are concerned. So I'm going to see if TL wants to continue squeezing that pool and where they will go.
Zaya fanned out here by Disguised wants to get rid of that AD carry with the powerful self-peel, right?
The defensive ultimate that can save her from the Atrox and the Jax when they try to dog pile in.
Right now I'm also looking at Disguised comp and I'm not seeing a whole ton of engage.
I feel like the remaining picks, obviously one of them has to be a marksman.
So the support, I think you're going to need some stronger engage potential if you really want to be able to make plays against Team Liquid.
Yeah, and as you see this smolder hover coming out of Sujed, another really interesting thing is that Karma is now off the ban list if they want to go some sort of Enchanter pushing lane.
And Lulu is available. Again, we've been so heavily bot lane focused and that's going to continue here with the Lucian locked in for Sujed.
And my assumption is going to be based on what TL pick they're gonna adjust their enchanter on that
Yeah, I mean you can do enchanter obviously Nami was was already played earlier because of that pairing
But so you could do things common fairings like Milio like Braum are good
But I kind of agree with flowers. They're pretty light and engaged
So maybe you just kind of like slam down the Alistar and you still you know some do something like that
Even if it is a weaker lane just to try to enable their engage
And I think on the other side
We probably are gonna get like a felios Lulu or something along those lines
and the Phelios melee would also be cool because it could be a denial pick from the other side.
So this is kind of where we are at with the picks that are up and available.
The engage is not going to be great on the CL side either.
It's like a flash stun from a pantheon or a flank from an R.
You know, Xeer obviously does have potential to start fights up too.
So both teams will be a little bit light on engage,
but generally when that happens, range kind of becomes king, right?
It's hook and poke and prod and force the other team to do something, force them to react.
And right now, based on what we're seeing, I feel like that is more in TL's favor.
Yeah, especially with the Azir and then the Aphelios Lulu coming out of this bot lane.
It does make it so much more dangerous if they do feel like they need engage and want to pick that Alistar.
That's going to be a really, really rough initial lane, but no, they're actually going the rel in as their engager.
I mean, rel, you can pop Lulu shield. That's always kind of nice. You do have some good a we engage.
I really felt like their company needed it,
especially if you're going to be playing alongside Oriana.
Sure, the Jax had tried to get it in there,
but ReL is a way more effective ball delivery system in most cases.
So I do think, you know, did they get much out of this,
out of this like fifth pick counter pick?
No, I think you could have been blinding the ReL,
and you would have kind of ended up in a same similar situation.
Excuse me, there's some below my words.
But I think that they had to kind of do it for their composition.
And I feel like this also goes hand in hand with what we were talking about,
how disguise doesn't seem like they've all been on the same page.
so far in the series, particularly compared to their opponents, we've seen much more coordinated.
If you don't have that solid engage, those mistakes, those
discombobulations are going to be that much more apparent, right? If we just have the one big go
button, okay, strap the ball to Rael's head, cinder in there, right? Like that's how you're
going to get everybody on the same page. You have a very clear, very telegraph,
hey, we are going in and I feel like disguise have got to be coordinated if they want to
keep this series going and by contrast although we did talk about kind of a
slight lack of engage on TL side they still do have a lot of tools where they
can coordinate and kind of stack some sort of CC potential with the NAR like
you talked about with the Azir shuffle so if they are able to set up team
fights well they'll have the range advantage with the poke and then
they'll be able to set up engages. Plus you can also be the cool thing where
Azir makes the Wall of Soldiers, Yarr slams everybody into the Wall of Soldiers, a little
bit of wombo combo from there if they get the timing down right, but we're on to the
Rift for the third time today, ruins on your screen, nothing really super surprising here.
I am curious how well the jungle, Atrox is going to be able to do, Isaac you were talking
about how the tier list just kind of worked, you go down on a lot of the junglers have
already been picked.
The next best AD jungler, and that just happens to be Atrox this time around.
So mid lane as well, Quid, we saw him playing so aggressive in the previous game on the R.
Obviously, Azir is not going to be quite that level of aggro, but I still do want to see him continue to play in the faces of his opponents.
I would say it's kind of cool. Obviously, Craver doesn't have a ton of competitive experience, but it is his first ever Atrox game in competitive play.
Atrox, I do think, is a champion that takes some games. You really do kind of have to know the limits, because on these drain tank style champions,
You have to know how far you can go, right? You know how much you can push the limit
So it takes a lot of experience as far as that is concerned
And then just getting really comfortable with the EQs making sure you're placing those well like all the timings on on how to actually do
and knowing your limits in the 5v5s
You can potentially fold off because I think
Talking about again the way this DSG roster was
constructed, Cryra coming on, the fact that they continued screaming with him even
when Kizno was the one who was here and he was still playing from Canada. I think
this is a really interesting angle for him to be able to pop off considering
how much they've relied on him, not even as a carry but also as a facilitator.
