Show me that you are so the only one that matters for me
I'll be playing for you
Wait up, I'll bend your hands, hold on tight
Take a part, look inside you
Can you feel it, the sparks in you
I need a hotly shed of makeup
I'll make you cry, crazy
This is smashing through time
We are rivals to the end, and the price and perfection lines hold us in a power still that stands above us.
We are rivals to the end, and the price and perfection lines hold us in a power still that stands above us.
Across the world, I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
When sun and moon and time wander
The better ways that tend to be were cramped
I had a solid shadow swimming in edgars
That I was compelled to seek you out
The arms that no one else could union break
The chains tied your way come by me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me, I'll be waiting for you!
We've got an adventure from this crazy, this endless machine, those are rules!
Before the risk, I search on the head, the answer will still be endless!
I've got a knife on my toe, my dear powers, no!
We will dance about, we will drive to the end of time
We will blush, we will wear, we will bite
Wasting our cross time, we will dance
We will learn my destiny to the end
Your heart is mine
Light has fallen
Floorless world
Time
Yet we went for our destiny
And they
New day's wrapping for the past
The future
Trace the same league
No one is fighting with me
And when you break down
I find your price
Raising up your business
Smashing those sorrows
From the risks that search on death
The unbearable sins
These ends rise up
I think I'm on a tour
Show me that you're the worst, the only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for you
Wait up, open your hands, hold the water
Do your heart look inside you?
Can you feel it, the smacks in your throat?
Adding up, I'm a shitter
Wait up, I'm a true fraud, crazy
This is smashing through the tunnels
Before the rain splinters you
We are rivals to the end
And the high sand has hanged on my toes
Until power is still in service
We are rivals to the end
And the sand
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
Like the sun and moon and I wonder
If ever there was a time that we were friends
And I had a solid and shadow-small man in my knees
That's how I've been from here to see you out
We are standing up for our last reunion
Breakfast is mine to wait on the baby
Do you remember who you were really?
I mean it's yours to be on me when for me I'll be waiting for you
We can't imagine frost freezing up with this thin smash
In the sun and colds before the winds turn to the end
The other side will still be the right path
Imagine my tolerance and power is now against our backs
We arrived at sea at the end of time
We were flashed, you're not aware
We were fights, missing across the space
And you were right to donate to the end
See the dawn, the flame burning brightly
Shining one nose, then the reason yet
Across all time I see you turn in the sides
And do you see now?
Our time, our time, we can still fight
Our feelings in front, but there's no more
Then now is the only time your heart is mine
Light has fallen, darkness has broken
Yes, we fight for our destiny and fate
New day is smiling for the past, but fear of shame
Break the chains, leave the light, fight with me
And when you wake up, I find your eyes raising up with the sense that shit turns wild
Before the risk turns again, your levels are clear
And I'm not going to try much, hold on to your promise now
There's a lot, we're rivals again until the end of time
🎵
🎵
🎵 Show me that you're so the only one that matters for me 🎵
🎵 I'll be waiting for you 🎵
🎵 Wait no no no no no 🎵
🎵 I'll pick your hands holding on me 🎵
🎵 Till you're back looking like you 🎵
When you feel it, it smacks in your nose
And even if I lose you, it's taken
One night you'll rise, reason of distance
Smashing through time walls
Before the rip, when tears get in
We are rivals to the end
Let our eyes end
But when we turn our minds
Hold onto your powers
No one can stop us
We are rivals to the end
We were friends
Tonight has fallen
Shadow is blooming in years
That's a husband for me to secure
We are sent over a luxury union
Break the chains, hide your way
Come fight me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
Only waiting for you
We can't ever be just friends
We've been since smashed in two circles
All the risks and terms like that
The obstacles in the end might end
When they don't mind, hold on to your powers now
It can't stop us
We arrive till the end of time
We will clash, you're not aware
We will fight, missing across the end
There is one new world of mine
There's an end to the end
You see the dawn flame burning rightly Shining on us and the reason yes
Across all time I see you turning the sides And you see now I'm sorry, I'm sorry we can't still fight
After wings in fire and when you're gone alive Then now is the only time your heart is mine
Light has fallen, darkness prolonged
Can't wait for a new destiny and fame
New days finally come, the first and future
Break the chains, leave the way, fight with me
And when you will begin, I'll find your price
Reason, a complete sense, smash children's sorrows
Before the risk, my terms are dead
See our time will soon be end
Rise and I'll make your minds
Hold on to the power spell, and shout us
We ain't rivals again until the end of time
Show me that you were still the only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for you
Wait up, open your hands, hold your mouth
Do you have a heart looking for you?
Can you feel it? The sparks in your room
Wait up, I'm losing you
Hey, can I have one more drink?
Why is it raising up?
Because it's smashing through a tunnel
For the rest of my days yet again
We are rivals to the end
I remember the dust, the light, being tightly chopping all those lighting souls, buddy, yeah.
Across the world I see you standing in my way
And remember the time, the place we used to fight
When the sun and moon and time wonder
The black and the white is the time that we were friends
And I'm the starliest shadow of snowman and yes
That's how it has gone from missing you out
Your works and our world are free again
Break the chains, find your way, come find me
Do you remember who you really are?
Tell me that you are still the only one for me.
I'll wait for you.
Play it again.
I've been jump-riding for years.
This has flashed in the circles.
Before the risk enters again.
We are never still even one.
I've been in your mind.
Hold onto your powers now.
Dance of us.
To the end of time
In a bush, right away
Oh, a bite, missing across the high space
Oh, it's you and I
To the end, to the end
You see the dawn, the flames burning brightly
Shining on those memories, and yes, across that time I see you turning that side
And do you see now? Our time, our time, we can still fight like the winds in front
One more, and now it's the only time your heart is mine
Light has fallen, darkness won't die, as we wait for our last immediate day
New days falling for the past, the future, strange machines laying in the way
And when you wake up, I'll find your cross
Freezing up your distance, smash in the sun
No, it's for the risks, but first I get
The unravels in the end, right there
I'll make your mind whole, I'll keep focused now
That's how it works, we are right for something
Until the end of time
I look inside you
Can you feel it?
The sparks in you
They don't unleash it
They don't get up
Or make you cry
It's crazy
The distance matching through time
Was
For the rich
My tears yet again
We are rivals to the end
They rise then
But then you're mine
Hold on to your power
It's the all I've been
Stop us
We are rivals to the end
I remember the dust, the lights gripping tightly
Chopping all those hiding souls, buddy
And across the world I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
Place on end, moon and time wonder
That way there was a time when we were friends
And I had a spot in each shadow, so I made an entrance
That time has come for me to see you out
New York's I know for a last reunion
Break the chains, sign your way, come find me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
Only waiting for you
Blinking out, a branch of ground is freezing
I'm trying to help but suffering the darkness let's hop back up under their nose us against
the world
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Welcome back to the best region of Marvel Rivals Ignite, we've proved it twice and we're
going to prove it again we're on day number three of our preseason group stage aside who will move
onto the playoffs to compete for that prize money and of course for that seeding i am your host once
again tetra and i am once again joined by the incredible got boxy and ryan central i hope you've
all had a good rest after yesterday's very stressful games and i hope you're ready for another
amazing day of games today to start with boxy what are you looking forward to expect i mean it's
It's going to be stressful for some of these teams, crying for, especially because they
are yet to find a win, also finding themselves in similar waters.
So looking forward to seeing how they're going to be able to adapt and improve going into
today's games.
And Ryan, we do not just have competition near the bottom of some of these tables.
We also have a little bit of competition at the top.
Team Heretics coming back in as our Shikigami, all looking to try and freeze themselves up
in that group, hey?
Yeah, Navi wanted to see if they can continue that front of form too,
as Virtus.Pro get a break today, so we're not going to be seeing the World Championship in action.
But you're right, like, Shikigami wanted to bounce back after they lost yesterday against NAVI,
and Team Heretics did have to break yesterday.
I do wonder still if Enzo showed up, but it's like a good game today
to keep making sure that they're building upon what this new team is trying to set up.
But we have so many games to cover for you.
We can talk a little bit about what happened over the last couple days as well after we have continued to bring you all the
Incredible stuff that our devs have been working on for this wonderful game starting off with the new skin for cloak and dagger
Add another one onto the absolute bagger list as we have the cloak and dagger skin of the dangerous duo
They just never walked alone. This skin was first seen in the Marvel Rivals
you can see them. You can just
go ahead and see what could be
new hints for skins in the future,
but you can also jump into game
and gather this now or the dark
force could be disquieting. It's
always easier if you're not a lot.
Not just reading. You can also
listen as a flight mode world
tour volume to kicks off. Not
only do we have a Luna Snow
snow new central song. We also have an all new miniature pass that you can get your hands
on. The funk does not stop and you can grab memos, see a samba costume for free, and pick
up your own rewards as well if you so choose, or you can upgrade to premium unlocking all
access permanently and grabbing up starlod's groovy guardian and magic's infernal idol
dots available in the game right now. If you open it, you'll be able to get groovy and
take centre stage.
Yeah, it's not only the start of the season for Marvel Rivals Ignite, it seems to be the
start of the season for ESU Blue 22 or Red, White and Blue 22, I suppose, from Brett Hendrick.
It's a great skin, again, we think the Enzo, sorry, not Enzo.
He can if he wants, but I was thinking about Polly's in a prime position to be picking
it up as well as the team of Pizzerdel, Temple Vanguard, Jersey 2, but it really feels like
If you feel that Captain America is worth a punt in this meta,
and yeah, I think this is probably a good skin to be wearing.
Small round of applause there for those American football references.
But coming out of that, we are starting to look a little bit
behind before we jump into what's ahead.
So far, we have a couple of teams that are starting to push ahead
in the Dragons' Virtus.Pro, Sivig and Unexpected 2-0,
as are of course, Nabi.
But there's a couple other teams who are currently still undefeated, and we'll see at least a few of them in action today.
I've been, it's just the race for the top, isn't it?
I feel like the group B, as we've talked about, Virtus.Pro is just going to be the solid lead.
Group A though, it's still all to play for.
Like, we have the Heretics versus Navi match next week, which is going to be an absolute insane banger,
as we can have a look at the overall schedule and see that this is the group stages,
and we'll continue to be the group stages all the way up until April 5th before we kick off the playoffs on April 16th.
Yes, so four more days of action and it's going to be the other members of the ME80 can talk to explain.
So we have this final day of week one and then a break in between the playoffs.
But I will add that whilst there is a little bit of a gap between group-studied playoffs,
the other regions are going to be playing on the specifics going to be starting,
the counting is going to be starting at that point.
So I don't think there is a week or weekend at all.
It's not good to have some ignite action for the preseason. But as a reminder, what are these teams playing for?
Well, it's 50,000 USD for the prize pool for the squad. They're playing for basically set themselves up to the
Substitutes stage one with the best seeding in that event, but also bragging rights. There's a lot of new squads here
Big invites and also part of the teams now with the likes of heretics
Don't want to make sure that the roster that they've put together is as good as it can be and frankly in this
And I imagine there's gonna be a couple of shifts before me
like Ryan says the action does not stop and we're gonna have so much more of it
to a day. Navi sitting at 2-0 in the top of their group and they will be in
action later today in our final series of the day versus team Pets but one of the
teams we are very curious about we've talked about it before currently team
heretics sit at 1 and 0 and they play first today versus Pulsar they could
would put some distance in between themselves and Shikigami, which would be huge for their
placement in this group.
Yeah, I'm in for Paul's though.
Win would be huge as they need one right now, right?
You do not want to be winless at the bottom of your group when only the top four of each
of these groups will be able to proceed into those playoffs.
Granted, they'll still be able to play into stage one.
You don't get knocked out of contention for that at least, but yeah, it would be a very
feels bad to open up your preseason and not be able to make it to the next stage of this
tournament side at least.
I think it is fair too. I feel like there's some responses that need to come in from the
likes of reason. They play it again later on today, but they have got the rough opponent
of like FireRed also had their introduction yesterday and it was lacking. Very much lacking
with the draft and how they set themselves up against Rad. So a game against Rieson is
great way for them to get on the board, but reason gaming are hoping to improve on their
performance against Virtus.Pro yesterday. Both the teams who have yet to lose a match are not
playing today, Virtus.Pro and Vision both get a little bit of time off, which means it's a battle
to see who can try and escape the clutches of those playoff elimination spots. You can see that all
of those other teams are playing RAD, gets to play against Cranthal, RAD have a point on their
board, but Cranthal looking to try and get one of their own, and you already mentioned it.
the team, but they're not
going to be able to win.
Fire straight versus reason
leave a team get on the board.
This could be a huge way to
just try and get into those
playoff spots. I mean, reason
looks stronger, though, in
comparison to their performance
on day one, as they were able
to field the full team.
Crowned full two are going to be
looking at that matchup against
rad, understanding how important
to be able to make it into
those playoff spots. So it
really is all to play for
quite a few of these teams
today. And we've talked a lot
about those battles at the
bottom and those battles at
the top, but one that we're all
very curious about is that
battle in the middle. We talked
about Shikigami. Heretics might
be able to make some space in
between them, but Shikigami won
their first series and then took
Navi to a game number three,
and they're not going to be up
against in our third game of
It's a fascinating matchup to see who takes a lead in that group and potentially move
Ulta back up the table and upset a couple of people's predictions.
But of course, we're starting off with Heretics looking to extend their lead or Pulsar trying
to get back into the game.
I think looking at Heretics is probably the team that's going to bode the most excitement.
Mostly because we saw a glimpse of them against Peps, Peps expected to maybe be missing out
on playoffs to most of our predictions at the very least.
So the heretics, that was a pretty much a must-going game for them, they did win it
out to zero, but the pace that they played certainly with this like new meta that's forming,
it was really rapid but it also almost felt that some of the like screws were starting
to unhinge at the pace that they were playing and so Enzo said himself like they still need
to adjust, get the official experience and see what the meta is going to give and then
they're going up against Bullsard that really are just scrambling to try and get a win, sure
they were able to pick up a map which was domination yesterday against Alta, but it was Celestial
Husk who called 950's teams to the plate. I'm also a little bit worried about Shababoo
because there was a lot more priority to get him than the dead of Alta because he is a
melee centric player. But one, it didn't work for two, I don't think heretics are going
to allow it anyway. They're quite happy to give up Gambit and Elsa in the draft, they
just want to get their hands on the dead of Vanga first.
Yeah, I mean, a heretics ban line traditionally has been instant banning the Elsa, followed
up by the ban on the Daredevil, so as you have the same fifth impulsory sports, I feel like
we're not going to be getting to see each other, you get to put the Daredevil, instead
he's probably going to have to flex on two things like the Wolverine, maybe the Iron
Fist, probably at some point I would assume he's going to make a play for the magic,
but I think you would go for those two doolists before picking her.
Will they dare to try it? Will this be a magical round for Pulsar? That's enough from me!
I'm gonna leave you with Gotboxy and Ryan Central as we head into map number one.
I'm very nervous for Pulsar. You don't want to be starting your first week in pre-season 0 and 3.
But also they have had some tough opponents able to pick some positive things,
but the ELSA being the first band team heretics protected the depot vanguard.
Imagine if also a sports are going to want to get rid of the gambit here to the team and then probably
Did the protect the gambit themselves and go for the dead of all?
I feel like they've been spacing so much of that team core around the dead of all but it also hasn't been finding that much value
So potentially they go for the one-sided gambit over it as it does not mean that team heretics will have to look at what that gambit
Enables things like the rogue the star Lord now climb up in power
power, but this is what we talked about right for going. That saves a lot in prioritization
of the gambit, means that Shabba group will lose possession of the Daredevil. Loki also
has to be a follow-up band coming on through from Team Heretics, as you cannot allow the
strategist to have both the gambit and the Loki. As Pulsar Esport sees what Team Heretics
have been doing in the past, playing a whole lot of these dive compositions for both the
Venom as well as the Captain America, and they take out Jeff the Landshark, which would
really empower that dive.
We're actually going to go and protect the dead cold vanguard themselves, whichever
gets the...
First time I've actually done that, I wanted to sort of get a hold of stuff like an invisible
woman, a Loki, the like.
The Jeff Van isn't too disinteresting for like Pulsar, they did it quite a lot and it's
a good map to be able to do it on, but style of being taken out means that they really
are trying to limit not only like Chabagoo on the melee characters that he's going to
play, I imagine Wolverine would be one of them, but also making sure the saptic feels
to her as well.
Why am I just going to play Dengre?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, the Starwood as well,
so that you don't have the synergy with the gambit
that we talked about earlier.
As it looks like Pulsar Eastwoods will actually
use the last band slot to remove the Daredevil.
So if Team Heretics do want to play Dive,
they're not running with one-sided information
gathering in comparison to Pulsar Eastwoods,
who if they wanted to dive would have to go through the scouting
phase first, which really does delay those dive kit
availabilities.
As we're going to get to see, now, the Mantis
safe from Team Heretics, does that
mean that we're going to get a triple strategist line because something to discuss is that
while Loki is lost for the side of Pulsar Esports, it's still available for Team Heretics, which
when you pair that alongside the Mantis, you also start enabling all of the damage boost,
both from the Mantis itself, but also if Alex on the Loki decides to copy the Mantis with God of
Mischief, that top percent that she can give, it's stackable. Yeah, there's a lot of teams that are
taking out Loki in the middle of these drafts to just make sure that like especially if there
is a gambit in play that you can't just double up on these like rushes but also in this boundary
okadaga ultimate seems to be a really good copy just generally you can't really let it slide
but it does mean that we're not going to see the daredevil in play for El Chabogoo
what's he going to play instead he's on the mag detail i don't know maybe they're
are trying to go for this like trickle vanguard line because they did i believe try it at some
points throughout MRC and a lot of other teams are very prone to trying to go for it, certainly
on this first point. Yeah, no surprises what we're going to see Tanuki on though, he's been rocking
this Syloc lately on both rounds of domination as well as Convoy that we've seen Team Heretics play
and yet there it is, not only did Pickett the Loki Mantis, they also got Beetle on the grid as well,
so we have full team up in action, the healing walls as well as all of their damage boost plus
enlarged regeneration domain ALWs. I also do have team-ups of their own, though. They do have hearts
as one for Tremon on that rogue, which does mean extra kinetic damage off of the explosions along
with both of the mag and that rogue. The fight is going on at the moment. Is the triple banger
wanted to work? And Tremon being able to get on the rogue means that you get so much value out of it
in the end. The first strap is going to come in as a headache, so I'm looking to try and take this
objective a little bit first hand. Beechle is going to be the one that gets the first eliminated
of the sceptic flame silo, and Tsunuki catches onto Kizuru at the same time. A struggle for the
vanguards as the all three of them are the ones to go down and be chopped through, and it's the
heretics being able to take the point forth like this as a reset for Pulsar. Yeah, Pulsar
resports are also going to be resetting what exactly that composition is based around. They had
the rogue with the team up, they're actually going to put Treeman on the groat to be able to try and
keep up with what Beetle is enabling team heretics to be able to do. But I mean speaking about
First fight, 70% of the first dance of the butterflies, and Pulsar eSports a little bit too far away from Stratus Ultimate, which would allow them to sustain through it.
Also the Enzo with the Banhama, I'm going to look into that by flying a little bit more as a legend.
Invisible boundary, very close to being ready, so there might be a case of Pulsar flying close together, simply with all of these bottlenecks.
bottlenecks, the fight is straight in friends as the banhams good to be used and he's not
afraid to make it a little bit more scrappy. The group walls from both sides making it a little bit
more treacherous plus a respawns, but they're now starting to walk all the way down to the
objective, a lot of space given up. It's surely a little bit of a gap for Tniki to actually find
these little moments to cut through and isolate the strategists in the backflip. It is a fight
through pulse that have kind of just gone over team heretics, but there's no frightening damage
that's coming in visible boundary. It's going to give maybe a transfer them to retreat to the
area on the objective, but the wall isolates Crayman, he's not able to join the rest of his team,
and Tanuki using the dance of the butterflies. No eliminations, but the chaos is just going to
buy more time and Pulsar is still struggling to get things going.
And I mean heretics, they weren't struggled to end this fight. If they even need it, they'll have
both saw resurgence as well as got a mischief. Tanuki is tracking down where exactly Kizaru has
ended up, which means that Deadpool will be late to the next regroup from this fight, and they're
They're just not flooding that choke, making sure the Pulsar Esports can't teleport onto
the point and try to set up a strangling prison alongside that end song in Furano, so they
can try and hold onto the strategy still.
If it even comes to an actual fight, because at this point, Pulsar Esports, they're not
going to be able to get Pulsar Gros Wolves.
There's too many barriers to get, but at least they're able to touch for all the time, but
it was Lapsist that was having to either want to jump in, he goes down, so it's just one
that I just left to try to keep a free Vanguard.
all drop one at a time. Nagas the one that's going to clean up house. Just sitting on the
point still has the solar surgeons. Doesn't need to use it. It's a heretics winning it 100 to 0
and having two to three ultimates still in the back pocket. Yeah, and I mean Pulsaroo Sports,
yes, they're still going to have things like the strangling prison, the end song inferno.
They don't have the nature M though, because they had to sacrifice it to be able to bank over the
grooves that Beetle was just setting up both from front of the teleport as well as making sure
that it was on points, but couldn't bypass the block.
heretics doing that to an extent but it is more like the triple strategist backline
into Nuke just given the freedom. Yeah. All the points more.
Heretics are going to go fast. I mean ends is over to the strange. This is just going
to be for a portal play. Oasis already in cloak form waiting with that blind. As Paul
Saris puts actually Swap Trumann off of the group. So they've kept the end song inferno.
They don't have this set up for that CC to force everyone from team heretics into it
though. And as we said here's the portal, heretics jumping onto point, strategists ultimate
advantage, they're more than happy to take the fight now, before Sir Legend can board
up to an invisible boundary.
And so we've found out we've come in and clear up some of the low-key clones as well as the
regeneration domain.
Look how quick Tanuki wants to go in and fight, he's just picked up the Dunns of the
Butts, he's not going to need it to actually pick up Lapsie's Soul Tealess.
I have me, I know like that he's going to be very good with the name, like Lapsis.
For Polsa, I think we then play more of like that, that composition too, Heretic's good
for the portal plate, and then having all of the ultimates that they had, it's just kind
of like we're forcing the dive to basically flump up because you have to contest at some
point.
Well not just that, they also took first turn right, so lapses had a total lapse of uptime
in terms of being able to build that invisible boundary, started the fight 70%, finished
it around the fight 75 instead, so Niki comes on for the dance of the bottom plate, Posteries
puts Elise, they're all stacked up when the high grants are able to absorb it without
burning through the raging raw flush, so they do have that engagement option to try
a 1-team heretics down, but heretics are just going to kite out with the regeneration
domain before coming back with the soul resurgence before they even give up the point flip.
hasn't found the space in this dive isn't finding anything other than a couple of
ultimates that heretics might need to use, but they've got so much in abundance.
I mean heretics as well, they have so much range pressure
with both the mantis as well as the low key that post-tribe spots aren't really
getting the opportunity to dive when they're trying to make a play for this
high ground they're being cut off by Tanuki on the silo who just rules
their roast. As we can see like Chabagup is on the
world rank, he has not been able to meet contacts
on to one of the vanguards, both Enzo on the strange and Betel on the group have gone entirely
un-grabbed so far as Zapotec falls up the Enzo and Fernand, but Tanuki yet again see
stall-side-the-dive commitment, Kevara on the Venom would have been the engagement option,
without it, Pulsar eSports just have to slow them up to the Phoenix all.
Now it's getting a little bit more precarious for time for Pulsar, you do have another Enzo and
Elast stand, but how much else are you going to be able to set this up? Wave, you're still building
up the rage in Royal Flash, and last round he's going to come in and try and pull people
off of the objective, but instead of pulling this pretty much good cap straight back up
to them to make sure that this is more pressure onto Pulsar, Banhammer and Enchon, more of
their last dash attempt to touch the objective as they're the ones that have been forced
back and pushed in. To the point that Sleptim actually gets completely left on his lonesome,
and Zeruki's happy to clean it all up. You've got the answer to the butterflies as a capstone,
and Pulsar eSports cannot get anything done on Krakow, a heretics take it 200 to 0.
I mean heretics showing why even in this current meta you cannot afford to let low cute mantis
group through the bandraft. Like I know it's so hard to maneuver because you have to think
about things like the Elsa, the daredevil, the Deadpool on the vanguard role, but like
this is what happens when you allow that team up. Look at the amount of casualties that team
team heretics had a sum total of two from the entire team in both rounds of Cracow.
It was the first time as well I think that like we've seen a couple of bands at least
from team heretics on how they wanted to like go into these games they'd typically taken
out first but they were able to just keep everything that they wanted it felt like you've
got a one-sided like low-key a one-sided style of the need to be used for team heretics and
And mostly it makes sense because of like, Volsa, they want to build around the Gambit.
They've got so many big connections with it, the Starlords.
It felt like when there was those Regen Royal flushes, there wasn't anything actually to
come in, and it was two eliminations against Team Heretics as a result.
Yeah, and they were forced to swap off of the Rogue as well.
Like, they tried to run the Rogue in the first fight up on Cradle, but they had to swap off
it instantly when they saw that Team Heretics were fielding that group, and Tremon had to
narratively able to match, having those walls looking for the isolated players, and providing
his team an extra layer of cover. But like you said, that literally divorced what could
have been a really good synergy between the rogue and the gambit in terms of those ultimates
power up. Raging raw flush, enabling heartbreak, could go in far deeper and hit heretic's
backline, actually connecting and sapping away the strat's assaults. I think the most
impactful Raging raw flush actually was Alex with the god of mischief copy on it on last
to be able to play. You
can see the differences
between those two teams. We
talked about the terms of
met a triple scratches first
triple bang on in this case,
the synergy between the
triple strategist with the
mantis and of course that
Loki hugely impactful for
heretics. They take a very
quick one or lead in the
series. We're going to head
to a break while we get the
players in the lobby and we'll
be right back with map number
I'm trying to help
Let's pop back up under their noses
us against the world
my time to shine
Perotix continuing their incredible spree after taking a really solid 2-0 on map number 1
versus Pulsar, leaving Pulsar on the break, potentially being 0 and 3.
We were talking a little bit in the break, Moxie, what do they need to adjust?
I mean, we were looking at that band draft and just trying to work out
could the Jeff ban have been sacrificed?
Because like Team Heretics, they're so flexible, they see the ban on the Jeff,
they're like, OK, well, let's just not dive.
We're still going to have Tanuki to get to play the Psylocke
and control the lane fight, giving us the ability to just anchor on point
with a triple strat at his line plus Loki, Mantis and Groot and literally never give up the point cap.
So I think when you're looking at the bandrapt at some point we have to see Loki taken away.
And Ryan was headed to the Museum of Contemplation. How does this look in particular for pulsars?
They are going to be needing to potentially adjust onto the bandrapt but in playing to a very different style of map.
Not amazing for them, mostly because they have tried all of the different Convoy maps as a choice.
They went for Araco on day one, it didn't work, they went for Spider Islands yesterday and that went free against Alter eSports,
and they got full held on their own map choice.
But this is also the map that we have actually seen Team Heretics play on.
It looks pretty decent, pretty clean for dive-centric stuff, but there were definitely moments where it was very scattered, very chaotic.
and maybe the experience with Paul Sile because they have played together as a call team since June of last year,
you would maybe expect that they might be able to play a bit more coordinated in this setting,
and maybe heretics just can't keep up with that.
But it really is the case of echoing what Moxie said, whether or not you still dedicate the fans of the Jeff.
I also want to point out that Enzo did flame Oasis in the interview on Friday with his Jeff Ultimates,
because the Jeff spat out then his teammates into another Jeff Ultimates and they all got taken off the map in a 4K.
So maybe it's a better to just let the Jeff just sit free, because it's not the best map
for him in some cases, but there's so many good strategists, it's hard to get a game.
See, I wonder if Pulsar Esports is taking us to Musing of Contemplation, a map which
is very good for flanking and dive.
Actually means that we're going to see the first save onto the Daredevil instead of the
Gambit.
Because like Pulsar Esports, the whole draft on domination was we're going to save the
Gambit, we're going to play the Rogue alongside the Gambit, we got to see it for one fight,
didn't even get to see the alt's get paired up. The dead level at least if you go for the save
you can slot him into a whole lot of compositions and it really does fit Shabba Goob's playstyle
to be able to just free roam. We're going to be heading on in Museum of Contemplation. Will Pulsar
adjust or will Heretics continue that dominant run? Take it away you got Moxie of Ridescentrum.
Oh, that's still a gambit save. Okay, one furry song.
That's a disappointment in your voice. I never mind.
Oh, yeah, look, barely goes the dead double.
The problem as well, I think, is just like that last one on Star Lord, it just takes away, like, the biggest connection, I suppose.
Because you want to feel like when that gambit goes in that there's something with it, it just...
You win!
It answers everybody.
Yeah, like if you have one sided gambit, you have to play to win the ult exchanges when you have Raging Roar Flush.
Like, I imagine maybe you want Shabba Goode to get to play the Wolverine because you're trying to bait heretics into having to play something like the Captain America or the Venom for soft dive splits.
And then you just grab him, which is actually something that Paulse at Esports did a whole lot against Altea Esports, something that Team Captain was actually talking about,
where the Wolverine, instead of playing aggressively, just sat permanently with the backline.
But team heretics, if they do get the Venom for draft, it will be alongside the Jeff, because this time they actually protect the land shock.
Yeah, there's not going to be the Lokis that's trading in other side. It feels like one team has their devil and the other one doesn't.
It's more problematic, but for a last protect, maybe Star Lord seems like a better shout here, just because you at least confirm that you have some synergy to work with.
because there were a few ultimates I think that came in from Pulsar with the royal flush where
there was nothing with it, there was maybe a dive with the vanguards with Venom but nothing else.
Yeah and it's not enough, right? It's not enough when you're going into a triple strategist line
who have things like regeneration domain and can literally just survive the first four seconds
of your raging royal flush and then come swing back around with a soul research of their own,
which was literally the strategy that Heretics used every opportunity that Pulsar Esports had
that Raging Roar Flush. But like you said this time, we actually do get to see that save coming
out onto the Star Lord, so the Raging Roar Flush should pair quite nicely alongside it,
and Pulsar Esports have a clear way of winning at least one fight. When they manage to land
those two ultimates and hit Heretics, it's going to be a big upset. If Heretics pull a fight win,
the game, but it's not
really a good idea. When
Pulsar e sports have that win
condition and play. Yeah, so
there's no dead full Vanguard
available for Pulsar e sports
which protected from team
heritage is one sided big
Pulsar e sports in this case
because you have the gambit
rogue climbs up the rankings,
but it comes to options and a
magneto. It feels like it is
going to get a lot more value
to I think we have seen bits
like venom as the diet of the
the team. They're going to
be able to say for Pulsar esports.
