I remember the dusk, the lights ripping tightly
Chopping all those fighting souls, buddy
Across the world I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
The sun and moon and time wonder
Back when I was your time, now we were friends
Like harsh falling shadows moving in the air
That's what has come from me, I think you're out
We are standing up for our last reunion
Breakfast ain't time to wait, come find me
Do you remember who you really are?
Tell me that you are still the only one for me
Only waiting for you
When again, we make your cries crazy
This is my skin, dirty sorry foals
Before the rift's been turned on yet
The unravels have begun
Riding down the night of my toll
To your powers no one can tell us
We arrive till the end of time
We will clash and battle where we'll fight
Rushing across the earth, steady force
You are my designated light
You see the dawn, the flame, burning right, shining one, those memories, any yes, of course, all time I see you turning the sides, and you see now, our time, our time, we can still fight, like the winds in fire, and when there's no more, then now is the only time your heart is mine.
Light has fallen, darkness no none
Yes, we're quite poor, our destiny at bay
New days falling, but at last, the future
Strangles, things laying in the way, life at bay
And when you wake up, find your prize
Raising up your peace and smash in the soil
And for the weeks, we turn to the kids
See our troubles in the head tonight
Then I'll apply the young mind to hold onto your powers
The powers that ever can't stop us
We are rivals on the edge until the end of time
Show me that you are solely only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for you
Wake up, open your hands, hold on to your heart
Look inside you
Can you feel it?
It's marching through
I need a unleashed wake up
What might you do?
What is written?
You said smashing through the walls
For the real winter's yet again
We are rivals to the end
And I stand perfect on my toes
I see a prowess that all I can show us
But we are rivals to the end of time
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
Like sun and moon and time wonder
The bad weather was the time that we were proud of
And her smiling shadows, moon and enemies
That's a past come from me to seek you out
The arts that know for a last reunion
Break the chains, find your way, come find me
Do you remember who you really are?
I'll be there to answer the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
Let it begin and I'll make your cries wail
The sense smashed in through circles
For the risks that I've done yet
The unravels of the end
I've been a major mind
Hold onto your power's love
Hands up us
We are proud to seal the end of time
We will flash
What a way to fight, wasting our cross-times
They saw what's new at my destiny
You see the dawn, the flame burning rightly
Shining one north and the reason yes
Across our time, I see you turn in the science
And do you see now? I time, I turn, I can still fight
Like no one's in my mind, I wonder how I'm alive
And now it's the only time your heart is mine
Light has found it, darkness brought love
Teared by your destiny and fame
New day's smiling for the past and future
Wait for change, leave the way, fight with me
And when you're taken, I find your eyes raising up your fists and smashing them solid.
Before the rips, we search again, we are rivals in the end.
Why is that? I need your minds, but I'll take your powers down.
That's how it works, we are rivals again, until the end of time.
Can you feel it, the sparks in you?
I need a hundred shadows
I ain't gonna watch you cry
There's reason for this
And slashing through time
Oh, whether it's winter's day or night
We are rivals to the end
And the lights are on
But when your eyes hold onto your powers
No one can stop us
We are rivals to the end
And the lights are on
I remember as I dashed the lights gripping tightly,
trapping all those fighting souls,
but yeah, 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 I wandered,
but there were no words to tell you we were friends.
And I saw the sun in shadows, warm and red,
That's a husband for me to seek you out
We are scan of our last reunion
Break the chains, find your way
Come find 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
Blading in a night of angels rising
Resent smashed in three circles
All the risks return to the dead
We are levels in the end
Oh, it's an adventure
Minds hold until your power's down
Can't stop us
We are back to the end of time
We will push the water wind
We will fight
Fishing across times
There is no end to our mind
There's an activity
I'm not sure if you can see the dawn, the flames rolling right behind me, shining one note from the reason yes, across all time I see you turning left sides.
And do you see now, our time, our time, we can still fight, a human's in front, under no more, and now it's the only time your heart is mine.
The flight has fallen, the darkness pro-line
Yes, if I don't understand anything
New day's fine and full of dust and future
Trace those things, leave the way, slice the pain
And when you wake up, you'll find your prize
Raising with the sense smashed in the soil
Before the respite turns to death
Your bubbles in the air rise up
Locking in your mind's warm until your problems come
Can't stop us, we are rivals again
Until the end of time
Show me that you are slowly the only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for you
Waiting, rubbing your hands, holding on
Do your heart look inside you
Can you feel it, the sparks in you
Adding up, unleashing, cleaning up
Why can't you rise breathing
Just in smashing through time walls
For the rest of the day
Yeah, we are rivals to the end
And I stand by standing joined minds
Hold on to your power still
And stop us
We are rivals to the end
Except
And remember the time, the place we used to fight
When sun had grown and time wandered
There was a time when we were crap
And I had a spot in shadow, snowman and yooks
That's a past from here to see you out
We are standing out for a life free union
Break the chains that you're with, come fight me
Do you remember who you really are?
Tell me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
Lady, can I have your prize, please?
I put this in smash in the cymbals
But for the rest, we're turning to the end
The old devil's in the end
Love is bad, but thank your minds
Hold on to your powers now
Dance, Elfos, we arrive to seal the end
Done
Leave a glass, and what a way
Oh, a bite missing across time space
What you are my destiny to the end?
You see the dawn, the flames, the moon, and right
The shining one, those and the reason, yes
Across all time I see you turning red sides
And do you see now, our time, our time, we can still fight
Like the wind is burnt, but there's no more
Then now it's the only time your heart is mine
Flight has fallen, darkness broke out
Yes, if I go, there's the need for it
BAD!
TASTIC!
I
Welcome back arrivals to week two of the Ignite 2026 EMEA preseason action.
I'm your host Vodable for today's festivities
and joining me is the starch-studded cast.
We have Lemon Kiwi for the first time
on the broadcast here in EMEA, joining myself.
Then Leg Day is also back.
Lemon Day, Leg Kiwi, like what is the duo name here, Lemon?
I don't know, I gotta go with Lemon Day,
not because my name is first,
but it lasts the whole day when we're casting.
And we keep people busy.
We are professional noisemakers
and we're gonna be making a lot of noise today
because it's been an exciting day of life.
It's going to be a bunch of very important matches.
We're here to see who gets into the playoffs.
And unfortunately, who's going to be waiting until stage one
until they get to play again.
But it's awesome to be next to Lemon again.
We've had a lot of experience working together in the past
as Lemon Day, and hopefully that shines through here in rivals.
We had some really awesome results
that happened in this past week of competition
that will go over throughout the competition this weekend as well.
But the one thing you need to know,
we have a single team that has secured it for the playoffs.
so far, that's not being no big surprises. They played through their matches, they dominated
all three of those, so definitely keep an eye on the rest of the groups to see who actually makes
it in and who has one last chance to qualify for those playoffs. Again, it's not all for
not, you still have stage one even if you don't make it into the group stage, so that's something
these teams can look forward to. But the big thing to note for this week guys is that we're
actually going to be on the newest hot picks in terms of having the buffs for White Fox. You have
kind of the HP nerf for the Elsa bloodstone and then some deadpool shenanigans were toned down
a little bit in terms of the duelist pool. So in terms of the Elsa here leg day, is the 25 HP
nerf gonna be enough for these players to really decide if they want to or go in the band phase
or not? No, thanks to you. That's an easy one. White Frogs, I do want to talk a little bit more
about those changes for those, you know, you've been playing on the live patches,
the tournament round must have been a little bit behind for it as well. They've had it
from different changes, but we do have to talk about what is available even at the store right now.
And while ESU Brilliant takes center stage, Rian Londo dominates every debate with precision and
unmatched intellect, while Dr. Danum Kent turns every lecture into a masterclass in
bending the impossible together. They prove that knowledge isn't just power, it's control.
Step to the spotlight with Invisible Woman's Rian Londo. The debater and Mr. Fantastic's
Danum Kent, the Professor Costumes, where intellect becomes the ultimate weapon available.
Right now, April 2nd, 7pm PT, to April 30th, 7pm, the Civic Time. In a multiverse of chaos,
the sharpest mind decides what is real here, like Dan, these costumes are pretty awesome,
but this map is also even better.
Yeah, new looks and new maps because of a city near their sleep spot.
But something has woken up just beneath it.
Welcome to lower Manhattan, where the iconic streets meet hidden depths.
but a fight through open avenues, historic buildings, and quiet courtyards, and a shade of the Alchemax building
have then descended into the secret labs below where two pin weights, pulsing with unstable energy,
through a strip level clashes to tight interiors and vertical engagements, every corner of the sh-
every corner will shift the balance of power as you push that convoy through.
This is just you not in New York, it's about what lies underneath and what has been open.
That map is going to be a game changer for competitive, but not active right now,
But you know what that right now guys drops. That's why you're here. We've got brand new drops
Of course for those streamers out there
So, you know go live guys go co-stream right now because guess what we got nameplates emote
Exclusive gambit costume. It's giving cyberpunk
It's giving fashion and it looks even better in game and depends on how many hours you're gonna be here
But I'm expecting five or six hours for those who are gonna be asking in chat
So stay tuned with us to get some awesome stuff for the game.
It's gonna be great just to see everyone involved.
I mean all the watch parties that are happening.
Shout out to the people that are keeping the love alive from Marvel Rivals
from the off-season in it to this pre-season of Ignite.
But going back to what I was mentioning, you know, the White Fox changes
for those who, you know, have been playing the game
but might not have been paying attention to the person.
We didn't have these in last week.
So now after you use your Kumiko Ultimate form,
are actually able to have all of your spirit tails
available to you.
You can actually heal yourself for 50 HP
when you use your spectral surge, which is charm.
Which is really awesome.
You actually have more sustainability for the White Fox.
And Spirit Sanctuary, which is your teleport.
You don't have as much instant healing for your allies.
It's only 50 HP into the 70,
but you now heal over time in that aura as well,
which is pretty great.
And then the Blast by the Nine also,
which is your kind of buff that you use
for your allies in your ultimate form.
No longer consumes health and has a two second cooldown.
I think these changes were kind of
warranted for White Fox.
But let's talk a little bit about the schedule
for the preseason group stage.
Well, we're in it currently.
It will end at the end of this weekend on Sunday.
We'll know everyone who makes it
into those playoffs 11.
Yes, and you get that nice week or two week break,
depending on what region you're in,
before playoffs begin,
and we are gonna be eliminating teams today.
We're gonna be qualifying teams today.
For those who are like, wow, we can't not be qualified, but Virtus.pro have it.
Well, some teams played two matches last week and some played three.
So those first to three wins are going to be what's most important first four losses you're out.
But this is what's on the line bottom.
Yeah, $50,000 in total for every region for the preseason.
$16,000 USD like that.
That's a lot of bucks.
Yeah, that is quite a bit, especially just for preseason.
This is the prize pools are only going to get bigger as we move forward a year here at Ignite,
but it's starting off sort of 50 big snackarounds, when we dished out to the best that EMEA has to offer.
And here is a look at our map for the most burning thing to look at here,
as Wulik Shin Shibuya has had its long awaited return to our competitive rule set.
This was one of the first maps in the game, one of the first two, I believe,
alongside Ypresil Path and is finally coming back.
Many of the earliest tournaments saw a lot of play on this map,
but those strategies have been long dormant and needs to have been heavily
streamed. They're not the pocket team, a pocket thing for a team that wants to surprise them.
I think we've only seen a one-on-one, like a map 3 super occasionally, super rarely,
but also the Museum of Contemplation is a huge favorite amongst our players
as that picked for the second map. But Vaudible, I'll break this down for the
and locks because that's very different from MRC.
Exactly, yeah. If you banned something, it's banned for the other team, not for yourself.
And if you protect something, it's only protected for your side.
So being on either the left or the right side, the attacking or defending side,
it's super crucial for that. We'll get more into it when we're actually talking about the matches themselves.
These are the team rankings currently. And as you see, Navi already qualified with three points into the playoffs.
But they want that number one seed. They want the best odds and not having to face Virtus Pro as early as possible.
So they're playing against heretics later today. That's gonna be a better to keep an eye on on
But the big thing too towards the bottom apps and pulse are fighting it for their lives here like that
Yeah, peps and pulse out. They are going up against each other
Potentially avoid last place in the group
They've still got a little bit more legs in them when it comes to
Earning some of those points on the other side VP only played two matches so far
But has walked away with a pair of points on the same for rad
And it seems like this group is really starting to crystallize with VP and rad floats into the top the matchup between
most who is going to be definitely the ones who watch all three be this week.
And crowd calls on that chopping block.
And Division really surprised us, right?
Votable from last week, but Brad and Virtus.Grow are so perfect.
2-0 wins, not dropping a single map.
We're really excited to see how those teams clash today.
And these are the matches to keep an eye on for today as well.
The main one, Navi vs. Heretics, decides the top of Group A most likely.
Also VP vs. Vision, both teams undefeated.
can't vision keep the hot streak up and then reason that versus Rad is it going to be our first series of the day and a
lot of questions remained after Mente's interview the manager for the team and said oh, you know, we got dfp and ballast
But they're on loan their substitutes are they gonna be playing today? We have the roster
We know who's playing on the scene give you a little bit of insight once we actually have the graphic for it
But so talking about the win conditions for these teams, I mean, I mean or reason gaming
How do they usurp the throne that Rad Eastport have really helped themselves to such a higher caliber than other teams from the MRC circuit?
That's an important point you brought up though about just all the roster changes that reason came in the past.
They've only had two matches and they've played with different duelist lines, different bengar lines.
The strategist lines are extremely interchangeable, but the coolest duo we're looking forward to seeing is not the ballast match one,
match one symbol ballast match to lose so Alice seems to be that mainstay and
like that we know him as that they carry that Elsa player out before the scene
Alice but you know changing your roster so much does affect on the time you
have together yeah like when you change your roster that much it can be like
especially bringing like you said a carry like ballast suddenly ballast is
surrounded by people they don't know as well and like well I've got a carry
because I'm on Elsa I'm just gonna trust that my team are gonna be there
when I go in you probably done this before if you scream to them played ranked you kind of get
rid of the brain disease where you're like you know what I can make this play like I got this
on my team I'm gonna try and make this play they're gonna be with me your ranked strategist maybe
not quite as aware it's a good look into reasons roster and look at that we've got some pretty
pictures ready from reason nice to be seeing everybody here and Simba definitely has been a
big addition to this roster doesn't have a huge amount of experience at the ignite level
that's far but has been picked up from the uh the mid rankings of MRC by racing who clearly see a
lot of talent in Simba I want to foster that. And Kika yeah that's true yeah I was about to
mention we have a little bit of a different roster than you see on screen that is playing for this
DRP is actually in Anso's ballast sub in from the the Lunex loan as we were talking about but
you also got to mention this rad roster a big thing is since we have those subs is that they're
actually playing against the old chop team or at least half of it which is what you see on
this RAD team as well. The Crazy Kitty definitely expects some big things from them on their side,
but kind of key players, Lemon, you would say we should highlight from this RAD roster. Who would
you have in mind? Yeah, my favorite being Crazy Kitty. I just became a number one Crazy Kitty fan
from MRC. Absolutely insane on the ELSA, but then you got the Smash and Mash. Like, I already love
like the chemistry of the names, but... Sounds like English breakfast. Actually, yeah. Like,
Is that British somehow?
Smash is a brand of mashed potatoes, like instant dry mashed potatoes in the UK.
So it definitely checks out in having the color narrowly aligned names.
You got Ducky and Yukiya on the Vanguard line.
So that has some mythical bird and then Ducky less mythical.
But very mythical in games is what matters.
Exactly, exactly.
But looking at these two rosters, I think the big thing is,
Okay, this is the roster we saw actually get the win for recent game. They stuck with it
They decided in the back end is like, okay, we saw this is our best chance for success against rad
We're gonna throw it back in it to you the fold and see if that is enough to take them down
And that's the big question you can reason gaming keep their group stage dreams alive
Against a ratty sport ready sport though if they do get the win here that does guaranteed and the number one seat
at least for now until there's pro play and
and also a berth in it to the playoffs there specifically so talking about that leg day it sounds like these players are getting ready to get this match underway in mere moments and for that as well I mean reason gaming what do they really need to focus on to try and take down rat.
I think just integrating ballast in terms of being able to direct all those resources towards ballast
Especially if we're gonna see an elsa versus elsa match up here
We don't know whether these teams are gonna prefer banning the gambit or prefer banning the elsa
But it seems at the moment the meta is crystallizing in the met in the bounce
So I try and get rid of that gambit first which is likely gonna mean as long points out earlier crazy kitty versus elsa
as one of the mainstays thus far and it feels definitely like rather much more used to getting
and getting crazy, getting all those resources.
Well, we have our first map.
It is Cracola that we are going to.
Rad, they have a win on this so far,
but this is the first time on stream
a reason are playing on this map.
So maybe not as experienced as they would like,
but also makes it so that Rad might not have the strategies
to ban against them here, Levin.
But Rad are so strong on this.
If we all watch Rad versus Crownfall, raise your hand.
I did a 200-zero Crownfall,
And I was already super hyped about Crownfall coming out of MRC.
So if Radkin 200-0 Crownfall, then I think they could maybe do the same thing to
Reze it. And they showed some really cool compositions, whether it's around Lugia's Hulk,
which we don't get to see every day. Ducky on the Groot, making sure everything is boxed in.
Even had Emma from Lugia as an Emma main, I'm so stoked to see more of her in-game.
Please, I know she doesn't have as much wind percentage as we saw from the stats that were
release from the most recent season but come on Emma's so fun to play but we will get to see the
compositions of what these teams come out with in mere moments again they're just getting ready
in the background pattering their noses and getting prepared for their big day view in
week two reason gaming of course for the roster for those who might be interested to know exactly
who they're playing with KitKat, Tejaro Ballas, Naktah, DRP and Passawo that's the team to look
out for in this specific series but I can be up all day but we have casters to bring you the action
it for this matchup. Reason Gaming vs Rad group stage. Playoffs are on the line. Let's get into it.
found it. But hey, reason, can I cope here for a second? Reason's best look was on Krakowa.
Reason fans, I got you. Because they went up against Vision and they went all the way to
around three on Krakowa. So that's really exciting. But it was also playing with DRP and that's what
that means though that we'd love to see from it. The first question for Manzis here. This probably
means that Reason is going to go for a triple strategist lineup. This might be all about
maybe just hyper pocketing ballast. I think in the Elzels or in Van Der Wey, you can see ballast
probably going to be hovering over here on the sideline. This is Balas's signature hero. Back when
they used to play for Alcanza, it was a real start, standout on that roster. They're protecting
Ultron as well. This is a very strange draft, but recent gaming, like I said, they're just all
in on this triple strategist here. This is all about giving Balas double damage boost,
both from the Mantis and from that imperative patch that comes through from Ultron. And like
I'd be seven, I appreciate it. This is just all ballast all the time.
And the reason are that you need team, they really like even playing Jeff so much with a damn bit.
No better, by the way, none of these teams don't really lean on the Venom dive as much as others do,
but they get away away from the dive so much on her color domination.
Got another Ultron Protect, so especially seeing Ultra, these triple strategist lines,
as a more offensive of variation of it.
You could see it with usually a Mantis,
or depending on what the spiritual thing is,
it'll have some invisible movement.
It depends on what the teams want,
and I love this meta on how diverse it is.
Oh yeah, we have plenty of diversity here.
And that's gonna be shown out well,
not just to move on to swap everyone to that strategist role
from the usual duelist as expected,
Balas currently hovering a Sallik.
I'm surprised you didn't see a van.
Everyone was so like after getting rid of the elsa full side of Razz
Cause that would have taken away one of the boutsest other hyper carries here
But maybe you're a little bit catching your best if you can deal with a single duelist
That is the uh...
Or the horse
Something else as well from Lugia, I love to see these
And he's playing it again, it was so fun to see how him and Ducky on the Groot at the time
I'm trying to own that space and
you didn't get to see too much white
box.
We're kind of figuring out what
we want to go with.
What is going to be the
with that old Tron and Ducky is
going to be on the needle.
Smash is the one on the Elsa
and that balance is stuck on the
Alright, let's see how the first one goes.
All the things I already talked about here with Passivo in particular for Venom is great at what we call a soft fight.
Just going in with their quick frenzy arrival and instantly getting out off the force and resource,
not really putting much of their energy on the line to claim their enemy's base.
Passivo really does get to play some Deadpool or the Venom,
and he is going to be the one to lean on where usually Forever is the one,
is the one I've had the secondary thing done to end the Warp Massive, to get all the support from DRT.
DRT, as you say, with these bubbles, but that's a great first pick from reason.
So much damage used when you have the Ultron and the Mantis.
I'm gonna make diving onto a myth. It's very fun.
When you're just gonna suffer from marco let's see what reason or not suffering from having a coin with a passive dodge from Passy Boe and a rattle with a key.
Mainly just poking things down, protect the else's opposition.
I'm looking to see my show of how strong the white fox is after the town.
Nobody looks good on it!
He's gonna dance a little bit.
Have you all heard the thing about it?
Like it from the start of the white fox, I'm like he's in front of my door.
He's gonna go all the way around, and he's gonna look here, getting healed after being asked on the other side, coming with a lobster as well.
So it's kind of appealing to go around for everyone, and that burns through blue hell rather quickly.
And so the venom is gonna be in a very difficult position.
DRP needs to anchor down, on the point dragging in WS to bring up their metacurt and deduce some of the incoming fire.
And now Lugia drags everyone forward, ready to go absolute world breaker mode.
DRP is somehow still alive, the Apex Predator thrown out by Smash and Reason had not fallen yet.
The Venom chops down DRP Meteor and Ratter fight tooth and nail to get the point back.
Crazy kitty, big plays already, but World Breaker ready to break down the worlds of reason gaming now.
kick can't go to be continuously pummeled away from the fight or
chiling that solar surgeon grouping together to try and supply
balance and indeed even on the second attempt of the dancing of
butterflies there's no value to be found but Ducky for now just
gonna keep it a little bit calm doesn't want to move forward
into this for 80% already for a reason they're running out of
time and just takes one more fight to win the round and like I
said this is probably one of reasons the best maps and he
forced it all the way to three in their very first match of
Ignite. RAD though will have to lead that charge here very soon. Lugia is getting active,
but removing these anchors from reason has been the biggest challenge for RAD. They need a convincing
fight win. Are they going to flank with Lugia? There needs to be more commitment than just Lugia
going after the strategist and reason gaming. They're not hitting this up.
Last control on the off angle here could be imperative.
Lugia's even got damage boosts as they just continue bubbling down BRP.
Who can't stand up to a virgin fists of fury?
They're given over by Lugia at 99%. That's going to be the flip.
And now Rad had to play flawless from here on out.
Expect Ducky to be the one that anchors that objective to stay alive, to stay at the front.
As soon as that health drops, expect that Meteor M2 come out.
to come out, but Noctav could even start draining those health pools with the ultimate and the reason gaming
they're in a comfortable position to build up for those ults and just pilot on to the point.
Grad though, you need to see Lugia take some initiative as he always has and he gets pulled and that's what you gotta be careful for.
He does escape to his team.
I'm trying to open it up. This is going to make sure that Pato can stay in for a while longer as well.
Down into Badafor, the AXX Pro, so it's really peeled for with the Meteor Rem from Ducky to make sure that they can deliver everyone back to the Elsa.
But it seems that Casualty is going to be confirmed here. Pato will demand an imperative patch drone worth of healing from Nocturne and Ducky's standalone.
So much of healing, Ethan, DRP drops a big one on Lugia right there.
And that is going to be a forced reengage.
It's going to be also only one from C-Trove, ballast hangs out above waiting to try and
destroy that nine-tailed fox form and not just getting even more, just flanks him curiously
above it all but it's far from magnanimity which is given over by the ultron, a flight
away from Luna but directly into the hands of ballast and Lugiego might have to try
and stand up to all of this alone as W's bought it on up.
Lugiego with a quick reset and rad, lose out on the first point.
Wait, what a show for reason.
What a showing from reason to be able to stall out these fights
to the point where you're at 99% before the flip goes through.
But out of running triple strats, they only have one duelist.
All the eggs are in the Smash basket,
and they are the ones who got Smash.
Smash was not part of that final fight, got picked off,
and then like you pointed out,
you had the double straddle to midst of Fox and the Luna Snow.
So that's just not something you want to really mix up.
You're trying to stagger that.
And the reason we're able to match strat for strat
and able to stall out until eventually the damage
of the scale is tilted in reason's favor.
Watch out for what reason can do on Krakowa.
But despite going to round three,
reason did drop the snap in the past.
So it's about not always how you start, but how you finish.
Yeah.
Lugia giving up the Hulk.
Heading over now onto a event.
I'm seeing the way that Passiwo was getting here, especially the slows and the back of those
uh, cellular corrosion tentacles.
Really good at making sure that this engage can be a little bit too hard to manage.
As we roll out here, Ducky's once again going to be leading the way, but can't afford to get surrounded again.
Udia, I think wanted to be able to go deeper with his dives.
I like this Venom choice and there is so much verticality on this map.
Already the dive initiated from Passiwo, but you don't have, uh, you do have a magneto
for Passivo, but not for and also for Lugia. But Crazy Kitty has banked this one up, lets
it rain to support Lugia, who's been exiled since he's almost saved by this moment, and
the cap has almost gone through for Ratt.
Yeah, this is dangerous times here for the Alpinist to try and stay on the point, but
you better believe a lot of the pressure is going to be going away on that Magneto. Quick
pop in here from Passivo to keep this one contested, Lugia gets already used, her own
symbiotic resilience and finally it seems like reason getting me to stepping up sort of play on the point
Why just a range of ultron here just that burst healing over onto a venom smash an S3 apex browser in the back pocket
No, you can't do what they want. In comes a feast of the abyss and boy is he feasting
Battles for Chargerill on top of it just for a little bit of added flavor
And why it's difficult to try and take out match in that box form
It is gonna be easy to catch the point with RAD since scurrying away
And it's been so important that RAD do not have a Mantis for this triple strat.
You only really have a strong CC of the Luna Fox to stop these Venom Dives.
Like, yes, White Fox can delay it a little bit, but the sleep has been so critical for Mantis.
And that means Smash is not being peeled well enough.
And you have that apex predator for that fight, but was never in a position where you could find a good lane to throw that down.
But this may be the perfect moment for Smash.
and they, if the pins line up.
Spectral Surge, unable to try and get the charm down onto Patsy, though,
will interrupt the symbolic swing if it can be found,
and controlling the hydra if you're a super important for Smashners,
giving the popping off, the Glar Trubs into the back,
that is a huge piece to see if it's the entire backline,
because that's healing impact debuffed.
Up comes the sanctuary.
It's gonna be an exchange between them, they might meet us,
a bit of pelt each other, who have meets your rem.
They're now starting to freeze the kid,
he's trying to make something work here with the Rage of Ultron,
and on top of it, we've got an untailed pop storm as well,
as well, and then you need to move towards the back line. But once again, it's real value
from St. Louis, but no delay with Noctua coming to me while I turned around into a bad position.
There's just so much healing, and then goes over to Alistair the Mall with a singular use
of the Fate of Both Worlds balance call for Spectral Search. Now Crazy Kitty easily ever
just rains, flow bees down upon reasons, defense. But quicker flip this time, the password is
going to exchange HP for a bit more percentage.
Now having that later fated both worlds as you pointed out, the strategist also in effect
kept RAD sustaining and kept the fight in their favor at the end.
And thank goodness they flipped it at the around 70% mark because this is how reason
gaming won that first round on cradle.
The way that they're able to stall off to 99%.
Now RAD have a chance, but they don't have any ultimates.
It's a big investment.
Look at how passable is going to take off this fight with his and ballast choosing to
to go to the Phoenix, this is gonna be what rains down hell on this team.
fire from above. Every stagger here is going to be critical, and Ballas' mechanics are
on full display. He needs to be pressured off his diagram. Look at Lugia to soft dive
and deal with that, but a few more seconds for reason gaming to claim before they steal
away a map one from a favorite. Rattlesore have never lost a map, so this would be insane.
I'm crazy keen to try and take it and learn hands here.
Don't want to lose a map and it starts with a rage of ult from a quick charm onto multiple players.
Respectful surge gets its value as well, so follow up with the foxes and maples.
DRP and Passivo. Instantly down, the meat is gone.
Now that's a quick retake for reason gaming.
Odd effort ahead of RAD to catch up in the score though and any missed step will be the end of this map.
And it is a best of three, so there's not a lot of second chances we're gonna get.
but the apex predators can be even better for Rad to defend with and the true vanguard ultimate.
So reason gaming happens to fight into this. I want to see these flyers be controlled the
high ground to get Nocta in a best position to let his rage of Ultron unleash and straddle
Smith in favor of reason gaming so if they can get control of this point the sustain will be in
their favor. Okay rage of Ultron from a little bit further away that's going to tear through the
the health of the venom there. A quick teleport away, smart play. It's going to be moving
quickly over onto that run. And so not to just be able to continue pounding down from
above. We don't have a pause coming in here, but we can quickly talk about RAD and what
they are going to be able to have to play with here. They've got two Sanchez ultimates,
but the Kumiama leashed, and the fate of both worlds. So I think that they are going to
to pull through on a defensive, which has got so much sustainability.
And so much damage from the recent gaming side that just activated the Mantis ultimate,
so I'm looking at Ballast to end this once and for all. And Van, we're already getting a shake-up
guys in our very first match, but like recent gaming are just this close to a win.
I literally can't believe it. I think like if they do win this series, the first interview
question I have in my mind is like, how did you guys come up with this competition? We saw a little
a little bit of it from Shikigami, but now we see a year coming out to play from Reason Gaming,
and I think a lot of teams are realizing, oh, this actually works really well.
The high ceilings that we see for this specific map, it works pretty decently too.
There's some decent positioning that you can have with the ultron behind, like, the stumps on this specific sub map as well,
so it's pretty great to see the strategy that's coming out from this kind of pick and ban line that we saw from them
that's unorthodox compared to what we saw before, especially the ban and play.
I love that coming out from Reason Gaming,
and they almost went for the ban on RAD,
but I think the Invis ban was actually really big here, Levin.
Absolutely, and also the difference of having a Mantis
to no Mantis, the double damage boost from Reason.
You're putting all the eggs in the ballast basket,
and Manus, he's delivering with these picks,
and Reason only need one fight win
to give RAD their first map loss over pre-season,
which is, I would say unexpected,
But like I was saying about earlier on that the best version of reason we saw was when they went around three against Vision on this map.
So I had an inkling that maybe the chaos of domination really favors that reason.
Yeah, domination, I mean they've done pretty well so far on that. So it does look good. I'd like exactly the band line that we had from them here.
It's also interesting too that they focused on, you know, the gambit to make sure that that was taken out of the equation.
they've banned Gambit they've done somewhat well so it worked out out to start there and hopefully
for rad sake depending on how this map goes they can figure things out for map too but it makes sense
why they wanted to make sure that their network connectivity is as good as it can be for this
map here like day because this is down to the wire between these two teams. This down to the wire
not much is for sure the thing that I've been looking at here is like the new combo from reason
We're used to, in pro rivals, seeing a lot of Endgame Inferno, Phoenix, Ultimate, and Magneto's Meteor M
POMBODE for burst damage. But the interesting thing here is that because we're not dealing with too much over health
among the Tragists that Rattab, we're seeing a Feast of the Abyss and Endsong Inferno combo, which is quite interesting.
It's really good.
Feast of the Abyss, it does a lot of percentage health damage, as well as applying that healing debuff,
But against like a huge amount of healing that we're expecting from a team like Ramp Acid,
like the Luna Snow, for a fate of both worlds, it does seem like it's able to try and break
through those strategies to also find the casualty. So a little bit of innovation here
from reason gaming and you love to see that kind of innovation be rewarded with results.
I was also curious like when we would get to see this combination from other teams in terms of
like the Luna Snow and the White Fox combo, the Luna Fox or whatever they want to call the duo
there as well, between these two. But I mean, having that Charmed, I really just want to
call back to the Charmed that we saw happen on Ballas, right, as they are using the Dance
of the Butterfly in point one. Like, that was insane. I still can't believe they pulled
it off. I thought just the ult somehow didn't work for some reason, but now it's just the
skill of these rad players. And I feel like if they use those Charms a little bit better,
it might work out to their advantage here. But it's a tough spot because, again, having
the Mantage damage boost I think is a really big difference between the
potential of like getting your ults up a lot faster but also infirming those
KO's especially with ballast swapping from the Psylocke to the Phoenix they've
just been able to be so much more lethal it feels like and not it focused down as
much as they were Jen. Yeah and you pointed out kind of the charm of the
white box and how it canceled that dance of the butterflies in the round one I
think leg they spotted that so very exciting but also exciting to get back
into game so it was nice talking to you Vod but we have a map to finish or a map
to extend and we're right in the middle of the fight like that.
coming flames of a phoenix up towards the sky.
Smash this in the middle!
The elephant gun, the monster piercer tears the reasons vanguard.
And now it has to be done to fight for it to try and stay here and the rest of all this
crazy kitty hides behind the log while channeling the rage of Ultron to just try and get that
passive healing and keep them in the fight running out of overtime and pass towards two
hides and get there.
We're going to go to a- wait, that was rad?
Oh, okay.
Rastuva- Rads able to grab it.
Recent game means they'll go to a map through here.
Now we're going to Cradle once and for all reason gaming, making this a marathon, not
just a sprint, but smash with the beautiful pigs at the end, turned in their favor, crazy
kitty surviving with the rage of Voltron got so dangerously low, but played around the
cover of the stumps that surrounded the objectives so well, scrapping away, but now this point
particular is a little bit less forgiving for those flyers not as much
cover and it depends on where you want to take that initial flight on the high
ground or towards the point. It also takes some time for the point to unlock
but we've really set two different flavors of compositions and Lugia don't
tease me with the Emma. I'd be so excited because the Emma is so strong at
peeling for these soft dives that Venom brings you. Oh she clearly pulls up by here
from Ducky. Who is the mugging target? Kit Kat's the likely one here. You can put it in the door
trying to guarantee that someone's walking on through, but nice. It seems to be avoided. CRP
is who they want rolling on through with the diamond form already, but straight away in comes the
metallic barrier, and it seems like Reason Game would be able to slip through the clutches of
Rav. They're expecting this one already, and now Rav, they only have low ground patrol. They need
to rotate around. I like that Rav is using the cloak and dagger too. If you're going to play this
more frontline brawl than the Terracave is just going to be able to maximize damage because that's
what Rad felt like they lacked and why these fights seemingly go on forever. They want to end it once
and for all, but the picks from the sky is what I'm talking about. These Flyers don't stand a chance against
Ballas. Yeah, the double damage from Ballas is just absolutely deadly. Masha's gone too far, all out of
tails, all out of hope, all out of friends as well. Osage Road is down, there are still two
strategies to try and play with and the quest to play from the Cloak of Dagger is not enough to save
their first cap goes to reason and you're able to build up to almost what four
ultimates from the side of reason we've talked about Venom being that setup guy
and passiwos proving that reason gaming can this could be the meta for them if
they keep leaning on this leader and ballast to finish it with the combo we'll
see if they opt for that but be able to defend these are some tough choke points
that right up to get through not not even excluding the fact that ballast is
It's all for Engling and being a nuisance.
Crazy Kiddy's gonna give them one.
Parage of Ultron is gonna tear through Paso O's over health in short order
and both Vanguard's gonna have their health shut down.
Smash Ness is gone.
The carry has been slain.
And now from the Sky Ballast, rains down fire and Vertigo is the direct target.
And this is 85% for reason gaming and RAD's backline is in trouble.
There's not much of a commanding frontline presence from Ducky to protect these strategies.
You cannot be having them get picked off like this and when it rains, it pours.
It's a bleed into a hemorrhage 95 plus percent reason gaming looking to close out
Smash their stands alone ballast burns them down reason gaming take them out. What a coup
Overran there was no way anyone predicted this I
Certainly did it but this was looking like the strongest map in their pool and they were able to perfect their execution
And go the distance of course
ballast none other than him as the MVP, the Phoenix, the off-engling, the mechanics
hit all of these headshots, the picks in their favor, and also just had a stronger
Vanguard presence from the reason and they were able to keep their backline
so far out of reach from Brad that they weren't able to tilt the
scales when it came to the resources.
The pass away, being able to put out so much more damage here than Luki ago, I think there's one
for more tellings, stat lines, just able to get so much more out of these soft
thighs and honestly the big difference maker of that was Seijiro. Seijiro was
sitting every single force visits every time Lugia tried to get out, they were
getting pulled out of their symbolic swing and then was in a very difficult
position without any resources to really keep them up because so many of them
were being given over to Smashnares to try and match Balas's ability to play
those off angles but the real difference maker as log points it out in our break
was that they have her in this band so when Balas is playing these off angles
they get the Guardian Shield, and they can easily output Smashness who has a lot of trouble breaking through that barrier.