Okay, Triline Cam is on and it's a fast path towards bottom lane for
Hosidioto, level three on this Pantheon looking to maybe set up a
This is a massive wave that's about to crash into the turret.
So Jett is still only level one.
The Pantheon jumps in and there's your first blood over to Team Liquid.
That is an absolute disaster for DSG in the bottom lane.
Thank you, Jose De Odo, for giving me my early jungle gank.
We got it.
Finally, really, really nice recognition with this bot lane being as shoved in as it was.
We talked about the pushing power, especially of the Lulu here.
So really, really nice wraparound gank.
It's 19 to 2 in bottom lane minions.
To 2!
That's why I was gonna say, I kinda almost wanna like, see how it went so bad.
Like, what was the trade that went that horrible?
Was it just, you know, them going a little bit too far and getting slowed down and chased down, or kind of what happened?
Cause usually for those types of HP advantages to happen, it's like someone overextends.
Maybe even though Eftruss come, you can one shot him.
I'm very okay.
He's on the hill.
What do you think?
Yeah.
I'll go.
I can start tanking.
I drop.
Yeah.
Go drop.
I mean that was easy, but Morgan, that dive just looks so easy, right?
To me it's like, the interesting part of that is kind of how they got that low.
And I was watching some of the other lanes more for the trading there when we were in the tri-lane cam,
but Yon not even having to use Ghost to trade down and get a big trade or anything like that.
That's rough.
I mean you're going up against a Felios Lulu, it never gets better.
It's these champions scale to infinity, so there's no like, all right, we'll just scale guys.
It's a problem down here in bottom lane, and the problems continue, Lyon's down to 200 HP,
Yon chasing after him with the Graviton, Core JJ making sure that his AD carry can make this
pursuit go all the way underneath the turret, so much damage onto both of them, disguised
bottom laners both have to flash away and barely survive.
I mean that is horrible, and now you have Inferno, so you're just going to be able
to fast shove the wave and crash it, so you're going to be able to deny some of
these minions here also and that is just ghost trade for two flashes so and
then when you have no flashes it's not even like you can hope for the bail out
of the game because this is a trucks a truck to need some setup a truck can't
just like running in one shot them right like you need to have the rail to be
able to set something up so this is looking dire I'm not gonna lie dire
already for DSG there bot lane is basically out of the game plus Jose
Deodos on pantheon with a point and click stun no flashes to get out of
the range before he can make that happen guarantees that if he wants to
show up again they're going to have the tools to make a play and continue trying
to just steamroll this game through bottom lane. Yeah and it's really nice to
see again how well this TL bot lane is performing. We talk about the power of
them and how good they've been in the past and how good they've been in
scrims. Everyone says they've just absolutely been crushing it here. I was
wondering if Jose was gonna go for something here. It's easy spotting them
or to realize, you know what, just gonna back it up, not really much anything there.
Yeah, Qwid also not quite level 6 here on the Azir, usually you'll see them go in and try to immediately ult the Orianna as soon as they get the chance.
Slimes and Sujet back down in the bottom lane yet again, and it's just another stacked up wave that Yharn will be able to farm all of, will not miss any of that CS.
As Calvary's now in some danger, Flashjohn coming out from Hose of Diodo, needs a little bit more damage to secure the kill, Comet spear, nope!
Didn't end up actually throwing it.
Honestly, at the end of the day, pretty nice.
Easy to choose the, it gives us all for the little burst of move speed, gets in close flash, stun,
and it is just a trade of flashes at the end of the day, but now quit as flash.
So you could look for a repeat gank, especially when Jose gets six,
where it's easy to set that up for the Azir, swoop him back in with your flash,
have the Pantheon all come in.
Yeah, the thing is about hitting level six for Jose though, because he has
been spam ganking so much, he is behind Freyre in terms of the pacing, in terms of the EXP.
Freyre gonna take the opportunity, go for this first drake.
Unfortunately, it is a chem Drake, usually not going to be the strongest early on or ever, but you get it out of the way, you grab an objective, which is honestly a relief considering how bad bottom lane has been going so far to be able to take the first Drake is you're wiping your, the slot off your forehead a little bit.
Yeah, it's actually huge because you don't give away that early Drake stacking 2 TL, especially when this bot lane has had so much pressure on this bot side as we see them shoving another wave towards that turret.
Was it you, Flowers, who said that Chem Drake is so stinky, that's why no one wants to take it?
That sounds like something I would say. That sounds like some logic behind it, as Team Liquid pushing up in the bottom lane here, yet again Morgan goes mega-nar topside forcing the flash out of castle in response.
Both top laners without their flashes or JJ putting the deep ward here next to the enemy
gromp as the big wave crashes into the turret.
So Jett and Lyons at least not going to get dove on this one.
So So Jett should be able to pick up most of this farm, but the pressure just remains
so constant.
It's still 55 to 35 in the bottom lane CS.
And don't allow bot lane being cooked to distract you from the fact that top lane
is also looking kind of cooked.
He was down 26 to 1.0 de-collect wave, it's going to be pushing back to Morgan.
