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Hello everybody and welcome to the America's Cup of Zales here.
It is here. It's time for some redemption games for these teams that couldn't make it to first
stand.
True. Still in Brazil though. Technically still in Brazil.
What do you mean? What do you mean? They just are.
They are in Brazil.
They're literally in Brazil.
But literally in Brazil, not technically in Brazil. Although it could be at first stand
just in the crowd.
Yeah. Hey, that's a good point. Do you think any are going to stick around for
it?
I have no idea.
Probably not.
We're here in Los Angeles though in the Riot Games arena and I got to say it's weird to
be in on a Wednesday in the rain.
Was that weird for you?
Wednesday, literally every Wednesday.
Well, yes, but that's in the meeting room.
Now, now we have lights on us.
They gave me a mic.
I work Wednesdays.
You know, that's a good point.
Actually, his schedule is much worse than mine.
Yeah, work every Wednesday.
More intensive.
Yeah.
I'm learning a show every Wednesday.
I show up at like just another Wednesday.
Five minutes before our meeting starts.
Just grab a coffee.
Pack of noon.
Have a good time.
Yeah.
I'm new early gamer hours early gamer hours and actually I've been doing better with the sleep schedule
I've been getting up by like 9 a.m. Most days these days. Yeah, I do have a good sleep schedule. Yeah, yeah
Okay, cool. I'm a baby. I'm up. Yeah, that's a good point
Well, we're gonna talk about the America's Cup and to cover the first best of threes
We're gonna have who ahead of us today with cloud nine Kia taking on furia and red cannons
It's Kallonga taking on Sentinels.
Yep, it's going to be really fun.
So today is double best of three
and then every other day is going to be a single best of five.
So it's all best ofs, feel this of course.
And these teams are going to be battling to win that bootcamp
at MSI, which is a pretty cool prize actually.
And should be a lot of fun.
These teams also obviously, if they do decide to stay around,
are going to have access to being able to scrim against
the teams that are attending first-hand.
And then if you win, you get to go to,
even if you don't qualify for MSI,
team. So it's a lot of good
practice, and I do think it was
one of the cool things from LTA
last year was that you know,
competition, so we wanted to
keep that America's Cup is
going to be the way that we do
that for now. I will say,
though, as an extremely biased
LCS, yeah, I'm a little bit
nervous for day one because
these fellas right here were
expected to win our tournament.
Yeah, they got clapped up in
the finals. Yeah, turbo
depressed. They got a game and
then they're still extremely
still extremely depressed and then the next morning they're on a flight it's
about a Dom Dom on Twitter said it took him 25 hours to get there I know it's a
long trip because there's not a lot of direct flights so I know last night when I
went it took us about 30 hours door-to-door so it can't you can't vary
depending on how long your layovers are and what your flights get rules and
blah blah blah but it's a long trip and then they got there they did their
check checks a couple hours later and then they are playing now here you
know under 24 hours later after that so I'm a little bit worried on how the
and everything and what the mental state is and on top of that they also had to do their podcast like an hour after
They're lost to get out the content before
And they're also up against Fiora who to their credit have improved greatly you talked about like kind of last year with LTA the overlap of
Of the teams and I got to say I think that C.B. Lowell in the South region leveled up greatly
So take a look at predictions to see what we think about this matchup. I'll say also, you know somewhat biased LCS Caster
Extremely biased. I do have C9 taking it, but I have a few are picking up a game
I see that you agree with me. This is this is the weakest the LCS teams are gonna be okay
That's the code for getting excuses in early. Yeah, so I do think if there is is a day to to take in the LCS teams
It is today. I do think the schedule is pretty tough getting down there. So we'll we'll see how how fear is gonna be able to play
I think it should be, you know, definitely seen I'm favored watching some of the CBL playoffs.
I do think there's a lot of really, really talented players.
I do think though that Fiora has taken a step back macro wise compared to last year.
I know think hard got a lot of credit when he was playing with them, you know,
coaching for them last year on how well they were actually playing the map.
Yeah, I do feel like they have taken a bit of a step back from the games I've watched.
And I think cloud nine is a really good team and actually, you know, moving moving the game forward
when they are in control.
Some of the CBL teams, I think,
mechanically extremely, extremely good.
But I do think that they tend to make some more macro mistakes
and kind of decision-making consigns be that issue.
That being said, though, I mean,
Cloud9 had a lot of that against Lyon.
So they're valuable.
They're valuable.
For a lot of our audience, they might not know as much
about the CBL teams.
I know with LTA, we had some of that cross-conference
play last year.
But yeah, you bring up the good point
that ThinkCard was the coach for them in the past.
Liz, are predictions actually for the second series?
Do we have anything different?
So we have more, actually, I'm the only 2-0 now.
You're the 2-0.
I'm the 2-0.
You went 2-1 both times.
Why are they not going to lose the game here?
Because I think that Sentinels.
You hate Cloud9?
Well, OK.
For me, it's at Cloud9.
I'm putting two things into it.
They're going to drop a game because jet lag is
going to be a factor for both teams,
but they're also coming off of a very fresh loss.
Very tough loss in the finals.
Sentinels are less affected by the game.
Sentinels, I expected to lose.
Because you have to lose, you
I think they don't care about
losing. You're like, they saw my prediction they were slated for
golden glue. I'm just happy we were there. I was like, guys,
Kangus chalked it up as a loss. Yep. Let's just go get some
BBQ. I got the red flannel on for Sentinels here. Yeah. I'll
take a look at the rosters though. C9. This is the roster
that we just saw dominate the regular season. Again. They
keep doing this as L where they crush regular season. They
weren't able to win in playoffs, but they still are a
It's it's weird to talk about because they clearly kind of got exposed by line and I do think they played below their level
What do you want to call it? You know joking in a clutch moment or just lying you know playing better whatever
It is going to be tough though. Fira are no pushover tattoo has really been impressive
This guy is so good inspired was talking about him last year as as top three in all of LTA
He was not saying yeah, you know in CB law
all of the LCS junglers as well.
They're also mocking us in the photos.
They are mocking us in the photos.
That is factual, unfortunately.
So Tatu, really good jungler.
This guy is definitely aggressive,
definitely very confident.
And we'll see how Blabber can handle it
because I do think that Inspire
kind of ran Blabber in the finals
and Blabber had been having an incredible year
prior to that, I think his best in a while.
But it is hard to look past the most recent series
where he did have some troubles
and APA is kind of the similar story, right?
I feel like APA had been smurfing for cloud nine,
but it was the finals and you wonder, you know,
is that now going to be weighing on them a bit?
Or are they just easy mental reset back to the cloud nine
we had seen because if they play like they did
for the rest of walking,
I think they're just going to stop this turn.
We got nothing to worry about if they played at that level.
But to talk a little bit more about if you're actually
got to catch up with four Y four and Rike,
one of the English casters for the unofficial English
co-stream of CB low.
So shout out to that everyone for the English listeners,
go check that out.
learn more about C.B. Lowell.
And he gave me a lot of information
from kind of their perspective on these teams.
And to the point that you had mentioned before.
Now I copied your homework.
Well, hey, we shared with each other.
We've built the broadcast.
But yeah, again, shout out, Enrique.
But what you mentioned before, like ThinkCard
being such an impactful coach for that team
to build their macro.
And it seems like it's tattoo that's
like the one that still shows echoes of that
in the jungle as well.
It's just the rest of the team that
isn't always able to follow up.
But when you talk about junglers
that are going to give Blabber a hard time.
I mean, it's going to be a tough first opponent for him for C9
and coming in here a little jet lags and also off of that loss
that they got to go up against like the guy in Brazil.
Like they were saying, Tatu, he's going
to be the best Brazilian player.
Pretty much everyone agrees on that.
And a lot of people think he's just the best player
general in Brazil right now.
Yeah, no.
I mean, I think he has been playing really, really well.
I do think something that is going to be tough for Fria
is Gigo has been around for a while, but Santos is a beast.
This guy in the top lane, I think, is so strong.
You know, yeah, Joklah had a really good series against him,
but in general, Thanatos has been one of the strongest laners in the LCS period,
really across any lane.
So I do think that's one area that I am really expecting a pretty big advantage.
But, you know, it's going to be down to, you know, how well I think
APA and Blav are playing together, if they can actually, you know,
bounce back it and be playing as well as we know they can.
Then I think Cod9 is going to be in a pretty good spot.
I feel like the rest of the guys are kind of more stable,
at least to my expectation, whereas I think Blobber and APA have more ups and downs than
the rest of the team.
So, you know, if they are hot, it's going to look good.
If they are not, it could be a little bit scary.
But I do expect top lane to be pretty heavily clouded on favorite.
Yeah, I definitely agree because of something else that we learned about Gigo was that when
he's doing well, it's Gigoad.
When he's doing poorly, it's Gigoan.
So, they actually have nicknames for Gigo, depending on how he's doing in lane, because
he is a bit of a flip floppy player.
He likes to play the carries and they definitely lean towards that style for him.
But if he's having a rough game, Thanatos is the type of player that will heavily punish
that for sure.
I want to talk about the bot lane as well though because Sven Vulcan, I feel like for
me throughout the season, they almost felt like unsung heroes because of how well APA
was playing because of how much Thanatos was smashing a lot of his lanes.
I feel like often Sven and Vulcan weren't really the highlights.
Even though, I think there was an argument, uh, most humorously to be like, I think Sven
maybe was like the carry of the team.
I know APA had a lot of flashy plays, but when I'm just looking at what Sven was able
to do for the team, uh, once he got out of landing phase, I was actually very impressed
with the eye test for how the team fights went.
Um, and on the side of-
You can look at Sentinels, right?
Like when they played against Sentinels, um, it was like what, like an 8k gold
lead on, uh, on his Unara, and it was like 8k, 4k, 4k or something like
that as the individual gold lead.
So Sven definitely had been crushing it.
Yeah. And for Fury as bot lane, I actually have some fun information about IU.
Enrique mentioned that he started his career, he's a young player, first of all.
So he hasn't been playing for that long, but he started his career as a support and would
pull out wacky things like Belveth, Yasuo support.
So almost like a Buzio.
You know, if you think about Buzio as a mid laner, he was playing like a Xeer support
as the IU as the AD carry.
And now is playing some of the more conventional stuff.
Yeah.
the exact same roster, I believe, from last year.
So staying together, trying to build on some success
that they did have last year.
But let's go.
Serious about to kick off.
Yeah, I'm hearing that we're ready to get into it.
So game one right around the corner.
I
The Fulniers are here to fight the fight!
C9 is still hanging around! They want to see what else they might get!
But what a fight! What a sequence for C9!
Here comes the light!
They're locked out, they are knocked out! It's a triple all ready for Darkwing!
As he is just destroying them in this fight!
That's right, my friends.
Everything can happen in this America.
All right, the stage is set and the teams already C9 is in Brazil and they are ready
to take out their first opponent today in a best of three versus Fioria.
We talked about the disappointing end to their split one here in the finals versus
Lyon but they are still a powerhouse of North America of LCS and they're awake.
And they are awake.
I don't see two.
That's step one.
The dark circles under the eye is going to borrow sleep right now.
They are against the returning Urea you were touching on as ill.
It's the same roster as last year that leveled up throughout the year.
And definitely not a team that we can disrespect, not a team that we can sleep on.
No, not at all.
I do think they are going to be a strong team and clearly going to have
the home crowd advantage.
The facility fans go hard.
They're always showing up.
It was really fun going down in LTA and getting to do a lot of
fans because they go crazy they have all different fan sections and people
leading chants and cheers from different teams based on who's playing.
These are only fans that we're gonna have here in this stadium.
Yeah we need Kobe just running around behind us going crazy when the team's walking.
But you're right the Brazilian fans are amazing. I've never experienced a crowd
live but every time you're just watching like you just hear them through the
microphones and you can feel that energy even from your screen.
It is gonna be a fun series America's Cup kicking off here again if you're
They're just now joining us, Cod9 is going to be playing Furia, and then Sentinels are
going to be playing next, so that should be fun as well, even playing as a very Candace.
Right, Candace?
Kalunga.
I know that Kalunga is the sponsor.
I just like that word, so I always emphasize it is the Kalunga word.
So today's going to be double best of three, then every day after that we are going to
be having Best of Fives, so it is going to be all the way from today, Wednesday,
through until Sunday, and that is when the America Cup will complete.
Basically the warm-up for first stand as well. I'm thinking of it. I know it's a different event
But I see it as kind of the lead into that event as well because there's a lot of Brazilian League of Legends
There are a lot of League of Legends this could be happening in Brazil rather over these next couple weeks. We got Kobe in here
He's running around. Yeah, we got Claude, I believe
All right, we're gonna need the energy
I don't think anyone heard or saw him. No, I heard it. I heard it. That was awesome
Yeah, you gotta match a Brazilian crowd energy coming
All right, there we go. Yeah, there's to the assignment. Thank you, Kobe
Hope he also wake the long way
See I feed off the energy that was great. It was great. Yeah, your cobi's always down there
To the hype of the squad give that and a hope
But it was actually fun to know we're gonna be having the rotating cast throughout the day
So you're gonna see me in a zeal you see me and Kobe Kobe in a zeal and I think three of us the all week long
Just a three of us on the down. Yeah, they actually aren't letting us leave either trim the fat
Yeah, we only have the necessary casters. Yeah
I do think
Toby has a little bit too much here for this this couch. Oh, do we need to make him shave it if you want to join?
Yeah, we might have to do that. That's a good point freaks right there
We can always just call you across so we just replace them with freak
We could that is a good point. It freaks watching this and you want to see
Have your people call my people. Blake or RPA. Can you go get us freak?
He's running off. Okay, cool. All right, we're getting it off
America's Cup game one C9 curia. This is gonna be a fun one. I'm very curious to see
How they will play the pick and ban. Are you going to just try to
to imitate what Lyon did as far as their pick and ban strategy.
It is going to be the Ziggs Band out,
so that's pretty standard.
Orianna going to be gone away.
So these are pretty normal bans kind of across the board,
but Thanatos and Bessa is up and available.
Blavra loves playing this in solo queue,
so this is a flex pick.
And Cloud9 always going to be happy to grab that.
And when it comes to fury and expectations and draft,
we've seen a tendency to prioritize scaling ADC
in the bottom lane.
They love the Yanarra, things like that,
for IU is most played right now.
They have done things like Sun of Sion,
so like they're willing to kind of stretch
that shampoo a little bit,
but in general, bot lane we're expecting more carries.
But Ash, that actually is a little surprising
to see this early that it's not going to be
one of the scaling hearings.
Yeah, well Ash still scales quite well I think.
You know, especially Seraphine Ash
is a really strong scaling duo,
so I think that is clearly going to be the look.
And Seraphine paired Wissons to Owl.
It gives a lot of these bruises a lot more oomph
in the big game, so I think that is quite strong.
The Akali ban, it's really the only thing that Toots plays that is not just like a standard scaling mid laner.
He has played one game of Aurora, but besides that it's like he has four games of Akali, but then it's, you know,
Syndra, Anivia, Ryze, Ori, Victor, it's all the standard stuff.
So I think Cloud9 are basically saying, all right, let's like eliminate variants, take away the Akali,
make sure it's nothing too crazy.
The other two are kind of just more standard removal of power picks here.
You talk about the propensity for IU to like playing a lot of these scaling picks.
Well, Lulu is something that's going to enable that.
So I do think I would expect Seraphine Ash.
Of course, you can always go a different route.
But Seraphine Ash is almost always what you'll get when you see Ash.
And C9 are going to go for a really strong 2v2 with the 4-key Nami.
So should have a lot of power to fight down in that bot lane.
But we're still holding that invest of Flexpec for C9 inside as well.
So, uh, expect Malphite to go to the jungle.
I think we're seeing more from Furia here with their bot lane.
If I was C9, I'd be thinking about a Silas ban and going Malphite.
I just feel like when you see that sort of a squad, it can be pretty powerful.
You could just have Malphite jungle alongside Danytoes on AD top.
You know, that's fine.
Also, he's really good setup for the public execution.
Not like bad.
I think Furia had the same idea.
Yeah, I think it would have been smart because right now, C9 clearly are lacking hard engage.
There are a lot of options, of course.
They can still go because we weren't game one.
Nothing really is being limited.
But Pantheon is banned out.
If Malfight's gone, then I'm thinking about Vi.
I'm thinking about Jarvan.
I'm thinking about these types of champions
to be able to look towards.
So you and I want to walk in here.
They didn't have a lot of time to prep for this match.
So it's fun that we get a little inside of play.
And they were like, I will dominate.
True.
And it was apparently a long play.
Exactly.
So that is it today a wife on the plane is the next question is did in there or in Dom sit together?
Oh, they have the whole 25-hour trip because if they didn't
Then they are not you know what they can do
They're not taking some of the planes have the little screen on the backseat and you can like join lobbies and play games together
Maybe there's a text function in there and they're like communicating with each other on draft prep like all right
Take away the Lulu, you know, I'm facing it go
You gotta ask Jack that one. I don't know maybe they were maybe they were yeah, also
We're just kind of assuming you know
Nocturne taken out the table, so two highly ultimate focused junglers.
It's not available for a driver.
You're basically just going to be banning out Engage.
They know that C9 doesn't really have any.
Obviously, there's not guaranteed Engage from Furia,
but at least you have Ash Arrow, you have Encore.
That can be answered by Clemson and Kale's, of course.
But that being said, more Engage schools for sure on that side.
And it is going to be the protection ban.
They're showcasing C9, that MSA is going to talk.
You ban Renekton, you want to protect that.
That is a really tough matchup, a very common one.
and then just taking away Ryze.
Taliyah is up and available,
so I would not be surprised at all if APA goes to Taliyah.
I feel like C9 could just go to Taliyah by,
and they have a really strong 5.
And then for Furia, it's just kind of, how do you want to answer that?
Do you want to draft some games of your own?
Do you want to deny any of those picks?
Or is it just going to be looking more for a countering edge?
And Syndra hover right now, it's locked in.
So Tuts does like, like you were highlighting the more control mages.
He's like, Anivia, Ryze.
Syndra is the pick for this time around.
around. Haven't seen that much Syndra globally, but if it works it works. Or at least I haven't
seen it much in LCS. I guess I can't speak for the LCK LPL in what's been played in other tier 1
regions, but it is unique to Tuts like he doesn't like this champion and now APA against the counter
pick. It's the lead of I. That's what I'm expecting. Yeah. They were lacking kind of hard,
dedicated engage and this does give them that plus it's a strong mid jungle combo.
It is very strong. What I think is APA's best jam, that or is it?
Yeah.
It's something they're called, needed.
So he's really, really strong.
Allows him to play towards the side lanes.
Obviously, you have last pick here from you on top lane
to be able to try to answer and Bessa,
whether or not he wants to fight fire with fire
or just try to take a bit of a neutralizing pick
and just try to survive.
That is the question.
Ball of it. That's actually hype.
So he's going to try to smack up with a counter pick here.
He has not yet showcased that this split,
but definitely is one of those matchups for invested that can be very difficult.
You kind of just get out-statted if you actually get stunned up and then the E lands on you
and it is very, very difficult to take any trades against that.
So, if you're kind of then relegated to taking these like little chippy trades and trying to always cut out the Q.
I wonder if he's going to go for the Dust and Dawn build as well.
Dust and Dawn is such a strong item, especially in like solo Q.
Haven't seen it like abuse too much in pro play, but when I am aiming a solo Q game
And I see a volleyball on my team or enemy team with us and dog
I'm like that is an insanely efficient item for a champion like him
I think it'd be really cool to see that on stage here today as well
We'll see if we get g. God or g gone because that is again the dichotomy of the top laner
He's got five ball bear games all-time form one. Oh, not bad
It's kind of a bit of a throwback to me to to buppo
because Pupo was doing a lot of ball of air kind of fixing stuff and it is time so it's gonna be cool
We'll see how how that does work out. I do think
That is gonna be a tough one-to-one matchup
But it is one of these things also where if the embassy gets ahead, you know
If it does not go well early for the ball of air can get very very difficult
But definitely you are outstanding pretty heavily early on
She makes it in the fall the top lane
But I do also want to remind that I think that the mid jungle is gonna be
more so the main characters for C9 side.
Just the amount of plays that Vi and T'Lea can make together,
either in the mid lane or sending the Weavers
while they're side lane and impacting somewhere else.
I still see that as the focal point for C9
and what they're gonna try and do in this game.
Here you do have an exciting top lane counter pick,
but I do worry about tracking and being able to answer
where this T'Lea is going on the map.
When you have a Syndra in the mid lane,
you should not able to get around nearly as fast.
It is true, but Hawkshaw helps out a lot, right?
If you can track the Vi with hot shots,
then Flavour's job gets a lot harder.
So that is always one of the advantages of playing with the Ash.
But that being said, I agree.
They do have those go buttons.
They have the ability to really pull send it on to try
to get really aggressive in that mid lane on this Syndra, who
is going to be pretty low mobility.
So we'll see if Cloud9 are going
to be able to get the advantage there.
Here we go.
Game one of America's Cup underway.
Two best of three today.
Best of five tomorrow.
And you see us on screen get used to that because we're going to be here throughout the game much more casual vibes
They let me wear a half this time as ill actually, I don't even know if they let me
I didn't ask anybody. Yeah, if anybody's upset about it. Just wear a hat
It is it is allowed
No, I just got this look going on
Baseball cap I just needed my motorcycle helmet right here to really sell it all but
One interesting fact about Furia that we didn't talk about leading into the game that I think is notable because of what we're seeing in game one.
They have a very high red side win rate.
Globally it's pretty 50-50 across the leagues, but Furia in particular have 12 and 5 record win on red side and they just got flash out of his van.
So very comfortable playing from this side of the rift.
I don't know exactly the biggest reason for it, but when there's something that's that notable and like that's skewed
I like to bring it off because you know
12 and 5 is pretty impactful in terms of win-rage. Yeah, I mean it's definitely interesting
It's always hard to know sometimes you know early on in a year, you know, is that just kind of variance?
Is it just you know what what end up happening in these matchups?
You know where they give a red side a bunch times against a weaker team
It's hard to really know but those stats are always interesting
As Ben losing Flash that early is pretty rough.
I do just feel like he kind of disrespected and watched a little too far.
IU Fox Ghost and then you see the key coming through from Seraphine and he decides you know
I have to Flash it.
You know you don't want to lose too much health there.
So he's going to keep the health high but definitely a tough start in that bottom lane.
Just look at this, yes.
Yeah, APA that was a cute little size which might be looked for but the Unraveled Earth
expired right as he hit it so the stun didn't land and the damage he could go through
trade there but bot side with Xin Zhao passing there as well there's always the
threat of a dive. Yay! It's on the side of some shoves, some sort of volleys for more damage but he's got to be careful.
Yeah he has to be very careful. Backing up at this point and blabber is down here on the
bot side but Sven has the base already he did at least get pretty much all the
wave he's gonna be down some farm and and likely miss a bit of this but
But honestly not too bad, all things considered, especially losing your flash that early is
definitely going to make it a lot tougher.
But yeah, I mean it's not a big deal.
Right now I'm kind of just looking at how our APA and Blaber are going to play together.