Just they really like convoy
clearly. They've picked three
times out of three that they've
had that choice, but they
haven't won on it yet.
Heretics. It wheels might fall
off if they play as fast as they
did against team peps, but the
more experienced this team gets,
the better they're going to look
and that's a terrifying prospect
for Paul start to deal with. I
mean, heretics just look like
they're going to be holding close
and playing really annoying
things for this attacking site
on the objective itself, Enzo can play a little bit more earlier, but also if he wants to play
for more of an anchor position, he has the sustain to be able to do so, and in the meantime,
Tanuki has already been able to take lapses down, which is now going to impact Saphatix's charge,
because you don't want your solo to have ultimate before your gambit.
He's been so good at finding these fights, I mean it used to be this time last year, Black
Handful, the ones that were terrifying, but now he's got so flexible with these characters,
and it's a very good, silent meta in the right hands, looking to see if he can go find a little
bit more and has got support from Oasis that is looking just as fearsome even though he is a cute
little lunge shark. It's the way that it's got his fight, it makes this first choke, his first honor,
comparable for Poltox Claire. And then Oasis Chabagoo, who won the Wolverine, has been able to
clear Ike's Nuke from the deal because like you said, Oasis is both supporting but also enabling
him with the speed bubbles. Tanuki though just takes the 1v1 against Saptic and manages to win
it out and now turns his attention as shooting a treeman, not to find the elimination necessarily
on to the vanguard but more to charge the ultimate. Gants of the butterfly is boarding at such a rapid pace.
So many final hits in the last map too. Now the fight is going to go in just off of end so
almost make elapses jump at the back line with the van hammer. The screen sends him straight
back to spawn which is only about like five meters away from where this burst is actually
travelled from. Look at how aggressive that they're holding. It's hard for us as we would get out
and fight this without some play-dead illusions.
Lapsus used Raging Roflosh.
Oh, no he didn't.
Yeah, he did.
Zapatic now off the solo because there's no point playing Galactic Legends when there's invisible boundary
and solo resurgence and you don't have the damage boost off of the gamut ultimate.
So instead it's over to the hella to have the two-tep potential and just manage to beat the ultimate economy.
Unfortunately, turns out the goddess of death can't beat Jeff Blanchok.
He is the true master of the underworld.
Ooh, the trouble you've actually got to pick up is the new key for invisible boundary.
Seeing if you can go for the grab now, see if the lift is very much in his hands.
The card's not too bad for lapses actually.
He's got a pathway to getting another royal flash though.
It's not to complete them in glue, but to switch over to what's the hella,
to create a bit more poke and actually foster him heritage card,
is creating a space needed, but so much time has already been lost.
it's keeping to this composition. We told having the freedom charge when that dive is
ready to come in, it's going to come in thick and fast.
I mean, yeah, Tanuki with the Dance of the Butterflies as well, Pulsar Esports don't have
a strategist ultimate to be able to sustain through it, so it'll be up to BodyStacks instead
because Zara can meet your enemies with any more incoming damage sent from Team Heretics
late, wait for the Dance of the Butterflies to be done and then mutes the music with
Meet Your Em landing right onto Tanuki's head.
Okay, that adjustment has actually done quite a lot for Pulsar Esports.
There is maybe one more fight left in it.
Team Hattix trying to stall on the point, and as Alex goes down, you do have Oasis in behind the objective, trying to stall for a portal.
But it's not going to be there in time. You can tell that Tanuki was definitely on the way, so maybe a switch back over towards the Sylocke needed.
Pulsar Esports, everything's going.
I'm a little bit worried about this next point though.
Oasis is still behind the whole team.
I just acknowledge, I mean this is actually kind of okay for Pulsar Esports because that's where they're taking the fight around corner, right?
Jeff Lanjok is not there to help heal the rest of the team. As you can see, there he is!
Oh no, he's still playing on first!
Peter with the Freedom Charge tries to run the team forward so they can connect with Oasis a little bit closer.
Having the ban hammer online as well, getting Enzo into position to use it to pull out potentially invisible banjo could be huge.
but it's actually used on its own, trying to slow Team Heretic when they're in deep
and follow up with the punishment of the Kraken Impact.
I'm all about to follow up to Van Hammer who's going to go in and end so another crate to be aggressive
is going to take us a legend and play in one go!
That is incredibly clean for Menzo, getting the final hits and yeah,
I'm not surprised that he's taking a bit of a memento with all of the corpses that he's left on the ground.
If Team Heretic's still having so much in,
I don't even want to add to what you're saying right now.
Um, Lapis is getting form-counted by Oasis.
This chef, the Lanchuk, is absolutely incorrigible right now.
This guy, forget Spider-Man, this is the true menace of Marvel Rivals.
As we're seeing Tanuki just waiting around the corner, heretics going first, aggressively with invisible boundary,
catching Colson before they can actually commit to a walk, strangling person to two,
in the teams, but I mean, the rest of the team are already down. Heretics are just going to be able
to finish off the vanguard, take a selfie, and then reset their positions to yet again catch
Pulsar as they just try to walk around the first corner. That's being pretty much the problem,
I think for Pulsar, like Trayman gets a good Strangled Prison, two of his teammates would just
take it out a second before he'll hand back to Luki, who has got down to the butterflies again.
It's all research, it's Jeff, I don't know if Oasis has managed to group up with his team,
to be on a good like crossfire
angle and it is creating a lot of
space. Those are e sports. Have
to focus on the left and right
of them. And so is not afraid to
cut straight down the middle.
All of the players taking out for
a second lapses does have the
royal flush. So you know, but
what's the style of again? Yeah,
this just seems to be an album
collection. Lorenzo. I mean, it's
like an identity crisis, right?
So I think good sort of hella
tries to win by just being able
to have things like the two
two-tap and the pre-tap potential, then moves on to the Punisher, looking to be able to
melt for Team Heretics, and also pair Final Judgment alongside Raging Ruffles. Now he's
on the stall, but Team Heretics are playing so split that it's very unlikely you're actually
going to be able to get the Blaster Barrage onto multiple players and build up Galactic
Legend, because look, he just swapped over, he was on 50% because of that. He's now on
70%. You have one more fight, 36 seconds left to be able to build up your first Galactic
legend which is literally the thing that lapsus is currently holding his own ultimate full but when
you look at ultimates look at heretics look at the bank that they're sitting on and pulsar esports
already lost one of the extra vanguards they just fueled it it's not only they used to have
oasis on this angle but enzo was hiding so it was just almost like you're not going to look through
cards at the right because if you just think it's the death there the road it is which are from
pre-mancing build with something off of this royal flush it's that they can't build it up there's no
time you can't wait on it do you want like Moxie just mentioned to now Sabdix seen if he could work with the
father clear up these strategists he's able to get another one and his objective still just hasn't really got past his first
checkpoint is just on the other side and overtime push to go down this slope and then back up again
It's going to be brutal when you look at what heretics have available
Yeah, I mean the thing about Posterise puts at least going with raging world flash
It did give that ultimate acceleration so that close to ultimate that they were in despite swapping the composition
The Cloak is not unfortunately fully charged. Galactic Legend comes on through from Saptic
just trying to deter Team Heretics a little while longer of being able to commit to this
fight allowing me to potentially come on through buying time for things like the Eternal
Bond Sustainability but they've already lost both the Gantt and the Star Lord and Tremon
unfortunately ends up losing it all instead of taking it all as Pulsar Esports are sent
back to the Raisepawn and Team Heretics complete the whole.
I think what you mentioned about, like, also making the changes, you know, they went hella, which provided a lot on that first checkpoint, and then they move over towards the Star Lord.
They make it the right change, it's just too late, it's too slow.
I think, like, after you get that first checkpoint, you instantly go back to spawn because it's right next to you when you go to the Star Lord then.
Like, you know that there's gonna be a lot more, like, open verticality, you're going down the stairs, so there's more height that you can try to overlap the enemy team.
and they weren't really even able to get to those kind of fights because of how well
heretics were holding them back. I mean, Oasis is just giving me flashbacks to Jeff, Captain America,
Luna, old team up flank meta from 2025, with how frequently he played second still on first. It was
absolutely insane, but that is one of the benefits of the range of Jeff's primary, right? Their joyful
splash goats are so far and it's why even when we swap over two maps like Midtown or Museum of
Contemplation you can play that really long linear line of sights with Jeff being 5,000 miles away
and still being able to keep his team up while having absolutely zero enemy pressure turned
towards his side. There's been so little synergy off of these Gambit ultimates for Porcelain which
is rough enough but it's the first protect it's the one-sided play that you want to go for and
you're just being limited by what you can do especially when you look at the characters that
pulls out running on this defense there has to be more of a connection because these are the perfect
players around the gambit. I mean they're on the triple vanguard, Chabagoo, Norn the lover in this
they're going to be playing disruption and displacement trying to hold those angles and
make sure that heretics can't flank properly he actually loses out on that control with heretic
stacking that plays as well as damage boost, clearing out the four and now taking full monopoly
of the map. Not only do they have front line control, they've been able to get behind the
defense and cut off any potential disengage, which means that also they know this fight is done,
it just becomes a case of stalling on the convoy as long as you possibly can,
so you can regroup for your second fight.
I'm not going to switch over to any characters yet, so they have some time to work with
all the health fire heretics, I wanted to try and take this fight, breaking the glass as well,
I can't just disengage for free without any form of damage.
I mean, it's Banhama time.
Yeah, Enzo is going to look for these flanks and if some of these things can be taken away from Beetle, Enzo's going to find quite a lot of work.
Yeah, Enzo's going to be looking to slap that Banhama easily onto something like Lapsus, so the gandit falls early and they don't get first Raging World plush cast.
Tanuki does get taken down by Sapathik, but I mean, Team Heretics already found most of the rest of the team.
As Oasis continues his absolute reign of terror taking a treatment and terror ticks would be able to clean up point one after a very very slow from the solid, but not in time for a strange portal because I mean Pulsar eSports, this is their last hold.
If they'd gone for a strange portal contest, Team Heretics would just hold far beyond the checkpoint and stuff Pulsar eSports don't spawnwalk.
It's five minutes that they have to try and hold in a really awkward position, but it feels like it's a house of cards for the Pulsar Esports.
The backline goes down, Mopsy, and everybody else quickly follows.
I mean, Chabagoo as well, over to the Bucky this time, trying to just punish heritage aggression.
For them, there's that coming from so many different directions.
Bucky Hook is going to maybe grab you one potentially, two.
As Oasis looks to grab more than one, potentially the majority of the team, but no, he actually uses it defensively on his own side.
side so it was just used for extra sustainability to regroup with the rest of the team into
the Soul Research and AOE, so they can survive past the regional flush which unfortunately
was used split separately from Sackletix's own galactic legend.
And so it says wait, let me take a selfie with the corpse of Chabogood and that will
be Bucky taken out before Kraken Impact can be bought.
Oh it's a big extension for our Esports to try and fight this one back.
They had a bit of respite from Team Heretics, but they dedicated the abysmal boundary and
meet your aim off the back of the Black Teak legend.
And then slowly, Heretics had decided to come back into this, end of finding himself a few
more picks to work with, and has the band hammer that he's going to throw straight onto Chabagood,
put the pressure on the melee-centric character, and Crack and the Impact is going to make
it a little bit more of a bloodbath beetle, not afraid to get right into the phase.
Heretics blistered their way through with the bus, and a 2-0 win over Paul Sarri's
spots is going to give them a perfect start and Pulsar Esports a zero and three weekend.
I mean it just felt on the side of Pulsar they were overwhelmed. They did not know what to
do. Like we saw so many different characters, essentially almost on a carousel coming on.
Like they tried the Bucky, they tried the Hella, they tried the Wolverine, they tried the Four,
all to deal with team heretics just pouring out of every direction which was the concern
When we saw Museum of Contemplation pop up, like this was, Pulsar Eastwood's own map choice,
Museum of Contemplation allows Team Heretics to do plays like that with Jeff the Landshark,
and we absolutely see why that was a main focus save staple coming on from their side. So,
Oasis with things like the Speed Bubbles can just allow Beetle and Tanuki in and out of
those engagements before Pulsar have the opportunity to react.
Scary game I think for Pulsar because it is just out of options really like you've seen
some teams sort of make the right calls and go for things but Pulsar is called considering
it is their map pick throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks you would expect a
little bit more of a stronger showing but then again heritage we've only seen in five
once but it was a very quick map and quick series against peps but this is more of the
same if y'all like Shaking Kami and even Navi Twinsen a little bit worried about
Basement to this team because they're playing at pace.
If it wasn't out of season for both, I would have said this could have in theory been a Halloween movie or a pantomime
because every single type also tried to move out there behind you.
Heretics always just wrapping around causing problems and just making them panic.
They were never able to lock people down individually.
And by the time they did, heretics already regrouped and you mentioned it perfectly there, Ryan.
Pulsar are basically out of options now.
Their next two match-ups, next coming up next week, are Pep's, and then their last match-up is Narvae.
They don't have a lot of options left. You even get two points on the board.
It's going to be, even getting one point on the board might be difficult for them, because Pep's are also starting to look pretty good.
Pulse are in serious trouble, but amazing news for Heretics is they currently sit tight with Narvae at the top of the table in a 2-0.
the game. It's like, you know,
it's like, you know, it's like
heretics is looking like
absolute beasts at the moment.
To be honest, like their dive. We
talked about this team with the
potential for their dives
before we even got to see them
play their first matches. Their
players who are all accustomed
to playing dive. Heck, most of
them were from Barbara
Patipam slash Citadel from last
memories. Nuki might not be on the Black Panther, but his timings on the Sylocke, the
aggression that he had enabled by both the Jeff and the Mantis, they were one and the
same.
A lot of things, I think, yeah, right, like I think it's also like the, because you have
got like the three players from three different positions from Sitzdell, like Enzo's playing
with a different Vanguard, Danuki's playing with a different Hewlist, which is now going
super flexible.
I think it's mostly like Alex playing without Ken, who isn't having the best time in America,
but like we miss him and we hope he like is able to pull it back.
But what I will say is that like Oasis is slotting into this team pretty well, because
he is just as insane as the rest of them.
like, the play where he is, like, basically stuck behind them.
A lot of players would panic or just try to go for a fast, like, reset,
but he was like, no, I think I can, like, use this as a really good position
to just make Paul sound really uncomfortable.
And that's one of the reasons why the objective got stuck where it was for some.
We are going to be having an interview with Lionthrow, the coach for this team,
in just a moment, what they are joining us.
And always one of our favourite people to interview, just very smart,
and a well-regarded personality and team leader in terms of in-game and out-of-game in this
community. And we're starting to see it just come together bit by bit for Heretics. You've all
mentioned it, it's going to be difficult for any team to take them. Right now, we're just all building
so much anticipation for that Shikigami game later in the season and also the Navi game versus Heretics.
Oh, I'm on the countdown. I've got the countdown to each day. I'm just crossing one block out,
getting closer and closer to getting to see how exactly that one goes because like let's be honest
if it doesn't go the distance we're all going to be a little bit let down. Very much so. Well
we'll be setting up for that interview as soon as we can but for now we can have a quick look at
where Heretics are going next as they did have their day off yesterday. We've already mentioned
they still have to play against Shikigami and they still have to play versus Navi later on
and they still have one other difficult matchup to come as well.
They have Ulta still in their final run, so in terms of the matchups coming up for Heretics,
they've still got some difficult matches coming.
Yeah, I think for Ulta, because they are playing Shikigami for the third game I think it is of
today, that's going to be a good telling how much they can play up against that level, because I
think Shikigami, Heretics for sure feels like the ones that are going to be in and around,
maybe even surpassed Navi, like it's going to be close with them.
Alter E spots have set themselves really well for playoffs because they beat Pulsar yesterday
and if Px are going to struggle at the same level as Pulsar, then they're going to be the two teams that don't make playoffs, right?
It is whether or not Alter E spots can actually compete with those other top three teams likely that's going to be in their group
and that might set them up really nicely for some damaging playoffs.
So that's the big question. This team, Moxie, having seen them now, you've seen a bit of Shikabi,
you. How are you feeling? What
about your predictions? How are
you feeling about this group A
in general? I mean, it's really,
really close between all three
of these teams. And since the
matter is still being sort of
established, I feel whoever is
able to work out the matter
fastest between the three of
them will be able to take the
lead because like what we saw
yesterday from Navi is that
they're readable. If you take
them to a map that they're not
a composition that they haven't really been able to experience, then it takes a little
bit of time for them to be able to work out a solution, a whole map actually. So the likes
of Team Heretics being able to do what they just did to Pulsar Eastwoods on second of
Museum of Contemplation could actually really throw Navi for quite a lot of work, and potentially
a first-place finish in Grupo.
We joked about it, Ryan, but the fact is we said, like,
Heretic's gonna be looking at this,
we're gonna write that down, write that down,
attitude, yeah.
We are joking.
Finding that little bit of knowledge,
Shikigami's showing that to the world,
it's gonna have Navi in a bit of a panic,
just writing, like, going to the drawing board
and working out how to deal with it
or practicing it themselves.
But for Heretic, some teams like that,
it is fantastic news for them.
I mean, it should be, yeah.
And I think it's the theory,
it's trying to sort of cover up some of the like issues. It's just a direct improvement from what
we saw against Pept as well despite being two wins out of two on Museum of Contemplation
Baradigs. It still felt like heretics were a little bit tighter in their play and if things
did go a little bit awry they were able to still make the most of it and much like stronger
performances from that ensal. Like he looked like a jewelist on the Deadpool. Like the Vanguard was
so much good work but I think a lot of that goes down to the underrated but the beat-up
puts in as well with the space that he's taking and just the damage that he's doing and mitigating
this Captain America.
Still waiting for Lyme Pro to hopefully be joining us for a little bit of a post game
interview. We'll give him a few more minutes, but obviously we have other games that we
will be looking to get to as well, so we'll be keeping an eye on them. And in order to
fill that time, let's talk about the next game coming up today. Get a little bit of a
preview in for that. We're going to have Rad versus Crownfall. Rad, R on the board. You
mentioned it earlier, Moxie, this is a make-up break time for Cranthal, similar to what it
just was for Pulsar.
Yeah, no wins currently for Cranthal, though they have looked competitive in all of their
series, so it's going to be an interesting one. I think this is also going to be a very
big indicator for RADs, power level two. I think a lot of people are expecting RAD to
finish pretty highly up within Group B, potentially second, potentially third. So if they do run
into issues with Crownfall that could actually expose weaknesses a little bit later down
the line.
But I mean, that's something that Crownfall will be looking at in their past series is
because that's what happens when you have close matches, right?
You get to see those tiny little knife point moments on why you weren't able to convert
into an actual win and clean it up.
So I would imagine the Crownfall, the players and coaching staff have been going through
the last few maps that they've been playing with a very fine toothed comb sorting out all of the
problems that arose. They've been looking good, they've been looking solid, but like you say,
those little issues of what they need to pick up, especially against a team like RAD who,
Ryan, they are what both these teams came through from MRC, so this is going to be a little bit
of an MRC reunion, but the fact is they didn't really get to meet, I believe. Now RAD was just
too busy clearing up the upper bracket on the other side of where Crownfall was and Crownfall
being knocked down. It meant that they had to sort of fight their way through the loser's
bracket and surprised many with their win over Lunex. So there was some moments I think
where like these teams can really shine. It's just really hard to know how much damage
Crownfall could do realistically because of just the lack of damage that Fiestrace did
throughout yesterday. The draft was just like impenetrable, but they had so much to play
around and you sat there on how have been going even if like fire straights put on blistering
individual performances. It's just way too many like synergies that are at play here for Riven.
No wonder they're feeling bullish in this group. They feel like playoffs is a cinch for them and
honestly the only team that's realistically going to be pushing them is Virtus.Pro. If they play up
against Crownfall like they did against fire straights yesterday, I can start to believe it a lot more.
I disagree, because right now, that are looking very strong and we asked yesterday what teams
are you potentially afraid of and that did come up in terms of this group.
They are 18 to keep an eye on and they have performed extremely well, the fact they came
in through the MRC's format just as a testament to how big the competition is in the EMEA
in terms of getting onto these Orcs and also just how high the skill level is and we're
jumping all the way back today, one here, Boxie. People have said that this is the closest that
the teams have been in a long time. Yeah, I mean, it's great to see as well that level step up,
and we can only really expect to see the distance close up more and more as all of our players
get more accustomed to the meta and the heroes that funnel on through it. But speaking of getting
more accustomed, we have come accustomed to the company of one of our favorite personalities in
in the game, who has finally decided to jump on in here. We have our interview with LimePro,
the coach from the team at Heretics. The starters would like to say, welcome. Good to have you
back in from this side. That's not LimePro. That's Deadpool. That's not what we expect to see at all.
I want to say, the starters. Congratulations on the win.
Thank you. Thank you.
You guys killed me all by the way with a mask.
Yes, it's over. It now makes sense why it took you eight minutes to get here.
So, let's talk about it so far. You've had a solid run. You're sitting undefeated in
your group stage, but you do still have some of your toughest matches yet to come. You've
still got Nabi, you've still got Shikikami, you've still got Alter coming up for you.
How are you feeling looking ahead to the coming week for those gamers?
I mean, first of all, something that we are really good at is that we have a very flexible team and very flexible players.
So there's like a lot of different compositions we can run.
I think the compositions we run today were different from what we run on Friday.
And there's like many, many more things we have in mind.
But also, I don't know, it has to be something about the team bundles and the skins that just gives us so much power at it.
It doesn't feel like we're just gonna play anyone, because as long as you're wearing the
Deadpool Team Heretics skin, every game feels like so winnable and like naturally just happened.
Okay, well first of all I'm for wonderful to have you back, but I have to ask, moving away
from being a player and getting to be a coach, how has that changed the way that you approach
having to learn and lean into these new matters?
Like obviously a lot has changed in this current patch with things like the Daredevil, the Alcet, the Deadpool.
How have you sort of been teaching the team to get accustomed to what is the best?
I mean, to be honest, I think I'm generally very lucky because I did coaching in the past in other games.
And I think it was harder, not only because I didn't like those games as much, but also because my group was like harder to work with.
I think I'm very lucky because I'm with a group that are very talented
and they all really want to work and put a lot of hours.
And for me personally, it just feels kind of natural
because even before when I was an ITO and a player,
I will still do the coaching part anyway.
So now I just have to not do the gaming part, you know?
So it's still the same because I was already doing this with my previous teams,
but I'm also doing with a team that is way more talented
and they actually have like they put a lot of work.
And the way I coach, it's I'm not telling them what to do.
I like discussing a lot, and I don't want to be right on everything.
I like open discussion, they're very smart.
Most of the fans actually end up agreeing with them more than them agreeing with me.
So I think I'm just blessed to be working with people that are actually really talented and put a lot of power in.
You point them in the right direction, which speaking of which, from one Deadpool to another,
Enzo has been a big introduction to you guys.
First of all, what would Deadpool think of Enzo's performance on the Vanguard Deadpool?
And then secondly, what's it been like to work with him? It's like an IGL and being the strategy guy, I'd say for the most part, I've said it before.
He seems to be the one that's probably like telling stuff to you and you agreeing with me, right?
Uh, yeah. I think Deadpool would be really happy with Enzo, especially on that 1v1 with 50 HP against a Bucky with Gambino.
He was impressed. Deadpool told me he was impressed and he, honestly, I think it's just because of the team correcting his bundle skin.
I don't know how otherwise he can beat up lucky with a capital, but he's 50 HP
That was like literally the only possibility and yeah, he's kind of very vocal and he gives a lot of ideas
I think he's one of the most passionate one for sure
He's not the only vocal one I would say the new key probably is the one that gives the most input in our team
I was very surprised because back then before I worked with him
I thought the new key was like just like crazy mechanical kid and that's it
but he's actually probably the one that speaks the most and
and figures out what is better, understands the game very well, and gives a lot of feedback.
But I think it's just a bit of everyone. Everyone works a lot on that scenario.
Thank you very much for joining us, LionPro.
A lot of people out here are going to be looking at these new skins for Dead 4B,
ones that support the partner organisations in the Mimadwamsik Light series.
Yes, sir.
I guess this is your time for a quick sales pitch to people out there who've started to watch you guys
and might be looking to pick up a heritage bundle.
Exactly, I just wanted you guys to remember, you just seen the game, it was quite fast,
I think this is only achievable with the best team bundle in the game, but most importantly
it's the only bundle where you can be playing for the Vibes, don't forget that, by Team
Choreptics Mom.
I wondered how long that would take.
I wondered how long that would take.
Alright, thank you very much for joining us, LionPro, we'll let you get back to preparation
for next week, congratulations on another win.
Thank you.
Oh, I tell you what, we need to maybe have Limepro on the desk to do the costume reads
because he has it down.
Do you do AT?
Oh my goodness.
I was like, what could possibly be taking Limepro so long?
That was what was taking him so long.
Like the commitment not just to the mask but also to the heretics like Jersey as well.
So you got just like the full immersive bundle in front of you.
Oh yeah.
Perfect.
I can't wait to see VP like sparky.
You've got to do this.
I'm thinking to be like, come on,
Blaney, I'm up again.
We need to start upping the interview game.
Please, guys.
Deadpool masks for all our partner teams, please.
But for us, we're now going to be getting ready to head into
our next series of the day.
So as such, we're going to head to a quick break.
So make sure to don't go anywhere.
We'll be right back with series number two after this.
I remember time, the place that used to fight
The sun and moon and I wonder
If I've ever wasn't and we were friends
And I saw the insides of a snowman and he was
That's what has come for me to seek you out
We are set up for a life-freaking union
Break the chains, find your way, come with me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
Are we waiting for you?
Let me get it, I'm not your prize, crazy
This is my shit, we're in circles
Let's hold the rings, fight for it, so let's get it
We all struggle till the end
Why is that?
For me, it's your mind
Hold onto your powers, no
All that depends on us
We are right to steal the end, it's done
We will clash
We're right or we're
We'll bite, we'll sting across the ends of space
We'll hunt you and my life
Just a little bit, just a little bit
You see the dawn, the flame, burning brightly
Shining, one nose, then a breeze
Dining, yeah
We're going to be heading back to Krakowa for our second series of the day, starting
this off, and it's a battle for potentially trying to creep away from that bottom of the
table or to secure a space closer and closer to those playoffs.
We're going to have Rad vs. Crownfall, and let's start off with Riot.
It's not been a great run for Crownfall so far.
It's been improvements and I wouldn't even say it's too shabby for them with some of their
performances like yeah it's a rough a time they lose their own team in their first series
up against VP right and they had moments where actually VP were a little bit scared.
I think the big thing that if Crownfall can tighten it up on it they have a better shot
in this game over time fights.
There was a lot of games where it went to OT and looked like Crownfall would have the
advantage in winning but the other team were as first pro or vision yesterday, scrap it
back are able to push to the
next point or get further than
they should have done. Rad's
probably looking to finish.
Whereas Moxie Rad haven't been
seen a lot yet. We obviously
saw them a lot in the M R C,
but they've only had their one
series so far as they did not
play on Friday, and they are
looking incredible so far.
I mean, it's a great matter as
well for them to this is a very
strong team made up of very
Crazy Kitty coming back in and since Ultron has started returning to the field, I feel like we do
have to talk about the fact that Crazy Kitty initially did play things like the Ultron back in
2025 before having to flex over to a lot of different heroes after it got nift. So I imagine
RAD will also be one of those teams that will, if we go to someone like Convergent, try to run a
triple strategist potential fly up backline. There's something about this RAD team that's
kind of giving me the RADS team from Stage 1 of Ignite, where RAD have come in, found
a team with just infinite potential, decided to jump on board with them, and right now
we're starting to see what could be that rise to the top. We'll have to see if RAD can
keep that going, or if Crownfall are going to be able to get themselves on the board,
because Ryan was right. We are starting to see some really good stuff from Crownfall
that's getting better and better, they're just going to tie up those loose ends. Starting
off on Krakowa, what are we potentially expected to see in the draft?
I mean, Crouple have been liking to go for a lot of Jeff plays, so I imagine potentially
some Jeff coming through from their side, maybe a little bit of invisible woman, as
on the side of Rad, like, they might want to play Ducky on the group, but he's also become
really, really flexible on a whole bunch of different band gods as well, so I feel like
it's going to be more of the same for the Instant Bansai, both the Elsa likely to be
getting the boot, and then lightly the gambit alongside it as well.
surprising. Well, I guess for like, Rad wanted the one-sided aspect of it. So,
would you get to see them play Elsa, which they didn't have to worry about yesterday?
Yeah, well, Cronfall might potentially get something one-sided themselves, that being
the Vanguard Deadpool, if they want to lean into it, as it will be an Elsa bloodstone
mirror match for both of these teams. Rad's seeing that, okay, you're not saving Wade Wilson,
they'll take it out. As it looks like it's going to be Cronfall removing the Daredevil,
rat also getting to ban at the same time. They don't get to react to what Crimeful have banned
instead. This is a full, okay, this is what we're banning. We have to lock it in moment. And you
can see like rat, they're taking that time with it. And it will be that mantis. So Crimeful lose
a huge proponent of both a triple strategy line. But also since Loki has made it through the field,
they also lose access to the Loki and the Groot team up.
one-sided Loki or one-sided Mantis?
Oh yeah, that Loki into Mantis save, wow, that's forced in Crimefall's hand, especially
with Stilky on the Groot, but it looks like they're actually instead of taking out the
Loki at the same time as Rad going to go after the invisible woman instead, so potentially
they actually want Rad to play that Loki-Mantis Groot composition and they can play Togged
like, Groot is a very strong
Vanguard, but he is also just
walking ultimate charge and he's
very vulnerable to certain hard
counters like the Wolverine,
which we're currently seeing M.J.
D actually swap on to with FHD C
taking the reins of Elsa
Bloodstone instead. So the first
part of this draft is trying to
keep it is even as possible.
