Everybody stand up from left to side, running up.
Time to turn the sun up.
Points on the board, put numbers up, tip up.
It ain't might have seen me coming up.
Because you in the gang, that don't make you one of us.
Hands up, everybody stand up.
Hands up, everybody stand up.
Hands up, everybody stand up.
Get your flags in the air.
Put your hands up, put your hands up.
Run it up, run it up.
Put your hands in the air and you bust them all apart
Well, you know you the one after play to them all
Try them, we gon' turn it out, this is how we do it
This is how we do it, yeah, I'm hyped up
They gon' turn the lights up, talkin' greasy on the feed
Like I'm hyped up, yeah, I'm hyped up
They gon' turn the lights up, understand
I'm ready to the top, huh
If I'm hungry, I'm gonna hop down to A.C.E.
Come with me, this is how to pop out the dummies
You can learn to make it some money, make the screamin' A.C.E.
I ain't got a hand, but bitch, they love me, slur her face
But it's still K-wussy, never that song, no next to us
See my nana, no my nana, I'm the T.V.U
But that body, but that caca, I'm a per-anamitru
No resistance, no connection, I'm the best in the crew
But my, no gas, if they still like a G.C.E.
All I want to know is
Saka
You got me back to the finish
And I saw the moves in the show
You ain't got to come with me
But it's something in this shit, yeah
No time when I say yeah
But I'm showing out of your home
Try and I'll tell you what's off the building
Can drive to my younger years
I'll pop back when I hit me
And I ain't seen no one with me
Oh, one and something under
That's the only way to run it
Ready to see the snow
Yeah, I've got to keep it coming
Be brave, affirmation
Never real gone
Just throw up some more points
Gotta make it feel so
Go get it, get it, go
The gas in the tank was there
Numbers on the bag got the tax in the name
What's the purpose of breaking curses?
My hundred curses were serving
So electric I feel discharges
My urge used to be the greatest
Forget the status, it's crazy
I almost gave it, I couldn't take it
What's the pay off?
I ain't worried if I lay off
Don't need to pay off
I'ma work it until it take off
Follow my notes
Until I pick up the gold
I'm like here it goes
I ain't given nothing but chaos
You know that the price of that mission ain't being gifty
Gotta stay consistent on long journeys of distance
This is my perspective, this is only persistence
Some call it legend and never so super sick
Gotta go and get it, get it, go and get it, get it, yeah
On the wrong way to my song winning every year
I set the tone when I'm on the wrong for it in the air
Shed the stash, this is facts, I'ma get it anywhere
Gotta go and get it, get it, go and get it, get it, yeah
On the wrong way to my zone within every air
Check the tone when I'm on the wrong fill it in the air
Check the stats, the subs, I'ma get it anyway
I give it a clinic
I stop and I finish
I give it a clinic
I stop and I finish
I just want all of my dividends.
I don't need one of my money.
I don't need a papercliff.
I'm on a mission to get him a vision
to give him fresh and exiled.
I give it and get it.
I start when he finished.
I handle my business.
Yeah, that's what I'm living.
I go off to him.
And I ain't got no libs.
Ain't no precedent.
I just keep wondering.
Want it, want it, want it.
I just keep running
I just keep running
I just keep running
I just keep running
I ain't been crazy, I ain't been crazy
Did you think I'd take it from you?
I know they hit, I know they hit
I know they hit, no
I got the lead, I got the lead
I got the lead, so we shot
I am a Flash! I am a Flash!
I've got the same moments!
I am a Flash! I am a Flash!
You see that training for me?
I know it is, I know it is, I know it is!
Baby, you know me!
I got the same lips, I got the same lips,
I got the same moments!
I am a Flash! I am a Flash!
I am a Flash!
I easily like you, I start from the finish,
I handle my billers,
It's all I'm living, that's what I'm trying to do
And I ain't got no limits, and I'm pretending
I just do what it takes
I'm focused on what's to go to me
Position only makes the competition burnin' me
Mini try to hang, but not too many can run with me
I wanna try to run, let it go
Wanna count to three, one, two, three
Let's go, call me the best cause I'm letting my best show
I'm coming with a force, it's got to do.
Either I'm fast, or you are too slow.
I'm not telling you what I think, I'm telling you what I know.
And you don't have to like me, because I know you need me for show.
As best you believe me, this is hard work, never about this is easy.
It's tough, it's tough.
Be good, ain't never cutting up.
It's tough, it's tough.
If you're all alone, never give it up.
It's tough, it's tough.
Be good, ain't never cutting up.
It's tough, it's tough
Give y'all all of our every spirit
I was born ready to play
A hustle and a grind for it every day
They say a battle tested in every run
Catch me if you can, I'm ahead and you ain't
I came too far for me to backslide
I took off and didn't land, I'm not fly
If you need some job, turn out your bad guy
Go and ask them, they'll say I am them
I'm gonna tell you what I think
I'm gonna tell you what I know
And you don't have to like me
But I know you need me for show
This is hard work, never gonna go out of this is easy.
It's tough, it's tough.
Be calm, they never cut it off.
It's tough, it's tough.
If you're all right, let me get it off.
It's tough, it's tough.
Be calm, they never cut it off.
It's tough, it's tough.
If you're all right, let me get it off.
There's an iron wind.
And iron hands.
This is how you win
It's how you win
If you get that job
Get up!
Get out!
I know that's right
If you get that job
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Got it like a landline
Won't let them talk, I'm a train run
Off the road to my city
Three lines, that's a big bang
Top ten, I'm a prospect
I'm probably too apathy
Top ten, I'm a prospect
We on the way
We on the way
We on the way
You keep on black next to the best of our lives
You keep on black next to the best of our lives
We don't play
We don't play
We don't play
We don't play
It's game time and you don't play
I
It's hidden under the bed, just a sugar cup with you
So help me, help me, help me
Click, click, click, click, click, all right
I
I
Now it's rebels on your scene, uh, it's the season with the timeline, uh, so proud to tell them get they right, right.
Gets me speeded through the traffic with the limelights, headed to my future that's the limelight.
G-O, A-T, G-O, that's pay me, we woke, they sleep, we cold, ain't we?
Don't need that extra question, cause we showing up, cause when it's going down, baby going up.
I know.
Turn around.
Head to level of the team.
Love.
Now it's reveling everything.
Got the keys.
Oh, yeah.
I did.
We're clean.
I went with the beat.
Across the tree.
Turn around.
Head to level of the team.
Love.
Now it's reveling everything.
Got the keys.
In the face.
The teeth.
The teeth.
The body.
The teeth.
Now it's RIP, we let it bang.
Now it's RIP, we let it bang.
Now it's RIP, we're going to see it go.
Drive down to get at them.
Lock down like it's practice.
Pop out to get active.
They got it so it's the ruler.
Right now I'm the captain.
They love cuss me to shoot us.
We team up with no tag on us.
Yeah.
I had to level up the team.
Love, now it's rave with everything.
Get it, again, I get it.
When things are waiting, when things are about to change.
Love, now it's rave with everything.
Love, now it's rave with everything.
It's the team, the G, the O, the A, the G.
How did you want to ball?
Are you going to chase the G's?
You're gonna chase the dreams of nobody gonna make the call
Don't need crowds of people to cheer you on
When the light's turned off, that's how you know who you are
Said you want it all, hate you on the phone
You're gonna chase the dreams of nobody gonna make the call
Don't need crowds of people to cheer you on
When the light's turned off, that's how you know who you are
Never risk it all, talking for the nap
Puttin' up some shots and ain't nobody make the sound
Headed down from the center, time to look around
Life has a way of keeping feet on solid ground
Now how do you like to handle it?
Jokers all on the mantle in it
But if you're when you tired, you'll make you the perfect candidate
When the crowd screams, how do you gon' keep the candle in it?
Sunroof, for you, I'll always try to dismantle it
Feel, keep it authentic
It ain't all about winning
Top man, verse, time out
Is about how you spend it
I'll be a good midi
Right or down or go get it
Right around on that side of town
Tell yourself you don't get it
The person's in the chair, the only way you should carry it
Her pure gold, they try to label the ferries
No validation, that's the type of man we stand for
The cave is the name, that way the crime is what we plan for them
Say you want it all, hate you on the bomb
A youth of chasing games is nobody gonna make the call
Don't need cross to people to cheer you on
When the light's turning off, that's how you know who you are
Yeah, say you want it all, hate you on the bomb
A youth of chasing games is nobody gonna make the call
Don't need crowds of people to cheer you on
On a lifetime long, that's how you know who you are
Play this anime and it'll illustrate
Rock it it on a daily, active train
All friends like the Olympics, I'm getting 10-card
Pull up with your windows, dear, they are your family
Focus on who I wanna be, not the one of these
Long live the great, that's a submarine
Busy as a bumblebee, the way that the world
A couple on the main, gotta meet you anything you wanna be, huh?
Just hit the point and I'll be trying
Everything was right, life's bright
Kills with the nerves make your story die
I'm fighting night when it snicks your soul
Someone never lied, trying to calculate
The purpose got us none of your desire
They know that I'm not it, can't believe that they got it
Blows up in that constant, they can't believe that I stopped
Buckle in my rodeo, they're glibbering it on wilder
Don't matter what happens, yeah, I'm still in here, stop
I say they want it all, don't you want a ball?
Are you gonna chase the kids? Nobody will make the call
Don't need crowd to be put into your own
When the lights are on, guys, I don't know who you are
Say you want love, or hate you on the phone
Do you want to be driven, or nobody will make the phone
Don't need crowd to be put into your own
When the lights are on, guys, I don't know who you are
I'm the champ, I'm in one, running up and then I keep throwing
Running up, pumping like a truck
I'm running up, running up, running like wind
Drunk in a truck, I'm burning it down, I'm banging it down
Drunk in a truck, I'm getting it, getting it, getting it
Drunk in a truck, I'm burning it down, I'm burning it down
I'm at the top, back to the top
I'm at the top, I can't be stopped
Crazy like Trump, I was a nice way of having a nice win
Crazy like Trump, I'm better than him, I'm better than him
Crazy like Trump, I can't take you in, I can't take you in
Crazy like Trump, I'm better than him, I'm better than him
I'm at the top, back in the dark
I'm at the top, I can't be stopped
I am the king, I'm making no profit
I
I don't know what to say, I don't know what to say
I don't know what to say, I don't know what to say
Do my daddy, do my daddy, actually do my daddy, do my daddy
Yeah, it's been a minute, on call, shining, calling, got it, on, on, on, it works out
fine, bring it number five, name all your legs, got to do it right to the guy that's
fine, wrong, that crowd knows they praise me, I'm not scared to go past all that hard
work that they need, yeah, well, illuminate the whole city, jump against the thinnish,
I'm on the wrong wheel, you're my only win in every year
Second time when I'm on the wrong, fill it in the air
Check the status, this is cash, I'ma get it anywhere
Like a drug, get it, get it, go, fill it, get it, yeah
I'm on the wrong, fill it in the air
Second time when I'm on the wrong, fill it in the air
Check the status, this is cash, I'ma get it anywhere
You can take a train, see the games in the rain
Like a age, my days, I don't need to hide complaints
Closes the gas in the tank, was that it?
Numbers on the back, got a tag saying that it
What's the purpose of breaking curses?
Right, I'm a courier, for sure
So electric, I feel discharging
My heart used to beat in craters
But get the status, it's crazy
I almost gave and I couldn't take it
What's the pay off?
I ain't worried about it, lay off
Don't need the day off
I'ma work it until it takes off
Follow my nose
Until I think of the gold
I ain't giving nothing to chaos
You know that the price of that mission ain't me giftin'
Got a state that says it all on journeys of business
This is not perspective, this is only persistence
Some call it legend and that was a super stick
I gotta go, get it, get it, go, get it, get it, yeah
On the road with it, am I strong with it in every year
Check the tone when I'm on the road, fill it in the air
Check the stash, this is facts, I'ma get it anywhere
I'ma get it anywhere
Gotta go, get it, get it, go, get it, get it, yeah
On the road with it, with my song with it, every year
Check the tone when I'm on the road, fill it in the air
Check the stress, this is the gas, I'ma get it, yeah
I'm gonna be on my own, in that car too
I'm gonna be on my own, in that car too
I'm gonna be like you inside, I'm gonna be out my mind
I'll be on my own, right out of the front
Bring that fresh dude up right now, that's like a rhyme
All I remember was that cool one in my mind
Can't you hear me? Can't you hear me?
This ain't no accident, can't you hear me?
If I wonder, if I wonder, if I go off, I'll get the more and more.
If I wonder, if I wonder, if I go off, I'll get the more and more.
With all my sweat, I'll never be here to stay.
You know that I'm costly, bring it all over.
With all my sweat, I'll never be here to stay.
But now, on the scene, here's all you need.
Look at the mirror.
Look at the mirror.
Anybody know you can't do anything
You can't take no plastic, you can't do anything
I get that numbness, I get that numbness
I get that go-o, I'm making more go-o
I get that numbness, I get that numbness
I get that go-o, I'm making more go-o
Get on my way, I'ma be here today
Do the long cross way, bring it on, more, more, way
I'm just a fresh brand new
I'm just like the one and two
It's the one and me
Yeah, it's the one and you and me
Yeah
One, never fall
Take it up, take it up, take it up, take it up
We just want to know
We just take control
We won't never fall
Take it out, take it out, take it out
We just want to know
We just take control
We won't never fall
Take it up, take it out, baby
It's funny money listen never lose to showmen
20-20 vision, see that you've got full glass.
Student out of here, but let's just skip it, no class.
Would you mind if I give you a chance to hear me?
You wanna win, you gotta grind, and that's the whole story.
Win another thing of news, listen to Joan Boomi.
Pay attention to nine from all the ones that came before me.
Would you mind if I give you a chance to hear me?
This is the version, let's say you should let it burn.
Run around the world, be moving, we gon' let it turn.
And run with us to New Kaki, and that's what I desire.
Would you mind if I give you a chance to hear me?
Ta loco to loco demoneo
Ta loco to loco loco demoneo
Otra noche que ya te encontré
Que Maru tiene hambre de mi
Que sera de mi
Yo no se, yo no se, ven y pega a tamir
Otra noche que ya te encontré
Que Maru tiene hambre de mi
Que sera de mi
I don't know. I don't know.
Come and hit me.
Come and hit me.
I can't stop.
It's bigger than you.
Seven in the end.
Six in the middle.
Buh!
And it's out of the round.
Six, six, six.
A lot of money, but it's...
It's a lot of money, but it's...
And I bite if I have to bite.
And I bite if I have to bite.
Tómal mundo estaba loco loco demoniao
loco demoniao
Tómal mundo estaba loco loco demoniao
Tómal mundo estaba loco loco demoniao
Otra noche que ya te encontré
que marion tiene hambre de mi
que sera de mi
yo no se, yo no se
I can't even get to the face
I'm never gonna try to relax
I'm back in the stairs
Back in your base
Game time, game time, game time
They got to step on the lima
I can't like a lima
Oh my god!
It's a massive blab!
Blab!
Game time, game time, game time
They got to step on the lima
Welcome back to Sao Paulo Brazil here for the second day of the first 10, today we're
back for the rest of the team that we haven't seen already in beautiful Brazil and God it
has been insane yesterday.
Five games on the first series, G2 won the second one so I'm pretty happy about this
one and here we see that team is getting ready, signing the mirror as usual as we're
We're going to see JDG against G2 in the first series of the day.
Fala Galera, everybody, Tudu Bang, how are you doing, guys?
Amazing, good morning!
We're right in early!
I know, I'm a little bit more nervous than you, you guys got your 3-0 yesterday.
I'm hoping that we, North American fans, also are going to get some wins because it didn't
go so well for us in America's Cup.
Look at my voice!
They did so well!
Yeah, he's a man to be feared.
But caps is Jordan, right?
They're both they're both playing
really well right now. I mean,
that's something that's
something that's a good player.
Who's pipping? That's a good
player. Okay, okay, okay. But
yeah, they've been playing
super well. G2 coming with the
three zero yesterday. All the
India fans love this. Yeah, I
bet you're happy. We're
hoping to share in some of
that joy today. What else do
we say? Yeah, I think we
have a lot of fun today.
What else do you see this day?
I remember, oh no.
The Mel game was good though.
Yeah, but it is expected.
I didn't fairness.
Even in the LCK
he had some
interesting phrase.
Last year, before the year.
Like he has been doing a lot better.
So it was sad to see him get
first love in almost every.
And another reaction from social media
we saw yesterday, a team as well.
team as well. They didn't show up on the rift but they showed up in style on stage.
I'm sorry, that's really mean but yeah. I appreciate the home touch here with the hat.
Yeah, looking good. Looking good. Looking good. Who else looks really good? I think Diablo looks
really good. Oh yeah. One of the hottest takes we had yesterday coming from tag is he actually
the best LCK talent we've seen since Karrie. I want to ask you guys. I mean yes, I feel
like he for sure is. I want this guy on my team. That's the type of AD carry that you want
on your team he's always putting out extra pressure getting you extra you know space on the map.
Yeah I mean he is amazing and I think I'm really happy to see newer talent kind of matriculating
up through the system because the current LCK players are so good I know they're not going
anywhere so it was it was nice to see like some actual fresh LCK talent coming up and
Diablo has been insane since last year and he's only getting better. He's got the killer
He doesn't know any fear.
He has the confidence and they got the confidence and they showed it yesterday.
The effects should jump out.
Yeah, that was a bloody series.
I mean, five games love silver scrapes on this first one.
Yeah, so fun fact going into this match being K fear acts.
Yeah of all the teams at first hand did have the second highest combined
kills per minute through playoff.
Oh, only team that was higher was Team Secret Wales.
Okay.
So as we saw also from their series yesterday, but I do want to point out look at this
because we've had a very bloody day one and with over one combined kill per minute for both
series. So we'll see if that trend continues today. I will say the teams playing today are some of the
slower teams we have including Ryan who is the slowest team if you're going by like bloodiness
rating as combined kills per minute. Yeah we were supposed to get the averages for international
tournament up here but the average is for combined kills per minute usually is like 0.9 so very very
action packs uh much more than than normal going into the tournament the global average I believe
was 0.875 so yeah we'll see if that's a new patch effect or a Thursday effect especially with the
teams that we have coming into today let's take a look on group A and what happened yesterday
because as we said it's five games on the first season, BLG taking it in the end, G2 3-0, not clean, but nothing ever is with them.
What are your takeaways from the first day, guys?
I mean, the BLG BFX series I thought was really, really fun, especially down to the game number five.
I thought Shun played really well. It's nice to see Shun back with BLG.
They are also not the cleanest, you know, but no one really expected it to be clean.
I feel like we saw everything from BLG right like the good and the bad the exact team that you kind of expect to be here
They have the hands their team fighting can be sometimes disjointed in their decision-making can also sometimes be disjointed
I was happy to see shun back and today
We now have JDG trying to take down the juggernaut the tournament favorite. Yeah in Gen G
We were gonna talk about this in a bit
But like I have you two on set. How do we feel about lion versus now? I have no horse in this game
So I'm just gonna chill but you guys okay, let's be a bit anxious
I know that we are coming hot off America's cuffs area eight owed us
But I think it's gonna be a lot better for lion here
This is a different representative for us and with what we've seen recently from this team
How controlled they are with everybody basically joining behind inspired leadership all of the comms listening that we get
It really does seem like they have a very clear path towards victory here
Okay, you know loud is not a super fast team
And if you try and go kind of slow in team fight versus an inspired team that usually doesn't go well for you
So I have some confidence in lying to you know redeem the honor of North America hold on to that cope
That's a bit later. I want to talk about the first series
We're gonna have there is gonna be Gen G versus JDG a very different JDG compared to the team
we knew from last year and is it fair to say that people didn't really expect them to be
here?
Let's talk about the roster first, Emily.
Yeah, I absolutely didn't expect them to be here.
The reason why we're pulling this up though is because last time we saw JDG as an organization,
it was when they were trying to get that Golden Road run at 2023 Worlds, failed to
do so with that team they had and now they have a much fresher, kind of younger
team, especially with two players that we're going to talk about in a minute in Shoshun,
Vampire, and then also yet another Tabe coached team coming to an international tournament.
And this was their run through LPL playoffs.
And the Tabe point is a really big one because you're saying, oh, you didn't expect them
to be here.
Yeah, because you thought maybe AL would be here that morning.
I did think AL would be here.
Actually, Kovic.
Maybe AL.
Tabe, Tabe leaves, he beats AL, they kick him down to the lower bracket, and then
JDG make it to an international, I mean, there's so much to say about Tabe and his success on joining new teams and building up, you know, rosters and getting them to have success very quickly.
But this JDG team overall, even from just last year, they're also four players different. So yeah, very exciting stuff. Yeah, this would show almost the entire roster. And I want to take a look at the experience gap.
We did this yesterday, too, right?
With BFX and BLG, but taking a look,
is it Gala's holding down the fort?
Look at his chest, look at his chest, yeah.
The other time we have, like, because obviously,
putting this roster together, the idea is, OK,
you take these two from CFO, right?
We know mid-jungle work well together.
Shaoxu's stayed, and then Gala and Vampire.
Gala's holding down the fort, kind of.
And JDG has qualified a lot from PCS slash LCP.
Tobbe actually gave a nice interview
he was talking about Gala teaching Vampire as well
and the 2v2 coaching and stuff,
but this is so exciting for both Vampire and Shao Shu
to have their first international.
A lot of people have been really looking forward to it for them.
Yeah, I mean we don't often see new players,
especially coming from LPL, rising to the international stage.
I mean, so for people who are not familiar
with top and support from JDG, what do we know of them?
open. Yeah. So Shoushuu and Vampire, you kind of see their timelines from 2023. One thing
I do want to point out is that Shoushuu actually did come up initially through the RNG kind
of LDL, LSPL like Academy System. Yeah. And Vampire came up through the EDG Academy System
on a team that was actually really, really fun to watch. But yeah, this is kind of,
it's really rare. We touched upon this a little bit at the beginning of the day
with BFX. It's really rare that we see newer players kind of matriculate up to these premiere
rosters that qualify for international events. So it's both of their first kind of big international
event. I believe it was Shao Shi who did play in Asian in Asian games previously.
But it's their first big Riot international event. I'm coming against Gen G. Yeah,
That's a big task.
Congratulations.
Welcome to Right International Appointments.
You get to play against Genji.
It's their tournament news.
A lot of people have a positive take
on getting to play a very strong opponent.
You get to play stage games
versus the best team in the world.
And yes, everybody has Genji
as the best team in the world.
And they should be favorites
to win the entire tournament.
Maybe they can take students' advice
we're here. We're going to
practice. As you see this Gen
G roster is an absolute jugger
nought this year and I think
the main difference for me
starts in the jungle Coby,
where you and I always love
to look is he back? Canyon
back. Here he is. This is from
their final series. He's
going to get spot on the
word here that the effects
actually place, but they did
to do a massive amount of damage to the Gen.G bot lane, so they felt safe enough to push
up here. Canyon, after his full clear, decides not to back, flashes the Rakan, goes in for
the kill. Here's the next play I want to set up. BFX also think they're super comfortable
doing this because they had previously pushed in bot lane. However, you'll notice that
Gen.G actually have more vision award is about to be placed in that bot try as well.
So as they start the Drake, this is a fantastic collapse from Gen.G because as everyone is
going to go on to Canyon, first of all, they just burn a lot on him.
He buffers the Taliyah, does EQ out, goes in, smites the Drake, and even though he ends
up dying, this was kind of the big turning point where you're like, okay, Gen.G, you're
just going to roll through this game.
Canyon is back.
Canyon is the Jungle Goat, okay?
Okay, Katie does the jungle go, and he's gonna prove it again at this tournament.
Yeah, I think he's looking better than last year.
And it's not world, so they can't actually win.
That's what I'm thinking here.
But on the other side, we talked about it, even if JDG is lacking experience here,
they have the sixth man of the roster in the likes of Tabe.
We know how much Tabe can do for every team he's been working with for the past years.
Yeah, he always builds them up, finds some international success,
and he keeps on doing it team after team after team.
My personal favorite thing too is listening to his interviews
that he says and he says, when he joins a new team,
his most high priority is to get the player's trust first.
So with all these accolades, yeah, he could come in
and just start ordering people around,
but that's not how he does things.
You know, get the player's trust.
He really values himself even playing solo queue,
still playing up to masters in solo queue
at the very least and trying his own ideas
and implementing them.
And I hope that he's gonna be able to put up
a good fight versus Gen G here
because he has a decent record actually all the time
versus the...
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
I think Piggybacking on your point,
I think that's reflected in his drafts
where he always kind of retools his draft strategy
for the players he has.
This is actually his record versus Gen G.
I mean, that's way better than almost anybody.
Spoiler, my predictions,
I think it's gonna get a little worse.
Ah, true.
but he does, he's very well aware of this organization, right?
He has beat them in the past with other orgs.
And now he looks, she take them on now on JDJ.
Yeah, I mean, he also talked specifically about HongQ
and how HongQ has practiced a lot of different champions
and we're all best of fives here.
We're fearless best of fives.
So we'll see what topic can cook this time around.
And it's one of the first series of the tournament,
the first series for these team.
We saw what happened yesterday for Fear X.
We thought that BLG had the upper hand here. They took them to five games
I'm curious to see if JJG is gonna be able to do something against Genji today. Maybe a bit more difficult
What do we think in terms of predictions?
I'm gonna be honest, I said a full, I said a 3-0 Genji.
Yeah, I also...
No risks taken.
Oh did you have the mascot?
I also said, oh my gosh, that's a good one.
I also said 3-0 Genji for two reasons. One, I think this Genji team
As opposed to last year as much less likely to have those kind of silly games or drop the game
We saw their LCK record, right? They only dropped two games in the LCK Cup
And I also think this JDG team when they did struggle in LPL
It was this kind of mid jungle combo that they had been relying on from Junja and Hongqiu
And in particular I felt like Junja was outclassed by a lot of other LPL junglers
And I think he's gonna have a really really tough time going up against Canyon today. I agree. I still I went with the big upset here
The three yeah, you're taking the rest
I think that in at least one game
Okay, I'm just gonna have a good early game and when Junja does have a good early game JDG look good
He can focus on bottom side dragon setups dragon fights prep your vision really early for those dragon fights get a good initiation
You know they can get one. All right. Let's see if they can make it happen
We saw magic yesterday bringing us to the first silver scrapes in first and let's see if the tournament
Favorites can get a clean win against this revamped version of JDG the first time we see them like this on the international stage
Let's get to it
And welcome to day two here of Fast Stand in Sao Paulo, I'm Maddox and I'm joined by
We are here for JDG against Gen.G, and that's in the two titans, or the one Titan standing ever so slightly taller than the other.
Yeah, ever so slightly. JDG for international followers should come as no surprise, but it's been a while since we've seen them return to the international stage.
The desk was just discussing such topic, but for Gen.G they've become a mainstay, and the expectations that surround this team are astronomical.
anything short of winning is a failure.
They are seen as the predominant favourite coming into this tournament,
the expectation that they are just a cut above every other team here at this event.
And I mean, even dropping a game is the level of expectation that if they do, that would be a surprise.
Yeah, I think the thing with Gen.G is they have so consistently proved that they are just a cut above.
They are just the champions elect of any tournament they go into.
And although at some times they do stumble, you look at Worlds last year against KT,
stumbling there, not being able to make it to the finals,
you have to give them the benefit of the doubt in any series that they've played.
For JDG, more inconsistent.
Their win against AL in playoffs superb.
Coming back, managing to win that 3-2,
actually going to five games in a lot of their series through playoffs.
But inconsistency, I think, is the watchword for this JDG lineup.
Absolutely. And we'll see how well they stack up against this Gen.G roster,
because having only lost two games so far this year getting a single game off them will be an
insurmountable challenge. The expectations are that Gen.G are coming in as their heavy favorites,
they're looking to get a 3-0 but you know what the man behind the scenes, Tabe, is the guy
that is looking to create some upsets. I mean the desk did highlight it. The fact that he has
a winning record against Gen.G. I think back to that 2023 MSI where BLG through the lower
bracket took out Gen.G, which was the shock of many. People didn't expect BLG to be fighting
JDG in that final back then. Of course it was Ruler back on JDG back in that 2023 iteration,
but it was Tarbe that's been able to find these draft angles, find the excellence
in his players that have allowed them to shine and surpass expectations. So we'll
We'll see if he can help his players do that today as the meta continues to develop.
We still basically know Azir.
We saw one from Caps yesterday, but the nerfs seem to have done their job.
Ryze and Ahri seem to be the predominant favourites of the day right now.
It really seems like people are going for that sort of R.V.I. combo, something that
you get you accelerated in the early game and then good, blessed damage later on in
the game as well.
We'll see if JDG and GenG do go down those routes on Rihanna getting banned out by
by JGG as the first ban in this Champions League powered by Omen and HyperX, with Jarvan and Karma being removed by Genji.
Yenara is of course another AD carry that we're keeping our eyes on, but something we heard the desk talking about is Junjiya.
Often they like to facilitate him with junglers that can do stuff.
Vy's in Jow, Jarvan wanting to remove that Jarvan from the pool already.
I wouldn't say it makes Rumble weaker, but it does.
that combo is already taken off the table. It does suggest that Gen.G perhaps have other priorities.
Of course, Keen, I mean, what is he not known for at this point? Because Keen Santé is probably what
most of them have known him for internationally, but the man can play pretty much any champion.
He continues to be, I mean, comfortably the best hot-layer in the world. We'll see what that
priority is coming to game one with the Vi again. A lot of focus going towards Gen.G,
kind of as we expected. A lot of focus going towards the jungle as well. I think for JDG,
Getting Jinger into a position where he can have a really solid early game is one of their
key win conditions here. Last year, I would say, yeah, that perhaps is a weakness for Gen.G. Canyon
has struggled to have as much impact through the game as the rest of Gen.G. However, this year,
Canyon once again has levelled up and continues to be an incredible performer for the team. So
with Orianna and Ryze banned away, will JDG continue to pick away at Chovy's pool? No,
Instead, it will be Varus taking away from Rula.
So, the rumble is available, Ynara is up as well.
They could also look at prioritising R.E. or Taliyah for Chovy if they want to.
I mean, I think R.E. buying is a little bit risky, especially this early on in the, in the Fearless draft.
What will they be contemplating?
Seems like the rumble is going to be the easy choice.
So, we did talk about it with the Jarvan gone, that hotpot combo is not going to be available,
but not too much concern with regards to that, just because rumble is such a dominant top lane force,
and how much value he brings in the T5.
I still just a money printer as well.
You go first strike on this Rumble into something like a tank
coming out from Chashu and you're in such a strong position.
I think it's Keems, one of his most played as well.
Rumble and Gwen, I remember being at the top of his charts
for this first split.
JDG, immediately going to go down that Seraphine route.
Often see this teamed up with the Ash in the bot lane
for a very impressive 2v2.
Yeah, it's also on common for JDG to have this type of pairing,
Provided a little bit more stability and strong bot side interesting
They chose to lock in the Seraphine alongside the Zinja, but not get the ash
They want to take that Zinja away. We talked about it. Junji is three most played by
Zin and Jarvan. We both defy and the Jarvan take it away
Just grab yourself the Zinja out make sure that you have that comfort coming into game one have that easy initiate tool with
Some reliable follow-up coming through from the Seraphine
And that's the thing you could encore on top of the Crested Guardings
out to try and get it further into the enemy backline right. It allows Ginger just a little bit more safety as he does dive in.
Pantheon got to be the lock here for Canyon. Very strong, aggressive early game jungler that can also have a lot of impact in the sidelines.
If things devolve into a 1v1 or develop into a 1v1, the grand starfield gives you so much pressure in those sidelines.
Absolutely. Canyon will see how much of an impact he's had in the year of the game right now.
Now you'd expect something like an RE to come through, some combination, I mean Taliyah Pantheon is a try and true combo, but given that they've seen the Seraphine, they've made a bit of a pivot, instead they're going to prioritize the Bard, and I mean it makes a lot of sense in the context of, I mean you'll get pulled down in the early laning phase, assuming that the
does come through alongside this Seraphine, but later on into the game the roam impact
that it has, especially paired alongside the Jarvan, the cross map plays you can potentially
make the long range of gauges you're going to have access to, a very versatile support.
JDG, hovering over the Jinx right now.
Looks like they might be going towards an Ezreal instead.
Look at what Coke coming out from Gala here is very comfortable on the Ezreal.
I am wondering if this Seraphine could be mid-lane.
Yeah, I mean that we rarely talk about it just because we so often see it in the support position
But JDG are leaving it open for a flex pick
And we'll see what direction they end up going because right now I mean the club has already found a way
Which is something you've often parallel outside of the Ezreal
So perhaps Gala and Vampire are looking to play the Ezreal-Serafine bot lane combo, which is a little bit surprising
What it does do is give you a little bit more range than the Ash
Ash Seraphine into something like a bar that can work up and try to relax you down.
Sure.
But a 3-review is not commonplace.
Yeah, mainly because the core combo is that Seraphine's E her roots.
If the target is slowed then it roots and if the target is root then they stun, right?
And so Ash provides the slow so you almost always get a root.
And if you have the passive stat so that she gets the double, you can then set up a stun for example.
So that's why Ash Seraphine specifically is such an effective combo,
which Ezreal doesn't really provide that same synergy.
He does provide decent poke and range,
which perhaps he's concerned about with the amount of engage
that Gen.G have drafted for themselves so far.
But we'll have to wait and see. Of course, still two picks remaining.
The Sivir are going to be banned away from Ruler,
so that late game insurance is going to be denied.
Galio on the side of Gen.G is going to be taken away,
means that, uh...
Ooh, I mean, my instincts immediately go towards something like an Akali.
Looking at this composition could be very...
Good instincts always go towards Akali.
Yeah, but I mean, Galio naturally good counter into the Akali,
also things like Orianna he's quite good into if you're banning away the the
galeo perhaps they're just worried about sin plus galeo is a combo as well but I'm
also trying to think like what could show you be thinking about that he's worried
that doesn't want to go into the galeo as well something that galeo does do is react well to sideline culture so if you are using a pantheon in sort of a split position then galeo's ability to hear his entrance onto a sideline could be something that Gen G wants to avoid things like the tulli is still available as well for Gen G if they do want to look for some of that
map movement with Sante and Galeo by the way and Jin and Sibbot will see where JDG
want to go for their next pick. I mean is it just a Sion in top lane? No it's looking
like an Aurora top lane. Okay JDG I want to fight fire with fire we've seen Aurora as an
answer to the rumble a number of times it is something that basically Jin just
bullied the rumble out. Aurora loves short range matchups she's relatively
short range herself but in the laning phase the fact that her auto attacks
helps that co-passive, combined with the fact that you could just bully out your opponents
relying on both the Q, the E, and the autos, and have other choice or approach, you use
the E to create that space by the slow. It can be a very tough matchup for the Rumble
to play during the early lane.
Also, still gives you a little bit of flexibility if you want to move that to the mid lane.
Also, if you see a good matchup in mid, you can bring that Aurora in there and
then pick something into the Rumble as your final pick here on the blue side.
Hatton locked in for Gen G, they're looking for push in that bot lane trying to match
the Ezreal Karma with a lot of range and a lot of damage, perhaps with the threat of
Pantheon being down there early doors just to try and get Ruler really accelerated on
this bit. Yeah, from what I can tell, this looks to be Ruler's first Caitlyn of the year.
So looking forward to seeing him bring that one out. I still hate being hugged for Chovy.
I mean, we talked a lot about Taliyah's potential side lanes, of course Ryze is banned,
but a champion that can also rotate effectively, TF just fits the marker in the same way.
champion TF. The single target CC that's coming through the GMG. The point of click is, is
ruthless. Cleanse has a lot of value for Agala in this game, that's for sure. Don't be surprised
to see that Mikael has come through. Right now we are hovering the Orn, so we've discussed
it length, the potential flexibility. Will we get to see the Seraphine in the mid lane?
Will we get to see Aurora top lane? Looks like none of that's going to come through as
the Orn will be the final lock-in. That big tanky option in the top side to
respond into the rumble. I mean it's going to be safe the first strike rumble that we
often see as an answer into it to just keep farming up those stacks. But Genie G they've
got a lot of team fighting options available to them. A lot of long or combo against a matter
of range, some solid poke, whereas Gen G a lot more pick potential, a lot more side
lane threat, looking to try and catch you off guard with decent range and poke of
their own. Especially if TF is going to go for the RFC. Think about Caitlyn with
a potential headshot combined with the TF. The opportunity to just chuck someone
out before the fight even starts is very very scary to have to deal with.
I think that's one of the risks really good for JGG. Gen.G are so good at playing the map
and finding advantages in the early game and then pulling you around the map taking things
on the other side while you're trying to take a 3D4 trade somewhere and it's going to be
really difficult for JGG to get to that teamfight position but if they do their
composition works really well. They have a good frontline, they have some strong damage
and then a lot of CC with the on-call coming on top of it. For Gen.G not that many tanks
If they do start to fall behind, they aren't a relatively squishy team here.
Hampton obviously does have the Aegis Assault, but otherwise,
you don't really have anyone that can tank up damage coming out from JJG.
Absolutely.
I, uh...
I mean...
I think if JJG just get that established front to back, they're happy.
They don't want flanks. They don't want Pantheon doing Pantheon things.
They want to control the early game side lanes.
I think they can do that and get to these team fights.
Then I have confidence that they can find good fights.
good fights but then of course the next challenge comes from hey when you're
playing against five of the best players in the world yeah on champions
that like it's gonna be a tricky challenge like make no mistake JDG are
not the favorites coming into this matchup Genji let's see what they've got
here for that first matchup on at first step let's jump on to the riff the
LPL number two seed JDG taking on the LCK is champions elect Genji
I think it's really about whether JVG can stop some of the pressure coming out from these
Flanks from these picks out of Chobe with the destiny out of the grand star for with Canyon
I want to keep my eyes on the junglers early on because it does look like both junglers gonna start on the top side of the
Map and we'll see some plays are down towards that bottom lane
Okay, so I'm keeping my eyes on the junglers especially, as you were just talking about.
Seems like bot lane is going to be the direction, and when I'm thinking about Caitlyn, the main
reason you pick Caitlyn is so that you can feel comfortable in this bot lane 2 vs 2,
right?
So you have that extra bit of range against the sheer amount of poke, Bard, as you know
very well, doesn't really have much of a laning phase.
He basically only has two skills, so we'll see how things pan out as they get to each other.
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As you say, Bard can have a bit of a laning phase if he is able to play into a melee support or something.
You get the electrocute procs off really easily.
Here, trying to neutralize Vampire and Gala who can step up in the lane.
Vampire having a great time on Enchanted so far.
and JDG having a great time back at first stand.
It's been two years since we've seen this team internationally ready.
Last three now, or a 2026 maybe.
Oh, yes.
It was well at 23, that's a two year six month we're going.
Tragic ending for the Golden Voters.
Jorah almost used to Tragic ending the bot lane as Vampire and Gala do catch him out.
Just filled with a piecemaker back from Rula, puts the damage down onto Vampire.
But yeah, I mean, shout out to Narmera who's given me a lot of information as well
and heading into this tournament surrounding JDG and like they...
This roster's gone through so many iterations. They've tried a platter of different coaches
They've tried a platter of different players
They they've tried so many different things to return back to success and this roster is the one that's been able to do it in
Jigya is the one looking to make things happen in the other books.
Skip Ginger looking for that early pressure. Binds it, but...
Well, over to JDG.
I mean the timing works out beautifully. The fact that both junglers are packing towards bot, he skips a cap choking on the enemy's low.
Oh, he's killing Chovy. Chovy has to flash the winning.
Winning, Red Card came out, Hong-Q.
Winning, it's match is in!
Hong-Q finds the solo in the mid lane.
Hong-Q, this man shows up internationally, man.
He's continued his level of success
just like we saw from him last year.
He became a player that everyone had their eyes on
at his debut, at first stand from last year,
saying this guy could be good
and he's continuing to demonstrate that.
What an impressive way to start this game off.
2-0 for GDG.
And it's the two new players coming into JDG.
Yes, they obviously some of the other players are new as well.
Shashu, the only one remaining from last year.
But Jundja and Honky brought over from the flying oysters last year
after having such a performance
through all the international tournaments
for the LCP representatives,
now popping off in the first international of 2026.
Yeah, and speaking on that, Namae,
he's telling me his expectations are very much like,
he expected them to be good, but not this quickly, right?
And the thing that we know about these two players specifically
It's when they are on an international stage, they show off.
JTG almost takes it out.
Charlotte with the least of a tempo.
JTG looking for a gank on the topside.
His rheumatrize to trade back.
Keen going forward.
Doesn't really have anywhere to get out of this.
Overheats and is taken out.
JTG cuts him.
3-0 JDG.
JTG is making his presence felt here in the early game.
He is snowballing like a madman.
And he is making things happen for his team.
Impressive stuff coming out from JDG here in the early game.
I mean, our expectations are that Canyon would be the one driving things in this early path,
but we're going to take a quick look back at this gank in the top side.
I mean, there's very little to say to be extremely honest with you.
You apply for the Brittle, the knockback in conjunction with the damage from Jinger
is enough to secure that kill.
How's that going to get a replay of the solo kill in mid lane?
Just to demonstrate once again how well Hongyu played that.
Putting that pressure down, how lane dominant this champion can be, but Twisted Fate, kind of an annoying champion, still has a gold lead.
Hong Q and Jinger coming over from CFO, having a great time so far in the LPL and now here at first stand.
These guys together, three LTP championships in a row.
Absolutely, I mean these guys were super dominant domestically, they really ran the region and for them to have this opportunity, I mean, Jinger, no stranger to the LPL of course.
formerly played for EDG in the past, was part of that world championship run of course as a substitute.
But now he's really making a name for himself here alongside JDG.
And for them to start this series off with such confident levels of play, it's great to see.
But the thing is, getting a lead is just a start against Gen.G.
Gen.G have fallen behind before, but there's a reason why so far this year they've only lost two games.
Yeah, I can't
So yeah, can they bring it across the finish on Harleys six minutes in dragon is up
Okay, what's the protectors ward but can is gonna be able to secure it
They're in a great position right now to start the subjective really good control over this river as
Looks like Genji's gonna be forced back, but can you still huddle around the area?
It's a battle over the crab right if you get this crab you get level six
hanging looking to see if you can steal it away equalize it down
I can clean in the top lane just to push the Shoushuu out.
The crab...
That's cute.
Oh, actually was taken by Canyon, I think he just snuck it away.
Under Jinger's nose there.
Now Canyon is level 6 and because of that, you'll see JDG say,
Okay, we have to back up.
A little bit of protection for the bot lane, Jinger's gonna hold there
because there's Destiny and there's the Grand Starfall
that could make it a 4v2 on Bot side.
I mean, Jinger, spending a lot of time making these two ganks happen
for the top and bottom.
You can see the camp differential.
Canyon's just been power farming seriously, yeah.
It gave him the upgraded smite earlier, which then allowed him to have that smite advantage.
I wasn't sure if Genji even had his smite up, I wasn't even being cranked on it,
but it felt like that was a guaranteed cramp for him, so the fact that he lost,
they definitely swung from the mentor, because now that dragon's going to be secured by Genji.
It's just such a big swing. It's level 6 first, okay, we can't make a play bot side,
okay, we have to give up the drake, okay, I have to go back to farming.
And because of that now, the gold lead basically dissipates, just evaporates.
Only 200, 100 between the two teams now. It's still Genji can do so well.
This is obviously something a lot of teams would do in this situation
But the willingness to define that smite to steal away the crab means that Genji are now
Equalizing the game. You've got to remember that Twisted Fate passing as well, doing a lot of work for Chovy right now
This farm continues to be Immaculate at 7 minutes 27 once CS. And the first right for Keen
Exactly, so I think he's also
Yeah, he got to play for top lane as well
So that's those are those are offsetting the kills basically
And imagine if HLQ didn't have that kill, right?
Like the call difference would be already pretty big,
and this is just the advantage of that TF.
And this is what I mean by like getting those kills, great start,
great in terms of confidence, great that you're just kind of playing without any fear,
but at the same time, you need to be able to keep that momentum going.
We know that Jhinja is often a driver, a key component to the success of JDG,
so let's see if you can continue to make things happen in this game as Duro beautifully
beautifully, lights up the bot side half the map, gets great information for Canyon, that vision will be cleared out, not all of it, that ward on the raptors still remains for Gen.G, but Canyon got everything that he needs, he knows exactly where Gen.G is, Ruler and Giro can now play around that, and we're just kind of, now that, you know, like the level 6 had passed quite a while ago, we're waiting for these side lane plays to start coming through, where will the focus be, bot lane is sort of an easy place to gank, we do talk about how clean there's a lot of value in this game, and unsurprisingly Garl has grabbed that for himself, good vision, good vision, gank, gank, gank, gank, gank, gank.
from JDG to set the sights on bots.
Looking again to play around the Scuttlecrab,
maybe look for a little bit of an invade when you've got the pushing bot side.
The blue though already taken by Canyon.
Turn his attention over to the grump, ward over from Ginger.
I mean, for JDG, no, this is happening,
but really just a battle for that Scuttlecrab again.
Seems like it.
Okay, so feeling as though the game has slowed down just a bit, the Grubs.
I mean, I've seen Grubs in the LCK just being completely ignored.
They've just sat there and said, you know what, I don't care.
rather just get it in the full clear done Grubb's definitely into a super weak right now in the grand meta, here we go!
Looking for Gala and Vampire, Vampire flashing away early Gala, with the Archane ship will get himself out of Summoner for an ultimate, a good exchange overall for Genji.
Was watching the minimap, Honkyu doing a really good job of just gluing himself to Chovy. Chovy tried to push out the wave,
move into that bot river, ready to follow up, get the digit control that JDG have, along with the fact that Honkyu is super aware of this guy trying to roam,
teams that he's not going to get involved in the parties, they'll just be happy with the flash to get a fan pie.
And immediate things coming out from GGG saying, okay, we know there's no grandstaff or we can go for at least a couple of these grubs.
Ginger, we have to take the first one. You can see Canyon working his way across, but expect he'll just stop at the Raptors,
accepting that these have been forfeit, so GGG will get their first neutral of the game in the form of three grubs.
I think it's a duo that keeps going and you can see two wards, one of the Raptors, one now on the
Krugs as well. Just to keep information as to where Dredger is, the fact that those camps aren't
available, it gives you a clear indication these are on the top side, the fact that the Krugs
has also just been secured, it gives you that information as well. But Genji now,
considering this is a two gold lead chovy, I mean the CS gap hasn't changed but Twisted Fate
just continues to mount that goal. Yeah, the passive is so powerful for him.
He's got an extra board of every minion that he is killing, and then looking to see if Shashu
overextends in the top lane with a wave, not being in the best of spots for him, but Shashu still
has the call of Horde God and a flash, so we can just walk out of that one pretty safely.
There were once again stepping in and trying to get a little bit more vision for him.
