This is how you win
It's how you win
If you get locked down
Yeah, I know that's right
If you get locked down
Yeah, yeah, yeah
We are the way
I'm back in his head, I'm back in your bags.
I step on a field that's a rat, I can't keep up with the rats.
I put the record in a patch, you know it's a fact, confirming the facts.
Any time, any time, any time, they got to step on a landmine.
I'm back in his head, I'm back in his head, I'm back in his head.
Firm in his face
Game time, game time, game time
They got to step on a landmine
Got it like a landmine
Don't let them talk, I won't take your mind
What do you mean with a mindset?
Ain't lying, that's a big deal
Top 10, I'm a cosplay
Turn a problem into a copy
Top 10, I'm a cosplay
Turn a problem into a copy
We on the way
It's game time you hear the rain
Can't see no dimension in it
Gotta focus our senses in
Can't stop no mission
Eyes on the vision
Gotta handle business
Hurry up, I'm gonna play
Big girls on the way
To play, to be played
Get up on my face
I'll play you like a snake.
I'm not gonna see you.
I'm back when I'm basic.
I ain't doing no pain and safe.
Running again and running away.
Running out of your face.
Keep your side, keep your side.
Cause you all feel right.
You're a kid on a black next step.
Next step, alright.
You're a kid on a black next step.
We all play you.
We on the way
It's game time and we on the way
Click, click, bang, bang, I'm alright
I'm the thing they talk about in the streets
I'm a big bad boy, don't approach me
I feel you and I'm crazy wanna see
Kiss you with my kiss you won't be sleeping far away
Don't stop, don't tap, shake my back back back back
I'm sinking in the head, but you like that
My body's beat up, but you'll never be made
Super-sonics, look what you done on my knees
You can do it like a walker, give it up, give it all
I told you, I'm the best way, it's getting done to the way
She's stuck at the bottom, so hard to relate to me
Click, click, bang bang, I'm alright
Let's get it, no limit, I get it, we're clean
I let it, the biggest, a boss, the dream
Go down, hit the level of the team
Now it's Rebels everything
D, E, S, the teeny, the G, the R, the H, the G
Now it's Rebels on your scene
It's the season with the time like
Oh, so bad to tell, don't give a damn right
Guess we speeding through the traffic with the limelight
Headed to my future, that's the limelight
G-O-A-T-G-O, that's brand new
We woke, they sleep, we cold, they weak
I don't need to ask the question, cause we showing up
Cause when it's going down, then we going up
Thumb, I hit the level of the team
Love, now it's rubble everything
Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it!
Around the tree is brown, I had to level up the chain
Love, now it's rubble everything
E, E, A, T, G, R, H, G!
Now it's rubble everything
Wake up, wake up, wake up
It's a dream, a dream
I had to level up the dream
Love, I was dreaming everything
It's a dream, a dream
It's a dream
Heard you want a bar?
Are you gonna chase the chains?
Is nobody gonna make you call?
Don't need crowds of people to cheer you on
When the lights turn off, that's how you know who you are
Say you want it all, or you want a bomb
And you gon' say to James, nobody gon' make the call
You wanna eat crowns of meat, but it's here you are
When the lights turn off, that's how you know who you are
Ever risk it all, talking for the neck
Footing up the shots, and ain't nobody making stuff
And they die for cause they got time to look around
Life has a way of keeping feet on solid ground
Now how do you bout the handling?
Joke is all on the mentally
Working when you tired, you make you the perfect candidate
When the crash screams, how you gonna keep the candle lit?
Someone in front of you all of the shine is meant to live.
You keep it authentic, it ain't all by winning.
Time inverse time out, it's by how you spin it.
I'll be admitted, ride it down to go get it.
Ride it out on that side of town, tell you the same, you done did it.
Person's gonna carry it on your way, you should carry it.
Hard Peter Gold, they're trying to label me various.
No validation after type of thing we stand for.
I can't take wrongs like the Olympics I can't take off
Pull up with your windows, dear, they are your thing now
Focus the more I wanna be, not the one of these
Lonely to great, that's a summary
Easy as a bomb will be the way to the world
And come alive to me, gotta meet you any day you wanna be, huh?
Just hit the point and no return
Everything was on lights bright
Kidders with the nerves make us tummy tight
I'll fight my way to switch ourselves
Something I'm alive, trying to calculate the purse
The perks, guys, none of you can stop
Getting on it, I'm out of it
Can't even think of it
Runs up in that concrete
They can't even believe that I'm strong
I'm going to run for reality
I've never seen it, I'm out of it
Got a better one than me
And I'm still in the extra
Say you want it all up
I'll get you on the ball
Can you not save some tears
If nobody wants me to go
You don't need trust
If you believe, cheer you are
When the light's turning on
Cause I'm not even wrong
Say you want it all
Never do you want to fall
Can you not save some tears
I'm standing tall, I'm a mountain.
I double up and I keep counting.
I switch it up and I keep bouncing.
They want to know all they value.
I'm the captain now, I'm the leader in the streets.
I'm a leader, I'm a cheat, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And if I break down, yeah, I got what you need.
You heard about me, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You better pick the guys I'm wanting.
I can try it, but I keep it coming.
I'm a champ, I've been wanting it.
I've been, and and and I keep on wanting it.
I'm the leader, I'm the leader in the streets.
But I'll keep it coming
Yeah, I'm a champ, I bring one
And it up and then then and I'll keep doing what I did
I'll make a job
You gave me stock
I'll make a job
I'll make it a lot
I am not them
I'll make a crop
I'll make a job
I'll make it a lot
Broken like brick
I win the night away
I win the night with
Broken like brick
I'm tired of it
I'm running it now
Dripping like drone
I'm getting it, getting it, getting it
Dripping like drone
I'm running it now
I'm at the top
I can't be stopped
I am a film
I'm making some promise
I'm at the top
I'm making some
I can't do my thing.
Look on y'all like I can't eat anything.
One day's like the man that invented it.
I'm gonna finish, I get so candid.
They just can't understand it.
I'm gonna just follow the feeling.
Just not get to the ceiling.
They'll make us a billion.
We ain't here just to run.
Y'all can't do my thing.
I'm toastin' the ring.
Y'all can't do my thing.
I'm not getting too much over that hard work that made me
Illuminate the whole city, it's all right, that's it, it's finished
And I try to move to the young, you ain't got to tell me
Maybe there's something here with this Jimmy, yeah
I'm close on what I put it down, but I'm strong out of your own trap
I'm telling you for the million, I came down to my younger years
I crossed that when I didn't, and I ain't seen no one with me
I'm running from the heart, but I saw all these baby runnin'
I'm ready for the snow, yeah, I gotta keep it coming
Be ready, affirmation of a real one
Just pull up some more points, gotta make it feel so good
Get it, get it, go, get it, get it, yeah
I'm in wrong with it, am I strong within every year?
Set the time when I'm on the wrong, feel it in the air
Set the stars, the suspects, I'ma get it anywhere
Got it, go, get it, get it, go, get it, yeah
I'm in wrong with it, am I strong within every year?
Every year, seconds are when I'm at a wrong feeling in the air
Baby, stop, this is bad, time will get it anywhere
You can take me crazy to the graves in the rain
Light of day is not a place I don't need to have to face
Close up the glass in the tank, what's the name?
Numbers on the back, gotta take me to the name
What's the purpose? I'm breaking curses behind the curtain
We're searching, so electric, I've got full of surges, my heart
You should be the greatest, but get the status
This is crazy, I almost gave it, I couldn't take it
I'm supposed to pay off, I ain't worried if I didn't lay off
Don't need to pay off, I'ma work it until it take off
Follow my nose, until I dig up the gold
I'm like here it goes, I ain't giving nothing but chaos
You know that the price of that mission ain't being gifted
Gotta stick to this and our long journeys of distance
This is not respected, this is only persistence
So I'm calling it like it's another super stick
Got a go get it, get it, go get it, get it, yeah
On the road with it in my song with it in every year
Set the tone when I'm on the road, fill it in the air
Check the stats, this is facts, I'ma get it anywhere
Got a go get it, get it, go get it, get it, yeah
On the road with it in my song with it in every year
Set the tone when I'm on the road, fill it in the air
Set the stats, this is facts, I'ma get it in every year
I'm not on the street, yeah, that's all you need.
Get in there.
Tell me, for my candidacy, you know I keep it fabulous.
But you don't have me wrong, but I'll put you in a habit.
Don't mean to people's candidacy, but you better respect me.
I know that you can't handle it,
because you won't ever check me.
I know, I know, I'm in there for the love.
I'm buyin' fun and kiddin' bout my kitty gimme now
I know, I know, I'ma keep me gettin' dope
If this is something good, then I ain't really gotta know
Take the red list, take the red list
This ain't no bad bit, take the red list
Oh, I get that no no, I get that no no
I get that oh oh, I get that no no
I get that no no, I get that no no
I need some more, more
I'm gonna get out of nowhere
I'm gonna be here to stay
You look like I'm gonna stay
I'm gonna get out of nowhere
I'm gonna run, run, run, no
I'm gonna start the party, no
I'm gonna run, run, no, no
You got all you need
Yeah
We just want to know, we just take control.
You never fall and take it up, take it up anyway
This funny money listen never lose to show man
20-20 bitches see that you've got four glasses
A student of the year in the list that's skipping no class
You want the room, you got a grind and that's the whole story
You need another finna lose, listen don't want me
Hey, it's this nerve from one of the ones that came up for me
You want to shoot me and get this feeling
Hey, she's a virtue listen you should let it burn
Run around the world, we can move it, we gon' let it turn
Run around the place in Milwaukee, and that's what I designed
Do not shame me, give me a scream, yeah
Take it, take it, drop, now they're gon' stop
We just want to know
We just take control
We will never fall
Take it up, take it up, take it up, take it up
We just want to know
We just take control
We will never fall
Take it up, take it up, take it up, take it up
I got a body, but it ain't no scratch, I can't be sent back out
My mind will bring me to fire
Bang, Babylon's cheap, come to the water
I'm a little crazy, come down, drop them low
Got land free, I'm proud, Babylon's shit
With the rigging
Taloko, toloko, loko, limo, limo
Makito, Makito, Makito
Taloko, Taloko, Taloko, toloko
me
I'm dead
I'm dead if I'm dead
Everyone is crazy with pneumonia
With pneumonia
Everyone is crazy with pneumonia
Cero te da cora, cora salvo, no da cora salvo
Things are always changing, can't blame me for the saying
So take advantage baby, agora, agora
Things are always changing, can't blame me for the saying
So take advantage baby, agora, agora
Oh, now, oh, I feel I'm not the same
I feel I'm not the same
You tell me that you want me
Get ready to keep climbing
Can't help it, this is so easy
No, no, no, no
You told me that you want me
I did too, you come at me
Can't come to the suice
You're a liar, you're my liar
Teo fiera cora
Cora salto en loco de cora sal
Teo fiera cora
Cora salto en loco de cora sal
I got time for playing short on
Say I'm on it, I'll put you back
Wanna know what I'm guilty of
I believe, I believe
Gravity can't hold me down
I believe, I believe
I believe right here and right now
I'm gonna give my all
I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe
What do you believe in? You ain't gonna get it, so I'm gonna honor where your team is
We're showing them what the elite is, because stage is
I'm the male and the green man
If I'm out of a side, you gon' win on my grass
And the green is, I brought him back
He bring that hit, I'm sparking back
You and all the match, brah, go bananas, howl it back
A war's on, I got time to play and show it on
Say I'm winning, I'm guilty, man
Wanna know what I'm guilty of?
I believe, I believe
Revealed, can't hold me down
Saka, Saka, Saka.
I'm a boss.
I'm a...
boss.
Boss.
I ain't worth the talking, I just wanna reach the top.
It's got a bunch of money, I keep looking for the crop.
Can't be happy funny when you see just what I got
I'm not here trying to get in I'ma get in with you now
But you want your boss on my life?
I'ma go take that right?
Party on all damn nights?
I'ma be do-can right?
You ain't even know I'm cold
I'm taking over here, I'm in there
Money in the vault, I don't care but I didn't know
I'm a boss
I'm a boss, yeah yeah, I'm a boss
I'm a boss
I already need your care, what you thought
You were here to rock me
I don't really even care what you thought
You were here to rock me
I don't really even care what you thought
I was wrong, seein' heads in my penis
Did it all in a picnic
Better check out the digits to get the money
It's bigger, y'all can't look in and look in
I need to mind your own business
Cause I've been bloomin' and bloomin'
I be all up in the kitchen
I'm just momin' it up
Got it, I throw it around
When you see me there, it's creepy
That's the one throwin' call
I'm the one that they call
I'm the real, not a fraud
People claiming they are boss
When they don't want it all
I'm a boss
I'm a boss, yeah, yeah
I'm a boss
I don't really need to care
What's it done?
You ain't a boss
I'm a boss
I'm a boss, yeah, yeah
I'm a boss
I already even cared what you thought of me, you had a body
You treat the score, that's fun to settle
Go to metal, got you fighting
Lois, gotta, gotta, gotta
Cut the door to your fit
I don't need that hit
I'm the captain and what's happening
I lean when I'm standing
I don't stack in these wings
Watch the hay wheel fit
While you're waiting in life
Like Adam Barthas and Ben
We the part that is still the
Redition's manual failure
Poppa's crushing, how you think
I know the name of the gang
Old name was the greatest
Glad to see before lunch
And if you parking real strange
I'm a girl with same name
No offense to the young king
Yeah, let's play
Got one rim spin
No sense on your mind
Let's compete, man, on what a party
Yeah, I want a party, yeah
No offense to my crown
No, you see, man, yeah
Let's play, got one rim spin
No sense on your mind
Let's compete, man, on what a party
Yeah, I want a party, yeah
I want a party, yeah
Play the game at your school
You play in your food.
This is champion mode and I ain't trying to be low.
Get the cross, step in my thing on my right hand,
shoot her on my left, catch her back.
Yall did them their hands, I guess feed the fans.
It's a while when I run it back.
Now they keep a stack, I still rap to my better man.
If you need to learn to cope with moves,
I have few understanding if you need to move.
You gotta prove that you can do this
and I'm talking out of class.
Moving but you're choosing, I'll be moving this fast.
Got you losing, I expect to do the looking fast.
I understand the matters you want me to pass
Pressing through your soul, roll with it
Like a lunatic
No offense to see I'm getting down
Fresh pick up the rims down
No sense of the mind, that's the big deal
No way to party, hit by the hook
How we trippin' it
No offense to a man, I'm not gonna see the light
Fresh pick up the rims down
No sense of the mind, that's the big deal
No way to party, hit by the hook
How we trippin' it
It's not that I'm out of it
It's not that I'm out of...
Yeah, hands up! everybody's getting up
Everybody stand up, everybody stand up
Everybody stand up, put your legs in it
Put your head, put your hands
Brush out the huddle with no rebuttal and no remorse
I'm in the changes with dogs, this type of shape and course
It's the season of winning or need to reinforce
A big deal like we got in dust
Try to sing and ask you off the eternal
We buy your honor, need a type of step on the field
And force a fumble, let the grass turn to a flaring
We'll be back, we'll be back
I'm gonna get this game, my last word, I'll be forever, yeah, I might go, they won't turn the lights up, so I'll be greasy on the field, I might go, yeah, I might go, they won't turn the lights up, understand?
I'm gonna run it to the top, so I'm on top, this ain't no competition, I'm ready to fight the odds, here to complete a mission, I'm out with a hundred square, my share from the half, I'm ready for a hundred yards, this is the game that separates real from nothing,
I'm running out of time to turn the stun up
Coins on the bar, clear numbers up
Tear up, they might have seen me coming up
Because you in the game, that don't make you one of us
Hands up, everybody stick it up
Put your flags in the air, put your hands
Put your hands up, everybody run it up
You can tell the truth, uh, put your hands in the air
When you're about to move on
Well, you know you the one that's ready to launch
And I'm gonna turn it up
This is how we fix all this stuff
This is how we show it
Yeah, I might go
It won't turn the lights off
So I'll be greasy on this kid like I might go
Yeah, I might go
It won't turn the lights off
Understand we're coming to the time zone
I have to step on a nail in my head.
Hola, Bumbia! And welcome to day 3 of First Stand here in beautiful South power Brazil.
Today we're starting with Elimination Day. As the second series, we'll send one of our teams home.
home and the first series as we see BLG signing the wall right now followed by G2
will send one of those two teams in semi-finals. You cannot see my college
right now but they're actually stabbing me. Guys I'm actually really happy for this man.
This is the short people desk today.
It is!
Munchkin! Munchkin!
Munchkin!
How are you doing guys?
We're having fun.
Everybody really having fun.
Yeah, yeah, we've seen all teams.
We've seen pretty much all the shades of what the new patch has to offer.
So, before we kick things off, I actually want to do kind of a recap with you.
LolliSports on X has asked our fans their hot takes after these two days of competitions.
So I'm going to ask you guys to go in the center.
Oh no, okay.
We're going to play a little, oh, okay.
We're going to try that twofold.
We're going to play a little game.
Behind us, we're going to see hot takes.
Yes on one side, no on the other side.
And we're going to have to pick a side.
See, you see?
Okay, Sim.
No, sorry.
This is no, yeah.
And no.
Okay, okay, okay.
You got it at home if you want to play too.
So hot takes.
We're going to debate whether they're hot or not.
First one is, oh, I can't see it right.
Oh, I have to look back? JDG will bounce back.
JDG will bounce back?
Okay, okay, you know what? Yeah!
I mean, it's not fair.
Going all the way this side.
It's not fair. When the first game, you have to play in the super yet.
Oh, you believe in it so much.
So much.
So, when the first team you have to play is actually Gen.G, I think it's not fair.
Yeah. Yeah, on the scene.
Completely. A lot of people are taking it.
Vettius specifically was like, oh, like 20 minute games, 20 minute games.
They're going over against Gen.G! That happens.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't warm-up series.
All right, the second one we're gonna have.
Let's see, I'm looking back again.
I'm not gonna say anything too much because I wanna see them.
Hot take line will take a game off Gen.G.
All right, guys, let's...
Well, it is hot, it is a hot take.
That is... I mean, it's the hottest take.
I just don't believe in it.
Yeah, but the issue is that if you don't even believe in your teams,
who's gonna?
Yeah, what the hell, Emily?
Go here!
What?
I just being honest!
Oh my gosh!
Okay, fine.
Fine.
Interesting things.
I saw inspired yesterday.
I had an interview with him and I was like,
So, Genji, how do we feel about this?
He was like, wish us luck.
We're going to need it.
So, they know what they're in for.
All I'm saying is, Inspire has taken away some games
from Genji in the past.
All right, have some faith.
Good one was on today, and he's like, OK,
if I manage to kill Keen, all we have is?
Ryze is balanced and doesn't need a nerf.
Cassante needs both.
What?
Oh!
You lost me at this part.
But I know Black Ace Cosplay.
This guy is the best Cassante cosplayer.
He literally is biased.
So I appreciate his bias, but absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
We're talking about a champion that has been met us
since its release.
Yeah, no.
Regardless of the rest.
He does not need any help.
And I feel he's strong.
I didn't read it enough to know that people don't like rice
right now.
I don't want to see how many replies he's had underneath
that post.
We'll have afterwards.
All right.
Next one we have.
OK.
Let's see what we got.
I'm looking back.
Elk is greater than Viper.
That's crazy.
What?
That's crazy.
You have to get the case for Elk, because you love Elk.
I do love Elk.
I'm not going to stop.
I want to say no.
I'm going to say no, but I think in terms of maybe
being a fit for BLG, we still don't know yet,
we've brought a ton of stuff that
is kind of undefinable in terms of his leadership.
Also, if you've been watching Elk,
he's having a six-split, guys, all right?
He's a great spokesperson.
He's been insane.
When that team is on the ruts, he's the one that's willing to talk to them and speak for them.
Alright, but Gromprider, is he the Gromprider?
Gromprider.
G2 win versus BLG tomorrow.
Well, I guess that's today.
That's today.
But yes, I appreciate the enthusiasm.
Honestly, this is going to spoil our prediction.
You know what's, what's, guys, I'm going to say no.
Come on.
Whoa, Res, Res is going extreme.
Is that high?
Yeah.
I mean the guy's name is at least the addict.
He is the most biased he possibly can get.
And his handle is really hot.
And he has hot summer as a profile game.
No doubt he has hot summer.
Honestly, I was really surprised by the amount of people who were believing in AG2.
Like that's one of the...
Shut up!
We'll talk about this later.
Next one, and last one we have here.
Six hot takes.
Genji wants to lose a single game.
I think this is so hard to do, actually.
I'm bangin'.
They've only lost two games domestically.
I feel like they had it.
I don't know.
Wait, I just really might want to play with Lion.
Yeah, feel this.
So wait, how does it work?
Because you think Lion is going to win again?
But then you think Gen G is not going to lose a single game.
Right?
Or maybe Lion doesn't make it far, so they never get a chance.
Gen G won't lose a single game.
I'm saying no, they will lose a game.
It's just really hard.
really hard. They won't lose a single game. They look really, really good right now. Alright,
that was messy, but that was fun. Let's focus on the bracket that we're going to have today.
We're back to the first side of the bracket. As we said today, we're sending one team home,
and one team is going to advance to semi-finals. I feel like things have played out the
expected way so far. What is the expectation coming into today?
I mean, yeah, the results were expected.
I think people who either might not have watched BLG or BFX
might be a little surprised at that outcome.
The way that BLG lost those games was not surprising to me.
Yeah.
To me, I did expect them to go 3-1, though I wasn't on that day.
But I will say, I did expect them to have a little bit of an easier time there.
But as for results, I don't think anything has been super unexpected.
completely agree for the lcp fans if there's an lcp addict they definitely do not want to
keep their levels losing in the fashion that they are because then they would what have the
longer they would have longer travel time than the games themselves oh no you just can't have
happen that's wild that's wild uh first series we're gonna have today g2 blg and if you've been
following lolly sports for the past decade it is the series d game that you expect that every
international tournament guys yeah I feel like the two of them saw this they're
just like ah you again are you kidding me um especially for G2 who I think have
been um as we're about to pull up in a minute the kind of list of times they
faced each other specifically in elimination matches at international
events. BLG has kind of stood in the way of G2 so many times, Raz.
It's always so fun watching LEC fans look at the draws.
No, it's not!
And just see, BLG versus G2 again and again. At least the last time they faced off against
each other, it was a situation where BLG were having the worst time to their lives
during Worlds. And like, we're having a really poor run. And then like, even on
the early game, it looked great. This was the game we were talking about where
like Ryze has multiple kills, you wouldn't want to have it on night because he's the
best player on the- oh actually they got outscaled, Anivia is able to get- like this is classic
caps in classic Europe when I imagine when Europe has had the most amount of success
historically and you're thinking like oh it's like CLGEU days of having the better
scale in compositions, just look at all the times they have met.
I don't like this.
Yeah, I mean-
I'm sorry but I hate it.
It's not an elimination game today.
It's trending in your favor.
Yeah, it's the last time you won, but this is the big thing to me right, it's
Just how many times it's been BLG standing in the way of G2 qualifying for the next stage?
Obviously today's not an elimination match, right?
So whoever does lose today will have another chance to qualify, but it is kind of interesting
how many times it's been BLG over there.
And what I really like is the fact that when I look at G2 and how they made things
happen especially in LEC Winter finals versus finals I'm sorry the name was
different is the creativity around the around which they played in fierce
draft and that's actually how they won the game against BLG last time around as
well we saw it a couple minutes ago but the Anivia with the puppy with caps
scaling into that game that is the kind of magic that I'm expecting to see
against G2 today are they gonna be able to do it for five games in a row
potentially I don't know but that's what I'm looking at that's what
They've been working with them so far this year and last time they faced yeah
The one thing that's consistent Emily knows us about BLG is that they're not a clean team
You know matter how large of an early game lead that they can find themselves and we just found that five game series a fun one
who's like
Here X it's like so having some scaling elements having a little creativity to like find and catch them off-guard
Definitely works in their favor. I'm hot take about BLG. So we're gonna bring out
I'm going to go back to the
last one. I'm going to go
out some drafts from the
series. They did face off
against in BFX, and these are
their game winning drafts. And
I did want to point out in a
lot of them because my hot
take about BLG this year.
Thus far. I actually don't
feel like they're as good of
a five V five team as we kind
of think of BLG in our minds
in previous splits,
especially with kind of
wall. I think this BLG team has a much higher ceiling than what we seen from them. I see a lot
of times where it's when they're actually able to get a lot more side lane pressure and setup
that they have succeeded. So I think they're 5v5 has taken a slight dip, but when they are able
to kind of draft these compositions allows them to move more freely around the map or set up
bin and knight in side lanes. I think there's so much they're even more dependent on those
to solo laners especially with the way they like to play like you pointed out
where the quintessential BLG is we're going to smash you as hard as possible
early and then try to win off that. And for how well the early lanes have kind of
gone in both mid and top lane their solo laners have been incredible. Imagine them
being like okay we're now gonna isolate you on side lanes with better
matchups and that's what I think has been really good about BLG's drafting
at least from my perspective and so when they've won, when they're going, I'm not always going to agree with BLG drafts by the way.
In fact, I will disagree more than I will agree with some BLG drafts. Fair enough, but at least we saw some positives here.
Exactly. Which I think will make the next matchup all the more important, which is going to be like Caps vs. Knight.
Yep, always, always. And Caps vs. Knight not only because we should be in back as well,
And Skumon finally reaching the seeding that we expected from him and what he can do as a jungler.
I'm looking at that jungle mid, specifically on the side of both teams.
Yeah, and I think it's because like if I look at Skumon, he's having an incredible career lore.
You've definitely followed it, specifically this split.
This split has been really magical for him.
And even just like when they went up against Team Secret Wells,
he was the most consistent one on the map.
He needs to be that player because Shun has been able to like A help mid.
I remember that Malkai game where he was like, all right gank mid.
And then dive top like he is somebody that is so much like super influential in his lanes
And I think he needs to be able to do that
Especially if you have night and been on your team and one cool thing about them facing off against each other so many times at these
International tournaments as we do have a specific head-to-head matchup for them, right?
And I think this is always such a fun matchup to watch
To really like staples of their regions one goal such a long
I mean, I think that's a
long time. Look. That one
goal is important. I mean, I've
been games and that's it.
Crazy, right? That's pretty
close. The K plus eight 14 is
pretty close to right? So I
think a lot of it has just
been that. Obviously a lot of
these times night has just
been on the winning team in
some of these matchups. Yeah
and people oftentimes will
think about well cap scaling
with picks like maybe and
where he was just getting solo kills after solo kills like he was playing incredibly well within the lane
So I really want to see what level we're gonna be seeing from caps because I was surprised seeing them go up against team secret
Well, one of the bloodiest teams in the world and matching fight-for-fight skirmish for skirmish. It was messy both series were messy that day
Yeah, so first day stage jitters or is it actually what it's gonna be about for both teams today
I want to know what the fans think at home in domestic arts than prediction
Okay, fans do not this
Yes, I am very surprised
We'll take it. I thought it was gonna be way more G2 favor. He's real. Oh
Okay, interesting never gonna trust that in my life. I'll take 57% against BLG
What do you guys think?
This one I'll say this actually pretty
Accurately describes my prediction, right? Okay, do I see you?
So your vote is for G2, right?
No.
Right?
But in terms of the closeness, I
said 3-2 BLG because I think given the edge that BLG solo
laners have, I do think that is what can set them over the edge,
despite the fact that sometimes they do get these leads
and then they throw them or they lose out to scaling.
However, yeah, I just think it might be closer than people
might think regarding BLG.
But I'm still going guilty and I have a little bit more confidence than but I need to hear from you with pressure on the line
You know, I'll give you I'll give this to you make your case out there. Listen
G2 started looking better at walls last year. They've been looking fantastic
Undefended in the LEC playoffs until they make it to final. It's creativity that made these teams strong
They did it in the past. They can't do it again BLG. They know them. They faced them before time and time again
Let's see if they come out on top
Last year, we didn't really fit in.
We didn't really fit in, but we couldn't really solve it.
So this year, we changed our coach's approach.
The players said we shouldn't play like we did last year.
So we tried to get along with each other a little bit.
So we've grown a little bit.
I think the team is very strong, and in their area, SK, you and their team are very strong, so we're going to prepare for the match to be very strong.
We believe in the team, and we have a lot of experience, and we learn how to control.
We can control the game, and it's not easy to get caught.
but I think he sees it super well in the first 10, the last year.
I would like to do much better than them and winning the trophy,
I think we all think the same.
AG2 is gonna look for what kind of strategies every time we play against each other.
It's like a banger against a very aggressive.
But there, it's fun to spot over the night.
I would be there going with confidence, me and the team.
G6 has been training for almost 24 years, and G6 has been helping them a lot.
For sure, I know that the support can play stuff like Elise, Camille,
with very cheesy stuff, especially in the later games.
I think we have a lot of champs that we didn't show yet, so we have counters too.
Now that G6 is talking about your BRG,
this is a very different BRG from the previous one.
Be careful.
The first group stage is coming to you.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to First Stand 2026.
It is time to find our first teams that will qualify through this group stage.
Captain Flowers joined by Kobe and our first two competitors looking to go two and zero and make it to the top four
We got G2 going up against BLG
So excited for this one flowers. You should it be a banger the international history here
The rivalry between these teams is mostly one and dominated by BLG flowers. Oh, yeah international tournaments BLG
The right international, they always win the series.
G2, they have taken games though.
So there is hope.
And where there is delusion, there is hope.
All right, we'll see if G2's-
Broke of Blades said, if G2's hope can stand tall
against BLG here today.
Both these teams already played one best of five so far.
Obviously, they won those best of fives
to get here to this position.
Now for G2, it was a three zero,
but two out of three of those games
We're really scrappy and really crazy.
For BLG, they were put to the test against B&K Borex,
going all the way to five games.
Yeah, I mean, it should be action-packed.
Both these teams also, you know,
super high combined kills per minute.
So very excited for this one.
They talked a little bit about the drafts too.
You know, Han is like,
oh, we got some sneaky picks here
that we've been practicing as well.
So I'm very excited and hope that we do go really deep
into Fearless for this series.
Obviously, On has played a bunch of really fun support picks.
Yeah, the Camille support, I love it.
I've always been a fan of Camille either support
or Jungle, Rommager had all of the play-skilling stuff.
What is a Nivea game, you know, shed support,
all that type of stuff could be really fun.
And honestly, it's just nice to see
shouldn't back on this BLG team.
It seems so much more at home.
And I feel like both the junglers in their previous series
did so much for all of their laners.
I thought both Scumand and Shen performed extremely well
in their series, you know,
and it did so much for their team.
So should be a good matchup.
All right, let's get right on into it then
for our first champion select powered by HyperX.
We've got G2 selecting first pick
and BLG in return responding by choosing the blue side.
BLG gonna ban out Orianna and Rumble
Focusing on those solo lanes, meanwhile on the other side, it's Verus, Karma and Jarvan
banned away by G2.
Yes, for the first game of Fearless, we stay pretty standard here.
I will say, Unara is always pretty high priority, but at the beginning there are
lots of answers into Unara.
I do like the Karma ban here as well though, because Karma Ezreal, the heavy poke lanes,
can be super super abusive.
vibrant on have certainly used those two success. So let's see they go with the rise option
here targeting the mid lane and mid lane champion boy is one that got affected by the patch
pretty significantly. So let's see about this. On the first pick they go by so you're
immediately thinking like to Leah options and stuff that are aria and to Leah those
types of things that combo with five for heavy heavy single target kill pressure.
Alright PLG, how do you want to respond to that single target kill pressure?
The power of diving a carry that Vi provides.
We want to see if they also want to place some priority on the jungle, because once Vi's locked in,
you don't really have to focus jungle as your first pick.
You know Vi's not going to go anywhere else.
And so, what you can do when you see Vi though, because Vi is not very strong early in 1v1 scenarios.
For junglers, we're usually thinking, hell yeah, what can I pick to invade?
Yeah, just crap with our force fights early at the very least against the Vi you know pre six
You can have a really good time and so Zinn is definitely a premier one of those duelists
Yeah, and over on the G2 side as soon as they see that ash and Zinn locked in it was a fast lock on the Cine Nautilus for the bottom
Yeah, they've got the CC ready. So if you decided to go for a Seraphine Ash lane
You know they've got Senna scaling picking up souls and Nautilus the force fights here
But BLG, they can force fights of their own.
Ash Arrow was combined with whatever.
Okay, so they were just hovering some supports there.
In the end, the Ambesa's still up.
And that feels like a lock for Bin.
Yup, and not only is it a lock for Bin.
Remember, Ambesa can still be flexed into the jungle.
We could see it.
Potentially go either bot.
If you want to put the Zin where?
Zin top?
Okay, that would make it back.
That would make it back.
You put it through that, right?
I'm going to try to always add these little asteroids.
You got a 1% chance because the 1% of the time that it works, I'm going to look like a G.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, you should also mention could go mid lane too, then, because you could flex the
embassy mid lane if you like.
Okay.
You want to get your 1% understanding?
All right.
Let's go down to the 0.5% embassy mid lane.
You're the type to bet on almost every number, except like 0-0s on roulette, right?
Yeah.
We've got flowers like, I'm going to cover everything here.
It's a 50-50.
You hit it or you don't.
That's the way it works.
All right.
But let's get into our second half of the bands here.
With that Embessa, most likely going top,
they are going to ban out the Renekton,
which traditionally is one of those champions
that can do decent into the Embessa.
It'll have just fine and a lane.
It'll get by all kinds of easy.
And Seraphine banned out by G2.
You're already talking about how Senna and Nautilus
are going to be able to dive into the Ash Seraphine combo
and put some pressure onto it,
but they still let her not deal with that dynamic duo.
And Jax will also be banned out.
So two protection bans, they're for the Embessa.
and flowers. You know, you mentioned the Renekton and the Jax. Those are two very, very common,
you know, picks into the Ambeza. But Brokenblade is a chef. Brokenblade, he's like a four-star
chef, okay? He can cook and stuff like, oh, volleyball or something as a, like, really
good lane counter to Ambeza are up. So, you never know with Brokenblade how hard
wants to cook very early into a series, but Broken Bled having counter pick could make that
a little bit more spicy. Let's see if they actually do it. Of course, they do have a pretty big enabling
team on G2 at the moment, so it takes a while to scale up and really do damage, but they have all
their engaged coverage. So you're just looking at solo lane carries for the G2 side. Meanwhile,
We did mention Shen supports from on, and he definitely likes it, and that would be my
assumption here, although your flexible opportunities flowers.