You know is APA going to be stable in the mid lane?
I do think the 1v1 is going to be kind of tough against Syndra for a while.
But once you get some levels, once you get some items, you kind of just stop fighting
the Syndra and you're just fighting the waves, right?
You're just pushing it out and then trying to look to actually play with Blaber.
We actually see the tattoo went for a little invade. He dropped a ward down and
The sweeper and now we'll just go for a reset. So Blabber will get the top scuttle crab and tattoo got the bottom one
We'll go for a reset. Oh, he stops
Okay, still no flash on Sven. This is a window and there's no vision to spot it out
Sven's got to be careful does not have a support in his back pocket
Does not have the flash tattoo will land the knock up and that is first blood the IU
Ouch, that's tough for Sven. Nice little trap laid by Fiora.
And that is the punishment for Sven losing his flash that early on, is they just kind of delay their base.
And Sven comes back, he's thinking that, you know, alright, they've base.
He wasn't least paying some credence the fact that they could use a bush, but that's tough.
Still difficult to avoid the ball, Ethan. It takes a big chunk topside and has to back off the wave as well.
Yeah, I mean that you just can't win those trades like if it if the e lands which the e is gonna land if you get some by the
Q you just are gonna get slapped in those trades early on so not much
Than it goes to do about it, but pretty rough start for C9
Yeah, there's a slot battle wave CS lead in the top lane bot lane is then going down with the kill credit picked up by
IU as well
We can see that's a big gold advantage for the
Ash currently in the game.
Yeah, I mean, Flavr obviously is just going to be farming for 6 and he's going to be trying
to play for that.
We'll see how heavily he's seen.
I want to actually commit to 2 second crab, because that is generally when you're going
to get at 6.
We can watch this one more time, but let's be honest, there's not that much to see.
His vent is kind of just staying around for HP.
I haven't seen those.
Someone could be in the brush.
That's why he's hugging the wall, but there behind him he has no flash, so Fury
gets the kill and they're even being able to just give it over to Ash.
already the crowd reacting strongly to it. Yeah I mean a great start for Furia and this
is what we knew coming in like the the CBL teams especially Furia are good in their laning
phases you know that you can't slouch them or you can't sleep on them for just what they're
able to do mechanically in these situations. Time to come down for another look but instead
goes onto the Krogs Vulcan. Shit spot him as he runs the corner. Yeah so it's just going to
going to be a steal of the Krug.
So at least C9 know about it, but they're
doing a good job of pushing in, getting vision,
tracking Blaber on both sides.
And with either Hawkshots or wards,
you can see they've moved in.
They've got a ward on his Raptors.
They have a ward over on his Gromp right now.
They steal away the Krug.
So they're going to have pretty much full info
of everything Blaber is doing.
And because they have winning top and bot,
they should have Friar for General, right?
So we're kind of expecting them to be able to get
that second spawn as well.
We'll take Blabbers running straight there with APA.
I'm looking at the minimap currently as yet it is going down Weaver's wall, smite secure from top
He actually jumps in with the Crescent Guard, he has Tuts in his back pocket
Mid and Jungle so far going to Furia as if the Flash away from APA, Blabber flashed early and is in some trouble here
Oh! The Unleashed Power is enough to take the kill at the second one to Furia
Yeah, I mean, I just don't really understand APA sending the Weaver's wall there
So me, once you see that the crab is at low, you're not going to get there in time.
And if Katsu is going to get it, you're always going to lose the fight, because they're going to have level 6 advantage.
And then basically the only thing you can do is try to like fight up.
Because if they're running down, even if it's a winning fight for C9, they're going to run down to IU and JoJo who are going to have first move.
So this game honestly already looks good for C9.
So we'll see definitely a really bad start for them.
bot lane losing.
You need to choose a horrible fight there at crab.
It's like they they see that tattoo has this low once they get close to them. They see that it's it's already gone
Right, you've gotten here too late
Committing to that like look where are you is right? There's no way like even if you get six
I still think you lose because the Ash has four moves. He's so much faster
Like look where is Venice in lane. He's under his power, right? There's just no way you're gonna get support from your bot
so I feel like C9 chose a really horrible fight and
It's a little bit little bit reminiscent of the finals. I'm not gonna lie
Yeah, and I mean, we know that Blaber and C9 have a penchant for, you know, throwing at crabs in these games,
but it's just tough now when there's this gold deficit that you're accumulating on top of it.
2k plus the dragon early on, and the gold's on time. It's the gold's on IU.
So the carries on the enemy team are the ones getting that influx.
And you spent both your flashes and Weaver's Wall to do that, right, to give over a kill and not even get the crab in time.
So, that takes away some of your playmaking, which is going to make it a lot more difficult as well.
You know, you're losing 2v2 bot.
Really, the threat that you have there is threatening ganks now, as you're not flashed though.
Not too intense. I'm looking for a nice stun from Tuck's right there. Still no flash on APA.
And that is a third kill to Furia, beautifully played.
They're doing well? Yeah?
I mean, it's tough to watch from the NA perspective,
C.B. Lullay, game to play, Fury are not giving C9 any room to breathe right now.
Ego looking to try to just proxy this.
Thanos is trying to fight him because he doesn't want him to be able to fully pull the wave.
But they are going to be over on his rubs, can't really do anything about contesting that.
And C9 are already kind of now in this pattern where basically you're just kind of sitting back
and trying to scale and hoping that you can find picks when you have the games present themselves.
But when you have losing side lanes on both sides, Blavver is going to be tracked pretty much everywhere.
So that's that's the difficulty that you have when you're playing comp like this
It's like everyone's thinking okay
You're losing well like surely by can get a kill right for a bike and find someone but if you're spotted everywhere
It's super easy to just back off well
Now I'm starting to wonder because you mentioned that you feel volleyball kind of stat checks in Bessa in the early levels
Is there any a point any point in the game that you see a message start to kind of win that because at least there
Those is going even in the top half. It's kind of the one-to-one isolated up there
I think you can definitely start winning one-to-ones, you know, especially like
Oh, the arrow lands on the Vulcan on Cork, not in time as Vulcan gets a Flash Whiff, and that one is then now
Fancing some damage trades on the IU, Incomes Tattoo, roaming up, no Flash available, but the Flash Cork from IU
for the auto slows Vulcan's side steps, Miseripi throws out the ultimate as Tattoo gets onto him,
and IU gets the kill, Fred, a blabber, not there in time.
Because they're very late.
Only Power again, ooh, knockback, AK stunned up, no kill there.
Man, Furia are just giving no room for C9 to breathe right now.
Yeah, they're doing a great job.
I mean, just putting pressure here onto Vulcan.
They know he's the one without cleanse,
so just going to fire off all their ulties on him, basically,
and just try to put that pressure on.
Cryptolaro into the on-core is pretty deadly.
Nami obviously very, very squishy champ.
Then I think he was getting more than enough damage back,
so Hattachi knocked in there.
I think they could actually do that.
But we'll see.
Kigo looking for Kanto.
And chasing him down against Estonik.
Yeah, ooh, yeah, great buffer for the public execution, but he still got the shield.
Yeah, and this is back towards mid-leg.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, this is just Tut setting it up with the scout of the week.
Oh!
I like your sound effects.
Oh!
Yeah.
At the end of the day, I don't play my play count events.
Yeah, it makes sound effects.
I hear you're supposed to say the right words as well.
Still working on that part, yeah.
Yeah, and this sound is, I feel like Vulcan held the wave for a long time there, I don't know if that's just me, but unfortunately, I'll say the least.
I do think they're winning that 2v2, had it continued, but that being said, it was not a 2v2, and that's why Furia took it obviously.
And now look at this gold lead for Furia, I was about to bring it up, and now we have the graphics to back it up as well.
approaching 3k here and fury uh I mean they definitely came in prepared we had
some expectations at C9 you know they just flew in this is where the NA
coach starts to come in yeah they just flew in and they were like before we were losing
because then you say no no no it's not a coach I already knew this was gonna happen
they have the home crowd you know C9 just traveled in but fury are also
playing pretty well like they're playing coordinated as a team they're not
making like mechanical mistakes they're setting up the games and then Tatu's
able to follow up and actually you know execute in the moment so very impressed
with how furious playing right now. Have you seen how those jet lagged at finals?
Oh can we like go retroactively? They were thinking about traveling to Brazil.
Got tired thinking about it. They just have the clips now so now I do think
you can start winning the 1v1 and Gigo is just going like tank he's not
actually gonna go AP here so less than the 1v1 that is gonna make things
I think a little bit easier for Thanos in that one-to-one. So we'll see how he is gonna be able to do but I mean
If I'm Gigo, there's no reason to take any risks. Just fill the way. Don't do anything
You're winning across the map. Your jungler is getting way more done. You're stacking dragons. You have winning mid. You have winning bot
Doesn't really matter if you can't push the base anymore. I mean Tatu has been there for every kill
He's got two dragons, two of the Krugs. He didn't even go for that third one, but just picked up two for the tempo play.
And now he's even threatening Blabber here. He invaded on the Krugs earlier, won't get all these Raptors.
He's actually going to cut off Blabber's path now as he goes in another one towards the Sanitas in the top lane.
Public execution used, but the Ketfog there is just so tanky and he'll press the R1,
stuns up under the turret, Sanitas gives back to safety and is all right for now.
The shield from Bollumia is just crazy.
And that is the point where you approach the attack.
Hattu is going for a little dive here between the turrets.
Blackro is just one of the Krugs, so he's not going to punish Hattu for that.
The Volcan just took a chunk there.
And it's another wave crash he did. This has just been constant waves hitting bot side.
APA is hovering on the top half. Maybe we get a dive here.
I think he spotted it. He's definitely spotted it now. We'll see if he can pull it off.
They are going to use the Weaver's wall. There's a public execution to set it up.
it up so it's gonna have to be the unraveled earth as you will throw it out
doesn't quite have the damage it in comes tops from the flank not expecting
right now kill the ego all right so what we think the game to oh that's a
good question how about they won't ban ziggs and we'll get that one or maybe
we go a zero you know if his ears looking pretty good no I don't want to
I don't want to jet-like this year actually let's go back to like basics
Yeah, I do want to point out what that's interesting built for Gigo. He's going for that's a tear stack, you know, right? Yeah
Interesting so go on. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you brother. Bye. That's now
Catching out, Tatsu going for the Invade.
The President going to these nubs and all of this is damage!
Tatsu actually survives it!
And the rest of the viewers coming in behind,
looking over the wall with Sven getting damaged.
Watch for it from ABA. Will pick up one trade kill.
So Will die for the effort as Unleashed Power not enough to kill Sven.
But there goes the AD carry IU.
A three for one trade in favor of Furia.
Oh, we didn't get perfect game by Brazil, so...
True, we got a kill.
before we were in territory for that oh no you're with me now hey we got their
support you killed JoJo that's something I mean tattoo show in the value of the
zin right there you know you just crescent guard they maybe I could get any
damage through it basically a 1v1 with black or not cheap what can you do yeah
Yeah. Come on, Riot. What do you think of it?
Oh, now we have another comp. Yeah, exactly.
I would say it's a balance issue. Yeah, well, where's the hot pick?
I should be able to one-shot Zindal in the ultimate.
I think that was the first ultimate blabber that's used this game, by the way.
I think that was, yeah.
And the game's completely falling apart.
I mean, this is a 6k gold leaf for Furion.
They just cracked the bottom turret.
I believe they cracked top turret as well, yeah.
Oh, they just had fun in this game.
He just gets counterfeit and you just like, can't interact with Vali at all.
You press Tab, the whole map is absolutely destroyed.
Hey, did you see the Esports Garage episode of all the 0-0-0 record wins?
Oh, great video.
Sanitose is all on track.
All of the Esports Garage videos are great videos.
They're all fantastic. Check out the YouTube channel.
But if C9 can win this, Sanitose is on track to win 0-0-0.
Just saying.
There's a chance.
So, how are they gonna win without them getting involved in the kill here?
Look, I'm just setting the stage.
I'm not saying how, I'm just setting the stage.
No, they're not.
But what should we do?
Okay, um, the old hole breaker, sell me a clue.
Actually, it could just be like a zero-gamer to win thing.
Is this like a Trudnery thing now?
No, no, it's just like a...
Because he's gonna be hit people.
You're not gonna win team fights.
So you just gotta get out of there.
He's hit people, but he doesn't have a kill participate.
Just push it faster.
All that matters is the zero, zero, zero.
Yes, I hear it's really good. I hear that you're fast at taking turns. It's like Trundle, Yorick, and Vesa, right?
Yeah, public execution that tower.
Just get in there, brother.
Did you imagine if she could actually pick up the tower and then snap it down?
Yeah, that thing down, cracked a couple plates off of it.
Yeah, right, look, come on, we got, we got a balance in here, we got a...
Zidow can just have Cresengard be immune to everyone.
If I can't invest a public execution in towers.
Uh, I imagine this is one of the many, many reasons why I will never be hired for this.
Uh, be bad for everybody involved. That's going to be the third tower crack now for Fiora.
So all the outer turrets here, and all of it, one more auto.
Right. I'm being asked for the MVP for game one.
Game one already?
That's why I'm getting my phone.
That's the position that we're in.
The ministers are telling us we're getting our butts beat so bad.
So who would you, I mean let's just have a conversation.
I think it's taught to personally.
It's such a great job in, you know, tracking Blabber.
We have the Aero Lance here on the Xanatos, but no damage at all.
Tatsu would be mine for now, for sure, assuming the MFSA isn't able to get the 0-0-0 win that we're expecting.
I do think Tatsu is something to help.
Hey, Xanatos is fighting to get his player out of the game, so we don't need to talk to him about it.
Tatsu has kind of been involved in mostly everything.
I will say Blabber kind of helped him out, though.
I mean, Blabber, APA, whatever you want to say.
But that flight at the second spell was terrible.
That kind of did accelerate him a bit, but then he was in really good spots pretty much every time he needed to be, right?
When Sven and Vulcan had like their bit of pressure bought, 2v2, he's there, he gets the kill.
He wraps around and kills Sven, punishes Flash. I feel like he's had a really, really good game, and his cover's been non-existent.
Or that first kill onto Sven. I will say that that one, as the dragon started up here in WTXC9, they're not going to contest it.
The first kill was basically equalized, like it was the kill goal to IU, but like Sven got back in the lane and he caught the wave, so it wasn't like, it was out of control down to the bot lane because of that.
It really was that scuttle play, that's when the furia was able to run away with their lead, and it's tough to see that from C9, because it is kind of echoes to the C9 series, but then also just to how C9 has been playing the map so far, it's always playing for these scuttles, whether they're ahead for it or ready for it or not.
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's tough. I mean they basically top top you're never gonna be able to do anything early
Just that's just kind of just to match up, right?
And then we spend double flashes and to leo all to go die at
The crab that we were way too late to and that's after losing flash at what level two first then I mean
He just stepped too far forward these things happen mistakes happen, but
Period did a really good job of punishing all the mistakes and see not be a lot of mistakes, right?
that we're kind of like unforced errors.
I think Furious did a good job punishing, but yeah, it's,
I mean, we are often into these fights
that are losing propositions.
So once you fall behind, it's like you're losing,
you're double losing side lanes,
Vi's gonna be scattered everywhere.
So once you make that additional mistake,
where are you gonna go?
What are you gonna do if you're gonna be
spotted everywhere?
And I wanna go back to a point that we had made earlier
about the macro of Furious.
Actually, C9 might be making a play out of Giga right now.
They have the Weavers wall available.
They have Flabber nearby,
But they don't actually execute.
It is a tank-billed Bolliebear.
And the Undendies are sparing out to lead it as well.
So back to the point I was making is that, you know,
with ThinkCard, there's a lot of credit,
give it a fury on their macro play.
They don't have ThinkCard anymore,
but how do we rate their macro play so far?
Because it does feel like Tatsu is kind of the engine
of the team still.
But this one, honestly, I mean, I think it's hard
to judge too much macro-wise,
because I think C9 just doesn't play them so hard
And it's like, man, they're just kind of trying to get to the right here.
Big Bear on top of a nice side of Wave.
Stim off for the blast code.
And Ego is going to try and run away here.
Reaver's walking the bottom lane now.
As Fiora do have a mincer here.
C9 able to get on top of him.
The pressing guard can't keep it down to alive though.
And Spen pushed out from Tuts on the side.
Fiora back up their jungler.
Flash from Blabber, but he's far away from the rest of the team.
Fall breakers away, but JoJo and Tuts might be able to get on top.
them nice. I think Chubb's there. They got JoJo. One kill picked up for C9 as Gigo goes
under the turret. Now Chubb's very low. It's a true turret shot for them. And a Chubb's
out of the blabber. All right C9 is starting to get some kills.
We just tripled our kills. That's a good point.
Hey.
Tripled our kills.
Yeah.
Take that.
Take that Brazil.
Blinded back.
Yeah, we got a couple kills. That's good.
I mean, it's an influx of gold, but if that was a moment where Furia were overplayed, I think.
Like, this was a nice look from APA to throw up the Weaver's Wall and kind of stop the escape path from Furia.
But then the rest of Furia are able to get in to back up.
Definitely a bit of a crazy chase. I mean, they're just full sending it in, and Pips and IU aren't really even there, right?
So you have two main carries, aren't even really involved in this.
But C9 just kind of kite, kite, kite, are eventually able to get back to their tower,
And then you are walking up blind with Alphys on ABA,
APA hits really nice,
put down a JoJo's back into the first kill,
and then Kigo's just kind of separated from the team.
He just chased him way too far as well.
Getting a free beat.
That was three turret shots.
Well, I thought it was a big model, you know?
He's in that turret rage for a while.
Big bones, okay?
Big bones, big bone bear.
As you know, we're gonna move past that one.
Furious up, three dragons picked up.
As now, Tatsu goes very aggressive right now, has to press a guard, but that's five members of C9 around him.
He is still alive for now, but a shutdown picked up against his Gigo, with a play, he tells one play.
Gira trade one kill for one so far, and Gigo is the difference maker, making a two for one for Gira,
and C9 retreats, flash with the stun from Tatsu, and a double kill to Syndra.
Gira show up in the fight again.
Yep, gonna be able to get another kill there.
I mean, we keep full sending it on Tattoo, but like, yeah, you killed him, but you have to compromise your position so badly to do anything about Gressengarde when we're trying to actually knock him down first.
So that's going to be apparent. Pretty much guaranteed. Labyrinth has no vision on it, so not going to be able to do anything about it.
And that should be a rapsided thing.
But at least, you see, you know, you're trying to find some angles, trying to find something. Yeah, it is tough though.
So you look up on the other side and you see Zonius not the most inspired as far as the damage is considered for the point.
Really the only way C9 are going to win from here are things like this, right?
You can't really focus down top to where he goes, just not realizing we're not on our team, we're two more behind.
And the Sydr has a Zonius, so then you're kind of hoping you can maybe get Ash, but it's going to be tough.
Except for the Syrphion at the top of the Ash as well.
Like season the citizen of public execution is really the only tool they have to try and one-shot one of these carries.
But with summoner heal and seraphine with a shield and seraphine that might not even be enough
To take down something like I use C9 and currently clumped around the dragon and just spawned this is soul for Furia
And then Ego spots out that C9 are on the bottom half of the river
Yeah, I mean at this point the game's so far out of control here that
You probably do just
You'll load the dragon as the skill crab goes over Furia
I mean, you're down 7k, your rage is bad, and it's a cop, but it doesn't really matter, right?
You can't do so.
He's got a little bit of an ego, but Tuts is there as well.
Omni power takes the Sanatose down to half health, Blabberball breakers and season assist
on the Tuts, but there's the Zodias, not done by the Nami Ultimate.
And Blabberball a lot of space for C9 and got out of there.
Ego!
Public execution!
A trade of top laners, one for one, but now Tuts doing the Crested Guard, he
The other guy is the raid boss that can't kill the Zinjows, double kill the IU, Furia with the fight.
Alright, let's get Kobe in here with that luck.
Oh, I'm bad luck.
Yeah.
But what am I doing?
I'm the one wearing the hat.
Oh, is the hat bad luck?
Is that it?
It is the first time, I think.
It's the first time you've ever had a hat.
It's not that I'm ashamed.
I just, you know, I'm ashamed of all the good legends.
You know what, Truett?
Dude.
This is a chance for me to take the shame on, though.
So, we're not ashamed of C9.
We're ashamed of the fact that you're ashamed of that I'm ashamed there you go
You know what I'll take one for the team. That's it when we're on here
You'll come join us for a game number two, but you had asked earlier
You know what do we think about game number two because this one was already cooked
And I think that C9 just need to wake up a little bit get some coffee and these guys
It really does feel like they're playing a little
Well, what's it what I'm looking for sleep asleep. Yeah
a little cocky. This is a decent fight. I feel like they played the fight pretty well,
but again it's really a thing for you so far down in gold. You know, Blaber goes in, he
forces the Zonias. I didn't really think that this is needed to do it, but he's able
to force the Zonias, he's able to get out, and he just kind of goes too far. He is
a bit of a wave boss, but it takes him so long to die because he was so far ahead.
And then just a really nice on for. Yeah, that hit on his vent. I didn't catch
had in the moment that's been was just like completely CC'd the entire time now
it's not yeah you know the the beautiful music of seraphine when I
hear Taylor Swift's song go on sometimes I lose control of my body too
this fears and see swift music down a dark alley like hey I'm not trying to
give away my weakness that's like basically what the encore is you know
come down this alley yes they kids don't go down to start alley
just because Taylor took this plane
what if Taylor took you to help down this her valley
you know what maybe go down that valley
maybe she'll reward you with a hundred million dollars
that's a good plane
maybe she'll reward C9
this is a great deal
just get jumped on it actually is still alive for now
PA for a time two season is this
jumped it on the top but they just don't have the damage to follow up
they will get ego as it is a one-for-one trade
mid-laner for top laner, splashman's man, but still the unleashed power at this point, the
Syndra free item, there's too much.
Etheria, pretty much a cakewalk here in this game, one rough dive in the bottom turret where
they gave a couple kills back to C9, but other than that, a clean game from them and a well-earned
win as they will take down C9 after base C9 will throw a one last effort, and they'll
a couple more kills, but it's just gonna be an ace
and a double kill of the putts.
GG, Muriel with game one of America's Cup.
Well played by Furia, congratulations.
We're giving them one for false hope.
For false hope, okay, all right.
Maybe for a fair real hope, based on that game.
I was gonna say.
But mostly for false hope.
Mostly for false hope, okay.
Maybe a little call of man, a little bit of call of B.
Good to hear.
Cause that game was wrong from C9.
I gotta say, I had high expectations
for what they would look like
even if we factor in the long flight,
even if we factor in the loss of the finals.
Going.
Yeah, we got to get those out of the way earlier.
I did have a 2-1 for C9, but I just
think the one loss was going to look like that,
necessarily.
That just makes it that much more surprising
when they dominate the next two games.
That's a good point, actually.
Again, let's get some coffee to the C9 boys.
Just to inject your caffeine.
Order some down to them.
You know what?
I probably have the ability to.
You just might.
I'm going to try to use the ADPC.