Which is that it's an interesting play when you are barred by yourself and you know your
jungler is on the top side of the map, and your jungler has been spotted out to go in,
But you always have the magical journey to get to safety and the tempered fate as well in case you're really stuck in a sticky situation
I feel like Bard definitely gets to cheat
But it also depends on what you're playing against yes, they say yes to say yeah yesterday
We saw LeBrov tried to do something similar and he did get punished a couple times
But Dura seems to be hyper aware of where the enemy jungler is playing around that beautifully look man
I'm not gonna say there's a slight skill gap between LeBrov and Dura
Okay, what are you gonna say?
But as you say like not too much incident CC to catch him out
You've got an encore knock up from the three-talent strike, but nothing too consequential for something like the Bard
It seems like the dragon now that focus for both these teams is vision is intensifying again the war
It's on that bottom try brush three one behind the pit one in the try brush and then one in the bot river
Just basically to give full coverage of a potential flank that you could use to come in through from that side
Trini force not yet completed for gala a valuable spike that he'd love to have he's not gonna have it ready
So I'm going to set up a ruler. It's the dragon nine seconds away
Yeah, the point for JDG though is Showshoot does not have his teleport
So he's now running down the river to try and get her in time
Which gives keen more time just to farm up in the top lane he can TP in if he needs to top lane quest is completed for
Showshoot as he comes down and across JDG will start up the dragon. It actually looks like Genji
Might just be giving this one up. Can you use duo for the tempered fate to delay this? There's the destiny
There's the TP. Okay, Genji looking to call for the first big fight of the game.
The first 5v5. TP down to the bottom side. Gala and they would join the Barney right now
as he's been forced underneath his tower. JDG, begin a pincer movement
but it's the Ezreal on the bot side and he's not really the one you want as one of those claws.
King spotted on vision. The Drake down to 3,000 HP.
He buys that heal, comes out from Vampire. Forced away. The Stunkard locks them down.
And Gengi is already dead, but right now Gengi's target.
The between worlds go toonju, but Keen goes in with a flame splitter on the back line
and Javu is forced to charge away.
The chase continues, Keen with an electro half-pill on Gala,
gets the slow grand star full in, and Gengi begins to collapse.
And Gengi G war-bird alive.
Keen finds another. Gengi demolished the team fight.
Beautiful patience from Gengi.
I mean, the way they navigate that fight
made it so difficult for JDG to really have an angle of attack.
The poke from Chovy, the fact that Gala was chunked out before the fight had even started,
and then Jhinja, they one shot him before he even gets the chance to ult.
He needs to respect the damage output. Look at Gala's HP here.
He's forced to use the arcane shift early.
The poke from TF combined with the early Rumble ultimate, they then stun up the Xin Zhao,
don't give him a chance to ult, and they don't over commit here.
They take their time, they use their range,
And they chip away. Kino however says, you know what? I've done enough damage. I think we can start the chase.
Chovy's ready. They have the Pantheon ult too. They get the flashes out and they pick JDG apart.
JG didn't even need Ruler to do this. He's on his way down to the bottom lane to get the push in.
The goalie that extends to about 3k and this is why Gen.G are so fierce.
And even Ishgain, lead for JDG in the early game, but a singular fight around that second drake
Now puts Gen.G 3k ahead. You can see in the queen-based gold grind, just how even it was up until this point, but now Chovy 1.4k gold ahead.
Yeah, I mean, he is so monstrously far ahead now on the twisted wave. He's only going to continue to get stronger.
Keen, a 1.1k gold lead for himself. Gen.G are now in such a terrifying position with the two dragon leads.
JDG are going to have to find some crazy fights to turn this one around.
It looks so good for them at the start, finding those other kills.
If they were looking confident, I love the way that they were playing,
but now they find themselves in an awkward spot where the pressure from Gen.G
it feels like across the entire map is unrelenting
and those co-obles poised and ready to make things even worse for JDG.
Because the lanes are kind of still predominantly intact.
We haven't seen the first tower fall, we haven't really opened up the map entirely.
Gen.G having that ability just to be in multiple lanes at once makes it so hard for JDG.
They've moved Vampire and Gala into the mid lane, Ruler the only one who needs to deal with him right now.
And we talked about the Pantheon and the Twisted Fate as these side lane threats.
Bard does the same thing. Tempest Fate is really difficult when you're a low mobility carry.
Honkyu has a few ways to avoid it, no flash at the moment, but can used between worlds can go across the veil.
But it is going to be very tricky for JDG to escape Gen.G if they do decide to pull the trigger on one of these players.
Right now the hell is being flirted with.
Look at this vision. Gen.G with the D4 Tanya.
Gen.G jumped on Crescent Guard coming out temperate. They passed the dash away from it.
Gen.G with the Crescent Guard isn't able to escape.
Ruler takes the kill. TP coming in as well as Honkyu joins the battle.
They can't even chase him out.
him out. Shoushuu now in the middle of four members of Genji, a good true shot
barrage landing across the backline. Four of fours are coming out as well, but the
root and the stun and the CC on Shoushuu means the Forge God will not make a
return journey. Genji find two once again. I mean it's just so clean. Genji
give no room for error. They find a single pick, they convert it into
another one. JDG have the right instincts but they basically are just
Teeping into their own demise. There's no way for them to escape.
Genji, pick up more kills. They'll pick up the Herald.
The gold lead continues to extend.
And I feel like we're already at a point where JDG need to be thinking about game two.
Yeah, that's the struggle, though.
Because game two goes similarly to game one. You had a good start.
You got three kills early.
Doors jingle with a thousand gold ahead in the early game.
But then Genji just took a fight that you started, that you went for around that second drake.
And from there, just being able to close everything out,
it is going to be so hard for JDG, not only in this game,
but also looking at how they changed their strategy
in the rest of the series.
I mean, I think that Gen.G have just leveraged
range incredibly well in this game.
The way that they've used Caitlyn, not only is zone control,
but the fact that the TF can just walk up
and land that stun on any target.
Like, the single-target stun on the Jiffy
and they chunk him out, Choby pops the ghost,
ready to follow up.
Keen is the one that actually flashes in.
But holding that stun card,
Like it's just so lethal because of how quickly they can turn their attention on to a single person
And they don't necessarily have to get the kill they can just kind of chunk them out, but of course getting kills
He doesn't have his flash
Easy kill secure once again
Genji find themselves in a dominant position here in game one and the problem is as well
Well, like, I know there's not a lot of tanky, quote, quote, members on the side of Gen.G,
but they do build just a lot of HP, a lot of ages, very obnoxious for those classes.
Like Aurora, early lane phase, yes, yous having a great time, you don't have any damage to
trade back against me, but now, at this point in the game, you don't have the boost
to just get through the raw HP and the vert treads that he has.
Now they're going to look to secure this tower.
Get it, I'm going forward. There's a quick shot to almost half-hp, feel ready.
Ten per face to expect the heroes of the oldest, Crescent Guard isn't going to buy Jhinja enough time to survive.
JDG forced away the Rift though, we'll get another charge in.
Once again, they've lost their jungler.
Destination is really the only word I have to describe what is happening right now.
That early game looked optimistic, but Jhinji quickly silenced any summons of doubt.
The way they navigate these teamfights, very clean, dragging on the docket, tower as well,
pushing out the bot wave, getting deeper vision control, where 18 minutes in, Horde's guard has been caught.
On to Chovy, who does still have the Flash and the Exhaust and the Bellows breath coming out, Honky trying to get the damage down,
but they just can't touch him, Genji miles away from any real engage out of JDG.
And when you're using your call to the bot guard to try and defend a tier 2, that falls and you lose a tier 1 on the topside
because Shovey just destinies away.
It is not a good look at all for the LPL number two seed.
Absolutely, they're getting desperate at this point
because they have to, they need to find something
but they can't even get in range.
The Rumble Ultimate here is the biggest thing.
Team forces Xiaoxu back, Gala's in an awkward spot.
Houston, what he can, that by price to peel
for his teammates, but it's just not enough.
Jinji's single target focus is too lethal.
The moment they've got you in the beginning
of that CC chain, it's very difficult to escape.
Think about it, the traps laid off on top of the pattern that's done, maybe a barge route, maybe a TF stun, like it doesn't matter, you're gonna lose most of your HP if you come within range of a single member of Gen.G.
Gen.G never really been able to get to that teamfight position they really wanted with this composition.
Gen.G now knowing how to go to head stealing away all of this jungle, suffocating JDG.
JDG. As much as possible Canyon might just log for someone. Behind enemy lines here as he jumps onto
Jhinja. Temp of fate being his Crescent Guard comes out from Jhinja. Good damage here onto Canyon.
Jhinro takes the chunk as well. They equalize it though. Stopping JDG from being able to go any
further. A magical journey over the wall gets Jhinji out to safety.
I mean weirdly enough they still feel it's like Jhinji's the one that has the flash out.
Yeah, look how low JDG are! I mean JDG they get the flash out from Canyon and he's the one
on this force retreat but Choby's full HP, the poke continues to come through, the bot
tower is still gonna fall, Ruler's now backing away but Choby's not done just yet.
Mid tower, the inhibitor tower at 20 minutes, down to less than a plate.
Genji will back away, TP behind as Shaoshun looks to see if he can find the plant position,
6 seconds before the call of the pod god is back up, Jiren Keen running away, and
will be able to escape for now. Genji's still looking to see if perhaps they can
take the fight. After this it was Xiaohu, Xiaohu, sorry, who was on the flank, was
behind the lands on the ginger, Kuroforge comes out as well with a headshot
for Rula, the ginger in the dirt, and now JDG all hails the retreat, Chovy's
destiny flashes forward, lands on to Vampire with the Sun guard, and Vampire,
even with the uncle landing on to fall, it's just not enough! They just don't die,
Hi, GenG! Levels above level position in this game. They all look out alive from a four-man
on call and GenG could just march it down mid.
I mean, they're able to get one kill back. They're able to add a death onto the scoreboard
of Ruler, but it is an ace nonetheless. The inhibitor will fall and GenG, they get
Shepard is, they committed the T-Fu to try and find a pick on a GenG, but it is GenG that
turned it around and look at the single target focus. They find one target, they shut them
down, they find another. Chovy then commits quite deep and Vampire here lands a beautiful
ulti onto four members, but the damage just isn't there anymore. They're too far behind
in goal. If this play had happened earlier, maybe JDG would have a chance, but they're
too far behind. The damage is too much. And it's only at this point that they
The mid lane inhibitor does go down, baron an option as well for Gen.G, their 14,000 gold advantage, weighing heavy in their wallets.
And you look at the side of JDG, like, the first item is all that Gala has.
He's got first item and Prince now finishes the mana moon.
He's gonna upgrade to the Mura mana.
Two items for Honkyu as well, but on the other side you are just in such a strong position as Gen.G.
I think they could take it out like a very under numbered fight right now and still
Oh absolutely, I mean, Shashu's too far away, look at TP, there's nothing they can do to get past their status
The traps as well, Jinjer's gonna have a bit of a sniff but instead he can he beat...
Oh, Joey, go card! Crescengar comes out for the buzzer, finding out for more CC
There's the route from the snap, Shash, Jinjer will flash away, the eagle-eyed doesn't do his much thing
You can do as much as they want.
It can suffer on the back lane.
From Canyon, as Hongjoo tried to dash over the wall and will escape.
Jinja, the move damage down as well, but can't kill off Duro.
Team with a stopwatch call on the forge guard.
What gods are you praying to, JDG?
They are not listening.
Gen.G, once again, clean up the fight.
Don't lose a man only.
Vampire survived.
So, 25 minutes.
Baron secured the Nexus inside.
Gen.G start this tournament,
tournament off in dominant fashion.
This was a shellacking.
Lacking Gen. G showing what they are well and truly the favorites for first-hand 1-0 the LCK number one team
The early game with three kills going to JDG looks promising coming out the gates swinging getting that early boldly
But Gen. G after a single fight just blew the game out of the water
So so well played by Gen. G that second dragon fight really securing the victory for them and after that
JDG they tried to do things, but it was desperation stations all over the board flashing in for the kill on ruler at the end
I think really demonstrates how desperate they were gonna have to be to break down that game take it away
Yeah, well
I mean this is we got a lot of the early stuff that we wanted for JDG to actually happen
And it looks crazy because it was even more than we asked for.
We only asked for a good early game for Jhinja.
But we also got Hongqiu solo killing Chovy.
That was neat.
Didn't even ask for that.
And they got a really big early lead.
I'm hoping that you're seeing the B-roll at the moment
of those plays.
But yeah, they start out so incredibly well.
And then we get to the Dragonfly Emily and Gen G.
They perform.
India doesn't matter.
Yeah.
I mean, I think the big thing for me
is that Jhinja and Hongju, getting off to the start, did look good for JDG, right?
Because you're like, okay, these are the two, this is the mid jungle that were kind of iffy sometimes in the LPL.
We thought they were going to get outclassed immediately.
But yeah, then that second Drake fight is really where it just absolutely all falls apart and Gen.G takes over.
After that, I believe they had, it went from like a minimal gold lead to 3k almost immediately.
Okay, so what happened there?
Yeah, let's bring up the fight because they play their range really well.
Watch Gen G. Keen starts it out with this equalizer.
Basically cut them in half and then you have the gold card,
the precision with which they take out the enemy jungler here is so beautiful.
You know, Zin doesn't even get his ult off.
Like I was thinking, oh, maybe he's going to defensive Zin ult as soon as he sees,
you know, Chovy's going to come stun him, but they don't.
And they just get annihilated, Emily.
Yeah. And you see that they're just so well coordinated.
They knew exactly how they wanted to play this composition out with especially the TF and Pantheon combo and then
My big star in that fight was keen with the equalizer because JDG were already kind of separated with Gala having to kind of take a
route around immediately over a ward. Yeah, 23 minutes. It was a bit slower, too
That's not a slower game.
Yeah, slower game, but it's a Gen.G thing.
So do you feel like there was no chance for JDG
to come back because of the composition that they have,
or just because it's these players against them?
What do we think?
I think the big difference is you look at that team fight.
The team fight encapsulates a lot of it.
Gala is the only real range threat
that they have on JDG, the Ezreal.
And as Emily said, the Ezreal was kind of
chunked out before and on the bottom side.
And so without the Ezreal range,
Gen.G just approached the fight so successfully because they utilized the Caitlyn range, the Twisted Fate range, and the Equalizer range from the Rumble.
And so that's why you see the struggle for the initiation.
Theoretically, if JDG had better setup with everybody there on time and they're able to have the Ezreal range and the damage threat there,
then they can try and do Ornn Ultimate and Seraphine Ultimate and try and use their shorter range comp.
So you have to go for the big engage but Genji are not giving them an opportunity to basically
use what they want to use with their team comp.
And so after you get that big lead, since they already got the first dragon from Canyon
getting crab and then getting first dragon, this is second dragon plus a bunch of gold
and they're able to play the map so successfully with all of the Globals that they have.
Yeah, for me it came down to not that JDG didn't necessarily have Windows, but
Genji just had such better neutral objective setups and team fight setups
And then also the power of this composition is the ability to spread the map, right?
You have multiple global semi-globals to kind of join up or spread out in team fights
And I think we kind of saw the bones of what JDG would have wanted to do with this composition in that really late game fight
But by then it's just too late, right? Like they're just too far behind. Yeah
We saw multiple times too, they used twisted fates and some of the range here to pick off Zin.
This champion doesn't have a lot of escapes, even if you do get your ultimate off, it's just going to delay it and they were able to snowball so successfully.
So like a big collective effort on the side of Gen.G, but if there was one player who stood out here for you guys, who would it be?
I mean, I voted for Canyon, I would be okay with multiple votes out of the Gen.G team.
What did you guys say?
Hold on, we have the mic.
Because Canyon as a jungler, when the enemy jungler is getting successful,
Okay.
Okay.
I mean, obviously, Ruler.
Ruler?
Okay.
Who was the best player for Genji?
Kenyan.
Kenyan.
I want to check on the other side.
Who was the Ruler?
Ruler.
That's what we were saying.
It's a connective effort here.
Yeah.
You guys chose Kenyan, but yeah.
Ruler, I appreciate it.
Yeah.
Because a lot of times when the enemy jungler is getting off successful ganks, you know,
sometimes you can crumble under pressure, people are in your ear, they're being like,
But Canyon, he kept up his farm, farming the jungle crab, so he had upgraded Smite.
So then, actually, Junja was pushing the scuttle crab down to the bottom side, he probably
should have been able to get it still, but Canyon ended up getting it.
He had the upgraded Smite.
And then he kept on making these plays with his Pantheon Ultimate.
I mean, Gen.G overall, the whole team was so good there.
Yeah, master class.
And he said, I mean, they're just so patient, right?
Like, not, obviously the game ended super quickly.
but in terms of it being slower,
just their patience around these setups,
around the way they're piling this competition in Team Fights,
it was great to watch.
Denji made it to first-end,
that's what we wanted to see from them,
and so far they are delivering.
Pepsi, Kim Jady, she can come back
and make it a series in Game 2.
See you soon, guys.
He skips a cap, chokes, now that I'm very slow.
Killing Chovy?
Chovy wants to flash the winning,
where can I turn out Hong-Chun?
When did he flash this end?
Ginger jumps on Crescent Guard, coming out temperate.
He has to dash away from it.
Ginger with the Crescent Guard, isn't able to escape.
Rimiting the kill.
Cosy Destiny splashes forward, lands on to Backfire with the Sun Guard.
And Backfire, even with the only one who has to go to form,
it's just not enough.
They just don't die.
Ginger!
Game time, game time, game time.
They got to step on the land of my home.
Red Bull gives you wings.
The greatest players in the world are here.
They can just burn this one down by the steel hole and by the iron.
You are going to see them like you've never seen them before.
I'm a bit more confident, yeah.
They saw doing so much work at Gen.G!
They are just going to ace them!
I'm not gonna be easy, I'm just thinking about
going into the ring and seeing that place.
Gen.G, that UWC winners!
Every moment of your journey, crystal clear.
Landscapes, absolutely stunning.
Stunning, close ups, sharp and full of vibe.
Group shots, packed with detail.
Zoom in on one face, still flawless.
Colors so real, every scene, every smile, unforgettable.
Alpo, fine X9 series, hassle-blad telephoto.
Zoom in to detail.
You are a bunch of kids who are on fire.
I didn't come to school, where I dream of playing football
It was a fish caught by the 9 of us, focused on our school
Man, I didn't feel like we were ours, it was all I don't want
I don't want to play with you, I don't want to play with you
Dude, don't buy in the park, go to the track and recover
I don't want to play with you, I don't want to play with you
My mom is a runner, always running for money
Let this kid talk, if he wants to attack in a wrong place
He's like blah blah blah, that's all he can do there
My mother used to pop pop pop
Yeah, I had a sad blackout
I had a blackout
Yeah, yeah
I'm sick
I was already sick
Now I know my name
Now I know I'm not that kind of guy
I'm sick
Now I call my name
Now I know I'm not that kind of guy
I wonder if I deserve it
I wonder if I'm just a fag
I'm just jumping in the court
I'm just playing with my love
I just want to download the bench
I just want to play with my friends
I'm not that kind of guy
If I had a bad feeling, I know it's going to be fine
I never had a problem, but it's better to avoid
I'm not going to do anything for you, I'm going to change
In the field and in my head, the substance will never change
My mother is a runner, yeah
Always running for money
Let Snake talk if he wants to attack in my place
He's like blah, blah, blah, just a biscuit
He can do it from there
My brother is like pa, pa, pa, pa, yeah
The end is sad, Neguin
Give us your best twitch sneaky sneaky
Reaction to winning worlds best pentakill announcement
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Baron Nasha Raw.
Mm-hmm.
When you accidentally flash fallen.
Mm-hmm.
Realising your jungler missed smite on Baron.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Niko sneaking through push.
Oh
Riding referral into a talent
Canyon just obviously the superior
Alright, well I've got some water here.
Let's do it.
Oh my goodness, alright. Excellent to see the vibes are immaculate on the side of Gen.G.
And I went, why wouldn't they be after they simply dismantled JDG?
We're not going to waste any time though. Let's get straight into draft of game 2.
JDG, they're going to have to cook something up.
Tarbe, show us what you got.
Like, you do have a winning record against Gen.G.
We really need to see that come through right now because after game 1,
Gen. G looked absolutely unstoppable with a 23-minute victory. Oriana and Octo are going to be taken off the board immediately.
Gen. G looking to grab that first pick for themselves. Again, though, we look back. Ryze still a priority pick.
Taliyah, after the nerves, definitely fallen to the wayside. I don't think we've actually seen the Taliyah yet this tournament.
We did see a Nazia yesterday for perhaps. But again, you can see that the main stage that we saw for the majority of LAC vs. it,
Rise to Leia
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they mainly after the nerfs have been pushed out and it seems that Orianna and Rise are still the only two that have the top
the top dogs of mid lane but with Aurora gone, TF gone, RE is the one that immediately
I'm drawn towards, RE by, you mentioned it earlier, I think can be an easy pick up
depending on what they want to prioritize and I think 4 JDGV should be thinking about that by
something that we've seen a lot from Jinja throughout the year and one of his go-to
engage jungle champions. A jungler that he can have agency on in the early game
is one of the key pillars of success for JDG. We saw it in game one as well, they
did manage to get a lead through the fact that Jinja was everywhere on this
Shinto and Honkyu as well getting the solo kill in the mid lane. Ambassador is
going to be the final band from JDG, no surprises, he will take it out of
Keen's hands, Karma removed by Genji. So where would JDG go with their first pick?
Do you still have things like the Yanarra if you do just want to go for a strong AD carry?
I think Vi has to be the option.
I like Vi.
That's what my instincts tell me.
But yeah, running through some of the options, like they could Aari if they wanted to,
a little risky to blind at this early on.
And yeah, Yanarra, it's kind of AD carry or jungle, it's kind of there are any options I feel.
is the option of show shoes connected as well. I mean with the ambassador band I was wondering
perhaps but instead it's going to be the Lulu down towards vampire. So there are some risks
with this. There's a lot of risks with this man. Blitzcrank, Nautilus, Thresh are the three
that immediately come to mind. I mean Thuro's Blitzcrank as well. The guy made his name
on this show. We haven't seen it from him this year but like I keep saying Blitzcrank.
I feel like in the LEC I've said it multiple times and no one in the LEC picked it.
I want to see it, Genji. I would love to see a Blitzcrank right now.
Blitzcrank, Caitlyn I think is my favorite combo, but with the Caitlyn already gone,
I'd like to see that. There's that fire that we were talking about.
Kanding gonna take that one away. Unara, I'm just saying that they're gonna pick the Unara in.
I guess they want to take the combo away from Gala and Vampire,
but Aphelios is always something you can par alongside it. I think Jinx also works.
Jinx for Gala would make sense.
So there is the Unara and the Vite, locks into Genji.
Or is the other one we need to think about I don't think you pick cock into guy. It was yeah
It was gala that I saw playing yeah
But I mean sure but at this point if you're picking a hyper carry, bro
There aren't many with dashes Zerry is kind of your option
So I mean the advantage of an aphelios is when the vibe comes into you like hey
I have red white you're kind of doing me a favor. I did you with seven was well
gives you that burst of health, does you mean it?
Well, the charm of the course, going through, means that it is available.
Jinger happened to grab that for himself.
Three of his most played, now going to be removed from the pool though.
Let's see if he can have a big impact on this one this time around.
You have to lock in your AD carry here, I feel, unless they feel super confident in Gala's pool.
Which I feel like they should.
He's played...
I'm not going to count that. A lot. He's played a lot of AD carries so far.
I mean, just not...
That's just this year, let alone in Korea.
Gala, quite the mainstay. Jinx?
Looks like there's gonna be Jinx.
Just to hide the carry potential.
An oldie bit of goodie.
Yeah, also you have the kill one hero, one champion,
and then immediately Jinx gets excited
and run through the rest of the fight, right?
So a cataclysm on one person, they die,
and then you allow your Jinx just to really pop off,
and it doesn't really matter if she's threatened
by things like the Vi because you have the Wild Growth,
you have the whimsy, you have enough tools
in that sort of situation. Gengr looking for that drive-in-true combination.
R.E. by Ride the Wind. Go to the other battlefield.
Get yourself an extra point.
No, no, not quite.
But yes, it is very effective.
If R.E lands a charm, then by easily connects a Q.
But the more common combo is by Lancer Alti, you don't get to go anywhere.
And even if you flash, let's say you're Jarvan,
You EQ, flash away, Vi's gonna follow you,
R is gonna Spirit Charm right after you.
Spirit Charm, Spirit Rush, into Charm.
That's the comment I was talking about.
And they're gonna ban away the Mel, okay?
And this is something we've been seeing,
I would say specifically in the LPL,
but mainly just been rising up in priority,
just her ability to repel that single target lockdown,
especially into the Charm is very effective.
I mean, I believe we saw yesterday.
We did then from being K-Fear X.
Can they ban it to an R? You could maybe...
Depends how afraid you are of one Q's things like...
I guess you could ban away Galeo, you could also ban away...
I still think Taliyah is an okay map. Like, I know she isn't as powerful as she was,
but into an army end of eye, the Unraveled Earth just does a lot of work.
Swain? Okay, we're reaching! We are reaching!
It's Honkyu! It is Honkyu, that is true!
Not all of it does play Swain, but it's actually a very good...
It's an old-school counter.
I don't know if you remember, I don't love this reference.
2013, Luke Duck picked Swain into Faker.
I do remember that.
Yes, he didn't lose the games, he won the matchup.
That's been the European Interfaker for the entire time.
But yeah, we lost the game, but I did well in my matchup.
Mel and Annie found a way by Gen G, Niko and Nautilus taken away from the round.
I don't think about that one, but I think it makes a lot of sense.
It gives you so much lane power, so removing that one from the pool.
It's hard choice. What does Duru go for now? I mean, I'm still toying with the Blitzcrank.
Nami could be a possibility as well, if you just want to do Rain vs. Range.
It looks like the Thresh as well, if you want to go there.
Thresh and Nara though?
Yeah, I don't like it too much, but it gives you a bit of protection from the Jarvan,
and then you also have a potential in the lane.
So Rakan is very good at following up on and by engage.
Yeah.
It's just, he's kind of made in the lane.
Oh, it's bad in the lane.
You jump forward, you get whimsy, then you just dive in, and whimsy into playing jumpers, and you're just dead.
I think Vi, she'll still follow through, even if she gets whimsy, right? Nothing stops that alt from my recall.
Yeah, assuming she's in her alt already.
Yeah, just a tiny rabbit that's now on the alt.
And there is that Xiaoshu Renekton. We were kind of expecting it at some point in the series.
I mean, Navarro is telling me that he thinks this is the best rector in the LPL, so strong
voter confidence, but we knew, like, looking into him, it's one of his most played throughout
the year, one of his most played throughout his career.
He's super confident on the pick, he's going to be buying picking it here.
With the rumble already gone, one less thing you have to worry about.
Hark, you're really going to go for the victor.
Think about the swain.
There you go.
A really good pick into R.E. as well.
And into the car.
Think about that swain, though.
I like Event Horizon man, the ability is busted as all hell.
We're getting bigger, alright?
I mean it's a little bit more scaling, but there's so good control that you're good with the building now.
So what's the big, the baby game?
Event Horizon.
Event Horizon.
It's not really quite Event Horizon.
Yeah, cause it's like built of Dark Matter, which is his W.
Is that not the, oh that's his W.
And his Q is Belfastraic and his ultimate is probably your best, but he's the one.
Come on, come on.
I mean it's QWV up, it's his E is what is.
annoying for champions like this to deal with specifically Ari because while she
doesn't have a dash it's not a blink and there is a key difference between the two
because a blink will help you get out of the event horizon but a dash will not
you will in fact be sucked into set event horizon and you will be
obliterated that is kind of the go-to for Vega so JTG again going for a
front-to-back approach they do have a little bit more damage coming through
from the top side their main initiator gonna be coming through from ginger
Meanwhile for Gen.G. I mean they've got very similar to what this had before a little bit more side lane threat a little bit more of a pick-up position
They can leverage their range to kind of chip away their position
But I think this fade-up does introduce a bit of a spanner into the woods just because of the amount of zone control it provides
Now I'm a big advocate of have you ever heard of the jargon effect?
You know the a EQ flash alt. I'm in and then you look
The time in your team is there. Right, so Vi, when she ults in, event horizon drops, Vi now finds herself in a similar position, but I've committed to the fight, I'm ready for the follow-up, but the zone control that that champion provides, then makes much ease part of the follow-through.
So we'll see how much of an impact Haku can have on the champ against slow starter
It doesn't really, the problem I'm picking up with Jarvan
Is that then they don't really do the same thing, you know?
They kind of, Jarvan wants someone that can support, is engaged, ready to follow through, ready to follow up
They go more and more, I want to sit in my lane and just kind of farm
But if you never, even if you don't kill the enemies, very easy to land your abilities and get your phenomenally evil prowess
That is very true
It's the first time we've seen ViGar in about a year.
Last time we saw MSI planes by night.
It is the first time Honky was ever brought out
in his professional career, as far as we can see.
Perhaps it's what JDG need to battle
against the GenG monolith that took them down in game one.
Well, let's see.
JDG got off to a great start in game one.
I quite like the top idea from JDG.
Hey, oh, this is so nice from Vampire and Gala here.
Getting a heal out of Juro.
We started with Grim and Quill, but good Lulu players will do this.
They have so much harass at level 1.
And for some international viewers that perhaps only tune in to international end,
you might get a little bit surprised to see like,
oh, they're using Keele this early on.
It's become a very common practice pretty much across the world,
where you just invest that sum as well very early to get that trade advantage.
But specifically the movement speed that you get,
because it helps you just stick onto your target
and get those extra couple of hits in so that you can find a nice trade.
So, already going to see those heals expended in the bot side of the roof,
as both junglers starting on their top side, once again looking for a path towards bot.
Keep an eye on Shao Shu as well, and he's already fighting some nice trades for the Na'a matchup.
Typically in our favour, you know, usually it's very difficult for the Renekton to be able to play,
but Shao Shu leveraging his early strength on the Renekton, trying to fully outkey him,
and at the very least, get some control over the wave.
Thank you, and Jovi is just going to be farming up in the early game.
I'm sure we will be waiting for Canyon's ability to come across and really harassed our honky.
Now in game one, remember it was Chovy that built the Rod of Ages.
Ooh, hang on a minute, Jhinjer.
It's gonna get spotted on that water, didn't know Peng's the water expired!
Where are you going, Jhinjer?
You're going all the way around, so you're gonna put the ward down to spot Canyon on this rat.
You're gonna take the Krugs and then maybe look for the gank towards the water side.
Could also EQ in and smite when Canyon does an X-Gun watch Jhinjer.
Both duo are spotting.
I mean, duo needs to get to lane.
Good ruler is stuck under his halony, duo needs to run across.
Okay, hooks taken.
Jhinja did a really good Jhinja.
Jhinja, he goes in!
Elise doesn't get it.
Canyon gets the red buff.
Jhinja didn't smite, just chumped across the canister.
Okay, I'll take the small fucking somewhere.
I love that UBMO though, he was like,
why is there a Jhinja?
Was not expecting that.
Wow, okay, so, love the idea.
Doesn't quite secure the red buff though.
Would have been big if he had been able to secure it.
his jungle clear now heavily slowed down. Canyon losing out on a campsite for him, but that
bot scuttle crab now open for taking could be a double crab situation.
It could also be an invade. Like Genji have the push coming out from bot side, can't even
play a little bit low.
I think it's risky though. There's no risk really.
It is risky though.
I think for used, Genji you're not going to get this.
Okay, so yeah, so you're just going to get double crabs.
So that's the downside of all of this. By losing the red buff, you basically don't
have the opportunity to go and contest a crab and the fact that they had that
I prefer this play from Canyon because you can get the top crab, go back to base, immediately start full clearing once again.
And yeah, I think that just from a tempo perspective it makes more sense for Canyon.
You're right, you're right. I just like Invade. Betty, if there's a possibility of action, that's what I like to see.
That's fair enough. And Duro, he created a slow push here in the bot lane as well, so that's also going to be a push here.
The mid lane has been a little bit action-packed.
I wanted to talk earlier about how for Vhagar we often see Rotavages, and I think again for
the same reasons it just makes you more durable.
And remember that the thing about Vhagar is you just continue to passively stack up
the damage from your Q, so that when you do get those last nades your APs are going
up.
And so going for Rotavages it's just like a very mega scaling type of build and you
reach a certain point where you just hit like a truck, you just hit really really
hard.
So it also just increases your survivability, and all that's brought out there needs to get away.
Polymorph downwards, Ruler flash away from Gala.
And then we'll take that exchange, Ruler with a great ground entrance.
Significant levels are, you know, the bot lane 2 vs 2. Being level 3 vs level 4,
those extra stats that you get really giving you a big advantage
and really hitting the hurt down in the bot lane 2 vs 2, not a huge difference in terms of the path.
the path, and watch over he is building a bit of an advantage. What you need to do on
RE in this matchup is you just kind of perma push, you trade mana to get control over the
wave to shove as quickly as you can with the sole intention of forcing the wave underneath
the tower because it's much harder for Vhagar to be able to last hit underneath this tower.
He wants time to just queue those minions, last hit as often as he can, so try to
be doing the right thing and just perma-shoving that wave underneath the tower, being
it harder for honky to do just that.
Gengar spotted here trying to destroy the plume and he's going to jump across onto the
Jarvan just forcing him alone before this scuttle crab fight begins.
Oh, it's spotted on the top side so...
Oh, that is no scuttle crab dragon fight, no slightly larger scuttle crab.
Yeah, somewhat.
We'll use the smite early, those things are going to get it up cooldown soon.
With the bot lane control and the mid lane control, Gengar really can't contest this.
All that stopping from contesting it though, we're at the...
Yeah, I mean, I think you're just going back to base.
I think there's not much of a contest here.
But again, like, they kind of expected this.
This is why I was a little bit skeptical of Jarvan plus Vhagar,
because Vhagar really doesn't, like, get lane control.
So there's not much to the Jarvan, and there's not the best skirmisher,
especially against the Vi can do.
So just kind of in the mercy of whatever Camion wants to do really,
and then he's like, pull the bandage with that.
I mean, Paid, nice idea,
but ends up backfiring quite significantly.
Ginger though, on his way to level 6,
he's probably working towards that,
pulling more nice damage under Duro.
Duro was trying to hug the top side of the bush
to avoid the Glitter Lance hitting onto Rulo
who was backing in the second bush,
but he was just in range, so Rulo's back.
Well, stopped, loses a little bit of time
in terms of coming back to the lane.
In time, the wave is going to crash in
and you can see Gala here will step up to Duro
to make sure there's a couple of these minions
one or two die before Rulo can get back.
Gala's already just gone back to base, so Vampire, he needs to skid out of Lysa.
The good news is that Dura's also gonna go back to base.
Gala, though, successfully pushing that wave up, and he's gonna do another recall.
What gold does he have? I was gonna say, but he just spent his gold!
I don't think there's much for him to do. The wave is now kind of in an awkward spot.
He's just gotta tank it up, gotta accept it.
Yeah, we'll push into him. His cannon minion was dying a lot quicker than Ruler's,
so eventually that wave will begin to crash in with Ruler farming it up.
Canyon here just getting vision control up towards the topside, but a relatively slow early game between these two teams as you said like
Not getting pushed out of mid means that gendry is kind of useless in the early game
And January team just happy to trade it to each other consistently on topside
But neither of them really have a huge man killed to that, especially with
Places still caps being the first item they both complete.
It makes a ton of sense for both sides of the match, one for mitigating the poke and one for mitigating the all-in, so
both top laners. Happy to farm, re-next him with a small gold deficit and a small CS deficit but nothing too significant.
Vision control is actually Fidgenji on the top side of the rift, you can just see wards littered across the river and into the entrances.
The longer they're on, one controller which is getting cleared out right now, Duro.
I mean he has gone back to base, but he uh, well, there's not many wards left.
It doesn't upgrade to this point, it does upgrade, I was like a little bit surprised but
I mean it's a little bit harder for the Rekhan to like walk up and auto the minions
whereas the Lulu just gets to stand there and say okay you're stepping, okay cool I'll auto attack you
get my world Atlas box, has those uh those wards already stacking up
five seconds before we have the grub spawning that looks like Gen G wants to
turn their attentions down towards the spot on site, clear out vision once again make sure that Gen G
It just can't really do any on the map. You can see so much vision control through both sides of the river, top and bottom for Gen.G.
Where does Gen.G go?
Sorry, I didn't really solve that for a minute. Just knocked a ball of water off the side of the Casades.
The gesticulation happening there.
Yes, accurately. Yes, yes.
Oh, truly.
Thank you.
Oh, there it is. You've been horizon the first in many.
I doubt it was the first.
It was an uneventful horizon market.
Oh, good one, man.
Bring it to me, bring it to me.
Bring what?
The horizon thing.
But it was uneventful.
Yeah, but bring me the horizon thing.
Oh, I see you made another clever joke about the band.
Bring me the horizon.
Well done, good sir, well done.
I can feel the audience riveting at our clever puns.
They're entirely riveted right now.
Now Grubbs begun becoming more British, and I casted him.
Quite an easy one.
I don't think you could have done that.
What the hell was that? What life through your window break?
The problem is, Medic, we've got a big R in mid.
Can we get a stack check perhaps?
It's 173, you can see it on the screen.
Oh yeah, you're right.
Okay, so if we really had that feature.
Grubbs, Canyon gets the second, meanwhile on the top side,
a bit of a fight happening as he and Chanchu continue to trade,
a flash in season to save Chau who doesn't have support of 420 gold,
goes over to Canyon for first play.
A nice punish from Gen.G.
Choushuu, go over a bit of it all in, Wendy's.
Team can't really support him.
And he was doing pretty well in the 1v1,
but the moment Canyon arrived, changed the dynamic.
I think it's done quite good your way.
Duro, doing what he often does,
snuck his way into the jungle.
Now, Key, that's Flash, Flash, Flash.
Polymorph, Flaggin' Dragon, down goes the nut.
Good play from Vampire there.
Flash is going to make sure
Key didn't have a roof to escape.
Absolutely, loved that play.
Joby, taking a bit of a nasty trade there.
I have to imagine that this one was eventful
And Honkyu was able to get the combo off and now he has to back because an ult from Honkyu, but to make your range
So TP gonna come through
There it is
Nice combo. Good damage. Good damage. That's just a taster of what's to come. More damage. We'll continue to mount.
Nice, I stepped there from Ruler. No support given that Vampire was sitting top lane making that play means the garlic
He's under way from a lot of farm.
And JG, without really doing much,
I would have asked the 1.4K goal lead.
Yes, I mean, they have won every left.
Yeah, it's kind of the frustrating thing
when you're playing against the best team in the world.
When they kind of just have all the best players,
they just kind of passively just win.
Yeah, it's very annoying.
Yeah, Ruler has a pointy CS lead.
It's like, mmm, man.
A part of that as well, like Fanfly roaming across.
Fanfly, the only one on JDG who currently has
a bit more gold in his pockets
and there's an enemy number, and Drake is up, and I'm trying to team up to gain control
of Amp.
It's under Sky, completed on both the junglers.
Have you seen this statistically best build, James?
No.
Ex-Optics Interfanter Dancer, in today's either Alasdwist writer or Infinity Edge.
Okay, I see the guy.
It's just, uh...
Optics got buffed, so I don't know if it's...
It was a while ago, I thought I don't know if it's...
of the previous two matches I think. Yeah that's what I mean, sorry when I say a while ago we were
starting 26.3 for ages. Yeah my head is back with the last patch but obviously we've had two since then.
Yeah yeah yeah but you're right it did get buffed and Jynx had just been seeing it more as a
first time at the top of the tournament. So yeah well yesterday. And I mean if we're thinking
about that all JDG leaders are pentagon on Jynx. Yes. And easy done. We saw it yesterday. Yeah
Exactly.
The Abel and Gala.
They share at least two letters of their names.
And Gala, I mean Gala is the Pentakill King.
That is the Pentakill Prince.
I've demoted him.
What?
The iteration is better.
You don't remember machine with the Gala, Gala, Gala, Gala cool.
His dragon I believe is uncontestable.
Nothing is truly uncontestable, ready?
You don't, he's going to try it.
I think he could test it!
And there's the knock-up on the canyon as well,
season assist onto the back line.
As Dura looks for the engage for Canyon,
might be the first to form in the fight for Gen.G.
They didn't manage to pick up Longju.
Chovy's still looking for the chase.
Gala running away, but the child landing from Chovy
means it is a through-the-one exchange for Gen.G.
They do get the dragon, but it costs them a lot.
Hongju was very isolated from his team,
and Chovy saw that as an opportunity.
He pouts onto Honkyu, caught the Vega around a position and didn't give him an opportunity to move.
Meanwhile, Kanin survives for so long. Look at the difference here.
So Kanin is able to get his ultimate off. He's crazy good at space. Well, Honkyu dead immediately.
So what Kanin's doing, all this damage on the backline, surviving for all this time.
The rest of Genji then arrived on for assistance.
Choby gets a double, connects the charm, and they end up converting it into a third one.
Toby finds himself a two kills ruler with one and now look at that old difference.
A single dragon that was supposed to be an opportunity for JDG opens up one for Gen.G.
A canyon now fourth all time in assists, 1,250 internationally, incredibly impressive in
this guy that continues to level up across his career.
2026, I mean an absolute stormer so far.
Yeah, you mentioned it in the previous game, it felt like towards the end of the
You felt like he was tapering off a little bit not having the strongest performance relative to expectations to the very least
But coming into 2026 this man has been on a mission. He is performing excellently
earning that finals MVP
Of course already winning player of the game after game one
Strong start to first stand the 3k gold leaves Chobee the third charge doesn't quite find it though
Ginger walk away. Okay, buddy. Yes, I'll have questions. Okay, how many stacks does Hongqin want?
They do get the knockup onto Duro and there's another stack for Hong Q.
He needs more.
Okay, he's got 124 right now.
Shao Shu is just winning!
The 1v1 against Keen gets a solo kill.
Okay, I see where the best reneged in the LPL comes from.
Yeah, I get that vibe!
Solo kill onto Keen, very well done from Shao Shu.
Up on the top side, definitely swings the momentum a little bit.
The gold, very much still in favor of Gen.G.
But Hong Q getting that kill.
I think like there was a 1.2K gold advantage for Chovy.
Nice swing for Q, but to kill with a level 11, but they can't overcommit here, they don't have enough information, especially when Kanna is speaking hard.
Kanna has Flash, Bob Breakup, knock up from the Wild Growth, playing shot but down, season to sit forward, and now the chase continues for Gen.G.
They thought they backed away in time, but JVG still caught out, Gala falls.
This is the problem for anyone playing against Gen.G.
Anyone on that team can get out of it.
And so, yes, you get a solo kill on the top side.
Well done, Xiaoshu.
But when we have a look at the Coinbase gold grind,
you can see that, sure, the gold is even in the top lane.
It is even.
Whereas for Ruler, it is not even.
It is.
Okay, TP flank.
The Vega TP flank.
Okay.
Chovy, does that flash and has two of us?
Yep, okay, honkyu.
It's a farming TP as the vitaux are secured here for Gen.G.
And they will just back away from the fight.
He's about to say that was uncontestable again.
Hey, they got the last one.
The last one, he said that.
Was it worth it?
No, it's uncontestable, you know.
I'm getting the pedantry right now.
Right, right, right.
Right now, Gen.G.
A little bit of a cheat code has got a fourth away by Rula.
Next JDG Clash.
It's just, it's...
They get the tower bot, they get the tower mid.
It's every second Drake.
The second Drake happens.
Flash forward with the Cataclysm.
But this Jarvan is a mile away from the rest of the team.
Ruler is going to get caught out by Shoushuu.
And the chase continues.
Shutdown to Jinja.
Duro next.
JDG collapse.
And managed to find two.
Fobi recalling.
Should be able to escape.
Can ever to force JDG away.
Okay, so, Shoushuu.
I love the use of the TP there to create a flank.
create a flank. That engage from Ginger felt way too deep. It felt like that was an ambitious
play, especially with Gala having no HP, but they're able to make it work. They find two
kills, they get a shutdown onto Ruler as well. I think he was just there by the way. I'm not
sure he teleported. Oh, you're right. He didn't TP. Yeah, I think he was just there.
Let's have a look back at the minimap. Yeah, he actually just went the long way
around looking at the minimap. You can see him finding the loop around. They're sitting
on a wall. The flash engage comes through, connects on the 3, Shashu pops the ulti
I think the second kill they should have tried to give to Garland, but you know what Shoushuu right now is doing all the work
So I'll take that kill
I mean, sure, I'm ecstatic.
Can we say that?
There you are.
So, still a 2K gold lead formula. Drake up.
It's only the second we gain 5-2.
This is uncontestable, Alec.
I don't think it is, buddy.
She's on his way down.
Chubby is already in the mid lane.
Genji will take it.
Yeah.
It was contestable but didn't need to be contestable.
No, it was uncontestable.
So, let's take a look at the game state.
Because honestly, it's better than it was.
Xiaoshu has proven that I am now a friend that you have to be cautious of.
And Genji definitely feels hesitant.
So there's something for people to talk about.
And they're saying, you know what?
Fine, let's play the numbers game.
The problem is without any mid-tag is honestly they can really do the threat.
Shaking with the Dominus, Juro can dance away with that battle dance, get their charges in and there's the tower.
That's all Genji really wants it out of the exchange.
Yep, they'll be happy with that. Extend the gold lead a little bit more.
They got the ulti up from Genji as well, so less of a scary threat.
That mid-wave though, this is the problem. Gala can't approach it.
You cannot go anywhere near it. The threat of a cannon collapse is just too lethal.
Nor can honk you, really.
I mean, you're right.
One event horizon does not deal with the geometry that is a Vi and an Ari.
Absolutely, so they're gonna have to play it safe. TP, TP.
What's our game plan here? Oh, mid lane is the game plan.
So, another steps up.
Okay, don't show free movement, looking for the cross, Jiro in with the quickness.
Vampire with a great wild throw, and Jiro can't connect.
Vampire will still dive.
Jiro got a force towards the topside, Cece and descents onto Gala.
no matter what he does to try and escape there is no way away!
A blast comes back from Goro!
You activated his fight or flight response to McCann is a flightless bird.
He wants to fight as Gen.G continue to force JDG low.
JDG, they're getting... they're just getting the run around.
Like, we just talked about how dangerous it is to approach that wave.
And it's like, why aren't you playing safe, Carl?
and he's like, I have my whole team here, man!
I have my whole team here!
And Choby just says, I don't care.
Engages beautifully.
He doesn't connect the charm of the vampire.
Vampire with his fancy feet buys a lot of time,
but that's all they've bought, really.
That's all they could do.
Delay the inevitable.
And then Duro just adding insult to injury.
So a nice engage comes through from Choby.
The follow up from Rula and Duro,
they catch up vampire.
And they're thinking, okay, this is the end of the play.
But, Canyon hasn't arrived yet.
Flash is in, connects the ult.
And then the follow-up damage means that there's no way to go out to get out either.
And then look at this, he goes over the wall, last contest back in.