Castle had the ability to counterpick. Had his flash forth there in the 1v1 and
It's just looking rough. I mean they can't even walk up to the tower really Jose's coming and it said she said trust it
Enter. He's gonna die. Yeah looks like cry roll will at least make his way in here as well level 7 on the 8
Chalks, so he is pretty strong goes forward looks for the dark and blade
Oh to the auto is gonna be your target on Lyon's dies first and Jose just throws up the shield now
This might require as he tries to get his way the world ender is used
But no, Yon's got the chase, the Grishendom is so powerful in these situations.
Once you have all those Chukrams stacked up, there's nothing the enemy can do about it.
Team Liquid, can they even get Sejet here?
Probably not, but man, it's just another point of pain here in the bottom.
Yeah, Sejet is not having a good time as we see the ult coming out of Qwid.
Ooh, nice.
And the two turret shots as well as Callme tries to get away.
One more hit will take him down, but Callme survives for now.
has about 20 HP remaining, is using the potion, trying to heal up,
wants to see if maybe he can get away on this one, goes for the TP,
and Call-Me calls it quits and the enemy jungle manages just barely to get home.
Call-Me escapes, but still a massive win for TL,
going immediately from that bot side play into Qwid pushing up.
As we see, CoreJJ has just been such a problem,
and I was a little concerned for TL with the level lead that Cryera has,
But Lyons immediately gets stunned up and dropped as he goes in.
Cryra gets polymorphed, and all the Chalkerums coming out of Yon just kill off Cryra.
Yeah, and I mean, while you do have a level lead there for Cryra,
the problem is Lyons is less than half HP, has to use the heal before he even goes in,
and so Jett was level 4. It's a level 6 on the Aphelios, so it's like,
there's just no damage behind that engage.
I don't blame them for going for it because it was looking completely doomed.
If you can't walk up to your tower at this point of the game, you just can't play the game.
And unfortunately that's the situation that they are in now down about 1k the buy for suggest is looking for rough and
You know it is going to be a really tough game. We have to kind of claw back. It's feeling very similar to game 2 to me
DSG are trying to maintain a little bit of control around this bottom side river if they can is to cure another scuttle cry
Which tries to steal away some camps there looking at the enemy chickens
So Jed again just forced back the Lucian having to run away from Lulu because Lulu is just straight up stronger is not good tidings
No
He does have he did hit level six now
Hey quid manages to just slide away here from Chyra
And this is kind of what you were talking about earlier right as ill with the atrox
He needs setup. It's hard for him to just walk into the lane and try to make something happen
Yeah, and Jose might have been looking for a play on that boss side
Jose is just kind of in everywhere with this Pantheon. I really really love how
he's approached playing this out with his lanes, even with that kind of level lead
sacrifice that he was making. I think it's just one of these situations where you
have to recognize your role in the game, right? You have a Felios Azir Lululu.
You have a lot of scaling, a lot of damage. Your job on the Pantheon is to
enable them to set them up for success. So if you have to drop farm to be
able to put them in a better situation, that is worth doing. Jose is
behind them once again and A-Trux is not here so...
Yeah, that's the wild growth, Lyons is locked up, he's out of there, Jose Biodo on a killing
spree and Yon has the Inferno yet again to fast shove the waves, Suget's trying to
cold the wave down just to keep himself alive but the Culling can only take out the front
line of the minions.
Now Jose and Cora can just walk on up, it's that easy, another kill over to Jose
Biodo.
absolute decimation coming out of TL on this bot side of the map. I thought Qwidd might be looking
for another potential ult there. Doesn't go for it. There's a lot of damage.
Colmy's like, don't worry guys, I'm up 6cs. How are your lanes going? Just that nightmare
situation where you feel like your lane's going well, you press tap, you really wish you didn't
press tap. Now we've got the ulti coming in the mid lane from the hold of the auto,
Flash is towards call me goes to the stun needs a little bit more damage to secure the kill won't quite find up here
Just yet Comet spear collides, but he doesn't have the damage
As he done there by Lions good Rome covers his mid laner
So doesn't have to use the flash and I'm gonna get pushed back and he quit is low
They are kind of hanging around but I don't think that just you have the ability to actually get access to him
So we'll just be the pushed wave and you can see yawn already has the storm razor
So the move speed can be ramping up quite a bit now too
Now both mid laners chunked but importantly Quid has his teleport available and call me does not because he had to use it earlier to get away when he was behind enemy lines, so this should be some pretty easy setup around the drake for TL if that's what they want to go for.
DSG is trying to burn it down fast before that can happen but Quid has already made his way back into the mid lane and Cryra and the rest of DSG are going to have to seriously consider how badly they want this drake.
Riley's still hanging around, but here goes Hose of Dioto,
immediately starting up the fight.
He's taking a ton of damage.
He'll keep him alive a little bit longer.
As Lyons goes in for the engage, Hose is low,
but he is not dead.
Here just yet, finally shut down, goes up to DSG and Lyons.