I don't know how Zimshauer and Fessa would do it support, so I think I'm going to agree
with you.
I'm going to take the bet that it's probably Shen down there, but hey, we heard from Hans
in the preview at the top of the day.
He knows that On is going to play some wacky supports, and Shen fits right into
that slot.
be ash Shen versus Senna Nautilus in the bottom lane. They're going to lock the poppy on the
G2 side because there is a lot of mobility within Shen and Mbessa for Poppy to deny with
steadfast presence. Final pick of the draft for G2 will be Annie for Caps.
Yeah. And we talked about, you know, Broken Blades counters and he's going for a more
like nullifying style counter in this one. So wow, G2, I mean, they're tanky flowers.
Oh yeah. G2, G2 has got a pretty beefy tanky team here. And it does have burst
potential. So we'll see if they can get through it. But BOG, they got some anti-burst. They added a
Galio on top of the Shen. So both Galio and Shen have an anti-burst opportunity here for the Vine,
like any targets. Some pretty good answers on the BOG side as well. I like how you say Vine
and any target world. Well, any like four tanking units, and then you have an ash. So
This is a protect the president com galeo shen zin jiao can knock everybody away with the art with the ultimate
It's going to be a lot of pressure on viper. You know that skewmont and caps and even the support right?
You're gonna have labrame also trying to drop those death charges on viper constantly so much focus
I feel like on g2 will be focused towards viper and blg's got to be ready to protect him
Yeah, it's a good point to bring up flowers because honestly viper has not looked uh
You know, at his best, he really, he has shown some mistakes in the previous series, especially,
you know, I thought in the early part of that series, his Ezreal game, he had this really aggressive arcane shift in
that got both him and on killed, just 2v2 and lane.
And then he also rushed some games where Shudder was in really good position to gank bottom lane,
and he just like positioned too far up too early and, you know, gave up some kills there.
So yeah, I think it is good to have a magnifying glass on Viper actually.
All right, loading onto the rift for game number one here.
BLG versus G2.
Reminder, first stand is a very fast, very explosive tournament.
In this group stage, it's two wins, you're through, two losses, you are out.
So whichever team wins this best of five will be in the top four.
They will make it into our very compressed bracket stage.
And you would love to just be cruising into that part of the tournament with a 2-0 with an undefeated streak here in
Terms of series at least so let's see how it goes down here with the Senna Nautilus versus the Ash Shen
I'm not gonna lie to you Kobe. I don't really know a lot about Shen supports matchups
Shen honestly is is pretty good at scrapping
So let's see how aggressively on wants to play it and he goes for the early talk to get the cleanse
immediately finds that summoner spell there from Han Sama so could provide the
opportunity potentially for an early gank especially considering Shun is starting
top to bottom. Exactly flowers on always trying to set up stuff for Shun to be
able to have opportunities and since Shun is on the Zin matchup into a Vi you
know you you're not even too scared if it was matched and since it is not
matched and junglers are path in opposite directions they will have a
clear path. Of course you see that kind of defensive ward down there in the
river. They're trying to look out for any extra aggressive moves from this in,
but here is the overall record of these two teams. His bottom lane is scrapping
pretty heavily flowers, but we can safely go over.
Oh, maybe we can't all. There's not very safe anymore.
Runs down the first ball.
The slowest, the slowest, the slowest, the first blood of the G2!
And the root hits, Bipers are going to claim the cleanse from the hash as well.
G2 responds to the aggro of BLG and they will find first blood.
Okay, as the graphic is playing, the overall record between these two teams at right international tournaments,
Lebron and Hansalma say, yeah, I don't care if we haven't had a series yet.
Shun is down here, though. He might be able to. It's sir!
All right, Shun, looking for it.
He knows there's no flash on Han Sama.
LeBrov gonna be your first target here,
but a win becomes lightning, does connect on the center.
He doesn't get a third of the talent strikes.
As LeBrov tries to get away, the flash is down.
G2, however, does not lose a man,
and they'll be happy with this.
When your center lane is doing this well early,
well, flowers, we've got more action.
Okay, Ben's now the one who could be in some danger.
Scumonder with a ball there with a ball breaker,
but does not collide with the ambassador.
Beautiful job escaping there.
Bybin doesn't lose a ton of health, but he does have to spend his flash
Honestly not disappointed already are you know come on the combined kills per minute from these two teams the action here starting very early
Bottom lane, okay. Yeah on did go in and die at first blood
But remember he also died first blood when he was playing the Camille support
Then he started roaming around and making a bunch of plays we should
and linking up with the jungler so yeah we'll see we'll see here if the shen is
able to bounce back but this is so good for g2 having the bottom lane here
return and it is just on again these aggressive talks from him but he gets
locked up with the center route and then they go for the chase another hook
here from LeBrov lands and with that flash even with the slow Viper trying
And that attempt at appeal ends up also costing Viper the cleanse, like we mentioned in the
moment that Summoner Spell still has about half the cooldown remaining, so the bottom
lane of BLG is going to have to play cautiously.
Alright, boots of swiftness, just one shot that perches for Hans too.
It's so hard to punish the Zenonite, whoa, whoa, Nite, underneath the turret, caps,
This is the Flash to block the Justice Punch to guarantee that his opponent is going to take
the Turret Agro.
Nice move there, has now bottom laners once again, a 2v2 battle.
Viper finds a little bit of damage, BLG has the health bar advantage, but I really like that
cheeky play from Kat over in mid.
Yeah, I definitely do too, they trade Flashes, so now mid lane is a good gank opportunity,
obviously bottom lane is a good gank opportunity for ours, and so is top lane because Skoumont
already ganked top and they got the Flash out of bin.
So this is the jungler's paradise flowers.
This is what really put junglers to the test is when you have to balance so many like volatile
lanes that have opportunities, but also you have to farm, you have to keep your farm up,
get to your level six, and get to your scuttle crab fights.
First of all, we're not even going to have the scuttle crab spawn before dragon because
Shun is going to take this one while Skumond is on topside.
So he's going to get the extra little experience boost from this dragon off their
pushing bottom lane.
And that is going to do some nice things for him, but there are so many opportunities to
find kills in this game with so many laners flashes being down.
Well you pointed out, hey, this is a test of your ability to make sound judgments as
a jungler, and I feel like if you're shown you're happy, stealing away that first drake
five and a half minutes into the game, guaranteeing that G2 can't contest because of the state
of bot lane like you were talking about.
Yeah, you want to try and take advantage while, before the center has souls, right?
That's why they keep on scrapping.
keep on looking for these fights because before the center has souls you you know
should be able to get advantages it's just that g2 outplayed them and got their
early kill on the Han Sama which we said he invested in movement speed the
boots of swiftness allow center to dodge out so many games she's already
hard to catch and pretty slippery with the shroud but with the extra movespeed
it goes so to long way and then of course reduces the effectiveness of
of that ass attempted feel that we were talking about
with those slows.
Top lane is not looking so fun for Broken Blade right now.
Bin does have total control over this 1v1.
Up about two waves of CS right now.
And you can see Broken Blade taking a recall.
He does not have his teleport cooldown back yet.
So this is going to be some minions lost.
Luckily it is a cannon wave,
so that should absorb most of this for him.
But Bin will be happy with the lead
that he's built for himself.
And again, don't go flamin' Broken Blade
for like, ah, Philip, Counter Pick or whatever.
It's like an attempted nullifying pick, you know, and trying to use it to shut down mobility like you were talking about.
But Bin is doing a really good job taking advantage of it and punishing him for that.
Even with the G2 jungle pressure up there, Bin is making a very, very sound investment here.
Grabbing turret plates as well as such a big farm lead.
Yep, the way that I'm going to judge Broken Blade's efficacy on this pick is what he stopped with the Steadfast presence in the team fights.
Because there's so much stuff that's pretty easily telegraphed, right?
And Bessa, if she's anywhere, she's dashing.
That's just what the character does.
Just as Pontiom Gallio is very easy to react to the steadfast presence, too.
And then Shinon on, also, having those big dashes.
So Broken Blade, yeah, the lane's going to suck,
but you're going to have a lot of opportunities to make the team
fights really short.
And Ben, you know, deserves credit.
He's making it suck for Broken Blade more than it's supposed to suck.
Okay.
He's leveling it up.
Yeah, he's doing quite a good job.
Ooh, captain, some danger now, though.
So here comes the taunt into the three-pallon strike.
Shun providing some health there tonight.
And the Wings of War will blow down Cap.
BLG are on the board.
Nice punishment here.
We talked about all the flashes being downflowers.
They go mid.
Shun is able to find efficacy there as well.
Turret plate after the kill.
It is a cannon wave as well,
so the cannon is going to die there.
Cap does not have teleport to get back.
Ascumon will take the opportunity
to sneak into the Grub's pit, though,
and at least get some objectives here for G2,
given the fact that BLG already got the early dragon.
You know, wants to slip in here and get something back.
Yep, and he's got Broken Blade up there as well
in the state of the top lane.
Perfectly favors G2 being able to secure
all three of the grubs.
So, Sfumon will complete that.
Broken Blade hanging around just to make sure
nobody is in the area to try to mess with him.
Important to note right now,
on is about 90% of the way to level six,
so keep your eyes on the stand united.
This is one of the longest cooldown ultimates in the game, it's like three minutes or something, if I'm recalling correctly.
So when On uses this early on in the game, we really need to see it result in either preventing a kill or making a kill happen.
If you use the channel and it gets wasted, it feels so bad.
Yeah, it certainly does. On though, River Shen activated.
Alright, roaming around and he's actually accomplished so much when he links up with Shen.
We talked about it last time, but Cap's nice little speed boost right here, just with the shield,
able to evade the Gallio setup, and they have plenty of wards there to see some of the travelers
through this river and through this attempt at Cap's life, so Cap avoids it nicely.
All right, we've got one minute on the clock until our next Drake spawn.
It's going to be a very early second Drake, because the first Drake only got to be alive
for about 30 seconds before Shun secured it for BLG. Considering this second drake might
result in a fight, I want to check in on where all the gold is at right now, where G2 has the
advantage in the bottom lane support and AD carry both with individual leads, but it is the solo
laners for BLG, and we heard the analyst desk talk about that at the top of the day. Emily,
I believe, was the one who mentioned that the power of the solo lanes, the skill of Knight and
Ben is going to be something that G2 needs to prove they can stand toe-to-toe with if they want to be able to win this bestifier.
Yeah, something everybody who plays against them is going to have to deal with and one of the greatest strengths.
You know, BLG, it's always so fun to watch their skirmishes.
These early stages just are so exciting where they can get skirmishes throughout the river and it's...
Oh, the force of the flash on caps there with the arrow.
If that collides, caps is 100% dead, but having to use the flash also feels so bad.
any flash gibbers is the character it's why you draft this champion and now
perhaps won't have that opportunity for the next five minutes to a flash coming
in from on here's your heroic interest but night is just a little bit too late
there there's opponents we're able to get away
with the solo kill at the top they're not going to see the replay of how that would have happened
PV with the beautiful solo on the pins amba
there it is
Nullified! Nice job! Broken blade!
Solo, Bolo, and LeBrov had avoided the Galio ult on bottom side. G2 winning everywhere.
Even though Caps does take a large chunk of HP, they're still on the dragon.
Okay, but Onum Viper nearby. So is Knight. Treads line onto Onum.
The Ocean Drake is already secured. Now BLG's gotta try to get away.
Defensive taunt from Onum Viper is in the wrong side of the map.
Shun with the air. Wind becomes lightning and the audacious charge.
Look at the push of damage on the Huntsama.
Also staying alive with about 280 feet.
Rebound is low, but G2 is fine.
Gnomic shadow fired.
Even the BLG have bars.
BLG wants something, but they can't get anything back.
G2! Find another kill and the dragon.
Alright, there it is on fire right now, flowers.
Wait a second, Cap. So he does not have flash,
so Knight wants to mess around.
Knight lands the taunt. There are just a few mods as he goes in.
Shun still following behind his mid laners.
On the rise here to the stand united!
That's what I said earlier Kobe that Shen ulti has to result in something and so far it results in a kill
Viper's still hanging around tier two three G2 players underneath the tier one tour a compromised health bars
But BLG doesn't have the resources to try to dive them
Yeah, I mean they got to calm down now
The pace was really really accelerated there for a while, you know with a big investment
They invested the flash from Shen and the galley ult to start that play on the brawl
way back when flowers before broken blade had solo killed been as well but and
that was a big investment at the not attempt on the Nautilus's life and
LeBrov just flashed out of the range so really good sequence from G2 afterwards
skumann stays on the dragon he finishes the objective then they go for the turn
and they know the Shen has no flash from last time he tried to use it on
LeBrov and then they focus him down so Hans is able to flash to safety and
And Scumar just stays on that Shen.
They get their kill.
But remember, Flowers, this fight goes so long,
that Shen that just died is going to get back up.
And Olphe is remaining.
And Olphe back into the fight here right on top of Knight
on his back.
His action score is staying very, very high in this game.
Right after he dies, gets back up.
And Olphe back into the action.
That G2 fan jumped up out of his seat.
He was excited.
I love the crowd here in Brazil, man.
Has been scrambling with Broken Blade yet again.
Keepers verdicts over the point blank.
Reigns with a side step away from the ultimate.
Public execution doesn't hit, but it doesn't matter.
Broken Blade's already dead as Shun wants to make it a second run on to Sku-Mann,
but nice patience there from Sku.
Getting away with the vault breaker, providing enough distance from Shun
to guarantee that he survives, except maybe not.
Because here comes River Shen.
He wants to get that last little bit of damage,
but he just doesn't have it.
and have it skewmon stays alive but the pressure is there for BLG in the top
side of the map. Lock it of the iron salarie shen, not enough damage to finish off Lock it
doesn't do enough skewmon. But they did have a really good play and credit to Viper.
The Ash arrow is what stuck that all off. Ash arrow from downtown meanwhile Knights,
fairly tanky. Yeah he takes a bit of the beating loses about half his health bar but
again we're still pretty early on in the game. Hans is not a powerhouse yet on the Senna.
He has the static shift to provide the extra wave clear.
There's your coin-based gold grind kind of showing where our AD carries are at.
So far in this game, over all it's 1,000 gold lead for BLG, so it's still very close over the first 14 minutes of the game.
Yeah, and they also got to add the sole grind flowers for Han Solo here.
Because that is also a critical part to the scaling of this champion, of course.
Looks like he is going for the Black Cleaver style build here on Senna afterwards as well, so
going to have that extra shred between him and Vi, and oh, really nice replay from the observers.
The Ash arrow that we were talking about got a shot here from Viper from downtown in it.
Went through the terrain, so BB didn't have opportunity to dodge that at all, just unfortunate for him.
He got sniped by Viper and Bitten gets to get the kill.
Good shot from Viper and now BLG are deciding
they are going to go for the Rift Herald.
It is desynced from the Dragon Timer.
You still see about 60 seconds on the clock
until that third drake of the game spawns.
Bitten has control, he has priority
and push in the top lane.
So that means it's difficult for Broken Blade
to try to rotate and respond to this.
It's a free Herald for Shun and BLG.
Okay, see if they actually want to use that mid
at some point so they can actually open up the map here.
Because if you've got Galio and Shen on your team,
if you can take that mid lane and then start to move your vision
in through both sides of the jungle, you put so much pressure
on them when they're rotating between objectives,
especially with how they've been playing
and the heavy engages that have gone off.
The late trades are so nasty from knife on to capture.
The hallowed radiance completed with the quest evolved boots.
This Galio is scary for the Annie to feel with.
Yeah, Annie, this whole game has really been taking a beating with the pace of the game.
We'll see if he does end up getting to make a big tipper's play or something, but as you said,
it's a full-completed item on the Galio anyway.
Ooh, nice arrow from Viper, but a nice buffer through with the Fredge line.
Comes out from LeBrav, staying safe for now.
Knight arrives with a taunt, but another good buffer from LeBrav.
He gets hit by two powerful CCs and he gets away from both of them by Spidermaning back to the terrain
However, now there's no arrow on the ass now the dragon is already alive cats coming around
He has the flash available here for the tippers if G2 wants to try to fight, but no it's on driving the herald
A combat drift herald got him to knock down the tier one turret and now he goes into the taunt right after
Scumon's the only one who gets caught but the heroic entrance is ready to follow up
Shen wants a little more but G2 disengages in time
Timbers dies, BLG will take the dragon, they'll take the turret right after, and Mr. Colby, they've taken a nearly 3,000 gold lead!
Yep, Bin took Broken Blade's life while they were taking the dragon, and he's gonna take the tower on topside afterwards too.
So, yep, BLG accelerating pretty quickly here.
First we got Shen's Revenge, now it's Bin's Revenge.
Yeah, so it's interesting because you want to hear what the comms were like too of the dragon fight because
both of them on top side can interrupt each other's heliports and so they're both like keeping range on each other
and then it ends up with Bin having the open terrain fight here opportunity to take down broken blades.
So nice stuff there from Bin, broken blade, gonna work on his fimble winter and get extra tanky next
so you can provide some value in the team fights.
Now he wants to be tanky for the team fights,
want to be in there with his dead fast presence
with the rest of the team so he can block these dashes
on the side of BLG.
I don't know if they're going to get the chance here.
BLG doing a very good job accelerating,
so the next dragon, they're going to have a really good
setup and you can see they're already taking
the opportunity to try and get really deep vision
in the jungle.
The earlier you get your vision down,
leading up to important dragon fights,
the easier it is to track.
enemy's vision and set up the next set of wards for yourself so this although
it's very long until the next dragon it already votes quite well for BLG setup
so when I checked in earlier it was BLG solo lanes with the lead but the bottom
lane of G2 pulling ahead over their counterparts now when you look at the
scoreboard everyone except for the jungle is pretty significantly ahead on the
BLG side. If you're G2, how do you stabilize this? How do you make it so, okay, let's just keep scaling, keep farming souls for Hans without
BLG, just snowballing it further. I mean, it's pretty hard, but they are going to have to choose their moment and, you know, look for the big tippers play from
Caps. I mean, you know, he can actually start it off multiple ways. Obviously, they have Vi and they have Nautilus too, but they have to get their big surprise play
here. Maybe carve out some some vision for themselves like they've just done. We
are mentioning all the setup and look at that. It's all turned red now. All the
wards. So LeBrov and Skeumann's able to clear out a lot of these wards and get
themselves a pathway here to set up that big play. We'll say of course,
Homs always scaling here, always stacking up the soul. Since Black
Cleaver we were talking about is also completed. So they can shred. They
can really shred through front line by Denton Glowes, Black Cleaver on
the Senna. We'll see what they decide to go with here. Until the big moment though,
they're just trying to safely tend to their side lanes. It's a little bit difficult because
of the Shen and the Galio that we mentioned, but they're doing it fairly nicely right now.
You just have that reset. Caps goes back out. He can just catch top side. He has his
teleport ready. No problem. And you're talking about the second item being done
on the Senna. There's second items coming out in a couple of different places here
as well. Viper with the phantom dancer completed for Ash. Spear of Shogun done
for Ben makes Ambesa so much more obnoxious to deal with in the fights
with the extra cooldowns, the extra power there. As the brawl gets tagged by a
volley but not a whole lot more. Dredge line from the brawl not gonna hit a
target there. G2 does have four men here in the mid lane while Knight
pushes bottom and you can see Ben pushing top while on and Viper just
defend, hold the line here in mid. Shun continues clearing his camps.
He's now caught back up to Schumann in terms of individual gold.
60 seconds, a little bit more remains before our next dragon is going to spawn.
I'm curious if G2 will want to fight for this.
It's still only two drakes for BLG, so they won't get the soul just yet.
And taking a fight in open ground with a 3k gold deficit at 20 minutes can be pretty scary.
Yeah, definitely can.
They could opt for maybe top side play.
They could cross map, maybe finish off the rest of that turret or something.
and exchange some gold for it and just keep Honsama stacking souls or they have the flashes ready so
Okay, it'll be interesting to see the decision BLG here of course trying to keep track of both
And then is able to push out the topside first. So Ben should always be able to get first move
He's two item and best of very threatening with his spear of sojourn done
Okay
So looking at the scoreboard every summoner spell for both teams available except for the cleanse from Hans
Skumon gets stunned up by the arrow.
Knight wants to follow in for the taunt, but a nice interrupt from LeBron
means that BLG will not be able to chain CC the enemy jungler.
However, Skumon has lost about 40% of his HP, with 10 seconds left until the objective is on the map.
G2 however, have first walk into the river.
Shun with the rest of BLG here in the mid lane.
As you're going to see a TP coming in from Bin off to the side.
He wants the pincer attack on the Ambesa.
There's no wards to see where he is from the G2 squad.
This BLG, waiting for now. G2 starting up to Drake.
On goes in for the top. A broken blade, FedFast presence is going to block it.
Little bit of damage comes out from Viper. Cap for the defensive timbers.
G2 scrambling to try to defend himself as Shun jumps into the middle.
And now Bin has joined the battle and Schumann is already down.
They continue charging forward and BLG wants more blood.
Shun chasing after Cap. Viper slashes away to stay alive on the block.
It's going to be the sacrifice. Shun dies to broken blade.
blade as it's one for one it's both the junglers Kobe the dragon's still in the
map and there's nobody with smite still standing oh yeah I mean they got so
split in that fight it does end up in one for one so you do get some gold back
but it's still gonna be dragon number three and setting up BLG for soul
coming in five minutes let's see so then you mentioned the top what really
early on he comes in he gets his big shield for his top lane quest and they
Choose their moment once they see the split and all the initiations going the other way.
Broken Blade did get the Poppy ultimate, but Shen and Galio both just ult in anyway.
Shen tries to go over the wall and then chase on Caps, and that's where Broken Blade is able to kill for Caps though.
And answer the kills and take out enemy jungle.
Despite that kind of defensive one kill going back the way of G2 though,
BLG still accomplished their goal, get their third dragon,
We're looking towards the infernal soul here to add that extra damage.
Yeah, infernal soul. Sometimes different souls can feel like they're better or worse in different games.
I feel like infernal soul always feels good just having that extra burst potential there.
As the gold lead has shrank back down below 3,000, so G2 will feel good about that.
And it looks like they might be looking to make a move towards Knight here as Broken Blade tackles him into the wall.
Captain Skumond both coming in to follow up.
Knight tries to get away, but Knight's stunned from camp,
locks him up before he makes it over to the blast cone.
Yeah, he gets away from Skumond,
but he walks right back in towards the other two
and Skumond takes the kill anyway.
G2 gets their fifth one.
Yeah, great movement here for Broken Blade.
You know, as soon as he's like,
oh, Knight is going to trade on me,
he starts walking for a good angle on his charge
and ensures that the extra members of G2
can get that kill.
On?
Finding himself taking a little bit
of unnecessary damage here.
He flashes away from skumon, the depth charge is on the BLG support, however, he flashes
underneath the turret and that makes it too dangerous for G2 to follow up.
And you're still going to have to worry about bin.
This Ambesa is going to get really really scary here, honestly already is.
Bin during the bottom side play, where G2 sent three people across the mini map there,
was able to get that secondary turret on the top side.
So bin working out on the split push up there, and we'll keep track because
level 16 here for him. Definitely very threatening steel sigil in the inventory means that we're
going to get something like a guardian angel or death stand something that's going to be
that much more obnoxious on this champion that already creates so much pressure. The
tier one turret down here in the bottom lane for BLG is just barely standing a single auto
attack from any champion is going to knock that over. Caps drops tippers trying to
hit viper with it but really doesn't get a whole lot of value out of that ultimate.
It's totally fine though. There's nothing really big to fight for unless for some reason somebody starts a YOLO Baron
Two and a half minutes on the clock still until what will be the infernal soul for BLG spawns and G2 will have to be ready for that
The good news for them is the goalie continues to shrink. We went from about three and a half thousand down to about two and a half thousand
Now we're below 2k the lead for BLG and that's five minutes later on in the game than when we had the three and a half thousand lead
So honestly G2 is probably feeling a lot better about taking this fair fight in the river against BLG to stop the soul
Yeah, I think I'm gonna keep my eyes on is how much damage they're able to actually output hex
Optics here though for Han Sama are completed
So Senate does get the third item in time and they definitely do need that every little bit of damage on this comp
Really is going to be meaningful
So you're gonna have to keep track of BLG how they use their shields the Gallio shield and the Shen shield
Those will be critical as well in setting up for this one.
G2 trying to get some early positioning, but didn't split push on top side always means
BOG gonna have the early push and early move.
And I like the going for executioners here, going for mortal reminder for Viper at the third item.
Not only are you gonna cut the center healing, but you're going to really reduce the effectiveness of that
protoplasm harness on the broth Nautilus has now broken blade.
throws up the keeper's verdict.
They want to kind of burst on down.
Over here comes the hero's entrance to reinforce.
On just barely leaves with about 50 HP.
He had to make sure he stayed away from the dredge line.
Here's Schimard, the defensive ulti here too.
BLG forced away by G2.
Unfortunately for the European team,
there's still about 60 seconds left until that dragon spawns,
so it's not going to guarantee that they can stop the soul.
But they definitely went out in health bars.
They're going to force BLG to back off.
Interesting because Broken Blade, no flash now.
And he used his heal, but didn't die, as you say, and is just going to be able to reset here,
so BLG is still in a good position mid.
Yep, and there's your flash away from Skumon.
So now this sequence, in the past 30 seconds, Broken Blade, Skumon, and LeBron have all used
flashes on the G2 zone.
Exactly, and that's what you're looking for leading up to the dragon.
Now 30 seconds though on the dragon, what those flashes did get G2 is position.
Position with control wards in the river. Let's see if that actually matters
BLG still trying to take out this mid lane tier one turret of G2 that has refused to fall the entire game thus far
TP coming in broken blade joins up for the rest of G2 on looking to
You the first one into the scrap here set fast presence
Is it gonna block anything immediately on tackle back into the wall LeBron taking a time?
Oh, David's win becomes lightning shuns creating space here with the ulti but LeBron is still alive
The Windsor's will acclaim his life as NICE could be taken low and he's taken out.
T-Rex is making a lot of space, but in goes BIN.
Down goes Broken Blade.
Cass is the one who gets the kill, better than NICE, but the wind becomes lightning.
Finds the Annie.
BIN's gotta be careful here.
Han Sama still has a lot of luck.
Aperture's public execution!
BIN's gonna blow everybody!
Abessa tears G2 apart!
Triple kill for BLG Top Lader!
Oh, this puts him in the dumpster flowers.
What a turn from Bissem Besse.
He put him in the dumpster.
He took him out to the curb.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
he called the garbage collection company early
because Finn is having no more of it.
BLG with a crazy play from their top laner.
And G2 definitely want that one back.
We warned you.
You're going to have to worry about Finn.
The Amdessa is getting so scary, but the double ult from Broken Blade at the beginning is really big.
Turns it into a 3v5.
But look, Viper, he's trying to pepper from the side here.
Knight survives for a fairly long time, as does Bin, and Bin is the one doing all this work.
Then, he starts to be like, oh, do we have to really respect this Senna?
It's so annoying already with three items, the range, it's starting to get bad, but Bin says, no, I don't care!
And the best part about this replay, this whole team, look at the mini map, they were leaving.
The rest of BLG were leaving, going to dragon, they were going to do the objective as Bin said,
I don't care, I see the angle. They're all grouped up, I'm going in with the ult, I get the triple effectiveness there.
He hit everybody. Insane.
Bin, when he's in form, is just such a monster. This Ambesa, 7-1, and when he is 7 out of 10 of the kills on his team,
He just got as many kills in the cleanup of that fight as the rest of the team has put together and also all of those are on night
Then is for sure G2 father
Show it. He's got a QSS flowers. Oh my goodness. He is just
He's out of control. All right. It's a 7000 gold lead plus an infernal soul plus Baron for BLG
G2 have got to make a miraculous defense here at this point
All five grouped up dredged line hits shun immediate defensive Zenalty in response
He's going to stop G2 from going any further forward right now.
Shem's going to pop the blast cone just so it can't interfere if any fights do break out.
Han's broken blade in the brawl trying to defend his caps, answering Knight over in the mid lane here at the same time.
They're in empowered cannon minions. Two of them continuing to chip away at this turret HP.
BLG on the push.
Another volley hits and the volley is so nasty with the infernal soul, Koby.
It feels like it doubles the damage of the thing as there goes the tears we've enjoyed in the bottom lane.
Pressure continues over in there, LeBlanc just gonna die.
Bin, legendary, eight kills here on the Ambesa.
Tippers was used, there's no way now for them to have that big initiation.
Broken Blade and the rest of G2 trying to defend, but they have to do a 4v5 for the next 30 seconds.
I don't even know if BLG is gonna give them the chance.
There's two cannon minions, still the artillery power of BLG putting the pressure onto the turrets.
Broken Blade stepping forward, trying to create some space, buy a little bit of time.
But he's down below half HP, it's very, very dangerous.
Even for the Tanki Pompy, the Cannon Minions
will take out that first Nexus turret.
And BLG have now claimed two inhibitors, one Nexus turret.
And the back of G2 is broken.
And it was broken by then.
I mean, honestly, no matter what side you are on,
even European fans, you have to marvel
at Ben at the international stage,
when he is at his best, when he is just performing.
It is so fun to watch.
And this is aftermath, of course, the previous,
the previous players where I've been to all the work,
he's gonna do a little more work here.
He's like, all right, you know, I'm gonna dash in
and snipe LeBron, one more kill.
But the reason BOG are wearing Infernal Soul
and Baron right now, also are because of him.
In it to win it, this dude is putting
in so much heavy lifting in game number one.
Viper with a nice arrow onto caps.
There's your talk flash from on to follow it up.
Defensive tippers isn't going to matter.
The bear's going to get removed from the rift immediately.
And now with the mid laner dead for 45 seconds,
you have to think this is the game ending push here for BLG.
Viper might be below half-eight-two
but he's already got a Guardian Angel.
BLG are gonna take the fight now.
Skumon in the back line with a Dominic Shadow
over the top.
Viper is dropping low but the GA is still there.
Shun retreating back to stop the diver's friendship
to on guide to Han Sama.
Shun is still low.
Resurrection's gonna come out onto Skumon
his own guardian angel. Broken Blade escapes off to the side but Scumod is down!
They continue to go...
The fight is caught! G2! This is their last gaff in game one. Knight takes the kill on the
brawl, BLG has a 5v1. There's nothing Broken Blade can do to defend it. That Nexus is not
long for this world. Can they get the Ace at the very end right on the step to the
I found my believe they can!
Ace for Bin and BLG, game one!
Go their way!
Huh, flowers, I wonder who people will vote for player of the game?
I do not know.
Coffee, I am truly perplexed.
I truly am confused and wonder analyst-esque.
What do you think?
Don't care, didn't ask you guys.
Guys, I'm tired of this bin guide over and over again.
Every international event, he's adding a,
I'm starting on Europe, later he's book collection.
Like guys, can we, bin, can you stop?
Can you chill?
You're good, we get it, you're really good.
You don't have to start on us every time.
So Emily, on Pog, right?
On Pog?
No.
I'm the camera, I'm the game.
No, we, I mean.
It's fine, it's game one.
Yeah.
What was it about though?
I mean, it was about getting ahead and I will say this when we were looking at your ass. Yeah, I was like
Where's the damage coming?
We have this right where
Is it we're going to be able to see kind of this is been preparing for a really great flank onto Schumann
Yeah, and the one thing I wanted to point out here before we actually started out was basically poppy
Doesn't have any real targets to all if she alts out the galeo a galeo is gonna be able to re-enter the fight with
If you ult out the Shen and if you play the rest of the game out because they're protecting their backline, yes, you ult out on, guess what, Shen ult is right back into the fight and they get their engage.
So it's really difficult from Poppy's perspective, even with the solo kill that happened top lane, it's like, well, how are you going to actually start the fights out?
But after all of this, actually, it was still only one for one trade in this fight, right?
right? And so the big thing is when we were looking at these comps, we were like, okay, if G2 is able to
really play front to back with the Senna, then they can get some damage done. But this game was so much
slower than what I ever expected of BLG. So with this composition, they got so tinky, this was their
combined comp per minute from day one. And now we're going to swap to...
What happened today?
Today, which is just before, in the first part of the game,
I believe, yeah, day one, they were 5.8 and 6 kills at 14.
This game was 3 versus 3, much slower game.
But guess who got ahead?
Who?
Bins.
Yes, he did.
And so now, we have to show that.
I'm sorry, Laura.
We have to show the.
It's fine.
I'm used to it.
We have a seed out here for her.
Can we like, so we can just, like.
just so you could chill out for a little bit.
We absolutely have to show this is going to be a pretty long
and extended team fight.
It initially looks not so bad for G2, right?
Like Hans is here.
He's kind of free-hitting.
They try to get on to him.
But then, you know, Knight comes in.
We still have Hans.
He's still firing.
It's like, OK, OK, we're good.
But no, Ben just decides he's going to be able to go in.
He's already so far ahead.
That's the end of the fight, right?
No what? No.
No.
Are you sure?
Because there comes Vin.
He's going to go back in.
BAM!
Public to execution, gets right onto Hansama,
Katz, immediate triple kill.
You know what?
Let's replay that fight one more time.
Can we replay that fight one more time?
No, it's fine.
We get it.
OK.
Robert, honestly, really good, really clean on this side
of the algae.
Guys, I say the algae too.
I want them to sink.
Are we doing that again?
No, come on.
Yes!
Come on!
Oh my god!
I'm gonna fight you!
I'm gonna do anything else, he wants the shot!
We'll just leave it playing in the back.
We should go and go surprise you! Our player of the game!
Yeah, player of the game!
Surprise me!
I'm...
Grand, I'm gonna...
I'm coming to the MC after this one!
That was super clean.
Good thing, Mbessa is gonna go on the ban list for the next one.
Guys, what do we want to see for the next game?
here because I said about G2 I want them to sing outside the box now I want them
to go back in the box a bit you don't have to make it over the complicated for
yourself it's a democracy I want to see what the fans out there chose because we
are all aligned on bin I would oh oh that makes sense that makes sense yeah a
little bit yes in terms of what do we go for next I think you go for the same
kind of strategy because at least for BLG, even though you don't have access to the to the
Ambassador, you still have like a great York player, a great Jax player, anything that can
play heavily through sides.
I still like the idea from G2 initially like the moment I saw the Senna pick, I'm like
okay, Senna, Vi, Annie, you want to be able to make a play through Mid lane, you can
do that.
If you want to be able to make a play through top side and trying to find a pick, I
like the idea.
The damage was pretty minimum, which I didn't like too much.
But yes, it didn't really pan out, did it?