I'm going to pop this off, I'm going to get on the PC and we're going to, it's off to a break, and then we're going to be back, so we'll see you after this break, we'll do it later.
I
Oh
Huh four
Oh
Well, well, well, they brought, they brought me in as we get turbo smashed and then now I
got to come break this down.
K, Kankis was supposed to be here for the breakdown.
He ran away.
I'm here.
So crazy.
Let's go watch where we lost the game again.
So this one was, this one was already rough.
We already had died bought, but I just thought that this crap fight was some criminal
behavior.
So it was, it was arrest them.
Let's let's look at this and the jail. This is where our bot lane is right?
Our bot lane is under their tower and they already died and they already got flash. No flash and then
They already have a setup. We're late to the crab and so we're gonna go try to actually fight this here
Patsy was already first on the crab. They have first move from bot. Yes, APA and Blabber are grouped up together, but
By the time we're alting the crab is already gone
on, Tatoo's already level 6, so he has Crescent Guard, we have no ulti on Vi, and it's like,
even if Blavar somehow smited this, I just don't understand how we think we're winning
this fight, right?
Where it's like, look at Wiggler's Venice, Sven can never join this fight.
Let me tell ya, they didn't think, they're dead lax, they don't know how to, now they're
gonna win the fight either bro, I was watching the same thing, it is terrible.
There's just no world in which Sven can join, like, even if you get 6 on Vi and
by all thought to when he's level five.
IU and Jojo are here as then can never play.
You're in a 4v3 at best,
and I don't even think Vulcan can join.
So it's more likely a 4v2 while you're down levels.
And as soon as this happens, it's just, okay,
you both lose your flash, you lose it to the alt,
you're dead, and then-
Blaber gets flashed on too.
And he dies, and then it's like, let's go forward.
When's the next time that Blaber was able to,
oh, I mean, you're gonna be tracked everywhere
because you have losing side lanes,
both your side lanes are losing, and they have Ash, right?
I'm so already left my body at this point in the game.
Yeah, this is pretty much over, right?
There's just nowhere that Bob is ever going to go.
It's like looking across.
He got swatted on a word on topside,
goes down to Botside, sweeps the word.
He looks here.
I don't know.
There's just nothing that they can really do.
Spotted again on Botside, looking.
Nope, nothing there.
All right, let's go try to clear back up towards topside.
It's just kind of tough.
So I feel like C9 took some really bad choices.
Dan and Toast was kind of like out of the game just
based on the matchup.
But we didn't see an ult until that losing fight on top side, I think.
Yeah.
I mean, I also would go back a little bit more.
You want to go back to the very beginning,
because I thought the overstay was cool.
The first kill on bottom lane, the bottom lane,
they're setting the recalls here.
So Sven hugs the wall, because as you said, he knows,
all right, they could be overstaying, they could be here.
But Tatu stays.
And usually junglers don't want to drop.
They don't want to drop their second clear at all, but Tatu doesn't care about his Krugs.
So you'll see him, you know, the Krugs are going to respawn and he's, they're going to
get taken by Blabber, but he kills Venn.
And, and yes, the next, you know, bottom lane is just guaranteed pushed in the whole
time.
We're just getting blasted.
It's like, oh my goodness.
That's why I will say, you know, Tatu really good performance from him as well as from
the bottom.
I'm not sure if it's a good
idea to have a buddy on on
Furia deserves. Congratulations
but let's go back to our
excuses. Okay or jet lags
because I was watching in the
other room and I was looking up
the solo cues of all the Furia
players. They had played two
hours before this match
started. They were all there.
They're all comfortable
queuing up. They're all
warmed up. So key games boom
clean. Look up cozy in their
If you can tell that that's the point of this America's we can become more neutral if we're winning
No, you know it's gonna be the game one MVP
Also, you got lucky buddy watch yourself. Yeah, I mean you guys did
Preface it a bit in the opener to you know, how good tattoo is we talked about last year at internationals
inspired. How smart we are. We called this last year. You guys are geniuses.
Inspired, you know, talked about how to really early on and, you know, think card was very,
very, very complimentary of this player as well. So, I mean, we've seen him already multiple times
and, and Furia, they stuck with the roster for good reason. So, yep, we got, we got, we got
now we got him right where we want him. Exactly. Look at the confidence on his face.
you always need a warm up game.
You know, there's actually a like tag
in a lot of those, you know,
solo queue like overlay programs that they have
that will tell you, oh, watch out.
One of your teammates is first game of the day
because it's like significantly lower with rate.
That was our first game of the day, you know?
And, you know, you get in there and you see those tags
and all five of your team is watch out first game of the day.
On YouTube, you're like, oh, wait, oh, bro.
I'm not. This was my warm up game. It sounds like your warm up game. Exactly. So, uh, you
gotta look up here at win streak win streak hot players. Uh, we had, um, we had the warm
up game for all cloud nine players. It was crazy too, because, uh, you know, I was watching
in the back room and I was like, wow, some of these plays in the mid game after the
game, you know, it was like pretty, it was pretty decided. Um, some of the plays
from cloud nine, they're like sending flashes to try and kill people that are
clearly not killable and stuff. And I was like, Oh man, they like
let's pull into a crescent guard again. Yeah, I feel like I
could see the mental of that play like just just as the
visual. Okay. So anyways, we got good champs like tunes. I'm
really vibing with this. This is the best part of America's cup
so far. Yeah, I'm really vibing with this. This is this is
feeling good. It's what the playlist, you know? Yeah, it's
what the playlist on LCS. Maybe we can pump some of these
tunes into the cloud nine tunes. We take away their
calms yeah because they didn't weren't really using those anyway just letting
vibe they just got a nice little head not going on stuff music a zail plays
with music 24-7 any game he's playing yep I literally they can help you so in
league they don't let you they have to listen to the white noise when I was in
tournaments I would listen to music they didn't bother that stuff so I was
just I was just jamming you know just mute your teammates listen to me how
How do we feel about Yasuo here, bro?
We have Yasuo with a Rakan.
Let's pick Renekton and then follow him.
I'm scared.
Yeah, let's do it.
Okay.
I'm done with that.
Holy.
Hey, Thanatos, you play the wild game?
Yeah.
He's the guy right?
Yeah.
Just lane swap the various top, brother.
Do it.
Give him a little dope, actually.
Yeah.
You with me?
Take some notes.
That would actually be kind of nuts, though.
we go like Renekton and I don't know, I braum or Taric, something just slaps melee champions.
I will say I was kind of reminded like you know the Furia vibes are kind of like lion
vibes. Furia they use a lot of flex picks. They are okay sacrificing early objectives
in favor of gold like they don't want they don't rush into like you know scenarios
that are going to be bad for them. They don't make extra mistakes and so it's it
It makes me really worried for CloudTide.
I was going to say, when does this turn good for us?
You're like, they have really aligned vibes.
They're beating our butt.
Wait a second, what in the heck?
So yeah, I mean, we'll see.
Because yeah, they're getting styled on.
They utilize FlexPix really well.
And they've got mouth fight yasuo.
This is like when you're playing FlexU with the homies
and you're like, guys, my yasuo is not that good.
Are you sure I should play yasuo?
And they're like, we got you, brother.
Yeah, exactly.
I got Rekhao, but what if I miss all my Qs?
Forget about it.
That doesn't matter.
Just spam R. You don't even have to point it.
Just go on whatever, man.
Just pick whatever.
Let me lose a piece.
At least we stole their Wukong.
That's good for us.
Nice.
Okay.
Nice.
One less ulti.
One less Naga for Yasuo.
Yeah.
Alright.
Well, we got APA Azir.
He's been better on Azir than in the past.
LCK have been dropping priority on his ear though ever since chubby, you know was was
So
That also they've been reacted. I stole my strategy
Dude, they're listening listening. Yeah, that's crazy. I don't maybe they wanted to hear us like cry about it
They're like, you know, it has white noise. They got our cast
Let's listen to these idiots, okay, focus up deep breath
Look at this, all right, everyone looks kind of locked in.
You know, we're good.
Ben looks a little sad.
I was going to say it, yeah.
He's looking more locked out.
Well, first game, they blew his flash really early.
And now that was just good move from IU.
IU stepped up.
He popped the ghost on Ash, and you have to respect that.
Because then the Seraphine's going
to hit you with the drop, the beat, the double proc.
They blew his flash.
They killed him early.
is gonna play Varus into Yasuo Bracon Malfight.
So how many times under over like 15?
You think it's gonna be under over 15?
That's for Varus.
Under 15.
Come on.
I wanted to start big.
You started big.
That's for sure.
All right, 10, double digits.
This is the most like press hard comp ever.
Yeah, this is the most like Sven, you're dead, bro.
I wanna say, Renata kind of goes hard,
but Wim Walsh is so annoying for Renata,
because your ult is so slow, you're gonna have to force them all first
I just think a lot of the picks they would not actually be willing to go for
or we could see them hovering, they're hovering the rumble
we could see it on the screen before it popped up in our overlay
True, oh my
Wait a second, get that camera angle back and then get us a line real quick to C9
Actually, it's no info that they don't already have from the other side
That was from their screen
Let's let Thanatos know that he was suffering from a fall
Hey guys!
Come on
Clean it up. We got we got point-click CC here. Just so try to dash around sum up
What are you gonna do now brother, huh? Well, are we gonna like is working gonna like flash Q on him?
Let him come to you
Be patient be patient if we need when they come to us. They're gonna be blasting us though. They're gonna be
10 our buttons
Immediately use other
Yeah, we're gonna use ours, but
Hopefully they go forward.
I mean, Annie is not the real champion in Simmers, so we're going to say they got 5 melee champions against Rumble.
There you go.
I kind of like that.
I think our counter-engage is actually pretty good.
I agree, their all-in is insane.
I mean, you see how it plays like they played last game, who cares what you draft, you just go lose.
But if they play well, I think our counter-engage is actually really good.
Varus or Azir, somebody is getting one shot, pretty much, right?
But Wukong, Rumble plus Azir or Varus who in my world are not stacked and both didn't get one shot.
The other one.
Yeah.
The counter-argation really, really good.
Would you say that C9 are feeling more stressed after the previous game?
Yes or no?
Yes.
Well, that could be a good thing because then you get more cortisol and it wakes you up.
So the stress from losing the first game is going to make them play better in this game.
They're going to lock in.
Yes.
OK.
Here we go.
We're locking in for game number two.
Game one, just a warm up.
Honestly, let's start the tournament now.
We didn't want to tell you, but it was actually
Kanga's Kobe and I playing for 5.9 last game.
I was the vibe, my bad.
Sorry, guys.
Yeah, all good.
I followed you.
I was Taliyah.
I appreciated that you went in with me.
Yeah, you dug me.
Yeah.
Ult on this crab.
It was my call.
Ult on this crab, and I was like, hell, yeah,
I got you, bro.
Hell yeah, brother.
Crabbs do win games.
Kengis was the whole bottom lane, by the way.
Kengis was both bottom laners, so.
He got to talk to him about that one.
That's crazy.
He wasn't even calming with us either.
He wasn't even calming with himself,
based on how the following went.
No, wait a second.
He recalled while he stayed there.
That's what his brother was doing.
And he's ashamed of his bald head.
I saw that!
That was crazy.
That was so funny at the beginning.
like I finally got to wear a hat I was like so really you just he's just been
craving the whole time he's like fake ball they'll never covers it up he
shines it and get points the right way at a top yeah don't mess with me I'll
shine this right in your eyes honestly I was about to say we need to send you
down there shine it in furious players eyes available some blind strategies
we'll be there in I don't know what next week sometime in the next week first
Stan just gonna make the series go long cloud nine
Be there next Saturday not this Saturday the Saturday after away. Yeah, we'll be there ten days. You just got to hold on buddies
Go late, dude, you know, I at the beginning. I couldn't tell what this noise was
But it's the it's the slapstick from all the all the fans in there
We get some boobies a list, you know, we go down. Yeah. Yeah
Remember those from the World Cup?
Honestly, let's get some like electric guitars and amps.
Electric guitars?
Let's go really, really hard.
Can you play the electric guitar? We're just like hitting random strings.
I tried to learn guitar when I was like 12 and I tried for about a month.
So you can use that to gauge how good you think I am.
The next Led Zeppelin.
I'm like pretty good, yeah. Like really, really good.
Alright, so not gonna they're not gonna blow our flash early on bottom lane now
Kangus is here. He's trying to he's trying to
You can't do it. He's already revealed that he's ashamed. Yeah, we and now we like reverse shamed him
So he was like feeling bad
Now it's like a weird for your pressure thing one big thing with yasuo lanes though
Yasuo bottom lanes if you can pressure them on the first wave crash this built big built-up one
That's usually really good. So a lot of times those C teams that play against it, they call their jungler, but it doesn't look like
C9 are doing and they've got a Wukong anyway
so
Doesn't look like C9 are gonna go for any sort of like deep invade off of their pushing lane or anything
Just just do a normal full clear and work for themselves get their turret plate money
But yeah, that's this that's one of the big breakpoints for Yasuo lanes
It's like the first big crash. So hey, I you feels pretty good actually about being able to get
this CS and
They haven't really taken a lot of damage or anything and the first three levels here. That's pretty good for a yasura con lane
Yeah, it's honestly really good. It's not good for us. So it's interesting
Seeing he's playing hail blades. I feel like hail blades is kind of really falling off in general
I was checking pro to see if it gets 1.8%
I mean it's because it's mostly it's just all comet these days and then if you're not going po comet
You're going that lethal tempo. Yeah, so I wonder if it is just some Yasuo tech where it's like, oh, hey
He's gonna be dashing in it's like really quick trade to some things
You just you just have hail of blades and you just try to get a couple quick blight stacks
And then get a nice little cue after that and it is good early game
So I thought I was really hoping for them doing something on the first
The first big crash there of minions now that your hopes have been shattered. How are you feeling?
Um, you know what?
I wasn't here physically for the first game, so my tournament, my America's Cup, just began
starts right now.
So I'm feeling great.
Yeah.
Fresh page.
I feel really good.
You know, undefeated with Kobe on the cast group.
Yeah.
Fortunately, they are windless with me on the cast.
We're going to balance each other out here, you know, actually, I'm going to overpower
you.
Yeah.
We need to win the next two now.
Yeah, exactly.
All good, though. You know, take some deep breaths.
You guys were talking about their schedule getting down there.
That was definitely an intense schedule.
But, you know, we don't make excuses.
No.
We just lose quietly.
We just lose horribly.
There we go. Yeah, that was us. We did lose.
No excuses.
I shall also lose horribly and go home with my head held.
Yeah, we take our losses lots and lots.
No, just one, okay, just one.
You guys are also saying they need coffee, so I brought coffee.
Oh, thank you.
I didn't realize it was like, I was not bringing coffee to cloud nine.
No, not to me either.
Yeah, and you don't really drink coffee, so you don't really, so it's all for me,
all right.
I'll be freaking out extra hard when we win.
Got a little pull through there, you know?
Getting revved up.
Yeah.
Flopper's in here to relax your damage.
Yep.
That's not bad.
All right, things are going pretty well for us.
Sven's up a bit of gold.
Top lane's going well.
Mid lane's going all right.
Molly, gank.
Oh, my god.
This is looking tough.
All right, Sven can try to get out of there,
but he is getting locked down.
And IU is going to be able to grab first blood.
They just stack on them, feel for movespeed, exhaust slow them down,
you're that far off the lane, there's nowhere to go.
That's right, I'm gonna start getting mad now.
Because I told you, you gotta do something in the early levels versus Yasuo lanes, man.
If you let them scale into it, it's gonna get way worse, bro.
They're not in the level 6, then next time it's gonna be mount by ult's and Yasuo ult.
Yeah, that's tough.
Vulcan's gonna try to hold the waves, but...
It'll at least save some minions.
That's not bad, but they are just going over on the dragon.
Dragon looks like it's gone.
Nice wind wall for my boxes and play.
I mean, if you're looking very good.
And this is not the team that's going
to make a bunch of crazy plays and throw away games.
This is the more controlled team.
So we're the team that's going to make the game.
You're not even letting us get to the part
where we can throw the game.
Exactly.
We never have the game to throw.
Oh, they're going to level six us.
Malfoy all bang bang.
Alright. Yeah. Told you it was going to get worse. That's true. You were right.
And he did. I like how, I'm sure his vent had foam compacted. He got exhausted on back to back place. Yeah, he loves that.
Because he got the spellbook exhaust on the second one. That's actually hilarious.
He gets those vent camps. That's actually hilarious. Because he was not looking to happen before the game.
And they just got exhausted on the first one, ran down, gets back to lane, immediately spellbook exhausted, and dove by level 6 male fight.
Yeah, and the whole comp is supposed to do that all game long
So when I said 15 deaths on bed over under you would laugh it at me like that's pretty high
That's pretty high
the game's gonna end
You got me. Yeah, that's true. I mean the wind wall everything is just so good
All right, well here's again, I mean
Tadzu gets 6.
Dude, we are for my death reel.
Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's rough.
There's really not much to say about it.
I mean JoJo starts it off well,
throws on the exhaust, you know he's flashless,
so Malfoy can't miss all.
He only has to tank 2 Turret shots,
because they kill him so quickly.
Beautiful stuff.
I mean, Dantos is doing well top,
Mid lane's going fine,
but bot lane is looking pretty cooked.
That changed my prediction?
You want to go 2-0 Cloud9?
That's the only thing I could change it to, okay yeah.
I do actually, I do want to do that, yeah, because I want to lose really, like I want
to be wrong, extra wrong.
Just get you're out of there really fast.
Okay, so, Yasuo-
Protect me anything and let me lose in the next game.
Yasuo's also level 6 and Tatu's got the early Zeke's Convergence, baby.
Cheap items.
They're so good.
Dude, it's a Zeke's convergence versus a Ruby Crystal and a Long-Sawed Bro!
A Ruby Crystal and a Long-Sawed!
I'm about to get solo killed.
Oh, get out of there, brother.
Alright, we're safe.
It's good.
It's all good.
That no-magic mantle coming in clutch.
I'm kind of sweating too.
It's like, it's because we're losing a lot.
It's not that hot in here, right?
It must be because...
You're one land that's doing well.
Good job.
Alright, alright.
He's chilling.
Okay.
Um, let's see, Bliber is here to countergank, but Tatu does have ult.
I feel, yeah, I mean if they try to dive, I think they'll get killed, but I don't think
they're gonna try to dive.
They're too good for that.
Don't like that, don't like that one bit.
Ah, but they can't get turret plates easily though, because they don't have range, see?
That is an advantage, they can only do that when we're dead.
They have to step on our corpses to get those turret plates.
It's not a very high probability.
And that's gross, you know, you don't want to be stepping on it.
The corpse track.
That's all we find.
Okay.
Well.
Bliver, come on brother.
Get in there.
Oh, he's going to get in those grubs all right.
That's just going to get in these wards.
Yeah, Tattoo at least has been spotted.
Oh, JoJo's roomed up.
Fog of War is not showing Vulcan though.
Here we go.
Vulcan's on the way.
Yeah.
forward knocks off APA. It's just gonna take a chunk of damage. Lava does get one
grub but I think it's time to leave now probably. So he didn't use his smite to
get it so he could get another. He just wait. Isaac. Yeah, see you're wrong buddy.
How do you feel about that? Sanatos is maybe gonna get solo kill on top side.
Gigo's looking for it. Can't quite get him. They're gonna go around. You're
in on Annie. So it's gonna be in some trouble now but it's gonna be a
lock down over on the book and blabber trying to chase in
With the equalizer tattoo alting out. We can't get anybody, but at least we didn't die
It's way better than
And we did get two groups
Oh, I was I was confident you would eventually notice because we got a camera
I held strong in my belief it looks way worse if you back down exactly, you know, just keep then you're like Angus
You know your shame for your high five
I'm proud of my high five.
Oh, no!
OK.
Easy.
Emperor's Divide.
Yeah, we're chillin'.
OK.
Yeah, bring more next time.
Yeah, also, Annie's Flash, who ain't enough?
Suck us.
No Flash on, Annie.
Ha ha.
Yep.
OK.
He's got his stun-resistant shoes.
See, we got some wards between mid and bot lane,
though, to start seeing some of these roams and Malfi
ganks coming soon.
I mean, they have wards in our jungle.
That's going to see us, so.
Our wards.
Where's ours?
No wards.
Topside.
There we go.
Boom.
It was up 600 gold. Let's keep first striking.
I like that. Yeah, first striking.
You got our gauge, you know, the various is supposed to be dead anyway.
So it doesn't matter. He's losing.
You just need to bait them into all things.
Then is the ult absorber.
Yeah. So he's going to make sure that they don't have mouth fight
and also all very often. Yeah.
Definitely not often.
The price is death. Yeah.
But that's a small price to pay for those.
This is all friends of the bank.
I'm going to enjoy this.
It's for the greater cause.
Yeah.
We are losing the dragons again, though.
Would you laugh if he built first item, Edge of Night?
Yes, dude.
You just smite.
It's terrible.
You just press R, and you just smite.
It's not even hard to do.
If he wants to go that, time to go to Dodian's buddy.
All right.
Oh, here comes Flabberg.
Exhaust is out onto both of them.
Sven going to turn this around, though.
in trouble he gets knocked down by blabber i never doubted him
hey
we just need to get there. Denitos is here that's not good. Moby's here, Kankos is gone, Godline
got a kill. Denitos top for the down though bro, we're losing top plates. Denitos still
putting it down. You know you can't you can't have everything in this game. All right we're gonna
get we're gonna get some down there too it's all good. Can't get everything. No,
APA can go get those. Rumpforn are gold though. That's big. It is. We'll get those
Dragon's back later. I bet they wish they had that goal, but they don't.
Yeah, too bad.
Honestly, all good. APA into the side lane now on Azir.
And Banny has no flash, so Azir is way way scarier in side lanes right now.
Azir with shuffle, with flash. What else you got?
With shoes? Jungler. He's got Lava on his team. Lava is on his team. Lava combo side lane? Lava?
Yeah, hit him with the Lava.
They just got to get in there and blap them blap blap has got Trinity Force completed, too
So big that's better than Zeke's you get your nashers in your Trinity Force a keeper little support item there, buddy
We're gonna be able to realize them you could sell it
Options that's a good for options
These are things that are available to them. Are we gonna lock it? They got double Zeke's. So you're super slow
So we're talking about this on a dive. Yeah, I think it's slow stacking. I think it is bug for sure
where it seems to be additive. Generally when you have two slows, oh nice flash there by a day.
Gonna be able to avoid that. JoJo should be able to walk this one out I think, but APA is behind him.
Can they actually catch him here? He does have the ulti. Nice knockback though. Gonna get charmed up.
His income's Vulcan from the side looking for them flashing back to safety.
So it has no flash though. C9 coming in. Gonna be able to knock him down. The Cyclone knocks him up there.
over to Emperor APA.
Mid-Lite roll quest complete.
Let's give him a little slow clap there.
All right.
Keep Genghis off the game, so honestly, just tell him to go home.
Everybody get out of here.
We're good here.
We're going to get the wins.
We got you.
Ooh, what's our combo name?
You're the master.
I'll let you cook for a while
when you mush a couple words together.
We can go Cozale.