Quinn is in the middle of everybody,
but they still don't have the damage to get the kills.
Yon goes forward, but it's a double kill for Lyons.
Yon is down to 50 HP, trying to heal up here
on the Ophelios.
Gordj right next to him wants to try
to keep his carries protected.
Now he's in the wild growth to deny the crash down,
but the kill still comes through.
DSG it was looking so bleak but they found themselves a fight now chorus trapped in the enemy jungle
Lions looking to lock him up. He misses shattering strike call me takes the kill and DSG aren't done fighting just yet great job
There by DSG being able to find something off the back of this for go to moment
We can watch it one more time as it felt like yawning Cora were a little bit disjointed from where Jose was Jose is
is very far up. All four members from DSG are hitting him the whole time and Yonim will
come to move up because Lyon still had his ult. He gets flashed on there. Then you're thinking
alright well maybe Yon can take over now but Quint on the side dies to Zed as well as Lyon
and then you're in this situation where you're in this 2v3. I feel like they played it really
well. The timing on the wild growth was great and then 4 moves in front to try to block
the culling but that just stacks you up from the shockwave.
Yeah, and that's absolutely huge for DSG who were looking pretty out of this game
Going into it taking advantage of a really split fight
Right like not only was not y'all not able to get in but quid was off on the side a bit separated from his team as well
And now we'll see what they're able to do with it, but most importantly. I mean they do secure
No, the drink wasn't taken their minds
Well, I'm crazy so Jed is is no longer a minion at the very least like he has an item that's crack and see he's been upgraded
So at least your ad carry is online. It's still bad spot, but we'll see
Quit going in for the Emperor's divide looks for call me here takes him down to about half HP
You can see Jose Dioto making his way for McRyre has also arrived DSG
They're gonna get another one team liquid is playing sloppy with their lead and it's DSG punishing
Nicely done by Gummy. He's just kind of kited that out. He is actually at a really strong point now
He has the two three boots. He has his Ludens completed off the back of that last fight
So he has now the biggest individual lead of the game
He's actually more ahead than Yannis over
Suget now core JJ getting caught here to plenty of CC and the calling has enough damage right behind it
Oh, he's a jumps in the back wants to find the kill on the suggest with a pantheon alone does not have a ton of damage
It's a double kill to Suget.
Team Liquid has thrown the lead.
And now Suget is up in gold after that,
which is a lot of really weird mistakes coming out of TL
and DSG being able to punish,
getting their carries, most importantly,
Suget back in the game.
As a fan of both Jack Chan and Bruce Lee,
I really love some Kung Fu movies,
and I appreciate TL reenacting the bad villains
in those walking in one at a time to play the hero.
to get their budget, yeah exactly, just I don't know, Corb go first, he'll see what's up, alright, alright, you know you took me down, now it's gonna be Jose's turn, what can Jose do against our hero, and looking like not much, unfortunately for him as TEL, you know some pretty big mistakes honestly, you know, quit DICE for free, mid, then you have multiple of those spots.
He can't find me. He can't find me.
Yeah, man.
True.
Yeah, this is...
Oh my god.
This was like 3,000 gold lead for Team Liquid earlier.
It is now 1,000 gold lead for Disguised.
An absolutely massive throw.
And it's just crazy.
Look at the CS they would've fought, by the way,
and you're up 83 gold.
It's like, hey guys, I'm up 40 CS on my enemy bot laner in 15 minutes.
Oh, you're ahead on gold?
No.
Well, no.
Wow, okay.
So DSG, we talked earlier back in like the first couple of games about how Team Liquid was getting more from their punishes,
but in this third game, that is absolutely not the case. DSG has done a great job getting back into this game.
They've got both of the early drakes here so far. We'll see if they can continue finding more plays.
As CoreJJ and Yon could be in a little bit of danger here, but Lyons isn't close enough to catch anybody.
Yon has the goes to give himself enough distance to stay safe here on the Othelios.
I think Sujet might just get to his second item first.
Call me, it's Kato, Hosebioho, and Quidd.
Look to kill off the Orianna, but they can't quite get there.
Lions comes in with a heal, keeps Call me protected.
Dawn off the side, but now Massive Engage coming up from Lions!
That was beautiful from disguise!
Hosebioho now in danger as well as they try to chase after him.
Make this a three kill affair.
Triple kill him to cry her as Atrox.
And now this Atrox is going to be a massive problem.
So we see him going after Yon a little bit.
Morgan is able to clean up this Tier 1 turret on the top side, but these fights are all now
DSG and a lot of it is the little Lions redemption arc on this rel, the pick that they saved as
the final pick to round out this composition. Jose and Quid think they're going to be
able to get on to call me. He is the strongest point on this, but then here we go, Lions
in immediately great rail engage.
Yeah, I don't get it.
Is I was like, OK, there's a ward.
They were on a ward the whole time.
I thought my initial assumption was, oh, they
must have thought that the Orianna and the rail backed off.