It doesn't start with success. It starts with delusion and as long as there's delusion there's hope and as long as we can play ambessa
Again, maybe that's gonna help us BLG super strong start here in game one. Let's see if you can come back next one
Everybody, episode 10 G2 report.
You might as down, they can come on.
The money is caught.
G2, this is their last gap in game one.
H for men in BLG, game one goes their way.
We want to play the game
We don't have time, game time, game time
They've got to slip on a landmine
How many kick-ups can you do?
Four
Six
Seven
Okay.
Jhulma, can you beat four?
I was right.
Okay.
Jhulma, can you beat four?
I was right.
Okay.
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What do you believe in the recipe for destiny is resting where your dreams is no question in your dreams here
We give him an extremes here if you want to test they on the bench you won't achieve here
I mean on the spot being volatile on coming for impossible
The reason I don't sit down around and come back is an option
No, the war zone, I got time for playing short on
It's not more than I'm good for the one to know what I'm good for yet
I believe, I believe
Gravity can't hold me down
I believe, I believe
I believe right here and right now
I'm gon' get my crown
I believe, I believe, I believe
What do you believe in?
You ain't gon' get it
Sulla, Humi, Panna, where your team is?
We shawtin' what the elite is?
We're stages under me all in agreement
Doesn't matter what side you on
We know my grass is the greenest
I brought you back
You bring the heat, I'm sparking back
You ain't not a match
Ride your bananas, I'll look back
I wore a zone, rock that time to play and show it on
Say I'm one of my favorite men
Wanna know what I'm guilty of?
I believe
Can't go any down
I believe
If you are a BFS player, you should not play full 5G, you may have to play full 3G for the second round.
I think when we communicate with each other, we should be able to play slowly.
No matter what the advantage is, we should be able to play very slowly.
I think they can play very well.
If I want to play AD4, it will be very good.
Today's first game was very easy.
But maybe it's a little bit more than before.
The feeling is still not particularly good.
Just have to adjust it well.
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Every time I go to the stage or the next stage,
the room is really big, so it's really exciting.
It's really good to play the competition.
For the fans,
although you came in today,
there are still a lot of places that you can't do well.
Next time, we will play the competition,
so you can watch it more calmly.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to First Stand 2026.
And our first qualifier best of five out of the group stage.
Whoever wins this series is going to the next phase.
It's G2 versus BLG.
And game number one, Kirby, was really close for a very long time.
And then, bin happened.
Yeah, our question for game number two
is going to be how do you actually nullify bin?
Yeah, it's pretty tough.
Because that's a number one thing, you know, the solo laners of BLG, they are fearsome to say the least.
And we'll see what G2 can cook up this time around. Of course, getting deeper and deeper into Fearless, maybe we get a little bit more spicy.
Yeah, when BLG had 10 kills last game, 7 were binned and 3 were knighted.
And the other three guys were along for the ride, just having a good time on the road trip.
So these solo laners...
All was having a good time, he was...
Yep.
Action patch constantly going in, a man of shit.
The only time Binh died the whole game was the solo death, the broken blade out there in the top lane.
So even though BB did slow down that embessa early on with the solo kill, with the outplay, it wasn't enough to stop him from running wild.
As now G2 is going to focus the support role here. Again, it's Karma Bard and Jarvan banned out by G2.
Two out of three of those are the same as game number one. It's just they replaced the Barris with the Bard.
On the other side, BLG taking out Orianna, Ryze and Rumble, yet again G2 selected first
pick, BLG picked blue side.
So I have a pretty big priority on Pantheon.
I know I'm really focused on jungle usually, but Pantheon looks really, really powerful
here with Zinn and ViCon already early, Jargon out as well.
It just provides so many things.
You can build a lot of comps around point-click CC as well as the semi-global.
There's your Barrett flowers, you know?
It gets dropped.
and so you immediately are gonna get the pick up.
You know, G2 off the band, the Ryze again instead,
the Orianna and Ryze will stay banned.
And this time around,
gonna get the common silver here picked up.
So nothing too crazy yet.
Yeah, pretty common answer here.
Focus on the minion wave.
You have your spell shield to keep you safe.
And Alistar, another initiation champion here for on
to get the action started as well as get the peel I mean with Spell Shield and an Alistar bodyguard
Already showing some pretty good protection here for Viper for BLG
Yep, and we'll see how the laning phase goes for them. You can see this is Niko. It's about to get worse
Yeah, I was gonna say the Niko right now. Verus is already obviously a very powerful laner
Niko is a very powerful laner too. Alistar is also a champion in the game. Yeah, so it's not gonna be fun
On the minion wave, you know, we focus on the minion wave, but we clear that clear the minions out
But yeah, very sneak out one of the most fearsome bottom lane, so G2 have decided. Hey, let's go bot Pryo
You mon special of not the moon dough locked in cute skewn dough
skewn dough
Dr. Skeumdo, locked in for the European representatives.
The Skeumondo, ah that's kinda good.
That's all right, the Skeumondo.
Skeumondo attack, all right.
It's a special, as he said for him.
You know, adopted it really, really early on
and we'll see about that scaling.
Ooh, should some carry jungle action here
with the Deferi would be fun, but not quite yet
and the Pantheon that I was looking at so heavily
just goes all the way through plenty of other options here and they decide to go
with the NAR very versatile top lane so feels very very safe picking in here
but I'll say versus broken blade he cooks man you could get a yasuo up there
you could go you could get some counter picks that are really focused on
trying to kill NAR when he's mini form. Well remember in game number one the
second half of the draft for BLG was banning out responses to the
that they picked on what I believe was, again, their third pick.
And we're seeing what could be a similar story here.
However, they do have to pivot a little bit.
When you draft Alistar and Sylas isn't banned,
Sylas loves stealing Unbreakable Will,
so they're immediately going to ban that Sylas away,
make sure he can't be the raid boss
that they cannot actually have the gear for.
So that's banned out by the BLG side,
as Ari is removed by G2.
can play Silas into N'Tanar as well.
So some double effectiveness there,
depending on what G2,
how deep do they wanna go into the dark magic picks?
Let's see.
Keeping away Nights, R.E.
Yes.
Never a bad idea.
Thing is, with Nights, it's like,
you literally, you can't really ban him out,
and Azir's not even very good anymore.
So, yeah.
Yeah, they also invented standing out the pocket pick the respect given the broken blade
It's one of those classic solo queue counters that you almost never see in pro play
But broken blade is one of the rare players that is willing to just say no
I will slam it down if I can beat you on ladder
I can beat you on land and he's not gonna get the opportunity here
So let's see does G2 want to try to double ban against night here in the mid lane or do they have other ideas?
It will be another target on night's back the LeBlanc band away
Okay, well down a little bit more on the effective
Champ pool as you said though and night's pool goes about as deep as as it can go
Taxi what are you to round it?
Honestly, they're already like they're their first three are really versatile. So they're not kind of like pinned down in any one direction
I didn't like this, though.
This would be what you were talking about earlier, right?
How this is one of the premier jungle champions right now,
especially when you're up against an immobile AD carry like Varus.
If you ever find the opportunity to make a play early on in the lanes
or even when people start grouping, if you can get a good angle on the back line on the Varus,
it's so hard for him to deal with Pantheon just crashing down on top of his head.
And okay, this is a front line for the G2 composition.
proposition. Mundo and Sion probably, I would have to say like the two tankiest champions in the game.
Like I would probably put them at number one and two. I don't know which ones which. Yeah,
but they're, like people can make arguments, but you've got a good, that's a good couple picks
there, flowers. I would feel pretty strong supporting this, right? So yeah, it's a massive,
massive light. Yeah. And you were talking about Night's Deep Pool of Champions, Night's
Cindra one of his most well-known well-respected and damn well feared picks in the syndrome and flowers
It's with the pantheon point-click. Oh, no
That's already good at hitting his syndrome stuns, but you can make it extra good here
He's also really good at like hiding the his syndrome orbs and you know terrain and stuff like that is playing a lot of mind games and
and getting like multi-angle double, double stuns off and stuff, so it should be fun watching
this one.
There is a possibility always, though, when you see this champion, Syndra, why it's not
more prevalent is it doesn't have mobility, of course.
And so, you can try and put pressure on Syndra and attack it, Mundo, obviously, when
your passive is up, you can try and just run straight through and land some slows
on her.
If you've gotten a war, I do.
That's some good burst damage, so you can try and attack it,
try and attack Knight, and see what happens.
You'll see how well it works, because BLG's planned
for a lot of the early game.
Last game, they put so much pressure onto Cap.
It felt like we never really got to see
the big flash Tiber's moment from an after Annie.
His flash was always under pressure
from all the arrows from Viper.
There was a lot of attention paid towards him.
Once Knight got the lead, it was impossible for the Annie
to really deal with the Galio in any sort of a situation.
So maybe if G2 came into that favor, that could be the secret sauce to tie up this series.
And then the game number one was really close for a really long time.
It was about 1,000 boldly for a significant part of the game, but then the then triple kill.
That kinda just ripped the game open.
And guess what?
Sion's not gonna do much to slow down NAR, bro.
Probably not.
Broke-a-play is on take duty, it seems like this series.
Seems like G2's call is, alright, just be our frontline, you know.
you know, and we'll try and win some team fights later.
Honestly, it's not a bad call versus BLG to just say,
hey, we are going to pick Tanki, and we're going to try to outplay you in Final Fives,
because, you know, that has been a way to attack BLG.
BLG are so good in, like, its skirmishes,
and, you know, when you're trying to challenge their solo laners,
but if you try not to, okay, we're just going to get some tanks
some frontline and try and 5 on 5 you then that is that's a worthy call but in the current scenario and after
Experiencing the previous game you have to wonder what type of heroics bins gonna go for this time around
Well, we're already getting the 2v2 battling at level one down here in the bottom lane as you would pretty much expect this to go
Everybody wants to fight for that early priority that early control and it is BLG
taking level 2 first. Both of our junglers are starting on the top half of the map.
We'll be pathing toward bottom side so every summoner spell, every low health bar
will be that much more juicy if a jungler can get his hands on it.
Yep, certainly will. And again we have a, well we have wards, raptor ward for G2
so they are gonna see the timing for Shun on raptors here. Okay. They'll
have basically perfect timing on Shun's clear. Even though Shun is
pulling the wrappers into the brush there.
We'll see that they are dead.
And so they can work around this.
Mundo, of course, very quick, clear,
and wants to keep up the power bomb, wants to scale.
Okay, so Viper and On have the push,
have the control here in the bottom lane.
And I feel like when you're an Alistar
against Varus and Niko, having the push in bottom lane,
you're feeling great.
Yeah, Viper's doing a good job here,
bouncing damage off the wave onto them.
So some really good value there, and they actually force the recall out of the brawl really early on.
They force the heal now.
They're going to force more.
They go after Han's Sama.
The flash away from Han, but the flash follows from on.
It'll be a one for one, but it is first blood over the BLG, and it is the AD carry on G2 that dies.
Han's will at least be the one, of course, that gets that kill back.
BLG would have preferred to have the first blood on to Viper, but still, they're going to kill Han's off.
They're going to get this wave shut up forward.
Two moths coming around down bottom, though.
if they get this kill onto Viper that's gonna feel really good Viper is in some
danger now and surely there is no way out for this Sivir just going to walk
into the turn and SQmon even flashes to make sure he's the one who gets the kill.
SQmono is getting paid flowers! Okay so big big ups to BLG's bottom lane, they force out the heal and the back.
Aum says you know what since I'm flashing for this and dying for this I
I am going to get the kill. I'm going to punch you for the extra money for first blood.
It is a bigger deal when supports steal the first blood kill also.
Flowers, even more so. Plus since you always want silver scaling as quickly as possible,
obviously that would be ideal for him to get it.
But you know they're under tower aggro and the tower is already heating up on the
middle of my bag again.
Yeah, on is in a pretty precarious situation.
He has to try to get away from Caps and LeBrog.
The Aurora only needs one more shot to take him out.
Scarlet of the Week tries to make the distance,
but the two-fold hex finds it's Margee2.
He is up 3-0 on.
On, you do not get to go wherever you please.
Not as a level 3 Alistar.
I mean, it's especially when you already use your flash
aggressively to make the playoff bottom side.
You have to be a little bit more patient,
but his objective is to get this really deep vision.
But you know, you often times you're gonna have to sync up with your jungler, especially if you don't have flash anymore.
And enemy has roam timer also, so you've got, you've got some, uh, something to answer for there, because now Caps did invest his flash, but Aurora with money is also more scary.
Oh yeah, you're happy to use the flash to get that little bit of extra acceleration early on.
700 gold lead for G2 punishing this aggro from BLG and you can see once again
if skumann hanging around down here in the bottom lane level five on the
window about halfway towards level six as on and Viper are going to need to be
careful BLG got to make sure they don't get too excited but the control
over this bottom lane for Hans and Lavrov means that skumann can start
this drake up very early this is a very similar timer to what we saw shun do
in game number one however shun is also down around this part of the
map level five on the pantheon.
The caps has rotated over to the Drake.
Shin might try to steal it away with a
combat spear, hope that Scumon this time this might
or something, but it doesn't look like this is
really a plightable angle for the BLG side
and the dragon goes the way of G2 here
nice and early just like game number one
right about five and a half minutes in.
Yeah, good stuff here
G2 for Drake.
I mean, if you're tracking
Mundo games, being able to this full clear
grab a kill
Then, full clear and grab a dragon, and it's looking pretty good for the efficiency here,
for the businessmen.
Oh, he's capitalized the M as well.
I love this.
Skumondo is only one letter away.
Wait a second.
The scuttle crab though.
V.O.D.
Finn, that's not your crab.
Yeah, they're even bringing in a teleport for this.
Shun takes away one of the honey fruits.
It is my crab.
It's only Aum's teleport, but they steal it away.
This is the power of Syndra.
Every jungler has had to deal with this before from Syndra
where she just yoinks the crab away
and the hand feeds it to her jungler instead.
And that means it's very easy for Shun
to be the first one to level six,
but Skumon will immediately hit level six right after.
So both junglers now,
it's a different type of playmaking
that these ulties enable.
Shun's is obviously the traditional type
where you can get active on the map
from a long distance away,
but Skumon's enables some pretty audacious dives
big risky plays with the tankiness that that will provide there for Dr. Mundo.
As Night Syndra does have a small CS lead over Caps of the war but considering Caps
has been roaming around towards the dragon towards that fight that was down
there to catch on earlier and give him that first kill. He's still got the
Gold lead himself. Only Gold lead right now on the map for BLG is the top lane
for Bin over Broken Blade with that gnaw.
They're doing quite nice. Ooh, gets the wave and some damage.
It was good about that and here comes Shun.
This is another one of those Alties just like the Shen Altie in game number one.
Pantheon's grand starfall needs to find success on first usage.
Otherwise you're feeling pretty bad and there they go.
Meanwhile back over in the mid lane, on could be the target here yet again.
Hansana and Skumond are not close enough to really do a whole lot here
as on and knight are going to continue retreating back into their own jungle.
You can see LeBrawl walking up as fake caps
but I don't think BLG are going to fall for that one
after they caught their freebie in the topside.
Yeah, I mean, you know, Pantheon's on topside, just ulted up there and he's going to be clearing down, so...
Skumund is trying to make him pay for that, Gank.
He's trying to make him pay for Broken Blade's life and get this whole red quadrant, so...
G2 at least can get some value there, but looks like...
BLG are just going to say, fine, that's an easy payment. We'll make that payment,
and we will purchase the void grubs.
Pay off the card, no interest, not worried about that.
Void Grubs are the point of contention here for Shep.
So we're actually seeing the exact opposite story of the junglers
in terms of objectives from game number one.
One gets the dragon, five and a half minutes into the game.
The other one gets a handful of consolation grubs
a couple minutes later.
Plus, bonus.
Buy three, get one broken blade free.
Because you have to count.
Ooh, that's a deal.
Yeah, you gotta count that kill that they got
onto the scion as part of the payment.
it too and that's part of the investment in the top side of the map and you know my stance
since the beginning of the season on the new grubs of flowers obviously they are nerfed
and not worth, they're nerfed, they're not worth much, so pretty sad objective points.
Hey they're worth money, you can kill them like they're wolves.
Yeah, they're worth less money.
And they used to but Dragon of course you know the mountain drake is gonna always
be really nice for this G2 squad. Wait a second, is this not gonna result in anything on that?
I'm looking at the bottom side also, and we just had on recall. So you always want to check your
support resets out. Oh, a nice little ping there from G2 also. They're questioning where on is
gonna go. They're like, hey, on is kind of crazy with it. So he might not go back bottom lane
and we'll see. There could be a support roam, but now he's gonna show bottom lane. They'll
Alright, everywhere is safe and LeBrov does the same thing.
You reset out of base, go down mid lane first.
You don't do the exact same thing, you know, because LeBrov turned into a minion.
Let's see if he actually takes the minion line down mid lane.
Nah, he's not going to do it.
Okay, you can see Broken Blade arriving back to the top side.
Sion ulti is so useful for getting back to the lane and clearing up a wave at the same time.
Ben uses the Neganar, just slam Broken Blade into the wall,
giving himself time to jump away as Q-mon was showing up here in the top side.
The problem is, Sion and Mundo, they both can kind of just walk at you once Sion's ulti is used, so for someone with the mobility of Nar, you can get out of that one pretty easily.
Shun just about has his ult ready to go. He does have that cooldown ready once more. First Grand Starfall was a success.
I'm curious where the second one is going to go. Only 10 seconds on the clock until the infernal Drake spawns.
So I feel like if BLG is interested in that at all, Grand Starfall is probably going to be used to either set up for that or be used directly in a fight for that.
for that. And bin has his trinity force so bin does big damage trinity force
completed quite early on the gnar doesn't have teleport though so this dragon is
safe from bin interfering no teleport so it should just be a g2 dragon oh wait a
second some pinks do they actually there were a lot of blue pinks here from
BLG maybe they were like hey if you see an angle on you like you can
Alistar combo and I'll Pantheon off, but since there is no real good angle, they decide not to do the play at Dragon yet.
And just go for a lane hover from Shen.
Skumont of course though, you gotta remain efficient on Mundo. He has done so. Look at his farm.
Now he's looking to pass by Knight.
Knight?
Knight however.
Is he just gonna cross though?
Knight.
He's waiting to catch teleport. He's waiting to catch teleport.
Here to the bottom side, it's LeBrov just getting bursted down.
The patience from BLG's jungler pays off.
They get a free kill on the enemy's supports,
and they'll be happy with that one.
With him out of the picture, it's easy for Viper
to just get this wave shot down.
Yeah, good use of your dead time
while your camps are down.
He actually, after going for that plate,
doesn't go for his Krugs instead.
He's dropping his Krugs again to pressure mid.
You got to turn your dead time into their dead time.
The different kind of dead time.
My friend, I like that.
And Shun is good at making that dead time.
As Skumon now has to be careful about trying to approach the river,
BLG still have control of Robb, is back out onto the map now.
Skumon's Mundo does have his heart steel completed,
so wants to try to get some stacks on that one.
On however, dattled out half HP,
immediately gonna pop the unbreakable wheel to burst down on the Mundo.
But it's not what BLG wanted.
Skumon is tanking all the way through with a maximum dosage,
but Shun finally secures the kill.
Broken Blade arrives in the fight for the chains and Corrupton won't find a target.
Shun does die, his biker look at the damage here on the cap, the bomb wants to get away, but then picks him up.
Broken Blade needs a blast cone to get the hell out of town, and Caps is just barely walking away from Viper.
This Sivir has a flash, but he's not going to spend it because Caps has escaped thus far.
Awn doesn't have a flash to try to go for the headbutt-pulled combo, and the fight goes the way of BLG.
Okay, that's a little bit of extra burn at the edge, but...
Honestly, yeah, okay when both top laners join flowers you'd rather have been right. Yeah, I think I'm gonna
I think I'm gonna go for bin
I think I'm gonna go for the gnar with a one and a half thousand golds
It's an opportunity force was completed and that's how point we were talking about it did come off cool down
But look at the way they start out this fight. So scumar walks up and he's trying to take as much as he can
You know then we get pretty good avoidance of LeBron's ulti from night and night spacing was quite good on even survived
And then even with changes of pressure going wide still enough damage for g2 with their bursty cop here to get their kill
but
Was an answer here for bin
And
Let's see what they do in the aftermath
Caps though of course was it still a bit of survive so at least they did get him out
But this BLG lead 1.3 K now the gold lead and I'm still just so
curious about how these timers are mirroring game one so much with the neutral objectives
because we're also going to have such a similar story where the Rift Herald spawns and then the third Drake spawns about one minute after.
Remember that favored BLG in the previous game, they were able to grab the Herald, no contest from G2,
they then used a combat type of Herald with LeBron driving, er, not LeBron, excuse me,
but on driving it towards the enemy team in one of the teamfights around the Drake after
Scatter the week comes out from Han Sama coin base gold grind keeping track of our top laners there looking at bins advantage
2000 individual gold lead is so scary to have to deal with and Kobe
You already mentioned that Trinity force, but I feel like you mentioned it a long time ago
So Ben's pockets must be feeling pretty heavy right about now
Yeah, he probably has a lot of cash because they did they took the whole turret on top side afterwards too. So
So first turret bonus for BLG, for Bini Boy, Mr. Rich Boy.
Hans though, the Varus did get the kill onto Shinabili in this
draft done on the bottom side.
And so that was the second kill for Hans.
So the Varus with a nice little lead here.
Poke Varus always a nice little power spike pretty early on.
And again, even though, there's not going to be a lot of
like DPS later for G2.
They construct these team comps pretty clearly in this series in a very similar way.
They want tanky front line to be able to fight mid game teamfights versus BLG.
And so that's why it's very important.
Stack your dragons, don't miss your dragon timers, and see if you can get your five on
five versus BLG after drake and continue stacking.
And you see part of that individual role may disappear there for Hans over Viper because
Viper was the last player on BLG to complete his individual quest, which of course
just gives a bag of money if you're an AD carry. The only player left on the map so far who does not
have his club completed is Kapsa Zorora who has now also fallen behind Knight in terms of individual
gold. Knight's farm is much much higher at this point. 160 versus 136 is four waves worth of
minions. Of course, Syndra does have the extra range over Annie as On finds the right angle on
the blast cone to be able to escape from LeBrov and Skumann. Knight aware of Skumann's
position but he knows he's got help nearby so he's not really afraid of the
wraparound from the G2 jungler. Katz gets caught out by Awe. He's got a weak
minute to follow it up but Skuemon creates space. Katz with a defensive ulti. Awe tries to get away
now with the unbreakable will. There's your cleanse coming out from the Alistar
to make sure that he does not get caught as Ben has also showed up to the
fight here on the NAR. This will be third drake for G2 if they can secure it.
Ben's gonna go ahead and take his recall as Skuemon has started up the
Dragon with the rest of G2 right behind him.
ELG gonna bring Ben right back into the fight now
as Shun takes about 40% of his AP in game.
G2 should just be able to secure the objective
and they've got it.
But now On wants to use that combat hero.
He knocks the CC immunity off the Mundo,
but Ben gets stopped trying to jump in.
Meanwhile, On's behind him and he lies.
There's no way he survives this.
Shun, Knight, and Piper chasing after the tank.
So G2, never mind, I'm made a liar.
On gets away, nicely done from the support.
But the big winners in this scuffle are G2 who have secured sole points.
It doesn't look like we're done here just yet.
They know Fin had their Narbar.
They're looking to go in after the most fat member here on BLG.
They're just pumped from on, knocks them away.
The Alistar is barely hanging on and skewbob grabs the kill.
Dr. Moundo is trying to get out and he lives to see another day.
Everybody on G2 is still alive.
Low health bars on BLG here as well though.
But Brock is chunked by a Boomerang blade.
Shun not as away from the comet, smites down the crab.
Knight finds a schedule that we could have told me all of the time on.
Cat tries his ulti back up, but no!
It's Ben!
Time and time again!
It's Ben!
Shun wants another one.
LeBron tries to escape.
Shun with a defensive shield.
And BLG, right when it looked like G2 found a sequence
that was so favorable,
that was so much in their side.
It's Ben, man!
It's always been!
It is BIM, the eternal nightmare of G2!
Okay, good headbutt as you mentioned for Aon to try and delay this in games,
but Skumon still goes for it, really nice for Mimmy.
Noji has his flash to escape on low health as Mundo,
so G2, they found value out of their poke.
But again, as BLG are dispersing, BIM says,
I'm not done with this play.
I'm not done with you yet, G2!
He kills caps, he kills Skumon, he keeps the play going,
should ult him over the top and again BLG excited to disperse Knight going back towards mid lane
and Bin sees another angle he sees another opportunity he's so rich again double items here Blackleaver
completed and some. Bin is the definition of I didn't hear no bell if there's still a fight to be
had he's gonna have that fight. 4,000 gold lead shrunk back down to about three and a half thousand
now for BLG. However, G2 still has an ace up their sleeve. They have a dragon soul if
they can secure the next dragon two and a half minutes from now. So when I'm looking
at them, I want to see them preparing for that. I want to see them there ahead of time.
And when you look at a scoreboard, Kobe, there's one number that's very different
from the other four numbers. Everything for G2 comes down to playing around bin.
You've got to walk away when the NAR bar is full.
You've got to try to find an opportunity when it runs out because if Ben has his way, those
fights are going to get ugly.
And he is.
He's going to have his way.
Even if everybody else is walking out, getting out of there, yeah, there you go.
There's some visual representation.
Brain sink, right there.
Yeah, that one bar is larger than all of the other bars put together.
That is some scary stuff.
Skumann, the binbar, the binbar, the big binbar.
Viper, taking some burst there.
Two full attacks plus the weirding from Katz.
Nox, the enemy AD carry down below half HP.
Skumann also with his dead man's plate on this Mundo.
Remember the dead man, you only lose the speed when you auto-attack.
So you just chase with briefcases forever.
On goes in however with the unbreakable will.
Been with the hop over the wall but there's not much.
Narbar here.
Knight goes for a scatter the week but he will not scatter anyone.
Does get tagged with a piercing arrow on the very tip of it.
So that's the ulti from on spent for a whole lot of nothing really, but he will have the cooldown back available for the dragon
Dragons again as we said for this conference you two you've got to get the dragon soul. You have to get the dragon at soul
Everything coming down to this next minute and the best way flowers to get dragon souls is get there really early
They have vision already
So try and get some priority here some setup especially when you have tools to make picks you've got an eco
You've got poke Varus. You want to get poke damage. You want to get little chunks early, but they're just not in position
Dogey moving in and they're wiping out your vision
No, but nobody is here from G2 to get early pokes. You want to do it as best throw some briefcases
Yep, and honestly scryers empowered scryers bloom do a lot
So if powered scryers bloom could just kind of wipe that out as well for G2
So that is very nice been looking in coming from the river bottom side got to be aware
We'll go LeBron's flash timer as well. It's going to be up by the time the dragon spawns.
So that could be a big playmaking opportunity. Shun's flash also going to be available.
Benz critically will not. If this dragon fight happens right as it spawns,
the NAR flash will still have a little bit of time left on the cooldown as will the Mundo.
On goes Benz! Flash and a pulverize! Headbutt backwards on the cast!
The Aurora is already dead! Has Benz in the middle of everybody!
Night same alive against Broken Blade and Benz is just buying time!
Now both of that front line excuse me both those solo laners are dead on the G2 side
It's a double kill for Shun's Pantheon and right when G2 needed to clutch
BLG and on on that trigger pull find exactly the way to guarantee that they can't
BLG have two excellent solo laners as well. Night ears scatter the weak flowers
Oh my goodness. They get the dragon without a fight. I look at look at this initiation. All right
They go through boom night sets it up and everybody
Immediately follows scatter the week into the pants. I saw it into the Alistar combo. Guess what caps is dead
Capsis dead and he also was able to knock off the Mundo passive with that
Just yeah, look even I even eat your reps. You have to be like, all right. They're good. Yeah
That was just clean.
This scatter the week into the follow-up from on.
Just beautiful stuff there for the BLG squad.
Up 4,500 gold now.
And now they've got four more minutes
where they don't have to worry about a G2 win condition
being what they have to deal with.
And Cap's flashed.
And he's Aurora.
Like, they just nailed him.
That was really impressive coordination there.
However, taking a look at the scoreboard once again,
just because every time we have a big moment,
I like to check in on what still could be, you know, the X factor for the G2 side.
You still have an individual gold lead on HanSama.
You got the Murabana.
This could be big.
It's caught.
Yeah.
Nice pick.
G2.
They find exactly what they needed to kill onto Ben.
Now, can they turn it into anything more?
Of course, it's great to get a pick on the Fed enemy player, but what else does
it lead to?
I mean, it definitely leads to a good amount of shut down money into the hands of Honsam over here to follow up.
G2 wants to go for more. On trying to disengage, knocking Skumond away, pass is made his way forward.
Shun with the stun onto the G2 mid laner. G2 continuing to pile in here but they won't really find an angle on anyone here just yet.
Scatter the Week hits two, BLG still defending.
They've got 10 seconds until Binz back up
and he has his teleports, so G2 can't try to turn this
into a Baron or anything crazy like that.
They want it to use the opportunity
to find additional kills, maybe translate that
into a major objective of the Baron afterwards,
but BLG successfully exfiltrates.
Now though, Shun going in after LeBron,
wants some damage onto the Nico,
defense is pop blossom, but it just means
the Week are scattered.
Binz made his play into the fight now,
but he's down to 400 HP.
Orange jumps forward, but there's nobody ready to follow up just yet.
Viper's now finally joined the mix, and Finn has the Narfar charge,
and Han Sama is all the way out!
Orange's front line still stands on G2, but the wall has no archers!
They will crumble in front of the BLG squad!
That's four dead G2 players, and BLG are in their flow state!
So smart for BLG to extend the play,
Because even the very beginning, the pick that they had gotten, the shutdown on Bin, Hans had not gotten to reset
because G2 had tried to make the play really long and chase down more kills.
They hadn't even spent that shutdown money and BLG no, with our teleport coming up on Bin, we just have to keep this play going.
We have to chase them. As long as we don't let them out of our sight, we continue the play, we will be rewarded.
So they do that. They chase them all the way from their own base, by the way.
You mentioned the early, early timer there on it and they focus the Niko, they actually destroy him, should have started it out and the Knight also helps him finish that.
And even though Bin has to teleport in on Mininar and takes this imminent amount of damage, it doesn't matter because the rest of the squad can chase Ward and pull those then.
And they feel so good chasing after him too because Viper's just flashing over the wall, he's attacking both carries, they focus Han's first because Cap's has no mana.
says no mana. A roar without mana? Cool. It's a cannon with bunny ears. They knew they had
everything they needed to force that play all the way and now there's 6,000 gold ahead. And
Kobe, it's going from bad to worse because the next Drake is spawning here in a minute. They've
still got the Baron for the next two minutes on BLG's side. It'll be so difficult for G2 to
try to contest this. Yeah. And you can see the reasoning for both sides. You know, G2 is
like, oh, we just got a shutdown. We killed Bin. We took off the big gold lead on the
the map so we gotta get more. Let's teleport and try and get a pick but because
VLG evades that play and then are able to extend the play of their own. Now you're
in a scenario where this gold lead is not just BIN, this gold lead is also
should and knight and knight has been crushing it all game long. You mentioned
his lane phase, he was absolutely blasting, then he got waved. He's like he will flash pop
But no, it's not stopping LeBrov once more. His Syndra is feared for a reason. He's immediately ready to react and that is one of the biggest
Playmakers, game changers, X-Factors, whatever you want to call it for the G2 side. No flash pop blossom on Niko is going to make what's already a
Difficult fight to try to find the angle nearly impossible.
The end keeping the pressure on here in the mid lane does have his hop interrupted there by the decimating smash
However, there's not enough pressure from G2 to really scare him into anything that might even look lethal as the dragon is alive
Shin's already dealing with that one. Viper's gonna help him DPS it down
They still have a little bit less than one minute on the Baron to try to continue pressuring the lanes
But again, the dragon soul is avoided even though Knight is 0-0-8
He has been a monster smurfing on the on this game on G2
on his Syndra and it's it's looking real difficult now for G2 even though you
go oh they were so close to the dragon soul well it doesn't matter if you're
close because just the early dragons the individual ones don't give you a lot of
power it's all about finishing the job finishing the soul and BoG has said
nope you're not gonna be able to even get close to the next dragon and look
Look at Shun, 7-1 and 3 on the Pantheon.
Even when Bin had his big moment earlier, Shun was following up with him.
He's the one who actually got the second kill.
You talk back in draft about how Pantheon's opens in and by are already out because of
Fearless.
He made it through the first half, but then locking this in was clearly the right choice
for the BLG squad.
Shun now with the Guardian Angel on that Pantheon as well.
This can be a double-edged sword sometimes.
Because of Pantheon, you always want to ult into the back line.
Guardian Angel will let you do that.
But sometimes it might let you do it a little bit too much.
So we'll see exactly how he wants to place that,
exactly how he wants to time that
to guarantee another BLG victory.
It's two and a half minutes till Baron.
It's a little under four minutes until the next drake.
It's a 7,000 gold lead for BLG.
Our G2 have to try to find some way to bring it back.
The BIM's going in after caps.
He tries to escape, but Viper's already gone.
Both carries dead on G2, it's a massacre!
In mid lane, look, Braum and Scumon get away.
But with the carries already down, what is he going to play here for G2?
BLG are just going to hard force it down mid, and that's a five-man push.
You've got two tanks and support Niko to try to hold onto the Nexus for the next 25 seconds.
Knight preparing the Orbs, minion wave marching up.
There's no Baron, but they have so much damage.
Damage, Viper is on three and a half items, defensive pulverize coming up from on and broken plate tries to step forward
But now he's the one who's got to be scared, Knight gets the execution there with the unleashed power and broken plate's dead bodies
Not going to be able to clear enough here just yet, Niko ulti does nothing, Shun is low but he will not die
Skumon tries, Skumon dies, BLG, they take out the remaining three as the carries finally respawn
Shun still at about 400 HP and they need another minion wave. It's Captain Hans versus the BLG5.
As Caps has to try to get back to the fountain, so much damage coming in, he will escape back to the steps.
But it's the Nexus turrets that they've got to be afraid of. Scattered that we've gone to 2 yet again.
BLG are just trying to pad their stats at this point. Ulti does nothing from Caps.
That's another BLG win. They are on match point in this petafive.
Woo! G2 have not been able to beat BLG at an international riot tournament yet.
And BLG say it's probably not going to happen today either.
I feel like this one is, there's more options for who might be playing for the game.
For me, I think I've got to go shunned with that Pantheon making so many plays,
following up on so many plays.