Or you can go Asbi.
Which is way funnier.
Asby is way funnier.
Asby sounds really dumb.
Asby is crazy.
Asby sounds really dumb.
Let us know chat. Should it be Cozale or Asby?
I don't know Twitchdale. Let's find out what they want.
It's gotta be Asby.
We can make a skin line with Asby.
Honestly.
What's our skin line look like?
I mean it's B related.
You know, it sounds like we got a champion.
Anyway, we look at the blap of combo. Okay, we call this one to blap of combo here top side and exactly
Exactly as we predicted kill the Annie blap of combo
They got blap it we're in their heads man. Blap of just like that
Oh, it's like you blap
That's the exactly that's the blap and that's uh, it's too far combo
Oh
With the ASB in the black but holy moly we can't demonstrate the ASB
Yeah, it's probably like you gotta pay extra to see. Yeah type of content. I can't be seen on the LCS stream
We're trying to work here next week. Yeah
All right
Let's see about the setup here. We are scared. I'm scared. I am scared blabber is very low
He's gonna get hit by the mouth by dolls that Harold is stolen spend is flashing for the wall and no help
They've got a stand at those APA. It's got a run Vulcan's trying to get out of there as well
Jojo looking to try to knock him down. It will just be the one kill
But the objective stolen blabber knocked down that was a risky one
I mean blabber was already at like half HP. Yeah, they just need to give it up
Yeah, yeah, you really got really good damage on blabber there, and you know, he's not getting out cuz mouth like
OT I was hoping blabber was gonna flash it though
It was a close one it was it was really close, but it was also very telegraphed. I feel like I
agree
So that wasn't the flap now. I'm nervous again now. I'm you know we're stressing. I'm stressing because we also this one's close
I came in I was like
Haha, cuz we're getting blasted. Yeah, but now but now you care. They brought me back. They get us
It's like it's every international back in we go to worlds every year and Kobe and are like
It's okay. We're just gonna have some fun
If we lose we lose
Literally, what are they doing? Why do they pick this? Oh my god? We're almost beating G1
All right, we got a dragon all good. We're giving up top lane to do it though
I need them to steal that Harold. Yeah, we're giving up some top lane gold
We're going to get some bot lane gold.
Yeah.
We're going to sidestep that tornado. Easy.
Uh oh, exhaust. Can't sidestep that.
Okay, twin wall.
Touche.
You got it.
That's easy.
We got, okay, APA, he's got to run.
Malphite has ult again.
This is the problem with this Zeke's item.
Every time you look, Malphite has ult again.
Yeah, it is pretty crazy.
You know, I...
He's not even doing the full support item.
You know, I was...
All the Kindle gems.
It's really good on Hecarim too.
Yeah, Zeke's there's a lot a lot of lot of like bruiser junglers where you just want to throw you like you have good bruiser items
You need a little bit of both resistances
Slap a Zeke's on that guy CDR some health
Some armor some MR. I mean that thing is just so good
10,000 port items are just OP when you can buy them on other roles. Yeah
Support OP role, you know as we see some supports blood thirsty battle at the moment over these wards
They have been their vision game has also been better than ours both both games
I mean the first games is pretty easy to have good vision when you're blasted. Yeah, but I feel like furious vision game
It has been
Substantially better than ours. Yeah, I it looks like he's just going IE second so we're cracking early
So he's gonna be really high respect that that is Howard. So she'll bow in there
I mean you when you have a whole team built around bounce house. Oh
We're gonna find an engage here in on the high
I even take a lot of damage before the windmill comes in flashes out, but fucking is there flashing to follow
Incomes equalizer
Then this was there too
At least lever didn't flash to give the system. Oh
My goodness, so I respect sometimes using stuff like that to get it. He gets dove now though because he hasn't been equalizer
Oh run buddy get out of there. Oh
Oh, the ults are getting stacked, Tatsu's running after him.
Vanitas is gonna get chased down.
Doesn't have the equalizer, eventually will fall.
That is the wasted equalizer in action, right there.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, he teleported down to the bottom lane
on the last one.
Is he actually gonna get chased?
Yeah, he's gonna, blap blap blap blap blap blap blap blap.
Oh, APA, that was a short shuffle.
The Everett divide does come out, he knocks him back,
but the all-out was buffering through it.
Blabber here with the Cyclone not gonna boke up,
But APA damaging them as much as he possibly can but in comes IU looking for the knockup
He's gonna be able to knock down APA
Even with blabber there. It just doesn't even matter blabbers got to leave APA falls
Buria grab the gold lead
Yeah, I tap into sideline bringing the support as well. It's huge there again nice buffer
From from Gigo down there too
All out all out on the inverse. I was clean. I was really good. Nice timing
So just around the same page. Yeah, if they lose this one, I guess did make a brief appearance during the game
That's why that's why they got the early dragons and stuff man. It does still doesn't count
Wait, it doesn't count like we won't be we won't actually lose the series if we lose the game
But we'll have an excuse
Hey, I was like, oh
Really, really, if Kangus appeared on the screen,
that's a chrono break worth the offense.
As Thanato's gonna get hit with the unstoppable force.
Looks like he does have to equalize it,
but it's not gonna matter over heat.
Trying to get something done.
Todd and I are getting up there,
but Ken's then turn this around.
Scrap Shield comes back up, knocked out by Tatsu.
Kigo, Kubi, in some trouble.
And as the fancy footwork gets him back to Tatsu,
will stay alive as AP is just pushing out thought.
Furious attacking these sidelines.
Tatsu has just done a way better job,
Both games finding place.
Yep.
Definitely has.
I mean, he's against another jungler
that we've been talking about a lot.
Started last year at internationals
and definitely proving it once again.
I mean, Cloud9, they definitely are in a much better
position this game.
But they can't keep giving up these kills on side lane.
You see multiple people roaming to the play for Furia here.
And they get their way earlier.
It was she'll go first and then I guess he's talking about you next. Yeah, oh good
He decided after he got killed the last time he got killed. Yeah, I'd be scared to take you know what?
Come on. It's cool. I'd be scared to
We're gonna do all right, Sven's got a second item edge of night
I mean edge and it's fine. Obviously he's a little HP. The spell should can be nice
But I just don't think it really accomplishes much usually
I mean because the mouth like just presses on the matches light and pops it off
So that's always the problem, but we'll see it could be somebody else
Tapers or something like that on and everybody's knock up. He's like everyone's trying to kill me. I know everyone's trying to kill me
Yeah, sometimes they're just paranoid this time. No, correct. Yeah
They're all looking at me
All right, our sideline now though, and he's teleporting. Oh another good play from Curia
Yeah, Unstoppable Force comes through, ATA with the Emperor's Divide again, going to get buffered there by Gigo.
This time with the Path Vaker, he goes all out. He's going to be able to knock him down. They want to give it over to Annie.
Fortunately, Gigo takes the first, it won't be an assist. Now they're just going to go straight over to Baron, potentially here, and try to threaten this, because then it goes his bot.
Yeah, a really good setup. Once again, you could tell. Pushing to Annie, pushed all the way to the tower on bottom side. Now, let's see about the turn, though.
They don't have Mouthlight ult for this, at least.
We need Rumble TP for sure. When are they going to actually call them in?
Let them take damage and get shredded for a while. They're not doing it quickly.
Yeah, this is definitely going slow.
Oh, okay, we're just flashing in. I don't know about that. Why are we engaging?
Equalizer comes through across multiple members though, cooking up a lot of people.
Zen trying to get the damage down in that backline.
But IU now looking to turn around. Blammer going forward.
Blammer's going to get knocked down here by IU as Cloud9
inexplicably to send the engage get deleted they could have just played slow started off with the equalizer instead
They full send it get knocked down now is then gonna get chased out of the tower killed off as well
Wow nine get raced at the bear. I had the right idea. They were waiting and watching
It was at 12k health. Yeah, I was like, okay. You go slow you let it shred them
They take some more damage. Maybe you can you know throw some bear skews poke them a little bit
Yeah, I'm not really sure what that engage was at all.
That was a bizarre one.
Well, Thanatos here, let's see.
Let's see, APA and Thanatos, can you make something happen here?
Vulcan is back as well. It is down about 5k HP.
They have to go for the fight. Thanatos stepping forward now is getting incredibly low.
Vulcan is in the backline trying to stun the Moktos.
He with the turn. Ayu has the last breath.
APA with the creative burst.
And Bayon pushes him back, but Ayu just flashes over the top, knocks up APA.
He's down as well.
Thanatos trying to fight as best as he possibly can.
In comes Sven, Glamrs back as well.
Everyone just trying to fight as multiple
period members flashing over the wall here.
IU has to flash him.
He will fall eventually as Glamrs
going over the wall with the Cyclone.
Trying to chase down after multiple members here.
He will get one.
We've knocked off a couple of the Baron buffs
at the very least.
Maybe you can rush down and try to get the Dragon
here as well and get something back.
At the end of the day, honestly,
given how bad that engage was, it turned out OK.
Oh man, yeah, we just keep on sending
extra people to extend the play then they extended the play to us long enough to grab a couple kills
taking away a couple of the Baron buffs. Yeah, the Topor hasn't even completed and Boken was already
walking up into the river. I guess because their vision had been just cleared, but I'm pretty
sure they had vision and seeing the Baron at like 13k health. So if you know it's not going
down quickly and we have various is here make them engage on us and
then possibly has no all team right so it's like we know there's no mouth like
all just play it calm listen in I want calm listen in we're gonna get it oh
look at that guy he's having too much actually that is one of the best parts
about Brazil too when they stand up and they're doing like the in-person
taunting and stuff don't like that one bit just getting it's really cool they
deserve it yeah I mean we just went well we deserve it where's our standing up
content yeah yeah but that was a pretty bad game so the mouth I has no all and
you've rumbly closer and they're in the pit and it's going down that's low just
keep peppering them with various cues and play slow so C9 tried to pull send it
feel like they got nervous there and now couple of the Baron busts are removed
and they do have that negative Baron power play but we'll see how many will
check afterwards and we'll see what was the last time that they saw the health
of the man but I pretty sure they had blue orb and it was like they had seen
It was super high. I was going for the engage. I mean Vulcan to flash forward and he got instant any stun, right?
So maybe he thought oh, I can I can see see them with a hundred zero someone
But great embers divide gonna knock all you back who has no flash. He'll get knocked down there C9 find a good pick
Okay, okay, we'll see how much more we can chase for looking for toots, but he's gonna be able to run it out
Well ever pushing forward does spot multiple members here, but no one else from C9 in range
They can't continue the fight. It is just the one kill, but we got two dragons now
We're at least tied as far as that is concerned and the gold only 1k Vulcan looking for toots
APA is gonna be coming for does connect in on them CC up
Not to try to peel as much as he can he's jumping over with a blast cone back towards Jojo and toots
So see I'm pushing back but not really much anything happening. Yeah, I think we're still in a good spot
Like we can get a zeer to keep on scaling here
So we we've definitely got some better options, but the thing that worries me the most is how
Fiora was playing sidelines better than us even though we've got the azir which
should be the more mobile sideline pusher it's just a Gigo Kassante sideline
nobody really deals with that so a lot of sideline plays for Fiora we're off of
his side and I don't know if like our Kassante answer gets better at any
point we don't really have we don't really have anyone that can deal with
that I mean I guess eventually it's like APA obviously he's building his is a
MR shred right he's gonna go void staff and have bloodletters curse on the
Thanatos to you at least you have that kind of stacking MR shred with that but
I mean I think they're really smart. Malfight already has a k-dink so they're
just stacking a ton of R because who's gonna kill you? Wukong and
Luthalini Barrier they're not gonna be focusing down the tanks they just can't
really do anything so really the only consistent damage skill the front line
is APA and Thanatos so just stack MR you're gonna be full sending
I think Malphite all on Sven's head, probably every fight anyway, so he's going to be running for the hills, so I always think that's a smart play.
Yeah, I definitely agree.
So it's, yeah, I mean, but once AP has like Void's death, and he gets Deathgap and whatever, and you have Bulletless Curse, you have all this, I think there's definitely an opportunity.
And even though Gigo and Katura are scary, if IU and Tux go for the engage, and it doesn't hit a bunch of people, and then they get killed by the counter-engage, you can definitely win a long fight.
Yeah, for sure.
And Vulcan can always get fixed with Leona.
Yep.
Blabber's on three items now, has the Black Cleaver completed, so he's getting pretty strong here
Sven completed his three items of course, IU very far ahead has that IE done now
So if you do get hit by the combo, you're probably just instantly dead
Once Yasuo has IE, you are getting one shot. Yeah
Any death cap? Yasuo IE?
It's looking painful
And he's just got the two rods, no hat yet. Yeah, but you know that's coming
is the the follow-up follow-up yep all right well we'll see what they can get
done then it goes so almost as a zonius so that's something working for us and
boys that components are there for a PA luckily because we have that last
dragon at least if you think okay we don't have to we don't have the right
itemization yet you don't have to fight the next dragon right you can't
always give the third if you're if you're feeling like you're not in a good
spot but it's gonna be in a minute I feel like some fights are gonna break
because Baron's spawning, third dragon for both teams is spawning, and I think we're going to see something pop off.
Oh, we're going to see something pop off. I'm hoping that we can get a pick first, you know, similar.
Like, we've got 40 seconds here, now's the time, but...
At least they can't one-shot Baron, so if we set up first with Dragon, you know, they have to worry about who's going to fight.
Well, Vulcan's kind of far though. He's going to have to run down right now.
We're going to TP'ed on, and this is going to be Gigo coming in from behind.
Can APA even join? APA does have a TP, but I think he's trying to finish his Voidstaff. He doesn't want to join yet.
So he's still trying to push, and we'll C9 just make the call to just play for that tower.
They're not going to come down just yet. Tatu is behind them, but going to be spotted out and C9 handle that well.
So should be a free tower on top side, I think, but we'll see if we get those mid.
Yeah, if you're going to at least get their tower here.
Oh, they don't stick around to finish it. Okay, still good anyways.
Well, this should be Voidstaff goal for APA.
Something it's worth because we got the good stuff nice flash from said it is a platform from just all of the cc landing in on this
That and he is down nice equalizer comes up and does he's going to go into the stages though and lover in with the tenor gates
They need a P8 or a P8 has arrived on the side neighbors
If I could get buffered again by Gigo who is out playing a PA over and over and over again
See nine in shambles. There's those friends of ours on the side
But he's gonna get chopped down here. You have to think by IU who hits the knock-up flabbers still fighting
But we've got no damage without spend without APA and APA didn't even have the voice staff before he TP'd in
I think he must have the gold because he bought a he bought a tome after so like surely he had gold
I don't understand what happened there, but
They get caught and man Gigo was just
Dominating a K. What is that like three or four times in a row? He's buffered his ult. Yeah
Yeah, it seems like every time and the call there you can tell from cloud nine
They wanted to finish the any so he goes in a very dangerous position there to try and do it, but
It's a huge cost yet again
I mean blabbers trying to finish off somebody at the end by that time the jack show is like fully stacked there for the
Cassante is so hard to finish off
Yeah, it is gonna be very very tough
we'll see if
They can make something happen. I mean still at the end of the day
You did get a little bit more behind it as far as the golds concern you lost the dragon
But they could have given that one up anyway
My big worry now is we have no flash on Dantos on APA or on Sven right and that is going to be dangerous
The Zonius was completed though for Dantos, so he's gonna have you know, not just stuck on the Seeker
So I'll have that up and available pretty soon
Deathcap is done though for a toots, so that is scary and Tatu's now into like full support items
I think Nitesfowl here is super smart. Just Nitesfowl, are you? He is all your damage.
Yeah, 100%. That's the obstacle. It's going to be really difficult to take down Vulcan.
Now I'm trying to go for a pick here, but JoJo just going to be able to battle dance back to Tatoo.
And Tatoo, will he decide to send it because Gigo is behind them once again.
Demetos is moving over here. Twitz is behind the play. Vulcan is trying to run back to his team
and they haven't been able to get the tower up.
Nice, Enes played from Vulcan, get to the other side there, get to safety.
That could have been bad for them, it's spooky now. They have very little vision around the Baron.
Yeah, we've got three blue orbs though, so we can just space out the blue trinket cooldowns.
What if we just flashed in?
Like the last one.
Oh, we're going forward face-checking, who cares about a blue orb?
Blabber is just dead as they're gonna try to get some damage down are you getting pretty low here Jojo goes in gets
This arm down on the Vulcan trying to stop the damage can see nine chase after him
40 plus seconds on to blabber see now. I've got to try to delay this. Yeah
He they absorbed four ults there. That was all of the like big combo
Oh, that's like cool. That thing is just flying. Yeah, it's actually half already. Yeah
It's like basically just no cool down there keeping back as well
I use got a run for base that buys a bit of time then it was based as well
He's coming back doesn't have equalizer now, but we'll at least catch this wave
I feel like they just started for sure and once I even rise yeah, all right. Let's see
In the dark desk. We still have our blue trinkets though blue trinket wards available. So we don't have to
That's kind of a concern. I think it will spot him out APA get a face check and get the bat news
Nice buffer over the wall with the Baron getting incredibly low both in trying to move forward here
It's going to be an open up prayer, 4C9, not going to be able to get it.
Now the engage comes through, it's all spent on the bulk and APA is going to be exhausted.
Then it's all stunned up. He is trying to run as C9 tried to fight on the other side.
APA getting some damage down onto Gigo. Now Blabber is back and Gigo is.
He didn't have a jojo, but he's immediately charmed up. He's going to be shut down by Sven.
Then it's all running, looking at Ivy behind and Granted for his devices and gauges.
Blabber tries to land the knock-up, but can't quite finish, and he went off.
Fury are all low, but we just can't get the kills and now APA is out of mana.
He's out of mana, he's stunned up, he's knocked down.
Fiora winning another fight, they're just playing better.
They certainly are, they played better in the side lanes,
they played better early on and they're playing better
in the fights around Baron as well.
Another Baron for them, this should be enough
on this reset here to do big damage to the C9 base.
Yeah, that is tough.
And now C9, you got a minute 40
to try to get ready for this next one.
So, Vulcan here, you see, he's like low HP already
and already really up close to the baron,
so you know they're gonna turn
and try to chase you down afterwards.
It's like, the moment comes
when they like over chase through the jungle though,
and there is a little bit of a turnaround
and some hope for C9,
here it is when Blaber comes back,
and so they can burst down the Rakan,
and then APH also gonna get the shove onto the Yasuo,
and IU inside the pit gets his shield both popped,
But then, it just got like no mana and then walks up into Annie's stun.
And it's crazy, I'm just watching this fight from Varus perspective.
So Varus basically has to stand max strength the whole time with the threat of getting one shot.
Then finally he throws down his ulti, and all he can actually access is Cassante, and then Windwall comes down.
And then again, he's just running away because they're dashing in, they're threatening him,
so he hits like a piercing arrow on a tank or something.
And then the Windwall comes up a second time in the fight.
You just can't do any damage here.
It's really really hard because they just full send on one person they won't shut that one person
They think okay all their cooldowns are gone, but like Sven can never actually play the place. Yeah, it is
It is painful to watch and it's not like he gets a lot of value poking people
Everybody is very tanky as we start another little skirmish up there, but all right one inhibitor down and the seeds continues here
They've got 45 seconds left on the Baron, but C9 going
They're going to try to look for a bit of a fight here but the knockup comes down onto
Volk and Gigo going nice stasis there from APA but he's going to be chopped up immediately
out of it and he's going to be knocked down by Gigo and look at the back line inside
of you looking to put the last breath of Cloud9 trying to take down Blabber now on
the side.
Dan does his fighting, Sven is trying to do what he can but it just doesn't even
matter.
Furia are gonna crush cloud nine back-to-back games and easy to oh the Oswald counterfeit on the bear is looking great
Furia really outclassing cloud nine here to kick off America's Cup. Whoo. We got trounced
We absolutely got trounced crack the furia well-deserved wins
They played really really well gotta get through the credit
Don't think that bottom line was really good for him, but Furia looking good.
They were smurfing in this one.
Hey, Geego, I feel like just for how he was playing around these team fights,
I'm kind of thinking about him a little bit as part of the game.
Was there like a single ember's vibe he did not buffer?
No.
He was just dominating APA.
Yeah, no, I 100% agree. He's definitely clear of the game.
Those team fights were nuts.
The side lane plays they started out too.
Furia as a team, I mean they did rotate really nicely,
But so much of this mid game here where we had a good shot. We actually had a good shot
You know a playable situation for ourselves, but he dismantled us
You know I want to go back and look at you I can do it or you can do it
But we should go back and look at the Baron where they like engage too fast that one way
We have a we have a minute so focus gonna swap over to the PC
He's going to get the headset on over there and pull up that clip so we can actually watch that but yeah disappointing
Disappointing couple of games here from cloud nine
I
Was worried about it a bit. I'm not gonna lie with the schedule coming into this
So we can try to find this clip here really quick. All right, and then we can get it
And I think it's ready should be this
Yeah, that's
That's looking right. I think
Yeah, cool. Is this is this right one or is this a little bit late? I can't remember
No, this this was it. Yeah, well Ben wasn't dead then wasn't that on the look at the Vulcan scum a
Yeah
No, this isn't it because then said it was when blabber died the first time right?
Because blabber had just died and then they were trying to contest in the 4v5. I think it is what I recall
And so this must be a different one
But it's okay. Kobe can look around but yeah
I mean disappointing start for for club 9, but it is all best of 5s from here on out for
for elimination in the best of five stage.
So we'll be best of five there.
Hopefully Sentinels will not lose as well.
We don't have that all on anything.
I think we might have a Blabber interview on the hearing though.
So if we have that, we can just go to it, no problem.
Well, Coby is searching.
Yeah, we'll see.
Hopefully a little bit more time there.
Cloud9 can sink in.
I think this was it.
So let's do blue team vision.
Yeah, I think this was it.
Okay, so they don't have vision of the axe.
Oh, there we go.
That's why he already went in.
Let's see.
Oh, yeah, 15.
Yeah, they saw 16,000 and when he walked forward,
he saw 11,000 and then he flushed in.
Yeah, and then they see 13 right now.
Yeah, no, he just goes.
He actually wants to engage.
Yeah, I'm not sure if they can hear you or not,
I can't hear you.
I can hear you talking here.
My headset is on.
So hopefully they can hear you on program.
But Kobe was just saying, yeah, they do have vision of it.
Yeah, so they really did want to.
Let me slow it down here.
Let's look at all angles, buddy.
Yeah.
I mean, what do you see?
Pause it.
Pause it right there.
Let's see.
Because this, to me, is where it's like,
this is where I was confused.
I'm like, what are you seeing?
So that cue.
So he already had a cue on him.
So it's a little bit leading up to that.
But I'm just looking at where they are positioned.
Thanatos has not even started his TP yet, right?
Yeah, Thanatos is split pushing down here for everybody.
And Vulcan is very far back.
We know he's relatively healthy.
I just don't understand why we're not just competing for him.
And Sven has his shield still, so he can poke.
So he goes in, gets some more poke.
He still has his shield.
And then, yeah, right now is when Vulcan's like,
all right, the teleport is coming.