They were on a ward.
This is the ward.
They signed the whole time.
This team liquid decision-making in game three
is feeling like some solo queue stuff, man.
Well, there's a guy with a different colored health
bar on my screen.
I should probably click him.
I don't feel like there's a greater plan here.
It's just completely crazy.
TL are going to start up the RipTill now,
see if they can acquire the additional power
to maybe regain control of the game through this objective.
And DSG is not going to contest for it.
Instead, just pushing out mid, pushing out bot.
Harold goes over to TL.
The most deadly rail engage is the scene one.
The scene one.
As we see DSG continuing to kind of bully Morgan out
of this bot side, try to get some damage further
on to this tier one.
But yeah, I mean, now DSG are in a really, really good spot.
We'll see if TL are able to do anything with this Rift,
Carol, they still do have the Cephalos who will be a problem.
So now it's all about, okay, regroup, chill out.
Like Jan said, take it slow, you know, in game one
and try to protect him because now you have Cryera
at four, two and two.
This Atrox is gonna be massive coming into teamfights.
Lions has been on point with these relengages
And Kalmish has a really great ball delivery system from that.
And I think Tiel are pretty lucky that Morgan is having such a stellar 1v1, right?
Because he got counterpicked, and he's up 1.5K, and they are down as a team 1.6K.
Like, this would be even if he was even down 3K, right?
And if he was losing to the counterpick, which is kind of what your expectation is,
they could be completely out of the game, so credit to him.
But it is kind of this redemption story that you're talking about for Lions.
And we kind of touched on it, you know, how he had been performing, you know,
before the Sentinels series versus in the Sentinels series.
The stats don't always tell this whole story
with Sentinels or with the Sentinels series
and with supports in general,
but he definitely was not on form
and it's nice to see him having a good game on the road.
Yeah, absolutely.
And now we see TL dropping the Rift Herald.
They have been able to take down
this entire outer ring of turrets using the gnar
and then the Rift Herald in mid.
So that's at least solid for them.
And again, we'll be looking to see what they want to do with their next team fight because if they give that Drake up DSG will be on sole point.
Alright DSG, let's see if you can maintain that control.
And for TL, I want to see them have some coordination. It has just felt completely haphazard these previous few fights that they've taken.
People jumping in alone, going in after different targets. The timing feels off.
So Jed going to walk up here in mid lane, quick art of plays onto Yon, walks back away.
Just a nice quiet distraction while they begin the Drake down here.
TP's coming in, Morgan wants to be a part of this fight.
This could be the big X factor here for Team Liquid, but Morgan's the only one going in at first.
Narbar mostly charged, Kryra's already secured the Drake, and DSG's just gonna walk away.
And if they're able to walk away without even needing the TP from Castle, that is a huge win.
Yon is trying to kind of section the wall, see if you can find anything.
Hey, Yon does hit up there with the moonlight vigil, but Blast cone of the wall, they're safe.
And the big thing was, it looked like TL took too long to set up that play, right?
Because you saw Morgan waiting in base, it was a matter of not if he was going to TP,
but when and what kind of flank they were looking for to try to get this gnar involved,
time it around the gnar bar, and they just weren't able to do it.
DSG immediately go in, pick up that drake, and now they're on sole point, Infernal's sole too.
They're looking really really strong and I mean I understand YTL thought hey
maybe we can actually look for this because Mortgage has hit two items, Jose has already
hit two items, IE just got completed for Yon, but their mid lane is kind of out of the game as well
which is really really difficult. You already have the two completed items Shadowflame as well as
the Ludens on one side here and then you look over at the other and you have the Oblivion Orb
like some little pieces at the end but basically it's just Nashor's and some trash right like
right it's it's Quiddiz is having a rough one in this game and meanwhile across the aisle
Colony is not playing vegetarian Orianna. This dude is out here just eating burger after burger shadow flame plus
Luton's Echo those shock waves are just going to eradicate whoever they hit
Yep, and as we see them kind of setting up
Oh, so Jed trying to get away from this one. That's a big catch for TL. Hose of Diodo makes it happen
But what can they get afterwards?
It would be risky to start up to the Baron here
I mean, it's only 22 minutes into the game, but TL I think at the very least want to bait it
They want to show that clear out vision. They haven't actually swept out that one word in the pit though
So DSG well aware of what's going on and remember there in that big debuff could mean problems if call me can get him behind them
He's behind. Okay, call me looking for it has to flash away to try to escape Morgan now gonna be your target
DSG trying to go after the gnar cry was stuck in the middle of everybody the burst is plenty enough and
and DSG lose their jungler. Now they've got a scatter, Morgan's still alive.
Nice engage coming up from Lyons, but there is no follow-up.
DSG's gonna kill off Yon, but they don't have the damage to do it.
Castle goes back in, but he falls!
Jose Biodo gets the kill on the Jax, and now DSG have got to be careful.
Yeah, I mean, it just felt like Colmy got a little bit too clever there.