Chovy wasn't even expecting that, still gets the kill.
Yeah, what do you do against that?
Tavi there, you see struggling to find a formula to take down Gen.G,
as so many teams have done this year, across the last few years.
And now Gen.G's 6,000 gold ahead.
Two and a half items complete on Ruler, Chovy's the same.
I mean, here's the thing though, like it.
Oh, I think they picked too much scale.
Sure.
Right, I mean, old yet, that's a flash gone.
Your idea is solid.
I quite like the draft in isolation.
But if you don't do anything against Genji,
then they do this.
They just take everything.
And you kind of need to be able to contest them at some point,
because if you don't, they'll just run rampant.
And the fact that you've gotten one dragon at the very least
buys you a little bit more time.
But now, you're looking at Honkyu and you're like,
are you nearly done?
Can we finish the scaling part now? Is that possible?
They say he's working towards on-years. The Radovages is very nearly complete.
Canyon, stealing camps away from Genji.
It's a rough one for JDG, as they find themselves 6k gold behind.
They just have no vision past their raptor pits.
There's nothing even superficially towards the river or into the Genji side of the jungle,
and now Baron an option for Genji, a minute 20 before we see the next great Genji
fighting it onto Rula Season 2, says Cataclysm flash away from Ginger just to escape, and
he goes back in!
What was the plan there Ginger? What was the plan? Because I don't quite see it. They now
have a baron angle, and they're going to do it. They don't even need Chovy, he's still
sitting top lane. He can collapse at any point, but with no smite threat, Ginger's
not afraid.
Thank you. I'm poking his nose and prodding, but he's not going to find anyone. Maybe
He will cast Chovy if he walks around.
Shashu here as well.
And the rest of JG begins to collapse for that Baron already down to...
Well it's Death, Genji is taking it, Chovy dies in!
And look at the damage immediately! Good double knock-up coming out from Doro!
And Shashu and Hongqiu will fall.
Darlum and Bank Park can only watch as Genji collapse again.
And take out their mid and top.
I mean...
The Death from Jinger has now completely broken the game.
Genji were already in a winning position, but now the Baron, they might be looking for another sub 25 minute win
They don't quite have the waves just yet
But that mid tower is soon to fall, Chovy's farming more plates in the top lane, this R is level 15
And that goal, the experience gap is going to close once Honky finishes the run of ages
But I think it's too little, too late. Genji, they took control of this game and they have not let it go
Have a look at it again. Chovy here just playing the longest, playing point the job
So easy nice shot connects the flash over walking on Q still ends up dropping and the shout shoot the scariest member on the side of GDG falls
Like paper. Yeah, I was hoping for a medgize from trophy
He's gone for the storm surge instead still a ton of damage coming out from him infinity edge complete the ruler
Gala
Nearly that third item on Q still yet to complete his onions
And the only person who is in like 800-900 order belt is a man, is Vampire.
And yes, Arden, Sensor and Mikaela are great items on a Lulu, but you kinda need to carries
to be in a position to use them, and they're not lying out.
And it...
Oh hang on.
Chobe, spear-lushing forward.
A bit deep there.
And it just walks away.
19 can push in bot side, JDG need 5 players to try and deal with this.
over using the last portion of the Spirit Lush does get zapped as a flank position here,
thoughts shout to you as well. Canyon looking to engage, Shundra going on to that back,
Landura with a knockup, Ruler forced away, TP coming in from Keen as he wants to join the Frey,
Ruler might fall here, but Genji died in and protecting the gleaming Quill to heal everything
onto Ruler and there's the gnar back from Keen. JVG once again thought they found one,
but Genji will not let a man fall though chasing to the base. The primordial burst,
enough to kill a canyon that Honkyu pays for it with his life.
JDG tried their best to lock down Ruler.
They sent everything in the kitchen sink to secure that kill, but it wasn't enough.
Sub 25 minutes, they will ace JDG and for the second game in a row
will look to stop them here at first hand.
It's just a demolition. Gen G.
The series might be under in less than 90 minutes, 2-0 now, we'll see what they can do in game 3.
Gen.G, I mean, often teams, when they're given these expectations, aren't always to deliver, but my goodness, are Gen.G delivering.
They are here to make a statement at first stand, and they are slaughtering the second seed from the LPL.
really are. You can spam chat at the moment with your player of the game vote. Lots of players,
I think for Gen.G stepped up. Chovy had an absolute barnstorm over performance. We're
going to hand it over to the Analystets to break down that game too. Break down that game too?
Break down that slaughtered, rather holy hell. Gen.G is here to prove why they're the absolute
favorites in this tournament. These teams are not playing the same game so far. It's been a
rough time for JDG. The first game was 23 minutes right? This was 24? Yeah. Oh a little bit longer.
JDG did a minute better? Yeah. Was it actually better though? I would say no because the early game
from game number one was way better for JDG but this time in the early game Junja he feels
pressured you know Vi is not a strong champion early so he wants to invade the Vi but it's
risky to go for invades like this. All right how come? You'll see in the replay that we've
we've got for you here, how it can go bad
if you don't get the Smites.
Now, this is critical though.
It could have been worse because the defensive vision
that Genji had placed expired just as Genji
went across that ward.
So they didn't know he's here.
So what you're supposed to do here
is your surprise Canyon and you smite away his red.
But Genji also wants to finish this Krug in time
to get value from finishing the Krug.
So he goes in and then he's gonna try
and take it away from Canyon,
but Canyon already is able to get it
and he didn't even have to use his Smite.
He didn't even have to use his smite here.
So he still has smite for the following scuttle crab
afterwards.
And so you're going to see Jonathan use a lot of time
to go in.
All he got is the big crug that doesn't have a lot of value
from the camp for golden experience.
And since he doesn't get the red,
he's going to be about a half a level behind Canyon
from here or not.
Because Canyon still has a smite.
Goes against double scuttle crab.
And then he can keep on farming
and get to that via level six and start grubs for us.
And it really snowballs in jungle.
What is the impact on this?
because I feel like, despite what JDG is trying,
there's actually no way of making this effective.
Gen.G are so good at choking teams out and just preventing.
It's their game to play.
They're in control at all time, I believe.
Yeah, I think the big thing for me is,
so after that, you get the double scuttle, right?
Like, Canyon's feeling great.
They end up having mid-Pryo the entire time.
I know Vettius touched upon how this
bygar-Auri matchup works early,
where Auri still ends up getting the push, right?
So, Joby has complete mid-pressure.
It ends up setting up for the first Drake.
And now I want to take a look actually at the second Drake.
All right, fight in our HyperX reflex replay.
Because when we look at this Drake setup, right,
so they're going to be able to push in the bot lane,
even when Jhinja is able to get in there
and able to get a smite off,
Jhin G have such great setup
that they're able to split up this fight.
So when Hong Q is going to come in to try to get in,
Even when, okay, Jhinja gets in, he gets the Drake, right?
But Kanan's gonna live for so long
and he's gonna get immediately onto Gala.
So Chovy is able to clean up Honkyu on the other side.
He's never able to get into the fight
and it's set up by that vision, by that lane priority.
And it's just so, so hard for JDG
to be able to get in, cause they're getting split up.
Yeah, the thing I wanna highlight there
is how early Jhinji set up such good prep
because they wore both the brush
and look how deep Duro goes.
That recall came from their own blue buff behind home cue.
Duro had just such a good flank there to set it up
so it made their kills really easy.
Yeah, what are we looking at here for game three?
Where's the, actually before we get into this,
in this whole collective effort from Genji
to make Daydigi's life a living hell,
who was the best player for this game?
I mean, Duro was really good too.
I got it, I got with Chovy, though.
I got with Chovy.
I went with Chovy just because, again,
I think mid Pryo having that mid Pryo was such a key component of how Gen.G set up
It's such a key component of what's made them such a dominant team because mid Pryo is so so important
And yeah him being able to pick off key targets and team fights as well as we saw on this Ari
Was absolutely phenomenal by Ari baby. Yeah
Yeah, and anything we want to refine here on this side of JDG any any glimpse of over 26 minutes
I mean I say I think for GDG they just really really have to look at their
setups right because that's where they're really getting beaten in vision
they're really getting beaten in neutral objective set ups obviously when
you win the game
Let's go Genji, I guess, or, yeah, JDG, what can they do?
Yeah, come here, I'll ask you, because you did give them a game, right?
So like, how do you see that?
No, I mean, game number one started out how I was thinking they were going to get a game.
They had, I mean, it was even better than I thought.
Honky got a solo queue, Jirja had really effective ganks on bottom and on top,
but they're just going to have to clean up their team fights.
Like, if you can't fight any of these early dragons,
like, they have poor setup for the dragons,
just doing it earlier and better and then they have to execute in these fights better.
I mean you think back to maybe the Ornn and Seraphine game, if they're the ones with these
big initiation tools, you have to just send them. You just have to full send. So maybe draft for
earlier, you know cook up some stuff here Tabe in Fearless mode, get some, get some
and just full send on them. You can't, can't wait around here. For me, it's actually
the opposite and just think a little bit more further ahead right because even when they were able
to get that pick and Shaoxu gets in right on his Renekton which he's performed really well on
but right before that Genji had gotten Rift Herald they got bot tier one and they got mid tier one
before that fight happens so they've already wiped off so many objectives from GDG's purview
yeah that's where I want GDG to improve and I don't want GDG to look at the stats that we
just showed up here that's a long streak one game at a time one game at a time they may have only
one left here though so you want to make the next one count jdg offer us a series here on this
second day of first and let's see what happens next
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He needs more.
They've got 124 right now.
Shashu's just winning!
The 1v1 against King Blackboard with the Cataclysm.
With this Jarvan in the mile away from the rest of the team.
Ruler, they're getting a caught up by Shashu.
And the chase continues, shoved down to Junji.
The real next.
Holy shit.
The gleaming Quill, they've got everything onto Ruler.
And there's the gnar back from King.
JVG once again thought they found one,
but Genji will not let a mad boy on the team.
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I'm going to go back to the
first stand 2026 where we are
watching. A purple patch of a
performance and absolute
demolition from Gen G over JDG.
It has been incredibly one sided
games determined by Gen G
winning a fight at second Drake
and then never giving up
anything after that point.
Two sides of the list game.
It's getting too big some bands.
Varus, Niko, we're gonna be taking off the board
once again, Orianna.
Ry is probably gonna be similar from Genji
and they might just ban the Karma.
You know what, because why change anything?
So far, nothing has broken you.
You are unperturbed, you are undisturbed,
you are unbothered by what your opposition
chooses to bring to the ref
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Anyway, let's jump back into this game, JDG.
What are we going to remove from the pool with Varus and Niko gone?
What is the first pick now?
Because all of Gingis' favorite junglers are gone.
We're now moving into Wukong, Nocturne, sort of hard engage type of jungler.
I feel like blind picking on the canyon is a risk.
Are we really going to blind pick up Undo?
I mean, game 3 I guess the option is to pick up Undo.
I mean, it's a risk.
I mean, I think it's a risk.
I mean, I'm not going to be able to pick up Undo.
Are we really going to blind pick up Ondo?
I mean, game 3, I guess the option is blind pick and Annie.
Okay, Annie was buffed a little bit on the previous patch.
Okay, um, I'm immediately thinking like, the way you beat Annie is you're kind of out
of range, so you could do Victor if you want to survive the burst and do, like, Rotterbej's
Victor builds.
You could do Azir, it's a little risky, um, but yeah, I mean, Cho'Gy's Azir,
probably fine.
I feel like he won't do it though.
Anyway, Ambassador is currently the Hover, a flex pick, can be played both top and jungle.
We'll see what direction they choose to go, they don't have to decide right now.
With Yunara gone, I'm thinking about 80 carries that might be really important at this point in the series.
Corky, we haven't seen a huge amount of just yet.
It looks more something like the Jhin as well, if you just want an 80 carry that stands back as your team engages.
Kaisa, if you want a follow up on a dive composition as well.
I'm pretty clever at anything.
Well, Victor, I've always thought you were very clever.
You liar.
I've always thought you were very clever.
I'm just like picking it hard.
No!
Get him right in the nubes.
Obviously, it was right.
Obviously.
Oh, Chovy, you teased me.
OK, I mean, it pretty much does what
we were talking about in the context of range.
Basically, he keeps Annie away from him
and is relatively safe.
So now, GDG, are you going to do the Annie Wukong?
fully enough a 2023 GDG special a different iteration of JDG but very much still holds true to this day gives you a really powerful level six spike and yeah it's like it's a fast it's a fast combo in that flash their stun fiery death into knocked up into the sky into lots of damage being done everywhere seems
So instead they want to prioritize their bot lane, they want to get their Korky Nami.
Genji can't match both, which means JDG can then pinch the pull afterwards.
But Genji could just secure their top side if they want, or they could look to lock in a support.
Maybe a thrash if they want to hook champion, maybe even Nautilus.
Yeah, the only risk we're like in Nautilus is you aren't going in into an Annie Nami Korky.
Right, like Korky can Valk away, if you catch the Nami, sure, but if you are in there
and the rest of your team isn't there to follow up,
you are kind of just going in there.
They are going in there.
Everyone is going in there.
It's true, there's the Nocturne.
Now, normally, we've cast a lot of EU Nocturne.
That we have.
And generally, if it doesn't have proper follow-up,
I don't like Nocturne,
because he's just kind of like,
I'm driving into a backline alone.
We don't know why we see Ori Nocturne,
often it's paired with something
with like some good burst or whatever.
Yes, something like that, right?
But this is Canyon's Nocturne.
You have to reshape my perspective about how Nogzern is to be played.
Nogzern is an electrician in Canyon's hands.
Selling.
Turns off the lights, and then they just play around in the dark.
And he doesn't actually have to go in.
I'm just going to turn off all these lights.
Absolutely.
Good luck.
I have my Night Vision goggles.
He's kind of an electrician slash ninja, apparently.
Yeah, absolutely.
He's got his goggles on.
And then the other team is just like stumbling around trying to find anyone.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I mean, Huawei, the range we talked about earlier,
Yeah, he's got the, is it?
Again, he, what I know it as, is it's QW, right? That's how I know it, it is Severing Ball.
Okay, okay.
But QW, it's good, it's following up with Noctis, and then Mbess is gonna be that natural follow-up as well.
And the Wukong ban, we kind of expected Wukong to be the priority.
Genji aligned with us and said, you know what, we're gonna take that out of the pool.
Jack's gonna be removed as a response to the Mbess top playing, from Xiaoshu.
I think that makes sense. I think Xiaoshu,
He demonstrated that he's got the moves.
Oh, yeah.
So taking away that counter-kick, I think, makes a ton of sense to Morliss.
But we just discussed, going to be on the side of JDG.
Are they concerned about another hook champion?
No, the Ragnata.
OK, so they aren't going to look for some type of engage.
Is it a mouth fight, Medic?
How are you feeling about that?
I'm not a massive fan of mouth.
I mean, mouth fighting time best is fine, right?
Yeah, I mean, I feel like they probably want to see
what AD carry of support comes through.
I think the problem is you're saying JDG picked mouth fight top.
No jungle.
Oh jungle.
I mean, I'm looking at just pool, and one of his most played is, is, is Malphite.
I think the risk is if you Malphite ult the back line, and then Paranoia comes out.
Okay, with Alistar, I don't like Malphite, I can't see anything on the map, you know?
There's a possibility, a Silas, possibility, although you kind of need nady top if you're
going to do that.
I wouldn't mind Silas.
Your comps are a little bit squishy.
You don't really have anyone to tank Baron.
They might do a scion top.
Malphite, I don't like it, man.
I don't like Malkai with like an AP mid. The main reason is just so you want to build
Merc treads against Annie. So if you then pick Malkai, you're now just getting extra value out of your Merc treads.
As opposed to something that's just a little bit, that's why Wukong is such a great pairing.
Because like, oh you're gonna build armor boots, well now Annie's having a free reign.
But if you don't build MR then your Wukong's gonna do a ton of damage.
So I don't want Malkai, I understand why they're doing it. It's a good teamfight control.
They don't really have an engage and so Malachi kind of acts as a pseudo engage
And the Zahen is going to be that follow-up
I'm
Concerned about how much range is you really have available to them playing into way?
I feel like Chovy's got like all the space in the world with a comp like this
And I think as long as duo doesn't over commit
They're chilling. Yeah, and if they go Sivir, I think it's so good the spell shield to mitigate
Okay, they're going to all right. I mean, that's also fine. I mean, it's the same idea, right?
You just stand them on the way and you you curtain call and the rest of the team goes in
Yeah, cool. I was thinking about it actually like see there's actually relatively short range all things considered was junior completely right
DLT gives you so much space
And now like on paper this comes seems a bit like it wants to do two different things
You know because you've got a better or not doing the one to die forward and he got
Chovy on way and rule on to Jean they want to play back
But what they'll do is they'll leverage their poke first, and the moment that enough poke
has been done and you overstep, then they go, right?
And it's about that patient play that truthfully many teams in the world just can't execute.
I think Patience and League of Legends is a really hard thing to navigate knowing the
right time to force the engage is a very hard skill, but Genji have mastered it.
They are masters of that patient play, we saw it in Game 1, right?
Same idea, Caitlyn TF, you chip away, the chip away, chip away, and then someone over steps, you immediately go and you're in the team fight.
So same idea here from JG.
So, a similar answer between myself and JG.
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Is that because you were a former doctor?
Yes.
I see.
Anyway, for JG, the question is, can you come back?
First two games of this series have been incredibly one-sided.
They were able to get a bit of a lead in Game 1,
But after that really haven't had fights that came out too far in their favour.
And GenG.
We're at the press press of setting a new record, right?
GenG, you're on, you know?
We've done the math.
We have.
Hit us with the math, better.
Oh, your meter's telling us.
Yeah, you did the math.
I'll give you that one.
So, fastest ever best of five internationally was G2 versus Team Liquid.
MSI.
We remember that one fondly.
2019, we have to say it.
We have to say it.
G2, GenG, that team.
Fastest ever best of five.
This series, if this game ends in 23 minutes and 7 seconds or less, becomes the fastest ever international best of five.
So 23 minutes and 7 seconds is the time that you're looking for for Gen.G to break that fastest international five.
Importantly, Gen.G would have to win this game for that record to be set.
They absolutely would have to do that.
Is JDG winning in like 22.15? Not the fastest is the absolute best of five.
That is correct.
It was important to have the case.
So, yeah, Gen G, I mean, it's just a demonstration of the dominance that they are demonstrating
here at this tournament.
We were talking about it a little bit in the break.
It's one of those things where Gen G are making JGD look poor.
They are.
But they're not.
JGD is not a bad team at all.
Yeah, they're not a bad team at all.
Don't get second in the LPL being a bad team.
Okay, that's just, that's not what happens.
And I can, I know the Lion fans are like, we could beat this JDG.
And I just like I don't think this is an accurate representation of how good Genji really is
Because Genji just have this effect where they just make good teams look very bad simply because of how dominant they truly are
JDG looking to get their first win on the board. They already have a very small goal lead, Gala and
Vampire off to a fantastic start to 2v2 lane
simply because I mean Alistair is having a miserable time, is not going to be
having fun in this life. It's also Jim that you get bored of trying to try and try to like
probably gonna lose that into an ebb and flow. Tide callers blessing on Gala who
can use that Gaffelin gun to reduce your armor. So yeah not the easiest early
doors for the cow and the artist in the bot lane. G should be okay just
surviving with that early pressure. Does look like it's gonna be a pipe over to
Gala and Vampire though on the right of your screens.
Fonkyu did get the push in mid as well.
Boss Chovy down and has had to come back
with a Sapphire crystal here on the way.
Yeah, I mean, for me, the biggest thing I'm concerned
about for JDG's draft is largely this Malchai.
I don't think they have easy access to the backline.
I know that they were a little bit limited
in terms of jungle options.
I do think they should have prioritized
getting that Wukong before,
but also just double AP mid jungle
makes Merc treads have a ton of value
And how are they going to close that gap? How are they going to successfully get on top of these backline carries?
As Genji have demonstrated their ability to play at range so far, now Canyon hovering around mid lane, he's collecting a gank.
If you're overstepping, Sanchu has used that teleport already, but is able just to walk away from the devastating fire.
At a chovee, it's a bit of damage, but nothing too major.
Side step connects to slant, shield comes through.
What we're expecting from these trades, Annie has options, but overall it's just a pretty
stock standard, just slowly going to the next phase.
There we go, the problem doesn't make it, but a bit of nice chunk of damage from JDG's
bot lane 2 vs 2.
Not going to find much of the back of that though, TP's committed now from the majority
of the slow lenders, only keen with his left.
That's Jhinja back on his top to bot side clear, so kind of what we've come to
expect from this series are a relatively slow and quiet start.
Yes, everyone is enjoying the calm quiet sound of the sun's rift.
It's not too calm or quiet. It's actually very calm and soothing.
Shacha?
Just because champions are fighting to the death in their respective matches doesn't mean that it can't be calm and soothing.
I guess the important clarification is it's not to the death. If it was to the death, then we'd see another one there.
They absolutely die. Just because they resurrect doesn't mean that they forego the...
Right now no one is doing that. They are just fighting.
But they can't be fighting to death. They might not be succeeding.
It's used as the master of pedantry here, are we not?
Getting into the technically correct pervy itch.
That's just quintessential support gameplay right there.
I don't know dude, I'm just standing next to each other remotely like, yeah wave stage is good, yeah for me wave stage is good, yeah so you know I'll take it, it's fine
Wait can't vampire build stacks hitting duo?
Only when Gala's nearby
Gala's getting nearby as we see Chovi getting caught in the mid lane, Tibber's coming down
Follow up CC on Chovi and you can't just flash away, yeah
Yeah but it does mean though that when Honkyu gets his ulti back up later on
Flash, Tibber's
Then we something scary for Chovy to have to navigate.
Then in that level advantage was a nice touch there from JDG, knowing that they had that small window of opportunity to make the play happen.
Trade flashes. Small advantage game for JDG overall.
The junglers continue to clear.
Nice combo. Lobbel doesn't connect.
Gala has to use the barrier there to survive through it.
Ooh, that's the biggest loss for them already.
As opposed to the first two games.
Yeah, no, that one was for sure. Probably that one I felt the most.
Yeah, understandable.
Yeah, really took a slow early game between the two teams.
Slight goal lead for JDG, but once again, Ginger,
half of that game in mid hasn't been able to have as much impact for JDG,
JDG as they would like.
It's a bot side scuttle spawn.
Ginger goes in, Ramblesmash back.
Both of them have that upgraded smite.
This is contestable.
Honk you. It is contestable, as you say.
as you say is gonna force Gen.G away and because of that Gen.G will get the level 6 and I think Gen.G might have to give up the first drake of the game.
Ooh, I don't know about that. That wave still needs to be caught in mid lane. Choby's got the push. The bot wave needs to be dealt with still.
Canyon not level 6 just... Oh wow, okay, we're cutting it.
They're just going out from a long way away. Rula and Duro might have to flash the cleanse out from Rula immediately, but look at the damage onto him.
Good Aquaprism landing on the duro, Canyon. Stopping his back means that JDG won't go any further.
Okay, so, Gengar's using his ult very early, means he won't have it for the fight, but Canyon's not farming anything right now, he's still half the level off.
Okay.
Alright, okay, okay. Alright, this looks like this is gonna do Dragon for JDG.
I think this is their first Dragon of the series.
I think so too.
Yeah.
Right now, this is not looking like the 23 minute and 77 victory for Gengar.
Right now.
We're 7 minutes in. It's the second Drake thing. Every time it's in the second Drake thing.
Yeah, you're right. But look at this, the 700 gold lead.
Now some of you, oh, if you just tuned in, you might wonder, wow, I feel like they're being a little bit commissent.
You know, like, the truth is Gen.G, if you've only just tuned in, they want a 23 minute game and then they want a 24 minute game.
So, honestly, we're kind of just hoping for the best for JDG, that they could show us something as we get closer to the mid game,
into the mid game because Gen.G have been nothing but a force in this series.
And you have to remember, like JDG have kept one of their players from last year.
It's Shao Shu.
Gen.G and HongQu came over from CFO,
Gala and Banba have joined the lineup, Banba are a rookie to the international stage, alongside Shao Shu.
So for them to even be able to butt heads against Gen.G, even to be able to get second place in the LPL, incredibly impressive.
Harbin has led them really well as the green deliverance coming down with paranoia.
They're going to change cultivation of war, that passive on Shao Shu.
We'll bring him back to life, Gen.G though, still looking to take him down.
The curtains open or honked you, and they close immediately as Choubis are killed.
Meanwhile on the topside, Shao-chu's gonna fall as well, and Gen.G war into life in Game 3.
And just like that, the gold swings. Gen.G find plays across the Rift.
They make magic happen in mid-laning. Find a nice gank in top.
Jujja was too far away to help this top laner out.
And even with Shao-chu, he had to get him so close to getting a kill back off the key,
He just didn't quite have the damage.
Ginger though, I think he was...
Nah, he's not going to be able to have this over the TP will come through. Ginger.
They're gonna kill a lot.
Do it right.
It's gonna go down. Vampire takes the kill. They're not really what you want.
Gala has to use the barrier.
Yeah, he had to there.
The tower I think it's stacked too many times.
I'm just threatening the kill.
It's unfortunate for JDG. The kill does go over the Vampire.
They would have loved to funnel that gold into Gala.
Get him towards that Trinity Force.
I don't worry. Ruler does have Flash.
Is it away from the Acres? Isn't Gala balkering forward, flashing himself as well?
And with a busterous bomb and the Gavling gun, Gala rattles through Rula!
Okay, nicely done there by the bot laner JDG, really coming to life here in Game 3.
Rula, expecting the bot lane to have gone back to base, ends up getting punished.
He thinks that he's safe because he has his flash, but he ends up paying for it.
But... he's fine. He's not going to be interrupted by Dura.
But a nice advantage games and JDG definitely swinging back here at Game 3.
Yeah, a thousand gold lead now for JDG.
800 of that sitting on Gala, one of the most experienced players on the roster.
The NSI title back on RNG, picked up a couple of them, actually looking in consecutive years.
Him against Rula is one of those matchups that we've actually seen quite a lot over the years.
Rula does have the advantage of it.
When he was playing on JDG, it was Gala sitting on LNG.
and JDG and those times in 2023 were the dominant team, not only in the region but in the world,
only just getting stopped by T1 on their way to Golden Road.
And JDG have gone through so many iterations of their coaching staff and their roster to find a rounder roster that was,
I think a little bit surprising to many, for it to find success this quickly,
and to be doing so well domestically, getting that second seed from the LPL.
Now they're looking to get a game of Gen G as they set the sights on Keyne.
And it's just us coming out. Keen will be locked up by it, but look at how low Xiaoshu is.
Can he really step forward any further? Goes in with a bit of deliverance.
Reminds you to be taken out by the Paranoia. Canyon fears him back.
Keen trying to escape. Junji just punches and does so.
Junji pounced on him and gauged from JDG.
Yeah, I liked what I've been seeing from Xiaoshu so far in this series,
but that player right there, I mean, he basically just lost all of his HP
without training any of it back against Keen.
I have to imagine that he had a lot on cooldown when the gank was happening,
And it meant that between the two of them, they just didn't have the damage to find that kill.
Genji turned it back, they find a kill of their own.
Now Canyon on knock turn, already.
In a fantastic position with that first item completed.
He now will look back at this replay.
The ulti comes through, yeah, Shashi used a lot of his skills right at the start.
He's just walking out and trying to out those autos.
He then finally blocks the Q, gets a bit of healing back,
drops the ulti, but at this point, he's already been able to create enough space
that there's a little to no option.
So close to popping the passive.
If it hadn't been for the fear,
He would have been in some serious, uh...
Maybe there was room for outplay.
Could you hear all of the ghosts of Top Lane's past fighting in that replay?
Oh, I think I took that out.
I can turn... Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!
Wow! Wow!
There's tons of fighting happening at Top Lane.
But, yeah, Canyon 2 and 0 and out on this knockdown, as you say, there.
He's still pretty even game between the two teams.
30 seconds on the next great throw, and this is where the games have been exploding in Gen G's favour.
You can see Doro and Canyon working together in that bot side river to get control.
Gonna get the knockup onto Jinja here just to try and force him out
with Gala and Vampire able to move first out of bot
we're gonna have him catch the wave under tower
Jura and Canyon back away
Just a really subtle thing there that Chovy did
he denied an entire wave from Hoku underneath his tower
Hoku didn't want to extend the stunt to last hit some of those melee minions
so as a result of that Chovy actually threw down the route
that if Hoku had approached too closely
it would have just cost him his life
so an entire wave completely denied
And Chovy, like these are the small things that Chovy does to build up a 1v1 lead against his players.
I was in gold ahead, but yeah.
I was in gold ahead.
The replay to mid later is one of the kills, and I mean he's got 60 CS.
Okay, so he's in a fantastic position right now.
Basically matching the lead, regardless.
Chovy once again continues to be one of the best players, if not the best player in the world this year.
CSD at 14, usually something everyone talks about, you're chovying.
People are getting more farm these days with more minions available on the map,
but chovies continues to impress over in the LCK.
Absolutely does. And Game 1, if you get solo killed,
but it didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things,
there's Twisted Fate who was able to bounce back beautifully.
And so far in this series, I'd say he's been very clean,
doing what he often does, just dominating his lane opponent.
And Honkyu has done a really violent job of putting up a good fight.
Very aware of and engaged.
Ooh, nice intro from the back-back, Key.
When we talk about best players, I think Key is kind of the player that coming into this tournament.
People are looking at like, I think he is the best player in the world right now.
This series though, not very best, I would say.
Maybe just a start to the tournament, like that doesn't mean that he's had,
he's definitely had some solid plays,
but I mean, Xiaoshu getting the solo kill in the previous game as well.
Well, the series very much feels like it's largely been driven by Canyon and Chobie.
I mean, it's one of those things as well, you don't appreciate it, we've talked a lot
about it, but Duro, like, just seeing it now, you just look at the minimap, there's
two wars every time, enemy jungle, every time.
Duro is so good at getting that deep vision.
He's just, he's super, super consistent at it, he's always tracking where the
enemy jungle is, and it makes Canyon's life so much easier when he knows exactly
what the enemy jungle is up to.
credit to Dura like he doesn't necessarily make the flash his place yet that last go play of course
and the job which was always entertaining to watch but yeah his vision controls absolutely
matters very much harder to just play the game. For JDG though they've escaped the second dragon
trap that has been laid in the last couple of games. The goal difference is that it's all pretty
much on Chovy so now if you kill Chovy. I mean Gala is a thousand gold ahead as well. Yes he is.
You can compare Keen ahead of Shoshu, and Gala ahead of Ruler, and then Chovy is the guy that kind of sits in that.
Well, when we look at the Coinbase gold round, you can see that that is where the gold lead is for GDG right now.
That is the player that we're watching.
This bot lane can step up, and potentially make magic happen.
Number 2307 is the number for Gen.G, if they want to break that record.
I feel like we've walked away from that map.
We may have, but again, Gen.G, you never know.
Yeah, I mean, if they manage to win the game in that minute.
It went 1647 happened, the game state was on a position I thought 1647 was going to happen.
That's very true, that is very true.
JDG looking up towards the topside, the Rift are out, a lot with that 1647.
Here, JDG are going to be able to secure it. All the neutrals apart from the drops going over to them.
While this is happening, HongQ is getting forced away from the frontline tower.
Goal being given over to Chobee once again, alongside Canyon.
It's going to be almost a 2K lead for Chovy when this is complete.
That is a juicy bit of gold that has just been ejected.
TP committed topside, it feels like JDG want to make the cross map.
Trim deliverance going in, Keen flashing, Dashing underneath the tower,
Hongqiu on his way across, Keen trying to clear out the way,
public execution goes wide as Genji goes in with a printed apart,
and down goes Keen. JDG collapse on the topside of the map,
meanwhile Genji continues to push through bot.
I think they need to use this Herald top now to get some momentum back.
They're getting a ton of plays in the bottom lane.
Bop!
Great!
Bubblehide of Mplay uses the heal for the extra movement speed, but can't really follow up any further on it.
I really want to see this Bop tower though, like, I feel, oh my gosh, they're just going to get it.
Like, look at the gold that's being injected into this duo right now.
Show me how much he's going to pick up.
Well, okay, 85.
But collectively, across the tower, we got a lot!
He's got a 2.1k gold lead.
Just have a look, just get the mission added.
Let's see, he's got a Codex.
He goes back.
And yes, he does a rise in focus is just gonna be finished. Okay, so he's a full item up over his line of bonnet
We'll look back at this top lane dive a little to break down here really they forced the flash out early
He's got very few options. He can't do much now play this really
And I think they're gently do the correct ball. They just continue pushing there's no one that can answer them really
That's all another tower secure that mid tower is getting very low trophy gonna last it is another tower secure
I mean, Chovi is just so wealthy right now.
It's absolutely monstrous.
Next break up in 40 seconds time,
JDG can still hang their hopes on an infernal soul.
Yeah, this is an exciting one because, I mean,
double Trinity Force completed for JDG.
Of course, Chovi is the biggest difference maker.
And again, we come back to that question.
How do you get onto Chovi?
JDG don't have the easiest engage tool.
They've got good disengage.
They've got great zone control.
Nami puts Malkai.
You can occupy a lot of space.
But can you get up to the threats? That's the big question.
Honkyou can flash Tibbers.
Meanwhile, on the top side,
see the public execution,
driven deliverance exchanged between Keen and Shao Shu.
Dread of a turn, not going to hit onto Keen,
who is able to walk away.
Does Han, the TV, trying to get away from Shao Shu right now?
Is Jinx just forced away from the dragon pit?
Teleport out from Keen.
Shao Shu has a TP of his own.
They want to go back to base first though.
If they are going to try and contest this,
we'll see if he goes for it.
JGG, fronting up, Nature's grass coming out, Jinger with the retail down as well, the next scuffle only lands up to one, Canyon with the smite bare, managing to secure the drake, Nimoir Juro looking that backline, can't get in far enough, but Genji's still very healthy,
Shouts you with the right position, you're with the knockup.
Trying to headbutt him away from Ruler.
Chovy in the middle of the pit now, as Gala begins to open up.
Chovy has to flash, Gala flashed Valkyrie, gets the kill.
Go chase Ruler out, he flashes as well.
Keen's now joined the fray, Ginger flashes away.
Ken in the pit to kill off Tibbers here with Keen.
They can, they extricate themselves from this situation.
Keen doesn't have the public execution, the curtains open.
One shot, two shots, three shot wide.
Gala kills Keen.
Vampire flashes away and survives.
JDG wins the fight.
So the first time this series JDG get a winning team fight against Gen.G.
A lot of it needs to be thanked by Xiaoshu, by forcing Keen back to base that early on by getting him to TP.
It made it so much harder for him to get involved in the fight.
That meant that JDG had the numbers advantage coming into this dragon fight
and Gala did exactly what he needed to do.
He set his sights on Chovy, he looked to remove him from the fight and he succeeded beautifully.
So the ultimate comes out early from the Maokai.
While the driving gets secured, they turn no attention on the Chovi.
But look at this TP from behind.
Shao Shu comes in from the flank.
JDG have lost a lot of HP,
but with the arrival of their top laner,
now the fight becomes a lot more playable.
They've got timbers in there for the extra assist.
Carla ignores the knock turn,
fully centred on the Chovi.
They force the flash out from Hula,
and JDG is just barely able to escape with his life as well.
King finally arrives to the fight,
but it's too little, too late.
JDG they win a big team fight. It's so close though. A couple of those curtain calls hitting in the end would have been enough
But what a fight
I don't know what we bleeped
Presentable on broadcast JDG with a thousand gold lead importantly they did lose the drink in that fight
So we are still two away from getting sold
Chovy still 2k ahead of Honkyu on this way, the JDG have shown us that they can isolate Chovy,
taking out Indy's fights and Gala so big on this Kalki right now. Look at all the
note threads that are being poured. So Honkyu is like, you know what, void staff, that's what
I need, either a quick boomer or a void staff, we need that magic penetration. Another tower is
going to fall though, that goal difference not significant enough that JDG has a strong
the goal is largely scattered and it's ultimately become a battle of Gala versus Chovy right now
with the single pieces being that potential difference maker. Can Keen land an ulti onto Gala?
Can Canyon knock out the lights long enough to make it hard for Gala to find the fight?
Can Chovy navigate his way around the CC and with a target on his head, multiple members are going to be eyeing him up
to take him out of the fight as quickly as they can. So these fights are going to be exciting.
This feels like the closest game we've had so far in this series.
Ready at the other two games have ended within four minutes of this moment. That is absolutely correct medic. It is entirely
Defined as the closest game we have had so far in this best of five JDG trying to fight back trying to prove
That Genji are not as infallible as they've been made out to me
Yeah, they only lost two games so far this year
So for JDG to add another to the record would be a huge achievement for them. It's crazy. Thank you
But alright, let's think about this. Dragon in a minute and a half, that's likely the next main objective.
Both teams want to get as much gold as they can. Honk you. Have you finished your second item? That would be huge if you have.
Let's see, he's going to go back to base now.
Ginger does have the blood that was cursed for a little bit of that magic.
Ooh, let's check it off from the crypt blue.
A bit of a shame for you. Ooh, that's how it is.
Ginger, Maduro and Ruler. Duro there, we're going so spellbook. Takes the kindness.
And manages to... I don't know if I like this, though.
You've got dragon in a minute.
Is Malchai's ulti low enough cooldown that it's going to be fine?
I want to say it's like 80 seconds away, but that's very much a high point.
Like, oh it's 50 seconds away, so we'll be back up in front of the grave.
Oh, okay, fair enough. Yeah, great. That dude is helping us out with that.
So fair enough, yeah, completely valid play.
They get the cleanse up. I can't.
They would have preferred ruler's cleanse, I'm sure.
But his flash is going to be up as well.
It looks like a bunch of the flashes.
Actually, maybe Gala's won't be up in time.
Either way, we'll see if we get closer as JDG is preparing to enter the gym.
Yeah, JDG can have all their flashes for his next fight.
Ooh, Oncue are catching that wave on the top side.
I imagine maybe one more wave will be enough.
If you can get it, it's such a nice spike to have ahead of this fight.
Duro though. Duro!
Going in, looking for the engage here.
On to the Empire with the Paranoia there for this follower.
And the damage from Chovy enough.
Sparrowing despair for Junja!
And the severing bolt brings lightning down from the sky.
The follower from Keen or to Gala, no escape for him.
And once again it's a fight around a dragon spawn that spells the doom of JDG.
But it's the Baron that they'll set their sights on.
Gen G, they catch you in the setup.
No flash available on Gala.
No ulti available for Ginger.
Just as you think JDG have got a foothold on this game
hold on this game, an opportunity Keen is going to take it away from them.
Shacing down Hongyu as well who will get the stun but Genji can now turn their
attention to Shabu who is starting up the infernal drake. They don't want to get
anything over to JDG. Shabu still has that flash, has the Grim Deliverance,
TP coming in as Chovy's going to join the play. Keen diving on towards the
drake there as Baron secured for Genji and JDG forced to walk away from the
The dragon no soul point for them, Gen.G are taking everything.
Here comes the foul play, the ulti is available.
Renekton's grasp in with his catch on Chovy, but blocked by Keen so well.
And here comes Chovy's damage to the four once again!
The spotlight and despair on Jujja is matched only by the despair at the JDG.
They thought they could take a fight, but Gen.G are just better.
Just like that, all of the hope is stripped away from JDG.
Genji in devastating fashion, get a fight, get the Baron, get the Dragon, and then win another fight.
Jinger went back to base after his death, obviously, and then comes back out and dies again.
Absolute devastation for JDG as Genji take a firm foothold here in Game 3,
And look at the close of this series out in a 3-0 fashion.
Have another look at this. This is the couch on the vampire.
I really thought this play was deep.
I thought it was way too deep. I thought they were going to get punished.
But they have enough damage. They know that there's no flash available.
All we just know is the flash coming up for vampire.
And then the long range damage. And then the commitment from Keen as well.
Beautifully done. Great awareness of how much damage output you have.
They get three quick kills and they look at the bot.
Spying a spare once again onto Vampa.
They're tied away from him though.
They've already caught Chovy.
Canyon going forward.
Dura trying to get the knockback.
Just trying to disengage here for Genji.
Gana joining from the side by the execution flash to Wapom.
He has to Valkyrie to the safety of his team.
Junkja going a long way away with a twisted advance of Canyon.
But Keen's going to try and chase him out.
Dura with a good knockup.
And now Canyon's still surviving.
JDG.
They've been pulled all around the map
and they just can't find the kills.
They won.
They'll get Keen in the end.
But they really wanted more out of that play.
They absolutely did.
JDG, hey, at the very least you find two kills.
One of those onto Chovy.
You'll take what you can get at this point in the game as Ruler.
Looks to get something for himself, that tower.
It should end up falling, I think.
Thanks to the band up.
If the other state is welcome though, he has the cleanse.
Yeah, he's going to be able to prove Speed is way to safety.
Okay, so JDG still got some fight left in them,
looking for what plays they can get.
That Ginger is so squishy.
Played his seal caps on a negator on Cloak, that is not enough.
He's got some health from the blood that has cursed, and from the Leandries, but with the curtains opening...
Ruler finds his mark, twice in the fort is enough to get the kill.
Fourth shot from Ruler, on the third death for Genja here on the tree.
I know the good news for JDG is there's nothing that Genji can get off the back of it.
There's no tricks he's left with as a play for.
Cheruby, you just a little over-ascended on the top side, and there's not this team on the top half of the map,
who's given relatively safe, and they're being a trade one for one, but I think that JDG are happy
with that trade, and then with the arrival of the Korki, it's looking pretty good, but they get that
flash out from Gala, and when it's a bit of a scrappy exchange, Ruler finally joins the fray,
the fight becomes scattered when Shaoshu commits his ultimate to the fight, but Ginger in a 1 versus 2
forces Canyon back, and then it's relived on Shaoshu and Hongqiu to come and save the day.
They get that kill onto Q, a shutdown given over to Hongqiu means that he gets a nice injection
of gold, but still, I mean, he's basically two full item, well, one full item behind
Chovy.
Remember a few moments ago, we were talking about how Gala was the lead, and Chovy was
the lead for Gen.G.
Yeah.
Ruler's now a head in gold.
Betty Gala, 3-1-3, has 30 CS lead, but because Gen.G had been able to take the Baron, open
up these towers, take that Stammin' Gold off the map, Ruler's now at three items,
and Gala, he's at three and a half as well.
It's a serpent's fang for him to try and get through some of the shielding out
of Gen.G but it is they struggle now for J.D.G when even their fed carries are falling behind.
Absolutely, I mean that mid lane play for Gen.G is still just so crazy. They caught J.D.G completely
off guard. They caught us off guard. We're so used to this idea that you just play around the dragon,
right? You kind of wait for those times. You wait for the setup to put the attack
you in the setter. The amount of time that was available on those flashes was so finite
that they had to make that play at just the right time and they're able to pull it off.
really impressive stuff. They continuously demonstrate why they are the
favourites here at first hand. The expectation is nothing short of excellence
from this roster and so far they are displaying it. 47 seconds until the next
dragon. JDG had a good foothold over the first two but Genji have answered back
over the following. This is kind of JDG's last chance I would say. If they don't
get a good fight here then the game feels done and dusted. I know it may
already feel done and dusted but JDG do have one last opportunity. I mean
You've still got a huge amount of firsts, right?
If you get a flash, you don't pull it.
The TP is kind of early from him, it means that shield will fall off
before the dragon really kicks off.
Ginger is getting a little too close.
He's going forward onto Ginger as you say.
He will be able to walk away for now.
I mean, really, I'm playing with nothing to do.
I'm simply going to boost him, he's gone.
The seven went onto Ginger as well.
It can't approach, man.
There's a lot of my concern as it starts when we talk about draft.
How do you get close to this range?
He's not even on the same screen as you.
Genji will start up the Drake.
Again, only third of the game for either team.
Ruler looking for the deadly flourish.
He's not quite lander.
Choby puts the gaze of the Abyss into the tri-brush to force JDG to take the shorter path around.
The Drake already down to 3,000 inches.
Gas coming out. Turn off the lights.
The electrician's in the house and immediately Canyon is just able to take the Drake.
Then goes in.
Severing ball landing as well as Junji's for them.
Run away from the fight.
The spiraling the spell.
You can't get close enough, bring deliverance and we deliver them tears of the might!
Meanwhile Genji continued to step forward, keen with a kill on the bot side.
Gala knocked up and taken out! It's a five for nothing ace by Genji.
It's simple perfection from Genji.
They play beautifully at arm's length. They make it impossible for JDG to close that gap
and off a single fight they'll look to end the game.
Not the fastest specified in history, but it was damn well one-sided.
Genji proving they deserve the title of champion's elect here at first stand as they sweep away JDG with a dominant 3-0.
Nothing short of impressive.
JDG looked like that they were getting off to a great start in this game.
And just like that, Gen.G took it away from them. Impressive stuff. They're gonna be a tough team to beat.
And JDG, I just hope that we get to see more from them. Gen.G have this habit of making teams much weaker than they are.
I think JDG has more to show. I think that it's still, there's not gonna be tough competition for the other side of the bracket.
But Gen.G have just cemented themselves as the very clear favourites here at the tournament and why they are so feared by so many.
Genji showed us a lot of stuff in that game 3 and the starter game 1 as well
I think we'll do the two kind of highlights for them game 2 to have that Frank from Shoushuu with ginger going quite deep on the
Jarvan so it was some good things the LPL number 2c
But Genji just a step above right now to handle this desk to break down that series and lead us the second series of the day a
Step above I'm not sure there an entire ladder about right now of the rest of it seems that was keen
Yeah, and I mean like the big thing is Kobe and I were preparing because we're like wait JDG has
Right like this the mid game into the scuggle into the first Drake like yeah, we were all prepared or like okay
Kobe's predictions. They're getting dragons. Yeah, they're gonna take a game and no Genji also have amazing team fighting
Man, they were so good when they just started sniping people from far away
Chovy's getting all these kills. Oh my goodness. He was chobing his CS as well. The whole time, by the way, I was looking at like 17 minutes. He had like 190 something.
Yeah. I want to fund your attention to a sign that didn't age well, sadly, for JDG. I don't know if you can see it.
They didn't get the memo here. Thank you so much.
Yeah, that was a good thing going on for them, but it was never enough for them. How did they make it happen?
How it changes so strong? We knew they were. Yeah, we learned so far all their players played so well
We're talking about like oh player of the game and player of the series became really difficult and this one
I thought team was playing so well on a day
It was kind of like dancing around
Shoushuu and made so many really big setup plays where Kenny can also go up there
But Toby was also just yeah, he was so rich also like small shout out to Duro still doing the thing always getting out vision for those neutral
Objective setups we've been talking about consistent in this game consistent in the previous two games
It's it's always a team effort with them to yeah when you think about that because Genji were the key or favorites in
2025 they come here again in 2026 how much different are they this time around because we've talked about the improvements
Canyon being back at the top of his game. So what does it come down to? That's the biggest difference for me
Okay, honestly, it's like how much because previously we had talked about how
Maybe Duro would do a lot for Canyon last year in in some of their games right in terms of vision set up in terms of kind of
partnering with him and
This year not only is Duro still really good, but Canyon has been phenomenal. He's back amazing
He's the goat player of the game play of the play of the game
I mean maybe play of the series. I think this game. I'll probably go Chovy
But yeah, Canyon had an amazing series overall
Yeah, you've been talking Emily about this. Yeah, I just want to check this. That's yeah, there we go
Yeah
That's what matters here he creates resources on the map it's actually insane he keeps on doing it and oh my god
I don't know what to smile with like, please don't fall.