And just this map too, it's not as friendly for the Groot, and Ducky has so much more time all night, and we've seen him on the mag in the past,
but just wasn't able to be that confident vanguard at the front, and mag can do a considerable amount of damage,
which is to even start pressuring those strategies.
And I felt like reason gaming strategies line
was just a lot more well protected.
They have less deaths as a result,
like Sager only has one death.
So that is enough evidence for me
that they were just more survivable.
Wow.
Yeah.
And so when you're through a time,
look at our replays here.
And of course, it is going to be filled
with plenty of reason, gameplay, DRP and balance.
Well DRP at least knows so many of the RAD players very well after their previous leaving part of that Chopper also has definitely asked some insight into how their comms work when it comes to working on a RAD play.
East Trouble Strategist approaches and like me was briefing the remainder of the team.
This has been so exciting, reason for me to get to kick off our series and this is only a best of three we've never got to see put RADs map players going to feel like it touched the picks because they've never lost a map
And the ball will be in the airport to figure out where Rad wants to go, so you guys won't want to miss it.
We'll see you after a break.
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We're back with the desk here, I'm vaudeable for those who might have forgot.
But Levenki, we had like day we had such an insane map 1 on Krikoa, yes it was a C9, I
went back through the time stream and was able to consult the Vaude and see yes.
Unfortunately, ballast did not touch at the last moment, but it didn't matter, 100% to
zero in that last one Leven.
Oh my god, dropping 10 final hits and 32,000 damage, Ballast stood above the rest.
And that's why when you run the triple strat, you need someone who can go X-Games mode.
And Ballast did just that.
Was able to also adapt his hero choice from the Sylar going to the Phoenix
and able to rain down at a safe distance away from the dive.
Which already sort of a compositional change from the RADCyber.
They usually play the group on Cracowa going now from the Ducky to the Mag.
Was that adjustment, because Groot does play very different than the Mag in terms of how aggressively forward you can be?
I think that's a big thing to note here too, especially the compositions.
Like Rad, they didn't have their comfort zone, as you talked about with the Groot.
They didn't have the Mantis to be able to use the team up with that as well, and also have the damage boost.
I think that was a big difference maker here, but I think the Ultron, from Nocturne, like, they...
We never saw this from them in Week 1. They were just keeping that in the back shelf, ready to pull it out at the moment's notice.
I mean it fits Nocturne's Aeropool fairly well. Nocturne's biggest star I think is their hitscan aim.
Previously played quite a bit of Hella in previous patches as well as Elemude a little bit of the...
A little bit of a solid, but that's not really going to be in their Aeropool while Balas is on the team.
They're just tough, tough troops, but the Ultron definitely seems to favor them quite a bit.
It's also been really good with the timings on their buffs for Balas.
Obviously being a duelist player, they know the best time is to be able to allocate over those resources to Balas
balance and support those off angles and also very survival. We rarely saw them get caught in the
range of Ultron which is a fairly vulnerable strategist ultimate compared to the other strategists
because you're only getting 50 healing per second and of course your hitbox is quite large as Ultron
especially with all the drones around you so being able to stay alive and keep kicking during that
and get the full value out of it was really important to the overall survivability of reason.
And we're talking about value of dualists, right?
We're talking about how great ballast is, and we wish we got to see more of Smash.
We had the most deaths in the lobby at 7.
So I think there would have been so much more out of Brad if we could have some Smash more, but he was so focused out.
Well, we're going to Central Park for map 2, and you talked about this lemon that we didn't get to see.
Brad actually picked their own counter map yet because they've been undefeated until that first map loss
They just got fished out from reason gaming Central Park. I mean we've seen so many times
But I feel like this composition actually works pretty well here as well
Rad are very good at this map. They went up against crownfall and
They had this
Double strap line with the Loki and the Invis even played some punisher some Elsa is really unique
But hopefully we get to see Ducky back on some comfort pics with the group
But is that gonna be allowed cuz he'll still play it without the Mantis, but I don't know maybe you could see more changes out of Brad
There's been also a week between the last match
So we saw in America's at least that there was an ultron fan at one point like day
You've always been you know the simple answer guy for me, and that's all I need from you on this one
Do we see the Ultron band come out?
Longer answer here it depends on how much round of internalized patrol my from that map because it was a very weird set of bams
from reason going to that first
protector Mantis over either Gambit
or Elsa. Gambit was the Ultron that they had available there. Do we see an early ban on the Mantis from Rallabook is more
pressing because the Ultron it is good but it functions best with the Mantis so you can give that double damage boost. I'd be
more interested to see if Rad go for if they get the first two bans where they get the double slot before we get to protect if we
If we see maybe an elsa man to start off with followed by instead of maybe a gambit
Maybe the mantis band knowing that it's such a huge part of reason gaming strategy and I imagine later on in the draft
Especially if mantis is secured we are going to see an ultron man
And I just worry about reason gaming here
But maybe not so much because when they did go to Central Park it was against a vertus pro and oh
We don't want to talk about the defense and the the amount of minutes that vertus pro put on that
But it's someone like not to really flounder going to so many different heroes to try to adapt before this problem
That's what I like about reason. They are not afraid to swap up their compositions
It's what up swap up their strategy slides whether it's double or even triple or worst case
You can have your duelist who's not so having a hot day going to that third strategist like an atom
Which we saw reason gaming do if you just need that extra forgiveness in some of these fights
So many interesting compositions that we can see come out from Central Park.
That's why it's one of my favorite convergence maps that we have seen, but these teams are going to give it their all.
I mean, reason gaming must win for them, of course. If they get this, they're not guaranteed to make playoffs,
but it makes it that much easier for them, especially against the rest of the competition.
And Rad, again, they want to secure their playoff, and getting the win here guarantees them that.
So, they don't want to go down, they don't want to be questioning their positioning, especially because of how strong the other side of the bracket will be from them,
from group A as well. And you talked about Allegde, the Mantis, definitely going to be a priority. A big thing to notice here too,
RAD are playing on attack. Every time we've gone to like a convoy or convergence, typically they do opt for the attack slide.
Instead of the defending side where we typically see a bit of a difference from the strategy of other teams,
I think they just like setting the tempo in these games. But we do have map to Central Park for convergence about to go.
Down, reason versus RAD, take it into it.
Okay, there it is again the early protect on the mantis lemon and this is once again potentially
I'd have to make a choice here
Do we ban the ultra on first or do we try and get rid of the Elsa now because if there's one thing that's worse than a double pocket of
Phoenix, it's a double pocket of Elsa and
They know that quite well and maybe a happy group that'll get the
Vance this as well, but this is a different also duelist line for rare
uh uh sorry for reason when it comes to this map it was a rude awakening for
simba to have to face vertus pro the number two one team in the world on
central park so now we may see even a different result having there are more
core members join us especially with how formed up ballast was from the first map
i expect to see an ultraman here from maybe from both sides to be honest
that you do not want to deal with ultramantis on the other side given that
We have seen now the attempt at the rand mirroring this. This is going to make sure that perhaps a vanguard deadpool can go through.
You can see there's really a lot of deliberation. The vanguard deadpool gets banned away.
So now reason. I imagine they're just going to protect the Ultron to continue playing this double boost comp.
That is going to get, especially if we see Palace on something like a human torch.
If I had to pick the best human torch in this lobby, I think I'd be looking at
Either Smashnares or Crazy Kitty with her fantastic torches, maybe Smashnares just about eeks it out in the torch versus torch.
So for Rad, if they can secure themselves the ultron here, that might be an option as we saw. What's in with the Shikigami?
Got one over on Na'Vi on Central Park previously playing that triple fly composition.
I love Central Park exactly that because of so many of the unique compositions that can come out just for even that point defense
and how teams are even adapting compositions, depending on what part of the map you are on.
And we'll end on a Ultron Protect there.
But yeah, so many flyers, whether it's the torch, the Angela's,
even the best of teams can suffer against some really niche compositions.
But I'm looking forward to see the resurgence of the Vanguard's on the right side.
No torch! You don't get to see a torch band every day.
You know, well, that's very much a smash in his respect, I think.
you're going up against, uh,
when you're going up against
like you want to try and make
sure that you don't have to
deal with a torch versus torch,
because I think torch is
probably the best air to air
duelist that we have in our
roster at the moment, being able
to get in closer with flame
clusters just absolutely
decimate a larger hitbox or
someone like an iron man as we
roll out, though. This is
definitely where n a is going
to get a like a screen grab of
over that. But everyone should be taking notes on EMEA, okay? Because the best region, we
have the number one team, so we're better and we will not be arguing further. But we
will be looking at the recent gaming defensive composition, of course, the triple strat and
also DRP on something bot, Magneto. Is it real? Because DRP was so good at commanding the space
and I think was a huge reason at breaking down the strat line of RAD, but what's great
about the Groot as a fellow group main is how you control the real estate if you can block off some
of these heals too and of course with the old charge nerf uh Groot's ultimates are just gonna get
more bangs for the block so you're really excited to see DRP on something that's not bad. Yeah those
groups with the healing walls as well are going to be able to give away some uh some miscellaneous
sustain for a member of the team as well so maybe you don't have to have so much of your mantises
resources and spores used to keep the team top tough in a second just dedicate them all to damage
to make sure not to can get some as well.
Brad have Lukiya back on the Hulk.
I like this soft pressure on the high ground
and make sure that Dallas isn't going to be off angling on you
and he could even fair up with the Magneto
but you got a Bucky!
This neutral pull is huge!
And Rad can go in!
Oh, Smash Ned!
Seeing that they backed off against the Thorn Lash wall
this whole just means even more damage
and there was good homework done there as well.
Breaking down the Ironwood wall,
making sure that DRP did not have that immunity.
The RP is going to try and pull us all back for a quick re-contest here, but so many members are quite far away.
It's going to be difficult to make the re-engage work. How comes the Magneto first?
It's a pixel-perfect teleport, by the way.
Just about half the cover on that back point, giving everyone else time to commute back onto the point itself.
However, grab double quickly, DRP. Everyone is learning to fear the Winter Soldier of Smash, then.
It's an old medal, Eminem, but check it out.
And it's great in these neutral fights. You gotta applaud this fight all for Smash.
He has an absolute menace cleaning up the fight.
And the fact that you didn't even get to see that first cycle of ultimates,
almost that stringing prison, almost that invisible boundary.
A lot of good sustain here on the side of RAD to be able to build momentum.
But I want to see how did those ultimates come out near the end of the point.
Because now this defensive corner is going to be stronger for recent gaming.
If they can even establish, it looks like RAD are not going to let them sleep.
All right, there we go. Give them the gamma barrier there for a little bit of additional protection.
I'm just saying that you are going to see really be something that's brought off the table.
We'll see a moon knight come out of Nocturne as well.
In comes the hands of Contrude directly on to the invisible boundary.
Smashers managed to move their way through it.
Triple heals from triple charges certainly is more than enough to try and survive what's been brought their way.
But Nocturne is at least going to be able to buy all of this space back
and give a little bit of a more oppressive posture to reason.
and stop razzling into the metro accent.
Moon Knight is such a good counter to a Loki when you can distribute all that damage
amongst the clones and amongst the stack that is rad.
But, looks like Lugia is done with your business.
He's gonna go and bully the frontline.
Actually, it's a disengage because he dropped half health so soon.
Looking for the strangling person here for rad as he survives,
not only the Venomult, but a punished Passagrow as a result.
It's almost as if another hand comes through. Not much to try and enable it at this point.
They're reason gaming without passers- just giving you over so much space.
Two shadows of selfless try and play with weight.
If you're up here, you've got the super-timing.
The bow of the hand comes through once again.
There's a lot. All the leaders try and peek out.
When you go, but guess what? They just straight into their throat.
They're just ultimately trying to get themselves to the same route.
They're copying. It's going to the easy guard of fishing.
Mashable's big way through. How did that happen?
Unbelievable time.
Focus some reason gaming like they're. What a beautiful play.
reason gaming shed so much time off the clock too. With having this high ground advantage it's
actually very hard for Rad to be able to see the strategies to see who could be on the top of that
hill to get this natural advantage for reason gaming along with the high ground as someone like
ballast will be able to output damage on. Then there's the minigame of dealing with the onk from
Nocta. When is that hand of const you gonna rain down on such a small lane like on this map so Rad
have invested so much, all they have is sustained with the invisible boundary, but depending
on how that's placed, you may be able to exclude some vulnerable members from the fight or
force them into an engagement they're not ready for.
Look out, possibly we'll get fiddled on the way out of Fests of Thives as well,
just to make sure that you aren't going to see one of our Seijiro style pulls already,
Lugia falling low when it comes to this damage balance.
It's just absolutely pounding with the Phoenix Flair.
See how the land of Kanshu, praise the kitty, has to try and clear way and not just
going to be punched without slowing effect.
But the invisible boundary was actually critical to make sure that they are going to be taken down,
but Smashness out-aimed in this case by Ballas.
The young aiming prodigy showing my veil out of the top,
The coolest cross went to Lola BNA, looking towards the back.
Many strategies put together.
Paso is going to try and figure out a frag from the back of it.
Arm to stay, journey to the S-galler the way.
Leaf interrupted by a fully charged mag cannon.
Lucio has no hope of surviving, lost in the middle of a reason.
Reason gaming stall out yet another fight.
The end song infernal, Rad, are just barely escaping from this fight,
but strangling for reason with no answer from reason gaming.
So look for Ducky to really set the tone for this fight.
You could also just surge ahead.
Take the soul resurgence from Crazy Kid
to see what you can get from there.
So much sustained for Rav,
but they've got to get to that finish line
and you've got to put reason gaming backs against the wall.
It's time to mash Cuffing in for Soul Resurgence.
Not seen on Dane, cracked out of this one yet again,
but the RP takes to the skies.
19 charge on the Meteor Ram.
What's going to happen to me?
Touch them down for a second,
we start the solo stage.
It's perfect,
but it's stuck to him on the other side.
Many players dragged on him,
the extra damages there from Vertigo
to confirm that the flag onto Nocturne.
Mercedes is getting one of their own.
Passed it all the way into the back.
Mash found in the rubble,
might be turned to bricks themselves here,
so they're actually breaking it.
What's being floated around by Passoload,
Vertigo just has to play for their own life right here.
Balasas has their soul pulled from their body
by the force physics,
and it's just going to be the band guards now,
The Breezy Gaming's doing their best to play out all the time,
Feast of Fear, Fist.
Noct has already tried to soften them up using the hands of Conchun,
but the Counter-Fire here from Luke, here goes, getting some real value,
and Sage Rose already gone down.
It's sort of out of its trade.
They keep placing themselves in the corner.
A little army of wars, a safety space, a safe space for the group.
Yes, but there's still going to be a safe space on the point.
DRP, the second they get on there, it's contested, is gunned on down
by the Phoenix Smashers as finally returned, and he's back from the vengeance.
seems proud to found their man they found their sharks but they've taken their time to do it and we
30 seconds remain before they get a flip and ducky has found his place in despite beautiful walls
to really force reason through these pseudo choke points and vertigo who's able to place a forward
invisible boundary to fully solidify brad's position and racing gaming had passed him
while making a harass on the back line but brad stayed focused and they focused on dealing with
with the remaining pinkards on the front,
so they can get this payload towards the end of point B.
But still 90 seconds, that was a very considerably strong
defensive reason.
Gaming, and now it's time for the String Ring Princess.
Ambitions beginning.
Two walls, four on up.
The healing's good enough, though.
Great response coming through from Cesaro
to bring up that invisible balance ring.
And Sting, though, kind of caught you in the back.
They're pulling a little bit targeted,
doesn't get that many players.
And the rest of Rad, now, with the speeders,
given by crazy kids here. Okay, you want to use your ultimates? We'll just claim all of this space
as you didn't put anything in front of us and suck us really forward.
As the minute lasts in reason gaming, they feel desperate. They're throwing down some healing
and RAD have them exactly where they want. The court almost towards the end. Half-way to this point
and RAD have built up for another cycle of ultimates. Reason gaming are trying to keep their heads up
of water and RAD are drowning them.
Oh the timing could be good, yes it is, the corrosive detonation burns away KitKat and our lower healing plant.
Our ability is going to be DRP, eating up some of this incoming damage.
Smash is just destroyed underneath the double ultimate, but the damage has been done.
Reason gaming only scraps remain, the Venoms claim the space as well.
They can't touch the points and Dracula's castle is breached by RAD's offense.
So much panic from the reason gaming side.
talked about the hand of conch she that was supposed to maybe section the
strategist of rad away from the rest but if anything it just gave inspiration
for rad to move forward with their soul of resurgence they had reason gaming
stuck in their castle and then rad kept investing reason gaming got so panicky so
desperate they just used all too soon as they had them and we both like kind of
held the held our pearls when Kit Kat brought the eternal bond when I didn't
reason gaming were ready for a fight but that looks more of like a stability or stabilization
decision and reason gaming had uh had respawned advantage so I think they could have slowed things
down try to have a full reset because the payload still had quite a bit of time left before it got
to the end but reason gaming just needs a strong leader to calm people down in those moments because
now a full cap on this map is so difficult to do and at 26 seconds for rad reason gaming they have
have a lot ahead of them. Alright, we've knocked moving back over on to the Ultron here. I
think I may have preferred not to move over on to a Mantis. Just give Valus a little bit
of additional survivability as well as damage boost. I don't think the Moon Knight in the
end got a huge amount of value, but it did at least make Mesh a little bit easier to
get rid of. So much extra damage, like it felt like you had a hand of contrues like
every fight. Old Nerf wear. Like in Moog Knight, it's still farming those, but I also really
appreciated Ducky being back on one of his best heroes and how he was able to box out
the fight. And he'll be able to box out reason gaming on the approach. So look to how reason
gaming are going to get around that. When you have Emma though on DRP, able to sustain
himself with a shield or even the diamond form. And he's wrestling a Venom on the Iron
actual perfect regeneration domain there from mash using a vertical hitbox to make sure that lugia could get out after being pulled by
Seidra the old classic up comes the big wall
However, it's gonna be survived here. DRP manages to slip away with their svelte hitbox and they'll keep just playing it very cautiously right now
There's someone trying to expose themselves potentially can be grabbed here by a carbon crushed indeed is gonna be the case doesn't quite get the CC
immunity in time
But DRP can't escape the auspicious shots of smash nairs and it's not gonna be quite so lucky to pass a
alive without the Emma reason gaming this can be forced to poke away yeah I
don't think this Emma can keep going for those aggressive grabs and there's
gonna be some changes to that comp but duckies walls have done exactly what it
supposed to do it's sectioned off the vanguard for reason gaming away from
their strategist DRP didn't get help and they're gonna need even more help after
the strangling prison all too squishy stuck within those small health bars
and I'll try and stand up to even regular fire.
And I like the rounds here,
they didn't invest much more than they needed to.
They just sent in the singular ultimate early
claiming the initiative.
Reason gaming, how to the moon night,
take advantage of this giant staff
that is forming at the front of this choke point,
see if you can maximize damage,
because that's what reason gaming really need right now.
Follow up to the setup that DRP and Passive will have,
and you're gonna have the feast of the abyss,
maybe get some of these health bars low,
but with how spread rad are, it may be hard to get enough targets going.
Oh, it's perfect onto Crazy Kitty,
and now Passimo could possibly fall off of the Smash Nails as well,
force out the Insong in front of that quick health reset,
and Passimo doesn't want to try and go down onto that yet towards the back.
Oh, fated out of existence,
but Noct decided to go back into the realms of reality by firing out their crescent darts.
Smash Nails got a great angle here onto bounce, opens up with a headshot,
but the turnaround is real,
and Mubra is going to be a huge amount of pocket here onto Smashness.
He's going to make sure that it's difficult for Pasoedra to try and confirm this one.
I think we've actually seen Lugi ago not get too much off the back of that feast of the Abyss.
The counter dive is going to be there, but the Venoms are traded.
Recent gaming now have to make a choice.
Are we willing to go forward without our Venom knowing he's going to be back rather quickly?
Balacly's so much support on this off angle.
But now we're starting to see that Mantis gear that we constantly saw over on Domination,
where it's so hard to try and set up to these ones,
Noctis sends in, uh-oh, Hands of Conscious, but I don't think it's the ideal position for the group.
Oh, and they can't convert onto it. Kit Kat needs to make something happen.
On the back of the eternal bond, then Barris doesn't find anything on the other side either.
Ducky might be the final note in this song as they send down this impenetrable prison of crooks.
Barris holds them at the door, and Noctis is falling down as well. It's too messy for reason.
They can't execute on their plans.
Aw, and Rattles was doubled up on Shrattles. Yet the Soul Research is Andy Invisible Boundary.
You finally had Rad floundering, but reason just extended too far and we're able to really focus on the objective and focus around
You can control the space with the grudge. It's not really an attacking type of Vanguard
But more one that can defend so well and last-minute swap for reason gaming mainly trying to get a portal for one last touch
Or will be a full-hold and it will be a map 3 coming up
That's enough for now demanding attention
Fine time and space for the portal, crazy kitty again going to be the primary recipient of all that damage that's coming on in.
But most of the damage can be pouring out of Smash there to you.
Once again that damage boost onto Adola's just doing so much and it feels like the reason gaming.
They haven't learned too much off the back of their previous play.
What a bang, what a turn! The Tokyo drift, but this time it's in New York and Smash is going to be drifting them forward towards a victory.
Yeah, Palace wins their duel, but it's too little, it's too late, reason gaming cannot
breach the first parapet of the castle.
No umbrella and no bucket of water is saving you from Phoenix, being able to be so far
away and so inaccessible.
And Passa-Woe did so much for reason gaming, but the Ducky Wall's easy MVP for me.
You cannot let this guy ever have a Groot again.
The walls were impenetrable.
They sectioned the strategist off, the strangling prisons of course with the end song and hurdle
made it for an easy win condition for Rad and not just a statement but domination coming
out of Rad.
get back on their own two feet after what they experienced on Cracola.
Why, Ducky, 27 and 0, get this man his goat suffix.
We need Lugigo and Duckygoe.
That is an unbelievable line from the group
who doesn't really have means of like disengaging from a bad fight.
You know, if things are going wrong,
the group's going to be the first to go down.
What a fantastic bit of solubility from Ducky
to constantly be pushing out this threat as well
because he was getting stuck in with 25k damage.
There's just a little bit too much rushing from recent gaming, or just like Sejuro's invisible boundary near the end to be more forward so they can even just start to creep up to the first half of the objective.
And the first time that you had Rad Floundering where they doubled up on Straddols, you had finally Rad, uh, recent gaming presence on the point where they over-extended Soul Farns that were just playing off of their own rule walls,
I'm playing, I'm giving Ducney a taste of his own medicine.
But just reason gaming got too antsy to chase
eliminations that they didn't even really need of that corner. At least the risk did not pay off.
Yeah, I think that we also saw like very good friends around here
realizing when they saw the console coming out from reason gaming. If you're looking at both the
group and the moon, they think very split in these two-two-tunes to make sure that there was never
never going to be a full team wipe off the back of a strangled president and a conscious
combo. The old Caesar 1.5, Mede could have shown its face but those splits meant that
nothing is never able to get value. Out of a hand of conscious, I'm sure it was coming
up a lot but I don't think it was achieving that much when it was deployed.
And DRP went to the Emma but it was simply wasn't enough. All the changes but no solution
will find out what the map will be for reason gaming after this.
I
Clear the way!
Famicom!
Disappear!
Well, back to business as usual for a ratty sport on that one, especially after a dominating
performance that we witnessed from them, but the biggest thing, the biggest glaring issue
I got to bring up here the torch band over banning either Groot or Loki. What are we doing here Levin?
Just trying to
Try to face what you're at least familiar with and who is familiar with torch
I don't even blame that I think you can make almost any composition work
It's about execution
I feel like reason really lacking communication because when there's grow walls that are sectioning your vanguards
You need to be able to communicate that so I don't want to see my Emma in diamond form
tackling people with no help, but especially when the Venom is diving somebody else.
Meterbanger has been on the same page, and to turn that aggression into more of a defensive stance when those Ducky Walls came out.
Man, what a performance on group. You talk about torch bands, you talk about a real band coming up.
Exactly, and hopefully we do see something of that sort in the future for reason gaming.
I mean, it looked pretty well for them, but again, I think the strategy of picking the attacking side for Rad has worked out time and time again,
especially because they're able to lock in who they need so they don't get two bands against them like we saw earlier on.
So a nice focus for them in map two. We'll see what the shift is going to be for this next one.
Museum of Contemplation though, we're thinking maybe mid-down. We see that played from a lot of teams, but we've been seeing like they so much more of this map
been a lot of teams feeling a lot more comfortable than they used to in the last season, especially
during MRC for this one.
Yeah, and the reason we have contemplation, it could be a very easy to full-holds first-point
kind of map.
We see a lot of first-point holds here around these tight 90 degree angles, for a couple
of good flank routes, but it's not fantastic, also there are some great jeff drop-off spots
here, the potential, you know, little bit, little bit, so have a lot of thick enemy,
get a bit of a jeff.
Oh, that was great.
But what I'd really want to see here, if I'm being grossly honest with you guys, is I want to see reason gaming get some use out of it, protects.
Like, why are we protecting Ultras and Ultramanthus and not playing them? That ain't on.
Yeah, we'll all see which mix of compositions we have between these teams.
Reason gaming versus RAD. The final map of this, the best of three. Who's going to take it? We'll find out now.
All right, let's get stuck in once again, Lemon, and see if we're going to have similar
bandra after last time, because it seems like Rad were kind of drawing to the, they're
drawing to a mystique, the temptations of the Ultron Mantis prior, and reason gaming,
they're going to be sticking to this Mantis, I pray that they actually play it.
And I was expecting a midtown pick from reason gaming, because that was what they had picked
last time, or of course Central Park, which we just saw, but it did not go so well against
So we have never seen museum of contemplation from either of these teams
So this is going to be especially cooked up by reason gaming who I think can continue to depend on
On ballast for example or you know people like that to carry through but also to give him enough
Resources and but I think it's been a big difference of vanguards if I'm honest
not in terms of the choices which no Deadpool no surprise but the really the controlling of the real estate based on the vanguards
Okay, once again, Loki off the table question is a rad gonna mirror this one like I would not see I wouldn't mind seeing matches
Loki taken off the table indeed. That is gonna be the case
This also stops Noxer from falling into the into the Moon Knight noob trap, you know, like oh, they've got guys
they've got Loki. I'm gonna play Moon Knight and while it does have its places, especially in like
spawn break scenarios, we're not- oh, surely there's gonna be an Ultron down now. If Ultron's not
protected, then there is gonna be a Deadpool. Oh, maybe you're trying to down the Jethy at that.
Oh, they're gonna allow the Ultron to go through. Very interesting. Instead, getting rid of Sage
Ero's potential to pull, which has actually been very, very problematic for Lugia on these Venom
Engages. Maybe that's gonna give Lugia a lot more room to work with. And someone like Doctor has
been relied upon as that third strategist when things get a bit hectic and I could see him pulling
out the Jeff once again which is kind of a weird one to throw in your duelist hero pool but especially
with these long lanes on Museum of Contemplation that healing is going to be great but I'd love to
see just a natural 222 because I think that's so much pressure on someone like ballast to try and
carry every single sprite especially if he's going to get dove on if dive will be even on the menu.
A lot of people are preferring more of the death ball brawl when it comes to a museum of contemplation,
but we'll see what everybody ends up on. And this is Atch Point, everybody.
We'll see if Rad can qualify or will reason try to climb up in the standings.
Okay, Lugia as expected once again going to be showing off that venom,
and it is going to be a lot safer without having to deal with those force physics.
We're going to go on the other hand, let's have access to that.
The password was not going to be in a position where the four sticks is as much of a problem.
He's likely to be applying the Bandai Deadpool here,
apparently for the first time in the series after being banned out almost ubiquitously thus far.
The set-ups, the Ducky has ruined lives, okay, on that central park and looking forward to see it.
Can't do it again?
It was more of an open door to get through metaphorically and physically.
I'm so excited to see more PsyLock too.
You shouldn't like to throw that with a Jeff with the extra speed, but at a distance, you may need the speed to try and close the gap against Razz defense.
Oh, Luke, you're feeling the bravery here. You can stay in for so long without that force to try and deal with them.
Well, the Vanguard Deppler is going to bring to the fight here. Definitely, it's a lot more wall break on the crate using their sword as an Eagles.
Reason gaming. They need to just force their way through this, but also not ignore those brute walls.
You don't want to just get damaged for no reason and keep an eye on where Arthur's going and smash. He's sharp
Honestly, like once again, we're seeing the Mantis not really deployed by reason after the first fight
This team does does tend to have a little bit of a panic of the fight number one and instantly swap a bunch of their stuff around
On the other side, Mast is just thriving living his best life
Dark yes to try and fly away as quickly as possible
but easily gets healed back up to full by the triple strategist, and DRP and passive are just
needing so much damage as Crazy Kitty has a bunch of safety from which to spout those encephalos
rings. I think reason gaming just needs someone to follow up with Nocta, whether it's a Venom
that swings in, whether it's a Jeff I can give speed, it's... yeah, the flake from Luna Snow is
great and all, but Deathpool's not someone who's just gonna be running it down, he's more someone
I can add to the damage strangling prison though. Oh my god. Oh instantly gets three. This one is instantly cooked for reason
They're just gonna be trying to fly away as fast as possible
And reason gaming are still stuck in spawn half the time bank left and you have some good ultimates coming up
But you need to be focusing down that that grew in these walls
You cannot be ignoring the group like this and Luke is soon as you focus the other Vanguard
He's gonna come diving in your backline.
Oh, that's a lot of charge straight away.
Ian Tuber meets your rim.
DRP takes medicine to her own hands, taking down two.
Ducky's disengagement here is going to be well covered.
It's small after all being put up behind them.
The three strategists will survive,
none of whom are forced to invest their ultimates in this one.
But Ducky's disengagement path is a little bit apart from the rest.
Reason gaming.
Hey, getting out of spawn is the first step to victory, okay?
him look at reason gaming or commanding that space and they got the pics too
obviously very elusive from invisible boundary as well I guess it's gonna be
put forcing themselves into it kick cap moves forward with the eternal bond to
claim all of this space is your role on court yeah you're taking care of the
main damage in the form of balance the sage rostal has options here has that
system afraid of both worlds coming in with the dual guitars going up to the
sky the end song inferno drops down on the back line as savero is detonated
doesn't even use their own ultimate to try and survive this one and mash season opportunity.
Smells blood in the water and so the manfish are striking for hearts of reason
and they are floundered just before being able to complete their cap.
Ah, reason gaming just weren't able to keep that stranglehold you had right on the back foot.
You had them using invisible boundary like almost near spawn.
Like you really had right at panicking.
But the soul resurgence that last kick giving reason, uh, kicked to the bucket.
Wait, you have Lugia taking initiative.
Oh, that's so many players inside of a strangling prison.
Needs to be answered by Verlunda, but still in crab kit-cat. Only a single!
Mesh is a madman! The accuracy is just off the charts right now.
That was through a fate of both worlds.
The strategists are just going crazy right now.
Cool, but an unexpected item in a fragging area.
Aw, I wish Pass-A-Woo...
If we all say a prayer, maybe Pass-A-Woo will go on the Venom,
But somebody has to go on the strange to portal and one last for Rafa reason gaming and they need to just all in on this rad
Backline you just can't sustain through this the poke of rad has just been too strong
Especially with the mantis which now all swapped up rad are gonna have their final stand
Lugia the predator lies in late knocked around the back six and a percent towards ultimate wins out against mash a critical pick
gets rid of some of the healing, but he needs to try and get rid of the strange as well.
Someone needs to tag in up to a point.
Nautric is taking down my Smashness!
What is this accuracy, Blood?
Manny's coming down in the streets!
Yes!
The mechanics from Rad is what makes them so well known in this group,
getting another full hold, and at least doing it at the beginning this time.
So reason gaming are going to be quite behind,
and the win condition is set for Rad and just fantastic spacing from the defense.
Be able to sit so far back and really force reason gaming to have to rotate into cover,
but there's only so much cover on Museum of Contemplation. I like the effort that Nocta had.
Finally, you had some teammates that could follow through with them, but I think Venom would have
really added more to this dive and we saw just how impactful Passable was in the past with that
Venom but reason gaming will have to have a pretty much a perfect defense playing that first corner
and if they give that up maybe they'll have a second fight for the end of the map but
reason gaming you're you're on your last life. Well maybe there might be a second life here courtesy
of Doctor. The Adam Warlock comic revival is going to be one of the main hallmarks of this defense.
Question is if it's going to come on through how's it going to be answered by Rad in the
second stage of a fight or how many ultimates can be forced in the prelude to the resurrection.
It's going to be all about long-term planning here from Risen Gaming, because once again
they're putting all of their cards into the ballast deck.
DRP guarding that front door. I said Magneto that he is so well known for
Risen Gaming. They have ways to feel for any kind of dive that comes their way. Look out for the
sleep from Sejuro. In KitKat he can try to help them fade away from their problems. Rad is looking
to section off this Magneto possibly with a group of ball and to have Lugia with enough space to
dive in and DRP also has to peel but not forget what's in front of him. Yeah Lugia doesn't even
have to exit that quickly if he doesn't want to. The crazy kitty on this warbrain is definitely
going to make sure that you are constantly at the right of this happening. DRP has to use the
the red bubble to avoid the incoming feral leap, but the damage is already done. Walled
off, it's perfect execution to get rid of the first of those vanguards. A big grab onto
Valles. Before we could even hit the ground, the dark decorations of Blue Gear managed
to find their man, and while Rusty reattempted to shut down on the Wolverine, Crazy Kitty
did hear no bell, and those adamantine claws tear through Deadpool's flesh in record time.
Should be a quick re-engage here off the back of DRP's portal. Would already be able to start
and that will qualify them for the playoff bracket.
congratulations to Rad and reason gaming for denting the armor, the very shiny main character
plot armor of Rad on that first domination, but Ducky with back-to-back MVPs, it's I think a huge
strength of Rad to have as good of vanguards as they do, whether it's how pivotal the dives from
Lugi have been for Ducky to just cause so much chaos with how he puts up these fights, and of
course with ads poke the way that when you have strong vanguards you have happy duelists,
you have happy strategies that can basically play in Narnia and just poke everybody down.
Which reason gaming tried to a bit of a dive without the venom. Of course, of course, now
pass what was on the venom, but too little too late. Bro, Ducky two maps, zero casualties.
That is, that's, it's bonkers, it's, it's the only way to put it, like Rose playing, playing Groot and Mag.
He's not able to disengage, he's not going to make a choose play to live his life, just raw skill as well,
as Vertigo mash and occasionally crazy kitty behind them on the stage, just some great
healing, some great survivability, and ran. If you just look how they took out the RP
beginning of that, like the great form using their English form, as well as threatening
the Wolverine at the same time. They were making sure that DRP was not going to be able to use their
shields too aggressively, but you want to save that shield for when the Wolverine's coming,
to avoid getting grabbed, but it meant that you couldn't use it to avoid the incoming huge amounts
of poke, and that was really intolerable for Rad given that Sophie's choice to deal with.
Yeah, I'm glad you pointed out the Invisible Woman, because Vertigo was next level. He's
posed a dense venom, but that is it for Rad, and I'm really excited to see and hear more from them.
We're gonna have an interview with them very soon potable. We'll get them ready
But what did you think of that right ended up winning of course? Yeah, I think
So do you only like the biggest weakness? I guess you could say we saw you know great ban and protect phase from reason in map one
They kind of caught the other team off guard and hopefully they could have cared that momentum board
But then they forgot how good ducky is on this group
You mentioned like they two maps in a row with not a single casualty against them and they had the most damage
The most final hits the most damage blocked in this last map on the group
Yes, the Loki is always a priority in some cases
But you have a player who's so good on this one hero that they did not fall down once in your previous map
I'd have been a better idea to focus on that instead of the Loki who knows I'm just one of the analysts here
But still, reason gaming, I mean, hey, they gave it the best fight that they could.
We saw a great look from them in map one.
And if it ever goes down to tiebreakers for map differential, this bodes well for them, right?
Because they were able to get at least one.
But you know they're wanting more here, Lemon.
They want to at least get something for the road to secure themselves as a spotting group.
But hey, Rad, they secured a spot in the playoffs, and that's what matters for that team.
Hey, I think every map win matters when it comes to tiebreakers and stuff in the future.
math knowers are gonna break that down better for us but only four teams to make it out of groups
and maybe that backflip could be the difference maker of reason gaming surviving at later down
the road but I think reason just have good ideas but too many mixed ideas they wanted a strong poke
phase with Deadpool then wanted to dive with Psylocke and then there wasn't like a nice vanguard
to play along with that so I think you can kind of tailor some of these strengths I'd like to see
reason be on the same page about what strength do they want is it a strong poke strong dive and how
How can you really unite all of the strengths to have a cohesive push?