Lounge, what do you guys think?
I think it's pretty cooked for G2.
I gotta give it to you guys!
The delusion has left the building here!
This is where you need to be the most delusional!
What was it?
The loud fan yesterday, she was like, uh, hope is the last thing to die!
Exactly! What happened to your hope?
I don't know! I don't know! BLG took it!
Honestly, once again, way more clean than they were on day one.
Honestly.
Yeah.
I mean, I think the big difference for me from BLG has been with their teamfighting.
I was talking about how other LPL teams actually were able to get the better of them in 5v5s
a lot of the time.
And so it was like, okay, I need you guys to draft stuff for Sidelanes.
Guess what?
We have a Pantheon.
We have a Nara setting up in the Sidelane.
I think that we have seen that in their first two games.
Yeah, and actually if we take a look at the HyperX Reflex replay here, Raz, similarly
to game 1. It's BLG once again with the tools they have dismantling G2's draft and their
ability to engage.
Boom! That was On's punting of the Niko Ultimate. And that was really needed because a lot of
that was just like two Niko Ultimate so far in the early portions of the game that could
really set up G2 for success. That one set up, guess what, Nara for success as the
fight was neutralized and he was able to find two picks immediately afterwards.
So I thought this was an incredible play from Ben to continue off from Game 1, but it was
really set up by On, just like basically neutralizing the Niko pick.
Yeah.
On had some interesting gameplay early that I thought actually did G2 was able to capitalize
on really, really well, right?
Especially with the scaling composition.
It looked good for them.
And he redeemed himself repeatedly.
with him and Shun setting up all of these fights.
Whereas, who's your player of the game?
Did he redeem himself enough?
At first I thought it was the biggest enter,
and then he turned it to be the player of the game.
So I got him as player of the game,
a lot of us voted him, so it turned out to be on
as player of the game for this one.
A lot of people, I'm sure,
if you look towards the poll from the fans.
Yeah, I'm curious.
I'm imagining it would be Ben.
Oh, I was gonna go Shun.
For me, it was between on and Shun.
I know Caster said Shun.
Oh, it actually has been.
Yeah, it's been a while.
Hold on, on the slayer, yeah, okay, nice.
There's an argument for Bin as well.
I think there's an argument for the entirety of BLG
being on right now.
And having all the answers, as you said, Emily,
they probe that they can play Sidelands,
they probe that they can play Team Fight once again.
What is it gonna take for my little European hearts fan
to believe again?
Are you the pessimistic Andy, can you?
I mean, so I do think what we've seen from BLG,
I've liked, again, how they have executed the teamfights
while also having answers in side lane.
That's exactly what I had asked for them from them in draft.
BLG is still known to be a team who makes some happy plays,
especially when they get ahead, right?
So I think that's where you'd want to look for.
And my response to you is going to be a replay.
I know.
This one is coming.
It kind of has to, because if I look to BLG as a team,
Maybe they don't find angles.
If you find angles like these, if I'm flying like this,
we find two, like a flash Q,
and he's able to punt the mid laner right into the T5,
like Caps could not play this out.
I don't really see an angle for G2 coming back.
Oh no!
I just don't see it.
You have to relive it, but now I gotta ask,
if there's a little bit of hope in you.
There's a bit of hope, there's a bit of delusion,
that's the cocktail I need here.
I really, I haven't seen the G2 that I have seen in playoffs so far at all and even on day one when they play it so
I don't know what it's gonna take because for me if
Usually, usually you press, you press the Mundo button. You press the spotlight button and that's what you can rely on. If this doesn't work
I don't know what get I'm gonna need the biggest Genki Dama from the EU fans here to believe in them. Some of those early fights were so cool
And that's where I feel like the hope does come through because even though on a from the fans and from us
Won a lot of it if he misplayed even just a little bit in some of the early fights
G2 can clean house even saw for like that little bit of frustration coming in from skewman like vocally and comms
It was like yeah that flight those fights were so close. So that's the hope that we're selling
I like it. I'm gonna hold on to that. That's a far. It is the LG summoners riff. They live in it
they rock it it is theirs let's see if g2 can grab next game and make this a series
Nobody ready to follow up just yet.
Vipers have finally joined the mix.
And Jim has the normal charge.
And Han Sama is all the way out.
The wall has no archers.
They will crumble in front of the BLG squad.
Oh, baby
Game time, game time, game time
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Welcome back to first stand 2026 for the first promotion match from the group stage
into the second phase of competition here whoever wins this series will be moving on
from the group stage with the flawless two and zero record and right now Kobe BLG is poised to
be that squad. They are up 2-0 over G2 and the EU team has to either reverse sweep or
they'll find themselves battling in the 1-1 match soon.
Well Hans just said in that video the tournament is too short to make changes or learn but
you have to make changes and learn right now!
Right now!
Because G2 have clearly come into this series thinking alright we're going to pick
some tanky, not a lot of damaged teams that are going to stack dragons. You know
we're gonna final fight fight them with our tanks and it is not working, it is simply not working at all for them.
They can't give just like free lanes over to bin. I don't know what you're gonna do to be able to contain bin,
but you got to deal with that. You also aren't gonna have to deal with night. Like,
caps is gonna have to change and learn something right now too to be able to deal with night.
And the solo lane problem like that is, that is problem, the first problem they're gonna have to tackle
And then think about 17 fights afterwards.
Yeah, I feel like anybody who's played League of Legends
for a long enough time has had one of those days
where you're just in the zone, the match history's all blue,
you're carrying every game.
And I feel like Ben and Knight are both
in that state of mind right now.
These two have both just been playing so incredibly well.
And the rest of the team, of course,
not asleep at the wheel either.
So let's get in to our third champ select here,
powered by Omen and HyperX.
G2 have elected for second pick
and BLG have chosen the blue side.
We have the Karma and Bard banned out by BLG,
so they're focusing on the support matchup
with potential powerful laners that they have to go up against,
and while G2 are focusing on mid lane,
it's Orianna and Ryze banned away by the EU squad.
A lot of support focused here as well.
It's with Niko out, Karma out, Bard out.
You know, it's about time for like a Yunnar Lulu,
I'm feeling.
I feel like that it's about time for somebody to do a you know our lulu lane
Rumble both parts of the hot pot final bands of our first half. Yeah, cuz like there's no karma Ezreal to punish it
There's no Nautilus Lane to punish it. So
I think BLG and you you guys are gonna you guys got the synced up brain here the Lulu the first pick here and
Lulu loves playing next to hyper carries
So I'm curious now what they're gonna draft next to that and how G2 is gonna try to stop
I mean I think it's gonna be you Nara G2 could take it away and play something else or they can preemptively take something
That could be hard for her to play into
You know even with the karma out you could do other things that are like super long range and good folk here pushing lane with Caitlyn maybe
Type of thing where we can get a Caitlyn plus
Lux some sort go with the binding combos. Yeah exactly the classic
We're talking about last game BLG band Yasuo because they respected the solo Q pick from G2.
Baby, that's the play. You just go with what works on ladder and you bring it to land.
Let's see if that's what they actually want here.
Caitlyn, of course, a notoriously powerful champion in lane with all the range.
The cupcakes also super good to set up around objectives.
We're not going to get locks, but we will get Melio.
Okay, so Melio can also empower Caitlyn and then also it's really hard to gank this lane.
So it allows like oh we're gonna be constantly pushing and shoving our lane and trying to get turret plate money
And then i've got the milio. What's it called omega fire super kick
Ultra mega fire
I got you that one took me a lot
It's annoying for people that try and gank you but um any y'all I can also obviously buff up uh
Buff up the katelin so that's that's their option into it. Uh, and there we go
We get the reveal flowers
I can't believe it. They picked you Nara next to the Lulee.
Kind of as expected and it looks good.
You know, I expected for a reason.
Okay, and we get the Renekton here.
They're going to go ahead and once more.
Kobe, I feel like this is just D-Strat for BLG.
Is you're always picking Bin's champ on three?
And then double ban.
And then double ban?
Yeah.
So if you're G2, do you want to just go for your top laner right here?
Say, all right, we've got to pick what we want before they ban away.
What it's probably going to be.
I'm very curious if they're gonna try to do that because then has been such a massive factor and yes, they will okay
We are going to get the the buttered toast of top lane matchups
Renekton versus Cassante
You got butter on that toast? Hell yeah!
That's what it's gonna be Renekton Cassante
So this time around G2 is gonna lock that top laner before BLG has anything else to say about the matchups
So bottom lane duos and top lanes, drafted by both squads, which means mid and jungle are your band targets here in the second hand.
Okay, and I mean, that's yeah, that's a that's like an answer laying into it. So
then very well could get
very fearsome yet again on the renec then we'll see though
Okay, so looking at the rest of it obviously jungle here a big priority because
because so much has been taken out.
All the really like tier one Primo jungle picks out
since Pantheon was also taken in the last game
and fearless and so they're getting even further down
past the Primo picks, the Nocturne band,
the Maokai band for the big team fighting
because they know G2 have been just on this.
We are tanky, we are front, we are team fight,
we are gonna stack dragons.
So they take the Maokai out,
they have some good band here,
identifying what G2 has been going for in this series.
from BLG, so a nice removal there as well.
Meanwhile, on the other side, what else are G2 worried about?
Besides the darkness here, that could allow some...
Oh yeah, the Shun special, baby.
Yup, Shun is a Kindred player.
And so they wanna take that out
as well as just some of the specialty carries.
I always respect banning away towards the player
and not just the meta, making sure
that you don't get caught off guard like that.
So, double jungle ban here from G2.
Will it be the same for BLG?
Do they have other things they've got their sights set on?
Remember, they already banned the drawing away in the first half
of the draft that has been banned this entire series long.
And they'll take away the TF from Caps.
And I think you mentioned earlier at the start of the draft,
Kobe, that Caps is going to have to figure out
how to deal with Knight.
I don't think Caps has had a particularly impressive series
so far.
And historically, G2 needs Caps to really be Caps, right?
If he's lower case, G2 is going to have some problems.
And right now, he's not been starting any sentences.
So broken blade capitalizes broken and blade.
Skumon is capitalized, skew and demand.
Honsama, obviously, double capital is there too.
So maybe caps need to capitalize the S or something
also, and C and the S.
Yeah, go back to capital letters.
You need to capitalize.
Yeah, I remember that was like a converse.
Bring that back.
You need to capital letters here.
Quick name change.
OK, we'll get that one put into the client.
Just pay your $1,000 RP or whatever it is it costs.
And now we've got the Trundle picked up here for G2.
Now there's no hard tank on the side of BLG.
So it's not like you're going to have one of those,
oh, I'm using the Subjugate on Sion.
I'm using the Subjugate on Sejuani type of things,
but it is still very effective champion.
Put it on frontline and just kill whoever's frontline.
Whoever's next in.
Boom.
Yep, just make it so he's that much squishier.
You were talking about high tier junglers.
Wukong is kind of the one that has slipped through
so far in terms of those 80 jungles that everybody plays and that's what we get and it's Knight Akali.
So they're saying, alright, your Trundle wants to sap tanks. How about three divers?
Yeah, okay. Let's see. Let's see. This is looking real scary because obviously G2 are trying to kite back, you know.
They've got Milio on their team. They're trying to kite back and use Caitlyn range and use the protection there.
And you know it's captain's gonna go to Ari into into Knights of Kali here
Honestly, good luck. Good luck
Since the pressure is on G2 specifically in this game, they're the ones that now have to reverse sweep if they want to win
What's your game plan here from the G2 side?
Looks to be the same in an all-series vlog.
And that video, Hans was like, all right, the term is too short.
You've got to stick with what you believe, you know?
You can't too make too many changes.
So they're doing it again. They're going to go real tanky team comp.
You know, they're going to try and fight some dragons, stack some dragons.
They have Caitlyn, so Caitlyn's good for dragon fights.
You always stack your trap line and hope that you can kind of take away some of the angles
that your opponents can flank you from.
You know, usually I was like a trap line on a ramp or something like that to remove one point of entry because as you said,
Nicolay and Wukong, that is very scary to deal with for the Kaelin, even if you have a B-Leo next to you trying to deal.
And so, you know, they want to get those dragons early, put up their trap lines, get their tanky, trundle and cassante in front
and try and do it that way. And then obviously it would also really help if, you know, they could like make picks
with Ari or something like that, but that's also kind of reaching, kind of dreaming.
Alright, game number three, do or die for G2.
They've got Camilo, a champion, we don't see a ton of, I feel like, remember at the top
of the day, we heard from Hans, he's saying, yeah, we still got plenty of champions that
we haven't pulled out yet.
I feel like you're, we've still got plenty of meta stuff left, like Ari's and Trundle's
and Castantes, you're probably not going to reach a little wacky bag of tricks.
If G2 can keep this one going on a little bit longer,
I am truly curious on what they're going to try to pull out.
But to get there, they've still got to beat BLG
and they haven't been able to do it
thus far in the first two games.
Well, Caps has got a bunch of free damage
on the walking back to lane here against Knights.
So that's a really good start for him in the lane.
Got two Fox fires and several autos as well
as they're getting in the lane.
See how much that actually hurts Knights' attempts to CS.
But look, look at Schumann, he's going to flash over the Dragon Pit wall, he only took his
blue and now he's doing the invade that his opponents cannot see to steal away the red buff.
I love this creativity back at level 2.
And Flowers, it's also covered with the ward on their red.
So G2 came into game 3 with a big plan for the early game.
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Hell yeah. Now, Knight stuck underneath the turret, he's still farmin' up just fine, but that early damage at level 1, like you said, just makes it that much easier for camp to have priority in the range versus melee damage up on Sama forced to flash in the 2v2 bottom lane, that Caitlyn under the early pressure from the Unara Lulu.
It is under the early pressure, however, remember this whole early game plan from G2 is set to split the map, so Trundle on their side behind them, maybe they could even the flashes at the least.
LeBron takes a ton of damage there because he can't fight.
But it's first block on.
Schumann, he walks through.
He's attending the funeral of his support.
It's G2 blood splattered all over the bottom lane.
It's a disaster.
You can say that again, Flowers.
It's a disaster.
Now, Schumann as well.
Shun's taking up the turn.
He flashes away and he won't even die in return.
G2's hopes, their dreams, their chances have all but crashed and burned two minutes and 45 seconds into game three.
One more time, Flowers. It's a disaster. Holy, their whole early game plan built around the pushing Caitlyn.
Trundle flashing over, splitting the jungle, counter-jungling, coming from behind them, and...
Oh? Okay, caps. Flashing to the side here.
to the side as well. So I mean, honestly, I feel like if you're night, you're happy with that.
You've got Ari flash and you're not in danger. You did. And Ari got your E.
Yeah. So many sides to the tower, but oh my God, they just did so much work before the
trundle got here on and Viper had already blown on Sama's flash. So not only does on flashing
and kill the milio, but if I Birkin gets the kill on the Han Sama also and soon as here,
Hey, you stole my jungle buddy pay up. You're not getting out of here for free polymorph under tower
No damage returned
Okay, you know what that was that's all calculated
He takes your buff first just so you get a longer timer on your buff when you beat him in the head of the stick and take
It back afterwards
BLG up one and a half thousand gold after that bot lane sequence and remember the past couple of games
It has been g2's bottom lane that's been their point of power while the games are close
It has been Hans and LeBron. It's a buddy the one trying to keep them competitive
But now Viper and on have this advantage of Hans Salmon down to 300 HP
He also he got like beat up on the playground before he got kicked out
It's like you know on and viper work wait a second. They just put him in jungle gym jail, man
They're gonna die here
Gimondo's here. Oh, but shun is coming down and viper hasn't gone all the way back
On just having a little support or combat here with LeBron wave about to crash into the turret ultra mega fire kick
Does land on to on he uses the glitter lance of the polymorph to buy himself a little bit of time the shield to
G2! It's all so good!
It is so far gone!
Two and a half thousand gold lead.
They feel so desperate to make something happen after the early disaster.
And now the forced plays are resulting in even more damage.
Mike goes in and he gets a solo kill.
BLG are up 6-0, five minutes into the game.
Flowers, you said Hans got kicked off of the playground.
But BLG are the bullies here.
Why is Hans gonna kick off the bus?
That is messed up man!
We gotta shut this off!
BLG runs the school!
They do!
They run this school called Summoner's Rift.
Oh my goodness.
Can we actually show the rest of this game?
Is that allowed?
Like this series?
I think if somebody refreshes it at this point
it'll probably give you that 18 plus warning.
Because this is some ultra violence
that we are seeing from BLG
with a 3000 gold lead
Six minutes into the game
This Viper's got such a massive lead on the unara nearly 1,000 gold
Hans has a Doran's blade and two longsword versus full berserker greaves and rektrix for Viper
This is this is so difficult to play from this point, especially when you when you draft the Caitlyn lane Kobe
You know that you're supposed to win the lane
So having to play on your back foot like this now is just such a nightmare to deal with Shun is in the enemy jungle
They know that in a 3v3 of bot lane duo plus jungle G2 has no way to contest them
So when G2 drew up their early game plan, you're telling me it did not involve their bottom lane getting
3v2 double kills when they had the gank coming. Well, look, I don't have access to like the documents like the team game plan or anything
Maybe this is part of the plan, but if I would have to bet you said I like to take bets
Yeah, well, I'll take the bet that they probably didn't have that in the itinerary
Okay, now up here in top side
This has been the only place where there's really not been any action thus far and with no action happening
Ben still has a quiet little lead for himself on the minute. I
Guess that's probably the best part right the best part for g2 is that this game is like different from the other games
I don't know if you like
Because before, Bin was the only big ol' BLG lead, right?
Big ol' Bin.
Yeah.
Well, Knight also had a good lady, big ol' lady lead.
We have some big ol' boys here on BLG.
They're gonna arrest you.
Yes, sir.
Nice.
Just kidding, buddy.
Okay, he's so good.
He's so good.
And Viper's going forward.
He wants to kill under the brawl.
Arc of Ruling for the slow.
step moves him forward and Viper picks up kill number three they're between enemy
tourists they're behind enemy lines and they got their feet up maxing and
relaxing they are so comfortable in this game state eight to zero eight minutes
in we allow a mercy rule to to preserve the mental health of g2 no man I'm
pretty sure they got it played out I mean even even if you're playing
ladder games it says you may not propose a boat this early yeah we're eight minutes
into the game play it out play it out all right all right wipe it off all right
let's let's focus up here what we do what we do all right first step let's stop
getting solo killed let's also stop getting 2v2 killed and 3v2 killed that's
the first place that's pretty tough that's a plan though that's a plan it's
a 4,000 goldly they do have bounties on a lot of BLG members head so okay the
Collect the bounties is the second part. Okay, so they've got it if they can get a bounty that would help a lot problem
Yes, it also very difficult to do it is difficult, but you know what they say flowers
You've got to try and do hard stuff in your life or else you're not gonna get anywhere
So set some difficult goals for yourself and even if you fail you got to keep trying. Okay hard times create
great tough dudes
G2, they got some tough dudes in the making here because these are certainly hard times.
Hard times are upon them. Hard times are upon them in the bot lane.
And Shun is coming down to grab the scuttle crab and on.
Might even want to take a gromp. Hey buddy, maybe he's...
I could glitter lance this thing.
Well, they at least have the ward on it so they know exactly where Skumond is and what he's doing.
The crab goes over to Shun. BLG still just chilling for now.
Now, it's still only eight kills.
We're now not going to have minutes into the game.
Knight just so aggressive here on the Akali,
jumps back towards that shuriken.
As you can see, he's got his Hextech alternator
as well as his Sorcerer's shoes.
So lots of damage here whenever the Akali wants to go in.
He's also almost got his flashback,
and his Han-sama, the extra range on the Kozi campfire.
If you're, if this isn't even lane,
if this is a normal game state,
Caitlyn with Kozi campfire has so much range,
it can be so impressive if you're stuck
under your turret against this.
But this is not a normal game-state.
Yeah, that's why, you know, Viper constantly is going in for these longer up-close trades,
just jumping in, jumping past them, burning down Hans.
You know, he stacks up his Q, he stacks up his lethal tempo, Shen is here again.
The minions are cleared up.
Okay, okay, he'll talk a peacemaker to this job.
Oh god, we got the minions.
Okay, minions are out of the way, dive can't happen, at least not yet.
Shen is going to step up, clear away that control ward, pick up a little bit of extra money there.
And now Hans and LeBronv know they cannot stay near this turret.
They will 100% die against the 3v2 of BLG.
Oh boy.
Okay, he's low enough on energy that I think he doesn't want to take it.
Yeah, okay.
Alright, we get a 1v1 up here in the top side.
Dominus has not been used by the crocodile here just yet.
Ruthless Predator on Broken Blade just stops him.
Now Cassante's gone all out and Renekton is still ready to become
that massive crocodile.
Skiumond is gonna grab the grubs,
and this is the first thing that G2 have found is,
oh no.
Got one, he got one, he got one.
Okay, all right, he's got the grub.
He got the one, he got the grub.
Sinkular.
Grub.
Okay, G2 have found a grub.
The G stands for grub.
Yeah?
However, the two stands for, what DLG's gonna get.
The G stands for one.
Yeah, yeah, the two stands for one,
the G stands for grub.
G2 is grub one.
It's a very complex naming system.
Yeah, you wouldn't understand.
No, no, it's beyond me, but...
Get it, he shouldn't just take the code over, he's like,
you get your hands off those ugly grubs,
even though nobody really wants them,
they're also still not yours.
They're also still something on the map that I can take it.
I want it.
Get your hand to me.
Lunch money now.
Yeah.
Grub money.
You'll need your lunch money and your dinner money too.
Oh boy, LeBron hit with a Cyclone.
Little more damage from Shen,
might be able to finish him off,
B jumps back in, gets the wild growth, LeBrov is still alive though.
G2?
Hey, remember, remember goal number one?
Not, you know, stop dying.
Stop dying, he did stop dying.
LeBrov stays alive, has to use both summoner spells and the ulti to do it.
ELG putting pressure onto the tier one turret here at the same time.
Shen versus Skuman.
Trumbul still in a depth duelist even if he is behind in the game.
Damage onto Onif, the pilped over peacemaker.
Skuman will get a little bit of healing from the king's tribute as he kills the grump.
And that just means first turret is still standing barely in the bottom lane for G2.
And Knight continued to maintain that control over the mid lane.
Coinbase, gold grind.
There's a lot of gold getting grinded.
I think G2 are getting grinded up into gold.
Yeah, grinded up.
It's like one of those fancy salt shakers at the restaurant where you've turned the thing.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like that, sort of.
Oh, BLG, we can market some merchandise for them now.
A BLG salt grinder?
Pepper grinder. Yeah, sure. I'd buy that grind them up. Have like a big picture
No, it's a salt and pepper grinder one has been space one has night space. Yeah
Well, whoa, I put it on bro. They've been grinding them up and bottom lane since the beginning
Then you get a couple of extra like smaller
Conument shakers to go with that or like their grinder is even bigger. It's like a wood chipper
Wood chipper on the kitchen table, man. You're not you know
Oh, you're gonna smash the kitchen table like that.
No, you put the kitchen table in the wood shift.
Okay, there we go.
Now I'm picking up what you're putting down, okay.
Okay, all right, we're in business here.
We're in business.
Gold leaf, about four and a half thousand,
13 and a half minutes into the game.
Viper really, really putting the pressure on Caps,
who does not use the spirit rush,
knows he can get back to safety
without expending the ultimate.
One minute on our Rift herald,
four minutes until the next drake.
So those objective timers,
not quite as safe as this game
As they were in previous games, but there's a lot about this game that's different from the two previous games, Kobe.
Yeah.
One thing that I think is gonna be the same, though, is the end results.
The one, the team that destroys the next one. I think that is gonna be the same. It's not over yet, but...
Don't you ever say it's over if I'm breathing.
Yeah.
Cosante is in the game.
Also, where there is delusion, there is hope.
Okay, really good quote.
I would say if G2 wins this, it would be one of the greatest comebacks.
Yeah, we should position that now.
Okay.
If G2 wins this, it will be one of the greatest comebacks in League of Legends.
And they go out, broken blade looking for the 1v1 against Bin.
The croc with the Dominus, the ruthless predator.
And as soon as it looks like maybe there's a chance to do Cassante things,
Shun reminds him that it's a team game, shows up in top lane,
Trinity Force done on the Wukong.
Skumann with experimental hex plate on the trundle.
Not the most common item to see on this champion,
but I guess once he goes in for the ulti,
he wants to make sure he can get the jump to follow it up.
See how well it works?
Speed troll. Speed troll.
I like that.
Skumann, he goes for the pillar of filth onto Viper,
and Viper says, okay, cool.
I guess I'll just stay on this side of the pillar.
That's fine.
I mean, they 2v3'd the g2 bottom lane and jungler so Viper's like, I mean, I'm more rich now than I was then.
I could 2v3 your mid laner and your jungler and your support as well and take the tower and your face while you're doing it.
Well, I mean, his ulti's called Transcend oneself, but I feel like in this game it should be called Transcend yourself
because as soon as he pops it, anybody looking at him just dies.
Oh, this happened in the, oh yeah, we completely missed it.
This also did happen.
Yeah, we completely missed this, that's just exactly what you would expect to happen from Fadakalli with gunblade and tier 3 boosts from Quest going up against Caitlyn that barely has collected.
Alright, here's a difficult question for Jax, who is your player of the game? Viper on, or Knight, or even should?
This is, that's actually so tough. It's really hard to pick.
Because I'm all for the bottom lane.
Cause whenever my bottom lane, the enemy jungler ganks you and you're double killing them, as a jungler, I'm like, you guys are both gods.
So I guess the really difficult thing comes down, which one are you giving it to?
And then Knight is also like solo killing everybody, so I think it could still go next.
Currently on is my front runner, cause he was the chat Lulu that started it off with that flash forward, I like that too.
I actually think, yeah he was not scared at all.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no his honestly on yeah, you could cut steals with that we lose Jallon
Hell yeah, your Chad behavior in the lane as now broken blades gonna try to go in
Does find an angle here on the fight for my shots into the back by Cyclone on the free broken blades still going after Viper
Rampage for night Viper getting away for now
The broken blade finals with the killer ball and here for G2.
As Sun might just get picked up, shut down, goes into the gaps.
Nighton's been dropped broken blade, and honestly, this might be a fight.
He'll come for G2. Ultimate Obamacare.
G2 just got a three for two.
As Ben finally arrives to the fight, it was a 4v5,
and that's what G2 needed to have a chance to make something happen.
Nighton been still looking for more, but the Redacted can't get anything.
G2 despite all odds win the fight. It was all about creating bounties and then collecting them flowers the long gone the bounties
Collected here. They got my for they got on they got should G2
They're still down seven thousand gold. Yes. It is a drop in the bucket, but hey, it was an empty bucket before yeah
True and the bucket had holes in it, too. The buckles are rusty
Here we go though, okay so they try and make the play, they move up onto Viper and Broke
his blade is able to put so much pressure on him here, even with the flash from Viper
he can finish it, on tries to flash over too to save him, but in the back line he makes
the kill and that meant that the frontline also got to do work there, skumon with his
experimental X plate, beating them down and caps got to join in, he got the other
They shut down, they get the kill on the Lulu on top of it, so G2 at the very least.
We did say we set hard goals.
Yup.
They stopped dying a bunch.
Well, they also still kept dying some.
But, oh boy.
Bin down here on the 1v2, in the bottom lane.
Cap chasing over the wall, has the Spear.
Last player filled for the smoke.
They got him.
They got him down.
Bin shut down by Cap on the RE.
Some sloppy moves from BLG.
And G2 are ready to punish. That's the only way you can come back into this game.
If BLG gets a little too wild, and you bring him back down to Earth,
it's still a 69,000 gold lead. It's still slow-point.
The BLG side, Shun goes in for the ultramega fire kick,
means he doesn't find exactly what he wants here just yet,
but the Wildbrook means Calf is dead.
T'Kyuma wants to get away as Nite goes after M'Broll.
He's dominating three kills for G2, and it's just that tough, man.
They're so far behind that even when they do find these picks,
BLG just strikes right back and gets even more right back up to an 8k gold lead.
Hans is just trying to stay alive.
Meanwhile, where's the hero going?
Okay, it's going up to the topside.
Piper is just going to kill the turret normally here in tier 3 mid.
Tier 2 up in the top lane, guys.
Piper is just farming plates.
Hans is moving back towards him.
It's time for another hero crash.
Okay, BLG took offense to the fact that G2 punished their earlier happy gaming
And now BLG are up to nearly a five-digit gold lead and Knight has 18 stacks on his Medjai's soul
stealer. Yeah, it's a big book. The Knight classic. It's like one of those books you'd see like behind
a lawyer in a commercial. Really big. And Knight has written all the rules of Summoner's Rift.
Yes sir. Yes he has. Meanwhile, Ben in the side lane over there did get picked off to kind of
to start out the chain of events that we saw.
But then, you know, that kill gave G2 the hope
and they wrap around the mid lane.
But Shun says, you know what, Knight, excuse me,
Caps, you just use your Auri Ultimate to kill off Bin
so you don't have it to get away from my Blender.
The BLG Blender that goes along with the Pepper Kitcher.
We got an entire, we got an entire
mainframe march together, Shun.
I'll tell you what, that could be
a really popular item.
The Blender has a lot of settings
And in this game, it's set to high.
They are making sure the pressure stays on.
Nearly 10,000 gold lead here,
and it is just nothing but problems for G2.
Two minutes from now, it'll also be the Hextech Soul
spawning for BLG.
As Ben goes after Cat, it's pretty hard for Renekton
to catch Ari.
It's not as hard for Wukong to catch Ari,
but a nice charm means that Shun
will not be able to apply lethal threat
as G2 moved to defend their tier two churratier
the bottom lane, Broken Blade, just making some room. The Pathmaker living up to its
name for everybody else on the squad to get away. Yeah, make a path back to base. Yeah,
sometimes back to your towers. The path home, Broken Blade, once again just trying to move
forward here but it's Viper. Ready, BPS him down, Broken Blade, Pathmaker, defensively
getting away, tier two turret, just gets bulldozed man, no cozy campfire, he's
We're going to have it alive as BLG dive forward.
Not going to over commit to this.
They don't want to use any big cooldowns.
They'll be happy taking the tier two turret.
Going up to that over 10,000 gold,
the 21 minutes into the game,
less than 90 seconds now until the dragon soul spawns.
What are we cooking over here?
He's been seen.
Okay.
So, uh...
Nothing.
It's like minions.
Kitchen's empty.
Got him.
No cook.
So, flowers.
One minute on the Hextech soul.
Yes, there.
Uh-oh, hold on.
We have no minutes on Schumann, as Knight might actually just try to turn this.
Oh, the charm right there to stop him as he wanted to go forward with the R2.
Cap survives, and that's the outplay.
That shot was perfect to stop the second use of their Kali ulti.
Cap stays alive, Knight does end up going one for one.
And if you're G2 at this point in this game, a one for one is Christmas in March.
And even though Nightlight goes for that kill because it's enemy jungler, guess what?
Death Timer is lower for Sku-Mond and you killed them earlier.
So he'll be back for the ability to at least run to the hex gate to maybe rush towards the Dragon Soul.
Maybe they give it up anyways.
Well, I mean, hey, both junglers are on two items.
He's up now.
Now the difference is one of them is experimental hex plate and a thrift shop support item
Pipe's is a crazy find at a thrift shop. It's a good find. Don't get me wrong, but
Shams shopping for Gucci bags. He's got Trinity force and standard sky. He's this isn't scary stuff
Knight is also now back alive. He doesn't have his teleport to join the fight
That could be important remember that when G2 won a team fight earlier
It was because of the fight before then wrapping around behind
He's gonna use his sweeper to find the war. Bin has been spotted. Knight has made his way towards the fight now, though.
And Shun, alongside Viper, and on are gonna go ahead and start up the dragon. They're forcing G2 to answer them.
They don't want to walk into the EU squad. And now Shun jumps forward.
Skubon's gonna be your first target Viper just burning him away while Bin and Knight have found their way into the backline.
Honsama's gonna be your first target. Shun is almost dead. He's about to die.
Hawks on the ball, Pristoda's on.
The Joker's out of the way.
G2, they stop the stall.
The band and Viber is still fighting.
Broken blades all out.
G2 are fighting him, no fight.
And Benchard just ran them back out.
He's back there.
You believe there's no flash here, but an X-Ten.
G2 might just haste them.
Now he gets Germany behind Bloodkill.
He's looking for a little bit more.
He needs the damage on the cast.
He gets a double.
Skip over the blast.
He goes into the gap.
But Nite says no triple kill for the goal of lifetime.
Let me get the BL.
And it's back to 25 stacks just like that on the match eyes.
G2 were cooking with this brush though.
This brush right here, triple trap.
And then Klan sitting in the brush
starts headshotting everybody, getting
a lot of poke damage down.
Han Solo here, they've got control war there,
multiple traps.
He starts to put the poke damage even with the redemption
here.
G2 getting some good early damage, and since BLT are so split, look at the flank from top side.
Bokey blade, he goes up to keep Knight and Bin out of the fight, while the rest of G2 are putting damage on their Viper,
Chun, and on. And then they chase down the kills, on to on, and on to Chun.
So BLT actually got kind of distracted and busy in their own teamfight, but Knight was able to correct all of that.
Yep, I've been nice, my front-runners will play with the game now.
Cap's just into the pit, they want to try to challenge here for the Baron.
They've downed to 1,000, secured by Shun.
G2 moving forward, still trying to stop these guys.
Broken Blade finds Viper, who tries to get away.
But that's pressure on him!
Another kill for G2!
Cap's locked in.
Has a reneged again, remember, he does not have a flash.
Dominus Flores just to stay alive, but Cap's wants more.
Stare exchange provides good enough base speed to continue running for now.
Knight go after the ball, D-Dot for broken blade.
They get the kill they want, but it cost TV's life.
Knight is still prowling, looking for the opportunity
to find something else.
It's a Baron for BLG, but they lose two in the process
for the one from G2.
G2 here, even despite this 9,000 goal difference,
they're finding some fights for themselves.
The Baron is taken by BLG, but Baron was worked
on this season, so it doesn't give us much gold
for your squad, and G2,
Wait, it's against Yuman, should be fine, he's fairly tanky here.
I mean, the critical one was really the Dragon Pipe,
where they denied the Dragon Soul.
That rush that they just posted up in,
and were able to get the Dragon Soul Denier,
was big for G2's hopes of accomplishing this huge comeback
that this game would be if they could do it.
Still though, BLG, you know,
that Knight has 25 stacks on his Meta-Eyes,
and it's amplified by a Rabbit on Deathcap,
So, like, this Akali does crazy burst damage.