We have Jen Rang, Jen Shimazuka,
joining us.
Honestly, this is amazing.
You can come in the middle, you can come in the middle.
The star of the show.
I mean, do you think they're going to drop a game?
Do we actually think they're gonna drop a game?
Are they gonna lose a game? At first, then. Yes?
Genji?
No?
No?
No?
No.
We have a villain from the side.
Okay, at the end it's yelling from the crowd.
It doesn't look good for now.
To who? To who, Jack?
Lion!
Lion!
Okay, hold on to that scope for the next series.
Player of the series here, guys, because we've been talking about Canyon.
Canyon obviously he's the one sitting out on top here again. Yeah, I feel like it for me it was Canyon all honestly a lot of
Time when it's like a team diff. It's also
We end up getting into the jungler
But yeah for me player the series was Canyon really took advantage of every kind of risky play that Junja did try
In order to get ahead was crucial in so many these setups we were talking about Kobe
It was just so smart around where he could play with his lane pressure.
Yeah, really good stuff. I mean, you mentioned the objectives.
You mentioned the plays here with Chovy as well.
They combine for a monster-monster game.
Chovy also in really good form, putting in some heavy carry work.
But, I mean, it's just like paying attention to each lane that needed it
and then getting there for the objective setups really nicely done.
Also being patient when necessary, right?
Like especially around said objective setup.
So, congrats to Canyon, congrats to Jenji, congrats to Jenji, congrats to Shawn.
It is Jenji's world and we're living it for now. We're going to be back after the break for loud versus lion's nature.
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We suffered some things that were not at all common.
It left a lot of thought about how our playtests were,
we did well.
I think I was that doubt, that push behind Aurelia when Aang arrived.
But as soon as he arrived, I saw the person he was,
I knew we could win a good addition
and it was a change that did very well for our team.
And it was a change that made it very good for our team.
The first stand for me represents my dedication.
I've been putting it since I was in the circuit.
As soon as I got back to CBLOL, I got to the semifinal and won it.
I think it's great that everything that happened in the split.
Understanding that it's just another step to get to a bigger place.
NA versus Brazil, loud versus lion.
Woo!
Woo!
We're in Brazil!
Oh, here we are, we are.
All ready, so a few of you.
Let's go, man, let's go, man.
Let's go, man, let's go, man.
Let's go, man!
Listen, NA versus Brazil, Kobe, because of America's Cup.
Bro.
It got interesting.
Yeah.
Interesting.
It was painful.
You weren't there, man.
We got 8-0 by Peria.
Oh my goodness, we got blasted. It definitely was painful.
I mean, Tatu especially was insane. Their solo lanes as well on top of it outperformed
our solo lanes, and we got demolished.
So at least I've been hearing, I've been talking to the Brazilian casters, that the
biggest strength of Furia is their mid-jungle when they can play through that.
But at the same time, they never played loud in the playoffs, and loud is more of
a late game, not strong early game team.
So it might be a much worse matchup for Lyon.
But this was the America's Cup Racket, 203030 for Furia.
Rather impressive.
By the City Law fans.
Get this out of the hole!
Hold on!
Hold on!
That was a lot of positivity.
And I need to make it clear that I fully support, in the future, competing for international
seating.
Because this is a big controversy, right?
Taty said I don't understand why we only have one seat.
I did answer that question.
So let's pull up the history.
Let's pull up the history.
Hold on.
I will say the NA versus CB ball history.
You can see it on the screen up here.
We're going to get on the big screen as well.
23rd change of 2019, 7-1.
Rather interesting.
24-8 last year.
4-1 before that.
So in the history of League of Legends.
What's this?
Not counting this one right here.
35 and 10.
Listen, first stand was great.
Or sorry, America's Cup was great.
First stand we'll see.
Or Brazil it was great.
But then also the last three years of international results
for the CB law of why you only had one seat,
where did they finish in international events?
I'll say worlds last year, 14 to 16 teams.
MSI, they worked at the 10th, showing that out there,
did not attend first stand because they lost Kobe.
who they lose to. I need some help. I'm flailing here. They lost to the LCS, Kobe. You got to
remember to qualify. Either way, they have consistently not been highly ranked and North
America has been great.
Where is NA in this?
Surprisingly better, actually. Fifth of 13, eighth of 22, six of 12, eight of 20, fifth
of five, top five, sixth of 10, and 11th of 17. So I'd say considerably better, which
is why I'm worried, Coby, that the tides could be changing
based on what we saw at America's Cup.
Are the tides changing?
Yeah, I'm just going to win.
I'm going to have no chance.
Well, what did you guys see in America's Cup that makes
you think Loud can take this?
Could I answer that?
Yeah.
I think it's more important what we didn't see.
We didn't see LCS at all.
Oh, there you go.
That's a good one.
Because my response to this, and I actually used to follow CBLOL way back in the day, in 2014 through 2019,
but the big thing for me is that Loud was not the expected team to be here.
I actually thought it was going to be Fudia or Red.
And so that's where I'm looking at this, and I'm being like, okay,
when we look at some of the teams in this entire thing,
We have some of the unexpected teams to make it here, right?
Like, Lyon kind of figured out C9's game,
where C9 had kind of had this early game,
where they're like, we're gonna fight over that Scuttle,
we're going to attack bot lane, and they figured them out.
Loud had a little bit of a mid lane thing happen.
We don't really have time to get too, too far into it,
but ended up having Envy coming in,
who I remember from INTV like way back in the day, and they ended up pulling off this massive
upset in the CB wall cup. Yeah, and he's a veteran player, and I have a lot of respect for just coming
in on very, very short notice and being able to fill the spot and getting them the wins. I'd say
the improvement actually lined up with when lying got better is around the same time the loud
change. So there are two teams that have been very strong for a short period of time,
Which makes this a little bit unexpected. Let's see what the fans at home think with the MasterCard fan prediction for this series
I wonder how many line people were spamming the vote not enough
actually loud 75% of the vote
I've also been right a hundred percent of the time
And I've allowed the fans until now so my predictions for this game and we're gonna roll your predictions as well
for this one I'm gonna say I'm disregarding fury fury is not here they
can't hurt us anymore all right it's line versus I can't hurt us anymore so I'm
going 3-1 for line but but I do need to hear
the fans anyone here for line and single-person
No!
No!
No!
No!
No!
No!
No!
Are you?
Yeah, he's a projessist!
Are you surprised?
He said, this is Brazil, bro!
Yeah, I mean, I do think that Lion have a lot better chance than Cloud9.
It's a very, very different team.
Lion, especially led by Inspired, they're much slower, much more concentrated on these team fights.
And I don't think that Loud are going to be able to crack that.
Let's toss it right to the casters.
Hello and welcome back to First Stand here, Lyon and Loud making their debut, I am Azale,
joined by Oxfors first ever international series here, we're casting some League of Legends
And a very tense matchup, especially as the Natsum is about to get out of the America.
What's America's got?
Yeah, I've never heard of it.
Oh, yeah? You get that?
Nope.
I'm pretty sure I saw you that a couple of times, at least.
Well, that's weird.
You're just some bald guy there just assuming it's me?
Yes, I do see both people in the street.
I'm like, hey, is it real?
Are they all the same here?
A little bit.
Yeah, I know.
It should be, I think if there's a lot more
importance to this match because
we got our butts handed to us by Furia.
You know, the NA fans are feeling hungry
and feeling like we want a little bit of revenge.
We want to be able to battle back.
We want to be able to get the results
that we're used to getting against the CBLO.
Yeah, cause I think losing the America's Cup
it would be one thing,
but the factor was the sweep.
Definitely another blow entirely.
But obviously big stakes here at first
and I feel like losing this first match
gonna put you in a really carries position. Yeah, it's gonna make it really
hard to have in the battle against now we know it's gonna be JDG and even though
they suffered a rough loss against Gen G, that is Gen G. Yeah, and I mean it's gonna
be tough to get out of the groups regardless. Let's be honest, right? Two
teams get out and each group has an LPL and an LCK team in it. So you have to
beat an LPL or an LCK team to get out. That's just the way it works. Yeah.
So you know, you've got to be able to do it but you definitely don't want
to be knocked down to the bracket right here. This is gonna be seen as the
The most beatable opponent for both of these teams, right?
Both of these teams are thinking, great, this is the one we have to beat.
These are the guys we can take down, and we'll see if they're going to be able to do it.
You know, Loud and Emily was mentioning on the desk was not the expected team to be here.
This was a team that, coming into it, it was really kind of a tumultuous journey through
playoffs.
You know, 45 minutes, I think it was 48 hours, excuse me, before the upper bracket
finals, they actually had to swap their mid laner.
They had been playing with Mago.
They swapped over to Envy.
So you know you're making a roster swap mid playoffs in the upper rackets against TV
You're not even favored against and then they end up coming out on top
So you know the fact that loud even made it here was a shock and I think it's gonna be exciting
So we're thinking of them which also makes you think as well because they managed to win that region with those circumstances
Now they've had extra time to practice with MD on the roster and the America's couple of the factors up there
It was on home turf, right?
And this tournament also on home turf
with the fans here chanting for the team
might be the boost they need.
Yeah, it very well might be.
We'll see though, because Lyon here obviously inspired
no stranger to the international stage.
You're going to know a lot of these players.
Lyon was also kind of not really expected to be here,
especially if you watch the Swiss stage in the LCS.
This team was struggling.
They barely even made it into the playoffs
of our lock-in tournament.
It was actually through, you know, the tiebreaker scenario that they ended up not having to actually, you know, play to even get top six.
But they were struggling early on, and this team completely transformed going into playoffs.
They really became, you know, one cohesive unit, playing inspired style and playing, you know, through his shot calling.
And they just looked leaps and bounds better.
And now getting to the draft, you see, Jarvan, that first big priority by Lada was Lyon, who went to second pick in the situation.
I feel like they put a lot of priority on getting counter pick for Dopa a lot more this year than we've seen last year for example
He's had like the vein and the virus even coming out. They're you know, are being picked up here for berserker
So someone that does have a dash available to get out of that cataclysm when you did later
And then spied going for a Pantheon a pick that I don't think we've seen as much effect in the LCS compared to other regions
And the LCK that pick is is honestly often perma-band
and so much early pressure,
so much global presence as well on the back of that pick.
Yeah, it's definitely still really highly prized in the LCS.
It is just often very, very often banned.
Taliyah Pantheon was kind of considered
the premier jungle mid lane duo in the LCS.
So it wouldn't be surprised to see a potential Taliyah here
coming in on three, four,
Saint Ezreal gonna be the option alongside Nico.
So going for that bot lane
and now I feel like line half of this side,
do you wanna go for the Taliyah combo?
Do you wanna grab your Lulu here potentially
and try to pick for that 2v2 because probably whichever one you don't go is
potentially going to get banned out in the second phase.
Yeah I think matching bot lane here makes a lot of sense.
You could obviously go for a solo lane pickup and then ban away any picks you
don't want to deal with. Something to mention is we've only
seen the Orianna and the Aurora banned away from mid lane. Obviously a lot of
the mid lane picks are taking down a peg with the patches that came
through. The rise is something that was still really strong and hasn't
really been touched and hasn't been looked at yet.
Did you just go for that Lulu counter pretty well with the Unara?
And now go to the second rotation and be trying to pin up pools cast your peer and needs to be coming out as a ban here
So maybe it's trying to set up the price. Yeah
Well, yeah
Yeah, that is interesting because it does kind of broadcast what you're thinking about so then loud can obviously respond with a rise down to their own
Yeah, they still choose
But it's gonna be interesting to see how these two teams are gonna play it out
Now line is a team that really likes to prioritize gold over objective. They're willing to give early dragons
They're willing to give the early objective to trade for plates, to trade for camps, and try to build them boldly in that way.
Yes, Dopele got a lot of attention in the TL series for the fame and the verus and all these counter picks,
but that was more specifically as a strategy to beat TL because they felt like Morgan is the team.
So we don't necessarily think we're going to see that from Dopele here, though Shino has been a really exciting rookie.
If they feel like he's the only problem, they could definitely go for it.
They can go for these ranged counter picks and try to just shut him down.
But that's a strategy that I think they're only going to go for if they feel like loud but they really have strength elsewhere.
Yeah, I think in this situation if you get like a strong room in mid-jungle, you get pressure there, you can send that out to the sides either way it's going to have a lot of power.
The Ryze band does come through, but that's a layer is full open and available, which is a really strong combo.
Doosville have the Aries option, and the LCK options, the Aries make it into this layer.
You can kind of circumvent the Unraveled Earth with player distance, but I think match it playable on both sides, to be honest.
expect the mid lane to come through here for Lyon and then leave that kind of pick for Doppler.
Yeah, it's definitely what I'm expecting as well, unless they do just want to round it out with something a little bit more straight forward.
The R.E. though, obviously you talked about as an answer to the fleet, but also is a good pairing.
Anytime you have point and click CC, Charm is easy to follow up by, plus R.E., a common combo,
but obviously works very well here with the Pantheon also.
And it's going to be, you know, that point and click CC that you kind of need to lock down someone like you have to try to burst down this character.
this character. I think it also just offers a lot of safety into Niko Jarvan. I think it's
late, you feel even though the Unraveled League helps a bit, they feel a bit uncomfortable
to get on top of you, but the mel coming through when we saw this on day one, we saw
Bicler playing this into night and how strong the match it can be. The charm really low
value typically just be reflected at you, so and we're getting a good match up here.
We see the Renekton coming through, there's options like the Na, like the Kenan we
we have to see picked into this, but you can just play any range top to be honest, into the Renekton
or you can go for something a bit more standard like the Scion and just kind of match a pretty
good bit of a brick wall into it. Exactly and I think that's where we're going to start to see,
you know, what kind of strategy Lion wants to come in here with. I was expecting that they would
just kind of play standard, play meta, but they're not going to be looking for anything too
crazy here. So it is going to be about as standard as standard gets. Doko will be playing
the gnar here. We've seen this match up a million times and I expect Lyon to be focusing
more on the solo lanes, to be really front play towards those. One of the things I know
inspired really values about Preserker as a bot laner is that he generally does not
need help. And that's something that he thinks is very valuable, is that he can
basically ignore bot lane and bot lane is going to be even. Bot lane is going to
be doing alright. And that is kind of the way that he feels you should be playing
the game is maximizing your own time, your own efficiency, get ahead in camps, get ahead
in gold, and then look for those team fights where you can kind of outplay with that advantage.
And I think if you're playing, you know, you know, you know, you're in a lulu and you just
go even with this matchup, you're in such a comfortable position, and as you're Niko,
I feel like you'll be winning.
I agree.
You pick this because you want to have the pressure, you want to get ahead in the
2v2.
Exactly.
And I feel like Jarvan, there's a little bit of pressure to make things happen as
well.
Obviously a very explosive ganker we saw, Tatsu was kind of running circles around us
with the Jarvan at times.
And the CB wall, also something that we had talked about
at America's Cup, really utilized some level one cheeses
very, very well.
You know, roam straight down to bot lane
with the mid laner, trying to get advantages at level one.
You know, clever invades and things that you can do
because a lot of teams have kind of written
all those strategies off thinking,
hey, the minions spawned too early,
the camp spawned too early, you can't really go for it.
But there are still some ways
to really be efficient with it,
just charge straight in, try to get into the advantage
and we saw that a number of times at America's Cup.
So I'm going to be really interested to see if Loud tries to take a page out of Furious
but who had so much success against the LCS at America's Cup.
I mean it's definitely possible especially when you have the root setup from the Niko.
You know if you go for something bot lane you bring Melon potentially looks like you
haven't up to the goal for this.
I think bot lane you know we'll have to have that pressure out of Bull and Vector
but here in the mid lane.
Vantale is coming so they're actually looking for this.
They're going to start Charm level 1 here.
This is what I'm talking about, the level 1 problematic here for Envy.
Has to flash, pop a potion already.
See, he will pop a potion of his own.
And is starting charm, which of course, not what he would really love to do.
And does delay to start here for Inspired, but not significantly at all.
So it's just a nice little look here.
They catch him warding a bit deep there, had no coverage,
and they are able to get a nice punish at level 1.
I think it's a good start.
Oh, seeing a crush in the bot lane as well.
Heal been already from both sides there, just to try and push in.
I think inspired really moved there just to get some traction and be if this lane plays out naturally as the
Mel into the RE the Mel is gonna have the edge
I think disrupting that goes long way we see young J though going for an invade here into inspired jungle
And it looks like you manage to circumvent the vision there
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So a nice little invade here from young Jay.
We'll see if inspired was aware of it.
We didn't actually catch it.
He walked across that ward at Raptors.
He flagged and dragged over.
So I think he circumvented it,
but you see the ping coming out,
have the Raptors, and they just assume
because they haven't seen like where is,
you know, something is up, something is different.
There is a reason we haven't spotted them.
And you see the on the way ping is coming out.
In spite it's like, okay, something is up here.
I'm gonna push in.
And I assume my topside jungle is gone at this point.
Yep, inspired very intelligent jungler is going to be able to make that read.
And you can also see Doku was aggressively contesting the wave.
When you know that you are going to be weak side in those spots,
you can't allow them to have a free crash because if you were under that tower
with a mini wave there, they can potentially look for aggressive play.
So, Inspire going to be out there, will at least get this blue buff.
And then we'll spot Young Jay here.
So, ends up being, you know, plus one camp for now,
stolen away there by Young Jay.
He took both the red or excuse me the blue as well as that romp. Yeah, thank you
Really well mid lane front lane has fire as well
So the support is there for inspired these want to push too deeply
He's gonna back away here is in position to pick up the scuttle though
And is gonna go to mitigate a bit of the camps that were taken away by young J in this situation
Yep, and we'll see it should just be you know a kind of trade of scuttles
Inspired I don't know if he's gonna go back in for the gromp or just kind of go back towards his topside and look for some more
clearing. Young Jay is going to be going for that topside scuttle so that will be
uncontested but Inspired is crossing. I just don't think he's going to get there
in time. Yeah no way he gets here so I think Young Jay is pretty happy with how
things are planned out. Gets a little scrying vision to see that Inspired wolves
are up so he sees what he's going to, has a good idea of where the pantheon is
going to be. I think especially into a pick with so much early pressure, the
point of click CC, the execute damage, knowing where he is really important
and Bull not having a good time, sorry, not Bull.
Well, Bull and Redbird in the bot lane
not having a good time in this 2v2 matchup.
No, not at all.
And that is kind of concerning here.
Look at St. there.
Just throws the charm to the side knowing
that the reflect will be used.
So as soon as that charm is coming out,
Andy hits the reflect.
But St. had just fired it off to the side
because of course it's not just that it's mitigated.
It's that it's fired back at you,
which can then set up for an easy route there
for the Mel, which makes this match up very difficult
in the 1v1.
Inspired here now.
living for a potential gank does have his flash available no flash there for Envy
there's a flash the stun the charm Envy's got nowhere to go inspired takes
his just rewards no first blood for you saying it's going to inspire great set of
there though from the mid jungle upline they knew that that flashed down
familiar and if you get the stun from the pantheon face no chance to use the
reflect for the charm really easy pick up there and a really easy face
blood secure yeah this is absolute comfort right now for Lyon berserker
though could be in some potential trouble here.
They are going to spot young J.
This is on the flag and drag.
They do get the early flash out of the Lions though.
It was traded there.
I'll flash for Red Burt.
So going to be able to trade those flashes at the very least.
But Lion is looking really good.
Almost up 800 gold at this point.
Berserker ahead in CS in this matchup.
That is going to be so powerful later on.
They're scaling up really well.
Mid lane's going great.
Inspired in comfort zone.
And Doko's just kind of doing his thing,
chilling on topside.
I think it feels pretty bad for Loud so far, the fact that Bot lane is struggling a bit.
I think playing into the likes of Lulu, Unara, if they get wave access they can stack up that passive
and you're not landing your skill shots. This is kind of how the lane can pan out.
The poke for the Niko, the poke from the Ezreal, if you're connecting you should be in a good position.
But it appears with how it's played out, it just hasn't really been pitting.
And now, Redbird, again, doesn't manage to connect there though.
Yep, Redbird does look for the angle, have a little bit of time.
So Ghost tries to find something there, can't quite do it.
Inspired hovering here around mid again,
and is gonna spot out that ward and look for an inbade.
So they will get eyes here on to where Jung Jay was.
They know exactly where he was,
and it's gonna be reflected charm there.
Stank gonna be in some trouble here.
Andy getting incredibly low, gonna look for the ulti,
and finishes him off with the solo.
His flash is almost back up.
In comes Jung Jay to back him up.
Stank could have just walked it out.
He didn't need to throw the charm.
He had inspired behind him,
but he throws the charm,
And then he says, thank you very much.
I'll take the solo kill.
Just complete disrespect there.
In that situation, had old had flash,
there's just no scenario where you should be dying there.
And as you said, if you didn't throw the charm,
I don't think it's really possible.
We'll see the replay coming through.
So, Envy initially hits the level up
and the old damage on Mel got buffed as well,
the base damage, lands the root, reflects the charm.
I think Saints thinking maybe if, you know,
he's been slowing the trigger,
I can set up for inspired.
He ends up sort of burying himself, digging his own grave.
Yeah, that was not a good look at all.
But we can see a flash for there from Sheena onto Dokla.
Dokla doesn't even have to flash.
He just backs it off, but they're
going to try to look for the dive here.
Dokla desperately trying to get that Megan already.
I don't think they can look for this.
Youngjae have to flag and drag out.
And that is dominance.
That is flash off of Sheena for nothing there from Dokla.
And it's a free pass for Inspire
to be able to start this up.
But this is Stats here in Swiss versus playoffs.
He had a remarkable improvement
from that Swiss stage into the playoffs.
In Swiss stage, it wasn't even just stats
that were looking bad.
He was failing at big moments constantly.
He was getting picked off.
He was losing them games in late game situations
over and over and over,
because of mistakes like what we just saw.
So you don't want to see St. reverting to that form,
because when he is in that form,
he was one of the worst midlaners in the league.
We saw him move to a very high level,
but he's got to be careful about that.
They're going to look for a redive here.
There's the stun coming in, the flag, the drag.
And the ulti don't stop the down flashes, but flashes too late.
Young Jay gets out, the re-die here working out for loud.
Yeah, and I think it was good from Chino and Young Jay not to go flat,
Mitchell dying for the mega was maybe there.
Wait, be patient, find the second opportunity.
They so inspired on the dragon, they knew they had time to go for it.
I think Young Jay, it's been a bit of a frustrating game so far.
He's been trying to make impact around the map,
but it hasn't always come through.
But he finally gets himself on the board there
with that kill onto the enemy top laner.
It is that dragon picked up for Lion, and as well I feel like with it being an early Kentech dragon,
it feels pretty nice knowing you won't be getting a Kentech soul.
The next one is going to be a mountain, so we'll see how that ends up panning out.
Mm-hmm. It's going to be a pretty even game now at this point, you know, just a couple hundred goals,
separating Lion from Loud. So, not a big deal at all. It really comes down more to the composition,
to the setups from the teamfights here, and Lion is kind of taking that atypical situation for them,
where they are actually the ones that are getting the early dragons that are looking to you know stack those objectives
Whereas loud has been the one you know more focusing towards topside and is kind of that reversal of role from what we expect from line
I think also if lion is getting those early dragons, you know
We've seen them a lot of times willing to hand over dragons if they feel like they're not the best position to fight
If you have a composition we have you know are Lulu and you have any dragons picked up
You know they're going to be patient and not feel traction at all and not feel obliged to fight when lad has a good setup
Yeah, absolutely. You know you can take those first few dragons and you can say great you have to contest us at the third
We don't have to show up. We can just take a tower top
We can continue to scale wait for berserker to get more and more items and depend upon his strength in those team fights
And it may be exactly what they look for here
And is that lion they're bot lane doing kind of exactly what I said
You know, this is kind of what they count on you know what inspired counts on from berserker is for him to be put in any
Matchup and do well and just kind of go for you know
Even farming lane where he is not drawn down there unless he thinks it is a good move for him and for the game
Yeah, I mean even the fact that it was the gang down there earlier
I was doing his flash was very respectful with that. It's back up again
So it wasn't really anything coming from that inspired just continuing fine value
But now we're seeing a big clash come through jungler coming mid lane coming
looking to see if they can find something more and Saida isn't close enough to ult right now.
No, he's definitely not close enough to ult. Saida's not moving but Nd is heading back towards the mid lane.
Rezorter takes a chunk of damage. Isles is aware that this dive could be coming in here.
Yeah, but Saida actually ulted early to help clear the waves. So good heads of play there just to mitigate the dive
in the wave out early and it feels like all that pressure just to get him now.
Inspired has reset. He's now close enough to ult in and the play's being negated.
And Saint is even the one moving down because Saint stayed mid while Andy was roaming.
He was the one actually pushing in that wave.
Now he gets prior, clears that award, is going to just move back towards mid lane.
Now, well handled there by Lyon.
As you said, Berserker pops transcend oneself is going to be able to clear out that wave
and everything is diffused.
Just keeping a nice, calm game.
The question is who is going to come out on top in the teamfights?
Because this is a game with two teams that like to play slow pace are very comfortable in this game.
Really on both sides. Yeah, and I think loud you can definitely see with that
comp they are trying to make things happen a bit more, but they've been very respectful very patient
It is that fierce game of the tournament and you can see that they don't want to make that they go
But they are going now. Here comes the grand starfall this the charm is not going to land the pop awesome coming in
It's not going to land on anyone either a saint gets the resets going forward
They're able to take down envy
inspired here with a great first ultimate. They had Isles in their back pocket
and are able to kill off Envy and no response really from loud. Not exactly how
that play started but Envy pushed up pretty deep down. I feel like the thing is
the mel into the RE feels great but the pantheon just feels so frustrating
with the fact that you can ult out on top of you. You don't have the mobility,
the stun connects and you end up suffering. We'll see the replay here.
get a pretty overextended ends up being a old influence by a flash done.
There's just not much you can do against that and the attentive kind of play that comes out from loud,
really not finding anything as well.
They kind of have that false sense of security because Redbert was there with him
and Younggie was walking up midlanes and he's thinking, okay, yeah, we see their support
but my support's here too, my jungler's coming, but it was Lion who kind of just preempted the play
play and Dokla, despite dying once on this redive, is dead even with Shino, so no
advantage up there. It is a comfortable game here for Lyon. We'll see if there's
going to be a fight at this next dragon. It has been Lyon getting all of the
objectives thus far. They got all three grubs. They got that first dragon. They've
held on the bot side and are looking very comfortable so far. Yeah, we do see
right now there's at least not a vision for the side of Lyon around the
dragon area but currently him games moving in clearing it out heavy pings
trouble yeah she know in a lot of trouble your doklah gonna go forward he
flashes but don't let run a chase in get some with the boomerang it's a solo
bolo you may take me down with your jungler but I don't need one just a
great angle that found by doklah able to take down the opposing top and she
knew who's been so hyped in the cb low as a strong lane that's someone who
really like to take the challenge as opponents being taken down game one by his opposition.
Matt inspired here, Navadir engaged on nice, Agus Assault blocked all the damage,
Bull is getting pushed out, polymorphed and knocked back here by Berserker. In comes Envy,
the true shopper Oz is going to land on the Isles. Inspired Stating, inspired fighting,
the charm goes wide, but Envy is knocked down. It's a double for Stating, he's looking for a
triple. He wants to take down Bull, the burial by some time, but in comes Berserker and down
goes bull, Lyons and loud packing, they crush the fight.
They get everything they want and more solo kill
on the top lane and in the fight they get such a huge clean up.
Redbird you're in a lot of trouble there.
I don't think he's gonna have the damage to finish him off.
He might, the polymorph comes in to buy a little bit of time.
Isle's trying to cut out staying out of vision
but now Sane is here and Sane is looking for a freebie
and he's gonna be able to get it.
Redbird has got nowhere to go.
It's another kill for saying it's a 1.5k gold leaf for him a dragon for lion
And it's them in full control of this game and you see here loud try to go in on inscribed
That's a pantheon he can mitigate so much damage. He dodges away for the flag and drag
If you back away initially to give some space, but again this committal in young days so low and it gives that initial
It's not even a reset. I was saying he hasn't popped his ult yet
but he dies forward and just starts getting his clean up potential.
Not much both can do in this situation,
and it feels like Lyon were just waiting to pounce on their opponents,
and they crushed them there. Look how high Dokela is.
Yeah, Dokela feeling really good.
That was just beautifully played by Inspired.
Small little movements, but sidestepped perfectly on the flag and drag.
Times the Aegis assault perfectly as well there with that pop-off some landing.
You can see the CB LOL versus LCS all-time head-to-head.
It is 38 to 20 in games, but 20-26 has not left as good.
It's not looking as good for Envy now as another kill going the way of Lyon.
Berserker on fire.
Lyon are cruising.
It's nearly a 5,000 gold lead here at 15 minutes,
but Lyon going to try to get something back.
Stun comes in.
Poposs, I'm there to follow.
But it's a great gnar back from Tokla.
Knocks them away.
He's taunting them.
He's taunting them in Yen-J.
He wishes he had some help on the bot side because he's going to get killed off in his own jungle and loud now
Looking for more here trying to chase in after dohkla did dohkla get a little bit too confident
They're not gonna go for the play. They know that pantheon could be coming
He has that all he ready to respond and dohkla just making fun of him and in comes a grand star falling down goes red
Bert all the team can do nothing wrong
Shino is running for the hills, but he's got no flash the slice will be back up inspired still chasing
He wants this kill gonna be able to tank it up there for Doka Doka looking to try to finish them off
She knows got nowhere to go and lion can do no wrong in game one
Just feels like they're getting everything they want loud trying go for a counter play and
Doka is laughing in their faces. This is pretty brutal at this point. It's a
6,500 gold lead we've said that lion don't take fights. They don't need to if they think we don't have to write setup
We don't have to go for this. I haven't seen that from them at all this game
It feels like the setup has always been right them to take these opportunities and right now
They're just crushing loud into the dirt. They are absolutely destroying them
And we saw earlier in that coinbase gold grind they had already created somewhat of an advantage that has now
exploded since then and this game is already looking somewhat out of reach
here for loud but let's see if they can find a play down on the st young j
gonna look here a beautiful charm well timed the cataclysm comes down but for
what and Saints cool downs are so low on that ultimate here it's gonna be able
to trade the spear rush berserker just running in after a ball that tower is
not yours buddy I feel like when you're collapsing onto an Ari in the
side lane we still have to T1 tower up inspiration hours yeah it's not a
good ceiling the charm was pretty great as well just to add insult to injury and
now Berserker he's feeling so he's high he steps up in the face he's getting
damage down just take the route but it just doesn't seem bothered at all he
has him a kills to back him up as well I mean he's a full item up like look
at the look at the itemization he's 2.4k ahead individually yeah we're at 17
minutes and he's a full item ahead of both yeah and it feels so bad with
Ezreal but that two items fight really is where you you want to have that
point of strength by the time it gets to it is Berserker gonna have
maybe you know at this point it's
looking that way it is definitely
looking that way as she know able to
defend that top lane tower at least for
now for Zercher just constantly pushing
in these waves harassing down the loud
bot lane and he is around but he is
warded out they really can't get
anything you can see inspired is
waiting in the wings here she know
gonna look aggressively on doclah
once again young Jay and she know
constantly going up here but doclah
it's just handling this like the
weak side king he is and now going
aggressive chasing after them how knows they need to try to force plays but just
nothing is working yeah I think at this point it is just you see them constantly
looking for plays it's not even the right approach you have to try and find
something but it is starting to feel a bit desperate young jay is coming they're
going for it again but this time inspired is running up the river he can
respond with the alti a teleport coming in I think the grand starfall is
probably coming as well but it's another solar for dokla he doesn't even
but he's got the health and sakes gonna force a flash, knock down a tower, another play going the way of lying.
Just feels like nothing can go wrong, don't click, gets the solo kill, but the awry was there, the pantheon was there too, just in case something more came from this.
A little drive by high five, good hustle there you know.
Good work top laner, you know, you got to end you, we're here to show up occasionally, and I think at this point, loud, I don't see the angle, I think you're looking at game two.
It's time to think about game 2, I think, if you are allowed.
Try to shake this one off a bit. It was even for a while, but
it is crazy to see an 8.5k gold lead pre-19 minutes.
Plus, every objective, every single objective has gone the way of life.
There was a stat that we were talking about with Lyon,
the combined kills per minute. They're extremely low.
I don't think this game is going to change it too much
because combined kills per minute.
And loud, they don't have any kills, so I'm not going to change that stat too much at this point.
Almost at 9000 gold lead, it's going to be taken back to your garden as well.
It's an ocean soul, I mean it's not too much of a silver lining, but not the most meaningful soul, so loud, not too concerned about that being stacked up.
They've got a lot of concerns, that's probably low in the totem pole.
Exactly. 99 problems, but an ocean soul ain't one.
Yes, yes, yes.
I mean, it's it's it's not a perfect game,
but honestly it's not that far off.
Best bar it is just the two kills.
There are no objectives on their side.
Really what so ever as a dope look?
This is a player who has had
pretty tumultuous history.
You know, he obviously won the LCS with energy.
They got to quarterfinals.
He had this really big performance at Worlds,
but then they had a really kind of a struggle
that next year.
He ended up getting 6th in 2024 summer.
He ended up, you know, not even having a team,
then joining 100 thieves as a coach.
Then from there, he ends up in this spot
where he's ending up, you know,
subbing in for his top laner.
He was playing in tier two.
When he swaps in for General Sniper,
they end up getting third in LTA.
They go to Worlds.
He looks good again.
And then everyone's thinking,
oh my God, this guy's great.
He's gonna end up on a top team.
Well, he had no team planned again
at the start of this year.
That's the thing I found the craziest.
Obviously, you are much closer to the LCS than I am, but I was so shocked that Dokla didn't immediately end up a team based on what we saw from him at Worlds, in terms of branding, and in terms of performance, but yeah, he's showing again what he can do, that he's just so good at performing under pressure when he comes in six stages.
And you know my understanding is that he did have some offers, but only from bottom teams,
which he wasn't really interested in.
And Zemudo was the intended starting top laner for Lyon.
Unfortunately for him, he has been plagued by Visa issues.
He was supposed to play for them last year as well.
They couldn't get a Visa for Zemudo.
And Zemudo's misfortune became, you know, the fortunate for Doka.
That gave him an opportunity on a very good squad, where he has once again been able to deliver.
But I think you talked about it.
He is a clutch player.
He shows up in these big moments.
because his start to the year was not good either.
He was really looking out of form,
but in playoffs looked really, really good,
got a lot of attention with these flex picks
that they were pulling off,
with these ranged top laners that they were pulling off,
and has looked fantastic so far here in the first game
of Lyon at first hand.
Sheenow gonna look for him again.
Everyone coming up here from Lyon,
but Douglas going forward.
He looks for another solo kill.
Bull now coming in as is Young Jay,
as is Redbird.
They are sending the entire squad.
Doga says, all right, you're gonna get me this time.
Alts the way, tried to get most of the minions.
But look at where the rest of the map is.
It's the tier two mid getting knocked down.
It's safe unanswered on the bot side.
And it's just fine on his rafters.
He's still clear in the jungle.
He's got his privacy in the hood.
That's a jungler right there.
Absolutely.
He knows what he's having.
He's got a big farm lead still in his game.
Which is the better camp?
Top laner or rafters?
I mean, that's very true.
I don't disagree.
There's multiple rafters.
There's only one top laner.
There's only one Sankton. He might be dying, getting CC'd up, but has the Spear Rush, lives through the burst, coming down.
Redbird spends the heal, spends the ulti, but they can't finish him off.
There has the Burk Treads to get out of CC and just Spear Rush to safety once again.
I think it's good pick-ups, right, that they got that kill onto Jokler and, you know, they're trying to get out on a Sankton.
The problem is, they're not getting too much in terms of resources, in terms of some of the spells.
And Berserker is just a piece at this point, pushes Young J back, no problem.
The experience advantages are also getting pretty big.
You're looking down across the board.
You know, it's multiple levels in some roles,
but even, you know, at its closest,
it is like an entire level down in the ADC.
I mean, Paul's caught hit 13.
Pazooka just hit 14.
Saints is almost a full level ahead.
Inspired is over a full level of experience ahead,
and Lyon can do no wrong.
At this point, Laod, they want to find a big engage.
Down to the right target, but, you know,
Summoner's available for every member of Lyon.
All the flashes there.
You have Mikael, so Berserker,
Berserk has that Infinity Edge coming in,
3 items to 2 and comparison of all.
It's really hard to see you winning a fight where
every one on the enemy team, you go for that big engage
from the Niko from the Jarvan and they just flash out of it.
And then they just one-shot you with the damage.
Yeah, no one can stop Dokla. I mean they focused all their time
on trying to put Dokla down.
And Dokla is getting multiple solo kills.
He's doing two, but right now I feel like he is the one
who has most impressed me in this first game from Lyon
From Lyon because he was getting constantly attacked, not getting any health, and able to find multiple solo kills,
able to win his match up heavily, has drawn so much pressure in the side lanes.
That's not an impressive score, but it is a progressive performance here from Dota.
Unfortunately for Lout he does respawn, so even though they perform on this particular lane,
he's back, Lout lane, put the pressure on again.
Harold comes down, puts some more pressure on the mid lane tower,
and it just feels like Lout are trapped, just at the limit of whatever towers they have up and available,
and Carm really got to look outside of that.
And they have no vision.
I mean, look at their warts, right?
You know, there's just nothing on the map on that bot side
where Soul is going to be up here in 10 seconds
about there for Lyon.
And that is going to make things even more difficult.
Okay, they are venturing out.
They're like, okay, maybe this is our time to risk it.
Oh, Douglas and Mega.
Douglas is in Mega here.
We'll see if they can try to find an angle.
Douglas will have that expire,
but he's going to just try to push Chino back now.
Going to be looking for an angle as Junggit goes for it, but inspired happy to take that challenge.
The ulti from Sheenoo has already been forced and Doklaid just taking the 1v1.
Loud Tridery in force as quickly as they can, but it might be too little, it might be too late.
Ending it, found on the side as well. Pop-offing coming in here from Redbird.
It's going to be landed, but the Cataclysm gets flashed away from and it comes safe with the spirit rush.
He's taking them down one after another. Berserker flashes over the wall. He's going to be able to finish off full.
Everyone from Loud is falling. The base is going to be crumbling.
They're paying on to the dragon. They want the soul
My actually moved towards the Baron first loud try and make something happen. They can't even take out dope
But they get his flash they got a decent amount summoners, but the damage isn't now now they'll look for docliffe
Yeah, they're gonna go for it. She know and envy do arrive behind him that is double TP committed dope
But it's him with the thumbs up. He just wants to go for the wave
She know gonna be able to finish him off. No problem
We have to think good not to knock him back
But surely he cannot get away the golden eclipse will finish the kill here for envy
They get something but the prize is that much greater for lion on the other side of the map
Yeah, and you saw the angle when it came to the fight where it looked like maybe they built a catch dope initially
Did you get him in the end result?
But I mean just a fact don't look in face tank
She know in this situation that just it seems like he's just not taking damage
spread it, they'll find its angle on Trim, gets him, but he still has his flash available.
And this is what I mean, they go for the engage, she flashes out, you lose all momentum in the fight,
and then honestly, now they're getting chased down, they're lucky that Envy survives,
because if Envy goes down you get another reset, maybe you're losing even more members
in that situation. You go back to live, Latter trying to rush,
he's inspired to the back of the pit, I don't think they realize that he is there,
and now he's going to reveal himself. YoungJ goes in onto him immediately,
Nice, I guess it's all there to block some damage to buy some time for Zercher pushing Shino back young days gonna go in to pop
Plus him on the side only catches Isles and he has the macaels and berserker has the damage
They're focusing down the soul gonna be able to claim it surely here as envy on the side will fall as well
It's only she knows standing. It's a triple for berserker
It's a dominance win there as the priceless moment of the game
The dragon soul is claimed and lion looks to be claiming the Nexus shortly after just too far behind
trying to find the angle in there but unfortunately Lyon just too crisp this
game you know maybe it'll survive longer than the Nexus we'll see. He's gonna run
for it. Doka trying to chase after him but even if he gets away the Nexus can't
run it's got nowhere to go as the Lyon members pushing forward here looking
to claim a dominant game number one 27 minutes in at 16,000 gold leads and they
want more trying to pick up some kills here before they finish the
Nexus, but the Nexus falls.
Lyon playing game number one.
Just a super clean performance from Lyon in this one.
Didn't get to put any steps wrong from that game.
Very impressive stuff.
Really the only thing I can think
to nitpick was that one death from St.
You know, got a little careless in mid lane.
Inspired was everywhere.
They played incredibly well here.
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I'm going to vote for Dokla.
I thought this guy really changed the game
with how he played weak side.
Lounge, what do you think?
I bought him for inspired with the way he took over the early game and also I thought Genji was done playing. That looks like a clean game.
Yeah man, they're out there smurfing still North American Genji.
Honestly though, yeah, inspired from the very beginning, controlled so much, especially the mid lane matchup, which only then St. Blundered with the charm later to get a little bit rocky, but completely smoothed out after.
after yeah and looking at the way
loud played to get here and kind of
some of their upsets in C.B. Lowell
right I was thinking that lion
actually might be pretty difficult
matchup for them because lion are
such a patient team especially when
they play around inspired I mean
you can tell how much kind of prep
went into this from level one
right when they're already looking
out saint takes charm first ends
up blowing that flash mid which
then allows for inspired to go
And follow up on that. Yeah, we have our fan results as well as El said it was gonna be Jocla for the you know the damage in the solo kills
So we control the boat here
In the analyst area, but the fan boat does say that it's don't because they were listening
Either way Emily what you were talking about here
I want to talk about this first one set up right because it was set up from level one
I felt like CB wall teams overall in America's Cup had did such a great job with their level once, right?
And it was awesome to see out of them here. St. Is just waiting
He actually ends up getting a little bit of damage onto Envy early inspired is here to back him up
He takes charm and Envy actually ends up having to flash
Which means that inspired is free to revisit this mid lane kind of at his leisure
after he dealt with this invade from young Jay and they clean up first blood off of it just really good foresight from
Inspired in combination with saying something that we were kind of harping on them when lion was struggling
Yeah earlier in LCS. I also want to point out. There was no reflect on mel in that because
Tram's turn Arnia and I know
Purpose take a soak about one time because I think he thought he threw enough charms into the ether that it wasn't gonna get reflected
the one time you actually aimed it at Mel.
And then it did get.
It was just a very dangerous time to do that gambit
if that was the gambit.
I think that was the gambit.
You're a great game.
St. Mechanics.
Afterwards, though, too, is the extra plays from Inspire.
Because there's this dragon fight towards the bottom side
of the mat that ends up getting
Berserker a bunch of extra money, too.
And I actually want to pull this up
because we've got a Cisco every second counts play.
And we'll take a look at this one.
Now, Inspire, you can tell already
is probably calling for the collapse.
Look at the mini map of Saint coming down
because here after his dammit immune,
he starts pressing S.
He's pressing S to stay next to Isles
for when the cataclysm comes.
So he can stay in there
and they can turn on young Jay.
And you get enough comms, listen in for Lion
that you can start to tell,
you know, when they're already communicating these things.
Keep lacing.
Yeah, you can just imagine.
You can hear inspired in your own head at home even.
He's like, we're gonna turn.
You know, look, look, Jarvan, look Jarvan.
Saints on the way and so he's pressing s key. He's waiting. He's waiting for the castle to come on him and aisles
And then they turn it and they get so much money and say it's bad and berserker is bad
Yeah, thanks for the reliable Cisco network for that replay after that. It was a snowball. Yeah, we've got the goal graph in our AWS
Postgame breakdown as well. It's gonna show don't be doing a lot of damage
I feel like he was just farming the renekton this entire time. You can't give don't credit
I think for the team, I think you voted inspired to call me but Berserker also hit his item power
specs at the very end slowly farming the entire time pretty much deathless for inspired Berserker
and Isles for the majority of this game and the big thing is the four drinks to zero because
if there was going to be a way that loud was going to come into this it would be that
line would forego the early drinks and maybe loud would be able to start stacking objectives,
but they were able to stop that through good mid and bought prior. But how would loud come
back from this? Yeah, I mean, I think the big thing for me is again, and if they do
want to do kind of a slow play out, really focus on some of these setups because that's
where lion we're getting the better of them. Cub, you want to ask that? Okay, loud fans.
How is Lagoona going to win this? How are they coming back?
Okay, we have a saying in Brazil that hope is the last one to die.
So first of all, with a lot of hope.
But I do think that if we can nullify Inspire,
because I think he's the shotcaller for most of the well-played plays in the game, I guess.
So I think Young Jae has to step up a little bit and maybe counter him or, I don't know,
play a little bit more for the strong side because I don't think the combos really went in.
But it was unlucky.
True, unlucky.
It started to play great from ahead.
And then also, I don't think Jarvan had a good place against the enemy team comp.
Younara, Nara, Ari, nothing.
Joel, anything else?
How would Lyne come back?
Lyne would hit it.
How would Lyne come back?
He's ready.
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The game is cool.
I believe that Aloud took a lot of gaps.
We couldn't believe that our first pick wasn't so good.
But it's all in the beginning.
There's going to be a 0-1-0.
So...
Aloud will arrive.
He's here. Amazing. Translation?
I'm doing great. This is all my fault.
I'm getting nervous. Sorry.
He said that it was just the beginning of the series.
We have a best of five.
Loud is going to come back, and it's going to come back strong.
We just have to wait, basically, because we are the team of the turnaround.
Yeah, yeah, nice. Don't be a game one Andy appreciate it came to coming out after this
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Azale here, still with Ox. He hasn't left just yet.
Yeah, there's still more series ahead of us.
I'm hoping.
question is how much serious because game one looked very one-sided but the last
year as I cast you know yesterday had some very one-sided games we went all
fire so you don't know right you see game one stop maybe loud it's gonna battle
back and stop in game two I think it comes down to how you reset after this
game one this was obviously a rough one it felt very one-sided they were still
trying to make things happen despite that but I think there was definitely a
point where it was like okay we need to focus on game two yeah let's try to
make something from this but it was a really rough game in terms of how quickly
accelerated out of control. Doughler in the top lane just was completely in control of that matchup.
Loud going for first pick here so last time it was Lyon who chose second pick so it'd be same pick selection.