Crown follow to prove they were
the team that surprised many
with qualifying through the M R
only dropping a couple of maps
against Lunix can fall actually
beating Lunix to be that third
and final team to qualify. I
think if this players to look
at, I think I and a Koji had
some really good moments playing
like the other strategies to
alongside Debbie yesterday, but
was often overshadowed, I think
from like you beyond vision
yesterday, but Rad, I think it
is just our flexibility. Certainly
crazy kitty is able to play well
on the dualist, but just a
backline to like vertigo mash
playing on chops together
alongside crazy kitty. I said
I said it yesterday, that's what they built around with Rad, that backlight.
And I mean Crazy Kitty, we talked about it literally before the game started.
I said you might see it on Convergence, we're getting to see it right now.
Rad got the Mantis first and not only are they playing with the group,
they're also putting Crazy Kitty on a triple strategist line of that altron getting to fly up
in the sky and being impossible for Rosa to be able to target on that Venom as a mash with the
damage boost as well is going to turn Smashners in this one versus one into an unfair advantage.
Dive hits on first but Rosa takes so much damage instantly has to back out to get stable as the
team because as we talked about this is a fully pocketed also bloodstone not just with the Mantis
but with the Ultron Drone too. She's not afraid to get offensive she could just slot into any
composition so Ryder wanted to use it as offensively as possible it's the Smashners bully in his
teammate of FaZe weighing back with Rosa, he's been forced to retreat for a second but both
teams tried to contest the objective. The dive coming in but there's not really too much else
to follow, it's to leap in, to swing away, just make sure that the backfine has to be
pushed back a little bit more but FHD is the first to go down, Vert goes able to take him out
and the catch into the air means that Crown Falls dive is a bit more bunkered up and Ducky is not
too far away from having a strangled presence, the faster ultimate is to be building on this side,
even getting past Crazy Kitty. First team fight won for Rad, and they've built a block and forced
Cranfall back. Yeah, the fellow grab grabs up Lugia Goat by, I mean it's Hulk, so literally Rad
just pile on top of their own vanguard, everyone receives the unbreakable result, and then they
break Abiru with the exhale to make sure that even with the strange stealth touching, Rad
pull a magic trick over the sorcerer's supreme and catch the point with his person still in that
lobby. The Anacotchi does have the eternal bond to set Cranfall up to walk forward, but Smash
is just going to go first with the Apex Predator. You've got the dashes, you can actually lead the path of the Glautrox with them so no one has fallen yet, but Rand still has the greatest sustainability in the form of both the Rage of Ultron as well as the Strangling Prison, which I believe actually got faded through.
Yeah, Mask of Pudding from the Glortrox, he was almost able to get up, FHD is going to finish the job of the creatures
and the invisible boundary is going to mask a little bit of space here, Lugia jumping out, the ultimate going in for the slam
and the Eye of Agamut for a boo-hoo.
I don't know if it connects onto many, but it's certainly not going to follow through on 20 eliminations
just because you have the fate of both of those from Bersko.
It means that all of the strategies to be forced to use these ultimates,
MASH has got the solver servants in hand, but it's not really needed.
This fight for Crownfall is spread, and whilst it might be getting picked and have bodies on the point to fight it,
there's no chance of them to be able to actually take it. It's two-thirds progression already made
from RAD and another pick up to a Vuhu to stall. And then Smashness is about to get a second Apex
Predator up. You're getting to see how much damage this Elsa can do, but Crazy Kiddy's also
untouchable. Like this Ultron is receiving the Idol or Snowflake from Vertigo, has not fallen so far,
is undyable, so MJD's actually out of the Wolverine since you're just not getting
value grabbing out of Vanga, so you can't get close enough. Instead he goes over to the Bucky,
the Winter Soldier to be able to put pressure on both the Flyers, but also potentially hook someone
out of position, and the Lie Craneforge to open up the fight with an elimination.
As pulled from the Apex Predator, and it's pulled through who out, it just got back!
It just got back at ease out again, straight away. Rosa now needs to get on the dive
to miss the solo vanguard for now, as he actually does have his own Apex Predator,
but Rosa goes down before the piece that he basically used.
Proud for, just neither in or out throughout the entirety of that point makes it easy for Rad,
a skirmish at best. I mean, Rad just had so much damage that every time Rosa tried to go in on that
venom, even if the attempt was to soft dive, there was no option of being able to soft dive
and retain your health, but it was just gone within seconds. Then you have to stabilize the
venom. Rad are just able to push Smash Nets forward, forge for more space, mesh to find an
elimination in the downtime when the venom's not working at the backline, and push for more.
and current for without that venom creating those opportunities for the rest of the team like
what is your next engagement it can't be strange because you're going to be coming under so much
pressure from both the mantis the learner the ultra and the Hulk the alpha like the problems just
did not end. Too many bodies too much of a stressful time. The hockey so-called stability
strength of prison too means that like right of quite a lot. Ignoring obviously the boost banner
ultimate will see exactly where the Hulk can sort of bring it together but he does actually have
the ultimate too which is very fastly built up in fact rad seem to be actually very good at
making these old generations work in a boohoo going for the pot play to begin with. I don't know how
successful this is going to be though because like you can do this when rad don't have strategies
ultimate like match is okay with just popping saw research and some running abdomen feels more
occasions like you use portal just so that you can disguise your rotation and try and get into
positions close up the distance but strangling prison comes up through not blocked by the strange
shield. Aiyana Coachie tries to heal the team with the eternal bomb but there's just too much
incoming damage. They find the eliminations through the bomb and oh, Kanko is still trying to win this
one. A clutch attempted with the apex predator, just looking to grab them off of that cliffside,
but I mean it picks up one person, the rest of Rats can still cap. Oh it seems like they're going to
be switching the characters at least, like Rosa, using the Feast of the Abyss so they can go towards
Angela. Aiyana Coachie not afraid to go away from the posse dagger towards the jet, which on this
this point is pretty good. FHD, like, not gonna be switched off, but they'll see you
building your whole composition around it, and it could, literally everything.
MJD, however, does have a tracking's impact switched over to it away from the
Wolverine a little bit earlier on on the first point. The ride's taking full
control, you have got the rage of Ultron being used, a great ultimate to just
keep buying a bit more time, and with how quickly it still builds up despite the
nerves, it means that it's gonna be ready very quickly, as is everything with
of rad with these ultimate generations.
Potentially, of course, invisible boundary,
but Cranfall are able to kite out of it,
hold onto invisible boundary, try to use
to catch the pop of the GLaTrux
since we do get a huge eye back on Moto actually
coming on through from a very, very forcing vertigo's hand.
You see, using fate of those force to try to keep the team up,
and they will wait for that one to be done
before coming on through with a crack in impact.
But unfortunately, it doesn't actually impact
anyone on the team, and Cranfall yet again
lose what should have been an engagement option.
I come to the apex prior to trying to grab up two,
but the Hulk manages to come out with the Unbreakable Resolve once the Glautrux is broken and Radwork
other flawlessly.
I mean, they haven't really had to stress too much with how these fights have gone in.
Now it's just pushing back this approaching crownfall and Bearman and Vuhi did go for
a pot play first, so we've hopefully rather taken this.
There might not be a chance to actually contest this as Doctor Strange if it keeps going at
this rate.
Oh no.
Ducky tried.
He tried to build the walls up, potentially for himself up to Parkour and be above the
church with Shanglin Chris and the crime for Least Expected, but the walls there not able
to line up.
Rage of Ultron does line up, syncing with the crime for his engagement.
I come to Shanglin Chris and when they're all kiting away from the Ultron and Rad follow
up with the damage, Smashna is unclear on the off angle, this is just a panic edge, Jeff
from A. Anakurji looking to get past the team of Rad and potentially go on to the point
for an over some activation, but it is not to be, and Raj, there's a reason that we talk
about this team being up there in terms of the standings for Group B. They looked absolutely
seamless in both rounds of the domination.
And dominations today have been dominating for the team that's won. I think there was
three eliminations against Navi. I'm really curious to see how many eliminations went
up against Rad on this one, because one for Ducky as he was 15 and one. I can't imagine
that is modern 5 potentially it's count 1, 2, 3.
Yeah and I mean it's a real problem when Smashners on the Elser is one of those who
does not go down because that means that you're playing at maximum levels of instincts.
Oh boy are you getting a lot of extra health, mobility and instant access to some of your
most damaging abilities.
Crazy kitty too on the Ultron like we have to talk about the fact that this is an Ultron
Right, as part of a flying composition, you should be vulnerable when you can't play around cover.
The fact that Crazy Kitty did not go down once speaks volumes to the access of space that
Crimeful had as they just were not able to get past anything on the front line to successfully
cry to the back.
And we almost outdone X-Men 3D who was there on 3rd, moved up to Pucky Puppet at the war
Marine.
It just felt like a mess completely.
RAD, we saw how much freedom I had with the draft yesterday, here it was a little bit
more of those bigger characters were taken out, yet still RAD are adjusting to work
with the triple strategist, they've got the perfect team for it, but also having Elsa
to just slot in. What on earth do you do with a draft to stop these characters from going
through? Because RAD are just looking way too good with the compositions at the end.
I don't have the answer to those questions, it's their opponents that are going to have
to figure those out and there's still a couple more to have as once again Rage currently
have a couple games in hand, they do not play on Monday, they are currently set to get 2-0
up at the top of the table along with Navi, but Navi are playing later today so it's
going to be equally as difficult.
What a setup, what a great start for us here but overall we have some front runners appearing
at the top of the table and they're kind of looking like what we were thinking and I think
we're going to be heading to a break, so we're going to jump on into that to get set up for map number two.
I'm trying to help.
Blood's out.
Suffer in the darkness.
Let's pop back up under their noses.
us against the world
My turn to shine
I apologize for misspeak earlier saying that Radder currently 2-0, it was the map that
was 2-0, but right now they're looking like this could be a solid 2-0 as they are continuing
their dominant run, meaning it's up to Crownful to try to adjust this, and they decided to take us to Midtown Moxie.
Why though?
I mean, I'll be surprised, this is literally what Crownful have turned to in each of their series,
and they looked much better on it the first, the second time,
rather than that first, like they improved, significantly being able to stall, vision out,
and actually managed to bring to second a hold, as well as getting a really good stall for overtime
on first as well. I'm a little bit concerned about the fact like they're going to midtown
against a team that hasn't really been playing dive against them because midtown normally
is the turn that you take to convoy when you're up against a dive team because it's the least
easy map to be able to dive in the pool that we have access to. Ratch is kind of beating them with
high damage output, triple strat lines to be able to survive the soft dive, understanding that it has
no elimination potential, melt the venom down and then turn your attention to the rest of the team
core when they have no space to work with. Like, you're still going to face the same problems
unless you fix your band draft. With that knowledge, Ryan, with that knowledge and with that challenge
set down, what would you like to see them adjust in this band draft that's coming up?
I think for the band draft, it really is just trying to limit as much as you can of like triple
strategies because that is obviously very filled on this point as well. Triple band
longer to construct is not as popular on the defense for example, but still being played
gets in pieces by some of the teams and certainly Adam is finding a lot of value in the hands
of Crownfall when it matters. I think overall just composition wise the way that they're
playing has just been a little bit more clinical in how they end these fights because Rad have
the ability to use these scrappy, they've had so much experience playing at that level
but Crownfall, if they have the advantage they have to make it count. Otherwise Rad is
going to be able to win five versus sixes, especially if they're good at coordinating
oats. Even a lost head would not be cramped for our outings possible to go through to
the playoffs after losing three games, but it's going to be extremely difficult. So this
is cramped for best chance to get themselves back in the charts. I said to get over to
our casters, Ryan and Moxie, to take us into map number two.
is always. I mean, for Rad, it's like they know that Crown 4 are going to try and go for this style,
just like the Gambit first trying to get one-sided Elsa. Rad don't want to let that happen. So it
looks like the first part of this draft moxie is going to be exactly the same as it was over on Kruppowa.
Yeah, I expect this to be an Elsa save as well, since you have to just be able to match what exactly
Smashners has been doing. But like for sure at some point there has to be a ban out onto maybe the
low key, maybe the Mantis. If you're worried about a triple strategist or an item composition
making its way through, as RAD now will be taking out the Mantis, Crimeful not falling into the
pitfall trap that they did on Domination, also already looking like they're about to lock that
Mantis as well. So as we said, right, it's not a case of take them to a map. Don't worry about the
composition RAD play previously. No, you actually have to adjust your band draft the way that we're
was saying here to make sure that what happens on domination is not repeated on
convoy. So now it's really a question of love because it was the dead of what they
banned out if there's going to be any changes really on the side of right like
it's they're going to watch you protect the low key make sure that they have
something to like work alongside and really it's not even just a case like
yeah you could do it with a gamut gamut's not available but the obvious
like Adam copy you can still do invisible woman is still in the pool
that's still plenty to work with and Pokodaga is the choice for Rad to take out.
Well, Loki's save is well coming through from Rad, I was going to say like this is why Crenfall
took us to Midtown. The Banai Permanentus, because Daredevil now getting through the Bandraff,
is nowhere near as problematic as say somewhere like Spider Islands instead. As Crenfall looked
at it, they will return the favor so no team is going to have access to the Eternal Bond, the
Terakabe, the Dark Teleportation, as well as all of the additional AoE healing that a cloak and
dagger can bring to a stack of teams rolling out in small rooms or on main.
Draft is completely mirrored, so it's almost as if we're playing MRC again for our two MRC
qualifying teams. There's not going to be any one-sided characters above these teams,
wanting to try and beat out each other just on the same choice of characters,
on just basically pound for pound strength alone.
Yeah, but I mean, Cranville have been playing a lot more Emma than I think a lot of people were
expecting given the fact that Emma does get outpaced by dive compositions fairly easily,
but on Convoy she can still find strength, marching to prevent rush downs and also having
things like the diamond form and carbon crush when the actual attention is turned to the point
itself to be able to continue trying to move it along. No surprises here that Cranville, like
like you said, going for that low key save will also be able to get the Adam Warlock
composition through, so potentially two casts of Kamma Provival, maybe two casts of Invisible
Boundary as they're going to look to slowly wear Radd down, not necessarily for a full
hold, but just to take them out of as much time as they possibly can before we move to
the other parts of the map.
You're going to have a player to look at what's this playing the group, this time it was banned
out, the last time the crown pod played vision on this map, a boohoo, strange, it's also very
Good not only football plays but just playing it in and out of those moments crazy kitty
Seeing if he's gonna be actually the one that's gonna roll with the dualist is the future to set up
It's going to come in for rad very aggressive and even see Luke you move over to the Emma
It's gonna provide a lot of respect on the side of crown for they don't want to get too close to the cabin
I mean rad also have way more wall break and
Crown will have to respect that right regeneration domain is already forced on the hands of the defense because not only a family wall break
there's also more incoming damage from both the Elsa and that Parnasher and it
should be shown in terms of the Stratus Altar but Crampo running triple
Stratus lines are actually cannibalizing each other's ultimate economies allowing
Mesh to keep pace and this is really dangerous. Crampo are not going to be
near a Stratus Altar to slam into right aggressively and they're having to give
up space because they're taking too much damage and having to pull back to try to stabilize.
And that means that like FHD, the halfway to the Kamen revival is going to be
under a little bit more stress. Ionicoji, it might be able to actually pick him to the post and grab it
with four-handed defeated, but an invisible boundary. The dabby is going to be the liven.
You lose in the Vivangato, and Rosa is taking an absolute truck turn of damages. The payload is
going to move past the ambulance. Visual boundary forced out on both sides to try and keep it an
even fight, which only naturally leads towards rad. You've got the invisible boundary used on the
defensive groundfall, and then a final judgement in hand for Smash Bros, whilst the copy come
who did for another invisible boundaries for both teams to go on top of it.
With all of these stats on top of each other,
Crownfall is doing well, can help put people under the pressure.
But it has forced out a pretty early counter-revival.
It's going to bring back Rosa,
and now you've got the side of seduction.
That's a catch. A couple more players that are going to be immediately brought back,
but it's still like just 40s on the point for Crownfall.
Meteor Air might be able to force back the attackers for second.
Great shot onto Smash there, so the strangler present for Raz
might be actually the turnaround that they need.
Crownfall actually holding on for dear life, but it doesn't seem to be enough, the M is clearing up the space, there's too many group walls for these teams to rely on, and Crownfall had everything, they used everything and it still wasn't enough.
I mean, Lugia got with the diamond plunge, just goes into the strangling prison, ducky sets against the backline
Sees that the vanguards are brawling the rest of rats whole team, not there to block the guard ultimate and catches
Everybody also away goes to sustain now. We head into second as well away goes the atom composition every PC on to the punisher
MJDB also to be able to match the damage output of rights composition, which was so problematic for the defense to deal with
pretty much back to where they started.
There's a good cry actor for Crownfall
to try and pull back some of the space,
try to form cross flies,
but it also means the place is isolated.
Smash Desk on the Punisher has found so much value here
with all of these walls.
They're not gonna be too long for this world.
Regendom in almost as use offensively,
rather not afraid to dedicate
the most important bits of utility
to just really put their foot down
on the necks of Crownfall
to make sure that it's gonna fall to pieces.
It's just this tempo of wrath,
the rotation of ultimate absolutely bounding through.
It's going to force a Strangling Prison from the boo-boo, but there's nobody nearby for Crown Fog.
They're all separated by this invisible boundary.
You're all being picked up one at a time, and this is looking to hold Kit's way through the second checkpoint,
unless there's a potential portal for it.
I mean, current pool could rely essentially on a Koji with the one-sided God of Meshift to copy into an invisible boundary,
but that's just gonna act as a crazy kitty with the apex predator being that trap card.
And it looks like, actually, current pools have just been cleared off any opportunity.
Oh no, the force physics.
I'm crazy, can you still able to come up with the apex pressure grabbing everyone from Crimeful, forcing them into using God of First Shift when they've already lost one, make that two players through the boundary skill potential.
Things are going from bad to worse as Crimeful are losing ultimate economy, players late and that's going to translate into all of the free map space for Rad to take when they move into third.
Look at how far ahead they can already afford to be.
I feel like I'm watching Chopped again, Prime Chopped at the end of Stage 2 of last year
with just ultimate rotations, right?
Just how rather not afraid to use weird timings like,
oh we got the checkpoint, let's use two ultimates
because we know that we've got plenty of time to build them up again,
but also we're going to force up stuff for Crownforce so they have less,
and Crownforce just are completely disarrayed,
they've switched over towards the Punisher themselves for a final judgement,
final HD, it's not going to have much space to work with,
and Amito M is going to be forced out,
He's forced out, looking to maybe go towards the Emma, but the barrier is going to mean
it's not going to catch on to much.
He goes in the other direction, does Rosa.
Now he's trying to get onto this objective and you can see just how these big walls from
Ducky are completely making this a tough fight for Crownfold.
They're not even using the high ground because they're that focused on touching the point
and stopping it from moving.
I mean, Crownfold though, they're probably on to the final judgement waiting for Davy
to have invisible badges, pocket FHDC through the duration of it.
This might be the turning point, but Rad, they're just taking cover.
Away from where the punisher can come from round the corner now starts being able to connect the damage onto the bodies crazy
Kitty tries to turn the fight actually with the apex predator a boo who spots everyone at a position with the strangling person catching
The attempt to disengage and that's rad being chased all the way back into their respawn point
But current will still have to be very worried
They don't fight off more than they can chew as they're still missing a anacondia on that low key and it cannot afford to lose a player late
there's a lot more like
Up for the ultimate, actually. It's good to be MKB using the Apricot, it doesn't get much, but it forces up strong with prison from Duffy.
You have got both of the Loki's having these ultimates, so it's good to see the copies of the invisible boundaries up,
and if you smash theirs, you sat there waiting. You know that invisible boundary wasn't used too long ago from Davy.
He's built it up to two-thirds, so there is a window here if you want to go more offensive.
The fact is, though, that this isn't maybe an over-extension from Crownfall, they want to try and hold this choke and force out these ultimates.
these ultimates, RAD will maybe just find a peek into the neutral, FH is taking a chunk
of damage, but there's a copy from Nash, seeing if he wants to go for something a little
bit more offensive, seeing if he can plant new visual bang, a little bit deeper and later,
and it's right on the objective as to final judgement actually was shut down from FHD,
he makes sure that nothing else can be said from ThunderShot.
I mean potentially RAD's still able to turn this, they have double stravages ultimates
ready to go, Nash uses invisible bang at first, Vitegr could potentially hold for second,
But like you said, getting the shutdown on that final judgement is crucial on the side
of Crampool because it allows them to win the fight with only Darby's invisible boundary.
It does mean that FHDC with his own final judgement will not have anything outside of
regeneration to mean to pocket its duration, but I mean if you're Crampool you might even
actually overlap Rosas' meteor antlers with the damage coming that punishes way.
They've also been able to burn a lot of time off of the Bank of Rats economy as MGD gets
Two plays to that fourth physics, oh my goodness there's Elsa's help, he's on an absolute roller coaster
As we get the apex predator finally being sent in, but blocked off by some pretty good brute wall
So that only now does Ducky fall, the rest of the team with the regeneration domain can actually
Clight out of the position they got grabbed and keep their players intact
One minute left for Rad to push this to the end, which Vettus Pro were able to do in overtime
Smash this, which went over towards the Phoenix, some more best couching, I'd be able to find stuff
It means that I am a coach who can't get away with much and these walls are going to be cleared out of house as much as they can set as a captain.
Really good at creating space. Strangely, kids are going to be used alongside this final hit from Head HD, but the invisible bound is going to protect.
It's just a claim. You know roughly where they're going to be stuck and where they're going to be playing from, but no elimination is going to come in off the back of it.
Rosa potentially might be holding on to the ultimate to see if he can slam down on any more aggressive plays.
doesn't need to worry about the Punisher ultimate on the side of Rad anymore, but now it's weather
crazy kitty, now that he has the safe ex-creditor in hand, if he can catch people off, most certainly
the crown fall, can you do better in these overtime fights because it's looming, it's about to hit,
you've got the copy over from Roki that's going to put down an invisible boundary into this engagement
and Dabby is waiting to use his straight afterwards, they know it's a case of hate,
Meteor M is going to be used alongside an invisible boundary put on the point to allow Rad to fight
like this a little bit more. You got Enso did Furno used to try to slam down to see if
he can capture anybody in the back line, but it doesn't connect. Rosa is going to go pretty
low. Has to use the ball off of himself to protect him, but he loses FHD in the process.
Biddle boundary from Dabby is now going to be used. MJD is very close to having an Apex
Predator, but everybody in and around him is starting to drop. Radd don't have the
ultimates, and overtime's tubes to be a curse for Crownfall. There's so much wick left as
Ayan and Koji's going to go down. A regroup is needed.
MJD with Apex Predator, I mean you don't have the time for that regroup. Rad have everyone on the point to get as much speed as possible.
You're just going to have to send someone onto the point. As the sacrifice war reserve goes, gets rolled off, so no healing on the side.
There's the Apex Predator that you were trying to wear. I fall, but unfortunately it's dangles that you pick up, not squishy, so no easy elimination from the back of it.
Let it go of the invisible boundary. Lugia as well. The psionic seduction means that, yeah, everyone from Granville, no one who was still up, was able to keep their presence on the point, and Rad in overtime are able to close up mid-time.
No, they didn't. It was right at the end. It was Rad that got up a bit. They only had two pots.
Oh, no.
It's it looked like they had the advantage and maybe just crown fall things leaning their way for once
But it's it's the same again like maybe it moves like 20 more meters, but these overtime fight for crown fall
I like how they saw the set themselves up of like, okay
We're gonna need the low key ultimate any visible woman ultimate like we're ready to use him in tandem really well played for
My anacodian Dabby could do that
But it's like the offensive capabilities were missing there to an extent it was just a MJD had a really good apex predator
ultimates cap right out and just in there in coordination managed to get off but
they effectively finish them up. I mean rather look at this composition they're
looking to stall. Oh we have the Adam, we have the Loki, we have the Invisible
Woman, pretty much everything that Cranefall did. Something to talk about
as well is that Raditz such a good job of denying FHDC on this Punisher any
strategist ultimate to better give strength to the final judgment. Right
final judgment is such a wispy ultimate for a Punisher to use because of just
how much of a target you become when you're burning it. And as a matter of facts, we get
to see like entire matters develop around things like a Stratus ultimate being used to
guarantee the Punisher's survival for it. So RAD constantly forcing Ayanakurji and Dablin's
burning ultimate meant that FHDC's ults were far more comfortable or uncomfortable than he was
probably hoping. As we now get Crimefall getting to meltdown the Great Walls, FHDC on the Punisher,
mjdd Elsa can they do what rad were able to start taking advantage of having all of that incoming damage to push
Crimefall all the way back no rad actually with the soul bond are able to mitigate a lot of the incoming poke by just
Hiding around the actual walls that the map provides
Well, thanks, geezer. It's a moon night now
So well players time to construct might make this more uncomfortable for rather than they were necessarily hoping nobody's been eliminated yet
But there's been a couple of close calls already as these ultimates are tanking up at a good rate
It's not a crazy kitty, already having two-thirds of his ultimate, but is forced up with a life cocoon.
His FHD is one target that he's focusing and he's managed to grab him.
Maybe hunting down where this life cocoon is going to go, and now with that hand-of-cunt shoot in position,
the fact that it's now spread out into the main street means it's gonna be harder to nail this down.
A boo-hoo lacking behind slightly with the strangled prison, but it is just the case that Kampo has built these overall ultimates.
Most certainly the strategy still goes great quickly.
Really like his invisible boundary to go more offensive with the Apex Predator.
Looking to try and play people out, the walls try to keep them out of their own teammate's hold
as they're both being copied and stacked on top of each other.
FHD, if there's a hand of corn shoe, there's a good moment to use it,
but you don't want RAD to keep building up these walls.
I mean, the second use of that invisible boundary actually forces Martin to using the Adam's copy
now coming through to bring everyone from RAD back.
MJD's been dealt with as well.
Crankle have nothing to be able to find the eliminations after that first rise,
which means Crazy Kitty will be able to hold on to his own Karmic Revival. Ducky as well trying to
catch the disengagement of Krimphol with that strangling prison forces out the regeneration
domain because Krimphol are still brawling on the objective they don't want to give up all of this
map space by pulling all the way back. Misha and the Lies Roses to grind the corner potentially take
Smash Ness out of the fight and force Crazy Kitty finally into parting with the Karmic Revival to
bring a crucial aspect of the composition back and there it is, Adam Ultimate invested, Radh
having to get bodies back onto the cart to make sure the cry for don't just push
it in the checkpoint when there's no contest.
What'd they do? Oh no they actually did! They just put it in, some rad like they seemed pretty much well set up for a match
that he's able to get the copy of the camera revival for one and in crazy
keeps you could just sit back with it. The problem is the reds are back a little bit too much and now so this fight
is just turned into a little bit of a do-match I think that Radd have managed
to win out but because of where the spawns have shifted they do have to give up
some other space. I mean yeah I would have been walls killing first from a
a very good one to interfere with how Rad were able to position and bounce their players
onto that point. The reason why Vodigo invested the invisible boundary is literally so that
Rad gets space back. They now control all of these off angles, they can play mash super
far back without having to worry about Crankville putting fresh from both the front line and
the back as we get a very aggressive apex pet that's trying to grab the players out of
position. Fought up by a very aggressive, impissive, boundary strangling person combination
coming through from Crample's side as they try and catch both of the Grud ultimate and
then with the slow on top of it but Rad had already disengaged away and that's Crample
now out of two ultimates and having to rely on Ayanna Cody to match Mashes.
So gone was he, but that's the only real thing that we dedicated out. I do like these offensive
ultimates from Gabi, he's usually on the gamut of the invisible woman, he's looking a lot
more fierce than today. It's the way that Crample are trying to keep up with Pace with
But it's those offensive capabilities even if they do come through you have now another copy of the camera vital from mass
Crazy kids about to build up the logo on a big friend. It's just gonna catch a few more
But I imagine a crazy kitty is maybe just gonna pull this ultimate out straight away
Or maybe they just feel like ducky is you don't want this gonna go down
No, they want to make sure that he's back crown follow thinking how many of these ultimates do they seem to have they ever meet
You're em. It's almost being built up from Rosa, but now you're looking at FHC 30% away and 20% away
We have so much to worry about.
Vertigo!
Crazy Kiddy's actually able to find the angle which allows Vertigo to come into Rez's distance
which allows Invisible Boundary to be brought back into the fight.
This is why he went for the Rez.
He wanted to allow Rad the opportunity to hold in Subway before Crenfo could find that
second checkpoint.
Strangling Prison comes on over, there's no follow up of Hand of Conscience which means
that Vertigo's ultimate is enough alongside the Soulbond to keep Rad in this fight and
Dabby has to use an invisible boundary to be able to match, and the light current for
to hold on.
We now have a race between the two low keys to see who hits that strategist to ultimate
first, and if it's enough to finally finish off the fight on one end.
I need to be careful with it. I'll get pushed off the point for a third time from this team and bullied away.
Masha's going to go for the copy and a strangled prison on top of it too.
There's so many play footballs up there trying to paticate each other's sustenance, but it's not going to be enough.
You don't really need too much else in the end as Crownfall are sent back to spawn.
Built up their own, like, got a mischief and also another apex predator,
but now Rad actually has some freedom to move forward and hold this.
Yeah, they've got the high ground hold and Crownfall, that shows on time.
This is the 7th enemy in the lobby for Crownfall to have to face down right now.
Not only are they going to get held at show, can potentially have to part of that one of their
ultimates before they can even get onto the convoy itself. The more time they take,
the closer Crazy Kitty is going to be to hitting Karmic Revival, and no one from Crownfall can
part from the fight to mark the Atoms position down. Apex Predator from Smashners has read out
the same rotation Crownfall tried to make yesterday when they played Midtown, and this is all
going wrong. It's a reliance on the strange portal. Just to get through the choke, at least
you've got an invisible boundary to be able to stabilize it off of the Anacodia's copy,
but I mean, Rad, they've read out. They've been able to hit Tab. They can see that there's a strange
in the lobby, and they're just going to swap their rotation to make sure that they're there to meet
up. And also, the copy of the government ship, so an invisible boundary can be slumped down if it's
needed. So this is a good hold. It's an interesting question to be asking, Rad, at this point,
and a boo-hoo. It's not just a party, it can make the strange work like we said at the start of the map.
Crownfall have a lot of ultimates here, but the subjective isn't moving.