Because they would have good pushes without being able to close them out.
It was a big comfort for me.
Well, it sounds like in a bit, we're going to be getting Ducky on the line.
So it'll let you know as soon as we have them.
They're great to hear from them, especially after the performance that they had in those last two maps.
I'm glad that they were actually able to get them locked in for that.
But like they talk about the rest of the roster here for Rad.
I mean, who was the like biggest MVP aside from Ducky into these last two maps?
Well, I mean, like, I want to say Smashners, but it's hard to attribute it to just the Smashners when, like, the rest of the team is, like, playing the Mantis, playing the Ultron.
Yeah.
You have that supporting cast. Like, in the end, Smashners is the one who hit the shots, right? Hit the headshots, and actually get frags through strategist ultimates, by the way, through Winger Rot, which is to repeat the word that I have reserved for Ducky, bonkers.
Like Smashners' accuracy was kind of off the charts today, it was really, I used to catch like a, I think, Noctur in mid-air on Starlock after a dash as well, but it was been flicking out of his mind.
Like, the presence of a supporting cast for making Smashners be as dangerous as he was, but in the end, the man holding the mouse is the one who gets a lot of the credit.
Yeah, I like to see the performance from the entire roster, of course, right? I mean, having the where of fall to be like, hey, you know, take it on the chin, first map, didn't go our way.
but domination is a different beast compared to the rest of the game modes.
And I feel like RAD have shown their experience now that they're not just like a one-trick pony on a domination map,
and then, you know, do pretty decent on the next one.
They have that depth to them, and that's what really separates, you know, the best teams from the great teams.
And I think recent gaming is on their way to becoming a really good team,
but they still have some things to work out with, and I feel like after they have more time with this roster,
they'll be able to do that, but unfortunately for them, you know, they had to miss apps,
They had to get the subs last minute and bringing in DRP and ballast to the fold and they've
looked so much better.
I mean, I gotta give a shout out where it's due to this recent gaming roster.
As the matches have gone, they have continued to improve.
Yes, it wasn't as close as it could have been in those last two, but the fact that they
took a map off of Rad, nobody really predicted that one.
So hats off to them there.
And then Lemon, I mean, I feel like most improved in this roster has to go to Nocta, like seeing
the difference from the first series of Ignite preseason to now is a whole different story.
Yeah, I just commend someone like Nocta to swap to anything and everything that the team needs,
whether it's the Moon Knight, whether we agreed or not, it was that counter to the low key.
They've also tried to create the chaos in these fights, and I think Nocta has really stepped up.
Like you said, it's a roster that doesn't have the chemistry and the synergy compared to Rad with all these pieces coming in and out,
and not a full-core roster that has played in multiple, multiple matches compared to Rad.
So very proud of how reason did, especially on that domination.
And it's like their stall packs, the comms were good on domination,
but broke down later on, put rad for full proof.
And it's just the spacing, how the Vanguard's play on rad that I can really appreciate.
They know how to protect the rest of their line.
And when you can have dualists that can sit back and open the strategies,
there was no way reason gaming were even going to get in sniffing distance
of this defensive line.
Yeah, I mean, going back to what you were talking about with the backline, essentially, for RAD,
I mean, they've played together for such a long time, like we saw on CHOP with CrazyKitty,
so having that synergy between the backline, I feel like, really elevates this roster compared to some of the other ones that are out there.
I mean, as cruel as it is to say, I think I can see a world where DRP looks at the treatment that he's getting and is missing,
but he gone chomp the little thing in there.
Maybe a little bit.
They were mine!
No!
Oh, man.
DRP versus Ducky.
This was definitely a great Vanguard matchup,
but Mash and Verde are going to make all the difference.
And, honestly,
if I want to talk about something in this series,
the sort of recent game we had the key in the first map,
and they kept banning for that same
for that same squad,
that same comp that beats Reds
in map one,
and then didn't use the comp
the beat brands in map one.
Yeah.
Like, we're making our return band phase about like playing these triple strategies.
Like, if we're not going to play it, let's just protect Gambit.
And then at least we've got Raging Royal Flush for our two duelists to be able to farm up their
ultimates and do a lot more damage.
I feel like, I hate that they'll win it too much.
But recent game, they kind of got a little bit lost in the source for this one.
Yeah.
They focused so much on the red phase.
And honestly they sucked rad into it. They made rad believe in the Mantis. They're like, okay, yeah, you know what that's pretty good
We're gonna play the Mantis Ultron. They actually played it which was a big difference maker
Oh, well, we got Ducky here from the winning team of rad not a single casualty against you in the last two maps
But I want to talk about
Immensal that went into you guys after seeing that they didn't ban your Groot both maps in a row
What was going through your minds there Ducky?
I mean
Groups never really like a good ban. I don't I don't think groups ever lost a ban in the draft in my opinion
But I mean I just love it when one mantis is open
I think who is like yeah, yeah, okay, and I don't think they have a new player that can match me
So it's just like in free my opinion
I want to chat that mantis because
You guys weren't as big a believer in the mantis in the first map
You've recognised it's value in the second, but you also managed to force reason off of playing that triple strategist quite often
Is there anything in particular your team was doing to make sure that triple back strategist didn't feel viable for a reason?
I mean, I will say
everyone on the team was
really unhappy with our draw off the first map and
Also, but I was really like I think he was lagging like a lot. He said he had like a hundred thing at some point
which I take my word for it because he's my teammate so I'll take his word for it but
yeah after that we just had to look in after that because I cannot be losing to these guys.
It happens and I want to talk about also what happens on map number one because you know as a
group mate I love watching you play and get to see the group for you on map one, got to see some
Magneto. What did you think of what was challenging you the most on map one and kind of what went
and prone to your team on that one?
I mean, on map 1 it was just, it was the draw off
and also, Vortico was lagging, apparently,
which I believe in, but...
And also, I just, they felt like there was a lot less energy
in map 1 from all of us in the team
and then like, we kind of just like,
we had a tool car that we just,
we do not want to lose to these guys.
The only people we'd accept losing to in this bracket
is VP, as the only people we'd accept losing to.
So...
That's very...
and we can't leave these games.
No, that's super valid.
And with this win, you guys have secured your spot
in the playoffs.
We still have two series ahead of you,
one versus vision, one versus VP.
I know you said VP is the one to look forward to,
but this is the last question we have for you, Ducky,
is like looking forward to those matches.
Do you have any thoughts about vision?
Are you worried too much against them,
or are you just mainly focused on that first pro matchup?
I'm just focused on myself. I mean, I contribute a little bit to draft, but I just want to make
sure I'm playing the best I possibly can in all the officials I play. Because at the
end of the day, I am the main tank, I'm kind of like the head of the team, so I have to
make sure I'm playing my best, otherwise the whole team is just going to crumble if I'm
not playing my best ability.
Okay, I respect it.
Well, you played pretty well, I would say.
Going as defeated two maps in a row looked pretty awesome.
Well, thank you, Ducky, for joining us for the interview.
I'm sure we'll hear from you later on this weekend. Enjoy your win.
Thank you, Bob.
And that was Ducky from Rad Esports.
They got the 2-1 victory. They said, you know, maybe some thing issues,
but really they weren't feeling as confident in map 1,
and then it really showed how confident they were from Denon out, Levin.
Yeah, and this is a nice warm-up, if you will, for that big final boss,
Birdus Pro as Rad's last match.
Now this is just about seeding, because they've qualified.
But getting that number one seed in the maybe Dodge, Novi, or Heretic's game
that they have to play, which is in the other group, but how seeding works for playoffs.
But Rad looks really good today.
Just kind of work on Kokoroa Domination and the drafts and giving the vibes and the energy off the bat.
Yes, we do, but we also have to take a little bit of a breather ourselves after that three-game finish that we saw.
We have Peps and Pulsar winning on the other end of this break.
I remember the dusk, the lights gripping tight me
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
Late sun and moon and dark wonder
I thought it was a time that we were friends
And I have solid shadows, no mannequins
That's what has been for minutes, take you out
The yards I know were a last reunion
Break the chains, find your way, come fight 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
When you get up, I'll make your price raising
With sense, my skin turns purple
You follow the risks that I'm telling you
We are levels in the end by then
And I've done my toll
But you always know it can't stop us
The arrival's till the end of time
We will clash, you're right away
We will fight, we're wasting our cross times
Face on, you are my
Take me back to the end
You see the dawn, the flame, ringing right
Shining one north and a breeze in the east
Across the time I see you turning left sides
And do you see now, at time, at time, I can still fight
I could win this fight, wonder how you're
Then now it's the only time your heart is mine
Life has fallen, darkness well done
Can't be right for our destiny and fate
Fantastic!
Well, we already have one map 3 out of the way for today's festivities, but now we have
a must-win matchup between both of these teams, perhaps if they lose, still in the competition
technically for groups, but they definitely want the best odds, and Pulsar, if they lose
at this series, they will be going out of the group stage without making it to the playoffs.
Of course, they'll have one more match to play against Navi tomorrow.
Those are the stakes here, Levin, to talk about between these two teams.
So it's a must win scenario for both of these squads.
Big day for Pulsar.
Feather, show up or show yourself out.
Elimination day for them.
But talking about Epps first, this team has a lot of fun niche picks and play styles that
can surprise some teams.
They've got a heavier lean towards the Angelo with a Frankie boxing, getting the mitts out.
Those disruption styles.
You need glooks on the porch in the sidewalk six is a hit scan that can really shine on his team.
His mechanics are insane. I think pink sets him up beautifully and proto on the Jeff low key secret ace of their sleeve.
Oh yeah, love to see the Jeff play come out. I mean, especially like either it's the blanking Jeff or you're just kind of keeping your allies alive on the back line just with the long beams of water against them.
against them, but like they tell me a little bit about this pulsar roster.
Who's really the players to look out for on this team to pop off?
For me, the real standout here probably going to be leftist at T-Las.
Finish, finish legend, great on all of the strategies.
I think Invis woman probably leftist is strongest outlook here.
I wouldn't be shocked to see an Invis ban go their way, especially given in the last series.
So how impactful an Invis ban can be when it comes to enabling those off angle
duelist kind of a match-ups which are gonna require flying a bit of a heavy
focused potentially towards sabotech. We know El Chabagoo is a bit of a melee
enthusiast which isn't the most invoker though. We have seen
considerable success from Daredevil. I think that's probably gonna fall off a
little bit knowing that now there's an easy swan over to a white fox who tends
to win their 1v1s against Daredevil which is the first of the strategists.
I like that you highlighted this melee specialist.
I think this is not a strong metaphor for this team.
And I think a team like Pulsar or Esports is looking for that standout,
that pop-off player, and El Chapagoo has been this wild card.
Wolverine, the things like the Daredevil,
it can be really countered by just strong Magneto players
that know when to bubble people who are getting harassed
by a guy named El Chapagoo, which is already a hilarious name.
But looking to see how El Chapagoo is going to adapt,
Because at least that's what I really like about him.
He's not afraid to swap everything he can to make it work.
Well, we'll see how both these teams make it work, of course,
as we mentioned before, the stakes of this matchup.
And that's going to be the big thing to focus on.
But hopefully the pressure doesn't get too out of them.
They're both two teams who are looking for their first series
when we saw only two series so far from peps and Pulsar
have a little bit more experience under their belts.
I mean, they placed off against Team Heretics,
most recently took a map against Alter East Sports
and then Shikigami was their first series last week, so they've had a tough goal of it.
This is their best chance for success, but it's the same on the other side.
For Peps, they played Navi and Heretics. None of them have had an easy goal of this level.
I just think Peps' schedule is actual hell. Like, Heretics has your first one as a clear,
I would, number two, I guess, in the power rankings. Navi being at number one,
yeah, at least you get all the hard ones out of the way. Now you have a whole week
to try and deal with the rest of the bracket or the rest of the people that you're standing.
So glad to see the team peps. I think people could be underrating them just based on how tough
their schedule is. So I think I kind of got cut some this far. Okay, okay. I mean, if we're doing
predictions on this, what are you feeling for this leg day? I mean, we have Celestial Husk as
the map. I think Pulsar have a chance at beps all the way. I think this is going to be one of the
the most hotly contested best of
threes of the entire bracket,
but I maybe as a recency bias
seeing team peps kind of get
one over on that. We were not
winning the map on Celestial
Husk previously. We don't met
Celestial Husk again. I like
team pups is a flyer style
heading into this. We'll see if
our sports have done their
homework and ban out of things
like the torch and the Angela
later on in the band phase. But
I think that this is a really
strong map for team peps and I
would not be surprised to see
only maps that Pulsar have actually won is on Celestial Horse. They went the distance against
Altar Esports. They went all the way to round three, so I'm excited, but will Saptic be able to
play the Elsa? That is, I think, the consistent performer, the fragger on this team, so that's
kind of what I'm wondering when it comes to this team. That's the big question. What are we going
to see priority-wise? Is it going to be the Elsa? Is it going to be the Gambit? Are we going to see
some of those Angela bands out there. That's what makes this meta so fun because there's at least
more than just like you're banning the Mag or the Emma like we used to see in previous seasons.
There's a couple bit more going down to the strategy of the ban and protect system itself,
which is just great. It's healthy for the game. I feel like the 20% all-charge nerf that we had
at the start of the season, it definitely contributed to that and a bit more focus on
certain heroes over the others. But Team Beps and Pulsar Esports, both these teams giving it their
all, map one, it didn't even matter so much more. I mean we saw it in the last one, it didn't as much
unfortunately for reason, but between these two squads just having that one edge, that one map
win is going to be the difference maker between these two teams. And we talked about it Jen.
We saw some great looks from Pulsar in the first time that they had a performance on Celestial
So can they replicate that going into the series?
We'll see how they do against Team Peps.
Well, like that, we already had a map greener.
First series, I could see this being the same way.
And if I could cope, because I always
got to have my daily cope, El Chapagoobs Wolverine,
I think it looked very strong on Celestial Husk.
A lot of good places to tackle people off the map on,
depending on what ground you're in.
But that's the big wild card, the big question mark
on this team for me.
All right.
is going to be Elsa as our first one here.
Question is, are we going to see these teams
pivot into the Gambit?
Which is what we expected from our previous two teams,
but they did prefer the Mantis Ultron.
It doesn't seem like Pulsar is going to be going
for the old classic here with Gambit on the table.
And this means that maybe later on in our bands,
we're going to have to consider something like a rogue
being taken off the table,
because that team up is very powerful
and unsurprisingly is going to be a low key taken away
to avoid double raging royal flashes.
The Angelo and Domination is going to be something
I can't wait. A big bright point on this Team Peps roster is always going to be Frankie for me.
And I know we love to just highlight the duelist every day and night,
but an Angela did here could make all the difference. And tackling versus tackling,
we got El Chapagoo baby on the Wolverine, Frankie on Angela. It's just tackle central.
But someone like Pink, I think has such an interesting hero pool and could even bring out
something like the porch, which has been popular on Solis O'Hoss going to pass.
Yeah, we have seen Pink absolutely do numbers on that one, especially against a team like Navi,
who are running a triple strategist into it. There's going to be one side of Gambit due to that
priority protect on the Mantis, but we have seen this come back to back teams before. Team Peps
definitely are angling for something a little bit more akin to an Ultron Mantis here, would not be
surprised if we see Ultron protect. Oh, it's going to be the Vanguard pull protect. This is interesting.
Now Pulsar for their last have to figure out do we want to get rid of the Mantis?
Do we want to get do we want to get rid of the Ultron rather to stop that Mantis Ultron double boost?
Do we want to try and get rid of the Jeth or the Invis which could be a great pocket for Pink up in the sky?
Or maybe you just try and get rid of the Johnny himself. No, Invis is gonna be the one off the table.
And no Star Lord for Pulsar, which means that Pink, you know, we don't even ban the torch because I don't think anyone is worried about the torch
We don't worry about what happened last series. Okay, so I'd love to see pink back on the torch because they were able to force
800 to 99 plus against Navi, but the pressure team that go to the edge is off of again these niche picks
That's what it is really exciting about team peps
So pink won't be able to fall back to the star lord those if the torches a workout. Good luck
Yeah, it might be a little bit low on those are you can see here for deliberation
is going to be the rogue band taking off the table knowing that rogue is going to be quite dangerous with the team up given over by the gambit.
For a while they were hovering over the daredevil and the Wolverine like,
how much do we want to try and constrain the champagoon, Pierre?
How much do we believe in the El Trouba Gubra, the biggest mythos for Pulsar Resports here?
And we are going to see champagoon able to access that daredevil.
I'm really going to see how much it brings to the table in pro play.
Daredevil does have a specific advantage of having perfect information within a certain
radius, which is very good when everyone is on the same page.
Now how are you going to execute your dives?
Okay, so I think we'll be able to have the Star Wars backup and I just can't wait to
see some more torch because this has been so niche on maps like this one and even other
maps that we've seen.
more triple strategist and there's so many variations of it whether you can
have the Mantis I think that there's a more defensive flavor when you have
Adam that can go for more of those rebots but we'll see what everyone ends out
with coming out of the gates looking at a strong dive here for Polsar but more
of a melee style so not the Wolverine that we've seen all travel group play in
the past but something that could maybe have some more pop-off potential.
Alright, Teampeps, just gonna use the, the defaults to roll out I imagine, and then swap
over onto the Mantis, that's gonna be the primary healer here, on the Lunar, the strategist
is gonna make her a little bit more vulnerable to a dive from Shadowjuke and Kizaru, I wouldn't
be surprised to see a swap over onto a White Fox when doing up against his David.
And the folk from Sapotec, don't worry if he doesn't have Elsa, cuz Vanda's he deliver
around that damage when it comes to the Phoenix.
First, that presence here from IMLK.
Look at these deadpool bubbles to maybe go back this,
not like Blue Walls, you know, you section off some of this
healing and have some staying power on this objective.
First, you see Pulsar try to get this cap first,
you know, Kazara who ring around the Rosie.
You see who he can collapse on.
No focus on these Vanguards,
but over the pressure of this high ground,
as Kazara goes in, oh my God, froze.
Yeah, develop dangle here from Stafford to this wall,
and something gets pushed out, you can see how low they are.
They were trying to find a way to move off the back of that friendly arrival from his area.
Now the coach is going,
okay, any misses going to be severely punished here,
because of a skill issue also being sent on out.
It was updated, yes, but that one was easily managed.
Out goes the skill issue on the other side.
Try not to make sure that Pinch is going to be found in the stink right now.
And Cranky Boxing, looking after the daredevil.
One HP to play with the staff is good Cranky Boxing.
Just gonna be able to keep this one because they throw a long time and they're dead, but we just can't stand up to the half-wind angel.
Oh, Frankie Boxing can do a lot of work on this Angela. We'll get a 4k if you let him through, and he's bringing Hull the Sheep to a herd and to the firing squad of his own team.
Frankie's as impactful as ever and could even bring the Venom as his passive gets activated, but hey, he has six getting activated.
Oh, I'll probably tell us, in a bad position there, couldn't quite get the healing from six,
and instead, focusing down on Tisatila. So, ChapaDoo moves in towards the back,
wants that strategist, and has not lost track of them.
30-6, both the full Pulsar eSports should be able to convert here,
even to a capture, but boy, it's taking its time here.
ChapaDoo, but Marty seems some better brawling with the rest of the team,
be able to stay nice and close. Of course, Kuzaro be able to feast upon the start of
this next fight. Hopefully getting an activation here from Frodo to get the Mantis resurgence
to get some extra kick for Team Peps. Maybe just overwhelm Pulsar, but don't forget, of
course, the Forge Ultimate will have the death toll kick things off.
Once in on to the Jep for land-sharping D, that's some flash, broad-heeled shark meat right there,
something that makes the ball on down.
Team Peps, despite being caught with that early 3-person dive, were able to rebuff it quickly.
Yeah, there was only two straps from the pull-star side, so when you have Pink being able to pick off,
the Jep's so, so early, so little healing that's left, and then you only have so many cards in your deck for Gambit.
so too much on Legend to carry through.
Proto, great, soul resurgence, now being able to defend
is gonna put this Angel in a fantastic position
and maybe force Polestar's hand before they're ready,
but Kizaru is already showing his hand
being on the point for it.
Kizaru has a little bit of attention,
knows that the Deadpool's vision is of course
based on movement and true match point,
real low here, needs to get back to some manner of feeling.
I'm seeing new Legenders from here, that one,
gives a read going deep into the back,
quick disengagement, a few over the ultimate charge,
army to the gambit who still yet to get their first ultimate to come up the
raging world flash could be everything but you want to do without
sanity. Chambord is already been frozen. Oh, peeking down the pool!
Oh, the gambit ultimate! This could be a huge amount of pulsar resources which
probably getting anything done. Just after all of the rage of Ultron, yes,
Kizuru is able to stick around longer to get bigger photos but can they get
anything more than this? At least forcing something out of the London. Frankie
Bolton needs to be high up in the sky to avoid being eaten and that's gonna be
nothing grand off the back of its jet. The Devil's tag in towards the back and a nice little wavy world flushed
to get away. Yes, Tre-Ran still remains with Team Pepper well in control. Saptic rolls in,
River Phoenix and Frankie Boxing gets all fully close to it. Flies one of their wings, seems
left temporarily taken to the ground. Now I can move in trying to keep this one contested.
The old Chabagoo is going to be in best foot danger.
Oh, almost Frankie able to deny that escape from the dare Devil and Team Pads. I mean, great
Patience on the feet of both worlds extend this fight already at 90% plus. It's do or die for pulsar
Listen to nasty masses today, and we haven't even seen level one crook blade just yet
Savasic can't stand up to be a raid fire that was coming on through with the spike lapses of T-Lasses
Floundering and flailing with thins in the air, the surrender is not accepted and only a casualty is found in its place.
A portal opened for a quick re-contest.
That's how the game's gonna be a lot more scantable for that.
But they're debarking the portal, straight into a pyro prison.
They're out of the frying pan and right into the fire!
Seems like the last time is on a flash flight again and nothing can save them because Legend was too far away.
Kids are up against the world.
Oh, a quick ice fall on the tree man.
Chill out, bro.
So the round is over, Team Peps, take the first.
His archess doesn't have a good target to dive, his day is being ruined.
He's either getting frozen, he's getting slept, he's getting tackled by an Angela,
you just can't get anything going with this, Fetum.
And then Team Peps, the people that would be dabble-boller up in the air, and Pink is
being completely ignored, able to rain it down on the only two strategies that Polestar
have and Jeff needs to ideally be out of water in order to be impactful so you really can't get an
umbrella against someone like pink but these are the type of key strategies that keep peps bring
and why Celeste and Huck has been such a strong map for them initially so I think we'll start
gonna have to rethink their vanguard approach because the CC from the strategist line from peps
It's too good!
Yeah, indeed they are going for a quick rethink.
Looks like we're going to see...
Like, TreeMan, obviously, in my name, does love the grutes.
And let's all play over onto the Wolverine here.
There is a world where maybe you're trying to get a fastball special team up,
but in St. Kilsaroo knows that with Vanguard, they pull on the team.
Or, at least, I've made it on the draft.
It could be folly to leave it on the back first.
So he was a good person to tackle.
It's an easy choice and think about this high ground too.
It can bring someone into your team and displace people from these power positions.
That's going to be important, but six kicks things off.
Okay, Raking World front, already thrown out here to the side of Polsar and here it is.
Lapses of T-Laps on the best hero that they've got in Zell Wheelhouse.
The Invisible Woman gets it done finding six.
The forces can be really dangerous in the Ultraman to deal with as well as force physics,
force, and lack of escape ability for Ultraman to be an issue.
Hey, let the gambit through just to be sure Saboteur's not on the Yelsa and you're paying
the ultimate prize and it's such a huge win condition for Polsar to be able to defend
with the Groot is so massive along with a strangling prison and Treeman is looking for it.
Oh, an early prison here.
Oh, did you see them take the, I just want to pick the Magneto away so smart.
The only counter play they had was blocking it with the Magneto's curtain, all the bubble,
and so you instantly go in for the grab on the Magneto, and it's plain sailing for Treeman.
I like the strategy, like you said, to get the only thing that could, uh,
cancel or really defend against the Shrailing Prison, because that's the number one thing you got to look out for as a group player.
Where are those Magneto bubbles? Where is the shield?
and Pulsar are yet behind, halfway down to the cap, looking forward to seeing how Sapa
taking El Chapo did really deliver some big damage and here's some picks.
Oh, so it's gonna have trouble surviving this one, indeed the burst damage is too much to
bear.
Kira that may have been able to move over onto the White Pulse with that Spirit Sanctuary
Shield that's gonna be instantly evaporated by the Phoenix Ultimate and this is the kind
of initiative we expected from Pulsar.
Of course, and they can just keep cycling their ultimates, they don't over invest, and if they need to back away, they'll have the invisible boundary to set up a safe base away from Team Pebs, and they're struggling themselves to Team Pebs speaking of to gather ultimates because they're just getting wiped before they can form a thought, and this will be their last hurrah for this round.
ChoppaCoop is going absolutely goofy right now, and it's goofy goober time.
I'm certainly ready, I don't know about you.
Ready for round number three, because 97% is ticking on over.
There's no chance for a teleport and pulsar e-sports.
Strike back all the vengeance.
It started with the gambit, then the strangling prison,
then now ChoppaCoop coming alive on the Wolverine, proving that maybe the wolf
could still live on in this meta.
It's all about teamwork and execution, and Pulsar played the perfect round, but we decide here and now
who will be taking the first map in this best of three.
And Team Pebs don't have the strong of a win condition when you don't have the gambit.
Of course, the rage of Ultron from Six had the initial good poke damage,
but Pulsar surged ahead despite that completely disrespecting Six.
And Pink is the one that's on Phoenix, where usually that's Six's recipe to success.
So I love that pink has been stepping up as a huge carry for peps,
especially from going to torch now on the phoenix.
Look for how this end song is going to end this first fight
because there's not only the gambit oil flush here for pulsar negate it.
It's imperative that team peps from the first fight here.
We're seeing in the last round just how bad it is
when you're going up against a group in these tight spaces, these little canvans.
However, it's going to be incredibly difficult.
Raging oil flush is on the table.
And this is a great round for Flyers, so look at 6 to make you have an even stronger impact in this one.
Even Pink, if he'd want to return to the torch, I wouldn't even mind it.
All depends on how this kicks off. The Royal Flush has Will and Sue.
Alright, it is. Disengaging, although.
Maybe this one could be answered. Pink gonna be using the Entomniu Furniture and stopping them in their tracks.
Maybe it only lasts for 8 seconds. Now our Chabugus has lost their passive and lost even more so than that.
The Polestar needs to be stopped before we can get the point.
It's gonna be an early contest coming through from Frankie Boxing, this is of course always gonna be the job of the Angela.
Six, your beam does not heal, I've gotta tell you that right now.
You've just gotta focus that in on the enemies. Out comes a skill issue from, uh, I am okay, I believe, going over likely onto a gamut on the other side.
It's easy to gun on through, and this is exactly what Team Peps needed, a great disengage play, we're gonna chase down that season.
T-Las, unlike to get anything on the back side right here, although it will be a momentary stall from the group.
This is gonna make things more difficult for this group to find value off the walls.
And Frankie is having so many good walls, well not the girl walls, but great walls to pin people into when he's causing so much disruption, good coordination in that teampeps fight, and he does chop a goop to slow it down a bit.
And he's actually gonna pee on the Neymar, so that'll be a different story than what he was trying to pull on the Wolverine.
He's overextended into the cavern to save you from teampeps, not knowing what's on the other side. You can't front and back with Wolverine, but you can have more of a defensive posture with the Neymar trying to stop these Frankie guys.
was good. It burns through the invisible boundary. That's the important part, right? 60% kept the
point and destroyed Pulsar in their own invisible barrier. I like that call from Proto. Do not give
up. Do not surrender. Pink versus SapaTik. Who is going to take the round and who is going to carry
their team to victory? The fate of both worlds and fate in Peps's hands on how they want to get
active this fight as Treeman looks below on the Angela.
Treeman once again forced onto a different hero.
The Angela is going to be the one to see here.
You can see the El Chabagubes being accosted on their,
on their leading port right here.
Kizzer is just going to be exchanging battles.
And it's going to be a really fast S rank achievement
because they're off the back of the Ranging Royal Flush.
Still the answer's solid.
He's going to be lasting longer.
They've got a four person stun from Sappetik.
Absolutely nutsome mode over here.
Quick double stab, Frankie Boxing is at least making their presence known on the point but the real fight is happening in the back line right now.
But Dive's trying to get value, Frankie Boxing can't win at 2 vs 1 and Team Peps would get out relatively unscathed.
And 0-100 is what Polsar have to do to salvage this map and Tremen realizing that off the groove, you just can't sustain pressure, you can't mitigate it as well.
match fire with fire and match Frankie at his own game but he is the best in the
business when it comes to Angela they don't call him Frankie Boxing for nothing
but the devil is out.
The devil is out but Pink says I'm gonna put that one back in cause
he's gone too deep as well we're trying to support that one really wanted a hard commit
Lapsie Sotilas back on the jet just trying to fill up additional survivability
Pink needs to dodge away from the incoming fast because he's very very well managed here
going in towards the back, loves baby back, finds her.
And that leaves her with a lot of healings now
off the table for Team Peps.
Now, Chapa Goob has returned with a lot of Missile and Garnet's
feasting time for El Chapa Goob.
It's Jeff running to eat her, but you
want to try to keep this one contested.
So Team Peps, they're just going to call it.
Yeah, Peps, you just need to stop reset here after Baby
Vat and Pink have fallen, and Paul, sorry,
I've invested enough.
It's a good call from Team Peps.
That is what's strong about them,
that timing of their disengages.
Because El Chapa Goob sometimes
chases those those eliminations and that could be really punishable so peps this is just one fight for the end
she's been over from pink tree man they're trying to drop him out of the sky but it's not full charge on the axis
oh mrs. The Hotron but still does miss cabagou spinning to win and winnings on the cards right here kizzeroo has to try and stand alone
but gets burned to a crisp the charge boils a beautiful flavor profile for pink and indeed they might be feasting tonight in the peps mansion
As they will be able to get the cap here. It's going to be a last second recon test coming through
from El Chabagoo with the pause real quick.
Debarking on to a point in great cover off the back of it as well.
But straight away Frankie Boxing is there to meet them.
Drops down from the sky, extra outlaw and sundry.
Protoss knows that this is the end. It's time to research in terms of souls.
It's what it needs to get a little bit of additional ult charge here.
They've gotten six of white on the edge.
We've lost Protoss. It needs to be a cut from Team Pepsi now.
Getting El Chabagoo into the middle of their team might be exactly what they needed.
Host on a nowhere close to when the ult relaxes at T.L.A.S.
He really has a chance to try and make this one work, but cranky boxing continues to land.
Blow after blow, right hook into Africa.
Swift as a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
And in towards the back, it's Legend of Fields himself for sting.
Pink going down into the vanguard, getting stuck in nice and close.
Protoss comes with a quick return and with all of the ultimate's levy,
Team Pet will be able to make this one happen.
The first map Celesteal Husk will go their way.
That was so winnable her pulsar at the end. Let me cope. They teleport in they actually zone pets off the point
You have proto on the Mantis front-lining you had a pig on the strategist
That close and of course pink as your MVP stepping up as that carry the torch the Phoenix the
with the triple elimination that he got through Pulsar's invisible foundry.
Like, it's not just the damage and the numbers, it's the impact.
And that was felt in the server by Pink.
Alright, good to see Paps finally getting rewarded for all the innovation and effort put in.
Once again, Europe is seeing the pines of Mantis.
We're seeing Gambit left on the table.
Oh sir still locked away in the box even after losing 25 base HP
I don't know how much our two first matches are going to be heartening things to come
But as we come back from a week of sprints after the first week of preseason
Hey teams felt you know what just image boost is kind of some serious business and it seems right now the meta is crystallizing towards
Mantis gap and
And Bulsar, it's just the decision-making too of just how far they wanted to reach in some of these fights
because in that last round there's these very defensive patterns that exist.
And apparently people like El Chapagoo and others, they try to sweep up the defenders from their safe leaving
and force them into fights that they weren't ready for, but the punishing power from Peps
is what took a lot of these fights that would give them to bad decision-making from the divers.
but I like the swaps that Coulsard has brought, but perhaps had better execution and better pop-off power.
I'm very impressed with Treeman as well, like the comeback-convict with all three combos.
It's going to seem that we're going to want to watch out for in particular combos more in linear maps like a converted to a combo,
which of course we're going to be able to go next.
As it is going to be, the choice of wholesale and whether fine-sealing picks up like a midtown where the group can nearly excel in being either still path, or it will be able to find out what's chosen after this break.
Welcome back everyone from that heater of a matchup. We've got to see Pink just
electric on all the fire heroes. We saw the Phoenix, we saw the torch, and we saw
them bring the heat throughout that first map on Celestial Husk. 20 final hits is
insanity, but I think another stat line that kind of goes underrated is how
involved Lemon, the entire team of Peps, was on getting those confirmations of
the eliminations, which seemed to be a big difference between these two squads.
And you got the best server in the business, Frankie Boxing, who comes and just serves it
up to you on a platter as the Angelo II watch, and I think that's so strong on Celestial
Husk, depending on what round, he's even more elusive than ever, and then someone like
Tremaine had to match band for band and really suffered.
At least you did get the swaps, right?
You're not too stubborn, the crew was getting run over, but you just can't execute the
Angel is the way that uh that spring you can then you had 21 deaths from the two vanguards
on the pulsar side so it just shows you about a focus in the amount of damage that they were taking
throughout these fights. So much sustain as well that we got to see from team peps just based on
the composition that they were rocking and also having that mantis gap as we like to call it now
leg day that seemed to be another big difference maker here in pulsar they had it available to them
It wasn't even banned, but it just seems like maybe it doesn't fit into their composition or play styles was they would like
Yeah, no one sided Mantis like I don't know if that's because maybe Sanctus a pro champion just doesn't play
The Mantis like it is a little bit of a specialty aiming style
Which takes a little bit of a whole lot of practice to be able to happen
But like having that tertiary strategy is just ultimate is so important as well
I think the real turning point of this entire match was when
Everyone on pets followed the command of Protoss.
Lemmon was telling us about how like they're down and well, it's invest or don't invest here.
There's no right answer at the moment, but when Protoss makes the call, we're gonna go in with the Sol resurgence
and they layer in on top of that the Ensong inferno as well to try and deal with the counter ultimate
knowing that, hey, if I just load my Phoenix up with damage boost, because that's all she needs
when I've got like all the healing pumping out from Sol resurgence, right?
I'm just going to load her up with the damage boost seeds and maybe we'll be able to break our way through this invisible boundary.
They're going to have to use us to take this point when we use our solar surgeons.
Like everyone on Pets was on the same page with that and sometimes it's just clarity of vision, more than like strength of character,
which really is going to be what wins the day.
If they do come out on top, I'd be very interested to just ask them like who controls, you know, the comms on their team specifically,
because it seemed like they had that unlock communication at the level that you need it to be.
But, Lemon, we were kind of talking about potential maps
that could have seen as the counter in Midtown.
Seems a little bit surprising here.
Yeah, just losing that first map.
Usually they go to Museum of Contemplation,
Spider Island Convoy, even a Rakko Convoy,
but just haven't had the results
that they would have hoped for.
So Midtown, a really narrow alley.
Maybe we could see the rise of Tree Man as the Tree Lord.
Because Tree is really strong at this first section of the map
because it's so narrow and get a lot more impact.
We just had a lesson from Ducky about what that looks like.
So I'm looking for Tree to own the Ducky persona.
Yeah, maybe a little bit better, too.
And there's like kind of cordoned off rooms
from the play style that we like to witness
from Al-Chaba-Goob with either the DD
or the Wolverine as well.
It seemed like because of how open-ended the last map was,
they weren't able to get as much effectiveness
in confirming some of those KO's.
So could be a little bit better here for them.
Also depends on composition.
I think Triple Stratus works pretty well though for Team Peps, so they're kinda happy.
Midtown is one of those maps that teams have scrimmed the most out of any convoy maps,
so you gotta make sure you have the best strategy, the best kind of roster of heroes you can play
going into this one.
And I would say the big thing to focus on, the Mantis fan, if it doesn't come out and
we see the immediate secure from Team Peps, well, you might see a similar story here like
Dave that we did in the last map.
Yeah, the Mantis story is definitely gonna be something.
I do think that the Midtown pick makes sense when you consider a Vanguard matchup here,
because this is great for group, which is TreeMan's primary, and it's also not a great map for Angela.