Look how long it's left on the teleport.
Yeah, they're saying that Blabber is ready for an interview,
so they want you to come back to the couch.
But I agree.
I mean, I think we saw kind of what we need to.
It's like blabber blabber is is not really ready. It was not synced up very well
I guess they're just hoping that they can full send it, but it's like just now then it's also arrived and
Vulcan is pretty much already dead and I don't even feel like we need to we need to rush it
You could even just get them to disengage
But I think we're gonna be able to talk to blabber so we'll get his his thoughts on the series
We should have him here with us. I think pretty soon. Hopefully
But yeah, a lot more action here to come today. We have another series coming up blabber. Can you hear us?
Yeah, I can hear you. Can you hear me?
Yeah, we can hear you. What happened, buddy? What went wrong?
I think game one, we just played early game like too bad.
I mean, we don't have like the best early game champs, but we shouldn't have fallen as far behind as we did.
And then we kind of just had to, I don't know if we had to,
but we were just so far behind where we couldn't really fight anything and it couldn't really kill the one side
because they just played on their mid-laner and Volibear was too tanky.
So I think like game one, we just played early game two bad and then game two, I thought we
had good chances to win in game two, but then I think we had a couple bad like Baron dances,
and then we ended up just losing Baron, I think both times.
We were watching the Baron take where you guys had, I think APA had died and you had
like come back out, you were looking for a Blast cone and Vulcan kind of goes for a Flash
What were you guys talking about in that moment?
Because from our POV,
Santos was bought, he had TP, right?
He has equalizer, but they're killing Baron really, really slow.
You guys see it's at like 12,000 HP or something like that.
And then you decide to go for the snap and gauge,
but from our perspective, we were thinking,
oh, Sven's going to keep poking.
You guys are going to really slow play it
and then, you know, kind of force them to come to you.
But instead you guys tried to look for the snap and gauge
in the 4v5 that ended up going back.
Yeah, the teleport is still like channeling from Santos.
Maybe like another two seconds or something.
Yeah, I mean, I think I think we went a bit too fast.
I was trying to hide on the bus come because they wouldn't know like what angle I'm coming from.
They might think I'm wrapping around or they're not sure where I exactly am unless they have vision of me.
And we were talking about how like if we wanted to fight, we want to go on any first.
So I think that's like what Phil saw that he thought maybe Andy was out of position.
And that if we made it so like he can alter like mouth, I had all the me instead of our backline that it would be fine.
But yeah, I think we didn't need to go so soon.
I don't think they could have gotten better in that situation.
All right, well, how are you guys feeling
about the rest of the tournament?
It's not over yet.
You know, it was definitely a quick first day.
It's a dead-light game.
Don't worry, we got the excuses in.
It's a dead-light game.
You guys didn't have your coffee this morning.
It's rigged.
Yeah, I mean, I'm still feeling
like we can win this thing.
I think we will hopefully have a better showing tomorrow.
And yeah, I think today was just like the games were rough,
but not going to let that drag onto the rest of the tournament.
Cool.
Well, thank you very much, Blavver.
I appreciate you doing the interview.
We're cheering for you, buddy.
We believe in the comeback.
It's just all part of the training, OK?
Yeah, I agree.
All right, good luck.
Well, thank you, Blavver.
I appreciate it.
It's always hard to come on.
You have a bad series.
obviously wants to want to go review it talk about with your team so I was
appreciative if you'll come do to me.
Yeah, exactly, especially like so quick after a very quick series like that.
And yeah, I mean, it sounds kind of like what we thought though.
It's like, oh yeah, you know, maybe this is the reason, but they also think
that they went too quickly type thing.
But as he said, there's also a lot of other stuff like before that,
like their early game was really, really rough in the first one.
Yeah. And so it became kind of unplayable pretty quickly, but, uh,
Furia looking like some beasts here and they cut the first couple of games.
Yep. Yeah. I mean, all of these, they played it really, really well.
You got to give them credit. I like, I respect it.
The hell out of the also counter pick. I think that is really, really cool.
Varus is super meta.
So if you have the confidence to slam that down and you can execute on it,
that's great. I mean, they played it really, really well on credit to them.
Now we got to put our faith in sentinels because we don't want the double LCS lower bracket.
Exactly. No, then we got to fight each other. Exactly. We don't want to knock ourselves out player. This year is gonna be Gigo
We both think he owned so he got players here
Honestly the Cassante game for me because the first game is yeah, it's good and he got really good advantages and the volleyball
You know is
Definitely a favorite of mine. So you get bonus points, but the Cassante game was crazy. Yeah like that
That was the game that Cloud9 did have a chance in,
and he basically nullified it.
APA was our hope.
The Fed is here.
He destroyed the Azir at every turn,
destroyed him in side lanes,
destroyed him in the teamfights.
Absolutely was like one step ahead
because he knew what APA was gonna try and ult.
Always timed it perfectly to counter it,
and they fixed the side lane problem.
So we are gonna take a very quick break.
We'll be right back ready for sentinels here.
You know, North American fans.
Don't worry about it.
Those let just warm enough.
Got some easy copy.
Feedback.
Baby, baby, I know you from before
No one does it like you do your ex
You start thinking that you don't want to see him
You get used to the cold, you don't want to cry
Let me turn on the fire, I don't want to start the fire
Let's go through what we've been through
It's always going to be bad
I know I have to tell you
Everything I couldn't do
Oh, I got to change my I got a
He's in a seating position with Kangas.
Cause his arms on the front, but you're a lounger like me.
So now I got to, I got to give you more.
Yes. Well, I made a little outfit change because I've seen an iron on vacation.
I figured I could do louder.
Well, that's, that's a, you're going to have to just have it on your own, buddy.
That was, that was something.
Kobe, we just got two Ode to open up.
Just get to America's cup.
We get another chance.
Okay. So, you know, friendship with cloud nine.
We really are bumping here off space friendship ended with cloud nine friendship beginning with sentinels true
Sentinels are the hope right now, and they were the team that I predicted with to oh, I didn't think c9 was going to I thought they would do
One did you okay? So you definitely did not predict cloud nine to zero two right? Oh, no, I did not do that because that's what happens
is that that's
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but yeah anyways
Red, though. Red can, can beat teams even quicker than Furia and will snowball and play
early game. They will play early game so ferociously. So I am a bit worried. And I think that in
this series, we will know really early on if we're going to get a repeat situation
or if sentinels are going to have a good chance because if sentinels, I feel like
can weather the early game and they have been very controlled, especially Hambach
and who he working together. Um, if humbuck and who he can basically control and dictate
the first like seven, eight minutes, then I feel like we have a very good position in
this year. Okay. Okay. I like that. My concern though, for Sentinels is mid lane because when
you look at red, uh, candidates, Kalunga cause is there like the guy on the roster? He's
like the the marquee bloody mid laner. He loves the melee assassin. He beat us a lot last
year. He beat us a lot last year and it's dark wings coming in here. I know technically
he's not a rookie because he had a stage time last year, but this is the red kalunga roster
cause a first off that's an intimidating look. I think we can get him intimidated. He's
laughing on the grave of his enemies. Clearly. Um, but yeah, they definitely play aggressive
He's the only one showing teeth.
Nobody else is showing teeth on the whole team.
That's also equally terrifying.
Yeah.
Do you smile with your teeth?
Yeah, you smile.
Yeah.
Whole face smile.
Everybody else's.
How many teeth we got here?
Three.
Dark Wings is a no teeth shower though.
So would you rather have your mid laner show teeth
or not show teeth?
I'm on the teeth squad.
I'm a big, big team guy.
Overall, Sentinels has more smiles with teeth.
And it's the two you were talking about,
Hanbok and Hoohi. So there we go. Yeah. So those, I think those two are critical and Hanbok
has looked, I think exponentially better each, each time we've seen more coordinated, even
with dark wings, who we know that Sentinels communicates in like 70% Korean. So that
has got to be very difficult, but their synergy has been on point and has been improving.
So this mid jungle that both of us think are important, I made it for different reasons.
is is also going to be a sticking point. Yeah
Part of I think the anxiety though also comes you mentioned before we lost to cause a we lost to the steam
We got Colunga last year shop by rebellion dropped to the series to them in the LTA championship
So and this is the same roster
They're jungler changed name from doom all caps doom to curse first off why well doom was an awesome name
They're very similar to
Yeah, if you think about it. Yeah, either you're doomed or you're cursed
What would you rather be doomed or cursed? I feel like cursed because cursed like it implies that you have a chance to remove
Doom to that's like absolutely over. It's just over. I got weaker with the name change. Yeah
All right. Well either way they have the track record of beating an NA team already
And now we just saw an NA team lose to Furia
Beating NA teams, you know, so maybe we just
What's your faith right now, Kobe?
100% NA face still?
Until proven otherwise, 100% faith.
I never doubted them, King.
I don't know who knows about me.
Yeah, you no doubt.
That's my thing.
There's not a shred of doubt in Kobe's DNA.
That's kind of the thing.
Well, let's meet the teams.
Up first, red, Candid's Kalunga.
Will we get Kalunga again as the roster is running it back?
One name change, but don't let that fool you.
It's the same five players from last year who did pick up that series versus
Shopify rebellion before dropping later on in the LTA championship racket.
We know they got what it takes to win.
They do have what it takes, but so do we.
Kangus, so do we.
We just have to be able to utilize it.
Oh, they got some secrets going on already.
Now they're all smiling showing these.
There we go.
Looking like they're having a good time up on stage.
Obviously the home crowd going to be cheering them on throughout the weekend.
And this is still the best of three stage,
the rest of the days will all be single best of five.
So this is our last best of three.
Let's meet the other team here.
It's Sentinels.
A bit of a surprise, if we're being honest,
from the LCS side,
you're a much stronger start to their year than I would have expected
for a roster that just came in.
the newest organization to join the LCS and already taking a top three finish in playoffs
for split one.
Yeah, it's funny because you know you're like, oh, new roster, but they got three disguised
players that had already been playing together.
They got impact at the oldest player in the entirety of our league.
I don't mind people that, yeah, bad onk in the top lane.
So, you know, they got some pieces that worked pretty well together and percent
as a brand it is very big to come in and immediately have success we actually had
the manager on the dive and he was like yeah you know first split we aren't like
trying to build for crazy you know winning right off the bat yeah you know
we're gonna come in and we're trying to work it a little bit maybe we'll money
ball a little will be special will be efficient but they they came in and you
You know, they really did play off some of the synergies that PVC existed and Hoohee has
stepped up so huge as a dual language shock collar, both in Korean and in English.
Golden Glue shouted him out publicly, as well as playing really well individually.
And so this is a fairly unique team that does have to put a lot of effort into their
coordination in-game.
Hoohee even said it himself.
He's like yeah, it's kind of exhausting in scrims. So I
Yeah, he's like I don't I don't do the full like
24-7 you know shot calling in both languages during scrims because it's just like so draining
But you have to do that for first stage games
Yeah, make sure your middle enders on the same page the question on my mind
And I imagine a lot of people's minds Kobe and place your bets now chat
Will we have a champ select error from Sentinels? They had Guardian a trucks
We have the main locked in are we going to get something this time?
I feel like that's their weakness.
They practice enough, bro.
They got it on lock now.
They got it out.
Okay.
They got it out of their system.
That's good.
They got it on lock now.
Doughla grilled golden glue about it.
So golden glue put that as their number one thing to practice.
They got a notepad and there's like a, you know, post it note saying, you know.
They're going to, they're going to get this locked down one aspect of the game.
It's going to be locking those champions in.
Speaking of, we already have one locked in as we're jumping straight into champ selects
now the bands are through and that is an early rise pick here it's a good one
Oriana's banned out and Taliyah is banned out I think that this is already
looking pretty good for us you know take it away also means cause they can't get
his hands on it cause they of course plays a lot of assassins also and is
super dangerous but you know most played our the normal mid lane champions
of rising to lea type stuff too so we'll see what we traded for rumble of
course is up priority for top lane here. Do you want to go like Jarvan early? Because Jarvan is good
versus Ryze. You can always put pressure on to Ryze and it's the basically hot pot, the patented
Jarvan and Rumble ultimate combo. But early on of course there's every AD jungler up and available
so you could alternate to another one if you felt like it.
Combos real though they do lock it in and it's not surprising they have been playing a lot of carries in the jungle
That's chatting with a sale for the first game. You know
So what?
They we were catching up with some of the you know Brazilian casters and
Basically red that can it's they have an identity that their coach talkers drafts often where it's called the three-headed dragon
We have three threats on the composition. It's a fun community name for for how they drop
It sounds three-headed dragon. These are two of the heads right now already with the rumble and the j4
I would come up with dragon related terms for my all my strategies to if I was a coach. Yeah, that's not sick
Yeah, you got the the we any you got people calm calm plays and stuff like all right, you know
What's uh, we're comfortable in this summer on well, you know, we're building
Building the three-headed dragon. Holy
Okay, well a sentinels are building the poke machine. That needs a better name
Yeah, I don't think poke machine is quite there what I'm saying you understand what it is
Now we got to come up with a more fearsome name for it, but no, I'm not gonna call it the thruster. We're gonna call
Israel karma though. What do you do with with that to deal with that bottom line?
I mean this this bottom lane right now is so hard to contest for push
And for poke so I actually really do like this opening
It means that this Jarvan is gonna be very very active in the solo lanes early on you know
It's Jarvan trying to gank for the yone. They're gonna try and like burn
Darkwing's flash early on and get cause a some early advantages so cause they can roam
Guys that makes a lot of sideline plays to even when he's you know on a champ like yone, so we'll see I got a new name for it
Let me know yeah this shell shock because it's all this artillery flying
Coming from well because that's what it's called like shell shock, you know back to day
But like and there's all these like shots firing in with all the range you get poked up consistent
I hear you I respect the effort, and I'm gonna keep thinking about it
We're gonna keep working on a workshop in it then yeah, all right
Well, the young man's something with mystic because as real as mystic shots and karma is a mystic
Yeah, there'll be something around there mystic poke machine
Well, a lot of comms try and build into it with kill lanes, so Nautilus is a good band.
Nautilus band so that you don't get like driving gank plus melee support set up for
Frosty.
Frosty can easily go a, they do need another frontline.
So with Nautilus band, still got like Leona, Rell type stuff down there.
Which I'd say in the mystic thunder do we like mystic thunder?
It's something with the mystics, you know, it is definitely as good
We see this from Rebello a lot
He often plays things like gin things like ash to enable the other side of that three-headed dragon
We see that from those three and they're they're diving to sell the gents can fall from super long range
definitely always a good combo with this and
And meanwhile, I like a Cassante here.
It's not as good into Rumble as when it is into Rumble that is on a double AP team,
because you can just rush Gannick Rooker and then be good into either solo lane.
This is one of the rare times where you're going to have to deal with different damage type solo laners here,
because they have the patented classic Yone Rumble comp going for them.
It is a terrifying comp when you are able to layer the holds on top of each other because usually think like the J4 hot pot with the rumble
But we have seen the rumble equalizer plus the you know, and a fade
Yeah, you get all three baby. Yeah, and even a recomb to set them all up. There you go. That's even faster and better
You know engage in the other melees that we were talking about there
So honestly, I think both teams got a lot of stuff that they wanted and we're gonna have to see if sentinels can
utilize this pushing bottom lane and pushing mid lane because by default your mid lane matchup and your bottom lane matchup
should be strong and pushing for sentinels and I want to see Hombok here
How he can actually utilize that to get some advantages Wukong of course notorious you want to get to your level six six as quickly as possible
Don't necessarily want to waste a lot of time in your first couple of clears
Even better if you can get to Trinity Force fast also.
Yeah, you want to get rich and you want to get experience.
Who doesn't really think about it?
Full and average league player, they'll tell you.
I want that in real life too.
More experience and richer.
If you can only pick one, what are you picking, Kobe?
Like experiences.
Because I spend my money on experiences anyway.
So just cut the middleman out.
That's a good point, I like that.
But what if you take gold you would get both then because if you spend the money on it Wow
Interesting thing about genius
Conundrums here with kengis. So what I what you're learning from me is give me the money
As long as I get a lot of either of either. Okay. Okay, sure
Well, I think
We're hoping for a winning experience from LCSI. We need some hope you up into our blood now
We do that was an o2 from C9. We already
about that oh yeah okay you know what it's a new game okay it's a new feeling
it's a new vibe it is welcome you're here it's a Isaac yeah and this is the
first time the two of us are casting together it's actually the first time I
can recall meeting you yes hi I'm Steve nice to meet you Sam right let's have
some fun watching some League of Legends I'm excited and I'm sure everyone
at home is as well set Nils versus red canids Kalunga game one starts now
Can we keep this music the whole time this isn't I actually love it the chance to like music actually is so good
Right as he said it
Just can't have nice things
Maybe I may be the bring it back later
Oh, all right
Hometown crowd behind a red, but a lot of folks in our LCS chat. I'm imagining here cheering on sentinels
Resulted strike first, but we have a chance to even it up here at the America's Cup. We certainly do. All right, so
Ward here is good for red, they're going to see Wukong pathing bottom, I think you would assume Wukong is on that bottom anyways, but it is always good to get the exact timings.
So you can have full information here.
And like I said, theoretically, should have pushing bottom lane, should have pushing mid lane here for us.
So it should start out smooth and allow Wukong, you know, an easy top down clear.
And so you can kind of end your second route towards that side of the map to and then
Theoretically we would be looking for
We would love if there was a bottom side six-minute scuttle crap
True for our team composition here so that our wu-kong can play off of pushing mid pushing bottom
Get the bottom side scuttle crap get the wu-kong to level six and then get our first dragon
That's like I just drew up my like dream my dream first seven minutes of the game here
However, we're playing against Cursed Jarvan, which is scary, so we'll see if that Jarvan
can like blow a flash early.
You know, you are very, and I think rightfully so, focused on the mid lane matchup.
And if Jarvan does get some early ganks on the rise, it might be problematic.
And we definitely don't want Kaze to be in a very powerful situation very early
on in the game.
That would put a lot to get big room for us.
That news for Eco, because from what we've seen of Brett,
they play fast, especially when they have a J4.
They look for aggressive plays.
And already, Kers walking away from the graph
is looking at a gig bot side.
Deadly flourish, lands onto Whoey,
and in comes the J4.
Kobe, no!
It's first blood to Rabbello.
Rahel will flash back away as I've lost my co-caster
to the couch.
Yeah, red already finding that early play
Come on
We know it's first Jarvan, man
Just roared early. Honestly, though good, you know, fantastic from curse
Both teams both teams gank in us bottom just getting a lot of success. Oh, actually Darkwing's winning this immediate trade here
Cause they snaps back now. Curse finds Hanbok and the jungle has back to the frosty plus
Rebella walking up. So Hanbok is in some trouble here. Cause they can't walk forward cause it's
dark ring starting and that's flash from Hanbok. Follow up with the flag and grab!
We got Curse! Hoohee! Land PQ over the wall and we'll be traded back as Hanbok falls
eventually. Cause they have a kill credit now. Hoohee actually chased out. Grand
entrance knock in the land. Knock up dodge by Hoohee. Eagle trades one to one.
And as they continued to trade mid, I was like, oh no, bot lane has priority, so this
is probably going to look really bad for us.
But they trade one back, they trade one back, all good, grab one extra kill here, onto the
jungler as well.
It was Hoohee that got the gold, unfortunately, meanwhile Kaze got the gold for red camps.
Honestly though, as it was not bad for the lane, like Karma and Ezreal getting money
early even if karma gets early money it is like it's getting more power for our
pushing lane that should be a point of power for like this dream scuttle that
I'm talking about the dream scuttle and possible dragon you know six minutes sort
of play but yeah here is where I thought it was a little dicey with Honbok
fighting in the river he is gonna flash over right into a follow-up with
first Andrew bellow but who he flashes to he flashes in he shields up
He's able to get the Q kill and Grabello does use his flash to then also answer for that kill.
So maybe, you know, target these blown flashes, this mid lane and bottom lane, for both sides using a lot of summoner spells.
And Kazi is trading very aggressively. In that last play, if Darkwing's had more mana, he could have stayed longer.
But he had to back off now though. How's it just traded a big chunk of health there and Darkwing's in a pretty good spot?
So let's see how about level five and
We're still a minute away from that. It's also still not bad because with your bottom lane roaming away from the pushing lane
Look at the CS bottom like our early push was still good when you go for the gank and you get the gank kill
It's it's not as big of a gold difference as you would expect since Rebello did actually get the last hit for the kill
Because of the CS4 Reheal however does get a little bit of a chunk here nice extra combo
Red bottom lane from who he incomes curse from behind they don't spot it yet
And now the J4 on a vision no flash on the bot lane is but who he besides steps still gets knocked off a taken down curse
where they're not a kill for red cannons.
Yeah, keep targeting bottom lane.
Keep getting some successful ganks here.
Good job by red.
Oh man.
Oh, Wukong here.
Maybe get a consolation dragon.
Sneaky, sneak into the back with the W.
But the Scuttlecrab is spawning on the top half.
Oh, good, good.
Now that the jungler is like reset after their plays,
there's not going to be the big like snowball into,
you know, extra big plays.
So at least we get the dragon and it's something and we'll see and we still have the
CS advantage bot side because Reheal has been able to go deathless so far who has dropped twice
But Reheal has been getting the wave. That's a good point there that even though there's a kill to assist for a bellow
It's not even a kill's worth of gold lead for him right now. Yeah, true
Dark Reign's getting the extra vision. This perfect timing now on the Jarvan clear
Let's see, I mean who are you just trying to help Darkwings get pushed so we can get
mid roam?
Yeah I mean it looks like we actually can go for the Skeletal Crab top too.
We got mid lane push, helps out a lot with bats.
Yep, you can make sure the Darkwings can keep that in and no contest from her so on
but we'll get the dragon and we'll get the second Skeletal Crab and Kobe we now
have a Wukong level 6, has the ultimate available, can look to start making action
as action medley nice side step from Darkwing's new ghost.
Darkwing's had just dodged the earlier Q that was charged up from Yonei too, so back-to-back
dodges from Darkwing's who he comes back for a little chunk too.
Hey, you are worried about Darkwing's versus Darkwing's has had some good movement so far.
Dodges the Q knock up, dodges the ultimate here, just popping ghost it's a very efficient
you know cool down trade there.
He unsealed his fate
Did not land right there and also dodged the dragon's claws and three added dragon composition
I think it's the mat if we got the the fire breath from rumble
We got the claws from yone. We got the wings from Rakan. There we go. It's all coming together here, Kobe
I like it. Look at all the bars are red too because both teams are red
That's actually actually not seen that before that's kind of crazy. That's not gonna get confusing at all
Okay, not only the get with a nice little chunk here in the mid-lane, but Curse is coming in from behind.
That flash available.
Into the Cataclysm, though, can't get out of that one, and will fall.
And Hanbok does join up, but I don't know how much he can actually get done here.
Curse can just walk away.
He, so Darkrai's again had good movement, but...
Right, you're gonna go with the Cyclone.
Who he's coming in for behind, but it's only support to back up to Wukong, and Hanbok will not find anything.
Yeah, Darkwing has a good movement to dodge, but then he flashed early when driving slow as ult, so you're never gonna get out of it.