The spawn's a-fliped and it's an uncomfortable spot. It's going to force these domains out from
Ionicoji, and there's the copy-afterings of the invisible boundary. M.D. also used in the Apex Predator.
It's an over-resc for Crazy Kinty. I don't know if Mash is going to feel the need to have to use it
depending on how this next fight goes, as it's no struggle with prison like in the server. These M.D.
haven't been connected on the side of Crownfall, but they connected their balloon gear.
See if there's going to be a pick onto the other side, certainly up to the eye of that motel.
A perfect combination for the camera revival again from Maas.
It's just dirty from Ravz if they're able to actually get these many resurrections out and through.
Crownfall now, overtime is stacked against them as they try to push past the second checkpoint,
but they are finding eliminations. The free play is still left on Ravz on this point.
They are finding the eliminations of picks. There's no more pause, there's no more chance
the Crownfall to be able to touch, and Rad taking out this series and taking dex of these players
that are leafing in for hope. Even the Gloartrocks has fallen in just to see if they can catch them.
Rad taking this series to nail in Crownfall. A promise but not enough to go against Rad who
looked amazing today. Oh you could feel the desperation. You can absolutely feel the desperation.
We might not be in the cons, we might not be able to listen to the players, but like that
Ayavagamoto, Mitsuya and combination was then desperately trying to get the elimination onto
the atom warlock before there was an opportunity for that god of mischief copy to go through.
Like if they found it, if they denied Loki the line of sight and mashed the god of mischief copy
onto Crazy Kitty, maybe they get the second checkpoint, but they're just not able to find
it in time. Mash completes the god of mischief animation, gets the second cast of karmic revival
in the fight, and as we talked about, it's over time. Crimeful have no one spare to be able to go
mark out where that karmic revival will be coming from, and as a result, no one to be able to clean
I'll then present everyone from rap, piling back into the fire.
I mean, it was an interesting map because we do have these identical band protect
screens up for both teams. So it was kind of like MRC. It was both teams had access
to the same kind of compositions. Both teams were adjusting pretty much at the same time,
very familiar in how they're playing. Maybe they streamed a lot against each other, leading
up to MRC because they were on opposite sides of the back. It's hard to get a gauge. But
for Crownfall, I think it's just like, just counter-pound, outbeat. In previous
performances. It's like, yeah, this team maybe is a little bit more experienced than you.
It's like, no, you're playing up against players from chopped final dance phase. These are teams
that are like used to surpassing what their expectations are. And it's no surprise that
Radha picked them up. And this is a result that you would expect to see from them. It's just that
they are coming through a very good looking crown form. They really are. They're setting themselves
up at the top of the table here. There are now three teams in this group, so to get two zeros at
at the top of their table. It's a fantastic position to be in, but crampful. They're not
out what's good. It is mathematically possible for them to make their way through here, but
they're sitting at 0 and 3 right now. They now have a little bit of time. They, of course,
that's their last game of this week. They can now go away, try and scrim people from
the other group. Like you were suggesting, they probably didn't MRC Ryan to try and work
their way up because it's not an easy journey from here to make it out the group. It's basically
going to be three teams fighting over one spot.
It's such a competitive group as well, and some of them are looking better and better as they go along.
At least in some of those elements that I was saying about like overtime, you know, for example,
RAD actually getting to the end of that map would have been like, oh yeah, more of the same against
Groundfall, but they're able to hold on. A couple of mistakes from RAD there, I guess we'd like touching
the point on defense first, and then actually getting off of the objective at the end of the map,
but it is because like Groundfall are forcing some good mistakes, and I think that that strap
Backline did relatively well. It's just what do you do against Loki at really when there was like 16 17 resurrection some of the events was crazy
Don't see felt like we were watching a winter soldier with the about times
We were hearing again
It just was prefaced by born this time just from the amount of times they brought him back and I love that you spotted that boxy of
Just the positioning of crazy kitty seeing the vertigo was taken down on the high ground
round further into the map. So instead of trying to charge up the ramp and round the corner to try to
deeper into subway tunnel, deeper into the subway into the changing rooms down there. Absolutely
magnificent positioning by Rad well-deserved placement to find themselves right now sitting at
the top of the table with vision and purpose pro which they will have to play against that is going
to be some of their next week games so they're not out of the woods yet. I mean that's going to be a
great match though, for sure. Like, rather looking on absolute fire, but also showcasing
that they can play so many different compositions. Like, we got a little bit of that triple strategist
line with the Ultramanthus, which is probably a huge part on Y Crankle, were adverse to
trying to take us to Convergence, not just about, you know, the comfort levels of areas
like Midtown, but as we got to see, like, right, even with the generation with the nerfs
through the ultimates, still able to play the Loki, still able to play the Adam, and
Mesh and Crazy Kitty looking just as devastating on it as ever.
We're also going to bring up the fact that Ducky just had an absolute bail to that game.
39 and 8 were 17 final hits, the most in the game.
We're actually going to be interviewing Ducky in just a moment, so that would be absolutely
perfect for us.
But the fact is, we've been looking at people like Ducky and Luki a goat from all the way
back in stage one as like potential stars of the future and right now they are the stars of the
present because these two together are just so terrifying. I mean they're sort of used to like
having all top three finishes because they were on that serotonasty team back in stage one and
sure I think like places like Knuton were like the most like notable I suppose he was just supposed
to challenge that team and some of the strategies that they had right but like Ducky and Lugia really
showing like strong Vanguard lines in a method that's very open with them, right? And I think the
main thing is just like crazy kitty. Him and Leila's were like my two favorite players from AMA last year
and I was like, I like watching the mechanically gifted players as flexible, but I also love
watching smart players. And we're seeing that just prove dividends for this team. He can play
there enough anything that is required of them and having that as your linchpin in the center of
the squad just opens up a meta of the right opportunities for Ryden. Honestly, I think
like Navi, like Shikigami, somebody's overteamed, maybe even like Virtus Pro, like within their
group have to be a little bit scared of what Ryden can do because they are.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like, sorry, I feel like crazy, Katie, because you were on a roster with
Tuzi, you get overlooked a lot of the time because Tuzi is like that really flashy player,
right? He's bringing in the eliminations, he's hitting this ultimate really, really quickly,
But like Ryan highlighted, Crazy Kiddy was just that very good presence on the side of Sharp, who was able to be flexible,
but also come through with some really intelligent smart plays, and improve in such a rapid pace as well.
He was, out of everyone in EME, in my personal opinion, the player who improved the most in the shortest amount of time.
So we just get to see continuing to show that potential.
He has not reached his peak, still. Like, there is still a very long way that his team could potentially go,
and I cannot wait to see whether journey will leave them.
I'm going to keep it going for me here as we keep our loop of the glazing the entire team
in one go here. We've covered the bank guards, we've covered the duelists here.
MASH and Vertigo. MASH in particular we've seen a little bit more of because they actually made
it to those global finals, but this backline is so good together.
Yeah, I mean they work together so incredibly well, Vertigo as well, being able to hold the line
on Inviswoman going head to head against a team who, when they're playing that defense,
right, those Loki copies, they're going to be going on to Adam for the comic revival.
That means that you have to make one invisible boundary. Do the map, say it's pretty hard,
stretch to cover both Darby's and Ayano Koji's. So the fact that Vertigo was actually able to
keep pace with what Crimeful was sustaining with, but also making sure those invisible
boundaries actually prevented meaningful damage coming through, goes to show that his ultimate
The usage was absolutely pixel perfect.
I think that's one thing just from Riot, like I know it's like we're moving away from like
crazy giddy, but he played strategy so I'm gonna go back to him real quick.
It is like the thing that made his ult run so good back in stage 2 was when those ultimates
came in because it was a fast ultimate you could build up and it was so good at like
now.
Now we go.
It's like what Rage and Royal Flush sort of has taken over, it is the go time button.
And so when you have this like big ultimate nerf that's hit everybody, most notably the
strategists the fact that he still finds those timings is impressive but also a
hell of a lot more impactful now than it was a couple of months ago and even
when you've got groundfall that we're doing well really working hard to keep
up to all of these invisible boundaries that we use to how aggressive Dabby and
I and Akodji were trying to be it said a lot that Rad was still the one sort of
setting the pace not only from crazy kids the auto-strategists from everybody
Allcycling was amazing from this game.
Now let's swap it over while we wait for Ducky to jump on in with us just for a little bit back to Crownfall.
They are teetering on the edge right now.
It's mathematically possible that they have to win every single game from now on,
and hope that the other games go with their favour, where some other teams are able to lose three or more games as well.
Let's start with Ryan.
What would you like to see different from Crownfall going into next league's games?
I think it's um they put a lot of like focus on on the Elsa which you know a lot of teams did right did today
For example instead of seeing like stuff at the Gambit
Vanguard Ed Boone stuff like I would want to see like then maybe not look as
Uniform on the drafts. You don't want it to feel like every draft you're going for the same style
Rad showed it here today. I think they made a really good point of like, okay
Yeah, we showed like what happens if you open the draft book to us
This was like, okay, we're limited. This is what we're gonna show if you're the next opponent for Rad
Which is reason you've got to prepare for all of these different styles and try to guess what if we get rid of this instead of that
What are the other ideas that they could come up with the crown fall? You don't want it to feel like okay?
Yeah, they're just gonna try and go for one sided Elsa. This is what we're gonna do
We're just gonna match them with the drafts to begin with and get Elsa ourselves and just hit them on it
Frankly right because somebody's players are a lot more like experienced and Elsa is a very good character
I think it is just kind of like that
Eve if there's a chance that they don't make playoffs
Experiment with the draft and see what you can get away with them where those other win conditions could be from your team
Because it's a very talented squad. You just got to make it different to other teams around
I mean you think that they should start looking at the start of these matches
I think they should really look at the end of them because the overtime's like we talked about it in midtown itself
Like it hits overtime
It's like old-school Citadel when they saw a strange portal just deer in the headlight
it feels like maybe the target calling is like a little bit off. Maybe the alt reading isn't quite
there, but they fall apart in the overtime situations. But someone who did not fall apart
is going to be a ducky as they are ready for their interview for starters. What an incredible
run this team has had through MRC coming into the ignite preseason and you sit at the top of the
table with Vision Advertis Pro undefeated. How are you feeling?
I feel really good about it. I don't know, like, in officials, like, it's just a completely different
game when I'm playing scrims. I don't know why, but in officials, like, I just feel like a different
person, different player, I think. I just love it. I love it so much.
So obviously got a little bit of experience when it comes to ignite level play.
We've had a couple of people say that the competition feels a little bit closer so far this season, that it has 2-15 last year.
Do you agree with that?
Um, to be honest, I would say there's like,
6 teams, no, 5 teams I'd say this one? Or 6?
Which would be us, Shiki Gami, Heretics, Na'Vi, VP.
of the teams I think are like close to each other and then every other team is kind of like
they're like okay they have like a chance to to stick out maybe like make an upset but just like
it's really gonna be really awful. So talk to us a little bit about how you get to play the Groot
in comparison to the dive and then to the brawl because what we saw with how you were playing
route on Krakowa was wildly different to how you were playing it on midtown.
I mean, it does really depend what you're playing against and also like what you're playing for
as a team. So on midtown, we're obviously running like triple support and running like super high
sustain on the defensively. So I'm basically just playing really defensively in my walls and then
And then on Cracowar, he wasn't playing really like, he wasn't playing to sustain at all,
he was kind of just playing to like make a turn.
So as soon as I saw the Wolves grab or something like that, like an important cooldown, I just
basically yell at my team to run in behind me and then we just like, hopefully kill something.
Yeah, that's basically it.
Send it as fast as you can.
There were a couple of moments on midtown where you jumped off a fight right at the end of your attack and then off first.
There's so many walls from both sides, what actually was happening there? Was it just a mistake?
Was it a good patterned groundfall at Forstby Wealth?
In the chaos from your POV as the group, what was going on?
I mean, for the defense, on literally, as soon as they walked out of spawn balls, right?
There's just so much pressure coming in, and we knew we wasn't going to be able to sustain it.
So we didn't have a plan on where to kite at the time, which was bad.
But then we just like, we all made the split decision pool to say play ambulance, we all ran through, we just played ambulance because
we obviously not going to be able to sustain that and what you want to do with these like really high sustained comps is just get your ult
and you want to play for ult and then you just keep rezzing and rezzing like the whole defence, there was like basically a rezz every fight, like one or two rezzes, it was crazy.
The comps are really high energy because it has to be in those kind of situations.
Coming off that high energy, I hope you are excited for next week's worth of games, so
we're going to let you go and get ready for those, but we've already mentioned earlier
some of those are going to be against Demon Vision or Virtus.Pro. Do you have any message
for them?
Oh, no, really, I don't know. Maybe Bang Groot, let your game play to the top.
Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
All right, thank you for joining us, Ducky. We'll let you go celebrate with your team.
Keep that high energy rolling and get warmed up for the games next week.
Once again, congratulations.
Thank you.
Another win in the books for Rad, they continue to move up to the top of the table.
And like you said there, Ryan, they're just letting their gameplay do the talking.
Yeah, I mean, I think the other thing I would like of wanted to have asked Ducky, I think,
was like him and Lugie have played on teams since Ecstatic and Invitational.
And like, I feel like just as a vanguard duo, they are often a little bit overlooked.
So it is like nice to see them shine again, especially because we haven't seen Ducky in Ignite,
since stage one I think it was the sub and stage two so yeah like the fact that he's come back
like a spring chicken and he's absolutely out into this group says a lot.
Team we're going to be heading to a break but I need you all in the chat to stick around because
this next one could be huge in terms of implications for their group it is going to be Shikigami
versus Alter Esports. So don't go anywhere. We'll be back right after this.
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We have been so excited for this game all day.
even on the previous days looking at the skaters coming up ahead this could decide higher placing in
the groups this could decide playoffs if something goes seriously wrong for these teams in the following
weeks games this is going to be shikigami the first team to take a map off of navi in our pre-season
versus alter e-sports one of our mrc teams that are just looking so strong right now starting
with you ryan who you care i mean it's shikigami i think this is just a squad that like consistently
like interesting with how they've played in like MRC recently they've got good tenure and really the
only like downside is that they played up against Navi and really couldn't scare them all that much
on some maps but they still had some good ideas on the verse like Central Park so it's not just the
fact that I think that the ceiling for Shikigami is high and people might anticipate it's that they're
going to bring out some really kooky ideas it's just whether or not they can bring them out of
domination where all to have some good results or middling results such as the bomb not middling
Oh terrible results zero and two on it. I thought it was good and then it was middle in there's bad
Moxie same question to you
Who are you looking at for this one? We're starting on burn into chat and starting on ability chalor that influences your decision
I mean cheeky gammie obviously the clear favorites. It's burning to chalor, which means that I'm sure we're going to be seeing
Dev come for a certain points
You can also if you really want to on summer like falls run a ultra on a triple strategist line that we did get to see
that we got to see from all to
Esports, comparing their first
day to their second day, night
and day in terms of difference.
Like they worked out their
band draft. They stopped looking
at solely using rogue in the
band draft as well. Even if
they were going up against like
the van got dead full, it
struggled and they were
struggling to get to the
as well. Even if they were going up against like the Vanguard Deadpool, it struggled and
lo and behold, day two, what's one of their just instant ban paths with Vanguard Deadpool,
which I'm sure is going to follow suit today.
Altar's improvement story should be studied. Coming in with this new roster through the
M.R.C. system with some experienced players from all the way back in season zero, making
their way up here to qualify through the Marvel Rivals Championship system and now find themselves
in Ignite pre-season against one of the teams that is expected to do the best.
They should be kept to die on and like Woksy said, adjustments in their draft
have been fantastic to see.
We were hoping for it since day one and we are loving it.
But burden to Charla.
Let's start with Ryan.
What do you think when looking at it?
Oh, I mean, the draft so far has been more of a look of like
Chick-a-gami nut fire in the Elsa.
They want to try and get the gambit in the dead of what they can.
for Altar Esports and are not likely to let that happen. It's also interesting that both
these teams have played the same opponent so far, both of which were like Pulsar and
then Navi just in a different order. It's just that Altar Esports dropped a map against
Pulsar where Shikigami made pretty good work of it. And there it is, like the gambit's
not going to be allowed so we'll see how Shikigami want to try and pry over there going to match
the protection of the Elsa.
I mean yeah, whoops on this, that also has been an absolute demon. As Altar Esports, I'm
I'm sure they're going to be a little bit worried about Frost Mountain's Hero Pool at some point in this draft,
given that it was Jabba Goob on the Wolverine who actually gave them the most amount of grief.
There goes Vanguard Deadpool's availability for Alt-E-Sport.
Shiki Gami now going to match the save slot with that Elsa,
so both of these teams going to have access to the premier duelist of the current meta.
Now we get that band coming out onto Alt-E-Sport's side and, as predicted, Vanguard Deadpool.
something that still has to be addressed is a low key and mantis and it looks like all the esports and
shiki gami are actually on that same train of thought and away goes one of our strategists next to
i think when you look at the first phase of the draft before these like mantis bands come in
it's scary because you could still run like q2 to triple strategist triple vanguard even there's
like a three one two setup there's still like a lot of options still available so the mantis
like as the equal band that's used at the same time pretty good idea shiki gami actually
You do want to get Kaya on hand with Venom if it's needed, if they want to play something
a bit more dive focused for all to esports.
There's plenty of opportunities that they can go for.
I think it's more like where they want to put that protection.
It went on to Rogue as Tetra was mentioned on the desk, but Invisible Woman, Loki is
also something that can happen to be whilst that Daredevil's been taken out.
Is it going to be one-sided?
It would be a really good one-sided character to have.
I mean, yeah, do you go for the rogue since you don't have access to the gambit like rogue's good
But she becomes great when she's ran alongside that gambit
And it looks like it's actually just going to be dive of her dive coming through
So now she can get me remove the Jeff to have one-sided symbiotic shenanigans to have a stronger dive sustain ability
And yes, they absolutely do so not only are we going to have that for the venom with that team up
We're also going to have these really speedy hits, but Alter Esports were able to take out the Daredevil.
So Shiki Gami are actually going to first hand scout the composition of Alter,
as opposed to having Daredevil literally tell them,
hey, they're coming around this wall, this corner, make sure that you're ready with your
jeff speed bubbles, three, two, one, go.
They're hovering over a composition that we actually saw from Shiki Gami on the other side of Central Park,
Maybe but I think it's so you've got one sided jet, which is going to be handy for what altery sports want to try and do with the fast play and
Shikigami, I'm gonna have the dead of a band out against them
Which means the first mountain isn't gonna have access to that. He's gonna potentially be on the Elsa
They're going for this position at the end
Children I mean, I'm not just looking at the church ultra and I'm looking at learn a white fox
because that spirit fox a code team up is actually really really strong at
stopping venom from getting in and out. Like venom is a really good vanguard
because you can literally go in soft dive be there for half a second be I but
with that new charm effect that the white fox affords to the lunar snow with
the team up. His hand is close a lot of the time to stay in far longer than she
desires so yeah the torch actually drops might be brought out on a map like
Warrior Falls, but here absolutely not, you're focusing on the Elcer instead.
a good angle to try to crossfire against the opening for Altar Esports. Everybody's been
forced back. Shift to Gami, take point one. Yeah, I mean, this is great. Altar Esports,
they're making sure Shiki Gami can't come in, but at the same time, Shiki Gami are making sure
no one can get out and onto point, which means Altar Esports lose control of the point first,
and Shiki Gami can now afford to just keep Altar Esports stuck inside Smorum. Unless they try
and walk forward, Shiki Gami are going to be sitting pretty, at least until Woops breaks free.
Matches to take out Ysgo, now looks to put the pressure onto Kaya trying to stall out their point control
with Shikigami and Nami's backline keeping him up all the while for it.
There's the rage of Ultron that's going to allow Waps to get that final pick up onto Nami
and now everybody's coming up, 25% grab for Shikigami and able to get a few more picks as Shikigami
looking to try to set up, I don't know if they're going to change much of their composition, there's
still some Ultimates to be built up. I mean, Ultra Raceboards are on a really good composition now
So like they're going to be able to scout out to see if Shiki-Gami are going to start taking some flank routes
If they're gonna look to split their team and speaking about split
We do actually have a split, Isidu is trying to clear up this off angle
But he's intercepted by team captain looks like Shiki-Gami still wants to force that angle though
They're sending free players both the Anci-Loshin Pujaff and the Sylocke to clear all to East
But if the team captain alone can't hold the position the Angela breaks through now gets to look for that backline
And allow the rest of Shiki's team to walk forward
They're hovering, they're seeing if they can force something out with just this pressure as the dive is going to go down just off the bottom of the screen from Tyre Frostmatt and gets the pick off the back of it and they've got a thunder.
It's going to be used, visual boundary response from Lindstrom as it's in and out of this bunker, the silo. They're looking for this fight, fake both worlds can be forced out from Alta at the same time.
Jiffygum is still having lots in the back pocket though. Dancer the butterfly is going to cut through with these triple strategists all the way back. Ultron trying to escape, doesn't need the stairs but Venom is going to steeply chase in behind him. Nice fight and ulti esports forced out a lot of ultimates in the end.
Yeah, he is that fate of both worlds. I'm in granted, Mona could potentially open up
this fight with rage of ult, trying to get ult to e-sports through these chokes, but
Layla's on the sidewalk is going to make sure to communicate to the team like you don't
have the dead level, you don't have the radar sound, so you have to actually scout and then
counter rotate to meet...
Don't leave them vulnerable. Shaky tried to dive the backline when the rest of the team
pushed forward with the heaven truck distribution, but ult or e-sports just baited third players
and swung on the antler instead.
Isidore off of that vanguard now comes back onto the stream
so that Shikigami can try and keep control of this point
instead of allowing Altair Esports to freely flip it.
Time to see if they can charge this.
It's Jeff Alt coming out from Nama,
but he's trying to provide a little bit of a carpet
for his teammates to go on and contest the point
as the threat from Altair Esports is looming over
at the rage of Ultron and the Meteor M slamming down
onto Frost Mountain as Lindstrom is sent back packing too.
So Shikigami, getting a lot of these ultimates out again, but they don't necessarily have stuff planned to come to his next engagement.
In fact, maybe feeling like they want to go for a portal place to see them move over to the strange.
I mean, Isidore was already on the strange. They actually portaled back in on that engagement.
So Shikigami now don't actually have the portal available for them.
All to Esports still do.
We're getting towards a final fight territory, especially since the Kumihou Unleashed is going to be there for Hattro
if ulti esports want to try to brawl, but they might just save it to be able to react
to dental debutify it's coming through from Layla's.
But the damage combined, right?
Like she could get me that one fight away from being able to take this round.
They might just overlap all of their ultimates and look to sweep the team.
Existing of going for those slow lifed eye hits.
Frostmountain though, on the else, it just allows you to play for those eliminations almost
out of nowhere.
And she could get it, don't have to go for a dive.
They just get to clear up the eliminations and get the point flip that way instead.
Oh, the team captain has to go for the strange. Yeah, you would just sort of building up like an overloading and with ultimates
It wasn't me that it was just the pics
But there is a least a little bit of a window for all G spots to not be too much time on the clock
But it is 99% now for Shikigami a well placed apex predator to be able to pull off a couple more players
And you starting to see all three spots
Shepard's thrust pulling him off of the objective in various directions
And in a visible down to the top means that if all three spots want to try to engage this they have to
It's going to be a precarious area of this battle to happen alter e-sports making it close on this first point
The shikigami Frost Mountain especially
An unorthodox duelist for the characters he plays not necessarily melee focused looking really really good on the ulcer
I mean shikigami just honestly doing a really good split composition like when you have to go for only a dive composition
It can fall a little bit short of expectation because like you looked at alter e-sports
how they played the rotation in the first part of those fights. Everyone bunkered up,
everyone played to counter and react to the dive, but Shikigami on on full dive, they
also have Frostmountain on the Elsa running the sideline. So the moment that that point
starts to be unlocked, they have to go into the Elsa, yet they're stopping the dive,
but they are leaving themselves vulnerable to the Elsa's damage coming on through.
And we can start to see why teams go for these split ideas of compositions,
as opposed to putting all of the eggs into the basket of one thing.
background as much as they can.
I mean they have to hold Fiddlebow Fords at the moment trying to scare it, I worry exactly
Leo as it's coming from.
ZQib, by the way, drops to the captain America so that he can start taking away some of the
healing resources of Shiki Gami's back line.
Down to the butterfly, healed on through with Fiddlebow Fords and then stopped just at the
end of it, so Silo's shut down, we still trace the coming through with the combination
of Heaven's Retribution, leading up into Nani, getting the eats onto multiple players.
The rage of Ultron puts the deck short of the cliff, and Ulti Eastwoods will be able to pick up the first fightwind and now establish their positions around the map to cut the dive off before Shikigami can set it up.
Leilis was interrupted in the ultimate too, so he's still slowly but surely building it up. Now May was the one that dedicated that it's Jeff with the rage of Ultron. Make sure he can't get too much and won't find himself too with an apex predator in hand.
Oh, Shikigami, like how do you manage to control these spaces as well, because like Zuki, he's got the Freedom Charge, he's going to be able to put way more pressure onto Nami and Lindstrom, so no free healing Jeff this time around the way we saw in previous rounds.
You can see that there are a lot more aware trying to work out where exactly that Captain America is going to be, as in the meantime, Kai is doing the same on ulti e-sports backline.
Freedom Charge comes off here allowing ulti e-spots presence back onto the point, but I mean, Shikigami, no one's actually in range to run into, everyone just pulls back.
It was a bit of a sort of hop-scratcher of a fight for Shikigami, it was just the dedication of the Freedom Charge that got a thunder too.
Shikigami not really needed to over-flight that one, but yeah, forced out into off-loop positions, still trying to build up his authentic capabilities as an ATK fighter is going to keep this reset.
reset, Ups doesn't want to hold on to it too long, and then pull them all the way down to the ground and the eliminations are just going to follow up.
His alpha has been looking incredible today, and Frostmountain has the ultimate in tow on his side, as well as another dancing drop plies, but that's 66% made.
And then it's also Layla's having to get on top of Altar Esports, and Altar Esports having the opportunity to scout out the Syloc, cut off the rotation, or just stack all of their players into that incoming damage.
So you do have to be aware, if you stack Frostmountain will be sending the Apex Predator as a separate dance partner for all to esports to have to deal with, like at this point, though, with the amount of point percentage that you have, you're happy losing this fight at the cost of Shiki Gami's whole ultimate economy.
This Altar Esports team that doesn't like to usually play, they have access to the Daredevil, but they don't play as melee characters, they prefer to play this sort of almost double hit scan, mechanical shooting, and it works for the open worlds.
Answer the bottom slide, it's going to try and leap in. There's a chance for Shikigami to get a hold of this point first. It's forced to fly back, so it has flipped at 99%, but it's not much of an opportunity outside of that.
outside of that. It seemed that Altar Esports were quite happy to give up the space because
they found themselves to counterattack on an overextended fighter and suddenly Shikigami
enforced into a really difficult position to be in and a rage of Altar is lucky that
just shut down on them. Torential rain is going to force out this invisible boundary
and Leilas is at least found himself another pick on demonic as that ultimate was coming
through. Great shot in the air and Frost Mountain finally get the hold. Still has the apex predator.
It isn't going to use it as Altar Esports to force back.
Oh, that's Rage of Ultron used to pull some visible boundary as well.
Now if he still gets Heaven's Retribution to parry alongside Nami as its chef,
they don't have CC immunity to try and take the Jeff down before Nami can path off of the cliff with everyone from ulti eSports with them.
So it's going to come down trying to work out where exactly that Jeff is going to be coming from as Apex practically clears up the choke,
grabs everyone from ulti eSports out of position. No eliminations up to the back of it, but still, the team just waited from being able to walk.
Altar esports so I've got more than enough time and point percentage to play around with.
Shiki still have to get half of this point's full possession before they can finish out the round,
which means Altar esports, they're going to bank up ultimates and they're going to bruise on forward
when Shiki Gami can't stand up to the sheer amount of power.
Say both worlds is going to be the go bon on Altar esports as well as in the Varaypeks,
but it's in that scrap held of Kaia, he's been pulled off of the point but the ex-jaff is able to
I have to keep him up, there's a simulant resilience piece to this, this is going to be used to keep him alive, they do lose to Jeff in the process though.
Isidore didn't go in with Heaven's Retribution, wasn't able to combine it, felt like a bit of a panic putt and after Kaia got caught out from the blow-tops.
Freedman charging, Han Solo Z2, doesn't really need to use it, there's Heaven's Retribution pulled in but the Freedman charge is going to be used as a response.
Mark is so close to having another rageball from which could be used to help his team and get Shikigami back onto a third point of this map.
whoops is trying to clear up whoever's left, being able to click the wings of Angela.
Layla's trying to escape. He's not going to get very far.
He's going to get off of the point, and we do go to a third point on Benintochella.
Oh, all to eSports, keeping it close. Imperial Institute of Science is where we're headed to next.
And I mean, whoops on the other has been looking on absolute fire.
We ball him up as a player that we got to see really improve and evolve,
taken into our notice by Marvel Rivals Championship in that previous season.
And I think that's given him a real advantage because he got the opportunity coming through from
MRC for Elsa to not be eternally stuck in band prison and actually get to go head to head.
So he's really experienced being able to win out those Elsa matchups.
And Shikigami, it's an awkward composition I think because Frost Mountain can like place
the flag to bed. At Lealist is flexible enough to be on stuff like the cyloge, Jean Grey, Elsa.
Cross Mountain may be on something like the Daredevil, but that's not allowed to him.
Ultra Esports have access. They don't need it. This composition is going to work.
And even if there was access to that Daredevil, you've got somebody flyers and divers that you are in Ultra Esports.
It's more like that you really have to try and shift down.
Now, they still over on the GF. It's one-sided. They want to make advantage of it as much as they possibly can.
But they haven't been in those clay cut moments.
I mean, Shilpigami are very close to a lot of Ultimates, Ultra Esports.
The closest one for them is Rage of Ultron, but that's not a fight-winning Ultima.
It is for first-round domination when your opponents don't have their ultimate economy in hand,
but Shiki Gami can start off by taking the first turn, potentially going aggressive with something like an invisible boundary,
but it looks like Lynshen's actually going to hold it to try to react to Monarchs instead.
It's a static ultimate, so there are no surprises.
They're playing on the point itself, forcing ulterior spots into average brawl,
so they can get the upper hand with the invisible boundary slowing things down.