That's interesting to me we've often seen Loud. Same side, same pick order. Yeah we've often seen
Loud prioritise early picking for top lane compared to Lyon who often built a late pick for Doughler.
I feel like getting counter picked in this top lane match could have been really important
But you know won't have the opportunity to definitely get counterpicking this one that we saw
Don't go run away with that kind of big matchup. He really did
I mean it is interesting right people to have very different views on how the game should be played inspired is extremely opinionated
I remember when they played in steam liquid
He was telling us look which would close the game wrong. They're playing the way thought you shouldn't do that
That's not the regular play and so you know for them
They think I think the more that you blind your bot you just have a stable bot
And then you play more towards the soul lanes look for advantages there
You use them to kind of create those edges where you can farm place play forward sidelines
You know that is more the thought process that I have seen from lion and from inspired
So it'll be interesting to see what adjustments they want to make here a couple bands towards inspired
You know not too surprising
We've seen a lot of zinzau bands thus far and
Orianna gonna be taken away not current still not gonna be allowed despite that pairing missing
And it's really just a big focus on these AD junglers has been really all year long
And that is where the bands are being thrown this interestingly despite the fact we've got same sides for the teams
And it is obviously fearless big shake-up in terms of what is being banned
You know we saw loud go for by comma virus this time. They've only maintained that virus found themselves
So we'll see what they look to prioritize and they are just gonna go for a rise off the bat
You know off all the mid laners we saw kind of tone down
what the control ages got hit leading into first-hand, but it was Ryze who was kind of left and he was so strong already before that.
He was, but Casio and Anivia are both up. I'm more a fan of the Anivia. I feel like the Casio matchup is more kind of solved, honestly, to me,
where people just feel so comfortable at this point. I do think that Anivia not only can create a lane advantage and do fine and lane,
but it's very difficult for Ryze to play against in the teamfights too, so it will be interesting.
Looks like it might just be Seraphine Ashe, whether they go to Seraphine here or not.
They'll probably grab it on three I would assume because I don't think that anyone's going to take Seraphine away without that ash being up
Yeah, we did see yesterday
There was that sort of flex where you know you leave the support pick available
Maybe they go something like a nodulation to the brawn that's what you did see and you have that option
One thing if you do go ash plus something else second
It kind of locks you into picking that support on three so less of an is to counter
They are going to go for a casio though
This is something that Saint played a couple of times as so far this year.
Ooh, so it's going to be Kalista coming in.
So Kalista Renata, not a surprise, is pretty powerful against really heavy commitment
against a lot of engage.
But the thing is, when you're playing as Ash Seraphine,
if they can just keep space, they can kind of poke and prod.
And Renata can really struggle against matches where you're outranged.
So we saw this yesterday too, where we saw this early Renata come out
in the first series that I was casting.
And then the other team can just say, all right, great.
We're going to play a long range comp.
Yeah, Bull is a Callister specialist in the LCK.
We have some swarm and get Callister and Draven Bounds.
It's like, I picked his 4K.
But I think Callister into Ash, Casio, Seraphine.
That's not a fun matchup.
Good luck in these sports.
Yeah.
We've seen Callister, Renata played into Ash, Seraphine
as like an answer, but I feel like independently
it's not that fantastic a matchup.
You kind of need outside independence.
need a guide. So we need to see what young gays can do to play. The fact that they have
to rise is obviously good because you have that realm walk to move down and the capsule
matchup early on, it's not a matchup that's super punishing in the early stages. So I
think the loud, all in on the bot matchup, you have to impact that matchup and get
this cluster ahead.
And that's why I think Malphite is actually a super smart ban, because you have three
champions with no dash who are going to be very vulnerable to that engage. We
already know you basically have to force it. You can't just play a slow farming
out style line as the
and being a no case bot.
down. You're gonna get w
to get out scaled. So it
of these junglers that m
here's and of course can
you know, it can be top
more jungle bands here, f
a lion are targeting there
honestly from the other
two taken out in that f
push down that tierless
the ad junglers at this
very heavily at this point. I feel like maybe for the saddle out like at least in
a potential thing with the setup from the rising pressure. Mundo on top of this
Ash Seraphine is just disgusting when we've seen Mundo with the Ash Seraphine
it's so powerful you buffing up he runs forward it's a target to chain the
open the Seraphine onto to extend it and also pure cluster you know you can
stack spears on that Mundo all day you have to stack so many before you
can render and actually take him out.
Yeah, exactly.
It's a carpal tunnel waiting to happen there for Calista.
It's going to take a lot of spheres for sure.
And with that trundle being banned by Laos,
they don't have the kind of obvious response
that you would want to pick into the Mundo.
And they still are going to have to be blinding on that top
side.
No real engage just yet has been picked up here for Laos.
Considering the sign, I do think it makes sense.
You need some space creation here on this team.
And it is a relatively safe blind.
But still, no real guaranteed go buttons
where on the other side you both have low commitment engaged with the enchantment grislaro as well as things like the encore the flash petrifying gaze
So lion does have a lot more go buttons and we'll see if they can actually fix that here now with their jungle pick
I mean you can go Lee sin you can go wukong
I think wukong might fit the bill best because I feel like they need a bill button
Yeah, I never need something to start the fight
But also something that's gonna have that daily pressure then have gone for the a trucks which I don't think really achieves either of those for me
Yeah, I feel like when I'm looking at what loud has if they get really far ahead you could snowball this game
But if you do not I think it's gonna be so hard to fight through a Mundo into all of the AOE CC and slows from Ash
From Casio from Seraphine, you know the encore gets it's such incredible value because there's all these low-range champions
You know, I think one of the reasons they might have picked BHR
Oh, are we getting the Vayne?
Oh, we get Vayne top here from Doki.
You blind the Sion.
You best be prepared.
The Varus, of course, was banned out,
but he just goes right to the Vayne.
And this is what he showed against Morgan.
Of course, that was into the Camille.
It's a very different matchup.
But you have Sion here, and you
have not really a great ganking jungler in the Atrox,
which I think makes the Vayne that much more attractive.
Yeah, and I think with the comp that Lion already had,
I think the tickled boxes.
You have front-line, they had DPS.
They had, you know, engaged as well from the bot lane.
I think Doku could kind of play anything he wanted with this
counter-pick, so felt comfortable going for that lane.
I think maybe the reason for the atrox to loud could have been
because atrox is a pretty good pick into silence,
and maybe there's a bit of a denial,
but if you end up just giving Doku this lane pick,
I don't think he bothered at all.
Yeah.
And he is very comfortable on these range top lanes.
It is not just something he randomly pulled out,
it's something he loves to play in.
So look you, he loves a lot of these niche champions,
these counter-picks.
I know when he was coming back into the LCS
After having coached Hunter Deves, he's been spamming Garen as the counter to some of these matchups.
He loves playing Varus, he loves playing Vayne, loves playing Gwyn and all of these style of champs.
So if you give him the window, he will take it and Lyon have confidence in his ability to pull it off.
And he doesn't necessarily feel like he has to dominate in the 1v1 early on.
I remember speaking to him about it and he's very comfortable saying,
I actually feel like I outstooled a lot of his matchups.
So as long as I'm fine and I'm not dying to games, he's feeling really really good.
We're risking what you scale super hard, and already we said you need to ask Rao to focus your attention on bot lane.
So if they stop putting attention towards the Vayne, to set the Vayne behind, it's never really going to achieve that much.
And it just means that you're not protecting your bot lane where Clistin needs to be ahead.
I think there's just too many fires to put out right now.
And a jungler in the A-trucks who isn't the best at setting up those early ganks, so I think Rao needn't need to lead.
We need to see hopefully the Ryze make some roundups early to get full rolling.
They need someone to step up.
You need to have at least one winning lane.
If you have no winning lanes against Inspired,
he's just going to get to do exactly what he wants.
He's going to track you everywhere on the map.
So we're looking for that from Loud,
Ken Bull and Red Bull.
Be an X factor down on that bot side.
Finds them all in.
Start to snowball this game to really push it
over into Loud's favor.
Also, notably,
no plan on some Bull
has gone for the barrier,
going for the barrier, which makes sense when you want to prioritize the 2v2, having a
barrier available.
But doesn't mean 1-6 is hit.
So hard to play.
You're never moving.
If you get it by 1-CC, you are dead 100-0, so I agree.
But they clearly are at least kind of drawing a line in the sand, and that line is the
early game.
They're saying, we must get ahead early, and Youngjae going to be starting on the
top side.
So is inspired.
These are both very much kind of full clear style.
Double camping.
Yeah, it's double camping, and you can see, loud.
This is the last time that they were actually, you know, at an international tournament.
It's been a couple years for them, you know, has been a while since they have been able
to make a run here internationally.
And the roster almost entirely changed since then.
So a lot of these new players stepping up, so much excitement in Brazil around.
With these new crop of young players, Tatu is very obviously, but Chino as well has
been such a story.
And it is level two, nice sidestep on the handshake there for Isles.
Much of you heard this story from from she know I've heard this repeated a few times from a few people
But I've never been given a source to it. So I don't know if it's a hundred percent
You carry thing exactly yeah an 80 carry player
And he basically thought that all the top laners were not good in the league
And he says I'm just gonna swap the top lane and then it's instantaneously the best top lane in the CV wall
And if that is true that is a really cool story to have that confidence and then be able to walk the walk
Not just talk to talk. He's so cap of the market, you know
and he went for it.
I feel like I had a lot of high hopes for him.
I think he's not yet in this series
being given a great opportunity to really excel.
Last game matchup, playing them in X-Men's Naught.
It's a tricky matchup.
This game matchup.
Have fun, buddy.
Jumbo's clearing the other side.
Your fucking spane.
And Bolling, we saw RedBit and Boll
get the yearly level two, right?
Somebody definitely wanted to get the handshake,
didn't connect, and already the health bars
are starting to suffer in this 2v2 matchup.
Yeah, and I mean they're down heel.
Ripper has the base.
Their 2B2 is already screwed.
The wave is pushing away from them,
and you're having the base with no summoner
in this aggressive matchup where you get heavily outscaled.
So that is pretty brutal, more loud already,
to start things off.
You know, you're a young Jay here looking at this bot lane.
He can't even go for the bot lane scuttle,
even though he's playing with that Kalista,
because he knows their 2B2 has gone so bad,
so he's going up towards that topside.
And we can see Dokela.
He's going to just flash pass that devastating smash,
trying to knock down Shino will force a flash of his own.
And I think that's a great trade there for Doka.
Without flash, there's not much of a chance
to really set anything up.
Young Jay has no smite, trying to finish this off.
We'll be able to do it, but here comes Doka,
a flash to get the slow.
The knockback doesn't set him into the wall,
but will it matter?
Inspired, hits the briefcase.
Young Jay is getting slowed down.
He's getting jaked down and he's got nowhere to go.
That is gonna be first blood for Doka and Obuba.
And look at the confidence.
He didn't even ghost in that play.
He just knew I can run him down.
We have the time, we're going to be able to catch him.
The Condemn super close to actually hitting the stun, didn't quite, but it got him far
on the back that they're able to make the play.
And yeah, so Loud, not the greatest start of the composition that definitely needed
it here.
Douglas got slow, just goes for the flash, says, okay, you know, not the best start
of the trade for me.
I'm going to flash to make sure that it finishes good.
And he knew he had the lethal tempo stacked and also the soul furnace was popped
and so he flashes past, breaks the soul furnace, you're not going to have
that pop of damage.
Young Jay had the flash, but this was just greedy.
You know, on the bot side, Redbird is having to flash away.
This game is already a disaster here for Loud.
It feels like four minutes in.
It's kind of slipping away from them.
This is Doka last time he played on Vayne.
This was against Team Liquid.
Morgan had been running the show for top laners.
You know, in those 1v1s, was doing so well.
And Doka brought this out against Morgan's Camille.
Had a great game, despite being focused a number of times
with Scythe losing his power early.
It just didn't really matter.
He was able to scale and really be effective in the team fights.
Yeah, and I feel like he's going to be in a great position for that here.
He's got the front line, he's got the support, the Serafine.
He's not in the bot, he's rich.
Yeah, 600 gold ahead already.
Yeah, that is going to be really tough for Shino.
Young Jay looking for a wraparound gank here.
They need something to work.
Anything.
Sane has no TP, so they could look to set it up here with the room.
President Sane going to be on the run.
He is only level 5.
NB has a level 6, but he's just going to kite back.
They don't know where Mudo is. They are just gonna back right off, but Mudo is getting pinged on the bot side
I'm surprised they didn't continue to chase with the realm warp at least try to get a flash because I think they spotted inspired
I saw red pings on that try brush
So I don't know if they were just saying maybe he's here or what happened
But they don't commit to the play. I think loses nothing not willing to run into the potential petrifying gaze, right?
Envy was a little laugh. You know, I hit level six at the first. Oh, well then I don't know
um, I
I think it just feels bad when you have a need to get ahead early and you've gone for this eight trucks pick
Who just we're seeing for these gank attempts. It's not really coming to fruition and it's not he's not trying
It kind of feels similar to game one but game one he was on the job and and he went for three or four attempts
He did finally get that gank, but what can he really do in eight trucks?
You run in you throw the chains down you maybe land a few and what's their setup?
Yeah, so in prison you have no engage on this team. It's that I really think they needed a pick-back
set up a little better.
That's why I thought we would
give the answer because all
the other good 80 junglers that
were engaged were banned out.
I thought the mouth of them was
really, really smart,
but they're going to look for
Redbird here.
Well, Redbird has no flash at all.
He's put it incredibly low.
Bull is low as well.
Good handshake pulling on the
berserker, but Redbird,
I think he's going to get ran
down, slowed down.
He's trying to get out of there.
They are a little bit hesitant to
chase, but the ball he does
find and he shields himself up.
The bailout is there.
He will escape.
Looks like a little bit hesitant to chase in.
I don't think they had eyes on the Atrox,
but they do have eyes on the Ryze and it inspires.
Got his eyes on the prize.
Knocks down the blue man in mid lane.
It's another kill for Lyon.
Yep, going so well for them.
Bot lane, going good.
Mid lane, going good.
Plate picked up as well.
And I think Isles and Berserker,
not going too aggressive in that situation,
could have definitely stuffed a bit more
for being respectful.
They know they're in a winning position.
They just need to respect the cluster,
knock that caught into an all-in where she's going to random and there's no way
they lose this lane from here. Yeah it's going to be really really tough and
Dokla going a little bit of HP here so not just rushing in towards the
Blader Room King or anything like that and does have the upgraded tier 2 boots
he has the berserker greaves he has the ghost so has a lot of movespeed here
Shino gonna look for it the all-in here ghost is just popped early and I
think he's gone way too far gonna get knocked back he has the spellbook
ignite he will pop it on the Dokla Dokla put low Shino still has the
Flash, but Dokla is chasing forward.
He's going to be looking to finish him off.
Shino has to flash to get out of there.
Dokla has no flash to follow, and Envy is behind him,
so Dokla's going to look for the kill.
He goes in, the barrier gets popped and keeps him alive.
It's a shutdown in effort.
Solo kill there as Ryze escorts a man,
and Shino claims his prize.
Nobody here didn't hear from Envy.
Getting some value from the realm of finally,
and Shino kind of commits everything to that play
to make it work.
But I think it's one of these things
that will mitigate their pressure from Dopebler.
It's not gonna stop it completely.
You can see committing to this play here goes for the ult.
Dopebler goes to try and get some space,
but the soul fairness was propped there midway through the ult
to get the damage down and combined there with the ignite.
Dopebler's already so low, trying to chase down,
Flash gets enough distance,
and then the cooldown of the soul fairness
comes up again.
Oh, we gotta look at bot
because they're gonna try to turn this one around.
In comes Youngjae, they're looking for the play.
So he's got no way out.
The Joker is going to get caught as well.
It's going to be a double kill here for Young Jay as Loud.
Roars to life.
Finally finds something as bold as 6
and used it to great effect to set up his jungler.
Yeah, great moves there.
Didn't have the ult from the Seraphine available yet
to mitigate and Young Jay sliding in there on the 8 Trunks.
Seeing some light from that,
but Saint is here and he's healthy.
Yeah, there's a ward in that brush.
This is the first Q though.
It's gonna be able to hit the petrifying gaze red bird is gone. He flashes forward
Bull is in trouble. He still has a beard, but it doesn't even matter
The minions can't help out enough. Sink gets an easy double and survives
And that feels so bad just from loud gets that early pressure they wanted the double kill
It gets turned about answered back. Sink matches it now though
Remember stop there's ghost available here for Envy inspired is there to cover
I don't think they're gonna want this, but they might be able to stop inspired from claiming the grubs
Grubs so it looks like for now they're just gonna be heading back because mid lane is getting pushed in bot lane
He's getting pushed in
Hopping in the pit trying to steal one inspired claims that first grub, but does use a smite
So younger should be able to grab one yeah dust
I think I'm Jason get one and get out but already we have the bot lane of lion is moved over to mid
So I think wouldn't really be able to stay around for a fight in spite also
Very tanky very healthy already at this point hard to take down hard to focus down
Probably still in favour of Lyon, it definitely did a bit of a dip and then bounce back up with the bot lane plays.
Right now the concern is, Sink pretty far ahead in that mid lane matchup on this Cassiopeia.
And a lot of champions on the enemy team that this Cassiopeia does very well into.
And look how far MD is from Roa. And Roa is already done now for Sink.
MD has got a long way to go to get that completed, so Sink is going to be stacking up early here on that.
on that. Ash has been moved down towards the bot lane once again. His bull was
looking to try to catch someone from Lyon in transition. Won't be able to do it
just yet though. It is going to be Casio they're looking for now. You can see
three members there from loud heading in towards St. He's going to try to kite
out but he has no flash and he has no ulti. He has no chance. It's a shut down there for Envy.
Another good punish here from Wilder. Back in the mix. The gold lead almost
a little bit pushed up in lane didn't have the flash available for money being to bond.
If they keep chaining these summoners being down and finding kill opportunities, this
is where they can find some success.
It's absolutely what they need to go for because they have no traditional heart engage,
right?
So it's basically punishing missing summoners.
You got to be able to just run in there and hit a room prison or some sort of CC
a handshake to be able to set it up and they have been able to find a number of
good plays. Youngjae now in a pretty good spot. Unfortunately only a couple hundred
gold ahead for him but still feeling good about it and MV has now grabbed his
roa so he's going to be stacking up as well. Doko on that topside is still
going to be working in towards his first completed item. Yeah you saw Youngjae
moving into the dragon that does back off doesn't really have the presence
from the team and actually we're getting a swap from loud so we'll see
I mean, he has both some should be safe. He is also playing very respectful. Yeah,
this means a lot of giving up the second dragon, but potentially trying to make an aggressive
plan. The top side, but Doughla is wise to it and doesn't get caught out. Yeah, I mean, he knows
everyone from his team is bot side. They're not showing anyone to contest the drake. Where could
they be? They can be top side. So he's actually going to go see if he can spot out the jungler.
He knows that they could be looking for a dive. I don't think he can defend this. Vayne has
no wave clear whatsoever. So you're just going to have to back off until someone from your
your team gets towards that topside.
But it is Hex Rift.
So, Inspired's gonna be out on the map much faster.
St. is here now and Inspired has arrived.
They're gonna look for a potential fight
as St. is chasing after Envy.
Three members strong on the topside here from Lyon
as they are trying to get zoned off
from this top lane tier one by Loud.
But looking to skirmish,
and now the last year we're gonna be coming in.
Nice dash away from Young Jay.
It does connect in onto Bowl,
but no one in range to follow up on that.
Yeah, and so not connecting onto a target
can really follow up on, but the presence of Lyon does force Loud away.
Morph could be coming in there from Envy, and you can see no response right now in the bot side there as she knows pushing up that.
So Loud starting to play the map well. They zoned Oakloff at the top side.
They're able to get some plates on there, deny some minions, they get some plates on bot side as well.
Still, Lyon and Wade on this top side looking to try to punish Stain, who has no flash for about another minute or so.
Doesn't have the best fine gaze. He plays far back. It's going to be tough, but they are going to look for him with the callista all over the wall here.
Zayn has got to try to sidestep, and he does sidestep that handshake, kiting back into the tower for the hostile takeover there.
The CC just doesn't end and Zayn with no flash just can't get out.
Yep, good setup there, but on the mobile, Casio here.
They'll wait for a while, but just to be honest, we said we should have forced the play.
At this passage of play, the swap to top, getting the silence from a long time, it's been gold-positive for loud.
Speaking some advantages there. They did end up giving over the second dragon for it
So that was a cost as whole endeavor, but they have managed to pull ahead in terms of gold
It's just what they can do from this point here, you know lion artists team who are very slow to play this one out
Generally, they don't see a favorable situation if they think they can scale better
Which I'm sure they feel that way in this game. They are happy to play it slow
So loud you need to keep pushing the pace of the game forward. Yeah, exactly
We'll see if they're going to be able to do it.
Doku looks like he's just going to be going for experimental
Hexblade probably up on that top side.
As she, you know, making use of some powerful support itemization,
going in for that frozen heart here.
Second, there's double AD carry on the other side.
So it's going to be nice to have that up and available
as Berserker pushes in mid saying as we step back out
towards that top side has Swifties to try to deal with
some of this, you know, kind of relatively weak engage
that does have a loud does have.
And he has his flash available once again.
So pretty much all summoners are back now, basically across the board.
Yeah, we'll see if they find a window to burn them.
I think with a lot of mobile champs on this side of line,
you really want to just be trying to burn these summoners as often as possible for loud,
so you can set up for these plays, especially good intos objectives.
With it being a Hextech solo as well, that's a big win for loud.
That's the sort of dragon solo you're hoping for when you have pressure on them to get an advantage early.
Obviously it would be a long way before they can stack their solo,
But it is a win-con for them.
Absolutely is.
And Redbird has completed his Mikael,
so great answer to that potential engage from Berserker
as Dopa taking a bad end of the trade on the bot side.
Goose can be popped here by Envy,
looking for a fight against Saint.
And Saint is losing out on that trade,
has to retreat back.
Has been getting pressured pretty heavily
and as a result is down a little bit of experience
but they're at the same level for now.
Nice route, Lair landed onto Redbird.
He is put low.
And Chedekris Lair does land.
Redbird is knocked down.
Doesn't have the timing on the self.
Michael's can't get it off as he is CC down and killed. Yeah doesn't get himself
Michael's out doesn't flash and those old two fortunate not quite available to
get him out of that sticky situation but just a nice kill pick up there for line
and they get the Herald to do. Yeah they're gonna be able to grab the Herald. She
know doing great in the 1v1 though you have to say at this point as Doko's the
one getting pushed in they're now moving Envy down towards bot been
very active on the map trying to make these plays towards side lanes but
Doko is gonna base he's not gonna be messing around with it experimental
Hexblade has now been completed and it is going to be Sheenote teeping out towards that topside.
A bit of a weird lane assignment when you're rushing pretty early frozen hard to be placed against the Casio,
but Vayne is not easy either, so there's not really a great side lane match up there for Sheenote.
Honestly, I think he's doing pretty good into the Vayne, especially when he has eye and advantage.
You know, both of them going towards the Hexblade has just now completed it.
But Sheenote does feel very full at this point, and I can't say he doesn't quite have the damage to cut through,
Even though he's gonna have that much matching position, he has to pump in so heavily.
So I think for now he can just hold it, moves Envy down bot lane to pick up that tower.
You can see the coin base, the gold grind advantage is there for Envy in the mid lane.
About 500 gold in his favor for now, as it is loud with really all the advantages on the top side.
And some slight edges here for Lyon on the bot side.
St. Looking like they're gonna try to jump in. Nice back step from Young Jay.
Avoids the petrifying gaze, but pops the world-ender.
So it's just gonna have that running out and inspired looking to try to claim this.
He's getting CC'd down, I don't know if the healing is going to be enough here.
He gets knocked down and Spider got way overconfident with that ulti and now Sage is in trouble.
Trying to kite back to that tower and has no flash.
They can tank this forever.
Sage is on the run and the tower is trying to help him out.
But I don't think he has the damage.
JungJ comes in. It's a sword to the heart.
It's a couple kills for Loud.
And it's their first major lead of the series.
JungJ going huge there, and this is the thing with the A-trucks into the Mundo, the passive stuff in the CC, kind of irrelevant against an A-trucks, you can proc it so easily with those sweet spots, and she knows so tanky he walks in the turret, starts to get low, the harness kicks in, and it's like he's got a hole in the health bar, you have to burn through.
in trouble taking this fight here against Bull, but now in comes Isle, the healer there
is well going to try to land the Encore, good sidestep by Bull, he had no flash that would
have been his life if he landed.
Close one there, they have the barrier available so maybe he could have saved him, but it was
definitely close if the follow-up was f-miles, maybe he could have taken him down, but
Now having the pressure able to pick up the second dragon for themselves, seemingly
uncontested, this is a much better spot than what we saw from the early game.
really is. I mean the scaling is still good for Lyon, but they've got to be careful this
was just overconfident from Inspire. Yeah, I think feeling super tanky in the Mundo like
you can walk forward. They are the ones who aggressor and move and it's just so easy to
pop the passive on the Mundo. Doesn't have that CC immunity. They kind of just charge
him down and he doesn't get a chance to really get a ton of value from the old.
And then here, the fact that, seems like I can kite them and have the tower and
He literally just kind of ignores it and the class you appear damage again. No magic resist
Doesn't really matter. He's just so bulky at this point of the game
Yeah, very tanky at this point and inspired also got no value from his W in that fight
You know, you didn't actually get it down as he was getting stunned
I had even able to pre-pop that W as the CC's landing
It is such a massive amount of mitigation
But if you are not timing that correctly if it comes out when you're already low
It's a useless ability it doesn't do anything at all for you
So so much of the tankiness of Mundo is about how you use that the Wren comes in to slow down the aisles
He has the blast cone will be able to get back to safety
This berserker is there to cover but still keeping the pressure up and look don't look can't even walk up on top side
So there's four members here from wow
They're just moving around the map and you got to say it they're out macroing lion at this point of the game
The crowd's definitely feeling infused now
I'm kind of reminiscent to the series we had yesterday with our game one
so well for the bounce back in game two.
Just similar to what we saw from D.C.
I think he's gonna land there on a Berserker.
The hostile takeover lands, but it's the arrow coming out.
Beautiful McKales there.
That's a Captain Jack from the support.
Yeah, Redbird gets him out of it.
Old Donna from Berserker.
Not really any objective to play for at the moment as well.
Losing the flash though hurts from Redbird for sure.
So he's gonna have to be a bit careful now.
I feel like when you get a Clis, it's not Asbad.
You know, you have that safety net.
That's true.
We obviously did see him get punished earlier and die
when that wasn't available, but it gives you that second out
as the mobile sort of enchanted pick compared
to what is typically available.
You can see the dead man's has been completed,
so he's fired as well as that Steric's four young J.
Fired still trying to continually scale up here.
Doesn't really have much MR at all.
I assume he's probably going to go spearfusage next.
Would be my guess, just such a powerful item
there on Mundo.
And you do need to respect the damage that the Ryze can do.
Yeah, I mean, as well, we were so critical of the Atrox pick
and how we felt we needed more early pressure, we needed more impact,
but Young Jay really having a great game for himself.
And then he's been able to find angles to access these fights,
and now is just a big threat.
Isles, let's get out off the tether just in time.
Add the angle to walk out the informal change.
It's pretty easy to walk out the side of it.
It's possible to walk out the back of it.
The Herald's going to get dropped here,
As it seems more of like a timeout Herald than an intentional Herald.
As they got back quite a long time ago, it is not going to do anything at all.
So Wasted Herald here, four Lyons.
They are struggling at this, and don't look.
Despite feeling very confident in this matchup, he brings it out.
He is still scaling, he is still in a decent spot.
But he's about a thousand gold behind Shino, who's been doing well in the 1-1,
who's been the one receiving that help, receiving that pressure.
to get into a good spot and constantly be pushing forward not allowing Doku at the farm plates not allowing Doku to look for the
1v1s he would have wanted. Yeah, also Doku hasn't really built to like shred tanks
I know Vayne always does cut through tanks, but they're definitely built. Yeah, or like ginsu or something like that
So I haven't really built the way that's gonna cut through Sheenoo and Sheenoo has definitely built the way to mitigate the Vayne as much as possible
so it has just kind of neutralized that match.
You can see from how the cool draft is panned out.
Yeah, it's a big swing.
It's definitely a big swing, but still within 1.5k gold at this point.
And Dokler does believe that Vayne just scales really, really well,
likes hitting a bit of health, making it easier in a team fight,
and so we'll see how he performs in the team fights.
Because if you're not going to win in the lane,
then the pick has to get it done later.
And Lyon do have a lot of powerful scaling here.
Always have to talk about the power that Seraphine has in the later stages
as well as Isles is getting more and more gold closing in on his second item, which is a very big spike force airplane
Yeah, I mean that that spike is just so crazy the healing value you have available
And we haven't really seen any healing cut apart from on the
I believe in the ex-fusioners. Yeah, yeah, and you're not another best at applying it onto multiple targets
I'm wondering if we start to see other members coming in they're gonna look for berserker
Does he have to flash? No, has the confidence to just back up and now they stun up Redbird here.
He's got a little bit of damage down on him, but the fates call was available.
And then after being able to go for anything else, safe though, moving over into the area.
A lot of members converging around this dragon is it's going to be spawning in 15 seconds.
It would be sole point or loud if they can get it.
We'll put them only one away from that Hextech soul that they would love to get.
And Berserker will not have his enchanted crystal arrow for this fight.
Yeah, and we know that Lyon have given up a dragon to fall when they feel like the fight setup isn't good, but this is a big one to give over.
Hextech's soul is so strong.
They're giving it though. Look where Dope is. He's still on topside. Has to get some free-for-the-play. He's just gonna play through the tower.
Yeah, and they're gonna TP up to try to answer it here, so now Lyon will be kind of that one potential teamfight away from using the game.
That's the risk you play when you get three dragons.
It puts so much emphasis on getting that one fight right, that one last fight that you're playing around
And the thing is it's like even if you get the fight right, but you lose the soul, would there be a Hextech soul?
So much power is afforded to it. If you know, maybe you get four kills, they get two kills, they get the dragon
You still don't feel good about that because the Hextech soul is there for the rest of the game
So it does put line in a delicate position, but they've done this many times before, they often opt into this
this and they have confidence that a later time is going to be better for them
and they're looking at the spike still approach and be like hey we can do better
than this we can get penetration on Berserker. Here comes the ulti from Chino
looking for Berserker, Berserker definitely has the flash here he has to think, gets
handshook back and he flashes late, is going to be able to get hit by the
hostile takeover, in comes inspired as well as sainton the TP is there from
doped up and it's quite far away. I don't know if Lyon can really find a
re-engaged but Saintees is the thing so petrifying gays, Bud Blaine onto Chino
So he is grounded, he is slowed, but he is very, very tanky, running back as berserker
and safe stepping forward.
Young Jay is in trouble.
He's going to get rooted up, he's going to get stunned, he's going to flash, but the
tower is not healthy enough.
It's a shut down, and now it's a flash for it there as all of Lyon piled in.
Dokla's going big, looking for more kills.
Takes down Gino as Lyon roared to life, and he on the side trying to threaten,
has the ghost pop, but can't find an angle.
They could go Baron.
They can.
They're really healthy, inspired by full HP and the healing and shielding from the Seraphine.
It should be an easy pick. I don't even think lounge can contest this, to be honest.
But they're all looking to walk over and see if they can find an angle in.
But no one's really low, other than the Seraphine.
Yeah, this is risky if you try to go for it.
I mean, Enby over the wall, they try to look for something here.
But no jungler, no chance to grab it.
And it's going to be a big lead now there for a lie and setting themselves up for success.
They found the angle and they hard forced it. They just fully committed to that play.
that play. Yep. Oh it's fine. It's far going to get found here by bull as well as Redbird.
He has no ulti. He may just be going down flashes back over the wall. Stay safe for now. The
Enchanted Crystal Arrow going to be sidestepped there by bull. Well played by him. Let's
see this fight in mid lane one more time. So a lot of people are pretty happy about
how the initial play goes right. They get a flash from Presente that's de-synced
from the dragon. They get the tower. The thing is Lionel in this position where
they call for him to go aggressive. They're death-bowling with a Serafine, with
an arch where the Cassiopeia they land the slows and they push forward I think
lad like okay we're in a tower with safe young Jay steps a little bit too far
forward and once those slows connect and the Seraphine stopped landing routes
the chase potential is insane here it really is I mean there's so much room
speed across these champions you got dead man play Mundo you have a ghosted
day you have a bonus speed from the Seraphine everyone slowing them
down chasing after them it's a big fight win therefore Lyon but still two
minutes until this dragon here they're gonna have to deal with that and this
is inspired accolades here you know his performance in the LCS nearly a 70% win
rate across three different teams three MVPs first three team all pros has won
five titles been to six internationals one in MVP and LEC as well to me he is
still the best jungler in the West those skumont is having an incredible
year and obviously contesting that yeah very decorated absolutely and very
He's going to flash back, St. Still chasing after him.
That is the flash, that is the heal.
That is Reppert getting punished for a bit aggressive positioning.
I think it's fair to say.
You know, we talked about Lyon giving the Flatch Dragon the risk in Tails to find a better fight.
It seemed like they found it and not a fight.
Oh, the arrow connects here.
Envy has his flash, but will it be enough?
Young J coming in on the side.
He seems to have found Isle.
Isle said a lot of trouble.
Has no flash himself.
He's going to be knocked down.
There's a reset for Young J as he comes in and stops that attack in its tracks
here.
and do get a tower, but they do lose their support for it.
And I don't think getting nearly as much from the Baron Powerplay as you'd hope, right?
You see, on the top of your screens, that gold Baron Powerplay, only plus 700 gold,
it's not a huge amount.
We are going into this next dragon fight, and this is kind of what everything came down to, yes.
Lyons' comp feels really strong at the moment. They got some big spikes.
They're penetration for Berserker, first moral reminder.
The Andries for Sane, Spirit of Visage for Inspired,
but they need to win this fight.
They don't have flash on Berserker. It's not available.
Saints flashed down as well.
Critical Summoners that they don't have access to going into this.
And the flashes are there for NBN bull on the other side.
They're gonna TP in.
Are they gonna look to try to start the fight out themselves?
Isle's still running out from base here.
He is behind the play.
So it is a 4v5 floor.
Now, you can see NBN beside trying to find an angle
to get in.
Real day look forward here.
Inspired just standing confidently in front of the team,
creating space for Berserker.
They need to protect their carries.
And Inspired is the man to do it.
The Kennics are going to get knocked out of him though.
They do get some damage down on Sheena, but look at Andy on the side.
He finds Isles and he goes Sheena.
And Redbird is trying to take over here with the hostile takeover,
but he misses every one.
And Ducla's going aggressive, but on the side, he's been down.
Yevgeny trying to take him down.
It's up to Ducla.
He's in the backlight.
He's battling it full.
Bull flushes away, but he's taken down by Ducla.
Preserker stands, he fires, he falls.
It's up to Ducla now.
He tries to roll back, but he just can't do it.
It's a triple for Anthony.
It's Vlad winning the fight.
And then we're playing the Soul of the Baggabees!
And loud, first the fight!
It came down to this for the Soul of the Fans!
They're getting loud for their team!
Soul in the pocket!
We see Envy come up used as mid laner,
we push them for them in the domestic playoffs.
Finds a massive spread of kills that don't look like everything.
To make it back in that teamfight, this is not enough.
The angles of approach, so difficult to deal with there.
That is massive, poor, loud, and Doklai.
I'm not sure if he died with his flash out because of something he couldn't even use it on.
He got it with the backline, was able to take down Boll, kind of in a 1v2 against Redbird and Boll.
Doklai was quite effective, but the missing flashes there from Berserker and St led to that priceless moment from Mastercard.
Loud, loving it, getting the fight win and getting the dragon.
And we see its envy on this flank is immediately such a threat for Iles, and what Lion's comp wants to do is stay grouped, use like the AoE of the Seraphine, the AoE buffing, Iles gets removed immediately, Sainton in a comfortable position, and we see Dauphlet, he's doing as much as he can on this backline, but Berserker gets rooted, just before Redbrook dies, get that root, I believe it was him, and then it's just in his final air.
Yes, he's tanky, but with no damage from the rest of the team, nothing he could do.
And I think St. just kind of lost track of where Redbird was.
Because St. was hugging that wall and he got handshift over the wall into the sidearm.
That's never the last last.
And that handshift from Redbird to me is a game changer.
Because if he doesn't get pulled into that team, he can fight back.
St. doesn't die early.
It's a completely different team fight. It's a completely different game.
So great punish there from Redbird finding St. over the wall.
And this is loud with Mago vs. Envy who talked about it right before, 48 hours before the upper bracket finals, they changed their mid laner and they went on a tear with Envy, they won the CBLOL, it was not the expectation, and Envy coming up big in this team fight here right when they need him most.
thing you kind of gambled it all as Lion on being able to fight that soul fight
and now playing against the Hextech soul the composition of Lion wants to group
together to get the maximum benefit from the Seraphine. You're a deathful comp
every time you group together one bit of damage hits you and the slow is
spreading across the team. As you see there we talked about how that fight
they won the big mid game fight was around that movement speed chasing down
the target. How are you supposed to do that when every time you get hit the
A we slow comes in it's going to make it so much more difficult for me here over the wall here trying to find an angle is now spotted
Berserker cutting back and I agree moves we could make all the difference
Lyon still has a lot of scaling power though and definitely not giving up just yet as she knows stepping forward going to take some
Damage that sulfur and shield is massive. He's gonna have to halt in retreat though cancels it early young Jay is behind
But but Lyon now feeling confident looking to step forward Berserker and saying trying to chase down young Jay
They're going to be looking for him on the side as Shino's at 4, but now he has the flash out of there very quickly as he's taking a ton of damage.
Dopple though popped the final hour and got set packing by Envy. He had to run away in a hurry, and Shino's going to be going back to pace with the TP up and available.
He could look for a potential flank.
And you can see in that situation, you know, trying to move forwards to see the angle held at bay by the slows.
And it feels like they're just kind of hindering them in.
You're gonna look for Young J that slows to land but the roots do not and now inspired to be slowed up with the rest of the
Team she don't have the ride. He had the ulti back already
Not connect but doesn't got nowhere to go
Not only can you see Yongey talking like that, but Redbird with the massive old catching Berserker out
and he's just able to do nothing. His fight doesn't end up killing the support, but does have his recoil stalled and loud.
Able to come through might just be able to end up the back of this. Doesn't look like they're going to commit to it,
but some respawn timers set to come through will just go to baron instead.
But still, teamfight win after teamfight win for this squad and loud and in a great position from here on out.
They really are. I mean, they're just approaching these fights so well. You have to say they don't have great art in age
But they're coming from so many angles and why in the nature of the conference they want to be deathful
They want to be stacked up, but say the preserver getting caught by CC time and time again
They're not sure to find a good position. Yeah, sure it does come through
Interesting to listen to that because this might be quite powerful in the season and they are going to secure the Baron
Look for a reset now they have the Baron that is going to be synced up with the ultimate
I mean, Reckon was huge here with the ult flash over the wall,
catches Berserker, but also Isle gets CC,
so he can't kill his AD carry out.
Younggear just pounces, gets both the AD carries here,
one immediately and one he just have to chase down for a while,
but Doku just can't really do anything.
The previous fight, Doku got so much value,
and it just immediately, this ATrucks pouncing on these backliners
doesn't give them a chance.
And Envy did a great job as well.
I mean, again, it's both Berserker and St. Stack.
Berserker gets hit by the hostile takeover,
St. Flash is the way to the bottom, but he flashes into the rise who is there waiting for him.
It's these multiple angles of attack. It is this great engage from Redbird.
He has been a game changer in back-to-back fights. The handshake in that previous Soulfight,
the Flash ulti in this fight to actually get them barren,
and now they're gonna have a minute overlap between the Elder spawning and the barren
still being active, but you know Elder really can change games, so they have to stay buttoned
they need to be playing this out well to make sure that they don't let what
should be their victory slip away. Yeah if I'm loud I just don't flip the
elder in the situation. So quick update there was a visual bug saying St.
Reconnected no one actually deseed so it was not deseed during that time just
the visual bug. Okay well yeah I was wondering about that when it popped up
but if I'm loud I don't even make an effect with the elder I force Lyon to
approach in the situation and then you have the slows to set up on them you
don't have the hard engage you pull that up but you have the slows that make it
very difficult for Lyon to cut away if you let it come down to a 50-50 I think
that's the state of how strong they are in these fights early. I mean look at
Enby he's full built he's got the depth gap he is completely kitted out.
He actualizes it as a combo. Yeah you just know there is there's no safety from that Enby it's on the side here he's very
split from the team if you get spotted could be dangerous and we'll get revealed
by the Baron, but he's gotta be careful that the arrow comes out.
He was not thinking about that Baron, but can they keep it down and knock him down?
The actual answer gets blocked.
He stands in flight.
He kills the boat.
And he takes the game into his hands.
Lion can't do nothing.
You may get handy, but you're gonna lose the game.
They are piling on the little face called a knockup.
The hand shake is there.
And it's a handshake to agree on a tied up series.
Labber pushing through by.
He just one shot them to lead it, both the 80 carry and mid from Lyon and Vy.
He thought he'd caught in, tins it around, and Lyon gonna take the game in the back of our play.
Lyon underestimated and then spent all the CC, all the Ulti's, until he had already one shot someone.
And now they make a pay, they tie it up, they were crushed in game one.
They battle back in game 2, counterpicks me, Dan.
Wow, they're here to play.
The CBL are tied up with BLZS.
What a game, Yoji.
And I think Yoji and the M-V-M-Vent are all have massive performances in that one.
That final play though, I knew that Thryes could do so much damage,
but it still just shocked me.
I mean, that hurts because they have Encore and Petrifying Gaze.
And you call them with the Crystallero.
If you just lair Encore, that turns it into you for the Petrifying Gaze.
UCCM 100 is here, but they thought they could kill him for free.
He showed them they were wrong in lounge.
It's a tied series.
What do you think?
Very popular game in this room, actually.
Yeah.
They told us, don't be game going to Andy.
I wasn't game going to Andy.
I was definitely a game going to Andy.
Okay, okay.
What a game, what a game.
It was close the whole time.
It felt like until the H-Hocks really got rolling.
And this is loud.
It is the later game team fighting
is playing towards that five on five, Emily.
Yeah, and this is where I actually really do want
to end up calling out Young Jay, right?
We were like, okay, it was looking a little dicey
with some of the early plays.
This is when it really started recovering.
He came down here after, after kind of doklah had overextended on top and Envy had collapsed on him up there and then once this atrox kind of got rolling again here we go in mid lane there is young jay really good handshake
for Redbird as well to clean up that kill.
And I thought that was really what stalled Lyon out
and also allowed for allowed to have so many setups
where Envy is approaching, right?
Or they're splitting up a fight,
which is really important going up against
this kind of Ash Seraphine death ball composition.
Yeah, and that's what I was gonna say too.
He gave the shutdown to Envy,
the rise that ended up lasting us.
There were two critical picks on Isles
in the late game, Jack.
that led up to the dragon soul. Youngjae killed him once and Enby killed him the other time.
So this was, when it looked a little bit like Line was going to be able to come back into the game
because this is, I hope you have a better structure, right? This is the structure of the team.
When they can go front to back, when they're not at risk of getting flanked, then they can just walk up and get the attack.
Okay, okay. Hey, it's a balance, it's a balance segment right here.
So this is end in later fights.
They basically couldn't control the fight lines
and they kept getting the Paris caught.
Another big thing for that replay that we're showing right now
is that Envy wasn't there.
That's why Lyon went for it.
And they full sent on this chase
is because the rise was separated
and they had an opening to do that with numbers.
But guess where he was?
He was in the next fight flanking
because I want to bring up this soul fight, right?
We talked about how Envy here is just lying in wait
as the rise.
Look at that. Handshake.
And this really allows, yeah, this really allows the fight
to split up, right?
So like this composition from Lion can't death ball.
Everyone gets split up.
Loud cleans up.
They've been stacking drakes this entire time.
And this was what really put them over the edge.
Yeah, Envy again in this one,
the rise deletes Isles in that fight.
Wow.
The other side, St. is getting Handshake
into Sion Ultimate Combo
really well dissected bite from loud attacking from both sides yeah player of
the game this game what are we here for the fans
I mean we might need to change it we did
we're constantly disagreeing we're causing this I apologize but player the
game was young Jay I thought the early game for him was incredible I actually
really really good job and paying attention to where they could group up, right? And that's
where I think with Envy, with Young Jay, they just had such better side lane pressure. Like
you split the map, there is that other really great play where they get onto Jokula top
side, Sion is just getting plates in the bot lane. Like I actually thought Loud played
the map really, really well, especially with the Ryze, with the Atrox splitting
up Lyon.
We have our AWS post game as well for this game.
You can see how it was close for a while,
but then eventually Loud was able to take it down.
It'll come up in a second.
Don't worry about it.
The Chatspog vote is gonna come up
to make it a second.
100% it's gonna come up.
Yeah!
Production is showing me right here.
But as you can see.
We had young day damage though, come on.
I mean, young day, the damage, okay.
He was blasting.
He was blasting.
We need to talk about the series though,
Because beforehand, I was saying 3-1.
Are you saying it's 3-1 for loud now?
You're saying it's 3-1 for loud now.
They're trying to flip it.
Can we do silver scrapes, all five?
No.
Yeah, I'll take five, you know?
No?
No, Tio.
They're not going to make a deal with us.
Greedy fans, man.
I'll take five games.
I'm scared after it.
After America's Cup in this game, I'm officially terrified for the LCS against the CBLO.
Game 3 is up after this break. Let's go, Lowe!
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We are in Sao Paulo and the Brazilians are very happy about the result of the last
I noticed that. I did notice that.
Yeah, me too. The ground was shaking.
So they were expressing their happiness just a little bit.
Yeah, just a time. Very excited after the outcome of that game,
which I mean it was a tense one, right?
But I think Loud came out huge.
It took me about final play when he thought Envy was caught
and he just actualized all over the side of play.
He what now? Actualized.
Oh, okay, okay. That's a bit of a bit.
Yeah, actually.
You know, it's a common verb now.
It is, every Rise game, so pretty common, but you know what, we can't get Actualized again.
Well, not by Rise, which is obviously the main abuser.
He's the king of the Actualizer.
They did make it a bit cheaper to try and entice other mages.
There's cheap imitations of what Rise could do.
You wish you had a fraction of his Actualizing power.
I
You know I feel like the only time I've seen that sort of absurd rise damage is being in like arena around mayhem
That's like the most
Upset like what that's like the level one should they expect to see should we call it a new term?
Should be the actualizer actualizer. Oh, that's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's good
Yeah, actualized. I like it. All right
Alright, we gotta get a new term, not gonna get to a debut in this series unfortunately because there's no more rise, he is gonna be banned away.
Unfortunately, depending on who's perspective you have, you know, I think Lyon may be a bit happy.
True, true, they are definitely gonna be happy that there is no more rise after that one.