I mean, maybe you can try to run more, but you're getting chunked too much.
Yeah, I think what he thought is that they didn't have a ward in that brush.
Oh, yeah, could be.
But they had vision in there too.
All out use, FnB is able to get back to the turret, but impact.
Put him in an awkward spot here, E-Flyz will go down onto the wave, and FnB will just clear that out, for as long as we go for a reset.
Okay, 1,000 gold lead for Red.
However, all the objectives for Sentinels,
because Hombak has been cleaning up the extra objectives after somebody on Sentinels dies.
You know, bot lane died, then he gets dragon, mid lane dies, then he gets grubs.
So we'll see about the next few minutes.
Again, I still think they should focus on stacking dragons for Sentinels.
Rahel down here, see what they can do on the Ezreal.
We have two minutes until that, so I imagine we'll have some completed items.
I'm looking at, like, Yone and Laning Phase, not the most threatening thing, but once
he gets that first item, which he's already got Vypherx after, plus the recurve bow,
once he gets to that Bork, it's actually a little scarier to try and get us that.
A little smidge, and he's got two kills as well, so he's probably going to have
that completed by the time this dragon spawns, so it's not going to be a cakewalk
percentiles to try and take that. No it is it is not going to be a cakewalk it
is going to be a walk over hot coals. Very dangerous. What? You've trained for it.
Not so bad. Yeah. All right. Hombok here gets the level up up Krugs. Does this mean
anything? Are we actually going to fight? Nobody wants to fight over the
tribrush there so it's not going to turn anything just quite yet. Hombok just
gets his reset preemptively here. Still a full minute before the dragon so
You can just go clear your top side as humbuck. So I like that
He get the efficient recall go clear top side, then if they want to fight it try and work your way in from mid lane and
Honestly, I don't think you're gonna have a Bork breakpoint before the dragon
Yeah, I mean if Kazi doesn't have Bork then this is a much higher chance that sandals can actually take this
It's usually pretty hard to rush to it if you spend your money on shoes
By the time in for second dragon
And despite having that early influx of gold from the two kills taking that stopgap means that maybe there is another window here
It's 25 seconds of four centils and we do see Hombok clearing the top camp
So we can start passing towards that objective on the bottom side. They're shoved in bot lane though right now
Rebello and Frosty are getting the shove in as
Verhelle will go for a reset 10 seconds now on the dragon
All right, let's see mid lane
I mean, trying to rotate over all-way to Darkwing's and Hanbok here with the sweeper.
Maybe they're just gonna look at Kazi if they can get a kill here, or at least his ult out before the dragon fight would be a nice little timer, but I'm not going back away instead.
Yeah, Hanbok sees the support roam at the moment. It's pretty good vision from Red on bottom side, and since Jarvan is ganking top side, you know, Sentinels are assuming that he's the jungler is bottom side,
Impact is going to get...
He has a Pathmaker already, so the fight and drag will land a knock up.
He's able to buffer with the jump and now Impact low on health.
He's just going to try and buy as much time as possible using the all out flashes out of the Cataclysm.
And he's making red work for it, as they just can't kill this Kazate fast enough.
He will eventually go down to it's regretted and his FNB roasting him off.
But that was so much time to offside Sentinels get the dragon and drake.
Okay, so, Impact decides to use his Flash and his ulti, wait a second, we're having a lot of Flash as well.
So he tries to delay there, and tries to get down towards mid lane.
In the end they chase him down anyways though, and FMB didn't have to Flash, you know, Cursor didn't have to Flash.
They know, you know, we can just walk him down and chase, and we'll still be able to push the wave in afterwards.
I like this too, just drop the Equizer on the wave, another wave deleted.
Come.
It's Kaze again going in on the Dark Wings.
Who he has just been in this mid lane so often.
And like, it's, I think, the trademark of who he is such a support support.
He will get around the map and make sure that his team is safe and he's backing up
Dark Wings as he's now picked up his first item.
Still no Bork completed here on Kaze.
Yeah, I always love it when Karma's sports roam like that because people always think
Ah, Enchanter supports. Yeah, you can't make like, you know, big roam plays just because you you don't have like a
Ranged stun or something to go gank someone
But if you just go to a melee opponent's lane and just throw out a couple Qs at him and
You know mantra Qs and get some poke damage and just keep this, you know
Keep poking the at the Yone then you can keep getting some extra push for mid lane
Yeah, I will say though cause he's done a very good job
job is CS is fine and he got those two kills with extra credit so play the Rune
King done, Kaze is gonna be very scary the next time we fight. And he's actually
lane swapped because the you know top and mid have finished their objectives,
the little side quests and now we got the Yone in 2D Cassante. Yeah and that's
what we were talking about in Champ select when we're like well you say you slam
the Cassante versus the Rumble with like you know any other APs that's here.
Yeah, because the candidate Rooker now is not gonna do much at all for you versus the yone in your lane
So Yone's swapping into a kasate lane here after play the rune king. Yeah, you could just get full priority over that lane
In impact now and now he finds himself alone in the river all of reds collapsing in on top of him
And he has just changed he's seen the death
Impact taken out of the fight and red with a sixth kill. Yeah, it's just really smart from red
You know you there the objectives on this side of the map as well thirty five seconds on the rift held
So just pressure it back again. He had no class now. Here we go
And now we're just getting straight in remember
We're talking about a change of supports coming
They're not the best at making the plays in the mid lane the method
They kind of poke you out think who he was a little far forward there. She gets CC the depth as well
Okay, yes, oh should I go and I might actually the curse here
I feel like we got established that in the first two games.
I took the hat off, put it back on for a bit.
I don't know what to do at this point.
Oh, looking good for us.
They're going to change my socks.
Maybe that's I like that.
Yeah, superstitious.
We do we do got to rely on some superstition
because it's it's looking rough again.
Also, and these are really good choices from red.
Like we were just going to talk about
you get your really good match up top side impact
doesn't have flash and they punish him again a huge influx of gold again they
got first tower bonus and the rift arrow it's going to be spawning on that side
of the map so they can just pick this one up right afterwards so now you get
another big chunk out of another tower guaranteed with this rift arrow and you
just open up the map so effectively here for your yone rumble composition
these things are very easy to use slam your engage you've got rakan and
Jarvan both can easily start this off from very long ranges and then use follow-up with Yone ult
slaps them together on a rumble ultimate just annihilate the entire team so red checking all the boxes
for this nice wombo comp and they're set up to fight the next few dragons with a lot of confidence.
Yeah, Sendil's got the first two but this next one in a minute gonna be much much harder to
actually contest and I gotta give credit to red I mean they are playing this game
Fantastic as they're looking to dive on the dark wings who he is there to back him up to curse will apply to drag to safety over the wall
And red will call it off
But talking with them four by four one of the English unofficial casters for CB Loll
He had mentioned that from a lot of people's perspective red were the favorites to win
And they were the ones that most of the casters and community were excited about sending a first stand
It was a bit of a surprise that they weren't able to close it out
And that loud took it instead. So I think we're seeing hints of that like red are playing good
They they have this high tempo gameplay style and they're executing the champs. Well, yeah, I like this to control in the jungle
Looking for a pick opportunity curses on award though. So we're gonna get at least something
He's very far forward now the rum work will come in from dark wings
How about looks to continue the chase teleport and we are full committing to punishing curse for the jungle invade
We get the shutdown. We get the pig. Sentinels now have Kaze to just teleport it and immediately flashes away
So a pick for Sentinels as the dragon's up and that's the jungler
So they had swept so much of the jungle, but not into the red brush ward and it actually gives us an opening
No jungle for red
We got it. We got to start this we use a lot of ults, but we didn't use impacts
Oh, so all out is a great tool for Sentinels to just keep red out of the pit
Keep them away from contesting hotbuck is low, but it does not look like red will find an angle in and that is third dragon
Secured for sentinels as now we have the all-up from impact on the count
They pull it back towards the team curtain call to slow down the retreat and dark wings
Flash is away impact will walk back to try and take it up and we'll absorb the fourth shot. We got out of there
Okay, I guess
honestly
Now we've got a really big moment to look forward to four and a half minutes for Inferno's soul.
Like that's a really early soul, man.
Yeah, I'm not changing my socks anymore.
I'm feeling good about these socks.
I'm glad that he changed his name to Curse.
Yeah?
And then, uh, went inside on the ward.
Better to be Curse than Duke.
I like that.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm giving us some hope.
There is no gold lead for Red though, so it is hope.
But if we will...
Yone is so scary. If they get a teamfight where they're looking at us at the beginning
and they can have Rakan engage and Yone doesn't have to teleport into the fight late and then
get chunked out immediately, yeah, okay, okay, yeah for sure it could be worse.
Dragon's not really half true sight. It could be worse for us, but it wasn't because
we get the early initiative here doing a lot of work itself. They're able to move
over, we of course get our first kill, and then with Yone teleporting in right
in the middle after we already got our kill we can chunk him out as well and so
there's gonna be no flash on cause a that is definitely making it a lot more
playable here but should be able to get out just fine as the equalizer will go
down he has a turret to escape to I don't think that there's any danger of
him dying he did pick up all that early magic resist but he is still roasted
they're into a strike not gonna pull up and be back come here a question so
We got the dragon flame from rumble. We got the claws from Yone. We got the wings from rumble
What's the j4 this dragon analogy the three-headed dragon? He's a dragon rider. He's the dragon rider
Oh, I like that a lot and rebello is like this squire on the ground. Yeah gear. Yeah
Throwing out those deli's. Yeah. Yep. You got the lance. Yeah, okay, so
We do end up grabbing the top side tower in exchange for bot side push.
I don't think there's any punish here yet.
So nice little taper off.
They're chopping down on that gold lead a little bit.
Down to under 2k.
Why are we looking at 2k?
Okay, no, there's nobody here.
It's grand wards, you know.
It may be scary.
When we look at Enchander's abort from only blue vision, I immediately start to panic.
Alright, two item Yone though, so shield bow is on cause as well extra survivability there
Again, if he's not like it doesn't have to teleport into a late into a fight into the middle of people and and like flash out
It definitely will we'll look a bit more dangerous, but Sentinels
Get some good setup here
Dark wings of course just kind of looking fishing around throw a realm warp see if you can uh
Get a long chase or anything another war we're TPing in I mean, I'm like wants to lock down curse again
who he's wading over the wall for the eventual flag and drag.
Who is it? W from Jin? Not going to land.
And that is a successful pick from Sentinels.
The dragon rider has been slain.
The warts can get spell warts.
We are winning through warts.
North American warts.
Vision's important, everybody.
Play like Sentinels, because it can maybe get them
a fair and after the fact.
There's no smite contest.
Red will teleport FNB in.
Deep flake from Kaze.
They're going for the team fight.
Maybe after the baron goes down it will be a baron secure, but Kaze and Yone is there with two items picked up.
Fate Seals available, but they already lost Frosty. Fate Seal will land.
It's a trade for Huey, but that's not a great trade for red.
They lose their mid laner, they lose their support, all for our support, and that is a baron plus a 2 for 1 in favor of Sentinels.
Take it all back, Genghis.
You're not a curse.
The hat came off.
That was the hat.
We figured it out.
Honestly though these warts I mean that ward up in the side brush over here
I haven't added a PSA whereas like on the in the current season
You have to always assume that anywhere that there is usually a fair light people just leave
People leave words there all the time
But you know another one and then we had some acting around that caused us to get an early wrap around kill on the Jarvan
Which led to this whole thing, but you know we had another situation where red
We're down a member for the team fight and it was their jungler
So we got to get the Baron we finish off the Baron and by the time the young a does go in and get the old
They didn't red didn't get to put all their pieces together. So it's perfect for us
Getting these earth the early jumps on all of these plays now. We have 10 seconds till the next dragon Kobe
It's the job's not done. Sun will still need to get this soul. Yeah, it's it's only just begun
All right starts with the blue buff though. Let's see
Come on, box. Contesting it right now. Probably not going to want to try and smite shield us away.
And actually well, so smite used. But red can't even get into the pit right now.
Curses actually over the wall there. Flag of drags back to safety. Frosty.
He's in the battle dance. He's going to weigh in. A nice two shot barrage from Israel.
We'll get that poke. We'll help. Pushes back red.
And now they got to try and find a way into this dragon pit. I don't think they can find a way.
So look at that the the mystic thunder coming in here from sentinels
Oh, yeah secure themselves a dragon soul and
Hombok as well, you know, he had two charges so of his smite
So they push them out and like they they clear out all the vision through this jungle
No way you can get in Baron buff still on sentinels, so they're pushing two lanes here
Israel very comfortable holding the mid lane
They got the gold lead. We got dragon souls. Then we got the gold lead. Finally brought it back.
Wards, wards, wards, baby. Okay, here we go. Red are looking for a pincer play.
Ra'el, get this kite down. Yeah, hard to get onto it. Ezreal especially with the car behind him.
But there comes the flag and drag. Not going to land the knock-up.
He flashes over the wall with the fate sealed from Kaze.
We'll do just that for Ra'el. Ezreal shut down. Now Kirk goes in with the cataclysm straight into all members of Sentinels
And we'll accept that gift, Cyclone used by Hombok, locked down Frosty, battle dances back to safety with the W Grand entrance and now red.
Don't have a great engage tool anymore, the Yone holds down, we'll hit the third normal steal right there because they take a lot of damage on the frontline.
Hombok got a killing spree now, picks up that one, Sentinels are winning another fight with the Flash of Dark Wings to clean up the third.
They just try to get too much after they get their pick because Yone had Eid and then R'd over the wall
They like they're not gonna be able to follow for any more chase down kills
So big punish from Sentinels on the overchase from red. They got a good pick on the re-hell
But that is not worth for them and Sentinels are gonna take your jungle afterwards too
We've got a very fed a humbuck here in addition to re-hells as real
So even after the shutdown, it's fine.
Toby, I'm feeling good! I'm feeling good about this!
So again, he eased and then ulted.
So even though Yone's like, oh, Yone's right with us,
it's fake because he has to stand back over the wall.
Stand back to reality.
There goes Kers.
Yeah, he went a little hikely there with the Cataclysm.
If Red had just taken the pig and backed off,
they maybe find another angle to them like...
Yeah, they play slow, but Jin tried to run, both of them.
Dragons go win, Toby.
We're talking to each other. True. True.
You got distracted over this way. This is a really controlled game from Sentinels, of course.
Yeah, and our highlights, our postgame highlights are probably going to be looking at who put those both awards.
That caused us to pick Jarvis. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's a good call.
We'll go investigate. Whoever put those wards is going to get player of the game.
I was just going to say, should they get player of the game afterwards?
Yeah, because those have been back to back big plays for Sentinels and at this point impact as
Sentinels is the only and I hope you see that chat already. That was so early. It's so early on.
There is a lower bracket, guys. Clodnaw got more chances.
They're, we already gave all the cope, you know, they're jet lagged. They're a little emotional for the lion loss.
They got a bounce back now. They could still run the lower bracket. We'll see.
They, it looked pretty convincing though, the losses in the losses.
Fun fact, our producer's use actually made the point that C9 have not won since Sanitas got the player of the game.
That's the true curse all along.
It's usually what you want most, you know?
Monkey paw.
Exactly.
The monkey paw.
He finally got it.
I guess that means we're to blame. Production is to blame.
Because we gave the player the game.
I'll give it a party, Kobe. I give blame for everything.
It does all come back to us.
Yeah
All right, so it's the most finished the job here. It looks so good for them
Now with infernal soul with the gold lead you can just push side lanes
You have really really good setup and if they just keep up their vision
You're not gonna get this dream wombo combo from red. Just target frosty always got a mark
Mark the enemy engagement the biggest enemy engagement
Stop the jargon and the Rakan and Rakan is very squishy, buddy. So true
Yeah, especially if you're able to just like cyclone as he's going in just like immediately lock him off and then
Throw damage the damage dealers have their spikes as well like three items as real three items on the rise working on that
For us. I don't know. I'm anytime. There's a three out of me on it. I do get a little nervous. It's true
It can't get scary out there infinity edge completed now
Red are not out of this by any stretch. They're behind
Now, but not now, just now they find the engage here on the Darkwing.
She has the Seekers' Armguard, so we will go into the Stasis.
Frosty's still alive right now.
The Reengage back out of the Darkwing to try to take down the Rides.
Cannot get him, as Cosi lands a nice triple knockup.
But now he's in some trouble, in fact trying to fly the space for them.
And that's me in the Stasis.
Now still alive, shut down for Cosi.
Red are actually holding the line in this fight.
It's three members up for Sentinel, four for Red still.
And now they're in, here it goes, forward.
Darkwing's has to flash back, has Huey in his back pocket,
Karma trying to keep his mid laner safe,
and red low health bars,
I don't know how much more they can get right now.
We were kinda deseaked on that.
If Darkwing's clearly wanted to outplay with his flash,
well, Humbuck was like wrapped around
the other side of that wall.
If, man, I mean, we need comps listening to be sure,
but it might be a situation where you would benefit
from everyone speaking the same language.
28 minutes 27 30 28 let's remember that because afterwards maybe we can take another look to see how close it could have been if
If they had been on the same page honestly, I'm down to try and outplay with flash
But if both try and outplay at the same time and I don't know about the cooldown that was on wukong w
But if you have wukong w and rise flash, I'm down to outplay. Well right now send those
Yeah, they lost that trade but they're straight back to Baron
the game of vision yet again but red are pretty far away they got to get back up there
that's the team coming from causing to the mid lane but we are burning it fast and we got it
Baron secured for sentinels as they will realm warp back to the mid lane red cannot even fight a contest
oh true chef Raj on the four red field in the thunder now I was getting a little nervous when we were rushing into
barons but that was great that was great timing we had the extra person advantage and now we can try and
Parley are barren into an elder dragon Kangus. Elders the name of the game here
but it could be a smite fight. Humbox on the flank right now at the glass cone.
FNB on a deep flank from Brett so far. Doesn't seem like Sentinels has fought
about now who he will see him. I mean this should this got to be good for us.
The rumble is pushed out of the entire fight right now. It's Ryze holding it
back now as Curse is down to half health. Humbox. As long as Sentinels don't
Give him the opportunity to get in there a flash will cycle and engage from
Hombok on the three members will follow now the Yone will turn it back around for
Red Bull Water that don't vote strike from impact pulls back out of the three
top lane of percentile shows up huge in that fight that was huge impact pretty
big there that's gonna ensure we get the dragon this that's made our
jungler but we got two for it yeah Yone goes down on top that was crucial
Then in fact we were able to find that three-man and tofu strike right there because if I'm by guys, and we don't kill curse
That's really dicey at that point to actually try and keep fighting around the dragon. Yeah
Thanks up. I mean we got the Baron we got the elder the two mega game ending buffs here
So sentinels
Looking like they might be the first North American team on the ball Kangus
No celebrate too early though, buddy true. Hmm. I have an extra pair of socks
Ready to go if we need them well if they would not change in anything. That's what I'm saying, but it's just a case
Let's see so Cyclone knock up and then in fact here we go
It's after they get knocked out of there. Huge. It's like just the edge of it too on the end
Charged up cues through everybody. Yeah one. It looks like the J4 is actually already past him
But still he's able to pull back the Yone which was a crucial memory
They talked about how strong De Yone is in these late game scenarios.
And Kazza was not able to get enough done.
It was a great fate seal to kill Hombok.
But now Sentinels continue the siege.
They have the Baron, they got the Elder Dragon, they got the Dragon Soul,
the three headed Dragon Composition with zero dragons to their name.
And Sentinels are just going to need a walk and march these ways forward to close out this game.
Should be pretty easy when you've got Elder and Baron.
Ain't no way Red can really contest any of that.
Uh, Elders still up, so they're trying to deal with these barrened-up minions,
but look at that, even with the Jhin ulti, doesn't clear that many of the minions.
So a couple of ranged minions, there's still two Kanta minions up,
and some two members of Sentinels will take out that mid turret.
First Nexus turret will fall now, and Sentinels, come on,
we just gotta get across the finish line right here.
Flash and Gage is kind of close-up desperation from Red,
as they will lose their jungle, but I'm going to take down Darkwingz!
Not a bad look for Red to start things off there.
It's a 4-4 fight still as Kaze just gets peppered down.
The Elder Dragon almost killing it, but now Habak could be in some trouble here.
Impact trying to buy his space on that frontline.
FNB goes to the stages. Kaze's still alive.
Kaze's able to get a kill on the impact.
Red are holding the line. It's all around.
The outplay is on the Ezreal!
Shut that Dragon down!
Double kill to Rahel as Sentinels will get NA on the board.
They'll get LCS across the finish line and they'll pick up a game one win against CBLO.
What the Rahel?
Let's go with the Elder at the end.
Player of the game, Genghis.
I do want to give it to whoever put those wards, so we're just going to have to guess.
You're not giving it to Rahel after that?
Alright, let's go ahead and give it to the Rahel.
How do you play as a banger?
You go take a look.
Kobe's going to jump over to the PC to see and go back and check the tape.
I still feel like Rahel without outplay at the end.
That was incredible.
And also, it's still just doing crazy damage.
The Mystic Thunder composition coming online.
The mega end game buffs, you know, so.
Yeah, you know, when you have the Elder.
We had Elder and Baron and almost lost the teamfight,
I guess.
I got nobody left.
Next, I'm going to throw Tibbers here while Koby's
getting ready with that replay.
Here we go.
This is my buddy.
Boom.
I was going to use this as emotional support
in case we had lost that.
But we were able to pick it up.
All right, Kobe, how are we looking out on the replay?
I mean, it's pretty, hold on.
We've got to go through the whole game to find where we are.
All right, Kobe is farsing through to figure it out right now.
Let's see what Chad thinks.
Chad, who do you think should get a player of the game,
that one?
Again, I'm still saying with Rahel.
I feel like Chad might be behind me.
Let's see.
I'm seeing Brazil.
Cope starts now.
LCS managed and upset.
I see Raheli.
That's the first one I saw.
I'm going with what Chad says Rahel as well.
Let's go.
But you are right that the wards were crucial in finding
those picks that got Sentinels back in the game
because they were at a gold deficit.
That was like a 4K gold lead that Red Canyon's Kalunga had.
I was worried we were going to get Kalunga again.
The first one is no surprise.
All right, we're ready here.
So we can show it on stream.
I believe Kobe is ready with the replay.
So the first one here, it's no surprise.
It was a who he wore.
Of course here.
C's curse, they come in.
Boom, this is gonna be our first pick on Jarvan.
This is everything in this game.
And let me pause right here, Kengis,
because at the time we got that pick, we needed it.
Yeah. We certainly needed it.
And so that was a big, big opening,
especially with our team comp here.
It also got the Yone Flash.
Yone was getting really scary.
Bork was done.
So that was a big one.
The next one was this ward up here.
Yeah, who places this?
Holy moly.
Okay, so we got Baron off of that one, right?
So it must have been here.
Okay, here's the ward.
That's about halfway already. Let's investigate
I'm gonna guess its impact just cuz top line. Oh, maybe it's dark wings actually. Oh
Who he adds a who he wore man
That's a good support right there. Let's go, baby. I mean, he's been he was getting around the map
He was hovering dark wings consistently throughout the game again
Let me give my PSA any place that there are fay lights
It's assumed there are wards in there.