And as we were expected, the PLG is still very much an amazing spot.
But our tantalizing story we were joking about earlier,
you know, got a little bit closer of possible angles for G2.
The win percentage is no longer a fraction of a percent, right?
They're essentially like a one.
Yeah, they're cooking, you know?
Maybe some more Crip multipliers here,
get another little bit of
great items for on summer and, you know, hopefully some more
headshots. That's a very
that ground is practically a blue rectangle.
The wall, maybe. Now, I'm on team.
Yeah, you to beat them three to but now BLG. Yeah, maybe maybe
that's what this is. Maybe this is Casey's revenge. This is
BLG.
Ah, yeah. Maybe this is BLG's buddies, I don't know.
We got one minute and 15 seconds until the next dragon spawns.
You just said it was the Hextech soul stop that really was the biggest deal for G2,
and now it's time to do it again.
It's time to pay the piper and skew on.
Technically, he's the piper because he has the band of players.
He's got the band of players.
Yeah, he's going to take the gromp.
He'll go ahead and walk away there.
Shen wants to kill that Ward.
The Spurred and Topo strike does not find the knockback
onto Viper's Unara.
And we'll see G2 have to move forward as a unit
if they want to stop BLG from taking the drake.
BLG, of course, does have priority over the bottom river
area.
They are there first.
They can set up some vision.
They can force G2 to check into them.
And going back to what you were talking about in the draft,
one of the advantages of Caitlyn,
part of the character's power,
is being able to block off entrances towards objective fights.
But you can only do that if you're the first ones there.
And G2 just don't really have that luxury at this point in time.
The bottom river is dark and full of terrors.
And G2 do not walk to see anything scary.
Problem is they're about to have to face those fears.
Broken Blade, level 16 here in the Cassante.
Third and token split, only hit shun.
It's not really a target,
it's gonna give you a whole lot here at the start.
Knights back over in the mid lane.
He's got a crab focus for BLG.
He'll secure that one.
Keep your eyes on Knight.
And this brush, look at this brush dude, they're focusing it again.
Triple trap with the control ward.
Okay.
G2 still on the approach.
Pin, taking a big chunk of damage, loses half HP to Caps.
He's already here immediately.
The very start of the fight.
S'Gumond still wants to try to contest here for this drink.
Immediately drops the sub-G game.
Flash coming out from Vinny, wants to try to kill Caps.
He gets back away.
Caps goes back in.
Oh, Spiridon!
Beautifully done, but Natsuki's revenge,
and now G2 is falling.
Knight wants the second kill, on the rob,
as Shun goes after Skumon,
and Broken Blade's gotta try to fight everybody else
in the BLG, roster triple kill for Knight, Sakali.
Broken Blade trying to run.
He wants to maybe turn around,
it's the only option he's got,
but it's not good enough.
Ace for Viper and BLG, they lose bin,
but they'll take everybody else.
The bottom lane, tier three, turtle collabs.
The mid lane one will do the same
and BLG are on their victory march.
No one in G2 colors stands to stop them
and BLG will clean sweep G2
and be the first team at first stand, 20-26,
to pass the group stage.
3-0 for BLG
And Knight having so fun on that,
a collie band, beautiful to watch.
I think I gotta give him my player of the game now.
We were talking about that at the beginning of the game,
how bottom lane and mid were both going crazy.
And originally I felt like the edge
were going towards the bottom laners
despite Knight getting his solo kill.
But when things started to get shaky,
when they were having a little bit too much fun
with the video game, it was Knight saying,
guys, wait, hold on, it's a competitive game.
We still got to win this.
He's the one who clutches.
He's the one who makes it happen.
And honestly, incredible, incredible game from BLG.
In a series that was close for the early games of the first two
and then turned to BLG dominance, in game three,
they just decided, what if we got rid of the close part?
Yeah, it started with that bottom lane, the 2v3
double kill for them.
And ended with a lot of night plays.
Yeah, lots of night plays.
Shun, of course, also helping so much in that bottom lane.
He was there to counter after Skumon was trying to make the move.
Yes, G2 got a little bit too excited.
They got killed in the 2v2, but then Shun also
showing up being like, hey, Skumon, guess who's
red boss needs to go back to its rightful owner.
Cracks his knuckles a little bit, takes what's rightfully his.
And what a dominant third game from BLG.
They will be our first team, like I said,
to pass the group stage.
Remember, only four of our eight will get to move on to that bracket play.
This is a fast tournament, my friend.
Two wins, you're through.
Two losses, you are out.
So G2 is still in the tournament.
They are one and one now.
So they will have one more chance to be one of those top four squads.
Yeah.
And BLG getting through, you know, people expect them to get through.
They expect them and Gen.G for sure 100% to get through both LPL and LCK, honestly.
Yeah, and everyone's probably expecting that to be top four anyway, but are you telling me the top two regions in the world are gonna have their top teams be in the top four.
Yeah, sir. They do it in style though. This was definitely a fun one. I think we are setting up with Ben down there.
So maybe we can get a listen in fairly soon. He had a really big performances in the first game. Huge performances.
So many of these plays too where the team is leaving and he sees the angle and he just pops off
So right now in the in the post series I'm here we've been very talking about this meaning when he will help us with the
Translation so my first question is what has changed for your first series that was against fear X and was a more
Difficult series for today that you win with a 3-0
Congratulations on your victory in this match. Today is a very clean 3-0.
It feels like the last match against BFX was a little bit harder.
So do you think there will be such changes in the process?
Because I think the opponent in this match is weaker than the opponent in this match.
Is our 3-0 match going to be very normal?
It must be because our opponent in this series is a little bit weaker than the previous one.
So that's why it's natural for us to get a 3-0.
Well, he commented that they got 3-0 now because the opponent of today's game was a little weaker than the other game, the game of Strat, FIAX, and that's why they got this victory.
My second question now is, I saw a little on social media that they changed their style to the top laner of Laud, they talked a little and I'm going to ask him to leave a tip for new players who are coming to the competition now.
So I saw on social media that you exchanged jerseys with Shino,
the Brazilian team in first stand.
He is a young talent who definitely has you as an inspiration.
And I wanted you to give an advice to the new players who are arriving now in the competitive.
I also noticed that in social media, you and Laod's top players,
Synone, you have exchange team and chat with each other.
And he is actually a very young and strong young man.
And he also noticed that at the same time,
he can give them some inspiration and knowledge in many places.
So I also want to ask, as a relatively experienced player,
do you have any suggestions for these young players
when they come to the government to enter the arena?
My biggest suggestion is to believe in your own judgment,
and trust in yourself, trust in yourself, trust in yourself is the most important thing.
Well, he said that the biggest advice he can give to the new players is to trust in yourself, trust in your talent, trust in your decisions in the game,
because that's definitely the key for you to win.
Thank you so much for this interview and the BLG won today 2x3 hours.
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Come here and let's begin. I'll make a ride. Take this.
What's your name? It is really.
There was a point of time. Listen, that's a different story.
I can take you to the top, but it's for the glory.
On the hip-bombie, I'm a god of knowing.
What's your name? It is really.
Let's take it to the top, then they're gonna stop me.
We just want to go.
We just take control.
We won't ever go.
Take it up, take it up, take it up, take it up.
We just want to go
We just take control
We won't never fall
Take it out, take it out, take it out, take it out
We just want to go
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We won't never fall
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We won't never fall
I'll fall, take it up, take it up, baby
This is for the ready list and never lose to showman
This is 20, 20 vision, see the truth like four glasses
Student of the year in the list is skipping no class
You wanna win, you gotta grind, and that's the whole story
Winning over finna' news, listen, don't bore me
Can't listen now from all the ones that came to form it
You wanna win, you gotta win, you gotta win
This is the version, this is you should let it burn
Run around the world, be moving, we gon' let it turn
And my brain's the new hockey, and that's what I desire
But it's shimmy, me-trimmy
Just take it, take it, drop it, we're gonna stop it
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I had fun. Did you have fun guys? A lot of fun. I had fun.
What if you're telling the truth? The person who did not have fun was Caps. Knight went
crazy that game, so yes, he gets player of the game on that one. Especially since G2
was starting to bring it back, and there was one specific fight around Dragon where
you're like, okay, maybe there's an angle here. Knight goes in, gets a triple kill,
you're like, ah, never mind.
I mean, it was always like this.
It was like, yeah, G2 has a good setup here,
but then you have renexing on one side on flanking,
and then you have night flanking on the other.
And it's just, at this point, with a composition like this,
it's hard to come back.
What when, before we go on what, when right to the other,
what went wrong for G2 as a whole preparation,
the approach, there's a lot of things for me.
It starts with drafts.
So yeah, I think they drafted the Katelyn Milio.
I think for people that don't know the new hex
optics like item works really well with extra range you get from Elio
Schumann had a great early passing right like that was super smart and the problem just was
Right before Schumann was about to gank Han Sama had lost almost all of his HP had to flash out because they were
The unara and Lulu were just
Absolutely crushing him and that was the issue
They just lost too much health when that gank came over because it was a good setup. They wanted to split the map
I really liked it. I had a whole thing set up. Yeah for jungle passing
I am upset they didn't get talked about I guess that's talk about now if it had worked
But yeah, then everything just fell apart after that, right? Yeah, that was the strategy behind this draft
I think and on the other side you have BLG just ramping out from the first series to the second series
I'll give it to you the opposite position was not the same here when you look at what G2 did here
but guys complete demolition in team fights everything was clean all was on
yeah you would have expected the player the series to go toward then for
how it started but on really impressed us through and through like stopping a
lot of the engage that was either coming in in this replay on the Niko or the
2v2 fight that were happening bot side from Viper and on both of them I felt
like really dominated in laning phase and it transferred later on in the
Yeah, I mean he had a really consistent series throughout. You could have said the same thing for shun and and then like honestly
BLG played really well today. He was also crucial in a lot of those two v2s, but now
We're moving on to our second series as we see
Team Secret Wales and BNK fear ex arriving at the studio. We send BLG to some my finals
We're gonna send a team home after this series as we said it's a team Secret Wales
I mean, I can just go straight into it for win conditions.
I'll start from the team secret well side a drafting to comfort.
I think it's incredibly important just simply because like in game one, they put
upon on Ornn, they picked a composition that probably make so a lot of sense for
what they were facing against.
I mean, I think it's a good thing to have a team that's going to be
able to do that.
I mean, I think it's a good thing to have a team that's going to be
make a lot of sense for what they were facing against, but was really lackluster for the
team because they did not win and lose based on they did not succeed off that kind of a
draft.
But don't show your hand too fast when you see the Akali first pick and you're going
to pass into straight dive, then the Galio and all that, you're like, okay, like draft
for your comfort, but don't just show your hand immediately.
Stabilize the early game is the big point of fear X because it was just a constant
pressure towards mid lane and it felt like if they were falling behind in the first
five minutes it was looking cooked. And this is where I don't agree with you, right?
Okay, so Rex, for me, well, do you want to give me that weapon?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Especially from the first series from them is the fact that even if they have a lagluster early game,
they have the ability to come back in teamfights.
And usually it comes around setting up Diablo in a good situation for them to be able to do so.
So for me, I feel like even if they fall behind,
given the fact that Team Secret Wells didn't show a lot,
They showed that they could come back, but can they do it against a team like this?
This is where I have doubts on the other side. I want to see strong lanes
I want to see agency. I want to see this guy in the jungle being able to get things going for the his team in the early game
All right
And I can't fall between you two because I think this is my big thing for team secret
Well, because we saw a few times in the GC series when they would be able to do well
Okay, we had a good team fight and then they just keep pushing it
It's like you guys have a lead just like back off. No one to pressure lead
No one to back off. I think was crucial in a lot of the skirmishes that ended up back. Yeah
Can you have some realistic wind conditions went to back off?
Okay, you know what you asked me for wind conditions. Okay, this is my wind condition
Yeah, and then leveraged to you bought TV to power. I thought that B&K fear X's bot lane kind of similar to what Laura said
But even earlier, I thought they played really, really well, you know, Diablo is the rising star talent of this roster and it's so exciting to see him here.
Take a theme.
The theme is Diablo. Both of you guys are talking about their volleys.
That's true, but honestly, for his first time on the international stage, I feel like this guy showed up.
Absolutely. Yeah, and it is always a question where you're like, okay, how well is he going to do?
We covered this going into the series.
It's his first like big riot international tournament, right?
And he was phenomenal in this series.
I loved watching him play.
I mean, just taking a look at constantly being a focal point,
even when the games aren't looking great.
He is just standing and delivering with Kellan in his back pocket
because that can get you back in.
It's really, I mean, it will surprise you.
One thing that will surprise you is also baby photos.
photos. That will be another one that will surprise me.
This is the youngest player at first hand. This picture comes from COVID times. We don't
want to remember that, but this kid was 13 years old back then. Feel old yet? Because I already
felt old actually.
And popping off already, but honestly, similarly to both of these teams being really young
and inexperienced, today I feel like that's something we have to look after because
Facing elimination, these two rosters are on the first time here in the international stage.
Nerves cannot show up.
Wow!
Usually we see like a key of the stage.
Guess what?
It doesn't exist.
No.
I mean it's even, but also, yeah.
How much do you think it's gonna impact both teams playing today?
With what's at stake here?
Not too much. I think the pressure is always going to be there from the team's secret well side
because they feel like they have a chip on their shoulder, a lot to prove, especially after Last Worlds where they didn't get the show their best selves.
And they're like, well, domestically, like, D-Ray and his token really put the pressure on and a lot of opponents.
And I feel like, when I watch them domestically, I've seen aspects of their gameplay where they're like,
yeah, we're fighting constantly, but it's not needless, right? There's rhyme and reason to what we're doing.
But we haven't seen that here, and they want to at least show that on an international level.
What do you think of predictions here?
I know. Oh God. Yeah. Yeah. The audience to discover it. I feel like
It's I think it's so I think it's gonna be really tough for team secret whales. Unfortunately
Just based on what we've seen from both of these teams domestically and the way they play
And then the way that they've performed thus far
I feel like if team secret roles really wants to
Go in and kind of really try to attack them like they did with g2
fear acts are going to be more than willing to scrap and we've seen them
come back even when like Vickla was really really struggling with their level
ones are getting first blooded. I think it's gonna be a really big uphill
battle for them. It will be the biggest point of success I would say from them
just the last time they played specifically Team Secret Wells was the
Rated Sylas. His Sylas and his Akali like he got hands on that he was able
to play really well and aggressive early so I'm interested in that we
We need to see that from them.
That is my focal point from this team.
It's the only moment either of this team can show up on stage.
One of them goes home.
The pressure is on casters over to you for this game.
Thank you very much, Law.
And yes, we are here ready to send someone home, but I want to start on a happy note.
I'm joined by Jatt.
It's been so long, my friend.
It's been so long.
We have been on a desk together.
six and a half years. So technically we did cast at Worlds with Dagda as well.
Yeah. But he was in the middle of the two of us. You also I think you ganked me and
Wolf in the middle of the cast at the same time. This is the first scheduled duo
Javel's cast since 2019 Worlds. I remember because I was trying to recruit you to the
LCK. Yeah. That was the year Paul was leaving. It didn't work. But you still got Chrono
and then you had a glorious five years.
We did pretty well.
I actually feel like it didn't go too badly.
But let's get into this because these two teams,
both coming off losses,
both of these losses looking a little different
from one another.
I agree.
I feel like I hope that the Analyst Desk
is completely wrong because they all said 3-0
and I want to cast more than three games.
I want this to be more than a six game day.
We came all the way to Brazil
to play a seven day tournament.
And I don't want to have the days only be six games long and I think you're asking the wrong person because I
do feel like being capable of pretty good and
Team Secret didn't really
Stand up to do to all that much although there was one game that they were winning until they lost
I think there are multiple games that they were close until they lost and one game that they're winning until they lost
And I like Rast's point on the analyst desk because I felt like they were drafting in the least sneaky
oversharing way possible later in the series.
Yeah, yeah.
So in game two, they first picked the Akali,
and in game three, they first picked Dr. Mundo.
So when you first picked the Akali,
you're saying, we are going to play a dive cop.
Yes.
Have fun picking your five champions
that you plan to play against that.
And then Mundo is, okay, we're gonna be low engaged
and scaling, so make sure you bring enough damage.
Like, none of these things are good early in the draft
or good late in the draft.
It's like, it's a bit of a telegraphed situation.
Exactly, if you and me were going on a first date,
I'm not gonna overshare.
I want to say, here's my financial situation, my past trauma, what went wrong in my other relationships.
I would actually really appreciate that though.
And the opportunity to appreciate that too.
I find communications really good if you're trying to work together.
However, if this is with your opposition, it's probably not what you're wanting to do.
So, even though I loved the analogy, it wasn't very good.
Ash, Lulu, and Rumble have been banned away, though, as we jumped into a half-prick.
Jamselect, and it is going to be the Nautilus, the final ban after the Orianna and the Ryze.
I do like the Ryze being taken away, I think that champion is completely broken, but is
the Azir actually going to be picked?
That's my question.
It has been nerfed and we've seen some teams still banning it, some teams deciding to
pick it away.
Vickla could play the Azir.
He does like it.
I don't know whether I like him playing it, but he does like it.
Okay, I didn't like anything Vickla played in his first series.
Yeah, true.
All the way played it, but we'll just have to see whether he is leveled up moving into their next series of the tournament
The vias being picked. This is the perfect time for raptor to go towards his nefiri
Okay, we sort of hovered all series in the last one, but I think it's actually at least an angle for it instead looking at a monkey
Yeah, I mean wukong is also just good. Yeah, true
Zinn also good. This is the this is the more standard game on jungle drafts where
where you just blind pick a sundered sky jungler.
But this is the interesting one with Karmic being picked.
So it's only been picked once here at first end,
but it's been banned an exceptional amount.
And it was Kellen that played it out pretty well.
It's one of the sleeper OP champions I feel like
must be dominating in scrims because we haven't seen it
really that much globally.
But except here at this event,
it's been almost permavent.
So really looking forward to seeing
if Diablo and Kellen can dominate something bot lane.
Yeah, I do think that it's also really good
early in Fielderstruf, right?
Because it pairs exceptionally well
with Ezreal and Sivir especially,
and you can guarantee to get one of those, right?
They are going to pick away the Barus, though,
on the side of Team Secret Whales.
As you're thinking about the Rakan,
I think Rakan is really difficult to play
when you're looking down the barrel of a pushing lane.
Yeah, but at the same time,
I think one of the reasons Karma is probably
such high prio is because it is gonna get pushed
on basically everything.
True. So at the end of the day, I think they want to just be able to start a teamfight or support a gank.
So I understand picking Rakan on three here. I want to say Karma is also really good with champions like Xen.
Yep. Xen is really good with enchantress. I think it's an underrated aspect and it's just the Karma Ezreal. It's the classic.
Yep. They could pick whichever one they wanted, whether it be the Ezreal or the Sivir.
Going with the Ezreal this time around gives Diablo a lot of independence.
Young man able to go anywhere. He would please the vibe will follow him. No, so we'll see whether his token
Get on top of this 80 carry this young man
The next round advanced to come on through we're looking at top lane and mid for both teams very interesting that in a game
One of the best of five and feel as we've seen both of the bottom lanes fully locked down
It's not often what you see
It's normally solos in jungle or like a cheeky OP or something like that on the bottom side of the map like a
Like a part or something but it's not often that we see this often later in the drafts that you'll you'll see the bottom line
Locked away this early. Yeah agree a lot of time you're waiting for support counterfeit
But I think that's why the karma changes this draft just a little bit
I like to sneak you ball of air ban there by the effects. They're doing the research looking at the champ pool of pun and saying wait a minute
This thing is weird. I don't want to play against anything weird. Let's get not dealing with it. It does make some sense
That's all right
Kassate going to be taken away from clear clear is a man with a decent champion pool
But I have to have to say that his rumble and Kassate are easily his most feared champions. So good research being done here
See the Korean docker
Yeah, kind of like he was actually so the matchup between clear and
Thanatos was some of the best league in Challenger a few years back
They were the two best players by a country mile, right. DRX versus DK was like the big matchup down there.
Clear didn't find quite as much success when he made it to the LCK and then of course just left the country.
So we never really got to see too much of it again.
Still hasn't won the LCS.
Not quite.
Yeah, they can pull it together.
They did look alright.
Although, do you want to talk about the America's Cup?
No.
Okay, we'll leave that one.
I think we should talk about First Dan.
Okay, let's do that.
First Dan is great.
going to be banned away here. Vickler already showing that one in their previous series and
the Renekton is going to be the lock-in. This is one of Clare's favorites as well. Sometimes
you just can't ban them all. Yeah, and they did a good job to set it up with
the Narvan as well as the Valderban, so to protect Vans, to then blind-pick your
top laner, and I don't necessarily think you have a good counter-pick to Ari, but
Vickler will at least get to see the entire team comp before he decides to lock it
and we'll see what pun ends up going against the Renekton.
Usually you want to go with some type of a neutralizing pick like an Orn or a Scion,
but if he goes Gwen that's a lot of squishiness and a lot of damage and he's going for it.
Yeah, you can fight fire with fire and this is scary.
I mean if it's going to work then it could be Team Secret Wales really running away with this one,
but the Annie for Vickler is going to be locked away.
Does feel like Vickler has gone back to a little bit more of his utility ways.
playing a lot of carries finding a lot of success in the LCK Cup but it wasn't a
great start to first stand so I think you know back to it throwing bears at
people and seeing whether Diablo can carry the game in the end pretty balanced
drops on both sides but honestly if you turn the name plates off as you say
kind of like how Team Secret Wales comp has came together at the end with the
amount of damage that you have on top of a lot of snapping gauge and a lot
of abilities to flank and split push so there's a lot of good things
going on. Have you ever called it the Vic Clanny? No, I think it works. Maybe today we
can start calling it the Vic Clanny. Yeah. Oh, I'd say Vic Clanny. Vic Clanny. That doesn't
sound right. That sounds like something noisy falling down the stairs. Vic Clanny. And then
Andy. If he does lose a lot, then perhaps we can go with the Vic Clanny instead. It
can be a bit of a clanger. Will he give up first blood again? Yeah. Find out soon.
Yeah, we'll just have to see. But, ladies and gentlemen, one of these teams will
be making their way out of the tournament. The other one stays alive. We'll see
see whether Team Secret Whales can make a dent in B&K Thorex here in game number one.
But they have to say up against BLG, they didn't look too bad.
Going all the way to five games, the last draft was something that I would prefer not to talk about again.
But there were certainly some moments for B&K in their series despite the 3-0 on the other side of the rift.
So I think we're expecting B&K to be the favorites here.
Team Secret Whales might have some secrets of their sleeves.
And that's the hope. We know how well CFO did last year.
this team qualified from the same region,
even if they are a full Vietnamese team.
So they definitely have aspirations of doing well
on the world stage.
Winning domestically is not enough for them.
And it was probably just a demoralizing three game series
that they played against G2.
For what it's worth, G2 did a lot of discussion
about their ability to beat jet lag, et cetera.
But their time zone is four hours different
and they took one flight that was direct to Brazil.
You know how long the travel they was for TSW?
It was like 35 hours.
So if anyone is gonna I did the same trip by the way that being K fear ex did and I would not recommend that on my
To my worst enemy. It's it's it's actually just the other side of the planet. So it's a tough one
You got a couple of extra days to recover. Honestly, we're on about the same timeline
Korea and Vietnam are very close. It's like it's just one over. Mm-hmm
So the travel would be about the same between the two squads
When all is said and done having a look now though, we can see that the karma has pushed in the bottom lane
Who is the pros?
And they're also starting sweepers, so they're trying to make sure they have full side of full control of both pushes.
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Not too bad.
That's right.
Vickler throwing some damage towards D.R.A. here in this mid lane as well.
Well, I am I have a habit of reading the screen by the way, Jack
I just want to let you know
I've made this many times with players like yeah
As a K at the start of his name. Yeah, I commentated him for about two years
I still call him Kierhu sometimes that's understandable. So if I call DRA DIA in this game
Yeah, I promise it's just my brain not working. Yeah, and all the worlds he was called die
But we know he's right now. We figured it out. Actually, it's maybe it was my fault. I think it was your fault. I was just reading it this whole time
Yeah, no dearie me. Well, I apologize in advance
Everyone from the LCP that might be a little bit frustrated
As or and we'll forgive you for calling out being a pure
Yeah, I mean this is one of the as we're watching these lanes straight back and forth like D-Ray versus Dire is one of the less offensive requests
Yeah, yahoo the K is silent that's just trolling man
Yeah, who yeah, you're still saying the K is silent and putting a K at this like a word
That would be so good if that was his name. It's like if pun was called on yeah true
Yeah, I would watch it, but I would still have to yep. It was ADD back in the day as well
And you're supposed to pronounce it Ed. Okay, that's that's what he wanted and it was capitalized
It looked like an acronym
That one was very difficult.
His BDD was also in the lead.
He was. I don't know whether they were playing at the same time.
I know ADD in the LCK was playing for MVP in about 2018.
So quite some time ago.
Zell's back at OGN.
I remember when he was hanging out there.
As Histo, having a look towards this top side of the map
as we do bring it back to the video game momentarily.
Clear has been lit on fire as well. It's fun having a pretty good time in the lane.
Histo has snuck around though. He's going to get spotted right now.
See if he can get the gank off.
Already getting these scissors out and I don't even know whether the buy was needed
But he's still gonna throw down the flash plus blood
Goes over to Histo a great start here for Team Secret Wales
Beautifully done by Histo and for any struggle that TSW has had internationally
It has not been Histo's early game. This guy has consistently been able to get early kills
And remember this is an elimination series
So it's very important that they get out to a good start winner will advance to play G2
Loser is going to go home. It'll be two series in out here for sure
It's so much pressure between these two squads, and getting out to an early lead in a series like this can really alleviate a lot of that pressure.
So this first game can be really important. We know there's been a lot of teams that have spoken about the importance of game one.
They come into an interview and said, if we win game one, we win.
It doesn't even matter if we drop the game throughout the series, that will provide us with enough confidence to make this happen.
And good charm there for Zyra, as Raptors will take 50% of his health, but it's the commitment to the Raptors.
And this is all because Karma's invaded the jungle because they had Bobprouser.
They're just really trying to force numbers on enemy Raptors, and Vickla also has a run-up,
so he still has to just get rid of it.
This is a delayed punish for the gank that he did top lane, so nicely executed there.
Everyone on BNK Fyrex had to be involved in that play in order for it to work.
Yep. And when the cross map is we took a Raptor can, then maybe the gank worked out quite well.
Zero takes a bear.
Yeah, but as you can see on the bottom of the screen, like even though they did lose 3-0 to G2,
The games were close, 51.4% of the time, so what closest percentage is, is it's the other team not having more than 51.5% of the game's total gold.
Which if you map it out is usually like a couple thousand ahead.
That sounds pretty close to me.
Yeah, and the graphs back it up, they were close that entire time even having gold beads.
The closeness percentage was within the closeness percentage mark.
Yeah, it is, by like a tenth of a percent.
Is that like an infinite loop of closeness?
Probably.
It sounds really close to me.
It's alright. BA taking a bit of damage here from Kellen, but just being frustrating as he's trying to get that wave to crash on forward.
100 gold a lead near the team's secret whale, so not too much of anything to report as far as that is concerned.
But it does show that that first blood didn't really get the much of a lead,
it more mitigated the advantages that BNK already had put together.
And from the bot prior, you can see Raptor is just free hitting the drake.
getting the drake so the first drake is gonna pretty easily go over to
BNKFurex which I understand you have problems saying
D-Ray versus Dire. I have a hard time saying BNKFurex when the tricode is BFX.
I know! See isn't it? It took me two years. I'm so proud of myself for getting that one right most of the time.
Yeah, because they are BNKFurex. So of the five letters that they could be they pick those three.
3 yeah arbitrarily yeah that's it's not very nice of them is it yeah we've had
some conversations about this but ultimately it's their choice and it's
okay it's just we'll deal with it and the big what is also going to deal with
this Ari being a little bit frustrating both of them trading some
electricity here in this mid lane as once again his toe in the area oh
Raptor revenge right here. Oh, no stealing raptors. Raptors, man. Everyone knows that this is the way that you tilt him and it's worked so far
Yep, coming really good on that one. Vicle didn't quite have ultimate up yet. Raptor also
Wasn't a hundred percent sure that that was gonna happen could have started red and gone to Raptors
But he wanted to try and pull clear down
So he's gone and his still has a very small window that he was searching for a gank knows that it's gonna be too late
and has to back away. Yeah, also keeps himself invisible. I'm pretty sure they have an idea
that he was there because he did just steal the raptors.
It is just about raptors. It's clear. First down the dominance here is Punn throwing some
needles at the crocodile. He'll have to call the meek in this wave just to make sure he's
going to be okay. But I think that war of attrition was won by the crocodile who
will be able to get control of this wave and shove it forward. We'll see whether
it's going to be first play going this way. It's chance corruption. Side step there
by Kellen, Swiftfootwork as there's Diablo going in with that arcane shift and he is
just completely in no man's land. Diablo even had the mystic shot ready for him.
As B and K will get their first kill of the game and it is on the player you don't really
want to give all the kills to if you're a Team Secret Wales fan. As Vickla looking for Tire here
as well. He does have the spirit rush so he'll be all right. It's still this bear is
getting scary. Yeah classic the Clanny play. Yeah it's really good for Clanny.
hit whenever you why do I only I can only save a clanging I can't get my
brain to do the clanging it's the Australian I want to talk about the
play we just saw though because all of this did end up happening because of
the repeated pressure that Raptors putting on the enemy Raptors it means
that Team Secret Royals all was trying to defend the play they were
getting invaded in the jungle and then once Eddie missed the ultimate it
gave Diablo the window that he could shift over the wall freely and they
you could just have the numbers advantage against the Verus.
And I'm pretty sure he reacted to the Flash with the Mystic Shot,
but it was very, very close to being at about exactly the same time as that Flash going out.
So pretty impressive stuff.
He's still going to be able to grab it.
The first grub of the game here might actually look for a double,
as there is Raptor making his way up.
Steals that one away.
It'd be a fight for the third, but just getting one is normally what these players really care about.
And the watch.
Yeah, throws out.
The ulti is there to knock up the Flash from Raptor to turn this one around.
Stun comes through onto the ante and sees him to assist and that's exactly what they want.
Raptor to do, D-Ray's going to be able to take him down in the end and Clear is just getting kited,
does find a stun and takes out the Fox Lady but he will pay for that with his life.
At least after some blast current shenanigans do come on forward, does get a bunch of his health
bar back though. Why is Clear so alive? Okay, finally he will be taken out of the Clanny,
not going to live and it's a double kill going over the pun.
And this is all because they had the numbers advantage.
Eddie's paying for it on the other side of the map, by the way.
Diablo's getting free plates.
He's completely zoned off the wave.
But that top fight was a 43.
So I don't believe that BNK-Purex expected
BA to be there on the Rekon with the Spellbook.
And I'm actually surprised after the original fight 1-1-for-1
that they kept chasing through the jungle
because that ended up costing them a few extra kills.
Well, there's another plate that Diablo really wants to take here, but BA has made his way down towards this bottom side.
Should be able to defend Eddie pretty comfortably standing over here, but it is going to be at least that plate going on over.
So Diablo is very rich, but let's have a look at this fight because he was not there for this.
Yeah, Diablo's gonna be a problem. I mean, Raptor, very aggressive here, knowing he's Annie's no ultimate, but knowing he has his Q3 up,
They thought they could potentially one-shot D-Ray Atlas, but then when the Rakan arrives, he's able to apply the extra shielding, and then clear.
I think if this blast goes out towards Vicle, dashes away, goes back to base, he continues back to his wave, shove it out,
but instead they decide to continue to solve in. Part of this is if they somehow win this fight, the game's over,
because they would have won it through before, and they would have zoned away the Varus on the bottom side,
understand why you might grief for something like that.
But it's still a huge play for Team Secret Wheels.
Yeah, very big win.
Does put them at about 400 gold in the lead, as we can see.
And with the fact that it's the Gwen that has most of the money,
that is the biggest deal, right?
Riftmaker is now done.
Like, Punn is going to be a huge problem in this game.
Yeah, and Punn's Gwen has been very good for him
so far in this year.
I know Raz had a nice play where
he's very good at deploying in the right spots on the map
on Gwen, especially when he has a small advantage like this.
He has just run Chalaport though as we have a fight for the three.
Yep, President God does come out here as Raptor trying to keep himself alive.
There is the kings of corruption coming on down to double, Decent Arcane shift,
but he's still just gonna get ulted by the Viaduct.
Chom comes in as well, the cleatness working out so well,
and Eddie is going to put him in the ground.
Teary just dancing around the team fight, but it's Raptor that goes in,
finds the knock-up with a three-tall and strike,
and Eddie will be able to take him down, but not without the rest of his team falling.
There is a barris limping away, but once again being a with a fighting a man down. Never mind
No, there at least wasn't pun in that fight. True. So it's an even one. Yeah, we're okay
Honorable scrap. No honorable scrap indeed, but we've got a bloodbath on our hands
It's already 11 kills by 12 minutes and these teams are willing to fly in
Diablo's Ezreal with flash barrier thinks that he's gonna be invincible
But there's an R revive they can chase through both of the dashes
He has a kind of getting one shot on the tail end, but they do have to burn a lot through the barrier through the Karma shield through the Karma heal
It takes them a long time and that gets raptor time to kind of clutch it at the end of the fight nice job by Eddie there
Stacking up and executing with the various Q to make it a trade and the dragon still alive
Well, we're gonna go back to that one see what it being cake and grab the double dragon from this one
Dragon from this one. We'll check out what the soul is going to be as Pony at the top
side of the map. Clear! Can just do nothing as the Gwen will cut him down! And Pawn we
were saying, he's going to be a problem. Well, he definitely is.
That is insane. You can see the coring base gold grind on the left there as well. Raptor
will be getting the Drake, so a little bit of Drake stacking early, but this is how
you got to compete. If your team's secret wills, get someone who's going to have
carry angle at the end since the bot lane is completely gapped in part thanks to the players,
but also in part thanks to this karma. So having the top side of the map is necessary in order
to compete in this game. I do think that Avaris will just generally be valuable right later on
into the game. Obviously if you fall behind you're not going to be doing as much damage,
but you can heal deny and you can also stun or snare with your chains of corruption. So there
They won't have issues with damage when pun is this massive.
No, I don't think so. I do think Kalin will probably build the McKales next, just in case
the Albuaz get caught by there.