Redbird, I thought, really had some clutch plays, you know, there's always, in anything that goes wrong, there's part misplay, part outplay.
You know, St. was maybe in some spot plays, shouldn't have been, but the sole fight, the handshake over the wall from Redbird, game changing.
the final fight, you know, over by that Baron,
I will not final, it kind of felt like it ended the game a bit,
but that fight over by the Baron, the flash,
hostile takeover was incredible as well.
I think if you're playing Renate and Seraphine,
and you're both playing passive, you lose so hard.
It's just the general value of the Seraphine
with the Diadem and the Echoes of Helia.
You get so much easy value,
it's so much easier for the Seraphine to impact the game.
You have to be proactive with that, that really was.
So, current to him, after that performance there.
Especially after the lane went so bad for them, right, so we will actually find value in the later stages when most people will be looking at it and saying,
okay, well, you've already been heavily outscaled at this point, right? You're not going to be as useful.
It is going to be an Aurora first pick here, or loud. It is up and available.
Lucian going to be the answer now for Berserker, and Nami is gone. There's obviously the possibilities of Milio.
We've seen some Lucian Sona. There's Lucian Braum, the old classic.
Yeah, so there's options available, but I feel that with the Namigam does limit that that's like the sort of premier one
Keep a rise of support pairings for illusion. Yeah, and they are gonna secure the Wukong
We did see a ton of jungle bands in the last draft
So it kind of thin the full of that amount
It's fine when we get a pick early some solid engage and also nice like that the Wukong Aurora is a big threat
Especially if you're playing a short-ranged 80 carry like Lucian
Yeah, and and as you really has fallen quite a bit in priority.
I wasn't sure if it was going to or not and we have seen a bit throughout the event,
but it is falling through picks and bands quite a lot has them receiving consistent nerfs.
Keanu being considered here was banned in the second phase last game.
If I do recall correctly, so Young Jay going to be able to get his hands on that.
You're already looking at a tremendous amount of first here in these first two picks between
the Aurora as well as that Keanu and now it is going to be Cassante locked in.
So now you have to choose do you want to try to match some of these roles which lane do you want to counter pick?
You can counter pick one of the solos, but then they have protection bands for the other
Yeah, I think honestly you might just want to grab a support because even though there are multiple pairings left with the Lucian
You would get them trimmed down pretty quickly if you left to open and this also means that loud
They can't find mid antops they can only kind of pick one of those so they end up going for the braum in this situation
A strong pairing with the Lucian's braum that gets them some slight nifts like this old damage, old cooldown
but still he's gonna functionally be similar and especially with the power of this Lucian, Lucian, Rukong and Braum,
the passive stacking is really fast. It's a lot of skill, mission power.
If you get into like a bot side river, 3v3, really hard to play out against this trio.
And we see the Rukong band away, something often picked into the Braum because with that mobility,
so hard to stack up a passive before he dashes out again.
It makes a lot of sense there, so we're gonna be focusing on that as Azir will get banned away now from Sane.
and you're all looking at what Lyon has, it's a relatively safe mid-laner,
you know, obviously does fit that control of Major Bill, but Ken escaped from a lot of
sticky situations, both with the Emperor's Defyde as well as the Dash, and when you see what
Lourd have drafted, they want to go in, right? You know, they've already showcased what they're
going to be playing. I also think picks like this that Lourd is showing become that much
stronger when Renata's already at the table, right? Because Renata is so good into
what they are displaying right now. Yeah, I wonder, maybe like the player could also be
be a fan, just to layer into the likes of the Gena and the Cassante can have a lot of
value. If we are just going to keep fanning away mid laners in this situation. Going for
the Annie instead, which we have seen rising priority, got some buffs coming into this
tournament. And Annie Wukong used to be such a strong combo when both of those bakes
were firmly in the meta, so much value. I also think that by having a Braum you
have a little bit less go button, so it would have provided a lot of value in that
regard.
Gwen, the consideration here for Doku, obviously strong kick.
Considered to be quite good into tanks.
Not that you're really expected to slam the Cassante, but you can scale well.
And I do like Gwen into some of these hard dive comps.
Not only because you have the Hal of Mists, but also because your counter-engage can be quite strong.
Instead it is going to be a long here for the answer from Saint.
Of course the ethereal chains do go between, you know, when you go across the veil, you go in this,
but if the chains are already connected, that can follow through, can reveal you.
and can be a pretty effective matchup.
We have a lot of mobility to be able to get out
when they are going in.
Now, are we just going to get Sivir?
OK, so Sivir Alistar is the answer here.
I think just picking the teamfights,
when you take these two, maybe that's
going to help a lot of those topside you have,
given that movement speed over.
And the Alistar into the brawl, Lucian,
it's not really fun going into that and getting stunned up.
You can just headbutt them away and play safe.
I think LeBlanc makes a lot of sense
given that if you're playing something mobile, something
that doesn't have a dash into Kiana Aurora.
You're gonna have a rough time.
Oh, the Garen, I talked about it.
Yeah, you mentioned.
This is one of the things,
and we never really saw him brought it out.
It was last year when he was actually coaching 100 Thieves,
he had been spamming Garen,
which he was using as a counter to Cassante,
which had been incredibly popular.
The reason this is really strong,
there's a lot of armor pen on your E,
but also, when Cassante goes all out,
guess what happens?
Justice.
Yeah, you just slam the O with the Q damage.
He's getting lower himself and a choice, but also you look at the composition on the side
of the loud, Alistar is also pretty vulnerable to the ultimate and it's a Shogun's comp.
If you get on top of the Sivir as well, you know, she's going to have a bad time into
Garen.
Yeah.
If Garen gets ahead, I honestly feel like this champion is a menace.
It is.
It's absolutely a menace.
Can be really problematic to deal with the Garen, but Garen's weaknesses remain the
same regardless of the matchup is that the champion is relatively low mobility.
can be guided. If Civer pops the ult and then all of a sudden you flash in, you get headbutted
away by the Alusari, you get knocked up next time you're getting there, it's very difficult
to close that gap.
I think having flash pretty big when it comes to teamfights at a good angle of approach.
I'm looking at this mid-jungle as well, this Aurora and this Kiana. If they get
ahead, they can just be so oppressive and you are playing a Lucian into this. This
is a short-range AD carry. You don't have shielding protection. You don't have
healing from your support, I feel like you might just get blown up if you play too aggressive in these team fights.
So really, Karnis mid jungle from the side of Laos gets momentum.
We saw JungJ have a phenomenal game in game two.
If he gets ahead on Kanna, he can take over the Rift.
Absolutely can. JungJ looked really good on the Atrox and then be strong in the late game,
so we'll see if Laos can continue that momentum here.
Or if Lyon can get something back,
back as Inspire gonna show up here at mid lane and this is just an aggressive trade wants
to get a little bit of damage down and we'll be able to do it so Envy getting put behind
to a couple hundred health there in mid lane already.
You see a trade of potions coming out as well so Envy not opting to recall.
Ooh.
TP back in.
You can see Inspire wants to start Envy Raptors.
Young Jay, he's on the red, won't actually have information about this now is gonna
spot each other.
Will he be able to get it?
Should be able to grab it with the smite and the question is can he get the
little ones?
Definitely won a lot of that experience. The reset is there. Now he gets level 2 and Young Jay now
Tried to steal away some of these couldn't do it. Now loses his whole top side potentially off the back of this because he's gonna have to retreat
Yeah, it looks like it's bad not on the cost back interesting
Yeah, gonna move back over towards his side of the jungle pick up his blue in this situation
Maybe he's less focused around secure on that side and he wants to move back over to cover his camps
But it looks like he's just moving to his loose out of the jungle
Yeah, and it is gonna be young Jay crossing the entire map started his own red didn't get that ran to the enemy red
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You know what he was gonna do
I do feel like combat summoners are very powerful encounter matchups because of home guards allowing you to get on the map
so quickly and also getting TP from your roll class later on.
But at the end of the day, Young J didn't even be pretty happy about this.
They had that ward over on the blue buff, so they knew what Inspired was doing.
Yeah, and this is Young J kind of getting ahead.
I assume that Inspired is now going to path up towards Young J's
side of the jungle and clear out those camps.
But he has no info. They have no ward on the bot side, right?
So he doesn't even know. He's going to find out just now.
They had no vision on him.
He thinks, I think, that Young J was on his blue camps
and was going to cross over afterwards.
Now he's going to get the bad news
that his camps are gone on that bot side
as Biltla does proxy one way.
If he's going to go behind the tier two,
he's going to proxy the second wave as well.
And then he's going to base and home guard out on the map.
It felt risky just to return to his own jungle,
especially towards Gromp, which is so far away
from everything with no ward coverage.
I think he really had a window to twist a knife
and choke Youngjae out of the game.
And I feel like Youngjae kind of just went, OK,
I'll just go to your red side.
And he feels great, because now he's
Flaring through his inside the jungle. They still count some for him. His route just kind of responds to him.
Yeah, they're going to sort of go forward here on to Redbird. Redbird is put low, yields are traded.
Morgan gets signed up as well, but now comes Young Jay, and now Lyon's bot lane is in trouble.
They do have flashes. They might have to use them. Redbird could be looking for the combo,
knocks him against the wall to flash back there from Berserker. Lyon and Isles.
Lyon, Isles and Berserker both put low, but not dead.
Yeah, super close there, they want to fill the barrier for Berserk in the flash, so he was safe, but Ile's getting very low, oh...
We'll just be able to get that recall off there, not going to stay around, and there would be the threat of the dive if Young Jay wanted to move in.
I go for this gank though, he has to sacrifice his topside jungle, so inspired. Especially getting the respawned Raptors there, going to feel really good about that.
Absolutely is, and at the end of the day he ends up being ahead, as you say, because he went for that gank and really got nothing from it, so...
So, that's a bit tough for Young Jay.
He's always a player that doesn't really like to take risks.
He wants to go for the guaranteed plays, and I think sometimes that can be to his detriment,
right?
You know, when he's thinking, okay, I'm not going to risk going for the red buff, or
not going to risk going for these types of plays.
And Young Jay kind of called his buff and just crossed the map and stole away some
camps.
And if you look at how it panned out in the bot lane, Ios is downflashed.
That's the only deficit he came to Summoners, and it's a Grom.
Like how concerned are you about a Grom being downflashed, not that much.
He still has his dash.
still has us unbreakable, not the easiest champion to punish.
And the lane matchup is pretty even, but when we looked mid,
Sane has a pretty big advantage. We did get that level 1 pressure,
to put Envy a little bit behind, but to be already 10 plus CS ahead in the matchup,
Sane having a great time in the city lane.
And Envy kind of had the depression by for mid laners, which is just the brown boots,
when you go back to base and you can't really afford anything,
so got the boots and did get a refillable,
but gonna be looking to base here one more time.
Young Jake hovering bot again, so really focused on trying to make something happen here.
I was just a target, you would assume, but yeah, he's ready to back away.
Yeah, gets a little bit of first-rate gold. His only camp is up on the top side, but he was doing this last game too,
and even game one, where he just will keep going back to the same lane, right?
You know, a lot of times, you go for the gank, it doesn't work, you just back off, they go back to farming.
Young Jake did repeat ganks a number of times, did not really work out for them in game one,
Even though they did eventually get a kill as we can see she know trying to push Doku away from that proxy not gonna let him have it
That's the problem now is you're gonna get to the point where?
Inspired will hit level six before young J maybe even gets level five
Mm-hmm, and that's a big problem because you're just not gonna be able to contest a wukong
If yes, it's all available and you're a level five camera
Okay, young J with some camp pick up here
Maybe gonna hit his level five soon, but still gonna be down at least a level yeah
He needs to get a kill.
I mean this is the risk versus reward as we're going to see Saint potentially in some trouble
but just kind of side stepping back and forth pretty calmly.
Takes both halves of the damage there.
Does have to flash away as Young Jay came in.
And now Spam assist things coming out.
They want to potentially look for another attack onto Saint.
Yeah, getting the flash, relieving some pressure, definitely great but hard to get
a kill on Old Blanc.
Even if Old Blanc is playing aggressive you need to distortion back and then still
you'll have the procs available to get out, and it just feels like you're not quite getting
what you want in the situation.
It's fine, you're gonna hit 6 off this scuttle, and that's the point where it gets very difficult
to contest.
Yep, he's gonna be basically that full level ahead, not quite, but almost there.
Doku is just farming even with Chino at this point, and he wasn't really able to
make anything of the vein last game, you know, just kind of have that one good
team fight, you know, in the mid game where they chase down in the mid lane, and
had another fight where he was able to be in the backline and kill off bull but
definitely did not get the effectiveness that we wanted to see from
him you know from that lcs side where she know just was kind of a rock on that
scion got some help early but they really pushed her off waves and
eventually the sign was just worth way more yeah redberg gonna come in and
force the distortion back and there's danger if this happening in this game
you know we talked about last game having things like the seraphine the
the Mundo Casio Pierre big scaling components to composition I look at
like a Lucian LeBlanc. These picks can hold relevance in the later stages, but they kind
of need to be accelerated. They need to be ahead. If you have LeBlancs behind, you Lucians
behind, you Garans behind, they're never really going to hit the same.
Yep, I agree. And I think Lyon will probably agree as well. So we'll see when they want
to try to force Loud's hand, try to force them to fight. I do think their comp is
a lot stronger on one item in general. You know, when they are kind of all completing
that one item, they're going to be quite strong and inspired. Have that early six
and is here over on the dragon looking for that a saint going for for another trade on the envy even with young jay around
And he definitely taking the bad end of these trades
It's hard to get a damage back in return and the fact that you don't even get the truck on a sigil and the electric
You do so much damage
Hearing trying to collapse here will be able to potentially defend the blue
But no it is going to be claimed by young jay
Have you tried to collapse? I'd be so scared this guy right now with a knight and Alton pocket
You know docus itching to hit those buttons together mm-hmm
And Garen has so much burst, you really have to respect how much damage he can get done.
Young Jay can be able to grab one grub and just happy with that, will back off.
Still the CS advantages maintained in mid and jungle here for Lyon.
That really is where the edge lies thus far this game.
Bot lane, very, very even. The Sivir is going to be really happy about that.
Yeah, I mean you have that early gank which didn't really amount to much.
The flash is back up for Ile, so he's fine, but you're happy just farming out.
And this point lane 2v2, the SIVA Alistar Valium team
crisis is going to be massive.
And it's really about the skirmishes for the Lucian
Vroom more than anything.
And he played there by Andy, just held the skills
until St. was kind of pinging against the wall,
had nowhere actually to dodge it,
tried to hit him with the chains missed,
and then tried to go for the mid-michains as well.
And that did not connect.
So it took the bad end of the trade,
but he's still up about 20 CS.
As Dokla has been trying to get in the proxy positions,
Shino has defended it well.
And as a result, it just basically
been a farm fest on the top side.
No funnel out, you know.
You can't play Garen trying to get someone low,
pop that ult, but just a farm fest for now.
And it's so important to be able to actually defend these proxy angles
because not only for the 1v1 is it annoying for Shino,
but also when Garen gets in spot and is constantly clearing out
these waves behind the turrets, the topside jungle becomes so dangerous
then for your jungler.
You know, when Young Jay is up there and Shino is locked out of tower
answering his wave, if you face check a Garen in the jungle,
that is terrifying.
Yeah, I mean if the Garen gets the silent style they cannot just dead for even if you don't if you go invisible and he's just spinning
Definitely tough and so far very calm game and we're almost ten minutes in no first blood just yet
But these are two teams that are very comfortable playing this sort of style playing it slow and steady
I'm used to this sort of thing. You know, there's a team in the LCK. You may have heard of cold throw
They have this bro and brew style very relaxed approach to the game
So, you know, I'm happy just to see where it goes
I think that this is not necessarily the composition you draft. What do you want to play it slow, but we'll see
Well, obviously they still have a lot of time and you're not even on one item at this point
But it's hard to be coming in and pushing young Jay back who lands a nice double route there
But we'll retreat and be going for it is quite low
Just so as down the between worlds for a bit of a trade
But gonna have to head back to base see that's the trick as soon as you start to address and talk about a lack of action
Mmm, that inspires the players to take action. You know, you call them out about it
Yeah, so no kills so far after ten minutes very slow pace
You know what day one they were talking about combined kills for minutes to pace the teams are setting
I think Jack had some start how if you kept up this pace for the rest of tournament it'd be the most bloody tournament
It's Jax's fault.
Yes.
I actually blame him for this trip.
Yeah, I do, too.
I'm down with that.
Let's put it all on Jax.
So now to talk about how bloody it was going to be.
Now look what you've done.
Yeah.
Yeah, hold on him.
Well, we can just talk about it being slower,
and then we'll just revit back again.
Just going to do a lot of work to sort of gear back up.
First item starting to come through here
is Gentiles completed there for bolt.
Luton's done now for St.
And we are going to get the Shrybriggers soon for Dokla, but Shino already has his Iceborn Gauntlet.
So the first item is going to be done pretty much for everyone shortly, you have to think.
And I'm going to expect to see Lyon trying to stack these dragons.
It is both Infernal first as well as Hextech Seconds.
So those are two of the best souls to get.
And Kyle's going to use that spellbook exhaust and not really get anything for it,
but maybe just want to cycle through.
I think it feels bad when you see Infernal Dragon, Hextech Dragon,
and you've got the Early Dragon prior.
through the best souls. Yeah, they don't fortune it but I think Lyon still in a
position where they want to prioritize those especially I think after last
game when they obviously lost to our Hextech souls, lost to a soul in general,
and with that problem on the lane, oh young Jay might be in trouble. Yeah he is
gonna get rooted up, throws down the supreme display of talent but the
second chains is there, inspired flashes forward, young Jay has overstepped and
said it's there to punish, first blood for the Lyon jungler. And it's just
the power of the Leblanc, easy setup with those chains, inspired flies in and gets the
kill and even Trader Sums as well with both junglers using their flashes so I think Lining
in a pretty good position off that. But really putting too much presence towards Dragon, we
see the replay on this, and English playing this very aggressive uses the dash as well
as W to try and get some more of the camp and just ends up...
Oh, Singed's going to get solo killed. We come back alive and we see a single Otter flying through the air and Singed getting soloed by Envy after ruining this lane.
The lonely one for so long.
Yeah, not sure how that happened. I don't think it really should happen.
And did also see Singed with the first time in the series. He's been solo killed, actually.
So, unfortunately, it seems to become a little bit of a common thing for him right now.
That is tough.
And I was going to be coming in, pushing Young Jay off this dragon.
I think Lyon definitely would have wanted to fight for it,
but now their setup is going to be delayed a little bit.
And it was a trade of flashes it looks like in that mid lane solo kill,
but inspired heading out towards mid,
and Lyon still trying to potentially set up for this dragon.
Yeah, Bull should be able to just push this wave
and get some fire here, so you see Lyon protesting there,
but it's inspired on the dragon.
And Young Jay not really in position to move over yet.
trying to threaten a potential move through mid lane was young Jay, but he wasn't
warded out and the lion bot lane is back off. You don't have the Supreme
Display talent, you don't have the Queen Worlds, there's big ults being down in
the mid jungle. We are going to be able to see what happened. St. half HP goes in
and MV just hits everything. And also flashes first, you know, if St. had
flashed, flashed face himself, he would have been able to survive. Flashing
second that gets caught out. It is Dragon secured for Lyon and it's Ocean Soul, which
pretty underwhelming in terms of what it offers for Lyon's composition. So, yeah,
Lalfraul pretty good at this. I feel like it's arguably the worst soul they could have gotten
actually against this comp. When you're thinking about Kiana or Aurora, all this upfront burst
against a lot of squishy targets that are on Lyon, a lot of these champions you would think
aren't going to live long enough to actually get a ton of value out of it. Maybe Garen
and MuKong and Prom can get some value there and any solo obviously is very valuable but definitely
not the one I think that Lyon would have wanted to go. He's not a game winner. There's some souls
you get it especially with the right comp. You know, might have found him. Yep, she's not going to go
all out here staying trying to distort back trying to get a little bit tricky but he distorted
and then maybe distorted into the wall. Really, in this hand of that play, he gets solo killed
by Shino on the Cassante. That is not what you want to see from Sane.
Maybe Envy was talking up a solo kill and she didn't think like,
oh, I can do a team.
Ha ha ha.
That seems troubling.
On the block, a pick where I feel like you really shouldn't be getting solo killed.
You have so much of an instinct to opt out of fights.
Doku looking for a solo.
He gets one of his own up on the top side.
Takes down Envy with the flash, the ulti ignite.
Finally getting something back here for Lyon,
who still maintains that advantage,
but does feel like they are a lot more early game focused in their composition.
And Saint, you know, was doing very well in the 1v1,
But you make that one mistake and he's kind of known as an emotional player sometimes that Ken snowball and louder now looking to punish
Doga they keep me then record is here
We'll take him a while, but you know
Not as easy
Easily done as a solo kill we got in the bot side, but this was just running. Yeah
So much counter play on this way
That's the kind of play
They come today buddy, I think so, but it's you know, it's like okay no cooldowns on this guy
And this is a pretty easy pickup even have to back up
That's gonna kill so
Super positive play for loud overall
And I feel like with the soul that we got, whether it be an ocean soul with the composition loud house and how the game is going.
We've got to go back to live. Bull looking to go in here.
Oliver Zerger was cc'd up there by Redbird Isles.
Gonna have to jump back as young Jay comes in looking for some more damage.
Lion Bot lane will survive, but Shino getting fed I think is one of the most problematic members actually for Lion.
They don't have the best tank killing.
And if this guy can kind of just run straight at your long run straight at your lucian and kind of ignore everything
He's gonna create so much space for the carries of loud
I think it's such a nightmare pick to play lucian into because you've got the best tank shredder
Mm-hmm and also you're always gonna be kind of in his danger range, right if you're playing up to him
That's the potential to ult you and you can see in the coin base the gold grind there
She know ahead despite the solo kill for dohkla
She know got back to back kills and now they're gonna look there's a flash for the pathmaker
But the Q3 does miss he goes all out and he's looking to knock down Dopla
Supreme display of talent stunned in the wall
Mockdown!
As Young Jay is on the board
Instead of that from the top-turned-world duo from Loud
Kill for Young Jay, he's been hunting for one for a while
Finally gets one on the board
And it's only a slight goal deep for Loud
That's a little good about that position in this game
He doesn't feel to become his tower as well
And boost that even further
You can hear the crowd support that whole team right now.
They should be really excited here.
Zayn going back in with the distortion.
Taking a ton of damage.
You might get solo killed again by Envy.
Zayn has got to be careful here.
And not allow these mistakes to compound,
as has been a bit of a rough couple of minutes there for Lyon.
She knows just getting ridiculously fed.
Now he's 1.5k up.
Got that first tower gold.
Got back-to-back kills across the map.
He's on two items plus the upgraded boots already working towards the third. This guy is just gonna be a brick wall
He's a plated steel caps and double armor first item and the only AP in the other team is LeBlanc
He's not really a tank shredder. So
You're in such a good spot in this game as this Santhe just to be a constant threat
This is a hard one. This is a hard position to be in for buying right now
Dragon up in 15 seconds. It's not a complete bailout if they get the soul, but Lyon definitely
Should be looking to sort of contest this. It's something that will help them give them some strength
They are moving in that area trying to get some mid cryo here
Yep, Inspire, moving here with Isle. He's gonna get a nice little chunk down onto Redbird
Who's about 40% of his HP as Young Jay is warded out on the side
You can see Sheenow moving up now trying to reclaim space
will be spotted by the ward and St. is following but it does feel like this standoff is favoring
loud as Dopa comes out from base he just finished the pg won't have flash but will have a ignite
knock for this fight.
She's in good poke coming out already onto the bot lane of Lyon here, Bev Envy just
waiting has Tiki ready and available to join if needed.
More poke coming through.
Isles down to almost half HP at this point as Inspired gonna step forward that's
That's a flash out from Young Jay. He was very scared of that engage.
Maybe a little preemptive, but was worried about getting CC'd up and knocked down.
And the Spire now has flash. He has Cyclone, and maybe there's an angle.
The TP can be coming in here from Envy as they're looking for Miles.
Miles is going to turn around with the ulti. Bowless but low.
Redbird is standing. He is fighting, and he is the latest!
Justice is delivered by Dokela as Gino is on the side, and Envy is retreating.
He was overconfident. Now the battle hero comes through from Inspire.
Going to be able to knock that one down.
the supreme display of talent only landing on the clone of wu kong lion I
think they've earned themselves the dragon it's just so crazy how different
Alice to play is when there's a garen in the game because you have the old ready
like okay I can soak damage dead just immediately and the ultimate so good
against him and it's one of these habits that you have to be able to break
where you can't all late you you can't all to half health you go to all
that full because the true thing isn't going to one time for 100% HP but
So, he's going to have to flash away from Sheena. Sheena has no flash.
Doko's running. Lucian was moving down, but Rezuka is kind of hesitating.
I guess Doko feels that he is out. So Rezuka will go back towards mid lane as Doko.
I mean, with no ult, you stand no chance in that 1v1.
Also feels bad because we talked about the importance of flash on Garen if you want to have an impact in these teamfights.
So that being down pretty sore. You also have this kind of matchup where, you know, it's just super far ahead.
So long it feels like a kind of matchup, you know, it's really interesting because we've obviously been talking about this as Garen
Has to get backline and kill backline. I wonder if line are looking at it like no
We actually just killed front line because you can delete regular or potentially if she no goes all out
You just use the Garen also on the front line and just we've maybe been thinking about it the wrong way as he needs to get on
The server and he's saying no, no, no, I just kill whoever comes to me
So gonna be interested to see if that's how they actually end up playing out these fights
Yeah, it would be the approach right that just on demand huge base of damage available
kind of like Cho'Gath almost you know where it's just you're just like you're
playing with like minus a thousand health because of of Trudy image right so
sometimes you can just go on front line and I think you know that way it's kind
like so many people have said how insane Garen's old would be if it wasn't on
Garen. Imagine if Cassante had that. No I don't want to picture that world.
We wouldn't be losing all out which is pretty powerful but you can't
don't look he's just lying in way here I'm gonna be just clear up this
wave. Incomes inspired. Gonna see if Shino wants to connect to anything, but JungJ is on his way down as well.
Dopla has the ulti now, but he is getting beat down right now. He's gonna go all out with Incomes Ignite. Incomes the ultimate.
Justice delivered once more. The TP is there from Redbird. But just to pay his
respects to Shino who's already fallen. It's so ridiculous how much damage it does.
They're killing frontline. I'm changing my whole POV on this as
St. gonna be going up here against NB. St. gonna have to try to get away.
will distort back to safety as a stop to the deaths for now but definitely not
feeling comfortable in this game is saying to Jung Jae gonna have to use that
all just for a knockback he gets stunned up the culling comes through pull is
incredibly low are they gonna go for more the ulti even popped out there by
red burt as for a surcarus flexing his muscles st flashes forward he's looking
for envy can envy get out here he has the flash we'll have to use it it's a
trade of flashes at the end of the day but I do think that favors the
the block yeah and just across the board it feels like lying and getting so much
of an advantage but I felt like loud was really gaining control suddenly but mid
and top we just see everyone kind of clawing back some control and with two
minutes until that soul this is a big advantage to be able to pick up it's
looking good for them we'll see if they can capitalize in this next fight the
flash we'll be back for Garen as of course that ignite should be up as
well you know it's gonna be a little bit close I guess on the flash but right
around that dragon spawn. You used it when it was 420 till the next dragon and he
doesn't have any reduction on the cooldown. You just wanted to say 420 buddy.
No. I resent my accusation. I can see the smile on your face. Well now it's fine. I didn't know what you are.
I think it'll be a little late but they still have the dragon then maybe
he'll have it. Yeah we'll see young Gigan get spotted now. St. is there as
is inspired and young days in a world of trouble here has the flash but no chance
to use it he's knocked down by inspired inspired looking like he is in his
comfort zone are they gonna go for the bear and this would be risky I don't
think that they will they potentially bait for it and try and turn but the
vision setup they have isn't insane but it's fine so it in base so I guess
the answer is no yeah just goes to the recall and docus stays down for
thought and continue pushing back forward same just kind of poking around
here is now he has Isle's in his back pocket looking for Envy the chains actually
gonna connect through everything nice distortion back dodging the damage the
bomb passive is there he goes across the veil they can't finish him off but good
snipe with the chains there from same putting on a lot of pressure yeah really
putting on pressure here and it's 40 seconds until dragon and now we see
inspired already down this up the month she knew die again here there's the
face check in comes inspired and she know gonna be in trouble uses the
Pathmaker, the stun is dodged out on. Won't be able to get a kill, but will push him back a little bit.
A big thing is that you have the Black Cleaver now for the garen. You also have the armor shred from the Wukong on the Q, so the...
something does get his resistance is shredded a good amount there. Also, Envy hasn't reset yet.
That's so late to be facing now. St. Gov. T peeing out to the rest of the team for Zercher, of course.
Working towards his LBR doesn't happen. The Black Cleaver has the Last Whisper.
Their tank killing is getting a lot better. The spell pen is there, of course, before
Saint has been for a while. Redford going to be checking, and he's going to wish he
didn't have to pop the ult, have to flash out. Doko wasn't even there to use his ult.
Shino TP's in the middle of the team. YoungJ is getting hit on the side by, inspired.
Preserker have to dash back and be looking for will Shino go for it? He's stepping
forth very confidently. Nice buffer on the Braum stun. Preserker again has to
dash back. That is on the hunt, spent though by loud, and they can't really
to get a purchase in in the river struggling to push in and there's a
threat as well Alice just so low with no clothes flashed silence alts young J
flashes out uses freeing some display of talent they're trying to stay alive
does survive the ignite she knows gonna go all out but he's got a flash of safety
as well don't put jumps out of the brush it's a jump scare for lying it's
inspired going forward it's a cycle of knocking up look at pulling the side
he's gonna flash back does survive for now but Redbird does not lie and
crush the fight. They are playing these team fights out beautifully.
The approach is so slow and then Dokla just pounces, sees this window onto the
canner, catches up, uses the flash and that's the big thing. The flash wasn't
synced with Dragon, so they were patiently waited for it to be back up and available
and as soon as Dokla has it jumps on the jungler, doesn't leave
any window for the canner to use stealth or anything like that.
And just that burst of damage makes it so hard to play. Get the moment of the
the game there with the Dragon Soul secured for Lyon.
Mastercard priceless moment of the game.
Have that soul.
The question is, will it be enough
to steal this game and watch this one more time?
Dota is a spotter walking in the bush,
but they didn't expect it in.
It's awesome he was, uh, the green stealth available
for Yumjay, but just didn't get a chance
to use it before the flash silenced from Xenna.
From there, you're on the back foot,
fighting your way out of there.
It's just an opportunity for Lyon to push forward here.
Red Buss already low with no ultimate.
Kino is kiting out, which is an ideal when you're playing the Cassante.
This great setup there from Lyon.
Yep, and Bull lost his flash to that culling there from Berserker.
Berserker, how long do his flash?
He'll have it for that next fight.
You know, four potential elder.
Kino does have Doku behind him, but he wants to go back to base.
I gotta say, this game is kind of changing my perspective on Garen
and how you have to play out of the fights.
You know, we were really thinking about it from that perspective of,
yeah, you have to access backline.
That could be tough, but they're just killing frontline.
They're just saying, you know, it's not actually true against this specific
conflict and they have been right thus far.
I was just going to let the ulti rip to try to clear off this wave.
Vlad was grouped up looking to push in and we'll see if Lyon can start to
win out in the sidelines a little bit more now with this Ocean Soul.
And you know, it's not the highest value Ocean Soul game, but it does
give you that mana regen and Dokla has had no mana old game.
So there's the value.
He'll never run out of mana again.
That's a guarantee here from Ox.
A guarantee?
Well, saint.
Okay, buddy.
First you're hitting me with the 420, now the Garen puns.
I'm supposed to be the dad in this cast.
Yeah, yeah.
You're just stealing away from me.
Okay, I'll leave it to you next time.
Thank you, exactly.
Well, we'll see what Lion can get done.
Berserker, of course, does have the LDR now.
And I do think Ocean Soul, while it's not always great against these burst champs in a teamfight,
in side lane, Ocean Soul is king.
It's so impossible to contest people in that side lane.
Unless you have incredible consistent damage,
You know for Envy versus Saint if Saint is just constantly trading with you
You're just feeling to fall over and over and over and fire now he's gonna find Envy
He's gonna go between worlds still has a cross avail will hop backwards Saint looks for him
Can't find him as he rocket belts away from the ethereal chains. Yeah, I see the problem is Envy has 17 dashes
They only factor in 16 so you know still had the flash in pocket as well stick
Yeah
Hard to pin down it is still resources been right the ultimate being down as people are available
available. Doku is hunting and will back off. He doesn't want to fully commit to that,
but they are covering Saint who is going to be able to get a plate on that topside and
trying to deny as much vision as possible. Isles here, he spots all of Loud coming in,
grows up the door, but he doesn't really have any backup right now. Now let's see Alti
rip here as the Supreme's play of talents just used on save, but for Zerker is peppering
them with bullets from the side, getting a bunch of damage down on the Redbird who
just always has to pop the ult so early that then you can never look for a reengage.
She's basically a one combo champ in this game.
You can see he has adjusted to, like you said,
which is it makes sense for the person in such an uncomfortable position.
And now they're starting the Baron and with the Ocean Soul,
they've lost it all.
There he goes.
Bering is on the side.
St. goes forward, distorts in, gets a big chunk down.
And they're still working on this.
Dopla is going to reveal himself.
Young Jay has been spotted.
They want to keep Young Jay out of the pit.
We'll see if they can do it.
Redbird has no ulti.
Young Jay's getting in range, but he's going to be too late.
St. goes back in.
The first kill of the fight is on to Redbird.
And he goes inspired, it's a multi-man cyclone, and inspired is running this game,
killing off the entire back line.
Sheenow trying to run for the hills, has a pathmaker, gets stunned up,
Blascoe back into the waiting arms of Berserker.
It's two to the head, just to make sure.
It's an ace for Lyon, it's a Baron for Lyon, and it might just be Matt's point.
Clean there from Lyon, the approach so slow, so controlled,
He didn't give loud a window in and the last second they rushed to try and get to the baron and we see Lyon pounce and spied on the backline,
decimating them and now pushing them into their last chance to save the series.
Really impressive performance here from Lyon. Redpert respawned but he could do nothing but watch as his nexus is raised to the ground.
Lyon go up to one. They're on match point.
This was a prime example of just taking the composition, playing out exactly as they wanted
to, using the gown just to show the fans how uncomfortable it really made RedBit on this
Alistair.
You saw how he wasn't able to play it out how he really wanted to.
Fans, Spam, who your player of the game is, put that in chat right now, Lounge,
who's your player of the game?
My player of the game is just lying for getting to 2-1 Kobe.
I was worried we were going to have another moment.
He has little faith, Jack!
I never doubted that!
We have a special guest for this analyst desk, though.
We've got Guy God himself!
Nice to meet you all.
After Blasting Dance of America's Cup,
we brought him on to analyze our Garen matchup here.
What do you think of the top lane matchup this time around?
I don't know.
Docklet just gets proxing all the game, fired,
He also scaled, but in general I think both top laners did pretty well on this game.
It didn't feel like a top laner's game, but yeah, it's looking fun.
Some flash silence, ults out of the bush there.
Yeah, it was looking scary to me watching this after what happened in game two and then
also what happened in America's Cup.
That's still in front of my mind.
But Lod had a really good early start in this game with Envy actually getting a
few kills on the Saint.
I was a little worried about Saint.
With the disconnect in game two that we told was fake, into this, I was a little
It's interesting because the the kill on saint by envy that you're talking about that we're gonna pull up here
It is actually preceded by a kill on jungle that saints started by getting chains and inspired got that kill
But this is right after it and he comes back immediately afterwards. He got the auto off
So even though st. Flash's still dies to it
Yeah, and that was causing you some concerns yet. Well, what about the other solo kill on to him?
Yeah, also very concerning this is
This is where we thought Gino also showing off his Cassante play, which I've been told was very, very strong, best of the league is what a fan told me.
I was actually going to ask Gigo because this looks like, based on what we know of Loud, kind of their complete comfort comp. Would you agree with that?
I'm not really sure. I think he played a lot recently, the Cassante. In general, I practice against him a lot.
So I kinda know, but I think Xeno is more known to be like a briser player, like Ambassador style of champions, I think he's very, very good at it.
A lot of ranged tops, I think he usually carries a lot in screens and in tournaments, so I'm surprised that he got extended solo kills and stuff.
Yeah, this game did really turn once it got slowed down, and this was mainly the soul fight because they were able to kill Alistar and Kasacek.
They killed Alistair and Cassanti with the Garen before setting up this soul fight, which
was just played initially very slowly by Lyon, and we were talking about how cooked this situation
was for Lyon.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I think the big thing for me in a lot of these fights is that Young Jay would
either get caught out, or Lyon would do really a job trying to focus him down early.
So whenever he would try to get off that supreme display of talent, it wouldn't really
hit anyone or have a big...
It was defensive, right?
I think that made such a huge difference, especially with how many ultimates were blown in this entire exchange.
Yeah, both Inspired and Dokla were constantly looking for Kiana, trying to mark the Kiana.
That particular play, of course, was the flash out of the brush.
You know, silence, big burst combination, and even though they don't kill the Kiana,
that opens you up to chase down the rest of the members.
Yeah, and now, Player of the Game, I think was a difficult choice this time, but the winner is Inspired.
I voted for Berserker.
You voted for Berserker. I think I voted for Berserker, too.
Look at you.
My vote is not lining up with the players in the game.
That's why it's a vote amongst all the talent team.
Slow, controlled game, four inspired.
Also looking for the fan vote this game.
I'm curious about the game.
A 10% last game, 100% envy was not a bug.
I think everyone just saw him one shot the game.
I was in that 100% almost.
That's the first 100% I'd ever seen.
So I felt like, oh, they hadn't finished telling
the votes or something.
I've never seen everyone in Twitch chat
vote for the same person.
This is a little more spread but inspired and
Don't go, don't go, don't go, don't go
The Garenalts were so clutch
Killing the All Stars and the Cassante, you know
And the flash out of the brush to earn them the priority for that dragon fight
The value later for Garen
People also, you know, the early stages of the Garen wasn't quite as good though
I felt like he spared to play that more cleaner game
But the Okla had some clutch moments so you can give it to him
Yeah, absolutely
We also have our AWS post-game breakdown to show how close this game actually was
and how tense it felt for so much of it, with, I'd say, loud having a gold lead, like, as
late as 25 minutes into the game as we're contesting some of those final jokes.
Right, this is the previous game!
Oh my gosh!
Okay, baiting me both games for close, I guess.
Both games are close.
Okay, I did want to ask one other question, though.
Kobe, we were negotiating with the fans last game about a 3-1, and they all turned
us down about Silver Scrapes. I want to re-enter you.
Did we steal a five-game series? Did we steal a five-game series?
Do you want to play now?
Yeah, five games?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay.
We'll make the two of you a Silver Scrapes.
Yes, yes, yes.
Full five games. Come on, let's get it.
Yeah, five games. Okay, here's the correct TGB.
We got five games. We're good.
Still very close. Gold deficit at 20 minutes
before they're able to pull it up by the end of the game.
I also want to uh, I was very informed actually by our fan afterwards about this game three. He said it was over
We made a graphic for him actually of all the reasons why it was over
Talked about Shino being the best Cassante in the game or sorry in the league talked about Keanna
Always banned. He never loses Envy. He had a penta on Aurora and bull with silver was a free win
So, I actually appreciate this, the question now for you is, what do you feel like Loud
does in game 4, since so many of their big champs were burned in this game?
I don't know, I feel like they're already getting in a tough spot, because it felt like
on the second game that they won, they felt like much more synergized, and we thought
that they were more in comfort, but this one, it felt like...
It felt like Lion just had the better macro, just always in the terrain first,
so it felt hard for Loud to break this,
but I feel like if they can have a very good composition that they feel comfortable,
I think it's like a pretty even game.
For me, I think this is still a very close series.
Game one, I think, was the outlier.
Game two and three is more of what we're seeing in the series
because Lion is not able to blow Loud out,
and then Loud is still very strong in teamfighting.
So I think depending on the drafts,
if they have strong lakin' teamfighting drafts,
it could very easily go to those five games.
Emily, do you have thoughts?
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, I agree.
I think as long as Lyon don't get those super early setups
or they're just controlling the pace from the get-go,
I think both of these teams are perfectly content,
kind of sitting back and letting the game play out.
And then when it comes to 5v5s,
I think loudest team fought quite well
and we're still here. And so are you and Ryan looking to close out the series took the lead
in the last game. I doubted them a little too much. I think with this Gary and the
a ball composition. I felt like they had a stone ball but they proved me wrong and I think they
proved a lot of people wrong and how they would actually be viewing Garen as a champion.
I think we expected more momentum to be needed from them and then just the way they were playing
around, particularly the Garen old and making Alistar's life absolute hell. I think Redbird
really after that first time he got like nuked from half HP was just so tentative which you
could understand. I think he did it just quickly but it just meant that there was no real
way to play Alistair right it's just you know those moments where you just wish
you could switch champion in the middle of the game like remake yeah yeah it's
tough man he's gonna be waking up in a cold sweat here to Marcia but I think
it's also you know we've seen this series so far
Doklas had last pick every single well actually this one it wasn't last pick
it was still counter pick right he picked it on four they said counter pick every
single game and even though we didn't see the vein fully wake out he's been
Confit trying to get these kind of matchups and get value from them.
Loud once again going first, but now she knows been such a big talking point for this team,
domestically, and it feels like they aren't necessarily setting him up to have advantageous
lane matchups. Yeah, no, I agree. It's interesting, right? Because I do think, you know, despite that,
he was way more valuable in the scion game, right? Despite, in fact, he was going up against
the vein. And in this game, he did great in the early stages. I mean, he's just kind of
farmed even against the Garen. He denied the proxy many times, and then he goes,
You know gets a kill top goes by kill saying you know he was getting a number of kills and put himself at one point
He was 1.5 1.8 K ahead of go of doklah in gold. So he was doing well, you know
I just actually check it was actually last big they put the long fourth and the guy so all three games last big
They've had for don't play and I assume they'll keep running that trend
So yeah excited to see what he brings on this one
And I feel like this is kind of being a new alert for don't play
Compared to last year like more counter picks more focused on bringing out these pigs where he has this real big lane advantage
It absolutely is and I mean I think a lot of it you can't talk enough about inspired on this team because he really is the voice that kind of
runs the team and
You know at the end of the day they are gonna do whatever inspired things right there gonna be they're gonna be playing it out
Exactly how he wants it and how he views the game right now is that it's not about bot lane as much as a lot of people
Talk about how they think bot lane is the most important right now, and they need to be playing through scaling carries
He believes that you should not be spending your time there early game from from what I have
observed and what I've heard from him.
And so that gives Doku the license to get counterpick, right?
They're not going to be counterpicking for support.
They're not going to be counterpicking for mid.
Mostly they're going to be counterpicking for him.
It's not that he never blinds, but his team has faith in him.
And I think that is really cool to see Doku kind of get unlocked in this way.
This time around though, he is going to be blind.
And there are some of these kind of standard answers up and available, like Galio, like
on. Yeah I guess we might just see Sheenogon towards us but it's still it's
on those neutralizing picks that you tend to see those sort of setups you have
into the rumble. It's a matchup where you look to outscale later in the game but
not necessarily having that big advantage. I think a big part of it is
having Nocturne plus rumble is so devastating. I think picks like Jin and
rumble sink so well with the Nocturne. It's part of I think Lion denying those
tools from being able to pair up. I know the Orianna has been banned all
series that was never going to be able to be paired with it.
What's the problem with denying Jin from your opponents?
Is that Jin is then on your team?
Ah, yes.
And that is one of the major downsides.
There is one thing with Jin, right?
You can choose to build damage on Jin, because we did see...
No, sorry buddy, best I can do is ghostblade rush into a rapid tire.
And you aren't the only one as well, so please, LDR needs to come out.
Yeah, maybe 46.
No, no, that's not what it is.
Please, you know
Diablo is a phenomenal lady carry, but his build yesterday and did not inspire much faith double a slingshot action
One slingshot is not enough you must get a second and it is going to be actually the galliola for a lion as
Ornn was taken as the answer a lot of top laners do really like this matchup into rumble orn
Of course has so much wave clear scales really really well
And once you're on kennec, you're kind of just chilling once you're on that one item
you are kind of just chillin' in the matchup.
I do like Gallio as an answer to Akali
as well as the Nocturne,
but instead it's gonna be Jakes, which is very interesting.
I felt like Gallio made so much sense
because it's such a good answer to the shroud
and also great for countergage,
you can float on the ulti as soon as Nocturne comes in
and whatnot, but the problem is obviously
you can't ult during current waves,
you can't probably get your teammates to throw it out
from there, but I still feel like I had a lot of value.
I'm less familiar with the Jakes-Akali matchup,
So I can't profess to be an expert on this.
Yeah, I mean, it could in theory still be a Jstrungle.
It has been there quite a lot.
It's true.
That's true.
But it could be flexed there.
But it feels like a vulnerable pick.
They obviously did buff his.
He does have a decent amount of resistances in his melee form.
There's a good amount of damage.
We'll see where they end up putting it though.
Yeah, but it is scary, right?
Because you're now drafting a relatively squishy team,
and you're against Nocturne and Akali Warren.
So whether it's Jstrungle or Jsmid,
When they press R, what's your recourse, right?
You know, Nocturne is flying in and he's unstoppable, and Colin Forge-God is flying in as well.
And that is terrifying. Of course, you know, the potential counter-engage from Rumble is pretty good.
And the Kaiserban is a great one, because that would really just add to the pain if you put it on top of this rest of the composition.
Loud as already. Loud things, it could still be that Jayce Jungle, they'd run away to Gallio that was being hobbit.
I think McCartn as well, syncing up with that dive would be such a major threat.
So it feels like both compositions kind of have enough theme already, right?
The long range, the gym, at Jace, and lounge at a close distance.
The bounds are just trying to think what is available to X anyway, what's already picked up.
Yeah, so McCartn gonna be banned away, Ise gonna be banned away.
A lot of these really strong dive chance that could help to set them up.
It's gonna be interesting if there's gonna be, you know, Nautilus or Rel-Ban,
But instead it's gonna be karma. So I do think lion needs some sort of heart engage and generally
I feel like rumble without a point-click lock down without that engages a lot weaker
It's very hard to get good equalizers if you go to Maokai
You know it's a flex, but Maokai if you have it in the jungle with Jace made
It's like the AP jungle with the 80 mid the traps you can set with saplings
But also the setup for shock blasts for Jin ult for equalizer super powerful and good AOE CC
So you know it can reveal the calling the shroud very easily with your cue with your altering them and with sapling damage
It's gonna be an MF
So it does feel like you're looking then towards, you know, a rally on a not listening like this
It is gonna be a young as the answer
So it's really kind of just all dive MF all over the top
You're trying to find that and the question here is what support can really help to shut that down
If it's a jungle Maokai, I wonder like a Poppy support could actually be pretty good, you know, decent dash interruptions, decent hits on Leona, and then the old could get the same value if he managed to ult away the right target, but it could still flex the Maokai, but they aren't, they're going to go for that pocket.