They wanted to see if they could force alter e-spots, they're trying to test them all.
They'll put up the space a little bit for the stance where the butterfly doesn't get in the elimination,
but it does force out the rage of Ultron. Everybody who's grouped with Layla's is low,
so it's going to be an effective 5 vs 6 in favour of alter e-spots as they wait for their silo to get back up to speed.
Now they're trying to go offensive with the plays in from alter e-spots,
but now May has thrown Team Captain on the other side of the list, we're bound, he was dedicated from Linskrum.
There's the Dive for Tyre, overextending a couple of times, but with the Feast of the Abyss in hand,
It does have something to hold back onto.
Ultra Esports Force III, set, Shikigami take this third point first.
Yeah, I mean great dance with the butterflies to open up the fight.
Force Rage of Ultron, Lynch from then, gets used in Visible Boundary aggressively when
Team Captain tries to die from pressure, disrupting that backline of both the Invisible Woman
and the Jeff, which is allowing Kaya and Ysuzo so much freedom, speaking about freedom,
oh my goodness.
Layalas, yeah, finds a huge pick on to Hachou, so no strategist, no potential Kumihou unleashed
in this next engagement as potentially they're just looking to do more of the same and it's
forcing all Tariq's was look at the amount of mouth space they're having to give up to make sure that
they can actually guard Hatra's walk with the team because if you burn sanctuary as a teleport here
that leaves your white box far too vulnerable when the actual dive hits.
Now how do you want to go through the offensive lay-alists has to be very careful of this anti-dive
team captain at once to make sure that the backround is in this much more stress,
Kaya is going to use the piece of the abyss to actually force out the fate of both worlds on the other side and now
Just waiting to sort of regroup. It's already three quarters on this one. Hopefully spots now using the other thunder and
Together flying themselves free picks and boss man's gonna use it on the other side
It's gonna silence all three spots for a second
But all of the eliminations go their way really good combination to whoops and team captain to get that to work
But it's 87% moxie
And I mean, you don't have all that many ultimates as well to tide you over.
Sheikygami like Leolas is just already all the way behind.
This is Psylocke, so you can put a lot of pressure on things like the ultron.
Should be able to grab a health pack.
Unseen ult has found Hattro.
Is looking for the lineup just to be able to put the pressure on the backline
and potentially find a full assassination.
But I mean, the amount of damage that you're doing in terms of forcing the attention
to turn towards whether or not it could be free Sheikygami up.
alter eastward so they're able to peel off of it.
Feast of the Abyss comes in through from Z-Cube,
not using it, Jeff, trying to provide sustainability,
but you've already lost Lindstrom,
so this fight for Shikigami is probably already done.
Do they decide to fight it out?
Because it's risky if they do,
they're giving up a lot of point percentage potentially,
and it looks like they're just looking
to pull back every group instead.
Yeah, they're ready to get out.
Two of the three strategists
do have the ultimate,
it's ready to bolt on into Miho,
ready to work if there is more depth
to come through from Shikigami, whether Leila's in the position or not, he does have the dents
of both sides, and Frostmountain sort of in the neutral to sort of get caught out. He was on the
objective whether he's sort of CC'd him all the way, it's hard to gauge, but in visual boundaries
Frostmountain really shied the point over from Lindstrom, having such a vision now going,
this feels like if this fight goes badly, Moxie, this could be a disaster for Shikigami.
Yeah, here's the ball as well with the Kunihou form coming out from Hartrow.
Into Laylazo at the tail end of it, quite literally with the dance of the butterflies cutting through
once the kumeho is back into White Fox's normal forms. Alter is what's triple strategist. Everyone
winds up though in front of Exo for those claps to really make matters worse. Chikigami also have
not been able to find the flip, so it's panic stations right now, Ryan. Laylazo's coming back
on the strange default of the team back. Yeah, this is messy now as they're now trying to see if
They can just get people on the objective. It's Jeff is almost ready as is an apex predator
But you want to make sure that your clinical way of this
You don't want to throw it out and get absolutely nothing the draw drops is from distance though
So it doesn't really connect to go through anything the boat was going to be used on both sides
But it's still in the hands of all three spots there is on the other side from whoops
But whoops is taken out cleanly
He's able to get a pick on to Kyler before Lindstrom is able to take him off and now I'm a grabbing people is forced out
team captain who just for a team and ups up balance of the steam to give all
20 spots a chance to fight back into this one. They have to play Frost Mountain
now he's trying to use these shields from leaving the woman to try and survive.
The layla's here on the strange the potter back is not just what you can
offer he found himself lovely picks in the end as the point is flipped all to
resports run out of steam and right at the depth Moxie Shikigami take it.
Frost Mountain in that over 10 flight was a one-man army he dispensed Monok
through the rage vault from self healing and just base damage alone without stacking the
shifts, getting the bullets home.
Oh, like that's so unfortunate as well because like if you look at what Alter had access to,
if they'd been able to get back into that fight, they would have had fate of both worlds.
They would have been able to out sustain Sheikah Gami, use both the amplification of damage
as well as the heal tick to turn the fight, and Shikigami had already burned the strange TP,
like it came down to an absolute wire, and Frostmountain deserves that MVP because he carried
the team home in that final overtime spot. 36,000 damage, and whilst it was like whoops,
in the elimination pit a little bit more with these final hits, it's just that Frostmountain
had a lot more damage that he needed to put out because of this triple strategy.
You've got to say though, I think all three spots, like the idea of the composition for one,
being captain on the four had a lot of impact. I think a lot of it was to do with just like that
one-sided Jeff right at the end of the draft. Just taking some of the strength out of ZQ.
Kaya struggled in some of those moments, but I think Nami showed up a lot on the Jeff in the
backline. He's holding its own against tough opponents, despite Exo only going down three
times. I mean, now the problem for Altar Esports is where do you take Shiki Gami, because like
obviously they proved they were comfortable with the Ultron composition, but we've also seen
Shikigami run that Ultron composition, so do you go to Convergence and both get to play the
triple strategist Ultron Flyer composition, or do you try to swerve that problem entirely and go to Convoy instead?
That's a difficult question. When you do notice Shikigami do have these interesting strategies on
Convergence, this series is already showing up exactly how we hoped it would, going right until
the limit between these two teams, right until overtime between these two teams. I am so excited,
but Ulta, do you gamble on that convergence?
Or do you play it safe?
Head over to Compoint.
We're going to be heading to our break.
When we come back, we'll be finding out as we continue
with Shikigami vs Ulta.
I'm trying to help
suffering the darkness let's hop back up under their noses
Us against the Wild!
My time to shine!
Convergence was a little too scary for Ulta, they've decided to try and adjust by moving
over to one of the maps that a lot of teams have been picking against some of these dive
team compositions. They're sending us to Midtown Moxie.
Yeah, I mean, as we talked about in the previous series, if you're going up against a team
that's liking to run dive, don't take them to Spider Islands or Yggdrasil Path. Like,
Midtown is your one stop best destination possible to avoid the convergence and the
problems of both the Mantis and the Ultron there within. I say the Mantis and the Ultron,
but we do have to talk about the elephant in the room that is triple strategist still
occurring in EMEA and having levels of success that I'm just going to say it now, America
is not seeing the same results of.
I mean, as a number one pro builder fan, I'll have you know that the Adam...
No, actually, yeah, the Adam, yes, the Anorakha was really good.
I will give him that.
He can make it work.
But yeah, you're right.
I think for like choices for alter eSports, like the one choice that they did have against
Na'Vi that didn't work was the Museum of Multiplation, very dive-centric, as Mark
mentioned.
Jallia up against Bullseye yesterday, which, yeah, you know that the other team can run
ultron, you know that they can even pull out stuff like the collage. If that composition
translates over to Jallia, which off the top of my head seems like it would do. It seems
like, yeah, you don't want to take them there either. Midtown is going to force them to be
a little bit different, but it doesn't seem like it's out of the scope of Shikigami. They're
a team that are experienced, and this is probably the most played map in EMEA outside
of the Dominations.
They've got some flexibles from here, they've had a lot of experience, but a lot of that
experience was improved with Ignite, especially during the Funk of Netter where Frost Mountain
made a name for themselves, I think someone who could flex onto Storm in order to set
up for those spawn breaks.
So we'll see if that's the direction they want to take us this time, but we're gonna
be heading out of here, so that's enough from me, taking away you two as we head into back
Double-T of Shikigami vs. Alter Eats Pulse.
going to follow up that save with a ban on to Van Gogh Deadpool, given that Monarch is
on the opposing end. Oh, oh, wait. Do we remove the Loki? Has Loki actually been deemed a
higher threat? Now that we're on convoy and things like the triple strategist line, plus
the Adam Warlock is a very scary threat to walk into on this map type indeed.
Is it going to be mirrored from alter e-sports because they might be like, yeah, good point.
Certainly you don't want to give a one-sided Loki over, but they might actually try and take out another strategist that is happy to have two of us around them.
Now they're sticking to their guns, they put Vanguard has been banned out quite a lot in comparison to the last couple of days,
but maybe here they take out the Lokis and then they then put Vanguard, so it kind of cancels each of our out, who's to say.
Oh, Shikigami is just going for the strategist line.
I feel, I fear, Altair Esports, what are you going to be left with?
There goes the Gambit, there goes the Loki, there goes the Invisible Woman.
I mean, this feels like Shikigami is kind of like trying to force Altair Esports onto having to play a triple strategist line,
simply because they only have just like very spare pieces left in terms of slow heals.
As it looks like Shiki Yami actually seen that it was a Mantis band over the Loki are going to go for a Loki save before Alter Esports can target it out, meaning that, yep, Loki Adam's still going to very much be a problem as what is this last band going to be?
be we're bringing Tetra back in so that you can join the discussion too because going for the
Mantis on the side of Altie Esports over the potential Loki against Shiki Yami that's an
interesting one right? It very much is just to update people we have a quick pause we have a
team captain is suffering from a little bit of Scottish weather right now so we'll hopefully be
able to get back in very shortly but yeah the Mantis being taken out we talked about just how
How much success we are getting from Triple Stratagist and Mantis seems to be one of these
big empowers, but Ultron has been something that has been adjusting that as well.
Adam is something on this map where you get big revive compositions when Loki is in play,
which he was protected by Shibinami.
It's interesting to see it taken out so early here.
Yeah, one of the things I think about it is too, like with burning out to strategists
a lot, like the strategy was used against that, that's pro and stuff in the early stages
stage one.
While this draft system has stayed the same, there's more strategies added into the game, so actually taking out and just leaving like a couple of rough ones is less possible now than it was a year ago, but also a lot of strategies generally are closer to each other in like scope of strength.
Does it feel like there's some leaders like really, really bad? I think all of them barring maybe a couple of like scene action.
I will say going for the Mantis, instead of the Loki ban, if you take it out the Loki
that does depower Mantis a little bit in terms of the Loki Mantis composition, what that
says to me for a ban line is that you're more concerned about Mantis Ultron, for the
side of Shikigami.
So they I think want to avoid that problem and potentially field it themselves, as they
They do get one more save slot before Shikigami can go for a ban, so maybe it's going to be
onto a Mantis, they've obviously lost the ability to go for that Loki, but that could
then force Shikigami's hand into having to ban out the Ultron instead.
Not only that, but you might be controlling what other strategies your opponents pick
at the backline if they're forced to put double strategies.
If you leave the Loki open, suddenly someone like, for example, a Jeff or a Rocket could
become a little bit less viable because they're not people you see teamed up with Loki at least
double-stretched compositions as often. But I do agree though that it's still so risky. Loki worked
very well with Mantis so could have been taken away to read to that composition. He empowers
double res comps. He's still really strong against elses and barthros compositions because if he
gets carried with even one of his clones of regent domain it's a great way to try and make sure you
survive at the other end. It's a risky situation to put yourself in for the sake of front and
remove Mantis like you say Ultron might be what they're scared of because Shikigami have shown it,
but that was on Convergence. Hmm. What I think I'm looking at in the draft, I mean again it's sort
of paused at this like awkward point but they were hovering over a final battle of Wolverine which
yeah for Frostmountain it's very good Wolverine, it's also a pretty good route map I think too,
so if we do want to see them play I just don't think we've seen an awful lot of it from Alter E
spots as far as I know. Yeah, I mean, because it's the first time they've played Midtown,
it's the first time the Shibukami have played Midtown as well this year. So there's like
other maps that they've focused on. It still means the Daredevil is up for Frost Mountain,
but I do feel like if Altar Esports still commits to the composition that they're running,
it's only so much the Daredevil can do when everybody is just up there.
Well, they also, they proved that they were better and more encrypted dealing with the Daredevil
as opposed to the Wolverine. And I feel like if you're Altar Esports, if you wanted to just
avoid the Wolverine problems entirely, you go to a convergence map like Holodishalia,
but that opens up the whole problematic bag of, hey, Mantis Ultron compositions, which they're
obviously trying to avoid with that earlier Mantis ban, so going to a convoy map, which as we talked
about, was for dive compositions, but stronger for Wolverine, does kind of force their hands if
they're still not able to deal with the Wolverine, especially since Sheikah Gami went for an earlier
ban against the invisible woman, because one of your best defenses against Wolverine early
grabs is getting the counterpull with Force Physics. Denying one of those resources would
put the vanguard at a much higher vulnerable position, so I think that hover on the Wolverine
is likely actually going to be locked. It's probably a debate going through on the team's end right
now about if it actually is so problematic that it's worth it, because if they let it through,
it could absolutely be the reason that they lose this map.
Players seem to be readying up,
so hopefully we'll be able to get you all back into the game very shortly.
I've been very much enjoying watching these from my host spots,
just letting you two cover this and watch you throw the draw.
It's a fun opportunity.
But with Wolverine being a potential removal here,
once again, you've already mentioned potential of the Vantidae,
and also just being able to isolate people.
We've seen a little bit of Hulk creeping in from some teams as well,
a combo with that to maybe try to isolate people especially if there's an Angela out
and about to, you know, just catch them, just get them out of the sky is always good and
could also help deal with stuff like an Ultron. We'll have to see if that's the direction that
they want to head on in as we wait for the next start.
I mean, what's your save? If you're all to Esports would be my question because like,
if you're going for a ban on the Wolverine and you're going for a ban on the Mantis,
maybe you go for Mantis yourself. But like I said, could potentially force an Ultron and then like
even if you don't get Mantis Ultron, at least you get something else potentially through to build
your composition around. Well, we'll get to find out as Tetra fades away and you know what, we trade
a Tetra for a Wolverine band. There it is. It does actually get locked into that Mantis save. Now,
do Shikigami react with an Ultron band or do they see a different cloth in front of them all?
I mean, that would be a good one. I think he often gets
Surrounded by the draft you want to try and connect off of him
But Adam himself is gonna be taken out in this draft
Which seems like the obvious approach when it comes to triple strategist
But like I said a lot of the back line is hit on the side of alter e-sports
So it's a tough time for eggzo and hatch up to be comfortable never mind
Like just if you wanted to run triple strategist just running to is gonna be no
Yeah, I mean, Mantis fits perfectly both of the Adam as well as that Ultron and taking
the Adam out of the play is going to hit Ultron when it comes to being able to stall out on
first checkpoint allowing Shikigami a very good potential for just full holding or even
if they don't complete the full hold, like you're going to burn so much of the time bank
that one successful fight on second is going to send Ultron into absolute panic mode.
Okay, you've got a tough old game now for Alter E-Sports as it's four Stragists spanned
out of four and more Shikigami taking up some of those Q-pieces, but there's adjustments
as in the game needed on this defense. Interesting, like Vanguard Line that you have got the Angela
and the group, sort of high and low approach, but the triple Stragists with their own Adam
is going to be very useful on this defense.
Ooh, Alter E-Sports, what do we think you're about doing? I'll be actually going to make
a player for this dead level to try and take some of the spaces away from Shiki Gami which
will have a hard time getting through both the sustainability of the triple strat line but also
the presence of Kaia being able to guard his strategist line. No, it looks like they're actually
going to put Monarch back onto just Mantis and play for the damage boost onto Wurps to be able
to win at the neutral and just have so much incoming damage that it punches through the
sustainability before Shiki Gami hit the ult cycles.
I'm going to have a one-sided dead pull as well to see if you really haven't seen too
much of it today, but Kaia fans are first pick on the team captain.
Point is held by the defenders as they've managed to find a flank onto Wilkes and taking
him out, so Alts have been stalled out quite a lot.
Monarch immediately switching away from the Mantis to go for Punisher to just give them
something to try to cut through what Shikigami's defense is offering.
Yeah, mostly the Great Walls, right?
the Gros Wars and also having final judgments that Shikigami have to actually think about
if Lynse from Copy's Nome or Forced Mines in. Z-Cube was able to keep themselves safe having
built up the first fan hammer which is likely going to force Shikigami to have to react with
something like a regeneration demand early or potentially forcing out that Soulbond. They
get one of them but not the second. Soulbond is still going to be in play for Shikigami's side
and Team Captain is traded for the Gros Presence but Lynse from where Aynesimley brings them back
into the fold with the comic revival that will also apply to Kaia as well.
Actually, it's managed to out-free ZQ slalom these ways through the streets of Midtown to find out elimination.
And now a bit of a flip of the spawns is the defenders have been sort of shoved back onto the slalom site.
But look at the coordination. How well Shikigami went in for this, like, counter-dive on the opposite of Di-B-Max.
I mean, Glintron just gets to keep the team safe through Final Judgment with literally the cheapest thing possible.
Regeneration domain, a cooldown for an ultimate.
It's a trade you make every day of the week, and it allows Nami to hold the eternal bond
for once the Punisher is taken down, pushing Shiki Gami into Alta Esports aggressively.
So across mountain, that has been able to keep a hold of Karmic Revival,
Lindström will have a second if Shiki Gami start losing that fight,
while looking at a potential throw hold in terms of Plain Bank.
This is what comes on for the second one,
FRESHEN and Alta Esports, even for the sake of both worlds,
are able to get cut down with that Terricate Pronome, applying the vulnerability and dropping everyone from the team.
I mean, that's another aspect of playing at Angela's very good at in the time since, like, last season in this one.
We have seen Angela Bucks 2D, like, Axis Viacal.
Like, the cleave is very strong if you can land on the ground, the Tickler's engagements.
Having a group force it is very nice in the end, but all three spots, one minute left, and they've really not made enough space on their math choice.
They have gone back over towards the Mantis, but it is still in their 2-2-2 setup as Monarch has switched again for that Psylocke.
See if there's more of a dive, they can't really find many of the pigs on the nations, and even if they do,
they have got a camp revival and potentially a copy to go through.
You can see just how far across the mountain is sat back in this engagement, and he really isn't under enough pressure.
In fact, he's going to be the pressure, he fights the pick-up to what?
As there's only 30 seconds left.
Well, you might have to use the comic revival.
The lint one goes for the coffee on to Namae with the turn on Bonso, she can get aggressive
and walk into Alta E's sports and actually they're going to keep Namae down for the
counter allowing Frostmains into hold comic revival to have in the overtime fight when
no one from Alta E's books can separate off the fight and go prevent the addon.
Monax actually moves on to the silo because what's trying to play for a little bit more
map monopoly but they have to walk into the Heaven's Retribution.
Hattra with the HF can save the team by going for that E carrying them outside of the Teva
and it looks like alter e-sports have been able to untangle themselves,
but they still are not out of the woods and just yet,
Karmic Revival is the name of the game for Shiki Gami right now,
if they even need it, because e-sport just catches every player in the back line,
with that strangling prison,
Leila's opens up the main route with the Apex Travator,
and alter e-sports have the five-year elimination to even force Frostmountain.
This is just flash!
Unnecessary style points coming out from Frostmountain's end
to make sure the Shikigami finish the map in style.
It was whoops, 97% away from having the Apex Predator 2.
All Terespots pretty much held at the brink, all held from Shikigami.
And I have to sort of look at this, just like that fan line especially against all Terespots
is brutal on any map, never mind this one.
Yeah, I mean, no Adam.
No Adam.
No Loki.
What do you try and stabilize your defense around?
You've got the Mantis, you've got the Ultron which evidently they wanted to make a play
for since they're hovering it currently but like there's no way you can run Mantis, Ultron
2-2-2.
This is going to be such a glass cannon.
If they start losing these fights they're going to start losing them hard.
It's also just like that second person to protect is later on in the draft who Altaryspots
chose to attack first which means that they would be team B which means that Shikigami
had the chance to sort of ban out a lot before Altar Esports could protect anything else other
than the Elsa. So it's really clever from Shikigami to read that. Yeah I mean there we go. Exo is
actually going to go to Lina so yeah Altar Esports won't be fielding just the Mantis Altar on which
I mean in the face of Storm's damage boost. Yeah that would fold in about two seconds. Like Altar
Esports they have to do this perfectly. Team Captain has to be able to go in, disrupt, soft dive,
Shikigami without getting counterspent by Kaia. Like he's looking for it. He's on it.
But like, alter esports, every part of these engagements have to go perfectly.
If one falls prematurely to Frostmountain or Leila gets into the backline and starts taking down these strategists, this is map. This is game.
And Frostmountain hovering over the storm as well. He has picked on this map, but without that combination with Jeff Nado,
It's going to be pretty unlikely to see it in action at least here so far Shikigami don't need to go too far
They've already made it halfway and they still have three and a half minutes to work off of
But you can see the altering spots just actually want to play quite a high line use this high ground to try to pull the attention away
There's not really a chance of verticality on this composition
And it's trying to keep away from Laila's that is hopper in and pepper in his way through the back line
This is a very deep dive, Team Captain, that has been completely punished and pulled apart.
Lindstrom forced physics him up the stairs, he gets isolated, that's a big loss.
Oh, ZQ comes from the band hammer, ZQ Gami don't have Loki in this play to be able to drop the
regeneration domain and mitigate all of that six damage, so they do actually lose later, Laz.
But I mean, Kaira is still on the field, takes our ZQ all to East, what's supposed to give up
yet more space, and ZQ Gami will just hungrily absorb that map monopoly, making sure to clear
right to die from team captain get it get one he shows up the intent might be for the softback
but the Andrew is making his life an absolute nightmare he's a rage of all time now for
Hathbroe has been using visual boundaries to replace the double bet and Apex Predator is
accounted to try and pull through but all of the players that were grabbed right ago are
trying to be pulled back into the visual boundary the rage of all time isn't going to provide enough
as they've lost team captain again it really isn't a chance for anybody to touch give us four players
alive at Shikigami. Do it at speed, do it at pace. A great week for them, two won in their groups,
all three sports. It's a one and two finish on this Sunday.
Yeah, I mean, just really good macro coming through from Shikigami in those fights, like
understanding, okay, we'll give them high ground verticality. Like, we're just going to push cut.
They're going to have to send the venom into soft dive or disruption dive us.
We've got the Angela, we can just play. The momentum captain shows up to look for those
assassin spares, push him out of position, allow she could damage you, shred through that Venom's
health bar, and the moment Altar Esports lose that cushion to buy themselves some form of space
away from the attention of things like the Elsa and the Psylocke, they just have to run away,
like they had to play for sustainability, they had to play to build up some of those
ultimates and push back against Altar Esports, or maybe find a pick with whoops on the Elsa,
but none of it occurs because they just have little space to work with.
But we're expecting that this series would provide a little bit more of a closer competition
because Alter E-Sports looking better against Pulsar yesterday wasn't the case.
Jigigami just scoffed at the idea that like Alter E-Sports could compete against him and
it's a statement I supposed to make at the end of this, right?
You take good care of Pulsar, you lose to Navi but you take him out and here against
a playoff contender for show of Alter E-Sports you say that they're very likely to be that
fall from the final team to make it alongside the others, you're just absolutely dismantled.
An incredible performance from Shikigami, like Ryan said, they continue to improve as we see them.
Alta put up a solid fight in map number one, but map number two, that was just Shikigami on,
once again, Alta Esports map choice, they chose the side, they had basically everything in their
favor. Moxie, what went wrong? Loki, Adam, like letting the Loki, Adam, for having no way to force
the res is early as well. And then just like when you were on your own defense, you had
like two win conditions. Elsa starts to find eliminations out of nowhere and you're able
to sweep the fight, or you get to have things like that triple strategist sustainability.
But Shikigami went for things to punish it like Elsa does so much damage so quickly,
it punches through the slow heel tick of things like the Mantis and the Ultron drones. And
you're relying on your venom to just give you a bubble of safety to work with. Shikigami
like okay we'll do a plan in two steps we'll deal with your venom first and then we'll deal with the
rest of your team. Yeah I'm very like I think this was good for Shikigami to go for that like
second ban on to Loki as well like it wasn't a deadpool vanguard they let that three-fold
gray spot but it was just how they really read this early but yeah just get rid of the Loki and
we can wait a little way a team getting one sided Loki invisible woman and Adam is egregious but it's
just because we haven't seen teams actually go and take out Adam so far this stage even though a
a lot of the place still around him.
Now we're actually seeing teams be like,
he is that much of a problem that we can
take it out right at the end,
whilst you can see the older esports's ideas,
like they have multiple compositions
and then it gets whittled down over time
and then there's just one left
and then the atom gets banned out,
you don't have anything left.
There was no composition at older esports,
felt that they could run at that point.
They were just running on fumes
and shit, I made a good hole for this.
Those atom compositions,
they do keep sneaking in every now and again.
We were so worried, a lot of people were so worried
whether this patch came out
Adam might just be doing just because that old charge already takes so long that being able to
get it up is such an issue but combined with Loki who charges up a little bit quicker and the fact
that Adam does have soul bonds which is such a significant ability in those big team fights anyway
while now having the mobility to reposition to escape from main engages and actually make sure
that they don't get blown up on this vacuum early he's still seeing play we're still seeing him be
made work and now actually catching bans out here and going from baby dudes to actually seeing play
and bans in some of these games, quite the glow up for the perfect man. I mean I will say though
that Loki was a huge part for Shiki Gamma at least in this instance because like yeah they won for
the Loki save and that means if you let Altar eSports gain access to Vanguard Deadpool and they
get first use of Banhammer, like Banhammer is so effective in maps like Domination all these like
attacking sides because you can just put it on strategist before they have an
ultimate to be able to heal through it which should guarantee an elimination.
Loki side steps that with regeneration domain. Like I'm gonna keep saying it
until it gets nerfed. Regeneration domain as a cooldown has the same amount of
power to it as an ultimate. So the fact that Yes, Banhammer is built up, your
Loki gets hit by it or whoever on your team gets hit by it, you just drop
regeneration domain and you're free and laughing.
So impactful being able to have not just that huge amount of healing that's offered, but
the vulnerability that it offers.
There are very few abilities that give full invulnerability in the game.
One of them is White Fox and one of them is Loki with regen domain.
So seeing that come in is such a huge deal of being able to keep the team alive.
Everybody mentioned how well it can work in 2L.
Elsa speaking of which a very low elimination game but still yet another
showing of just how impactful Frostmountain has been on this Elsa
which is allowing Leolas to flex onto different stuff like the Ultron like the
Psylocke as we've seen throughout the last couple of days but Frostmountain has
just been cleaning up on Elsa Bloodstone and we will be interviewing them in
about a moment but right now we're starting to get into the weeds again of
who is really starting to stand out on Elsa? You see, play almost every game and we're getting a very long list of
absolutely go-to Elsa players, including Woops on Alsa here.
I think I was gonna say about like Woops on the Elsa too because it's like when you
prioritize it so much in the draft and you're looking to run triple strategist,
you know your duelist is gonna be and that's pretty much like you're locked onto it.
For example, if you know that you're going up against like a Groot and a Loki on the other side,
something like a Jean Grey Phoenix would have gone really hard.
You've got a lot of value out of it, but because you're playing one dualist, it has to be Elsa.
You're never going to go win a game and play Elsa in a game like that instead.
It just feels like a complete waste of that opportunity.
So there are some teams that kind of like shoehorn themselves into that,
and then some of these options that you could have on the dualist role
get completely omitted because you want to try and run triple strategist on stuff like
the attack or defensive maps like this.
So Shikigami, again, played it really well to just limit the options for all three spots.
If you want Elsa, you can have them, but you know that you're not going off of it, right?
You can't change the pen the what situation from one of you have to deal with it
Moxie the battle at the top of the table continues as shikigami now are two
One they're a part of three teams with two points in this group joining at once again heretics and Navi
Although Navi could change that at the end of today
But they're still in with that competition
Which means that the heretics Navi game and of course the shikigami heretics game coming up next week are going to be
just that more impactful.
Oh, they're going to be so, so good.
Like, they're going to be easily the best matches
that we have in the EMEA group stages.
Like, I cannot wait to get to see the compositions
that they've been cooking up for those.
Cooking indeed.
Speaking of cooking, we've got a little bit of a callback
representative in terms of cooking with Kaia
as we have finally Frost about to be coming on in
to join us for the interview.
a few and thrust another incredible win for Shikigami taking out also there are a lot
of people who were wondering where you two would place at the group but after that second
map you feel like you've shut down those people who were maybe doubters?
I mean yeah the first map they kind of surprised us honestly like the Lunar White Fox Ultron
genuinely like it did surprise us we weren't really we kind of expected it but we thought
they were going to go for like more of a DD Elsa comp, but we made it work. I think every Elsa was
bad. So we're talking about, sorry, go ahead, Boxy. Were you expecting the band line on mid-term to
be what it ended up being? Because like getting to see your team walk away with the Adam, the Loki,
the Elsa, and the invisible woman, if you wanted to go for it, felt a little bit like daylight,
like robbery right how did you manage to pull that one off I mean when like we
were in draft right and like we saw the Wolverine band just before they paused
and I was actually just like I was just surprised I didn't expect it at all we
weren't even considering running Loki Adam we haven't run that since like last
season like it's not a comp we consider but like we saw the Wolverine band you
I know I smile to myself a bit, I got a little ego boost from that, but yeah.
True, because there is a band at your Wolverine after you had already locked the Elsa Bloodstone
which you were obviously going to be playing.
Yeah, I mean to be fair they did snipe it, we were looking to play fastball, the Wolverine
band was pretty good, but I think the issue with band at Wolverine is just we leave everything
open, we have Loki, Adam, we have also, we have literally like every character in the game open
pretty much. We could have even run DDDive if he wanted to, but we just kept it simple.
There's a lot more options that they did, it felt with that backland being hit as hard as that.