Vickla's down and Rafa looking for a way in. Let's see whether he can get an audacious
charge onto Deere, but he gets himself out. They thought they caught Vickla, but
Vickla says, I have a bear and I have a jungler.
Yep, we just got to use that anti-ultimate as much as possible. Maximized value. They're
Kind of down on pressure right here, but the RETP is going to be able to catch that way top.
It's so hard for them to deal with this kind of Ezreal.
Yeah, it really does just...
It kind of feels at the moment in this mid game that D&K just have more members on the map.
But there are more of TSW here towards his bottom side, and Vikkla is very much dead.
Tidus is going to get mad, so they may not have the greatest of times taking down this turret.
But that is more money to pawn.
And that is dangerous.
Charm does connect here onto D.R.A., but the knock-up's there from Raptor as well.
He has no all the aster flash to get out of the way the audacious charge and wind comes lightning and becomes another kill for this in
Zin Zhao who is also become in a bit of a problem
Damn that looks broken. What is raptor even doing? You know like under the sky red buff
Then I'm understanding why they were
Zin Zhao bands throughout the whole yesterday very understandable. Yeah inspired to get him in game five. I appreciate that
Yeah, we get to see him fight another day.
But Raptor kind of putting his mark on this game
because I think his toe is going where he should.
He's going where they're strong,
but it appears now that both the mid lane and the bot lane,
wherever they are deployed on the map,
the players on those characters are struggling.
So, BNKFURX taking a bit more of a lead here,
breaking three outer turrets,
also crashing the Rift Herald,
puts him in a powerful position.
He might have flashed out.
Yeah, he is immediately going to flash.
I think not messing with Punn is a very good idea, and Raptor gonna show him that respect, gets himself out the back of this grub pit.
I believe Vick were going home there, and as Raptor realizes he's not allowed his Raptors to move to the side.
It's just gonna be so hard for Punn, he's gonna be so strong, but it's gonna be so hard for him to actually teamfight against Karma Ezreal.
I think that's gonna be kind of the story of this game, because Punn should be able to run over the Zin and the Renekton once he gets Dusk and Dawn.
But it could just be about how much work the Avalon talent can do.
Trisha Baraj is going to spot out that there are three people up here towards this top side of the map.
It looks like Clear is just going to be out of Clear out this wave, so TSW.
They are trailing a little bit when it comes to Golden.
I think that the way BNK has been playing around the macro movements here in this mid lane
has just been a mid game, has been crisper than what we've been seeing from TSW,
but they do have the win conditions that it has been put together.
As now Vickler is just going to face check his toe and says I'll stun you and I guess it will be fine
But now might be giving it away a bit of money over to B&K
Although never mind the tower and the needlework doing absolutely enough to deter them from diving the Gwent
Good little chunk they got were able to burn his ignite. I was just laughing
I don't know why it was so funny because it was actually fine. He was completely safe
There's no reason he shouldn't take that brisket
He flies going high-fives, a vine, and left.
That was fine. Even if I was there, it's fine. So, Vickler made the correct play, but...
He is... Okay, that's every Mystic Shot landing, and almost collects it mid-battle-bans,
but he's going to be able to get out of there with the quickness actually employed.
And this is problematic. You'll have a minute until this Infernal Drake does come off,
and that is sole point here for being K-Phoenix.
Yeah, it's so difficult for them to enter space,
and I also don't even know if they can safely trade an outer turret for Drake,
for a drake because this would actually be a situation where you would consider doing that and less so if
if one can get enough gold to finish dusk and dawn then I would want to TP in and fight because the
serpent's fang ghost blade is a pretty good spike for the varus and then everyone else is pretty
equal in items they could be stronger in that fight but I feel like if they don't have an
actual advantage since they don't have the setup against a karma ezreal they'll take way too
much damage trying to enter the pit so this would actually be even if it's so point unless
Unless they have a very clear advantage somewhere, I don't think this is something that TSW should try and play.
Well Raptor is going to try and play. Just whatever's in front of him.
He's very strong. Up towards that top side of the map.
He's just going to have free reign. Takes down this out of turret.
It's clear we'll try and catch that wave when it does get towards him.
Smurfo of him not to enter that lane.
Does he have enough gold for the dust and dawn after that turret?
He's waiting.
I'm ticking down his teleporting and he's got it.
He does. Okay. Let's see a fight. Let's see a fight.
Well, he's just gonna teleport right on top of Vickly here as well.
See whether the molten shield movement speed is going to be enough.
And with that blast gun, I think that it may not be as the Drake already started.
Here, Raptor's gonna take that one down and into the mist he goes.
Hister trying to get himself out of there as the quickness does tie up a whole bunch of B&K in that back line.
And somehow Hister will survive.
Eddie looking to try and get himself out of there though.
And the Gwan was not quite big enough, ladies and gentlemen.
B&K will take everything in the exchange.
Wow, that fight was on really slim margins.
Yeah.
B&K Firx played that so fast, by the time we panned up to the Drake,
it was already dead.
The fraction of an inch with which his toe missed the cue on to Vickla,
that didn't allow him to get one shot,
I think almost baited Pun to then fall through.
He'd already invested his TP.
He thought he had the power spike, so they really wanted to fight,
but they couldn't get through to the Glen to actually support him,
because Pun was basically probably 3v1, 4v1 on the top side of his fight,
watching the start once again doesn't connect the Q that gives the time to flash away.
And then look, Varus, Rakan, Ari way too far away at the start of this fight, really leaving
Khan one and a half before.
And also, Histo had to use his ultimate on a Renekton so he could flash away.
And I think that Season Assist is so incredibly important in these teamfights.
He saw BA get into that backline, he chomped up absolutely everyone.
I thought that the setup was there, but his throw was just a little bit too low to actually commit to anything.
And therefore it didn't look as good as it could have been.
Another GP.
Yeah, clear.
Gonna have to slice and dice his way up.
Amida work not quite finding the mark there as the grand entrance also goes wide clear.
Good footwork, but I think he should still be going down.
Find another slice!
And the tick of the burn will be enough so the crocodile is now down and now Raptor should be falling as well.
Callum trying to take his throw for a walk of Piccolo who will finally join his fight.
But it's not enough damage, Diablo.
He wants to be the one to be the hero here as of course he's arcane shifting forward
But it's a couple of good kills here for team secret whales and they end up getting the Diablo flash
Which I think is really crucial. That's why he was playing so aggressively in the back end of that fight
That was very nearly if they get one more kill
I think they go for Baron and can actually start pulling ahead in this game
But it just ends up being a rather effective counter punch. Yeah, it was nicely done and
And Clear is sitting at four deaths as well.
This Renekton has not been having a great time,
and that is another kill going over to Punn as well.
So definitely good news there.
Gonna have a look at how it all started.
Really good flank, TP.
I think the fight could have been a little bit cleaner,
but another Vi punch, barely misses.
Watch this.
Right past Clear.
I thought that Ignite wasn't gonna tick,
and it could end up being a tragic fight.
And he was a lost tick.
But I mean, looking at where Vickla TP'd into,
way up there in the top lane,
he's not able to join the fight until this moment.
So, it ended up being a pretty big numbers advantage for the majority of the fight for TSW and Atlas.
This reminds me, this game reminds me, of day one of first stand was one of the bloodiest days we've ever had.
Yeah.
It's because these two teams were playing.
It's because BFX was playing BLG and TSW was playing G2.
I feel like these are the two common denominators for the bloodiness.
They're the ones that just fight all the time.
And I feel like G2 is very happy to get down in the scrap as well.
Well if you do start it, BLG need no introduction on that point as well.
This is the fighting group for sure.
It certainly is.
And this is actually one of my favorite things about these two teams,
because I feel like Team Secret Wales play a lot like how B&K used to.
Right?
This group of players came together last year,
and of course they were exceptionally young.
Diablo's still the youngest player here, right?
But he was playing for an entire year before this,
and that was where they built all of their synergy.
But at that point they were very like let's fight over every single scuttle, you know
Like let's make sure that if there are three people in an area they're fighting like that's what we have to do
Since then the macro has certainly improved they've been playing on tempo markers a lot more, but
It just feels like a bit of a blast from the past with the way that team sequel Wales plays again
Tebow markers just sounds like a smart thing to say. It sounds fun, doesn't it? It's the first time I've used it
I'm glad you called it out because I'd like to talk about it more because I kind of like it
It's alright Punn, trying to look for a way in but he gets slowed down clear on that backline as well.
Taking a lot of damage but it's Diablo that's free-hitting in this fight and the mist had to wear off at some point.
Deeray looks for the point-bank charm but it's not enough to actually take down this Ezreal
and it's wrapped! It finishes a whole bunch of these kills.
Three on the floor here but Team Secret Wales and could it just mean that it's Baron time for BNK?
It's a temple marker, three of them are dead, go to the Baron!
Aaron! They're doing the right thing!
I'm embarrassed by the tempo!
Why do all of my weird things come up and start with tempo, man?
I think it's a good name!
Either way, Raptor is just a beast in this game.
He is.
It feels like every time you look up, he's got the Zenaut running, killing someone, and he's at full health in a teamfight.
This did look like a bit of a desperation fight, because Team Secret Wilds is always trying to retake the space.
They're never getting a clean engage onto the Aval or Kallen, so they're always starting these fights on Renekton and Raptor.
sure they can do all the gamuturactor but that means Diablo's been free-hitting
for the majority of the fight and even though D-Ray goes all-in it's just not
enough unless they're going in together they're never gonna take this Ezreal
down and the extended fights always gonna go to BFX. And the flash point
blank charm was Captain Jack cleansed by Kellen. That was crazy! I look down
I'm like wow nice cleanse Diablo but no he has barrier it's just all Kellen
And he's so good at taking care of the young man on that bottom side of the map who has now three items put together on this Ezreal
And yeah, this is infernal soul time. I said it
They're gonna send it. All right, let's see what the punty can keep himself alive already down to 50% health
It's the range advantage here is working out Raptor
Feeling a little bit unperturbed to season assist. They do try to get into that backline already
The Queen is dead Diablo stays alive for such a long time and this time clear is getting some revenge
because he's not the first one focused, the Ezreal is going to be their prize.
But unfortunately, everyone else just kind of dies.
Yeah, you knew this was a situation where they had to send it.
There is the priceless moment, the infernal soul for B and K Fyrex.
I think that's the end of the game, Alice.
I think it might be. They are missing a bit of damage as far as these turrets are concerned
because Diablo did die, but I have a feeling that they may have enough.
enough. D.R.A. will find a lot of damage on towards Kallen, but being case splitting the
damage here to make sure that they can just get as much as they can, I don't think they
feel like winning at exactly this point. Although D.R.A. is certainly going to die.
Wind becomes landing and Raptor is going to be able to take that one down. I feel like
we missed out on this Raptor yesterday, or the day before yesterday, right? We haven't
seen the guy that really got them here throughout the LCK Cup. I think he had a bit of
of a muted experience against BLG.
This is what we've come to expect from this guy.
Yeah, absolutely.
This is, at this point, stat patting exercise
with the amount of engaged they have,
how difficult it is for TSW to get onto the Abble,
which we see right here.
They do get onto him, but look at this.
The Gwen dies before they even get the CC onto the Abble.
And by the time he's dead, Eddie, Gizjo,
It's literally just the R-E.
They needed to save some kitchen sink
to throw at the rest of B and K,
but unfortunately they were a bit tired
after throwing that one at Diablo.
I don't think there's really anything
they could have done.
If you don't kill Diablo, he kills you.
If you go all in for Diablo, then the claim against you.
Would you say that it's the rock in the hard place?
Yeah.
That's where you between that type situation.
We've overused that.
Yeah, they rock.
Oh, they may just be able to kill Clearbone.
That's finding a different way to go.
He gets exhausted as well as the rest of B and K
trying to make their way in and raptor.
He is going to be able to slow down B.A.
Oh, back in once again, the raptors, raptors, raptors,
kills B.A.
Oh my goodness, it's a beautiful story.
As Eddie is also going to be taken down here,
they take down his Blast cone at the same time,
and B and K, they will turn a loss of their crocodile
as I think it's been a bit of a thing
throughout this game into more winning.
As the inhibitor in the mid lane is the first to go down
and the inhibitor turret on the top side
is also going to leave the revved,
I don't think they're in much of a rush.
This is certainly feeling like some drain circling that they have to go.
Yep, 4v3, no bot lane, 4csw. Let's see if they can do it.
See whether they can take this one down. This time they do have Diablo who does do a lot of damage to these structures as Raptor's going in once again.
Cresengard comes down, Tusha Parash does so much work here.
here as punches pops like a balloon and the flashball from Raptor he's taking up
both Nexus turret at the same time it's Diablo Arcade shifting into the fountain
ladies and gentlemen that is what this young man wants to be doing and it's a
quadric can he get the pentagon? He can the pentagon! The fountain as it is going to be the Nexus going down that's a nice little victory lap for the young man as the Nexus will fall
and BKFearXSquad 1-0 in the series.
Two Pentos and two series.
Oh my God, player of the game for me.
There's 5000 gold ahead against the Pentakill.
Don't just give it to the Pentakill guy.
Yes I do.
Okay, fair enough. I'm going to give it to Raptor.
I think he played pretty dang well,
but it is now time for us to throw it back to the desk
and see what they had to say about this difficult game.
Team Secret.
It was difficult indeed. They had the action going in the air again, but it was just not enough here.
Fear eggs coming out on top with a penta kill out of the cherry on top of a beautifully iced cake here.
Here's two pentas. It's actually kind of nuts. He's good. Look, we're covered at the beginning.
He's good. He's really, really good. But would you give him part just because he got a penta?
I did not. That's a perfect thing. I actually did not.
Oh, it's a split vote? Okay. I understand where that goes.
I want to review the win conditions that we had coming into today for this series, because
two teams that had a difficult time to get health, well, had a bit more difficult time
than a Fear X hero, of course, but what did we have and what did we see mostly?
I know that I wanted to see Histo enabled in the early game, but we saw a bit of that.
I think we did see a bit of that, because we can run some of this stuff from Punn
because I think he was set up for success by that early
his joke Inc., right?
Where, you know, the Vi comes up, the Gwen is suddenly ahead.
Yeah, so we did see a way to do that.
Unfortunately, I think you're set, your win condition for fear
overwhelmed this.
And I was in the same boat where I'm like, okay,
stabilizing the early game, very stabilized.
I'm actually quite happy about that.
But this is why I told you that's never going to be enough.
And then I look at Team Seeker well side, I'm like,
actually drafted comfort. We actually got to see a pun go for Gwen and he was really far ahead and
it felt like the composition work. Everything was going well from Team Secret Wales side for the
win conditions. I think it did not win the game. Yeah and here here's that early fight where I
believe Pwn is going to get a double kill off of this and it did start with an early
gank from his to right setting him up for success there. I think for me the other
that I really want to see from Team Secret Wills that we saw a bit more of early in in fights like these, but not necessarily later was that no when to go in when to back off part of it.
Yeah, and I think like you mentioned the early game that went topside. It turned into that two kill B-fight topside. He gets the solo kill immediately.
He's still recognized. Okay. This guy is the cash cow. We're diving bot lane alongside him
So everything was working out there. This game was incredibly bloody. Yeah, chaos
Which worked well for team secretals in the beginning. We got the blood back. We did we did
How did fear X make the best out of this situation though out of this bloodiness?
Yeah, well, I just think they were there on time for fights
That was my major thing is I felt like the stability was always going to be there from the side of
of Fear X. So like they were dragon stacking.
So I was like, okay, well, seems like well,
it's getting a lot of gold,
but it has to lead towards something.
It has to lead towards a strong fight
that they really were constantly chasing
but never really ended up getting.
And as every second count, as we saw here,
that's how actually Fear X managed to get the best
out of it because Fear X not on time,
not good timing to defense those objectives.
And yeah, the vibe doesn't manage to do
what it wants to do here.
Exactly, every second really does matter.
We're going into a third dragon fight.
They're incredibly slow to be able to get here.
Team Secret Whale specifically is.
And so you get to see a TP that comes from behind the Annie.
They think they can kind of find a pick on towards Vickla.
And while Vickla is walking towards Trybush,
like you were just an inch so close away
from Vi being able to find a Q.
But then they end up funneling straight into what was eventually
like a 4v2 situation,
because they really wanted to find that fight.
So you just have to stay together as a team.
Wait.
That's crazy.
What?
Oh my God.
10 for the aggression. Yeah, we got the blood back. Yeah, rapper Diablo does love bloody fight
So they'll take them if you give it to them, they'll take them
Yeah, this is kind of what I expected to see from both of these teams right like two teams that really like to fight
They were both towards the top of all the teams and we kind of ranked them by that combined kills per minute
I have some bad news to break to Jath though. Oh, and it's that
Raptor one player the series
that was going for Diablo, it's a sad thing for the ADC and the Raptors, but I'm happy
that we see him showing up. He was a bit more quiet during the first series, but he was one
of the keys of this team's success in the LCK. Yeah, Atlas vindicated. Yeah, absolutely.
And we both voted for Raptors, spoilers. So we gave both. But look at the damage his
then was insane in so many of these fights, kind of front lining with the ult. I thought
he played really really well in the series. There are some really close fights. There was one towards
like the bot side banana bush around dragon where he was living way longer than you would expect
him. He got two kills off that turn that fight. So there are a lot of instances where
crazy to see as Inzal most damage in the game especially when Diablo is on the field.
Insane to be able to see that but that's what you get out of Raptor on a good game.
Absolutely and so far the series going as expected for here.
And for now, let's see if Team Secret Wells can come back in game 2.
We'll see you soon.
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I think Yichuo is a very experienced player on their side.
So it will have some influence on the team.
Because the team is very...
Like me and Mick, they are both young.
So it's very necessary to combine to win the game.
This is my second time playing in such a big match, I learned a lot from my opponent.
I learned how to play in such a big match.
I hope that we can do our best and that we can work together to achieve our goals.
go true okay so now team sequel Wales can do the same thing I did kind of think
it was gonna happen in the previous series as well though and it really didn't
there no in what the other direction I did we could be having like staring down
the barrel about first six gamer we could be or or give it to me give me the
code you said that wasn't a stop game one game one was just so they did have
of Gwen. It was a solid win. True. Yeah. G2 BOT game three stomp. Yes. I'll give you
that. Yeah. It wasn't a stomp. Okay. When you have a 4 on O'Gwen, when you're competing
for every single Drake before Soul, that's just an honest game. But what if you're losing
for every single Drake before Soul? Barely though. Ah, it's about how much you're
losing. If there's tension before every Drake fight, that's not a scout. All right. Well,
let's see whether Team Secret Warriors can actually pick up some victories in some
of these fights and see what champions they're going to bring to them as well as we dive into
the champ select here as we do have an Ash and a Ludo port fanned away here already and
on the side of being actually taking away Histo's Jarvan I think that makes a whole lot of sense
because Indirae not going to be playing as a Carly this time either.
Histo's Jarvan is insane but I still feel like if a team's going to pick Jarvan early
I think it's very easy to play against it.
I just think there's enough mobility like if you have a...
It cuts down so many AD carries.
I think it makes picking for bottom lane difficult.
With Ezreal already down and with a Lulu ban, I got you.
Because I'm happy to play Ezreal or Unara into Jarvan.
Yeah, I think if you get it like, and I think Lucian is also another good one.
It depends where the Jarvan is picked.
Agreed.
There is an opportunity to pick it as far as like a 1-2 on second pick.
As the Orianna is going to be locked away, BNK going to be claiming that one for themselves.
This is very scary, unless TSW are going to be able to peek away at Nocturne,
something like that. Ariana Nocturne though, he's very frightening.
And Raptor has already showed that he's very happy to bring out the Nocturne.
Yeah. I mean, you could just go something like Nocturne Galio,
Nocturne is here right away.
If you want to stop the Noctwave combo.
Noctwave? Do you call it Noctwave?
Noctwave is good, right?
Noctwave is really good.
That's much better than the adding one, the Clanny.
Yeah, I can't take credit for it.
It might have been a Zale who started it.
Wouldn't it be wouldn't it be paraway?
What is paraway paranoia shockwave shockwave is this not knock turn knock turns not the ability. Yeah, but not no
you put it on
It's whoever you put on paraway. We're gonna go with paraway
I know that's the whole point we're doing pretty bad ones
I've got production in me. It's saying that it was all yet. We have a wave and we have
have tempo markers. Tempo markers. I've already forgotten. Tempo signs. It's just tempo.
It's just tempo. Much like a lot of things that have been coined in the past, it is just
tempo.
Whoever you put the wave on is what is the thing.
It's a ball, not a wave.
It's the knock wave. Yeah, okay. So ambo wave, if you put it on Ambesa.
Yeah.
See, it works with everyone.
The public wave.
The not a wave.
way. I like public wave a lot. Public wave is very good. It's kind of broken my brain.
Alright, we do have a Nautilus that has been locked away. This one was banned relatively
early in the last series as well, so we're going to grab that one. They're now pun,
thinking about the ban. This is the angle in the ambassador. There it is. There it is.
Alright. Let's go. So this is something that he's been known for to get banned away in the
previous series as well. So a little bit of fun to be had on the Rift. However,
This topside from being K is very scary like this is this is very very scary. I mean, yeah, I
Don't like the draft
It's just wait unless imagine if it's like it's jungle Nautilus
Already this year then it's even worse. It has it's the slowest clearing in the game
So just to see what he actually does on his volibear, so he's been very successful with it throughout the year
It's not like an AP ball of air. It's more of just like a bruiser grass ball of air
So he'll he starts here. He'll usually go unending despair and which is a great early on later in the game
You might go for the Andrews, but it's just like a W max ball and build
He's gonna try and a little bit more tanky a little bit less of the fun stuff. Yeah
Which I think is a little sad but probably better for winning the game
That means that they're not representing a whole lot of damage here
So we need Eddie to be playing something a little bit hyper carry-esque towards that bottom side of the map
And already we've got a couple of those possibly being banned away here
Is Zyra already taken off the board the Kaiser as well not going to be allowed
That you know are also taken away from Eddie. So what is he going to be playing? That's going to be question here
I really wish they wouldn't have banned the kaiser because kaiser nautilus is a great pair
And it's something that they would like it's a good way to fight when you have so many melee engagers
but Corky also just a generically strong champion has a very critical
Valkyrie to try and get away from the Nocturne or the Orianna or the knockwave combo
If the knockwave times it properly you're dead anyway, but if they're not perfect the Valkyrie can be very effective
Let's see what this last pick is going to be likely heading towards the jungle the TSW but before that
Diablo and Call of Alt this would be a better angle
This thing need to go back
for the Renato
Tell us to Renato now
Into all the Bruiser boys
Yeah, there's a lot of short range big guys that really want to try and get on top of you in short range
That is when you pick Renata. Kellen has done a little bit of research went home
It was like why did my Renata not work in that first game as the theory is gonna be locked in
I like this add a little bit more damage, right? I
Mean yep. I think it works. Well, I'm not a huge fan again. I'm not gonna lie
You don't look very solid. So listen
I do think that yeah that we were talking about the main plates off type situation and if name plates are off
I like this being a composition is revolted which is weird though because the the Callister or not a a lot of people are
really down on international Callister because the games were going too long and they were like well
bloody enough for the skirmishes but I feel like in this group in this series it's a perfect pick because we know these
teams will literally fight non-stop yeah and it's Diablo like he that this is what he does the last
The last person that we saw pick up like the largest amount of kills in a single game was Paze actually playing Callista like a couple of years ago.
Oh right, it was 20...
Was it NSI a couple of years ago?
Yes, it was Insane Money Kills.
It was kind of like it was 27 or something like that.
I think that's what the style of Callista that Diablo's looking to play here today.
And that one is not something that is going to get outscaled if they do get out of control.
But they have to get that right and Team Secret Wales, they have a lot of comfort and they have, you know, there's a lot of trickiness to a composition like this.
Also, Global can really help if you are struggling to identify the tempo of your opposition, right?
If you are struggling to get control of the map, you can kind of just cheat it by roaming towards the side lane in the blink of an eye.
But let's do it. Let's dive into game number two.
See whether there's going to be any early game shenanigans.
So a tempo marker would be, if Galio's not in lane, that's a marker that you don't have tempo.
Yeah. Well, it's more just about wave manipulation and control.
It's literally just tempo. There's nothing special about it.
I just put marker at the end of the sentence for no reason at all.
I actually like it, so I'm going to make it a thing.
Because we were talking off camera, like the tempo marker can be a good or a bad thing.
thing. The marker of having more people than the opponent with your waves pushed, that's
a marker to do stuff. Yeah, it's an identification of who's turn it is in League of Legends.
I'm not making fun of you. I'm making fun of me because I think it's silly. It sounds
like a smart thing to say because it is. It was one of those things where my brain wasn't
really knowing what word was going to happen next and then I surprised myself with that
one. And I don't know how I feel about it. It's clear and fun. Just going to
be bashing one another here towards this top side. I'm not entirely sure how this
matchup goes down because I haven't seen very much of it I feel like brawl bearer can probably be to anyone that champion is so goofy he is
very goofy when you have this junk like I know he's not doing the crazy jungle build which is like the dusk and dawn yeah
that's what I wanted to see but what when a jungler can be on like medium income and then it's easily 1v1 every
champion in the game like there's something about that kid that is he must be pretty good yeah let's see whether it's
going to work through the top lane right now, working very effectively as far as the CS numbers
are concerned.
Nicola as well having a pretty good time in this mid lane and Nicola hasn't been allowed
to play Orianna for quite some time, right?
This is one of the champions that he has shown a fair bit of comfort on, but also Orianna
is just kind of nutty at this point in time, hasn't, had she's been nerfed a little
bit on this patch, right?
She has been.
But it was like, I don't know, early cooldown on your Q or something like that.
not really end of the world. Yeah you only were talking about this earlier. I've read patch notes
every two weeks for 16 years so I don't remember what they actually are anymore. I just know like
champion has gone down. Down. Yeah. Yeah. But what it was like was it the E cooldown? You know the
only reason why I know it was the Q cooldown is because Ox was talking to me in the bus.
And he said the Q cooldown increased. He was reading it. Yeah. But it's the same at level
5 so like okay it only affects you. So in one level Vickla is fine. Yes okay and he's probably
already fine because he's leaning into a Gallio. Yeah which is not for the fan of heart. I've
seen really good Gallios able to win this match up but he usually is going to be Orianna
favored. Should be. I mean Orianna is just generally pretty good at controlling the
game so I think Vickla should be fine. As his turn looking like a beautiful hot dog
up his skin. He's going to be getting some vision looking to go back home. Raptor going
to be taking a crab and heading home himself. And all seems a little quiet.
Nocturne is pretty happy about this as well, getting the full clear take for Scuttle. Neither
of these junglers to the Raptor start for an earlier Raptor respawn, which would then
make us think that we have a Raptor fight. They've got the standard full clear. Nice
hope for there as well. Eddie getting some big damage down.
Yeah. Five yellow down. 300 health. 200-300 health, I should say. That's a drink
that potion so with the fact that this is a normal slain into renata that's really nicely played and as taunt is going
to pull back vikler here but taunting an ariana ain't great because your clockwork wind up gets extra value
he's got no mana let's see whether d-rake can do something about that yeah d-rake's gonna have to
worry a little bit i think one more way is he can shove in i want him to actually take another
They'll reset pretty soon.
So you're going to be fine in this wave.
I think, Galio, you're really just shoving and resetting
as much as possible, hoping to not put fatal damage.
Eddie and P.A. are good laners.
They are.
Eddie's biggest mistake, to me at least,
was just getting caught out of position too often
in teamfights.
And it's not like the last game was Eddie's fault,
but they were losing the lane either.
It's Ezreal karma.
It played well.
That is a very, very difficult lane to lose.
Even though we have Saint of Leeds.
Eddie reminds me of another AD carry
that I used to work well.
Clear.
The Flash and first blood in a solo kill!
Hit the clear in the top lane, returning the favor.
Wow.
And he hits level six first, just goes all in.
The Volibear, I believe, was sitting on a tier just too far
up in the lane at the time.
It looked like it might have been pushing back.
I'd have to check again to see if he was trying
to just clear the wave to reset and come back
since he was waiting.
Like he didn't have a chance to come back.
I was checking whether it was like he was wanting to hit
level six and then win but he's nowhere near so it's not like he was clearing the
way in order to get the level it was just a little bit too far up yeah I
think he might have the wave may have been getting frozen on him so he really
wanted to break the threes before resetting and just overstayed a little
bit that's why these solo kills can look a little goofy sometimes even looking
a little goofy sometimes this is now clear in a lot of trouble yeah no
flash on clear this is looking to go back home so it's not gonna be the
Gang actually being taken and in the meantime Raptor is just killing dragons. He has killed a lot of dragons so far
That's five in a row
So far this series for anyone that's counting. He's six
Is the para wave going to be utilized that is the question
Yeah, maybe not no, you don't think so
I think he's was just waiting for crap
It's gonna be a wave not a pair wave
Well, let's see whether it actually happens. It's a paranoia not a
The way doesn't exist unless or again that might be what's happening Jack as he does at least get himself the shield
It's clear. That's in trouble. He has a couple of buttons back up again
No one gets the shield from the passive, but I have a feeling unless punk cannot get up to him
Oh, no the dashes. Oh, no the release date. It is still going to be called nevermind
This is taking so incredibly long
Can clear no he cannot but it's just gonna put him down so back to back solo kills
One each in the top lane. That's the ball of air when you get enough points in your w your
Sustained healing is just goofy and that's why you play picks like this that the enemy's not used to because even if you get the
first solo kill puns gonna know the limits way better than clear is and he's
able to get the solo kill back and a 500 gold lead for himself I was wondering
whether clear it actually bought since then but he had so it's not really going
to be like he comes back with way more money after this either having a look
towards the bottom side of the map it is a little bit of an advantage for Diablo
but not too much of anything and I think Nautilus getting a freeway through
the lane is absolutely fine here in the bottom side I feel like not as
impressive of a laning phase for Diablo is Histo's looking for a wraparound gank
but it's probably just gonna lead to them walking away good awareness yeah they
had the temple marker sometimes use you you are you have to really utilize those
tempo marker as raptor vision that is not a tempo marker that is just a
ward I've been feeding momentarily I mean if you're is gonna be one of the
best champions against the knockwave because you can just immune it.
Yeah, I think you're pretty good against a lot of things because you just don't care about
disappear for a second and a half. Telegraph abilities, not something that the
government really minds about is uh oh oh dear. Raptors smites by the way have been
absolutely revolting. Part of the reason why they are here today is because
Raptor took almost everything from owner in their series against T1.
Okay, revolting in a good way. In a good way, positive revolting.
Okay, understood it's sort of like unfair levels of good. Yeah
Yeah, he's just being
quite good at pressing the smile button
It's clear up here towards the top side of the map just gonna be clearing things out and
80 to 59
That is not too bad. He's gonna have his all pup soon as well
And he hasn't even completed his first item so the Valorant is off the line at least
So it is. Kalista Renata hasn't been as dominant as we would have thought
As fun as just he might be thinking about a dive. He's gotten a fury on the way and Galleon shattering.
Well, he's just gonna ult him. There's a public execution from clear just to try keeping himself alive as a turret does get a little bit mad eventually.
But like this doesn't even matter even electrocutes him so he can actually can't actually go back as the ulti comes through from insto.
He is going to be able to go untargetable. There is the flash to try and get him in there, but unfortunately...
Yeah, 1v1 is not really what they were looking for.
Still this entire wave is going to go, and so a big win still for TSW despite the fact
that it looked a little bit like it could have been better.
I don't know, Vickler's cleaning up that midway, that's going to put D-Ray so far behind.
Oh, this is so far behind.
Yeah.
Because D-Ray went, first off he was in river and he thought about resetting, then
he ulted, then he had to reset, so he lost about two waves in that whole exchange.
Really going to hurt him in that 1v1 matchup.
top lane. Really good news for John. That's about it. As B8 will get handshook here as
the fates call does come on down. Diablo, and he actually gets enough autos as Eddie
is just free hitting at this point in time. B8 goes back in once again as Kellen realizing
that he might actually have to bail himself out. And Diablo realizes that he's just
going to have to get out of the flash forward, but he hits a midi in the handshake.
So clutch out of Kellen, but that is just to keep them alive in this bottom lane as Raptor coming on down
And we'll be able to stand out of the way of the taunt gets the fear on to this galeo
But he's tanky enough to keep himself alive. This is one of the fastest paced 2-2 games
I've had. I know right there's so much fighting, but not a lot of killing. I've been meaning to talk about Diablo for like five minutes
Yeah, you've you've been queuing that one up. I have been he's the youngest player at
At first stand and we have this picture from 2021 when he said he started playing League of Legends
Which should immediately miss anyone who's not his age field. Yeah
I started playing League in 2011
Yeah, I mean ten years before this photo was taken. Did you play?
I played it, pre-bade it, pre-bade it was 2011. I played in 2010. Yeah, yeah, but that was 2010
Was it then it was I'd lost all the time. It's been 16 years dad
He also had a great international debut, getting the pentakill against BLG, getting the pentakill
against TSW as well, not even winning the game for the second pentakill.
So he's 18 with two pentas and people are already over it.
They already think he was the jungler who did more.
He's also the second player to get two pentas in a single right international game.
I was at that world.
Yeah in the first in 2014 is crazy and we all like I was about to say we all remember how dominant Samsung white were
but maybe not all of us
It's still clear a second bit of damage here towards this top side, but still I mean so impressive from this young man
He's insane and also once I saw the Raptor did 30,000 damage
Is clear just dead again. No, did you know how old the Apple was when oh my god
Flash for him, barn!
He's only like a wears off, but he doesn't seem to care.
Punn is crushing it.
I can't wait to see if he can continue pulling this off
in the rest of the game.
But no, I need to mention this.
Diablo was four years old when MCOT is too prefaceable.
Oh, God.
Don't say things like that.
That's good, Chad.
That's incredible.
I was feeling old enough already.
It's the next generation, truly, this time.
Absolutely.
And I mean, we've got quite a few of those,
these young players, these young prodigies coming up
in the LCK and around the world.
I mean, we're going to see Honky again soon.
That's going to be a whole lot of fun as Paranoia comes out towards his bottom side.
Do we have a way to pull with him? We do, but it doesn't really do too much.
As now they're going to turn their attention to Rascal, the knockup is good.
As Hizzo does have to go on target, but Kellen does have to bail himself out.
And I don't think they really wanted to do that in a flash from the elbow.
But Boyd's getting tormented, but he's going the wrong direction.
The sticks get pulled out of Eddie, but he survives.
The knockup comes in, and T. Ray Gaffing himself out already does so.
Still, the Korky will go down.