Like, this is, this doesn't have the best Angela angles, and I think we're pointing,
I think we could all agree that in the previous game, it definitely felt like Frankie Boxing
was the more effective Angela player, not the better Angela player.
I think maybe trying to constrain Frankie into a more terra-therma-bound Vanguard might be important.
One thing to note here too, going into this matchup, Pulsar have opted for the attacking side to this go-around.
So that's definitely important to pay attention to when it comes to the advance and protects,
because they get that first protect, they can't get double banned.
So we might see a focus on the gambit if it gets through, or even the elsa, depending on what the priority is, from Team Epsen.
I feel like, based on this meta, we've seen so many more teams going towards sticking on the attacking side first,
for the counter map instead of the defending side, but we'll see what happens. Team Peps, they did select that defending side.
Pulsar will be attacking at this go-around and they're pretty happy about that. We'll see how it goes though for the ban on Protects here, Lemon.
Alright, let's head on in. Map number two, Team Peps.
For the first time in the pre-season, have themselves a series lead.
This could be Pulsar Resports with the first ban here already, covering over on the Elsa, but the question is,
Do you want to keep prioritizing this if you know that maybe it's going to be a mantis coming through over side?
Yeah, of course. Keep Elsa in the box, but we'll keep her locked away for now.
And Frankie's backup plan, since we're not expecting the Angela here, would be a Magneto.
So really working in tandem with someone like IMLK, who's been superb on the Deadpool, the Groove, the Venom.
Like, IMLK has shown a lot of flexibility, but I want to see a masterclass from this Vanguard lineup.
Because I did feel like the Angelos setups were great, but what other looks can we see from patch going forward?
All right, real question is here
Well, is it once again going to be a protective the Mantis or are they gonna pivot on to Gambit because we know that
Six here might be tempted to move over from the Ultron onto something like a Phoenix or even
There's something like a Moon Knight which could really take advantage of the long sightlines that are over here on midtown
So it makes sense to me it might go for a double strategist line with the gambit as the main healer
I'm scared of Paul sir having another gambit game though because the one round they took with Celestial Husk that hundred to zero
Was momentum driven by a gambit fight?
Starter if you will so but you know this is not domination
But that is such a huge part of getting wind in the sails and having a almost a guaranteed win condition
But perhaps what was so good about the macro wise in that first map was how and when they disengaged and almost
Forcing these errors out of pulsar and that greediness to chase those eliminations
It's our world. I mean they protect the style all to you like gambit style of obviously one of the most deadly
Out combos in the game and said looks like they are going sir, maybe for all hello
The oracle that I read that you're cooking all the gambit style combo
This demands a mag in response. I think
with the MET or M, which could be ideal for trying to force Tree Man off of their better hero.
I wouldn't mind seeing the Invis get counter banned here from Team Peps if Polestar take it away as well,
just to try and get rid of the main ways you can try and stop the poke from Star Lord using that Guardian Shield to win out on the off angle fights.
And six has shown us a little bit of Star Lord, but there are such large hero pools on the side of Peps when it comes to their duelists.
And like I said, I've been very unique with sometimes bringing out the Psylocke and, like we said, the Torch.
So you never know what you're going to get when you face Team Peps.
But what other teams have realized is that you can still beat them at their own game because Peps have yet to win a series.
series but they are on the verge of doing just that against Polsar and keeping themselves alive
in the standings while Polsar are on elimination. So the curious thing here as well is that even
without a protective mind of a side Mantis has once again made it through the band phase
untouched. I like the taking away of the vanguard deadpool there, the skill issue. It will decimate
a star lord due to his high rate of fire if he misses even a single bullet in the clip. Each one
one of those counters are full on miss and does a bunch of damage to him. That's a great
way to try and constrain, especially something like a Gambit as well, Skillish 1 Gambit if
he misses one of his cards in the 3 card spread. That counts as a miss as well, so I think
getting parity on the Vanguard pool is a good priority here for Team Peps.
And just how many strats are we going to get? Now, strategies, strategists. Because that's
made a huge difference for a team like Pulsar who run a lot of the 2-2-2 and things like
that.
But sometimes if you're on defense it warrants having something like a rocket or a third
strategist just to be able to stall out as much as possible.
So we'll focus on the defensive cons, they're more settled in on what they want to do and
Baby Bat covering her choices here with the rocket and that BRB.
You get a little bit of forgiveness especially if, I don't know, someone like Saptic headshots
your back line. So it's always good to have a bandit. Yeah,
everybody will be thinking going to be important as well as
pink having access to that carnival as well. It's a
possibility sports are going to have to very carefully manage
both their space and their resource usage here to get
effective fights and deal with the resurrections that could be
on the table. Got the road again at the lovely couple hoping to
break up the team peps frontline just got the mitts out
ready to squabble up and peps can rely on Frankie and he's always known to have the perfect moment to strike and
barely misses that show.
Alright, getting involved now with the Actors of Eye course but let's stay down for long.
Oh, just click, whack, with Kizaru as they roll on up.
You know, just kiss her on the mouth.
So many homies.
So little time, but Polestar have sectioned up the fight and they have sent Kizaru to do the job for them.
Alright, having that wall up behind the mix, things there, Redef got on Protoss, gonna be the first one to fall.
Question is, is the battle vehicle being available? I don't think it is.
And so everyone else from Team Pebs just has to force themselves onto the chart,
to get his last minute Recon Z.
You gotta be able to break those brute walls down and have a strong poke, and...
I don't know if I would consider Team Pebs having the strongest poke when he got a triple vanguard,
But what's nice about Rogue is that she doesn't care if anything you put her in a boxing match
You put her in a boxing ring if you wall third
She'll be happy to be trapped in there with you quick portal play as six rings the team back for a final flight
All right, that's gonna be instantly broken down
No one can really shoot the in song in the fur no sir try and save a bat's cause with yarn amplify
If don't she hear from Pro Tools question is gonna have to see feel us get away with the it's Jeff peeling
Susan, that's gonna be the case because those who would have assailed them are gonna be
quite quickly taken down by Tree Man, who really is thriving here on the group and
Pink couldn't even find any chance of using their own resurrection, so this is collapsed very quickly, but that's...
The group also is so fantastic from Tree, and he's allowed to choose when and where the fight is
going to take place. We'll catch your point, A, and they banged up so many ults to keep the rally going,
mainly that strangling prison, but Pink keeps the fine at the right time in the right place for that Karmic Revival to give another chance at life and fighting here for teamfights.
Ah, so it's needs a moment here, quick breath as we try and get access to that ultimate.
All of the quick amplification, that's going to be the cleansing of the anti-heels on the other side,
not sure where Treeman's ultimate has gone, like we're on the left-hand side of your screen,
as we pan over towards it rather slowly, peek in the corner, brings up the karmic revival,
Treeman has found them in the mix of all of this, and a couple more players are rolled off as well.
The devil unleashed, looked back in, some might say, how shall we do, falling low,
where this healing is going to be more than enough to try and deal with the onslaught brought on by Matthew Murdock himself.
and Lapsid's Ocinus just wants to flee away, the thing gets broken down by Tors'meet clusters,
and now it's gonna be an unassisted ult for 6.
Alright, Dagger. This is just not a part of the map that you want to get stalled out on for Pulsar.
It's that choke point that's so annoying to get through.
Attacking with Groot is not easy as well, and Pulsar, they had good initiative, but it's the counter-action.
The, uh, Raging Royal Flush and Pink into bringing back those two members
is what kept team teps rather flawless towards the end.
So, Pulsar eSports are gonna be harassed by this high ground poke.
Dude, pink is a nasty aimer, and it looks like Six might be holding on.
No, never mind. One sadistic real bad.
If you see where she's not tapping to the sky there,
but I am okay at just the right moment to make sure they could not get into cover.
I said that White Fox is the only strategist who can 1v1,
but they're double, never mind actually.
If you're pink, I'm pretty sure you can do it.
the strategies they defend, they heal, but they also attack, you man. If you're daredevil,
can't even take a 1v1 against an atom, I fear it's so cool. Also, Peps are just getting
picks from the high ground. Full-Star need a commanding way to pressure it, and here comes
Kazaru, the force Peps back.
And Frankie Boxing just gotta be punished for such audacious positioning now as they
float it imperiously above it, all the Empire crumbles, like the Romans as the medieval times
began to rise and IMLK's down too.
And Kazar really solidified that fight, just you gotta get peps off that power position
and it was a recipe for success and Polestar has been so important ultimates for this final
fight of Point B, look for the strangling prison but they'll see what they'll get with
this royal flush.
Well, here that's not a good idea to play too much space yet.
Oh, what a perfect bubble. Unbelievable stuff there from Frankie Boxing, making sure a Viva cannot be grabbed out of the ALE, a five-person usage of the Raging Royal Flush.
Protoss getting maximum value from this one because I already thought they could shut it down.
They could not be more incorrect about the value of the Feast of the Abyss, and our Pulsar Resports is going to be caught in a very nasty position.
The end of second is so difficult to take.
They are disengaging quite well from the raging royal flush from Proto, but Polsar would like to be able to clap back.
It'll come down to Zapatik as El Chapagoub snows blood in the water, but he just needs to be careful.
He needs help to deal with the strategies. He saw how Pink was able to fend for themselves, and that will be priority one to deny this Karmic revival.
Okay, once again going to be easy pickings here for six everyone hiding away inside of the healing pool of
The Jeff and Frankie boxing the ability to bother themselves nice doctors from a group on mostly
I've just seen also any gravel around teams when I space that came out from the cloak and dagger
That's gonna be off angle easily over the triad farm down being spanked out moving forward
I think we've never got my court with a nice group ultimate
And it seems that El Chabagoo once again has found the devil with in unleashing it and well the tendrils of evil
They grab into the flesh of Team Pepsi and secure a second point.
I like this tug of war that Fulsar is doing.
They've really decided to balance the aggression that they almost had too much of on Celestial Husk
and have been able to tilt the scales in their favor.
Gotta be careful of these jet ultimates though because the groove can
can mitigate it with a good iron wood wall.
Frankie can bubble and Pink is on the prowl and is able to slow Fulsar down from the entry.
They're in pink showing off some real versatility here, but, uh,
caught in a dark alley against Matthew Murdoch. They're a...
They're a much better place as to be than that.
Oh, sorry, they just want to be able to punish Pink in the over-stand, but,
because, are we hungry?
Yeah, sounds pretty... already. By the Asuna Bomb.
Coming out from there, backpink manages to find Treeman, and Teed and Low.
The rest of his team disengaged, like, you know what, have the tree.
Have the tree, but let me live.
This is not a fun part of the map to try and break out of your own spawn, because the defense can see you leap spawn and poke you to your grave.
And especially with the Venom, you need a little bit of higher ceilings than that, but the gambit will bail you out.
Alright, Frankie Boxing, what do they do with Amici?
You're like, oh, it's Rage of the Thieves! Unbelievable from Jabba Goop!
This guy is cooking right now, however he's cooked on the other side.
The extra damage from the raging world of flesh means you still can't stand up to it, but I'll pull the skill when I see it.
Sixth round of disengage, Shappasix is absolutely not my son.
I have no designs like that one.
Looking into all sorts of strangeness, I'm supposed to get rid of that backline, giving as I am okay as fours in to just stop the cart momentarily.
Could be a good point for an X-Jabble to make from left as you got that drop off at the back left side and the last 30 seconds to have a say.
And Saphacic looks for an explosive start and doesn't get it.
Unbelievable, more staff left as the TR's already taken on down Chabagoo.
Can they get out of here? A righteous cross, a quick duck and weave, a hint accuracy is far too high for this.
13 seconds remain and now you've got to start considering do we need to use a portal to get back on this?
Tree man's time to give up so much space.
The offline glint from Pink has been huge. Tree is getting farmed for every ounce of ult charge that they have.
But Pulsar have got them weak.
And that's going to be the balance of the butterflies.
Oh, Chaba Goobies in it alone have to tank it all by themselves up above.
We're gonna like Dick Legends, Celia, T-Lust, Celia's cannot live to even more than a second.
As they're taken down by a frenzied arrival, the portable surely be too late.
A stream man tries to set it up, and it's a midway through.
You can see the Team Peps still have two charges, Ultimate's ready to go to try and defend that one.
I think it was cooked either way for Polsar, but it's not unwinnable.
The bank was healthy for Team Peps.
The difference between the two feasts of Abyss that we saw between Kizaru and IMLK is that one had
Joolis told to bits to pile on top, the other one got piled on. IMLK with the feasts, plus the
dance of the butterflies and everything that was left, even the galactic legend just for the cherry
on top. Teampeps had a great final stand, but could have been even, could have even stopped Pulsar
at point B even. I think there was a real chance to make this an even shorter push, so this is very
achievable for Polsar they fixed up a lot of their macro errors that they were
making back on Celestial Husk and are not so antsy, so greedy. They really are
working well as a team and El Chapagoo, despite not being flawless, he is getting
more help on these dice towards the strategy slide and there's coordination
around the Gambit Royal Flushes that Polsar are leaning towards those initial
win conditions and help and using that as their approach mechanic so that they
can actually set Alchop a group for success.
Interestingly here, Teampeps are going to be able to walk out with Six and Protoss on
both the Star Lord and the Gambit, so they are going to be able to sync up their ultimates
a little bit better.
They had Conspicuous Desync on the defense because of course Six started off on the Vanguard
and so was unable to carry through an ult charge onto the Star Lord to really be able to sync
up with Protoss all the time, but it still worked out.
I wouldn't even mind the Wolverine because when there's a fight on the high ground, if you're able to split people up, bring them to the main street, that could really cause that first elimination to go through it.
Oh, Six is sneaky with it.
They want to try and get Chabagoo and get rid of that passive.
Well, they may have been a rocket jump pack to try and choose something there.
Well, Chabagoo only gives up their life to make it happen.
Just gotta wait for everyone from Polestar to be alive for this portal play.
You need all six to be available.
Now Chabagoo's back on the Wolverine.
Look out for these tackles and look out for Polestar's final stand here for point A.
Eyes on Pro 2006 as well.
That's gonna be a deadly ult combo if it can't be dealt with by Kizuru on the other side.
Pink trying to disengage, but staying close to tree ramp can purely generate that fury.
Right is cross off the right, just cross, but slows the thickened fast as well.
Chaboboom on the other side, Pink moving in towards the back,
but Dive is good, Kama get Lapsi's a T-Lash, or even get the Gambit that would be even better.
But with no Sonic pursuit ready to go just yet, they're waiting for a second play.
Here comes Six, ready to go. This is the old combo we were talking about,
if only they want to use it, I think the Gambit's already been done.
Three players are down, so Six just saves the ultimate, and it's going to be Gambit saving the day.
Aphroto used it as soon as he earned it.
They don't want to waste a precious second.
They're able to save the rest of their ultimates
for the marathon.
This is now no longer a sprint.
Momentum needs to be held here to see if you can have
a better time bang for pointsy than Pulsar had.
So I'd love to see some initiative.
Team Pets are already in a position to do just that.
They'll have Frankie on the front lines,
but also because the daredevil from El Chapaglub
is disrespecting Frankie.
Using his batons to beat Freaky into his grave despite the shields being up.
And that's why the initiative there was important from Team Pebs.
You don't want to let Pulse or Pole the trigger on these ultimate, namely that Raging Oil Flush,
but team peps they have a lot in the bank but they need to get this galactic legend
into a position on the high ground so look for imlk for this large pulsar from this power
position for six to really unleash but the invisible boundary could be a new set
well this early gonna be combined with a these severe this and they that is forced to answer
this one despite losing pink the eternal bunch of lots of space effects to try and work with
on the bottom and now that the invisible boundaries brought up keep your eyes on six the second that
That one goes down, so he's gonna have an option to try and make it happen.
Poses us already down, Frankie Boxing drags on in by a strangling prison,
and Tree Man decided that you know what, we need to have an inverse fight here and now.
A huge Pick from El Chapagoob too, to shut down Six before he got a leash with that galactic legend.
We were keeping our eyes and his vision faded to black, and just love, of course,
the end song from Paul Sarge just to get kind of team peps on the edge of their
seats to make them feel like they had to fight instead of maybe just take some
cover as now team peps again no invisible boundaries just stop someone
like six and he's got some royal flush with them.
Okay, six should be decimated everyone right now. There's no real shields to make it happen.
Pink's fighting the final blow. Of course this engagement is giving over so much
space. I would love to get legend on the way out. That would give him even more time waiting for
second strategist to respawn.
I am okay and Pinker is syncing up so well and
able to focus down these targets before they can replenish and get back to their strategist
but the job's not done and we're not knowing there's a flanker back here.
Guys, he's caught wallhack for a reason and Team Peps may just think about taking a 65
fight before that flank really develops but Team Peps needs to make a decision fast.
Okay, coming in from the back.
Dolks and floats above it all up to some artists have instantly gone all of the strategists have evaporated under the pressure that Pink brings to this one.
Tree Man can't deal with the double batons, the billy clubs, the bully clubs, it's bullying for certain, it's just a little floor colossus, you can't deal with all this damage.
And it has to be legends coming back quickly with the portal. Someone else has to swap over onto a strategist here, maybe you can try and make it happen but no, instead they just reset the other way.
Strong time bank going into the final push as well and team peps can pick off with the eternal bind
Which really lays down the path to victory and poll star need to find a way to stop it
Of course the raging royal flush has been a guaranteed fight for poll star every single time and lapses a waste in time
And no time wasted right here instantly into war the back line here comes the Phoenix
But it's a little bit shallow as to how can everyone hide inside for now.
Frankie Boxing is going to be the only one to fall, but the rest of the team has to back off.
And now Polcer can set up on this choke.
And a spawn camp here is very possible when you're able to have a group that can wall people off
and even strangling prison.
But Baby Bat just needs to not get caught by that.
But that eternal bond is not going to be effective when you're the raging royal flush and proto.
Maybe once again, great grab on for six, but with damages too much,
too much, the three man can't sustain through the extra damage that's given on over, it's
the righteous cross after the righteous cross, he's so mobile, he's so difficult to dissuade
from this one.
And the entire time, Kisarush stopped the cart from moving forwards, nobody would ever
fight.
Good communication from Peps on these raging royal flushes, they break out a spawn and
they make things swift, and they have more wind conditions in tow, and again that internal
bond plus the galactic legend you don't have a strangling prison that you have to worry about
you just need to command the squeeze that you have this is the this is for the win
right here legend upper bar unable to convert here on to baby back keeps herself alive for now
i'm all for bruce of the optimal target here seems like it's the only one that six can find he goes
too far caught by a score bomb and six has gone too far as well what a poor coming through from
legend midway is through that spin there was no way to try and cancel that one out and team pepsons
was overextended and punished.
That tree said you're trapped in here with me, bud, and that is a great way to deal with
a melee brawler like the Daredevil.
The hesitation from BabyBad on how to really carve out that path when there's so many group
walls in your way, but surely this will be the fight to rule them all only a minute left
though and this is still anyone's game.
Shabby, an attempt at a mugging, but it's just gonna let the devil out in response,
finding all who are near.
save him baby that's also there when you shall remain safe counters coming on in
everything is going to be deployed Frankie boxing above it all finds the
legend stops the alt the healing is all gone with Sapata can tree man down now
it's desperation to post up I think they're all out of options we don't
have anyone who's gonna be up in time to try and get there quick contest
lapses until us has an ultimate ready to go and might have used it just to get the
additional movements we'd ever towards the point it's a race for a contest with
three man moving through but they can't make it in time and team peps sweep the series peps
is coordinating so well in those ultimates near the end the eternal bonnigan the invisible boundary
but it's the teamwork that makes the dream work especially where that that box of victory that
finish line was for team peps force uh post-sarring position uncomfortable position
the closer you are, the more you are in reach to something like a Daredevil, which El Chapago vs Pink, I could watch that 1v1 all day, but only one stood out, and I would say Pink was, at least in terms of the final hits, the damage shell is a different story, but Pink, how he calculated with IMLP, is what decided a lot of these fights in the neutral.
Yeah, it definitely felt like Pink and I am okay, we're a dynamic duo when it came to those dives.
Obviously, T-Lesson and Zillage, they were consistently under assault lapses, more than over 10 casualties.
We can bring Vaude back in here to see how he felt about that series, and we certainly are going to have plenty to talk about.
Yeah, there is so much to yap about with this one, specifically Legday.
I mean, the big difference, I would say, between these two teams in this final map was having the one-sided Star Lord.
That is just, you can't allow it to happen, especially when there's a gambit on the field available to Team Peps.
And Team Peps seemed to just have the composition locked down, so congrats to them for getting their first win, of course, keeping the dream alive,
for making it in to that group stage.
And unfortunately, for a Pulse start talking about that, they won't be making it into the group stage.
Them going 0-4 now, cements them to be it towards the bottom two in the standings.
They can still kind of play spoiler in their last series, but talking more about this matchup, I mean, six looked amazing.
amazing. Pink, we got to talk about the flexibility of this player, like having the Daredevil and
the Phoenix on lock that we saw from the last map into this one. How many players can say that they
can do that? Yeah, I agree. And even the Forge was the secret MVP in that first map. Like, I was
surprised. I think it was the one that was like that ultimate carry because a lot of times it was
six that you invest all these openings into. And I think on the other side, there was a lot of
focusing to trying to become six from really developing,
whether it's shutting them down before the Galactic Division, or whatever it was,
Pete literally showed up on the Daredevil play.
Yeah, the Daredevil play definitely making a huge difference here,
but of course it's a full team effort that we saw from the squad,
and both the duelists, the back line,
keeping them sustained through all of the damage that was being dealt out by Pulsar.
And Pulsar, to their credit, they were putting some good pressure against Team Pepsi,
almost went all the way to that final point.
Unfortunately, like they could not secure it there at the end.
Yeah, not being able to make it happen at the end.
I think that pink being able to play on the dead level is well
allowed for a much greater flight planning because, you know,
the chabagoo is always going to be lurking like upon a wall or behind.
So maybe behind some crates somewhere under a cardboard box, perhaps,
if you want to emulate a different game and having that perfect information
about where chabagoo is going to be coming from.
I think was a huge boon for team peps and how they started to plan all of these fights.
And I think in the end, better planning and economy
is what allowed them to make it all the way towards the end.
Even while losing some pretty critical fights,
like losing control of the Times Square Station,
midway through, I was like, okay, they might be cooked here.
This is a very difficult area to siege.
But maybe that makes some great choices
with the eternal bond.
But I think we're crucial for being able to claim space.
She was really making sure that that ultimate
was always getting value.
As well as calling for good heal from Frankie.
We saw a bubble from Frankie onto BabyBat, completely no server,
TreeMan Ultimate, who was hoping to just drag BabyBat out of her old AOE
and cancel that in the moment while she's rooted outside of it.
But great notification.
Yeah. And BabyBat just also taking the time to not feel rushed
with those eternal bonds towards the end.
And they had the time, they had, what, three minutes for that final,
that final point. So that was really great.
But just to point out that Team Peps also kind of made some
compositional changes and not in terms of food but more of the player that was
actually on the hero because a lot of the times it was six that usually plays the
Phoenix, the Star-Lord with the Gambit and things like that but today was more of
pink stepping up being on the Daredevil even playing some of the Star-Lord
himself. All the six ended up on the Star-Lord here today. It was cool to just
kind of see how they were working around the sometimes limited hero pools and how
they're able to bring their strengths on the split. I think that's a great thing
about this pre-season right. It gives teams time to find their strengths, figure out their
rhythm throughout the pre-season, and then going into stage one. It will be a little
bit different of course to remind everyone they'll be on the next patch, so they'll be
two different heroes that will have the new map, but aside from that you can kind of figure
out the synergy between your team members, and that's the big thing for these players.
Kind of similar to the evitational that we had earlier on, and now we get to see the
actual pre-season action leading into that first stage that'll happen in May, but Pulsar
Again, even though they're out of the running for the playoffs,
they still have one more match to go for them.
So something to look forward to for them to learn from,
take that experience.
The playing gets Navi and that one tomorrow.
So best of luck to them in that series.
But I feel like they've continued to look a little stronger
and stronger here like that.
Yeah, like, I think Team Pebs are at least looking great.
My understanding right here, Team Pebs,
I'm actually newly enthused about this team.
Like, there was a spark of hope when, against Na'Vi, they had a very good Celestial Haas.
Uh, I- I- Like, Polsar, we saw them take that map off of Altar and Slaman earlier, but I think that, uh, that may have been more down to Altar having some jitters.
Uh, Team Peps, uh, like, I was very happy with everything I saw today.
I think that it was actually very well managed in terms of the gameplay.
And then we got something to Frankie about how that happened.
That's true. Welcome in, Frankie. The Angela Goats.
And that's actually what I'm going to ask you about.
Some teams, it seems like struggle to face off against you in disguise.
How do you keep it locked down as well as you did on Celestial Husk?
Oh, I really just try to protect my team.
Like, I'm just flying around, being annoying.
And if I hear my support's being dived, I, like, try to go ahead,
press my E and just help them out, you know?
Marking the DT also, like, oh my god, first map I was marking the DT per mark.
That's all I got to do.
That's the way to go.
Yeah, that was an awesome excellent marking.
A second map of Celestial House didn't go quite so well.
What adjustments did you make between the second and the third map, to have you so dominant
coming back on the next one?
Oh, I mean, matter of fact, it's like I just don't think the torch comp was really viable in the second round there.
Like, we just couldn't play the triple support with all drones away.
We weren't really sure at the time what we should play, so we kind of just were a little bit, you know, everywhere with it.
But we just locked in back on the off-junk comp for the third map, and, yeah, we got it.
Yeah, you did and it was so fun to watch you on Angela.
I'm so curious about the work that you've done to expand your hero pool and where is
your confidence at with things that are not Angela because I know you guys got domination
on Locke if you're on Angela, but how do you feel on other heroes these days?
Oh, I mean, I just really like my shield tanks.
I don't know.
Like I just like to be there for it to help the team, you know, just to be a support to
Yeah, I mean, with other bad characters, I'd say in Noko, I don't really want to play other bad characters in Angela. I just want my Angela. I love her. I had so much fun on her. My grabs, they're so satisfying.
Oh yeah, now she's a really fun here to play, like these essence charges, amazing for that, and you're so proficient with those as well. Looking ahead though, now that you've got your teams, first win in the running now for the playoffs and looking towards those other bad characters.
looking towards those last two series that you play.
Shiki Gami, and then afterwards you're playing Alter E-Sports.
What's the prep look like for you guys?
Do you kind of reverse sweep your group stage
and make that moment yours?
I mean, I just, I trust my team.
I trust that we're gonna just play to our strengths.
We go ahead and think about other teams that much.
We just do what we do, and I think it's gonna work out.
We're working out pretty well so far.
Well, thank you, Frankie Boxing, for joining us.
We're not going to take up too much more of your time.
We'll see you on the flip side tomorrow.
Thank you, thank you.
That was the Angela Goat himself, Frankie Boxing.
And I respect it.
It's so fun to have that aerial superiority
against the other team.
I'm a Vanguard main myself, so it's a lot of fun
and really proficient on it.
exactly what we see on Celestial Husk every time so I don't know maybe we need to see some uh some
bands or something like that but uh Lemon I mean they have a lot of potential for their last series
that are coming up this weekend yeah and these next matches that they have are super winnable
whether it gets alter or shakigami I think the shiki one is going to be the toughest one you
know Frankie doesn't need to die when he's got imlk on the bed so I love that this team has a lot
a lot of trust in each other, because that's what's going to survive at the end of the day.
Well, we do have more matches to go after this one.
The next one on the docket is the Battle of VP names.
A vision versus a Virtus.Pro.
You don't want to miss it.
Two undefeated teams after this.
I remember the dusk, the lights have been tightly chopping all those fighting souls, buddy
Across the world I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
When the sun and moon and time wandered
Seven and one is a ten and we were cramped
Night has fallen, shadows moving and heaps
Death has come for me to secure out
We all extend our word, last reunion break
The chance has gotten to where you come from with me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
Only waiting for you
Play the game again, the angels rise, we think of the essence smashed in those wild holes
Before the risk turns again, we are level to the end
I think my mind's all mine, hold onto your powers now
It can't stop us, we are rival to the end of time
Play the flash, you're wild aware, we'll fight, fishing across time's face
To the world of mine
There's an edge in the air
You see the dawn, the flame, burning brightly
Shining one nose, then the breeze, and the earth
Across our time, I see you turning the sides
And do you see now? Our time, our time, we can still fight
Like the winds in fire and wonder no more
Then you'll always be on a tunnel
Oh, it is mine
Light has fallen
Darkness frozen
Yes, we wait for our destiny
And may new days run in for the past
The future
Strangles change the equal length
But it's my fate
And when you wake up
I find your cross
Wraithing up your chest and smash in the soil
And pull your wrist but turns again
Yeah, the arrival's still the end
Why is that?
I've made your mind to hold onto your powers now
It's our fault
We are right, don't stop yet
Until the end of time
I know the meaning
Show me that you're more silly
Only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for you
Wait a minute
Your hands will deny
Do you cry looking for you?
Can you feel it?
The sparks in you
Headed up
Unleash it
Letting it go
I'll hold back your pride
This is not a change or a time-lapse
For the rift, winter's yet to come
We are rivals to the end, and the ice and
The sands of minds hold onto your powers
No one can stop us
We are rivals to the end
And the sands
I
Clear the way!
Feel the pull!
Disappear!
I
We've had two battles of the first letter names because we had RAD vs. Reason, we had
Peps vs. Fulsar, and now it's our third one, Virtus.Pro vs. Vision Esport.
But both these teams looking to secure their spot in the playoffs.
We have, of course, the current reigning world champions in Virtus.Pro facing off against
the new kids on the block in Vision Esport.
I mean, what can we expect from this vision team who's also been undefeated so far?
Well, vision have shown so much creativity and so much versatility, especially in the strategist line.
And they also are a team that play more rocket than the average team.
So that's fun. They've destroyed a baby short. They have explored different lines of whether
it's the atom and even a double or triple strategist line. So it's really cool to see
what compositions vision come out with. They also prioritize protecting the Elsa as much
as they can for someone like Xerx who has really impressed me on the dualists and not
even showing favoritism to something like Loki which feels like every team plays Loki
if they can.
So I think this team vision has surprised a lot of people based on the results they had
in the game.
That is the case, but they've relatively had an easier schedule some could say compared
to the rest.
Now they're going to the Gatlin.
They're facing off against the World Champion to your leg day.
I mean, there's so much to expect from this Virtus.Pro team, but it feels like this meta
What was purpose built for them almost?
I mean like we've seen a lot of Daredevil, a good hit scan is everything and the Swarovski
I'm aware Spark is still number one in the world baby, the Grand Finals MVP yet to really
be topped when it comes to being a top tier dual list iron.
Like you said Virtus Pro, they're silver champs, they haven't really made any changes in the
off season, they hibernated for a while, didn't play in any officials, didn't play in any
of the tournaments.
Look at the vacation.
like they managed like the worker burn out, you know, you're like, okay, we want it all.
We don't need to prove ourselves right now. We're just we're going to hibernate like bears
and then we'll awaken in the spring ready to hunt anew. Yeah, and they actually had some close
matches last week. If I dare to say there was a round up between them and reason gaming on hell's
heaven domination where's 199 and that could have really gone the distance. But like you said,
vacation or not, they did not sleep. They have been on the grind and they got coach Eqo who was
just a veteran like the rest of the old heads on this team and you have that kind of player
perspective that can really elevate Bergus Bro and they've been all friends for so many years
beyond even Marvel Rivals that you can't deny the chemistry this team has to. Definitely the longest
standing roster in Marvel Rivals esports history and continuing to go that way. If it ain't broke
you don't need to fix it and that's what the motto seems to be for this Virtus Pro team,
but looking on the other side of things, Vision Esport, again, they had some players that came
from groundfall, they became the Lions in MRC and then were picked up post-HACE into the
guest slot that they earned themselves for Vision Esport and now they're trying to show the world
that they are a team to not be underestimated and even on the prediction side of things,
we saw I think it was somewhere around like 20% of people were thinking they had potential to be
the top of their group and it proves everyone right so far, I mean 2-0 to start things off.
A little bit of a struggle against Crownfall, but they are going up against the behemoths
that are Virtus Pro rocking the jerseys and all the swagger that you could expect from the world
at Champions here. Like Day, this is a team that's yet to see really struggle too much in any of
these maps. Yeah, like I had my spark of glaze ready, but honestly I said spark is the best
the best player in the world.
Cypher. For my money might be
the best player in the world.
Cypher is kind of unparalleled
when it comes to experimentation
with new strategist and
expecting big things from
potentially a white fox play
here as Cypher is a brought
likely the one to pick that up
on this roster, and I'd love to
see them get a little bit more
experimental number playing on
the hot things with her buffs.
Yeah, not even playing the white
fox with a venom like they
So it's VP are so ban proof because they could literally play anything from 3-3 to 3-1-2 to 2-1-3 like all the numbers
But vision I've really surprised us at least for me, especially with that win over crownfall
They definitely are climbing in the power rankings and I look towards Gainer as a dead pool player in my opinion
At least the ban pool because he puts out just as much damage as a duelist if not more
So my eyes are on Gainer for this match.
Gainer, definitely the sneak pickup for this team.
And I think a big question mark that a lot of people had going into the Ignite preseason
was how team vision would build themselves back up after we saw them have to say goodbye
to three of their players due to the age limits for Ignite.
So they've still rebuilt around this roster, looked really solid and are saying they're
getting prepared for future stages based on that as well.
But Cracow, we go to just kick things off again.
This is kind of a fan favorite for a lot of people on domination.
So both these teams have plenty of experience on it.
But in terms of composition here, leg day,
what are you expecting to see the most
from this versus for a roster?
Anything.
Next question.
Yeah, see, I respect it.
That's the real thing.
This is the most flexible roster in the world.
The answer is anything.
You can't ban them move along.
Exactly.
Also, just the silo from Satam is, I think,
one of the better ones we see.
Xerx is on my eyes as a potential future top
bluelist. If you could really have a team come come together around him.
And Batr plays a lot of Angela on a Krakowa domination and we just saw how
impactful Frankie was in his series. So look out for Batr on this Angela because
it's such a good anchor and it's such a good nuisance. And if he can cause
somehow chaos in the BP bank then it could be a real chance.
But we'll see which of these teams will rise to the challenge and join a rad e-sport at 3-0 in it to the playoff berth
Will it be our world champions vs pro with the up and comers team vision we'll find out now
All right heading into domination as always neutral ground random choice
None of the teams have been able to pick this map
But we are going to get stuck into our fans really soon and the question is are berth's prime vision e-sport
Once again going straight down the classic world of farming now
Now, Elsa, who are they going to be prioritizing the gambits?
And after that, we're going to see more Manchester shenanigans.
It seems like in the off time, a lot of teams have really
started buying those Manchester stocks.
That too.
And like I mentioned earlier, this team vision
like a lot of rockets.
So VP can't just lay low once they get that first pick.
You may want to have to chase where that res beacon is going
to be.
And Rex has been a huge proponent
into extending these fights as a rocket player.
usually combined with a Jeff when it comes to Kokoa. That was the consistent
trap line that Vision liked. And Satam really likes his style arc. So do BP
consider these pretty consistent picks from Vision? Or even are they
friendly at all by what they pick? Alright once again we're gonna see
Elsa versus Gambit here. It seems like thus far in the small
dentists that we have, the Gambit teams tend to win out this matchup.
Virtus Pro is a different beast entirely.
I'm going to process a Loki ban here to make sure there's no double Raging Royal flush,
which would just be too many Gambit Ultimates to try and deal with,
but Gambit Ult has had a couple of really substantial nerfs,
including the duration in Season 7, which has made it a little bit easier to deal with.
You're letting...
You're letting Sparkar on Elsa?
Oh, yeah.
Uh-oh!
And it's not like you could just it's all like you could just say hey batter go tackle
The Elsa like you're just gonna get blown up and gainer on the deadpool
That's gonna be a pretty important one on the other side
And I don't know how that's gonna fare against an Elsa because there's only a one sturdy bubble that you have for deadpool
Okay, getting rid of that pop to your combo as well as the rage immoral flush and the starlords galactic legend
We are going to see Van Paul on both sides as well.
And we know that both Nebix and Finci can play that one
and remove the invisible woman as well.
There's a lot of constraint on the Vanguard here for Virtus
Pro, but I'd love to see Cypher bring out this white fox.
And over these been streaming a good amount of it
and getting the hours in.
And if Trijo wants to team up on the Luna Snow
and get that extra, like, Fox Spectral Surge team up going,
that would make it incredibly difficult
to dive on this back line.