Could you talk about like Navi yesterday, like what went wrong in that series that you wanted
to pick up with today, like because it was a good map that you took and sent on the path of like
talking stuff, but like where were the issues that you wanted to try and fix going into the day
next week.
Navi, I think the Navi game taught us a lot about our drafts. We already knew the flaws of our drafts.
The thing, when we went into the Navi games, we knew the flaws. We went into it with the idea of
constability over, like, meta. We just wanted to be comfortable with our drafts. We did, we were like,
we weren't like expecting to lose, obviously. We wanted to put up a good fight. First map, you know, it was just
the poor performance from us. If I'm going to be honest, the Luna White Fox, like, we expected it, but we
prep for it. Playing DD into LUNA YFOX was so bad. It's so impossible to go in. You go in,
then you get charmed, then LUNA team ups, then you get charmed, then you get frozen.
And then second map, it's our comfort comp. We saw the draft. We already knew we won the moment
draft ended. It wasn't really a question. That's just our comp. I'm comfortable with Torch,
which is comfortable and ultron.
Like every player in our team is comfortable
with the characters they were playing.
It was just, we just played our game.
Third map was like, the third map is the one where
the most like, first map, like there's issues,
but you know, that's just like us playing that.
Third map is where the issues like we actually have
to kind of go highlighted.
It's like, we just, I don't even know,
but it's like we just didn't play that well.
We didn't have like, we didn't have plans.
We, the number one thing that messed us up probably
was the trust me venom we didn't respect it as hard as we should have we banned
the second map and we won and then we didn't benefit my idea was that I was
gonna play wolves and I was gonna farm him on venom you don't get farmed
he's a really good player he just he played really well I think the venom
was one of the main reasons we lost that map so looking ahead to the future next
week you've got two games you're playing against pets and you're playing
against Team Heretics. And that last one could maybe decide who's going through maybe second,
who's going through maybe third, who's potentially going through first if Na'Vi have a very rough
week. How are you feeling in terms of frustration? You said that you may have missed a bit of
respect on to trust me on Na'Vi. Keep it out, Heretics. What are you worried about there?
I mean I think the heretics are like in my opinion they're just kind of triple support merchants.
You have to be worried about that. I know like it's mainly like I don't know I remember I never really had like high pinions of Naga until I played against him.
And Naga is just like I know why they play triple support he's like just one of the best like DPS players on like Ultron, Adam, Jeff.
All these characters that he plays on Sephora, he's one of the best in E on them, he's so good at them.
He requires respect for that, and they're probably going to run triple Sephora stuff.
We're going to prep for that, but we're confident, hopefully we'll win.
That's the match we're prepping for.
Well, we'll let you get back to preparing for that.
Thank you for joining us Frostbouncing.
Congratulations on another win and a continued run.
run, or Shikigami. We gotta hope though that while they prepare for heretics that they
don't underestimate Peps because they're still in it, they're not out yet either.
I mean can we just go back to the fact that Frostmantle said that Shikigami had not been
planning on playing the Adam Warlock and Loki composition so the Wolverine went, ooooh!
is free it's free real estate quite literally like oh boy this composition yeah it's it's still
there and I mean like honestly anyone can kind of turn their hand to play it because it literally
is just so static it's like one plus one equals comic revival is how you essentially play that whole
composition very about so but that leads us into just over halfway through our series full
the day, but we still have two
more coming up for you. We have
a battle in the bottom of the
table to potentially try to sneak
ways out of those flight into
those playoff spots again. We're
going to have fire straights
versus reason coming up, and
then we're ending the day with a
little bit more of a preview for
that group. Hey, we have Navey
taking on pets to see if pets can
continue the work made by
Shikigami earlier. Maybe turn
that one map from Navey into
through, but out of those two series, which ones are you two, what are you looking forward
to in particular? Let's start with boxy.
I mean, I think the reason one for me, given the fact that we've seen like, crimeful improvements
each day coming on through from the side of reason.
And Ryan, how about yourself?
Oh, I think I want to see like, perhaps if they can make a bit of an RV, like how it
takes an RV as your first two opponents is rough, but there's a lot of lessons to take
from them for sure.
And we'll see if those lessons have been taken as our next series is going to be a fire
sprays versus reason.
This could be a decider for the bottom of that table to potentially make it into playoff,
so don't go anywhere.
We'll be jumping into that after this break.
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We are heading into our fourth series of the day, and this one could have severe consequences
for teams getting out of those playoffs.
We've already had a couple teams that are hovering around the brink.
This is the time for these two teams to avoid a similar fate.
We're going to have reason who have shown some market improvement from their first showing
here, and they're going to be against Fire Strains, who have been putting up a fight
this entire time.
I mean, fire's phrase, we were definitely looking at putting them potentially head-to-head with RAD,
but RAD have been looking absolutely insane. So yeah, for both of these teams, it really is going
to be important that they pull a win here because we've been seeing recent just like do better and
better each day, although it does look like looking at the starting lineup for the players and the
lobby, like we are actually going to be seeing the return of Balas and DRP for the team this time.
And Brian, that wasn't exactly the winning combo during their first series when they played the first day of a night.
Well, it's like they played against Vegas Pro and they lost, but they looked a little bit sharp and we saw some good moments from Simba, but this just looked like messy,
whether it's because of people's availability or not, it remains to be seen, but I'll be honest, this series is feeling very coffin baby versus coffin baby.
baby like neither team has been able to like pick up a map at all fire strays
got completely out drafted yesterday by rad and reason have just been like
flip-flop from between these different ideas whether it's forced or not reason
looked sharp yesterday against furthest pro showed but both these teams want to
get a win on the ball domination is the best opportunity and fire strays just
want to get a little bit more comfortable with the meta and hope to not
running to the same issues that they did yesterday.
Oiding those issues is going to be the teams here.
Both these teams have a lot of potential.
They've really got some decent synergy,
but it's where those synergies in particular fall
reason on day number one did not show.
And with Firestray's coming to bear with, again,
expectations because we saw that a lot of these players
in pre-wisting nights and we expect them to do very well.
And then unfortunately, they did not perform as well as we could have.
And now we find them here once again, and that could be quite damaging to the mental box.
Yeah, I mean, for a reason, especially we're going to be sort of like looking to see how Blast and DRP fit into the team now that there's been a little bit more time to try to gel them with everybody else, especially because like if you're wanting to play a dive play style, which
that's not something you're
instantly going to be able to
insert into a whole new team
atmosphere. So looking, especially
for this first round of
domination to be a little bit
cleaner than the last round that
we saw them try and do it with.
I'm starting on the hell's
heaven, right? So we're going to
have a little bit more variety in
terms of these points. A couple
of places where flies do a little
bit better. Couple places where
something like an ad might
struggle to fight against.
a couple places where something like an atom might struggle to find some cover.
What are you potentially looking forward to here?
Probably seeing if the Draft King is away from like the first protective Elsa, like
both teams have been hanging out gambit as much as they possibly can in some of these
places, or at least trying to get one side of an Elsa and not actually getting much
value for it in the end.
So I would imagine that both teams are going to look to try to pick out a gambit a little
bit more.
It's pretty much been the go-to strategy today.
I just want to see more from both sides, regardless of who wins on Dominion.
Hmm, yeah, I hope you get like a close series between the two.
Well, we do get to see those evolutions come through because, oh boy, does Hell's Heaven
punish you if you mess up your bandraft? And as we talked about, there it is.
Gambit is removed from play, and we get the first Elsa Bloodstone save, which I'm sure won't be the last.
What's the reason gaming go here with is it going to be Vankar Deadpool? No, it's actually going to be the Mantis.
So yet again, I feel like we get to just see the ripple effect of what happens when triple strategist,
be it the Ultron or the Atom Composition, comes back into the fold of the meta.
They're going to just try and match it as well. I feel like they don't want to allow a one-sided Mantis to potentially come through.
And especially because you see these bands one at a time and as Cross Mountain Highlighters, you do see them outlined.
This one however is completely blind, they're both shown at the same time.
Hope the same character Deadpool Vanguard is not going to be in this one.
Yeah, not surprised to see that one sent packing. As we said, it's so strong on domination,
plus the fact that both of these teams going for the Mantis instead of the Loki-like Loki-Adam
is still going to be available. Banhammer is a real annoyance to have to deal with,
as it does force your hand in terms of using things that the Regeneration did mean far earlier than you
would want to as we get a jeff ban now. This is really targeting out that dive
empowerment given the fact that the deadpool has already been removed from
play. So the reason why we're seeing jeff taken out is so that we don't have
symbiotic shenanigans, don't have the bubbles to be able to set up those dive
hits, as well as the potential pressure other hells haven't dropped off locations
with the it's jeff because let's be honest someone in Hydra should probably
start getting the hammer, and building a couple of railings around a lot of these round maps.
I love the numbers, okay.
You want about Hydra, and you should say lots of things about Hydra,
they are definitely not OSHA-compliant evil, which is also evil. Continue, Brian, sorry.
Yeah, the HR department for Hydra is going to be working overtime, I feel, but yeah,
work environment, casualties, it's probably going to be a few. I do imagine that at this
At this point, both these teams are just trading blows of what's been banned out, neither of which really want to lean on a particular, like, we want this, we don't want you to have it.
It would not surprise me if we see reason gaming banning up the jet at the end, whether they want to just keep it uniform, or whether they want to go for something a little bit more specific remains to be seen.
But I don't know who this favors, Moxie, like, when it comes to if it's the exact same characters and pound for pound who's going to be stronger.
I mean, yeah, like you said, if it is just going to be sort of what we get in Marvel
Rivals Championship where it is just mirrors going at it, then it's going to come down
to not just individual skill, but also team coordination, right?
Because Marvel Rivals is a game where Elsa, nonwithstanding, one player alone cannot put
the whole team on their back and win you out the match.
I'm hearing the sounds that seem like we may be heading back in.
So once again, my hostic cheese receded to the background, and I send it back over to you two.
Jeff versus Venom is one-sided, which is kinda nice, because now the team gets to team up, so I guess that works, that tracks.
But you're also sort of trying to hit that front line a little bit more of like, binary and blackout.
Blackout especially, I imagine would just be like, grooves, potentially? Because he does love a good amount of play, and this is a good map for it.
mean I don't know if you would want the group because like here's the thing one
sided Jeff means that you could play Jeff rocket and have your backline be my
undivable outside of something like a daredevil one sided venom means that
reason gaming are likely actually going to run a dive composition even without
the Jeff but just a pass away on the venom alone with noct trying to follow
up on the siloq instead so like if strays try to put blacks out on something
like the Groot. That's a very static target and your Jeff Rocket probably aren't going
to be able to give you all that much aid.
Ooh, are they doing the Penny Strat? Well, seeing Penny is one of the characters we haven't
seen at all, but I'm not counting it till the spawn doors are open.
It's Portal.
Yeah, he's on the Portal. They're going to put some bombs through from the Penny and
try to blow somebody up. But like you mentioned, everybody is pretty mobile. It's going to
be hard to try and capture by surprise.
Yeah, a Kearcat as well on Cloak and Dagger could potentially be in Cloak Bomb. Yeah,
There we go, already goes to the cloak form, anticipating that there's going to be something afoot,
and it could be those penny mines under afoot in a couple of moments as Portal opens up into the Terri-K Band.
No one's home because reason gaming already kites it around the corner.
Yeah, Vinerys switching over to the Captain America straight away, Wachtel is going to stay on the strain.
Blocking some of the damage as this guy comes in for Paso, who takes a good chunk of damage.
He's got the healing and support of the very least from Sage Uro that's taken up a good brunt of the sustenance
But the point is being held by Firestrays at least for the time being the second guy comes in for Paso
He's been very high tempo on how he wants to try and play and fight this but now it's a 4-6 v 6
You got the Terakits being thrown out on the side of reason gaming and a third guy for Paso onto the high ground
But now gets finally taken out by Sloppo
Yeah, DMN turns, Sloppo turns the Venom, it is turned back to the respawn point as reason
gaming losing Passolo, lose the ability to put pressure on the backline and Fire Spraze
can push their aggression forward both into reason gaming's own choke but also onto the
point to pick up that first cap. And like this is what we're going to see, right? A
lot of peel towards the Venom and in the meantime, Binary and DMN going far more aggressively
and trying to hit reason gaming to pull some of those resources early.
I'm going now for the fight as Fire Sprazer trying to self-start the first pick.
You have got a very close invisible boundary after this, but Nostra's trying to make sure
that his left lane can survive, but Zera's actually forced to use it first.
They go down, so there's one of the silos dropped as the other one stands.
Two picks immediately for Fire Sprazer's reason gaming were forced to go in offensively with
the strat as you're told to, but then they were eliminated during it.
Deerman's going to have to have down to the butterflies, but I mean, you're worried about
iov agamotto into apex predator follower.
Kiercat will have eternal bonds.
CC immunity does not extend to the rest of the team,
so D.R.P. is actually going to go over to the Emma Frost.
Diamond form, carbon crush to deal with the dive
when both finery and demon show up to play
a little bit more aggressively,
trying to put the pressure onto both Tejure
and the cloak and dagger.
Byry gets caught by the Elsa Smaer,
but still manages to clear Nocturne off of the high position
so he can't flank Puffer down to the butterflies.
That's a great pick actually from DRP that's playing over on the Ember.
Imagine that showbox that he could not fall off of the map at this point.
Very scared about the Jeffle, they're coming in from closer.
He's able to get DRP with it anyway, so he goes down into the Abyss for the time being.
So the point has flipped over on the side of reason.
Gaming DRP moving away from the Ember onto Magneto now.
So some control, at least for reason now that they've pushed it further forward.
Yeah, but the Fire Strays, they can buy space back with an engagement fruit and
so a recent gamer actually going to go first.
Baalus waits for them to run to corners, sends out the Apex Predator,
doesn't manage to find a catch, he gets destroyed,
and Baalus is now answering back with the Captain America ultimate,
forcing recent gaming without invisible boundary
to kite away great force physics coming on through from Seizure,
denies the connection of I have agonized on Blacksack,
but look at the amount of space that Baalus has been able to build,
is just dealing with Parcelo,
stalling out that point connection for the flip to come through.
Baalus wasn't able to get full instinctive on the L,
So you just on disengage over and over again firespray even feel like do a dedicated knee-high by the motor to create that space and take
The point very easily afterwards which means at least of gaming are kind of like neither here nor there when how they were fighting this
Engagement you have to answer the butterflies up on the high ground
That's gonna take the focus for the strategist to keep each other alive
Which means that the front line was struggling a little bit more invisible boundary
Is this like a real attempt for reason gaming to take this engagement?
You found a nice pick actually on the demon, so you might have turned this player disadvantage
into an even fight into an advantage for yourselves as far as now.
Pretty much still trying to build up this instinct now is fully on charge, but just as
Firestrays have hit 99%, it's back to 40.
Firestrays have plenty of times to group up.
Preseason rule of thumb for Marvel rivals esports in.
Any fighter is winnable when you have an Elsa in it.
As a Pax is able to turn the tide and turn Firestrays back.
So as you were with that invisible battery as well able to stabilise the team despite
KitKat's absence.
So the lining that means that eternal bond will be active for reason gaming to stand
up to the invisible battery form is not.
Closer starts things off with the HF Force as KitKat into going for the quote point to
be able to fade out with the dark teleport and close to try to actually go for the heat
instead of preserving their own life and finishing it around cover so they get locked into the
animation of the speech bubbles and taken down.
strays without the jet to push them forward do not want to take the fight and they back off.
now that are fighting reason gaming really trying to fight this and
struggling on as ballast still full instinct it's gonna be Dovon keep cat
diving in however with the internal bond on the other side you've got the
epic credit to use the fly straight and then advanced cutting through from not
to finds close up looking to see if you can get the other strategist that is
surrounded by opponents Zenos goes down binary is able to grab one in our
ballast he's sat pretty he's got the steam ahead of him and now reason
gaming might have pulled this back from a 40% to 99% all the way in. KitKat is going
to come in as a little bit extra support as close as possible. She just can't quite get
there.
Yeah, firestrays. We don't get to see it in the actual spawn because they already had
a strange player. They swap off to allow the swap coming on through from the GF instead
and the portal is just not in time. Blacksire had even gone on to the Wolverine to have
the extra sustainability, plus the mobility of the Feral Grab to get through the portal
and try to touch in time, but if the fire's crazed you might not have walked away with
the point, yet did walk away forcing the invisible boundary. Reason Gaming saw the future of that
teleport strategy and invested the invisible woman's ultimate to slow down the captain
America, making binary vulnerable enough to go down before the regroup could come through.
I think a lot is to be said about ballast is like earlier like apex creditors fire
strays were trying to get into that
Oh, yeah, he just rusted it and I imagine the fire strays as homes were a little bit more
High pitch
High info maybe there was some crying involved. We've done quite no but ballast up to switching over towards the daredevil for this one
No, there's gonna be only else. Yeah, I mean keep your own demon though forcing the invisible boundary that last minute in the last fight
is absolutely huge for the silo if you can get down to the butterflies up and that's why
balas is going onto the dead of a lake you're going to be able to clear where exactly the silo
is and deal with the threats of all your backflip danishes against the duelist.
A nice take at least the slow part of the silo they say but can't you find the first pick up.
Binary has taken a lot of damage just the team to go into the stiffer look obviously for the
front line because venom is only available for passive on the one side.
Well, finding two though, he gets the counter part onto Nocturve, and Balas, not really being involved in this one so far,
he can't quite get into the backlines and Firestray is much like the first point, Muxi, looking to take him down to first.
And then Slapper as well, holding this lane,
Vinerate right alongside them, but like I said, it's demon that we need to be watching.
It's demon that reason are going to be trying to look out for working at where exactly the Salloc is coming from.
Shoot, uh, shot through the vanguards, already has Dancer the Butterfly's up, so the backline's playing very far away,
so that they can patty-kick each other when the Dancer the Butterfly hits.
There's Balas, he's in, he's involved, he gets the even whilst he has the Dancer Butterfly's in hand, so that's a perfect selection of target.
Now you've got the Apex front to use from Slop on the other side, it's pulled in the Venom, or whether he dove in himself, or if he's unbullitioned.
Hard to say from the angle we were seeing from Balas, now you've got the Meteor M, it's trying to see if he could find like the picks in the right positions.
Confirmed the elimination onto binary who was low HP looking to try and get out the point is going to start to move up
There's reason gaming trying to ramp up this progression the same as they did on first
I mean balance as well was able to clear demon out to the point the book you can't ensure and now have the ultimate
Please in gaming can just choose one strategist though to deal with down to the butterflies hold of the next defaults
Not to have to mirror. This is a great ultimate fight for their end
That was a great eternal one for KitKat.
Ballast was so low, it was even a little bit of an overstep perhaps to use to let the devil
out.
20 or maybe 50 HP.
So KitKat coming in to the rescue, making sure that those offensive plays from Ballast
are definitely set up perfectly.
With Reason Game and having so many other ultimates to sit back on, Fire Stray is looking to build
around a Star Lord with a bit of Magneto help, I suppose, with the bow wall.
I mean, Fire Stray at least do have great sustainability with the freedom charge which
They'll use try to overlap the apex predator damage coming off the end of Noctur, but the eliminations come for Osejiro as well with the invisible boundary
Just managing to punish even further the divide of those players brought by the Quattrox
Away from the rest of the team and I mean reason gaming
There's a reason why they were okay with investing one side invisible boundary
Now they're going to hold up close if phrase one to get past
the likely going to have to actually invest in physical boundary just to be able to get back within seeing distance of that objective
75% looming for reason gaming and a lot of the outputs that they are using on this side that's holding out very much in the moment
It doesn't feel like there's much rhyme or reason but the coordination seems to be working out closer
Is it gone down?
But the Nostra is able to at least trade so one of the strategies find it some more even getting past
will on the way out as well as you dove in and overstepped a bit more ballast is gonna have to return
very quickly as the daredevil as the terror keeps actually being thrown out to make sure the binary
on the android can't quite go in as far as they want reason gaming just want to get it to 99%
they still have a lot of time to hold on to but dapi's not even afraid to go a little bit further
he gets the pick up to slobbo again an apex predator down in the moment invisible boundary just a
shadow too late dapi goes down in the process but it still feels like that's a big pick up in this
moment. The dive from Passerole has some support at least from Ballas, goes into the synopsis
even with all of the bodies trying to help him. Galactic Legend feels like a Galactic
Last Chance saloon, but it's forced everybody from Reza Gaming back up the objective. It has
flipped over Moxie, but the port has been forced out from Swapo. I mean, I'm potentially eternal
bond as well from closer in a matter of moments because Apex Predator comes on through and there
Closer, with the eternal bond, catch of the team, Gautrex has been destroyed, but reason
gaming have later eternal bond into Sejura's one-sided invisible boundary.
Pined for pined, in terms of weight and sustain, they're going to be able to overcome their
opponent easily.
Out comes the invisible boundary, there goes the slow, ballads on the Wolverine, moves
closer to the eliminations, and it's a stylish last stand to be the last play for reason
game into, like you said, without a portal prevent fire trees from getting passed and
hitting overtime into get more opportunity. I think if there's a performance to highlight
with the stuff there, like it is reason gaming shifting stuff around again, looking a lot
more cohesive on this one. But kick had some really nice moments of cloak and daggers and
really nice eternal bonds in those fights. And with so much focus going on to other strategists,
the last series. I feel like
it's worth adding and d R P getting
an MPP not sure whether he's
supposed to be here or not.
Whether he's subbing in. It's hard
to know with raising switches
stuff around, but he's got so much
experience been thrown into a
roster makes sense. White over
stellar performance on the
Angela and also the venom of it.
I mean, again, like we have to
highlight the fact that recent
gaming went into first fight
against the silent who already
had dance of the butterflies and
twice, but three fights in a row, with Balas just being able to take the one versus one
on the off-lane, up against Demon to the point that he uses the ultimate and then swaps
over to the Star Lord. So like, honestly, a lot of the issues that reason gaming had,
especially on that first day, it wasn't like down to lack of skill, it was literally just
down to lack of coordination, and that came from likely a lack of communication. So what
we're seeing right now, especially of how reason gaming were able to play those dives
really early aggressive players, was that the communication issue that's been
absorbed, like they looked much cleaner as a team, they were playing as a unit.
Hmm. It was very impressive to see if there's one word to say about that
composition would bring Ballas and DRP back, it's got to be vindication. After
what was a bit of a rough start, that was exactly what we expected to see from
players of this calibre, and you still got to start to wonder, was it just the
opponent that they played against in that was first games was it just a little
bit of a jitters like you said because they're a bit newer to the team this is
feeling so much smoother now and reason they are now one win away from
getting themselves on the board which would be huge for them let's see if they
can continue that momentum after this break so we can get the players in the
lobby don't go anywhere
What's up suffering the darkness let's pop back up under their noses
That's against the wild!
My time to shine!
I'd love to tell you that we're headed to a museum of contemplation, but we're not,
but I said that so I could set up for the fact that we're completing our collections.
We have now played every single vanguard in EMEA in just the first few days as Penny did
get to see some play with that attempt to be fought on a gauge, and now we continue
to expand our map pool as well as we're finally getting to see Yggdrasil path.
Moxie, what's the motivation for this over the museums or the midtown you've been seeing
so often?
Are we getting fastball?
Are we getting demon Wolverine coming through on the attack for Yggdrasil path?
of the surefire ways to be able to break that first corner that the defense gets to hold
so frustratingly long for attackers to walk into.
And Ryan Reeson setting themselves up nicely, Fire Strays choosing to go on the defense
here as their first setup after choosing this map.
What are you potentially expecting to see?
It's been a bit since we've been on Iktasvil path, a lot of teams not choosing to pick it.
Yeah, even in MRC I feel like it's been avoided a lot.
It's funny that symbiotic services, the map that we haven't seen at all, every other map has been in play at this point, even Shinshuya, which is like, wow, it's a good group and out of heaven, I didn't expect, but yeah, I think here, I'm wondering with what we saw from the draft last time of that final ban on a convoy game mode where Triple Strat is just as good,
Whether that can be a lot of influence there
But just like sort of moxie we said over the last couple of days a lot of things
I wanted to try and go first to set the bar with their attacking side
It feels to me a little bit like reason to see where this is going to sorry
But it's going to go I suppose on that swap on the defense the sort of false reason to be the ones
Have to see if what's the kind of part they can set or a firestress
maybe have something that they just want to show off here.
Maybe a strategy against a map that not many people are playing.
So if there's a strategy you have hidden away, this is a good place to put it.
If you have something that's maybe a classic bunker style composition with a triple bag and a triple strat,
although that's one that on this map has struggled in the past outside of having to play right hand door,
we'll have to see because, again, when you're in a situation, you have to put your best foot forward.
By a straight, they decided that heading to Yggdrasil Path is what's going to help them here,
and if they could slow down reason enough, then perhaps they could quickly just bullet-screen them,
just run through faster than hard on the attack, but put yourself in a rough situation on this map,
or it's a very dive-friendly map.
And dive-friendly, also pretty good for group compositions on the defense,
especially being able to isolate out a lot of players.
So I would imagine we could potentially see Blacksire come back through onto that one.
Especially since Emma Frost got shown as well for a little bit there on Hell's Heaven,
going to a convoy map, trying to force the defense to have to come to the actual convoy
itself and defend it, does put you into the distance where Emma is able to keep up with
that tempo as we head into our band draft.
I would assume even though it's a different map type, it's going to be more of the same,
at least for these instant bands as Gambit yet again is taken out of the playing card
deck and put in on hold as reason gaming will secure themselves the elsa bloodstone first.
Yeah I think this first phase of drafts is going to just homogenize into this. I guess the most
interesting aspect is like the mantis instead of like a dead cool vanguard. It feels like maybe
some kids were doing that before but at least Gambit cannot be allowed to play. Firestray
certainly don't allow that to happen. And they're going for an Orthodox like
map choices. They went for Heart of Heaven yesterday. They don't want to go for Yggdrasil,
the one sort of convoy map that we haven't seen in play so far.
The bovine guard is going to be banned out here. It does feel like this last ban,
if you can get something one-sided and you can manipulate it, like protecting the venom is
good. So you go for the ban here for Jeff again for reason gaming and then go for the protect
there. Like maybe you go to protect onto the venom so you just have a hold of it.
I mean, do reason gaming want to go for that ban on to the Japsons? Well, yes, both teams
have lost access to the Mantis, which means no Mantis Ultron. Triple strategists are still
very much a danger with Loki, Adam, and ooh, there we go. Reason gaming, also reading out
Black Sire's proficiency on the Groot, not wanting to have Black Sire having those walls
interfering with line of sight, will be removing that instead. Like Groot is problematic for
lot of strategists have to deal with invisible woman being one of them since the walls does
interfere with the trajectory of the primary and its peers, but it's also great for setting
up right, setting up Namor, setting up Moon Knight, setting up Phoenix, setting up Alca as well with
Apex Predator just munching through someone stuck inside that strangling prison. So getting him
out of play is actually a very strong way to prevent Strayce's composition from having any
set up for their follow-through.
Nostra is actually rolling out on the White Fox. So we are actually going to be having
the triple strategist line coming through on the side of Fire's Trace, except it will
be with the White Fox, and you know, we were talking to the players a little bit ago, they
were actually like pretty vocal, surprisingly vocal, actually, untransparent. We're saying
how hard it is to be able to dive both the Luna, but also the White Fox with things like
that charm. So the Venom does now find levels of vulnerability, the Daredevil 2, but they
didn't quite in the past.
We always used to hype up the players who were able to land those freezers onto a Venom,
and now it's charm charm freeze and usually a corpse. But in this case, we have a quick
pause just so we can make sure that all these players are on board and they're going to
be prepared for this, so I have to return for just a moment. But looking at this, there
is no Luda combo with that fight with that white fox or fire
strays. They're just simply going to be sticking with the
single charm from the white fox and of course all of those
disengage tools that you have. I'm in force physics to being
really, really good both at a dealing with the dive but also
pulling players from the attack out of their comfort and
compositions and directly into so much incoming damage, which
is also where you're going to be filling the impact of that
ban on Black's house group because like ideally in the
neutral fight, what a lot of teams actually look to be that engagement is when one team wants to walk,
you turn it off with the force physics and then you set up a group wall and burn whoever has the
misfortune of being the person pulled forward. So Ryan, looking at these compositions right now,
looking at the setups as we do obviously have a little bit of a preview on our production side here
behind the scenes. What's catching your eye here? Oh, I mean, I think it's like this sort of focus
on like, there's no dev on the side, you've got Nocturne, it's going to be able to be on the
Jean Grey, at least fucking over it. VIP on the hook could be fun. Wolverine could also be a basketball
special here. But you have that growth on the other side, so you're not too worried about that in
particular. I was also like a little bit weirded out because we got into Yggdrasil, and it stole
me here as well. I think that's one of the reasons why there's like network issues is because the
a little bit rough. Big, like
loud crash of thunder as we
got into. Is that is that is
that in game? Is that the map?
Is that me? So I was a little
bit like, okay, that's kind of
opened the by Frost and for
us outside. I hope not. I
think it's like, at least they
get off the bottom of the map
when I think that's going to
relieve a lot of like pressure
and stress on this one of the
fire strings. I think it's like
reason gaming. This is the game
to win. You've got crown fall
Crownfall coming up next week which is definitely doable. They are really searching for a win.
It feels similar to the other group of who's going to fill that final spot of playoffs when
you've got the likes of Rad looking good, VP especially, and then it's still a little bit
more up in the air I think. A vision actually. No, it's not up in the air. There's one slot.
Players are back and ready, so we're going to be heading on back in. Leave it over to you,
you can't boxy and right central
as we begin the countdown. Here
we go. Black star not on the
group. It was banned out. It
has to play the mag instead,
but I mean, try is also getting
binaries venom with demons.
Jeff means that they'll have
one sided symbiotic shenanigans
as well as the potential bubbles
to get both the fuel boost and
the ability to kite out the
dive since reason gaming that
goes to be sending parts all
the way into the back. Try and
draw some focus and allow the
team to try to move around his
first corner, but it's just as
same thing on the other side for physics doesn't play as does the potential
Terracave and the Venom's Hellfire Sky Rockets and then drops but both are out
free so they're taking a good point of damage and whether it's a case of if
these elses are gonna get found up on instinct we saw just how much the
difference it made for Balas once he was good to go and go in for those fights
but it feels like binary might have overextended he tries to leave but the
force physics is pulling it back he's trying to leave he's not allowed
Now, KitKat finds that first pick, and now you can see just how much Raising Gaming will
take the space up to the high ground by a strays of Vanguard down, leads to back off
and give a lot of space, not lose anybody else.