It's not always going to be wards in there,
but you kind of got to assume that.
My MVP is Rahel.
Who's your MVP?
Are you saying Hoohee, then?
I'm switching it from Rahel to Hoohee.
Kobe says Hoohee.
They're winning the game off those wards.
Yeah, who do you say?
You can be the tiebreaker.
I'm seeing Hoohee goad.
I'm seeing a lot of Hoohee.
All right, you know what?
Let's give it to Hoohee.
I'll pivot as well.
We'll go Hoohee.
Hoohee's the player of the game for the wards.
Do we see who placed that first one?
Did you actually get a peek at that one?
It was who he placed the first one as well.
Incredible.
Yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, you gotta guess it's the supports
because they have the most wards to place.
But, and he also, both of them were on fairlight positions.
So it's also like.
You gotta keep track of those.
Come on.
We have some constant-
One of the most likely places to be warded.
I wanna listen in on some of the constant-
Ooh.
Let's take a look.
Is that, are you okay?
Yeah, I'm okay.
Are you okay?
I'm okay
Yeah, you about that, I get the beat?
Yeah, I can go behind them too
I don't want to keep it, I don't want to keep it
Wait, wait, wait, wait
I'm gonna double, double
Keep up first
I'm coming
Okay
They in the baron?
Baron, baron, baron, baron
I'm gonna boost it guys
Let's go guys
Guys, everyone take a deep breath
I look at top wave, okay?
I'll be, I'll play for you
They're all, they're all leaning here
They're all leaning
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
Oh, they're looking, they're looking
I'm coming
I think I'm dead
We can fight
They're both
It's okay, it's okay
I'm shielding
Look, can you knock them out?
I'm going to push the front
Shield them too
I'm shielding again
I'm taking
It's okay, we can fight
You're no-
He's real
You're no-
Shield 2 seconds
coming coming
I'm sorry
guys we're all in the vision, just let Kusantipi be in front
so we can check everything, that's the only way we can lose
yo yo yo
stop stop stop
you can just hit
you can hit
you can do it
That's the first thing I was going to say afterwards is, you know, they everybody's making calls
in English, so it's it's helping out a lot because we've heard we've interviewed them
at all stages leading up to America's Cup during America's Cup, you know, they're
They're talking about, yeah, 80% of our comms are in Korean, 70% are, 60% are, but all those
ones, they're all doing shot calling in English.
So maybe they've made a full swap over.
That could lighten the burden on who he's translating.
They had to do a lot and it can reduce the time that is necessary for some of these
coordinated plays.
All right.
I love this damage chart here.
Rahel, absolute monster carry performance.
right there.
Balling goaded.
Bot lane goaded.
Mystic.
What was it?
Thunder?
Mystic.
Mystic Thunder, baby.
Um, did they die?
Was that first blood though in the bot side?
I think they did die first, didn't they?
Don't care.
It doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
All good.
Yeah.
Mystic Thunder.
Doesn't matter how many times you die as long as you win.
We're on the board.
We needed that.
Game 1 MVP.
100% KP.
15 out of 15 kills.
I didn't even catch it.
And two, not one, but two, game winning war.
game winning lords.
Yep.
That is a MVP performance right there.
You know what?
I think still not to Rahel, but the support's
it's so hard to stand out as a support
and actually like get these types of awards.
I like that we gave it to you right there.
And I like that LCS is on the board, Kobe.
Can we make it a 2-0?
Yeah.
I'm feeling generous.
We can.
Let's see.
We're going to throw it to a short break.
Before we are back with a continuation of this series
right after this.
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Well there were a couple of breaks in the early game of that game number one.
They actually did lose the early game, but they were able to bring it back with dragon
stacking and some clutch vision plays.
Now we got Pantheon unlocked.
Pantheon, Talija.
Where are we coming?
Are we going to get, yeah, okay, Xin Zhao, the jungler that everyone picks.
All right.
I'm assuming we just get Talija and then we probably match bot, unless there's
like a blind top that Impact really wants to play.
Yeah, I think this this is pretty good
I mean I was excited when we got when we got to leave a five last game the whole last series
I should say that one did not work out for us, but hop-hop played a good game
I think I think the early games though pretty shaky from an A teams both series. Yep. I mean see not one of the early games
Yeah
This one was tough last game too, but if any jungler can do it and can answer the zinjao
I like that something like a pantheon
I feel like he's so powerful and oppressive if you're able to countergank something as in jail or even find your own gank
If you get pushing any way you can also you know win those scuttle contests. I mean pantheon
I think is just generically really strong, right? You have it's one of the champions that I
Think it's pretty unique that you can threaten you can threaten level 3's really really effectively
You can win early duels. You can power farm to six and that's what outs might fight you and all all of those strategies are all
effective. You're super powerful early game, but yeah, you don't really fall off late game because
of the Aegis Salt, right? Like the fact that you just block damage directionally allows you to scale
in a way similar to Zindal with Crest Guard. So I think he is kind of unique in that way. I am
expecting Taliyah to get banned out. They're going to ban Renekton, which is obviously another
great Pantheon pairing. I'm still expecting that Taliyah ban. If you don't ban Taliyah or
you're not going to pick Taliyah away or something, then I feel like for Sentinels,
They have to be a little bit suspicious because I feel like you are kind of laying a trap at that point where you're saying
Okay, we know you're gonna go that
And we're gonna have something ready for it. The question would be what would you go for because generally you think of us in these aggressive matchups?
Obviously the onyx already gone the colleagues gone the Ari's gone
So they're taking away a lot of these champions that could potentially threaten the Taliyah and you already banned the Orianna from red side
So maybe they take it themselves. No, they're gonna save counter pick for cause it loves those melee champions
I don't know like how many are left like Silas doesn't feel like it'd be crazy here. No, not not instantly
I mean, that's the thing you can do some of the more just kind of like long-range champions into it
You know some people in solo queue will play things like Xerath and Vel'Koz and like just gonna arrange you a bookie
But I'm not really expecting that. I think at this point. We're just gonna get something standard
I wouldn't be surprised to cause it but like Victor or something boring like that as an answer
And just kind of try to walk to Leah in lane. I mean, let's be honest
your buddy you know things a high action mid lane match it's not a octane high octane
match you haven't seen my victory then if I'm not deep being level 2 I'm doing my lane
wrong it's high action for the minions you know they're fighting their lives out there
but no one cares no one cares about the insignificant lives of the minions I care
what wonk okay that's a spicy so that's that's a cool pick I'm gonna be bringing
that out. Oh that is actually pretty spicy. It's not not the best setup right? Like there's not any
like crazy setup for him. You know how many CC coming out of the jungle but obviously you could
try to go for. You're distorting and you're trying to land the chains then you set that up for the
wind becomes lightning. Zin follows in. Your 2v2 is going to be pretty strong for sure. But that's
a pretty spicy counter pick. Impact going to be able to get Kennen. I would honestly be super
down for ignite Kennen. I don't know if he's going to go that hard but I do think
I think combat summoners are super underutilized still in pro play and top lane.
I've been talking about that since before the season started.
I really felt like with the home guard changes and with the role quest giving you free TP,
that combat summoners should become the evolution.
We got to see that sometimes with ranged top laners.
You get to see that obviously with Doklai who's playing Barrier Varus and he's playing
Ghost Fane.
That works really, really well in the LCS playoffs.
We have seen Photon bring out Ignite Kennen.
It's very popular with the LEC as well as the top lane.
Excuse me, to Renekton, that was like the most popular, but I imagine it's similar to the Ambesa.
It's just maybe a little easy for the Ambesa to get on top of you.
Even then, I think it's probably about the same.
I think it's pretty similar, yeah. Ambesa has a lot of mobility, sustained mobility compared to the Renekton,
so you definitely do have more mobility.
And you have the ultimate obviously to close the gap there as well, so I cruise you.
It is easier to close the gap, but it's the same principle, right?
You are a range versus melee matchup. You are trying to poke down on the grass and be able to threaten all ends.
If you can keep the melee champion low, I mean, the recourse for melee champions in melee versus range is to threaten all in.
And if you're low health and you're pinned under your tower, it's very hard to do that.
And if they have ignite, it's very hard to win all in. So that's why I think that can be quite strong.
I don't know if impact is the guy to go for it, but we have seen Photon do it.
We've seen Flaundra play Ignite Rumble in the LPL. There's top laners that are obviously down.
Yeah, Ise will be on top lane from Sentinels POV, but from Reds POV.
It's Kaze's world and we're just living in a Disguise Champool.
This guy's playstyle is the defining style of Red Candid's Kalunga.
He gets a Luffelonk, something I've not seen in quite a while.
We'll have to see how it plays into the Taliyah.
But either way, I think we're in for a show.
Do you think that's some guy's head that's buried,
or is it just rocks that look like a head?
Oh, I think it's like an ancient pillar like statue that's been kind of buried.
I think Taliyah probably had something to do with it.
How are they level one? This is actually spicy.
He's probably going to miss the Stortons trying to get a big chunk.
I mean, oh, he actually goes over the chains first.
That's Flash out of Hoohi to start off Laning Phase.
And he used the Ignite bot lane as well.
So that is actually super spicy.
I kind of love it.
I mean, it is going to be a lot worse for his 1v1.
Darkwing should be sitting here and trying to zone him
with a threaded volley.
So that is kind of the recourse.
You're trying to keep him away to see
if you can make him miss XP.
I don't think that's going to happen, unfortunately.
But that was great.
I mean, he goes down.
I thought it was just going to be to sort forward,
get a little bit of a chunk.
He uses the Ignite, he gets both thumbs off Hoobie and now you relieve pressure in what should be a winning 2v2 for Sendil.
So I think that's actually really really clever. Yeah, you hurt your lane some, but honestly who cares?
Because you have Lulu and Udara down on the bot side that are supposed to be getting bullied by Corky and Nami, and now it's really really scary.
And if you start pushing and you win the 2v2, well, Cursed could show up and you could die just like last game.
Yeah, and we saw them do that last game as he has a real karma
Corki Nami potentially able to get that priority as well
But right now it's a relo and frosty with the lane shoving in instead who he is playing very far back
And as we come back to top lane have health bar for FNB
I think that we're gonna see a lot of that with this ranged matchup advantage
That is that is definitely the hope impact is not going super spicy. He's not gonna be playing the night
He is playing just TP some more standard obviously it's it's still a trade-off
It's not like just purely good because your TP cooldown is a lot longer and you don't get the TP shield
Which is quite valuable on team fighting top laners
Because obviously your TP being in it lasts 30 seconds
But if you get that flanking TP in the midst of the whole team, you have basically this like fast steric shield for free, right?
So
Specifically old there's no CC to stop you in the kit there, so
yeah, well to
Keep our eyes up there to see how it keeps going for FNB
but the bot lane still shoved in top lane shoving percentiles as junglers are pathing towards the bottom half together
FNB is going to be all alone up here for a little while longer
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's also going to be a solo AP for the long which is always what you want when you are playing
You know these AP assassins now you want to have all of their AD threats
So you can't get a lot of value out of you know going early and more
Otherwise people are just gonna rush early merchads in the matchup or go ma or go first barrier
Whatever it's kind of some of this defensive stuff that can shut down a lot of the pressure that you're trying to go for here
Is that F&B taking the bad end of that trade?
Kind of how it's going to be in these types of matchups.
You just use the ambusse of W to try to absorb as much damage as possible.
And you have to be really careful about what minions you fight for.
You have to just choose, alright, what ones am I actually going to give up?
What ones am I going to fight for?
Because sometimes even if you get the minions, you give up too much health,
which is going to cost more loss later.
Yeah, and 19 deficit already.
This is that one, going to miss another melee.
There's one.
Should be this bad.
of three melee picked up. Yeah, FNB is struggling in that top lane to pick up any amount of CS.
Yeah, it definitely shouldn't be going that bad. I mean, it's going really, really bad
for FNB. I think that is one of the things where if you're not comfortable in a matchup
and you make a mistake, you start taking too much damage, and if you're not actually
ever trading back, then it's actually never going to have to get very scared, as I think.
Yeah, who he just walks up to mid lane. We've seen Nami's do this a lot actually
this year, where you just come in for one little quick roam, throw out a W, heal
up your mid laner and get some poke on the enemy.
I got scared because that's not cursed.
The early game goat.
Well we did learn, I don't know how much you were listening to me and Kobe, that curse
is less of a...
I'm always listening.
You're always listening?
I'm always.
Not listening.
I'm not watching though because I'm not creepy like that.
Just listening.
Curse is arguably less intimidating than doom, right?
Wouldn't you rather be cursed than doomed?
Depends what the curse is.
But a curse implies you can uncurse it, right?
I don't know if it's an undisappelable curse that dooms your entire bloodline to poverty and famine
Find a higher level wizard down and all. Just find somebody to help you. Erklarek?
Try to think what would class uncurses.
I feel like doom sounds more fine-a, you know, so maybe it's like, at least if you're doomed it's over quick.
Like the C9 series.
C9 was, they were doomed.
They were doomed.
True.
But they didn't have to suffer because they weren't cursed.
Yeah.
Also, Hombog right now flashing away from curse.
as the flash follow up from Liz and Zhao.
Now Frosty roaming up here as well.
Darkwing's pretty low on mana here,
but they find big damage on the curse.
He's got Kaze over the wall, still alive for right now.
He just assaults to keep Humbot safe,
and his first blood to Humbot, plus impact,
walking all the way down.
Slicing maelstrom, flash from Darkwing's couple autos.
The shield on Kaze will not keep him alive.
That's two on the board for Sentinel.
Damn, that was a super good roam from impact, actually.
That was really, really, really good.
He did not TP there, he walked there,
knowing that the fight could be breaking out.
So yeah, you relieve a little bit of pressure for FNB,
but this is not a matchup where you just keep bullying
the sideline for the whole game, right?
It's a matchup where you bully early,
you get your items, and then you're transferring that
into a team fight anyway, so I love this from Impact.
He holds the TP, walks to the fight,
gets a good ulti down, they win that fight,
they're now 2.3k up, and he TP's back top,
still up 17 CS, so this is a sick game from Impact.
After the last one he was getting picked on a little bit early was kind of in some bad spots
Honestly and died a few times when he shouldn't have this is a brilliant start
I think you heard you talking smack about not taking ignite. He's like now. Let me show you
Get another look at that. Yeah, you walk from base now like they can tell
We have a support to jungle here contest exactly because they weren't doomed
They were only cursed true
But that was a really good against all from obok
You know that a long time and waited until the walk came over the wall if you just waste that early
I think it's a very very different fight the timing was great
Sentinels not only the impact room really fast for their bollying room really really fast
So a well played by Sentinels. They will lose the dragon, but not a big deal
I'm boxing the top jungle just taking away a red buff might be able to look for more
But at least it's above for the dragon. Yeah, as it's also a gold leaf for Sentinels
This is the first early game that they've won FNB is gonna check it. We'll see
but will not be able to stop I don't know he has no flash I would be ulting
out of there if I was on but yeah now he's in trouble had to leave his wall
back up from dark wings still ages this old youth public execution to lock him
down ages this old absorbs all the damage it is a trade of kills one for
one as the junglers go down impact flashing forward with the slice email
shrub and frosty will fall that is two for one trade in favor of sentinels
okay okay nicely done you know I definitely thought the humbug was
going to get into a too bad of a spot. I thought he was just going to walk into the
brush and just ult out because he had no flash or was no blast cone and you see
that Kaze's moving but they were confident that they would win the
fight and at the end of the day it goes pretty well for them and Rahel here has
push on bot side so he's farming plates Darkwing's is doing really really well
picked up a null so Kaze at this point is pretty far behind he's already
down 1k. You know why he didn't ult out he's playing Pantheon the aspect
He's here to fight man, he's got the back of a Darkwing, who he was already running up the whole time.
Yep, they were still in this 4v3 initially, but again Humbox buys a lot of time and then Impact arrives and this is when Red realized, alright, time to run.
The early Kennen ults have been fantastic impact, I think really making a big difference in this one.
Insane difference, he doesn't have a kill yet, but both of the times he's shown up, both of the times he's pressed R, it has been fight winning, play defining.
And he's still smashing the CS in this top lane because that was FNB leaving a full wave that got shoved under turret to kind of wrap around and help out Curse more of that play.
So he got gigaponished. Curse is still getting punished here as Hanbok is invading, taking another buff away that's red into blue buff steals.
That is pretty rough. When you are playing LeBlanc from behind, it is very, very difficult.
You also have to be so careful about how you're playing the Blanc in a game like this because there is so much cc for you
When you just store forward if darkly sees you coming it just throws down the unraveled earth
You're just sorting into that you're getting stunned and there's point and click cc obviously from the pantheon
There's the a we stun coming through from Kenan. There's tidal wave. There's bubble. There's all of these things
You're bubby. You're not me bubble
Editing bot lane stuff going down you're like I always call my not me bubby
You can't support like Cubby.
I don't think he does that well to support him though.
That's why he's the Bubbie.
Yeah.
Oh, true.
Yeah.
That's the sport.
I feel so much better about this series.
I don't know if it's noticeable for the people at home but I feel like the spirits
are a little higher right now.
I feel so much better about this series, I don't know if it's noticeable for the people
at home, but I feel like your spirits are a little higher right now.
Getting absolutely pounded versus winning a game?
That's not the type of ball I do it I like easily.
But it is unfortunately the type of ball you usually end up with.
Yeah, we're just going to leave that one there.
Don't go too far.
go to a part of your personal life.
Yeah, I don't even get to talk it to.
I think we get away with some stuff earlier in game one, you know.
Our manager hasn't informed us that she is listening to the cast.
Yes, yes, I have heard.
I have heard.
Impact right now has now received the word that he is not alone in the top lane.
As the public exchange will come out, it's like a nail strip for the stud.
I mean, those under turret will secure the kill.
Good kill there.
Nicely getting from Curse.
Impact does just get burst down.
So not really able to escape and dark wings will have to go up towards top side
Just try to protect the tower and that's two kills now for f&b
So it's like the fact that impacted really really well in the 1v1 that roam where yeah f&b lost some CS
But he was the only picked up the kill on humbuck I believe now he gets another kill there
So he's in a great spot now for that 1v1 Eclipse is done
And and best says pretty much as a totally different champion once once Eclipse is done
It becomes really really hard to trade with but in fact still doing well
It's down in CS, but the two kills mean FnB.
He's the only member that surprisingly has a tiny gold.
It's 67 gold.
He's going to go away in a minute.
But he is the only one that has one right now.
His Darkwing is kind of the biggest lead force
Sentinel's here in their 2.5 team gold.
Yep, looking good.
Rahel, just continuing to push up here.
It's going to be on the triforce soon,
and that's when they are going to be really, really strong.
Mandate's been done for Hoohy.
So that's when you can really start to kind of flex
on the Corky.
Once you have that item done, you get the E from the Nami and just kind of walk forward and start trading with people
and trying to basically dare them to engage on you because there's not very good snap and gauge whatsoever on red.
Kaze just towards forward and all chump back away with the ultimate, but takes a good chunk of damage right there as dragon has just spawned.
So red, they have their bot lane shoving in on them, their mid laner just got chunked.
It seems like a good time for Senna to start up, Dreg.
Yep, I think this should be pretty free, honestly.
The Curse still doesn't have Crescent Guard, Kaze just got chunced.
I would be pretty surprised, I mean maybe if Sentinel's over steps and they can get a pick
then they'd go for it, but otherwise I think there's, you have no business going over there
at all.
FMB also has no alt even if you want a TP in, so should be a freebie.
And it is going to be Hextech, which is really, really nice.
I think that Red is probably going to be happy at least that it's not Mountain Soul
because that one is pretty terrifying when you are playing these sort of aggressive
dive comps.
Yeah, LeBlanc, if you, Mountain Soul sounds like a nightmare, you're just never
We're gonna kill anybody right now and Kaze has yet to really find a big play like that level one was cute using the chains like both a flash
Both a heal, but we haven't really seen much else out of the block since then. Yeah
I mean maybe there was more of a knock-on effect than I expected
You know I kind of obviously when you level change the one and you start down ball and you use your ignite
You're gonna be seeing the first couple levels
Yeah, and so that brings just use that to get pushed and then took a really early base for tier and once you're on tier
It becomes very hard as FMB
I see Melstrom from impact onto FNB in the 1v1, but here comes the grand starfall from Humbog.
FNB has public execution, won't even use it.
This accepts his fate and that's another kill to Sandbox.
I think that's a good call. Just hold on to the ulti. Probably you're gonna be dead regardless of what happens.
I mean, you did get impact low, so maybe there's a slight argument for it, but I think you'd use all those other spells,
so I think it's very unlikely they would have died with Uhi there, any of them are healed, so...
I think probably smart. Hold on to that and then maybe Kirst can get a Regank and you try to get a kill that way with your ulti.
ulti. But I love that we're seeing now Hanbok transition, this Lidiaz in the jungle into
global plays with that semi-global ultimate. The Grants are full, like you're basically
ganking from your own jungle. It's really hard to spot it out. It's not like a traditional
gank where a jungler, oh, you just drop your wards down and you see them coming in. The
moment that Impact presses R, you're already in trouble. It's Hoohi now in some trouble
and wow, that was a lot of damage. Kaz, they're doing the burst, but Frosty actually
getting the kill. Well, turns out no matter how behind the little Blanc is, you can
still killing Nami. Nami's good for one. She's got your back. I feel like Nami and Zyra are
two of those champions that you're just like, you're always good for a death or two. Yep,
no shields. Yeah, if you're playing an assassin, just go hunt the fish. Hunt the fish. Yeah,
and now you're playing Pyke over here. I think Blanc's a good, good like, chef.
Is that where somebody cooks fish? I guess it'd be a cook, right? Is there a special
name for people who cook fish? Like sushi chef? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There we go. We gotta
get us a Leblanc skin for that. Yeah. They're always going for a Kali, I think, right? I
think so, yeah. They have the whole chef skin line. I play Baker Pantheon personally.
It's my favorite. But still thinking to kill Kredit, which is pretty unfortunate. You
want the gold onto the Leblanc. I mean, it's nice that they got the pig, but still
we're waiting for Kaze to pick up that first kill. Now has an item completed and
at least does have two stacks on the dark steel, so getting some stacks there.
Pretty relevant for sure at this point, Darkwing could be in trouble.
And, it's not cool. Team around flashes back to safety, Rebello's going in, gets knocked up
by the time when his mom on jump straight onto the curse. Again, they used to
sold to buy space for him and the rest of the team to come in, Rebello over the wall.
Red are trying to escape out of there, and it seems like they will be able to make it out.
They're nicely done, they're going to be able to get out, and that's a flash off Darkwing.
So even though it looks like Sentinels are winning the fight at the end of the day,
They have to get more so they want to keep pushing try to form some place here
They'll at least be able to get probably two plates and curse they get is based off a couple times another rocket for
Well, oh impact is behind FnB. Just peepied bot. They're gonna look for a fight
Slicing nostrum immediately on to the Mbessa flash of the available flash of the wall impact flash
Follow lands the lightning shuriken as rest of Sentinels now spring the crowd
They were not ready to actually collapse in time impact still chasing it down
I'm gonna have the Lulu Shields are capable of a Rebello.