He's doing a lot of trouble as man, this fight is going forever, Rekka somehow survives as well and clear of full health, Punn is the problem and he's going to kill Veclaw.
But this was way closer than it had any right to be.
It extended 3v3 I think because we're not a dime at the start and has now respawned the fans.
The fans win this fight, Alice.
I love that. When you don't actually want to analyze you just say the fans.
The fans win.
Beautiful. You're not going to analyze now because it's the replay.
Yeah, I mean, where did the wave go?
Yeah, it sort of just died, didn't it?
Yeah, I think he pressed it early.
Because it didn't do anything to Eddie as it landed.
And therefore, the fight ends up being messy.
Does he have a burdened barrier?
Did he buy one of those?
That's crazy. I don't think so.
I imagine.
Yeah.
It looks like it was going to land properly,
but then at the very end of the fight,
Khan does arrive, but it is quite late.
No one's going to do damage to him.
So, if you're actually starting
Grantedly chasing around the others, D-Ray dies, Histo dies, but then Punn can finish off Vicka at the very end with his E.
Yeah, Vicka also putting down the dissonance and says, clear save yourself as he runs into the enemy jungle.
Punn is a massive problem, and a massive bear, but mostly a problem here for being K.
I'm not entirely sure how they're going to solve it. Look at the roll quest, by the way.
Just before the jungle quest was finished, it was literally pun and no one else, and then B and K, everyone else, and not clear that it completed their quests.
So it just does kind of paint a picture of how things have been going in both games, one and two actually.
See what a pun is going to be about to be dragged in.
So they're going to maybe try and get their first dragon of the series.
Hey, don't, like, kill him here!
Yeah, clear is in a lot of trouble. The bleed is still ticking down as well as he goes underneath that tower.
Public execution ain't going to avoid that one.
And Mr. Just kills clear.
not exactly having the greatest of tournaments thus far but the dragon is going to lose interest
and they're going to have to restart their attempts on that one no teleport to get this
investment back into the fight as well after these 20 seconds are up so he is running. Yeah but
Flashhold are already down on the nefiri and Vicle is making his way through the mid lane
to make this even numbers unless Galio is willing to TP down so PFX is still thinking about this
Drake for our cancering is not quite available yet either
But I do think that it's not having the ulti from the nefiri going to be a big problem
So it is going to be being a continuing them monopoly on the dragons make that one six in a row
And the soul is going to be an ocean so not exactly the most pivotal the dragon souls, but I imagine a
Ocean soul
volley bear
Sounds that's you you were saying things were wacky. That's pretty it's pretty wacky. It would get even wackier
Hmm, but they're very far away from that. Yes down six
It is here or four ocean soul at four ocean Drake ocean soul, which is that's even that's the wackiest
We're so far away from yeah, I mean longer time. I'm not expected to be a person we have all day
Yeah, me too. I would love five games and it's a lot earlier things start a lot earlier here at first day
So we do theoretically just like the day is indeed young well shelly
She is as well, but she's gonna be taken down.
It's like Pona hits though, she should be able to just secure this.
Unless Raptor, I hope that Smyper can sort it out once again.
Teleport comes in from Vickla as the lights are turned out.
Let's see whether they can secure it.
There is the Rift Herald going over to TSW,
but can they keep themselves alive and pun?
Gets knocked up with a great score,
but they're like, God, the hell, it's just not moving!
Shot with connects on the three!
And finally the bear will go down,
but they've had to use so much.
Finally, clear turns up.
He might be able to get this one down to somehow double lifts.
Heroic entrance comes on down and Histo will finally finish off this Callista as Cleo.
I don't know whether this is going to be enough but he does have an orb and a dream as Diary will be going down.
And the Rift Herald should serve as an escape here for Histo to get himself out.
I thought he was going to have the audacity to go for a turret charge but he decides to play it safe by the water.
He didn't let the intrusive voices win.
He's like I will not get these plates.
value the gold of the Herald. I would have I would have definitely allowed it
you know I would not have given him a hard time this game is so much like
game one atlas yeah where they're narrowly losing in every fight still
has tension but it doesn't feel like TSW has a chance of winning and part of it
is like decisions like this they technically had the ability to hard
force the Drake but they instead decide to have this fight around the
Herald and what is still incredibly strong it takes them forever to get him down
but the apple does stack enough spheres in the end that after the shot blade he's
able to get the execute and I'd say around the top side of his foot what the
apple with his stroke here at the end it almost looked like he was gonna get away
but the fury does have infinite dashes yeah as well yeah he was able to finish
him off and then the back side of the fight ends up getting a little bit
messy, but I think Team Secret will realize they have to bail, that's why he drops the
hail and takes his ride.
Yeah, so he's just going to escape this.
We are fighting once again, as you would expect, ladies and gentlemen, yeah, and he's
just going to go up for his way out and be able to be fine.
So never mind, it is all just going to be okay.
Yeah, the last game was 1.4 combined kills per minute.
This game only had four kills at 10 minutes, and now it's already up above 1 combined
for per minute.
Yeah, that's not too bad.
Well, already 2 minutes.
And we were talking about 2 and 2, like they were still fighting, even though
They weren't even that many kills in the earlier stages.
The temple markers in this game, in order for them to opt into so many fights, there must be so many temple markers.
There's a lot of temple markers. I mean, in League of Legends, you could basically just invent temple markers all over the place because it's not actually a real thing, Jack.
That's the best thing about it, is it can be what you want it to be.
As fun, he can also just be anything in this game because he is certainly the strongest.
It's just an issue when the rest of your team are not.
Taking damage underture.
Rows it hard into Thimble Winter.
He's not actually doing damage anymore.
He's just living and healing, which is effective in itself.
But they will need damage at some point.
Well, the execution comes down, and he's gonna try and get himself out of there
with the ulti, but the fear is gonna come through and wrap up
able to lock down the bear.
The A is going to show up.
There was Diablo.
Oh, dear.
He's here as well.
So that should mean that Team Secret Wales
are not really gonna be having a good time.
However, Diablo hasn't killed him just yet.
Dance is past the wall, finds the Rentset, and that is going to be the end of the day.
He falls into the Rentset, he's just a Rental Disloak, and then he is killed.
Really clean play here by Diablo, he's just cheating up, Blade of the Roon King,
Rageblade on the way, so he's going to be able to kill this Wallabair eventually.
He won't get a hundred spears in this guy.
He'd be willing to render him if these fights go on long enough.
I mean, if Pawn gets tanky enough, I mean Callister is one of the not good tankbusters.
You know? Not as good.
Yeah, it's no vain. Yeah, but I feel like with Bork rageblade
You can get there as they wait in the darkness and
Managed to burst him down before he can get his W resetting and then put the roll up from the Callister in order
It really just ends this fight so and the fact of clear survived as well is really rough because he's so close to killing it
Yeah, he's still is the one that needs to bring the damage when you have this super
Bruiserie ball of air trying to buy space for you and keeping the race pushed
but we're 10 seconds until this next rake and I don't necessarily think like
VNK Phyrox's Drake setups have been so good they already had them pushed they
already have balling pushed but his toes in the back of the pit hopefully can test this one.
Yeah, Blue side ocean rift is actually kind of cool if you can get over that wall comfortably and obviously
and the theory certainly can so they have that control ward in the back of the pit so they do know that this
Drake has been started up as the pair is going to get into the Thunderdome and
He's going to make it just that as he is alighting there.
Raptor gets himself a special damage.
So low and he's just dead.
Offself takeover does nothing at all as the Flash from Punn.
They get the hurrah, catch him, put the public execution.
The Flash out from Diablo as Eddie takes matters into his own hands.
Diablo gets the barrier, does he have enough sticks?
Is that the question he gets to reset with the failout?
He goes up into the sky and Diablo will finally die.
But the T-Fight belongs to VNK.
This young man is a psychopath!
How did he live for so long?
The Renata made it absolutely goofy.
I think that Renata E-Shield came in at the very end,
which let him kill yet another person.
Because the start of this fight
is about as good as it could possibly be
for Team Secret Wales.
They can get so much damage on Jirasta right away.
Pretty much bird entry and spell show
easily with that nephiric Q.
And then they're kind of out of there as well.
Another really sneaky play here as the Galio comes in and Diablo has to bounce off the back, but now watch Diablo versus Eddie and everybody else.
Burns through his barrier, the Renata W comes through at the perfect time.
Kellen just sprinting like an ambulance through traffic, man.
Gets over there and saves the young man's life.
Understandable that there's some frustration here on the Team Secret Wales side because like you were saying, so many things went right in that last fight.
Ultimately, it does mean seven in a row as far as the drakes are concerned for being K3 in this game
And that does mean sole point is they look to go over to wards Baron as well
And they kill it so fast Diablo's with his rageblade and they secure it pretty comfortably
Don't they he's gonna be able to I mean with 1400 damage tonight
I'd say it's actually kind of tricky to ran the drake but they're just hoping to
Get a TP out and they get the TP from Galio and move away
All right, so not going to be a take off the Baron just yet
but it is still a 4.8k gold lead, the NK.
It doesn't feel like they've crushed every single team fight completely, right?
There's been a lot of trades back and forth.
It hasn't felt like it's been an absolute slaughter, but the result is still the same.
It's still a 5,000 gold lead here at 22 minutes into the game,
and they have a monopoly on every single objective on the map.
They've just been running Team Secret Wales around to exactly where they want to be.
And we haven't really talked about Pickleby's 4,000 gold ahead of D-Ray.
I don't necessarily feel like, I'm sorry, I'm not dictating on you.
I don't feel like he's done a huge amount to get the lead.
I mean, it's an Orianna type of situation.
Unless you have like the faker moment, it's not really going to be that flashy.
The early role from D-Ray, where he ended up alting under the turret for 0-0-0-6,
lost two plates and two waves to the Orianna, set him behind.
He hasn't been able to play in side lanes at all.
He's been sucked into every team fight and died in so many of them.
So this is more so a super star of Galio than necessarily a super fed Orianna,
which is why that full difference is so big, but it doesn't change the fact that
it was way bigger than Galio in terms of the fight impact in these fights.
And really, TSW is kind of trying to, like there's only two people that really do
damage with the Nefiri and the Corky, and the Galio wasn't offering anything.
And the problem is, is in the neutral game, when there's not just crazy
fighting going on, they just naturally lose.
We're gonna start a fight here.
Ah, Kellen, going to get taunted up and should be going down here.
Hostile take a net on my face, Cole is going to pull him out.
And is he gonna go back in?
That's the question as he plays defense.
Gets the handshake on the punters while he was looking for that blind angle.
Vickler comes in at the same time.
Shockwave on the two.
There is the heroic entrance, but I just don't think it's going to do enough.
As Kling gets into that backline and executes the gorky.
PA knows that this one is done, though, and he's already using that anchor to escape.
B and K fight another teamfight.
What a beautiful fight by BNKQRX.
My eyes were locked on to Diablo that entire time.
The only thing that hit him was the tail end of the Galio key.
He was completely untouched,
but hitting the entire time with his Terminus completed,
they have blown this game wild.
I would say so.
They're also gonna do the same thing to the Baron
that we'll be going down as we get into this replay.
And I actually kind of like this TSW as an idea, right?
Collapse, try and find yourself a numbers advantage
and pick up a kill.
The problem is, Kellen is so safe with the fates goal.
Yeah, and Diablo really playing on the outside of this rain is so incredibly well.
You can see B8 gets the Nautilus ultimate on him.
Guess he gets it right at your end.
And then he just skates him on the outside while Clear is 1v3 over on the left, by the way.
Which I think is kind of illegal given the fact that he did get kind of wrecked in lane.
He did, but he's still ambessor as it turns out, 7-4 and 5.
And yeah, doing what it says on the tin.
I'm really gonna have a sixth game day.
I wanna cast more League of Legends.
You know what?
We could convince them to just play at four.
Yeah.
No matter the result.
Yeah.
We could figure that out.
That's part of one of my worst formats of all time.
Yeah.
It's like, you know, people didn't like
best of twos cause there was no winner.
Right?
It's like, oh, they just.
I remember casting best of twos back in the LPL days.
They were way too many of them.
Just have them play a third game.
Cause you go for the 3-0 sweep.
Oh
He did died to Baron I missed it. Yeah, we all did
Yeah, there was a pit
I'm not voting for I mean he's the only one without a gold lead which means that despite that he's still getting so much
Damage per gold is gonna be so much better. You just wait to see the stats
I think pretty the game is actually pretty tricky. I guess tricky one as well
Vicle has the biggest gold lead.
Hey, maybe that's him.
Solid Orianna, but they didn't pull off like the Nocturne combo beautifully once.
He has been minding good shockwaves in the fights.
Yeah, and has been very patient with him as well, making sure he gets the right angles.
Speaking of angles, but...
There's a bear behind him.
Trying to try and save it.
Let's see whether they can get in that decent death judge.
Just signed this one off, but the handshake was fantastic.
Hostile takeover.
Means that he was just wasting time and he flashes, getting himself out.
Rastic dives in with the paranoia and these health bars evaporate in the blink of an eye.
Cib and I, Eddie, down to 100 health,
he is no longer in this fight,
as Diablo, I don't think he was touched.
Once again, Vic was unstoppable,
and I think that it's going to be BK-BRX moving
to match point in this series.
They do not want to go home today.
They made this one look a lot easier.
Still a very fast pace up game.
44 kills in 27 minutes.
Give us some more.
Now, let's see, is there enough head skill?
No, there's not.
This does not survive this time around.
The man, I love the drop down of B and K
and they absolutely made it work.
I love the ball of air and got much else
of the draft from Team Secret Wales.
So 2-0.
You could have just left with that.
You could just like, I love the ball of air.
Back to you at the lounge.
You know, like we could have done something like that instead.
Spam chat with your player of the game.
Yeah, who's going to be the player of the game?
I don't think it's going to be wrapped in,
but I'm going to have a little bit more of a take about it.
It's definitely between Vickla, Callen and Diablo.
Well, we're going to deliberate.
Let's throw it back over to the lounge to break that one down.
Yeah, we're not going to let you guys do that.
Yeah, no.
Now, it doesn't matter.
Who cares about gestures, anyway?
Who cares about the early game as well?
Honestly, here in this series, 2-0 for fear X.
That's kind of the way the series was expected to go.
I appreciate the resilience from Team Secret.
Yes, and I appreciate the fact that they got things
going in the early game.
Does it matter in the end?
No!
Yeah.
They didn't hear my rudeness.
I just said, we're not letting you deliberate.
It's just Diablo.
Oh!
I was like, oh, my mic's not on.
That's not me problem.
I was just rude because of the screen.
Wow.
OK, OK.
I like it.
I just threw her right in there.
We're going to start everything over.
Let's check in on the bloodiness.
How much action do you want?
These two teams are fighting.
Too fast.
All I'm going to say was incredibly bloody.
Yeah.
It was.
We'll wait for that.
But I want to start in top lane, because Raz, you kind of set this up where
Volibear is one of puns like signature picks, he picks it into the Ambesa.
He actually got over one K damage per minute on this champion in a game against DfM.
And it started early, he got first blooded, but he made it back.
He made it back, and then of course he got a little bit more with his still going topside.
And yes, we wanted to be able to see pun on the picks that he is best known for.
So getting to be able to see him play his when and his Volibear and really start to take over is
Perfect now we just need that next step and the next step is being able to make use of his lead when he has one
Yeah, so we do have
Highest ones we've seen it feels like even with the whole tournament day
Yeah, yeah, this is going this could end up being the bloodiest game blaze here as we have at this tournament
But as you pointed out, it was like, okay, we have pun on the signature ball there.
We're doing good.
But I want to take a look at how BFX are actually kind of finding other answers around the map
as we draw up a play that initially is going to look really good for Team Secret Wales,
right?
So we start here, we're paused, pun is going to be able to make, trying to make
a play onto here.
I want people to be able to look at the minimap because basically what is happening
is Dire is getting completely zoned off of this wave by Nocturne and Orianna as this is
happening. Meanwhile as we play through, even though the wave dies and red side wave is coming
in, his show still thinks, okay, we can make a play onto this. This ends up being a one
for one trade because of how clear is able to play it out, flash out. They get the
kill on to pun. Meanwhile, Vickla is going to get turret plays off of this because like I said
they were able to chase Dere off of that completely. He was late in the ult coming up
and then Raptor is going to be able to clean up Grubbs. The more important thing though is just
all that money that Vickla is getting right. So I wanted to point out these kind of small things
where it's like secret whales feel like they have a play. The Galio ult isn't necessarily
synced up because he was already chased off the wave. It ends up being a one-for-one.
And BFX, it felt like every time Wales were able to get a few kills or even be able to
maybe win a fight, BFX were still cleaning up in waves and in neutral objectives.
Exactly. Even in all the madness, they're just a lot more stable in being on the
objectives first, like being able to make it clear that, hey, if you're making a
play half in topside, we're completely set up. And guess who it sets up perfectly?
sets up our player of the game, Diablo. Diablo, there are too many fights where he should have
died and it didn't happen. That's what happens when you play Calista and that's what happens when
you play this champion at the limit. Honestly, I know we've talked about this a lot already. I am
impressed about the level that this rookie is displaying on the international stage so far.
I'm losing my English here. But I'm wondering what the fans think because we're all in the
in the devil train. Yeah. Okay. They are also in the the
devil train. They didn't want to deliberate either. The
cast was still thinking about it, but we're like, no, it's
pretty much Diablo. I think the support even though he was
third in the votes, I think Kellen did a great job of being
able to like stand by him on any of the picks he's playing.
But for that one specifically on the Renata to be able to
support him in his endeavors as he's kiting back just
madmen, especially the whole there. Yeah. Those fights are
really close for that reason. And he's again the youngest
player at the tournament here today.
I mean, yeah, that was a couple of years ago, but still.
Well, that's how much older today.
That's when he first started playing the game,
like the fact that he was playing the game during COVID times.
This is a computer, you can't see it.
Yeah, there's a computer.
He started playing around COVID,
and today he is one of the prodigies we have coming
from LCK, proving himself on the international stage
and also taking this team two and O
in an elimination series here.
It has been very one-sided guys
besides the early game that doesn't matter because look at it here you can see
it in the goal graph even if there's action as we said bfx can make plays
happen around the map so the goal graph doesn't matter for them it yeah this is
more what I'm looking at right yeah because of all neutral objectives it was
only the rift herald that TSW were able to get and that's the big thing for me
like bfx had just done such a great job especially with Drake stacking and
setting up for Drake and yeah it's it's almost entirely one-sided and objective.
Emily just give me that pointer.
You had it all day.
Oh wait what?
Zero drinks just in general let's be a little bit more objective minded if we could
if we can be there on time if it's possible I'm not asking for much that would be great.
The producer said toss I didn't I tossed the actual staff.
He's dead, bye!
Take these guys, I'll see you next game!
I'm going to be helped by those who evaporate in the blink of an eye!
Game time, game time, game time, they got to step on the lima!
When I was a player, if I was to make a misplay, maybe it's my mouse, maybe it's my armrest,
If you were at home, you wouldn't do that.
The Infinite Precision Armrest is part of the largest
you collect on stage standard initiative
aimed to bring your home or training room settings
to the tournament stage.
Not only that, but other players
will make the setting more natural.
The most comfortable play comes out more naturally.
Living in the game doesn't exist
I want to see where I come from
If it's possible, you leave here
I'm not going anywhere, I'm not going here
I want to live, I want to make you bad
Love and loyalty are materials that I don't see in school
Where I just throw balls
I was caught by the 9 of us
Focusing on this school
Less than 10 of us, it was all in the court
I don't care about your luck
I don't charge in the court
I'll treat you and recover
I don't care about the luck
My man's on run
Always running for money
See, if you didn't want to talk
You wanted to be here in my place
Exit block, block, block
Just escape, he'll do you a favor
My man is a pop pop pop
Yeah, I'm a bitch, nigga
Today she's chasing my lady
Now she knows my name
Now she knows I'm chasing the baby
Now she's calling me baby
Now she's chasing my baby
What's your name?
Are you a fan of VINCH?
I'm a fan of my current
I'm not a fan of my love
I'm a fan of my current
I'm not a fan of VINCH
If I had a ballerina
I know she's a magician
I never had a problem
But now I'm a fan
I'm not a fan of your love
I'm a fan of my current
I'm not a fan of your love
I was very confident in my performance.
I think it was the only thing I could do.
So I thought that I could do it anytime.
I think it's really good that I'm able to do it.
I can do it without any difficulties.
I think that I can do better in the next game.
I'll cheer for you.
If we can have fun, we can achieve our dreams.
We want to have fun.
So I hope you guys can cheer for us.
this game number three is going to be more than a game. Is that what you mean?
No, no, no. I think TSW has been close enough in these games. When they get their first
dragon, they might win the game. True. Because it would usually mean that they
win a team fight. Because literally everything BNK3RX has done has been standard League
of Legends where they're getting good dragon setup and then they're winning every
fight when Team Sickr Wales tries to move in too late. And not even by that much.
That's the first training part. You're exactly right. I think that like as soon as there
There is a fight that does teeter over towards the TSW side, then maybe that will help out.
But obviously, that's what they're going to be aiming to do here.
And you can see pressure is mounting here on the faces of these players.
Like this is the hardest part, right?
Being down 0-2 with one more game away from elimination.
Like you're just going home.
You play your whole split.
You win your region.
You fly to Brazil.
You lose six games in a row and you go home.
No!
Come on!
It's not fair.
That guy that's I agree. I see whether that can happen as we dive into champion select. Thanks to hyper X
And a colleague and Nico both taken away already
We do see that the ash is continuing to be banned away in this series. Yeah
Well people just picking ash now not even with seraphine. Yeah
I feel like there's a bit of like picking it away so you don't get
Yeah, seraphine plays out the other one. Your support doesn't like playing the combo
It's better to just pick it up
Maybe we'll see some even crazier options right like the Callista ash coming back or something like that
That would be a little bit. We could unfortunately T1 not at the tournament and so therefore
We may not have that craziness
Carrots are being played too. You would have absolutely done it. Diablo was so good last game
He was on the Callista and I'm just still shocked by how young he was and how short the last 15 years have felt
Because right so we brought up that he's the first player to get two pennies in his first international since infant 2014
Yes, and we mentioned that
He was for when that happened
But then my brain got stuck in 2014 because you were saying what if BFX just trolls in this game
Ah, and then it ends up as like a 3-1. Well not trolls
They just just give him a they have a more difficult draft. Let's say sure much like in 2014
when Samsung played singed and TSM won the game.
I can't remember that.
Absolutely against imp.
Oh my goodness.
Well, that's what we're gonna have to channel.
Was that also the year that TSM managed to somehow win
like IEM?
IEM kind of gets it was next year.
Ah, the next one, 15.
I remember when they beat WWE in that tournament.
That was crazy.
It's a very long time ago.
And there's a guy still in TSM shirt.
so you can see all the people remembered.
All right, the chance have definitely stopped.
Yes, they haven't been quite as many,
but Rumble Pantheon is not looking like an easy thing
to go into.
No, I mean, BMKPX picks away the Jarvan,
they pick the Ornn into the Rumble, which is, wait.
Which one do you think is correct?
No, no, no.
The names of the players or the coaches
and the icon of the team.
So this would be a way for GSW to pick up a win if they have Diablo.
Oh, genius!
Oh my goodness!
Jack, was this part of your plan this whole time?
Just swap the plans?
Genius!
Team Secret Royals has second pick and BNK4X is blue side.
So I think the player names are where they are.
Right, the player names are right.
The team logos and the coaches are wrong.
Yeah, and it makes more sense that his Joe is playing Jack.
That does make sense.
Yeah, and it's not a pick-away.
And D-Ran is also going to be able to block, but that makes me more frightened, Jack.
Because this top line is my mistake.
I think this is my mind's error.
Um, I don't- did you make- did you make the- the- the- the champions like that?
I've made a lot of mistakes.
I don't think it's your mistake.
I mean, it's your mistake.
I had to try to do these graphics.
I would make this mistake constantly.
Was Kellen on Team Secret Wales this whole time?
So, that hurts.
We're going to be remaking.
Yeah, we're going to be fixing it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
There it is.
It's fixed.
We're all span around.
No, it's not fixed.
No one on.
It's just mirrored.
I'm even more confused.
I was having a tough time already.
All right.
We're going to cut.
Let's just get back into it.
Okay.
The boss has been banned away.
The cow has gone as well.
And it looks like we're focusing on the bottom side of the map.
I'm so confused as well.
Just go with it.
The player name is still completely correct, so we know who's playing the game.
If you raise this mirror, it's going to be both of those blocks.
That's right, the Lucian has been taken away from Diablo. That does make a whole bunch of sense.
Now, what are we going to be seeing Vanduade here?
I mean, the block makes it difficult to play a lot of the hypercarries and a lot of the high mobility carries have already been taken away.
So, I do think there's a chance that Dior could have a really good block game, but he's going to need to have a good block game.
when they're having relatively low damage with the Jarvan Ornn already, but I think this has to be a Caitlyn.
Doesn't it have to be a Caitlyn angle?
No?
Wait, where have I gone?
Caitlyn is so advocate.
Okay, is this going to be a Caitlyn though?
Now that we're back to the other...
I think Caitlyn is decent, I mean, so here's the thing.
Phelios is also high.
If he has Phelios, Jinx type of game, but both midlaners and junglers have a really high assassination potential,
but there's still some of the best AD carry so you have to play so far away from these fights.
Yeah. And usually what it's a failure is you match it with Jinx. The thing that's really good though
is that they banned Volusion and Ezreal is already being taken away by Phyllis and there's no Calista
or something like that. Histo is going to have a bit of a field day against whatever Diablo
wants to play here. The Unara though I guess can press ulti and dash so. Without Lulu it's
a little bit less but it is better against the driver because you can dash out of the
Jarvan Ultimate.
It doesn't require you to do a few extra steps.
You know he's a lot better than the Janks in this situation.
Just because you've been born in Jarvan.
So like this is why Kelin is looking a lot better,
is because he loves champions like this.
Like he is an ambulance player.
And protecting this young crazy guy that he has next to him
has really been a recipe for success for this team.
There's a Pelios Thresh tried in true combination here
for TSW looking to come in here.
V8, let's see whether they can actually stand toe to toe.
So I think Thresh can have a more difficult time into the melee area.
But you just need it with the Felios.
If you try and pick a Felios into Aurora Pantheon, Rumble without something to either enchant him or increase his mobility,
I really do feel like the only chance you can realistically play a Felios with are the middle of Thresh.
So, those band crushes off, they're going to have to take it.
But I still like the draft from BFX, mainly because we get to see Diablo's Unart.
He plays so incredibly aggressive on this pick.
And you say that I'm most excited for the fact that clear gets to play run grumble for the first time
This is the champion that clear looks
Legitimately extremely good on yeah, and so I actually know why they keep swapping back and forth and like why it's wrong
Yeah, it's not production's fault. It's the players fault. Yeah, so they're on the wrong sides of the lobby
So everything is auto-populating could never match up and it's all broken and then we have to try and figure it out
We could have quite do it
Gatna at least got some fun out of it.
I got so confused, so confused.
But I hope you guys did understand how the drafts looked.
Just try and take away the main plates, which is what we say quite often,
and try and work out who looks better in this one.
I do feel like the on-into rumble is not real.
Like, as far as a nullifying matchup into the rumble is concerned,
a good rumble still wins that lane.
Yes. I mean, you win the lane, but when you win the game, I think it's a different question.
Wins the lane by enough is what I mean.
It depends.
Once he wins a lane by enough, does he get a tempo marker?
Yeah, no, he gets to then utilize the tempo markers in his advantage.
True.
In order to get around the map and throw down equalizers, very strong.
There's that gentleman right there as we look to make our way onto the rip for game number three.
Could it be the final game of the series?
I'm trying to stay positive.
I'm feeling like we might get more out of it.
So far this tournament we've had one three gamer and then a five we have so it's got to be like reverse sweep setup territory
Right, it's either five games or three games. Yeah, there's the only two series outcomes
Mm-hmm, it's nor three what is normally the most common series outcome and you've yet to have a three one
We're due
Yeah, absolutely do for a three so we need and the problem is with the fact that we aren't you I agree with you
home
You can do it, buddy. Give us the tree woman.
Well, the problem is, Raptors playing one of the best junglers on the patch,
definitely the best jungler on left available.
Although Jarvan is fine, and clear is on Rumble.
I think Vickler can do anything he would like.
Anything he would like in this game.
Just have a great time on the Rift,
and those two will probably be able to sort it out
with a little bit of Diablo's help.
And that is kind of being the MO for being K.
Hey, the reason why they look so much better is because Bickel is playing so much better until a couple of days ago where it all kind of fell apart, but he has since been ramping back up.
I mean, Bickel's had a very good series. His Orianna was very good in the last game.
And even though you keep asking for more games, I feel like you're secretly happy that your LCK team is about to sweep.
No, never. Really? I just like League of Legends.
So I'm just I'm just happy to be I would prefer it if being K won the series in the end
Right, it doesn't matter by how many games okay, they can drop a couple and it'd be totally fine
So I just want yet more League of Legends would be fantastic and I like casting with you Jack
We don't get that that many opportunities and so if we have to go home after three
Do you want to move to Los Angeles?
No, okay, not really you want to move to Korea?
Okay, well, I mean I tried this in 2019 didn't work there. I waited six years and here we are again
Oh dear
But no probably not going to be the thing as we are just taking a little bit of time to get into champion select
I think that might mean that the players are probably loading on the wrong sides of the no
They went on the right sides, but they didn't go on the right order. Oh, no, so okay wait
These are the two teams with the least international experience
Haaah!
They're just not used to...
Wait, no...
Do you still do the same thing in your domestic region?
What are you talking about?
Is somebody doing like a different fancy international client?
It's the same client again?
There's gotta be a reason for that.
The reason is they were being silly!
I mean, they messed it up!
At this point we're gonna get a bathroom rake fine soon too.
Yeah, I know all we've had those and all those.
I'm sorry, Wolf.
I'm Jats Bahab.
I'm really sorry that he said this.
I know that he's watching and you just triggered him man all the way from Brazil
Can you explain the lore here?
So you get one pass if you desperately need to go and I think
One emergency pass
Yeah one emergency pass but then if you do it again you need a bathroom break in the middle of a game and you have to pause
Then there's a fine
Were they pausing the middle of games for the bathroom?
Yeah
Of stage games
Yeah
It was really bad
It got really bad
They kicked this
Yeah
We've it's just it's just not great. I know that in the LPL. There's also big fines if you are ever pause for any reason that isn't game-related
Yeah, like if you're gonna like
Yeah, I think it's like a medical emergency. Yeah, like I took my arm probably
No, that's not what it was it was
Yeah, because we have this problem with some teams in an A where
where we're like ready to go and the one person like hold on don't start, I gotta go faster.
Yeah.
And we find our whole segment and then we delay and then once one guy leaves, they've got a guy leaves and it's like now, just stop.
That's the problem is that the fact is you actually let them do the first one and then they were pushing it later into the game.
Yeah.
There was a really, really good response to a throw.
I think it might have been being K versus DK or T1 versus DK.
I can't remember the exact matchup, but I do remember that the DK players waited a couple of minutes
after the other team's play went to the bathroom and then said oh well now I have to go to the
once you start thinking about it yeah and then we were just sitting there that's for like 20 minutes
oh it's like it was an Easter before the game even started and it's not like big
of legends games for that long you got banned if you do this in solo queue yeah why are we letting
professional players do it exactly that's a really good point Jeff but you know what
We don't need to talk about it anymore, because we are onto the rift for game number three.
Let's see where the team's secret whales can bring us to a fourth.
That is what we are desperate for.
We are desperate for four or five.
Desperate for, get it? Desperate for.
That's a pun, like the guy in the top one.
Yesterday the LCS representatives did give us five games.
Vickla's an honorary LCS representative.
There we go, that's a nice one.
Can I throw him to the album?
The album doesn't seem to work.
Nothing especially if the other team has shields. Hmm. Doesn't do enough damage feels like
Stacked up his Q already. This is the problem with you now, isn't it?
You're not allowed to let her enter the lane
I know if she doesn't hit anything then she's not great, but he's in the way now. So it's all a little bit problematic
Well, I don't know whether dear I really wanted to do that
I've seen some of the blocks do really well in lane, but this is not a good start, Vickle already hitting level 2 first.
Yeah, we've had a couple of the blocks actually went out in the lane, as that hook going very, very close.
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there. And as we come back, I am worried, mainly because I wanted this to be like a
fun draft out of BNK. It's not what we've got. This is a terrifying draft. And very,
very stock standard. This is what you'd see out of this team. And they are very, very
good at drafting comfort game styles. Not even necessarily picks, but they are
often like it will be a comp like this. There's a lot of stuff to put on the
ground we have up from CC and Kellen can keep everyone safe you know like that
is kind of a vibe that BNK are often looking for and adding globals onto
Raptor sounds like a cheat code to me. Yeah I mean I look at all their champions
and aside from Leo I wouldn't be surprised if any of these were pitching
game one of them. They don't seem like stock standard meta champions whereas the
Apello's thrust of long is way deeper in a fearless set from Team Super
Wells. The Jarton is the one thing that you'd expect them to play
earlier on in the series. So I've just been a big fan of BNKPRX's drafts this series.
I'm not like Secret World's drafts. I feel like they can prioritizing playing with champions
with a good app, but they haven't been able to sync that up with a good team.
Yeah, and I actually think this is a really good adjustment because I didn't like very
many of the drafts that are BNK brought out against BLG. So this is a good adjustment
from a few days ago as Histo looking for a little bit of a possible
gank angle as the change is going to connect somehow.
And so Raptor is forced to flash.
Yeah, and you can see both these teams,
very little international experience.
The fives you see on the left, that was two days ago.
That was zero as of last week.
Kellen was at 20 before this first stand tournament started.
So very much trying to get more comfortable playing
international competition for both these teams.
Yeah, and it was a while back for Kellen as well.
I'm pretty sure it was, oh, it was a KT 2023 or DK 2023 for Kellen.
I wanted to forget it.
That's why I forgot it.
Good.
It was not, it was not a great time, the A as well with a bit of extra experience.
So experience in the same positions here on both of these teams,
matching up relatively well, although being K, certainly with their players
being a lot younger this time around.
Yeah, I'm this is a slower early game.
Yeah, I think he is good for a team.
So that is very nice hook to come forward to grab it as well.
Forcing out the heel is Callan in a little bit of trouble.
Diablo still at full health and he's just walking towards the
Cepheleos gets the ghost down.
And I don't know whether Eddie's allowed to walk back up towards Diablo as he gets
played back to flash.
But he kickoffs in and that's first point over to Beale.