I mean, Demon's already got the ultimate, as it's chef is going to be in play, but I
mean, knocked up with Ensong and Fereno, we'll be able to slam that one straight back to
the respawn point if Reason tried to go forward.
We've got Sloth, we're with our 8-picks practice, could be the thing that allows this team
come back into play as there goes the epic pressure but it's on the side of
recent gaming fire strikes were funneled into one choke point and
recent gaming just shred through them dealing with a little bit of cleanup
before they pick up their first checkpoint and stop putting themselves
into taking spaces on second oh no okay just in time the one person who
potentially could have been caught by the wrong teleport from spawn room is
able to get away because if closer had been caught then that would have been
devastating. It's already been pretty devastating at this point for Fire Strays really having to
try and get a hold of this reason gaming still playing aggressive because they want to get past
this horseshoe as much as possible. I ground broken because they don't want to allow reason gaming
to use it as a way to bully these defenders with so many ultimates. Five now in the hands of Fire
Strays now seeing if they can actually go in for a re-engage. The reason gaming aren't letting them
have a window they find demon it just gets caught up in a little alcove and suddenly balance pass
Oh, not to have found everybody. It's a complete over throw and this is fire's traces map choice
It's looking like it's gonna be a really fast second point. Oh, yeah
I mean password is also just like waiting to see if fire's trace are going to attempt a portal
But no no one's on the strange it looks like are they actually going to try and contest this?
I mean you've got a visible boundary, but recent gaming have full presence on the actual
They're going to be too late. Not going for the straight forward costs, they lose binary incredibly early in this fight.
No one has the ability to hop into the least one point and swap to third.
Which means that Ryan, these eliminations are just going to keep coming and that's going to mean more one-sided ultimate economy
and all of the free, objective presence in the world.
Fire strays have strayed too far from the lights and they're just working around in the shadows.
This is just how are you getting a hold of this? Five minutes to hold on third and it feels like all of the illuminations have been caught.
You're being spawned, camped, fired, wall trucks, Blacksile gets taken out in the process
and Balas is just able to set up on the high ground as he's trying to get out of spawn.
This is, this is so fair!
Yeah, I mean, they're still holding onto the strategy.
assaults, as well by the way, haven't had to use one of them so far this whole round.
As demons on the Bucky, like you're trying to capitalize on the amount of overconfidence
that reason has, but at this point we have to start to stop calling it overconfidence
and just start calling it confidence to commit as Black Scythe is going to be coming in for
a few meters and should get just dark teleported away by Kit Katbo and all the while reason
game and just continue moving that objective closer and closer to the checkpoint. Invisible
Banger vs. Eternal Bond loses the ult matchup, especially when Ensign Inferno is dunked on
top of it, and Firestrays have to rely on literally overlapping every ultimate possible
to try to turn this fight, but there's just no target focus, DRP finds an un-defended
Eternal Bond mid-dash, and Firestrays, yeah, they get just put out, fully extinguished on
You're so powerful.
Oh, my, we're three minutes and 38 seconds
finishing Ypresel.
I think the pause was longer.
I think the pause actually might have been longer
than now that moment.
I feel so bad for five straights,
because it's like you just need some semblance,
especially on the defense.
One good team fight.
You can hold engagement for five minutes on a point easily.
They got nothing.
The reason gaming ran away with that and Firestrace just had no semblance of coordination and I imagine that the mood is very, very dim right now.
I think it was just snowball. It was straight up just snowball, right? They lost the contest fight on first and they lost it in a way that also meant that they had no prior positioning on second.
reason gaming then went aggressive and took that turn first to the point that
Fireshrayz did not have any opportunity to invest strategist ultimates and
slow the fight down and then they tried without a strange portal to go for the
contest on last fight on second failed to be able to touch the point in time
lost all of their players far too late because they were away from the respawn
checkpoint and could not just teleport to the other side of third and got
snowboard from that. Like it was literally just a domino down a cliff the entire Idrisal
defense.
Reason Gaming found the ignition button, I suppose this is the sort of like form that
you would expect from them. Of two teams that we sort of sat at the similar level, like
in Somnia and thought of previous iterations, not only in Stage 2 of Ignite, but also Season
5 of the MRC. This wasn't too long ago that we saw both these teams playing. For Reason
Gaming are just winning out on this one despite having a similar finish.
Demon trying to see now if he can go in for the leaves, but once the victory of the Neymar
can't get quite set up with the squids, make sure that the dive is a little bit easier for Binaryne friends.
I mean, yeah, reason with this Neymar, a lot more defensive.
Like Noctis going to be able to really put a lot of pressure onto both the elements of dive,
but also Demon on the sky so he's not able to come through with both the Venom, the Jeff and the Captain America.
but fire strays like they've got more of attrition right they can send the venom in the venom can get pressured out the Captain America can take next turn so
Reasons attention should be split into multiple avenues of different fights
We're just forcing them to give up a whole lot of map space very quickly. I should add
Yeah, not there is very comfortable to sit back you got say here and kick out this farming alpha for castle
I think they're just constantly comes back to their backlight with goos and bruises
but not actually get picked off as Swapo finds a little bit of space in a good amount of time to actually make this a bit more of a rough-of-the-fight.
Biostrae's taking control of the objective, lose demon in the process, however, and you've got Swapo now with an apex predator having to back up with the rest of his team.
Posar, it's Jeff, handy too, you can pull him off the map when you get towards the end of this checkpoint.
A recent gaming start inter splits a little bit more. It's looking a little more haywire in this approach,
approach, but they have both the strategies to sit back onto, not feeling the need to
use it up until Firestrays throw out whatever they have.
Yep, Iacombs, that hornet produce coming through from Nocturne, this does mean that Quota
has given free reign to use the itch, without having to worry about the larger fish landing
on their heads, but I mean, reason they've already won Iacombs and Firestrays are just
having to regroup.
Plosar is taking a little bit of damage, does get safely back to the rest of the team,
Black South can lead the charge for the team with their freedom charge to close off the
distance, but all of the avenues of growth that DRP, Meteor and can shut down the Jeff
Holtzman, likely going to have to hold it though, for demon with the galactic legend
to absorb it instead.
There's much of a good button too for Flyer's sprays.
Finally has a lot of work to do to be the ones trying to dive in,
Black South Freedom Charger is going to try to find a root-worn approach
to where he's trying to start a great dodge as well as a kick-out.
That'd be superb in the broken dagger today.
Visible Bound from Seijuro is going to be good,
but that's a hell of a big up the demon.
On to the Galactic Legend.
How did Balace even manage to hit that?
He's the Ultra Instinct is kicking in and he's full of it too.
2 is now going on the hunt for the closer he's an absolute I mean ultra instinct
gear 5 this also has unlocked absolutely every shonen protagonist
power-up available at this point like Nocturne is gonna be playing the high
ground with them the more having that horn approach is now rebuilt by the way
the whole time Cloytus had the same it's Jeff just has not had the opportunity
to safely use it for any source of sustainability for the team.
Slopper could be the win condition here for Fire Tray with that Apex Predator.
Demon also swapping onto the Phoenix to be able to match the distance of what the Namor and the Elsa both can do.
Hicks at barge before the Apex Predator can come through.
And now that Fire Tray's actually have damage to be able to make players off of the space their vanguards are creating,
it's looking like a whole different beast.
I'm happy to give up some space here because you've got 30 seconds left,
left so even if there's only like a pinch left to push it's going to be the eternal one that's
going to charge them forwards forces out both strategy documents together that could be a problem
for fire strays is that coordination or something else i frames dodge from noctur it's greedy from
closer it feels like to go for that play so both strategy documents used only one left alive and
there's five seconds left to try and touch the point from fire strays no switchovers towards
the strength of the moment because it is pandemonium everybody's going down one at a time everybody's
pushback demons trying to hover over a health pack but he gets hunted down by three other players
reason gaming full hold and you've got a safer fire strays it just seems to get from bad to worse
2-0. The reason like they hit that's right if we were talking about you know all of the potential
power-ups they had that training arc you could say and it's very fitting that it's also a tournament
arc at the same time. Like they looked so much cleaner, so much more united as well. Being able
to understand that Strange was starting to make a little bit of momentum swapping over to the Phoenix,
finding the elimination off of the spaces that their vanguards were creating. And like you said,
Reason just kites it. They knew that they had the Ultimates. They knew that they would be able
to clap their backs before the checkpoint. And yeah, that's normally we say statistics don't
save the whole story right context really does matter but in terms of this round yeah that that
is all the details that you need. I mean we saw them all on screen right like something got to pick
on Tobalas when he hooked up onto the high ground on the tap yeah and then we also saw demon get
a pick so that was two eliminations on their attacking side yes I don't know if the third one
actually happened there or there might have been a chance that they didn't get one elimination on the
the defense. Yeah, well, we'll have to go back and check the bots for that one. Like
he said, like this is what happens, right? Defense has a really good advantage if you
get to actually take fights where it matters. Marvel rivals, not every angle is created
equally and they just lost full control of the map and had no way of being able to slam
the brakes. Reason gaming just like ran quite literally absolutely home with it.
story of reason after such a rough start. This is either the reason of just improving so quickly
or vision is so much stronger than we could ever believe they were.
I think it's both. To be honest, I think it's a little bit of both, right? Let's be honest,
a lot of people underestimated what vision could do and I think a lot of people like looking at
reason gaming that the first day it was rough it was really rough like we can't sugarcoated it was
rough but like kudos to them they went away they changed things around can't wait to talk to them
in the interview and actually like ask hey what steps did you take to be able to go from that day
one into day three because like the team as it is now is looking so much better i mean the first
question i think because it is mentee as well who's pretty good at giving it like the answers
I think the easy question is, what the hell have you guys been doing the last couple of days in your roster?
What context? Because I've sort of kept myself away, I could ask Minty, but I think it's more like interested to work out where this team is moving, whether it's because they need to sub in on it.
It was a really good idea. Hey Minty, they are already here to join us for the interview here.
What the hell have you guys been doing over the last couple of days to get to this point?
Well, hi everyone, thanks for having me.
So over the last couple of days, and we've just been doing what we normally do,
there's just been more target focus streams, just looking at what we're struggling with
and we've looked at some of the games and what the game day performance has been like.
And we're just tackling the key areas we've noticed for development.
One of the really big ones I think you'll probably have noticed today,
when you really watch the games intensely,
you'll notice that our target focus was much, much better.
And we have six people shooting one thing much better than we have six people taking one-to-ones.
which is obviously going to be more effective, so we can do really good with that.
So can you talk to us a little bit about how you decide which player is in, because we've got to see a little bit of Simba, we've got to see a little bit of Vals,
is there anything that determines which player you actually field, is it composition based, is it map based, is it day based?
That's a really tricky question. So right now, we've got a really talented roster of
eight really excellent players. We do have two sort of official, we do have some substitutes
who are actually loans from Lumex. So they aren't members of Reason Gaming, they're playing
with Reason Gaming for three seasons, whereas they are DMP in balance. So we'll play those
guys basically when we're allowed to, because we're not allowed to play them every game.
agreement. So they're not allowed to play the game, is the thing. We will play with a mix of our
roster in terms of the site, we kind of just go off a mix of kind of everything, you know, what we're
winning with, what we can work alongside and different that.
But yeah, I mean that sort of provides a lot. The other side of it as well is not only the roster
changes, but like to reveal it, I got a message from you and Pride, I've been like, can you see
see if Na'Vi can make this game longer because we still have somebody that's like 10 minutes
away on the train. So I didn't know if some of the roster moves were like quite legit
substitutions in because people couldn't make it, but it does make sense. So in that case,
like, you, I guess it's like it remains to be seen after preseason, where if you guys
want to pick up the RP, I'm balancing this case, but I understand like you don't want
to rely on them too much and I guess the Verz Pro game was like, we don't have to use them
every game will put our like players like Simba, right? Give him a good game against
First Pro to get some experience because he is still somebody that you're planning to
build around. Simba's fantastic. Simba's obviously fantastic. I mean some of the players, maybe
we can get to a point where we can pick him up. Maybe we can, maybe we can, I have no
idea. I don't know what the future looks like for stage one. All I know is that right now
We're doing the understatement of the weekend to focus on improvement and results for three
season.
We were really disappointed as I think people, a lot of people anticipate us to be a favourite
team over team vision.
We were quite disappointed by the score, as I'm sure we would be, right?
And they played very, very well on the day and we didn't turn up and I think we played
a lot better today than we did then.
I'd be really keen to play that match back and I hope we get the opportunity, should
we make playoffs to face them again, which would be really amazing.
I'm speaking of.
Sorry, I don't know if I answered the question very well.
I thought you were on the board.
No, you did.
Matt.
I mean, we're just trying to work out what's going on,
because it's been such a rollercoaster for you guys, I say.
Yeah, I mean, it has been.
It's been ups and downs.
It's been, you know, lots of, lots of ups and downs.
It's been a really, we probably have one of the more chaotic three seasons
of any team I would imagine.
we've got a bit of instability with that and obviously we've got some
recitals from this that we have a very talented roster that's working together
and people are learning and different people are developing at different
places and we're making every effort that we can to be as competitive as we can
and today really she had that up. I think there's a roster there. I think a lot of people had in top four
and so if we're beaten into her today I hope that maybe some people will
maybe consider us to be forming a little bit better as well and she's awesome.
Let's actually look ahead to the future. Like you said, you've had a little bit of a tumult to a start, we shall call it, with going ups and downs.
Your next two matches are going to be crowd fall as your last match, but before that, you have Rad, a team that is also performing incredibly well.
What are your feelings towards that, as that could very much be a win there, might secure you that spot in the play?
Virtus.Pro made it look good, they took point-suffer-up and so that's the best for us, I mean, fierce
race, fierce race, the point-suffer-up and we, you know, we just had a, I would say we
had a pretty, pretty confident win against just then.
Domination was very close obviously, but especially payload was, yes, gone up was very, very good
for us.
And so I think that if, you know, these teams were making it look like a series and I think
we'll make it look like a series too, I do think that currently on paper, rather probably
be better team on paper. I have a lot of respect to every player on ready sports and that staff as
well. They have a really excellent team and I view them as one of the best players in Europe
and I know they're going to do really well in this tournament. I really hope that we can give them
a good close series and maybe we take them up, maybe we take a series, you know, but I know that
it would be, I do know that it would be fun to watch, so please tune in next year.
I appreciate your humbleness but I would like you to now not be humble and say anything to the
the audience at the large. Try and bring in some fans for reason, people who were impressed
by what they saw there. What do you have to say to the people out there?
The only way is up. We have a, you know, it's really corny. We have a reason to win. And
we have a reason to turn up every single day and to try our absolute hardest. I know it's
really corny because we're branding, but I promise, like, this is a team that you can
support. These are players and personalities who want to win, who turn up and give it their
absolutely best and today I think we put on a real show and we were just keeping an eye on the
on the numbers obviously before I mean the numbers doubled during our series people were clearly
interested by our game we've been 5,000 views by the end of our series by the end of the future
half we were on about that's 9.9k so we doubled viewers over the open map and people are clearly
interested in what we're doing and how things are going and I'm really excited we're a team
that you can keep an eye on we're not going anywhere these players are fantastic and we have
have some one of their best teams. We have one of the top teams in Europe. There's only
12 teams who've made it to Ignite and we're not coming last at least. So things look really
good for us. I've got some amazing teams. I've seen Captain Forever, they've done a
fantastic job with Century Broughton, they've been going into, they have a lot of different
experience to begin. The other players are learning a lot from them, which is amazing.
They've just played with different teams in different environments and so I think sometimes
the maturity that they bring is really, really welcomed with the team.
We're very much a group of friends all of the time, and they picked up me some near
Oster, they've been together for a long time and some of these guys can be more informal.
And so having some people who treat the game a bit more professionally has been a real
wake up call and has really helped us to develop faster as well in the last week or so.
I think people should keep an eye on us. I think we're doomed to watch. I don't think we're going to go down without a fight and I think you're going to hear a lot more from these and getting in the future and freezes is just to start.
This is what we look like now and matching what we're going to look like in two weeks, three weeks, et cetera. I'll be back.
Solid advice from Minty there. He'll be back. Keep an eye on us. Solid advice from Minty. We'll let you go celebrate with your team and prepare for next week's games.
Thank you so much. We're really fantastic guys. Have a good dream.
Thank you.
These have been some of the most informative interviews in terms of players that we have had in like any Ignite leading up to now.
These have been so entertaining and we're always happy to speak to Minty giving us so much information.
We did not know in this case about the lone players coming in from Lunex.
I mean, that's one of the reasons, right? You don't want it to sort of feel like you have to scoop and you can't really talk about it.
I'd rather just have the manager be like, this is the brass tacks of it. I also loved that. I thought it's like, this is quite a short interview for me.
You know, you ask that final question, but okay, here we go. And it was Oscar-worthy, like, sort of cold.
But yeah, it was a good show for them, for sure. Nice to see them in play.
And now we're going to head to our break because we have one more series for you today here in EMEA.
It is going to be a former world champions and runners up from the global finals in the form of NAVI.
And it is time to raise those French flags because Team Peps will be back in action after this break.
["The Light Pipping Tightly"]
Remember the dust, the light ripping tightly
Trapping all those lighting souls, buddy
Across the world I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
Place on it, moon and time wonder
I've been a worse lieutenant, we were friends
I guess it's all the inshadows, no man and yes
Life's a mess, come from here to secure up
The arms have no power, last three again
Perfections find a way, come from me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
We will fight, we will cross times, there's no one to help
Play me, get out of my jump, rise, raise the help
Distance smashed into a tunnel, follow me, specters again
The old devil's in the end, rise, I beg your mind, hold onto your powers
Now, dance the house, we arrive, we'll seal the end of time
I'll stand for what you are my destiny to the end
You see the dawn, the flame burning brightly
Shining on those memories
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I will now bring in some of the top talent that the EMEA has to offer.
NAVI versus Peps coming up next. We're starting on Celestial Husk and we've been wondering a big question
is how NAVI are stabilizing with this new member of Terra. The answer so far has been pretty good,
they've lost one map total. Yeah, that one map that they lost was a full hold on Central Park.
So I mean, I imagine if you're Peps, you're going back, you're watching that series with a
magnifying glass and then trying to replicate the results like at some point I feel like we're
probably going to be seeing an ultra-mantis composition come through unless Navi ban it out before it can.
And Ryan, Team Peps, they have had not the most successful runs so far in terms of wins,
but in terms of performance they have been like most of the teams we've had at EMEA,
looking like they have these moments of brilliance and might be taking maps might be taking series
but this is about as tough of a batch up as you could possibly have what would you like to see
coming out from pets today um i think i'd say what i've seen so far is like looking at this
came on paper you kind of go okay like this sort of like the weakest when it comes to experience
and stuff but i think pain could sit as a duelist line yesterday it looked pretty good i would say
Like, I was quite kind of impressed that they sort of held their own against a strong heretics,
so it's whether they can keep up on form.
These are the two harder games that they have to play in their glory.
At least you get them out of the way in the first week,
and then you can finally focus on playoffs for that second weekend.
So, I think it's just taking those lessons and maybe seeing if you can get a jump over
Nabi when it comes to the meta, as we saw before from Shikigami.
Whereas, Navi, they don't have a lot to do they need to sprupe here.
This isn't really as exciting when you want to be hiding strats, especially with Heretics
and Shikigami hiding within at your heels, so you can try and take some of those points
from you.
But, let's see what Navi, you choose to bring it to bear as we're heading into map number
one.
Celestial Husk is your map, your casters have got Moxie and Ryan Central, and I will be
watching quietly.
Thank you, Teche, and here comes the band draft. And I think, like, both you and myself,
Ryan, we're going to be looking very closely at this one to see if Peps are going to try
and replicate what exactly Na'Vi fell afoul of Toshiki Gamma. Yeah, there we go. Elsa
in some van on the side of both teams, which means that, yeah, Gambit save on the side
of Peps, and then likely mirrored on the side of Na'Vi, unless they put more stock on the
Van Gogh deadpool, which, ooh, turns out to be true.
I mean, that's what they were doing beforehand, right, and just making sure that they can
get their own one-sided deadpool for, for trust me, who can also just play the Venom.
Well, actually, no, but really, we can see trust me probably play it.
I say that because he was, like, streaming a lot of deadpool Van Gogh when he was amazing,
and now he's probably the best of the three, definitely best of the three, but also Rich
Arrow always looked really good on his character as well.
So one-sided Gambit is going to be allowed an allocate for Team Peps, they're going
to be happy about it.
that was what they were going for when they were playing up against heretics
weren't able to get it one-sided i don't believe
uh... a little bit later actually in the band they were able to get it one-sided
both times against heretics but they didn't mind
now you know me
i mean now they are going to be able to potentially get one-sided low-key share
given that they ban it out and then follow up with a save on to the mantis
so
maybe not be they saw the mantis they saw the mantis ultra on all the mantis
adam
and they want to make a play for it themselves which is why peps instantly for the first time in
a very long time or they're deliberating is it the Loki to deny the team up with the Mantis or is
it the Ultron to deny the potential of a triple strategist line with a flyer pocket looks like
it's the Loki that takes priority over the Ultron so Navi could potentially flex over to the same
composition that cost them Central Park yesterday. Actually going to try and go for a couple of
themselves. Do they want to protect them and test themselves? The Jeff, Venom, to be able
to shenanigans? If they want to protect the Jeff, at least they have something more to
work with the dive. You already have your gambit. So you're almost forcing Navi, if
they don't want to deal with that team up, to get rid of the Venom themselves and Celestial
Husk. Which, I mean, it also hits trust me.
It hits trust me, but I mean, the thing about dive is that, like, there's so many other
things that can also dive is the problem. Like the venom is gone, but you have the Angela,
you've got the Captain America, you've got the Hulk as well, which it looks at the moment
like Navi are actually going to be going, not for the Ultron Mantis, but potentially
jerky onto the Adam with that Mantis instead. And that's being domination, having Soulborne
for the first fight, especially if peps are going to be running those dives, to be able
to absorb the incoming damage, establish yourself on point, and then literally just refuse to go
down while still retaining that point control is going to give them a whole lot of point percentage.
Seeing the torch hover though, but we saw it in, um, but in T'Challa earlier in the spawn rooms,
and then it was changed filter, so I don't want to get hit by it, can't I?
Don't jump by into it until the spawn doors open, is a good rule of thumb to play by?
Yeah, maybe it's just to try and traumatize Na'Vi that they see it and they're just like,
ah, what is this?
I mean, you had level 1 Crux saying that they never screamed against it before, just what?
I feel like there's a lot of team data that are like, mmm, we also make a difference.
Oh, really?
Hmm, interesting.
Yeah.
I mean, it looks actually, oh wait, the drone.
The drone is actually on, yes, spawn just opened, so they apply the Ultron Drone to Pink.
Protoss is going to run the Mantis.
literally is the composition that Navi did run into difficulty with but I mean
Jeriki on the addon is going to be able to apply a lot of pressure onto the
flyer alongside Terra on the Syloctus. Like this torch very vulnerable.
Trying to see if they can find these big slicker cover showers. Trying to flip around and sort of
pull the attention of peps into various directions. The flight of the Valkyries
for team peps is trying to get over onto navi in this objective but they're also running triple
strategy and also still trying to commit to the adam. gyrity's not being able to build that much
ulti, it took a good amount of damage but also applied it back as we see the living tribunals
can actually in play as well. gyrity is the golden child he seems to be able to play anything and
for the golden colors of navi we still haven't really been able to get an elimination now starting
to trade a knife aside. Oh, they got the mag, I am LK Falls, which means that Peps's anchor
position on that point has now vanished alongside it. Terra's able to get into the backline,
takes out the gambit, now looks to turn their attention onto the Mantis as well, and finally
they can overlump Peps while allowing that first cap to go their way. This is really
good as well for them because like now you actually get to apply that pressure onto both
the Ultron and the Torch before they can get into a position of cover around the point
itself so both jerky with the dis-span pressure on the atom as well as terror
getting to set up in any position for peps to have to clear out first before
they can commit to this walk is going to be a problem for this team to have to deal with
charging through. He's absolutely
capped his way through Navi in a split second. Jerky's gonna bring everybody
back though because the light of the tomb is in hand. He gets taken out. It's only
gonna be two however. He peps out the able to take over the objective. Pink's found
and fought off a few more. Navi gets staggered out. What a crazy fight from
Frankie Boxing. Okay, helped by six. We have to give props where it's due. That
was Rage of Ultron connecting at the same time as the Angel of Spear damage
Which is how Navi just absolutely disappeared in a puff of smoke brought back like he said by the Karmic revival
But without invisible boundary or soul research to be able to stabilize that position on the point
So now it flips to the side of team peps and they can just go aggressive if they so choose right
They've got the raging roll flush
They're going to be able to take a first turn
It tends to force out the invisible boundary from Navi
But first they open up with the torch ultimate instead. There's nothing to absorb it outside of the invisible boundary
It just slows everything down. Terror using the dance of the butterflies to make sure the peps can't make a playoff of the space the pink has created for them.
And fate finally gets to use the invisible boundary.
But look at what peps are doing, holding on to both the Regine Whirlflush and the Meteor M,
which will be interplayed with by Rajarra's body block, but there's no eliminations from Navi's end, and perhaps they're still in poor control.
Yeah, it's a lot of Ultras that have been framed out, so I am looking at Rajarra switching away from the Captain America,
is going to have his own Heavens Retribution.
Derrick even actually switched way to go onto the style of the way from the side of Rizara.
So close to having an ulti where he's watching Terrick try to catch up with his European teammates.
Just as able to get Frankie Boxing as he was trying to come in through the fly through.
688% on having a rage of ulti when he did so much and after the rage and wild flush,
it's going to be enough actually.
Crug gets taken down.
This triple strategist backline is now being completely splintered.
He's been pulled off on this fight and they still have a rage of ulti in the back pocket for when they need.
I mean, they can just go with it first as well. Like, if you wait too long, Jerky will be able to build up to that Karmic Revival.
I think that being very cautious if they hold too close to Rajara using the Heaven's Retribution
and just collapsing onto the team, allowing level 1 Crip to push Navi overhead with the Soul Resurgence.
The Terra on the starlet, like we said, pulls up the distance twice to get the pressure.
Not this time onto the flyers, but onto the backline instead.
There's the Rage of Ultron. Crip will allow Navi to stay blessed through with the Soul Resurgence.
which are still holding on to the Heavens Retribution.
This might be the way that Navi are able to turn the fight,
but they've also been able to splinter Teampeps' coordination away,
loathing the pressure from the Angel alone and the potential damage boosts.
We'll try to find a nice pick there, and you've got Jeriki.
This 99% is to come back with a life cocoon,
able to bring back people on the objective,
even though they're not still in control of Teampeps.
The visual boundary for Fate still built,
and Jeriki finds himself a couple more as Terra is very close to a Galactic Legend.
get an elimination just beforehand and they've managed to find themselves some space. Pep's not
wanting to over-dedicate anymore. They don't have anything else to dedicate to, to be honest,
but they can build up a royal flush as it's been at 9%.
I mean, they're one fight away. Essentially from getting this round, jerking no way does
he manage to build up another comic revival. So really, you're looking at terror with this
Galactic Legends, which is exactly what IMLK will be looking at, the solid ultimate with
the Misha M so that Protoss can hold the Soul Resurgence and try to have the Sustainability
to match fate's invisible boundaries. Level 1 Cork is going eerily low, Terra opens up the fight,
so if our Peps actually not going for the Misha M instead try to heal through it with the Soul
Resurgence, but 6 is just not within distance or space to receive the sustain and falls. Heaven
Trep Tribution lands on the Team Peps's whole backline and baby back gets cleared when he's
isolated. Great play from Terra to jump onto the gambit.
the boundary is going to give Na'Vi some victory on his play around now that it's reached 99%.
Everybody is dropping like flies, hair switching over to the style of this gun, so much to actually
learn these eliminations. And if I and Hammer held on to it for quite some time for trust me,
now I'm deciding to pull it out now. Meteor M forced out from MLK.
Could have taken that into the second point if they felt that Team Pech was going to have to give this one up,
but they're still using these ultimates as they're being built very close.
game to a Spider-Man flying back from pink but also in iabagamoto as portals are going
to come out on both sides, jerky switching over, not going to matter too much. Team Peps
giving it a good go on this first point but now they're finding the gear shift and take
first.
Yeah, it feels like the secrets of being able to make this flyer composition work, especially
with the torch ultron is the Star Lord ban. It does have to be removed from play. It is
your most consistent and hardest counter. So I imagine if Peps loses this round and
take us to conversions to try to make this composition play yet again we will
see Peter Quill on the band table as a now that Terry Terry actually has that
galactic legend too like this is problematic for peps to have to deal
with ideally you're looking at just cliting on galactic legend but you're
missing Loki to the regeneration domain to give you the space to do so so the
task instead falls to Frankie boxing on the antler to directly body block it
instead.
What's to worry about?
Even Jerky's actually going to switch over towards the Ultron himself.
I think it'd be nice to see if you can't beat them and join them as it seems that Pettis
is still committing to the strategy and playing off of it.
I mean, Kurok also was potentially on that rocket to give Terra extra mobility with the
team up, but that swaps back to the Mantis to be able to have that damage boost to match
what Protoss is allowing Pink to output.
I wonder how quickly we see this Galactic Legend because surely Navi got a good clock
in that X used all of the ultimates and had available and if they killed any of them they
were going to use it straight away so here's the Galactic Legend right onto the diving
point immediately off of what truck he was doing.
Space wise, Terra cleans up five players and MLK has to sort of give up this position.
It was perfectly right from Navi and whilst it was a rough start on that first point Moxie,
They made the right adjustments, both obviously to Star-Lord, but Rizaro in the end to her.
And peps there off the torch.
Like they've been you, walking into reset, yeah, there's no way you're going to be able
to get that torch back into a position of power without getting first cleared by the
Star-Lord.
So Pink goes on to Peter Quill to be able to match with an ability, and we literally
basically get an even mirror except the invisible woman being the outlier between the gambit
and the dead for Xangar being the outlier between that mag.
And they're missing the mag actually, it's really problematic for Pink to have to deal with
since you don't have the Bullwalks to be able to go in aggressively as we actually get to see it.
Yeah, there we go, Van Hammer onto the starboard before you can build up a Zyko-like to Gledin.