No longer has the Lulu behind him,
so Reheal finds a window.
You got Rebello, but we got Rehello.
Get the Rehello out of here.
We're trying new material over here, man.
You know, trying being the operative word.
It's a half-trust act in my book.
You know, it's better than my average.
Yeah, as I forget to shove in the bot wave.
Oh, hey, I mean, we see how much time Frosty's trying to spend keeping the team alive and you can't be everywhere at once.
I like the Sentinels are keeping the fresh rod almost getting that bot turret, not quite.
Yeah, I feel like if I'm impacted on that TP, I mean, I kind of want to see it again if we watch the replay to watch what his team is doing.
Because it does feel like Sentinels were not really responding.
They were kind of just skirmishing mid.
Impact had had SMB running all the way across the map you were mid lane and no one can move like no one can move
It's kind of off. I thought that would be a freebie. You know the impact can't kill him. So are we gonna get a replay?
Oh, that's already after but we can see Rebella just step away too far forward
And everything lands from her health that was what two three rockets plus the phosphorus bomb that was beautiful
Good guy. Yeah. Well, I also said two three so I don't even know
Rahel doing massive damage, but now he is a game shot.
The Grand Star follows him, but Rahel's already down.
Trading right on back, because Hamas will pick one up.
Flash with the Q to get a double kill.
Straight onto Rabello, jumps over the wall with follow-up,
with the shield vault, and a triple to Hamak.
Hamak, good American boy right there.
That's what we like to see.
Representing American prize.
Let's go.
That's the LCS, baby.
That's the LCS right there.
Let's go home bar 5k. This was wraps. Yeah 5-1 on the pantheon
Humbock with that huge influx of gold right there and now another dragon to their name. I
Mean this again, I think needed for the morale of the LCS. Maybe we're calling it too soon
I don't want to curse them too much. I just appreciate that C9 lost so we can have more interregional matches
True that is very thoughtful of them thinking ahead knowing that sentinels were of course gonna win
Who wants to watch LCS versus LCS? We see that all the time.
So, C9 being the good Samaritans that they are,
viciously ran it down in their series to set up for more LCS,
makes the CD wall.
Yeah.
And this is also the first time we've won an early game,
because if we're being honest, I was still worried about that last game.
The game number one between Red and Sentinels was not going on right early,
but man, we've got to leave now and we're helping in the scene now.
Michael just got crazy Delta mean rush
No way they'll kill me no way in fact goes out. Oh, it's actually FNB
It's who we backing off impact to happen bees in a 1v2 situation
And it factors honors him down not a great day to be an ambassador. Let's go
Yeah, I mean he needs to be quick melee range of the same time like I don't even think Zed added to W
He just eat on him so I don't even think it was the second right. I think it was the first rock
Of course. Yeah, you got that mandate triple rocket. I just felt 3000 damage
Crazy my DPM is about to go crazy when Leo the stats guy tweets this out
He's already seen the tweet where hell 2000 DPM and victory over red
We have a sub plug in Leo though. He already got a thousand followers on
Really quick
A load of the top lane right now, this is what you want from the LeBlanc quick, fast plays, but Humbot gets in range, Huie as well,
so it's a shut down picked up, but it's traded as Curse will fall as well.
Humbot got a rampage and 11-5 on the support.
If Thurklings does die, but it thinks I'm long enough to kill him, that Sentinels respond, they have Herald,
Humbot's gonna be able to stop the base there from Kaze.
Humbot's just really feeling it right now.
Got Huie behind to keep him alive and the Herald will charge in, getting the third turret for Sentinels.
And look at how well it's just pushing mid.
So symbols have to be careful that they don't go too crazy.
FNB does have TP, so they could look for a TP play.
I mean, this is a risky Herald to crash in and not go wide.
And it's not before it lands.
That's flash out from impact.
And now Rebello pops the ultimate trade.
Sends himself flashing over the title wave.
Damage of a humbug.
Just hope we'll keep him alive for now.
No word into the tribe garage.
And the bubble wave has gone by.
The angles have made.
And they're eating good today.
That is such a tilt to you like I must get this shot now.
Oh, that would have been like a 1k or at least not in our goal.
So I don't have a fatty shot down for a bellow.
So not going to blame you going for that.
But yeah, you go in, you don't have vision
and you get stunned up into the bubble.
I mean, at this point in the game, it's so far out of control.
I got to respect Revello for looking for this.
It's impact that gives them the angle.
We'll get out of control.
So impact is like, you know what?
keep it interesting. Let's keep this 1500 HP arrow in the midst of their whole
team with my AD carry pushing mid lane. And Honbok on vision, smart play, no if you
try to just run away you're gonna get chased down eventually. So nice turn
there from Sentinels, they keep Honbok alive. You got to predict those
bounties because you do not want to give that 1k over to Rubello. And now
look at this gold lead, 7k was at the top it looks like right there. Now
drop back down to 6.3, but still gold advantage to Sentinels as the next dragon's up in a minute and a half
It's FnB, right on the wrong side of the Weaver's Wall, so will commit the Flash, no Flash on Abessa
if they want to contest this third dragon from Sentinels.
No Flash for him, no Flash on Rebello as well. I feel like it's pretty uncontestable to be honest
and we're already getting slammed in a game like this. I feel like you're just praying that you can scale and
they make mistakes later, so to me there's no way I'm leaving my base for anything less than Baron.
I think we're sold at this point, but we'll see if they decide to contest
I just think if you show up there's such a high chance of her bellow getting flashed on and just like flashed on
Seismic show of one shot. I think it is gonna be very very tough to avoid that. So I would be hiding in my base and
Brain you can form it up play sidelines and try to get some goals. How's it can get this top turret?
That feels pretty nice. I mean objective bounties
I believe are up right now so extra influx of gold into the LeBlanc
But it's time to start thinking about it because I feel like this game is so favorite for Settinels
Who would be your front runner for a player of the game here? I for me?
It's impact or humbox in fact had those insane high impacts plays
Roaming all the way from base the bot side TP to save his CS advantage still but
Humbox also had a hell of a game. Yeah humbox had an incredible game
I do think impact is a good shout because those first two roams
I think really were what kind of snow started the snowball in games like this are always interesting because it's always
You're kind of in one of two camps.
You're in the guy who got the person ahead
is the one who deserves it.
And I feel like Impact is kind of ironically
the one who got the jungler ahead,
or you're in the guy who did the most of the lead.
It's kind of like when you have a 10-0 AD carry,
but they got a game four times at the start of the game.
You give it to the AD carry,
or you give it to the jungler who got fed.
And also Impact did ride the Herald into that top turret.
So how much does that take away from his life?
He did try to kill Humbox.
He just couldn't succeed.
Yeah, he's like, how long is too far ahead?
He's going to win the game from me.
for the other team. So really that should count in his own action. Third dragon
security or percentiles now not even contested like red to your point they're
not even leaving their base they're just catching these waves as safely as they
can because it's so low chance of them actually winning a fight at this point.
But you do have to at least maintain some vision around Baron who he missed
that ward he didn't actually walk over it. So you have to get a little bit
clever with where you place your wards. Generally if you're really
behind you don't want to place your
awards in the Baron pit.
He's going to have to be right behind him.
He's doing a lot right now.
Slicy Mills tries to follow up.
Now Dark Wings with a Weavers wall.
Cut it off the retreat path.
Kazze flashes. Barely lives.
But Sentinels finds three.
Sentinels finds three.
And then they are just pushing on the base.
They're going to get at least an inhib here.
And even more gold.
They have TP on impact.
even more gold. I mean they have TP on impact. I think low odds that they actually pushed
for the end here. The dead timers are quite long enough. 20 seconds and they don't have
a big wave but they can at least break the face. They're TPing impact bot lane here
so they're going to shove in another wave and look to take two inhibitor turrets.
They're just getting so far ahead. I mean, you're already on the whole point. You're
AK up. You're pushing everywhere across the map here and it doesn't feel like Red
had an answer. I think they got a little bit antsy. You knew they weren't on Baron
So I just don't think that they need to be walking that far up
I think it's you one of these situations where we this far down you really have to
Wait until they are committed to Baron or committed to something where you can have even a chance
Obviously, it's always gonna be really really difficult because Sentinels are gonna see about vision and then you're trying to face check in to
Into a team where you don't even know where the Ken is right the Ken is doing outflank
so I just think red went a little bit too fast there and
Curse pays the price at the end of the day
You see how leading the damage shards right now early. Oh, that was just last fight damage, but still the Corky doing his job
And Darkwings was a rookie numbers, man. We got to pump those up
Yeah, wasn't as involved in that one. Yeah, you can see who he's even going pretty tanky here with this build
So just realizing, you know what? We're so far ahead the only way out loose is I'm just getting chain one shot
So is going towards a more tanky build and it's basically like all right
I don't want to get one shot by cause that's I'm one of the only people that are vulnerable at this point
Cause they only has to an app items completed and it's also going a little defensive here
Picking up the spell shield as opposed to just pure rod damage. So yeah
Which I honestly am never a fan of when you're behind when you're behind
I think you need to build pure damage and just hopefully you watch out someone. Yeah, you're not gonna win this sustained fight anyway, right?
So I get it though. There's so much point clicks you see that it's very very difficult
So he's like I need burden barrier to try to you know try to absorb something
But I feel like you have a better chance of just going death gap or whatever and trying to one shot someone and hopefully that works for you
But Sentinels not gonna wait for that. They are gonna be starting this up and they're gonna keep you out of me
And it's gonna be front to back with red approaching from the bottom of the river cause it jumps in we'll see dark wings right there
It's not the weaver's wall splice a maelstrom flash forward from infact as he's actually going into the stasis
He should be traded for FNB, one for one, but now in comes the Grand Starfall!
Hop on, gets out of the back line, that's two more kills picked up for Sentinels, with Rahel on leash,
and a double kill for the Corki!
Sentinels win a teamfight, and Sentinels are gonna poo on this series!
Let's go LCS back on top.
Back in the middle.
Back in the conversation.
Somewhere in competition.
They are still in the upper bracket.
We are.
The upper bracket at the top.
We've won 100% of the last series so far in America's Cup.
Sentinels have won 100% of their games in America's Cup.
As Kazze will try his best to clear the way,
but an ace for Sentinels and a much needed 2-0
for the morale of the LCS.
But a split on the day,
C.B. Law and LCS are tied in the America's Cup.
That's gonna make it exciting.
We're gonna keep getting LCS versus C.B. Law
and upper bracket, in the lower bracket.
Everything from here on out is gonna be best of five.
And hopefully everyone will get rested up
for their games tomorrow.
Because they're going to be coming right back to it.
But it does mean we're going to have red versus C9
in the lower bracket, while sentinels versus
Spirit in the upper bracket.
Perial looked really, really good.
So jet lag or not, excuses are not.
They played a great series.
And we'll see if sentinels can match up to that.
Because I think these are clearly the two teams that
are looking the best.
OK, I was watching the form there.
I'm not sure who didn't go in the right spot,
but they got into correct order eventually.
They took their bow.
Well done, son.
We start, tie a finish.
Tie a finish, exactly.
It's about that photo finish.
And what a photo finish right there.
And finally, we won an early game as well.
I think that's the coolest thing to focus on,
because that was three early loss in a row,
even though we won first game in this series.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
A great early game this time.
So much credit deserved, I think, by impact for his plays
early on.
I think that Rome was super, super smart.
He had a good timer.
He had already pushed in the way,
so he wasn't going to lose too much.
Walks down towards that bot side fight,
helps the Hanbok ahead.
But to me, I do think Hombok was the standout in this one, I think overall, you know, he played really, really well with an advantage, was able to slam that home.
And I think it's pretty impressive from him, and definitely a needed win.
Oh, line with you. Hombok, as the player of the game for me as well, he just was able to use that lead. Yes, it was in fact helping give them that.
But Hombok just survived in so many tight scenarios, like holding his ground and not ulting out when he went for the invade.
They gave him that first dragon, but he gets the buff and then still survives because he knows his team is coming to follow up.
And then they get an even bigger lead again because impact runs down for that one too.
But it's still humbug using that lead that he gets early and then transition
into a monster jungle performer.
And I just felt like his his age is soul timing.
His e-timing was so good on Pantheon and pretty much every single fight.
Like he was always holding it for the right moment.
Like he was holding it so long in fights, not just panic pressing it early on
when he's getting hit.
He's actually saving it for the key abilities for the long burst or whatever
is actually that big threat that's going to come in.
So it's a pretty big difference maker.
He played really, really well.
and it's just nice to see Sentinels performing.
Yeah, I mean, if you'd asked me before...
Okay, actually I'm gonna get back to that point later
because I'm hearing that we're ready
for an interview actually with Darkwing.
So let's start with Darkwing's after their win
and a much-needed win for LCS morale.
Darkwing's, Isaac, you did it!
Congratulations!
You're representing for the Olympics everywhere.
Absolutely, rounded by Isaac's right now.
Yeah, exactly.
All right, Darkwing's, how are you feeling
after that win, after that 2-0?
So did it go according to plan for the team?
Yeah, I feel pretty good.
I think overall, yeah, it was according to plan.
I thought that we should win.
And I think we performed overall OK above average today.
How has the travel been for you guys?
And were you surprised at all that C9 got kind of smacked
around by Freeria?
I'm not sure if you saw it, seriously.
Yeah, I was watching a bit.
I think both us and C9 had like a similar travel schedule, so it was like pretty bad.
I think I slept a total of like four hours on the flight and then I mean, we were just
traveling for the entire day, but yeah, I slept 12 hours last night, so it was good.
Are you enjoying being in the Brazilian crowd because I know when we were there last year
for LTA, the fans are pretty insane.
Yeah, I think Brazilian definitely, the fans, they have a lot of hype, especially
when the Brazilian teams are doing well, overall it's pretty fun.
Now this has got to be a newer experience for you.
How are you just enjoying being at an international event and getting this experience?
Because I think that's something that we haven't talked about too much on R&B, I want to hear
your thoughts on like this overlap with North American and the South American CBLOL and
LCS teams kind of giving this chance to have this little tournament.
I really enjoy just playing against new opponents, because we haven't played them before.
I think that in itself is pretty fun. The only problem is, I feel like sometimes the setup's a bit different, so I have to get used to that.
I'm really just getting comfortable with the LCS setup, not to get comfortable with a different one. That's true.
Well, it's awesome to see you grow as a player, and I gotta say, now that you've won 2-0, give the people at home some hope.
How are you feeling about your matchup with Furia, which is going to be your next opponent?
I think Furia looked pretty good, but I do think if we keep bringing our game, we're going to still win.
Love to hear it. Well, thanks a lot, man. Congratulations and have a fun time.
Thank you.
Thank you, Isaac. And Isaac.
No problem.
That interview. Fantastic.
All right. Well, what a day. That was awesome.
That was awesome.
Do you want to take a look at any of those players
from that last game?
I mean, we could look at that one roam from Impact
and kind of talk a little bit about that,
because I do think that was pretty cool.
Yeah, so while Isaac's, I don't know why I keep calling you Isaac
now, while Zayle is going to go set that up,
a reminder that this was counter to the expectation,
because I also agreed.
I would have loved to see the ignite on the cannon.
I love the double combat summoners.
But this is going to be an instance showing
the pros of not taking the ignite as the summoner spell
and instead the TP, because you are
able to find earlier windows like this.
You don't have your TP available until you complete your top lane quest otherwise.
So Impact is able to actually make this happen because he doesn't take that combat some.
Yeah, exactly.
So Impact, this is right after he's based.
You can see the wave is at FMB's turret, so he's already pushed that in.
FMB has no TP.
He's just gotten back to that wave, just TP'd back to lane.
So Impact basically knows he has a bit of a timing.
This is the wave that he needs to be back to actually catch once he gets to his tower,
so he has a bit of time.
The fight is already breaking out a little bit here.
We can see Hombak is here, we can see Kaze is moving.
This is all information that they do have.
We know that the bot lane from red is missing.
So Impact makes a read that, okay,
there's gonna be a fight here.
It's gonna be at least worth moving.
And hey, even if I move, I'm not gonna miss much, right?
Because I have my teleport, I can always,
if this fight doesn't break out,
I can always look to just keep me back towards top.
So Sentinels now know bot lane is gonna be moving.
They've seen Rebello getting zoned off.
So now we have the inside track for bot lane.
We know we have our top laner coming
and enemy top laner cannot join.
So basically it's just up to Sentinels to just buy time.
So Honbak here, this is what I'm talking about,
you know, with saving his abilities,
he gets the Aegis Assault off right as he's polymorphed.
So notice he's blocking this during the CC.
He blocks that during the Lulu polymorph.
All of this damage coming in from Kaze
does absolutely nothing.
Impact now is arriving right here.
Get six right off the level up.
Exactly get six off of the kill there from the experience on curse
We're Helen who he are already on the room. So this is just great comms great communication really really well played by sentinels
And meanwhile look the wave is just now getting to his tower. He hasn't lost anything yet
So he starts the TP. He's gonna lose a minion honestly who cares that doesn't matter at all
He's gonna lose a play probably or at least almost lose a play
But like that is just really really well played from impact good communication from sentinels
Great E from Hombok, which I do think made a big difference there.
If he gets Pond more before he gets the E off, that is completely different.
Maybe he just dies and Impact arrives too late, and Cursed doesn't die, doesn't get 6, etc.
But this is just nice stuff from Impact, really, really heads up play to make that roam,
and I think he's deserving of a lot of credit for it.
Yeah, I think this was like the Impact's full play here, and I think it's crazy.
Impact was level 5 at the start that he hits level 6, getting the proximity of the kill
for that little tick of experience,
and then is able to just immediately level up
slicing maelstrom right there.
So, well played from impact,
I'm so happy to give Hombok player of the game though.
But just like game number one,
so the surprise with me and Kobe when we noticed
is that they were speaking in English during the comms.
And I believe that we have a comms
listening in for this game as well.
So I want to listen in on that
to see if that's a trend going forward
because maybe we're wrong about this whole
Korean translate to English thing.
It seems like the team is on the same page.
Let's take a listen in.
Okay, we're trying to fight here.
I'm coming.
Five seconds.
Yeah, slow, slow, slow.
We're coming.
Zindo flash, Zindo flash.
Yeah, I'm coming, I'm coming.
We can fight, we can fight.
Just come in, just come in.
Don't die, don't die.
All English speaking.
I'm taking, taking, taking, taking.
Rubam, rubam, rubam.
This is cool.
I mean, it's nice to see because it was, it was like not like a false narrative
within the last couple of weeks.
We can see how a lot of comms are going in, where it's all Korean.
So, it is cool, obviously you can see that that is going to help Zarkom so much.
I have, I have, I have, I have.
I'm still a lot of the base players. I'm going in, going in, you know.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
But still, I mean, it can help out greatly how you're making it on the same page.
Absolutely. I mean, it's a well-played series from Sentinels.
Game 1, a little bit more sketchy in the early game,
but I feel like even with that in the early game,
they played the map way better.
Who, he felt like he was everywhere.
They controlled vision, that allowed them to get picks,
that allowed them to come back and win that game.
And then Game 2 was kind of a bit of a smackdown.
They played really, really well.
really, really well, somewhat reminiscent of the C9 series from the other side, where
Fury played really, really well.
So both teams showcasing some pretty dominant performances, and it does get me excited for
the upcoming matches.
Yeah, I'm very excited for the upcoming matches.
Wow, that's a lot of damage from impact, though.
I did not expect to see the cannon actually in the middle.
Versus melee top lane, baby.
Ah, sure.
He just farm in the stats.
So, wow, this Vayne top really owned.
He's leaning against the sign.
He autoed me twice.
16,000 damage.
Okay.
It's not bad extreme here, it's gonna do it best.
You gotta play it well still.
But let's take a look at MVP,
because we were talking about like,
is it gonna be Impact, is it gonna be Honbok?
Let's take a look who wins MVP, and there we go.
Honbok in the jungle, 10-5, 18 KDA, 80% KP.
That's what you want out of your jungler.
Yeah, playing really well, farming really well.
I do think Honbok has an exceptional early game.
In the LCS to me, he's one of the best early game junglers.
I think sometimes where he falls flat is,
you know mid game, late game, decision making,
He's a really high-risk, high-reward player.
But I felt like he really kind of wrote that line very,
very well in this series and played it well,
played it aggressive without going crazy,
and just mechanically exceeded it really well
in all of the fights.
His timing on the E was sick on the loop,
all the morphous wells and a lot of these skirmishes.
So credit to Humbuck.
He is going to be a win in it.
But you highlighted already, Azale.
We got CBLOL versus LCS for both the upper bracket
and the lower bracket festive fives.
reminder that tomorrow we're going to lower bracket. It's C9 key. I think one
extra day to get that jet lag out of their brains.
Maybe do the upper bracket first. No, no, we're doing lower. No, we're doing it.
Cloud9 key versus red canons. Colunga. Do we get Colunga again?
I'll never predict against our boys. We're going to do it. We're going to have 3-0.
Are you willing to say it? We're going to 4-0.
4-0.
We're going to find a way to play one more.
We're gonna have we're gonna have a chrono break. They'll beat them twice
Like for a break, you know, they were right before but it's like clearly they're gonna win
But because of the disgusting bias, you know, they have to go on break it and then we just win again
Well, I don't know if I'm actually down for that. I feel like that's it's kind of fun as long as we win the next game
Yeah, exactly. It's also for a break and first the three four zero. That's my prediction
All right. Well, that's gonna be it from us here today reminder tomorrow C9
take on red cannons will we get
cologne good two years in a row we'll
find out together and we'll see you
there
this next couple weeks we got Kobe in here
he's right around yeah we got club I
believe
yeah all right we're gonna be the energy
I don't think anyone heard or saw him
no I heard it I heard it that was awesome
yeah you gotta match a Brazilian crowd
energy Kobe
C9 defending their own jungle here, catching up Tatsu, going for the in-bane,
he's going for the pressure, and he's down to all the APA damage!
Tatsu actually survives it, and the rest of the viewers coming in behind,
holding over the wall with Sven, getting damaged, and Plot 4 from APA will pick up one trade kill.
The will die for the effort, and Unreach Power not enough to kill Sven,
but there goes the AD carry IU.
Ice, Stasis there from APA, but he's going to be dropped up immediately out of it,
and he's going to be knocked down by Gigo, and look at the backline, it's IU!
Looking to put the last breath of Cloud9, trying to take down Blaber now on the side.
Dantos is fighting Sven, he's trying to do what he can, but it just doesn't even matter.
Furia are gonna crush Cloud9 back to back games, an easy 2-0.
Don't forget bro
Lola
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Come on go get it
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Derrick drops the Weavers Wall
Slides the Maelstrom
Flash for him
Impact
As he's actually going into the stasis
He should be traded for FNB
One for one
but now in comes the grand
STORM FALL
HOMFUCK
gets out of the back line that's two more kills picked up for sentinels with
Rahel on leash and a double kill to the corky sentinels when a team fight at
sentinels are gonna throw this series
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