So I think the value is just the dash interruptions and the fact that you stop is out of the way for Leona to mitigate it early on, and then if you ult a target out from that late engage, so much power.
always really like Poppy when you have others to see on your team too.
Poppy supports him a lot. I like to play.
When you're paired with a mouth dog, the nature of the grass comes out, hits a colleague who's
out, you just get a free ult on this person who's ruining the reveal, even if they are in viz,
you know? So there is potentially a lot of power there, and you can also stop the
a redirection of Call of Forge got with a well timed W. There's a colleague dashes,
there's the Zenith play, there's a lot of tools there to be able to interrupt and
and shut things down.
So some pretty interesting compositions coming out here
across the board.
I do think mid lane is going to be very important.
Akali from behind, pretty pitiful.
Akali from ahead can be incredibly oppressive.
And Jace mid, not a lot of players
are playing this these days.
There's basically no AD mids in the meta.
UNI is the only AD mid in the top,
I want to say 23, 25 picks in pro play mid these days.
So Jace, we're just not really seeing him
or any other ADs.
Yeah, it should be at a play level when you play Akali in the drop play,
and something like that.
They only have that range, the tank, and I just pull you out with a short combo.
But if you get to six, you get that huge power spike of the ultimate,
which, geez, can't really match.
And if you're playing into Akali, Nocturne, and they hit you with the
ultimates, it's gonna be about time.
Yeah, absolutely is.
And that's where it becomes the job of inspired and the rest of the team
to scout out the Nocturne before he ults, right?
When you're playing against Nocturne, deep vision is so important.
If you spot on one side, you've got to get Ward on camps on the other side of the map.
You need to know he's there before he presses Baron in the wall, or it's already too late.
And St. here does have that shot last level, both mid and jungle.
It's interesting we have the Comet from Dopebler.
Keven has been growing a lot of first strike, cashback on Rumble,
and he just print money against tanks with that strategy.
And the grass coming out from St. as well.
You know I'd expect maybe like you see a lot of fair strike when you had Jace back in the mid lane
But when they go for the graph so you have that little bit of extra training power
Polkiness with some of the help and the resolve training you can stack up
Yep
It is always nice you can go for that that little trick where you go for the auto in range form
You swap the melee form and you get the bonus hp as though you are a melee
So people love that little interaction
Lion you're positioning very aggressively forward here in that bot side trying to get the push and
St. needs to try to push the paces as much as he can in this type of matchup
You really as the ranged champion into Akali you want to bully this guy
You want him in the dirt if you can get him there before he gets six because as you said the spike for Akali is
Huge as a spike for a jace is basically non-existent at six. Yeah, six is big nine is big when you get
Five points in your queue in the cooldown
All right first first you're going with the 420 now you're going with the 69 buddy. Wow
They haven't done 6-7 yet, so.
Well, now you just did that too.
Going with all the numbers means.
We'll get them all the way, right?
Yeah, we'll get them all the way. They're gone now.
But, this wasn't their playoff run here.
Again, going into that upper bracket, the finals into the round four was when they made their swap to Envy from Mago.
Had a lot of success.
And this is a team that they are down, but they're never out because they are known in Brazil as the comeback kings.
This is a team that has been able to comeback in games.
They play this slow style, come back in series, they're known as very calm, very collected.
And that is what they're going to have to do here.
They're going to have to stay locked in because the pressure really does ramp up.
You're playing at home, you have the advantage of that home crowd,
but you also have the pressure and the expectations of them performing in front of them.
Yeah, out of the center.
And I think with how the America's cropped went, there's that added, you know,
the other teams had shut such a strong performance against the LCS representatives.
You want to live up to that.
up to that. You want to live up to that and see if you can replicate it. Right now, Canada
matchup going how you'd expect in the mid lane. Envy just has TP available when he wants
to use it. It is just weather storm and kind of make use of Darn Shield, second wind and
just soak up damage and try and get farm, but it's just never really a fun time.
No, it's looking pretty rough for him and while you do expect to get down, it is
looking maybe a little bit worse than I would have personally expected. She know doing
well in that one we went up on the topside for now, but I always have to be careful about
the mana and Envy does have to be very careful, since he went to the skies there looking for
him because of course that damage connects it is AW even if you're in the shroud, and
we'll be able to get this pushed in, the execute there from the support item from
Isle is just going to make that that much faster, so we will lose at least the one
melee, but of course it is a cannon wave and he's going to get back on top of that.
Yeah, we'll be able to pick up the plate as well, we'll shed with Isle's there,
but getting that quick push in and already got a bit of an advantage in the mid lane.
Do you see that Inspire was hovering around the top lane, didn't really find a window for
anything.
I think don't expect him to be too active early just from how he generally plays, but
setting a quick pace to the game and once you have that ult available, so often I
feel like with Maokai jungle, even though we don't tend to see him lean towards bot,
bot is such an easy lane to gank just with how the ult covers so much of the lane
and there's no cleanse on both.
I'm not saying I typically expect it,
but without a cleanse available into a
Malkai it's so punishing yet caught by the ultimate.
It's kind of doomed. Definitely can be tough.
You can see the steadfast presence there interrupting
the Zenith blade from Redbird as he tried to go forward.
Red Bull looks for the double tap can't quite find it,
but St. Now potentially going to get
attacked here by Young Jay will push him back,
but he has the acceleration gate and nails the shock
fast and then just sidesteps the queue there from Young Jay.
So kind of dancing on him right now feeling confident,
They don't have the damage or the CC to knock him down.
Inspired also, it's going AP. I'm not sure what your feeling is on that,
but they're going to be forced to cleanse you on the thought side.
I think I'm okay with... We've seen a lot of, like, it's Leandri's
and then the... What's the second like this try item called?
Bloodletters curse.
Bloodletters curse.
I'm not sure how I feel about the bloodletters. I think Leandri's...
Oh, St. Flash forward there.
Kick, flip backwards, though, to safety 4.
Envy, or at least relative safe, he has to get out of there because then Power Shock Blast might be enough, forces the Flash.
Envy trying to grief to this, we'll be able to get back and take that cannon, but St.
Definitely putting the pressure on, but unfortunately Graham hasn't been able to cash in on a solo kill, so it is just the CS advantage.
This is not a cannon wave though that Envy's basing on, so if he completes the base, he's going to lose at least a couple of minions, and the base will get cancelled.
Yeah, he's still so low in this situation.
Young Jay, about a hit level as he's doing the dragon, so that might take him a bit longer.
But Envy now has level 6, which is too low to really make anything from it.
Gonna be starting this up. This is pretty risky from Young Jay.
Bold to start that dragon when your mid has no CC or no pressure.
But Iles is low, so they do have the HP advantage on the bot side. Inspired comes in though, and that will be enough to push it back.
Yeah, I don't think you can go for that, with the condition of your mid lane.
So why is Tefak away in that situation, and Envy will go for the reset?
I think the first time Leandris is completely fine, I feel like transitioning to tank after that
could make more sense to me, because we've just been seeing the full AP build, but maybe Leandris,
Bandlepipes, and then the Protopasm Harness, you get that first AP, then a bit tankier after that.
I think in my mind for a pro jungle economy makes a lot of sense, but we've just been seeing
like the full AP saplings or nuclear bombs sort of build.
Yeah, I mean the saplings are obviously very annoying to deal with, but at a certain point
the damage can kind of be shrugged off, right?
Yeah.
It stops being threatening later on into the game, in my view.
You just can't keep up the income to actually have enough AP to truly threaten people.
It is great for star padding though.
I will tell you that.
That's true.
The most useless damage.
Yeah.
But you can do a lot of it.
And that MB now, does have a slight experience advantage as I was going to find Boll, the
deadly flourish will connect, but no real follow up there to be had.
I've said this, you know, it's also, there's been so many games like a top laner's playing
at the wreckside, and you get to the end and it's like, oh, you've done 36,000 damage.
Just such like, kind of fake stat potting damage that just doesn't really mean much,
but um, big number I guess, that's nice to see.
Big numbers do always, always feel nice.
And pretty much always you'll see the pro players checking the damage at the end and always
like, ah, I did more than you.
It's funny hearing some of the comms.
Sometimes when games are ending you're like, need to get the DPM up, need to get the DPM
up.
They don't want to end the game.
I've been there.
I've been there.
Yeah.
I think if you're in a real struggle game you need to look a little bit better, you
know.
You need to get some damage in at the end.
From the numbers.
And then you get the people who just like don't care, you know flawless game, pitfall KDA, dive the phone to the end and wrote it
I kind of respect it man. Yeah, so they don't care at all
We got some some lethality coming in through mid lane and a bot of course
She know is lane against Rumble so we have to pay respect to that
You know we talked about the camey crush almost always what you're gonna see does mean that you know
He's gonna have less armor at least less armor early on but you do still need some armor
That is the bull time coming through, berserker forced a flash, Iles gonna eject Redbird back, but that is a nice engage.
Redbird didn't even use his ult and they get so many sums, three down there from the Lion bot lane.
Yeah, so much pressure, easily allows Junkie to pick up this dragon here, and triple sum being there from the bot lane and then getting chunked down.
Not a great feeling.
Shino not having a great time in this lane so far, not on a Kanax bike yet but one thing
with the fact that again it's a rarity to have an AD mid laner but you can send Saint
into Shino after he has that Kanax Ruken completed.
It's going to drop the equalizer here, try to keep him round but not really going to
be an angle for a dive because he gets to level up.
Yeah, not really able to take him down but yeah if you send the Jace into the
Rumble that, oh it's kind of wasted.
So, can she the avenue to do that once lane of phase is kind of broken open?
Yep, young Jay gonna be going in, paranoia is pop, call of force god is gonna whip here,
but the fear does land, nature's wrath's coming through, will be spell shielded by young Jay.
Didn't waste that early, so they get the flash off of doklah, as well as the ulti trade from Inspired, but they do not get the kill.
So inspired finishes off his Grubbs comes over saves his top-laner still flash bin from Douglas still a resource big resource
Expended but the fact he doesn't go down to that face. Nocturnal definitely feels pretty good. Yeah, but he's gonna be feeling really good
So saying has built up a 600 gold lead for himself here in the mid lane
Which is pretty solid for sure
But then the you know is scaling and he's gonna have that potential all-in threat
Nice steadfast presence into the deadly flourish there from miles of berserker
but they're definitely on the back foot it feels like in this 2v2 and for the most part
they've been a real point of strength for Lyon so them kind of getting pushed in them being
on the back foot is a bit of a first it feels like in this series.
I mean you know you're talking about how in spite of these botters you just leave
it to play safe, leave it isolated. If they start to stumble and fall then that plant
might go out of the window with those summoners being down as well you can see Isle's
very easy for him to disrupt that Eona engage but steadfast presence is such
a long cooldown if we see Vettric get on top of his Urka, no cleanse available, you lay at a CC and
it's probably just a dead gen. Yep, I think one CC hits with full time up and you are dead with no
cleanse because that CC gen just does not end with the Zenith Blade and the Solar Flare available.
You can see Inspire moving his way down towards bot side, he is clearing out those
Krugs right now but kind of pulling them down towards bot lane to see if there is a
potential angle and he has finished his Lee Andries, we're expecting Dope obviously to
to move that way as well and the first item done for young jay as well it's
crazy remember it was a thing that if you had two liandrys and a team they
couldn't both be in a target yeah how crazy is it that just was a thing
one time and you just couldn't couldn't have two people with it exactly I mean
to you someone else picked a liandry shamp after you already had he's a
brother you just griefed it's like our comp is terrible we can't build the
item now red brick gonna be spotted out here five I'll says they're gonna
Look for an engage nice knockback there from its fire will keep himself safe and redbird might not be so lucky
You can get stunted into a walli up comes the nature's grassy flashes back
But already is knocked down and now she know might have to use his flash as well
He's gonna have to dash back flash back
Doka had to equalize if they are lining up for it inspired gonna knock him back will he let the equalizer rip
It's just gonna hold on to it. Something to need it. She knows gonna get chased down
It's a couple freebies for Lyon as loud wandered in it got chopped in half
St. Already ahead lane now a thousand five hundred gold up and just cleaning up these easy kills the team sets them up
We see here
Red bit going a little bit aggressive trying to find an angle goes in and then just can't get out again
Try to back away this turn into the wall. I
Say I think you have to flash it
but may have just been in a comfortable position regardless with the rest of the team moving forwards
with flashed Slade dies and then here...
Can you see a picture in picture play?
Yep, they're looking for Sane, they're going to try to knock him down
the Paranoia gets Poppy, he's going to go under the tower
and docked back on his own teammate
though Isle's tried to peel but failed to do so
charged him back, denies the Blasco
and low income's inspired
I think they're going to be able to find him
well played by Isle's with the ward
but I do think that knockback might have killed Sane
And especially because there was a shutdown as well, it's pretty gold positive for loud there. Obviously not ideal getting the gold on a young Jay compared to someone like envy, but
not the best
head, but we've seen from a poppy
We've been to the Alistar as well. Yeah
Press that fast presence. Yeah, I think it's hard though when you play for the last game
You try to wait at the shield. So this is how I started. I've got a big engage late the CC
We just wasn't quite enough damage, and we're not connecting everything there, the ulti,
I don't think, connected, and then here, yeah, unfortunately I'll slam them a little
bit too close to the tower, but what's that, was that 3x?
Oh yeah, they have vision in that area, yeah, that's for sure.
Folk middle.
I do hope someone on loud ping that, and got a 15 gold reward, you know.
Exactly, who's the real winner in that scenario?
Sure, you killed the Nocturne, but they got 15 gold for pinging.
Yeah, I wonder if there's some players who just rapid fire on that like the second like you'll be there'll be a top laner
A world we'll get plays bot lane. They're watching the boom. They'll pick it in each of the course
There's nothing else to watch when you're playing top lane. You're not watching your matchup
I think China on this situation probably in that state of mind. He's locked in. He's locked in
He's sitting there like that is canik rookie and type the down there. He's just picking more to the left
Exactly. That's how you that's how you really want to match up
It's about pinging as many words as you can get that gold up
And lions are over in the dragon area, but it does look like they pulled off it as
Loud got pushed through mid and that does force lion to back off
Yeah, a lot already have a dragon in pocket, but art down a decent amount in terms of gold and I
Feel like the fuck envy doesn't even have a completed item yet feels pretty unfortunate
It's like essence we were from bull which is pretty atypical usually MFs are just gonna stack BF items
So yeah, you know generally you just see bloodthirster in IE and you there's such incredible ad scaling on the bullet time
They're generally people just want to stack swords. That's kind of the way that you do build it up
We just see young J though starting this lion are looking like they want to contest
He's gonna be coming in the dragon is getting low
It's gonna be a smite fight and it is one by inspired young J all doubt trying to get the safety on the side
It's safe in trouble the lock it you'll come through the peels are there
The Equizer is good and Young Jay is slated to fall.
Dope-Luk getting in on the pole. Bulls gonna be in trouble inspired as Lotho Envy picks up the kill.
Preserker trying to join in but they don't have any consistent damage.
They cannot hurt the frontline Isles that try to run for it.
Won't be able to get over the wall. He's knocked down too.
Lyon get the Dragonbump. The only thing that averts total disaster is his a three for one fight for Lout.
Cyn just ends up in such an uncomfortable position. Not sure how he found himself though.
Dope-Luk might have found Redbird.
Dope looking for Redbird has no flash just yet. He is overheated. He is burned down
Lazy recall punished there as yeah
It was there's doubly bad that sinker caught in that position because it also gave young Jay someone to all doubt
Yeah, you can see just walks up from Bob
Come into the bot way jumped on by the Nocturne and then the Akali set a follow gets hit by the owner
Everything connects you immediately lose your Jace and your jinn is ulting from super far away
And so by the time Berserker closes in on the fight the fights already kind of lost you've already lost your members
Alice is in a comfortable position. You don't really have the setup to follow up this fight, but the Jin has his ghost play
Why didn't he just take the most?
There you go
You feel the look of just staring on your face
When I posed the question he's going high he second though. Yeah, so that is nice
We can see the coin based gold grind here
almost dead even between the two junglers just slightly ever so slightly ahead for
inspired and he is going in towards that second AP item so very likely going to
be grabbing the bloodletters curse here to shred for both himself as well as
Doke left yeah I mean that is one thing to think about is you have that setup for the other AP champion on your team
it is pretty valuable this will can also be really nice kind of for the same
reason the amp on a vessel is really nice if you have a lot of AP on your
team, but they are going to be looking paranoid coming in here on to St. And there is the perfect
excuse. He's got no chance, has no flash. Playing these sidelines is going to get dangerous for St.
I think we're seeing some of the concerns that we had about the Jace sort of show up.
Anytime he decides to exist, it's sideline in a team fight in the river out of the river,
basically anywhere outside of the fountain or like directly under a tower. He's having a tough
time it's this Akali Nocturne and they're just kind of collecting freebies at this point.
They really are and that's the problem, Jayce is great in the one who went in the lane but
the game doesn't end after the lane phase and even with a big gold leaf here he has struggled
to find relevance in the teamfights. We'll see though, inspired, you know it's going to be on
him, it's going to be on Isles to try to get vision, to try to be spotting out where
the Nocturne is, to give St. That coverage right? You can't allow them to just keep
picking up free kills and if you can spot that Nocturne and be in position for a countergank,
Hey, maybe you can turn that around and really start to punish them.
I think Young Jay is not strong enough just to nuke him down quickly,
but it's a fact that the Akali is always there to follow up,
and that's someone who's much easier to cover and prevent.
You're never going to be able to stop the Noctim from reaching the Jayce,
but you can have people that appeal,
and the Akali is someone you can track much easier.
She can't just teleport, but she can't teleport,
but she can't just appear across the map on top of the Jayce.
You can see Dill go down to the spot that Young Jay was lying in wait,
but it doesn't like what he found as the Equizer is going to get dropped.
Youngjae does have the flash, but will he have to use it?
Isle's moving down, but so is Redbird.
There's the overheat flash out,
and Dopeblast just given over an easy kill.
Dopeblast uses the flash, it's a trade of flashes,
but that's just such a free kill given in.
And now they're gonna look for Shino here.
He's trying to clear out the wave,
but the rip tarot is there.
Pop's called, the Forge got on the pop side.
They're looking for a dive onto Isle,
but he knocks away the callie.
Isle's just gonna be safe.
Shino is also looking like he's completely fine.
The tower never got finished.
Sink up, but low and loud, winning out both sides.
Yeah, not sure what, but if not to know which issues to help the right cover for, you know, there and disrupt, but
so hard to dive in on in this situation. He's so tanky as well, shouldn't have that much armor there, but
the Jace just not really able to cut through, and I think the tower afro juggling was a little bit
off as well. It was safely by the aggro most of the time.
They're gonna be able to stun him into the wall here, I was looking for him. Drops the exhaust for the slow.
Dokla has the home guard coming out with this TP, gonna be able to finish him off. The kill will be gifted to Sankt.
So Dokla gets nothing, but it is a nice play there from Lyon.
They're trying to put some pressure on this tower, no one really can respond from the side
of Lyon.
They're looking for MD here, closing the shroud, but trying to burn him down a little bit.
They're taking a number of tower shots though, so it ends up losing out on a trade.
I thought it was the IE second, but it isn't still that storm racer there for Berserker.
And Isle is going to be looking for an engage here.
The nature's grasp is caught.
The shot glass does connect under bolt.
And the equalizer is perfectly placed.
He flashes, but it's too late.
The twisted advance wraps him up and knocks him down.
And now Redbird trying to run for it
will be able to survive.
But both the side lanes are being pushed here by Loud.
It is going to be the dragon, though, for Lion at the roar.
Yeah, we'll see if Loud trying to move in this,
despite not having to AD carry,
is a lot of resources expended by Lion.
There's so many ults that, being by them, they're gonna try to fight for sure.
They're gonna go for it.
The TP is coming in, Paranoia is gonna be popped, and we see that C is with the rest of the
team, but they're jumping off the zane, this time it's Ryan is stolen there by NJ, Redbird
flashes out, and Lion are crumbling, Berserker can do nothing, he does knock down one.
Now Redbird is low, Envy is low as well, they're looking for him, the Ornn is just
too damn tanky, Akali gonna try to exit the back of the pit, we'll be able to
to do so and will TP out the safety to why and when the fight that they lose the
dragon both junglers being able to steal the whole way in this game. Preserver in
trouble now as both comes in but not confident to keep chasing forward I
think they could have gone for it. Yeah it was already so low I guess he has
summoners right and we have the backup behind him didn't want to overstep too
much but this fight just ends up being a swoop in from the mountain to
steal away the dragon here. The fight after this ends up super
We see, even though those two members go down initially, they're not able to get on top of the Zerka.
Youngjae goes down, he pops the ult, and we have to back away immediately because he's low.
Bregman's taken down, and then yes, Chino's super tanky, but doesn't have the team to pull out from now.
This game has been so scrapped, so back in court, and it just kind of feels very chaotic right now.
It feels like loud, focusing a lot of resources on a kill and a chase,
and trying to find some structure in these fights, but I'm looking at the fact that there's a 404 Karli
super threat right now. 10 stacks on the Dark Seal as well, and we've got to pan in the build already.
And you've got to find some way for her to sink to be relevant, because he's just getting killed off
at the start of every fight it feels like, and they have no one to hurt the Ornn.
So, yeah, Shino is a problem. Ornn does damage. It's not like this champion that you can just fully ignore
ignore and nothing happens. He is going to hurt in these fights if you're just ignoring him and
Lyon are kind of in a position where they have to and saw big reaction from Doke on the player
camps after that fight. It was kind of interesting, looked very frustrated. You know they did win the
fight but they lost the dragon and maybe he feels like they're being on scale. Paranoia going to
be prompted and he's again and again, picks in the side lane. The TP was picked for miles to
respond but it just doesn't matter. They've been picking on Tate and now it's Doke's turn.
This combo is just so hard to deal with, just make the signings almost impossible for lying to play out.
We'll be able to pick up this turn as well and push them into a gold lead.
I mean, safe has a good amount of gold, despite how fed this Akali is, it's still not much of a gold lead between the mid laners,
but it's just irrelevant if you get it deleted immediately in all these fights.
Mm-hmm and I mean the fact that you have it behind in lane already is envy and now you're in a situation where you just have so many items of pocket
I'm worrying for lion right now and she knows 15
So the ornaments are gonna be coming through you know
He's gonna start getting in those upgrades for the team something we haven't been talking about thus far
Of course, he's had his upgraded Katie for him for quite some time. I wonder who gets the first ornament
Yeah, yeah, I mean the photo blossoms are cool. I am why not it is
It looks like a speaker to me
I see that, I see that.
Like the wind box, you know, you carry around on your shoulder.
Yeah, yeah, I see it.
Pretty good vibes for the team, you know, maybe upgraded a little bit, got a better sound system for the squad.
You say that, but if you wanted vibes for the team, you would have gone Bongo fight.
That's the vibe I am.
True, that is back.
You know, turn yourself into an enchanter, something that everyone wants to be in this meta.
As Redbird takes a little bit of damage from Berserker and Co, they are going to be able to push him back for now.
out, St. Out towards that side lane, trying to catch the waves again, but
Envy is just unperturbed, he's just moving around the jungle, trying to put pressure
on. No one can really face check him, and Dota does have a second item, went for
the Riftmaker because Inspired had that Bloodletters curse, but it's gonna be quite
some time before he has the Zonias, which would help him, you know, to survive
these potential dives. St. He's gonna have no such luck, and he's building a
little bit of HP, you know, with the Black Cleaver coming out next, but I
I just don't know how they're going to be able to deal with this Akali Nocturne in this Highlands.
I don't know how they're going to be able to deal with the Ornn in the teamfight.
This is a point in time where you really wish they had an Earth Punch Ace.
You could just slam all those items.
I think though...
No one has ever said those words, by the way.
There is definitely some top laners who said that.
Disgusting.
Yeah.
I think right now, Lauda, just making the map feel so small.
Despite the fact that Gold's super even, playing into this Nocturne Akali just limits
how far you can approach, how far you can step up, particularly laying out the sidelines.
We do have dragons floating in 40 seconds, so expect both teams to be trying to set up
around there. I think it's important for Lions to get the aliens to start getting those saplings
set up, to start getting control around the area. If they don't, I imagine they might
just not contest it because if you don't have a cliff set up and you have a vision
of these threats, I wouldn't bother.
They haven't had the best sort of luck, I mean they obviously won last game with
the Ocean Soul. For this time I don't think the Ocean Soul is very helpful for them, but
it is very helpful for Loud with this Leona, with this Ornn who's already pretty much bulletproof.
It's hard to imagine him dying ever in a team fight at the Ocean Soul as well.
Also against the Jakes, right, the Pope, if you're playing someone like McCauley
and you get poked out, you can sustain back up with the Soul. Do you see Ryan trying
to get position, but it's difficult and Envy is looking to loop around here. It's
Knocked back there from Inspire, and Leona ult is kind of wasted.
So a couple resources thrown down,
and now Lyon feel that they can move in,
take a little bit of space.
Bull is playing on the side.
Young J is just solving this down,
and Envy is on the flank.
He is in the back of the pit.
Hasn't been spotted just yet.
Lyon do look at nature's grass rip.
Inspired trying to get there,
but it's just gonna be CC'd up by the orn.
The Bull's on, comes down,
and Spire has to flash back.
There's the paranoia into the back line,
but Young J has to flash out.
He's gonna get twisted,
and it's on by Inspire,
but it's by it falls.
Isle's just low.
Redbird's going back in and Envy is looking for the 80 carry.
And absolutely, that makes him.
Barzokor is cutting out by Envy.
And the chances of lying slip away.
Envy in game four.
That's a secret straight to fire.
Envy was slow to get into that fight.
As soon as he arrived, he just cuts down on the enemy and he carried.
Brooklyn St. looking to push up mid.
I'm not even sure if they're going to get the tower here.
I don't know.
I mean, she know I think it's going to be able to
anything they can do to clear out the wave.
Oakland's trying to make something happen,
but this game, looking damn near impossible for them.
At this point, they just can't find value from their carries.
This is a colleague. Just as one-shotting everyone
has the upgraded Shadow Flame.
Let's see how this happens one more time.
So, MVN is actually getting rooted here at the start,
so it's a little slow to get the fight.
It's only two to swell up the route,
but it just ends up moving in from the other side
and it's not hard to track, but they don't have vision.
waits for the setback presence, flashes in and Berserker gone immediately and the
rest of the team was still doing that much more than a lot of value off the
bullet time in the mix in that fight and it just felt like you know as soon as
Envy arrived the fight was over. Laod get exactly all of the Berserker in
trouble he does have the flash we'll have to use it that mobility with the
proto belt with the shuriken flip with the perfect execution of Collie is
He's flying from one side of the map to the other, and Loud are feeling very close to sending us to a Game 5 here.
Bull having a lot of value in that last teamfight. This time, C did get a ton of damage output.
It's mostly on Oran, it's on Leona, it's just not on targets where you're really changing the game.
Bull is completely unpressured, and Envy can one-chopper Zercher at a moment's notice.
Yeah, the damage is just insane at this point.
And the fact is he could just buy a mech dice with the 10 stacks already and just capitalize on that spike
If you wanted to just such a strong core of pen items available in the inventory just to get decimate anyone without magic
It's not this point. No one really has much because it's to the enemy team
Equizer comes through
Equizer here comes the nature of drafts. They're gonna go for the young Jay has the paranoia
The curtains are called the quality of God is gonna be thrown down as a response
Knoss up, throw glove on the side, they get a kill on the safe, Akali not turned.
The combo that just keeps on destroying line.
Time and time again.
They had to make a play, they had to go for it, because they knew, I can see it was longed for this world in the mid lane.
They don't find anything though, and now they're pushing in, taping, and hit the tower top, and hit the tower mid.
At this point, looking like they're going to be taking this game.
Why have to fight to fight here? Are they going to reset and spend all their gold?
They just don't have those X-Factor champs that make you believe in a comeback, though.
There's not really that ability to find a quick pick.
We'll see if Lyon can make something happen, but without Saints, there's not really a chance of a team fight,
and they don't have any snapping gauge. It's just really the twisted advance.
It's the nature's grasp from Inspire. It's a flashstone of Wall from Isles.
These are not tools that are very scary.
I mean, you look at the Red Bull Bayern Powerplay. 4,000 gold.
They were already in a good position. 7,000 gold up now.
I'm concerned about the spends I'm going to come through.
Oh, the battle pipes! He's there for the good vibes!
We've got the battle pipes, and all five ornaments have been upgraded.
So, the Gold League's even kind of lying to you, because it's really more than that.
At this point, we're adding all the additional stats to the ornaments, and...
What's happening here?
Yeah, that's about what I expected.
Not much you can do.
And the thing is, now that so far ahead, we're starting to see luxury vies come out, right?
GA comes out from Young Jay, Seeker's Armguard comes out from Envy.
We even got the red pod picked up by Bull.
So these are the things you buy where it gives you insurance.
If you do overstep, you have the safety net.
And also, when you're buying a red pod,
this is very much a signal.
Next fight is the last one.
It is.
It is absolutely that signal.
And we'll see if Lyon can do anything to stop that.
You've got two supers stacked up on the top wave.
You've got a super coming in through mid.
They're going to have to deal with that.
They don't have the great wave clear.
Last game, we doubted the garen.
We were wrong.
This team, we doubted the Jace, and I think we might have been right.
St. definitely struggling, even with a great laning phase, even with the two early kills,
just hasn't really been able to have an effect.
This Akali, whether the storm in the early game, and him and Young Jay have just been on a tear
through the last 20 minutes.
Yeah, I mean, we've seen a lot of, oh, engage from Zinten.
They're going into bullet time to Paranoia.
Everything getting spanned, inspired, trying to survive.
Nature's grasp comes out, but it's nothing doing for Lyin.
It equalizes O across multiple members.
There's Andy coming to the back line.
So Berserker just has to exit.
The team has no damage because Berserker can't even get close.
It's three kills on Ancestor for Lyon.
It's Lyon destroying this game.
And she now keeping it in the base.
And it's Lyon with their eyes on the nexus,
their eyes on the prize.
They won game five.
And they are damn well gonna get it.
Bull pushing forward, taking a little bit of damage.
It's up to Berserker.
It's up to Lyon.
But they give you nothing, Young Jay flashes in, has the GA.
They're looking for another kill, just the badness that's that much more.
Derzurka can't even get one on the steps of the fountain.
We're going to game five.
And the crowd are absolutely loving it.
The whole time on Heroes taking it to game five against Lyon.
LCSB is troubling this year against T.B. Law,
and that's not stopping here.
Nope, they have been looking good.
It's gonna be a long proving time and time again.
My play of the game has gotta be Envy.
Lounger you got.
No arguments here.
It's Envy that Akali dominated.
Oh man, oh man.
Five games.
Five games.
We made a deal, we made a deal.
Five games.
Yeah, we did make a deal.
We made a deal.
We made a deal, we made a deal.
Five games.
I don't, I feel kind of bad about the deal now.
Now, now, now.
That was really, that was really nervous.
Yeah, that game, that game, from the very beginning, we had some bad vibes here, off of the draft.
How are you feeling?
No, I can't believe fans, and we all agreed, five games, like 20 minutes into the game.
We're like, this is not feeling good.
And I think part of it started at this dragon fight where Loud was starting to claw back in.
Like if Lyon isn't far ahead in this comp and able to control Drake's, it's going to be a difficult game.
So this was one where Inspire managed to steal it.
to steal it but even the way these fights happened Akali got a lot of gold here which was kind of
the beginning of the end Emile. Yeah whenever you have a comp like this you really want the jinn to
be firing across the Maokai ult right like across this rumble so that everything kind of connects
and this was absolutely massive because until this point Saint had shoved in like they did
have mid Pryo for so long using the range advantage on the Jace but this got Akali
back in and then Envy just took over the game. I think the moggo leaving loud and walking out was
the best thing that happened to him. Envy and Young J, two games in a row, you don't have been
crushing it. Envy's rise game and Envy's the cally game, really big. Yeah and the fact that
just he could weather that early storm, right? Come back in the teamfights, sync up with Young
J to control sidelines. It was insane. I think it's crazy that inspired is also
sitting in like the center chair for the review for game five so he's trying to
pull this one back for for lying in game five.
Player of the game is Envy for this one. Envy runs player of the game for game four as we
head into to game five just an insane Akali performance getting the early
kills and then always teaming up with a knock turn every single time to
They make both the Jace and the Bumblepies unplayable picks.
So amazing job there by Envy.
81% kill participation.
He was everywhere.
And again, I think, loud, interestingly enough,
they've had good team fights.
But when they've looked at their best,
it's when they've actually been making picks on side lanes
with Young Jay and Envy syncing up on prior targets.
The crowd is really feeling it.
Yeah.
I feel a lot of competition.
High five after that last game.
This is the fan vote here, another hundred percent.
He crushed it.
He absolutely crushed it.
Two fan vote plogs for him in both of the games.
I mean, where do we go from here in game five?
Tons of champions removed.
Stress, I mean, I feel like there's much more stress on North America than there
is on Brazil right now. I mean you you already beat us in the America's Cup. Yeah,
this is Brazil. 100% there is. I think that lion needs to go back to constructing a better
five on five for their team fights here. Not a lot of people are a fan of having two of your
carries be Jason, Jen, you know, these two lethality carries and they weren't able to to
two constructs, you know, the, the type of fight that they want.
Obviously the Akali being fed and paired with the Nocturne made it really
difficult and they kept on getting picks, but they need to go back to what
really was working for them.
Yeah.
I find it interesting here, even in game four, how it looks like it could
have been a good game for line when you see all this damage from Jason
Rumble, but it was empty damage.
So much of this was in lane, not actually getting the kills.
And then when they did pick their team fights, they picked exactly the
right team fight.
Yeah, I wish we'd been able to swap to see how much damage was taken by the Ornn and Leona, because I guarantee you so much of that Jace damage coming out is just getting soaked into the two tanks, especially the Ornn.
Like, the Ornn just came to be unkillable.
And how much was healed up by the Protoplasm on Leona, but here we go.
watch actually. That was the biggest mistake for I was at the game is actually
eating the nocturne back in. That was a big shutdown actually for him which
helped after and then like if if lion doesn't win this fight game is over
when they're overextending all the way through inspired then reengages and then
they just get wiped by Envy just styling in the back of the fight. Yeah
and you see like how when this composition isn't able to kind of come
together from that fight how it just everything falls apart if it's not
not synchronized. And meanwhile, Envy just took over the game. This is the one that happened
to actually off screen while they're focused on loud taking down the top side as well. But
yeah, this knock turn, a colleague combo and just a fantastic game from Envy, honestly.
Yeah, I mean, Envy's been the standout of this series for me because if we think
about Lyon's path from regular season LCS into playoffs, St. was performing very poorly
and then had this massive glove where he was easily the best mid laner in playoffs.
So we're kind of hoping that he just maintains that level throughout, but Envy is going toe-to-toe
and besting him, especially in these teamfights.
So that makes me stressed because I don't feel like Inspired plays well when his lanes aren't
able to win, right?
They didn't win with the counter-pick in this game when they did win with the counter-pick
man in the early playoffs.
And now, with Envy popping off in this last game, it's more difficult than it was.
So I think it's interesting you say that because it felt like they still had mid-Pryo,
right?
They did with the mid-Pryo.
when I look at this composition I'm like okay do I necessarily like this for
lion maybe not if only because I think they have to get the mid game team
fights down instead of kind of hanging back and waiting for things to happen a
little bit more and their setups just weren't there in this game yeah and they
have to have to play these fights a little bit a little bit cleaner with
the setup here yeah they do okay game five soon we had negotiated for game
five listen oh this year it's seven wins for na 12 wins for cb law i'm okay if
you'll give us the eight right yeah so many wins are you still have 12 wins
you already have 12 wins colby what do you think happens in this game five i
mean i think we're gonna take it i gotta believe in north america i gotta
believe in lion
Ah, yeah, give me the balloons, baby!
I can't believe it!
Let's go, I can't!
What the hell?
I'm just gonna go.
Ah, I just wanna go.
Go, go, go, go, go, go.
We are heading to game 5 between Lyon and Loud who have battled back here in this series
took the last game.
What dominant in it?
You know, I have a little stuff here.
A hundred percent of the international bestifiers that passed have gone to game 5.
Oh, that's a good stat.
Yeah.
That's a crazy stat.
It's crazy, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We have that confirmed?
Do we need to double check?
It's been confirmed.
It's been confirmed.
Wow.
Just put Oxen in for a guaranteed banger.
That's what we're learning here.
And we'll see if a lion can turn it around after the last game.
And definitely, we had questions about the Jason
and how that would play out in that game
when we were looking at the draft.
The questions kind of became answered
in a very bad way for Lyon as we watched that game.
Both Jin and Jace really struggled to play against the Akali Nocturne even early,
and way more so once Envy was done.
And I think honestly, Envy and Jung Jace, when they get that game plan going,
have just been having such an impact in that game too,
when they have the Atrox and the Ryze,
and in this most recent game as well, they know what they have to do.
They start running the game plan, they get it going,
and it just felt like they were the driving force for the game.
Look at this, Lyon have now changed. They're going to go first pick.
I do think first pick becomes more valuable in game 5 because so many of the powerful champs are gone from the pool.
So sometimes people will kind of revert to the other side, try to mix things up.
And we'll see if that's going to help Lyon out here in the draft.
It's interesting because we get the opposite in the LCK where they always go first pick and then late in the series they switch to second pick.
That's kind of the beautiful thing about League, right? People have such varying opinions.
I always tell this story, but I always find it hilarious when I would do kind of
side-stage interviews with coaches after a draft, right? And so I'll be waiting back
and one coach will walk by me and I'm like, have the draft go. Absolutely slandered them.
Those idiots didn't know what they were doing at all. They got, they're coolest.
Do you believe they gave that to us? It's every win. Next coach comes up. So have the draft go.
Absolutely. Just own them. These guys are coolest. Can you believe they gave us this?
It's just so funny. Do you know which coach is correct? The coach with the better team.
The one who wins the game because whoever wins have the better draft, you know
I hope Gen.G is really good at drafting. True. I call this outcome focused assessments, right?
You know you look at the outcome of the game and you make all your assessments based on that. Exactly.
So based on that lion draft all we had to do to make it a good draft was subbing Gen.G.
And that would have been a very good draft. You still don't understand that.
Because I think that Gen.G might have been the one that won that last game.
You know, potentially. They can know a lot of winning games.
They do like to get learned.
Just be Gen G. Is that the timeline?
That is. I mean, League of Legends is pretty easy when you think about it. Just be Gen G.
I don't know why more people haven't figured that out.
We need to spread the good word.
Alright, Bear is going to maintain all of that ban list.
Vi is going to chain band out as well.
So he's going to be Vi, the Nautilus getting banned.
Quite a few all-themed gauge champs have been taken away, but I mean, McCona is available,
Rella is available.
Support, you can't really ever get all the engage champs out, and Carmen's been pretty
high par.
I'm getting banned quite a bit, so I'm interested to see if that does reach the ban table,
and it does.
So the note is that Lion have had the same bans for the last three games, which has
been Orianna by Ambesa.
Loud has picked up the Orianna ban, but the Ambesa is still open and available.
They got us open here. We did see a lot
Finding away, you know, Nami finding away asia
Will they get a look in here?
Yeah, I mean a zero definitely does rising priority the further you get into the series, right?
And there is the azerian ory not gonna be played this whole series is you're not gonna play this full series
So the question is what can lion get value with as far as the first pick goes
Some of the junglers that I do think kind of get high priority sometimes, especially when you are getting less and less mobile, less and less safe jams, and things like the Malfight that we saw banned out earlier in the series.
But I definitely don't think that's the first pick worthy. Trundle is still up and available. There's lots of answers in the jungle, so I'm kind of less concerned about that and more interested in where they're going to go for the soul lanes, because I feel like most bot lanes are pretty potent play.
Yeah. I think Korky with the Nami now being open. Korky Nami, really strong combo. It used to be the Lucian Nami now. It's kind of like the Korky Nami, the fact that the Gatling gun proxed super fast and all.
procs super fast and also you can proc it on your ult as well.
What's your take on if you allowed to deny the Nami up at all?
I think it depends what you're going to pair with because Lucian has already been taken away.
What other AD carries would you look to pair the Nami with now?
Because I think it's less of a different chance.
I feel like she's more dependent on having a good pairing.
Although I mean I guess we'll have to see what's going to come out of this game.
No, I tend to agree. I mean, I can think it's a pretty good play.
I mean, I think Nami can plug and play with anything.
Like, you can play Nami with like a Jinx Sword, a Felios, or whatever,
and she plays Scaling, and it's like, I'm just your plug-and-play enchanter.
Is it as strong as Lulu as a pairing? No, definitely not.
But the question is, how much power are you taking away from your opponents by denying?
And that's the kind of the trade-off is it's like, yeah,
I might get a little bit of a weaker pairing,
but you're going to get a way weaker pairing if you believe that.
Yeah, and we also quite de-confess, so like a Lulu option isn't there,
the Seraphine option isn't there.
We do see the Xin Zhao coming through, which is honestly pretty late for Xin Zhao in a series.
The best is on the other side, which is a flex as an option, but can be played there in the jungle.
I give Xin Zhao quite strong when paired with Enchanters typically,
but it looks like they're leading towards the Rakan, wants some solid engage available for them.
Yeah, and this can be one of the problems sometimes later in a series too,
is if you go for an Enchanter, you know where you're drafting your engage.
Ornn is gone, Sion is gone, a lot of the best engaged junglers are also gone, right?
So I do think sometimes that could be at more of a premium Caitlin Nami actually really like this as it as a choice
Yeah, that is gonna be so hard for Rakan and if you are quick when we're con W's forward
You drop a trap you drop a bubble you can CC this guy hundred a year becomes very difficult for him to play aggressive
And if you don't play aggressive, you're just giving out range
This stuff I can have a lot of pressure out in the late on the mid game or just stuff that can really
have long-range beers to proc those
Tyco's busting into the heat and I think Caitlyn just fix the bill exactly and with the Rakan already being shown
It's gonna be a really hard lane to deal with
Any band comes through I mean I think as well if you're playing this Caitlyn you would have play at max range
Set up the traps having the Annie Rakan as a threat would be a big problem
I mean Nami is good for any burst champ, right? You know, it was one of the squishiest slowest champs in the game
So always have to be very careful about that
But I do think you know compositionally the lion first three very strong the lane though is a real concern
We saw you know with them on the high team lane the last game could be difficult
Trindle common Dan we go to goes in very very difficult after four things out
I'm trying to just lose out in all of the London ones in this person
As a result, we'll be taking that away and continuing to deny the potential
Options I think that's kind of the beauty of having some best in pocket though
If the jungle pool gets thinned too much, you can't kind of just pop that in the jungle and flex that there.
So they have options in that regard. It makes these bans a little bit more uncomfortable.
You could throw bans towards the mid lane instead, but you would just end up thinning the pool for yourself
potentially, since it's loud when first pick comes out of this lane. Of course the Malphite barn as well here.
I guess the fact that it is this nanny support knowing that loud dude need engagement somewhere,
they go for this ahead and this doesn't really answer questions with the flex on the ambassador.
They can't both be flexed jungle and top they definitely can she knows only one of their team was played the ambassador thus far
So, you know, maybe you know, if you're kind of relying on historical stuff
He would be the one to play it and Jack's gonna be the answer very likely here for doklah and I do think
It's going to be a bit tough here for loud if they're if they're not creating advantages and in the spotlight
Again, they are kind of playing a similar style to what we saw in that and that rise game
where so far they have no real go buttons at all, right?
And if you are playing from behind without go buttons,
it is very difficult.
You know, you try to choke to a dragon late
and you get engaged on by a recon flashing out of a brush.
You get engaged on by, you know,
the zing is jumping in on you and starting out the fight.
That can be really, really tough.
But if this kind of a team gets ahead,
it's also equally tough on the other side.
This would be, say, blinding the Zoe.
But there's a lot of squishy champs on the other team.
So Zoe could have value.
Victor, much more kind of standard stable,
and I feel like it's what they're drafting because this is basically just like 5v5 you have engage you have side lane
It feels about a standard a standard can get yeah
This feels like you take a lot of the typical boxes for what a composition wants
I think lion defaulting back to a lot of areas not specific comfort for the players
We're just a composition that feels comfortable to play and not loud
What are they gonna go for for this mid lane pick for envy?
Are you just gonna try and pick up a control mage to match in the mid lane way or something there?
something like Syndra did get nerf is available instead going for the Vex so
a bit more aggressive yeah and you can set up well for the public execution
because you alter the backline and win the fear and off the fear you can shame out with the public execution
the non me way comes in all those talks like kind of understand the
process with that this is I think a very snowbally comp one way or the other
for a loud line after having a cough I just could not see you fight at all last game
I feel like they say you know what? We're gonna go for 5v5. We're just gonna try to survive the lane's play for that
The series has been slow so I can see the merit in that. Yeah, the question is can you keep stability in a very uneven 2v2 and bot lane?
This is a big test of line's theory that you can just play bot lane safe
You don't need to put attention to it. Advantage in bot lane are hard to build because you have the home guard
Because you're now playing to keep Nami, which is a lane who have said we're testing that theory
We wanted to question you if you don't survive against this you're gonna have a problem
So see how that pans out also from the Vex interesting because a lot of dash face champions
We're looking to close the distance from Khan into Vex. He dashed forward to get feed and make that make sure he's gonna have a really bad time.
You absolutely are. I mean anything in the land on our economy is going to probably just get into a leader at the same time for the Vex, you know.
You end up being engaged on yourself and if you don't have that your prepped in writing and you get flashed on with the quickness with the grand entrance.
Anyone on Loud's team is pretty capable with a good engage coming through from Lyon, so they have to be a bit worried about that.
Zahen can be tanky, but only when you are having a good game.
Since now obviously you have the pressing guard, you can create a lot of space.
They can control a lot of the area here with some of their picks.
They have the gravity field, they have the open storm.
So it's going to be an interesting one. All comes down to this.
So much pressure, I think, on both of these teams, the weight of expectation of your regions.
you're not eliminated but you are not some lower bracket and you're not some lower bracket
into JDG who is hungry for redemption. This is realistically the best chance at a series
win for both of these teams that other two opponents are expected to be hard.
Yeah, and if you end up losing a series and then you go up against JDG, after a rough
defeat against NG you're hunting for a win, the worst feeling is getting two out of
face down and leaving without a series win and that is ultimately going to happen
Welcome to two teams at this tournament.
You do not want to be one of those teams.
I absolutely do not.
We've got an early pause here.
I'll update you as soon as I find out any information about it.
But as we look across at the runes,
nothing is really standing out as very different across the board.
I think for me, this game,
I think staying on the victor, quite a stable champ generally.
And there's not as many threats as maybe like, you know,
at a calling and knocked in that we saw last game.