You know, trying to come in from the other angle, he lost his flash early,
and then he couldn't really connect with the rest of the team.
And even though there's this great re-engage from lions,
it just didn't really amount to anything.
Yeah, I mean, they couldn't really follow up
with a lot of damage as we see this again
where Palmy is separated from the fight.
Cryra goes in.
Morgan is actually able to get a really nice
stun against the wall to take out Cryra there.
Now, so watch Palmy's shockwave here.
So obviously he's super strong.
We talked about that.
He has to rank two shockwave.
They go for the re-engage.
He gets the ball in on lions.
It only connects on the gnar.
So not able to really hit much of anything there.
And I just feel like if he was on the same side of the fight
with the rel, it's a completely different game, right?
You're very likely to be able to get a multi-man shockwave.
And unfortunately Graham couldn't find it.
All right, TL back in the lead now, plus 2,000 gold.
Morgan chasing after Lyons, team liquid invading
the enemy jungle, seeing if they can set up any picks,
just like they've done in the previous two games.
Less than two minutes on the clock
until that dragon soul will spawn for disguise.
That one is going to be absolutely massive for TL to contest, but TL's not willing to wait.
They want to contest Baron right now, still 90 seconds until that Drake spawns.
DSG is in the neighborhood.
We're going to see if they can take the fight.
Infernal change on to Morgan, but he walks out of the side.
DSG still on the approach.
You can see Castle looking for the flank as Quidd has to dash away from Sajed.
Turret destroyed in the meantime over there in the mid lane.
And we're just chilling.
Okay, no fight.
no fight. Jose now has opened up a really big goalie for himself and even off that early
fight car got a lot of kills, completely second item, but Jose has been stalwart throughout
this game, has been great really the whole way through and now completes the GA, so he
is super super strong. Quinn is just going for a defensive build. He's just going to
go for the Seekers because I think he realizes the game's not about him at all at this
point, which is going to make it more difficult for Call Me. You know, you can react to
that shockwave, throw down the stasis. It's just about can TL keep Yon safe and
keep him hitting because I think if they can they're gonna be set up for success.
Yeah and that's where I'm also still gonna be looking at Jose especially with
this GA walked in for him on the next fight and they did pull that TP off of
the Jax right so it's gonna take him much longer time to walk up to this as
they return to the Baron. Yup, Yon's got the Chut from here to look at how
many of them he has stacked up. DSG still trying to approach but the
The Baron is already gone. Team Liquid claim the objective.
Yon's still looking for an opportunity to put those chakras to good work.
DSG's not going to give it to him, but now DSG can make a B line straight for the drake pit.
Yeah, they can go for the dragon, and this could be Seoul, so that's actually not a good trade for TL
if they do end up losing this, and it looks like they are likely to.
Yon is just going to go topside, so they get the Baron.
As long as DSG can actually hold out through this Baron buff, they're going to be really happy.
And again, it was just a weird fight because Kalmy is not with the team.
He's trying to come around on these flanks.
He ends up actually keeping just into the Baron pit,
but the fight was already over.
They do, though, get the soul at the end of the day,
and it's going to be this injection of gold for TL.
But for this to be worth it,
they have got to get so much gold.
I know, talking to Brieke,
he estimated the value, the gold value of souls
around 6,000 plus gold.
So that is a lot, right?
There is stats on the Baron.
There is a little bit of a gold injection on the Baron,
but like, I don't think they should be able
to end the game with the Baron by any means.
And now, you have infernal soul
on this super fed Orianna, if that shockwave combo hits,
you could be cooked.
Yeah, that one's going to hurt.
Seeker's Armguard, we already mentioned it
being available for the Azir, but the Orianna
also having that defensive tool.
So call me, can hopefully feel safer,
positioning and posturing aggressively
so that he can find high value on these shockwaves.
Combo them there with Lyon so they can get
that huge wombo combo that really
will make their team fight sing.
Yeah, and now the question is going to be,
Okay, how well can TL kind of set the map in their favor with this Baron buff, right?
Try to push out side waves. We've seen the gnar in that bot lane kind of constantly pushing up that wave
Lion's gonna get spotted out here.
Now, Lion's looking for Qwyd who immediately just shuffles him back over the wall.
He is here still doing a solid amount of damage. TL gonna group back up here.
Pantheon ulti diving way into the back. Lion's here trying to finish off Lion's and Cryra.
Lyons in some serious danger does have to use the crash down defensively team liquid putting the pedal to the metal here with their bearer
And they've still got 60 seconds left on this and they're using it to go down mid
Initially, I thought Jose was gonna go in way too deep
But the follow-up from Morgan was really good if the narbaric the exact right time kind of makes
DSG have to scatter so they can brute force this mid tier to
Hopefully link up now with quid who's been pushing up this bot wave and try to make a play on this spot
They want to at least get this bot side to choose.
37 seconds left on that Baron buff.
Quickly get caught by Shockwave.
Nice Shockwave there, but can Quinn escape DSG
trying to chase after the enemy mid laner?