Brex on the Gambit is gonna be a good time. Usually it's combined though with that Rogue from Gainer
But that was removed so Vision are just gonna have to alter their composition a little bit
But will they pay the ultimate price though of letting Sparker on the Elsa?
All stype able show is just how strong the White Fox is in that in this new
Hatch and Treacher on the Jeph. Just to speed everybody probably out of spawn
but nevix has been a relentless venom while vision I wouldn't say play a whole lot of venom may be
gainer and batter trade-off on those roles but it's not going to be what they're leaning on today.
Well my source may be that I made it up and I saw it in a dream but I think vision e-sports
is one of our youngest teams here as well as merters pro is by far the oldest it's definitely
a new generation of e-sports competitors going up against the seasoned veterans of merters pro.
And we're out the gates, he's gonna be a good match with the triple strat here from Vision.
I look forward Xerx to have his best day ever and you're gonna have to peek against the
world champions here of Virtus.Fro, but already a fourth position here for Virtus.Fro as they
lead the charge.
Synergox Anakin buys a lot of space in, goes to run and dive, and here comes 5 of the skin engagement here.
A quick movement forward with the Sonic pursuit is all that you need.
And well, look at that, just so much space taken away by this pro.
Move as a unit with a single off angle.
And over on multiple survivors here from Mission Esport, they're lacking one of their players,
and re-communicating with them is going to be quite difficult.
We do get to double off the joyful splash, by the way.
Quite the stream from the Frenchman, thanks to drowning away vision.
And Dredro sticks with the Jaff where when the fight is so clumped like that you're getting piercing damage, piercing heals, and I don't think we really see Dredro on this, usually on the Mantis, but that's been banned out and you just saw how impactful this is going to be when you can also toss people off the map.
So a lot of eyes are on batter on how to you're gonna try and prevent this with mag bubbles
But hurt us probably twice with such confidence and vision need to bring their mentals in check
This you have to look at VP as a beatable team, or you're just gonna go in losing
Crucially now sparker has full stacks of hunters instinct
So it's gonna be incredibly mobile that shorter cooldown on the dash
berserk's a plenty of force behind them
And you barely see these health pools from Virtus Pro drop because of the important team
up between Jeff, Venom and Deadpool, so this was something that Vision needed to try and
break apart, but they have the Deadpool as well, but a very different strat line, the
condition of the Gambit, uh,
Warp Raging Royal Flush is what you're leaning on.
Rex needs to bring a fight win here for Vision Eastworld.
I was certainly a lot of sparks there,
getting searching rather close to the Ultimate,
but who goes as to a basic right now?
It does have double team ups as well, being dimensionless,
roadblocks, embers, symbiotes, shenanigans.
I think that you do have a lot of, uh,
all my buttons on the jet.
Good goes your way from the incoming Ultimate,
and the other answer out there,
weird as the Gambit, can we eat any of these players?
layers is the question. Zerk stands above it all, but might most run out of the duration
of the extra damage before it comes on down legs. In a dangerous position, a little bit
of damage is all about touching the back. The Apex Predator drags them from the invisible
boundary and the protection is forfeits here, as vision e-sport despite their massive investment
can't turn it from Virtus.Dro.
100's is zero. Let them fight back. And the Apex Predator which drags vision out of their
invisible boundary. I mean, that is a tough one for QB to try and salvage, but
Virtus Pro, I mean, they have such strong team-ups, they have strong coordination,
and the only chance is to kind of take advantage of this white fox, but I mean
Sypey is buffed as ever. Man, 3 draws buffed as ever. That's a big head right there. Oh my god.
But, Virtus Pro are proving why they're the world champion.
Really in the big head lobby right now, and 3 draws team-ups are getting so much more
values than even before, given that we are in the global ult generation nerf and when
you don't have as many access, if we don't have as much access to our trash, it's just
awesome, it's a great sustain. You really are getting so much value from having these
kind of pseudo-ultimates off the team-ups, having this huge amount of healing on tap
from both the international playbooks and especially the short cooldown of the symbiotic
shenanigans.
3, 2, 1.
The Angela from Bouter, I'm really stoked about this to see who they can pull out of her to
throw into a fight they may not be ready for and how Gainer can use these bubbles to maybe
split off some of the resources, but Saipan can just get involved in the action and teleport
and try to guard everybody and search from the Bucky we don't get to see that every day.
It's nerf and it's not as strong as other duelists, but the pull and the neutrals are
so strong.
Oh, the devil on leash just means so much damage and spark is there to the second coming.
Look at this, even with the attempt to try and take someone off the match,
that's I'm gonna stand alone. The guns will find them eventually,
and Timsy can't quite get the selfie despite the perfect tracking on the course.
There's a lot of macho manipulation right from the vision side.
When you have a Bucky pull, you have a shove from the Angela,
but Virtus Pro, they just bring the party to you.
They're happy to approach you and to just beat you to your grave
with the daredevil. I think that's why Fai is flexed so well around sparkler's hero pool,
namely just give him the elsa and make him look good. But Fai also is impactful on this
team, whether it's to be the third strategist, to be the daredevil, to be the triple vanguard,
Fai can play any role and that's why vertus frau are so band proof and they got really
good team ups for this. So this is going to be an uphill battle for vision.
Oh, it's a brave person around here, but so am I, she's just on top of it all.
And it's time to try and pocket the Invisalum and through this, using the rage roll.
Seems to work out for now, but Sata just-
Oh, the troopers went directly into the- into the smoke theme and trap!
Oh, poor Zerik.
Nothing's going right for Vision Esqualt right now.
They actually dropped the Gambit as well.
I don't like that, because it's such a good win condition,
and Vision can't afford to reset their old charge too,
because it feels like they're already at the end of the road.
You have no safe island to sit on because those throw a W as soon as they see you.
Okay, skill issue, given over, too sparky, this guy has very few skill issues, don't move
him into the black one yet again. Guess who's in danger? The cellular corrosion does a bunch of
damage and Fincy just float over into the fight. That's quite the ultimate coming through there
through through, so you know what Fincy, don't worry bro, I've got your mobility on lock, go get him King.
Yeah, who cares about Hulk throwing Wolverine or whatever team up there is when the Jeff
can just throw you into the fight.
This is a new level of aggression that VP have brought to this.
Seconds away from making this a 200 to 0 domination.
Vision!
You gotta claw your way back!
Wake up honey, you dying, Jim Stroll.
Set down, waiting at the back, the imperative practice is going to give over quite a bit
of additional damage.
All they did to grab all nevix, this could be something
That's a big hook coming, falling good, shut down all the ability as well
But I ain't gonna deal with a second wave of fire coming round the back
Looses too much health, and so I have to back off for the moment
The vision's getting to the end, the effect of all points right here
Rex uses the soul resurgence, and this is like a skill issue
He's given her a convincing look, we definitely won't want to hear you right now
Cypher unleashes the kumiho, but 900 HP doesn't last long
Against the continuous damage bought out by vision
Still in the back pocket, we have the ultimate from Rex
A bio-combo they might be all that's necessary, as it seems like they're probably gonna cedar over the point.
I'm just engaged for now.
Wow, I didn't think it was possible to win a fight against VP, but they shouldn't have done it.
Xerx has done it. To pull that venom before the escape, after the passive has been chunked through,
look at Xerx to have again another impact. When you can defend the point and then look for hooks,
you get to decide when VP are going to fight rather than the other way around,
But of course Apex Predator has always been a banger for Sparker, and despite the straddle to miss, I don't know if they can stop it.
this point to once again be equipped with the favorite furthest pro, but it's getting worse and worse as Nevix and Fincy moving towards the back.
The gold vanguard vibe is just too easy to try and fuck through, even if you've got a sharpest knife in your hands, sparkless, quite the incising tool when it comes to getting rid of metal fleshing, metal bones.
Baters the next one to fall on down, fire makes an attempt to try and make something happen on the Spider-Man, and a quick eat on some of the portal casting.
Dr. Strange means Vision eSports, a kick from the map.
It's so tough for Winter Soldier 2 from Xerx, is that because of the team-up from Jeff with
Venom and Deadpool, you have so much share of dealing, it's so hard to get these helpers
even blowing up to get executed from the Kraken impact.
But I did like the neutral game from Vision.
There was some inkling, some good ideas of execution to pull this nevix, Venom, to try
and punish him on his escapes, but that was only one death and what a total of five deaths
or make it four actually from the VP side, so incredible resilience and doing it with
what mostly two strategists, not even needing three I believe for VP, but Vision did their
best and were able to actually take a fight and not get 200-0, but it took a whole lot
of effort.
I think we can all agree, uh, five going 22 and two, uh, 50% of the team's casualties, uh,
bro is definitely getting kicked and replaced before safe one begins, uh, unacceptable performance.
Sparkle over 27 and zero looking like ducky out there. And well, if you're going to give the
best oldest in the world, uh, the best oldest hero in the world, things are going to fall apart
rather quickly. And while we did see these nods towards that mantis ultron composition,
which was able to get some interesting plays of a team like Rad in a match-up,
but maybe it wasn't quite so one-sided, didn't work out here against Virtus.pro.
They're classic, including bringing out the White Fox, who I think we only really saw one ult from,
as Saipet didn't really feel too much pressure to use it until they're in danger of losing the point.
The White Fox seemed to be doing fairly well in the neutral,
so they were able to cover these rotations rather well as well, so they gave him some great mapping from.
I can understand the wanting to go for the double damage moves with the Ultron and the
Mantis, just so that Xerx or just anybody for that matter could have enough burst to get
through the share of the Jett dealing and whatever else, the sustain from PP was next
level.
But like I pointed out also, here is a huge performance of damage as the dead pool came
out with a second most amount of damage on his team, had a nice double kill to help Vision
retake at least one of these fights, so there's definitely some flashes of blinks from the vision
side, but it's hard to beat perfection. And now that we go over the replays, I hope we get to see
what the almost the team grab on the Apex Predators and spark what is riding with all the
being visible boundary on that first round. Now that has fallen. Yeah, I mean it was just so
smart to be all that, but you know what, I don't want to deal with this one, so I think it's very
accurate as well with those, with most of the box primary fires, you could see the switchlights be
great by right here and uh I don't know if QB got up to another one, I don't know if there was a
side view in that fiber, I didn't see because it's inside the invisible boundary, in fact it managed
to take out the invisible boundary cast then after all the other damage was being done, so great
target focus there from Bernstrasse and Lethal. And holding the invisible boundary, it's doing its job
but you just cannot let Slaughter have the Elsa or it gets over and depending on where
Vision want to go to next, the series could be over very soon.
I
moment for domination on Krakowa but it was nice to see a little bit more
resistance towards the latter half of that second point there, Levin. Yeah, I
think the choice of the Bucky was a nice neutral fight addition to try and maybe
have that extra punish against the Venom which we saw a glimpse of a one death
for all Devics there because of that but Zerz really struggled to have impact on
the Kraken impact when the health pools were just so strong or so healthy I
I should say because of the Jeth, Deadpool, and Venom team up that they had, so it's hard
to pinpoint a weakness in that VP, and that's why the Krakken impact is a lot.
I mean, Legday, we tried seeing it where there's a scenario that Virtus.pro were just getting
targeted with all the strategies banned from Vision, and it just seemed like that wasn't
enough for you to now aura Farmless as well.
Yeah, I didn't mean to hate you with me.
with me old hand rail gun, but uh, unfortunately here we are and consider yourself mug losers.
I mean, VP are looking as strong as ever, right? Like Lemons actually sport on that the uh,
the Kraken Impact really was effectively counted. Like when you have to get under a certain HP
threshold to be like executed by the by the culling of the Kraken Impact, you deal with that super
well by just adding additional health on top of that. Like the sustainability that Draco was able
able to bring via that symbolic stand against Teamup really meant that while there was this
attempt to ban out a lot of side pays here, we did a bit of a gambit-loaking in this and
the Ultron as well, which usually seemed to be the five you'd want to pick up, um, you
just left your, you like to rejuvenate what he wants really, and double Teamups for Rijo,
letting the French powerhouse get even richer, like, capitalism just isn't working, bro.
Well, when you're done mocking us, we can talk about how suffocating too, like the attack
VP was like you're on the edge of the map if you're visioned and you're still getting dove on there
Just really wasn't a safe place to ever stay and if you ever tried to take a flight in a lane and apex predator
Was running you down like a bulldozer, so it was tough to even choose where to take the fight if you were vision
It is a tough spot to be and if you are vision
But their counter map will see if that is going to be enough to change the game for them again going on to something that
VP might not have played as much recently especially because it is a back into the map pool itself
We might see a little bit of some Shin Shibuya action coming here momentary
And that's exactly where they are going to I'm loving that we're seeing so many teams flex to this as their counter pick so far lemon
Yeah, they have a the second time that making this the only map loss
They had was the crown fall and then they ended the series on Shin Shibuya and they had a really strong attack
They full-capped with 36 seconds left. They went towards the double strat, interestingly enough, with Adam in jeff,
of course, then bringing the jeff and the rocket later on, but Satam had this insane MVP performance on their double.
Xerx was allowed to play Elsa, so maybe that was the big problem, or the big solution for them, but that also would like to play Venom there.
Well, we'll have to see what this vision team can do on this counter pick as well.
Virtus Pro doing everything that they can on this matchup to just quickly speed through
and secure their top seed yet again.
They unfortunately lost number one seed because they played less matches.
Interrat did going into this one, so they're looking to go back on top, the undefeated
not drop a single map, and if they could keep the streak going here, Lemon, they'll be able
to do just that. Yeah, I think this could be a really good point for vision as they have experience
on this map. Maybe a lot of teams have been putting attention into Shin Shibuya. Now that
it's back in the map pool, you're not expecting too many teams to pick it. Just because that first
choke point for that point fight is so difficult to get through. Very defensive sided initially.
So we'll see who side picked what and we could also determine the early winery.
Yeah, like it does look like we do have Virtus.pro on the defensive side of the time.
I mean, I highly agree that I think that Shinchugu is a great pocket pick for a team that is going to be like maybe a little bit lower in terms of the overall power level.
The only problem is, since we picked up on earlier, Virtus.pro is the oldest team in this game.
They are one of the only teams that has actually won tournaments where this map was hard to be honest.
Like back in the dawn of legends days for the old people like me, who need staylifts to get up to the second floor of their home, it was just Yggdrasil Path and it was Shin Shibuya and it was Virtus Pro winning it all.
Yeah, they are the ones who wrote the tomes that everyone else is quoting for strategies on this map.
So maybe in terms of heroes that could be the difference that Vision Esport tried to take out against them because it's a little bit of a different meta in that category.
Category but furnace pro again. They have all the experience to boot
They have all the compositions that they can go with whichever fans are against them
It doesn't matter because they are the undefeatable raid boss
They have just three health bars already for this one
But it seems the series is already here leg day and lemon cell. Let's get into it furnace pro
Look to secure the 3.0 record and stay undefeated
You know what, I checked it back, I mean, during the legends, the first one was actually Shmungus Bogustin, I believe.
And then Team Catz came along, which became Bogusti.
Sort of get the history right. Who are the youngins out there who are forgetting where we came from?
Well, VV feels like Eric Adelman was part of making history, thought of the future as well, to defend this point first.
Vision, if you can just get the point, Cat, that would be a win in my books, okay?
Because this is such a defensive-sided map initially.
And what will be the kind of prioritization that comes to be picked in the band?
Because you cannot be letting Elsa go through through BP,
but also you don't want Gambit through, so it's a pick your poison type of pick there.
Alright, and what poison shall be poured into the chalice this day is the question.
I wouldn't mind seeing vision once again ban that elsewhere away from spark as they did not do last time and well
It seems like we're going to be seeing the same again
Perhaps one-sided gambit in favor of vision here
Virtus Pro they're likely to try and take the rogue away again if it is going to be the one-sided gambit as you noted earlier
Gainer's road has been mightily impressive in a lot of the matches where we've seen it be able to have that team up and even in
The neutral as well. So trying to constrain gainer
but it'd be fair. Not that much of a constraint if he's able to play the Vanguard pool.
And it's Deadpool is what you make of it. The more mechanical you are, the faster you
can generate that ultimate, just like any other hero, but Gainer especially could get
even faster than the average human, which could really disable a whole strategist from
a fighter, really depending on whom she places it on. Hey, if you get even Sparkler to not
play the game for five seconds, you may have a chance at winning. So Gainer is Deadpool,
I wonder if that gets through because that would be a banned consideration for me if I'm VP
Yeah, that's definitely same thing needs to be kept on the mind
Once again, of course you see them to get protected. It's mandatory to get rid of Loki
No one wants to deal with two raging royal flushes least of all us in the casting move because that means okay
That's fight one and that's another fight one
And just trying to at least stop the support that is around the Elsa so no Ultrons no Mantis
No fun. No, it doesn't matter.
Sparker will still take down a whole team by himself.
And it also matters now where you're taking the fight.
Shin Shibuya has a lot of these tight lanes to fight her,
so expect the Apex Predator to be as strong as ever here for Sparker.
Alright, looks like we're going down the same path again.
I would be excited to see a vision eSport deep down out of the Jaffia,
knowing that they are likely to be against both team-ups, or even the Venom,
which was really causing problems, and there were a lot of high places
places from which to dive down on a venom here that could easily be a great way for
Nevix to mess with any potential engagements.
Visiony's got to take more time with this one, evidently.
Oh, but daredevil, that makes sense.
Why was doing git server on Krakowa?
We're worried about that team up that you just mentioned and just how VP had only four
deaths amongst all of them in the entirety of Krakowa.
So that is going to be something.
Maybe it's just a focus, a target, better angle, or maybe even more damage groups to
worry about.
But, in addition, they got an attack first, so they got to set the tone for this, whole
map.
Oh yeah, that's going to be quite a bit difficult, not to crack.
Virtus.
Pro, not a team that makes a huge amount of mistakes.
You could argue that's probably their biggest strength, that this is not a team that have
lost their strategy stults, that overextends too far.
usually tend to have a backup plan, even if potentially they get outdone in the neutral sometimes.
Virtus.Pro rarely are giving fights away for free off the back of the stakes.
Manta's Ultron available, that was something they tried to use in the past,
if you wanted to try and have a stronger poke phase, so that you have VP on the back foot,
you can try it around the corner, because it's so defensive-sided for this first point,
because of that first corner that tight line you have to get through and the defenders can also hide away and be out of vision
So up to vision to see if they can get vision on the back line here of the three once they enter
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Oh yeah, it's not even just the cool jersey on Deadpool, it's everything else, but VP are expecting a portal play, Gainer's trying to pick the right place in the social distancing from this backline, see if he'll be able to access someone like 5, but...
It's just so much value, not only is it, you have to forget that it's for Elsa too.
And now that portal is going to be on a long cooldown, so it's time for Plan B, and it's playing Front to Back,
or maybe just going back six feet under as how to get spotted.
Because VP, it's not just the mechanics, the versatility, the flexibility of different heroes,
it's their awareness of the map, so you're not going to be able to throw your Deadpool on an off angle or a flank,
but now VP noticed.
Full charge on the 16 here for Sparkler as well, you can see that this ship has been
done a bit.
About two seconds and Xerxes found that one out from, aren't they?
Back to the clips.
It'll be difficult for Vincenzo to try and stay on the map here, as they are going to
be in danger of being carried off by an assassin's charge, but Beta is dealt with rather swiftly.
You know what, Virtus Pro, they've been so focused on this outside battle that they
haven't actually lost their tick on the point, which is something that they can only do three
times before they accidentally lose the entire point.
You're right though, it could be just down to zoning and eventually if you dump enough ultimates into VP
they're going to have to take a seat eventually.
I just want to make sure that I can count VP's deaths on two hands and not just one, but Sparker is the hunter in this match.
That's shade demon. It does grab on for the ally, and that means no getting under the theoretical scene for Jeff to hide away.
I'm going to bring the Angela, I like that she'll be able to fly around, maybe try to
tackle someone like Sparkle forward, but Veefer is still very measured despite how good
they are, they're never going to really overextend, at least not yet, and Gainer is getting chased
around, that's a lot of space being created, Veefer needs to make the most of this.
I felt the most of this, I'll say much, and even more, with the maximum health and momentum
is higher, thanks to the symbiotic resilience, a great charm coming through as well, Zeris
This is one onto five. Gainer's been refined here by the battle we call Beacon.
So this is going to be an opening to try and play with.
Kara Fossilou sat down, but indeed he is lost on the way back home.
Out comes the Apex Predator.
Suzanne Garth, proud.
The extension of the stone by of the dashes is so much to try and contend with.
But Xertras has to flee into the buildings and they meet their fate at the hands of both Thie and Sparket.
In vision, like I've mentioned before, they do really like the roster.
They like to have that one pick forgiveness.
And that almost could have tilted the scales in their favor.
They picked off five, vision had all six.
The issue is that you had a big old Apex Predator
kidnapping everyone and lining up the pins
for Virtus.
Brought to go for a full strike.
And only one ult has been forced.
There's five more to go for VP's in only less than a minute.
I think to put the scale issue into set down,
but it's not going to have too much time to really farm
that effective, because Sparks is already taking them all out.
Just play some health here, over here.
The plenty of HP to try and look on the other side.
because Wings set on the back end, doesn't want to risk eating anyone.
Instead, it's going to be Gerds moving in, five to be in danger.
Can't quite fly away in time, a dance on the butterfly gets the value.
Over into the white box form, the truth goes, Unleashed!
Nine tails box, trying to get through nine.
Now, I need to vision e-sport here as well.
Brought in place by the skewer of the Antler and attempt to let the devil out.
Sattons down again.
Vision e-sports have themselves an opening that heard us throw.
They're still holding strong on the point.
Not like that's where you're expecting.
the join for slash is not so full of joy for Xerx vision they dumped everything
but the kitchen sink into that point they got a second tick but with seconds
remain it has to be gainer to touch and vision need to full send but they don't
have really the ultimate of the ghouls
don't wanna say skid of play with, the damage was already down in the back the galactic
legend is true just too hard to get away from that it gets quick after quick with
the dark thick predations of the venom and vision in sport will walk away with
69% it was a nice attempt.
Ah, it's...
Oh, damn it.
Any tick at all is at least setting a win condition.
There is...
You're not playing for the draw, but you're playing to just survive and keep your heads
above water.
Rex will probably return on the rocket, so you'll have a little bit of forgiveness if
you get picked for the sponsor.
Still conservatively far away for the defense, so Vision cannot afford to lose anyone.
I did like the dance of the butterflies from Xerx to pop that from Heaven's length verticality-wise
and descend upon VP.
They were able to disengage at the back window and re-emerge.
Dredro has been so elusive as a jab, as he always is, but this is why the strat line
makes it so difficult to eliminate anyone.
I'd be surprised if we're at double digits for any elimination or any deaths here from
the VP side.
needed to maybe invest more into Sparker, who I think is probably setting a world record
of eliminations as a single Elsa player here. So I'm really impressed with Sparker does
and the consistency that he brings every single time.
I mean, vision is once again in this position where they like high priority at the Gambit,
right? High Friar Gambit Protect and then independent position where I don't actually
want to use the Gambit because even with double bayou bashes, he's too easy to hunt down
They're just so on it when it comes to these hunts with nevix and sparkler and fire coming in from all angles
You know watching for a moment
You can even just believe some of this pressure by soft diving the strats
It's a strats three drawers site paying up even force a teleport or a react to site be teleporting
This isn't this VP backline, but they're trying to take shelter
The engagement there that there was no way for Ganon to get out in that fight corridor a quick symbolic swing web
is not going to handle it. Finty mega isolated here due to a quick jet bubble speeding up the
assassin's charge but nevix is on top of the rocket racoon and guess what even with that
crazy crawl on the wall you cannot test the accuracy of nevix a world champion through and
through and verus pro continue to show that they are not slowing down from week to week they are
still number one. One, two, zero. Well, you blink and you miss it, but that is it.
They just speedrun out of that and the series is over, they claim it and they are still number
one in everyone's books and vision trying to stand as tall as they could, but there is no denying the
goat of Elsa players' sparker, but these stats is what I'm gonna be excited to see and how many
deaths they'd be even experienced. Ah this time only three, only three deaths.
Usual suspect fire, the leg day versus fire vendetta yet to go away.
But this was a very like, break up to a target band as well on the daredevil. Very intimidating,
but one sided daredevil didn't seem to work out in great view in the vision esport,
but to be fair this is a much younger newer roster compared to
Hello Champions, Virtus.Pro who show that they are just as dangerous as ever.
Also look at the DIRTH in damage between Sparker and anyone else.
More than double the next leading cause of damage.
Um, Ransou, disgusting, stinky, pick your word.
I have all the words, and Vision will maybe have an easier time.
No, not really.
They actually face Rattus their next match, and then Fire at the end, so, uh, all Vision
What you need to do is stay alive in this room.
It should be a good case for them with four teams left,
or four teams going to playoffs.
But Vod, hey, you're back so soon.
Yeah, I know.
I got a little shut-eye for a second there.
It's like, oh, the map's over already.
But no, I think the big thing to note here,
and we talked about the dominance of Virtus.
Pro is that Sparkler went 48-0 throughout both of the games
on the ELSA.
You need to ban this hero against them.
I guess I know the back line, the strategies line up is so strong from this team as well with Saipae and Dredro, but I just don't think you can allow the Elsa to be played by the best duelist in the game right now.
I don't know how you think about that one like that.
Yeah, you're exactly correct. If you're the best duelist in the game, you try to give them the best duelist hero in the game as well. It's a match made in heaven.
But that kind of speaks to the aura of the rest of Virtus Pro, right?
But like, we can't like, cyber have Gambit as you meant to?
Like, are you mad?
Like, there's just so much threat that comes from this squad that you're kind of in this,
you're in so few choices.
Cyber Gambit, Sparky Elsa, Cyber Gambit, Sparky Elsa, choose your poison.
Yeah, I think the biggest poison to VP might be rad when it comes to their group.
And guess what? It's the very last match that VP are going to experience.
He's against Rad.
And at least the silver lining for Rad is that there's going to be so much tape about VP.
So surely they're going to get the news and the memo to ban Elsa, right?
Oh, we'll see. We'll see.
I think that's the big thing.
Like we talked about this at the start of the series here specifically,
is that you really can't ban against Virtus Pro
because regardless of what you target, they're going to have something else
that they could play and that they just play better than anyone else in the scene.
So you got to figure out some sort of wacky strategy that might throw them off that they aren't used to playing against
But I feel like anything that is thrown their way
They are just in a movable wall that you cannot break past at least in group B so far
So they take back their number one seed of course not dropping a single map so far where we did it see Rad
It drop one earlier against some reason so they also
Secure their spot into the playoffs which we weren't really too surprised to see but I think on the other end of things though for vision
Unfortunately for them this didn't really show us as much as we would have wanted to right because of how good verse
Pro is and the difference between them and the other series that vision of played against
I mean terms of learning experiences here lemon
What can they really take from this kind of one-sided beatdown that we saw in this series?
I think they know where the ceiling is for the top of the teams
And I think they got tested and it's a mental game at the end to approach each match like this team is beatable
There is so much star power with Xerx and Tatum and how they're playing Sylocke, the
hair devil, and how they're coordinating with Gainer on these Venom dives, or whether it's
the Deadpool.
I think they have a really strong, talented team, and I could easily see Vision qualify.
I feel like we're, everyone's battling for the third and fourth spot when it comes to
Group B, and I could easily see Team Vision be part of that.
Oh man, I mean, I hope the best for them, for any team who has to face off against Virtus
pro on the reign of terror yet again I mean they were called the unbeatable the undefeatable during
stage one that we saw them I think it was what 26 and oh that they were at one point until we
actually saw rad the previous roster of that now not be the one to actually take something against
them but even then this first protein continues to flourish in at the group stage specifically so
lot to look out for them it looks like we're going to be having one of the interviews with
potentially Nevix on their side coming up in a little bit here from the side of Virtus.pro, so
interested to hear from them who usually get FinCy on their side too, so nice that they're
spreading the love around a little bit here like that. Yeah, we get to talk to the vanguards of
Virtus.pro a lot. This is definitely a very front-heavy team like both Nevix and FinCy have
massive hero pools, but they're consistently rewarded from meta to meta. There's no bad
matter for Virtus.Pro because these two are so flexible. And just a question to the class too,
we're seeing some Bucky flashes every now and then, whether it's Xerx in this series or others,
what's everyone's thoughts on Bucky being like a super counter to make it end on or just in general
in the middle? Yeah, I think a lot of people like to play the Bucky specifically into the Jeff
right, especially because his ult's really good shutdown for that specifically and just because
of the like again again again ability of it. If you only have so many limited ultimates,
It's if you can use one so often in the trajectory of Winter Soldiers all then it works that much better against some of these other heroes
But I think just getting the value with the kidnaps too is a big thing as well
Having that hook that you can use against the teams to dispossess
Them from the objective, but it sounds like we are getting our interview here now with nevix
I'm so excited to hear from them and what their thoughts are on everything. Welcome to the show nevix
Congrats on making playoffs and your undefeated run so far
How do you guys keep so consistent from stage to stage to stage into this new season?
Hello, okay. I think we we keep grinding everyone's rather best
Yeah, we've been together for so long. So we're so used to the game or structure and everything. We just keep rolling
Well, you guys showed off quite a bit of a white fox today from sci-fi
How are you feeling about how white fox is flooding into current meta, especially with the newest hot picks of us?
I think she's pretty strong right now, but she needs good matchups and today we played like a really broadly all-in call
So she really fits into that style
Yeah, and
We were just talking about the meta before you got in and I'm curious your thoughts on the Bucky that you face there from
Zergs and I know as a venom you don't like being pulled in when you're not ready
Do you think Bucky would be a suitable counter to the venom or what were your thoughts on how Zergs have approached it against you?
Personally, I'm also big fan of Bucky. I feel like he is supposed to kill the dive, but he's also like a really good dive for it compared to like some other DPS characters like Elsa and Stoll, or like they're way harder to lock down and punish, while Bucky is like, if he's in a bad spot, he just dies and can't get away.
I want to talk games again here as well. It seems like vision really wants to take the gambit out of your hands
Do you think there's something about your team that signal should be much better with gambit than with elsa?
It seems like leaving spark is also on the table is a somewhat foolhardy
Yeah, I suppose that's really good, but I think gamut brings a lot more like teamwork
So and our team is really solid like when we play gamut comes we're also really strong
I also play quite a bit of Rogue right now.
I think Rogue team up is also really strong in that comp.
So there's like a lot of different strategies they have to think about in the draft.
We're especially excited to, at least at the end of this group stage,
that you facing RAD, the other strong team in your group,
or maybe arguably the number two.
Do you consider RAD to be a threat or how do you think that match is going to go?
I definitely think they're the second best team in our group, so I'm hoping it's going
to be a good game and we'll play close against each other.
Well, final question here for you, Nevix, and it's been great to hear from you throughout
the competition as well into this interview.
Do you have any words for your upcoming opponents on the other side of the bracket?
They've kind of escaped the VP dominance that we've seen in Group B, so you have Navi,
I'm looking forward to playing Navi again. I think they're a really strong team right now, with the Terra. Added to the roster as well. And Heretic is also pretty good, so I'm really looking forward to face them.
Okay, I'd like to keep it cool, common collected. I love it. Thank you, Nevix, for joining us and go celebrate your win with the rest of your teammates. Thank you.
Thank you guys.
Well, we heard from one of the main vanguards on the side of a Virtus Pro right next to Fidze.
He looks so strong on the Venom as well, and gave us some insight to kind of the compositions that they were feeling a little bit more confident here on Lemon.
Yeah, a man of so little words, but so much to say when it comes to how suffocating his dive was.
And I like to hear his take on the Bucky, for example, as someone who could maybe make
Venom have a harder time as someone that can hook him before that escape, but also being
so vulnerable.
So we'll have to keep an eye on it.
There's a resurgence of the Winter Soldier in the meta to try and, instead of match the
Venom, try to counteract it.
Well, we are pretty much halfway through the show day to day.
We had Virtus Pro facing off against Vision there, but we have our marquee matchup of
the day up next. It's Team Na'Vi vs Team Heretics. The C is going to be the top of Group A after this.
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And remember the time, the nights we used to fight
When sun and moon and time wandered
If life wasn't time that we were proud
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Hey guys, my name is Ryan Central and I'm here to answer one specific question.
What's the meta?
And I would answer, I don't know, what's the meta with you?
and I will continue to use that joke until I'm about 90,
even though I look about 90 now.
But in all seriousness though,
I do want to talk about some of the data that we've seen
from that first week of action in EMEA
and America's in Ignite.
Bear in mind that the players played on a old patch.
It was the hot picks that came out on March the 19th.
So the white Fox buffs that we're about to see,
the Deadpool mobility and Elsa having less HP,
we are going to see that in action this upcoming week.
So stuff is a little bit different
And also, as the pros will say,
they're still working out the method themselves,
lots of stuff is gonna change,
and we're still building up the sample size,
which includes add in China and Pacific
to the action this week too.
But there is a very easy place to start.
Elsa versus Gambit,
which of these characters is the most powerful
in a competitive sense in coordinated play?
And the answer when it comes to presents,
how often we're seeing these characters,
is actually Elsa.
There's 68 maps played in America's and EMEA this last week,
And a hero could shot twice in a draft, right?
You can either protect a character
and then the other team protects them,
so you can both play them, you can both ban them,
or you can have one team protect it and then ban it
to make sure that they can play something like Elsa
and the other team cannot.
So it can shot twice, Elsa showed up every single time
without fail, and certainly towards the start of a draft
where you're looking for those first bans and first picks.
In comparison, Gambit was missing like once or twice
and teams just didn't want to include him at all,
but the big difference between Elsa and Gambit
is one is being banned out a lot more than the other.
And surprisingly, it is Gambit
that is actually being taken out more.
So for example, a lot of the drafts
will look like they will on screen, right?
Where you're seeing Gambit being banned out first
and then both teams will go and protect the Elsa,
so both teams have access to it.
Naturally, it makes sense.
Elsa is really strong.
Why would you not want to ban her out first though?
It's more the case that Gambit,
despite him being nerfed individually,
being hit by the strategist,
generation nerfs too as a whole. He's still strong in his own right but he enables so much as well.
Heroes like Star Lord, Galactic Legend with a raging royal flush from Gambit, an incredible
combination and characters like Rogue who are pretty like middling I suppose when it comes to
the rankings of vanguards on their own get pretty much s-tib because they have the Gambit team up
to work with. You remove Remi from a draft, you're removing three to four other strong heroes
alongside. So it's so much value. So you take off a lot of the options from the enemy team
and protecting Elsa means that you at least have something to work around no matter what your
composition or idea is going to be for a map. Whether you're playing dive, poke, 2-2-2, triple
strategist, triple vanguards is something that we're seeing as well at this point with flies,
against flies, Elsa just works with all of it. It doesn't matter your comp, you put an Elsa in
and she's so versatile, she will go and just absolutely destroy people in her own right.
Outside of these two fighting for the first place, you do have the likes of Vanga Deadpool
actually being right behind them both in protecting and also banning him out. And similar to Elsa,
he just fits into a lot of different compositions and ideas and he just is very good in his own
right, but also it's how good he is on stuff like domination. Because he could still build
up his ultimate very quickly certainly in comparison to some of the other old generation
nerfs that we've seen. That first fight is really good for Deadpool because he can get a
ban hammer early, put it on the enemy strategist, lead to an elimination and so your backline
strategists are up on ultimate charge before the enemy. He gets so much value and it makes sense
why Deadpool Vanguard is so good not only on domination but just in a lot of first early fights.
If you enjoyed these kind of breakdowns let us know and we'll continue to do more but until
Until next time, ignite the battle, and I'll see you in a few.
versus heretics winner likely the top of the group depending on what Shikigami has to say here
Jen and team heretics I think are the biggest unknown we had going into this preseason but
they've really proven themselves so far yeah this is the number one versus number two and you
guys can argue in the chat on who you think number one but for me heretics this is a really
interesting team because it's a team that actually strays away a lot from the venom
dive meta that has been emerging and they focus more on these flankers like Captain America and
Sylocke and even throwing in the Jeff with the Sylocke the speed the Sylocke around was not expecting
that duo in this meta but it's been so fun and of course Naga who can flex to anything from the
Starler to headshotting like crazy on the Mantis so this is going to be a really talented team to watch.
I'm expecting big things but we've also seen the former world champions in Navi it's you pretty
pretty well for themselves, like they, what are you expecting on their end of things?
Uh, I'm expecting a little bit of goofiness given that I'm having a look at the lobby
right now and uh, Fate is wrapping with Sentinel's icon, uh, they're very funny, very funny,
Fate.