Six opening the way with the Rage Ultron and Navi just disengaging with the cover of the run.
Yeah, being able to take out the Rage Usable Trons on either side has trust me now given up some of the space in this play.
And I'm okay trying to wrap around with the rest of his team on this high ground, seeing
if he can deal a turret with this roam on him is such a pest, 6 goes down quite a legion
is going to be used from pink, however, able to get one, it is going to force our trust
me to use some of that sustenance but it's not going to be enough, pink actually finds
so much, the switch is a good one, whilst now they make it to 60%, heaps find their
own changeup and it works wonders.
Oh, they get to hold the Galar Raging Roar Flush as well on the side of Baby Bat, like
pink does it with just galactic legend alone. So now fate's fans are tied essentially for
having to hold invisible boundary against the gathered ultimate, which means you have to
get yourself on to point to be able to use it and still potentially win the fight. Gorgeous
spear coming in first from a jargon, displacing Frankie Boxing, and trust me in the meantime,
he's a one man army clearing up the high ground and taking on the triple strat just lying so long.
Yeah, it's just because of the picks in the neutral, it seems that Navi might have to
used a little bit more to pie out the time but it seems like it's gonna be
Navi actually able to take this point. Often that's using zero ultimate
just off of the well-played element of Rejaro going into that poll
and Fracti Bonkzi being taken out as the first elimination in that fight.
I mean, Tara with the Skeletic Legend 2, like, it seems perhaps you're relying on
Meteor and being able to absorb it. Potentially they could go for Heaven's
Retribution as well to try and just shut down this position of Navi's
higher ground control which is going to be so problematic. Who are they all trying to
have to deal with? They're the regular flush but it's not in time. Frankie Boxing is already
down. Galactic Legend comes on for it from Terra. I am okay trying to absorb the majority
of it with the Misha M but that will be broken. On the test falls to six to take Terra out
of the skies instead. Jeriki is just as apt though with the mechanics. Takes to the high
ground and clears out the high skies. Holy Jeriki is in all of those shots. It feels like
like it's supposed to be, it's a span down a throat.
Still waiting for the cooldown on the ban.
And my invisible ban is going to allow this quite to go a little bit more,
as it has reached 99%.
It hits him, let me six shots,
but he has to go over towards the switch for the portal.
Can't quite make it in time.
Now the winning out on domination 2-0, but peps,
there are some moments that make you think,
okay, this team just needs a little bit more time in the other.
Mechanically, the sound,
but it's now these fast fire adjustments that made the difference.
I smell convergence and I smell a Star-Lord save on the side of Navi if it isn't a ban on the side of Peps.
Because like, honestly, if Peps had been able to slot a Star-Lord ban into that band draft somewhere,
like, really potentially, Navi would be up the creek without a Star-Lord to paddle them back into the correct waters against that Torch Ultron composition.
Final hits 18 for Terra and I think there's 21 total for all of Team Pep, so it's a little bit of a dead lift I suppose in our performance, but it was set up for success.
It's easy for Terra to look that good when you have Jerky filling in the gaps of playing stuff like Adam and also the Ultron.
Knowing that Navi can also play this combination and get bigger monsters against it is going to feel better.
They made the right adjustments and choices and it's about the Pep's were able to sort of make those adjustments too.
do. It's just that Na'Vi will win in way too many fights in the neutral.
Yeah, I think if you swap the ban on the venom and you just replace it with a ban on the
star lord, because like as we talked about, like the venom, yeah, that takes away the
element of soft dive, but at the same time, there's so many vanguards in the pool that
are left behind that just allow you to do dive the same as opposed to the star lord,
which is the direct counter to everything that your composition is trying to do.
I completely agree and in inspiration of that I have written you both a poem.
There's an Ultron in the sky, Terror flew twice as high, Inspire from Cook.
Now Peps aren't Cooks, but the score is 1-0.
Really solid performance from Peps, but they're starting to strut, but we did see Navi react.
I love the idea that potentially we will see a Starloft protect from Navi to deal with
this in the future.
We'll have to see if that is the case as we're going to head to a break, and when we come
back we'll see if Peps can bring it back versus Navi.
map number two.
I'm trying to help
suffering the darkness let's back up under their noses
That's against the world!
My time to shine!
Navi pushed to the brink once again, but this time they adjusted and they held on.
But that now means peps get the back choice and we for theorycrafting, could they attempt
to hit the trauma button and attempt to get Narvi back onto the Central Park. Looks like
no, we've just seen that they are heading to the Museum of Contemplation and that's
brave.
That's a strange looking convergence map.
I wonder if you can still play it on this map though. I mean you've got the ceiling
some probably not but I almost respect the goal for Peps to be like we can make this
map work because they had good moments against heretics on Friday. It was just a heretics
as such an unique, talented roster. They kind of just went on the mechanics alone. And I
think now they would do the same here, despite there being some good mechanics on the side
of peps.
I mean, it's dive as well, right? It's going to be dive. We've seen Museum of Contemplation
so, so many times and so, so many times. Has it been around dive compositions both on the
defense and on the offense. So I feel like the solar band probably not going to come
through. It's probably best to keep going for that ban on because it's going to be
so disruptive when Navi have their defensive turn.
In the last series, the last map, we did see these teams both put a lot more focus onto
ELSA compared to a lot of the teams that were prioritizing Gambit first. Do you think we'll
continue to see that as we head into map number two?
I think Navi just sort of leave it open. They've been putting almost too much stuff
in the deadpool of vanguard with alpha daisling for example so i don't really know perhaps should
get it for free but it's whether to get a hold of the style or get rid of it in the case of what
we've been hoping for. I mean the thing about like letting gambit through but one side getting vanguard
deadpool is that vanguard deadpool gets up first, lobs bandhammer on the gambit and doesn't allow
the team with one sided gambit to have one sided raging roar of flush which then derails the whole
ultimate economy. It's like a gambit when you play gambit in compositions, you fit him into
those compositions and you have to make the space for it, right? Raging Royal Flush has to pair with
something, so being able to drill the whole ultimate economy actually finds a whole lot of value.
So I would expect that Navi will continue going for a ban on Vanguard Deadpool into a save on
Vanguard Deadpool, or do they fear the Mantis so much that we see that occupy the ban slot instead?
that is this a man to save or is it going to be a continuation of the vanguard deadpool looks like
it's going to be a man to save so they're actually moving away from their normal ban formula.
What are you going to ban out here I imagine in this case just the gambit so you get one
sided gambit to play off or you're going to try and move ahead in the process. Probably the next
round it's like this like double ban that we see coming up for both teams is when Loki's front in
most. Is either Loki or Mantis. Yeah, Loki, or Mantis, or Gambit, but I mean, there we
go. That's the immediate shot down of the Vanguard Deadpool, now that Navi aren't having
that layer of protection in front of it. Gambit looks like it's going to be an instant decision
made on the side of Team Peps, which does target out both the Loki as well as the Gambit itself,
although Loki is still a problem for them to deal with. Not only is this going to be
Locke Mantis. This is also going to be Locke Mantis Adam on Convoy, which does allow you
to play a triple strategist line and stall on Forest. There's Navi C that Peps have
not yet targeted that Venom, and will go for the save before it can be removed from play.
Is that...
No, it has to be Locke. It has to be Locke.
Yeah, I mean, I saw the white fox on it, I'm like, no. No. Yeah, it has to be Locke. You're
So like it does leave the Jeff open as well actually from now they've got to protect them to venom
So yeah, they can also have that team up. Yeah, but I mean Loki's way more problematic Loki
Adam that's full hold formula right there
But like you said that does leave the Jeff open potentially team peps are going to try and route it with something like the
Groot walls interfering with the line of sight on the heels
So if we do see now we play this venom especially on the defense and you're going for the the soft dives
so just like disrupt the back line and prevent them from taking any form of space. You don't
have the jeff healing the venom from afar as we get one more van coming over on the end of
navi. Can't be susan storm as that is pepsis lost save as they do see that venom know that there's
going to be elements of dive and prioritize strategist who will be able to circumvent it
as it's going to be the dead bull vanguard so no one is going to be able to have access to the
ban hammer unless they decide to maybe put someone on another role which I mean I say that it sounds
really weird it's actually been happening for some teams in the different regions the priority
and value of that ultimate really does surpass the roles for sure I mean it really does feel like
they can get so much out of it but this last game on the museum of competition at least for today
potentially unless peps can actually show up in a massive way. It has been glimmers of it,
but we have also seen that from plenty of themes so far today. It's the likes of Navi,
Heretics of Virtus Pro, they just outpace their opponents and last and longer in these fights,
but it is a Mantis versus like a one-sided, no, Loki, it is a one-sided Gambit. So Gambit versus
Mantis is interesting as to whether it's going to be much of the triple strategy at this point.
I mean, Terror is already on this Namor as well, so we already called that Jerky was
going to be on the Atom if they're playing on Domination, they're absolutely going to
play on Convoy if it's free and available, but that Namor should be able to keep a closer
eye on things like the Daredevil if they decide to field it on the side of Peps. Looks like
it's going to actually be at two strangers, but keep your eye on Pink because we've got
a Hulk on the field. That means Fastfall incoming from this Wolverine for Navi to have to think
fast and deal with.
And the fast is certainly in the play.
Frankie Box is in.
After you go really aggressive here, there's a great play up actually.
We're sick.
Hopefully it goes in for the counter dive and it gets the pick on to the baby bat like
backline.
So it's all the training out these fights in the end, but now we have to give up some
space at the very least.
Nice coordination from Frankie in 60-ball for that elimination, sirs.
Force is the sell for our side of Cherokee, already, which is actually huge, especially
the closer he gets to that Karmic Revivals. He's also doing a very good job of trying
to take a lot of space with this IMLK jumping with those incredible leaps on that hook,
but terror on this more. 65% just getting to look at the vanguards and just charge
out for Trident again and again and again since the ammo is infinite.
Thanks for finding a couple more picks.
And it's pretty much the hold right in front of the spawn doors that Peps has to try to
break here.
I don't see too much of the fastball actually make its way through, but it's more the fact
that the strategy is to build it at these old places.
Uh, game bit old?
I mean, he was looking like they were going to use it, but now we go, everyone's lined
up, everyone gets it.
Terror is actually in blessing of the deep at the moment, so not using horn of party
is to interrupt the movement of peps forward rushing like a wave towards
Navi's defences and overwhelming it.
That's a good fight in the end. We were just sort of waiting where the go button was going to be
but peps making sure that everybody was lined up ready to fight you put a last
stand as well it's going to be greater creating space. Navi not going to try to
go into the fight quickly here they still have a lot of dive options and
still going up towards the time of revival but peps trying to hold a
highlines. See if you can take the attention away from where Pink is playing from, because
that stand could pull everybody right into the objective.
Well, Trostme is already pulling the attention, allowing Navi to get through the choke without
having to worry about Pink in the close quarters with that last stand. The Venom soft dive created
the space and the rest of Navi's team now get to find the eliminations. Venom diving
yet again disrupting the disengagement, Raja, at maximum challenge. It's just going to be
absolutely melting through those vanguards. Gets the diamond form into the carbon crush,
Frankie boxing a lot for level one crooks to bring them down, but Navi best though giving a lot of
respect to what peps can do. They don't want to overextend, they have to address the fact that
yes, Invisible Vandre can slow them down and yes, Final Judgement can absolutely shred through
both the sustainability of the mantas or the Invisible Woman alts.
decided that he wants to go for the ability instead to see if Tuxby could be crossed out a little bit more.
But he's still able to get into the backline and protoss the only player from Team Peps that didn't have an ultimate was him.
And I feel like everybody else was waiting for him to come online.
Oh no! We see!
The final judgement pick used him as immediately deleted!
Oh, Navi just cut it down very quickly.
Got the ultimate as well from Emma Frost to just silence anything else that might follow up.
Navi dealt with that very fast.
I mean, they have the Karmic Revival, too, if their hand was forced. They don't even use it, they still have it available.
So, whether the Storm of One-sided Raging Roar Flush, which Peps were able to utilize so efficiently last time, but not this time,
as Pink is clearing up all of the spaces, they want to try and intercept Trust me's run away, since the Venom is so far away from the Addams position,
it's highly unlikely Karmic Revival is enough to bring him back.
Juppie's just going towards up the distance. He actually runs to the opposite side of the map
to pick up both trust me and all of the rest of Navi's call and Lava 1 Cork with the Solar
Surgeons allowing Navi to come back into that fight but walking directly into the invisible
boundary to slow things down. Oh, this is absolutely mayhem. I think the museum of
contemplation is enough to just over stimulate me without these fights are going. But Team
peps are just so used to it, they had to deal with it with heretic perform ping, now seems
to be getting going with these picks but it's overtime, not really too much, liver keys to
be taken on this attack, you just have to find those approaches but hook is found too, the
spawn is really close, the checkpoint is an ebb away but is there enough time to actually
stall for the portal? Not looking likely, as peps now have to fly in with the angela
as ping is the one to use it, they can't quite touch and just before the first checkpoint
I mean, Navi, every time that Mantis is in meta, level 1 crook is just someone that you
really have to watch out for.
Like, trust me, it's able to just hold the fort on the actual convoy itself, meanwhile
level 1 crook and fate in the backline, frying everybody.
Oh, there's a Hulk in front of me.
Yes, incredible shots hit by the mantis, not the melee character.
So poor IMLK just has a very bad day.
It's just teampeps picking this map, too.
I think it just feels like I'm like low key time skipping, you know,
like the TVA or just like you switch.
It's so discombobulating to follow along.
But like those kind of fights have always suited Navi.
They've always suited heretics.
And I admire pets trying to like play in that style.
But it was so much like there was that big play, 5 ultimates waiting for a royal flush,
the gamma gets taken out, 6 gets deleted as that final judgement comes in, and Navi still
have a camera revival to sit back on.
That can't be allowed to happen.
Yeah, it's less agents of shield, more agents of chaos for Navi's real way of play, and
I mean like honestly for them, that fight was 100% worth, because you force peps into
burning so many ultimates, if you lose players to them, you've got the card that brings them
all back with Karmic Revival, and your ultimate economy is in such a greater position. Which
is something that Team Pepsma will have the opportunity of taking advantage of, given
that Pink has moved over to the Adam Warlock. Navi actually, despite taking us to Museum
of Contemplation, a map which has a ceiling, are going to put Terra on the Ultron Crook
on the Mantis, and just look to stabilize their dive. Trust me, Jerky able to hit into
the backline tried to take some of his face away, but Terra, there we go, finds one of
of Ultron's greatest counters, which is a ceiling fan.
That was the shortest campaign to play in Ultron,
I think we've ever seen.
And you've got Jackie that was just not the sole
little view list for Daredevil.
We could have been a tall order for him
to close some of his distance,
because I'm okay.
He's just enjoying and reveling in the chaos
that he's formed and able to get these guys dives in.
And Peps, just on the space car,
they're playing, there's so much space,
everybody's playing so fast,
and you can see, like, trust me,
he's trying to find these targets to focus on
and with the help of fate,
able to achieve a couple of picks in the end.
Oh, the floodgates have opened.
Chaos reigns supreme.
Navi have just pushed Pepsi away in Rejaro.
No, there's no way.
He's setting up a portal at the moment
to stop IMLK portaling Pepsi back onto this convoy.
He gets him.
Oh, there's no way.
He actually did.
He actually got him.
He actually played with the man.
It's done.
Peps are going to try and touch, but I mean, Navi,
Yeah, that just not going to allow that to happen. Oh, my goodness, Rujaro take a bow. That's that's a bogey level of strange TP. If we've seen one since the Smonga's played last.
Oh, I'll do an Adler lead, I guess to an extent, because it's like, if you wanted to see how that play looked, you can also go into game and watch the replay straight after this series to check it out yourself.
It's a shame that we missed it with like everything that was going on
But you can also go and see how these guys are playing and for now the it's just
making adjustments from yesterday against Shikigami with stuff like the clutch ultra meta stuff and
Using it against peps who on this map at the very least could not really show the same temperance
I suppose that we saw against heretics on Friday. Oh
Oh, I mean, trust me, Jerky, they were like the main ones who allowed Navi to break around.
Like we saw Terra tried, the Ultron doesn't work, goes to the Psylog, but in the meantime,
the Venom, the Daredevil diving onto Pepsi's backline, forcing them to have to turn around
and deal with the Peel, which then erodes away the space that they have to work with
and allows Navi to just slip through the lane checks, all of the flanks, all of the angles
get consumed by the attack, and peps get split into these individual pockets of fights that
they have to take to the point that they lose their players, have to rely on a strange portal,
no one's left to be able to put pressure onto Rajarro, and we get the strange portal that
literally ends the match.
literally ended the match with a portal trap. Beautifully executed, you literally just saw
everyone from Team Peps just cheesing it for the objective the second that came out because
you have no other option, you're just going to try and rush to the point. In this case,
though, Na'Vi positioned beautifully, they're going to take them down so quickly, just nicely
done there and it seems that their little bugbear will call it. They've probably been
feeling like any device this year because it seems like everyone's trying to force AI into it with
Ultron appearing in so many of their games but it seems like they've finally been able to stabilize
themselves and deal with it two times in a row now. Yeah not overheat I think is the main thing
it's been such a weird day of games as like a recap as well because it's like we've done five best
of three in less than five hours there have been so many like speedrun games that have happened but
But like, for Pep, you get the two horrible teams to deal with, like Fanos and I guess Ultron himself
out of the way first, so you can focus on qualifying for playoffs next week, and you take some good lessons here.
And I don't think that anybody's looking at Pep to go in like this team is absolutely torrid, there's no chance.
It's just they're being outpaced by teams that have higher accolades and more experience.
Next week, you're definitely going to be in the Muckin' Mud of the others, and the chance of playoffs is due.
There's a time to be doing it. It is now here in the preseason. There's time for adjustments.
There's time for practice. There's time for working out new strategies and anything. And
of course, there's going to be new patches. Of course, next week we have the White Fox
patch coming in to make her even stronger. There's going to be a lot of flexibility available
for teams like Peps to continue to unfold those strategies.
Oh boy, White Fox. Yeah, that public is their room in the draft to be able to slot in a
Oh, why fucks ban? I really do not know, because like, that's getting stronger, but nothing
else is really getting all that weaker, is the problem, so it is just...
I was thinking, we're going to be sticking to jerky instead, didn't we, in a few moments.
Yeah, too many Avenger-level frets, it's just too many, like you need Interglatti help,
call an overcar because yeah, you need to make the pair of hands to deal with it all.
I think at the moment actually it would be called the Thunderbolts, right, or I guess
the new Avengers.
adventures. And then you could like potentially you've got too many like you need all of the
variations of the adventures across like Marvel's history to deal with everything that's a game
right now. There's too much. Well, what there isn't too much of is any amount of time with
jerky because we will spend as much time with them as we can as they are ready for the interview.
Jerky, as I said earlier, you had one little rougher start with the ult from game versus
Shikigami and now other people keep trying to push it on you guys but you reacted.
Well this time, what have you taken since that matchup coming into this one?
I mean Shikigami props to them, you know, they found a comp that caught us off guard.
They picked old fashioned kind of comp like a season 3.5 comp and it caught us off guard,
didn't know what to do and we took some time off right yesterday today and we
were like okay guys how do we beat this comp you know how do we best at that
composition and we found something out that worked and I think we're way more
comfortable against that now. I think just some some brewing in the background
and we got that figured out.
Were you expecting peps to take you to Museum of Contemplation especially
after Convergence proved to be one of the problem points?
Did it catch you by surprise that they would take you to a map
which was so favoured by the dive composition?
I mean, honestly, I don't really think it got us off guard or anything.
I think every team has their comfort maps.
And sadly for them, it is quite a dive heavy map, right?
So they did pick their own poison, kind of.
So, but yeah, I mean, any map, I think it works in our favour.
I think any map would have been our comfort zone, so I don't think they had a good choice there.
There was a post on social media, I think yesterday, that was very much in the lines of like
Mom and Dad are fighting again when it comes to trust me and Terra, like being on the team and like trying to deliberate and stuff like
How's it been with like Terra joining the squad?
I guess a lot of people just assumed it would be those two but in heads, but knowing you guys a little bit more personally
You do have your opinions, but you also are just like a very free and open team to express them and then actually work it out, right?
It feels like it's not just those two that are going to be opinionated.
I mean, it happens. I think it's very normal in eSports for your teams to butt heads, right?
Especially when it's the top of the top, but we've been working it out, you know, it happens in every team, it happens in every eSports.
We just have our talks, we figure it out and we work on from there.
Sure.
With that win, mathematically, you are now through to the playoffs
as you cannot drop a low fourth seed in the group at minimum,
but you still, coming up next week, have Pulsar and Heretic.
So my question is, is your focus going to be on them
or the playoffs heading into next week?
Well, right now, because we are a very competitive team,
very competitive players, I think we want to best every single team
and show that we are dominating this EMEA region, right?
So I think we'll take it one step at a time, right?
I'm not sure who comes first, Theretix or Pulsar,
but we'll focus on the first team that comes
and we wanna beat them in a dominant fashion, you know,
and then we'll focus on the playoffs.
So it's definitely one step at a time, yeah.
And my last question to you here
is we have live pro on earlier today,
who decided to do a little bit of merchandising
for his team and people could also support you guys
by grabbing your dental bundle in game.
So what would you say to the audience out there
who are looking to potentially pick up that Navi Bundle
but have not pulled the trigger yet?
Ah, I mean, the Navi Bundle, it's pretty cool.
And I think what a funny or, you know,
kind of a joke you can make,
the BTW right on our shirt stands for board to win.
But some people interpret it as, by the way,
so I think you can use that as a funny joke
with your friends when you joke with your teammates, you know.
But I mean, the Navi bundle, come on, a nice match of colors,
a nice match of a team, right?
You have the best team on there, so pick who you want to support most.
I'll appreciate it if it's us.
Thank you very much, Jerky.
We'll let you go, get ready to focus on next week's games,
and congratulations on Yes or No, we'll win.
Thank you very much, guys. Thank you. Thank you.
We always love talking to jerky and yeah, it's always great to see you're already qualified,
but it doesn't matter. We want to be the best that that means no time to complacency. Pulsar
are next, sorry, Heretic's next, Pulsar last, doesn't matter, focus on them, knock them out and do
the best we possibly can. And that's always the motivation you want to see in your place.
And I mean, it sounds as well like we're getting the EMEA continuation of that rivalry between
and VP and then Navi and VP.
Since Turkey just said, and I quote,
the best EMEA team when he was talking about that bundle,
that you can get your hands on.
And when we move into the playoff stages,
we'll be able to put that one to the test.
That's going to be a matchup that I'm pretty sure everyone
will be on the edge of their seats waiting for.
Could not agree more.
But in terms of our games, we have had some incredible ones today.
So many teams have been fighting for just a ladder to try and get themselves
a little bit higher in their groups to try and make their way towards those playoffs.
And while it's becoming increasingly unlikely for some of these teams,
a couple others have managed to grab themselves lifelines right.
Yeah, I mean, there's only a couple of teams
a handful of Manchester play all three of their games for this weekend most of which taking a break here or there and have to play
their full roster next weekend
But if I don't now be was able to do it free now all three sports one and two
She can't be doing one reason gaming one and two. It's more like a mix
It's only crown for them bullseye that a zero and three that is looking really dice for them
But there's still a chance permutations aren't gonna quite come into the fray just yet wait a couple more
We'll be having a look over what we have what we've done this week a little bit in a little moment of all these hours past every single word in my vocabulary, but someone who won't be losing their words in their vocabulary next week's games are going to be brought to you by our new castors in the form of
castes in the form of Lemon Kiwi and Vodable, and of course, returning from last stage.
We miss about this side of the desk, but you should be very excited to see it cast on the
other side.
Like they'll be returning to bring that content as well.
But another shout out I wanted to do just a little bit quickly is we've not only expanded
our main cast teams in the Americas Pacific and EMEA, but also we picked up some foreign
language casts.
The Americas are coming on after this.
And in Europe, we are very lucky to have a very wide coverage of languages, which is
always delightful. And the Americas games are getting a Spanish cast that's already been
broadcasted. So if you're a Spanish speaker and you want to check that out, then go check
it out on Marvel Rivals ESP for Espanol. So just a little suggestion if that's something
that you're interested in. It's great that Marvel are giving us that little bit of extra
coverage there.
I mean, yeah, it's an Esports, Esports include literally everybody. So, like you said, Tetra,
it's wonderful to get to see that being put into play this early on in the scene, especially
now that we have the likes of like team heretics coming into play, like you want to see that
side of the community getting brought in so that they can cheer for their home team.
I'm also going to bring up that next week we will be beginning even more esports as Pacific
and China will be starting up as well.
So if you were already like, ah, that was a lot of really good esports, it's left me
watching more.
Well, we have some amazing news for you.
More is coming.
And while EMEA, we've stabilized a lot of our predictions.
Honestly, it's looking okay for some of us here.
The Americas is on fire with their predictions.
You're going to get another chance with those predictions with the Pacific and China regions
as well.
So there's just so much Marvel rivals and esports coming up.
But talking over what we've had today, going back to that, we had some great matchups for
you all.
Looking at this, all two zeros, and it didn't really show if you watched those matches.
few of these we could really argue were convincing. Some were convincing. Some were very very close and
you know some like the first round of domination was close. The second map not so much but again I
think like that sort of like shows a sign of the times right that when you go up against these teams
they all have individual personalities, band drafts that they like to do. It can take one map
also to work out like okay this is the problem that we have to deal with when we're up against this person
when we go into the second map let's find a way to work around it.
We can see it very clearly displayed here the top of group A, Heretic, Shikigami and Navi all taking
their two zeros and continuing their hold at the top of the table. Navi with three wins on the board
and zero losses they are essentially through to the playoffs but that's no reason to stop because
against heretics, City get 2-0, but in with a shot of potentially overtaking them as top
of that group. Chikigami, taking another win today, sit back 2-1 with Ulta, hot on their
heels.
I think also a thing to add is that the rules as well for these groups is if we have got
two teams or equal on points by the end of group stages, it's head to head. So winning
up against those teams in and around you, it's going to matter a lot. And also if it
is sort of just like team A beats team B beats team C who beats team A, that differential comes in.
So the fact that some of these games were two nil wins for teams today can go a potential long
distance. But I think that we are starting to see like the cream rice to the crop at top in some of
these cases, but there's still chances for like reason gaming, I think to sort of bounce back.
Then playing Crownfall is going to be a pretty like major matchup who's going to potentially be
the game. We're going to be
decided. But these are the
games are coming together on
Friday of next week. Same
times it was this time.
Reason gaming probably have to
try and get say zero out of
school earlier playing first,
so they have that to worry
about and up against Rad, who
are looking to pretty much
confirm this spot for playoffs
with a three nil series when I
suppose going into like the third
game. Yeah, but it's also the
cross out because that is the day that Navi get to meet Team Heretics and that one will
easily, well I say easily, potentially if you said Shiki Gami might be able to push
their way up in those standings too, determine who is going to be leading group A since Navi
are currently undefeated for free wins, Team Heretics, they're undefeated but they only
have been able to play for two games so they might be able to equalize that scoreline and
also pull a match of Na'Vi as well.
And we have two battles for survival, Pets and Pulsar,
and we have Firestrays and Crownfall.
All of them going to be battling for some points on the board.
And our middle game, which seems to be a big highlight spot very often,
we have the world champion, Virtus.pro,
versus the new kids on the block who are already stunning with performance.
We have vision.
Both of those teams sit at 2-0,
between someone is going to have to take a lead in Group B.
But thinking of taking the lead,
we're going to be having some incredible skins
to allow you to lead your team into battle.
Starting off with the cloak and dagger, daring duo costume.
A quick reminder that that was shown off first
in the Marvel Rivals Infinity comic that came out in 2024.
So maybe jump over there and have a look
to see if there are any hints for skins in the future.
It's been out for a little bit now
and is still available. So if you're a CD player like myself, then maybe jump on in and get someone
who's a little bit adept at not just stealing merchandise and stealing artifacts, but maybe
stealing wins as well. I will ask though, as a fellow strategist player, please don't lead your team
in style. Please be behind in your team, allowing them to lead you. But if you want to hold W,
Well, you can pick up a W of a win in terms of cosmetics here with the miniature pass for Flight Mode World Tour Volume 2,
which will include the free Namor Steve's Samba costume as well as on upgrading to premium unlocking all access for the Star-Lord Groovy Guardian as well as that magic infernal idol.
And yeah, if you want to loot the charge with those heroes, absolutely go for it.
You're meant to dive with Star-Lord and magic, just make sure that you're not coming from a main road.
You mentioned Dive and it's four downs, no mercy with how we've seen Captain America play today,
and you can fit it in style with the Brett Hendricks, the Starskin, all of these.
Are in game now, so there's no excuse.
You can check out exactly what happened without Portal Play and also pick up any of the skins that we've just mentioned,
but you do have a couple of weeks in order to do it.
So you can deliberate, you can think a little bit more, but I do think that the Prime Captain America strategies in games like this,
it's very much a quarterback read, so that's a good one to pick up.
And I love puns by the way. I'm glad I cut them all out.
Fortfall had egg. Go long. It's a cool skin. Go get it.
We just love the Captain America. Captain America is really on just an undisputed front
of absolutely incredible skins right now. On slightly intense.
Either way, ladies and gentlemen, and anyone in between, what's an incredible first week
of the night for 2026 it has been. We've had upsets.
We have had some incredible matchups, but very importantly, we have had some of the
best Marvel rivals.
In fact, the best Marvel rivals in the world, and we have more coming up for you next week.
Talking about your favorite moments of this week before we send you off over to the Americas,
Boxing, what's your favorite moment of the week?
Portal on the Museum of Contemplation.
I'm opening up the game instantly after this room and going back and watching exactly how
I would play it out.
That's right, the same question to you.
The no troll in spawn I think has to go for it.
I'll also say on behalf of production, because we deal with a new team,
like any feedback, like social media, you know, your discos,
Reddit and stuff like that for production,
we're keen to hear what you guys think as always.
Yeah, but be nice.
We want to put that in on behalf of production as well.
Feedback always welcome, but when you're giving feedback in any case, be nice always.
Make sure that you understand that there is a person on the other side of any message.
But speaking of messages that we leave it is going to be the message that we are leaving you with that
It's time to ignite the battle. Good luck with the Americans later on to back in next week for more
EMEA and the upper regions starting up and we'll see you all next time