They hit the darkened blade.
He uses the Seekers' armguard, but he will not escape.
Call me, it's the kill, and Disguise get the pick.
Nicely done, Disguise hitting another pick there.
So it is just the 3.4k gold lead
at the end of the day with that Baron buff.
They're not going to get anything more,
but again, around 6,000-ish gold of stats
with that soul, that is essentially
what that is valued at of course it is different for every team comp it depends
on how easily you can apply you know this soul buff how easy you can apply the
damage but it's going to be quite powerful and you know DSG are not in a
bad spot so feel didn't really get enough with that Baron for it to be
worthwhile. Yeah they weren't able to get kind of that tier 2 bot that they
were prepping for they did knock down the tier 2 in mid but you know all
inhib turrets and two tier 2's actually are still standing they pretty much
which just only added that mid tier 2 because they'd already had the outer ringer of turrets down for a while.
I will say though, Castle has had basically zero effect on this entire game.
He is scaling, he is getting levels, but he's not seeming to really get a lot of gold, hasn't been able to catch up at all.
He's down almost 3k individually. That is basically the entire lead, it's just Morgan.
So, you know, DSG can fight where Morgan and Castle are on a side lane, that is a great fight for you.
So to me, your job becomes when you're getting slammed
in a sideline like this,
you just try to draw that guy to you
and you're just running at towers,
trying to force them to respond
because if I'm not there and you're not there,
it's way better for my team when I'm behind.
Right, the 4v4 for disguised is very, very scary looking.
Quid, still very far behind,
though, tastes the game himself here on the Azir,
but Morgan with the three fully completed items
on the gnar is absolutely massive.
See if he takes the brush here.
So he's taking a quick burst of damage, but he's just about got the Narbar charge, so he continues just running straight at them and DSG back away as Castle makes his way back out onto the map.
He's on the flank here with a blast cone, but he doesn't need to be a little bit mindful.
Jose hits him with a very small amount of poke.
Sun disc will be destroyed here in the mid lane.
TL have lost Morgan's Mega-Nar for now.
DSG might look for their opportunity to go in, but it's a televerse on the call! He's already dead!
Quinn takes the kill and DSGF to try to fight without their midlaner.
So Jett forced off to the side of the fight at the same time.
And now Cryra is down.
Lions will follow.
TL just killed four.
TL were constantly trying to look for these angles on Takallmi.
Finally get one there.
I love how they've been playing around Morgan specifically.
They're gonna try to end.
Always looking for these flanks.
And yeah, now they're might be pushing for the end.
Yeah, the death timers are long.
It's 20 seconds until anybody else is back up.
It's only suggested to try to defend this.
The Lucian who had such a struggle early game
will not be able to hold the line.
Team Liquid, it was a messy game number three,
but they make their way onto the Nexus turrets.
They will clean sweet disguise
and they will move forward,
continuing their march towards first stand.
It'll flip on the radar and go quickly.
It got a little messy, but game one and game two,
super dominant and TL at the end of the day
showed their class in the team play.
It just felt like they split up that fight one on both sides.
They get this great engage and they one shot call me.
And on the other side, Yann was just confidently walking forward,
forcing them to engage on him.
He has summoners, flashes back with the protection of Core JJ.
And all of a sudden, everything has been lost on both sides of the fight there for GSG.
Yeah, and I love how they used their coordination to kind of bait out these fights.
That's something we've been talking about with TL, right?
Like we want to see how well coordinated this team could be as they take a bow
and we'll move on in the lower bracket.
I mean, if your team liquid, you should be so happy with the early game of this game number three because it looked like they were just set up for success from minute one.
Everything in the mid game needs FOD review on top of FOD review, and I'm sure that's where they're going to go. But right now we're joining Jaff on stage for an interview.
Thank you. I'm here with you on after a quick three zero, a little bit messy in the game three, but how do you feel you guys showed up after two week break?
Um, for the most part, I'm very happy with what we showed.
I feel like we were way more connected, maybe a little bit less than third game, but sorry.
No worries.
Any water?
Oops.
Yeah.
I think we've been working pretty hard recently and fixing up our stage game.
Overall, very happy.
What do you feel like the biggest thing was on stage because your scrims have been so
good, there's been a lot of speculation on what hasn't been transferring, but what
do you feel like you transferred to stage today?
For the most part, I don't think we were very connected in our own place.
We were really just doing things on our own.
But now we're playing more of a team game, I would say.
Who's the biggest threat on the way through the losers bracket?
We have Lyon versus FlyQuest tomorrow.
Who do you expect to come out of that one?
Hard to say.
I feel like everyone's just cheering on FlyQuest at this point.
But hard to say.
I think Lyons will probably win or Lyon.
Fair enough.
OK, Yon, thank you.
Take a break.
Good 3-0.
We're going to send it back to the lounge close out the day.
More connected.
They were definitely very connected on this series.
The last game, maybe not so much.
Yeah, don't have recency bias.