For Na'Vi, we were expecting excellence, right, like this is a team that has a high
caliber of players, they have the results to back them up, they have a very vocal leader
in trust me, and there was some discussion around this team in the off-season.
a team that is as kind of a one-man show when it comes to leadership of trust me in game at least
accommodate a player like terror a player who is a generation of tourists but also a generational
personality as well maybe someone who isn't the best at following orders to a tee and in guang
joy got to watch navi scrim it's very much you do what trust me says in the game if you don't like
it we'll talk about it after but right now you are obeying the trust me cool well his name is trust
me for a reason right it's like he is not asking he is telling you but also this team does like I
spoke about heretics not caring about the venom so much but this team does behind trust me and
behind even Rajaro that either wants to anchor as Deadpool or run it down with the venom five and
then you add Peru which is just that extra firepower that this team needs to follow up with trust me
I'm just really curious on what kind of strategy we see from Team Heretic specifically in terms
of the ban and protect phase against Navi, because that's a similar story to what we
saw for Virtus.Pro, right, where it feels like you can't really do too much against
them other than the Shiki Gami strat that they weren't as practiced against, and that
really is map dependent, so depending on which domination map we get we could see something
similar, but yeah, also proved, hey, we dug up a little bit after that, we did pretty well
against Pepsi looks super proficient on it earlier today. So even if that kind of
flyer composition with the human torch meant this Ultron comes out again, I
think Navi are gonna be a little bit more prepared this time, especially after
having a week of prep leading up to this very important series, Lemon. And we
talked that length about maybe how much of a playmaker Navi is and how much we've
known him from all the years of FPS experience, but Tanuki has been one of
the most impressive Syloc players that we've had in this emerging dive meta, and if you
can pair that with a nice run-it-down, the Beatles Captain America, they've kind of
had their own take on a pseudo dive meta, and I think Tanuki has proven just why Syloc
has started to emerge as a strong boolist.
Well, we'll have to see once we get into the series itself, which map it's going to
be, because that'll kind of lean to different compositions based on how these two teams
But one thing to know is that I got some insight from fate saying a lot of teams are doubting them too much a lot of people online
Are you happen too much about them and they're gonna be the ones to lock in they're saying for domination?
They're going 200 to zero
So we'll see if they'll be able to you know keep up with those words cells big words big shoes to fill or
Fate after that one, but yeah, he's feeling confident going into this
It's kind of a whole team effort led around level one crook in terms of their ban and protect phase
So expect some of the biggest things from them going forward into this first map and every subsequent one
We could see a 2-1. We could see a 2-0
Navi themselves though like they they're hoping to get that 2-0 victory here
I mean a quick 2-0 here to show some real dominance over team heritage who are probably their biggest competition in this group would be
Boying for the confidence around Navi. However, like counter to what fate is saying
I think that's America's best chance to win against Navi is probably on domination. This is one of the maps where
Captain America's the most powerful and when it comes to Captain America players in EMEA
I'm buying all the Beatles stock bro is super underbought when it comes to these dive vanguards
Homie is a master of mobility and then when to go in when to go out when to get all of the stool
The question is what can two narratives do with the space that these will buy and that's the thing as
His domination is a smaller, a lot of the maps are just smaller than your average convoy
or convergence, so it's not, the big trouble with Captain America is just not getting poked
down to death.
And then you have Syloff that can also more easily gap close if Tanuki wants to continue
his Syloff domination on that when it comes to the team heritage side.
But Jerky, we haven't talked enough about him and his daredevil and his ability to just
ruin people's lives.
So it's going to be a good brawl at slugfest, if you will.
Yeah, I'm really excited to see what kind of comps come out from both these teams right team heretics
We'll be the ones who get the two bands first and team Navi will be the one who gets the band and protect
So that really changes the state of things going in it to this first phase of domination
Really focusing around okay
What are Navi gonna lock in first if the DD comes through the kind of prioritize that do they maybe go for more of a
Mantis style because we've seen a lot more teams of focusing on that as well a couple of different options that they can opt for
for depending on what that first ban is from a team Herodix, but we have our
matchup of the day! Navi vs Herodix winner likely gonna come out of group A
with the number one seed. Take it away!
to be something here that is unlikely to be constrained by the fans but is likely to make the
comps because both jerky and Tanuki have a really deep pool of heroes they can use to make sure
that the rest of their team composition is always going to be in a great position where it's going
to be the Adam Warlock, Tanuki being a star lord or even a silo, more recently as well, a big pick up
for Tanuki. Tanuki in just like the last four maps that I've watched him had only played Syfox
And it's just such a good understanding of the breakpoints, especially for voice-to-speak strategies in the pack, because if everyone's running through the strategies,
how are you going to do if you have zero because Tanuki is invisible behind you?
And then don't forget Beto, who's just going to be the absolute nuisance on Captain America,
but we've just never seen Captain America as something like a siloed VA band consideration, because there's so many team-ups that you have to look at first.
Okay, going for the Vanguard, protect straight away. I mean, this is fantastic because Rajaroh is just John Aimee.
Like, yeah, the pro does so much damage with the Dull Desert Eagles, and the first protect on the jet.
Okay, once again, this is going to get screenshoted with like, ah, EMEA's off the goop again. They're getting silly in the EMEA vans.
And we're just going to have a quick pause before we continue on with that, we'll fade, according to Vod had a lot to say about how strong Navi was going to do, or maybe the other way around.
Even VP can't get 200 to 0, okay? And if he can't do it, I don't trust anybody, it's impossible.
Yeah, he's feeling very confident going into this matchup, and for good reason. I'm also liking the priority of having the one-sided ban pull, right?
couple more teams banning that out for both ends just because they don't want to deal with it, but I've seen so much
Focus on team Navi and they were kind of like the predecessors of using the vanpool, but we'll see how it goes in this one
Now there's a world where we need to see a ban on the venom from team heretics
Otherwise, you're looking at fate, a master of Jeff, with double death Jeff team ups, which frankly isn't on.
And if heretics hate playing Venom so much, why not just ban Navi from playing it too?
I would hate to play against Tresby's Venom, but again, there is
so much on your grocery list of bans and team ups that you have to worry about,
but making sure your strat lines are intact for heretics is pile one.
Okay, the Galar Protector is a good hedge, meaning that you can play it with the Jeth, or if the Jeth is off the table, okay, they have to ban the Rogue because they don't want to deal with the Rogue Galar team.
There are so much on the field here, for the side of Nabi, I think they're going to be quite happy with this one.
Trust me, playing on the Cats of America, I would have mind seeing that move over onto a Venom if they have trouble with survivability, because the Symbolic Shemmingdon is just so strong.
strong but it does put a little bit more teeth into jerky's dives. We saw
perfectly for VP the daredevil and the Venom work well together but daredevil
and the cap is a little bit more damaged due to cap's recent changes. I think just
mirroring Veedle on the cap in America is more of an aura play than it is a correct
but I prefer to be on the Venom but I'm impressed what comes out of the spawn
room doors at the end of the day and again this is on the patch everybody
that White Fox got super buffed and side paying and your huge fans of it but not a whole ton of people have been playing White Fox
They want to at least cook on her a little bit more fate
I think has been one that has played the most amount of White Fox out of all the White Fox users. So that is
Gonna be real from Alex I never still on spawn so it could be a little bit of messing around
I could give ever a team up to a laser
One thing I want to point out
Enzo, one of our few controller pro players we have here in EMEA, so if you're a lowler gamer, you are represented.
Okay, Porto play from Biddle, they want to get in Nobby's face and maybe even get a quick scout, and they like their chances in this fight.
Oh, that's a good isolation onto the game, they can follow up upon it though, Raja are going to be the first to go down, even with the additional
Staying power in the vanguard gives Alex King going to pick up that final blow as well,
means extra XP, already going to upgrade that headshot from the field pull, which is a huge
play to Newsy Biggs down in jerky. Like I said, battle of the hyper flex is going to be important,
Alex doesn't have that much health to try and deal with all of the incoming damage though,
and a quick team-up from Beetle drags everyone in off the dark maelstrom, meaning that there's
no escape for level 1 crew. A great first fight. And to win the first fight on this point in particular,
it is such an annoying choke point to get through and that's why I don't blame trust me to not play
better because you do not like low ceilings you would bump your head you need to help and then
you've got this commanding bodyguard of a Hulk that you have to try and chunk through or you could
just ignore it and not go through it but around it but hey they're getting through your back line
three-man gang squad absolutely prove sort of try and deal with when you're being joined by a Hulk who's
so difficult to displace and also can get the shield service everyone as well with those gamma
charges. Look at all those. But remember, we're taking 20% less overall charge from
many teams at the moment. The extra charge you get from those gamma shields is very substantial.
And Naga on Invis is... I feel like I'm living a nightmare. The goat on Invis, but of course,
is getting eliminations, like he's a duelist, and it's going to be important to pull these
brawlers back into the fight when they try to escape. So, Navi getting through this choke
is not great, but if you can get Terra on one of these windows, try and unleash a galactic
legend that is not expected, but Tanuki's going to see this coming.
Alright, already fun with Captain America, but can they try and take him down afterwards,
Jerky, looking for an opening, but guess what, they're inside of the aura of the Deadpool.
Doesn't do enough for Oasis, though, but there will be chains around you to connect Naga
with a huge pressure, trust me, with a quick bounce from her by a brainy managing saw, whilst
Tanuki can't be saved by the invisible boundary. It's a touch late from Naga, not too used
of Australia's role that much. It's for sure it's off of the atom wall. Trust me,
dancing for their life. A quick stun. I don't think anyone actually got hit by it.
Level 1 quick, just dodging behind to make sure that anyone who does is instantly
claimed as one of the region's Royal Flush. Because they don't have so much
already given over here though. I think that Level 1 quick would have wanted to have won
an entire fight off of this one. Team Heretics are desperately keeping this
one contested at the front. The same there are so much HP to work with.
And Jerky's getting on top of Naga, now the backliners have a huge danger, and Jerky gets a triple onto all three strategists.
Huge recontest too from Enzo to pop the Hulk ultimate and to just squeeze out another 10%.
Looks like you see Oasis all along to even drop a healing puddle just to have that extra survivability,
but that would maybe just get them to 99% Jerky helping Navi get the foot in the door.
But now they got a kick heretics in the dirt and make this a zero to a hundred to come back in
Rajara could try and disable one of these strategists with the ban hammer
But I don't know if Navi have the best tools
It's got to be all eyes on Tara with the galactic legend
But will he go unnoticed when Tanooki just has wall-hatch?
Ex-Argos wide question is now who's got the skill that's replaced on public and from Rajara
Beato for now just playing it conservatively bringing up the shield of a Sarah from a making sure verse the two heretics are safe
Alex moving forward now with the epic times over the top. It's gonna be terror with a well-timed galactic legend
They want to get on top of a level one quick
There's gonna be no answer here for terror is ultimate except for taking out the remainder of the team three enemies with me
They get unbelievable value off of it. It's Jeff. He's yummy yummy in his way three
But now it's down to a 3v3 who can play it cleaner great strategist play here from the way
This could be the big difference make to try and keep up the other two members
But guess what? There's still healing coming through from Alex as well, who's over here on the heal pool.
This forces out a TP re-engage from Beetle.
Who's gonna try and block off those who are reinforcing this point?
And Navi now have to surge ahead and they're getting blocked off.
You need this raging royal flush from Kirk to be invested or to maybe save her for the next round.
But Navi, need to push heretics to the distance.
Oh, this is not a good opening here.
They're thinking only find some way to use the X-Jap out, comes the gap.
But ultimately we've seen it decide so many fights previously.
But look at all that Jeff utility on the floor. There's so much healing to just stay in place for Team Heretics.
And now in towards the back, one stun goes through, one to Terra. On the signature Wolverine, the peel is good.
Jerky just needs to escape from the midflex already being taken. The healing's not there.
Peace will get again close as a big E to blast upon them. And Team Heretics, they proved Fates 200-0's prediction wrong for now.
Man, you have Navi a little bit off their game.
You're forcing them into, well, heroes they don't typically play every day, so it's kind
of a weird one.
And trust me on the Captain America, this is just, maybe this will be a better one for
Benham, but still, you're just trying to cause a ruckus.
That first point win or first fight win from Heretics being able to defend to like what,
94% or something does set the the tone for the whole map or the whole
Brown I should say and I've been a big fan of Enzo on the whole
We also don't get to see strategist pool every day and allies gets to provide this healing aura with this death ball
That goes along with team heretics and not going to was will stick on the in this because you know
We are you seeing him on the mantis that's not going to be an option either is the gambit
So heretics are doing what they can and what they got and guess what this comp is only getting stronger now because now Alex is
can be rolling out with multiple upgrades to the heal pool at the beginning of these fights.
Speedup doesn't have an early TP engage mind, there's just going to be playing him a neutral
with the Doctor Strange here.
One of the few players we're seeing bring out the neutral Doctor Strange outside of
the year we lost.
Of course, a dead pull is cussing away, but I think Navi are going to be the ones cussing
if they don't win this round and it's time for Fade to make the claim.
So this is one of the best rounds when it comes to Jeth ultimates because there's a
that you can drop the most of the team off and fate had quite the showing and had the better Jeff ultimate
I would say but it's heretics that won the war at the end of the day
I got a close and personal a little shield to try and mess with some of the healing at OS
Roger we're getting close to that skill if you want to put it on top of Naga that much is for certain
But it's gonna be good healing coming from Alex on the other side the whole trade to smash the world ready to be broken
Indeed it might be a surprise if team heretics walks away from this one with a W
So now if he's still letting me down, well, Alba Beats will find himself exposed and alone, trying to keep this point from being contested.
Now he's down to some new key with a quick billy club. Attempts at a reflection, but Jerky in the end just gets it all done.
Jerky's not even done with you yet. He won't even let you tell Cersei it was him.
And now Navi can lean towards trying to build up this royal flush as soon as possible.
Terra now on the Bucky. We've talked about this being a sort of counter dive, um, a hero that you can use to pull and hook people in and having a strong neutral, but if he gets run down, he's also very vulnerable targets, looking towards heretics to maybe put more bio on Terra on this Bucky.
Lucky
Instantly here by a laces no time to throw them off the map but don't want to engage routine heretics after capturing the high grounds
Very successful vibe just immediately immediately
Eliminating two strategists you cannot ask for anything better than that not be tried to do the same thing eliminated naga
But still the heritage firepower the teamwork is so good and the exile when you catch someone out of positioning
That is the most punishing ability you can have on hold so team heretics have to defend like their life
depends on it and of course you have an Ayabhagamotto.
Beetle has nothing that could push him away but the initiative is the ball is
in crook's side on when he wants to activate the Royal Flush.
On the objective pressure, how comes the Raking Royal Flush? This is the moment to try and win
from the side of Navi. We've got a huge ultimate to try and work with here and no
stuns come through from Beetle's Ayabhagamotto. It's an open eye but they ain't
seeing nothing for now and Navi have used a huge amount of their uptime to
achieve absolutely nothing. Terry gets isolated, in comes the skill,
I'm trying to focus down the I imagine yes sure if he's giving more to find that has to be seen days temporarily
To try and find sort of this incoming damage
They pulls in your area and you found it out the hard way to look you a blast through back of the heads and Roger
Who's supposed to flee mind of staggering themselves for this?
You can't underestimate the damage that a doctor strange can do when he's surrounded by people
just go crazy for Beetle.
Not getting much on the eye of
Agamotto, but it's again the teamwork
and also the healing aura of the
strap pull that Alex brings to the
table. Look towards it.
Heretics to maybe create a safe
phase behind the invisible boundary
and for Tanuki to find this way
into the back line here.
Navi come out the iron fist
against the Hulk here works out
and then his melee fights a little
bit better already with freedom
charge rolling forward trust me,
giving everyone additional damage.
Look at this, a perfectly
It has a little bastion, a readout on the point to make sure that they can keep this one contested.
Jerky drops in from the top, and there's the fully charged E coming through from Dr Strange.
The dark maelstrom has room to be at least, but on to who? On to Jerky!
Shots down the ultimate to themselves, and Alex is giving over a huge amount of fuel.
Can they find the jackpot off the back of this?
It's gonna be a little bit difficult to make it happen, but waiting for the headshot as well in the midst of it all.
In comes Fates attempt to coordinate with the itch Jeff, but it's not gonna be grabbing many of the enemies and said,
Trust me, just get a hunt down Alex.
Only the Hulk is caught up in here by fate,
and of course you cannot get the bounce back
inside of the air.
There should be Navi claiming the point.
Oh, this is going at the distance,
and an iron fist, Nagaon, and this woman.
We got Shrapool, like, it feels like
April Fool's was today.
But this is what is so fun about this meta,
and what's gonna be fun is watching Navi
probably just win a fight off of a deraging royal flush.
But Team Heretics have tried to throw the Eye of Agamotto
to disrupt that surge that Navi has,
although Beetle got zero last time.
He's hoping to get six more this time.
Okay, I'm fisting Gambit.
Raging Royal Dragon is available,
and there's not much to try and shut it down.
Trust me, already it's the isolation.
The Gambit Rex are moving on through already.
You see the skill issue as well.
Great shielding coming from Venso,
but now it's not gonna be around to be with Terra
and level one crook already.
It's going to be the dragon moving on in, but I think the damage has already been done.
Level and purpose feel the need to invest in this one at 99% they'd rather use it to win out the first fight on the next point.
And it's a great response from Navi here. Heads up, Slop from Terra.
Round three, and we said this was going to be a slugfest. I did not mean it literally.
With the iron fist daredevil running down composition with Captain America.
This is, I wouldn't say like a crazy strength from Navi, just because they've run so much of the Venom dive,
but Jerky, you can kind of build a composition around him and his strengths and Terra as flexible as ever.
So, Navi forced the third round and they're sticking to what won them the second round in the first place.
That was a great comeback there from Navi.
And I love how Terra identified with the Iron Fist ult, Team Heretic's playing very tight.
They are playing quite the death ball composition at the moment.
If they're going to play that tightly together, you can get a lot of damage from the Dragon Unleashed
because it's got extended range, PSS through multiple players, and does percentage of HP damage.
Man, this Enzo guy is bulky and Team Heretic's up to their shenanigans,
Bortling through and if you can win the first fight here, this is again a very difficult map and around to retake afterwards
But team heritage have also identified fate and the and crooks so well on these dives
They're gonna take the high ground first and command the fight if they can
Oh, but early there they only have to capture a point off of this one already jerky's in position
Can't afford to be isolated gets pulled back and server rating royal flush is deployed to make sure that team heritage is comfortable fighting
Unbelievable and if you've got no claims because you were forced to try extricate jerky from that position with your gambit ultimate
What are you gonna do about it? It's so rare
We see a good eye mega moto in pro play with how much counterplay there is but that was not billy simo
Utifly of like a motorized I said and Alex is able to pop the final exam by healing order of the strap
Pull every single fight and this is not something I've seen Alex play a lot of it's not sure
We don't see a strat pull at all, so it's innovation.
And it's a master class from Naratix as they hope to defend.
But you don't want to overextend.
But someone like Beetle can bring the shield up
at a moment's notice.
Just working so well in tandem with Enzo.
The worst case, you got Naga with the invisible boundary,
but oh, fate is trying to claim.
And Juki gets away from it for now.
Varus going to be an attempt to try and claim the point
in the background.
Yeah, there's a back cover.
How long will it last?
Well, the invisible boundary, I think,
might be a little bit unnecessary.
Naga might want that one back.
Because now he's going to try and deal with Jerk, he's ultimate as well.
Do they really have enough sustainability to try and make this one work?
Well, I don't know if they've really got enough fuels to try and make it happen.
There are only three of them there, Raja is already down, trust me.
Yay, he's playing around the back-hand side here.
Tera's going to try and TP back to bring some of the strategist back into the fight.
And right now, Biddle's just holding up for sure to the Sericum.
Blocking off the incoming healing from fate.
Seems like Navi's Gambit has worked out to try and make this one happen.
Final exam, once more, pop from Alex.
It's a huge amount of healing, and if he can hit the jackpot,
And everyone's gonna get so much over how tanky they are.
And well, Tanuki finds out the gambit, it's not quite so tanky in comparison.
And so they're gonna get closer.
What a thick!
This guy's unbelievable!
Imagine quite the exile there on the face.
You didn't know what quite spit it.
Oh, the jackpot was so huge.
And Tanuki knew to unleash pedal to the metal.
And Full sent it on Navi, who had just been trying to match like blow for blow.
Abiterra was on Iron Fist, the try and brawl against this.
And now, Bob and I have automotive his own.
Dr. Strange, you know, see that from Tara too often,
but trying to find a solution, the answer to Heretics
is now Heretics have taken the lead,
and this is round three, here it goes.
All guests here, it's a little bit hydro-unpaired,
Marcus already down, Oasis sinks down underneath
and tries to eat up some of the opposition,
but the LOS is good to try and dodge it.
Fates easily there to try and deal with it,
and Enzo does have plenty of HP,
And one versus six is not going to be lasting for long, and puny battle lasts even lesser time.
And you get to start off the next fight with the raging royal flash, and Tanuki is 50% away,
so that is going to be a big difference, maker, in terms of who will be able to pull the trigger first.
Navi's going to steal away the lead, and they're already on different comfort picks than usual.
Same thing with heretics, a lot of flexing has to happen, and these are the two best teams in the group, and it's time to prove it.
All the approach of Daredevil has already been waylaid for now. That gives an opening,
taught him how to be beautiful, without their backline being too thoroughly accosted.
Nuki has the ability to give them each for their own, but Navi has the most important ultimate here.
It's going to be the Gambit with the ability to put down the skill issue. It's going to be Rajarot
taking down Alex, making sure that every miss is thoroughly punished. And with level 1 quick,
he's going to hold onto this raging royal flush. Navi in a fantastic position to win the map.
And Navi did not even have to use the raging royal flush, but the Hail Mary from Team Heretics,
Beatles still looking for an Eye of Agamotto, but he has to set his team up for the long haul.
Watch out for this! Trust me, he's pushing the max!
I was worried when Beatle didn't use the Hayabaga motor if we were waiting for Marvel
Rivals 2, but it doesn't matter, that will be what's on the menu coming up, along with
Oasis who can leave a puddle behind to try and get it's Jeff going, but Tanuki is tracking
exactly where these Na'Vi rotations are coming from. It's two eyes of Agabotto and only one will
remain at the end of the day. Final fight for the map. I got both my eyes open. I'm not sure if I
can believe them though. Beesolus getting so close and so dangerous, great shielding from both of
Vanguard. There are so many layers of protection there and Beesolus can now just hang above it,
come into my territory. I'm ready to greet you. Outcome of Stamford to Zerky and Rujaro. The
The shutdown is good, Kamazaro survived through this!
Even with the debuff, for skill issues, no issue when you're looking like Marga right now.
And trust me, we'll stand alone against Vatidam or Marga or fall on down.
I don't think there's enough soldiers here from Marbi.
The jersey might say born to win, but Team Heretics are playing for the vibes.
And the vibes are looking sublime right now.
Jerky opens up a portal.
It's gonna be our second recon test, coming on through.
Rajra is already falling down super low.
Out comes the final exam.
He's gonna give over so much HP, taking through the sky
With a quick dash, can fit even a safe
Tracer's staying the moment towards their own spawn
Because he's like everyone's escaped from the other side
Beetle getting in close in burst, not well charged
He will tear through their flesh and bones alike
And to no avail is unlikely to let fate escape from this one
It's a little bit of a BM kill in the back
But where are the reinforcements gonna come from for Na'Vi?
They face up against the green minutes of the Hulk
And what a series of plays from Heretics
They take the first map
They bring innovation to the table and it delivers a win. The Strap Pool, Naga on Indiz,
Tanuki on something that's not Cylok and beating the competition in the dirt.
And wow, not only was the Strap Pool just never really seen and ignite, but it gets MVP
and so well deserved from Alex topping that final exam nearly every fight,
by turning the death ball into a death train and the stats don't lie,
Tanuki with 24 final hits almost 30k damage,
an absolute menace out there.
I mean, hey, if you want to try and ban the Vanguard Pool
so we don't get the Jeff team up, did you forget there's two others?
And apparently Alex is crazy at them.
I know that Alex has a huge history in competitive FPS as a great aimer,
really leveraging it super well by playing a very accuracy orientated hero
like the Deadpool strategist and obviously like you said the final exams being here every time
really maximizing the uptime as well waiting like the entire eight seconds during the ultimate
to hit the jackpot and get another eight seconds making it the longest stretch just ultimate in
the game if you manage to absolutely pop off with the uh with the hitting the jackpot but we did see
these strike backs from Nabi who in television is really very intelligent they had great plans for
fates its jest from Enzo's Bubbles in particular.
Yeah, and Navi were so flustered trying to swap so many different dualists and getting
portals in non-stop, I just can't believe the jerky versus the newbie.
I could watch that all day and night and Perakren find the solution, putting it all on himself
at clients to save the day.
That first map goes to Heratix and we were in for an absolute free.
It sucks if this is only a best of three because we could watch this all day, but it will be
now knobby with the toys on fat coming up next so I don't want to go anywhere.
I
200 to 0 unfortunately for team Navi on that one but as you guys were talking about it we have our
experts here for a reason. Team Heretics is that dive team and they proved it in loads throughout
that first map on Hell's Heaven. Getting the first map win against Navi and actually the first
time we've seen them drop a dumb map so far here Lemon. That was I think one for the books easily
the funnest map to watch of the whole day. Tanuki pretty much set up camp in the opponent's
backline. Tanuki is so strong with the flankers and why this heretics team is not necessarily
venom-pilled but very flank-heavy and then you combine that with Enzo. Every time you're out
of position he's hitting you with an exile. Then you have this healing aura of the Deadpool,
the Strap Pool that we've really never seen in the night. So Ali's showing us just how the
the death wall properly around that.
Like big honesty, if you want to get anyone's mother out of these sports, if you need to
show them one map, show them that one.
That was an absolute GIGABANGER of a match.
So many unique hero picks.
We had a Strat Pool, we had a Hulk.
I love casting a Hulk.
Hulk is like one of the most skill-expressive heroes in this game.
So hard to get the value from, but if you're a good Hulk, you are God.
You are Jesus.
You are omnipotent.
And Enzo certainly was on his Jesus train on that map.
Yeah, I mean this is the first time we've seen Shrap for at least in EMEA. We did see it sometimes in America specifically from YWL
I gotta give a shout out to C because she said this pretty much best in some DMs
I have referred she basically said that was one YWF special hold the spider-man
Basically what we saw with this map from team heretics
But it's nice to see that tactics that are kind of an orthodox that you see catch teams off our guard in other regions
now being brought in into EMEA, making that flexibility even more apparent from this region.
That's what we want to see for teams to try and take it against the best of the best, but
we do have a pretty spicy map on our hands coming up pretty soon. We got a little bit of a preview,
we'll show it in just a moment, but just talking a bit about potentials, Lemon,
I mean, what have we seen so far in terms of countermaps from Navi?
Navi, I mean, the only time they ever lost, which was only once, they went to Museum of
of contemplation. They want to go as large of a map as possible, try and give some space
for someone to trust me to Venom dive from who knows where. So the larger the map, the
better for Navi.
Yeah, and we kind of seen some bit of a crux you could say on relying so much on the Venom
dive, especially on the frontline 14 Navi. So that might be why Team Heretics felt so
confident on the last one, but leg day, tell us the lore of all the Jalya for Navi.
This is a big glory map for Na'Vi.
Back when they were Team Rand, this was the first ever map that Virtus.Pro dropped in competition.
It was to this very roster across Sands Terror at the time.
This is where they made giants, where they made Celestials bleed, and they're hoping
to use it to get back into this series as well because of course taking a convergence
off the table is very important because it means you can't be taken to Central Park where
they had the Littlest of the Trauma.
Oh my gosh, I didn't even think about that going into this one as well
So big brain plays from team Navi making it so that they don't even have to worry about it
Especially in the best of three of course once we go to the best of fives or the playoffs and beyond
It's a bit of a different ballgame there
But this works well to their strategy to try and reverse sweep per se this at best of three
But team Navi and team heretics going to be giving it their all
We'll see if team heretics can get the 2-0 sweep themselves or if Navi
We're going to fight back to the nail to type the series
I think if this goes poorly there's going to be some
introspection amongst those viewers and not even services that where their adaptability is in question because they have
They have lost maps to unexpected strategies
You know like the weird stuff from team heretics on Hydra base and of course the other map they lost was to Shikigami
army against the weird triple flyer.
They didn't seem to have an answer for just yet,
and maybe they need to get a wider birth of cops against them
in their scrims, as once again, team Heretics
are going to see Navi protect the vanguard pool.
And Heretics, we haven't seen a lot of Venom die from them,
and that's really going to be the best vanguard option
to take advantage of all the space,
or at least to get through it as fast as possible.
And we've seen so much of the beetle captain America,
even on something like the Museum of Contemplation.
find a way to squeak into your back line. And Enzo's Hulk is a nice budget venom if you will.
Quite far with those strong green legs, okay? But where does someone like Terra land?
Because he has played just every duelist it feels like under the sun.
It kind of depends. I feel like he's been more on the counter picks rather than maybe
trying to slot in on his comforts and being the best at it.
Okay, first protect this time on to Mantis, I mean, but Naga is a fantastic Mantis player as well.
And you know what, if Naga wants to play Mantis, we're going to take away the Invis,
there are a lot of professional Invis players on Team Heretic.
So it's a rather valuable band, but this might force out a protective something like a bandit, potentially,
unless you really want to make sure that the Strat Pool is in, or even an Ultron Protect here.
here. If it is an Ultron Protective and maybe Nava needs to do some additional groundwork
here to try and make sure they didn't go up against that triple flyer composition again,
which was a little bit stressful. Ah, some of them went up against Shikigami and couldn't
quite figure it out in time.
The strongest part, I think, about Nava, I mean, pick your poison, but I'm a huge fan
of Crook and Fate and how they've really innovated in terms of the strategies picks, but you
just don't want to let that game go through for crook because that will be a next level crazy
for it. Navi, especially when you up for us. Me, who's going to be as aggressive as he is and
very lucky that you're going to have Naga back on his signature Mantis like you already mentioned
because the stronger the poke you have on a large map like Hall of the Jolly, the better.
Okay, the threat of a Vanguard pool is a little bit too high. And so Gambit is going to make it
through the band phase, unaccosted, no protect required. There's a world here where team
heritage go from one sided star lord so they have the better gambit alt combo. What do
they wish to take something else? Away from a stable of Na'Vi, potentially getting rid
of fates jeff. This isn't the best jeff map to be honest, not a huge amount of environmental
frag spots but it would be fully decked out with a pair of team ups given how much we
me like oh no oh no no no no oh no it's the we don't care aura no pig
misson no man they flashed our lord but they ran out of time
boys let's let's let's let's let's let's let's let's let's let's let's let's let's
we forgot to do our ban let's
Oh jeez well let's lock in let's well lock into the game that's not lock in our
bands we'll do that another day maybe focus on Tanuki on the Star Lord man
did he have an MVP like performance got out shadowed out shadowed by his
strategist last map but Tanuki has been a my doublest to watch as a top
contender here in EMP I think I'm in shock
I was going to say, Naga is usually the star lord player and man is he ever aggressive
on it, especially on Domination and Tanuki. This is the Psylocke I've been promised, okay?
And Navi are gonna have to watch out. Namely, they have to turn around because Ban Heretics
were all over their backline on the previous map. Now Enzo's ready to set the tone. Swinging
out actually, as Biddle may be the one who starts to harass the strat of this.
Last month's good. You can already see the symbolic challenge coming on through from Jeff.
Brings everyone forward with extra over health to make sure they have that survivability.
But now, where from the team has it been used from Jeff?
There's going to be the opening for Team Heritage to try and claim back this space.
But the aggression from Trust Me is doing so much in towards the back,
people trying to get some value, but I think fate's going to be able to move away in short order.
Jerky gets picked up from amongst the crowd vote.
Amazing aim for Enzo. A frenzy arrival to get on top of the gambit.
this engaging solid that Bayou's spin gets them out of there and three direct hits from
play is unbelievable, DPS on to Vito. No chance for a resurrection in comes with skillish,
why I imagine that was put on to one of the strategists coming through from Rajiro there
and Jerky's coming back on the Spider-Man. The Jits would cosplay is in effect and there's
no touch on the point.
They're just not a fan of the back row in general from heretics, like Vito and Enzo
We're having a little too much fun chasing strategists that there was no anchor for the objective
You had Na'Vi capping two ticks without
Heretics having a good reason their pankards were
nowhere to be found and I think Enzo on the Magneto now may just prove to be a something a little bit more solid to
Kind of take charge of the front line and something that'll slow them down from being on perma flank
But Na'Vi have gotten a swift cap and they've banked up a bunch of ultimates look at here in this galactic legend
you can sometimes sneak up to the defense going through the middle building.
All right, here comes the Thanos combo.
We're raging Royal Legends and Terra is just tearing through everybody.
The OV, the extra damage got buffed up when we started redistributing the powering gambit,
Salsamo, and yeah, that's gonna be that one much better.
Wow.
Nafi, bring the terror to you and terror to you and they will throw everything with them.
That's why I said, you don't want to give Kirk Gambit so scary with it.
Now, Navi, so close to that point B cap, and trust me, taking the initiative.
Alex's used both their dashes, wants to try and get an ultimate here,
but doesn't quite have the line of sight.
Only four players are going to be inside it, and it's going to have to do...
So, if he goes forward, they will change, trying to hunt down the opposing Gambit.
There's a great disengagement here.
Are we losing Raja Ro4 now, is there going to be even more onto Kirk?
Indeed, there is.
And this is a tough area to be held for Navi,
They didn't really invest too much in that previous fight, excepting the feasts to be at this.
Yeah, having a Deadpool as your, uh, stationary, uh, anchor vanguard is not the best at peeling for something like a daredevil that is batoning your strats to death.
It's like, you could throw a bubble and then it's a good luck sign and you peace out.
While it's something like a Magneto can deliver a lot of bubbles and be a more commanding presence in front of a brawling line.
So Navi can't necessarily, uh, feel for Tanuki or stop him, it seems.
Oh. Okay, so no key misses for Final Writers Cross, and that's going to mean a quick exit from here,
while the theory's rebuilt once again.
Great symbolic shenanigans coming through from fate.
The real difference right here is that Oasis and fate are essentially playing different characters,
and Oasis is not playing the better one.
Ergo wants a fate that needs sickness to guide down two sweets,
but needs to be an escape first.
The HGF is a massive threat that needs to be dealt with,
and there's going to be no healing really for level 1-
Oh my goodness, Endo is just built different, bro.
That means level 1 crit was caught out of the mouth of the Jeff and easily executed there after.
Okay, Enzo.
And the 360. The 360 vdrm to deny the It's Jeff ult.
I love the style points from Heretics.
They did double up on the Jeff and the soul resurgence, but it's just all offense all day despite
also being on defense so now we have such a gap to close they're looking at trust me and
Rajaro to be aggressive just like this but Tara needs to follow up with the galactic legend soon
and we'll have the royal flush to boot yeah not being able to eat that with the meteor and it's
definitely going to be very difficult to try and deal with eyes on Tara here in the back but we're
seeing if he even needs to use the galactic legend for now Timber Jerky strikes in first letting the
devil out and certainly is being made known to Nuki with a good counter play here but you've
But you've got to start thinking about the car, if you are team heretics, it's getting awfully close to that finish line.
You need to try and make your way through, and here's the Galactic Nation coming through last.
And if you're desperately looking for terror in midair, but that free flight is real difficult to deal with.
A moment in cover, away from the feces of the eviction.
Freaking dodge there to make sure we trust me for too much of an issue.
And look, Oasis is pouring out so many kills right here in Niagara alongside them.
Once again, Jicwood has returned the EMEA, and Magnus found out the hardware of a joke.
He's got so many heroes within their pool, even though they are picked up first.
Oasis has a back pocket pick. The edge chef ready to go.
Fates gonna be the one to launch it first.
A quick healing puddle left behind.
The jerky is able to easily get on some of Alex.
I don't know quite what Oasis is playing at right now.
Just wanted a healing puddle, but Alex left it anyway.
So we're chased off it. Diver, diver.
The meter and up above nice dog there from Terra.
And this should be Nami having enough players
to try and bring this one home.
It's level one quick feeling.
Like if you just get involved and start doing the damage
for Flates and there, but the man just certainly is.
So resurgence comes up next.
I can't believe it. Navi staggered their ultimates to just try and be as economical as they can
by not combining the regantic royal flush with the galactic legend Mayer Vinny Nel and the coffin.
Navi did not get the full finish on the fight that they would have hoped so because they staggered those ultimates,
and it costed them a lot of time.
They only have 40 seconds left to cap point B, and like you pointed out, Oasis didn't even need an ultimate,
just pouring out so many heals in the pile to keep heretics up through what looks like every ultimate in the game coming out of Nadia.