No!
Diablo has the fancy feet and unfortunately
I mean also three summers burned on the side of BNK here X while dying so that's
exactly the start you want to have in the fello stretch lane they only had to burn
the ghost yeah I get that kill well we've got possibly more killing to be
happening here in this mid lane but never mind flag and drag he's going to
bring his dough out of there Raptors still going to head around and see
whether he can challenge though it's his third understands exactly what's
gone on. Decent stun does come forward as the Conqueror is propped. BA is roaming over
earlier and throws out the shield with that lantern. Not quite able to get there as Vickla
over the wall and he just executes Deeray. Now goes between the worlds and his son might
be falling down as well. Oh no, it was going so well until it all fell apart.
Vickla is showing up in this series. It's the year of Vickla, man. It might not have
been a couple of days ago. That wasn't the day, right? But it is still the year.
Okay, I said all the time I know you're your reaction is the same as almost everyone else
I know yeah, you gas out enough people in the thing you the pic was incredible
You know the glazes legitimate saying that people say it is anyone in on it. Yeah, I mean it's just that it's not
Obviously the year is pretty young a true point in time
So, it could be the year of Vickler. I just like to say it pretty definitively.
As nice of a look to come on through here is Kallen, and a little bit of trouble gets played back once again.
But he is Milio, so he might be safe. Raptor makes his way down, and that is going to protect this bottom lane.
But it's not the dominance that we've seen out of Diablo, and Kallen has Eddie's up so much CS, man.
16 in the lead. That's a couple of waves that he has over the young Prodigy.
Diablo is gonna have to buy this time in this game because they're losing this lane it could have been a little bit worse
I mean PA had to burn his heal in the mid fight
It was actually shocking that you didn't use heal the guts it took for any of the agent not use
You know that initial trade down bar where they got the first blood is crazy, but he lost a decent amount of his advantage there
They're still able to be a first-rate though. First-rate in the series
I said that's the main thing. At least they get the trink. The problem is D-Race down 20 CS on the block. Yeah
He is he is getting um he's having a rough time into Vickler the fact that it was Vickler that picked up the kill in that last
Exchange was definitely the worst thing for TSW because it does put that huge hole in the mid lane
Okay, I apologize. Did this have a good game? You're just extrapolating it to the year. Yeah
He's had like a really good series
Well, I mean it's sort of my thing because I also really like very low sample size stats
They're not actually real right, but they are real like the technically correct
I mean, it's true. It is the year Vickla in the sense that he's a top-to-mid in the LCK and he is alive in the year 2026
So
Theoretically it is his year no matter what. He's having a better year than faker. Absolutely. He is okay
So far although faker did win the Kespa Cup
Was it I mean I casted that tournament. Yeah, so I should know I thought it was just after
2026 started. But you might be right. It's the Lunar Year of Vickler. There we go.
A couple weeks. We had to do a little bit of dancing around it, but we got there in the end.
Well, that is an electrocution. Zirea is kind of okay for now, but you can see that CS number is not the greatest.
So, this is B&K with, and I think this is kind of what we expected in this game. Top side of the map, very far ahead, bottom side struggling just a little bit.
And the Ornn vs Rumble, I'd say Punn is doing very well.
8 CS, 7 CS now, while stacking up his map against a roller Rumble so he can pretty freely
build MR for a good portion of this game before Diablo is going to be able to shred him and
be very tanky.
So it's a really good Ornn angle and honestly now that he has the MR, it's going to
be pretty difficult for Rumble to extend that lead any further.
Oh, good.
right uh because of any december 14 2025 yeah and i was there casting it so it's kind of
i knew it was the point of you know i just became a father time has melded uh as as you would know
jack okay i saw you at the hotel and we're just like what's up not realizing that i didn't do any
international events last year because of having a kid yeah we haven't seen each other for like two
years but it felt like it had been less time and it's it's been a lot of these though over the time
So we've gotten used to just being mates with, you know, six month breaks, you know, it's fine.
Well, six month or two years, depending on what it is.
It's kind of the same thing.
Yeah.
All right.
Claire is trying to do damage here to pun, but Spectre's cowl is kind of ridiculous.
He's now raptor has discovered.
Deer actually flashes, trying to get out of the way, but still gets chained up.
And now cannot get out of the cataclysm.
Matt's range on the hook and raptor goes down.
I think it might be happening.
It could be happening.
Really clutch kill for D-Ray keeping him in this game really needs to inject himself with gold
Otherwise, he won't be relevant later
But he did a great job getting the out of Raptor early while still letting the route that allowed the rest of the team to fly in
for that kill
And team sinker whales coming alive
They had hands in all these games. I haven't had any objectives to play off of so if they're actually able to start
Getting set up for these drinks which they've gotten through bot prior of this game, right?
the fact that had the ball prior has set up these other plays for him that he
continued to use Eddie's strength to move around the map well another thing as
well is that punn has been a linchpin for this team in the earliest stages of
the game this time around on much more of a scaling pick but as you've said
he's doing just fine in the match up down 10 CS is about what you'd say for
on winning much wasn't really what I was expecting is now it might even be
He's got a kill clear here, but he's getting out and heading back towards his crugs.
Those hop-oons really starting to hurt there.
The more I see games with like Ornn rumble in them, or if you have like a Casante something matchup,
the less important I think it is for a jungler to ever say hello.
Like it just doesn't seem like it matters if the jungler goes there and the time would better be spent elsewhere.
So I'm not a huge fan of this his-to-play because even if they get the kill,
I don't think it's really going to meaningfully change the game.
Whereas with his camps respawning away on the bot side if you reset lint bot and applied more pressure to get as a failure
So you're much rather that play. Well, you can see the grubs were just taken
Right in front
And he's still actually still committing to this. Yeah, this is kind of insane does have camps respawning towards the bottom side as well
So raptor could theoretically once they see his turn he can head over there
The ramp comes out there is this is a very oh never mind
There is a grand stop-up coming on in. Clear.
Will Go-Yah, this Raptor is trying to save the play.
I don't know whether he necessarily needed to,
is the spear is going to go wide, Bickler teleports in.
That is so many resources that BNK just put into a losing play.
That's a crazy mind control there by Team Secret.
Getting the kill is one thing.
But to get Pantheon and Aurora TP, which saves Dyer,
D-Ray in the lane, gives him a couple of plates.
That's huge for their game.
That's kind of ridiculous.
Okay, um, Diablo was on a reset, so he gets back to the lane and will be able to thawn things up once again, but he is still behind.
And it was Vickla that had the big lead. He had to be in K. And so the result is Diara was able to go for a reset, didn't get punished for it.
It's just all good things. It's a team-seeker Wales.
Absolutely huge play. Next Drake is already on the map as well. Neither top laner has TP, so they're going to be left alone up there.
I think it's rather tricky for either team to just straight up start this drake,
but we'll see if Team Secret Wales feels safe to do so. Ward inside the pit.
Yep. I do think that a first item Stormraiser feels good as a one item spike on the Aphelios in comparison to a Kraken Slayer.
Yeah.
But uh, to see whether they do commit to anything as the Rift Scuttler will be taken.
Vickler is the one that's strong, right? He's got his dash cannon done.
And so in comparison as far as these midlaners are concerned, it is a very big Aurora.
This LeBlanc doesn't need to go back and spend some money, I imagine, because just the lost chapter is kind of insane.
Yeah, there's also Ultimate. Gonna be back up in two seconds there, so they're close. So he's...
You took immediately.
Yes, he is just going to... He proxed the quest as well as D.R.A. is...
Oh, going to survive just... barely.
Close. I thought that there might be a little bit of return damage coming on through, but had already happened.
And so, he will be able to make his way out. But that does mean that BNK has full control of this river.
And I should be able to at least get wards down,
see everything that they need to.
But thankfully the Rift Scullers do go over to Histo,
so they have irremovable vision in the air.
Vick was the best player on the team.
Is this game?
100%?
The game of Vickler.
Maybe it should be the game of Vickler.
Vickler?
Vickler.
This one.
Start small.
Yeah, work out.
I did start with a year of Vickler though.
Maybe I should just commit.
We'll see how we do it.
That is going to be Team Secret Wales looking down a second dragon.
We now have an Eternal Soul once again.
It's a double dragon for TSW and that is going to mean that they're the ones that are able
to put on that pressure.
They can control the tempo markers as it were.
This is a good start.
It really is.
This is a really good start.
With the Ophelios Thresh scaling, I'd say the Thresh doesn't scale great.
The Ophelios will scale very well as long as Vickler doesn't get too fed because
the ability to one-shot him can still be pretty high later on in the game.
Punn's doing great. The gank that his Joe spent a lot of time toplane actually did a great job of
relieving the map pressure as well because it was able to bait out the TP from Vickla and the
ultimate from Raptor. So this is actually one of those games where you try to keep it pretty
standard. Oh, and this actually could work as well as the ram is going to get called.
No flash, like you say, and it's an easy flag and drag. Clear just realizing that he has to
trying to do what he can and what he can is absolutely nothing. There was also a
LeBlanc making her way up just in case the cavalry was available. So Derek
going to clear out this wave and allow a reset hit upon it. It's perfectly played.
Yep, game came to reset where the soul-inner swaps and swaps plays.
Maybe not so good as here he is gonna go the wrong direction. Few
autos do come on through as Vickla flashes. The auto is in the air but he is still
He'll heal it up, and oh god, maybe it isn't the game anymore.
Now Raptor is going to try and get underneath this turret.
He should be able to do so as a teleport.
He's going to bring clear towards the top side.
Doesn't have his equalizer though,
so this is not exactly the scariest rumble
making his way into this top lane.
Here's Toad.
He can come back!
And now, flag and drag comes on floor.
He gets the flash out of Raptor,
and in goes Deeroy with his health bar fixed.
So, in this extended sequence, we've seen Ornn run bot, teleport top, LeBlanc go back,
teleport top.
His cataclysm chose another flash!
And he doesn't get the knock-up with the Searing charge, but it doesn't matter, Raptor!
He is still going back in because it's another teleport from Vickler to bring him into the top lane!
What is up here, man?
Is that gold in the ground that I have not seen?
It's such an insane objective.
the top way.
Top lane!
Just the lane!
Jeff!
We're going to invest four teleports on securing the top wave.
We are not going to take Riftarol.
This is not mid-boss.
This is not objective setting.
No, no, no.
This is League of Legends.
This is how you play.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's have a look at it once again.
I don't know how we're going to put this replay package together, because this
kind of went forever.
By the time we finish this replay, we'll be in-game for it.
I was going to say, yeah.
I could put that along as sequence was, but watching, they're fighting again.
I mean, it's just a pit.
That's all we have to do.
Watch that.
If you want to see what's going on right now, I thought we're gonna pick the second half of the report
The fact that D-Wrek gets out of this is insane they get the shutdown on to Vickla it makes fun
Super fed now against the double AP and here's the second part of the replay flash all to get the flash
He falls with the EQ that allows D-Wrek to line up the little block E
They're fighting again.
As clear as dead, one more time underneath this bottom lane out of turret.
Oh my goodness, it's one to seven.
Team Secret Wales is running them around the map.
Clear has died four times.
That last kill was probably worth about 150 gold.
Alright, let's have a look at the Coinbase gold grind.
This is one of the smaller of the gold differences between Diablo and Eddie.
They've been hitting minions is what we're learning.
No gold from kills, no gold from monsters.
They have just not been really involved.
Well that's farm guys.
The thing is, all of the insanity has happened.
It's been sort of an isolated 2v2 or 1v1 between the 80 carries.
And Eddie's doing just fine in this game.
So working very well thus far.
I mean, I don't think we should be counting chickens just yet.
Because, I mean it's still Yanar.
So where does that staying come from?
Count your chickens before they hatch?
So you're counting eggs as chickens before the hatch.
Yeah, you don't count chickens when they're eggs.
Because inherently there's nothing wrong with counting chickens.
You know, it's fine to count.
Because like, I'm going to count chickens if I have chickens.
Yeah, yeah, just don't count the eggs assuming that they're chickens.
So don't count the win while the game's still happening?
Yeah, that's what it means.
I'm kind of feeling like maybe I shouldn't use it anymore.
I mean, it's not a finish.
You can't count the chickens before the hatch.
That makes sense.
There's quite a few of those where if you think about it too much,
it doesn't make sense anymore.
Yeah, I don't have an example off the top of my head. I do remember keep using idioms and I'll question them all
Yeah, yeah, well that and that was my welcome to international League of Legends. Did you know that?
Counting chickens? No, no, no, just idioms that then got questioned
It was Kobe when I said, oh, that's not something to write home about he was like what why would you write home about it?
I was like wait a second
He completely trolled me knew exactly what that saying was all right
We've got a team fight breaking out potentially.
Vickler goes through the Worlds,
as Eddie might be in a little bit of trouble.
It's the first time we've really seen an honest 5v5.
Let's see whether Team Secret Wales can come out on top,
even in a scenario like this,
as the Rift Herald will be breaking open
his Out-of-Tarot in the mid lane,
and the Gold League is going to be basically even.
Like, a thousand gold at 20 minutes is not huge.
They get the first turret bonus,
and they have pretty good control on the river.
Eddie is a killy steal, is getting caught out of position,
He's stuck on that mid-wave and has no lantern to get back to the fight.
So he's still up to catch this, and they're both one.
Dreadstofo does come up through, they get the Flash out of Eddie as well.
Can Bea actually save him?
The answer is absolutely not there.
The cataclysm though is his though.
There is his body into the mix and they take down the Inara.
Faggadrat to try and stop Raptor as well, but he goes down immediately.
And Cleggus is a walking Faber-Hue in this fight, and he cannot be stopped only.
Maybe by Punn, who's very difficult to kill.
There's a great hook out of P.A. goes.
Raptor just dives into the middle of all of them.
He thinks that he's old Pantheon and can just tank up the turret.
The answer is he can.
He can. He can't only will.
He's in the same way. Diablo is him.
Raptor is old Pantheon at the same time.
Oh my goodness, it all starts with a beautiful pick on Eddie.
They realize that the Thresh Lantern is gone.
He's shown himself on the wave not wanting to lose position
and they execute him and then everyone else ends up kind of running over top and through the rumble ultimate
So while they do that the kill on the devil
It's gonna be a tough fight from here because they just don't have damage their most fed member is an orange who's stacking MR
So he can't really kill people when Milio is there. Yeah, he was gonna show this damage and then just
Amazing executed the end there by Raptor
Raptor is the only carry in this particular fight.
I think that we're back to live once again. Great hook to come on through from B.A.
As the Moonlight Visual does come down, doing a little bit of damage there with the Infernam.
As Raptor continuing to fight, Vickle makes his way up. He was on vision, but Torch is out of the way to searing charge.
Absolutely beautifully. And then just ducks between the worlds.
It does look like B.A.K. haven't found a foothold to actually start a battle here,
but they want to be able to take this dragon. As this game is so incredibly close still,
Team Secret Wales can actually lock down this sole point though, that will be so huge as Diablo playing up front and personal in this teamfight already.
As the RAN comes down, doesn't exactly get a lot of value and Clea just says absolutely not.
The rest of the team cannot make their way into the fight.
As their opponent is in the back of the pit, nothing that he can do is clear as even able to take down Eddie by himself as he picks up a double kill.
Rubble can start 0-4-0 and then still steamroll through the back line of Team Secret Welles.
I got distracted by Punn and Diablo doing something. How did that happen?
We're gonna find out. The fact that Histo gets this straight does still leave a win condition later.
But he does half the damage with a couple of harpoons over the wall at the start.
So when Eddie falls through as we're looking at the tops out of the plate, he's already at like 800 health.
So
You don't walk into the flames or no
And he flashes to avoid the hook and then immediately just
As they're making their way beautifully played there by clear
I mean his leading face has been atrocious this whole series right clears. Sorry clears. Yeah clears landing face
Yes, it has been not great, but he was your fighting is so good
It is. I mean this
This series is reminding me of the team secret will teach you serious
Yeah games were close and games three is where it felt like two secret whales at the start was like
Oh, man, they might actually win this one and then they just lost fight after fight now
Vickler with a two level advantage on de-raise the Blanc probably gonna take down yet another turret actually open up a gold lead and Eddie
He's lost the lead. He's lost the lead. So it's gonna be
Orbs don't necessarily carry.
I mean it's still a decent amount of gold every ornament, you know?
Yeah, I guess that makes the gold pretty even.
They don't include the ornaments, they're down an experience.
The problem is, even is not what we were expecting for this state of the game, right?
This was a TSW that had so much control, but then as soon as teamfights happened,
they started losing.
As now, Pony is going to get juked there just a little bit here, still, Clear is
going to die.
That was a little bit funny.
Yeah, I mean classic play,
center solo laner, down the lane with the other solo laner.
Sacrificing the top way, Pistols didn't clean that up,
but a cock clear off guard, especially because both teleports were going to be on cooldown.
You usually only pull off that plate when you have a teleport up, so nice little tempo trap.
Yeah, and also playing defensively on the top side of the map as well.
You saw a raptor up there, was looking for a cross map,
and was denied any opportunity to do so.
do so. Viclero is doing a lot of damage though on this Aurora. Does have the Shadow Flame
now completed. It is a lot of burst damage out of this guy and you saw his story is not
quite able to tank that one up. Although he does have an ornament of his own with the
Sundered Sky now complete and upgraded. Okay, Raptor is wrapping around. He's just going
to flash in to kill Dere. He is going to wait to get himself out and there is
the snipe that was beautiful looks around to see whether anyone's watching and
then kills it no look as well at the end
Dyrus having a rough series he is yeah and Raptors having a very good series
killing Dyrus yeah yeah it's his favorite thing and we wanted to talk about
the Midlanders as well looking for a little bit of redemption even though it
is the year of Vikkor I don't know whether this is the time to talk about
that redemption arc so far at this tournament just yet it's not about
It's a very good series for Vikram, giving you that.
I think it's been a very good series for junglers and ADC's so far.
And pun.
That's what I'm going to say as being came, just going to just walk down mid lane.
And they will take down the Inatar.
We're going to try and get a bit of siege and dark elsewhere as well as now Hister goes in.
Clear.
Still doesn't have his flash fail, but I feel like that has been on cooldown all series long.
Or at least a little game long.
And that will be Hister taking him down.
That was really sloppy. Clear had, uh, he landed an E, so his toe just went straight in,
ulted him out of the turret. That turned the turret on him because of the yonder's tip.
So, he just instantly dodged.
So, a little bit unfortunate. He is a 3-7-2 rumble that just single-handedly won the
Mateen fight.
But he's still gonna be able to press R on Eddy.
I know.
And then if Eddy decides to walk into him as well, it'll make it a little easier
for him to execute.
But there's also now an Infinity Edge done on Diablo, and so this is the time where the Unara is exceptionally terrifying.
Okay, he bided his time. This is what we were waiting for with Diablo.
He had a slow start to the game, and then we were hoping to see some big-time teamfights, and he really is caught again.
Oh no.
Between the worlds, that is a cute little distortion play as Raptor decides he doesn't want to go any further forward.
So, Diario will make his way out of this one, and Team Secret Wales once again, looking for that cross-map opportunity with that man advantage that they have
Diablo, playing very far up as you could imagine, but Kellen is there to play defense.
Sluckle goes down as Diablo takes a bit of damage, gets out of the way of the ramp, beautifully
noticed.
And he flashes!
And it dies immediately!
There's a flash from Vickler who's well trying to get Eddie out of there, and he
does get the flash, as Diary is going to get taken down as well.
Jack, that was the quintessential other side of Diablo.
I was waiting for him to pull.
The sick out play.
Yeah!
He's so incredible.
Well, Eddie's dead.
It's the year of Vickler, by the way, and it's fun.
Now, it's going to take a lot of killing here for Vickler.
I think maybe just go home.
You know, maybe that's not what we really want as,
unfortunately, no Infernal Soul here for TSW either.
It's going to be the first rate of the game here for B&K
as they take that one down.
Raptor has denied that.
I really want to see my team play.
He died so fast.
He just didn't he let he had that hero like the heroes energy as well flash in to do that
Remember that that movie the other guys. Yeah, but with Sam Jackson and
He's been a superhero for the first two kids that he just face plans
Like, I mean, it's beautiful. I think you have to have moments like that. It's humbling, right?
You can't play that close to the end. It can never fall off.
No, exactly. It just shows that he is playing on a knife's edge, and you wouldn't know that if you didn't sometimes fall off.
There is the lantern. A little bit late on the control watch. Try and block that one from being taken.
As the ramp comes down, Pum will find a knock-up here. As the Flash into the hook!
That was so sick from Kellen! And that's going to keep Diablo alive!
If Diablo alive, Kellen is still going to go down, and he dashes out of the cataclysm at this time!
Diablo may just be that hero that we needed him to be in the last fight.
There's the other side of it, and B and K will launch down the mid lane.
Get down, Mr. President, Diablo is still there.
Such a good flash from Kellen, my God!
It might actually win them the series because Eddie got assassinated by Vickla on the back side,
and Diablo might be pushing down the Nexus.
Alright, let's see whether they do manage to finish off this game as Deer and Pops like a balloon!
And the Nexus turrets are going to follow suit! Oh no!
It is going to be a clean sweep!
And Team Secret Wales will be the first team eliminated from first stand 2026
as BNK Fear X keep themselves alive in the tournament
and they do so pretty comfortably.
Congratulations to BNK Fear X, they will move on to face G2
In the final qualification match of this group, it also means Team Secret Wales will exit first stand without winning a series, without winning a game, very disappointing result to them.
They showed off their hands in so many instances, having so many high individual plays, but they just couldn't close the deal in any of their games.
And it's quite difficult, right? You've got second seed out of the LCP and the first seed out of the LEC. It's the two teams that you have to play against.
And that is tough competition for the young LCP team, so I don't think it's anything to really worry about, but if it's sad, they weren't able to pick up again.
But now it's time to throw it back to the lounge, we deliberate on fire again.
And seriously, then zero.
And as we see Team Secret well taking their vow here at first, then it's a tough competition to be in,
especially when you're a younger roster, especially given how fast things go.
We saw some good elements from the team, but I feel like you cannot have the expectations you had
from the team we sent from that region for the past years.
When you had CFO, what they've been able to achieve, this team won't see them again.
I love the early game. They just keep f***ing able to...
Yeah, it's like...
They keep f***ing better than this!
And they were starting to do it!
Yeah!
They were getting... they were stacking drinks in that game.
They were getting objectives.
Like, they were... they were looking good, right?
Look at this!
We've we fixed some of these things. You got some brakes on the board
I you could see the thought that was going behind they were actually paying more attention to the objectives
Unfortunately, we then had that like five minute top lane
And then that mid lane fight where BNK were really able to come back into the game
It was it was wild to see and honestly for a team like this for team Secret
Wales it's always tough like I remember it was like what 40 plus hours of travel
to get here on top of like being able to finally get there scrim of course
you're gonna be the team that's probably furthest behind reading get
better like a lot of these things happened and I think at least by the
end they got to show a little bit of yes we're still incredibly aggressive
we're playing our style and we're getting better and it make it we're
making it somehow work. It's just a doggie dog type of a tournament. You're going up against some of the best teams in the world.
So it's hard to see. Yeah. First showing. Don't don't pick up a single game. We'll see them again. I think this year. What are the
nuances of hope silver linings for this team before we start talking about fears. I mean I think especially in that last game and even in every single one of their games you could see their team fighting
and I think then what comes is because we pointed it out in last game and even then if it looked like at points in time they were going to win this right like we would have pointed out hey look at how they started Drake stacking look at how they started paying more attention to these kind of things and actually getting two objectives before BFX so that would be the thing that they need to work on for me because right now they have the hands
Like they definitely have the hands, they have the team fighting.
And LCP fans, and I'm sure themselves, really wanted to see the solo laners come out and showcase their strength that we saw them domestically on an international stage and for D-Ray.
I thought we saw a little bit of that, especially in the tail end of the G2 series, where he was getting solo kills on a cap, so that was great to see.
And then you look at Punn, Punn got his champions, and Punn really started running wild, and I feel like he got the better of clear for the majority of the series in lane.
And a lot of it's like, damn, I'm doing well in lane.
Now I'm going to go back and have that level of confidence
that I can do it up against some of the best top laners
in the world in the lending phase.
I just need to be able to rally the troops around dragon.
We really need to be able to do that
because every single time it feels like we win a fight,
suddenly, that's a roar happening.
And the top laners are like, oh, they got dragon.
That's not nice.
A lot of hope, a lot of teams to improve upon
and a tough competition again to show it all
in the first time this team was on stage.
On the other side, G-Rex, we said 3-0, we got a 3-0, they need to improve on the early
game back.
Like, I'm looking for improvements on that side here.
You cannot always rely on P-8s.
It's a little iffy.
They're psychopaths!
I didn't expect it!
And when we get like an interview, I want to ask that question to the first one because
I've never seen a team that is so down to fight, no matter what.
They don't have an off-buck.
Yeah, no off-buck.
They don't have an off-buck.
They were the second bloodiest team coming in to Team Seeker Will.
So it should be no surprise that today was, I believe, the bloodiest series in Combine
Kills for a minute that we've had thus far at this tournament.
But yeah, they, going up against better teams, I mean, we saw in the LCK when they would
go for these super aggressive plays, they would get punished by better teams.
Like, we just saw that very recently in the LCK Cup finals, so.
I don't know, Emily.
We saw at Worlds last year a team coming from LCK who was really bad at early games, and they made Worlds finals.
But we'll see if we have the same story as we did here with this one.
But, okay.
I've received them back in the final stage.
Positive thinking.
Who was the player of the game?
Look, it has to be Vickla.
Vickla being a grass for player of the game, it has to be.
It's a doubt for him for sure.
As you can see the stats in front of us, I felt like he had a phenomenal time.
Especially any time Diablo went in and died is like well here comes the stable portion of this fight
And he cleaned up house. I want to see the poll results. Yeah. Yeah, I'm curious think here. Hopefully lines
We see either gonna be Diablo Diablo. Yeah. Oh Kelly. I'm not getting it nice
There's it. There's a case for yeah, getting had a really good. Yeah, especially on the late game
Engages and what he was able to showcase the question
I have here before we have our interview guests joining us in just a couple minutes fear X
Rookies on the international stage,
high expectations given what they've been able to display
in the LCK.
How have these expectations played out so far?
I think they performed about at my expectations,
to be quite honest.
I think watching them, if anything,
I think they did a little bit better than expected
in the BLG series, for sure.
I saw them being able to come back in teamfights
in that series as well, which was really nice.
and that was a reflection of kind of like next level
of what we'd seen from them,
especially in series like the T1 series
where they were not expected to win, right?
So, I mean, I think going forward,
it's really just now they had better setups on the day,
now can you do that against better teams
without making some of the over-aggressive
early game mistakes?
You know what?
I wanna ask one of the players myself.
Vickla, if you wanna join us.
Come on through.
Now Vika is coming in for the interview.
Congratulations!
And Jisun!
Thank you!
Welcome to the Verizon post game interview here at the lounge with Vika.
And Jisun, first question that I have for you.
We were talking about the fact that this is your very first international tournament.
How has the experience been for you so far?
I was nervous about the first game, but this is the second game.
I was less nervous during the second game, so I think I'm getting more familiar with the international game.
Obviously, first match I was really nervous, but today was my second match and I felt a lot more comfortable, less nervous, so I want to keep this kind of sense going and I hope I can keep adapting to the international stage.
We said that you were the player of the game for Game 3. How do you reflect on your performance?
We chose to play as the third set POG. What do you think about your last set?
The last set was better than the first one, but I think it was a bit sad that I couldn't move.
And you've, I feel like you've improved a lot as a player since then, so just talk to me about what you think you've improved on the most, to have such a great year thus far.
Last time I met him in North America, but it's been a while since I met him.
I'm so happy to see him grow up.
When you look back on the last time, what part of him has grown the most and is having a good year?
First of all, I think my mindset has grown a lot.
And I'm working hard on the line-up.
I think I grew up in that place.
team, very bloody team. You guys are like the second bloodiest team in the tournament.
You guys are facing the bloodiest team in Team Secret Wells. How is it joining this team with
how chaotic it can feel at times?
Maybe because you're young. You're very youthful, so we love the chaos. We have great mechanics in the team fights. We love fighting from perspective of the viewers. It could be very chaotic, but we have our own rules and methods.
and in a method going on.
They're doing great.
They have a plan.
Actually, they have a plan.
That's always great to hear.
Next up, G3 Sports.
What do you think about the team right now, their level,
what you should be careful about,
and Katz especially in the mid lane?
I think it's one of the strongest teams, but I think we need to be good against them.
And seeing Cap's play, I think there was something like the fact that Nori's ability to stand out, so I think we need to be careful about that.
definitely have to watch out for that as well.
Caps Aura! I like it! Thank you!
Do you guys have anything that you want to add up to the intro?
I guess something that...
so far the fans have really really kind of supported you guys.
Which is really fun to see.
So a question would just be...
A. How has Brazil been so far?
And B. How have you felt from...
Have you felt that audience's energy?
What was your experience in Brazil and did you actually feel like you were really passionate?
When I was playing in Brazil, I heard the sound of the game and it was so loud that I was in the stadium.
Every time I heard that, I thought that Brazil was passionate.
Even when I was playing, you know, they were so loud, I could feel the stage was rumbling.
And you know, Brazil, I've always thought of Brazil as, you know, the country of passion,
and their passion is immaculate.
One of the best crowds in the world of course, serving again.
Jisan, thank you so much for the help translating.
In WNOMO, KAMSAAMNIDAL.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for joining us today.
Good to see you guys.
I'm gonna read you guys.
Of course.
Come back to North America.
Jisan does not agree.
He says it's not a Greek.
I'm going to ask you guys, actually.
No, no, no. I will ask you guys that later.
Before that, Opal, player of the series.
This has to be the Mad Men. It has to be the Opal.
I know that you guys saw the Arcane shift in.
I know that you saw that mid lane play where he just went in and died.
But if that's all that stops you from voting him player of the series this time,
this time you don't deserve him at his two pentakill now at an international tournament.
He is so fun to watch and kind of contributing to that chaos that you just asked Vicklo about.
Yeah, I'm going to make our stats guy hate his life right now.
Can we get a pentakill per series stat and just kind of see based off the 80 carries in the tournament throughout the entire career?
That'll be fun.
There's a usual suspect here.
He hates you right now.
He hates me.
I'm not saying the message right now in slack, but yes, uh, Diablo has been incredible for
somebody who is so young and they said they're working on it.
And it's so blood thirsty.
It's something that they never run out of is confidence.
I think for a young team like this, you need to have an abundance of confidence, especially
in your playstyle.
If you're like an enemy team is like, okay, they recognize they can play around the
map a little bit better, have better side-leading all these things.
You can always come out with stronger team fighting if you're confident around a really
mechanically skilled player and he is that guy.
Yeah, and I think we kind of heard that from Vickla as well, right?
Yeah.
Where he was like, that's our team.
You know what we're doing.
That's our team's strength.
It might look chaotic, but we know what we're doing and that is what has been so impressive
about watching this team in the LCK as well is just seeing them really come into
their own and like have the confidence to be able to pull off these upsets.
Absolutely.
Amazing.
I see Rookie is training on the international stage here, congrats Sofia, and of course we're
going to take a look at the bracket to see where we leave things after today.
You can clap with the fake hand.
I did!
It was actually pretty fun.
I was like, we were making use out of that.
Yeah, we found BLG, they're moving on, that's a dub right there.
Funny enough, with how they performed at Worlds, some people would doubt that.
So, it's nice to see them actually moving on to the next stage of the tournament.
I mean, again, coming back to your ex, it works.
Thank you, Sean.
Yeah, I think Wanderer is here.
Paul did see him.
And, yeah, as we said, G2 is going to play against Gearyx in the next match.
Tomorrow, though.
Yeah, we got tomorrow, though.
We got two hours just.
Yeah, Jess.
Rhett, how are you feeling about Lyon going up against Gen G?
Inspired was close to doing it last time.
He just needs to close his eyes and start playing some new, new against us.
I don't know.
We need to make some magic happen.
Close your eyes.
Wait for it to happen.
It's fine.
Yeah.
I'm gonna go crazy for this one. We saw team Seeker Wells go home. They do not want laugh for how well they performed
Just yesterday to be going home. I think it would be crazy to see them put up a fight versus JDG. I
Was instructed to do this
I mean that's her hand
Being with you all day will be back tomorrow same time same place 9 a.m. Eastern
for Genji vs. Lion. Until then, take care, have a good evening, good night, and be nice to each other. Bye-bye!
It's down.
It's taking...
Oh!
Somebody is caught!
Down the crab.
Night finder's getting the wood, but it's only on the side on.
Cap says he's all he's asking for.
No!
It's Ben!
Hold on!
Next time, again, it's Ben!
Man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man!
He's down.
All the way out!
It's a ton of damage there, go DK!
I'm gonna put a spark for God!
Scumman apparently walks through!
He's attending the funeral of his opponent!
I'm gonna kill him!
I forget some other way!
BLG are on their victory march!
No one in G2 color stands to stop them!
And BLG will claim sweet G2!
Bunch of PKs in that backline!
Somehow Insta will survive any looking to try and get himself out of there though.
And BK will take everything in the exchange.
D.R.A. looks for the points like charm, but it's not enough to actually take down this Ezreal.
And it's wrapped to the finishes, a whole bunch of these kills.
And it's the Quadrant Kenny gets the pen to kill Joe!
He cares a PEN!
Oh my god man!
I'm gonna be on my walk with the flash and the splot in a solo kill.
He's been clear on the top lane and throws down the shield with that lantern.
Oh, and I'm glad they would get their big one over the wall, and he took execute steering!
And now, Pines is in the back of the pit. There's nothing that he can do.
It's clear he's even ever to take down Eddie by himself!
That one from being taken, as the ramp comes down, Pines will find an up-up here.
And the flash into the whole tower is slow-stick from going!
Get down, Mr. President! He's got all his stuff over there!
Oh, my God!
Flash! It is going to be a clean twig!
And Team Secret Wales will be the first team eliminated from First Dance 2026!
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S, T, G, the dog, S, T.
Now it's Rebels on your scene.
It's the season with the time like.
Somebody tell them get their ride right.
Cause we speed it through the traffic with the limelight.
Head it to my future, that's the limelight.
G-O, A-T, G-O, that's great news.
We woke, they sleep, we go, and then we.
No need to ask the question, cause we showing up
Cause when it's going down, baby we going up
So, I had to level up the team loud
Now it's dribbling everything
I get it, I get it, I get it
I'm about to drink
So, I had to level up the team loud
Now it's dribbling everything