The last game, they did show that they still
have a little bit of int in the brass.
But for the beginning and then for the end,
they were able to both set up their victory
and then they're able to recover it
after they had that little spree of ints in the middle.
Game two.
When I saw that graphic up there, fastest game in the LCS
this split and fifth fastest globally this split too.
Like they very much are in the driver's seat.
That being said, player game, player of the game,
anybody knows?
Who's the driver usually Razz?
It's usually the jungler.
The jungler!
The jungler, Jose.
Boom.
Jose set up a lot of plays.
Like we were doing a lot of the replays of some
of the turns and engages that he did.
There were mistakes too along with it, you know?
Not every drive is bump free.
There's a couple of little bumps on the road.
Especially in Atlanta, so few potholes.
I just wanted to come hang out.
You guys took my chair away?
Hey, little guy.
What is this?
Nice and comfortable.
I got to squeeze it.
I'm not a man-spreader.
It's such a fast day.
I don't want to be gone.
Did I mean it?
No, Jose won't play with the game.
Oh, I got spoiled on the game.
I bought it for him.
Okay.
Who do you think it is?
I think it's Jose.
It shows right there.
You looked at it.
That's the player of the game.
Yeah, he knows.
Play the scene.
The house already know the answer.
What the hell?
We're going to have to wait though.
We don't have facts on that one, even though the prompters definitely tell you what it
is.
You've got to collect all the votes because the way all talent votes, right?
The three casters, three people on the lounge.
Yeah.
And if there's any tiebreakers, which has had a lot of tiebreakers today, then the
fans also have it.
Yeah, it's been fun having the chat, you know, be the tiebreaker and weigh in
every...
This is...
We're so close.
Yeah, we are.
I'm going to make it a little more comfortable.
coming here. So now we're just a happy couch. I mean, you're not going to give me this one.
Oh yeah, it's in the world. We're ready for player series. Why did they come back?
Yeah, let's check it out. It's Jose Diodo. Congratulations.
Congratulations, Jose. Congratulations. That was honestly really good performance from Jose Diodo
all day long. Especially the bot dives. They were pretty crucial. They're very TLS.
That's called the pillars.
Man, we've all been there, right?
Yeah.
Afterwards, it feels so bad.
Yeah, but he was such a driver for a lot of these plays.
And again, there were a couple of plays.
You saw Inklings, where Jan was talking about, oh, yeah.
We were way more connected.
They were for the majority.
There's still been a couple that they weren't connected on.
But for the vast majority, so much more synced up.
Yeah.
I'd say the Pantheon game, as you mentioned,
had the biggest whoopsies.
but it was also his like best early game performance
that he then had the whoopsies afterwards.
So I think this is well deserved.
Yeah, I think the Vi game was probably the very best one.
Trundle was quite good with a lot of the fillers.
Yes.
But the Vi one really was very connected to Clay,
especially with the Vi, R.A. plays.
And they're very connected, very connected.
I mean, this is like Team Liquid.
This is what Yon said, like before they were spread out.
They had two extra chairs and there was a one guy
on that couch.
But now, Team Liquid is all together and connected in one big chair, one really big, wide chair.
So they're going to play the winners of tomorrow's game, which is Lion vs. FlyQuest.
You can see that game is coming up tomorrow.
This Sunday as well, we're going to have the upper bracket final with C9 vs. Sentinels as well.
Winner of that will slot immediately into the finals.
Loser of that will slot into the second match of next weekend.
So it's going to be a crazy end to this split.
And Yon said Lion! Yon said Lion.
Yeah, probably Lion.
We have a bunch of sharks in the lower bracket.
It seems that's happening here.
We do.
You know what I think?
What?
We could fit one more on this couch.
Yes, I think we could.
If anyone wants to join this couch, yeah.
We'll get an interview.
Anybody wants to join the couch?
Where's the couch for that?
We can fight Yon over, like, we got a spot for that.
All right, that is it for us today.
We are done.
We'll be back tomorrow at 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m.
Pacific for fly versus a lion.
Who, Yon predicted lion to win?
Is this correct or not?
See you there, Trac.
See you guys!
Welcome back to the LCS.
It's super weak here at the Riot Games Arena,
and it's do or die for many of our remaining competitors.
Good to fight.
Or am I here yet?
Look, she's out, look, she's out.
Or are you kidding?
I'm on Kaisa.
I can't hit here.
I'm ready for it.
Yeah.
This is good, this is good.
You can kill me.
Look, she, look, she, she.
Let me do it.
Kill one.
Barrel flash.
Kill Kalio.
Keep playing, keep playing.
Double flash. Double flash here.
Double 10.
Double flash.
Team Liquid lost dominant.
10 full already guys, 10 full already.
I like a flash already.
Watch, watch, watch, watch.
Watch, watch, watch.
Inter soled, Inter no ulti.
We win, we win.
We are on the place! We are on the place!
We are on the place! Get in!
They will clean sweet disguised and they will move forward continuing their march towards first stand.