Okay, Tanuki, damage boosted in towards the back, trust me, obviously the piece to be abyss,
and Naga's already been taken down, there's even more damage to come, trust me, his aim is absolutely sublime right now.
The Thanos strike has hit the backline, and I'm afraid that they aren't going to be living through this one, no resurrections this time.
Visual does his best to flee away, but Jerky's still sticking with a Spider-Man.
Has a spectacular spin, ready to go, could use the stun out potentially,
and even stopped the portal coming through with a momentary little bit of a fight,
but unfortunately the cart has already gone through, and Bast is gonna have to be stopped on third.
So much time was bled out of Navi, but sometimes it's not
when you get the job done as long as it gets done, okay? At least that's the type of worker I am in Navi,
But they only have a minute for the final point.
Thankfully that skirmish extended them another galactic legend,
but it won't be with that raging royal flush,
and it does miss that extra oomph that Navi really needed to even cap point be a lot sooner than they hoped.
Okay, however, the extra oomph is gonna be there.
Curvecy of the damage missed from Romanticist.
Jerky has been selfless, moved over onto this to make sure that Tera can get some value out of that ultimate
when it is deployed, and so moving on forward, trying to rescue their divers from saying it's gone awry.
The pocket should be good here.
On to Terra.
There's so much fire coming his way.
Tanuki caught out for rest of T-merizix Force to disengage.
And you'll take the sacrifice on Tanuki to just have a better hurrah
for the final part of this map.
And Navi, having to just invest that now,
they got the white fox in tow.
Something one of fate's specialties.
But stopping Terra's overextension here is a huge part of heritage stop.
23 seconds remain.
Every stagger is super critical the Spirit Sanctuary user trying to teleport away
They need to get rid of fate it's gonna have trouble actually joining this fight
And so Terra's the one who has to move away on to
Dr. Strange
I'm trying to get a better angle on this fight and coming through the front right in
Enzo's face with the meteor em to stop this push from Navi
Okay, who's inside of the Jampus the question right now letting the devil out is Tanuki
And fate getting kidnapped at the end, man, heretics are so good at dismantling Navi's
strategist line to make it so the fights don't end 10 years from now, which Navi fought through
tooth and nail and made that a farther push than ultimately could have ended sooner, like aka point
B, where they started to stagger more of their ultimates and were even questioning whether they
how much more they should invest. Naga even brought out the portal on the Doctor Strange to
even takes a more time off of Na'vi to recontest point B and Team Heretics knew how to disengage.
Soft recent have a strong flight afterwards. So, well, the finish line is there for Na'vi towards
the end of the map. Can Team Heretics get to that and beat the best team, second best team in the
group? There's a lot on the line here. Well, someone says second best team in the group
after team heretics. We're now on this one. And honestly, like if team heretics do it
while missing a ban, absolute infinite aura. I will award you the highest honor I can bestow,
the infinite aura badge. And it took some good swaps too to just have everything ironed out.
Navi had to figure out who was going to be anchoring. And now on the defense, you got the
fly is jerky is going to be watching from above doing some scouting now you
don't have the the daredevil to see through the wall so jerky will just be
their eyes in the sky and spotting this team heretics rotation here through the
left side is important for Navi and so he's got a few options for his movement
though no real verticality available for the magneto and so we're just going to
run it down main here and this doesn't really have to worry about the drop from
Navi up above me you can see that three players are just waiting to enter the
slightly overextends so we can get on top of that and really find an exposed back line.
But at least he's just playing in such a safe position. Really difficult to deal with anything here.
Terrorist just catch a little bit of water and I guess he's a hydropho because that does everything.
A nice anti-going through onto the gamut, but Betel can't quite convert and going up against
three strategists who just out-sustained and out-damaged. Two-six have already gone the way of
Team Heretics. How do you re-engage this one? Can Rajro get onto Veris to question his Terrorist
or TP from the back and maybe create a soft off angle here for the then to try and work with
Faith already 65% to the Ragey Royal Plush, but Tanuki is controlling this high ground very well.
Terra's gonna be the one to come up and try and hit it as we are in a little bit of a stalemate here.
Only 3% from it being captured. Team Heretics were right on the edge and Tanuki's in a beautiful
spot for trying to eliminate these strategists. The tracking's good. Is it gonna be anything
better here from Beetle coming up close and personally just dealing all of the damage,
Deployation damage, out comes the gambit ultimate.
It's the last chance Saloon here for Team Heretics.
But Alex doesn't got theirs yet,
397% a last second to come on through.
A quick eat as well.
They will get the venom within their mouths, I imagine.
As Snake has to flee away.
The counter strike is coming through.
But Pockets there from Jerky.
The range of Ultron reigns above.
But can Team Heretics do anything about it?
They have the meteor M in the back pocket,
but aside not to use it,
looking to never want to truck,
it could be all about the one shot here.
M's there from downtown.
does not give time for themselves to get anything more, but knowing that all of the outputs are
expended, now it's Tanuki's turn, waiting for it. Oh my goodness, feet with a fire bash!
Oh, he's in a crook like this one before, a bit of southern charm from the gambits,
and Tanuki is far from charm. He's wondering what just happened, where was my support,
where was my love, where are my friends, Team Heretics are absolutely scappered.
And the fact that, again, this was 3% away from being captured and Navi got back just in
the nick of time and Tanuki is the only duelist and he's been focused down and
makes the job easy for Navi of where and who to look at and what a shutdown on
the galactic legend. Tanuki has to be supported and Naga has to look his way
at all times. Oasis will keep a safe distance and you will be never parched
with this Jeff on duty and trust me does not want to overstay his welcome. He do
not want to deal with the wrath of Naga and friends in their post. Okay charge
straight sort here for Enzo, doing a lot of damage to Terra, taking down. Remember there's
going to be no quick returns this time. Might have to go over onto a Spider-Man, but I think
it might already be Cug's great weaving around for shield there from the other one.
And it just seems like it's going to be Rajro trying their best to shut this one down with
a quick little bit of skill, as you can hear me there. Jerky's in danger, Beetle found the
other. Strategiously all falling down, the healing's fallen apart. And that's going to be a
cap here for Team Heretics, but later than they would otherwise like.
Yeah, pretty big time to thank this advantage and Navi just having to go
to an Ultron. Well if you can't peel you could just fly away from your problems
and it's been hard to access him but not so much to go after people like Crook
or others. So good focus from someone like Beetle to eventually tilt the resource
scales in their favor and team heretics. They can keep the rally going. Soul
resurgence or raging royal flush will be on the menu first if you can even use it
because trust me is all over you again.
Oh trust me, no one options there, no longer has the symbiotic swing.
Still has the resilience if needed, quick E-pop to give yourself even more maximum health.
But it seems like for now, Team Heretics are building up quite the ultimate bank.
They've got Tanuki and Alex in concert if they need it.
A little bit of extra damage coming through as well.
Tanuki now in final smoke, can they hunt down the strategies with this engagement strong?
With all that speed they have, courtesy of the Mantis, Jervie's gonna be caught out by themselves.
And this might make it intendable to try and fight this one.
But still, it seems like never one crook, they feel the energy they see in this work, and what they trust me so far from the ultimate, the healing's not delivered.
They have eyes on the gambit in the fact they need to try and take down fate before it can do anything more than this,
and they actually explain that O-Ragey War of Hush will try and facilitate the disengage,
but Charmed's great sword Pierce is the flesh of Navi, and that's a lot of space for heretics.
Man, and heretics have really found a groove, maybe extending a little too much, don't forget Navi are right next door,
and now Navi have a chance to even climb back in, but Enzo's bubble saves Naga, allows him to use
the soul resurgence after the piece of the abyss from trust me, who's down the magnitude on himself,
taking a page out of Enzo's book.
of the team forward, seeing if they're going to make it happen in a 5v6 because they don't
have time to waste, terror rescue by trust me, a bubble when it's needed, and it seems
like Team Heretics know that they don't have the damage to make this one work and play
with it this engage instead.
Yeah, not without Tanuki, but Team Heretics have been able to fend for themselves against
trust me, but really need to find more punish, and now that he's not on the Venom, it's just
going to be a front to back brawl, look at Team Heretics to kick things off now with
a royal flush.
And towards the back skill, as you likely put on to Alex as well, but the raging royal flush, he just hides away and makes sure that this massive healing is going to be enough.
They take out Tanuki, but chase down is good. It seems like fate right now.
Just getting Tanuki every time he wants a quick whip of a stick and beatle is crushed under the rocks, and Team Heretics are now low on time.
It's giving map 3 guys 34 seconds, and Team Heretics have not just a mountain, but it's looking like Everest, Naga, Solar Resurgence,
and they still have the gap close.
Everything has to depend on Tanuki getting value
and Navi are trying to mark where he's going to be coming from.
You can notice the Galactic Legend.
You could send Tanuki to try and shut it,
or send Navi to try and shut it down yet again.
The focus on level one currently used to be sublime here.
The Sol returns can save everybody
while the Angles that Tanuki is going to be developing.
A very risky position here from Fate might be chased on down.
The Wycliffe comes through from Enzo,
but it seems like the healing is going to be more than enough.
The Anti comes through and they got Fate,
and that's the opening here.
Enzo from behind, eating Amterra! What a ball! This guy from Lebronzo! Unreal!
As he takes down Amterra, and so Oasis now is going to be able to pour out this healing,
but it's far from done for Team Heretics. They still have a vanguard here to try and
stall it out for a moment longer, but in overtime, their spawns are coming back a lot faster.
Fate opens up the portal. One last chance to keep this one contested, but it's locked off on both
sides, including by the car. It makes it happen, and in from the back, it's going to be jerky with
with the rage of Ultron, great sustainability,
maybe he can save it for the team,
but now the great sword cringe rolling on out
and the damage is too much,
the bear for trust me can't quite meet it,
jerky scene, the last bit of water
rush through the iron armor of Ultron
and Beto just chases down the shot.
Who would win?
One, two, three, boy,
you're a big old American democracy shield
with this day, democracy triumphs.
And gas in the tank of team heretics
and a subtle play from Alex hitting
the anti-heal card on Navi, getting a strategist down, forcing already them to flounder and
reconsider their approach on the fight.
Two galactic legends collided, Navi even with the soul of resurgence, and then got picked
off as soon as that anti-heal hit their lap.
So Team Heretic suffered a lot on the time though, a minute is not a lot, but they only
need one strong fight win and a good clearance of Navi to win the map and the series.
Okay, moving in with two doors first. I'm trying to get maximum value off of a raging world plus
Jerky gonna be chased on down. Can they find the enemy just floating there?
Impuriously T posing on them, but Naga's the one who asserts dominance in this case and B2 has his eyes on the back line
Go see him with the big strike. Goodbye, Terra. Jerky's gonna be able to resurrect themselves here
But going up against the Captain America is so much damage now. Alex taunted not finished
There's no damage coming through from the other side. Raja is down level 1 through just has to ult by themselves
trying to stall this one out but the DPS check is far easier than you think the
team heretics to hit the galactic legend lays down the fire from above and
certainly a legends formed here this day as team heretics begin their own mythos
a vibing mythos and it's a grandiose mythos as they lay down navi 2 and 0
and looking like they are on their way to solidify the number one seed in group
and I head to head is going to matter down the road.
Heretic standing tall over their biggest opponent in this group
and doing it in two old-fashioned.
And I mean, Navi had so many bright moments,
and Heretic stood tall in the end.
I mean, pick your poise.
And Alex had great anti-heals.
Oasis saved them without any ultimates.
Just the healing 41,000 from just that Jeff is insane.
Tanuki, the duelist of fear, Naga swapping to everything and anything which, uh,
also the Star Lord, at some point, they swapped roles there. Enzo had some life-saving bubbles,
namely on someone like Naga who was on the Mantis, being able to activate that Solvry
Surgeon, gave them a fight win that's all thanks to Enzo and the Peel on the Strategist,
and Beedle who was able to stay as measured as he can, but also running it down on these
strategist who's a huge neutral fight winner for Heretics. What a death ball from this team.
Well, I am absolutely knack of lemon, so let's bring Vodable back in to chat about this series.
I think, you know, the Heretics fans out there definitely expected it going into this one,
specifically. But yeah, any of the Navi fans who saw their performances in previous seasons and
expected big things from them, they did their best that they could on their map pick. And you
We talked about this, like they're going into this one that, hey, they beat Virtus.Pro on
this before, but unfortunately for their sakes, this time it did not work out.
Even with the miss of ban from the team heretics, it did not matter because we saw so many players,
all six players, on team heretics, popping off Beto, Enzo, and Seiyuki, doing the most
damage.
Naka really just kind of flanking around supporting the team as best as he can.
It's kind of like that flex support, there's flex strategy style that we saw from them.
and also swapping on over to the Psylocke at the end just to chase down Jerky who had swapped
Team to the Adam Warlock Cinema. I mean, if you had one series to recommend people rewatch
today, this is going to be the one to do it, Levin.
Absolutely. And this was Navi's choice of map. And you were talking about how historical
it was for them. They've beaten the best of teams on here. This is the large of a map
as you can get for a trust me Venom collapse onto them, but if it's anything, it's Navi
that collapse and it's just these critical little moments when you were getting anti-healed,
when you were trying to go in, what ultimates were able to shut down and Navi had some big
moments too, being able to cancel to Nuki's galactic legend, shout out to fate there,
a lot of nice moments from Navi and how they were able to stall on their defense, but this
is gonna be a good match to rewatch.
I gotta give a quick credit to Oasis.
I said that they were flying just worse, Jeff,
without any team-ups.
I was unfamiliar with their game,
dropping 41k heals, only falling twice
in both sides of that map.
Gross insane.
It sounds like we're gonna be getting Naga here
for the interview as well.
And I'm really interested to pick their brain
on exactly what their strategy was going into this.
So welcome in, Naga.
I got to hear ahead of time from fate
that they were feeling confident going to this matchup,
But you guys really pulled out all the stops to shut them down and prove that you are the best team now in a group A
Yeah, nice to meet you. Thank you for having me and yeah, I mean I guess played has to be confident
But we'll see how you'll feel next time you play them
Well now good today on domination we saw you play something a little bit strange the invisible one is a new pickup for you
How long have you been grinding invisible women? Also, did you win because I brought the heretics and bundle?
I mean it definitely helps that you bought the heretics bundle and I'm proud of you like they well
I've been playing Windows for what like two or three days. I guess something like that
You know my team think it's fun to just put me on off-rule a few days before important match
You know, but I'll have it then I expect great things for them to make up for it
So I mean now it didn't make it happen. He's paying with stairs. Whoa, so I mean what yeah
It'll be better next time, I promise.
It was so fun to watch you, and hey, you act like a dualist when you're on Mantis too.
You were able to fend for yourself when you're getting dove on by one of the scariest Venoms out there, but Enzo helped you out so much.
What are the comms like when you're trying to call for help, or does your team just trust you to kind of feel for yourself?
How do you handle the Venom dive in this meta?
It's not really that scary to be honest, because we have like triple support backlines, so we don't even stress that much about it.
It's only on Hills Heaven where they had full diver, it's like quite scary, right, when they dive us, but the venom on whole Jaliya is like not that big an issue.
We can in fact just ignore him if you want to, but sometimes I like to just shoot him in the head a little bit.
Yeah.
Let's keep talking whole of Jaliya.
Yeah, I mean we didn't really feel like we needed it to be honest we haven't I mean I have to say we haven't played this map as single-time in practice like
unharmonically and the last band we were kind of like I mean let's let's make it a
little bit more fun right and even then on first point attack I literally played
without sounds for like two minutes in the beginning cuz my headset died and then I
tried to pause but apparently have to confirm it so I stood still like in the
And I was like, no, no, I don't have time for this and then we kept playing and then we double supported it because of it
But I mean obviously the only reason we can win this map right without practicing it without having a last man
It's because we have the team heretics bundle like it is unmatched like oh
Man it sounds like you guys were able to play for the vibe throughout the entire series itself
But you know kind of looking ahead you guys have two more series to finish off your group based off against alter eSports
and then closing things off against Shiki Gami, I mean, you must be on top of the world after this
win, but how do you lock in for those last two series and confirm the number one seed going out of
Krupe? I mean, my team is absolutely insane. I'm not worried about any matches, and this was a great
start to the year. And we're going to take every match one by one. We're not going to like just,
you know, look at look at the pay done be like, well, we are better in every single way. So we
just lean back. No, no, no, we have to win and we have to win big, right? And we have to win
confidently. So, you know, leave no gaps for them to surprise us or whatever it could be.
So, yeah, we're going to, you know, practice hard and talk a long, many, many hours about how
we're going to beat the next teams as well, right? So, I'd love to hear the insight for that, Naga.
Thank you for joining us here on the broadcast as well. Lemon, do you have one final question?
Yeah, just one more thing. Oh my god, we're so interested in the meta right now. And we saw
I saw some strap pull for the first time in EMEA from Alex, so what are your thoughts on that one?
I mean, with the band tank pull, the strap pull just has so much value, because we also get the GIF team up, right?
I don't want to give too much more insight than that, but it's probably like pretty underrated, to be honest.
And Alex is really, really good at it.
Well, it takes too much of your time or too many more of your strategies. Thank you for joining us, Naga, and enjoy your win.
I appreciate it, thank you for having me, it was my pleasure, bye bye.
Such a gentleman on the broadcast for the interview there, it's nice that we got to
get some insight, I mean only playing Invis like two or three days before and the performance
that they put on is insane here, Levin.
Yeah, as an Invis player, not the most complicated strategist to pull out but still was able
to just have those critical plays and those, uh, really the force physics of when you can create those opportunities in the neutral.
And Naga still did his job beautifully, and then we got to see him on the mantis, and as you heard him, he's not worried about no venom.
Well, we are going to be taking our final break of the day.
We already have Team Heretics now confirmed in it to the playoffs with that victory Navi looking for a little bit of a resurgence in their last series tomorrow.
But it's going to be fire straights facing off against Crownfall after this.
in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
When the sun and moon and time wonder
That baby was the tender we were friends
And her solid shadows, warm and envious
That's what has come from missing you now
The hearts that know we're a last reunion
Break the chains down and your way comes for 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
Grading in an avalanche of rice
Raising up the sense of smash
In those dark walls
Before the risk matters again
The old meadows and the end line
Then avalanche on my toes
Until the power's gone
And stop us
We arrive until the end time
We will clash
But away
We will fight, pushing across the space
For you and me
Take it back to the end
Do you see the dawn, the flames burning brightly?
Shining one nose and the breeze and yes
Across the time I see you turning the sides
And are you seeing now?
I'm fine, I'm sorry, we can still fight
Like the wind is far and
When there's no more
Then now is the only time
Your heart is mine
Light has fallen, darkness grown
I can't be with no more
Destiny has made
Two days' panic for the first of future
Break the chains, leave the way
Fight with me
Come when you're ready
Yeah, I'm back, you're right
Really, it's been a good sense
central and I'm here to answer one specific question. What's the meta? And I would answer,
I don't know, what's the meta with you? And I will continue to use that joke until I'm about 90,
even though I look about 90 now. But in all seriousness, though, I do want to talk about
some of the data that we've seen from that first week of action in EMEA and America's
in Ignite. Bear in mind that the players played on a old patch. It was the hot picks that came
out on March the 19th. So the white fox buffs that we're about to see, the Deadpool mobility
and Elsa having less HP, we are going to see that in action this upcoming week.
So stuff is a little bit different, and also as the pros will say,
they're still working out the method themselves,
lots of stuff is going to change, and we're still building up the sample size,
which includes Add in China and Pacific to the action this week too.
But there is a very easy place to start.
Elsa versus Gambit, which of these characters is the most powerful
in a competitive sense in coordinated play?
And the answer, when it comes to presence, how often we're seeing these characters is actually Elsa.
There were 68 maps played in America's EMEA this last week, and the hero could shock twice in the draft, right?
You can either protect a character, and then the other team protects them, so you can both play them, you can both ban them,
or you can have one team protect it and then ban it to make sure that they can play something like Elsa and the other team cannot.
So it can shock twice, Elsa showed up every single time without fail.
and certainly towards the start of a draft where you're looking for those first bands in first picks.
In comparison Gambit was missing like once or twice, some teams just didn't want to include him at all,
but the big difference between Elsa and Gambit is one is being banned out a lot more than the other,
and surprisingly it is Gambit that is actually being taken out more.
So for example a lot of the drafts will look like they will on screen, right,
where you're seeing Gambit being banned out first and then both teams will go and protect the Elsa,
that's above teams have access to it.
Naturally, it makes sense.
Elsa is really strong.
Why would you not want to ban her out first though?
It's more the case that Gambit,
despite him being nerfed individually,
being hit by the strategist,
all generation nerfs too as a whole,
he's still strong in his own right,
but he enables so much as well.
Heroes like Star-Lord, Galactic Legend,
with a rage and royal flush from Gambit,
an incredible combination.
And characters like Rogue,
who are pretty like middling,
I suppose when it comes to the rankings of vanguards
on their own, get pretty much S tier because they have the Gambit team up to work with.
You remove Remy from a draft, you're removing three-to-four other strong heroes alongside,
so it's so much value.
So you take off a lot of the options from the enemy team, and protecting Elsa means
that you at least have something to work around, no matter what your composition or idea is
going to be for a map, whether you're playing Dive, Oak, 2-2-2, Triple Strategist, Triple
Vanguard is something that we're seeing as well at this point, with flies against flies,
Elsa just works with all of it.
It doesn't matter your comp, you put an Elsa in
and she's so versatile, she will go
and just absolutely destroy people in her own right.
Outside of these two fighting for the first place,
you do have the likes of Vanguard Deadpool actually
being right behind them both in protecting
and also banning him out.
And similar to Elsa, he just fits into a lot
of different compositions and ideas
and he just is very good in his own right.
But also it's how good he is on stuff like domination.
Because he can still build up his ultimate very quickly, certainly in comparison to some
of the other ult generation nerfs that we've seen, that first fight is really good for
Deadpool because he can get a Van Hammer early, put it on the enemy strategist, lead to an
elimination and so your backline strategists are up on ultimate charge before the enemy.
He gets so much value and it makes sense why Deadpool Vanguard is so good, not only on
domination, but just in a lot of first early fights.
If you enjoyed these kind of breakdowns, let us know and we'll continue to do more.
Until next time, Ignite the battle and I'll see you in a few.
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We have a couple teams confirmed for the group stage, but this one could potentially be
an elimination match if Crownfall do go down.
It is going to be Fire Strays versus Crownfall, looking for both of the teams' first ever
series wins.
And of course, we've got Leg Day and Lemon, we have our final series of the day.
And Lemon, what can we expect from this Crownfall team who feel a little bit under-estimated
but look pretty decent in all things considered?
He's expecting unexpected.
Expect one of these teams to get their first win.
Alright, let's get the positivity that I'm out there because first week did not go so
hot for either of these teams.
or Crownfall especially.
They have actually two Elsa players,
so they're still trying to figure out their roles
and their identity as to who's gonna be the better player.
One, not a lot of teams have all the years of time together
like VP do, so they're still flexing around
who's gonna be the best Elsa player in the world.
So, Bahad I think has shown more aptitude
to also be a flanking Elsa player,
so there's even a stylistic difference
between the two duelists.
Also this team prefers more of like a Crownfall,
is more of a death ball, not as much of a venom,
So they play actually a lot more cloak and dagger than the average team, but they they're gonna have to figure that out on our first map.
Yeah, looking at that first map, I mean, we go back to Krakow.
It's our fan favorite for today, at least for the random domination that we typically have going down between these themes.
And from what we've seen in the past from both Firestrays and Crownfall, I mean, any specific strategies that come to your mind here, Legday and Firestray specifically.
Well, this was the map where I discovered that Binary is that guy on Hulk.
Yeah, and Butterscreen.
Honestly, I like it while I'm talking about Firestrays.
I gotta put them on my disappointed dad face.
I had Firestrays as second in this group, in my friends.
Like, for more, to be honest.
I think I had them pretty high as well.
It's not been great from Firestrays thus far.
I expected, like, them up to seeing Hulk better.
binauries probably the best if not one of the best hope in the MEA like Enzo showed that it's viable
back on Hells Heaven fire strays haven't really shown that much of a support if you look at the
the names on fire strays like I was thinking this team was gonna was gonna clean house but um
like I don't know if they just come from such different backgrounds in terms of team structures
they can't make it work together but they have they've been all over the place the the comms have
been um well have they been I guess is the question have they been coming we'll find out today
hopefully firestrays have been screaming hard in their week off to rescue their performance and maybe
rescue their place in this group yeah and this looks like a classroom full of people but they've
really uh started to outline who their starters are going to be and binary not only great at the
whole but also I think a bright point on uh the venom which has been a huge topic for this meta
and having a strong dive has really started to cement teams towards the entire echelon,
which Fire Street is being a strong Venom team.
First, he's a groundfall who have more towards the deathfall.
He's really cool, and Plexo has been really one of the better group players to watch,
and he's flexible at that, so I'm a big fan of this Vanguard lineup.
I'm really a fan of these jerseys that we're seeing too from these teams, though.
I gotta give all the credit where it is due to all the rosters actually showing out as best they can.
even CrowdFall! They got their own logo on the outfits that they're wearing as well.
But yeah, big shout-outs to these teams especially because like CrowdFall, I feel like this is a
team that did pretty decent, right? They looked as solid as they could have against Team Vision.
People were expecting big things from them, especially Coach Kuffy, who has the sauce in
terms of like the ban and protect. It just feels like they haven't found their identity as a roster
just yet. Yeah, the identity of this roster I think has gone pretty far on just Fahad and Majed
being able to uh giga carry it for any cases like this roster had a little bit of a tumultuous
entry through MRC they picked up Rosa after Rosa uh fell out of another organization which is
which name doesn't come to me right now it was altery sports yeah yeah Rosa got taken from that
ended up on this roster crown for i think that probably their main weakness as a roster is that
that they've got two main vanguards, or that if they don't have access to a vanguard pool,
flexibly can be a little bit of an issue.
Roser is a fantastic group, a boohoo's also a great group and a great mag.
I think a boohoo is strongest on a vanguard dead pool, but if that gets banned away,
things start to get a little bit more dicey for them.
But I'm excited to see Majed play, because I think that Majed is potentially one of the next big doists in the meeting.
Yeah, and just they gotta fight over who's gonna be playing Elsa,
And if no one gets Elsa, then what are these Fahad and Majed going to flex to?
So that's that big identity question for them, but you could always lean on father,
aka Abu, which Abu means father in Arabic, fun fact there.
And he has been such a good brawler when it came to MRC.
His role was chef's kiss on how he's able to pin people down, literally.
And if it's not going to be the role that you don't get to see too often,
it's going to be the death ball from Cramp fall.
And I had this team higher in my power rankings.
It's just that that loss to vision kind of took me by surprise.
I expected more at a crown fall, but now that you have that weak break between them and now I'm expecting bigger things at a crown fall.
Well, we'll see which of these two teams are able to rise to the challenge and take their first win on the docket for Group B here in the EMA region for the night preseason.
But fire strays, they had a lot of expectations going into this.
And unfortunately, they have not met them just yet.
Crownfall the floor is as close as they can get to how high they can go from here on out
I mean crownfall they look really solid at the start we expected big things
But they've kind of settled where most people expected going into this actual bracket stage itself
So now moving forward they still have a couple very important series to go this versus fire strays
And then their last one that we'll see on Sunday versus reason gaming so every single map every single match is a must win
for both of these teams.
Fire Strays though, I think they have their work cut out for them.
Crownfall's not going to make it easy like they for them to actually take this win.
Yeah, Crownfall will have been doing that homework.
They've got a very astute backline.
They've got one of the better drafters in EMEA,
in Demon S, formerly known as Aya Goddess,
who's a very good band line analyst.
So I'm expecting for Fire Strays to be remarkably hobbled if she's on form.
Yeah, this is also a must win for Fireshrays, even though they could maybe afford the loss here.
It's the fact that they still have VP, and let's just say everyone is losing to VP.
Don't fence to anybody, but it's just a must win for Fireshrays, because that's a tough schedule still ahead of you.
Yeah, I mean, looking on the side of Fireshrays as well, they're also going to be playing against Vision on that Sunday.
So if they can get a win here, they'll look that much closer, potentially taking that spot out from underneath of Reason.
and they dealt them a dish served cold
in the 2-0 that they lost in that matchup.
But now going into Cracolla, facing off against Crownfall.
If they could start off on the right foot,
this is their time to shine,
especially because they have so much to pull from,
including the different rosters that we could see of heroes.
I'm really more interested though
to see what we see out of Crownfall
as we talked about some of their weaknesses
going into this one.
But it's Fire Strays versus Crownfall
for our last series of the day.
All right, let's head on into it.
have some big brains behind
and we've got coached Cuffy as well.
Kind of like a Tom Scott video.
I wonder where he's going to be coaching from this time
if we get an interview later.
But it seems like we're already diverging in terms of our bands.
Fire strays are immediately taking away
the capacity for Evera Majed or Fahad Kari
on the Elsa.
We're as crownful, more worried about the gambit.
Hey, to expose those duelists
and what those heroes are really going to look like now,
Majed and Fahad don't have to fight over Elsa duties there.
The last time we did see it, Crownfall on Krakowa, it was not pretty.
I think it was a 200-O loss to RAD Esports, but you know, it is RAD.
It is number one, number two in the group, but I'm looking more towards Abilumni's Doctor Strange Portal plays.
That can be something that can really catch you off guard.
And again, these terror capes from Ayano have been a huge proponent to these fight wins.
So the Crownfall really got to step up there, Krakowa.
He's really a little bit stronger, their devil off the table here really trying to
constrain the head for Harden and Majed and interesting to see the Venom Band come on
outgiven but we are likely to see at least two strategists be the Loki and the Mantis
I wouldn't be surprised for an Ultron to be a third here because that hasn't been banned
away by Crownfall.
taking away the Venom from
their own game, or at least to play a very different game, which
binary has been one of the most more impressive Venoms to say the
least and is a huge part of their win condition. So we'll see what a
binary affects us to other than that. But Abu's on the road and
this was such a standout to me on the MRC stage. I hope that they
stick with it because to pin someone down if they're at a position to force the
team to fight to back them up or to sacrifice them is what's really fun
about watching a rogue team. Yeah we have seen some crazy road plays thus far in
EMEA and in North America as well they really have been showing the rogue she
works so well with the Gambit team up and might make it a little bit more
difficult for Biner to stay in on that back line by giving a bunch of
damage over onto the Hulk and just making sure that he's not comfortable in those melee ranges.
The good girls from Crownfall and who they want to throw with you. And now a triple Vanguard with
Fahad on the Deadpool. It's going to be really fun. And Fire Strays. Well, you know, Closer just plays
so much Jeff. And now maybe demon flexing to something not in the duelist department,
But, Jules asked with the White Fox after the buffs, but again, Washi's portal plays, watching through the eyes of Blastoise, oh, he's going to let it rain on crowdfowl here in a second.
Watch for double damage boost here off the back of the Mantis boosted regeneration domain from Closer.
If I were to get an instant lugging, if they can isolate one of these charges, see if it right now, the gamut might be in a more perilous position, but Blast actually a little bit too thick to fit between the portal and the building.
Man, just to slide on through, eventually, Binary Hoot taking a bunch of damage,
has to use his bubble selfishly as the Gamma Charger can be given over to anybody else
after getting the Gamma Clap sucked out by the Rogue.
That means even more damage gonna come on through,
powerful, already in control of the point, and Black Scots can't stay there for long.
So it's this little tacked-dance from Fire Shrazer to try and keep this one contested.
Binary coming awfully close to returning to that Bruce Banner mech.
You can see that Abuhu is just absolutely on top of Binary all the time.
There's no comfort to be had.
Finally, the slow play of this one is working out the fire strays and coming to turn around to the skill issue from Bahad is sent in on to the back line.
Slopper is going to be the one to move on down in a boohoo who will return to a primary fight, noting that Bahad is once again without parental supervision and that's where Mama comes home to make it work.
Yeah, such an early Van Hammer 2 from Bahad to longer.
This fight goes the more that Deadpool is going to scale and also level up literally and metaphorically and then you've got the eternal bond.
Yano has already formed that but the cap is still not come through so this is a marathon
Good flexibility from Crownfall to kind of figure out a they've been able to play also almost every single match
So this is already a different look from them running the triple vanguard
But the brawl was what they were most known for in the MRC and again Abu can just floor anybody who is out of position
Ayano saves and sustains the fight with the eternal bond and now you got a look towards Rosa with this meteor M
To deny Slappo with this galactic legend
He's already getting into a flank position and you got to be able to stop him quickly before he eliminates anyone in force.
Yeah, Slappo. Passive damage boost as well. The pocket is strong.
Is there going to be enough to try and find the value here?
You're gonna already see a move. You want to that knowing that they aren't gonna be in too much trouble now.
That's gonna be the meteorite because of the skyduster that has it in them.
Nice bubble went on over. It can only be burst by the meteorite and so does the reality.
is delivered, a counter strike with the group that there's going to be a spiritual
sanctuary in the midst of all of it. It's like that moves even further forward and for
harders getting extra help up the back of any miss shots from the target of their
skill issue. They'll be going to be chased down down the Iron Volley. It's easily
dealing with this one and Fire Shrazy should be able to flip it.
Nearly investments from Crownfall is what got them to the 60% but it also meant the
second fight. They didn't really have anything to go against Fire Shrazy. I guess you were
were able to stop the galactic legend from Swapo,
but there was so much left in the team from Fire Strays,
Stringland Prison and all.
And now they watch on the high ground as drownfall hope
to dismantle Fire Strays at a distance,
but also safely rotate towards the waterfall side of the map.
Swapo needs to be careful how much he's flying
through the air.
There's not a lot of aerial cover
and it's almost like Blacksword is trying
to create that cover with those group walls
on the stumps, I'm liking that.
Yes, Swapo is continuously tempting trade,
but Blacksword gonna find himself alone right now.
Yeah, the sustain from fire is
is so strong. I mean the fact that there was an end song in Furno from Majed and
you just barely saw it because it just only scratched the surface of the shiny
armor that Fire Shraze have. They have officially taken the lead and they're
ready to stomp the yard with Kunio Form and Slopo which in a defensive
position you can find some really creative angles with this galactic legend.
Alright, in coming big damage. They want the other Koji and they will be able to get them but the rest of the members are still
Afflicted by this ultimate from the gambit knows that that you can get away into focus the zin on other targets
Brina pastures may be so a boot who found the load behind gonna be a little bit
Danger to try and take down with that much HP that sees a boo boo falling low make a form versus two
That's not very things better on that for now and say goes to cover their backline
It's a rental assault from the deadpool of it a quick sleep coming through not should that one cancel the alter
It may still have gone through and this engage gives over a moment of respite to crown for the first race ready to clap back
at a moment's notice, and DMN also has the kumi hose, ready to be unleashed once we're finished slicing through the white fox claws.
Incoming now, a boo who has to flee away on top of it all, is the strangling prison of the group, and now Sopo's ready to chase down the strategists.
A quick one-clips looking good to me, and Mothra is going to be a last chance. Saloon here from Majed.
I don't think they've got all of the backup that they need. Ayano Koji next to Fall, and Sopo gets a nice spray transfer,
of fire strays claim the first points and on grove to fire strays just when
you're at that 99% mark you have a lot more freedom of where you want to take
the fight you can extend outwards you can go for flanks crown for our force
really make sure they focus on their vanguards to keep anchoring the point
or else the overtime is gonna go away and they're gonna lose the round crown
falls they had an extended fight so they have some both of it they kick off this
next one like the galactic legend but crown fall the brawl really started to
falter to the stronger poke and also the sustaining that crown fall just couldn't
go up against so you're gonna need this brawl from crown fall to not just work
from front to back but find its way around as well you cannot let's nost and
and even in closer just put this unlimited amount of heels or fire
strays are never going to fall and they will have the advantage going into this
Crownfall though decided to get rid of that galactic legend that they were just about to get in exchange for a anymore
Namor maybe a little bit better at hunting down something like a demon
There is a little bit of weakness in white box to poke based heroes like Namor and doesn't really have a great method of dealing with
those squids on the walls either could really try and
tax
Slopper's attention span meaning that they're the only playing who can really take Rose down easily.
Yeah, you gotta be careful playing on the point here because the groupwalking can come up behind you and separate you from the strategist and Crown 4 are learning that the hard way.
All closer from stealth managed to get their hands on the stolen Gambit ultimate, managed to get an LOS on Ayano Koji and that makes the firestreaks have an ultimate, but I don't think Crown 4 were quite prepared for here.
And Slopper really managed to get the value out of that one. It's gonna be first cap.
Abu to the Deadpool from the Rogue needing a bit more ways to defend themselves because
man Rogue do punch hard but cannot really protect herself at times or at least very
very briefly.