I think last game was really hard from the play. I think it's difficult to give him all the fault
Considering the position he was put in last game, but I do think he's had a rough series so far
There's been mistakes have been solo kills when it they shouldn't necessarily have happened
You know the little blonde game he got solo killed by both the enemy mid and top
There was the Ari game where he charmed himself
unfortunate situation so
Yeah, I think ultimately this is a chance for redemption for Saint, and I hope he has a better game here because the victor can have a lot of power here, a lot of melees on the enemy team, where if you get a good gravity storm, good value, you get a ton of damage.
I completely agree. So the update is we are back in the game. There was some minor audio issues that the players were experiencing, so they paused, they sorted out, we're back in and good to go.
I completely agree. You know one of my concerns so for Saint is that he has two games of Victor all-time in his career and
You know you assume that you're playing in solo queue you're assuming you're getting practice elsewhere plus still
Let's be honest. It's not going to be a comfortable position when you haven't played it at all this year
And you've played it twice in your entire pro career
There's a difference between solo key games and stage games and then this is international stage game five game five as well
Yeah, a lot of pressure. There's there's some picks that you are
Are forced to bring out in a situation like this because it's fearless and you you hope you can play to the level you wanted to
And I hope he does but we'll have to see how it plays out. Yeah
I mean a lot of people are thinking about lioness. Oh, it's an inspired team, right?
And one of the things that was kind of an Achilles heel for Black West, you know with with inspired
Back when they were kind of that this expected team deal challenge the LCK the LPL was often game five mid lane picks
So his quad was kind of getting destroyed, you know famously the zillion pick getting solo killed really early on
you know going in for the line Yone into Chovy Smulder you know a lot of these
times where they did get to a game five and you think maybe this is the time we
finally do it and that was kind of a stumbling point for Quad. We'll see if
Saint can kind of overcome that. He has a very standard pick here but not a
lot of experience playing in pro and he needs to step up for sure. So far
seeing the expected outcome in the bot lane with just his heavy harass. I
I feel like Rakan, in terms of engaged supports, you don't have as much engaged threat as like a Nautilus,
but you have that sustain if you hit the Gleam and go...
Oh, Dokla?
Dokla gonna have to flash, but...
Okay, I'm surprised he didn't keep getting chasen.
But I guess they don't know where Zin is, and because Hen is on the bottom scuttle, they're assuming that Inspire is on the top scuttle.
But Inspire actually took a quick base, so he did six scamps base, and now he's going towards that top scuttle.
Youngjae gonna get some early vision here over by the enemy rafters,
And thankfully for Dokla, his jungler was assumed to be on the top side, which meant he got the hold on to the flash.
Yeah, they able to... Oh, and Spidey might have an angle here.
He's coming in here behind Envy. Envy playing towards that bottom side, but not far enough over there, flashes, fears.
In comes the audacious charge to knock up the gravity field that's gonna stun him, and it's first blood in for Sankt.
Envy could have just ran down. I feel like he could have just ran down.
Yeah, I think so. I think he tried to run towards the tower.
I think he thought if he did the flash fear, that would be enough in this situation.
But just chased down under tower and inspired flashing out again,
just in times he doesn't take that extra tower hit with the ramping damage.
I'm not even sure if it would have killed him, but it would have been close.
Yeah, I feel like he just allowed Inspire to close the gap without having to flash
because he ran back towards him instead of just walking down into the bottom side river.
But Lane has so much prior. His back lane would be able to move off and assist and extended chase there would be risky for Lyon so
Well, big advantage here for st. Nice pathing from inspired
He took the early base got the shuttle and ganked on a timing that he wasn't really expecting because often
Jungles will do the six camps do the scuttle then base then get out on the map
So I think envy was taken aback a little bit by that timing not expecting him to be there on the top side
She know and docle going pretty much even and things looking good overall for Lyon
and thanks to that early kill but of course the bot lane is going to be a
continuous issue here for berserker it's not necessarily going to get better
yeah also if you look at the zerk as I am here's tear ruby crystal and the glowing
most powerful item in league of legends history my ad carry comes back to
lane with that and the enemy ad carry has bf sword that's a little bit of a
you know you're feeling you're feeling I'm not gonna go out of mana yeah all
true and I'm gonna have spells up very frequently thanks to the glowing mode
feel a little bit healthier right you know I'm thinking you took a little stone
and it just gave you some extra vitality that thing is glowing and that's pretty
cool yeah that's me think about it people pay extra for a really shiny
diamonds why wouldn't you pay a lot for a glowing mode yeah sure yeah if you
sold me exactly I mean berserker was sold why wouldn't you be sold you
know you know a powerful buy there with the ruby crystal mode here it's also
3 items to 1.
Oh no.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
And that is, we didn't see how that started up, but this is what I was talking about when
you're playing into this kind of matchup.
You can't really ever W forward.
It's kind of the same thing when you used to play against Kate Root and Hulkan as
Hulkan.
You go forward and when you're dubbing forward, it's so easy to just place the
trap, place that bubble, and be able to get it.
And Firecannon with that run-through mid, use that prior.
They want to stop YoungJ here.
They know he's over there.
They're going to TP in with Isles.
Dragon getting pretty low smite is up and available. I think this is gonna be killed before he gets there. They back off
They secure the dragon
Well played
Yeah, it feels so good
You can get that in this situation
Like rushing rushing over to prevent that I think part of it is especially when you have so little control of a bot lane
And you have scaling elements of your composition like the victor, right?
You really would love to get that early dragon or at least slow it down
Even if they didn't get that first dragon slowing loud down slow in the pace of the game could have gone a long way
It's camtech dragon second as well
And I feel like you're feeling pretty good that could be a really high value soul
You know Hextech still on the cards and Fertile store on the cards. Yep
St. Just trying to pull the wave here. See if you can actually deny that cannon of course will not be able to
They do have to be a bit careful as Isles goes forward
So continue the batting of that trade is I mean Isles was moving in on Redbird
But Bull is just shooting your AD carry the whole time and now he steps in on the trap
built over a peacemaker just barely missed. I can sense the frustrations and
the want to go in, but it's just not helping you in this lane. Bull even popped
yet the triple tonic adaptive potion. He's just got 147 AD with that so
he's doing so much damage. Yeah it is gonna be very tough to deal with him. You
can see at the lethal tempo even stacks though. He is looking powerful down in
that bot lane 2v2. I also have been pretty good with the gleaming quills though.
every time you hit one of those it is you know a little bit of a relief. Yeah healing up and that
is very important in difficult recall matchups because if you can't engage all you have is your
Q and you need to be hitting those leaning quills to just try to keep the health high.
Doklaa gonna jump in and does pop the grandmaster's might there, expends the ulti,
but Shino has his ultimate up and available. So Doklaa does have to be careful here.
Little trade comes out between supports. See Isles the auto Q auto gets all three
3 procs of his supply on the back of that.
That's money.
That support mechanics right there, that's as intense as it gets.
You see that spell weaving?
People talk about how difficult it is for Riven.
What about for Rakan?
True.
Oh, Doko is going to be going forward.
Nice sidestep there on the public execution.
That is a trade of flashes.
The ulti was already down for Doko.
Doko almost gets Shino with the solo volo.
Will send it back to base.
He has no TP and Doko has TP advantage plus lane trial.
So he's going to get a play here.
They have to think and hold that teleporter vintage and be though on the road.
They're looking to set up a dive down on the bot side here potentially.
Yeah.
I mean, as much as things aren't going great for the bot lane, uh, offline,
the goal lead isn't crazy and it's been matched by Dokla in the top side with that kill mid as well.
Sait has an even bigger goal lead. The solo lanes are doing well.
And I mean, we said like it would be the proving the point of inspired either can the bot lane hold on is
Caitlyn and Lamy get a crush you in lane. Does it actually matter? And right now it appears to hold it on.
They are holding east and Youngjae are gonna be spotted out by this ward which is pretty high value there as Saint could have been exposed to a potential gank.
But as this vision gets cleared out it gets a lot scarier for that bot lane 2v2 because while they have held on thus far,
if you get dove one time and you lose your full tower, that gets really problematic.
But he's not gold-less so much.
It's a bad thing.
Um, not great.
Do you see Doko trying to get a reset off the...
Oh, I've seen this angle before.
I have too.
Mb is gonna be forced to flash out.
The arcane storm comes down.
He walked down into the river, though, this time.
Devolving.
Traps gonna be set on both sides.
It's a little bit awkward here for Lion as they want to retreat back,
try to dodge the naceo shots as he can.
They always have to be aware of where those traps are sitting.
It does feel like they're stabilizing a bit, though, in the bot lane 2v2.
Their wave clear is getting better.
Yeah, you see at this point with some points in the
uh, Fossilist bomb and also having the ulti build with Korky, not easy to clear the wave.
I know we joked about the tier and the items he had, but the extra mana pool actually really does help.
Yeah. When you're on the back foot, you kinda sometimes can only farm with spells, right?
And so it is actually very important. And of course, I mean, Korky just needs it in general.
Yeah, I mean, he's gonna build it anyway, but in this situation it is, uh, pretty good value.
And I feel like, loud, young guy's just constantly being coming, but oh...
Well that is risky as Lion, Miles on the back foot here.
Lion probably ain't getting pushed back now as Redberg was going forward there.
Dokla in 1v2 and a lot of trouble, has no flash.
Public execution, the green deliverance gets reached, struck away from Dokla.
Absorbs the double waltz and the gank and gets out to tell the tale.
He's fired here to cover so Dokla should be able to pick up the wave.
Yeah, good moves up from Dokla to dodge away.
away. I feel like Young G spent so much time bot trying to find this dive that never really
happened. Goes up to the top side, Dokla dips away from it. And it's lying with the gold
leader overall right now. I think it's just not going quite the way Laud had hoped. And
there's still very much a playable game, but you know, you really wanted to get a
big lead with this Kailanami. They do get the, the frontline quest, which does massively
inflate the gold leader they have. But once Berserkers comes through, it's going
mitigate a lot of that and the thing is with the gold quest as long as you're going to lane
you get so much of the progress towards it it's really hard to massively have an advantage over
your opponent unless you force them out of lane and they go swap top lane or something.
They're going to be on the dragon here so i'm looking to grab this contact drake and we'll find
out what soul is going to be on the table now. How many oceans are we getting? That's three in a row.
We had to expect the one thing.
I can't remember what the fifth game was.
We're getting feeling here.
Yep.
Well, it's going to be, I don't know, I mean, I would say it's not great for either side.
Maybe, you know, honestly, it feels very even.
It's like maybe Jack said a little bit more than a best informant, it's a head and a
zener, similar.
I think the top jungle, like, pretty similar.
Yeah, but it's not crazy.
No, no, it doesn't feel great, but it is going to be only one dragon piece
for both teams so it's not as though one team had a big stacking advantage and
it's going to be devastated by that. Soil is a long ways off this game. Young
J going to be moving in, goes in with the Grim deliverance immediately, can he get
the dreaded return? He can, but there is really no follow-up.
Envy hips the ulti, but Sane is pushing him back. Sane needs to be careful to not
go too far. Young J low inspired in the area. Trade of ultimates, one for two,
so Sane's going to be pretty happy again to be absorbing this pressure.
I don't think Envy was ever going to go into the ult, but Sane got his quest level up
as that play was happening and got the upgraded mage tries just to even further
dissuade any potential for that play to follow through so staying able to survive
from that one to slow damage back in return things have been pretty stable so far.
Yeah, Dokla, out of a bit of a weak spot right now before you complete that
triforce, when Investor has Eclipse you really do not want to fight, you have
to be very careful about traits like that as you are going to take a lot of
punishment. Dokla wants to get that triforce involved before you look for
anything more.
Envy on an invade here though, Envy is going to be behind him, has no ult because he's
spent it, but they are looking to try to set up the potential dive.
Young Jake coming over here, the public execution is up and available, and now the counter strike
is gone and I think that is going to be Curtains for Dobley, he's going to try to run
for it.
We'll see if he can actually outplay this.
Leave strike back, pop to Grandmaster's mic, but he's going to be pulled in by
the dreaded return and knocked down.
No shot with no counter strike, loud.
Try and try again, they love these repeat angles, they love these repeat angles
and they have paid off.
Yeah, just great setup from Shino there to get the counter strike and make their dive so easy for the rest of the team.
That's why he's looking here.
Yeah, he has no flash, but good sidestep. They're on the wing, becomes lightning. Envy stays safe.
And Sait gonna be the one dealing with Bull and Redbird, but they can 1v2 and like in what that trade did for him.
I think it's some head down here onto the Caitlyn.
Some decent poke there, but now we will heal back up.
But now Berserker has gone up to the top lane and that's stacked up crystalline overgrowth
so we can be able to get some gold there and we look at the bot lane matchup, 200 gold advantage
for Bull.
That quest has come in for Berserker so it hasn't really amounted much to that bot
lane advantage that we saw them trying to build up.
Not at all and MV was just getting zoned off the tower so now their lane assignments
are all kind of messed up because MV was getting zoned off so Bull and RedBurt
ran all the way up towards top to try to help them.
Then, MD got into the tower.
So now they're like, oh, wait, now we
got to go back towards mid.
So does kill your tempo a little bit there.
As St. Trigging back and forth here with Bull, Redbird
caught out in the middle of the map here.
Going to be popping the ulti flashing away.
But why even spend it?
Inspired flashed over that bubble.
And from there, it felt like a sure thing.
Yeah, committing the flash early just to guarantee
the kill is going to happen.
St. moving in as well to make sure the back of staff.
Nami just such a vulnerable support.
So easy to pick off and find in these situations.
I'm just really cutting down the control
that loud house over the game.
It is, and that's both the summoner's offense.
Pretty valuable to get the flash from Inspired,
but it feels like once he flashed,
you should have just held your flash and taken the death,
because it is always scary now.
If you want to try to contest with the next dragon,
where Khan has flash, you know, Redbird,
obviously he's not the prime target,
but you'll take him if he's free.
I think just a freebie kill and support feels so good.
It's like the garrigan we had
when the Alistair, he just ulted them.
Oh!
Oh, is Ishinno gonna be able to get
And a solo on a doble, we didn't see how that was happening at all.
Shino's still like full health, so something went very wrong there for Doble on the bot side
as Shino coming to life in this series.
Yeah, no old use either.
So Shino just finding an angle and putting Doble into the pit, and Doble's had kind
of picking so many of these games into Shino.
Shino who's been so heavily praised.
And Shino who's been so heavily praised domestically, the 80 carries switched to top lane
to be on top of the region and putting down the head on a Doku.
And there is the Coinbase Goldgrind, 1200 lead there for Sheena.
So Doku had just been getting poked down, got very low, and I mean, Sheena just goes forward,
he has no counter strike, and it's a bit of an easy kill.
That was relatively simple.
Doku on her is being the damage.
Yeah.
They could spike his face, that's tough.
Feels bad in this game, five as well.
Especially when I feel like the rest of the map is doing pretty good.
You didn't see Berserker with a gold lead now,
without that matchup was going the only matchup that's really going rough is that top lane matchup
thousand three hundred down i mean i guess right but it has a 45 goldy but you know who's kind of
yeah and doklah had been doing really well you know in the 1v1 he was up early you know had that
couple hundred gold advantage after he took a plate um but got ganked a couple times he ended
up dying into one of those ganks and then now getting solo kill really does put him in a tough
spot he is not going to be able to interact with sheenow at all but sheenow is running down
for this dragon. Dokla does have TP. They clearly want to fight it. Envy is coming from below so they're
going to look for a different angle. Coaches coming through. Yep, Bolt trying to get past that gravity
field. Taking some damage from St. The dragon is already gone. Dokla has arrived. Envy's still in
behind them. Dokla looking with the counter strike. Nice buffer though from Sheenow but it's going
to get charmed. Flash across multiple members. Rezurka pushing forward. It's Isle's in front
of the low. There's another stun to be landing on Sheenow. He is low. He is down. Rezurka
going in for a ball, hits them with the Fossbond, has it lowered to flash forward from safe to
seal the deal with the laser to the face. Income's inspired, they get the crash, they get the dragon,
they get the team fight and they're damn well sure gonna get the tower as well. Huge team fight
there from Lion's so controlled and she know the most fed member of Loud not able to find
a lucky and shut down and the controller was massive and now a 2,000 goalie they also
Young Jay has to use the grim deliverance gets over the wall as inspired won't be able to find that one. But that is just even more the icing on the cake as she know a little bit too confident.
Yeah, and Iles gets so much value here and it's just crazy he survived. So, you know, ends up holding in here to try and buffer, gets charmed here, connects on a three. And even with this gun, Iles gets out so low at HP.
HP, Gino gets focused down and then it looks like maybe loud can lift her
balloons and get away.
Saint says no, we're getting more.
Inspired says we want the tower too and it turns into just such a huge
value play for Lyon there.
And look at Saint now, picks up a Seekers you know knowing there is a lot of
dive and he spent his flash so he knows he could be vulnerable and it's
going to pick up the Seekers as the response here.
Gino's gold lead gets cut down quite a bit and the mid jungle has been
just massive.
Zurker now, almost a thousand gold ahead of both. So, you know, the experiment here of this Caitlyn Nami, taking away the Nami, trying to pick up for the priority,
got them a little bit of an edge in the early game, but not paying off now.
Not enough. And I think in a scenario where it's a high-eval, you soul, and you've got those two first dragons,
baby does a better argument for it, but the fact it's an ocean soul, you traded dragons, doesn't feel as good.
And on top of that, just a setup.
I feel like if you're playing Caitlyn,
Nami, you want setup on the objective,
you want the trap flying down.
They were late for that dragon, and it really didn't favor them.
And it shows the power of snapping gauge, right?
That is something that you don't really have at all along loud.
And you have these powerful melee carries,
but a lot of their survivability is in their mobility,
is in their dash, the pressure that they're putting on.
So when Isles just pops a quickness
and CCs up three people, that means
St. and Berserker have no threat.
That means they are going crazy in that fight, and that is really, really tough.
Kaelin is one of these champs that, in talking to Pro80Carrie, sometimes you'll ask,
well, why isn't this in the meta when it's popular in solo queue?
They'll often tell me, Kaelin seems really strong until you make a single mistake,
and then it feels like the worst champion in the game.
Yeah, and especially looking at the item that we're coming to now,
Fuzurika has Triforce, about to have the Muramana police stack.
On the other side, Kaelin with the Stormraiser, and then the IE, not quite completed.
You're gonna feel so much weaker right now in comparison.
Dockla is going to spot someone down there, but they are behind him. He needs to play very very safe
Young Jay's in the area as well as envy miles was on a really long flanking angle
And they feel like she don't may have overstepped but has the ward and try brush class and start
Dockla now going to get the bad news is he face checked into and into young Jay and Envy's coming in with the
Alt that's going to be flashed away from and see it already used the ward hop
So docl on weak side spends the flash but stays alive and that's the important part
I think given how rough the situation was with the enemy jungler behind you, getting away just building a flash is pretty all right.
All things considered, it does mean you're going to be a bit vulnerable for the next 5 minutes, but you'll take it.
Do have strong coming up in a minute 20, so expect the team to start setting up for that soon.
We'll see who's going to be able to get first and move. It is Isle's face checking. The bubble will not land, so we can just use the grand exit to get away to safety.
the ghost as well from his spellbook. Still sitting on TP, so you would think you would
want to cycle through that before this dragon does spawn, and Rzurker now has that Muramana
fully charged up, so that is ready to go. St. Do you think he probably has his gold
for his Onius if he wants to upgrade it before this fight, and it is going to be
Envy finding Isles with a nice little chunk of damage. Now maybe the TP pays some dividends
if he needs to go back to base.
I think even if St. doesn't complete this Onius, you get so much value out of the Seekers.
I hope Bill has the infinity edge now because if he doesn't mean if you were really bad
Actually sells the darns blade to complete the ie there
So they are very set on on getting the power now for this team fight
Gonna be moving down. Would you have some iron completions across the board right?
She knows got his second young jays got his second
They really want to make this down to this dragon and ideally get the alien get the trap set up
We actually see both moving in bot lane and getting prior there
I think each of you need your paper and group with your team setting up the trucks because now line of pushing in there taking control
Yeah, I agree. I mean
Hold just kind of reading for the way that it's not like you're gonna base again before this fight
You already base you sold the new blood you got the infinity as strong as you're gonna get so now you got to play for the fight
She know it does have that item advantage over Doku
So don't go just has to play it very far back both top laners with their TP
But she know about to have his flash and does have a now he is keeping you know writing
and he's going to be coming in behind them.
Will be spotted on that ward though.
The trap line coming out.
Isle's trying to get around the side,
but he's spotted as well.
Racking getting incredibly low, but no way in for loud.
They don't have any engage, so can't find the angle.
Envy is behind them, but doesn't
want to go in on a solo mission.
Wood just get knocked down.
And now, Lyon can just back it up
unless they feel like they found a fight here.
Bull maybe going to face-check in on two.
Isle's and Isle's flashes in.
The charm is there.
Is the follow-up there as well.
Inspired goes forward, the Grim Deliverance comes through, the fear is going to land on Inspired.
Inspired flashes out, staying alive for now, the knockup on the Sheenow.
Sheenow can't finish the job, he's got to flash out, Envy is low and Sate is going crazy.
Sane and Berzerker are untouched, Red Burt will get away, but lie and take full control in game number five.
Red Burt in trouble here as well.
Red Burt, you can say that again, he's got nowhere to go.
Sate wraps around behind him, you said he needed to step up in this moment
I mean he is doing just that crushing blow for allowed and lying going to move
straight onto the bar and there's one time as a short I just don't think it's
enough to get back there in time.
I don't think so either.
This is not a Hextech Rift.
They can't get out there.
Isles is going to make sure no one is coming to contest this.
Young Jay has respawned now and they do have an idea that this is going to
be happening.
I think he's going to run straight over but it down to 5k.
He's so far away.
He's got no shot of getting there in time down to 2k.
going to be secured here.
Inspired does claim it.
They get the Baron.
They get out.
Objective Bounties of Spawn is a 7,000 gold lead
off the back of the sequence.
Iles finds this great fun kind of goal.
And I want to see see return focus goes on him,
but he just dips out again.
Inspired gets in with the old soak so much.
And now he's quickly realized it's
spent so many resources onto the front line.
You know, Berserker untouched, St.
Untouched.
They can just keep pushing forward
to the point that they're tower diving this Nami
in the situation, get him into
Charm.
Yep, gonna be able to grab an
easy kill on the Nami, and that
was honestly the gold difference
in action for Inspired.
He was barely surviving.
The difference between him and
Young Jay was that Young Jay's
on brown boots and he had
Tabby's plus two cloth armors
on top.
Yeah, that was the difference.
He is surviving because of that
extra armor and now he is going
to be close to the GA.
Now a full death gap for
sake.
He didn't even have to pop the
seekers.
So go straight in towards that
death gap.
Third item done for Berserker.
All of the luxury items coming through, Shino's lead now means essentially nothing.
I think, honestly, Lard nearly get the trap set up and they've struggled to do that.
Struggled to get in early and get the Caitlyn in an ideal position.
And now, 2,100 gold lead for Berserker over the Caitlyn.
I mean, mid jungle and AD carry all just massively ahead of their counterparts.
And Shino's lead just, not nearly as big as it was early in this game.
It's so tough because, you know, Bull obviously, you know, he is a target of I'll find that flank
But even if he doesn't at this point with the carry so strong
All I'lls has to do is press the quickness and CC the melee champs when they go in on your carries
Right as long as they're not sapped and getting one shot
Rezurker and Stank can cover for each other and trying to fight through a Zin Zow that is this strong is
Near impossible and they just don't have the players in the spots to actually answer so they're pushing through bot
But they give up the top tier to the mid tier to just to push in a wave on bot. Yeah
losing so much more gold at this point.
Oh, he's in the D.O.C.L.
He's in the D.O.C.L.
The fear comes out and he looks like he's going to be a bit of a freebie.
D.O.C.L. overstays as the rest of the team is resetting.
That is a pretty silly deck from him.
Yeah, not the first time this series, we saw even in that gnar game where he was doing
pretty great little overstays when the rest of the team resets.
Kind of does put an end on the bar and push from line here.
It's a minute 20 until that next dragon is Ocean Soul.
Again, not the most impactful, but I feel like when you're already behind and you're struggling to kill off their targets
Just that extra bit of health that comes in is going to be problematic for the side of loud
I need to see them try and find some good setup
But it's the problem is they were struggling to set up for the Caitlyn when they were more even in gold
They're behind now. How do you push in? How do you get control?
How do you contest this? Or maybe they just give it up and try and fight at different times six-take gold deficit
Yeah, it may just be the better play to just leave it for now
Yeah, I mean if you try to contest and you get ace the game's probably over if you give it
And then you're praying for an elder flip, right?
But is it gonna get easier to contest later?
I don't really think so and then you're trying to contest it into a soul and well
We've talked about this soul not being that powerful when inspired is this bed
I do think it's actually really valuable for the Xin Zhao you know pressing guard gets so much value in a fight like this
Bull can't really do anything about him
And if he can just battle against these melee champs in the front line and win those one-by-ones which he can
already let alone with soul I think it makes it really tough I think just
getting on to a key target if it's Saint if it's Berserker connecting that CC
it's gonna be key but you see line of kind of flanking around here yeah they
are four members strong. Dokla is behind loud they could look for bull here
bull walks up towards that topside he could get a rude surprise from Dokla
they have controlled that midway but the dragon is spawned she know looking
for a flank angle and now Dokla will reveal.
They're gonna try to push him in. In comes the big engage.
Grim deliverance is used to retrieve, but Bull is in so much trouble.
Pops the ghost, pops the flash.
Perseverter posh, Sportbid can't finish him, but it doesn't matter
because Loud, our crumbling, Lyon are crushing the fight here.
Once again, it's two members down.
It's Shino on the run and it is Sol on the table here
as Inspired has his eyes on the objective.
The solo laners are more than enough to knock down Shino.
The Brazilian Phenom will fall and lie and you have to feel like Maya just sealed the deal.
They pounce on their opponents, find great target selection and just cut them down so quickly.
Ocean Drake taken, it's the Mastercard priceless moment of the game with the souls secured.
And loud it feels like it's going from bad to worse.
It absolutely has.
St. has that full zone, his three items completed.
Berserker did spend the flash, that's maybe something working in your favor.
The GA was also popped there from Inspired.
Youngjae, he doesn't win this, you know, even if he face checks you at this point,
you just don't have the damage, and he's about to find that out.
As he is on the run, he's likely not going to chase too far,
but here's the fight one more time that may have just decided to game.
So, I'll just split onto Envy and Redbit here,
and then moves over Doko afterwards.
We see Berserker flashes in to try and take out Bould, doesn't cry, get the kill, Iles, a little bit too far, I love the energy, a little bit too much, but the rest of the team is there to clean up.
Might not have been the best play, but it was the confident one.
It was the confident one, the rest of the team got the dragon, they took out Shino, and now, unfortunately, for the CBL representatives, the game is in a rough spot.
and you can you can see it right you know that that is the nature of
competition for there to be a winner that does have to be a loser but never
nice to see the pain on the players faces like that it's young Jay gonna get
found out here he is gonna pop the grim deliverance in retreat we'll be able to
stay safe but loud has to know it it is a snowballs chance right now for them
to come back in this game your best shot really I think is just delaying
delaying hopefully you can live through the Baron and maybe find an
elder angle as the public execution won't find berserker who can valk out
I mean, I like the attempt right if that connects. Maybe you just getting over the Berserker
Yeah, I think you have to go for things like that that is your engage one of your best tools is the ambassador
Let's buy it start up the Baron
Looking to solo it is going to go aggressive on a berserker
But he's just feeling back up with that ocean soul
He had no flash that they might have been able to kill him
But now she knows incredibly low has no TP available. She has no ult or flash. It's so hard for him to approach
I think Barons is gone
Honestly, Lyon could stall this out and make it sink a little bit better with the elder.
I mean, it's a long way away from the elder, so maybe they can't stall out long enough.
Yeah, that's a good question, is can you survive until the elder?
I do agree that when you've already given soul, elder is your best chance at the game, right?
Elder is kind of that great equalizer where if you can steal it, if you can manage to make everything happen in your favor,
and not just die in the attempt at the steal, then hey, it kind of erases the gold, right?
because all of a sudden everyone has like 25% less HP because there's the burn plus the X key
but it's a lot of hits and they haven't been able to find really any fights.
Yeah, if Lion is playing this correctly, the elder never even gets below half HP.
On that slot they're like trapped in that base or something.
So they have the Baron out to question, they have control of the game, and Zeradeff so far this game.
So we said, I said I really wanted to see him step up.
to say it buddy. Yeah, and he's had a great game so far. He's been pretty flawless and
a big redemption considering some of the rougher games this series. It's been a struggle so far.
The LCS representative, but right now they are looking down a very good game state that
might just get them this series with. It's looking like you likely will all of loud down
here on that bottom side as a Saint and Berserker. They hurt at this point in
that rocket. I'm going to show them just how much damage you can do. You can
see that as soon as they saw all five from from loud down here and the trap line
you're like all right we need to play multiple wins right so they send saint up
towards top they send dope limit and they're gonna be looking to push in all
of these waves look at the damage difference between the mid laners in
this game. Envy has not really been able to find any purchase on the Vex at all
and it has been saint in control from pretty early on. Yeah he's just been
doing so much work and he's been playing pretty aggressively in some of
these fights flashing forward to secure kills but just still never really
being threatened up to this point in this game.
Yep, and now, as the other lanes are being responded to,
loud no, they cannot hold bot lane any longer.
They send two members mid to answer.
Doku, they have one top.
So it is a 2v3 down here for Redbird and Bull.
They're just trying to thin the wave as much
as they possibly can.
There's only one minute remaining
on this baron power play here.
But that is enough to potentially threaten
this bot side and Hib.
Youngjae has moved down there,
but I don't know that Shino can hold the wave
on the topside by himself.
He's going to try to do it.
He goes in with the arcane storm, will push him back, won't be able to kill him, but
he's gonna need, he has to retreat.
It does force the ult at least, but, you know, it's not that long of a cooldown, and you're gonna have to back off the heal.
The pressure is just mounting, turret going down, top, bossing soon to follow.
Snake, you're gonna be able to knock down that inhibitor, you have to think.
Sheenoo coming out with the home guard, so he will have to play a little respectful, and Dota has been chunked pretty low.
So we'll have the Zoni's completion on base as
Perzurker continues pushing in through bot, hit level 18 right now.
A three level advantage over bull and nearly 3,000 gold lead as well.
St goes back to base, WPBs come out with the Zoni's as well as the
completed void staff there for St.
Oh, Gage coming in.
Yeah, Envy, Envy, this could be it.
Envy gets burst down, they're going to try to send it on to Isles.
But Isles has the team behind him.
Sheenoo has come in on the teleport but he's chunked down already by St.
Berserker belts in, Doppler takes down Bull, the Grim Deliverance will get one back but
inspired to standing and fighting, say the Berserker are untouched, and you know what that means!
Loud can do nothing, the revive is there but Berserker will camp the corpse and wait for
another respawn here, gets a kill, Satan knocks him down to the topside, it is Red Burt
alone against four members of Lyon, Loud made him work for it, they push them to the
break, but Lyon did not break. They win their first series here at first stand and they will advance to the upper bracket.
Getting some revenge for the America's Cup. This time LCS comes out above the CBLOL. It was a close one. It was hard fought by both sides, but Lyon in the end come out ahead in this game five.
Nicely done there by Lyon. Really good series here from Maudizwell. Very competitive as you said. Very back and forth.
pretty impressive overall you have to say from from she know I think you see
why there's a lot of hype around him but I also felt like young Jay as well as
NB were playing great and Lyon just barely able to scrape by some really
solid performances I think from the bot lane kind of the unsung heroes of this
one people don't talk about Isles a lot they if they're gonna talk about the
bot lane they talk about berserker but I feel like Isles was so solid
throughout this series even when they're in bad matchups they're
surviving he's finding impact in the team fights and lion could be really happy that they were able to get through this one
Yeah, 100% we will be hearing from the Alice test now. So what do you guys think of that series? I?
Think that was one of the most stressful series
I watched oh great ending. Yeah, I think great ending to that series of the time the first and last page
Comforting, but the rest of the series. I mean I see we all put up like an insane fight the fans here have been awesome
They were gonna have don't laugh for the rise of post-committer view once he gets here
But we're gonna go over this last game a little bit while we wait for don't click to get mic'd up
I'm still recovering. I want to lie down. What what what they did so much better in this one
It was basically what we were asking for so much better for their dragon set up so much better for their actual dragon fights
They had the real carries Victor was gonna be way more carry potential than a vex in this game
They get there early they have control wards with control wards in both brushes
Iles is able to go start a lot of these out. Oh, this is actually a later fight
This is one of the later ones they have a local there as well
That's the one where Vex was very separated and so the Vex all kind of shorted and didn't quite get there
So they didn't have every member in position here for loud
Those are the benefits that you get when you start it really early on get into position really early and
The benefits were there and that fight was actually super important, right?
because then you get into Herald, you get down that tier one, you get even more mid-Pryo,
you're able to kind of spread and move your vision line up, which is what they did. But,
I mean, honestly, like all credit to Loud coming in here, I was thinking like, okay,
America's Cup, those were the, one of those teams was the team I actually expected to see
at first hand coming out of CBLL, right? Yeah. And so this is kind of shown us the strength
of, you know, top down not just one team, but all three, which is really impressive.
Yeah, turning into a bit of Game 5 heartbreak as well, if you count Fury at MSI, going to
five games time and time again, and then this going to five games as well, can't quite
get over the finish line.
Player of the game, we're going to award Player of the Series later, for this Game
5 is Saint.
Just a lot of mid control and crucial carry scaling, which I think they were lacking
in some of their previous games.
So congratulations to Saint.
Also curious in what the fan pull results are, is I was in a tough draft for him
and he managed to still find some big engages.
So we're going to pull that up as soon as we have it ready.
Yeah, they actually were able to.
I know there were some dicey moments in the 2P2.
I was sitting next to Kobe.
He was just sitting there like clenching the entire time.
I think the Preserver deserves honors from the DCS, though.
But they did.
After they mitigated that, I saw
Loud wasn't really able to move the Caitlyn around
and kind of take down turrets like you'd want from a Caitlyn.
That lane didn't really snowball like they'd wanted.
And so that was also a huge part of this game.
And the first game from inspired, you know, I certainly see Vex in this draft.
I'm like, okay, good, you know, Vex is has low mobility.
It's easy to take advantage of and inspired had a little bit decent timers
on the jungle gank that he went for.
And so they're able to find success and get the flash on the first
gank towards mid lane.
That is so good for Victor getting early money.
So Saint is able to really, really carry this one.
Yeah, absolutely.
Same player of the game in game five, the oppo player of the series for
all five games is going to be inspired.
I think extremely good Pantheon game, great Zen game,
little bit of question marks in the middle,
the Mundo game.
The Mundo game sucks, man.
I'm going to say the Mundo game,
when they died for that top scuttle crab,
him and Stake, that was, that was a fireball.
It was.
Oh my God.
But he made up for it.
It was.
It was.
Calm down.
I mean.
You won, Kobe.
You won.
I had a hard attack in that one.
Mookon is well, so the Zen Pantheon,
Yeah, overall really really great as you know, it's also the main shot caller
You know really really does so much for the scene. Yeah, now kind of mundo nearly sent you
Like it's saying we were feeling a lot of relief
We were pushed to the brink here loud really did show up and had really good performances.
Really well played, really well played, amazingly.
While we wait for Dota, we actually, I know this probably would have felt better if loud had won, but we have signed loud posters.
So I appreciate all the interaction through the graphic that we made this year.
I give you one for being our improv teacher.
I got you, I got you.
I got you.
You guys have all been like seriously amazing.
Like thank you so much.
The show would not have been nearly as awesome without you.
Yeah, well played, well played.
Thank you all.
Thank you.
So yeah, where we go from here,
we know that Lion is going to be playing Gen G in two days.
We know that JDG is going to be playing against Loud,
which is the tough realities of this tournament.
when we have Korea versus China in the first round,
the loser, like that's potentially,
I mean that is a more formidable matchup than even Lyon.
So Loud is gonna have a day to try and recover, bounce back
and then I hope that Dokla, you know, gets here.
So we can talk here.
That's my biggest hope.
I also hope you guys will like it, JG.
Dokla, come on.
There we go, big don'ts face.
He's got it mic'd up right now.
We're gonna talk to him shortly.
But yeah, the next upcoming match
is also important for the group.
I'm always excited whenever we get to play Gen G because, you know, if you do well,
then you get so much respect and you just expect it to lose anyway.
So even if you get crushed, it's not as big of a deal.
And when FlyQuest even pushed Gen G to five games,
that was one of my favorite international performances that North America has ever had,
Yeah, especially recently.
And so I'm hoping that we can get a good live performance.
Congratulations, Phil.
Let's go!
Congratulations.
Let's go, good job!
Watch it out!
Glad we won.
Yeah, I'm really glad you won as well.
How do you feel?
Phil, OK.
Release a little bit.
Yeah.
I mean, I took it upon myself to,
we need to maximize practice if I'm not a judge.
Exactly!
I took it upon myself to throw a couple of games.
So we get to game five.
So yeah, maximize practice before we face the final boss.
How did it feel like, you know, getting to use the Garen pick and stuff like that?
Yeah, that was a one I wanted to play for a while, so it looked like a good angle there.
I'm like, yeah, let's do it.
Funny, we played Garen yesterday and it did not go well.
So, yeah, I mean, it was a different match.
So, you know, it went better this time.
Series overall, though, you know, were you expecting to go this long versus
loud full five games here?
I wasn't expecting to go to five.
I mean I think they should or at least one game
I think they could be a sin but we just got making very basic mistakes like I kept dying on side
We weren't coordinated on our dragon setup. So they punish us well around those timers and they drafted good confidence
Well that fit their strength. So yeah, unfortunately went to game five, but they're a good team
So no shame in that. What was the conversation before game five because it did seem like you're mentioning the dragon setups
It was much more deliberate that you're just gonna have trial and be first on Drake and game five
Is that something?
Yeah, because game four was like just felt bad to play in terms of like they have
Nocturne to pick us one side and then we weren't decisive in like how we want to fight.
So I just draft the comp that can give us prior and we can play for dragons.
And yeah, yeah, just do our best from them.
Going into this as you probably saw, N18's kind of struggled against the CEO in America's Cup.
Did that kind of change your perspective on preparing for a loud or was it more like an internal focus?
for the team?
It definitely made me respect them a lot more,
given that we just got Smash America's Cup.
Yeah, we're back on top now.
So look at the crowd here at home is happy about that.
But yeah, I mean, it made me respect them a lot more
going into the match.
I think after game one, I was kind of feeling it.
And then I started dying a lot on site,
so maybe I should have.
Our game was next.
So I just dropped the ego a little bit.
Oh, oh.
And then, um, yeah.
All right, well, you know, you're growing against Keen.
So what about that ego?
Yeah, I just know he's going to be feeling good about that tough.
Give me a sign on, give me a sign on.
No, it'll be good because this is the first time
I've played against Genji, and obviously they're probably
one of the strongest teams in the world, if not.
So it'll be a good test for us, especially early
in the year, to see where we stand and what
we need to work on.
And if we win, you know, I'll be $1, but you know.
I like where your heads are.
If we win, win.
I have a question. I don't know if you noticed but Zino from loud kind of you know
drew some trash talk at you. Yeah. Sad that you don't go for comfortable picks
because you don't want to go one-on-one. I was just wondering what do you have to
say about that. I'm really curious. Well I think I don't know there's like two
perspectives like some that can be true but I think like counterpicking is
It's way more valuable if you can get use out of it.
So, I think you don't want to just handshake a matchup.
Like you want to try to abuse your counterpicks.
So I feel like I really try to do that a lot
and that's my strength.
So, yeah, you can think that.
But in the Renekton Narlane, that's where he's standard.
Yeah, I'm good to go.
Dokela, we have a production request.
It doesn't look like you had your phone,
but production is big fans of your bed vlogs.
Yes.
We have a bed, and if you use the camera as the phone,
it would be willing to record a post-series.
You have to step out of the way, yes.
Yeah.
Hola, Doku here.
Yeah, we just beat Loudon in game five.
I expected to do a game five, but it did.
We need the maximum on practice before we play Genji,
and that's going to be tough.
If I can kill Keen maybe once or twice,
even if we lose, I think it'll be worth it.
So I'm just focused on that.
And then I'll go back to NA happy, knowing I killed Keen.
So see you then.
See you tomorrow for the big match.
Yeah!
Woo!
All right!
That was happy to watch that!
It's football, man!
It's football!
Oh, my goodness.
Thank you very much, Jokha.
Yeah!
Awesome!
Good job!
Give it up for Jokha!
Earlier today, Laura caught up with Ruler.
40 numbers, Verizon, 40 minutes.
Welcome back to the Verizon Game Day interview here with the Victorious Roller.
Wow.
So, get together in NIDA.
That was a really clean game against JDG.
You're a former team and you were fleshing the emotes during the entire series.
So, tell me about what it meant to you playing against them
and stomping them that hard.
Congratulations.
How did you feel when you fought against the team you used to play for?
Can I say it?
Yes.
First of all, I didn't care much about the game, but after the game, I felt a little sad when I saw the players who were with me.
Well, he felt a little sad to stomp on them.
But at first he was not feeling much, but when he saw them he remembered stuff, he remembered people, so he felt a little bad for stomping on them.
A lot of good moments obviously with JDG, but something that I've read with an interview Arnold, your CEO, had with Chippy's Florence is that you said,
I would come back to Korea for Gen.G. What does this organization mean to you?
When you left Gen.G, what did you say to the chairman?
Well, I did say that, but I wasn't sure if I would be able to come back.
Because I was leaving, and I was doing so well, so I was worried about whether I would be able to come back.
If I hadn't been able to go back, I was worried about which team I would be able to go to.
I'm so happy to be back and continue to have a good relationship with the other players.
I hope we can continue to be together in the future.
Since you came back with Gen.G, Gen.G has been on top of the league DLCK, but also the world.
You guys have been favorites to every international tournament you've participated in for the past two years.
What is your preparation like this time around, especially after what happened at Worlds?
In fact, we are the team that everyone loves the most during the game, so how do you prepare for the game?
I think we are doing a lot of practice and competitions to improve and get better.
So we just keep practicing every round and every match so in order to improve for every
match and every competition we take part on so that's how we keep improving.
For someone who's been playing for that long, how do you manage your expectations especially
when you're favorite every time?
First of all, I don't have much pressure to ask people about my performance.
I'm just trying to see how the fans of my team are going to see my performance.
I'm just trying to show them that I can show them my skills.
expectations on him but he keeps practicing just thinking about how we
could get a wow from his fans so he feels more excited than nervous for
those matches. Well is there anything you want to say to your fans here? I keep
on hearing that Gen.G has a lot of fans in Brazil. You're still there.
Do you have anything you want to say to your fans?
I heard that there are a lot of fans in Brazil.
Can you say something?
I'm very thankful to all the fans who came to Brazil.
I'm very thankful that they love me.
It really is not an easy thing to be able to come to Brazil and receive all this love from these fans.
So he can only be thankful for everyone.
I just want to say thank you.
Well, we thank you. You can thank him as well, guys. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for the presentation.
Thank you ruler. Here's the bracket for tomorrow. BOG G2 in the upper bracket BFX TSW second
match of the day in the lower bracket. I feel like BOG G2 are just like, ah, we meet again.
It's actually so fun that that we have actual history, you know, actual terms between them.
much history. Inspired versus Gen G. Yeah we got history too. We got history too and now the whole fans are gone. We can really celebrate. We did it.
We saved it in the best of five. We were able to get the win in the end and we earned the right to play Gen G.
You know it is a really big honor to play the very best team in the world and see what you can learn on stage.
tomorrow's schedule as well as we just mentioned, BLGG2 is going to be first up, TSW versus
BFX is going to be second up, match one and match two starts at 9am Eastern, 2pm Central
European for best of fives. I had a self-deprecating joke. I love deprecating to play JDG in a later
round actually, just after we lose to Gen.G and have to fight them and make it into
bracket stage because Gen. D is going to clean us or not. Inspired can push them to
five games at least. We know that is true. Okay that's it for us. We'll be back tomorrow
at AME Street 2PM CEST for BOG versus G2. See you then.
Not enough! They just don't die!
Genji's 4.
Okay, he's got 124 by now. Shashu's just winning!
The 1v1 against King.
Ruler's not gonna get caught out by Shashu,
and the chase continues shut down to Jinja.
Domo next!
Holy shit.
Run away from the fight.
The spiraling, the spiral, the showroom.
He can't get close enough.
Ben deliverance, and he delivers in tears.
The likes!
Genji proving they deserve the title of Champions Elected
as they sweep away JDG.
I guess we pot down here, okay?
I'm gonna flash right there.
Oh, nice.
Nice, girl.
Nice.
Nice, nice.
He's in trouble.
Yeah, she's in a lot of trouble.
Here, Dokla's gonna go forward.
He flashes, but Dokla's trying to chase in, gets him with the boomerang.
It's a solo Bolo.
That's a Galo!
I'm gonna turn off team.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Nice.
I'm going, I'm going.
I'm going.
They know me, they know me.
Nice, nice, nice.
Nice, nice.
They're on the bot.
They're on the bot.
We can play.
We can play.
Yeah, I'll look for a good guy.
Look here, look here.
We can map.
We can map.
Open up, open up.
We're in a flash.
It's like the garrigan we have on the Alastar.
You just ult them.
What did you know?
What are you guys?
Okay, next time just sleep more against Jovey.
You'll need a lot of sleep in the whole of it, Jovey.
A lot of sleep, maybe like, play while we're sleeping.
And in the city we beg
I can't listen to any play
I'm never gonna turn a relays
I'm back in the city, back in your days
Game time, game time, game time
There's a step on the lima
Like a landline
We all alive
Oh my god
It's a massive grab!
Game time, game time, game time
There's a step on the lima
I
I'm telling you what I think, I'm telling you what I know
And you don't have to like me, but I know you need me
For sure, as best you believe me
This is hard work, nothing about this is easy
It's tough, it's tough, be hard
Ain't never cutting up, it's tough, it's tough
Take your all while, never giving up
It's tough, it's tough, be hard
Ain't never cutting up, it's tough, it's tough
Take your all while, never giving up
I was born ready to play
I hustle and I grind for it every day
They say I'm better past it in every way
Catch me if you can, I'm ahead and you ain't
I came too far for me to backslide
I took off and didn't land, I never fly
If you need a job done, I am that guy
Going next then, they'll say I am him
I'm not telling you what I think
I'm telling you what I know
And you don't have to like me
But I know you need me for show
As best you believe me
This is all worth nothing about this is easy
Get up!
Yeah, I know that's why
You can get locked down
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
We are brave
We are brave
I got to get to it in second time ever no time to relax I'm back in this
back in your bag
I still want to feel this a wrap I cannot keep up with the lapse
I put the record in a patch You know it's a fact confirming the
steps