But Abu unfortunately got walled off from the groove which already spelled the beginning
of the demise from Crownfall along with the ultimate like he pointed out from Closer
who's looking to close out this next fight jump through some hoops and namely some brute
walls that Blacksid was left behind and he got the strangling prison and Swabo is something
different on the menu of the mod.
finding dominance in the
that they were looking for.
Yeah, beautiful climbs and
card management from my
gano on the gambit and
strangling prison just would
be a one end all be all.
Although conserving it for
the future is always great,
but watch out for the Horn
of Ferties from Majed and
how the fire streets play
clumped at this choke point
that this could really buy
time for fire trees to get
this semantle, but now it's
going to be an alternative
route as crown floor is still
tracking where this push is
going to be coming from. And besides the kumiho form, Byershree don't have a lot going for it.
Oh, good news. You've got to be careful. Good tracking there from Binary. A healing solid as
well. And Majed is developing this other angle. Forcing attention away from their own smile,
vanguard. Unable to find the madcow in common with either Binary. Misses out on the chance to
get rid of that Neymar in short order. Or at least force out the blessing of Badi. Sopo plays the
corner. Using this high ground is super important here to try and get some free pressure over onto
that backline. And here comes the kumiho unleash. The rest of the cramp will need to move forward
on to the point to get this one contested.
Without Rosa, it's going to be even more difficult.
It seems like it's down to the Vanguard
Deadpool to make that happen.
Derby cornered by the two versus one.
Damon and Slothorn on the flank.
They're absolute demons right now.
And Iana Coaches get nowhere to go.
They're into the arms of Groot and he's here for a hug.
He's here for a slapping.
It's a last second contest from Crownfield.
They've made this fight long enough with them in control.
We're not fit to not be a complete loss.
Just fire streets know how to manipulate the fight on their terms like these lack so was happening amazing
The section of crown fall from each other and just at least by enough time where you can claim these
Eliminations before crown fall with the triple strategies can bail them out. That is huge and even with the hall and the
Fajada should say with the karmic revival
It still wasn't enough for crown fall to keep on kicking and speaking of kicking. I was getting busy
As he catches them on the engage, now extra damage coming through as well,
courtesy of the raging royal flesh. So much has been needed now.
Oh, good dodge coming through from Dami. Extra movement speed with solid.
Seems like there's still gonna be Rosa trying to make something happen off of that.
The back of this great grab onto the high, trying to shut down any potential for a resurrection.
And indeed, the Thorn Lash Wars, who won't find the final blow right there.
Like so now, Ice Scythe Rosa away from Mestra is just cutting off the healing.
Try and make sure these hangouts have no where to go on fire. Shraze their low key closer can watch from above and be
Pretty much unclutchable while crown fall their strategy star a lot more exposed
It's probably the freedom to flank like this and this should solidify the first map
But a portal comes in from the hot
That's gonna bring multiple players back. We're down on the java down on the other
I don't know what happened. Maybe there must have been a body block or something on the portal to stop the
extra-cation over the barking. That means Fire Strays have no one to contest them.
And it's a quick two-oh, good turnaround here for Fire Strays who look like they're coming today.
And that is what's important because they were already kind of thrown about in the
ban and protect phase. But Plaxo for me on this group made it so once they were able to play
on the objective there was no one who was going to be stepping in. And when you have this crown
fall team that plays so much around the brawl, the group is amazing at breaking up those vanguards.
and just forcing off angles and then all crowdfowl are thrown out of sorts they're pushed away from their vanguards
which we'd swap out could go and flank the strategies while they're walled off from the grood so it was just an amazing approach
to that map and fire straights very well deserving of that plan
Yeah, great damage done here as well by Black Soak coming out with
20.3k on the group which is nothing to sniff at and very low
So casualties across the board as well for Firestrays, it felt like with this triple
strategy we're still doing a fantastic job of covering all their bases.
Even if I play Lost they often were playing at the scene gauge and not losing too many
players so not put feet ever more outcharged to Crown Full than was absolutely necessary
to play for that objective.
I appreciate like Abu trying to swap him, what is going to be the best anchor vanguard
to get around, whether it was a road or a Deadpool and it's, they had strong poker,
Stalker Pog with the Deadpool Odyssey as a gun, Pog has myths, but if just Krausvald didn't have the obvious conditions,
Roy said that a good job of trying to use the meteor and to stop Stalker's galactic legend,
but Firestrays had more in their arsenal than just the Lord with a gun.
Firestrays have getting to use the low key to get the C-closer really shine,
new ability to flex to whatever Firestray's teasing.
I think we have seen a lot of good additions here from Blacks over there.
The hangars are looking strong.
What's your status?
How do you try and shut them down when you're mapping?
Thanks, Matt.
BAD!
TASTIC!
Potentially, our last map of today's action for day one of week two for Ignite 3.
pre-season in EMEA and fire strays they woke up. This is the team that we
expected to see they put the headsets on and started talking and I love to see
you Jen. That was what we were promised like we promised you guys at home
somebody was going to win this series and get their first win in Ignite and it
starts here trying to avoid being one of those two bottom teams from elimination
and teams like fire strays still have VP in their schedule so it's still a very
high stakes, so little time when you're just in the best of three.
Yeah, I mean, talking about that, I think they just have to, like we heard from Heretic
Stake, it won the game at a time, and won a series at a time.
You can't think of the behemoth ahead of you, you gotta focus on the little guy first, and
that seems to be what they're doing here and now.
But, uh, like-day on the back end, we're seeing a little bit of a roster swap around, subbing
to happening for this map too, why don't you break it down for us?
Yeah, fast rays are going to be putting demon on the bench for a little bit of time that they're bringing in
Sustroid, who has quite the cabal of fans in EMEA. Sustroid is one of more tenured pro players in the region
and is a fantastic hitscan player. If I had to characterize them in one particular way, great Hallow player, great Phoenix player
might well be an excellent Elsa as well, but I kind of expect that to go the way of Sloppo.
The middle East Sloppo historically has been playing more projectiles like the Human Torch or the Namor.
So maybe this is a play where Firestrays are going to go for the first protect on the Elsa rather than the Mantis as they did last time.
But I think they're not as worried about going up against a Gambit as even without an Elsa, they seem to be managed to get whatever on the Gambit team, which was fairly impressive.
This is the fact that we haven't seen it destroyed at all and ignite yet, doesn't worry me and you know the whole rule of it ain't broke, don't fix it, well it ain't broke, well what are we trying to fix here and maybe trying to give everybody some time in the group stage, but Hall of the Jolly is what's going to be picked here by Krumpfau.
I think there must be like some strategy some practice that they had in the last week that we don't know about yet
And might be why they're summing them in could also just be paying issues
Some players have been having their own internet issues on that end as well
We don't know till we get into the map itself
But one thing we do know is that it's gonna be swapped sides
So fire strays because they have the choice of side, but they didn't have the choice of math
They're actually picking to be on the attacking side. Let's go around instead of defense, which is pretty interesting
We'll see if that strategy works out well enough for them
Maybe they have a unique band that protects strategy as well because again
They get the two bands first rather than the band and the save we'll see for this one
I mean it's a really interesting map pick from crown fall because they picked a midtown convoy almost every single time as their map
To because they go to a lot of map twos on their choice
And yeah, it hasn't always worked out
But it was a comfort pick and this is a pretty well-known venom map for binary
This is his playground. So you're going to a Venom map where crown follows more of a brawl team. So
Uh, they got something up their sleeve. I just don't know what it is
This is why I love this stage of the competition
Every team has something up their sleeve and hopefully it's going to be the winning card for them and fire strays looking for the
To especially if they want to make it out of the grip stage and win through those tiebreakers crown ball
This is do or die for them if they drop here. They drop out of the playoff running. So we'll see who takes map two
Alright, let's get stuck into our band's crown for on a razor's edge
But fire strays looking resurgent like what was promised for now and snossed
He's going to be able to secure their own mantis here. We're not seeing as I predicted that first Elsa band
That's only going to be one of the things that fire strays really focuses in on it might just get rid of the Loki here though
Give what was done last time by fire strays about last protect on Loki
This could give crown force and force of thought but now they say you know what I also know also no gambit
No fun, but I'd like to see crownfall protect the mantis or something
That's gonna deal with the upcoming binary venom if that does flow through because we had a venom ban in the
In the previous maps of binary had to flex to something else. So
That will be a future problem. But yeah, the the Loki the mantis all these team ups were very strong in the previous map
Alright, might be a play for a one-sided Loki here.
Wouldn't be surprised to see Crownfall pivot into the Loki band themselves.
Question is, do you want to try and take away Abu-Hu's Deadpool Vanguard as well,
which is one of the main tools that Crownfall are using?
Oh, might be a one-sided Deadpool Vanguard here.
Wouldn't be surprised to see a Protect on it come through from Crownfall,
as it is going to be Majed's Daredevil, which is taken away.
And from Crown Falls matches so far, they have just never been allowed to play gambit.
So didn't really work out for them in the first snap, but Ayano has so much more to
show us and we'll be able to do more of that because that's such a strong win condition
and focused around that team play, which Crown Fire is still working to match a fire
straight level.
I think there's a world here where Crownfall aren't as worried about the Mantis Loki without
Demons, White Fox in the mix.
But Sestroy does have quite the add-on on him as well, so that could be a factor defensively
that needs to be considered later.
But unlikely to see it on the attack.
I imagine Majed is once again going to be picking up that Namor, which has a fantastic place
on Horde of Sharia defense.
Really able to play these high grounds and is difficult at this lodge as when you go
through that window on some high ground you've got to contain with double squids but are hiding
out in some of the grass up on that little garden and does make name more quite a tricky customer.
And whether Binary goes to the Vendor or the Hulk, I think Hulk has better punishing power
in terms of being able to exile someone that's out of position or to keep them in that position
when the team is on a disengage. So Binary is going to be the biggest threat that I'm looking
forward to watching because I think this is a perfect map for any kind of pseudo dive team.
You see going forward the firestrays can't close it out because chemistry wise communication wise as we've noted
They've looked like they've gotten on the same page
Yeah, finally talking to each other
They got the server invites, you know, and this is certainly the first race I was expecting
But I also have cramp all going through in my predictions. So, uh, no matter who wins
I'm going to be looking rather silly. I
I think all of our predictions have been thrown into the bin and did you guys know you could do that in-game and get rewards?
Well, guess what you should do that eventually. That's my throw lemon. I mean you got the heretics plug. I gotta help out here
Oh, we were coming in unexpectedly a port was trying most of these places like I mean through with the soul bond as well
That's why you see the Iron Man here getting that additional
ability able to try and get as much value as possible out of the armor overdrive but since
their first engagement didn't go great here for fire strays they're now a little bit stuck.
They're now going to be as powerful of an instrument. They've already lost out on binary to a wrath of
the seven seas sent out by magics and the rest of fire strays their disengagement path has not
put them in an in an enviable position. They are kind of stranded right now. And there is no raft
coming for them like fire strays and when it's so deep they're getting christmas presents for next
this year. This was not the rotation I was expecting. I liked the high ground
hella poor or the portal I should say, but just need to focus on taking it one
step at a time. Okay, just get the first tick on the objective. Okay, we've got
that going and let your folk do all the talking, looking at this Iron Man as your
solo rule is. Well, I am a coach. You at least have a lot of space to work with
here. There's some respawns are coming. I believe it's not these nostrils pelting
them the spores from across the map and fire straights despite grabbing that
early frag onto the heart seem to have been unable to do too much of a space. They have claimed the
hydra, which gives them a good place to try and work from. You can hear another armor overdrive
now being used by the Iron Man. The strike almost has themselves a resurrection as well.
The invisible boundary gives so much cover from which Sloppo can continue to beam down again and
again. Out comes the horn of process all in on to closer. Can they find a frag, break stuff
and may not have a coachie? Once not, can send them off in that inshore order as they get the
bubble as well. It's going to be very difficult to try and find a resurrection on this one as they are
so far out there. They're going to give it their best. Cestruid gets the pedometer out and counts
for steps. Derby there for the Re-Contest. The Raging War of Flush is going to give it a little bit
of additional staying power, but it's not doing everyone to everyone. If the hard loses out on the
end, Song Inferno, great focused fire from Fire Strays. The binary loses their ultimate as well.
Stung down of a feast of the Abyss and a quick dip into spawn from Arjun to get a touch more HP,
that is not going to be able to hold onto it alone.
Oh, Rose is good when it comes to the mechanics,
but three stuns from Blacks.
So the sorcerer Supreme go in Thanos mode here,
and Snoss finds the end of it.
It was a good initial invisible boundary from Fire Shrieze.
He created the safe haven and an anchor point.
He got initial two picks.
There was that portal to recontest from Crownfall.
But I don't know how this jab is mixing into the mix, right?
You don't really need speed for your Psylocke
if you're going to be defending in the fight coming to you.
and then you're just in the midst of everything.
You're getting a lot more power from an invisible boundary
than you are from an IS-Jeph,
although Yanna did at least claim the Mantis.
Firestrikes were still able to propel forward
with the wealth of ultimates that they had created
over several minutes in that fight,
which is gonna meet a more minimal time bank going forward.
The binary is on what he knows best, the Venom,
and almost with the Feast of the Abyss,
to get these helpers nice and low for Sloppo to finish off.
Oh, it could be a big block off the heels here.
Oh, Rosa, a little bit too late to pop them into your ram,
and so the Dark Maelstrom was able to take out the remainder of their health bar.
Now down on that main guard,
things start to get a touch more complicated for Crownsville,
and losing Sarlux not gonna be helpful at all.
A frenzied arrival squashes them under foot for hard,
can't stand up the Black Souls.
Dondomnitable advance.
Got it.
Just having a Star Lord that doesn't have an Invisal on the other side,
thank God for that ban,
and Igano's going to just have to make do without it
and fireshades are making do with all this momentum.
Now going for a portal to block the entry way
or to really force Crownfall to squeeze through,
but if Crownfall can re-surge in,
it's going to be a good fight for the dance
or the butterflies.
As long as you can try to take down closer
before the invisible boundary.
Oh, where's my squeeze on through?
That's the person who really needs to make that one happen.
Igano Koji, waiting for the wrath of Ultron 2,
be able to before they land,
knowing that they will be the primary target of that one.
How comes the Raging Royal Flash? This is where Crownfall needs to try and make something happen.
They've lost out on Rosa though, but Closest has been traded on the other side.
It's not supposed to plays in micro angles, so make sure there's always some cover to try and work around.
But when it comes to control with the point, Fire Shracing seems to be all over this finale.
And it falls through a boo-hoo to shut down the Vanguard to a there.
Yacht was always on an off angle on the Jeff Poo, so it seems like Crownfall's strat line is very safe.
And he's able to continue the resources, but Mached just gets a little too eager to get active.
They still don't even see the dance of the butterflies, but Albu is going to take matters into their own hands and almost abide themselves here.
Yeah, just debuffs the invisible woman, making sure that any miss is thoroughly punished, but not missing at this point.
Oh, the bounce is good for stuns! They're triplicate!
Oh, and the triumphant of stuns turns into a duo of causalities.
Crownfall find themselves surprised by Black Soul. Didn't know this pro had so much motion on the strange.
Uh, Crownfall, I don't think they've ever heard of stability, it's like they get so
eager to avenge their fallen teammates that you forget the whole point is to defend and
the firestress has got some extra staggers too, with three, almost three minutes for
the final point and these staggers, they're going to be setting up their next fight beautifully
along with assault resurgence and almost a galactic legend with such an open area of
Crownfall, leave that back hallway, they're going to be in a lot of trouble, I need to
crowd fall, take things slow and relax and build up towards these win conditions, aka the ultimates.
some of that damage towards the backline of Firestraight is going to be even more space
gained here by Fire.
Fawbro continues to have all the freedom in the world and almost the invincibility cake
to just be able to flank and a beautiful timing to come out of the smoke and to target Dabi
even with the fade away, crowd far, trying to keep their heads above water and Majed has
to save the day with the galactic legend but Abu is on what he knows best in this role
They try and pin down fire
strays before they can escape.
They do survive, though, and it's the retaliation from fire
strays that I'm really worried about.
Crowdfire are trying to maybe set up their galactic
ledge on this high ground here, but fire strays are
communicating. They know this is coming,
and I'll lose them a little bit of trouble.
The Ragey Royal heartbreaker might well be on the
counter. Ayano Koji gives it over a touch late,
and it is going to be all about the hunt now
from the Jared 50% extra damage
from the Ragey Royal flash, but it seems like
for now that this engage has been strong.
Suddenly everything explodes so everything's nothing until it's suddenly something and while Byrony will be able to probably get out with their life and their hulk form here, crown falls, they skid quite a bit.
And a huge royal flush though from Ayano, I thought Abu was cooked for sure, dropped a below half health when popping the ult and running down fire strays, but they never give up and they never surrender and time is of the essence here for fire strays.
Alright, skill issue, play phone for somebody and I'll coach you like they're going to be the main pick in the back.
In fact, some of them are Blacks, so we're just standing in the midst of this team with an eye like a moto.
Noticing that Cramp will still have control of the point instead.
We're just going to play a little bit more reserved inside of the invisible boundary, waiting for this eternal bomb to dissipate.
Three stuns yet again, Blacks, so just keeps on hitting them. It gets a triple vanguard. It's unbelievable.
Such a strong secondary vanguard for the Spire Strays team and when you don't have an Invis to push away a doctor
Strange like that. There's nothing to really negate except maybe a good bag need a bubble or shield and brosa speaking of which
He's to go big here with the meteor and target these straps so much over health
I was disgusting
1500 health gets chumped through rather quickly
But there's gonna be plenty of feeling coming their way from triple strategist now
it's not turned to get involved. Rosa XR, their own shield is broken in record time,
extra damage boost here onto the Galactic Legend of Armageddon,
maybe claiming desperation and legendary. There are no legends to be written here of the crown
fall defense, only the rubble of a once great empire. Fire Shraze I think definitely got a huge
advantage with the pick bands like I said having two star lords but only one has to deal with an
invisible woman just that invisible boundary and how he's able to section off your line of sight
on the ultimate and make it so you can't really target anyone but Slopo doesn't have that nuisance
can just go on flanks and there hasn't really been anyone that can stop him but he's also a very
measured duelist he's not going crazy he knows when fire strays have control of the situation
while Slopo can go on his little adventure so i'm really liking fire strays on how what angles
are taking around the fight while Crown Falls wind conditions have really felt
been around desperation of Abu being the one who leads and surges ahead as the rogue and
you need to see him and Rose that really work together. The hot on this third vanguard is going
to help the three more healthfuls on the front lines but it's the focus fire that I need to see
at a Crown Falls war. You start to see this interesting like crystallization of identity
for some of our teams where they're Mantis teams like their first protect is Mantis they work very
well off of a damage boost they try to have like a carry duelist player like a Sestroid or a Sloppo
and they put all of the resources into them whether it's the the anger enhancements these
are the Mantis all the imperative patch from the double damage boost from the Ultron as well
we saw that in our first matchup today as well and it managed to take that match from teams that
that you would expect to be a touch more powerful.
This Fireshry is capping the snap, by the way,
is an extremely challenging task to do.
So, Crownfall have a lot ahead of them
to try and catch up in this series,
and they have to perfect what's happening,
and their vanguards are getting chewed.
Blasto is absolutely on it right now, by the way,
with the Doctor Strange perfectly moderating himself,
just modulating between doing damage and blocking off fuels,
rarely using their shields for their own preservation,
because they know that with triple strategies,
it needs to take as much damage as possible
to feed over that ult charge.
Crown Falls is really getting affected by just still
figuring out their identity of what are their strengths
and how they're going to coordinate around it.
Because obviously the heroes you pick
change the way you play.
And no Elsa, no strong carry from the Crown Falls side
who are still waiting for that star power to really emerge.
Now I'm looking back at that to be Majed.
And if he's waiting to build that galactic legend
for the royal flush, but that's the big win condition
Ayano needs to set them forward with this ultimate coming up.
on the high ground. We guess we want the invisible one. We'll find her as well, but here comes the big
stall coming through from binary on the whole. A quick grab here, the sliver gamma clap would be
everything. And playing inside of a cloaking bag above the pure is everything. Majed knows their
win condition, but cannot allow Sopper to make this one work. That CP is going to come through from
Blacksode, but no, it's a touch late. Cranfall, get the job done. About the CP's at Fire Streets.
Got it. Maybe you use 30 or so seconds off, but Majed with that kind of desperate galactic
Legend at the end means they won't be able to carry that momentum through with the ultimate coming up and Rosa though now
There's not a galactic legend on the other side
They're looking to kick off at one of these strategists with that meteor M and obu because they're draining those
Ultimates expected to come out out of fire strays and that's how a crowd far going to take the initiative
Yes, my so just put the fear of God in them. The second looks like he's making a move for it
And I think about it everyone is looking his way and that opens up so many avenues the fire straights to find their self angle
A double bubble coming for it from Binary, and this is the Binary I wanted to see, man.
Who do you invest the MEA hoax?
Keep him on the green, boy!
And even the dives are like just the death ball from Crownfall.
I'm seeing Znaus to a lot of sleeps on Abu, on Fahad,
so it's forced this death pool to be a lot more measured and a lot more poke focused at a distance.
While Fire Shraze, if they don't get harassed, these strats are just gonna keep everybody alive forever in Black.
So he was good at faking it at the beginning, but now he actually has Ayavagamotto coming up
Yeah, this time for really real
That's what he's giving to a bunch of damage here
But can you stop the full momentum of crown full?
This game is not to try to catch all this aggression
You can see the extra vulnerability being given over here by Darby, but it seems like there's no
actual damage you can bring in all towards the back. Great shield play coming through from Rosa
Stopped many of the stones that the jet still falls on down because the damage boost is too much to try and deal with
A turn around here potentially, both from Prime Force for Hard and the Bank has used their skill issues.
Closer has themselves an invisible boundary. Do they decide to use the phone out of the hearts down with me?
I think knowing they're low, it might be a little bit too much to ask to send in another strategist ultimate.
I'll say once again, survive the storm of Gambit!
Just this back and forth, this Tog of War, this, oh, this exile!
It feels like an aura exile as well. Definitely minus 900 aura on that one.
But Fire Shraze, the Tog of Wards,
will be able to disengage and re-engage
and not invest too much.
A big i-Log of Moda, but Rosa has had big moments
on these bubbles, as you said.
Crownfall, Majed, we need to see that star power.
But Fire Shraze are marking him at all times.
They have fliers that can do that.
Cessor to Subgen for a reason.
He has a sharp eye to what Crownfall
has to have up their sleeve.
Double damage, Chris.
Majed simply can't win the Star Lord versus Star Lord
It's just mathematically too difficult, Binary has to move away, a nice headshot there is actually going to de-mech Binary potentially but no, straight back into the holt form.
Still green, still mean, still a fighting machine, destroyed, backed off by a mad cannon, fully charged in through from Rosa, around the back it seems to be answered.
It's a perfect answer from the meter end, sucking up all of that damage, and now more squishies need to be found by a mad shed and instead we're just going to look towards Binary who's not inside of that invisible boundary.
Those fire were able to stabilize a little bit off the invisible boundary.
You just have to play your life, respawn and vanish for the defense.
Here comes the Eye of Agamotto.
Nobody!
I think it may have stunned Darby, but should have instantly claimed by some gambit cards on the other side.
And finally, Crownfall have found a pretty succinct fight.
You can already hear Blackstar opening the portal for Recon-Testo.
He'll be up soon, but with now, no ultimates to really invest.
But at this point, it's about taking down as much time from Crownfall as possible.
All right, quickly hopping in onto cart, making sure that human's always there.
Binary's going to be able to rejoin their team on the cart in short order,
given how quickly Hulk moves around the battlefield.
360 centimeters, take Crownfall away from third point right here,
a boohoo up close and personal.
Black's O is going to be running low on that shield.
The exhibition comes down behind them.
The magical uniform to cut off the healing.
Majed under assault from both Binary and Slothoy moving together as one.
And Black Zoey's still only halfway towards the dive, and I don't know if the healing's not there for a boo-hoo.
The dagger store is just about a little bit too far away!
Another huge E! The dark ocean slacks the bones of Crownfall, and corrupts their flesh to its very core!
Ayanna Koji's got nowhere to go, wants it to go higher, but gets pulled down again by the invisible woman team of Black Zoey,
who's really been showing his stuff on the Doctor Strange. What an addition to the hero pool!
That was on the screen for that final portal. It's a big difference when Crownfall aren't running those triple vanguards.
They need to invest all of this healing or they're gonna lose the map.
Must be running low on shield now for Blacksore, but guess what?
Available again, binary keeping this point, contested, not taking any damage.
Blacksore with a mix of all of this VR Vagamoto ready to open. Will Crownfall be the one to shut, slow it down?
No stuns given over, and here come all of the ultimates from Crownfall. The Raging Royal flushed the end song inferno.
everything in the kitchen sink is thrown at firestrays and that minimal HP
Byry becomes incredibly angry Hulk is the strongest and Hulk is the crushiest
the fightiest the meanest the greenest is brutal and he's cunning or is he
cunningly brutal when it comes to Gork and Morty you can never really know
Dabby under the rest Chester takes them down running out of time and resources
despite all of the Ultimates used Crownfall can't get through seconds
One, two, three, and crown, crown fall have fallen.
Fire strays, stabilization is key to force crown fall off the triple vanguard to the
double.
It was a nice block from the Iowa mode from Abu.
Just give a chance in this fight, but man, the poke from the other side, you just, just
had to keep swapping if you're crown fall.
You needed the second duelist because you feel like you lack damage, but it was the damage boost that I think made all the difference in
Firestress favor with the Ultron and the Mantis
And that's where the Vanguard from Crown Hall really really suffered feeling like if they matched damage for damage
The Vanguard wouldn't be in so much trouble, but unfortunately the worst there was no clear answer for Crown Hall
I think a big thing to note here too is like the highest
not really one of Black Souls heroes, that we really considered a major part of his kits
prior to this season, but what a turnaround to add this Doctor Strange in the neutral with
the Invis is doing absolute bits. Let's get Vod's opinion on all this as they have been
sitting back watching Brody their mouth again.
I think a big thing to note here too is like the highest amount of final hits we saw from
Madrid was 9, and then we saw that almost from all of the Stratus on the side of Fire
Strays so they were getting as involved as they could destroyed by getting in for the first time
During this ignite preseason really showed up big
But it's the entire team effort round fire strays that rallied together
Proved that they were the better squad in this matchup and a four-shape or groundfall
This loss does mean it that their chances to make the playoffs are over
But they can still play spoiler and even help fire strays potentially because they play against a reason later on as well
So that's definitely going to be a one to watch out for it later on this weekend
But I mean all the praises to fire strays that took the week to have their training arc is what we basically saw here
And now everyone has leveled up lemon absolutely and I was a big fan of binary on the whole because like
Which poison do you want to pick between the venom or the Hulk?
But just the eggs on control where and when the fight was going to take place
So you and crowd call we're trying to play this talk of orders this engage and counteraction
action and when the Hulk is exiling you, you're going to be forced to fight. You don't want
to sacrifice your anger, which is often what the exile is going to be targeting for wards.
And despite having a gambit, it felt like Crownfall's winning condition wasn't very clear. They
haven't shown too much of an ending night because it was banned, but I'm hoping Crownfall
will be able to explore more of their hero pools in the duelist department to try and
have better strengths in the damage department.
to work on for Crownfall for their last series of the group stage, but also going into stage
one as well.
This is just the pre-season.
All these teams you'll see in some capacity, again, there's only a little bit of a roster
shuffle that can happen in between pre-season and stage one, but for the most part, you
can only trade out three of your main roster players.
When I talk to some of the teams, they're like, okay, we're not going to make too many
changes unless we approach from some of the other teams just based on how much talent
there is in MRC, comparative to what we see in other regions for that.
maybe some inner team changes, but apart from that, typically we'll see the same rosters.
And I hope this team of Crownfall Six together works through it, kind of expands their hero pool a
little bit because I feel like that's what the biggest weakness for this team is.
Yeah, Crownfall. I mean, I was glad to see Abu on the road because that was a huge part of their
success on MRC because they kind of got a taste of their own medicine. But like Crownfall, we're
always chasing everyone, pinning them down with the road and kind of forcing people into awkward
positions, but now this was done to them, but it was courtesy of a Hulk, so crown paul just
weren't able to match band for band, if you will, with the doulas, but it also means that
M'jad had to face an invisible woman, which is a whole different ball game versus a sloppah who
didn't have that problem. I really like this composition that we saw from Fire Strays, especially
swapping in, destroyed for this final map, giving them some time under their belt, of course, but
but also the cop worked out so much better having this triple strategist line up like that.
Yeah, I think it's destroyed having both the Ultron and the Atom in their pool of often used strategists is very important,
especially when we saw the really weird, but very well resorted first fight through the portal with the Soulbond from the Atom
to make sure that you could play such a vulnerable duelist like an Ironman and potentially get the Droplock or so much.
It was a bit of a weird rotation, but it worked out in the end.
We'll of course be able to talk to the team about it.
Exactly, we do have our final interview of the day from the winners in Fire Strays.
As it's black, they are here to give us a breakdown of their great plays
that they were able to showcase throughout that series.
Welcome to the broadcast. Congratulations on your win.
And tell us the gospel of Doctor Strange, because you seemed unstoppable.
Yeah, I mean, it's like a hero that we played a lot the past week, because like after the
result we did last weekend, suddenly we were like we lost against Radisport and then we
lost against Rison Gaming.
So this week we really practiced a lot and we focused on strange and good mainly and
And that's why I was completely ready to give everything on Strange too much hours on the hero right now.
Was that the main change you guys made between last week and this one?
Because it seems like whatever practice you were getting in the last week has had a turn your team around majorly.
Yeah, I mean, we did two. One of the major changes is that we also...
Like the last map, it was Sestroid in and not Demon,
because Demon is like our main DPS,
but we swapped with Sestroid on Convergence and ConvoyMaps
because we think it's a better pick for us.
So that's one of the main changes that we did this week.
And talk to me about how you coordinate around your team,
because as a group player,
I loved watching you play on Krakowa,
And you're giving you a lot of kudos on how you were able to use your walls to block everyone off
and which lets Lapo go crazy.
So how are you able to communicate with your team when you set up Lapo like that?
Yeah, I mean, so basically the come is like, especially when I'm on the road,
I'm the one talking about my cooldowns, like especially the big wall, you know,
because it's a big cooldown, a long cooldown.
So every time I am coming to, like I have a good wall,
I'm always telling my team that I will place a big wall, so then we can play on that big wall
Because I can like block the enemies and then we can play on that big opportunity
so
That's why we are mainly like coordinated with slo-bo like you always understand me and what I want to do
So like even on stage I always have good follow-up on every ult that I do
and every hit that I hit, it's always a nice follow up from the team because everyone listens to the comms.
Do you like the comms? They're pretty unlock for you guys as well.
But going into your final series that you have on Saturday and Sunday,
you're playing against Virtus.Pro, the former and current world champions,
and then you're playing against Vision.
What is the kind of game plan that you guys have to prepare yourself for two very different matchups?
Well, to be honest, against VP, we will try to, like, put a forefront comp, you know,
like try to surprise them with an exotic composition, you know, like some things that you don't
usually see.
And then against, wait, what was it?
A vision.
A vision, yeah, thank you.
I can't say what we will have against them but it will be like we need to win so we will put our best
comp in and what we are the most strong at you know.
Well thank you Blacks for joining us for the broadcast here really appreciate you giving
us your insight and congratulations again on your first win we hope to see more from you.
I was awesome to hear from the player on fire strays and they got their first win.
We got to hear some insight.
We saw exactly why they were able to kind of turn things around.
I love the focus on the Groots and the Doctor Strange they were talking about from the start
of it and then also just taking each series a little bit of a different approach and that's
kind of what we got to have some team do 11 against this first roster coming up.
You gotta do something out of the box on Orthodox Exotic Composition as he was saying, do try
and take them from their throne.
Yeah, and to take out one of your, I guess he said, main, uh, duelist and demon to have
Cess Strait come in and have 100% win rate and ignite.
I don't know, it's not for itself, but that was their first win and hopefully for them
the first of many because it's still gonna be an uphill battle because Firestray still
have Virtus.
and that is their next match, actually.
It's a lot on the line.
You got to play against the best team in the world,
and then you got to play your match
to pretty much secure your spot in the playoffs
for the pre-season.
So a lot of line for all these teams.
You know that Fire Strays are going to give it their all.
Reason Gaming now looking back and saying,
man, I wish we did a little better in our series
and got the win versus Rad, so we didn't have to worry
about the results of that one.
Maybe feeling a little bit more confident though,
going against Crownfall later on, but there is some great results that we had from the matches today that we can go through.
We got to see some beautiful performances from all the teams across the board, some teams making their way all the way into the playoffs,
cementing their spot, getting those three wins necessary for it.
Unfortunately, a couple of teams falling by the wayside going 0-4.
You're talking specifically about it towards the future of these groups.
Rad, I think they really just showcased how they can lock in regardless against the
adversity that they face even with the connection issues that they mentioned in that first map
like that. Yeah, Rad definitely have done it. They've experienced the map loss, you know, like
it's kind of important to experience that map loss before you get into a playoff bracket when
you've got that safety margin of your qualifications. Like, okay, now we know what we need to scrum
against if we go against teams that play a lot of mantis like we booked them for
scrims over the following week we try and figure out how we're gonna play against
that damage boost we're gonna try and mirror it or we're gonna try and out
maneuver it's not like a double boost. I think just looking at the matches today I
was super proud of reason to be able to do that first map against Brad like like
they said breaking that perfect record we saw VP have not missed a beat from week
to week they beat down a vision and you could skip that one but the
The Heretic's Navi is an unskippable match for anyone who's just tuning in.
That was the match of the day and we did not lie.
I mean, a lot of people expecting that one to go the other direction or even be closer
than it was.
I mean, we even saw the Miss Band, of course, from Team Heretic's, and they're like,
ah, we got this either way.
They locked in and they put up the numbers necessary to prove that they were the better
team, at least on the day and with the compositions that they were able to showcase.
And also, shout out to the Captain America fans out there.
He's still good.
have to be able to kind of emulate your game. I mean it's gonna be hard because he's a really good
Captain America but still it's not all doom and gloom is all I gotta say on that one. But talking
a little bit about the other matches as well I mean looking ahead for the future of the series
that there are as well I mean I guess actually going back to the recap here. Peps I think is a
team that I still don't have like a full read on here like they they look really solid but that's
against Pulsar and they struggled against some teams, but they also looked decent against the
Navi roster who we just saw lose Team Heretic. So if they potentially bring it to Team Shikigami
tomorrow, they're going to look that much better to potentially steal that group spot from Alter
Esports. Yeah, I'd be, I'd be very impressed. I would love to see Pepsniker map off of Shikigami.
I don't think they'll win, but I think this is a team that's had a little bit less time together
and is definitely growing into her own skin.
We've seen a lot of these teams,
but of course, getting one more week of scrims and pre-season,
turn their feet around majorly.
Like we've seen heresics do this, we've seen fire do this,
like fire strength in particular, going from zero to a...
Yeah.
Very, very good.
So I'm thinking about team perhaps might be one of these teams
that really scales with time,
and I'd love to see them at least put up a big fight
against Shigami, who I think are a really strong team.
And you're going to love to see these teams and playoffs because we've officially locked in heretics, Navi, Virtus.Pro, and Rad for playoffs.
And only two more teams from each group will be joining them as the standings have shown.
But audible, this is only day one, I guess, of this weekend.
Yeah, we have more matches tomorrow.
I'll be in the casting booth with leg day and then Lemon gets to rest her voice a little bit and chill in at the hoax seat as well.
So we're gonna have eps versus cheeky gami which honestly after the peps win against pulsar matters a lot more than it did initially
vision versus rad also very important air ticks versus alter e-sports
That's a kind of you need at least a map for alter e-sports to say in the competition
Navi versus pulsar unfortunately, maybe not mattering as much
But if Navi do go down in that they could fall even further in the standings and cheeky gami look good
So cheeky gami are rooting for team pulsar into that series, but it's been a great day of competition
We do have to end off though with a little bit of some costumes that we have to talk to you a little bit about here as well
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Yeah, and also there's some teases in that map of everyone's gossiping about the characters or the heroes that could be coming out, but
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Shout out to the co-streamers who've been with us throughout the entire time.
Big shout out to J3 as well, specifically on it, that one, it too.
But it's been a great show day of some action here in EMEA ignite for the preseason for 2026
But a great debut lemon for you and I and a welcome back tour for leg day
And we're gonna be keeping it going for the rest of the weekend
But that's all the time we have it for today
We have to take a bit of a breather before you get some America's action
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